Newspaper headlines: 'Blow to Partygate probe' and cost-of-living latest

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Image caption, Bill Turnbull after his final episode of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Breakfast in 2016

The former ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Breakfast presenter and Today programme reporter, Bill Turnbull, is pictured on many of the front pages, after his death was announced by his family on Thursday. as it explains that thousands of lives were saved thanks to his "heroic" prostate cancer campaigning.

, who said "Lovely Billy made us laugh every day".

says he was "fun and brave" to the end, and the describes Bill Turnbull as "the nicest man on television".

"Covid-style tax breaks for firms facing ruin" is the main headline on the front of , as it reports on the chancellor drawing up an emergency strategy for the new prime minister to help businesses facing bankruptcy because of rising energy costs.

It quotes Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi as saying the government could "learn lessons" from the pandemic, and introduce targeted reductions in VAT and business rates to help the retail and hospitality sectors.

says it has seen a leaked draft of a letter the industry body, Energy UK, is preparing to send whoever is appointed chancellor by either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak next week, which it says includes calls for the VAT on companies' energy bills to be scrapped.

and are among several papers to have heard from a source that Cabinet Office legal advice, which is due to be published later, will deal a "devastating" blow to the Boris Johnson Partygate inquiry.

says the "damning verdict" of the QC Lord Pannick is that democracy could be "paralysed" by the way MPs are investigating whether or not the prime minister misled Parliament.

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Image caption, Det Chief Supt Mark Kameen revealed two guns were used during the shooting of Olivia Pratt-Korbel

reports that the average earnings of most family doctors in England rose by Β£20,000 to Β£142,000 in the 12 months after the first coronavirus lockdown. It points out that the figure includes private work, and extra payments for administering Covid vaccines.

But the paper says patient groups found the rise "difficult to justify" as face-to-face appointments had been routinely restricted because of the pandemic. The Department of Health says GPs made a "vital" contribution to the vaccination rollout.

describes the gunman who murdered nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel at her home in Liverpool as a "coward". The main photo on its front page is a CCTV image released by Merseyside Police, showing the man fleeing the scene, wearing trainers with distinctive white soles.

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Analysis of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Office data by has found that two in three police force areas in England and Wales are experiencing rising gun crime. It says the sharpest increase has been in the north-east of England - with firearms offences rising almost six-fold in a decade in the area covered by the Cleveland force.

leads on Boris Johnson's suggestion that people struggling to survive an 80% rise in energy bills could save Β£10 a year by buying a new kettle.

He used the analogy in a speech yesterday to try to explain the benefits of investing in nuclear plants in Britain. The Star is unimpressed, using the caption "Genius Bozo solves UK's energy crisis".