Newspaper headlines: 'Cap on energy profits' and 'move bank holiday'

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"Threat to pensions as Bank cuts its support" is the on Friday.

The paper reports on warnings that pension funds, which are big holders of government debt and index-linked bonds, face a "cliff-edge".

The has prompted fresh falls in sterling and led to fears of more chaos in the markets.

It adds that Prime Minister Liz Truss was challenged at Cabinet on Tuesday over plans to cut benefits in real terms, with four ministers understood to support an inflation-linked rise.

The announcement that renewable power companies will face a cap on revenues, in England and Wales, has provoked claims of .

Liz Truss has previously rejected calls to cap the firms' huge profits. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy argues that the measure differs from a windfall tax, because it will be applied to excess revenues, rather than all profits.

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The and an attempt to "get her premiership back on track". The paper also says bills could be cut, because soaring wholesale gas prices will no longer dictate electricity costs.

The , after warning of possible 1970s-style blackouts this winter. The paper carries a picture of lights left blazing at the company's headquarters in Warwick in the West Midlands hours after most workers had gone home. "National Gridiots" is its headline.

. It says Denise Fergus, the mother of James Bulger, has written to the prime minister, pleading with her to block the release of Jon Venables from prison. The paper says Venables - who's now 40 and has reoffended twice since being convicted of the two-year-old's murder in 1993 - could be freed in days at a parole hearing. The Mirror insists that Ms Fergus deserves better.

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Several papers lead on details of the coronation of the King.

The and has ordered a "slimmed down" ceremony for 6 May next year to reflect the cost of living crisis. The paper's royal correspondent, Richard Palmer, says the challenge will be to create something that makes the country proud "without attracting charges of unnecessary extravagance".

Meanwhile the until 8 May next year, so the coronation can be marked with a long weekend. One Conservative MP says a bank holiday then "would help strengthen our transition to a new era".