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Newspaper headlines: Lineker 'to return' and Silicon Valley Bank collapse

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"Will Â鶹ԼÅÄ Do Lineker Deal Today To End TV Stand-Off?" . Yes, according to several other papers.

to allow the Match of the Day host back on television as part of what it calls a "fudge" involving a review of the broadcaster's social media guidelines.

In return, he will agree to be more careful about what he tweets.

a new row with Conservative MPs after what it describes as an "astonishing climbdown" by bosses despite Gary Lineker's refusal to apologise.

Mark Damazer, says the Â鶹ԼÅÄ needs to resolve how its impartiality rules should operate outside its news division, but he insists the Lineker affair is not as serious as the corporation's row with Tony Blair's government about the use of intelligence before the Iraq War.

Richard Sharp - who was appointed by the government - "fighting for his future", with both the prime minister and chancellor stopping short of backing him to guard the broadcaster's impartiality amid the ongoing inquiry into his links to Boris Johnson's finances.

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to contain the damage suffered by British tech businesses as a result of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

It says Mr Hunt has rejected a bail-out of the UK arm of the bank, and is instead focusing on keeping cash flowing, with officials working on a rescue package that would provide guarantees for banks to offer new loans to those companies with funds locked in SVB accounts.

have written an open letter, warning that the sector could be "crippled" and set back 20 years unless a long-term solution can be found.

The government's £5bn boost to defence spending , which notes that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace originally asked the Treasury for between £8bn and £11bn.

The paper says the investment has been criticised by the former head of the Army, General Lord Dannatt, who warned that the decision not to spend significantly more was "very dangerous for European security". And the Conservative chair of the Defence Select Committee, Tobias Ellwood, said the announcement would be welcomed most in Moscow and Beijing.

will involve MI5 offering businesses direct help to deal with Chinese and Russian spying.

has told police to focus on solving crime, rather than investigating "woke" complaints about what are termed non-crime hate incidents.

It says new draft guidelines, set to go before Parliament on Monday, will call on officers to "protect freedom of expression" and ensure they no longer waste time on spurious "political" debates.

"We agree whole-heartedly", says the Express in its leader column. "For far too long, the focus of the police has become warped. They are not there to get involved when a person says something offensive to another; it's time to go back to basics".