What the papers say: Saturday's front pages

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What The Papers Say: Saturday's Front Pages
Saturday's front pages: The Irish Times, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Irish Daily Mail, Belfast Telegraph and Irish Daily Star
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Saturday's front pages say a boost to the minimum wage and a mortgage interest relief scheme will be included in the budget next week.

The Irish Times reports that a mortgage interest relief scheme to assist homeowners hit by interest rate hikes is being prepared for possible inclusion in Budget 2024.

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Irish gangs are among a growing number of networks in Europe involved in “large scale” cocaine trafficking from South America, the Irish Examiner reveals.

The Irish Independent says the minimum wage is set to increase by €1.40 in the budget, but additional financial supports for businesses will be introduced to soften the blow.

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Hundreds of passports have been lost or delivered to the wrong address since 2020, prompting fears they could wind up on the black market, according to the Irish Daily Mail.

The Irish Daily Star leads its front page with the anniversary of the Creeslough explosion that killed 10 in Co Donegal.

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The Belfast Telegraph says a “pitifully low” sentence handed to a Co Tyrone man whose car was used in a dissident republican bomb attack on a police officer has been criticised.

The arrest of a man over an alleged plot to kidnap and murder This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby leads the British papers.

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The Daily Mirror, The Sun and the Daily Express say a court heard Gavin Plumb is alleged to have conspired online with another man and created a “detailed plan” to carry out the offences.

Elsewhere, police wrongly labelled hundreds of suspected rapists as women, the Daily Telegraph reports, despite the British home secretary saying they should not.

The Independent also focuses on crime, saying there are a record number of suspected rapists in Britain due to a growing court backlog.

The Times relays Labour’s message that the NHS must “modernise or die” as they pledge to double the number of diagnostic scanners in hospitals.

The Daily Mail says “dozens” of universities, police forces, fire services and councils have “male menopause” policies.

Meanwhile, a group of Metro Bank bondholders have contacted the lender’s board to propose a £600 million capital injection, according to the FT Weekend.

And the Daily Star features a story paying tribute to Alex Ferguson’s late wife Cathy Ferguson, who died at the age of 84.

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