Newspaper headlines: Post-Brexit trade and diabetes 'scandal' By BBC News

Staff Published duration 8 October 2018

image copyright Getty Images image caption Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told the Financial Times Britain would retain its "global strength" after Brexit

It believes his remarks will encourage Brexit supporters, while turning up the pressure on Brussels and London to strike a timely exit deal.

The Times reports that Tory Brexiteers have set a limit for Theresa May's trade deal with the EU. It says they have warned her she can keep Britain within EU customs arrangements only until 2022; but we must be out before the next election because - as an unnamed senior Brexiteer puts it - "after that we can't know who will be in charge".

A Daily Mail investigation alleges that some British couples are paying up to £14,000 to select the gender of their babies, despite gender selection being illegal in the UK. They are said to visit consultants privately who recommend centres abroad for the final procedure.

The Mail tells doctors it's "not their job to play God" and says the Human Fertilisation and Embryo Authority has launched an investigation.

The lead in the Daily Telegraph claims West Yorkshire police are seeking to investigate fewer than half of all reported crimes. The paper says the force has set an "optimal target" of screening out 56 percent of cases.

Data obtained by the Channel 4 Dispatches programme suggests that across England and Wales 25 percent of reports aren't investigated.

The Telegraph says West Yorkshire is the first force found to have been using targets to screen out cases.

According to the Daily Express, tens of thousands of diabetics in hospital are having their lives put at risk by being given the wrong medication.

A staggering 260,000 patients were given dosage errors last year, the paper says, and 10,000 suffered potentially fatal incidents because of poor insulin management.

The figures come in a report by the charity Diabetes UK, which is calling for doctors and nurses to receive specialist training.

The Guardian says it has been told that more than 1,000 carers face being prosecuted for fraud as the government attempts to claw back benefit overpayments to people who have been looking after sick and elderly relatives. A further 10,000 carers could face fines, the paper says.

The cases involve people who continued claiming carers allowance after changes in their circumstances made them ineligible. Some say they didn't realise the benefit was means-tested.

Campaigners say the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) shares some of the blame as it continued to pay benefits despite having access to tax records which would have shown if a claimant was no longer eligible.

The DWP did not challenge the figures when contacted by the Guardian but said it worked to ensure claimants were aware of their responsibility to provide correct information.

image caption Strictly stars Seann Walsh and Katya Jones have apologised after pictures were published of the pair kissing

Several of the front pages report an apology from two of the stars of Strictly Come Dancing who were pictured over the weekend in what the Daily Mirror describes as a "drunken snog ".