Newspaper headlines: BBC becomes 'Bloated Blokes Club' By BBC News

Staff Published duration 20 July 2017

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The revelations about how much the BBC pays its top presenters dominate the front pages.

"Bloated Blokes Club" is the headline in the Daily Mirror , which points out the corporation's seven highest earners are all white men.

The paper says the broadcaster could end up spending millions more in wages to placate "angry" female talent.

According to the paper, the corporation has been warned it has three years before the next Charter Review to "get its house in order" and make progress on equality.

The Telegraph quotes an unnamed source at the culture department who says ministers could lower the threshold and force the BBC to publish the name of every broadcaster who earns more than £100,000 if changes are not made.

Far more shocking, the paper says, is the gender pay gap which should "make the bosses hang their heads in shame".

A man being paid up to 10 times more than a woman working in the same sphere is "unforgivable, it says.

The paper says it has seen intelligence reports that suggest more than 40,000 civilians were killed in the battle to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group - far more than previously thought.

The documents said thousands of people were killed - by air strikes, by IS militants and by the Iraqi forces trying to drive them out.

An Iraqi minister tells the paper there is evidence of a "hidden massacre" with the bodies of many of those who died still buried under rubble.

Fidget spinners - the playground toys that have been banned in some classrooms in Britain - are an unlikely source of concern in Moscow, according to the Times

The paper says the spinning toys are being investigated by the Kremlin in case they are "anti-Putin".

Russia's consumer protection agency is looking into claims that they could be used by anti-government activists to "brainwash" recruits with hypnosis.