Newspaper headlines: Brexit defeat and policing 'meltdown' By BBC News

Staff Published duration 2 March 2017

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"Policing in meltdown" is how the Daily Mail sums up a report by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, which it describes as "devastating".

The Home Office insists it has protected police funding.

It says Mrs May wanted to guarantee the rights of EU citizens in the UK weeks ago, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel stymied any deal.

Siobhan Norton, writing in the i newspaper , thinks the vote is an embarrassment for the prime minister but says it will be "little more than a moral victory" as MPs will very likely reverse the defeat.

The Financial Times is among many papers to welcome the "optimistic and conciliatory" tone that US President Donald Trump adopted in his speech to Congress.

"The most shocking part" of the address, says Ben Jacobs in the Guardian , was "there was nothing shocking at all".

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The markedly different style of the speech and Mr Trump's trillion dollar plan to invest in American infrastructure have helped push the markets to record highs, according to the Times' lead

But it says the "great question left unanswered" is how the president will pay for his pledges.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell tells the Guardian that Labour would force all taxpayers who earn £1m a year or more to make their tax records public.

He argues that forcing top earners to be more transparent about their tax affairs would cut down on avoidance.

The paper sees the proposal as an attempt by the Labour leadership to show they are drawing up radical policies, despite the embarrassing by-election loss in Copeland last week.

The technique works by dispersing nanoparticles through the organ tissue.

These then work as tiny heaters when they are activated using electromagnetic waves.

Currently many organs have to be discarded because they cannot be kept for more than a few hours but it is hoped the technology could eventually allow hospitals to store them for much longer.

A few of the papers carry pictures of the two-year-old boy from Anglesey in north Wales whose father made him a bionic arm using a 3D printer.

Sol had to have his arm amputated when he was 10 days old and his parents were told there was nothing the health service could do for him until he was at least a year old.