Newspaper headlines: IVF payments and motor finance By BBC News

Staff Published duration 2 May 2017

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The Daily Mail leads on an investigation into IVF clinics.

It claims women on low incomes are being offered free treatment - if they agree to give away half of the healthy eggs they produce.

Undercover reporters, posing as a couple unable to afford therapy, say they also uncovered various practices including offers of high-interest loans to cover the cost of treatment, and expensive add-on treatments that carry medical risk.

Fertility regulators tell the paper they will investigate what appear to breaches of industry codes.

Industry experts tell the paper many drivers have been sold loans without having the terms properly explained to them, leaving dealers liable for millions of pounds in compensation.

The Times writes that the Financial Conduct Authority is investigating the industry and has made clear it believes some borrowers - especially poorer customers - are paying too much for credit.

The Sun says he cannot be sent back to Iran because of human rights laws.

A friend of the 61-year-old tells the Sun he claims disability benefits for a bad back and lives a playboy lifestyle with nights out in the West End.

The Mirror claims no-win no-fee firms have cost the Spanish tourism trade £42m.

Part of the problem, hoteliers tell the paper, is that only receipts for over-the-counter sickness drugs are needed to make a claim.

The Association of British Travel Agents says it has called on the government to step in and accuses claims firms of ruthlessly exploiting legal loopholes.

Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson is to give Boris Johnson a taste of his own verbal medicine, according to the Guardian

Mr Watson will echo the language of the foreign secretary's attack on Jeremy Corbyn calling him a "caggie-handed cheese-headed fopdoodle" in a speech to union members in Blackpool.

Helpfully, the Guardian defines "fopdoodle" as a fool or a simpleton.

But cheese-headed, confusingly, describes a screw with a raised cylindrical head.

Historians say the remains of St Edmund may be buried in the town that bears his name, Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.

It is believed monks were quietly given permission to remove his body from their monastery when it was desecrated during the Reformation

The Telegraph writes that the most likely destination was a monks' cemetery nearby which now lies beneath a tennis court.