The Papers: Javid flies home\, and tributes to \'legend\' June

Newspaper headlines: Javid flies home, and tributes to 'legend' June

By BBC News Staff
The Mail on Sunday front page
Image caption The Mail on Sunday leads on Home Secretary Sajid Javid cutting short his family holiday in South Africa amid growing criticism of his handling of the migrant "crisis" in the Channel. The paper says he will go to a series of emergency meetings in Whitehall on his return.
The Sunday Telegraph front page
Image caption The Sunday Telegraph claims Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has offered the home secretary the support of the Army, Navy and Air Force to try to stem the flow of migrants across the Channel.
The Sunday Times front page
Image caption The migrant story is also the lead in the Sunday Times, which has splashed a picture of Dame June Whitfield on its front page after she died at the age of 93. It says she "delighted audiences for generations".
Sunday Mirror front page
Image caption The Sunday Mirror is one of the newspapers that has moved quickly enough to put the news of actress Dame June Whitfield's death on its front page. Its headline hails her as a "comedy legend" and the accompanying report says that her Absolutely Fabulous co-star Joanna Lumley was "heartbroken".
Observer front page
Image caption Education reforms have given private school pupils an advantage in the hunt for university places, reports the Guardian. It claims official figures, released in Parliament, suggest they are sitting easier GCSE exams that state schools are increasingly being barred from offering to pupils.
Sunday Express front page
Image caption More High Street misery in 2019 is predicted in the Sunday Express, which says experts are expecting at least 10,000 shops to close.
Daily Star Sunday front page
Image caption And the Daily Star Sunday says serial killer Rose West is planning to appeal against her "life means life" conviction next year.

There are tributes to the late actress Dame June Whitfield on many of the front pages. The Sunday Times calls her "the golden girl of British comedy".

There is also extensive coverage of what the Mail on Sunday calls the "migrant crisis". It carries quotes from the Conservative MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan, suggesting that British police should be sent to France to seize people traffickers boats.

The Sunday Telegraph contains a report from a migrant camp in Calais, where a man told them that he would "rather die at sea than go back to Iran".

It also focuses on criticism of what it calls a "meaningless PR stunt" after a Border Force boat was spotted sailing around in circles behind the Immigration Minister, Caroline Nokes, as she gave TV interviews in Dover.

The Independent website, meanwhile, recounts accusations from the UN's migration agency that tech companies are failing to stop people traffickers operating on their social media platforms.

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Image caption Immigration minister Caroline Nokes said the home secretary would be back at his desk on Monday

The Sunday Express leads with claims that more than 10,000 High Street shops will close during a so-called "toxic" 2019 for the retail industry.

The Mail on Sunday predicts that the number may actually be more than double that, which it says would cause 164,000 job losses.

It prints claims by Prof Joshua Bamford, from the Centre of Retail Research, predicting that a number of big name High Street chains will go out of business next year.

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The Sunday Mirror has an exclusive interview with the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who says his wife is being denied medical checks over serious health fears she is experiencing while imprisoned in Iran.

Richard Radcliffe has told the paper that Nazanin has discovered lumps in her breasts and extreme pain in her neck arms and shoulders, but isn't being allowed to have a mammogram or MRI scan to diagnose the causes.

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Image caption Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted of spying in Iran

The Observer runs a preview of the UK television premiere of a British comedy show that has become a hugely popular German New Year ritual.

Dinner For One was watched by 12m people there last year, and has been broadcast in Germany every single year since 1972, but it has never been seen on screens here.

Stefanie Bolzen writes about the irony of the show finally being embraced by Britain "on the eve of the year the country will cut its most important institutional link with mainland Europe".

And most of the papers contain stories about the bizarre requests that British embassy staff have fielded over the last year.

The Sun on Sunday reveals that somebody asked staff in Italy to help them arrange their wedding in the country, and get them tickets to see the Pope as part of the festivities.

It also highlights a caller in the US who wanted to know whom had been voted off Strictly the previous evening.