NHS 'repair costs triple' and Badenoch 'fury' at Farage's TV time

The Sunday Times says it has been given access to internal documents from Syria's toppled regime which detail what it calls the "terrifying extent" of surveillance carried out by the Assad government. It says spies infiltrated rebel groups and induced family members to monitor each other, with some people -including children - rounded up, thrown into prison and buried in unmarked graves. The investigation found people were coerced into denouncing their friends, relatives and neighbours. It says different intelligence agencies were even monitoring each other.

The Observer says the cost of dealing with the backlog of urgent repairs at hospitals in England has tripled since 2015. The paper says 600 days of clinical time was lost over the past year because of infrastructure failures. High risk repairs -which include issues which could lead to serious injury to staff and patients, or "catastrophic failure" - have become the fastest-growing part of the maintenance list in the last decade, the article says.

The Sunday Telegraph says its research has indicated that some middle class families will pay an additional £8,000 in tax next year. It says the main drivers of the increase will be VAT being applied to private school fees and income tax brackets remaining frozen while wages increase. Not every middle class household will be hit by all these tax rises - the paper's editorial says - but most will incur at least some of them. Writing in the paper, the Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says the tax breaks for private schools are a "luxury the country cannot afford".

Security services sources have told the Sun on Sunday that allowing Shamima Begum back into the UK from Syria would open the door to others to return, overwhelming the capacity of intelligence to monitor them in Britain. "They pose a risk," one insider is quoted as saying in the article, and "would take a massive amount of resources to watch."

The Mail on Sunday claims the Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, had a meeting with the chief executive of the right-wing TV channel, GB News, because of her concern that it gives too much of a platform to her critics. She is said to have asked for the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, to have less air time. The article says she spoke about the possibility of regulatory action being taken against the channel.

The government's commitment of financial support for Ukraine's investigations into Russians who have committed war crimes in the country makes the front page of the Sunday Express. The paper says the money will be used to fund investigators, prosecutors and judges to work on forensic investigations. Writing in the paper, the Home Office minister Seema Malhotra says "the UK will support Ukraine and its people for as long as it takes".

Many of the papers include details of an auction of personal items belonging to the comedian Eric Morecambe - including old school reports, which said he was a "noisy pupil fond of wasting time", who was "absent most of the term". Teachers, however, conceded that he had a "flair for entertaining". The auctioneer Charles Hanson tells the Telegraph "you can't help but wonder what his old teachers thought as they watched Eric's star rise".

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