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'The buck stops here!' and 'Prickly heat!'

"The buck stops here: No monarch to live at Palace," reads the headline on the front page of the Daily Star.
Several papers lead with King Charles III and Queen Camilla's decision to not live at Buckingham Palace, instead opting to remain at Clarence House. "The buck stops here!" is the Daily Star's take, adding "no monarch to live at Palace".
"King will never live at the Palace," reads the headline on the front page of the Daily Telegraph.
"King will never live at the Palace" is the Daily Telegraph's lead, saying it is "the first change to the monarch's residence in nearly 200 years". Additionally, "Royal accounts show sovereign paid £30m in tax since ascending to throne" in 2022, the paper reports. It says he joined the Prince of Wales who revealed his tax bill was "£7.76m in the last financial year".
"Buckingham Palace bombshell: Big bucks for an empty home," reads the headline on the front page of the Daily Mirror.
"Big bucks for an empty home" says the Daily Mirror. Published royal accounts reveal "billionaire [Prince] William is richer than his dad" because of land inheritance, the paper writes. It quotes former Liberal Democrat MP and royal critic Norman Baker who says the royals are "hugely expensive".
"A palace not fit for a King," reads the headline on the front page of the Daily Express.
"A palace not fit for a King," continues the Daily Express, as King Charles "shuns" Buckingham Palace "despite £369m refurbishment".
"Buck stops here" reads the headline on the front page of the Sun.
"King and Queen to quit palace" writes the Sun, quipping: "Buck stops here". If you think that you have read that pun already, that is because you have.
"Public funding for royals will double in three years," reads the headline on the front page of the Times.
"The monarchy's core funding will double within three years, rising to £100 million a year," the Times says, explaining: "Under an adjustment set out before parliament, new formula has been agreed whereby the royal household will receive 20.5 per cent of Crown Estate profits, up from 12 per cent." Elsewhere, the paper leads with "hundreds feared dead after double earthquake in Venezuela", where "near-simultaneous magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 quakes struck within 39 seconds".
"Prickly heat" reads the headline on the front page of the Metro.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan's "Heat Ready London plan" leads the Metro. It says the blueprint contains a proposal for the British capital to "become hot-weather ready – like the desert-locked US city Phoenix". To visually take us there, it uses the headline "prickly heat", calling to mind the cacti of Arizona. As temperatures rise to 36.7C in London, the paper says "it felt even hotter for Londoners baking on buses, sweltering on Tubes or sheltering at home".
"Heatwave UK: 50-year record broken again," reads the headline on the front page of the i Paper.
"Heatwave UK: 50-year record broken again" reports the i Paper, as the Met Office forecasts 37C on Friday. London's ambulance service callouts saw their "busiest day ever" as critical incidents rose, while "more than 1,2000 schools shut" amid the heatwave. "Extreme weather warning extended to third day for the first time and hosepipe ban imposed in Kent," the paper says.
"Burnham must simplify complex' tax code to boost growth, warns Haldane," reads the headline on the front page of the Financial Times.
The Financial Times leads with suggestions from one of Labour MP Andy Burnham's "key economic advisers", Andy Haldane, on how he could "boost growth" if he becomes prime minister. A Burnham-led government should look at cutting the "thicket of regulation" and simplify the "stupendously complex" tax code, Haldane believes. While Burnham is widely tipped to replace departing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, he still faces the possibility of a Labour leadership challenge, although he is the only candidate so far.
"'Degrading' How did a US pilot avoid UK trial after strangling a woman in England?" reads the headline on the front page of the Guardian.
The Guardian leads with its specialist report on a case it titles "Degrading: How did a US pilot avoid UK trial after strangling a woman in England?" It also leads with the latest damage caused by the Venezuela earthquakes, saying: "Rescue teams were racing to Venezuela's shattered northern coast yesterday after almost simultaneous earthquakes reduced dozens of buildings to rubble."
"Labour to free waves of killers and rapists early," reads the headline on the front page of the Daily Mail.
Finally, the Daily Mail leads with the Ministry of Justice's "release programme" designed to "free up prison space", which it says "could mean hundreds of serious criminals being freed in large batches – potentially even on the same day – heightening police fears of a surge of offenders on the streets".

The news that the King and Queen will continue to live in Clarence House, despite a multi-million pound refurbishment of Buckingham Palace, is the focus of many of the front pages. The Daily Telegraph reports that the decision marks the first change to the monarch's official residence in almost 200 years.

The palace will remain as the administrative headquarters of the Royal Family and the Daily Mail says the plan is to instead open the doors to the public more each year. The Times quotes a Palace spokesman saying the King "retains huge affection" for the building, and that it'll be "a buzzing hive of royal activity in every other way". The Sun's headline is: "Buck stops here", while the Daily Express goes with "Palace not fit for a King".

Many of the papers carry photographs of the devastation in Venezuela caused by two powerful back-to-back earthquakes. The Daily Mirror shows rescue workers looking for survivors in the rubble of destroyed buildings, with the headline "Quake hell". Images published by the Guardian show patients in the port city of Catia La Mar being treated in the streets, after the hospital was evacuated.

The record temperatures in the UK continue to feature prominently on the front pages. "50 year record broken again" says the i Paper, after a new high of 36.7C in Somerset. The Daily Telegraph reports that farmers across Britain are "scrambling to salvage" this year's pea harvest, as the heatwave puts "extreme pressure" on crops. The front page of the Times pictures a large wildfire on moorland in Derbyshire.

The Daily Telegraph reports that Reform UK-led North Northamptonshire council put up barriers and temporary traffic lights around a dead deer on an A-road, as it was too hot for workers to remove the carcass. The paper says the local Conservative group has described the response as "ridiculous". The council says the temporary signals were necessary to stop road users "coming into contact with the obstruction".

And the Daily Mail reports that scientists have discovered that apes laugh just like humans. Researchers analysed the laughter of orangutans, gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees and humans and found they all laugh with evenly spaced rhythmic intervals. The study is also picked up by the Sun and the i Paper. Both papers sum up the findings with the phrase "Chuckle brothers".

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