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Police accessing Stansted Airport private flights over Epstein ties leads a number of Wednesday's papers. "Flight logs and emails for Epstein's 'Lolita Express' are being accessed", the i Paper reports, after allegations women were flown in and out of England. Meanwhile, MPs are weighing up whether to open "an investigation into Andrew's work as UK trade envoy", the paper says. The former prince has always denied any wrongdoing.
The Sun reports on Mountbatten-Windsor being faced overnight with "a criminal probe into sex trafficking claims". It claims there are at least seven UK police forces on the Epstein case. The former prince has always denied any wrongdoing.
Similarly, the Daily Mail covers the "pressure piling on Andrew" with claims of a "fourth police force probe" into Epstein ties.
The Guardian features US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson who died aged 84 on Tuesday morning. The paper remembers the leading Democrat with a quote from Barack Obama saying "We stood on his shoulders". Meanwhile, the paper reports that one in nine new homes in England built between 2022 and 2024 could now be at risk of flooding.
The Financial Times remembers Jesse Jackson as the leader whose advocacy spanned the death of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 to the election of Barack Obama in 2008 - featuring an image of the late US civil rights leader taking part in a rally in Washington in 1992. The paper also reports that the UK government has pulled the plug on a "programme to build frictionless post-Brexit trade border" after the end of a contract with Deloitte and IBM.
The Daily Express leads with unemployment figures hitting 5.2%, and points the finger at Labour's job taxes, which it calls the "silent killer of inspiration". The paper reports that one Tory claims "millions are crying out for the reward of hard work".
The Daily Star leads with Gordon Ramsay's reflections on his tough childhood that he says "made me a better dad". Elsewhere on the page, Jesse Jackson is remembered and the countdown for the Cheltenham races begins.
A "Putin Critic" who says he "checks his door handle every day" in fear of nerve agent assassinations is the subject of the exclusive lead story in the Metro. The Russian national and journalist, Roman Dobrokhotov, 42, was "named as a target at the trial of a Putin spy ring in Britain" and claims to be "on Putin's kill list", the paper reports.
The Daily Mirror calls Nigel Farage's new team, which he unveiled yesterday, "no laughing matter". The Reform UK leader's new cabinet is "full of Tories", the paper says, and whom Labour chair Anna Turley says "failed Britain before" and would "do they same again".
Rachel Reeves is reportedly rejecting requests "from military chiefs to spend billions more on defence", the Daily Telegraph says. It reports a £28bn shortfall as being flagged by the Ministry of Defence. Meanwhile, Dame Prue Leith takes the lead image in a outfit made out of "leaves and stems from the King's private estate" for the opening night of London Fashion Week.
Labour considering dropping their youth wage pledge after "suggestions the policy is fuelling record youth unemployment" is the focus of the Times. Business groups say ministers are "pricing a generation of young people out of the workplace". The front of the paper also has Dame Prue Leith posing in her London Fashion Week outfit on its front page.
