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Front page summary Daily Mirror – GP appointment scandal: Doctor won’t see you now The Daily Mirror reports that the number of patients waiting more than a month to see a GP has soared by up to 79% as NHS family doctors struggle to cope. One doctor is quoted as saying the “bottom line is we don’t have enough GPs”. The Department of Health tells the paper it is committed to improving access to family doctors, and is delivering 50m more GP appointments per year.Elsewhere, celebrity news makes the front page.  Daily Mirror – Charles at Easter service: King’s show of…

Front page summary Daily Express – 10m junk food addicts costing Britain billions The Daily Express splashes with doctors wanting to take drastic action to tackle the 10 million people hooked on junk food, which is costing the NHS £58bn a year. The Doctors tell the newspaper they want food addiction to be classed alongside alcohol and drug misuse to help combat obesity.Elsewhere, JK Rowling’s odd dare to Scottish police to arrest her – in relation to the country’s new hate speech laws, makes the front page of the tabloid. Former PM Boris Johnson’s Easter skiing trip and energy giant profits also…

Front page summary The Sun – After England kit – Union Joke Sports fans share their “fury” with the Sun over Team GB’s apparent redesign of the Union Jack, which takes creative licence with the flag by adding patterned panels and an array of different colours to the traditional red, white and blue. It follows the row over Nike’s reimagining of the St George’s Cross design on its new England kit.Elsewhere, JK Rowling’s odd dare to Scottish police to arrest her – in relation to the country’s new hate speech laws, makes the front page of the tabloid.  The Sun –…

Tuesday’s front pages feature a variety of stories with the escalation in the Middle East taking the lead for several papers. An Iranian general has been killed in Syria during an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate building in Damascus. The papers see the bombing as an escalation and note Tehran has vowed a ‘harsh’ response to the attack. 

Several front pages feature ongoing coverage of the UK political scene ahead of this year’s general election. A couple of papers from across the political spectrum suggest Tory rebels are plotting to oust the prime minister regardless of whether he can turn the economic situation around. 

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards report that seven officers have lost their lives in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Iranian consulate building in Damascus, the capital of Syria. Among the deceased are Brig-Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a high-ranking commander of the elite Quds Force, and Brig-Gen Mohammad Hadi Haji-Rahimi, his deputy.

The World Central Kitchen (WCK) has said they will suspend operations in Gaza following the death of seven of its workers in Israeli air strikes. The WCK says the workers killed were British, Australian, Polish, Palestinian and a dual US-Canadian citizen.

The international food charity said the workers were part of an aid convoy leaving a warehouse in central Gaza.

Donald Trump has posted a $175m (£140m) bond in his New York civil fraud case. The former US president was originally ordered to pay the full $464m judgement against him but an appeals court said he could pay the smaller sum within 10 days. 

Five packages wrapped in plastic, suspected to contain cocaine, have washed ashore on Sydney beaches. Discovered by beach visitors at Freshwater and Curl Curl on Monday, these parcels, totalling 5kg in weight, were confiscated by law enforcement.

A shooting at a school in the city of Vantaa in Finland has left three children wounded, according to police. Authorities say they responded to the incident at Viertola school just after 09:00 (06:00 GMT) on Tuesday and have urged locals to remain indoors. 

Israel is set to ban Al Jazeera after the Israeli parliament approved a law giving the government the power to ban broadcasts of TV channels. PM Benjamin Netanyahu said he would “act immediately” to close the Qatari-owned network local office.