'Europe's Silicon Valley' and Strictly Wynne's apology

The Daily Telegraph suggests that the chancellor's speech this morning will attempt to focus on new projects, external, and new policies developed during what the paper calls Labour's economically bumpy first six months in power. Among the infrastructure plans, Rachel Reeves will highlight proposals for nine new reservoirs - Britain's first for more than 30 years - amid worries that the UK could run out of water in the 2030s without radical action. But it notes that the chancellor's plans coincide with risks of a UK recession, plunging business confidence and lower rates of hiring, and points out that the Conservatives blame both her and the prime minister for the economy's "predicament".

Also looking at Reeves, the i paper reports that her speech will include a £55m investment to provide 30,000 electric vehicle kerbside charging points outside homes., external

The Guardian believes the chancellor is staking the government's success on kickstarting economic growth, external. It says her speech is being seen inside government as a chance to pivot away from the economic doom and gloom of Labour's first month's in power, and instead focus on delivering real change.

Meanwhile, the Daily Mail argues that the barriers to growth the government needs to tear down are the very ones it created, external. The Mail says that despite Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer calling for measures to be vetoed unless they can be shown to boost the economy, No 10 is continuing with what the paper calls a string of damaging policies, such as the rise on employers' National Insurance contributions.

According to the Times, the first patients in the UK have received blood tests to gauge their risk of dementia , externalas part of a trial to improve diagnosis of the condition. Around 3,000 people will eventually be enrolled in the study. The tests look for proteins associated with Alzheimer's and other dementias. Combined with clinical assessments they can provide a key indication of whether people are affected. It's hoped the data could boost the case for the tests to be available on the NHS.

The Daily Telegraph reports that the FBI is said to have been handed a dossier detailing Lord Mandelson's alleged links with China, external. It was compiled using open source data from the Chinese web, and is said to contain multiple examples of apparent links to senior Beijing officials. The paper argues it could further complicate Lord Mandelson's chance of being accepted by President Donald Trump as the next British ambassador to the US. Downing Street says it has rejected the report.

Both the Times, external and the Telegraph suggest that more than 20 years after Concorde last flew, a new era of supersonic passenger flights is upon us after a test plane broke the sound barrier yesterday, external. The XB-1 demonstrator - made by Boom Supersonic - flew faster than 850mph three times over the Mojave Desert in California. The company now wants to scale the plane up to a commercial passenger model to come into service around 2030.

And the Daily Express - in what it calls a royal exclusive - says King Charles personally intervened last year to veto a new submarine being called HMS Agincourt, external. It says he torpedoed the name to avoid it upsetting the French. The astute class will be now be called HMS Achilles.

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