Among the many disturbing aspects of Sarah Everard's kidnap, rape and murder, her bogus arrest at the hands of police officer Wayne Couzens - using a warrant card and handcuffs - is particularly unnerving. And it's prompted London's Metropolitan Police to suggest anyone stopped by a lone plain-clothes officer should challenge their legitimacy. The force says it's "entirely reasonable" to demand an officer's ID, and ask "where are your colleagues" or "exactly why are you stopping or talking to me?". People should ask to speak to an operator on a police radio to check whether the officer is acting legitimately, the force suggests in a letter to MPs.
Met Police Commssioner Dame Cressida Dick faces calls to resign, having admitted "a precious bond of trust" had been damaged, after Couzens was sentenced to a whole-life prison term. In response, her force is stepping up "reassurance patrols". An extra 650 new officers will patrol busy public areas. The Met also says it will publish a strategy for tackling violence against women and girls. MP Jess Phillips, shadow minister for safeguarding, says Labour will press ministers to examine "what is going on in the vetting processes", given it emerged a check on Couzens had not been done correctly and allegations of indecent exposure had been missed. Cabinet minister George Eustice says the government is working on a strategy to reduce violence against women.

It's a change campaigners say will leave an additional half a million households struggling to heat or power their homes. From today, an increase in the energy price cap, affecting 15 million households in England, Scotland and Wales, will see typical default domestic energy bills rise £139 a year. Prepayment meter customers will be hit by a £153 increase. It represents a 12% hike in energy prices, just as colder, darker days approach, and coincides with other price rises hitting family budgets and the withdrawal of Covid support schemes. Ministers promise continued financial help for the poorest households. The cap, set by regulator Ofgem, does not apply in Northern Ireland. Here's why.

It's been a year and a half since people could freely travel to Australia. Under the country's pandemic response, only citizens and those with exemptions have been able to enter. Outbound travel is also banned without an exemption. The policy has been praised for helping to suppress Covid, but has also kept families apart. From November, vaccinated travellers will be allowed into the country, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says. States with vaccination rates above 80% will get the travel freedoms, he says, telling reporters: "It's time to give Australians their lives back." But with some states threatening to keep borders shut until vaccine rates are even higher, as our report explains, it could end up being easier for a Sydneysider to travel to London than Perth.

The papers react to the sentencing of police officer Wayne Couzens for the rape and murder of Sarah Everard. "Never again", says the Daily Mirror, which reports calls for an overhaul of policing. The head of London's Metropolitan Police is being urged to resign, in light of evidence colleagues nicknamed Couzens "the rapist", reports the i. Dame Cressida Dick is "hanging her head in shame", according to the Daily Mail. Her force admitted missing opportunities before Ms Everard was attacked, the Guardian says, under the headline: "Shaming of the Met."

She was thought of as Hollywood's English rose. But six-time Oscar-nominated Deborah Kerr - who famously romped in the sea with Burt Lancaster in From Here To Eternity - was actually born in Scotland. And a group of performing arts students from Glasgow's Clyde College are campaigning for a blue plaque to mark her birthplace. Here's the story.
To the small screen now... and if you settled down to watch the Married At First Sight finale last night and were left with an unnerving sense of déjà vu, don't worry, it wasn't just you. Here's why. Maybe the confusion left you feeling like this gorilla, swamped by butterflies, whose picture won the Nature Conservancy 2021 Photo Contest. Or is that a look of bliss on its face? You decide.

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