'Blast chance'
A round-up of the headlines from the UK front pages
"Blast chance saloon" says Metro, reporting on how the government took control of British Steel's Scunthorpe plant. The Times notes fears among ministers that the plant's Chinese owner, Jingye, planned to "sabotage" the site "to increase British reliance on cheap Chinese imports".
"Why on Earth did he have boiling oil?" asks the Daily Mirror, leading on how Hashem Abedi, one of the men responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing, has attacked three prison wardens.
The Daily Telegraph leads on the government's "desperate move" to call in military planners to help deal with the rubbish crisis in Birmingham, a move that risks "inflaming tensions between Labour and unions".
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