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The i Paper has a plea, external from fire chiefs for people not to use 999 to report that a neighbour is holding a barbeque or having a bonfire. The paper says it comes in the wake of a surge of emergency calls over the weekend, which were blamed on the government's use of the national alert system to warn about the dangers of starting a wildfire. It also reports a prediction from the Met Office that another heatwave may be on its way next month.

Comments by the deputy leader of Reform UK on climate change are the main story for the Guardian, external. It reports that Richard Tice told a news conference it was "arrogant" to try to stop the climate emergency, and encouraged people to think about the "upsides" of heatwaves, like better British wine. The paper says his comments have caused a backlash from medical experts and green campaigners. The Mirror's headline, external declares Tice a "wine buffoon".

The Times carries a warning, external from the children's commissioner for England that children are "becoming intoxicated by extremism". The comment comes from a report by Dame Rachel de Souza in which she says there's deep concern that young people are being drawn into radicalisation and violence, with the internet "central" to the process.

According to the Daily Telegraph, external, the housing secretary, Angela Rayner, has "softened" planning rules for traveller sites, which would give councils fewer ways to block them. The paper says she has removed two rules which councils and residents had been able to use to oppose unauthorised camps. But it quotes government sources who argue that other changes will make it harder for such sites to get retrospective planning permission.

The Times reports, external that a study has suggested a shared fondness for a music genre or artist may reveal more about a couple's compatibility than other personality traits. Researchers in Austria mixed up real couples to test the idea and found those who were a pair were much more alike in what they listened to, on average, than people who were put together at random. The leader of the study said it was her "hunch" that musical preferences combined several clues at once about a person's personality traits, emotional tendencies, values and background.