Newspaper headlines: Javid 'calls Navy', and cancer breath test

Claims the home secretary has asked the Ministry of Defence to help deal with the rising number of attempted crossings of the English Channel by migrants in small boats, is the main story in the Daily Telegraph.

The paper suggests discussions are still going on about who will pay for a Royal Naval vessel to patrol the Channel looking for migrant boats.

The Daily Mail says the deployment of a naval ship would be "yet another U-turn", reporting Mr Javid originally refused an offer of military assistance.

Meanwhile, the home secretary's decision to question whether migrants were genuine asylum seekers has divided the newspapers.

The Daily Express says he was "absolutely right" and the Sun too is supportive, criticising the "leftie hand wringing over the illegal migrants".

But the Daily Mirror says Mr Javid has no evidence to support his suggestion and claims his comments "smack of someone who is more interested in rescuing his leadership ambitions".

This idea is taken up by the New Statesman, where Stephen Bush says the row is "nakedly political".

The Guardian points out that the migrants are Iranian - a nationality which has accounted for the highest number of asylum applications to the UK in the past three years - many of which have proved successful.

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The Financial Times speaks of Theresa May's latest efforts to get backing for her Brexit deal. It says she hopes to make headway with other EU leaders, then the DUP MPs, and then possibly moderate Tory Eurosceptics.

The Sun calls it "PM's Brexmas begging calls, and mocks up a photo of Mrs May as Oliver Twist holding out a bowl.

The Times says that Downing Street was playing down expectations that Mrs May had won any concessions.

Meanwhile, the Guardian says that Jeremy Corbyn is defying calls within Labour to seek a second referendum.

For its main story, the Times says universities are being advised that they could be on the brink of a "credit crunch."

The paper says it has figures which suggest universities face record levels of borrowing and financial pressures are likely to intensify with the possibility that tuition fees could be cut and that after Brexit there is likely to be a drop in overseas students.

The Daily Mail is offering a £25,000 reward to catch a man who went on the run after being found guilty in July of killing a woman in a speedboat accident on the River Thames.

The paper has put up the money after Jack Shepherd won leave to appeal against his conviction.

According to the Daily Telegraph, there are calls for petrol stations that offer "fair" prices to display a Kitemark-style symbol on their forecourts.

The Sun says that "furious MPs" want a fuel price watchdog to stop what it describes as "greedy oil giants ripping off" motorists.

The Daily Star backs the plan - saying stop "fuelling us" - suggesting that in the past three months wholesale petrol prices have plummeted by 17p, but prices on the forecourt have been cut by only 9p.

The Times says it has been decided that using German shepherds as sniffer dogs at airports in the US is too unnerving for passengers.

According to the paper, they are to replaced with friendly Labradors and other retrievers.

An official is quoted saying "we find passenger acceptance of floppy-eared dogs is better" who apparently do not scare children.

The Times suggests the tactic is unlikely to be deployed here, saying the Border Force at Gatwick has previously revealed that it monitors passengers' reactions to sniffer dogs - investigating those who are particularly anxious near the animals.

And "press rewind" urges the Daily Telegraph, "the humble music cassette is making a comeback".

The i also reports that sales of tapes rose by 125% last year.

But the Telegraph concedes that the sale of about 50,000 cassette albums is a miniscule proportion of the music market, but, the paper says, it will serve to "remind young people that there was a time before Spotify".