Newspaper headlines: 'Over-70s autumn booster' and shops 'open till 10'

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi says the government's booster jabs programme will aim to "future proof" the UK against new variants of Covid-19.

He tells the paper the boosters should be ready to go for the top priority groups by September, saying "however the virus behaves, we're going to be ready".

Against such a backdrop, the paper asks in its editorial why the lifting of restrictions has been so slow.

"Now that we have vaccinated so many, we should not be talking of more rules and regulations" but of "liberating our economy and society."

Precisely when our foreign holidays may be liberated remains a source of speculation for most papers.

The Guardian says Whitehall officials met on Friday to discuss expanding the so-called red list of countries, from where most travel into the UK is banned.

An insider tells the paper there could be "quite a few additions" because of the rising number of cases across most of Europe.

The Daily Express says hopes of holidays abroad have been boosted by suggestions that the government is considering a testing regime for travellers returning to the UK.

The Times says ministers are still hoping most people will look closer to home this summer.

It reports that officials are preparing a multi-million pound marketing blitz to entice British holidaymakers to stay in the UK this year.

A new campaign titled "Escape the Everyday" will seek to tempt people into ditching exotic locations in favour of cities such as Portsmouth, Manchester or Birmingham.

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The return of Alex Salmond to frontline politics - as part of a new pro-independence party - is seen by most papers as potentially damaging to the Scottish National Party.

Chris Deerin, Scotland editor of the New Statesman, is scathing in his assessment of Alex Salmond, who he says has made the independence movement look like a shambles.

"The former first minister is handling his post-Bute House career with all the poise of a drunken elephant on ice," he says, adding that Mr Salmond has come to resemble "a malign, unexorcised ghost" with "the galactic relentlessness of his ego and his need to be centre-stage" casting him "firmly as Scotland's Nigel Farage."

The Daily Mirror carries a satellite image across two pages showing the backlog of dozens of ships waiting to pass through the Suez Canal, which continues to be blocked by a giant container vessel.

The paper says an estimated £290 million of trade is being held up every hour - and says products ranging from TVs and car parts to industrial chemicals and live animals are among the cargos affected.

The chief executive of the world's largest shipping company, AP Moller-Maersk, tells the Financial Times that the ships already queuing at the canal will probably have to stay there until the route is clear.

But he says goods needed urgently will have to be reproduced and flown to their destinations - with the disruption likely to cause months of delays.

The Sun says "a giant vacuum cleaner" is now being used to try to free the blocked ship.

The suction dredger can remove 2,000 cubic metres of silt and sand an hour, which the paper says could enable the vessel to be refloated on Saturday.