Newspaper headlines: A city 'born of grief' and call to end online hate

Sir David Amess's family, friends and colleagues are pictured on many of the front pages.

The Daily Telegraph shows his widow, Julia, and other family members visiting the church where he was killed to inspect the flowers laid for him.

The Guardian has a picture of MPs observing a minute's silence in the House of Commons chamber. In the i newspaper, party leaders are seen walking in procession from the chamber to the service of remembrance across the road from Parliament.

The Times and the Daily Mail carry a CCTV image of a figure believed to be Ali Harbi Ali - the suspect being questioned in connection with the attack - walking towards a railway station in north London hours before Sir David was stabbed.

The Daily Express celebrates the announcement that Southend is to be granted city status - a move that the MP had long campaigned for. "A city born of grief, love and respect", is the headline.

Sir David's local paper, the Southend Echo, has the headline: "David's city of Southend". One civic leader tells the paper: "I am sure he will be looking down on us now saying 'my work in Southend is now complete'."

On the inside pages, the parliamentary sketch writers agree that MPs rose to the occasion at the special Commons sitting to pay their tributes to Sir David.

John Crace, in the Guardian, says every MP did their best to find the right words that summed up a life and career well lived and much loved.

In the Mail, Henry Deedes observes that there were "dabbed eyes, sad smiles and quiet dignity". "For two hours, the tributes flowed," he writes. "Some funny, others touching, all of them warm and respectful."

Tim Stanley writes in the Daily Telegraph that this was the Commons at its best, because it was paying respects to one of its best members.

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According to the Financial Times, City traders are betting that the Bank of England will increase interest rates as soon as next month, after its governor, Andrew Bailey, said at the weekend that it would "have to act" to keep a lid on inflationary pressures. It says markets are now fully pricing-in a rise from the record low of 0.1% to a 0.25%.

There's concern about the growing number of daily Covid cases, which reached just over 49,000 on Monday - their highest level since mid-July. The Guardian says the figure is only 19,000 cases short of the peak recorded in January.

The Times reports that millions of eligible older people are yet to receive their booster jabs, with experts saying the NHS is feeling the strain of running several coronavirus vaccine programmes at the same time as the annual flu jab.

Finally, restaurants up and down the country are reporting an all-time high in thefts of luxury soaps and hand wash from bathrooms.

According to the i, smart casual restaurants trying to impress with upmarket brands appear to be most at risk from light-fingered customers. One owner tells the paper they used an expensive soap "because we have the food and the service and we want guests to have an amazing experience everywhere".

But, the paper adds. some are now putting their soaps into special holders screwed to the wall and others are resorting to budget alternatives.