Papers continue focus on floods

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Several front pages continue to focus on the floods and their aftermath.

The Sunday Times says the Environment Agency has delayed its annual report which shows that senior executives had five-figure performance bonuses.

The Sunday Express calculates that the government will rake in a Â£1bn VAT windfall from building repair work.

The paper says that dwarfs the Â£46m the government has so far pledged towards restoring towns and villages devastated by the deluge.

Full wards

A leading surgeon is pictured on the front of the Independent on Sunday, described as a "whistleblower" who has exposed a beds crisis in the NHS.

Martin Bircher tells of specialist wards full to breaking point and badly injured patients waiting in agony.

The People says hospitals will find themselves short of nearly 2,500 doctors from Wednesday.

The paper says the crisis is a result of the problems with the new online recruitment system for junior doctors.

Smoking ban

The Observer says a secret government report forecasts that the number of six to 10-year-olds who become obese will keep rising.

Half of all boys and one in five girls will be dangerously overweight by 2050, the paper reports.

The Sunday Mirror says thousands of pubs, bingo halls and working men's clubs are struggling to survive because of the smoking ban.

The paper says an investigation found that takings are down by up to 40%.

Bosses' Bentley

The Sunday Telegraph has been trying out the new system of Energy Performance Certificates, which form part of Home Information Packs.

It found two accredited inspectors who missed a whole raft of energy efficiency improvements at a property.

The News of the World accuses a council threatening to make four-by-four owners pay extra for permits of hypocrisy.

The paper says London's Kensington and Chelsea has bought a Bentley for bosses which does just 10 miles per gallon.