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| Front pages: PM's China visit and crash victims | Front pages: PM's China visit and crash victims |
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| After a Sunday in which one story - the helicopter crash - dominated the papers, Monday's front pages are more of a mixed bag. | After a Sunday in which one story - the helicopter crash - dominated the papers, Monday's front pages are more of a mixed bag. |
| Several report the names of some of those killed in the crash, alongside their photographs, while others discuss the prime minister's trip to China this week. | Several report the names of some of those killed in the crash, alongside their photographs, while others discuss the prime minister's trip to China this week. |
| The Independent and i lead with an accusation made by a cross-party committee that the government is planning to cut the number of people defined as fuel poor by "moving the goalposts" of how the figure is defined. | The Independent and i lead with an accusation made by a cross-party committee that the government is planning to cut the number of people defined as fuel poor by "moving the goalposts" of how the figure is defined. |
| Elsewhere, the Financial Times says several big firms have told it that government-imposed green levies are leaving them at a huge disadvantage to European competitors. | |
| Discussing that story - and others - for the BBC's News Channel, Tim Stanley, leader writer for the Daily Telegraph, agreed that green taxes were "crazy" and have "got to go". | |
| He said "the real problem in this country is supply" and production, from nuclear in particular, must increase - but environmental taxes were "killing" any prospect of that. | |
| Journalist Rachel Shabi disagreed vehemently and said energy bills in the UK were 50% higher than in Europe, but "you can't possibly blame that on the green levy - a tiny, tiny levy." | |
| She said the real problem was that "a cabal of six energy companies" are "profiteering at our expense". |