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• The Papers: 'Farage forces elections U-turn' and 'Tributes to Godfather Star'
  Sir Keir Starmer's decision to abandon plans to delay 30 council elections after a legal challenge from Reform UK dominates Tuesday's papers.
• 'My friend told me we would be killed if we didn't pay protection money'
  One business owner says she was approached by paramilitaries before her new shop even opened.
• Doctor who called junior colleague 'bad girl' and squeezed her waist is struck off
  Dr Velmurugan Kuppuswamy is struck off after sexually harassing and objectifying female colleagues.
• Muir fourth in big air in another medal near-miss
  Freestyle skier Kirsty Muir once again comes heartbreakingly close to a Winter Olympic medal for Team GB with her second fourth-place finish of the Games.
• Tube passengers targeted in text scam, court told
  London Underground passengers received scam messages that aimed to "plunder their bank accounts", jurors hear.
• Six of Sarah Ferguson's companies winding down
  The move follows further revelations over her friendship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
• Disability and LGBT hate crimes set to become aggravated offences
  The proposed change has been set out in an amendment to the government's Crimes and Policing Bill.
• Students begin Covid compensation claim against 36 more universities
  It comes after University College London settled a claim from students there over lost learning in the pandemic.
• Government abandons plans to delay 30 council elections
  All English elections will now go ahead as originally planned after Reform UK brought a legal challenge over the decision to delay some polls.
• Teenagers guilty of killing man they lured to beach
  Alexander Cashford was chased and hit with rocks and a bottle before he died.