The following are the top stories in national newspapers today.

Times of Malta says the owner of a family-run transport business had his operator’s licence revoked after he admitted to employing a school transport driver whose name was on the sex offenders’ register. In another story, it quotes the chief of the Medicines Authority who says there is no scientific reason why emergency contraception products should not be authorised for sale in Malta.

In-Nazzjon says the Sliema council has unanimously agreed to appeal the Planning Authority decision to grant a permit for the development of a high rise building in the locality.

L-Orizzont says that a digital prescription system has been introduced for medicines forming part of the pharmacy of your choice.

The Malta Independent says Comino’s beaches were seen returning to some semblance of order yesterday as those with concessions to hire deckchairs and umbrellas began abiding by regulations, placing the beach furniture in place only after it was hired out.