The following are the top stories in national newspapers today.
Times of Malta says the new gas-fired power station in Delimara cleared its final hurdle on the way to a planned start of operations early next year, as the Environment and Resources Authority granted an operational permit yesterday. In another story, it says the number of staff members at the government’s Foundation for Tomorrow’s Schools has more than doubled since Evarist Bartolo took over the Education Ministry in 2013.
The Malta Independent dedicates its front page to the Berlin tragedy in which people were killed and injured after a truck rammed into a crowded Christmas market in the centre.
L-Orizzont says that residents in several localities in Gozo have complained of a mysterious smell the source of which has not yet been identified.
In-Nazzjon says that the ERA’s decision to grant an operational permit for the new power station was one that was against the interests of the Maltese.