These are the top stories in national newspapers today.

The Sunday Times of Malta says a man led police to a gang targeting residences while their occupants were asleep. In another story, it says former police chief Raymond Zammit and his brother acquired three plots of land in Mosta for a paltry sum after benefitting from a ministerial policy which affected the valuation process.

The Malta Independent on Sunday says that according to information published by the European Union on the Schengen Information System, over 100,000 such documents were reported by the Maltese authorities as having been lost, misappropriated or stolen in 2014 – the Schengen Zone’s third-highest rate on a per capita basis.

Kullhadd interviews forensic expert Anthony Abela Medici who said that indirect pressure was made in 1996 for him to change the results of an investigation he was carrying out on a political case when he was asked by the Courts to investigate the Karin Grech murder.

Illum says the Land Department admitted giving compensation for land they took from Edgar Farrugia and his family to third parties.

It-Torca says that the health service is being reformed through new equipment and services at Mater Dei.

Il-Mument says that the price of petrol and diesel is to remain higher than in half of European countries.

Malta Today leads with a wish list for 2016.