The following are the top stories in national newspapers today.

The Sunday Times of Malta says fuel stations built on pristine land would have to be a third smaller than current limitations and face a number of other restrictions, under recommendations for a new policy expected to be finalised on Monday. In another story it says the government and the Medical Association of Malta are expected to sign an agreement covering the transfer of three State hospitals to Steward Global Health Care on Tuesday.

MaltaToday says Mark Gaffarena has described the revocation of the Old Mint Street property deal as a political stunt.

The Malta Independent says the presumed close collaborator and right hand man in Malta of Italian illegal betting king Benedetto ‘Ninì’ Bacchi has been arrested in Malta after he escaped to the islands in the wake of an anti-mafia raid, dubbed ‘Game Over’, in Sicily on February 1.

Illum says that the Pilatus Bank chairman who has been arrested in the US had passed the MFSA’s integrity test.

Kullħadd says the new IVF law will enable women aged up to 48 to become mothers through the public health service.

It-Torċa speaks to the head of the Social Welfare Foundation who says that fines for human trafficking should be stiffer.

Il-Mument says the Nationalist Party has come up with concrete proposals for councils to serve their residents better.