These are the leading stories in today's front pages. 

The Times of Malta leads with news that absenteeism rates in inner harbour schools have plummeted, with half the truancy rate reported just four years ago. 

The newspaper also quotes new PL deputy leader Chris Fearne, who says he has some unfinished health ministry business to sort out before he can go on summer break. 

The Malta Independent reports that a group of men who were sexually abused as children while in the care of the Missionary Society of St Paul want the society's yearly charity marathon to no longer be held at St Joseph Home in Santa Venera, where they were abused. 

In a secondary story, the newspaper quotes a sustainable fishing activist as saying that imported salmon is more popular with Maltese consumers than local fish. 

L-Orizzont leads with Chris Fearne's first comments as PL deputy leader for parliamentary affairs, in which he spoke of the need to include more women and youth in national politics.

In-Nazzjon leads with PN leader Simon Busuttil's brief discourse yesterday on Radio 101 in which he said the country needed a strong PN to ensure justice was supreme in the country.