The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers.

Times of Malta reports that people engaged as part of a jobs scheme are “defrauding the taxpayer” by never showing up for work assigned to them by local councils.

The newspaper also reports on the reasons which led to Sergei Golovkin's resignation from the Wild Birds Regulation unit.

The Malta Independent reports that a petrol station may move from Sliema to an ODZ site near Luqa. It also reports the appointment of Richard Lia to head the Wild Birds Regulation Unit. 

In-Nazzjon gives prominence to the decision by the Malta Bankers' Association to expel Pilatus Bank.

MaltaToday says people at risk of poverty have been reduced by 4 per cent in three years.

The story is also taken up by l-orizzont, which says that according to EU data, the number of people in poverty has fallen under this government at the same rate as it grew under the previous one. 

MaltaToday also reports how a 95-year-old man from Rabat died in a traffic accident on the Rabat road, He was a passenger in a car driven by a 75-year-old woman. It crashed into a tree.