These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Tuesday.

The Times of Malta reports that a global study has ranked Malta’s mobile data prices as being among the world’s most expensive.

The newspaper also reports that an administrative blunder has forced authorities to put a €23m underpass project in Santa Luċija on hold.

The Malta Independent leads with Finance Minister Edward Scicluna’s comments that while pensions are not reliant on foreign workers, “it helps”.

L-Orizzont speaks to a man whose neighbour was hurt in a gas cylinder explosion, with the newspaper writing that many are expressing concern about cylinder safety.

In-Nazzjon writes that Malta has Europe’s worst environmental record and that the government’s lack of environmental planning is having knock-on effects in various other sectors.