Newspaper headlines: ‘Sick note UK’ and ‘Bird flu spreads to humans’

The Daily Mail leading on what it calls the UK’s “sick note crisis”, reporting that a record 2.5m workers were signed off with long-term sickness in the first three months of 2023. The paper says most of the issues were caused by back and neck pain while working from home. The paper also carries a photo of Michael Douglas, awarded an honorary Palme d’Or to “mark his glittering film career”.