Newspaper round-up: 9 August

The Guardian and Daily Mail report on a £2.5bn Highways Agency plan to widen part of the M1 to ten lanes. The 50-mile stretch runs between Leicester and Chesterfield and would see an extra lane added in each direction.

The Daily Telegraph reports on a study by construction consultant EC Harris, which estimates the cost of building in the UK could rise by £4bn as a result of labour being sucked into the Olympic Games project. It said a supply shortage would artificially fuel inflation in the construction sector.

The Guardian reports that changes to immigration rules have left 49,000 highly skilled migrants who have settled in Britain facing the possibility of deportation. MPs have called for the changes, which make it more difficult to settle permanently in Britain, to be scrapped.

The Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times report on suggestions by the Commons education committee that the £45bn Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme may not be a good use of public money.