'Toddler critical' and 'cost of living hope'

UK newspapers report on a variety of stories, including a criminal investigation into a child injured at a zoo and economic updates regarding inflation and infrastructure spending. The Financial Times highlights the Bank of England's decision to hold interest rates steady amid shifting global oil prices.
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Several of the papers focus on a three-year-old boy who was left with critical injuries after ending up in a Cambridgeshire zoo s crocodile enclosure. The Daily Telegraph says he was "thrown to the crocodiles" by a person who the police believe was a stranger to him. A 30-year-old man from Norfolk has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the incident, the paper reports
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