Regeneration in the newspapers: Plans for 100,000 new homes 'scrapped'

More than 100,000 planned homes have been axed by councils since the coalition scrapped regional housebuilding targets, the Daily Mirror reports. Umbrella body the National Housing Federation said the 100,000 now shelved included 10,750 in North Somerset, 9,600 in Bristol and 9,200 in North Hertfordshire and Stevenage, the paper reports. The figure is an update on the planned 85,000 new homes scrapped by councils revealed in research carried out in July for the NHF by consultancy Tetlow King Planning.

The country's construction sector grew far more slowly in August than in July, according to a survey of purchasing managers. The data is stoking concerns that the UK may be dragged back into recession, the Daily Telegraph reports. 

Shadow schools secretary and Labour leadership candidate Ed Balls might not go on to become leader of the Labour Party, but as an economist, he deserves our attention, writes Martin Wolf in the Financial Times.

A child's social class is more likely to determine how well they perform in school if they are white than if they come from an ethnic minority, the Guardian reports.