Scotland's papers: Portion size 'crackdown'

Scottish restaurants, pubs and takeaways may have to cut the size of the portions they serve customers under plans to reduce obesity levels and make the nation eat more healthily, reports the i newspaper.

Supermarket price promotions on junk food are to be restricted and restaurant meal sizes could be capped under the plans, writes The Daily Telegraph.

Meanwhile, The Scotsman says that health visitors will encourage portion control and stage "weight interventions" as part of the Scottish government's preventative approach to tackling childhood obesity.

The tabloids chose to focus their attention on the sacking of Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha. The Daily Record writes that his 229 days in charge is the second shortest in club history behind only Paul Le Guen's ill-fated spell with the Light Blues.

Rangers "flop" Pedro Caixinha will walk away with a £500,000 pay-off after being sacked by the club, is how The Scottish Sun covers the story.

Staying with football, The Press and Journal leads with comments by north-east MP and football referee Douglas Ross that he has "given up his World Cup dream" to focus on his parliamentary duties after accepting he "can't do both".

In other news, The Herald says that calls have been made for action over "grim figures" that show the gender pay gap is closing UK-wide but actually rising in Scotland.

One of Scotland's wealthiest MSPs stands accused of causing "misery" to neighbours of his Speyside estate in a decade-long dispute about a derelict cottage and an overgrown hedge, according to The National.

Two alleged members of a banned far-right group have been charged in connection with a plot to murder a Labour MP, reports The Times.

Under the headline March Of The At-Work OAPs, the Daily Mail says that "soaring" numbers of Scots will be forced to work past retirement age as the country faces a "demographic time-bomb".

The Courier leads with claims that criminals on community payback orders are clocking on later to allow drug addicts to get their dose of methadone.