Newspaper headlines: May's grip on No 10, and saving builders from Brexit

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The Conservative Party conference begins on Sunday, and the Daily Telegraph feels it's Theresa May's first real chance to define her premiership and detail what it calls her "admirably radical" agenda.

Reflecting on her time in Downing Street so far, the paper describes her as a very different politician who keeps her own counsel but tends to get things done.

The Times says the prime minister has been accused of "control freakery" as she takes a tighter grip on Downing Street, imposing a formal cabinet government on her colleagues.

She's said to have adopted an increasingly hands-on style, and insisted on chairing the three main cabinet committees as well as the National Security Council.

Millions of pounds

The future of the Deutsche Bank is the subject of more speculation. The Financial Times says the bank won a respite from the market storm that threatened to engulf it. It reports that the group's chief executive is close to a deal with the US to reduce a £12bn fine for miss-selling mortgage-backed securities.

After a week when the Daily Telegraph has been investigating alleged corruption in football, the Daily Mail turns its attention to the game.

An investigation by the paper has found that a fifth of footballers' earnings can be paid to image rights companies. It says the deal with the tax authorities, thought to have been in place for two years, is saving the highest earning players millions of pounds a year.

Cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins uses an interview with the Guardian to give details of the history of asthma and pollen allergies that led him to apply for therapeutic use exemptions to have injections of the banned cortico-steroid triamcinolene.

He tells the paper that he realises why the injections might have been considered unethical.