Metro reports a packet of 20 cigarettes is set to rise to £16 as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt launches a war on smoking and vaping in the upcoming spring budget. The move is expected to bring in millions of pounds.
The paper says he’s planning to bring in a levy on liquids in e-cigarettes for importers and manufacturers to make the products unaffordable for children. It estimates the tax rise will bring in around half a billion pounds.
England and Arsenal defender Lotte Wubben-Moy’s header put England ahead within the first minute.
(Though, let’s face it, they might have had good reason to. What with their kids flying up into tubes and swelling into blueberries.)
Prince William has pulled out of attending a memorial service for his late godfather due to an undisclosed personal matter.
His sudden death on Sunday evening at the age of 45 plunged the Royal Family into a state of shock.
He had been trying to overturn a ruling which saw his security downgraded after he stopped being a working royal.
Several of the right-leaning newspapers note the death of 45-year-old Thomas Kingston, who was the husband of Lady Gabriella Kingston and son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.
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