A suggestion from Scotland’s first minister that the UK Covid vaccine roll-out will shortly be extended to 16 and 17 year-olds leads several of Wednesday’s papers.
Day: 4 August 2021
A Filipino resident in the United Arab Emirates who tested positive for COVID-19 twice – once during pregnancy and once during labor – has given birth to healthy twin girls.
VOA says a Pentagon police officer was killed during an attack at the Pentagon public transit hub Tuesday, gunfire was exchanged and there were multiple injuries.
The Daily Express says: Team GB secured another sailing gold medal in the Women’s 470. Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre put in a brilliant performance and crossed the line in fifth to take home gold. Mills is now the most successful Olympic sailor of all time.
TRT World says the Turkish government has said a vast majority of forest fires that have ravaged the south of the country for almost a week have been contained.
Aljazeera says Ahmadullah Azadani climbed on the roof of his house and awaited something that would have been unthinkable in the city even a week earlier.
The Daily Express says: NICOLA STURGEON is in the last chance saloon and has a “point of vulnerability”, polling expert Sir John Curtice has claimed.
Arab News says Australia’s New South Wales reported one of the country’s youngest deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, as daily infections lingered near a 16-month high.
BORIS JOHNSON has been handed a three-point blueprint that the Treasury can put into action in a move that could firmly cement the UK’s economic lead over the European Union.
BBC News says an emotional Sky Brown broke down in tears after becoming Great Britain’s youngest Olympic medal winner of all time.
France24 says public anger in Lebanon is mounting a year after the August 4, 2020, Beirut blast, with a stalled investigation, crippling economic crisis and political sclerosis.
The Daily Express says: Frazer Clarke’s Olympic Games are over, with the super-heavyweight fighter earning a bronze medal in Tokyo.
The Daily Express reports on a study suggesting people who are doubled jabbed are three times less likely to catch Covid, proving the UK’s vaccine roll-out is winning the war.
All kids aged 16 and 17 ‘to be offered Covid jab to fight off autumn surge’ The Metro says: More…
Metro’s main story focuses on Covid, with the paper reporting that a further fall in the number of UK Covid cases has raised hopes that the third wave is in retreat.
A full-page photograph of Jason Kenny and his wife Laura dominates the front of the Daily Mirror after the cyclist became Britain’s most decorated Olympian.
Prince Faisal said Iran was already “emboldened” and “extremely active in the region with its negative activity.”
The Metro says: The Pentagon was placed on lockdown on Tuesday morning after multiple shots were fired outside.
The Metro says: The government is under pressure to allow quarantine-free holidays to France.
The Mirror says: Sky Brown was crowned Team GB’s youngest ever summer Olympic medallist when she won bronze in the skateboarding at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The Mirror says: TV’s Christine McGuinness was confronted by a man who accused her of parking in a disabled space illegally – but he was wrong.
The Mirror says: It was one of those sickening crimes so harrowing that it shocked the whole world.
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