Month: August 2021

The Times says Holly Bradshaw won Britain’s first Olympic pole vault medal with a bronze in Tokyo, but if the Games handed out medals for persistence the 29-year-old might have won gold.

The Guardian says Bronze, gold, bronze. Great Britain’s women made history by getting ribbon round their necks for a third straight Olympic Games

The Times says energy bills for 15 million households will rise by at least 12 per cent from October as the price cap is increased because of record-high gas costs.

The Guardian says Billionaire and Google co-founder Larry Page is a New Zealand resident, and visited the country in the midst of Covid-19 border restrictions.

The i says the Government should consider extending the vaccination programme to children as young as 12 according to scientists who said it would reduce the spread of Covid-19 further.

The i says sixteen and seventeen-year-olds will be offered the Covid-19 vaccine in the coming weeks, and will not need the consent of their parents to get a vaccine.

The Guardian says Margaret Thatcher gave “a big early start” to green energy by closing coalmines, Boris Johnson has joked, in comments denounced as “unbelievably crass.”

The i says England must be left wondering if Jofra Archer will ever play Test cricket again after receiving the devastating news that the fast bowler will miss the rest of the year with the chronic elbow injury

The Times says almost 1,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in the last two days as new figures suggested this year’s surge in numbers has driven a rise in claims of modern slavery.

The Guardian says the government minister responsible for this year’s UN climate change conference in Glasgow has flown to 30 countries in the past seven months, it has been reported.