Year: 2021

A serious firearms incident in Plymouth leads many of Friday’s front pages – released before police confirmed six people had died. The Times says there have been multiple fatalities.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan made a phone call on Thursday to his Algerian counterpart to express support as wildfires tear through the northern parts of the North African country.

The UK faces its biggest test for “living with” Covid this weekend, claims the i paper, as it says 1.7m will socialise at mass events and festivals.

Confirmation that UK and US troops will return to Afghanistan to hasten evacuations came as its second-largest city Kandahar was claimed by the Taliban, the Guardian says.

Officials reported on Friday that the Taliban has taken Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second biggest city, in the most severe setback for the US-backed government since the rebels launched a new offensive as US forces retreat.

The Metro says: A migrant has been airlifted to hospital after a boat carrying around 40 people began to sink in the English Channel.

The Metro says: The Premier League roars back into life on Friday night as debutants Brentford host Arsenal.

The Metro says: A three-year-old girl died after choking on part of her own jacket’s zip inside an Asda supermarket, a source has said.

TRT World says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to pull the plug on his minority Liberal government and call snap elections on Sunday.

France24 says fires stoked by hot winds swept through southern Italy on Thursday, a day after a monitoring station in Sicily reported temperatures of 48.8 Celsius.