Year: 2021

The Guardian says Barcelona have announced that Lionel Messi is leaving the club after “financial and structural obstacles” made it impossible to renew his contract.

Lionel Messi’s anger at Tottenham transfer: The Daily Mirror says the news that Lionel Messi is leaving Barcelona has sent shockwaves through the world of football.

The Times says British holidaymakers have told of the moment they discovered they would have to scramble to get home from Mexico almost immediately after touching down.

The Guardian says last November, after Belgium had beaten England 2-0 in the Nations League, Pep Guardiola messaged Kevin De Bruyne to ask what he had made of Jack Grealish.

The i says a Danish parish priest has been jailed for 15 years for murdering his wife by smashing her head with a stone and then dissolving her body in acid.

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.