Year: 2021

A speeding bus carrying mostly laborers traveling home for a major Muslim holiday rammed into a container truck on a busy highway in central Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 28 people and injuring 40, police and rescue officials said.

The Times says Priti Patel’s proposal to penalise all asylum seekers trying to cross the Channel in small boats would cost taxpayers up to £412 million a year, new research has found.

The i says MPs have urged the Government to fix the “flawed” NHS Covid Pass scheme after an i investigation found people are able to obtain their so-called freedom passes

The Guardian says no matter who you are, or what sports you enjoy, the Olympics remains the greatest show on earth. It’s bigger than anything in football

The Times says England won this most unusual of matches by a distance to level their Twenty20 series with Pakistan at 1-1 before what will now be the decider at Emirates Old Trafford

The Guardian says the Australian government has cancelled Katie Hopkins’ visa after the far-right commentator boasted about breaching hotel quarantine conditions.

The i says a convicted murderer nicknamed the “Hollywood ripper” has been sentenced to death for the murder of two women and the attempted murder of a third in Los Angeles in the 2000s.

The i says Guto Harri, the GB News presenter suspended after taking the knee on-air, has quit and accused the embattled channel of appealing to the “far right”

The Metro says: Today is Freedom Day in England – the day on which most of the remaining Covid restrictions which have been in place throughout the pandemic are lifted.

The Times says ministers have called for independent oversight of a Football Association review of security failings at Wembley after violence and disorder at the Euro 2020 final.