Crude oil price rose for a fourth day on Wednesday as an outage on a pipeline from Iraq to Turkey increased concerns about an already tight supply.
Day: 19 January 2022
The Sun has an exclusive on Strictly dancer Nadiya Bychkova breaking up with her footballer fiance.
The Daily Express’s top story is on Tory MPs plotting to oust Boris Johnson after he apologised ten times for parties held at Downing Street.
The Daily Mirror focuses on the “pork pie plot” to oust Boris Johnson.
The Guardian – Clamour to oust Johnson grows as Tory MPs plot confidence vote
Metro quotes the prime minister saying no one warned him that the party in Downing Street’s garden would break lockdown rules.
The Independent – Nobody warned me party was against rules, says the PM – the man who set the rules.
The Guardian says More than 100 members of the global super-rich called on Wednesday for governments around the world to “tax us now”
The Independent says Scottish fugitive Jamie Stevenson among UK’s 12 most wanted men.
The Metro says The UK has seen its highest daily death toll in 11 months with another 438 people dying with Covid in the latest 24 hour period.
The Independent says a witness is to testify they saw Prince Andrew with a ‘young girl’ at London nightclub Tramp.
The Guardian says Four alleged members of the Nigerian mafia have been arrested in southern Italy after a young sex trafficking survivor spoke out against them.
The Metro says Thomas Tuchel says Romelu Lukaku is ‘by far not the problem’ at Chelsea, despite the striker being booed off by his own fans.
The Independent says the random killing of UCLA grad student Brianna Kupfer has led to an outpouring of grief and anger on social media.
The Guardian says the CDC advised against travel to 22 nations and territories because of a rising number of Covid-19 cases.
The Metro says January 6 committee subpoenas longtime Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and three others
The Metro says A serial cat killer who knifed nine pets to death and injured seven more has died while serving his five year sentence.
The Guardian says Man charged with murder after nine-year-old girl’s body found in a barrel near Blue Mountains
The Independent says WHSmith has revealed that sales at its stores remain below pre-pandemic levels.
Wednesday’s papers are not a positive read for the prime minister. There is ridicule from many over his continued insistence that he was unaware he was breaking rules during a No 10 party during the first lockdown.
BBC News says Boris Johnson is expected to announce an easing of England’s Covid rules when he makes a statement on Plan B later.
The Independent says A man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of murder over the death of Ashling Murphy in Ireland.
The Guardian says Australia and New Zealand have started to dispatch aid to Tonga, amid fears that relief workers could bring a “tsunami of Covid” cases.
The Metro says Former Vogue creative director Andre Leon Talley has died aged 73, his reps have confirmed. He died on Tuesday in New York.
France24 says The World Health Organization has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, as France, Germany and Brazil posted new records of infections.
