The Metro says Boots will begin sales of lateral flow tests from tomorrow as ministers are warned people may soon face a choice between ‘eating or heating or paying for a test’.
Day: 23 February 2022
The Independent says Heathrow has revealed it was the only hub airport in Europe to see a reduction in passenger numbers in 2021, due to the UK’s tougher coronavirus travel rules.
The Independent says The Duchess of Cambridge will receive an official welcome from Denmark’s Queen Margrethe on the second day of her trip to the Scandinavian nation.
The Guardian says The first glimpse of a Partygate questionnaire confirms that Downing Street insiders are being questioned under police caution.
The Guardian says Innocent drinks has had an advert banned by the Advertising Standards Authority after environmentalists reported it for claiming that drinking its smoothies is good for the environment.
Wednesday’s front pages.
Fears of conflict have escalated as Vladimir Putin ignores calls to back down over the Ukraine crisis. Chilling maps show what would happen if London was to be targeted by a Russian nuclear bomb if east-west tensions result in World War 3.
BBC News says Boris Johnson “misspoke” when he claimed Chelsea Football Club’s Russian owner Roman Abramovich faced sanctions.
Mr Putin announced on Monday the Kremlin would recognise the breakaway regions of Ukraine as independent states, offering a pretext to send in Russian soldiers. The Russian President then issued the order for Russian troops to move into the two separatist regions of Eastern Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk.
Sky News says No taxpayers’ money was spent on food or drink consumed at Downing Street events being probed.
MPs have become increasingly frustrated at the failure to crackdown Russia on cash swirling around the capital. Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper demanded ‘much stronger action against illicit finance’
Euronews says Western allies imposed a raft of sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, in response to Russian recognition of two breakaway republics in the east of Ukraine.
Brits are set to face blizzards with heavy snow and 70mph winds when Storm Gladys hits as ‘danger to life warnings’ remain in place.
Aljazeera says Italy rescued nearly 600 people packed into overcrowded fishing boats in bad weather off the coast of Calabria.
They were among those watching with dread as more than 10,000 Russian troops with tanks and artillery surged into Donetsk and Luhansk.
The plane twice aborted landing on a day winds hit 80mph. Fire crews raced to Farnborough Airport, Hants.
Arab News says a 14-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
TRT World says A US jury has found three men guilty of federal hate crimes for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
BBC News says fans and friends of music pioneer Jamal Edwards gathered at a vigil in west London to pay tribute to the 31-year-old.