The Independent says Ministers have demanded the release of two Britons sentenced to death on Thursday by pro-Russia separatists in what has been condemned as a “Soviet-era show trial”.
Month: June 2022
The Metro says Friends and family of two British men told they will face a firing squad in occupied east Ukraine have rubbished the Kremlin’s case that they are guns for hire.
Friday’s papers are dominated by the news of the Brits sentenced to death by a Russian proxy court.
BBC News says Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will speak with her Ukrainian counterpart about two Britons handed death sentences by a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine.
Sky News says thousands of new school places are to be created in England – particularly for children in disadvantaged areas and for those with special needs.
France24 says traces of blood have been found on the boat of a suspect arrested in connection with the disappearance of a British journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert in the Amazon, authorities said Thursday, as calls grew for officials to intensify the search.
Euronews says Almost all of Portugal was in severe drought at the end of May, the country’s weather service (IPMA) said on Thursday.
TRT World says a group of migrants that once numbered as many as 5,000 have split about whether to keep walking through southern Mexico toward the US border.
VOA says a U.S. congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol held its first public hearing Thursday evening.
BBC News says Britney Spears has married fiancé Sam Asghari, seven months after being freed from a conservatorship that she said had prevented her from getting wed.
The controversial Rwanda plan is set to see the first group of migrants be flown to Rwanda under a new scheme from the British government.
No shame – that’s how the Metro describes the RMT union boss Mick Lynch over the [planned three strikes in June.
Fuel cost surge and dire economic forecast shatter PM’s hopes of reset – that’s the headline on the front splash of the Guardian.
£100 to fill family car – that’s the headline on the front page of today’s Daily Mirror which leads with the petrol crisis.
PM vows to slash bills – that’s the front splash headline for the Daily Express as the paper leads with politics.
Kelly to wed – that’s the headline on the front page of the Sun, which leads with Model and TV personality Kelly Brook engagement.
The Metro says Boris Johnson will set out plans for lower-paid workers to be able to use their housing benefits to buy their homes and an extension of the right to buy for housing association tenants.
The Metro says Cigarettes could be phased out from the market altogether by slowly increasing the age they can be bought.
The Metro says Britain’s biggest EuroMillions lottery winners have made their first big purchase – a used Volvo estate.
The Metro says Johnny Depp has kept fans guessing after sharing a cryptic post about something coming ‘soon’, following his victory in his defamation case with ex-wife Amber Heard.
The Metro says this is the moment a nurse warns A&E patients that some of them will be waiting 13 hours to be seen, with no beds available in the department.
The Independent says Britain is on the brink of a painful recession as prices continue to rise rapidly and the economy records zero growth next year, according to new analysis.
The Independent says Disgraced ex-film producer Harvey Weinstein is to be charged with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in August 1996.
The Independent says a British base jumper has been killed after his parachute failed to open.
The Independent says bosses at YouGov suppressed publication of a poll during the 2017 election campaign because it was “too positive about Labour”, a former manager at the pollster has claimed.