Year: 2022

The i says the end of the global Covid-19 pandemic is now “in sight”, the head of the World Health Organisation has said.

The i says England manager Gareth Southgate names his final squad for the last camp before he must decide who is selected to fly to Qatar for this winter’s World Cup.

The i says It was the same route down The Mall, the same London plane trees that struck a vivid green in the autumn sunshine, the same shadow cast on red asphalt by a gun carriage carrying a coffin.

The Guardian says Serena Williams says she “will not be relaxing” after playing what is likely to be her final competitive tennis match, and can now find time for “things that I’ve been wanting to do for so many years”.

The Guardian says Children are much more likely to develop asthma if their father was exposed to tobacco smoke when he was growing up, a new study has found.

The Guardian says Setting a new example in environmental corporate leadership, the billionaire owner of Patagonia is giving the entire company away to fight the Earth’s climate devastation, he announced on Wednesday.

The Guardian says The John Lewis Partnership slumped to a first half loss of £99m driven by soaring inflation, as the department store group warned a “uniquely uncertain” outlook in the run-up to Christmas would put the staff annual bonus at risk this year.

The Guardian says A fireball was witnessed crossing the night sky over Scotland and Northern Ireland on Wednesday, in what one astronomer described as an “incredible” sight.

The Metro takes a slightly different approach to the royal coverage with a front page story exploring the Queen’s crown on top of her coffin. The purple Imperial State Crown seen on the coffin in the pictures is different to the Crown of Scotland, which was placed on Her Majesty’s coffin while in Edinburgh.

The i looks at the “long goodbye”, with queues to view the Queen lying in state. Members of the public are now able to pay their respects over four days, with the i describing it as the nation’s “long goodbye”. The paper reports that tens of thousands of people lined the Mall and Whitehall to catch a glimpse of the procession.