Year: 2024

Lottery winner loses fortune for blocking public footpath A Postcode Lottery winner will have to part with a chunk of…

SNL star issues grovelling apology to Hollywood icon decades after ‘offensive’ sketch Sharon Stone has reflected on her stint hosting…

Front page summary The Independent  – Pensions fiasco could cost taxpayer £10.5bn – or moreThe Independent says a damning watchdog…

Front page summary Metro – £35bn Waspi sting Millions of women could get £10,000 each because successive governments “failed to tell…

Front page summary The Guardian – US toughens stance on call for immediate Gaza ceasefire The US has drafted a new…

Front page summary Daily Express – Pay Up! Millions of women owed pension payoutsThe Daily Express reports that millions of…

Front page summary Daily Mirror – Pay them what they are owed Millions of women born in the 1950s are due…

Front page summary The Sun – Kit hits the fan The Sun reports that labour leader Sir Keir Starmer joined the…

Most of Friday’s front pages lead on the same story – the landmark report that calls for women impacted by pension changes. It calls for them to receive payments and follows a campaign by so-called Waspi women – named after the group Women Against State Pension Inequality. 

Reddit said on Wednesday that it had priced its shares at $34 each, a figure near the top end of the marketed range. By the end of Thursday’s trading session, the stock had climbed to $50.44, thereby valuing the firm at over $9 billion (£7.1 billion).