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The Guardian – Ukraine moves deeper into Russia and targets airbases
The Guardian leads on the news the Ukrainian forces are making further advances inside Russia. The paper says Kyiv has launched a “major” drone attack on four Russian airbases as President Zelensky repeated calls to his Western allies to allow Ukraine to target Russia with long-range strikes. Elsewhere, a new report found the Met Police was rated inadequate or failing in two areas: crime investigations and managing offenders. Both aspects have worsened, in the view of inspectors, since they were examined two years ago. The Met is now half as likely as other forces to solve a victim-based crime, the report says.
A large image of Stonehenge makes the front page accompanied by a report saying a “jaw-dropping” study has revealed that one of Stonehenge’s central megaliths is not Welsh at all – it is Scottish.
Ukraine forces continuing to advance into Russian territory, says Zelenskiy
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said his country’s forces are continuing to advance into Russian territory after their surprise offensive, as Kyiv said it had launched a “major” drone attack on four Russian airbases.
Zelenskiy said Ukraine’s troops had advanced several kilometres in the largest attack on Russia since the second world war. In his nightly address on Wednesday he said Kyiv was achieving its strategic goal in the operation and reiterated his appeal to western partners to allow long-range strikes on targets inside Russia. “The bolder the partners’ decisions, the less Putin can do,” he said.
Ukraine also claimed on Wednesday to have shot down a Russian Su-34 jet overnight in the Kursk region, where it said it had also captured 100 Russian prisoners.
The claims of the drone strike targeting airbases appeared to be confirmed by Russia, which said it had downed 117 incoming Ukrainian drones overnight.
Inspection finds Met police failing or inadequate in key crime fighting areas
The UK’s biggest police force is providing an inadequate or failing service in seven of eight key crime-fighting areas, and there are “serious concerns” about its management of dangerous offenders, according to an official inspection.
The report on the Metropolitan police was described as “devastating” by one Whitehall source and comes after the Met commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, who took office almost two years ago, vowed sweeping reforms.
In one startling finding, the report found that in several areas of London, the force was warning sex offenders they were going to be visited, rather than conducting spot checks.
Today’s report by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) backed the aims of Rowley’s plans, but said the public were not seeing enough improvements.
Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds
For more than a century, archaeologists have known that some of the stones at Stonehenge came from Wales and were transported – somehow – about 125 miles ( 200km) to the site of the Neolithic monument on Salisbury Plain.
Now, a “jaw-dropping” study has revealed that one of Stonehenge’s central megaliths is not Welsh at all – it is actually Scottish.
In a discovery described by one of the scientists involved as “genuinely shocking”, new analysis has found that the largest “bluestone” at Stonehenge was dragged or floated to the site from the very north-east corner of Scotland – a distance of at least 466 miles (about 750km).
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Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all of today’s front pages from today’s newspapers; summarised in a 2-minute read
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Editorial 15 August 2024.
A real mix of headlines dominates Thursday’s front pages, with domestic stories the most popular. A few of the papers lead with the ongoing train drivers’ pay dispute, after a breakthrough in negotiations, that could bring about an end to travel disruptions.
A handful of newspapers have front-page coverage of the latest developments in the Ukraine war and many of the paper’s secondary stories are showbiz-centred.
The back pages cover the latest gossip from the Premier League as the new season is soon to begin. There is also coverage of Jude Bellingham’s Real Madrid 2-0 win in the Uefa Super Cup last night as French forward Kylian Mbappe made his highly anticipated debut.