Author: David Pike

David Pike is an experienced news journalist with over 20 years experience as a UK News editor for WTX News and other news publications.

Most of Thursday’s newspapers lead on Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s trip to Europe this week where he aims to ‘reset’ Britain’s relationship with the EU. The prime minister said: “We must turn a corner on Brexit and fix the broken relationships left behind” but made clear it’s not a reversal of Brexit. 

There is ongoing coverage of the upcoming Autumn Budget as the papers speculate on tax hikes and who will carry the burden of the £22bn black hole the government is looking to plug.

The back pages cover the latest from the Premier League and Emma Raducanu crashing out of the US Open.

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Man in a wheelchair stabbed to death in East London after street fight | UK News A man in a wheelchair Stabbed to death in East London yesterday afternoon. The man in his 30s, described by a local butcher as a ‘good boy’, was found with a stab injury on Rushmore Road, a residential area of Lower Clapton. Video shared on social media claimed the man was stabbed to death in East London with a…

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Borrell calls for three-day ceasefire to stop polio spread in Gaza EU

EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell calls for three-day ceasefire to stop polio spread in Gaza The polio disease has re-emerged in Gaza more than two decades after it was eradicated. The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has called for an immediate three-day humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip to allow the population to be vaccinated against the fast-spreading poliovirus. “I urge an immediate 3-day humanitarian ceasefire to enable vaccination by WHO (the…

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UK Daily Trending stories Trending – PM’s Rose Garden speech lays the groundwork for tax hike Wednesday’s trending story across the UK is politics-loaded. The newspapers offer up their assessment of the prime minister’s Downing Street speech. PM Sir Keir Starmer, speaking from the Rose Garden, told the public that the October budget would be “painful” as they need to plug a £22bn “black hole” in public finances. Starmer’s trip to Europe this week is…

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A Nando’s waitress slapped in face with plate in Stratford speaks out feels ‘grossly let down’ by police who released a customer who slapped her in the face with a plate, without charge. Police attended the Nando’s restaurant in Stratford, London, where a report of assault was made. But they didn’t take any action against the suspected attacker. On social media footage showed the man whacking the waitress as she placed food on the table,…

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Almost all of Wednesday’s front pages cover Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s speech in the rose garden at Downing Street, where he warned the public that the October budget would be “painful” as they need to plug a £22bn “black hole” in public finances.

Other papers lead on Starmer’s trip to Europe where the British prime minister aims to ‘reset’ relations and turn a corner on Brexit. “We must turn a corner on Brexit and fix the broken relationships left behind by the previous government,” he said.

News of the Oasis reunion tour is featured on most of the newspapers, as the band announced they will tour the UK and Ireland in 2025.

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Silent Sherlock Holmes film to be screened for first time since 1922 release The Golden Pince-Nez features Eille Norwood as the famous detective and has been restored by the BFI national archive. A silent Sherlock Holmes film starring Arthur Conan Doyle’s favourite impersonator of the famous sleuth, Eille Norwood, is to be screened for the first time since its release in 1922, following its extensive restoration by the BFI national archive. Titled The Golden Pince-Nez,…

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Man admits posting Facebook messages encouraging people to damage Ulez cameras A man has admitted posting messages on Facebook encouraging people to damage Ulez cameras. Joseph Nicolls, 43, also pleaded guilty to sending a threatening email to a company which provides cameras for the scheme. Nicolls, of Foots Cray High Street, Sidcup, sent Yunex Traffic a message in May last year intended to cause ‘distress or anxiety’, Woolwich Crown Court heard. The company’s infrastructure and…

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Trending – Tributes pour in as Sven-Goran Eriksson dies at 76 Almost all the newspapers – front and back pages – lead on the death of the former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, who has lost his battle with cancer. The Swede became the first non-British manager of the men’s England National Football team and led what was nicknamed ‘the golden generation’ to three major tournaments. Tributes have poured in from across the sports world and…

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Many of Tuesday’s newspapers lead with the death of Sven-Goran Eriksson who died at the age of 76 following a terminal cancer diagnosis. Eriksson, the first foreign manager of the England football team is pictured on both the front and back pages. Many of the papers quote a recent documentary on his life, in which he told the audience: “Don’t be sorry, smile.” 

Beyond the tributes, the headlines on the front page are fairly varied but are centred around domestic news, with politics being the most popular this morning.

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Woman fighting for life after three stabbings at Notting Hill Carnival | UK News A 32-year-old woman is fighting for her life in hospital after she was one of three people stabbed at Notting Hill Carnival in west london today. Serious violence has marred one of the capital’s most famous events on what was dubbed its ‘family day’. Two men were also knifed during the event, one aged 29 who is in hospital in a…

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Hezbollah says it has attacked Israel with a large number of drones and rockets, in response to the killing of a top commander last month but Israel “pre-emptively” launched airstrikes inside Lebanon, in what it called “an act of self-defence”. Israel launches strikes in Lebanon and Hezbollah fires hundreds of rockets in major escalation Israel has launched a wave of “pre-emptive” airstrikes in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah – as the militant group said it had…

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