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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 non-life threatening condition and another, aged 24, whose condition is not yet known. Police say 15 officers were assaulted but ‘fortunately none have sustained serious…

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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 fired drones and hundreds of rockets. Hezbollah said its attack on Israeli military positions was an initial response to the killing of one of its founders…

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Sunday’s front pages reflect a variety of ongoing domestic topics with several looking ahead at Tuesday’s speech by the prime minister. Sir Keir Starmer is set to say Britain will have to endure rising fuel payments and stricter economic measures in the coming months.

Pictures of Hannah Lynch – the 18-year-old daughter of British billionaire Mike Lynch, who died in the luxury yacht accident, make several of the broadsheet front pages. The tabloids feature snaps of recently sacked BBC presenter Jermaine Jenas and other showbiz stories.

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London theatre targets Muslim audiences theatre like never before as it not only hosts a muslim play but also accommodates a muslim audience, something that has never happened before. That is until poet Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan came onto the scene with a new play offering a love story for the ages. She’s covered all the bases and this play and spectacle as a whole could be groundbreaking. Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is the playwriter and poet from Leeds. Peanut Butter and Blueberries is Suhaiymah’s first full length play and comes with the added pressure of being the first play to target Muslims to the theatre.…

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Rolex thief spared prison due to overcrowding after he broke his elbow trying to stealing a Patek watch in Mayfair | UK News A Rolex thief spared prison his elbow trying to grab a £50,000 watch in Mayfair, but has walked free because of prison overcrowding. The thief and his accomplice pounced on a couple in Mayfair after spotting Mr Beard was wearing a blue Patek Phillipe World Time worth £50,000. Walking back to the Connaught Hotel in Mayfair Walid Raoul, 30, attempted to steal Mark Beard’s Patek Phillipe Blue World Time watch from his wrist on Grosvenor Street, London…

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America Weekly “Everywhere I go, in everyone I meet, I see a nation ready to move forward” – Kamala Harris, VP ‘Harris accepts nomination’ & ‘Joe Biden pushes for ceasefire’ America’s week in politics and culture – the race to the White House heats up and Biden prepares to secure his legacy. The US newspaper front pages were heavily dominated by the Democratic National Convention (DNC). US Politics Weekly Monday’s Highlights Republicans The Democratic National Convention kicked off in Chicago on Monday, and the party is navigating “tension within unity,” according to the Chicago Tribune. The Washington Post notes “faint…

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Sixth body found in Sicily yacht wreck Divers have found a sixth body in the wreckage of the superyacht that sank off Sicily, believed to be that of Hannah, 18  – the daughter of Mike Lynch.  She was the last one unaccounted for following the sinking after a freak storm which killed seven people in total. Hannah’s father was one of Britain’s most famous tech entrepreneurs Mike Lynch. A total of 15 people survived including Hannah’s mother.

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A new Alzheimer’s drug has been “blocked for use on NHS” and the BBC has sacked one of its presenters – these are the top stories on Friday’s front pages.

The papers react to news that the new drug will not be available on the NHS due to costs with most papers reacting with shock and outrage. The drug was deemed efficient at slowing Alzheimer’s disease.

News that the BBC has sacked presenter Jermaine Jenas after complaints were made over ‘inappropriate behaviour’ makes the front page of the tabloids – and a common sidebar article for the broadsheets.

Elsewhere, several of the papers lead on other domestic topics including ongoing discussions around the recent GCSE results, ongoing disputes over public sector pay, Britain’s overcrowded prisons and other issues facing the government.

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