Author: News Desk

Six key unanswered questions over sinking of Bayesian superyacht The bodies of five of the six missing passengers recovered following the sinking of the Bayesian superyacht have now been identified, including that of British tech magnate Mike Lynch. The £30 million vessel capsized with 22 people on board during freak bad weather while moored off the coast of Sicily at around 5am local time on Monday. They had been celebrating Mr Lynch’s acquittal in a fraud trial in the United States. Other passengers whose bodies were recovered amid renewed rescue efforts yesterday include Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer…

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Everything you need to know about the new £6 EU visa scheme What’s the first thing you do after returning from a summer holiday? Start planning another one, of course. But heading to Europe next year will be a little different for Brits, thanks to a new visa scheme called ETIAS. As it stands, visitors from the UK can visit the EU’s Schengen area (a borderless collective of 29 countries) for up to 90 days, every 180 days, without a visa. The new scheme means anyone travelling to popular tourist hotspots including Portugal, Spain and Greece, will need to apply…

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Alzheimer’s ‘wonder drug’ won’t be available on NHS because it’s too costly The NHS spending watchdog has recommended that a ‘groundbreaking’ Alzheimer’s drug shouldn’t be made available on the NHS. It comes just days after experts in the UK hailed it as the ‘beginning of the end’ for the devastating disease. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) have now said the benefits of lecanemab are ‘just too small to justify the significant cost to the NHS.’ The drug was deemed efficient at slowing Alzheimer’s disease by the The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) earlier this…

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Thursday’s front pages have a variety of stories as their leads but most of the papers feature the dramatic images of the Italian emergency teams bringing victims of the yacht disaster back to shore.

Elsewhere it’s mostly domestic politics on the front pages as the publications offer up their assessments of challenges the new government faces. Some papers are looking ahead to the upcoming Autumn budget.

Showbiz news, including Taylor Swift’s boost to the UK economy and JLO and Ben Afflect’s divorce, make the front pages.

The sports pages are dominated by Premier League gossip, with most back pages choosing to lead on reports Raheem Sterling is being forced out of Chelsea.

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