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Metro reports on the reaction from Ed Sheeran’s management team to news that a group of ticket touts have been convicted of fraud after reselling tens of thousands of concert tickets.

Diane Abbott has accused the Conservatives of aiming to “play the race card” in the upcoming general election.

The Daily Mirror reports on comments by a Conservative minister who said they would accept more party funding from a major donor at the centre of a row involving offensive remarks.

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The Sun leads on an exclusive saying the hunt for Maddie McCann has a new lead.

Thursday’s front pages report on the ongoing row over alleged comments made by Tory donor Frank Hester about MP Diane Abbott. Hester – who donated £10m to the Conservative Party last year, reportedly said Abbott made him “want to hate all black women,” and said she “should be shot.” 

The UN has said that a new land route to deliver food to northern Gaza has been used for the first time in three weeks. Six lorries from the World Food Programme crossed via a gate in the Gaza border fence, the Israeli military said. 

UNRWA – the UN agency for Palestinian refugees – has said a member of their staff has been killed and 22 others injured after Israeli forces hit a food distribution centre in Rafah.

Following a collapse at a gold mine in Australia, one man has lost his life while another remains critically injured. The incident occurred when falling rocks struck the pair 500 meters (1,640 feet) underground at the Ballarat site, near Melbourne, on Wednesday afternoon local time.

Geet Wilders, the Dutch populist leader, has abandoned his bid to become prime minister, despite his party’s dramatic victory in the 2023 elections. “I can only become prime minister if ALL parties in the coalition support it. That was not the case,” he wrote on X.