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Today’s news summary – Paper Talk Paper Talk: Rupert Murdoch quits – ‘end of an era’ marked by greed Friday’s front pages report on a variety of stories. The PM’s education reform and Rupert Murdoch stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp are two popular stories this morning. A-level reform Several papers report that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is considering major reform of A-levels as part of plans to modernise the education system. The prime minister is said to want to introduce a “British baccalaureate” which would see English and Maths become compulsory until the age of 18…

Elementor #551731 September 22, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today The Guardian – Campaigners plan legal challenges to Sunak’s U-turn on green policies  Green campaigners are seeking to legally challenge Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after he announced a raft of changes to the UK’s climate pledges, The Guardian reports. It comes after Mr Sunak announced delays and extensions to a number of climate-related targets that critics say will make it harder for the government to meet a legally-binding commitment to eliminate the UK’s contribution to the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by 2050. The…

Elementor #551725 September 22, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today Metro – Drugs-free transplant revolution  The Metro reports on an eight-year-old girl has made history by being the first transplant patient who will be able to accept her new organ without needing to take drugs for life. Aditi Shankar’s immune system was “reprogrammed” using her mother’s stem cells resulting in the breakthrough, according to the paper. She is the first UK transplant patient who will not need drugs for life to stop her body rejecting her new organ. The paper says the procedure “offers hope to…

Elementor #551719 September 22, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today Financial Times -End of an era as Murdoch hands reign of media empire to elder son  Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is pictured on the front page of the FT. The  92-year-old is stepping down as chair of media companies Fox and News Corp and handing control to his eldest son, Lachlan Murdoch. The paper says Murdoch has “over the past seven decades transformed an Adelaide newspaper he inherited from his father into a global media empire, which is feared and courted by politicians across the English-speaking…

Elementor #551713 September 22, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today Daily Star – Save Our Spam  The Daily Star leads with Spam after it was revealed that “shoppers are turning their back on the trusty tins of meat”.- processed meat popular during and after World War Two – and the paper is encouraging its readers to back the canned delicacy. It says that tinned peaches and Bovril are among the other products “on the danger list”. Today’s top stories Like this article? why don’t you share it? its easy … just click the icon below:) Leave…

Elementor #551707 September 22, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today The Sun – BBC’s shame over flasher Brand  The Sun says comedian Russell Brand has been accused of exposing himself to a woman on the BBC’s premises. The paper adds Brand joked about it on his Radio 2 show. The fresh allegations follow four women claiming Brand assaulted them between 2006 and 2013. The paper describes it as the BBC being “dragged deeper into the Russell Brand scandal” after the actor and comedian was accused of exposing himself to a woman in a Los Angeles studio…

Elementor #551693 September 22, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today Daily Express – If Mr Hunt says so .. then it must be true  Jeremy Hunt’s optimism on the cost of living crisis is the splash in the Daily Express. The chancellor’s optimism comes after interest rates were frozen after 14 consecutive hikes. The paper says the “surprisingly upbeat” chancellor has said that the “tide is turning” on the cost-of-living crisis. “If Mr Hunt says so… then it must be true!” reads the headline. Today’s top stories Like this article? why don’t you share it? its…

What is Rumble, the video-sharing platform ‘immune to cancel culture’? The Guardian says Rumble, the video-sharing platform where Russell Brand has 1.4 million followers, may not be a household name but it has grown in popularity – especially among those from the right and “alt-right” – as a place said to be “immune to cancel culture”. Now Brand has had his YouTube channel demonetised after sexual assault allegations, which he denies, the comedian is expected to continue to profit from Rumble. But what is it and why is it on the up? What is Rumble and who owns it? Founded…

Rumble defends allowing Russell Brand to continue to make money on video platform after YouTube ad ban The i newspaper says Video platform Rumble has defended Russell Brand’s right to make money from content it publishes while he is facing rape and sexual assault allegations. The anti-censorship platform rejected a request from Culture, Media and Sport Committee chair Dame Caroline Dinenage for information on whether the comedian, 48, can profit from content aired on Rumble, where he has 1.4 million followers and hosts a regular show. She has also written to X, formerly known as Twitter, asking if owner Elon…

Russell Brand: Rumble rejects MP’s ‘disturbing’ letter over income BBC News says Video site Rumble has hit out at a UK Parliamentary committee that asked if it would cut Russell Brand’s income in the wake of sexual assault allegations. Dame Caroline Dinenage, chair of the House of Commons media committee, wrote to Rumble to say she was “concerned” that he could profit from his content. But Rumble said that was “an extremely disturbing letter” and that the company would not “join a cancel culture mob”. Brand has strongly denied the allegations of rape and sexual assault. The star has 1.4…