The Guardian says rising numbers of people entering hospital with Covid are leading to other patients becoming infected, staff absences, delayed operations and long waits in emergency departments.
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The Guardian says Arnold Schwarzenegger told the Russian people that they are being fed misinformation about their country’s assault on Ukraine and appealed to stop the attack.
The Metro says Pete Davidson’s voyage to the great beyond is now just a pipe dream as the comedian has dropped out of his scheduled space flight.
The Metro says massive queues of lorries built up at ports including Dover and Hull last night after P&O Ferries abruptly sacked its entire shipping staff over a Zoom call.
The Metro says a 13-year-old boy was behind the wheel in a deadly head-on crash that killed nine people.
The Metro says the BBC has paid Princess Diana’s private secretary Patrick Jephson a ‘substantial sum’ in damages after her 1995 Panorama interview.
The Independent says a teenager has admitted racially abusing Marcus Rashford on Twitter after the Euro 2020 final, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
Friday’s papers.
BBC News says all remaining Covid travel restrictions have now been lifted for passengers entering the UK.
The Guardian says Ministers and trade unions have condemned P&O Ferries’ mass sacking of 800 British seafarers to replace them with agency crew.
Euronews says Italy has decided to ease some of its COVID-19 restrictions and will not extend the country’s state of emergency.
France24 says a Russian-European mission to land a rover on Mars has been suspended due to the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
TRT World says Brazilian tribal leaders and advocates have criticised the granting of an Indigenous rights award to President Jair Bolsonaro.
Four people died after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Japan struck off the northern Japanese coast on Wednesday. Today, residents in Fukushima and Miyagi are cleaning up their homes. Fixing fallen furniture and appliances back into place and scooping up broken dishes and windows. At a hotel in Yabuki town in the Fukushima prefecture, where its wall was broken, its front door thrown out of place, and its dishes broken, employees were starting to clean up. The Japan Meteorological Agency lifted its low-risk advisory for a tsunami along the coasts of Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures on Thursday. Tsunami waves as high…
The same photo used on most of the front pages takes up the whole of the front page of the Express.
“Home… for a nice cuppa”, reads the headline in the Mirror.
“Denise: My sex tape ordeal at 15”, reads the headline in The Sun.
The Metro celebrates Nazanin’s release with the headline: “At last some good news”.
The Guardian leads with an image of a smiling Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who has been freed after six years in detention in Iran.
The Independent says Vladimir Putin has accused the west of trying to “violate” and “dismember” Russia and sent a warning to those within his country he labelled as traitors.
The Independent says one of the killers of Sophie Lancaster, who was attacked in a park along with her boyfriend because they were dressed as Goths, is set to be freed from jail.
The cargo ship Al Salmy 6 capsized during rough and stormy weather in the Gulf, Captain Nizar Qaddoura, operations manager of the Salem Al Makrani Cargo company, said.
The Independent say Cineworld has said a “strong” slate of films at the end of 2021, including James Bond film No Time To Die and Spider-Man: No Way Home, helped audience numbers to rebound sharply.
The Metro says there are some survivors from the devastating Russian bombing of a theatre, where hundreds of people were sheltering, Ukrainian authorities say.
The Metro says Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has finally been reunited with her family after six years of ‘hell’ in Iran.