The Metro says the BBC has paid Princess Diana’s private secretary Patrick Jephson a ‘substantial sum’ in damages after her 1995 Panorama interview.
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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 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.
The Guardian thousands of Ukrainians are expected to arrive in the UK next week following criticisms of the slow progress of government schemes.
The Guardian says plans to cap MPs’ earnings from second jobs have been dropped months after the issue provoked a sleaze scandal.
The Guardian says a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday evening.
The Guardian says the RSPCA is prosecuting the West Ham defender Kurt Zouma and his brother Yoan under the Animal Welfare Act, the charity has said, after a video emerged last month of a cat being kicked.
All Brits likely to be offered fourth Covid jab this year, Sajid Javid says The Metro says another Covid booster jab could be rolled out in the autumn, Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said. Vulnerable people and those aged over 75 are already being offered a fourth vaccine this spring. But as immunity wanes and hospital admissions rise again, scientists have been urging ministers to extend the offer to the general population. Javid said he…