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The i says NHS staff will receive a 3 per cent pay rise, it has been confirmed – after a day of confusion over whether frontline staff would receive the settlement.

The Telegraph says NHS staff in England, including nurses and hospital consultants, will receive a three per cent pay rise after the Government accepted the recommendations

The Daily Mirror says: SUPERMARKETS last night ­warned Boris Johnson he has just 48 hours to fix the pingdemic or shoppers will face empty shelves.

The Telegraph says the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games has been plunged into turmoil after the show director was fired over a joke he made about the Holocaust

The Times says the director of the opening ceremony of the Olympics was fired today over a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998.

The i says the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has reportedly banned taking the knee from appearing on its social media channel.

VOA says the U.S. has averaged more than 26,000 new COVID-19 cases per day over the past week — more than double the number it was a month ago

TRT World says hundreds of workers have fled businesses in northern Haiti after demonstrations near the hometown of assassinated president Jovenel Moise

Aljazeera says Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles court on Wednesday to four counts of rape and seven other sexual assault counts

Arab News says at least three people have been shot dead, one of them a police officer, in a week of rioting and protests over water shortages

France24 says piles of cars were strewn across a central Chinese city Thursday as shocked residents picked through the debris of a historic deluge

BBC News says the show director of the Olympics opening ceremony has been dismissed, one day before the event is due to be held.

The i highlights the extent of the disruption to industries ranging from transport to the NHS, with the headline “shutdown replaces lockdown”.

The Times reports that ministers have confirmed supermarket workers are unlikely to be granted an exemption from isolation, as fears grow over pingdemic

The Telegraph leads with the “pingdemic”, as the large number of workers being told to self-isolate by the NHS Covid app continues to affect businesses.

The Daily Mirror leads on the offer of a 3% pay rise for NHS workers, describing it as an “insult” which amounts to a cut in wages in real terms.

“Shelf isolation” is the headline for the Metro, which, like many papers, shows near-empty supermarket shelves in its main front page picture.

The Sun says supermarkets have warned the prime minister he has just 48 hours to fix the crisis or shoppers will face empty shelves.

British actress Millie Bobby Brown, star of Stranger Things, and her team are planning to take action against 21-year-old TikToker Hunter Ecimovic

UK heatwave: UK soaks up the sun as temperatures soar Temperatures will continue to rise across the UK after the weekend which saw England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland recorded the hottest day of the year. The public has flocked to beaches, parks and pubs to soak up the sun – which hit highs of 31.6C recorded at Heathrow in London. It is forecast the hot weather will continue for much of the rest of the week. …………….. FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND SHARE WTX NEWS WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY: Facebook – Please like our page Twitter –…

CityAM says Netflix last night confirmed plans to move into video games after the streaming giant suffered a sharp slowdown in new subscriber growth.

Liverpool has lost its World Heritage status because of developments on the city’s waterfront including the building of the new Everton football Stadium

Marcus Rashford has defended his non-football partnerships amid claims from a, so far, unpublished article that he has profited by campaigning. 

The Independent says so now he tells us! The £350m claim about the EU and the NHS on the side of the big, red Brexit bus? Wasn’t actually, you know, the whole truth

The Times says the deputy head of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the Olympics as more athletes tested positive for Covid-19