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The Daily Express says Jeremy Clarkson has blasted “Vile, woke cancel culture” after Mumford & Sons star Winston Marshall quit the band today

The Times says a simple blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be used as a screening tool for the over-50s.

Loved up selfie that exposed nursery nurse’s double life as a coke dealer in Moss side A nursery worker and mother-of-three who helped her boyfriend traffic heroin and crack cocaine was snared after detectives found a loved-up selfie of the pair, a court has heard. Umi Noor, 37, kept over £110,000 worth of hard drugs at her home Moss Side, Manchester, where she was raising her children aged 15, 13 and 10. According to Greater Manchester Police Ms Noor tried to hide her relationship with 28-year-old drug dealer Michael Hassan. She used her earnings at a children’s nursery to lease…

The Times says no sooner had the arched gateway to Herat receded from view on the highway behind us than the omens of a war gone wrong pressed in from the desert hills through which the patrol sped.

The Times says the pressure on A&E departments is as bad as it is in winter, according to doctors, partly because parents are bringing in young children with mild fevers

The Times says for the musician Winston Marshall, abusive comments came with the territory. As he put it himself, he is a banjo player after all.

The Guardian says the former boss of Grenfell Tower’s management body repeatedly failed to alert residents and councillors

The Guardian says almost 600m lateral flow tests given to the public in England may not yet have been used, according to a report.

Waitress, 24, ‘sacked after telling boss she couldn’t afford new shoes’ A 24-year-old waitress on minimum wage was sacked after telling her boss she could not afford new shoes as part of her uniform. Heidi Henders, 24, had already spent £30 on trousers and a shirt for her new job at dessert parlour in Stratford when she was told she needed more formal footwear than the black pumps she was wearing. The student, who wasn’t given a contract when she started the job three weeks ago, claims she had been told in the interview that the uniform was simply black…

The Guardian says Winston Marshall, guitarist-banjoist with chart-topping group Mumford & Sons, has quit the band following controversy around his support for Unmasked

The Guardian says British officials acknowledged they were taken by surprise by the speed of the Russian reaction to HMS Defender’s 36-minute passage through Crimean waters

The i says the UK Government caved into Uefa’s demands to allow foreign VIPs to attend Euro 2020 games at Wembley Stadium

The i says Matt Hancock is facing growing warnings against accumulating too much personal power in a planned shake-up of hospitals which is running into opposition

The i says the number of children needing foster care in England could rise by around a third within the next decade, but many councils are unprepared, research warns.

The i says emotions ran high as hundreds of Hong Kong residents filled the streets outside newspaper vendors to snap up the final copy of the city’s tabloid Apple Daily.

Those people had ‘not either called out or had people call in to reach them’, Heyman said. It was not immediately known whether the people were inside at the time of the collapse due to ‘vacations or anything else

The i has a much more positive take on the travel update as it reports Malta, Barbados, Ibiza, Mallorca, Menorca, Formentera, Madeira and Antigua have all been added.

The Guardian says ministers “sought to rescue to the summer holiday season” – but it “risked being immediately undermined”

The Times reports the EU plans “to scrap quarantine-free holidays” and has thrown the UK government’s announcement “into chaos”.

The Daily Express reports that Spain is “defying a European plot to wreck our holidays”. Its foreign minister “confirmed they would ignore” Merkel and welcome Brits.

Wearing face masks won’t be a legal requirement after July 19 -the Environment Secretary has said.

The Metro says German Chancellor Angela Merkel has “called on Europe to team up and impose a 14-day quarantine” on travellers from the UK.

Summer holidays to Ibiza and Mallorca are back on the cards after they were added to the Government’s green list UK travel update. Changes have been made to the all-important rules dictating where people can visit without needing to self-isolate when they return home, as the Government confirmed it is planning to allow double jabbed travellers more freedom to visit amber list destinations. The Balearic Islands – which also include Menorca and Formentera – will be added to the list from 4 am on Wednesday, but travellers will still need to take Covid tests upon touching down back in England.…

The Daily Mail says the transport secretary’s announcement that 16 places are being added to the UK’s green travel list has been met with excitement

VOA says Derek Chauvin, the former police officer convicted in the murder of George Floyd, will be sentenced Friday in Minneapolis.