Team GB’s Matt Walls has won track cycling gold in the men’s omnium at the Olympics. Its Team GB’s first title in the velodrome of these Games – and the 50th medal overall.
Author: WTX News Editor
Hit show Strictly Come Dancing has added its first all-male partnership in the show’s history, after TV chef John Whaite joined this year’s line-up.
The Guardian says footballer Marcus Rashford is calling on health workers to spread the word about free food vouchers for children from low-income households.
The i says a devastated Team GB boxer refused to wear his silver Olympic medal after losing the men’s light-heavyweight final.
The Times says Amanda Pritchard, the new NHS England chief executive, has urged young people to get vaccinated as she revealed that one in five people in hospital in England with Covid are aged between 18 and 34.
The i says TOKYO — She is back. As we were, then. After a week of heartbreak and disappointment at the athletics track – Keely Hodgkinson’s silver medal aside – the face of Team GB, Dina Asher-Smith helped her 100m relay team to a national record and a place in Friday’s final.
The Times says more than 90 per cent of adults in England have coronavirus antibodies as rising immunity levels help to drive cases down.
The Guardian says UK musicians and performers will be able to tour in a number of European countries without the need for a visa or work permit, the government has announced.
The Times says Police have charged two adults and a 13-year-old boy over the death of five-year-old Logan Mwangi, who was found dead in a river in South Wales last week.
The i says Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has arrived in Warsaw, where she intends to stay under the diplomatic protection of Poland, after an attempt to force her to return to her home country.
The Guardian says a beach party in Newcastle attended by young people from western Sydney has triggered a snap lockdown in eight regional local government areas as New South Wales
The i says Meghan Markle further cemented her feminist credentials by marking her 40th birthday with the launch of a global initiative designed to get women back into work.
The Times says Elon Musk told overworked staff that they had no right to complain because “I can be on my own private island with naked supermodels, drinking mai tais — but I’m not”.
The Guardian says at least 10 people have been killed and more than a dozen injured after an overloaded van carrying 29 passengers crashed on a remote south Texas highway.
The i says Jack Grealish is set to complete a British record £100 million transfer to Manchester City from Aston Villa this week.
The Times says Dominic Cummings launched another broadside against Boris Johnson’s wife, Carrie, yesterday — claiming the prime minister told him she was driving him “crackers”
The Times says the changes, will see vaccinated passengers from Dubai and India escape quarantine – as well as the addition of 7 countries to the green list provides a boost to summer holidays.
The Guardian says the announcement is likely to partially revive the tourism sector but will also raise questions about whether the government is being complacent about the spread of the Beta variant.
“Traffic light changes open up holidays”, says the headline in the i. The paper highlights the transport secretary’s comment that “a range of different holiday destinations” are now available to Britons.
VOA says U.S. authorities identified the Pentagon police officer stabbed to death at a transit station outside the building the day before and were digging into the background of the attacker.
TRT World says President Jair Bolsonaro should be investigated for unproven claims that Brazil’s electronic voting system is riddled with fraud.
Aljazeera says the World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September.
Arab News says the UN was urged on Wednesday to take action against Tehran after two Iranian attacks on shipping in the Gulf in less than a week.
France24 says Turkey is battling the worst wildfires in its history, President Erdogan said, as fires spread to a power station in the country’s southwest after reducing swathes of coastal forest to ashes.
BBC News says fully-vaccinated passengers returning to England, Scotland and Northern Ireland from France will no longer need to quarantine after Sunday.