Daily Express – Divers Find Bodies Of Tycoon And His Daughter
The Daily Express reports British tycoon Mike Lynch was among the bodies found in the sunken yacht by divers – though they have not yet been named officially by Italian authorities.
Elsewhere, Jeremy Hunt, Rachel Reeves’s predecessor as chancellor, says in a Daily Express headline that there is “simply no reason or excuse to raise taxes”.
Bayesian yacht sinking latest: Mike Lynch among the dead as fifth body recovered
A fifth body has been recovered as the search has resumed for the sixth person missing after a superyacht sank in a storm off the coast of Sicily.
Six people, including tech tycoon Mike Lynch, were unaccounted for after the £30million vessel, Bayesian, sank in a violent storm at about 5am on Monday (August 19). Five bodies have now been recovered from inside the yacht.
Salvatore Cocina, the head of Sicily’s civil protection agency, earlier confirmed that of the five bodies found on Wednesday (August 21), only four were recovered, with the whereabouts of the missing sixth person still unknown.
Rachel Reeves’ economic ‘con’ that she will use to hike your taxes exposed by Jeremy Hunt
Rachel Reeves has “no reason or excuse to raise taxes” and is presiding over an “economic con”, Jeremy Hunt has declared.
The Chancellor is set to hike inheritance tax and capital gains tax in the October Budget after fuelling Government borrowing costs with her public sector pay bonanza.
Ms Reeves is expected to ignore better-than-expected growth figures, improving retail sales and low inflation and inflict more pain on cash-strapped families.
Shadow chancellor Jeremy Hunt told the Daily Express: “Rachel Reeves is still committed to her economic con, regardless of the evidence.
“Just last week, we saw two sets of positive economic news – with inflation remaining low and GDP figures confirming that our strong and resilient economy continues to grow – with some economists even describing it as ‘gangbusters’.
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all of today’s front pages from today’s newspapers; summarised in a 2-minute read
Editorial 22 August 2024.
Thursday’s front pages have a variety of stories as their leads but most of the papers feature the dramatic images of the Italian emergency teams bringing victims of the yacht disaster back to shore.
Elsewhere it’s mostly domestic politics on the front pages as the publications offer up their assessments of challenges the new government faces. Some papers are looking ahead to the upcoming Autumn budget.
Showbiz news, including Taylor Swift’s boost to the UK economy and JLO and Ben Afflect’s divorce, make the front pages.
The sports pages are dominated by Premier League gossip, with most back pages choosing to lead on reports Raheem Sterling is being forced out of Chelsea.