Summary of Western Mail Newspaper
Western Mail front page this morning – summarised
- National Theatre Wales has officially ceased to exist: The National Theatre Wales (NTW) has now formally ceased to exist several months after its £1.6m a year Welsh Government funding was pulled in its entirety. Speaking to BBC News Wales, Naomi Chiffi, who is the head of collaboration at the company, described the loss as “devastating”.
- Cardiff University is set to open a campus in Kazakhstan: Cardiff University plans to open its “first overseas branch” in Kazakhstan next year amid falling numbers of higher paying international students coming here. The university, like others, has been affected by a drop in lucrative international students and other financial pressures impacting higher education.
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‘French mass rape trial sentencing’ & ‘Labour crashing the economy’ – Paper Talk UK
Almost all of Friday’s front pages lead with French rape victim Gisèle Pelicot after her ex-husband Dominique Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years behind bars for drugging and raping her – and inviting 50 other men to rape her whilst she was unconscious, over ten years.
All the men were convicted on at least one charge.
Gisèle Pelicot’s case has garnered global attention, notably because she waived the right to anonymity and, along with the fact her ex-husband filmed the attacks over the decade, there was so much evidence to present publicly – something not common with rape cases.
Following the sentencing, Pelicot stood outside the court and told the public she did not regret going public with the case and told sex abuse survivors that they “share the same fight”.
Away from Pelicot, there is coverage of the UK economy as the papers react after the Bank of England’s downgrading of the economy’s growth outlook.
Lord Mandelson is expected to be named as the UK’s next ambassador to the US, whilst online many news sites report on a looming US government shutdown.
