Western Mail front page 04/12/2024
The front page of the Western Mail this morning leads on Wales’ women’s National Football team beating Ireland 2-1 to book their place at next year’s European Championship.
If Hannah Cain understood the gravity of this moment, she didn’t let it show.
As the 25-year-old stepped up for what was undoubtedly a campaign-defining penalty of generational importance, she was emotionless. Unmoved.
It was at this moment, one felt that this might just be destiny playing out.
Whatever it was, it was enough to stun the 25,000 fans packed into the metallic colosseum of the Aviva Stadium that had previously created a deafening din for much of the evening, into a shell-shocked silence.
Conservative Senedd member Andrew RT Davies today narrowly survived a vote about his future of the leader of the group in the Welsh Parliament but then quit anyway. In a resignation letter to the chair of the Welsh Conservative party he said he was standing down “with regret” and would remain in post until a successor was elected. He said his position was “untenable” following the confidence vote. Read his letter in full here.
‘South Korea martial law crisis’ & ‘Labour tax u-turn?’ – Paper Talk UK
South Korea’s political crisis leads many papers this morning as President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law before the country’s parliament rejected the move. It caused a night of chaos and fear for South Korea and now the president is facing calls for his resignation and calls for impeachment.
The tabloids continue their coverage of the Gregg Wallace scandal as more allegations come to light. The papers report the latest allegations that Wallace groped contestants on MasterChef.
The October Budget has ongoing coverage as the papers speculate on a potential U-turn.
Pictures of the royal family – mostly Princess Kate, make many of the front pages as she returned to royal duties last night following her cancer treatment.
