Daily Express – Like scene from a horror movie
Two adults are in critical condition after trying to protect children in the Southport stabbing attack, the Daily Express says. Two children are confirmed dead and eight others – six children and two adults – are currently in serious condition in hospital.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ shock decision to axe the Winter Fuel Payment for millions of pensioners is only the start as Labour unleashes intergenerational warfare, according to the front page. Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards has been charged with making indecent images of children, says the paper.
Southport stabbings: Stabbed man who fought with attacker ‘very upset he couldn’t do more’
A businessman who was stabbed in the leg as he tried to save children from being attacked in Southport has told his wife of his regret over “not being able to do more”.
Jonathan Hayes, 63, was stabbed in the leg after placing himself between the knifeman and children in an attempt to disarm the attacker as he entered the Taylor Swift dance workshop.
The attack, which is believed to have happened just after 11.45am on Monday, has left two children dead and six more fighting for their lives in hospital.
The main suspect, arrested shortly after a search was conducted at a property in Banks, Lancashire, is a 17-year-old male who officers claim was born in Cardiff but most recently resided in Banks.
£11,350 a year! That’s all you need to lose Winter Fuel Payment under Labour
There’s a growing feeling among younger, left-leaning voters that the older generation has it easy, pocketing fat pensions and sitting on heaps of spare equity in their homes.
Now it’s payback time. Reeves has axed a key pensioner benefit, and worse is to come in October.
The chancellor has been softening up the country for a string of tax hikes in her upcoming autumn Budget, by blaming everything on the useless Tories.
We all knew she was going to pummel us with doomsday warnings about the size of the nation’s fiscal £20billion “black hole”. In case we weren’t suitably impressed, she upped it to £22billion.
Ex-BBC presenter Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children
Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards has been charged with making indecent images of children which were shared on his phone.
The 62-year-old, who resigned from the BBC after 40 years in April, faces three charges over alleged activity between December 2020 and April 2022. Police have said the offences are linked to images shared on WhatsApp.
The veteran broadcaster was arrested in November 2023 and charged on June 26. He will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday morning (July 31).
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “Huw Edwards, 62, of Southwark, London has been charged with three counts of making indecent images of children following a Met Police investigation.
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Editorial 30 July 2024.
Most of Tuesday’s front pages lead on the knife attack on children at a holiday club in Southport. Two children have died and nine injured after a knifeman entered a dance class and started the attack. A 17-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. It’s not yet known what the motive is but it’s not believed to be terror-related.
Chancellor Reeves’s cuts and tax plans to plug the £20bn black hole in the public finances is another popular lead for the papers, with the papers offering up their assessments of the chancellor’s plans.
Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards is pictured on most of the front pages after it was announced he has been arrested for making indecent images of children.
There is also plenty of Olympics coverage as Team GB had a spectacular Monday – bagging their first gold medals in Paris.