The Independent – Officer suspended as outrage grows over head-stamp arrest
Video showing a man being kicked in the head by a police officer as he lies on the floor at Manchester airport has led to allegations of brutality, writes The Independent. The paper says hundreds of people joined a demonstration organised by Stand Up To Racism in Manchester in a second night of protests following the incident.
Elsewhere, a report on Prince Harry – who’s taken part in an ITV interview about the British tabloids makes the front page.
Police officer suspended from all duties following footage of man being kicked in face at Manchester airport
Footage showing a police officer kicking a man in the head at Manchester airport has prompted outrage from politicians, local people, and the man’s family, as it sparked allegations of police brutality.
The Greater Manchester Police officer involved was suspended on Thursday as the furore grew over the incident, which took place during a series of chaotic arrests on Tuesday evening.
On Thursday night, a few hundred people joined a demonstration in Manchester organised by Stand Up To Racism, chanting slogans such as “no justice, no peace”. It was the second protest after hundreds gathered outside Rochdale police station the night before.
Everything we know as Prince Harry to appear in ITV phone hacking scandal documentary ‘Tabloids on Trial’
Prince Harry and Hugh Grant will feature in a bombshell ITV documentary exploring the phone hacking scandal, the broadcaster has announced.
Tabloids on Trial will cover the two decades through which the scandal has spanned, with allegations first breaking in 2003.
Alongside the Duke of Sussex and Mr Grant, the programme will see appearances from Charlotte Church, Paul Gascoigne and other ‘people catapulted into the public eye’.
ITV has said the show will also include Harry’s first major interview since the end of his high-profile court case against the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) in December.
Heroic wife tried to save her soldier husband from knife attack
The wife of a British Army soldier who screamed for help and tried to drag her husband’s attacker away from him has been named for the first time.
Eileen Teeton had rushed out of the couple’s family home in Sally Port Gardens in Gillingham, Kent, after Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teeton was stabbed.
Doorbell camera footage from neighbours caught her distressed cries for help as she could be heard screaming: “What are you doing, oh my god.”
A long-serving member of the armed forces, Lt Col Teeton was airlifted to hospital and remains in a serious but stable condition.
One eyewitness told The Independent that Mrs Teeton had been “hysterically screaming” and had been shouting for first-aiders while saying that “my husband has been stabbed”.
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
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Friday’s front pages feature various domestic stories, with several papers looking ahead to a big economic speech by Chancellor Rachel Reeves on Monday, where she is expected to reveal a shortfall of as much as £20bn in the government’s finances.
There’s some sports and showbiz news splashed on the front – with the Olympics being a popular topic this morning. The back pages continue the Olympics coverage as well as a large dose of Premier League gossip ahead of the new season.