Browsing: UK News

The Sunday papers lead with the climate crisis and pleas to cut travel test costs to save summer, the papers cover the relationship between prime minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak after reports the PM plans to demote the chancellor at the next cabinet reshuffle. 

The Guardian says Margaret Thatcher gave “a big early start” to green energy by closing coalmines, Boris Johnson has joked, in comments denounced as “unbelievably crass.”

The Times says A-levels had a 100 per cent pass rate last year and leading universities will have to set their own entrance tests if grade inflation continues, an education expert will warn today.

The Times says Police have charged two adults and a 13-year-old boy over the death of five-year-old Logan Mwangi, who was found dead in a river in South Wales last week.

The UK has recorded another 29,312 Covid cases and 119 more deaths in the latest 24-hour period.  This compares with 21,691 Covid cases and 138 deaths reported yesterday. 

The UK’s vaccine experts have recommended children aged 16 and 17 in the UK should be offered a first dose of the Covid vaccine, advise on a second jab will be given at a later date.

The i says scientists have launched a study into whether long Covid is caused by the reactivation of dormant viruses such as those behind glandular fever, cold sores and chickenpox.

The Guardian says a group of armed men who boarded a tanker off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman have left the targeted ship, the British navy has said without elaborating.

The i says Boris Johnson said he is “on the side” of the Belarusian opposition leader as he welcomed her to No10 amid heightened international scrutiny of Alexander Lukashenko’s regime.

The Guardian says Prof Sarah Gilbert has had quite a year. The co-creator of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab has been made a dame, been given an emotional standing ovation at Wimbledon – and now a Barbie doll has been made in her honour.