Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
Friday’s front pages report on a variety of stories. There is continued coverage of missing dog walker Nicola Bulley and the latest from the devastating Turkey earthquakes as a humanitarian crisis looms amid freezing temperatures and lack of food and water.
Turkey earthquake rescue continues
The Metro leads with an image of a two-year-old boy rescued under a flattened building in Turkey after three days of being trapped in the rubble. The paper’s headline reads: “they need your help now” reporting on the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal.
The Financial Times has a photo of a girl being rescued from the rubble in the same Turkish province and says that time and hope is running out.
The Guardian leads with an interview with a man in Aleppo in northern Syria, who says the country urgently needs food and blankets.
AstraZeneca to build factory in Dublin
Several papers report on British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca’s decision to build a factor in Dublin instead of Cheshire due to the UK’s tax system. The papers call the move discouraging.”
The Daily Mail says the Treasury is under pressure to cut taxes, while the Telegraph says the firm’s boss said Britain’s life sciences sector was at risk.
And the Times strikes a similar tone to the right-wing papers, saying the company suggested that its wider research and development spending in the country could be in jeopardy.
The search for missing Nicola Bulley
The front pages continue their coverage of missing dog walker Nicola Bulley and report the search for the missing woman has now been extended to the sea.
Friday marks two weeks since Bulley, 45, went missing whilst walking her dog by the riverside in Lancashire.
The Sun says cops are looking for a red van which was spotted near to where she disappeared. The Mail says cops are tracing around 700 drivers who passed along the road on the morning she was last seen.
