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Newspaper headlines: Prime Minister’s heartache and ‘tax hit’ on Labor flights – Subrang Safar: Your Journey Through Colors, Fashion, and Lifestyle
“Boxing Day tragedy” writes the Daily Mirror as it reports the death of Sir Keir Starmer’s brother Nick from cancer aged 60. It quoted a tribute to the Prime Minister: “Nick was great. He faced life’s challenges with courage and fortitude. Good humour.”
The Daily Telegraph, along with Nigel Farage, tell the newspaper that the tech billionaire’s reform will help the UK defeat the Conservatives. He tells Broadsheet that Mr. Musk has been a “huge help” in connecting young people to his party and says the Tesla chief executive will donate a “fair-sized” amount to reform. The paper’s central image is of fitness guru Joe Wicks, who tells the paper that he is interested in working with the government one day. And to complete the political hat-trick, the paper’s secondary story claimed that local councils would be given powers to issue fines for climbing trees in parks.
Millions of homeowners will be given grants and cheap loans to convert their properties to solar power as part of the government’s push to meet its 2030 clean energy pledge, the Times reports. However, the scheme still needs to be approved by the Treasury, the paper writes. The paper’s front page image is of TV presenter and property developer Sarah Benney, who tells the paper about her recovery from cancer.
“Water firms fined just £2 by watchdog despite record sewage levels” i weekend headlines. Water companies in England will only be fined for breaching the rules by the regulator of water from 2021, the paper reports. Campaigners told the paper the fine was “pathetic”.
With a lack of political action from Westminster, the Daily Mail leads with fresh criticism of the already announced rise in air passenger duty because, according to the paper, many of its readers are booking their summer holidays. Will be doing it in the next couple of days. This week the paper put its money on what it called the “highest ever tax rate” on flights, saying a family of four would be taxed £408 to fly to Disney World in Florida. Ga – 16% increase from the current rate. The boss of Airlines UK says the tax “will be in the pockets of working people”.
According to a newspaper investigation, The Guardian tops the list with more than 1.5 million children studying in dilapidated school buildings. A school in Cumbria had to be evacuated after inspectors realized the floor could collapse at any moment, the newspaper said. The papers also contain Ruth Jones’ photographs of Gavin and Stacey as she writes that she will perform as Nessa Jenkins for one last time during the Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4 on New Year’s Day.
The main image on FT Weekend is an artist’s view of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft as it flies through the Sun’s outer atmosphere. Scientists hope the probe’s data will help them understand why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface and what drives the solar wind, Broadsheet reports. Elsewhere on the front page, the paper claims London is heading for its worst slump in affordable housing supply for decades as costs hit housing associations’ finances.
The Daily Express reports that cancer research has declared 2024 to be “the year of the cancer vaccine” with more products and projects receiving funding than ever before – meaning a vaccine “renaissance” for the disease. “In spite of Sania” was going. Elsewhere, actress and presenter Emilia Fox says she was excited to turn 50 this summer.
Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has halted funding for a charity that helps former players, The Sun reports. The newspaper says the club previously gave £40,000 a year to the charity and now fears it will close without the club’s support. The front page also features a photo of actress Zendaya in a glamorous flesh-colored gown as the paper answers why 2024 was the year of the “nude” celebrity dress.
The Daily Star has photographed Diana, Princess of Wales and her former butler Paul Burrell as he claims the spirit of the late royal led him to meet her husband on a train.
