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Daily Express – BBC star sent menacing messages to second youngster Summary of the front page The Daily Express also leads with claims that the suspended BBC presenter sent “menacing” messages to another young person. The paper reports the BBC is “reeling” over the allegations. The front page also carries a picture of Carrie Johnson – who gave birth to her last week. The baby is former PM Boris Johnson’s eighth child. Today’s top stories Like this article? Leave a comment UK National newspapers

BBC star ‘sent abusive messages’ to second young person after contact on dating app The Independent says A person in their early twenties has said they felt threatened by “expletive-filled” messages from the BBC presenter facing allegations he paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos as the scandal surrounding the corporation deepens. The fresh shock allegations, reported by the BBC, add further pressure on the broadcaster as it reels from the fallout from separate claims made against the unnamed male presenter and first reported by The Sun. The individual in their early twenties – who has no connection to the…

There’s a make or break vote today at the EU on a controverisal law to restore damaged environments. It’s a real cliffhanger vote with the parliament’s largest conservative group saying the new law would threaten food security. FRANCE 24’s Alison Sargent and Alexandra Quarini tell us more.

Zelensky’s fight for NATO membership comes as Ukraine says it shot down eleven Russian drones overnight, a second night in a row of attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. FRANCE 24’s correspondent Emmanuelle Chaze gave us more on reaction from there.

G7 to announce long-term Ukraine security package at Nato summit A wide-ranging security pact between the G7 and Ukraine is expected to be signed at the Nato summit on Wednesday. The members, however, have not provided a timeframe for Ukraine to join the security alliance, provoking anger from the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky. The security arrangement will include defence equipment, training and intelligence sharing. G7 leaders will sign the declaration in Vilnius on Wednesday on the sidelines of the second day of the Nato summit. Nato has said Ukraine can join Nato “when allies agree and conditions are met.” Whilst…

‘We have no clue, no information, no element that can help us understand this disappearance.’

North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile after threatening US North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile, according to reports from Japanese and South Korean officials. The long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) flew for more than an hour before landing short of Japanese waters on Wednesday morning. The launch comes after N Korea threatened retaliation against what it said were recent US spy plane incursions over its territory. Earlier this week it threatened to shoot down such planes. The US has dismissed the accusations, saying its military patrols are in line with international law.

The fraudster stole a total of £181,958.95 over the course of 139 separate transactions dating as far back as January 2017.

With temperatures exceeding 40 Celsius in many parts of Europe, people are heading for swimming pools and ‘cooling centres’.

Jonas Vingegaard kept the yellow jersey at the end of a difficult stage 10 of the tour.

I put five products through their paces…

And why you sometimes feel not so great at all.

A California assistant professor found his Airbnb in London was ‘essentially just a large-ish bathroom that the host put a bed into’.

Newborn assessments used in the NHS today are decades old and ‘mainly based on white European babies’, experts said.

The Sun claims the broadcast star sent ‘creepy’ texts to a person when they were 17-years-old.

He was just in his boxer shots when Russian police burst through his window.

NATO’s no longer brain dead. Emmanuel Macron who authored that quip back in 2019 can thank Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine for that. But now that it’s back to its original mission of containing Russia, can the Alliance keep up?

Azerbaijan on Tuesday temporarily shut the only road linking its breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region with Armenia, accusing the Armenian branch of the Red Cross of smuggling.

The Kremlin’s figures say only 6,000 soldiers have died – but the real death toll is far higher.

“I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.”

Russia did not detail what the consequences would be.

It is surrounded by metallic clouds.

‘She just watches over them.’

The Guardian – Young person at centre of BBC scandal says claims are ‘rubbish’ Summary of the front page The Guardian leads with comments from the “young person” in the BBC/Sun row, where they rebuff the claims made by their parents about alleged payments made by a presenter in exchange for explicit pictures. The front page features a picture of President Biden and King Charles as the US president visits the UK. Today’s top stories Like this article? Leave a comment UK National newspapers

‘If I were Sudanese, I find it hard to imagine that this isn’t a civil war.’