The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee next June – marking her 70-year reign will see a live concert and a four-day Bank Holiday weekend.
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Assaults on ambulance workers in England has risen by almost a third in five years, more than 3,500 attacks were recorded last year alone.
The Daily Telegraph’s front splash says there is mounting pressure on Boris Johnson to delay the easing of restrictions after Nicola Sturgeon’s decision. The PM has been met with the good news of zero Covid deaths, adding pressure to see through the June 21 plans. On the front page is the row over the longer school day and funding for school catch-up plans.
The Daily Mail’s front splash says with the news of zero Covid deaths being recorded – the first time since the pandemic began – there’s no need to fear not reopening on 21 June. The paper says there’s a campaign to stop the easing of restrictions – which it calls insidious.
The Guardian leads with the government’s Covid tuition catch-up plan for pupils’ lost education during the pandemic. The paper says the plans to extend the school by half-hour each day as well as the extra 100m hours of tuition is ‘inadequate’. The front splash also reports on the zero covid deaths recorded for the first time in the UK since the pandemic began.
The Times leads with fresh hope for the 21 June lockdown lifting as the UK recorded no new Covid deaths in the most recent 24-hour period. Sharing the front page are accusations the PM let down England’s children with ‘cheap’ school boost. The papers front splash features an image of a young Sir Keir Starmer as he makes a TV appearance.
The Daily Mirror reports there have been zero covid deaths in the UK, calling it a milestone and proof the vaccine rollout is successful. The front page features a pretty picture of North Yorkshire and headlines on the current hot weather. Online the paper says Prince Harry may not return to the UK for the Princess Diana statue unveiling as the new Sussex baby is due soon.
The Daily Express leads with the news there has been zero covid-19 deaths recorded in the UK for the first time since the pandemic began. The front page also features a picture of a beach and the paper celebrates the return of the warmer weather and an image of the mother and son who were stabbed to death makes the front page.
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Florida’s Republican governor signed a bill barring transgender girls and women from playing on girls teams in public schools.
The remains of 215 indigenous children were discovered at an old Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada.
5.2 million people – 91 per cent of the population – in the war-hit Tigray region are in need of emergency food aid.
Activist Stsiapan Latypau stabbed himself in the neck with a pen during a court hearing in Minsk.
Pupils to be offered 100m hours of tuition in catch-up plan after months of school closures and disruption to education.
The UK has announced zero daily Covid deaths within 28 days of a positive test for the first time since the pandemic began.
The post-mortem examination into the death of Sarah Everard, 33, reveals she died from a ‘compresson of the neck,’ police have said. Serving Met Police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, from Kent, has been charged with her kidnap and murder.
The daughter-in-law of Tory grandee Lord Ashcroft has been charged with manslaughter by negligence after a Belize police superintendent was shot in the head and killed.
Many scientists are urging the government to delay the 21 June lockdown easing in England.
Police are hunting 29-year old Daniel Boulton after a woman and child were found dead at a property in High Holme Road, Louth.
The Guardian leads with the news scientists are urging the government to speed up second doses of vaccines and to rethink the easing of lockdown on 21 June, as fears grow over a potential third wave.
The i leads with data that shows out of 7,837 complaints to police across the UK about racist behaviour, only 181 resulted in formal action.
The Daily Telegraph’s front page leads with calls from leading bodies that rich countries should give more vaccines to poorer nations or the world risks the emerging of new variants.
The Daily Mirror’s front page leads with the story of baby Arthur Morgan who has a spinal disorder and became the first UK patient to have had a £1.8m drug on the NHS.
The Times leads with the school day is to be extended by 30 mins to help children catch up. Online, the paper leads with the UK heatwave which is set to continue this week.
The Daily Express leads with the bounceback from Covid-19. The paper says ‘more jabs, more jobs’ as Britain is expecting to beat all major rich countries this year with a record recovery.
