Newspapers are focusing heavily on King Charles’s public appearance during the Easter Sunday service in Windsor. The Daily Mirror commends the monarch’s “show of strength” and quotes a source as saying that he has responded positively to treatment. Meanwhile, The Sun greets the king’s outing with the headline “Return of the King,” stating that it gave the nation an Easter boost following the news that his daughter-in-law, Princess Catherine of Wales, is also undergoing cancer treatment.
The Daily Express leads with the king telling crowds in Windsor that he is doing his best, highlighting an image of the monarch shaking hands with a young boy, despite being previously advised by doctors to minimize close contact with others. The paper also touches on the issue of A&E waits, stating that 250 patients are dying in England every week due to long wait times.
The Times reports that more than a million people waited at least 12 hours for a hospital bed last year, with over 250 NHS patients dying every week due to long waits for A&E treatment. The paper also delves deeper into the state of the NHS, quoting the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Adrian Boyle, saying “this is a fixable problem.”
The Guardian reports on the UK government’s plan to abolish the non-dom tax status, with claims from Labour that the policy is full of loopholes worth hundreds of millions that will benefit the wealthiest people in the country. The Treasury, in response, says that the new system will be “modern, simpler and fairer.”
Other stories in the newspapers include Israel’s UN proposal to dismantle the main aid agency in Gaza, the Scottish Daily Mail’s coverage of new hate crime legislation set to go into effect, and the Times’ news that Edinburgh Castle’s traditional one o’clock gun salute will continue but with different ammunition due to health and safety concerns for spectators
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