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£25.49The British newspapers on Saturday cover a range of stories, from the passing of actress Dame Maggie Smith, to the latest developments in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Tributes pour in for the award-winning actress, with her Downton Abbey co-star Hugh Bonneville calling her a “true legend”. Meanwhile, the Guardian reports that Israel launched its “heaviest air attacks” against Hezbollah in almost a year of conflict, with Israeli media claiming the attack was an attempt to kill the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s forthcoming memoir is also making headlines, with the Daily Telegraph reporting on an extract in which Johnson apparently considered a plan to use British troops to seize COVID vaccines at the height of the pandemic. The Daily Mail quotes Johnson as saying he feared he would “never wake up again” when he was in intensive care with COVID.
The Financial Times reports on new research indicating that the UK needs to mobilise £1.6tn of funding by 2040 to meet the nation’s public infrastructure needs, with Chancellor Rachel Reeves contemplating loosening fiscal rules to allow the Labour government to ramp up borrowing to pay for higher levels of public investment. However, campaigners express frustration over Reeves’ plans to free up billions of pounds for investment while refusing to help struggling pensioners, according to the Daily Express.
The Times reports on government plans to boost struggling universities’ finances, with tuition fees set to rise in line with inflation and maintenance grants to be restored for the poorest students. And in entertainment news, the Sun reports on Phillip Schofield’s “shock exit” from This Morning and his admission of an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a younger male colleague. Schofield apparently “lets rip” on the situation in a Channel 5 show.
Lastly, for a bit of light-hearted reading, the Daily Star claims that Queen Camilla was “pinned to her bed in a haunted Tudor mansion” by a ghost, but managed to scare it off with “a few choice words.
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