The army has launched an inquiry into the leaking of SAS identities as Defence Secretary John Healey is left “furious” over the breach, writes The Sunday Times. There were “100 arrests in umbrella protests for Palestine Action” it reports, with a splash of two women being accompanied by police officers under an umbrella. The King’s residence at Highgrove “suffered an exodus of gardeners” who The Times writes were “complaining about the monarch’s demands and low staff pay”. A statement from the King’s Foundation reported “high satisfaction rates among staff at the charity”.
The father of Stephen Lawrence, the man murdered at a bus stop in 1993, gives an exclusive interview to the Daily Mirror ahead of the parole hearing of one of his son’s killer’s. “Tell the truth on my son’s murder” reads the tabloid’s headline. The Mirror have another exclusive on their front page with John Torode’s wife Lisa Faulkner, following the MasterChef presenter’s sacking.
Here come the “brat & groom” writes the Daily Star as lime green maven Charli XCX wears white. Also on the Star’s front page, actor Danny Dyer calls for working class leaders and names Sir Keir Starmer a “non-entity”.
“Middle class face higher water bills” reads the headline on the front page of The Daily Telegraph. Labour MPs “will be urged to introduce a nationwide scheme that would see poorer families given huge discounts on their charges”. As part of the government’s new RHSE curriculum, “pupils to be taught that ‘feeling down’ is not a mental health condition”. Also in education news, teachers say “antisemitic abuse rife in schools”. Elsewhere on the Telegraph’s front, Chancellor Rachel Reeves could see a £5bn windfall “from seized Bitcoins” to help her “fill the black hole in the public finances”.
The Mail on Sunday runs with an exclusive on the National Security Adviser Johnathan Powell, saying his firm is paid for “spy ops”. The “Tories demand inquiry” over the “secret taxpayer-funded talks with “rogue states”, it writes.
“NHS ‘tourists’ fleecing our hospitals” writes the Sunday Express. Citing new figures, the paper reports that people coming from abroad have “deprived the cash-strapped NHS of a staggering £200m over the past five years”.
