2021-06-01
Times Front Page 1st of June 2021
The Times reports that the school day will be extended by half an hour under a £15bn COVID rescue plan to help Britain’s children to catch up after months of disrupted education.
The Times reports that the school day will be extended by half an hour under a £15bn COVID rescue plan to help Britain’s children to catch up after months of disrupted education.
Britain’s “more jabs, more jobs” bounceback from COVID-19 is paying off with a record recovery, with economists now expecting us to beat all major rich nations this year with 7.2% growth, the Daily Express writes.
The Daily Star leads with Britons hitting the beaches as medics issued alerts on the hottest day of the year so far on Monday.
Ministers are being urged to curb the “rip-off” cost of COVID tests for holidaymakers, the Daily Mail writes.
The Daily Mirror reports that baby Arthur Morgan, a five-month-old who has a spinal disorder, has had a £1.8m drug on the NHS to give him a chance of life.
Scientists have urged the government to speed up second doses of COVID vaccines and delay a decision on easing lockdown restrictions on 21 June in an attempt to tackle rising cases, The Guardian reports.
The i leads with data revealing that out of 7,837 complaints to police forces across the UK about racist behaviour, only 181 resulted in formal action.
The Daily Telegraph reports that richer countries must urgently give more COVID vaccines to poorer nations or risk new variants emerging that could bring about future lockdowns, according to leading bodies.
Metro writes that the end of lockdown three weeks today is on a knife-edge because of the threat of an “explosive” third wave of infections which could overwhelm hospitals, despite the vaccine rollout.