2021-06-08
Daily Star Front Page 8th of June 2021
The Daily Star features actor Laurence Fox on its front page.
The Daily Star features actor Laurence Fox on its front page.
The first “game-changing” dementia drug in 20 years has been approved, giving hope to millions of sufferers, claims the Daily Express.
The Times claims England’s roadmap for easing lockdown could be delayed by a fortnight with cabinet ministers increasingly pessimistic after a “downbeat” briefing from chief medical officer Chris Whitty and chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.
People aged 25 to 29 are from Tuesday being invited to book in for their first coronavirus jab as NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens hailed the “world beating” vaccine programme, reports the Daily Mirror.
The decision of US health officials to approve the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years has been hailed as a “major milestone”, says The Independent. The paper pictures Artin Iran-Nejad whose body washed up on the Norwegian coast two months after he drowned in the Channel when a migrant boat capsized.
Relatives of two schoolgirls murdered by paedophile Colin Pitchfork in the 1980s have condemned the Parole Board’s decision to approve his release from jail, writes the Daily Mail.
Boris Johnson set himself on a collision course with scores of his MPs as Number 10 suggested it would defy an order by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to bring a vote on foreign aid cuts, writes The Guardian.
A new report by MPs says chronic understaffing means the NHS is being held together by the goodwill of its burnt-out workers, leaving its future at risk, according to Metro.
The i says only 2% of people admitted to hospital with the Indian (Delta) variant had received two doses of a COVID vaccine, and two thirds were unvaccinated.
Finance ministers are plotting a raid on Amazon’s lucrative cloud computing business to ensure it pays more corporate tax under a new G7 agreement on a global rate, reports the Financial Times.