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Headlines: “Two children dead” and “10 million losers”

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Image description, Many of this morning’s papers are reporting on Monday’s attack in Southport, which killed two children and injured nine others. The Guardian is also reporting on how the government is plugging a £22 billion “budget hole” due to the abolition of winter benefits for millions of people.

Image description, The Times editorial said the knife attack in Southport, a seaside town in Merseyside, was like “a horror film”. A 17-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
Image description, The i-people report on the attack in Southport, and the newspaper also mentions the British team’s “medal rush” – the team won six medals on the third day of the Paris Olympics.
Image description, The Daily Mail speaks of the “horror” of the attack in Southport and asks whether Tom Pidcock’s defence of his mountain bike title on Monday was the greatest comeback in Olympic history. Pidcock was at one point 40 seconds off the lead due to a puncture on the fourth lap.
Image description, “The whole country is deeply shocked” by the knife attack, reads a quote from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on the front page of the Daily Express. The front page also mentions that former BBC news presenter Huw Edwards has been charged with making indecent images of children.
Image description, Alongside the reports on Southport and the winter fuel payments, the Daily Telegraph reports that Britain is expected to suspend its arms sales to Israel. The newspaper says the extent of the suspension is unclear, but the change in policy would “represent a significant rupture in relations between Britain and Israel”.
Image description, The Daily Mirror’s front page describes the Southport attack as “every parent’s nightmare”. It also reports that diver Tom Daley won the fifth Olympic medal of his career in Paris. He and partner Noah Williams took silver in the synchronised diving from the 10m platform.
Image description, The Daily Star describes the attack in Southport as a “knife rampage” and also mentions “Medal Monday” – Team GB won its first gold medals of the 2024 Games, in team eventing and men’s mountain biking.
Image description, “Reeves unveils ‘incredibly tough decisions’ to plug £22 billion budget hole,” says the Financial Times. In addition to the loss of winter heating allowances for 10 million pensioners, the new government has also scrapped a planned cap on social care spending and several major rail and road projects.
Image description, And the Metro reports on former BBC news presenter Huw Edwards, who is accused of making indecent images of children. He is due to appear in court in London on Wednesday. Edwards left the BBC in April.

Most newspapers today are reporting on the knife attack on children at a holiday club in Southport.

Many quote witnesses who describe the scene as something out of a horror film. “Every parent’s nightmare,” reads the headline in the Daily Mirror.

The Daily Telegraph reports that the alleged attacker was wearing a Covid-style face mask and a hooded jacket as he walked through the building’s front door, which the newspaper said had been left unlocked for fire safety reasons. The newspaper reports that this was followed by shrill screams and bloodied children running from the building.

The Sun’s editorial states that such brutality against young children is horrific and the motives incomprehensible.

Image description, Many front pages focus on the Chancellor’s spending cuts

The Financial Times reports on comments by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves in which she says she has to make “incredibly difficult decisions” to plug a £22 billion budget black hole.

The FT and others claim that the main reason for the funding gap is Ms Reeves’ own decision to give public sector workers inflation-adjusted pay rises.

Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies writes in the Times that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has revealed a “financial mess” that goes far beyond expectations. He describes it as “astonishing” that the six billion pounds for housing asylum seekers had not been included in the budget by the previous government.

The Daily Mail editorial said that Mrs Reeves’ speech was full of piety and feigned outrage and that it had delivered a blatant lie to the nation.

The newspaper believes that the Labour Party needed a scapegoat to break its election promise not to raise taxes and that England’s middle class will now have to pay a heavy price for this.

The Guardian editorial said Reeves was right to paint the Conservatives’ economic incompetence in stark, shocking colours.

But it says the difficult part is what comes next. The decision to prioritise savings and cut spending is at odds with the government’s determination to boost economic growth, the paper said.

In an article in the Sun, Reeves writes that while these are not the decisions she wanted, they will make life better for the newspaper’s readers.

Of the more than 200,000 people treated for type 2 diabetes, those taking semaglutide (trade name Ozempic) were slightly less likely to seek medical attention for smoking-related problems.

To be sure that the drugs actually help, further studies are needed, according to the researchers.

And several articles report that lettuce leaves have proven to be an excellent remedy for nettle stings.

A study published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine suggests they are as effective as dock leaves, which were first mentioned by Geoffrey Chaucer as an ointment for nettles 600 years ago, according to the Telegraph.

When crushed, both plants release a cooling juice which, in addition to a possible placebo effect, produces a feeling of relief.

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