āCould anyone still be alive?ā on yacht and PMās warning on unions
āCould anyone still be alive?ā asks the Daily Mail, reporting that divers have been āfranticallyā hunting for survivors of the superyacht disaster off Sicily āwho could be trapped in air pocketsā aboard the vessel which sank in a storm on Monday. Dominating the page is a photo of missing teenager Hannah Lynch, daughter of tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch who has also not been found.
Italian prosecutors are investigating whether āhatches left open by crew membersā may have caused the yacht to sink in the storm, the Daily Telegraph reports. Another headline says Home Secretary Yvette Cooper plans to ālock up and deport more migrantsā. In the Matt cartoon, a householder and his child look out of the window of their home and the father says: āOne day, son, all 10 recycling bins will be yours.ā
A still from a āhorror videoā showing the doomed yachtās final moments fills the front page of the Daily Express. The paper also reports the visit to Southport by King Charles to meet survivors of the mass stabbing that left three little girls dead.
The Daily Mirror leads with an image of the ādesperateā search off Sicily but its main story is about former England manager Sven-Gƶran Eriksson who has terminal cancer. Under the headline āSven: My goodbyeā, the paper quotes a āmoving messageā from the Swede in which he says: āWe are all scared of dying but Iāve lived a good life.ā
The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has been warned that āempowering unions will stifle growthā, the Times announces. Employers, it says, fear firms will be āheld to ransomā. Capturing the horror of the superyacht disaster off Sicily, the paper quotes a witness as saying it āsank in 60 secondsā as a ātornado hitā. Another headline asks readers if they are ārude like Trump?ā and the paper warns against eating a āham sandwich a dayā because of the findings from a study of Type 2 diabetes.
āBrits without new ā¬7 EU visa face being turned away at airportā next year, the iās front page warns. There will be āno special treatment for UKā in the blocās new travel rules for non-EU visitors ādespite Labourās Brexit reset talksā. Itās maybe something for British women to bear in mind especially given that, according to a separate feature trailed at the top of the page, Paris is the ābest city for women in their 50sā.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves āplans tax rise amid alarm over āblack hole'ā despite the recent pick-up in the economy, the Guardian says. A photo of the King in Southport takes up much of the front.
āReeves plans above-inflation rise in social rentsā the Financial Times reports, saying that the chancellor aims to boost housebuilding by providing ācertainty to housing associations and councils grappling with debt burdens and maintenance backlogsā. In the EU, the paper says, āChinese-made Teslas face 19% tariffsā after a probe into subsidies.
The Daily Star has found āfood boffinsā arguing that meals would benefit from the addition of caramels. It does sound ālike a load of old toffeeā, the paper concedes. And Donald Trump insists he is ānot weirdā, the paper reports.