Strictly star âvindicatedâ and âworld holds breathâ
The Strictly abuse report has been ârevealed at lastâ, says Metro, with Amanda Abbington saying she has been âvindicatedâ by the verdict. The BBC apologised to the actress and upheld some of her complaints against her 2023 dance partner on the show, Giovanni Pernice, but cleared him of the most serious allegations.
âIâve wonâ, splashes the Sun over pictures of both Abbington and Pernice. She has received a BBC apology, while he has been âcleared of violence in a fudged reportâ, the paper says. According to an unnamed source quoted by the title, Abbington is now considering whether to sue the BBC.
The Daily Express also leads with the Strictly report. Its second story is about a âflying visit to UKâ by the Duke of Sussex. âNo time for dad or brother,â it says of Prince Harry, referring to King Charles and the Prince of Wales.
For the Daily Mail the Strictly report is also a âfudgeâ but the paperâs front page is dominated by the news from the Middle East. âWorld holds breath as Israel set to invade Lebanon,â its headline declares.
According to the Guardian, which has a picture of Israeli battle tanks massing, Israel has already âbegun ground attacks on Hezbollah inside Lebanonâ.
âNetanyahu warns Iran: Youâre in our sightsâ, is the Daily Telegraph take on the escalating conflict in the Middle East. It refers to new remarks made by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Closer to home, former Home Secretary James Cleverly has said his party was wrong in office to say it could âstop the boatsâ in tackling undocumented migrants. Cleverly, who is running for the leadership of the Conservative Party, said it had been an âunachievable targetâ.
âMigrants to be stuck in hotels for three years,â the Times says. It notes a manifesto pledge by Sir Keir Starmer, the new Labour prime minister, to âend asylum hotelsâ. On the Tory leadership race, the paper focuses on a different contender, Kemi Badenoch, who says she knows âhow Thatcher feltâ after being criticised for suggesting maternity pay was placing an âexcessive burden on businessesâ.
A photo of weeping mourners at the funeral of a âvictim of Israeli air strikesâ in southern Lebanon looks out of the front page of the Financial Times, under the headline âIsraelâs forces poised for imminent ground assaultâ. Chinese pressure on European carmakers leads the paperâs business coverage. âStellantis and Aston Martin shares fall as strength of Chinese rivals dents sales,â it reports.
An accounting system used by Post Office sub-postmasters before the controversial Horizon software was introduced is likely to have also been faulty, an investigation has found. The i paper splashes on this, saying the âsecond IT scandalâ is âlinked to wrongful convictionsâ. Badenoch also gets a mention but the comparison here is not with the Toriesâ first female prime minister, the late Margaret Thatcher, but rather their most recent, Liz Truss. âThere is a bit of Liz about Kemi,â an unnamed âformer aideâ to Truss is quoted as saying.
âThe Matrix is realâ, if weâre to believe the Daily Star. It brings to bear its âfifth favourite boffin in the whole worldâ on the nature of the universe, which turns out to be âactually an advanced AI simulationâ with all of us humans âjust characters playing a partâ.
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