The car incident at Liverpool’s Premier League Victory parade is still front page news on Wednesday. “Parade suspect in drug drive arrest,” is the headline in Metro.
The “parade horror driver” was “on drugs”, says The Sun in its headline. The tabloid names several of the celebrities who have shown their support for the fans, including “Liverpool legends” Sir Kenny Dalglish and Jürgen Klopp, who offered their “thoughts and prayers” for those affected.
The Daily Star’s front page is in line with the other tabloids, featuring an image of an ambulance at the scene in Liverpool. Another image shows the faces of the three children chosen as “Harry’s wiz kids” for the new Harry Potter television programme.
Fire engines and ambulances lining the streets of Liverpool also feature on the front page of the Daily Mirror under the headline “Driver on drugs”.
The Daily Express reports that the man arrested is “suspected of tailgating [an] ambulance to get through roadblock”. Paramedics were rushing to “treat a supporter who was feared to be having a heart attack” as the man drove through the crowd, it says. Elsewhere on the front page is the royal tour of Canada as King Charles III warns the country is facing a “critical moment”.
Coverage of the King’s visit to Canada also makes the front page of the Daily Mail. “Worried about Trump? Don’t make me laugh!” reads a headline over regal purple next to an image of the King chuckling. As his diplomatic visit continued, his sister Princess Anne “visited medics who treated the injured at the Royal Liverpool Hospital”, the Mail notes. The King sent a message celebrating the “strength of community spirit”.
The King “insists” Canada is “strong and free” as he smiles at the country’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, in The Daily Telegraph’s front page splash. A Matt cartoon further down the page jokes that the royal visit will prompt a “tariff of 1000% on Duchy biscuits”. Closer to home, “cannabis should not be criminal, says Khan” as the London mayor makes a call for regulation reform while “the Home Office said it had no intention of decriminalising” the drug. The government is planning a “tax raid on pensions”, the Telegraph also writes, suggesting that possible new reforms could cost the average earner more than £500 a year.
The King also “defends sovereignty of Canada” on the front page of The Times while in its top story, the paper writes of “police safety fears over jail plan” as Sir Keir Starmer plans to release prisoners early. The heads of Metropolitan Police, MI5 and the National Crime Agency warn the plan could be of “net detriment to public safety”, it writes.
The new policies of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage top the i Paper, which says it would cause “Truss mini-Budget style market chaos”. Farage announced in a speech in central London that he would lift the two-child benefit cap and reinstate the winter fuel payment to pensioners.
“Ministers in standoff with Reeves” following the IMF’s warnings to the chancellor, The Guardian reports. The paper says some senior police figures have raised concerns about the forthcoming spending review that they “cannot take further budget cuts”. A young girl holds her hands in a heart shape in paper’s only front page photo as the paper tells of how she died in an Israeli air strike. Yaqeen Hammad, 11, was an influencer in the war-torn region who “spread hope”, it writes.
By saiphnews
