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    ‘Jenas shock’ and ‘Fury as dementia drug denied’

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    Front page BBC Daily Telegraph, August 23 BBC

    The news that the BBC has sacked presenter Jermaine Jenas after acting on complaints is front page news on Friday, and the Daily Telegraph’s lead picture is a portrait of the ex-footballer. The paper leads with the news that a new Alzheimer’s drug has been “blocked from use in the NHS” because of the cost involved. The paper’s Matt cartoon reflects the other big news of the past 24 hours, showing a jubilant father jumping in the air to celebrate his privately educated son failing his GCSEs. His son is leaving school, he explains, so VAT will not have to be paid on tuition fees under Labour.

    Daily Mirror Front Page, August 23

    “Sacked” screams the Daily Mirror as “Jermaine Jenas shock” dominates the front page. In other news, actress Martine McCutcheon says her husband Jack “has decided it’s best” they split.

    Daily Mail Front Page, August 23

    “Anger as dementia drug denied to NHS patients” is the headline in the Daily Mail. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is quoted as saying the benefits are “too small” to justify the “£30,000-a-year cost”.

    Daily Express Front Page, August 23

    “Why are only the rich getting a wonder cure for Alzheimer’s?” the Daily Express demands to know, as it directs the NHS decision. Otherwise, up to 70,000 people in England would be eligible, it says.

    The front page of The Times, August 23

    A picture of Jonathan and Judy Bloomer, who died in the superyacht disaster off the coast of Sicily, dominates the front page of the Times. “Our only consolation is that they are still together,” their family is quoted as saying. Another headline is an order from a senior judge for courts not to “lock up criminals until next month” due to a lack of prison space. And Labour is being attacked by “top academics” for “failing to protect freedom of speech” after Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson “suspended legislation that would have forced universities to defend freedom of speech on campus”.

    Metro front page, August 22

    “Jab hope in fight against lung cancer,” reads the Metro headline. “World-first trials” have begun in Britain, the paper says. It features a picture of scientist Janusz Racz, who was diagnosed with the condition in May and was the first to receive the BMT116 jab at a clinic at University College London Hospitals.

    Front page Financial Times, August 23

    A health story of a different kind tops the Financial Times front page: “AstraZeneca threatens to move vaccine factory to US after Reeves mulls aid cuts.” According to the paper’s sources, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, wants to cut state support for the flagship company’s vaccine factory in Merseyside from around £90 million to £40 million. That last bit of sunshine, incidentally, is the estimated value of the world’s “second-largest diamond,” discovered in Gaborone. A photo of the gem sparkles on the paper’s front page.

    I paper front page, August 23

    Unions are demanding more money for their members from Rachel Reeves, the i newspaper reports on its front page. Union leaders are “divided over how to get the best pay deals from the Chancellor of the Exchequer”, the newspaper headline reads. Meanwhile, the UK is heading towards higher prices for fruit and vegetables unless Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer “delays EU checks”, the newspaper said.

    Front page of The Guardian, August 23

    Oh, how I would be happy with your GCSE results if I were the two students from the City of London Academy in Southwark who graced the front page of The Guardian. But concerns about an “achievement gap” are the headlines as exam results “return to pre-Covid levels”. Consistency may be back, but there are “huge regional differences in results across England”, the paper writes. As for public sector unions’ expectations on pay, Rachel Reeves rules out giving them a “blank cheque”. The paper also quotes Tory leadership candidate James Cleverly as saying that Labour has been “played by its union payers”.

    Daily Star Front Page, August 23

    Storm Lilian, which is set to bring gales and heavy rain to parts of the UK on Friday, has issued a ‘chaos warning’ in the Daily Star, but the paper is already seeing a silver lining later this month when a ‘heatwave of 28 degrees Celsius’ is expected.

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