At the end of the working week, Britain’s front pages report that the country’s long delayed high-speed rail line will be pushed back by another two years.
The Times, the Daily Mirror and the i carry the announcement from the transport secretary that construction of the HS2 between London and Manchester has been delayed with ministers blaming spiralling construction costs.
TIMES: HS2 will be delayed by another two years #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/iQs28iow3q
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) March 9, 2023
Friday’s front page: Huge shambles 2 #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/G9gcOgVox0 pic.twitter.com/yymcb2gUV3
— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) March 9, 2023
Friday’s front page: Levelling up plans under threat as HS2 hit by cuts and two-year delay#TomorrowsPapersToday
Latest by @RichardVaughan1 @elle_odwyer @eleanormia @singharj: https://t.co/DxInAblL34 pic.twitter.com/uJvPxCfZV2
— i newspaper (@theipaper) March 9, 2023
The Daily Mail and the Daily Express continue to follow the fallout of Gary Lineker criticising the Government’s new migrant Bill.
Friday’s @DailyMailUK #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/89zysY6djz
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) March 9, 2023
EXPRESS: @SuellaBraverman blasts Lineker … now will BBC make him say sorry? #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/eD5F4Sqa3X
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) March 9, 2023
Staying with the small boats crisis, The Independent says Emmanuel Macron is expected to reject British calls to return Channel asylum seekers to France, after his calls for more safe and legal routes to the UK were ignored.
INDEPENDENT DIGITAL: The small boats crisis is YOUR problem, not ours #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/6Glu4VZnMm
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) March 9, 2023
Elsewhere, Metro focuses on events in Ukraine after its nuclear plant was again targeted in a Russian missile strike.
Tomorrow’s Paper Today ?
‘OUR LUCK WILL RUN OUT’
? Atomic chief’s warning as Ukraine nuclear plant ko’d in missile strike #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/TzYdPO6oHU
— Metro (@MetroUK) March 9, 2023
Sticking with Russia, the Financial Times reports two oligarchs are planning to offload their 2.3-billion-dollar stakes in Russia’s largest private lender to free themselves from sanctions imposed by the West over the war.
Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, Friday 10 March https://t.co/SU0H6SiQcV pic.twitter.com/8jPHh1UPQ1
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) March 9, 2023
More than 500 seriously ill patients died last year before they could get treatment in hospital after the ambulance they called for took up to 15 hours to reach them, an investigation by The Guardian has revealed.
Guardian front page, Friday 10 March 2023 – Revealed: at least 500 people died after ambulance delays last year pic.twitter.com/0sw7Dmchz7
— The Guardian (@guardian) March 9, 2023
Children are being taught sex education lessons that have “no basis in any reputable scientific biological explanation”, the head of the schools regulator Ofsted has warned, The Daily Telegraph says.
The front page of tomorrow’s Daily Telegraph:
‘Ofsted chief warning over explicit sex lessons’#TomorrowsPapersToday
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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 9, 2023
And the Daily Star calls the Duke of Sussex a hypocrite for christening his daughter with a royal title.
Tomorrow’s Daily Star front page: Prince Charmless #tomorrowspaperstoday https://t.co/k5X6oERBLB pic.twitter.com/n6oweeRAyt
— Daily Star (@dailystar) March 9, 2023
