Newspapers are based on different types of stories. Prince Andrew’s relationship with an alleged Chinese spy has made the front page of The Times for three days in a row, and Sunday’s newspaper contains photographs showing the suspect meeting with former prime ministers Lord David Cameron and Baroness Theresa May There have been – “concerns are growing” about how deeply he was able to infiltrate the British establishment. It also features a story about a “hidden archive” of atrocities committed during Bashar al-Assad’s tenure as president. The newspaper says a war crimes investigator and a team of Syrians risked their lives to collect more than one million documents of evidence.
Following the Prince Andrew Chinese spy story, the Sunday Telegraph reports that an interpreter who worked for the Foreign Office for decades ran a website linked to a global network pushing the Chinese Communist Party’s agenda. The newspaper says Microsoft flagged this website along with 50 others in 2023 and alleges it is part of a “hidden global network of CCP news websites.”
The Observer writes that Labor has been accused of allowing developers to start a new generation of “slum” homes instead of a proposed scheme to convert offices into flats – without planning permission. The newspaper has spoken to a policy director at the Town and Country Planning Association, who calls the policy “shameful” and “Dickensian”. The photo of a Syrian teenager witnessing the use of chemical weapons on the outskirts of Damascus also made the front page.
The Sunday Express has quoted Boris Johnson as saying the government must be “prevented” from “relocating” the country to Brussels, as he warned Sir Keir Starmer poses a threat to Brexit. He says entering into an Indo-Pacific partnership with countries including Japan, Malaysia and Singapore would “restore the UK to its rightful place on the global stage”.
More than 1,000 women have been found homeless by charity workers, almost double the number reported by government figures, according to the Sunday Mirror, which has launched an investigation into the “hidden scandal”.
BBC’s Homes Under the Hammer host Martin Roberts gave a late hint about the horror season, telling the Daily Star that he and his team immediately ran out of a “spooky house” during shooting when a lightbulb mysteriously broke. Went and fell in a room of the house. ,
TV host Eamonn Holmes is reportedly planning to marry his girlfriend Katie Alexander, writes The Sun on Sunday. The newspaper also reports on the winner of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.
The Sunday People has spoken to a source who says Benash Batool, who was found guilty of murdering her stepdaughter Sara Sharif, “became friends” with Lucy Letby while in prison. Letby is serving 15 life sentences after being convicted of killing seven infants and attempting to kill seven others.
