A number of newspapers have arrested a man after suspected shotgun cartridges were thrown on the grounds of Buckingham Palace on Tuesday night. said the Queen was not believed to have been in the palace at the time.
The man was being tackled by an armed royal protector, according to the Daily Mail, and authorities were treating the incident as a mental health episode rather than an attempted terrorist attack.
The area around the Queen Victoria Memorial had to be evacuated so police could carry out a controlled explosion, according to the Daily Mirror. The newspaper added that the incident occurred as security forces prepared to oversee “the biggest operation in 70 years” at Saturday’s coronation of the king.
The Daily Express has a photo of the aftermath of the incident on its front page.
According to The Guardian, new anti-protest laws were “rushed into place” ahead of the coronation. Starting Tuesday, protesters who block roads, airports or railroads could face 12 months in jail, while those trapped in objects or buildings face six months in prison and unlimited fines, the newspaper said. It adds that police officials at the UK Home Office have sent a letter to the anti-monarchist movement group the Republic notifying them of the change.
I am conducting an investigation into whether former civil servant Sue Gray violated the rules by speaking to Labor leader Sir Kiel Sturmer about becoming his chief of staff while working in the Cabinet Office. Gray wrote a report on the Partygate scandal and later worked on the team that advised Commons’ investigation into the matter, but Ally said she He told the paper he never advised the investigation.
The Times is leading a government plan to ban unsolicited phone calls for all financial products, saying the measure is aimed specifically at protecting seniors from the most common scams. It added that a new National Fraud Squad of 500 professional investigators would be set up to address the low prosecution rate.
According to the Financial Times, artificial intelligence has demanded its first scalp. Education sector stocks plunged on Tuesday after Chegg, a US company that provides online study guides, said a “massive rise in student interest” in its AI tool ChatGPT was hurting customer growth. The paper said it marks one of the first instances in which companies have acknowledged the financial hit as a direct result of technological advances.
Metro leads the trial of Lucy Letby, who has been charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to kill ten while working as a nurse at the Countess of Chester’s Hospital. Her Letby, who denies all of her 22 charges against her, said in court that she was disgusted by the allegations and wrote on a post-it, “I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough,” according to the paper. ‘ said he wrote. She felt that her “mistake” had contributed to the baby’s death.
And the Daily Star says the king is accused of “hiding his sausage fingers” in an official portrait released ahead of his coronation. is shown, and the King can be seen with his fingers in the pockets of his suit coat.
Numerous newspapers arrested a man Tuesday night after suspected shotgun cartridges were thrown on the grounds of Buckingham Palace.
The Daily Mail reports that after the incident, “hordes of tourists were pushed behind a cordon before experts arrived to carry out a controlled explosion.” Kagami says that the palace is on lockdown, calling the episode “Coronation Security Horror”.
The Guardian said new anti-protest laws were “hastily introduced” ahead of the coronation. Starting Tuesday, protesters who block roads, airports or railroads could face 12 months in jail, while those trapped in objects or buildings face six months in prison and unlimited fines, the newspaper said. It adds that police officials at the UK Home Office have sent a letter to the anti-monarchist movement group the Republic notifying them of the change.
According to The Times, the government plans to introduce a ban on solicitation calls for all financial products. The aim is to prevent fraud that costs the UK £7 billion a year. The plan is part of a new anti-fraud strategy to be unveiled Wednesday, which will also include the use of spies to track people who commit fraud via text, according to the Daily Telegraph. Home Secretary Suela Braverman wrote in the paper, saying, “There are bold solutions to protect our citizens and stop fraudsters.”
According to The Guardian, two of the four largest UK accounting firms are providing additional training to new hires. This follows concerns from businesses that people who completed mass education in remote areas during the COVID-19 lockdown struggled with communication and teamwork tasks. Deloitte and PriceWaterhouseCoopers provide new hires with training on skills such as in-person presentations and attending in-person meetings.
Former prime minister George Osborne suggested that smoking should be banned
Former Prime Minister George Osborne told The Times that smoking should be banned and the government’s sugar tax on soft drinks should be extended to cover fruit juices. He is speaking to the paper’s health committee, which is looking at the future of health and social care, and compares his ideas to smoking bans in public places and safety measures in cars. “No one is reintroducing smoking in pubs, and no one is now saying we shouldn’t wear seatbelts.”
Ahead of the coronation, the Daily Mirror asks if Charles is destined to become “the last king of the Commonwealth”. Print.Australia’s view is that ‘time moves on, countries evolve’, and Grenada’s argument is that this is a chance to cut ties…everything.
The Daily Telegraph, “true to form,” predicts that the weather gods will not honor the big day. But The Guardian tells royalists already camped at The Mall.
