‘Could anyone still be alive?’ on yacht and PM’s warning on unions
“Could anyone still be alive?” asks the Daily Mail, reporting that divers have been “frantically” hunting for survivors of the superyacht disaster off Sicily “who could be trapped in air pockets” aboard the vessel which sank in a storm on Monday. Dominating the page is a photo of missing teenager Hannah Lynch, daughter of tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch who has also not been found.
Italian prosecutors are investigating whether “hatches left open by crew members” may have caused the yacht to sink in the storm, the Daily Telegraph reports. Another headline says Home Secretary Yvette Cooper plans to “lock up and deport more migrants”. In the Matt cartoon, a householder and his child look out of the window of their home and the father says: “One day, son, all 10 recycling bins will be yours.”
A still from a “horror video” showing the doomed yacht’s final moments fills the front page of the Daily Express. The paper also reports the visit to Southport by King Charles to meet survivors of the mass stabbing that left three little girls dead.
The Daily Mirror leads with an image of the “desperate” search off Sicily but its main story is about former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson who has terminal cancer. Under the headline “Sven: My goodbye”, the paper quotes a “moving message” from the Swede in which he says: “We are all scared of dying but I’ve lived a good life.”
The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has been warned that “empowering unions will stifle growth”, the Times announces. Employers, it says, fear firms will be “held to ransom”. Capturing the horror of the superyacht disaster off Sicily, the paper quotes a witness as saying it “sank in 60 seconds” as a “tornado hit”. Another headline asks readers if they are “rude like Trump?” and the paper warns against eating a “ham sandwich a day” because of the findings from a study of Type 2 diabetes.
“Brits without new €7 EU visa face being turned away at airport” next year, the i’s front page warns. There will be “no special treatment for UK” in the bloc’s new travel rules for non-EU visitors “despite Labour’s Brexit reset talks”. It’s maybe something for British women to bear in mind especially given that, according to a separate feature trailed at the top of the page, Paris is the “best city for women in their 50s”.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves “plans tax rise amid alarm over ‘black hole'” despite the recent pick-up in the economy, the Guardian says. A photo of the King in Southport takes up much of the front.
“Reeves plans above-inflation rise in social rents” the Financial Times reports, saying that the chancellor aims to boost housebuilding by providing “certainty to housing associations and councils grappling with debt burdens and maintenance backlogs”. In the EU, the paper says, “Chinese-made Teslas face 19% tariffs” after a probe into subsidies.
The Daily Star has found “food boffins” arguing that meals would benefit from the addition of caramels. It does sound “like a load of old toffee”, the paper concedes. And Donald Trump insists he is “not weird”, the paper reports.
