Newspaper headlines: Brits pack beaches as travellers ‘kept in dark’
Options that ministers are contemplating sending Royal Navy vessels to intercept migrant boats in the Channel earlier than they enter British waters discover little favour in the papers.
Government sources quoted in the Times warn that the political penalties of an interception that results in drownings can be disastrous.
A Ministry of Defence supply is alleged to have described the plan as “utterly potty”.
A Royal Navy supply tells the Daily Mail: “There is no extra we are able to do than what the Border Power is doing.”
The Guardian says it has discovered that just about 40% of A-level grades submitted by lecturers are to be downgraded when outcomes in England are printed by the examination common, Ofqual, subsequent week.
In response to the paper, these most liable to receiving what it calls “unfair grades” seem like college students on the border between B and C grades, and between C and D.
Pupils at complete faculties with broad variations in attainment or patchy outcomes in programs over the previous three years are additionally prone to be upset.
The Daily Telegraph stories that British vacationers in France are returning house early to keep away from a doable quarantine – due to the uncertainty about whether or not the nation shall be faraway from the UK’s checklist of secure locations.
The proprietor of a fancy of 100 villas in south-west France tells the paper that bookings have been cancelled.
The Telegraph says senior Tory MPs have urged the federal government to be as clear as doable in regards to the standards getting used to evaluate which nations require quarantine in order that travellers usually are not stored in the darkish.
The Guardian reports that Jeremy Corbyn has accused Labour officials of making an attempt to sabotage the get together’s 2017 common election marketing campaign out of factional hostility to his management.
The Independent on-line paper additionally covers the story, reporting a submission from Mr Corbyn and his high allies ready for a Labour inside inquiry. It says that given the get together was lower than 2,500 votes in key seats away from forming a authorities, it’s not unimaginable that Jeremy Corbyn would possibly now be in his third yr as prime minister.
The papers are full of images of packed beaches in the south of England on the most popular August day for 17 years.
The climate makes the lead for the i and the Mirror – which has the headline: “Solar, sea and standstill”.
The Daily Telegraph says roads resulting in Bournemouth have been gridlocked and guests have been reported to have arrived on the seaside as early as three in the morning to bag the perfect spots.
The Daily Mail notes that social distancing was a uncommon sight.
Lastly, there’s loads of curiosity in ITV’s resolution to maneuver this yr’s I am A Superstar…Get Me Out Of Right here! from the Australian jungle to a fort in the UK due to the pandemic.
However the query for the Telegraph – is: “Get me out of the place?”
A cartoon in the i dares to hope that the as-yet-undisclosed location shall be Barnard Fort in County Durham – with the prime minister’s senior adviser, Dominic Cummings, as one of many contestants.
There’s loads of hypothesis in regards to the location – however the Sun claims to have the reply… a fort in North Wales.
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