2020-08-20
Daily Star Front Page 20th of August 2020
The Daily Star says gusts of up to 80mph are due to batter parts of the UK as Storm Ellen sweeps in from the Atlantic.
The Daily Star says gusts of up to 80mph are due to batter parts of the UK as Storm Ellen sweeps in from the Atlantic.
The Daily Mirror says Hashem Abedi, the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, who helped to plot the atrocity, did not have the courage to face his victims’ relatives during his sentencing hearing, which he refused to attend.
The Financial Times says Apple has become the first US company with a stock market value of two trillion dollars.
The Metro leads with the death of a boy, 16, who was found on a beach in Calais as dozens more migrants crossed the Channel.
The mother of Harry Dunn, who was killed outside an RAF base after being hit by a car allegedly driven by a US intelligence officer’s wife, has called for an end to her “torture”, the Daily Mirror writes.
Thousands of students have been left in limbo after the A-level fallout, with many now having to defer their university courses until next year, says The Times.
Universities are asking for extra money help them cope with extra demand after the government’s U-turn on A-level results, according to The Daily Telegraph.
The i says Boris Johnson is backing Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, despite the A-level results U-turn where students will now be handed exam grades as predicted by their teachers instead of a controversial algorithm.
The Daily Mail calls Education Secretary Gavin Williamson “the man who won’t take the blame” after the A-level results U-turn.