The Daily Star bring us good news…..for bats! It says that after a terrible year of being blamed for starting the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organisation is now demanding an end to “cruel wet markets” where they are traded.
The Queen wants to live “near Philip,” says the Daily Express, which means she will use Buckingham Palace as more of an office than a home.
The Daily Mirror describes the Greensill Capital lobbying revelations as “the worst Tory scandal in a decade”.
The Times is one of a number of Wednesday’s papers highlighting that a senior civil servant worked at private company Greensill Capital while still in Whitehall. But, it says, the government has admitted the move was permitted by Cabinet Office.
The i leads on ministers’ plans to offer people a different COVID vaccine as an autumn booster to the one they were offered earlier this year.
The Daily Mail says the UK’s most senior civil servant under David Cameron, who was still in Whitehall when he began working as an adviser to Greensill Capital, had been “snared”.
Prince Harry and Prince William paid their respects to the Duke of Edinburgh with remarks that were “very different” but “moving”, the Metro says.
The Daily Telegraph has a coronavirus statistic story which says almost a quarter (23%) of all COVID-registered deaths are people who have died with the virus, rather than from an infection. It also says the Queen “will have to sit alone” at her husband’s funeral because of COVID restrictions.
And the revelation also makes the front of The Guardian. Downing Street and Cabinet Office sources, it says, are “deeply concerned” at the revelation.
The prime minister has ordered an investigation into David Cameron’s lobbying for Greensill Capital – that’s the lead in the Financial Times.