‘Spy’ at heart of Whitehall’ and PM ‘allows slums’
These newspapers reported a variety of stories. Prince Andrew’s links to an alleged Chinese spy have made the front page of The Times for three days running, with Sunday’s paper also featuring the suspect’s meeting with former prime ministers Lord David Cameron and Theresa May. Photos of Baroness May – “raised concerns about the depth of his relationship”. able to penetrate British institutions. It also recounts the “hidden archive” of atrocities committed during President Bashar Assad’s term. The newspaper said a war crimes investigator and a team of Syrians risked their lives to collect more than a million evidence documents.
In the wake of Prince Andrew’s Chinese spy story, the Sunday Telegraph reported that a translator who had worked for the Foreign Office for decades ran a website linked to a global network promoting the Chinese Communist Party’s agenda. The newspaper said Microsoft flagged the site and 50 others in 2023, claiming it was part of a “covert global network of Chinese Communist Party news sites.”
The Observer writes that Labor has been accused of allowing developers to launch a new generation of “slum” housing without planning permission over proposed plans to convert offices into apartments. The newspaper spoke to a policy director at the Town and Country Planning Association, who called the policy “shameful” and “Dickensian”. The front page also featured a photo of a Syrian teenager who witnessed the use of chemical weapons in a suburb of Damascus.
The Sunday Express quoted Boris Johnson as saying the government “must be stopped” from “re-shackling” the country to Brussels and warning Sir Keir Starmer posed a threat to Brexit. He said an Indo-Pacific partnership with countries such as Japan, Malaysia and Singapore would “restore the UK to its rightful place on the global stage”.
Charity workers have discovered more than 1,000 women are homeless, almost double the figure reported by the government, according to the Sunday Mirror, which has launched an investigation into the “hidden scandal”.
BBC Home Under the Hammer presenter Martin Roberts told the Daily Star he and his crew quickly left a “ghost house” during filming because a light bulb mysteriously appeared in one of the rooms of the house. The ground cracked and fell. .
TV presenter Eamonn Holmes is planning to marry girlfriend Katie Alexander, The Sun reported on Sunday. The newspaper also reported on the winner of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.
The Sunday People has spoken to a source who claims Benash Batur “became friends” with Lucie Lebby in prison after he was found guilty of murdering his stepdaughter Sarah Sharif. Lebby is currently serving 15 life sentences after being convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill seven others.
