‘Race against time’
A round-up of the headlines from the UK front pages
“Race against time”, says The i Paper, as wildfires rage through France and Spain. “It felt like a disaster movie”, an eye-witness says in The Guardian. The Daily Mail focuses on “Burnham’s £18 billion ‘death tax’ nightmare”. The Sun reports on a “dead ringer” for Andy Burnham, who dubs herself “Mandy Burnham” on social media. There was “horror beyond belief” at a “rogue funeral parlour”, says Metro, after a court heard that a funeral director “left 31 bodies – including a stillborn baby’s – to rot on an ‘almost industrial scale’ in a parlour that became a horror scene”.
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