“Ministers ignored concrete advice” is the lead headline for Saturday’s Financial Times, reporting that the government failed to follow recommendations from an independent advisory group about the potentially dangerous material. The paper says the group, backed by the Institute of Structural Engineers, advised in “2020 that buildings containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) be included on a high-risk register created by the government’s Building Safety Act”. This advice was not followed, it adds. The G20 summit in India also features prominently on the FT’s front page ahead of its first day on Saturday.
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“Ministers ignored concrete advice” is the lead headline for Saturday’s Financial Times, reporting that the government failed to follow recommendations from an independent advisory group about the potentially dangerous material. The paper says the group, backed by the Institute of Structural Engineers, advised in “2020 that buildings containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) be included on a high-risk register created by the government’s Building Safety Act”. This advice was not followed, it adds. The G20 summit in India also features prominently on the FT’s front page ahead of its first day on Saturday.Raac also makes the splash for The i, which reveals that staff at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Norfolk have been taking “extraordinary measures” to deal with the crisis. The paper reports that the hospital is one of seven in England found to contain the crumbling concrete and needing to be rebuilt by 2030. The report says operating theatres have been hit by emergency closures, rainwater is pouring through the roofs on to patients, and “bulging ceilings” are being held up with temporary supports.“Brave Freddie returns” hails The Sun, leading with the news that former England cricket captain Andrew Flintoff has been pictured for the first time since he was injured in an accident while filming Top Gear last year. A close up image of Flintoff accompanies the headline, with the paper writing that the 45-year-old was pictured helping to coach the England team in Cardiff in their match against New Zealand on Friday.The Times leads with escaped terror suspect Daniel Khalife. An unnamed relative urges Khalife to hand himself in as the search for the former HMP Wandsworth inmate enters its fourth day. “If I could talk to him, I would tell him to end this and give himself up, even though I understand he is afraid,” the relative says. Met Police are investigating a reported sighting of Khalife near Wandsworth roundabout on Wednesday morning.Daniel Khalife is also a prominent feature in Saturday’s Daily Mail, which teases a “manhunt special” inside the paper. But the splash is on an interview with a seriously ill teenage girl who it reports will “fight NHS doctors who she says wish to ‘impose certain death’ on her by withdrawing her life-preserving treatment”. The 19-year-old has a rare degenerative condition and wants to join clinical trials in North America, but, as the paper reports, “doctors have taken her to court claiming she is ‘actively dying’ and should be placed in palliative care”.The main image on the Guardian is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, meeting schoolchildren in Delhi before the G20 summit. Sunak is also the subject of the lead story, with calls by a group of MPs for the PM and health secretary not to restrict Covid vaccines to those aged 65 and those in vulnerable groups. It comes amid concern that the new Pirola variant of the disease could put pressure on the NHS this winter.In a late change, the Daily Mirror has dedicated its entire front page to impressionist Mike Yarwood, following his death aged 82. In a tribute, the Royal Variety Charity says the late comic has left behind an “immeasurable void in the entertainment industry”.The same picture of Prince William and Catherine features on the front of the Daily Express, but the paper’s lead is on “woke judges under attack”. The story says a new report from a senior lawyer states that “ministers must stop bowing to human rights rulings made by ‘woke’ judges which then benefit bogus asylum seekers, terrorists and strikers”. The barrister’s analysis “found that politically correct rulings protect special interest groups instead of the majority”, the paper says, adding it has “reignited Tory calls for Britain to quit the European human rights treaty”.The Daily Telegraph leads on comments from former Bank of England governor Lord King of Lothbury, who warns the bank “has weakened its ability to¬ fight inflation” because of the effort spent on trying to help tackle climate change and reach net zero. The paper reports comments from Lord King in an interview where he says Britain’s influence on achieving global net zero emissions are “negligible” and the government has “put too much emphasis on ‘arbitrary dates’ banning petrol and diesel cars and gas boilers”. PM Rishi Sunak, as chancellor in 2021, instructed BoE policymakers to support growth and enable the “transition to a net zero economy”, the paper adds.And the Daily Star leads on the weather, as many parts of the UK could see the hottest day of the year on Saturday. Its main focus, however, is on invasive Asian hornets, who the paper says are “ready to invade”.
The Times says a close relative of the escaped former soldier, Daniel Khalife, has urged him to give himself up. In an interview for the paper the unnamed relative blames the Army for Daniel Khalife’s downfall – describing him as “a very, very intelligent, easy going and kind boy” who had changed in the past year.
According to The Sun, Daniel Khalife could be avoiding police by relying on survival skills he learned in the Army. The paper says he attended the Survive, Evade, Resist and Escape training, which teaches recruits how to avoid population centres, cameras and main roads.
A screengrab from a social media video of Daniel Khalife
The front page of FT Weekend says the government ignored advice in 2020 to identify buildings containing weak concrete and place them on a high risk register. The paper says if the recommendation from an independent advisory group was listened to, owners of such buildings would be legally obliged to report any structural issues as well as put in place measures to prevent safety risks.
The i has visited one of seven hospitals in England that are so riddled with crumbling concrete that they are due to be torn down and rebuilt by 2030. The paper says the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn is thought to be Britain’s most propped up hospital, with almost 4,500 steel and timber “fail safes” in place. A senior doctor has told the paper that managers were forced to draw up a “blueprint” of where buckets needed to be placed and which beds could no longer be used, in the event of heavy rain.
Several papers report that the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is considering a real-terms cut to benefits this autumn to fund a tax giveaway next year, before the general election. The Daily Telegraph says that usually benefits rise in April by the inflation figure for the previous September, but Mr Hunt is exploring options including setting the increase at one percentage point lower than inflation, or using the inflation figure from a different month when the measure is expected to be lower.
The Guardian says MPs are urging the government to rethink the decision to offer Covid vaccines only to people aged over 65 and those in vulnerable groups. The letter, from the all-party group on coronavirus, warns that the new Pirola variant could put pressure on the NHS and cause more sickness among the workforce this winter.
According to The Telegraph more than 100 of Britain’s most distinguished families, whose ancestors owned slaves, have signed up to a campaign to provide reparations for slavery. The paper says a meeting is to be convened soon to discuss the practicalities. The campaign “Heirs of Slavery” was founded by the former BBC journalist, Laura Trevelyan, whose forebears owned plantations in Grenada.
And finally, in his column in The Daily Mail, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson takes issue with those who believe that Britain will re-join the EU. He says they are wrong to argue that the UK’s return to the European Horizon programme for scientific research sends a clear message that Brexit will be revoked. Mr Johnson argues that no British government would agree to scrap the pound, sign up to the euro and pay even more into the EU budget than when the UK was a member.
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