INFORMING BRITAIN PRESS PREVIEW: FRIDAY 24 JANUARY 2025 - TOMORROW'S PAPERS TODAY | INFORMING BRITAIN PAPERS

Welcome to your rundown of headlines on a selection of British Newspapers' Front Pages for Friday 24 January 2025.
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This is a selection of newspaper publications from Britain, it may not be all of the Front Pages.

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The Guardian: "SOUTHPORT ATTACKER JAILED FOR 'SAVAGE' MURDER OF THREE GIRLS"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Josh Halliday

Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana jailed for 52 years for murder of Alice Da Silva Aguiar, Bebe King and Elsie Dot Stancombe.

FULL REPORT: TheGuardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/23/southport-attacker-axel-rudakubana-jailed

Scottish Daily Mail: "SCOTLAND SHUT DOWN"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Dan Barker

Scotland was today braced for a devastating 100MPH storm which threatens to wreck havoc across huge swathes of the north.

​Western Mail: "'PURE EVIL'"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Josh Payne / Eleanor Barlow / Pat Hurst / Dave Higgens / Katie Dickinson

How Axel Rudakubana went from would-be actor to one of Britain's most notorious murderers.

FULL REPORT: WalesOnline.co.uk

Daily Mirror: "YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.. WE HOPE IT HAUNTS YOU EVERY DAY"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Hollie Bone / Phil Cardy

Axel Rudakubana faces spending the rest of his life in jail over the horrific knife murders of three young girls in Southport. 

FULL REPORT: Mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i-court-axel-rudakubana-sentencing-34541935

Glasgow Times: "'DANGER TO LIFE' STORM HITS TODAY"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Molly Court 

Millions of people in Scotland received an emergency alert to their mobile phones after the Met Office issued a red danger to life warning for wind.

FULL REPORT: GlasgowTimes.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/24880755.storm-eowyn-4-5-million-people-receive-emergency-alert

​The Independent: "'GIVE ME A REASON FOR WHAT YOU DID'"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Amy-Clare Martin

Axel Rudakubana, 18, was given 13 life sentences at Liverpool Crown Court for the Southport murders that happened on 29 July 2024.
A disturbed teenager who murdered three innocent girls in a mass stabbing at a children’s dance class in Southport and later gloated “I’m glad they’re dead” is likely to never be released from prison.

FULL REPORT:  Independent.co.uk

​The Bolton News: "SHOCK RISE IN SCHOOL TERM TIME HOLIDAYS"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Chris Gee

Parents in Bolton who flouted the rules of term time holidays have been hit with a total of £800,000 in fines over the past three years.

FULL REPORT: TheBoltonNews.co.uk

The Daily Telegraph: "WE FACE A LIFETIME OF GRIEF. HE SHOULD FACE THE SAME"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Allison Pearson

Heart-rendering statements from the families of the victims of the Southport killer. 

South Wales Echo: "'CRUEL AND PURE EVIL'"
​LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Ben Haslam / Adam Everett / Patrick Edrich

Cardiff-born child killer jailed for at least 52 years for brutal Southport atrocity. 

FULL REPORT: WalesOnline.co.uk/news/wales-news/how-axel-rudakubana-went-would-30852346

The Scotsman: "SCOTLAND PUT ON RED ALERT FOR 'VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS'"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Alastair Dalton / Dale Miller 

A "do not travel" warning has been issued to the Central Belt during a rare red extreme weather alert triggered by Storm Éowyn.

FULL REPORT: Scotsman.com/news/weather/storm-eowyn-rare-red-weather-alert-issued-as-very-dangerous-100mph-winds-to-hit-scotland-4956700

Metro (England): "HONOUR THEM"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Sam Corbishley / Brooke Davies

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana jailed for at least 52 years.
Southport victims Alice Da Silva Aguiar, Bebe King and Elsie Dot Stancombe are paid tribute to on the front page. 

FULL REPORT: Metro.co.uk

​The Times: "'EVIL' KILLER JAILED FOR 52 YEARS"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Constance Kampfner

Law reform plea as Axel Rudakubana avoids whole-life term.
The unrepentant teenager jailed for a minimum of 52 years but judge was restricted by his age when he committed the crime.

FULL REPORT: TheTimes.com/uk/crime/article/law-reform-plea-as-evil-axel-rudakubana-avoids-whole-life-term-qfs7qrm86

The Yorkshire Post: "CONCERN AT £105M LOAN FOR AIRPORT"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Alex Wood

Serious concerns have been raised over how long it will take to repay a £105M taxpayer-funded loan which is to be used to reopen Donacaster Sheffield Airport.

Daily Express: "'CRUEL AND PURE EVIL... THE ACT OF A COWARD'"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Chris Riches / Paul Jeeves

The parents of children killed by Axel Rudakumana called him "pure evil" as he hid in his cell while being jailed for 52 years. 

FULL REPORT: Express.co.uk/news/uk/2004246

South Wales Evening Post: "DRIVER WHO KILLED BABY MABLI JAILED"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Robert Harries

Bridget Carole Curtis was jailed after she drove her car over a kerb and directly into the path of Mabli Cariad Hall.

FULL REPORT: WalesOnline.co.uk/news/wales-news/all-could-hear-screaming-parents-30851918

Daily Star: "THERE'S A RAT IN ME KITCHEN WHAT AM I GONNA DO?"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Sian Hewitt

Hordes of heat-seeking rats could be joining you for breakfast today as Storm Eowyn brings 100MPH winds to Britain.

Lancashire Telegraph: "DRIVER GUILTY IN PEDESTRIAN FATAL COLLISION"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Andrew Bellard

Kulsoom Ahmed of Dartford Close has pleaded guilty to causing the death of an 88-year-old pedestrian in Blackburn by careless driving.

FULL REPORT: LancashireTelegraph.co.uk

Daily Mail: "'WHAT YOU DID WAS NOT ONLY CRUEL AND PURE EVIL, IT WAS THE ACT OF A COWARD'"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Richard Marsden

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana is likely to die in jail for the 'sadistic' murders of three young girls.