INFORMING BRITAIN PRESS PREVIEW: WEDNESDAY 21 MAY 2025 | TOMORROW'S PAPERS TODAY AT INFORMING BRITAIN

Welcome to your official rundown of headlines on a selection of British Newspapers' Front Pages for Wednesday 21 May 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: "ISRAEL'S GAZA RHETORIC 'REPELLENT AND MONSTROUS', SAYS LAMMY"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Patrick Wintour / Emma Graham-Harrison

UK-Israeli relations have plunged to their worst state for decades after the British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, suspended negotiations over a new free trade deal, saying Israel's Cabinet Ministers' calls to "purify Gaza" by expelling Palestinians were repellent, monstrous and extremist.

FULL REPORT: TheGuardian.com/world/2025/may/20/uk-suspends-trade-talks-with-israel-repellant-extremism

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The Times: "UK READY TO SANCTION TOP ISRAELIS OVER GAZA"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Steven Swinford / Alistair Dawber / Samer Al-Atrush / Daisy Eastlake

Britain is prepared to impose sanctions on senior members of Israeli Government after suspending trade talks over their "intolerable" military expansion in Gaza.

FULL REPORT: TheTimes.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-war/article/david-lammy-israel-trade-deal-talks-ht7mmcx3n

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Daily Mirror: "THIS MUST END NOW"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Lizzy Buchan / Chris Hughes

After another day of bloodshed in Gaza, and another dire warning of starvation facing thousands of innocents, even Israel’s staunchest allies are saying enough is enough.
Overnight Air Strikes hit a family home and a school as they added another 73 to the death toll, ahead of a renewed ground offensive. And the Unied Nations warned as many as 14,000 babies are at imminent risk of starving to death unless aid starts to get to families in the Strip.

FULL REPORT: http://Mirror.co.uk/news/politics/uk-warns-israel-end-gaza-35260008

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The Daily Telegraph: "RAYNER'S SECRET PLAN TO TAX SAVERS"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Ben Riley Smith

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner sent a secret memo to Chancellor Rachel Reeves pushing for a new tax raid on savers, The Telegraph can reveal.
In the document, seen by our reporters, the Deputy Prime Minister proposed eight tax increases including reinstating the pensions lifetime allowance and changing dividend taxes.

FULL REPORT: Telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/05/20/angela-rayner-demands-tax-raid-savers-rachel-reeves

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Metro (South Edition): "SEWAGE CRIME PROBES HIT RECORD 81"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Emily Beament

Water firms are facing a record 81 criminal investigations into sewage spills and other law breaches.
Water bosses "will finally be punished", says Environment Secretary Steve Reed. 

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The Scotsman: "ENERGY SECTOR TELLS STARMER TO END NORTH SEA WINDFALL TAX"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: David Bol

Thousands of business leaders and energy workers have called on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to signal an "immediate end" to the controversial North Sea Windfall Tax.

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Financial Times: "EU TO IMPOSE FEE ON LOW-COST IMPORTS IN FURTHER SETBACK FOR CHINESE TRADERS"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Andy Bounds

Temu and Shein to be hit.
The European Union plans to levy a flat fee of €2 on billions of small packages entering the bloc, mainly from China, in a fresh blow to low-cost online retailers such as Temu and Shein.
Packages flood puts pressure on Customs.
Trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič told the European Parliament he had proposed the handling fee on Tuesday to offset the costs associated with the 4.6 billion items annually imported directly to people's homes.
Initiative follows US action.

FULL REPORT: FT.COM/content/102e18d7-d06b-4405-a347-97bb3c37318b

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Morning Star: "HOW CAN YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT?"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Andrew Murray

"How do you sleep at night?"
​Foreign Secretary David Lammy was asked in the Commons today as he continued to evade calls for action on Gaza.
Suspended Labour MP Zarah Sultana told him: "Children are starving. Families have been wiped out. Hospitals destroyed. Yet the government in court claims that there is no evidence Israel targets civilians. 
"The Foreign Secretary is personally responsible and refuses to ban all arms sales to this genocidal state. So like many across Britain, I have to ask the Foreign Secretary, how do you sleep at night?"
 
FULL REPORT: MorningStarOnline.co.uk/article/how-do-you-sleep-night

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The Bolton News: "379 BUILDINGS ARE BACK UNDER COUNCIL CONTROL"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Joe Harrigan

Bolton Council has taken over the running of more than 300 buildings across the borough again.
This comes after the authority announced that as of this week its contract with third party provider Robertson Facilities Management was over.

FULL REPORT: TheBoltonNews.co.uk/news/25165876.bolton-council-takes-building-management-in-house

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​The Yorkshire Post: "CRIMINAL WATER PROBES HIT RECORD"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Kit Sandeman

Firms investigated for 81 breaches of Environmental Law following big rise in spot checks for pollution. 
A "record" 81 criminal investigations into alleged environmental breaches by water firms in Britain have been launched as the Government attempts to show it is getting to grips with the troubled sector. 

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Wirral Globe: "'SOMEBODY MUST KNOW'"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Craig Manning

An organisation set up following the murder of Diane Sindall in Birkenhead almost 40 years ago are urging anyone with information that could help the new investigation to come forward.
RASA Merseyside was launched to help victims of Sexual Violence after the 21-year-old was killed on Borough Road in August 1986 as she walked home from a shift behind the bar at a Bebington pub.
 
FULL REPORT: WirralGlobe.co.uk/news/25167252.charity-make-appeal-justice-search-diane-sindalls-killer

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The Independent: "'UTTERLY INTOLERABLE'"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: David Maddox

Frustration spilled over in the House Of Commons on Tuesday – from Labour MPs and others – over the time it has taken for Keir Starmer's Government to step up and take action against Israel over the Gaza crisis. 

FULL REPORT: Independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-israel-sanctions-gaza-labour-b2754652.html

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Glasgow Times: "MASTERPLAN FOR CITY SITE"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Stewart Paterson 

A half a billion-pound plan to transform a huge, long term derelict site into a housing, leisure and business development has been unveiled. 

FULL REPORT: GlasgowTimes.co.uk/news/scottish-news/25132509.historically-derelict-glasgow-land-get-new-life

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Daily Star: "THEY THINK IT'S ALL OVER .. YER TELLY"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Ed Gleave

Lorraine, Loose Women, and This Morning cuts to fund World Cup.
ITV has cut daytime budgets to fund World Cup coverage.
This Morning, Lorraine, and Loose Women are all hit. 

FULL REPORT: DailyStar.co.uk/tv/breaking-loose-women-lorraine-slashed-35258161

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Lancashire Telegraph: "'BLUETONGUE' OUTBREAK HITS COUNTY FARMS"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Paul Faulkner

Movement restrictions have been placed on cattle, sheep and some other livestock in Lancashire after what officials described as "historic" cases of the bluetongue virus were identified.
The county has been added to an already lengthy list of those parts of England covered by a "restricted zone" – designated by the Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) – in order to stem the spread of the disease.
 
FULL REPORT: LancashireTelegraph.co.uk/news/25177202.bluetongue-hits-lancashire-livestock---restrictions-across-county

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The National: "'LONG OVERDUE'"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Hamish Morrison

The Government in United Kingdom has called off negotiations with the Israeli Government on a new free trade deal – describing Benjamin Netanyahu's government as "extremists".
Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely has been summoned to the Foreign Office to be told of new measures the Government are taking in response to the bombardment of Gaza and plans to ethnically cleanse the territory.

FULL REPORT: TheNational.scot/news/25178012.uk-government-suspends-israeli-trade-deal-talks