Newspaper headlines: Hancock hangs on - but is it a Barnard Castle moment?
By BBC News
image captionFallout from pictures of Health Secretary Matt Hancock kissing an aide dominates the front of Saturday s papers. The i says there is outrage that the hypocrite minister has kept his position in Cabinet despite having broken social distancing guidance in May. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accepted Mr Hancock s apology and considers the matter closed, Downing Street has said. But bereaved families have called the PM s failure to sack the health secretary a slap in the face , the paper adds.
image caption How can he cling on? is the question posed by the Daily Mail. The images that several papers carry of Mr Hancock and Gina Coladangelo - whom he appointed - were first published by the Sun. The Mail notes the fact the pictures of the pair were taken on 6 May and in its words that was 11 days before the ban on hugging was lifted .
Eton College signed agreement with Star Academies to open three sixth forms
The selective colleges will fast-track young people to UK academic universities
Recruitment will focus on pupils living in deprived areas or on free school meals
They will open in next five years and be located in Midlands and North of England
Eton College will make significant and ongoing contribution to the partnership
“The signs at this stage are positive, but more than just nice words or the absence of condemnation will be required,” says Simon Henderson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Reefton revival - small town sniffs gold fever
13 minutes to read The rock face is a dripping mask of greywacke and argillite, illuminated by the lights of the jumbo , as the rock drilling machine is known in mining jargon. The diamond drills extend toward the tunnel s end, manipulated by twin booms. Once the drilling is complete, explosives finish the job and the tunnel advances at a rate of about 8 metres a day.
The drills are silent for the moment but despite the damp, the air is dusty. And the tunnel is filled with the thrum of the ventilation system and the low rumble of a huge front-end loader. Back and forth it travels between the rubble in the tunnel s depths and the surface, a length of some 300m.
Why hotels reopening on May 17 is going to be glorious
Don’t forget – British hotels will soon be enjoying ‘green list’ status of their own
Hotels such as Chewton Glen are raring to reopen on May 17
Hotels are back – HURRAH! At least they will be on Monday week, May 17, when, in a major step towards normality, they join the band of green-lit travel corridor countries announced yesterday in being open to us. The closure of hotels in this latest national lockdown has gone on for what feels like forever and I can’t wait to enjoy them again: to down cocktails in glamorous bars; to sink into fireside sofas in remote hideaways after long and lovely walks; to be soothed in sepulchral spas; to dine in rooms full of beauty, cool design, bonhomie and fine food; to sleep in beds so comfortable that clouds would feel lumpy by comparison.