Newspaper headlines: 'Bank hottest day Monday' and 'Sturgeon's ex-husband used SNP cash'
2026-05-26·via BBC News
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The heatwave sweeping across the UK features on several front pages, with the Metro dubbing it "bank hottest day Monday". The 34.8C day made for the "highest temperature ever recorded in May." Tuesday "could be warmer", the paper warns.
On the UK's sweltering Monday, the Times says the country was "hotter than Hanoi". And a warning from medics that "social media is the new smoking" is in the lead. This, it says, puts the PM "under increasing pressure to commit himself to a ban for u-16s".
On the front page of The i Paper are the "motorhome, Jaguar and £3.2k coffee maker" that former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's ex-husband Peter Murrell "used SNP cash for". Several of today's papers follow this story. The outlet is also reporting that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor "received expenses boost as trade envoy... after review he ordered".
A snap of former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell leaving court after admitting to embezzling £400,000 is splashed across the Guardian's front. The "estranged" husband of Nicola Sturgeon now "faces jail for thefts from party".
Continuing the list of items embezzled by Murrell - from "a £35 loo seat to a £125,000 camper van" - the Mail asks: "How could Sturgeon not know?" The paper includes a snap of former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner at the beach on its front, writing "hope you've packed the Factor 50, Ange!"
The Daily Telegraph headlines with a demand that "Sturgeon 'must come clean' over husband's £400k theft." MSPs are now challenging her assertion that she didn't know about the theft, it reports, with Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay reportedly calling Murrell a "thieving magpie".
"Iran's energy shock starts to squeeze real wages in world's rich countries" writes the Financial Times. Also on its front page: "Pope says AI needs to be 'disarmed' in warning over tech's 'idolatry of profit'."
The Daily Express writes of "damning figures" that show migrants' demand for housing has "cancelled out almost half the new homes built since Labour came to power." Now, the paper claims, "migrants will get half of all new homes" as Conservatives criticise the figures. A Labour spokesperson said: "With Labour, net migration has fallen by 82% and we've removed 67,000 people with no right to be here."
"Revolting repulsive Reform" tops the Daily Mirror's front page. The party's Makerfield by-election candidate, who will go up against Labour's Andy Burnham on 18 June, made "vulgar remarks" about television presenter Carol Vorderman, the paper says. She has "demanded" an apology while former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayener called the comments "misogynistic abuse", it adds.
A photo of a Bournemouth beach packed with umbrellas tops the Independent. Elsewhere, it reports "drug deaths in jails have soared", citing new figures. Now, it says, the chief inspector of prisons "demands ministers get a grip on the crisis".
There has been a "fake shirt breakthrough" as a new app can detect fake football shirts, the Daily Star says. "England kit hits the fan" is the headline.
The Sun reports on the case of a prison guard convicted for having sex with an inmate at HMP Wandsworth. According to the red-top, Linda de Sousa Abreu "got cheeky after a Nando's", with the pair's "trysts" starting after she smuggled the chicken-based meals for him.
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