Newspaper headlines: 'Toddler critical' and 'cost of living hope'
BBC News·2026-06-19·via BBC News
Several of the papers focus on a three-year-old boy who was left with critical injuries after ending up in a Cambridgeshire zoo's crocodile enclosure. The Daily Telegraph says he was "thrown to the crocodiles" by a person who the police believe was a stranger to him. A 30-year-old man from Norfolk has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the incident, the paper reports
The Sun carries a similar headline: "Boy, 3, thrown to crocs at zoo". According to the paper, "he is believed to have suffered a serious arm injury"
The Daily Mail details the incident, which it writes took place in front of "horrified" visitors in the tropical reptile house of Johnsons of Old Hurst near Huntingdon. The paper reports that the young boy was pulled from the enclosure by the wife of the zoo's owner
The Daily Star pictures police outside the zoo on its front page, along with the headline: "Boy, 3, thrown in crocs cage"
The Financial Times reports on the Bank of England holding interest rates at 3.75% after the deal between the US and Iran pushed oil prices down and "eased inflationary risks". The paper also writes the Makerfield by-election is "crunch time" for Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, and says his poll performance "holds key to Starmer's future in Number 10"
Inflation is also the biggest story for the i Paper, which says there is "cost of living hope" following an initial peace deal between the US and Iran. Food prices are predicted to stabilise next year, it says, after higher household energy bills across the coming winter
"UK wastes billions paying too much for big projects" declares the Times, reporting that ministers are "wasting" £8bn a year by paying over the odds for transport and energy infrastructure. The paper says that a new study has concluded that British road, rail and tram projects cost, on average, 65% more that equivalent schemes in Europe, Canada and South Korea
A photograph of billowing black smoke dominates the front page of the Guardian, following what it says was Kyiv's biggest air raid on Moscow since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. For its leading story, the paper spoke to the European Union's former chief Brexit negotiator, who said it is "becoming clearer everyday to the British people that they would be stronger in Europe"
"Stay out of EU and cut taxes to back global Britain," reads the headline of the front page of the Daily Express. To mark the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum, the paper says polling suggests Britons want the future of the UK to be "a low-tax global powerhouse" instead of "a nation cosying up to the European Union"
The prime minister has told the Daily Mirror that he will do "whatever he can" to support their campaign to "Save lives for Sam". The paper started its water safety campaign after 19 people drowned in a heatwave earlier this year
And the World Cup remains the main story for the Metro, with a photograph of footballer Jude Bellingham and a number of his fellow Three Lions leading its coverage. The paper's headline on Friday: "You're gonna be the ones that save us"
