A selection of today's front pages
2. Prince Charles reportedly criticised the Government’s decision to deport migrants to Rwanda, using what word to describe the policy?
3. The aborted flight, due to take migrants to Rwanda, was meant to take off from a military airport in which county?
4. Three Conservative MPs asked Home Secretray Priti Patel, in the Commons, about the prospect of the UK withdrawing from what?
5. The Bank of England predicted that inflation will soar to ___ per cent this autumn as UK interest rates increased to ___ per cent, pushing them to the highest level in 13 years? What are the two missing figures. Half a point for each.
6. Prime Minister Boris Johnson triggered a fresh dispute with the European Union after the Government unveiled plans to override what section of the Brexit deal?
7. Government ethics adviser Lord Geidt, in his resignation letter, said he had been asked for advice on an issue which would amount to a deliberate breach of the ministerial code and said: 'This request has placed me in an impossible and ___ position.’ What is the missing word?
8. The leaders of which three countries vowed to support Ukraine’s bid to join the European Union on a visit to Kyiv? Half a point for two, full point for three.
9. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said of the invasion of Ukraine: 'We declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the West that dragging Ukraine into Nato was a ___ ___.’ What are the two missing words?
10. Former US president Donald Trump said who was not involved in looking at election results and 'had long since checked out’ after the hearing examining the insurrection at the Capitol Hill in January 2021?
11. Father and son Roger and Bradley Stockton were among five people to be killed where?
12. Demonstrators carrying banners against ‘war crimes' marched near Windsor Castle protesting against who receiving a knighthood?
13. Gatwick Airport announced it would limit the number of daily take-offs and landings to how many in August – 10 per cent below its pre-pandemic maximum?
14. Journalists Clive Myrie, Orla Guerin, Nick Robinson and Nick Beake and UK editors John Witherow Chris Evans, Katharine Viner and Ted Verity were all included on what list?
15. The World Health Organisation said it would rename what disease to avoid discrimination and stigmatisation?
16. Home Secretary Priti Patel signed an order to extradite who to the US to face espionage charges and a possible 175-year jail sentence?
17. Which 90-year-old cosmetics company filed for bankruptcy in the US, saying supply chain disruptions had driven up the cost of raw materials for its products?
18. Which former Welsh rugby captain, who motivated his team before an England game with a speech about the English taking 'our coal, our steel and buying homes they only live in for a fortnight a year’, died aged 73?
19. Which English town’s residents voted, by 93 per cent, to restrict the sale of second homes - arguing that local families had been priced out of the housing market?
20. Prince Andrew was forced to remain out of public view after a 'family decision' to exclude him from which traditional procession at Windsor Castle?
21. Freight entrepreneur Hilary Devey who died aged 65, was a panellist on which TV show?
22. The Sydney Morning Herald denied outing which actress as gay?
23. England footballers suffered their biggest home defeat in 94 years to which team?
24. Which band cancelled a performance at the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam after its singer tested positive for Covid-19?
25. New York’s Court of Appeals ruled that Happy, an animal which has been at the Bronx Zoo since the 1970s, cannot legally be considered a person. What type of animal is Happy?
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