A selection of today's front pages
1. What is the name of Prince William’s godmother, and former lady-in-waiting to the Queen, who resigned from the royal household after she was accused of racism?
2. Labour won the first by-election to be held since Boris Johnson left Downing Street, with an increased majority of nearly 11,000, in which constituency?
3. Speaking at a conference in London, Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukraine’s president, claimed Russia was using what as a weapon of war?
4. Which politician announced he was quitting his position, saying: 'After more than five years in the role, now is the right time for fresh leadership.’
5. Business and Energy Secretary Grant Shapps said the building of what would be allowed 'where communities are in favour of it’ ... effectively ending an eight-year ban?
6. Sajid Javid, who announced he was to stand down as an MP at the next General Election, held which two Cabinet positions in Boris Johnson’s Government? Half a point for each.
7. The BBC said it was 'extremely concerned' about the treatment of Ed Lawrence, who was arrested and handcuffed and 'beaten and kicked by the police while working as an accredited journalist’. What was he covering?
8. Which bank said it would close 114 branches in the UK from April?
9. Former Scottish rugby international Doddie Weir, who died aged 52, raised millions of pounds after being diagnosed with which disease six years ago?
10. Belgium’s Roberto Martinez became the second manager to leave his job after his team failed to qualify for the knockout stages of the World Cup. Which country’s manager was the first?
11. For the first time in a census of England and Wales fewer than half of the population described themselves as what?
12. A vaccine programme was stepped up, and infected people in migrant processing centres were isolated, after a large increase in cases of which disease?
13. A powerful landslide tore across which Italian island killing at least one person with others missing?
14. The World Health Organisation announced a name change for which virus after complaints of racist and stigmatising language?
15. Who was banned from Twitter after sharing an image that showed a Nazi swastika inside a Star of David?
16. Fashion-house Balenciaga was criticised, leading its ambassador Kim Kardashian to make a statement, over a photoshoot showing child models posing with what?
17. A trailer for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Netflix documentary was released, coinciding with a visit to America by the Prince and Princess of Wales who were promoting which environmental prize?
18. How did French woman Stephanie Frappart make history on Thursday?
19. Singer Irene Cara, who died aged 63, had two UK top ten hits including a No 1 in the early 1980s. Name them. Half a point for each.
20. Before she married Fleetwood Mac’s bassist, musician Christine McVie, who died aged 79, was in blues band Chicken Shack and was called what?
21. Which musician apologised for using a machine to autograph ‘hand-signed’ books blaming 'vertigo and the pandemic’?
22. What was named the word of 2022 by dictionary Merriam-Webster after a 1,740 per cent surge in searches for it on its website?
23. Who was the first headline performer announced for next year’s Glastonbury Festival, set to appear on the Pyramid stage on Sunday June 25?
24. Which artist had the UK's most-streamed song of 2022 according to Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer?
25. After coming fourth in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here, Mike Tindall launched a range of what to raise money for Cure Parkinson's?
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