Time to tackle the newsquiz

Last week's newsquiz was obviously a bit tougher than usual with a few regular quizzers posting below average scores. Several didn't make it on to the leaderboard. The top solo scorer was George Mann with a score of 21 ahead of Johnny Jenkins on 20, Jo Wadsworth and Robert Rea on 19, Toby Brown on 17 and Gavin Devine on 14. The Global Newsroom with Alicia Edwards, Tim Humphrey, Lucinda Horsley and Rachel Gerish was the top team with 22. The Red Lion drinkers Kevin, Amanda, Pete and Les scored 19 as did Maura and Phil Parsons and Bruce and Sarah Hayward scored 16. Here is this week's newsquiz. Give it a go and let me know your score.

Today's front pages

1. Labour won the Blackpool South by-election, with a swing of what per cent … the third largest from Tories to Labour since the second world war?
2. After the by-election Labour leader Keir Starmer said: 'This __ win in Blackpool South is the most important result today.' What is the missing word?
3. Who was turned away from a polling station in South Oxfordshire, where voters were choosing a police and crime commissioner, for not having photo ID?
4. What is the name of the former health minister who announced he was resigning as a Tory MP and would be taking the Labour whip until the next election?
5. Announcing his resignation as leader of the SNP Humza Yousaf said: 'Unfortunately, in ending the Bute House Agreement in the manner that I did, I clearly underestimated the level of hurt and upset I caused __ colleagues. What is the missing word?
6. What is the name of the former finance secretary who announced she would not be in the running to be the next leader of the SNP?
7. Marcus Arduini Monzo, 36, was charged with murdering 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin using what weapon?
8. In which area of London was Daniel Anjorin killed and four other people, including two police officers, injured?

9. A plan to draft new Irish legislation, which would redesignate where as a 'safe country' to which asylum seekers could be returned, was approved?
10. Protesters slashed the tyres of a coach after it arrived at a hotel in Peckham to take illegal migrants to where?
11. Which member of the Royal family was the first to visit Ukraine since the conflict with Russia started?
12. Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, from Cumbria, were charged with criminal damage to what?
13. More than 300 pro-Palestinian protesters at university campuses in which city were arrested after hundreds of police officers raided a building which students had taken over?
14. Eleven British tourists were injured after an open-top bus hit another bus and overturned in which country?
15. Which actor was summoned to a Paris police station and is to be tried in October over allegations of sexual assault?

16. How was Peter Smith, 64, from Hertfordshire, seriously injured while on holiday in Tobago?
17. King Charles returned to public duties with a visit to where?
18. Noel Quinn, the chief executive of which bank, announced he was to quit after an 'intense five years’?
19. Brian McCardie, who died aged 59, was well known for playing mafia boss John Thomas 'Tommy’ Hunter in which TV drama?
20. The cost of a prescription in England increased on Wednesday from £9.65 to how much?

21. At a tribunal in London who did Martine Croxall, Karin Giannone, Kasia Madera and Annita McVeigh accuse of ‘grinding down’ women on pay?
22. Which magazine announced it was closing 'after 86 wonderful years' with editor Eva Mackevic saying it 'just couldn’t withstand the financial pressures of today’s unforgiving magazine publishing landscape'?
23. Who said: 'I would like to thank everyone for their kindness and good wishes, especially all the medical staff, all my wonderful colleagues at ITV News, and our viewers who expressed concern’?
24. Which singer-songwriter said she was 'so bummed’ after two of her tour dates were cancelled, following a 'technical issue' at the Co-op Live arena in Manchester?
25. A photo, taken by the Princess of Wales, was released to mark Princess Charlotte’s birthday. How old is Charlotte?

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