The Times
Prince Harry struggled to justify his phone-hacking claims and breached royal convention during a historic day of evidence at the High Court, according to The Times.
The Guardian
Thousands have been forced to flee their homes and an ecological disaster has been unleashed on southern Ukraine by the collapse of a major hydroelectric dam, The Guardian reports.
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail leads on Prince Harry’s hacking testimony, which it says was forensically challenged for five “gruelling” hours. The royal also admitted his memoir conflicts with his claims, the paper says.
i
Around 40,000 people are fleeing an ecological disaster after Russia was accused of destroying a hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine, the i says.
Daily Mirror
Motor neurone disease sufferer Rob Burrow’s wife has joined calls to make his hero England rugby coach Kevin Sinfield a knight.
Daily Express
A weight loss wonder drug the prime minister describes as a “game-changer” will be prescribed to tens of thousands in a bid to ease the nation’s health crisis, the Daily Express reports.
Daily Star
The police failed to solve a single burglary in almost half of neighbourhoods in England and Wales, according to the Daily Star.
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph says Russia has been accused of destroying a dam to slow Ukraine’s counter-offensive in what Rishi Sunak has said would be a “new low” by Moscow.
The Sun
Prince Harry contradicted himself, was accused of being in “the realm of total speculation,” and spoke of his fears James Hewitt was his biological father, The Sun reports.
Metro
Prince Harry has been told his evidence to back phone hacking claims is “in the realms of total speculation”, the Metro says, as he became the first royal in a witness box for 132 years.
Financial Times
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of detonating a “bomb of mass environmental damage” after the Nova Kakhovka dam spanning the Dnipro river was breached, the Financial Times reports.
