Thursday's front pages feature an order by the Russian president for the Ukrainian city of Mauripol to surrender and a warning from the Taoiseach that EU sanctions on Russia may cause shortages in Ireland.
The Irish Times reports that Putin has ordered the Ukrainian city of Mauripol to surrender despite offering to scale back “dramatically” its military action.
Meanwhile, the Irish Examiner leads with energy price hikes for 1.2 million people as Electric Ireland customers are now set to pay €300 more a year.
The Irish Daily Mail leads with comments from the Taoiseach that EU sanctions on Russia will hit Ireland economically on energy, food and commodities.
The Irish Daily Mirror leads with the arrest of a man in connection with the murder of Micheala McAreavey.
Elsewhere, the Irish Daily Star leads with a picture of Daniel Kinahan with associate Thomas Kavanagh, who was recently jailed, before the attack in the Regency Hotel.
And the Belfast Telegraph reports that a man accused of murder has no memory of the night in question after he suffered a stroke from being poisoned by prison staff.
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Here's a look at the front page of the Belfast Telegraph this morning.https://t.co/bbRGxQjfhA pic.twitter.com/s0oFvz9dnI— Belfast Telegraph (@BelTel) March 31, 2022
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In the UK, papers are dominated by a maternity scandal that has rocked the NHS after a report found 201 babies and nine mothers died needlessly.
The Daily Express, the Daily Mail, The Independent and i all carry what the latter calls the “biggest maternity scandal in the history of the NHS” after a damning report into baby deaths.
Thursday’s Daily EXPRESS: “Justice Coming For Every Baby” #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/qNZaPqZosR
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) March 30, 2022
Thursday's @DailyMailUK #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/yYTcv7pT7i
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) March 30, 2022
Tomorrow's @independent front page #tomorrowspaperstoday To subscribe to the Daily Edition https://t.co/XF8VnDpHYF pic.twitter.com/V6S6K7fWjW
— The Independent (@Independent) March 31, 2022
Thursday's front page: Biggest maternity scandal in history of the NHS#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/GvmO1Gs6uH
— i newspaper (@theipaper) March 30, 2022
“At least 201 babies and nine mothers… may have survived had they had proper care at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust,” the Daily Mirror reports.
Tomorrow's front page: Stolen lives#tomorrowspaperstodayhttps://t.co/3essbjheej pic.twitter.com/l0y1bjWNCv
— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) March 30, 2022
Meanwhile, The Guardian says a further 600 cases are currently being investigated by police.
Guardian front page, Thursday 31 March 2022 – NHS maternity scandal: police investigate 600 further cases pic.twitter.com/UOIZajo3V6
— Guardian news (@guardiannews) March 30, 2022
The Times, which also reports on the scandal, has the headline: “Childbirth is not safe for women in England”.
Thursday’s TIMES: “Childbirth ‘is not safe for women in England’ “. #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/Cukqq8V9B1
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) March 30, 2022
Elsewhere, The Daily Telegraph carries public comments made by the head of GCHQ, Jeremy Fleming. He says Vladimir Putin’s advisers “are afraid to tell him the truth” about Russia’s rapidly faltering campaign in Ukraine.
🗞️The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph:
'Putin's aides are lying to him, says GCHQ chief'#TomorrowsPapersToday
Sign up for the Front Page newsletterhttps://t.co/x8AV4Oomry pic.twitter.com/pOfxZp7GS8— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 30, 2022
Metro carries the story about Tory MP Jamie Wallis who has come out as trans and revealed he was a victim of rape and blackmail.
Thursday's front page:
RAPE ORDEAL OF TRANS MP#TomorrowsPapersToday #BBCPapers #skypapers pic.twitter.com/wBSamebyd6— Metro US (@MetroUS) March 30, 2022
“Germany and Austria plan for gas rationing over payment stand-off with Russia,” the Financial Times reports.
Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, Thursday 31 March https://t.co/GSswuZn5Lj pic.twitter.com/gAwsShsQHd
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) March 30, 2022
While The Sun‘s front focuses on the reported break-in and burglary of the West London mansion of David and Victoria Beckham.
On tomorrow's front page: David and Victoria Beckham’s horror as masked burglar breaks into their mansion while they were at homehttps://t.co/tNYuWXjT04 pic.twitter.com/WJZECvWlrs
— The Sun (@TheSun) March 30, 2022
And the Daily Star reports on the death of 33-year-old British singer Tom Parker from brain cancer.
Tomorrow’s front page: He fought until the end #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/3o5uRYwiFt pic.twitter.com/j5CWMSUcmu
— Daily Star (@dailystar) March 30, 2022
