In this Wednesday’s Mirror Daily Digest, we’ve pulled together the biggest stories of the day from bombshell new details surrounding Jay Slater’s tragic death to Keir Starmer’s PMQs winter fuel U-turn and the hotly anticipated Europa League final
Welcome to the Mirror’s Daily Digest, where we pull together all the best stories of the day from our News, Showbiz, Sport teams and more. This Wednesday, we’re featuring everything from the inquest into Jay Slater’s death to everything we know ahead of the Europa League final and Starmer’s huge winter fuel PMQs bombshell.
This morning, Jay Slater’s inquest began to establish the events in the build up to the apprentice bricklayer’s shock death which grabbed headlines across the UK. Elsewhere, manchester-united-fc>Manchester United are set to take on Tottenham Hotspur this evening in an all-English Europa League final and Keir Starmer has made a shock winter fuel payments U-turn.
Jay Slater’s mum breaks down in tears as she begs missing pals to come forward
Last summer, Jay Slater’s disappearance in Ibiza grabbed headlines across the UK, with many theorising what could have happened to the British teen until his death was tragically announced. This Wednesday, Jay Slater’s name returned to headlines as our news team live blogged his inquest – taking place to establish the events that led to Jay’s death,
Jay Slater’s mum broke down in tears at the inquest into her son’s death. She told the court: I know you have tried to locate them but how can we ever get any understanding we know he died and he had an accident but from him leaving that holiday resort to going up to there we have read their statements and we want these people to be here sat in front of us, we want to ask them questions”
Jay’s friends Lucy Law and Brad Hargreaves were not able to be tracked down to give evidence. The pair flew to the Spanish island in June last year with Jay, 19, to attend the NRG music festival in Playa de las Americas. Following the event, Jay travelled with two men to the remote Rural de Teno national park area in the early hours of June 17.
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Europa League Final – ‘Leaked lineups’ as Spurs and Man Utd to face off in Bilbao clash
This evening, our sports team will be live blogging one of the biggest matches of the season, as Manchester United are set to take on Tottenham Hotspurs in a hotly anticipated all-English Europa League final. The two teams are aiming to put their rotten seasons behind them by claiming silverware with success in the Europa League.
While the final represents a huge chance to lift a trophy, it also offers each a chance to return to the Champions League. Each side have seen their hopes of playing in the competition evaporate due to their league positions amid woeful league form. But both sides can put that right in the Basque country.
Both Ruben Amorim and Ange Postecoglou are each chasing a first trophy in English football. Both spoke in their pre-match press conferences on Tuesday, and while Amorim and the United camp were in relaxed mood, the Spurs boss was anything but – in spiky mood as he hinted at this being his penultimate Spurs match.
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Keir Starmer in huge winter fuel U-turn as he drops bombshell during PMQs
During PMQs this Wednesday, our politics team broke the news that Keir Starmer said he wanted more pensioners to get winter fuel payments in a huge U-turn on the controversial cut. The Prime Minister said with the economy showing signs of improvement he wants to ensure “more pensioners are eligible for winter fuel payments”.
The surprise announcement at PMQs – a fortnight after No10 ruled out a change in policy – came amid mounting pressure to roll-back the decision to strip the £300 payment from all but the very poorest pensioners. Labour has argued the unpopular decision – announced just weeks after the party’s election victory last year – was necessary to fix the Tory mess they inherited.
But in recent weeks Labour MPs have blamed the policy for the party’s bruising results at the local elections earlier this month and defeat to Reform UK at a key by-election. Speaking at PMQs, Mr Starmer said: “We all know the economy was left in absolute mess by the Tories. We had to stabilise the economy with tough decisions but the right decisions. Because of those decisions it is beginning to improve.”
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Eamonn Holmes, 65, and girlfriend Katie, 43, finally go Instagram official in sweet snaps
With their hawkish eye on celebs’ Instagrams, our showbiz team spotted GB news presenter Eamonn Holmes and his girlfriend, Katie Alexander, go social media official after months of low-key holidays and date nights. Katie, 43, who is a marriage counsellor, took to her Instagram page to share a reel of her recent day out with the 65-year-old former ITV presenter.
With The Levellers’ song What a Beautiful Day playing over it, Katie, captioned selection of photos: “Lovely weather…. Lovely company,” along with the sun emoji. In one photo, Katie rested her chin on Eamonn’s shoulders as they posed for the camera. Both rocked sunglasses as they soaked up the sunshine.
Another showed the blonde beauty rocking a polka dot dress as she posed in the sunshine with her pooch, Dottie, and Eamonn, who was in a wheelchair. The new snaps came not long after it was claimed their relationship could already be in trouble.
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Met Office issues tornado and funnel cloud warning for UK amid heavy rain
Brits are being warned to brace for a possible tornado set to batter parts of the country today – as southern England is pummelled by heavy rain following the driest spring in decades.
Met Office meteorologist Alex Burkill said it was “not out of the question that we could see a funnel cloud, maybe even a brief tornado across parts of the South East” of England on Wednesday. Southern areas are also facing thunder, lightning, and hail.
Burkill added there was a “bit of a North-South split in our weather through today”. While Northern parts have welcomed a lot of fine, sunny weather, the South has seen rain – “and there will be further showery bursts to come as we go through the rest of today,” he said.
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