What the papers say – January 1
A range of stories make the headlines for the first day of 2024.
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Your support makes all the difference.New Year’s Day newspapers herald the arrival of 2024 with a range of topics on their front pages.
If you dread airport security, The Times brings good news as it says facial recognition scans will see travellers from 50 different nationalities go without passports at UK airports.
The Daily Mail also focuses on passports, revealing 259 applications were approved in 2022 to change the “sex marker” on British travel documents.
The Daily Mirror concentrates on the results of a poll which shows the British public has made up its mind on assisted dying.
The Daily Express focuses on frustrated people “crammed” into five-minute appointment slots with their doctors.
The i says police officers across England and Wales are conducting hundreds of lie detector tests to make decisions on suspects.
The Guardian runs a piece on a health initiative linking pollution data to patient files to better understand the full picture of child and youth health at Great Ormond Street.
The Daily Telegraph focuses on an article penned by Defence Secretary Grant Schapps, who said the UK was “willing to take direct action” to protect the shipping lanes in the Red Sea.
And the Daily Star says the nation will guzzle 400 million pints this month as people shun Dry January.