'45m Brits in drought' and 'Not-so-small boats'
UK newspapers are covering a range of issues including a surge in migrant boat crossings, drought conditions affecting 45 million people, and a massive $500 billion AI data center investment involving Nvidia. Political debate continues over prison reform and potential tax hikes.
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Many of the papers lead on the arrival of a record 230 migrants on a single 49ft dinghy. The Daily Mail notes the number is more than the capacity of a Boeing-737 and says the small boats crisis has become a "big boats crisis". The Sun takes a similar approach with its headline, "not-so-small boats crisis". It says the crossing will cost taxpayers £25m. The Daily Telegraph carries a warning from the French lifeboat service, which says there is "no limit" to the number of migrants people smugglers will put on board the giant dinghies.
Andy Burnham's call for the justice secretary to draw up plans to exclude PC Harper's killers from the prison early release scheme leads the Times . A government source is quoted in the report, saying the prime minister never accepted that Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers should walk free.
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