Extra, extra, read all about it now, oh baby.

Extra, extra, read all about it now.

Oh, baby.

Hello there.

It is Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024, Wednesday morning here.

It is exactly 6.30 a.m. as I record.

This podcast, it isn't live, of course, 6.30 here.

The Papers podcast, which is available to download, as you know,

wherever you get, wherever you receive your podcasts.

I look at the front pages of the dailies in the UK, the tabloids, the broadsheets, and then have a look at some of the more interesting stories inside the same papers.

Let's go to the front pages, beginning today with even the Times. Middle

East erupts the headline. This is, this dominates the front pages today, this story. Iran's

missile bombardment of Israel is how it is being framed.

The time saying Iran fires 200 missiles at Israel, most of them intercepted by Israel's Iron

Dome defence system and Iran doing it in support of its ally Hezbollah in Lebanon. So that's the big story

on the front pages of the papers. The Times has photographs on the front page and many

photographs, sorry, many papers carrying photographs of rockets over the city of Ashkelon and that's about it.

That's the times.

The metro Iran's new blitz at Israel, the headline, the same story.

The metro calling it a blitz.

The Daily Mirror headline is Revenge from above.

Iran retaliates for Israel's encouraging into Lebanon with missile onslaught.

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