Newspaper headlines: \'Adorable\' Archie meets the Queen
Newspaper headlines: 'Adorable' Archie meets the Queen
By BBC NewsStaff
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Pictures of the newly-named Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor dominate the front pages, after he was introduced to the world for the first time on Wednesday. "Aaahh! It's Archie the Adorable," is the headline in the Daily Mail, alongside a photo of Meghan showing the infant to his great-grandmother, the Queen.
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The Metro describes the photograph - which also features Prince Philip and Meghan's mother, Doria - as "joyful and intimate". Prince Harry earlier described his son as "a bundle of joy" as he showed the newborn off to the public, the paper reports.
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The Daily Mirror says the Queen looked "thrilled" to meet her newest great-grandson, who was "as good as gold" as he was unveiled to the world. "Prince Harry could not take his eyes off his perfect new family", the paper adds.
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The Daily Express says the "touching picture shows just how far the Royal Family have come". The five "besotted grown-ups" gathered around the infant look like "the very essence of modern Britain" and a far cry from the "stiff formality of past Royal portraits", the paper says.
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For its front page, the Sun goes for a close up of an angelic Archie sleeping in his father's arms alongside the headline "Archie Harry's son" - a play on the infant's middle name, Harrison.
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The photograph of the happy family takes up most of the Telegraph's front page. However, the paper leads on what it describes as a "scathing attack" on British security policy from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. During his first official visit to the UK, Mr Pompeo suggested Margaret Thatcher would never have given Chinese tech firm Huawei access to British 5G networks, the paper reports.
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Meanwhile, the i says the rollout of the UK's 5G network faces delays as Downing Street rethinks the involvement of Huawei, over fears Western intelligence sharing will be damaged. Mr Pompeo warned on Wednesday that the relationship between the US and the UK would be jeopardised if Britain went ahead with the inclusion of the Chinese tech firm, the paper reports.
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The Financial Times focuses on US warnings to Iran against reviving its nuclear programme, after Tehran declared it would stop complying with parts of a 2015 atomic deal. The paper quotes US special representative for Iran, Brian Hook, as describing Tehran's decision as "an attempt to hold the world to hostage".
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The Guardian leads on warnings from the Environment Agency that whole communities may need to be moved away from coasts and rivers in the face of rising global temperatures. The agency's long-term strategy recommends urgent action in response to climate change and says flooding will not be held back merely by building ever higher defences.
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Millions of children in Britain attend schools in areas with dangerous levels of air pollution, according to an investigation on the front page of the Times. The paper says around 6,500 schools - including every school in London - are in areas where fine particles in the air exceed the World Health Organisation's recommended limit.
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News that singer Kerry Katona has been fined £500 for failing to send one of her children to school, is the lead story for the Daily Star. The former member of Atomic Kitten and I'm a Celebrity winner took the child to work with her because she was too busy to get them to school, the paper says.