What the papers say: Friday's front pages

Friday's front pages are dominated by tributes to Sinéad O'Connor.

The death of the Irish singer is the lead story in The Irish Times, Irish Examiner and Irish Independent.

The Echo leads with a story on a woman welcoming publicly funded IVF, as she revealed she had to sell her car for fertility treatment.

The death of Sinéad O'Connor is also the front page lead in the Irish Daily Star, Irish Sun, Irish Daily Mail, and The Herald.

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— Irish Daily Star (@isfearranstar) July 28, 2023
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— The Irish Sun (@IrishSunOnline) July 28, 2023

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— The Irish Daily Mail (@irishdailymail) July 27, 2023

In the North, the Belfast Telegraph leads with a story on women being trafficked into the sex trade in Northern Ireland.

Environmental, banking and political issues vie for attention as no single story dominates the front pages of Friday’s UK newspapers.

A warning from UN secretary general Antonio Guterres that “the era of global boiling has arrived” as July is on track to be the world’s hottest month on record leads The Guardian, which says the prospect is “terrifying”.

Guardian front page, 28 July 2023: Era of global boiling has arrived and it is terrifying, says UN chief pic.twitter.com/Ua8uPGcNoL

— The Guardian (@guardian) July 27, 2023

The i opts for the same story over a picture of wildfires.

Friday's front page: World enters era of 'global boiling'#TomorrowsPapersToday

Latest here: https://t.co/HytHeEJi9y pic.twitter.com/u9q8NNdwMB

— i newspaper (@theipaper) July 27, 2023

There is another dramatic picture on the front of the Daily Mirror with children playing on a pile of old clothes on the coast in Ghana, showing what the paper calls “the real cost of our throwaway fashion”.

Friday's front page: Environmental disaster #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/pjq8evsL4h pic.twitter.com/VR6uz1Q79E

— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) July 27, 2023

The Daily Telegraph also opts for an environmental story with former prime minister Sir Tony Blair warning that the British public cannot be asked to carry the “huge burden” of moving towards net zero.

The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph:

Public must be spared huge burden of net zero, warns Blair#TomorrowsPapersToday

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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 27, 2023

A wildfire picture under the headline “Global Boiling” also makes the front of the Metro, but it leads on the resignation of Coutts bank chief executive Peter Flavell in the turmoil following its “de-banking” of Nigel Farage.

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🔴 Private bank boss quits as Farage account crisis deepens #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/6gHkZ4mcYU

— Metro (@MetroUK) July 27, 2023

The same story leads the Financial Times, which says he resigned after “accepting blame for Farage furore”.

Financial Times: Flavel resigns as Coutts chief after
accepting blame for Farage furore #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/BLDRsXJU7t

— George Mann (@sgfmann) July 27, 2023

The Times turns its attention to immigrants as it reports UK home secretary Suella Braverman has bought marquees to house up to 2,000 people on disused military sites.

The Times: Caitlin Moran - What I learnt
from Sinéad O’Connor #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/rtqfr3qiG7

— George Mann (@sgfmann) July 27, 2023

Britain's Prince Harry is on the front page of the Daily Mail – alongside a picture of Sir Mick Jagger at his “wild 80th birthday bash” – which says part of his phone-hacking claim against News Group has been thrown out by a High Court judge.

Friday's @DailyMailUK #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/enK1nSRJgt

— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) July 27, 2023

Jagger also features on the front of the Daily Express, which says Labour are considering a change of heart on the pension triple lock.

Friday's front page: New pension triple lock threathttps://t.co/94pDbMqKDP #TomorrowsFrontPage pic.twitter.com/03ulxBTSm2

— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) July 27, 2023

The Daily Star concentrates on huge gas profits and asks how bosses can sleep at night.