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| |  | Caroline McClatchey 1 June 2023 | | | Good morning. Time is running out in the access-over-documents fight between the government and the Covid Inquiry, and it seems no-one is about to throw in the towel. We've also dramatic footage of a very rare rescue mission on Everest and a watery challenge from the self-proclaimed psychic Uri Geller. | | | |
 Tick-tock, tick-tock The clock is ticking in the so-called Covid WhatsApps row as the government has until 16:00 today to hand over the unredacted messages, diaries and notebooks of former PM Boris Johnson to the Covid Inquiry. The inquiry is supposed to help the government and the public work out what it got right and wrong before, during and after the pandemic. But before it has even started, there is disagreement over what the inquiry should have access to. The government has argued repeatedly that it shouldn't have to hand over material that its lawyers deem "unambiguously irrelevant". The inquiry argues it's for them to decide what is relevant. Our political correspondent Ione Wells says it doesn't look like either the government or the inquiry will back down in their positions - meaning legal action from one, or the other, could be imminent. | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| TOO HOT TO HANDLE It is definitely heating up and from today until 30 September, a new alert system will warn people in England when high temperatures could damage their health. Climate change is likely to make heatwaves more frequent - UK temperatures rose above 40C for the first time last summer. | | | |
| | US debt ceiling deal moves forward Economic catastrophe was put on hold last night after US lawmakers agreed a deal on the not-very-dramatic-sounding debt ceiling. The agreement allows the US to borrow more money and not default on its hefty debt repayments. However, there's another stage to go before the world can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Learn why the debt ceiling crisis is more of a political crisis. | | | | | |
| Australian soldier loses landmark defamation case It's a story that has gripped Australia and the judgement landed this morning. The country's most-decorated living soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has lost a historic defamation case against three newspapers which accused him of war crimes in Afghanistan. Read the full story. | | | |
Essential read | | | | | A mother's grief is amplified by a video of her son's body being shared online. | | | | | | | |
|  Swimming against the tide for Uri Geller It seems the spoon-bending self-proclaimed mystic owns a Scottish island in the Firth of Forth. It also appears he wanted something from Lamb Island, which is uninhabited, to put in his museum in Jaffa, Israel. That is where the Salty Selkies come in. The outdoor swimmers spent months training in order to negotiate the tricky crossing but for what? | | | | | |
|  | | BBC Sounds The star of the film says he wants to make people angry with his new stage adaption. | | | | |  | | world news A Nepali Sherpa guide carried the man on his back for six hours. | | | | | | |
| ITV inquiry and taxing issues A variety of stories lead Thursday's papers. The i newspaper looks at income tax, while the Daily Telegraph opts for inheritance tax. University bosses say the funding model for higher education in the UK is broken, reports the Guardian. The Mirror and the Daily Mail have Phillip Schofield on their front pages after ITV asked a barrister to lead a review into its handling of a relationship between the former This Morning presenter and his colleague. The Daily Star has the best headline of the day: "Henry VIII "wasn't such a wrong 'un." See what else is on the front pages. | | | |
| | Marie Bolden was America's first spelling bee champion. She overcame tricky words like acquiesce, descendant and millinery to clinch the title and her place in history. But this was 1908 and the African American teenager faced other challenges. Read her untold story and how her family are trying to find something that belonged to her. | | | |
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