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Front pages: 'Mourning after' Mandela and World Cup draw | Front pages: 'Mourning after' Mandela and World Cup draw |
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Saturday's front pages are largely split between those continuing to lead with Nelson Mandela's death and those focusing on England's World Cup 2014 draw. | Saturday's front pages are largely split between those continuing to lead with Nelson Mandela's death and those focusing on England's World Cup 2014 draw. |
An image of a young white man comforting a clearly distressed black woman - an image Mandela himself surely would have welcomed - appears in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. | An image of a young white man comforting a clearly distressed black woman - an image Mandela himself surely would have welcomed - appears in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. |
The Independent chooses the headline, "The mourning after", looking at how people have reacted to the former president's death in South Africa and around the world. | The Independent chooses the headline, "The mourning after", looking at how people have reacted to the former president's death in South Africa and around the world. |
Meanwhile, the papers' verdict seems to be that England have been drawn in the dreaded - and cliched - "group of death", to face Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica in Brazil next year. | Meanwhile, the papers' verdict seems to be that England have been drawn in the dreaded - and cliched - "group of death", to face Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica in Brazil next year. |
Discussing the papers for the BBC's News Channel, the Sun's chief political correspondent Kevin Schofield says that according to the Times's front page, an influential think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, "has poured a huge bucket of cold water" over Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement. | |
The IFS, the Times says, is warning of a £12bn hole in his plans - news which Kevin Schofield says will "cheer up Labour" after shadow chancellor Ed Balls "pretty much flunked" his response to the statement in the Commons. | |
Alison Kervin, sports editor of the Mail on Sunday, says the figures involved in the story are "staggering" and it's hard to imagine how Britain's economic affairs are ever going to be "sorted out". |