'Newspaper headlines: 'Saved from hell' after 'biggest quake in 84 years'

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By BBC News
Staff
Reuters

People look at rubble and damage following an earthquake in Hatay, Turkey

The devastation in Turkey and Syria is depicted across the front pages.

Saved from "hell quake" is the Metro's description - alongside a photograph of a child being pulled alive from the rubble.

The Daily Mirror has the same image - describing it as a "moment of hope amid the horror".

The paper says there is a race against time to save people who are trapped after hundreds of buildings collapsed.

It quotes a British rescuer saying: "I can only describe it as Armageddon."

"Truly apocalyptic" is how the Daily Express sums up the disaster; "catastrophic" says the Guardian.

"HELP THEM" is the Sun's headline - as it launches an emergency appeal.

In an editorial the paper says it speaks volumes for Ukraine that it was among the first to offer help to Turkey - despite it being a "violated country fighting for its life".

It urges its readers to spare a few quid, if they can.

The Daily Mail leads on fears that Britain will be left "defenceless" unless the MOD gets more funding.

It quotes sources as saying that the prime minister's silence on the issue has "unsettled" senior military officers - as generals see the Army's supply stores raided to provide support to Ukraine.

The paper's leader column warns that stinting on defence is a "dangerous folly" - because if security is compromised, "all other areas of national life are imperilled".

The i focuses on the return to the political limelight of Liz Truss - with pollsters warning that her "comeback" has damaged the Conservatives and is highlighting divisions.

It quotes the polling expert, Sir John Curtice as saying the "toxic effect of Truss" is baked in from her time in Number 10.

Her allies insist she is loyal to Mr Sunak - and her comeback is an attempt to create a tax-cutting legacy, after failing to achieve that in office.

The Daily Mirror accuses the former PM of being "unapologetic" - with the headline "Not me, Gov."

Its editorial says that the more Liz Truss speaks, the more deluded she sounds.

But the Daily Telegraph says the prime minister would do well to heed at least some of what she says - and the economy needs him to define himself in favour of completing what she started - by cutting spending as well as tax.

The Independent online leads on the fatalities at the prestigious Epsom College in Surrey, where the headteacher Emma Pattison was found dead alongside her seven-year-old daughter and husband.

It reports that the police searched the school's rifle range after "Gunshots at 1am".

Police have called the deaths an "isolated incident".

Finally, the Telegraph leads on a warning to Scotland's First Minister by her predecessor Alex Salmond, that the trans row is throwing away years of momentum for Scottish independence.

He accuses Nicola Sturgeon of "self-indulgent nonsense" on gender self-identification laws - adding that to say to a majority of people that you cannot have single-sex spaces - "prized and worked and strived for - because of some daft ideology imported from elsewhere... borders on the totally absurd".

Ms Sturgeon has made clear that she still intends to challenge the UK government's decision to stop gender reforms becoming law in Scotland.