Today
- £1m elections windfall for council chiefs
- Trump triumphs in five primaries
- Dugdale in search of friends as party unveils manifesto
- Cameron: ‘SNP won’t go for indyref2’
- UKIP challenges Sturgeon to EU debate
06.00 BBC Today headlines
Calls for accountability over Hillsborough deaths … Church service in Liverpool … Junior doctors in England stage second day of strikes … Trump/Clinton wins … Cycling chief suspended … Apple posts first fall in quarterly revenues since 2003, China slump blamed … MPs call for action on air pollution … North Korea workers party to hold first congress in 40 years.
07.00 BBC Good Morning Scotland headlines
Hillsborough: May to make Commons statement ... UKIP leader Farage challenges Sturgeon to EU debate ... Scottish Labour manifesto launch ... FirstBus orders 305 new vehicles ... Conservationists out to save Dunkeld trees.
Front pages
Exclusive: Gerry Braiden in The Herald reports that Scotland’s 32 council chiefs are in for a bumper pay day for overseeing May’s Holyrood election and June’s EU referendum.
The National declares “Justice at last” for the Hillsborough families. Every national, bar the Sun and Times, carries pictures from outside the inquest which ruled the 96 dead were unlawfully killed. The Herald and the Record quote Celtic legend Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool manager at the time, saying the families had been “totally and utterly vindicated”.
Scottish Labour is in “chaos” as it launches its manifesto today, according to the Mail. Besides Frank Field MP’s comments (see Afore Ye Go), one of Kezia Dugdale’s own candidates says she will campaign for independence.
The Herald and the Times take a peek at the manifesto, with The Herald highlighting a school breakfast club promise and the Times a commitment to the daily mile.
The FT says the Church of England is praying for both sides in the EU debate to debate the issues with “honesty and openness”.
Camley’s Cartoon
Camley marks a day of justice for the 96.
Need to know
DONALD Trump gave himself a new title this morning. "I consider myself the presumptive nominee," he said after victory in the Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island primaries. "This is a far bigger win than we expected.”
Is he right in thinking he is more or less there? No. The convention in July still looks like a squeaky one. After yesterday’s polls for both Democrats and Republicans, here are the scores on the doors:
Republicans:
Trump: Has 950, needs 1237 (287 short)
Cruz: Has 560, needs 1237 (677 short)
Kasich: Has 153, needs 1237 (1084 short)
Democrats:
Clinton: Has 2141, needs 2383 (242 short)
Sanders: Has 1321, needs 2383 (1062 short)
Trump ended his victory press conference with a message for Hillary - if you were a man, you would be out.
"Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she would get 5 percent of the vote. The only thing she has got going is the woman's card. The beautiful thing is, women don't like her. Look how well I did with women tonight.”
The caravan now rolls on to Indiana.
Afore ye go
“I think Scotland’s another country, and I actually do think we will move to a position where you have independence.”
Labour MP Frank Field. BBC Daily Politics Oli Scarff/Getty Images
About to chap some doors in Glasgow Southside - in a hailstone storm! #AprilShowers #BothVotesSNP pic.twitter.com/Sg4gWfb1v7
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) April 26, 2016
Ah, the joys of early summer campaigning in Scotland.
"When I knock on the door and ask people are you going to vote Ukip, are you for Brexit, they look left and right and say 'Yes we're going to vote for you but don't tell anybody'. Now that's terrifying in a nation where that's the case.”
UKIP MEP David Coburn claims voters are too scared of the SNP to come out for Leave. Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
"This inquest has delivered justice. Next must come accountability.”
Labour MP Andy Burnham, who helped the families fight for new inquests, on the Hillsborough verdicts. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
"At last justice for the 96 and their families. Well done to all who never gave up #jft96”
Scouser Wayne Rooney was among the players and others showing their support on Twitter. Mike Hewitt/Twitter
"This is likely to be my last big job in politics.”
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, depicted on a picket line above, as England’s junior doctors staged a nine-hour strike yesterday. They will do so again today.
"Doctors who have been loyal 2 the NHS for years rather than chase £ abroad don't deserve to be accused of greed. Every doctor I know fears making a mistake above all else. This contract spreads the same resources more thinly."
JK Rowling lends her support to striking doctors on Twitter. Danny E Martindale/Getty Images
"With the lovely weather we've been enjoying, it's quite likely she escaped from home after her owner left a door or window open.”
SPCA animal rescue officer Steph Grant on the cockatiel and Trump lookalike who turned up in the grounds of the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Staff named her “Queenie”.
"Prince, who made something of his life as opposed to having fortune handed to him, is far more 'royal' than Elizabeth 2, and he will be mourned far more than she”.
Singer Morrissey, who else, on the artist formerly known. Ilya S Savenok/Getty Images
"It's a narrow path, but we do have a path.”
Democrat hopeful Bernie Sanders dismisses talk of him giving up. Chris Cuomo, CNN. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images
“Well, [Lena Dunham] is a B actor and has no mojo. I heard Whoopi Goldberg said that too - that would be a great, great thing for our country if she got out. We’ll get rid of Rosie? Oh I love it. Now I have to get elected because I’ll be doing a great service to our country.”
Donald Trump reacts to threats from Girls’ star Dunham, comedian Goldberg and talk show host Rosie O’Donnell, to move to Canada if he is elected. Fox News. Ilya S Savenok/Getty Images
Omg! I've come out of the @STVNews studio to this ca-tie-strophe! pic.twitter.com/HwD3xT78lF
— John MacKay (@RealMacKaySTV) April 26, 2016
BREAKING: STV anchorman in shameful pun outrage
Diary
- City: Office for National Statistics publishes its preliminary estimate for first quarter UK growth.
- Commons: PMQs; statement by Home Secretary on Hillsborough findings; Pensions Minister Baroness Altmann at Work and Pensions Select Committee.
- Liverpool: Commemoration for Hillsborough victims.
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