These are the main stories in Malta’s newspaper frontpages.
The morning headlines elsewhere focus on the aftermath of May’s win of the confidence vote in her and the tragic news from Ankara.
Theresa May is still prime minister after surviving a vote of confidence on Wednesday.
She defeated the confidence motion, triggered by hardline Brexiteers, by 200 votes to 117 in a showdown which failed to heal the bitter Tory divisions over Europe.
Four people were killed and 43 others were injured in a crash involving a Turkish high speed train in Ankara on Thursday, Ankara Governor Vasip Sahin said.
Canadian businessman Michael Spavor, who worked with North Korea, is being investigated on suspicion of harming China’s state security, officials said, days after a former Canadian diplomat was detained in China in an escalating diplomatic row.
The main story on The Times’ front-page deals with animal cruelty and reports how a court in Gozo concluded that new, larger mesh nets used by trappers in line with changes to the law earlier this year were a form of animal cruelty, “cutting and tearing flesh” as birds fly through.
The other main story reports how British prime minister Theresa May won a vote of confidence from her Conservative party yesterday, but 117 of her lawmakers said she was no longer the right leader to implement Britain’s exit from the European Union.
In the aftermath of the Strasbourg shootings two days ago, The Malta Independent reports that all Maltese living there are safe and that an Italian journalist is among the list of injured persons.
A secondary story reports that during the third quarter, there was an increase of 13.3% in tourists visiting Malta as well as a 24.9% increase in use of private accommodation.
The main story in Orizzont features excerpts from an interview carried by the paper with Franco Mercieca, Chairman of the Committee leading the Malta-Gozo tunnel project as he explains how this tunnel promises to improve accessibility, economic growth and foreign investment.
The paper also reports on Theresa May’s vote of confidence win and carries a third story on how Air Malta has reported an operational profit and is considering a route between Malta and Mitiga in Tripoli.
In-Nazzjon’s front page is also dominated by yesterday’s vote of confidence in Theresa May as well as a tragic story of a prison inmate who has been found dead in his prison cell at Corradino Correctional Facility.
The Business Weekly carries on its front-page, a story on how a group of Satabank clients have just launched a website urging millions of potential European investors and businesses to avoid Malta.
The newspaper also highlights how TBA Periti’s project for the Farsons Corporate Office Extension was among five Maltese firms whose projects have been nominated for the prestigious EU Mies Award. A third story reports how Filipinos are being warned on recruiters offering them jobs in Malta.
