Media Centre

Daily Briefing: Wednesday 29 August

Today's press coverage

Telegraph p10, Guardian p14, Independent p7, i p5, Daily Mail p24, Sun p7, Mirror p2
Many items reporting that "Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel laureate and icon of the anti-apartheid struggle, has withdrawn from a seminar in South Africa in protest at the presence of Tony Blair and the former prime minister's support for the 2003 Iraq war".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2194883/Archbishop-Desmond-Tutu-pulls-South-Africa-summit-does-want-share-platform-Tony-Blair.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9504259/Archbishop-Desmond-Tutu-pulls-out-of-event-with-Tony-Blair-because-of-Iraq-War.html

Guardian p14, Independent p10, Telegraph p2, Express p28, Metro p10, i p2 and p6
Reports focusing on how "the widow of Tony Nicklinson has said she hopes his campaign for a change in the law on assisted dying will continue in his memory".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/28/tony-nicklinson-widow-euthanasia-campaign?newsfeed=true

Letter

Times p20
Maud Robinson, Minister, Unitarians in Edinburgh, on same-sex marriage.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article3520861.ece

Obituary

Times p47
Rev Professor Christopher Evans, "Biblical scholar who tried to interpret the Gospel in the context of the modern world."
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article3520897.ece