‘Hero’ father and son rescue pensioners from rubble after Kent explosion Sean Morrison UP NEXT
A father and son have been hailed as heroes for saving three people from a burning row of houses following a huge explosion in Kent.
Andy and Harry Hodges reportedly saved a 99-year-old woman, her 75-year-old son and their neighbour from their homes following the blast.
The construction workers were driving past the house in Willesborough in Ashford when they witnessed the aftermath of the explosion on Tuesday.
Two people were airlifted to hospital and a further five hurt. Dramatic photos show the smoking ruin of a house among rubble strewn across the residential street.
Newspaper headlines: Stop veterans witch hunt and third jab for over-50s
By BBC News
image captionCalls for the witch hunt of soldiers who served in Northern Ireland to stop is the lead in the Daily Telegraph. The paper says campaigners and military leaders have demanded an end to prosecutions after the first of a series of trials collapsed in just six days . Two men who served during the Troubles were acquitted on Tuesday of the murder of an Official IRA man 50 years ago.
image captionThe same story makes the front of the Daily Mail, which says that the trial of the two former paratroopers sensationally collapsed after the trial judge ruled that crucial interview evidence was inadmissible. The paper says it raises grave questions as to why prosecutors pursued charges against the pair, now in their 70s, for five years.