The Guardian, 6 May 2025 (2028 exams)

The Guardian's front page of 6 May 2025: a lead story on the government rethinking its cut to winter fuel payments after local election losses, and a main image of the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children watching the flypast for the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
Media language: front-page conventions, the choice and composition of the main image, the headline and the balance of stories, and the paper's typography and house style.
Representation: how the page represents the royal family, remembrance and the generations, the government and its policies, and how news values and the paper's viewpoint shape the choices.
Contexts: the VE Day anniversary, the Labour government's first year and the political argument over winter fuel payments; the paper's ownership by the Scott Trust.
Set for exams from 2028, replacing The Guardian of 18 January 2022.
In the exam a copy of the product is provided, and it can be set for Question 1 (media language, 15 marks), for Question 2(a) (contexts, 5 marks) or for Question 2(b), where it is compared with an unseen product in the same form (representation, 25 marks).
Describe the front page precisely in your own words, quoting no more than a few words of its text.

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