A story that is very important and worth putting on the front page. The front page of a newspaper often contains big news stories from the country it is circulated in, but if something really significant happens elsewhere in the world, it will also find space on the front page. Sometimes the front pages of newspapers also tease other interesting articles that are in later editions.
‘It’s not the way you want to make front-page news – you’d sooner it was for five wickets or a century,’ said Woakes.
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