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  • A postal worker delivers mail at a Post Office branch in central London, 2024.

    Government did not want to ‘harass’ Post Office victims by chasing up claims

    At least £600,000 relating to Horizon IT scandal remains unclaimed, with officials reluctant to recontact victims
  • Liam Booth-Smith and Rishi Sunak

    Tory peer Liam Booth-Smith takes job at AI firm he encountered at No 10

  • People walking past a polling station sign

    Class no longer main dividing line in UK politics, survey shows

  • A nurse places her hand on an elderly woman’s shoulder

    Nearly 100,000 adults in England denied state-funded social care due to cuts

  • a butterfly on a foxglove

    Rare heath fritillary butterflies surge in number on Exmoor after sunny spring

  • Friends using mobile phone during a tennis match on the TV.

    Adults in Great Britain now spending more time on mobiles than watching TV

  • Keir Starmer walking past an onshore wind turbine

    UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds

UK politics

  • Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskyy with Interflex troops at 10 Downing Street

    Starmer to give missiles to Ukraine paid for with £70m interest on Russian assets

  • Pickets being brought to the ground by police

    Northumbria police destroy Battle of Orgreave and other miners’ strike files

  • Protest in support of Palestine Action in London, UK, in June 2025.

    UK protest group Palestine Action denies Iran funding as it faces ban

  • Keir Starmer climbing stairs alongside a trio of soldiers in camo

    Britain must prepare for possibility of attack on UK soil, government warns

Analysis & explainers

  • Keir Starmer

    Widespread Labour dissent over welfare bill is sign things are going very badly for Starmer

  • Pro-Palestine protesters protest in Trafalgar Square, including supporters of Palestine Action.

    Ban on Palestine Action would have ‘chilling effect’ on other protest groups

  • Electricity pylons

    UK industrial strategy: the key points – and what’s missing?

  • A small amount of water sits at the bottom of the reservoir, which has dried up around it

    The UK is getting drier. Could reusing greywater help?

Culture

  • People gathered round the stones at summer solstice sunrise on 21 June at Stonehenge.

    English Heritage chief steps down after overseeing controversial cost cuts

  • Mick Ralphs Portrait Shoot<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 11: English guitarist and songwriter Mick Ralphs, founding member of the bands Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, photographed during a portrait shoot for Guitarist Magazine/Future via Getty Images, September 11, 2013. (Photo by Will Ireland/Guitarist Magazine/Future via Getty Images)

    Mick Ralphs, founding member of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, dies aged 81

  • Platinum Jubilee - milestones<br>1985: File photo dated July 1985 of Freddie Mercury of Queen on stage during the Live Aid Concert at Wembley Stadium. Issue date: Sunday January 30, 2022. PA Photo. This is one of seventy images of significant events, striking news stories and major milestones from each of the 70 years of the Queen's reign, compiled by the PA news agency to mark the Platinum Jubilee and reflect the rate of immense change during the second Elizabethan era. See PA story ROYAL Jubilee Milestones. Photo credit should read: PA/PA Wire

    Live Aid concert to be broadcast on radio to mark 40th anniversary

  • Ashley Walters in a hoodie and cap

    Ashley Walters says he limits son’s screen time since Adolescence role

Education

  • Worker on a production line at a factory

    UK government unveils £275m boost to training and apprenticeships in England

  • Schoolchildren raise their hands in a classroom.

    Councils face millions in extra Send costs as overhaul delayed

  • Baby Genevieve Meehan

    ‘It’s life and death’: parents of baby killed at nursery call for mandatory CCTV

  • A Student Loans Company pamphlet

    Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows

Society

  • A hand resting on a laptop mouse

    BBFC seeks to extend its monitoring role to include online pornography

  • Armoured vehicles and soldiers pointing guns

    Europe’s pledge to spend more on military will hurt climate and social programmes

  • Two women and a man smile for a photo

    Man who developed psychosis after being jailed on indefinite term moved to hospital

  • A young mother with a baby on her lap at a Sure Start centre

    Big fall in support for struggling families in England, charity says

Multimedia

  1. Protest in support of Palestine Action in London
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    The protest group the UK government wants to brand terrorists – podcast

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  2. Devotees in the small farming village of Bibiclat celebrate the Feast of Saint John the Baptist

    Nato summit and women dressed in banana leaves: photos of the day – Tuesday

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