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  • Yvette Cooper,Jess Phillips and Nour Norris stand around a desk officer responding to phone calls in a police station

    Domestic abuse specialists to be embedded in 999 control rooms

  • HMP Pentonville seen from outside its walls

    ‘Hundreds’ of prisoners freed early in England and Wales not fitted with tags

    Serco says it is working to fit electronic devices, which were a condition of early release of 1,700 last week
  • Patient being consulted by a doctor.

    Trans people in England missing out on vital cancer screening, experts warn

    Loss of key data when changing registered gender with GP means thousands are not invited to routine exams
  • Three women gathered round a pub table with a quiz answer sheet, with one of them laughing

    ‘All sorts happens here’: the battle to save a beloved Manchester social club

  • A nurse rests her hands on those of a patient lying in bed

    Call for greater protection for girls as FGM cases rise by 15% in England

  • Red and green poker chips, two dice and a king of hearts playing card

    Gambling study says £2.7bn bet annually on hidden-market websites

  • Closeup of woodburning stove

    Phase out urban wood burners in UK to protect children’s health, say doctors

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Interviews & opinion

  • Eco Dewi Beach Cleaners pictured at Newgale beach in North Pembrokeshire.<br>From left to right: Jeremy Wadia (Director of the community interest company) and Katy Fox (Director of the community interest company), stand at the northern end of Newgale Beach in North Pembrokeshire, holding refuse bags, litter pickers, and collected beach debris and rubbish.

    Make it beautiful: seven local heroes improving communities

  • Staff working in a hospital unit

    Noble visions have been proposed for the NHS before. Will this time be different?

    The Secret Consultant
  • Zoe Williams

    Teenagers will always get drunk – so why don’t we just serve them in pubs?

    Zoe Williams
  • Rob McKeon outside Stafford Prison.

    ‘People do awful things’: the Parole Board’s Rob McKeon on life among murderers, rapists and career criminals

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In mind: focus on mental health

  • Peyo the horse licks the hands of Roger, a patient at the palliative care centre at Calais Hospital.

    ‘Doctor Peyo’: the horse comforting cancer patients in Calais – in pictures

  • illustration

    An illness in the shadows: life with borderline personality disorder

    BPD is one of the mental illnesses we still know least about, but now there is hope of a treatment
  • Yoni Yehuda, an Israeli psychotherapist, with Jack Daniels.

    Cats, camels and a Jesus lizard: the rise of animal-assisted therapy

    Once considered eccentric, using animals in psychotherapy is becoming popular as research reveals benefits
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My working week

  • A woman waits in the shadows

    My working week: ‘I wonder who buys sex from the vulnerable women I try to help’

  • ‘Minor changes make a big difference for disabled people.’

    My working week: 'Julie is disabled and the only one in her team made redundant'

  • GPs have had to adapt patient care during the pandemic.

    My working week: 'A patient arrives at my GP surgery with Covid symptoms'

  • ‘Faith feels lost after the removal of her children. So much of what she knows about herself is as a mother.’ Picture posed by model.

    My working week: 'Fiona's son was taken into care a year ago. Today is his birthday'

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Health

  • Keir Starmer watches Wolverhampton Wanderers and Arsenal at Molineux in April.

    Politics
    Starmer says accepting gift of use of corporate box at Arsenal will save taxpayer money given security costs – as it happened

  • Image of a man’s feet and legs as he walks past a JP Morgan sign outside the bank’s headquarters in Canary Wharf, east London

    JP Morgan
    JP Morgan creates new role to prevent overwork among junior bankers

    Bank’s head of diversity and inclusion appointed to help tackle long hours and support staff wellbeing
  • An illustration of a Celsius can on its side, surrounded by psychedelic lines in hot pink, green and black with a silhouette of a person drinking a beverage

    Food & drink industry
    ‘A troubling halo of health’: how Celsius became Red Bull for women

    The energy drink with 200mg of caffeine per can has gained a cult following in the US due to its wellness-coded image

  • Pesticides
    Revealed: Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit

  • Opinion
    Amber Thurman was killed by Georgia’s abortion ban. There will be others

    Moira Donegan

  • US news
    US health system ranks last compared with peer nations, report finds

  • Science
    The sweeping reorganisation of the brain in pregnancy, and why it matters – podcast

Blood, sweat & tears

  • Patient receiving chemotherapy

    Watching my cancer patients go through treatment alone is heartbreaking

    Lucy Gossage
    Covid-19 has made this year tougher for those experiencing treatment and those of us who work in cancer care
  • Surgery

    I tried to take my life five years ago. Now I'm grateful to be alive

    Anonymous surgeon
  • Emergency service ambulance with blue lights flashing

    There's a patient I'll never forget. Their burns and screams still haunt me

    Anonymous
  • A protestor outside the Scottish parliament building

    My husband is in a care home. I visit him for 30 minutes each week in a car park

    Anonymous
  • Catherine Pointer University of Southampton general hospital

    I was diagnosed with cancer at 14. Now I work alongside a doctor who treated me

    Catherine Pointer
  • Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson

    I'm disabled but was told I won't receive critical care if I get Covid. It's terrifying

    Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson
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Social care

  • Ed Davey warned against what he said was a prevailing Treasury bias against significant spending on NHS infrastructure.

    Ed Davey urges ‘faster and bolder’ action on NHS and social care

  • Reception desk at NHS hospital

    Lord Darzi’s report into the NHS is just the start

  • Clemency Jacques and son Alex at her home in Brighton.

    DWP waives £1,300 penalty for unpaid carer threatened with fraud prosecution

  • Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting at UCLH

    UK politics: No more money for NHS without reform, says Starmer as he outlines vision for health service – as it happened

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Central & local government

  • Simon Case walking on Whitehall

    Starmer urged to appoint ‘mould-breaking’ outsider as civil service head

  • BBC presenter Huw Edwards leaves court after sentencing.

    Tom Tugendhat’s call for review of Huw Edwards’ sentence backfires after experts tell him law doesn’t allow it – as it happened

  • An aerial view of round fishing nets

    First large-scale UK onshore salmon project at risk over ‘factory farm’ claims

  • A rewilding project in Ilkeston by the Erewash council includes the overgrown Barling Drive play area.

    Appreciating the many benefits of growing wild

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Voluntary sector

  • The Home Office building in London

    NGOs call Home Office ‘unethical’ over £15m offer to help resettle deportees

  • A migrant being put into the back of a white security van while being held by an immigration officer

    ‘Inhumane’ treatment of migrants rounded up in UK’s failed Rwanda plan revealed

  • Extinction Rebellion activists waving banners such as 'Adani killes' inside the museum in March

    Save the Children pulls out of Science Museum event over sponsor concerns

  • Amelia Gentleman

    Imagine your friend survives a catastrophic accident. What do you do? This is what I learned

    Amelia Gentleman
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Housing

  • AOC at the mic.

    AOC introduces legislation for low-cost housing programme backed by US funding

    • An aerial shot of partly built houses

      Fewer than one in five UK voters are ‘hard nimbys’, finds survey

    • A housing development in Felixstowe, East Suffolk.

      ‘The moment has come’: pro-building Labour yimbys are set to raise the roof

    • Head and shoulders photograph of Rachel Reeves gazing down to her right.

      The Observer view on the UK economy: Labour is holding back when it should be bold

    • A view of the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower from Sadlers Wells East construction site in 2022.

      London’s Olympics have given the city a legacy to be proud of

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