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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

  • Jay Emmanuel-Thomas playing for Aberdeen

    Former Arsenal player charged after £600,000 of cannabis seized at Stansted

    Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, 33, has been dropped by his current club after court appearance in connection with drug-smuggling attempt
  • The sign outside Home Office UK Visas & Immigration Office at Lunar House in Croydon, London, UK.

    Home Office urged to scrap long, expensive and ‘racist’ visa route

    Most applicants who feel forced to use 10-year immigration route are people of colour, data analysis shows

  • Five arrested for murder over stabbing on Teesside

  • ‘Appalling’ rows over Sue Gray must stop, senior ministers say

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

  • Google says UK risks being ‘left behind’ in AI race without more data centres

  • Welsh teenager jailed for attacking trans woman and sharing terrorist documents

  • Next says it may close stores if £30m equal pay claim is upheld

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

UK politics

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

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

  • The Bank of England building pictured from Bank junction with the Royal Exchange to the right

    Interest rates ‘on path down’ despite hold at 5%, Bank of England chief says

    • Farage claims he received official advice not to hold constituency surgeries

    • European court rejects Paterson appeal over report into improper lobbying

    • Labour will lean into hope at first conference in power for 15 years

    • Campaigners call for unlimited ‘climate card’ UK rail pass

    • New home planning approvals in England fall to lowest level in a decade

    • The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia

Analysis and explainers

  • Amazon offices

    The great divide: are office workers more productive than those at home?

  • The Bank of England building in London

    With inflation staying at 2.2%, will Bank of England cut interest rates this week?

  • Ed Davey on a jetski

    The Lib Dems need a tight policy focus – but the stunts are here to stay

  • Meloni in lilac jacket and Starmer in dark suit appear to share a joke, with a hedge and detail of building in the background

    Starmer puts ‘pragmatism’ before perceptions in meeting with Meloni

Culture

  • Geoff Hinsliff

    Former Coronation Street actor Geoff Hinsliff dies at 87

  • Sikh musicians playing traditional instruments

    First ‘globally recognised’ music exam for Sikh sacred music launched in UK

    South Asian string instruments such as the dilruba and sarangi will get eight grade syllabus and exam system
  • Kylie Minogue on stage.

    ‘I am beyond excited’: Kylie Minogue announces biggest tour in a decade

    Twenty dates announced for Tension album tour so far, which will begin in Australia and visit several UK cities

  • Black actor who faced abuse over role in Romeo & Juliet calls for industry-wide action

  • London’s fourth plinth artwork aims to ‘unite trans community around the world’

  • Remains of Roman town discovered in Cambridgeshire given protected status

  • Actor claims Met police pepper-sprayed him after returning home from a show

Education

  • A male teacher talking to a female pupil at her desk in a classroom

    ‘A brave new world for educators’: teachers respond to nine-day-fortnight proposals

  • Teachers at a state secondary school in west London say having a double period off one morning a week has changed their lives.

    Teachers in England offered lie-ins to make job more appealing

  • A teacher teaches a schoolgirl the alphabet

    ‘Incredibly disheartening’ decline in special needs pupil attainment in England

  • Students relaxing in the Quad during Charity Week at University College London

    English universities offer to curb foreign students if they can raise tuition fees

Society

  • 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

    • Marley, a black and white cat, lying on a blue cloth

      Cat that comforts trafficked women in London safe house is feline of the year

    • A UK aid label attached to boxes

      UK overseas aid spend will reach 17-year low without urgent action, NGOs warn

    • Bowls of raspberries, blueberries and blackberries on a brown picnic table

      Flavonoid-rich foods and drinks may cut risk of dementia, study finds

Multimedia

  • Construction workers walking on the roof of the Sagrada Família

    Soaring spires and floods in Europe: photos of the day – Thursday

  • Giorgia Meloni and Keir Starmer

    ‘Frockgate’ and Starmer’s love-in with Meloni – Politics Weekly UK

    • Keir Starmer

      Anushka Asthana on the perils of Keir Starmer’s fragile majority – podcast

    • A person runs over burning charcoal

      Firewalking, fashion week and a supermoon: photos of the day – Wednesday

    • A woman wears a face mask while surrounded by orange smoke amid a forest fire in Portugal

      Flood damage and tightrope jumps: photos of the day – Tuesday

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