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Private schools offer 41% more tree shade than state schools in England
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Private schools offer 41% more tree shade than state schools in England

Analysis reveals stark socioeconomic divide, with schools with highest free school meal eligibility having fewer treesPrivate school grounds in England offer 41% more tree cover than at state schools for cooling and shade in extreme temperatures, research has found.As teachers and students prepare t...

Sandra Laville
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Burnham too influenced by ‘vested interests’ to offer change, Polanski says
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Burnham too influenced by ‘vested interests’ to offer change, Polanski says

Exclusive: Green party launches pushback against idea that next PM will have more left-leaning agenda than StarmerUK politics live – latest updatesAndy Burnham is “too in hock to vested interests” to offer real change, Zack Polanski has said as the Greens launched a pushback against the incoming pri...

Peter Walker Senior political correspondent
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How green is Andy Burnham? Britain’s next PM faces tough climate decisions
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How green is Andy Burnham? Britain’s next PM faces tough climate decisions

Heatwaves, high energy prices, calls for reindustrialisation and North Sea drilling are all high on the to-do listUK politics live – latest updatesWildfires cast a pall of smoke this week over Greater Manchester, whose former mayor Andy Burnham stands on the threshold of No 10. Amid three UK heatwav...

Fiona Harvey Environment editor
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Hal Williams, actor best known for Sanford and Son and 227, dies aged 91
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Hal Williams, actor best known for Sanford and Son and 227, dies aged 91

The actor, who also appeared in The Waltons and Private Benjamin, died at his home in CaliforniaHal Williams, the actor best known for TV roles in Sanford & Son and 227, has died at the age of 91.His representative confirmed that Williams died on 15 July at his home in California. Continue readi...

Benjamin Lee
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Offer teenagers a meningitis B vaccine on NHS, advisers tell UK government
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Offer teenagers a meningitis B vaccine on NHS, advisers tell UK government

JCVI says children should have one or two doses of menB vaccine at age 15, depending on if they had one as a babyTeenagers should be offered a vaccine on the NHS to protect against deadly meningitis B (menB), government advisers have recommended.The move by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Imm...

PA Media
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UK government drops plan to stop paying coastguard volunteers
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UK government drops plan to stop paying coastguard volunteers

Move raises questions over position of the head of the Maritime and Coastguard AgencyUK politics live – latest updatesMinisters have U-turned on plans to strip volunteer coastguard officers of their hourly pay after intense criticism of the plan.The announcement, made by the maritime minister in par...

Kevin Rawlinson
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MI5 lied about relations with neo-Nazi informant, watchdog says
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MI5 lied about relations with neo-Nazi informant, watchdog says

Review of case criticises handling of agent X, who exploited role with agency to violently threaten his girlfriendMI5 has been reprimanded by a watchdog for lying about its relationship with a neo-Nazi informant, who had exploited his role with the spy agency to violently threaten his girlfriend.Th...

Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor
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Mafia law gives Italian families right to break free from a life of crime
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Mafia law gives Italian families right to break free from a life of crime

Wives and children offered new identities to try to stop gangsters recruiting down the generationsChildren and young adults raised in mafia families will be given a chance to break away from organised crime under new legislation in Italy that aims to stop the inter-generational recruitment of gangst...

Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo
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