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Angela Rayner moves to protect pubs from being turned into houses or offices
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Angela Rayner moves to protect pubs from being turned into houses or offices

Housing secretary says developers will have to prove there’s no way to save pub, as she prepares planning shakeupAll pubs will get protection from being turned into housing or offices under a shakeup of planning laws in England to be presented by Angela Rayner this week.The housing secretary will pu...

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
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Block export of ‘national treasure’ UK fossils, says MP
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Block export of ‘national treasure’ UK fossils, says MP

Sale of one of UK’s top collections overseas prompts call new rules to help keep items in countryOne of UK’s best fossil collections sold in ‘loss to the nation’An MP has called on ministers to change export controls so that significant fossils can be classed as national treasures after one of the...

Nicola Davis Science correspondent
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University spinout to launch water quality app for UK and US waters
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University spinout to launch water quality app for UK and US waters

Molendotech will collate data from daily tests that detect E coli and other bacteria amid reports of swimmers falling illA UK university spinout behind a rapid bacterial water testing kit is planning to launch live water quality maps, as scores of beachgoers report falling ill after swimming.Molendo...

Julia Kollewe
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King Charles and Prince William face £10m energy upgrade bill for estates
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King Charles and Prince William face £10m energy upgrade bill for estates

New rules could affect nine in 10 rental properties in duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster and at Sandringham King Charles and Prince William could be forced to spend up to £10m upgrading hundreds of rental properties on their private estates to meet planned energy-efficiency rules.The government has...

Nick Sommerlad
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Gorging on bearcam: the livestream of big beasts eating that draws millions
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Gorging on bearcam: the livestream of big beasts eating that draws millions

Ahead of Fat Bear Week, avid fans are glued to the spectacle of brown bears devouring salmon at Brooks Falls in AlaskaOne of this summer’s biggest onscreen hits has had big beasts, great escapes and choppy waters, but it’s not Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – it’s a livestream of Alaskan brown bear...

Matthew Pearce
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New UK cost of living crisis looms with soaring energy bills forecast to lift inflation
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New UK cost of living crisis looms with soaring energy bills forecast to lift inflation

Latest reading on Wednesday likely to frame scale of challenge for new PM to ease pressures on households amid Iran war fallout British households are facing a renewed cost of living squeeze, with official figures expected to show this week that soaring energy bills drove up inflation in July to clo...

Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent
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Destroyed crops, riverbed cyclists and a ‘Rock of Starvation’: how drought has devastated the Danube
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Destroyed crops, riverbed cyclists and a ‘Rock of Starvation’: how drought has devastated the Danube

The Guardian travelled 100 miles along the EU’s longest river, where some residents are struggling to secure drinking waterFor centuries, the rock was seen as a warning. When it began to emerge from the Danube, beneath Gellért Hill in Budapest, it meant the river had fallen so low that floating mill...

Lorenzo Tondo in Hungary. Photographs by David Levene
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Rescue teams search for survivors in Indonesia after powerful earthquake
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Rescue teams search for survivors in Indonesia after powerful earthquake

Searchers dig through collapsed buildings and debris after 7.7 magnitude quake killed at least 47 peopleRescue crews dug through collapsed buildings and landslide debris in eastern Indonesia on Sunday as they searched for bodies and possible survivors a day after a powerful earthquake killed at leas...

Associated Press
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New York City man charged with hate crimes after alleged synagogue assault
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New York City man charged with hate crimes after alleged synagogue assault

Police say Larry Montes struck a woman and a security guard after he disrupted Shabbat servicesA New York City man is facing hate crime charges after police say he assaulted a woman and a security team member while disrupting Shabbat services at Central Synagogue in Manhattan – all in plain view of...

Marina Dunbar in New York
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Twenty-two more bodies recovered after Zimbabwe boat accident
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Twenty-two more bodies recovered after Zimbabwe boat accident

Death toll now stands at 68, with 18 children being among the killed after ferry capsized on Lake KaribaTwenty-two more bodies have been recovered after a boat accident in Zimbabwe, taking the death toll to 68, police said on Saturday.The ferry capsized on Tuesday on Lake Kariba, on the border with...

Nadeem Badshah
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Thousands of Bonnie Tyler fans gather to pay respects as coffin brought home
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Thousands of Bonnie Tyler fans gather to pay respects as coffin brought home

Fans line streets, singing Total Eclipse of the Heart ahead of Welsh singer’s Swansea funeralThousands of Bonnie Tyler fans lined the streets of her home town in south Wales to pay respects to the singer as her coffin was brought back to her former home.The singer, whose real name was Gaynor Sulliva...

Aneesa Ahmed
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Moroccan police arrest more than 100 people as they attempt to enter Ceuta
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Moroccan police arrest more than 100 people as they attempt to enter Ceuta

Border security tightened after social media posts call for another mass crossing into Spain’s north African territoryMoroccan police have arrested 111 people as they tried to enter Spain’s north African territory of Ceuta, amid ⁠tightened security on both sides after social media posts ​called for...

Reuters
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Body found in Romania believed to be missing British hiker George Smyth
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Body found in Romania believed to be missing British hiker George Smyth

Family paid tribute to Bristol University geology student, 18, after being notified by Avon and Somerset policeA body has been found in the search for an 18-year-old British man who went missing last year while hiking in Romania, UK police said.George Smyth, a geology student at the University of Br...

Nadeem Badshah
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Massive egg recall in US south and south-west due to salmonella outbreak
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Massive egg recall in US south and south-west due to salmonella outbreak

1.6m dozen eggs from Texas recalled amid one of the largest recorded foodborne illness outbreaks in US historyA massive egg recall affecting nearly 1.6m dozen eggs has been elevated to the US Food and Drug Administration’s highest-risk warning as officials investigate a salmonella outbreak that has...

Marina Dunbar
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Royal estates rent out homes that fail to meet legal energy efficiency standards
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Royal estates rent out homes that fail to meet legal energy efficiency standards

Exclusive: More than 100 homes on King Charles and Prince William’s inherited estates have EPC ratings of F or G• ‘It’s archaic’: the struggle to heat poorly insulated homes let by royal estatesMore than 100 homes on the inherited royal estates of King Charles and Prince William fail to meet the leg...

Nick Sommerlad
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Thirty years after Tupac Shakur’s killing can a murder trial offer justice?
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Thirty years after Tupac Shakur’s killing can a murder trial offer justice?

Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis faces trial on Monday over rap star’s death that marked notorious chapter in hip-hop’s historyIn September 1996, rap star Tupac Shakur was gunned down in a drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas strip, succumbing days later to his injuries. His killing, which remained unsolved fo...

Uwa Ede-Osifo
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