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Emergency alert warning of wildfire risk sent to phones in England and Wales
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Emergency alert warning of wildfire risk sent to phones in England and Wales

People urged not to light barbecues, campfires or anything else that could spark fire during period of extreme heatMillions of people across England and Wales have received an emergency alert to their phones as the government warns against activities that could start fires.The deputy prime minister,...

Aletha Adu
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Madonna will not be playing Glastonbury in 2027, Emily Eavis says
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Madonna will not be playing Glastonbury in 2027, Emily Eavis says

Festival organiser says she has booked next year’s headliners but would not say if Taylor Swift is among themMadonna will not be performing at next year’s Glastonbury, the festival’s organiser, Emily Eavis, has said.The singer, who has the most top 10 singles in UK chart history of any female artist...

Nadeem Badshah
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Hawaii braces for direct hit from Tropical Storm Lala
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Hawaii braces for direct hit from Tropical Storm Lala

Storm expected to strengthen to hurricane as state of emergency declared amid danger of ‘life-threatening’ floodsTropical Storm Lala is set to hit Hawaii’s Big Island with hurricane force in a matter of hours, bringing dangerous winds, heavy rainfall and high surf in a sign of what a strengthening “...

Edward Helmore
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Israeli military plans to transfer law enforcement in occupied West Bank to police
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Israeli military plans to transfer law enforcement in occupied West Bank to police

Palestine’s vice-president calls plan ‘flagrant violation of international law’ and a step towards full Israeli annexationIsrael’s defence minister wants to transfer law enforcement powers for Israelis in the occupied West Bank over to the police, a plan that Palestine’s vice-president described as...

Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem
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‘It’s due to climate’: the people of Stourbridge on the town’s wildfires
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‘It’s due to climate’: the people of Stourbridge on the town’s wildfires

Thursday has been described by residents as ‘horrendous’, ‘distressing’ and ‘one of the scariest days of my life’People in Stourbridge have described the fires that devastated more than a dozen homes as “horrendous” and “distressing”, with one describing blazes that surpassed the height of residenti...

Neha Gohil Midlands correspondent
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French court blocks Macron’s social media ban for under-15s
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French court blocks Macron’s social media ban for under-15s

Constitutional council says curbs infringe freedom of expression and privacy as president vows to rework legislationFrance’s top court has blocked a ban on social media access for under-15s, ruling that it infringed freedom of expression and privacy.The decision is a blow to President Emmanuel Macro...

Dan Milmo Global technology editor
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Progressives back substitute teacher over Wasserman Schultz in Florida
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Progressives back substitute teacher over Wasserman Schultz in Florida

Group backs Elijah Manley in primary election in bid to unseat veteran Democrat in newly drawn districtA progressive group has endorsed a 27-year-old substitute teacher who overcame childhood homelessness in his bid to unseat the veteran Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Florida.The Progressive C...

David Smith in Washington
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Canadian plasma clinics pause collections after deaths of two donors
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Canadian plasma clinics pause collections after deaths of two donors

Government launches investigation into potential unsafe practices at Spanish healthcare company Grifols A chain of private plasma donation clinics in Canada has said it is pausing collections after the deaths of two donors and a new government investigation into potential unsafe practices.Grifols, a...

Olivia Bowden in Toronto
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Students squeezed out of university courses after bumper A-level grades
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Students squeezed out of university courses after bumper A-level grades

Students narrowly missing grades are being rejected, while some on oversubscribed courses are asked to deferStudents across the UK have found themselves unexpectedly squeezed out of their desired university courses as this year’s bumper crop of A-level grades ​h​as not always translated into ​​the p...

Richard Adams Education editor
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Belgian student strikes gold worth €9m while digging a new sewer
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Belgian student strikes gold worth €9m while digging a new sewer

Kobe, 18, who made discovery on site of former brewery in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, at first thought trove was €1 coinsFor a student with a summer job working on a Belgian building site, “money down the drain” has taken on a whole new meaning: excavating the trenches for a sewage system, he stumbled...

Jon Henley Europe correspondent
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Baby with heart defect at center of US surrogacy dispute handed to parents
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Baby with heart defect at center of US surrogacy dispute handed to parents

Biological parents given custody of child born in Texas amid dispute over surrogate mother’s claim of abortion requestA two-day-old baby with a rare heart defect at the center of a complex surrogacy dispute in Texas has been handed over to the parents’ custody and is receiving care, lawyers for the...

Edward Helmore
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‘Let’s see what he can do’: will Burnham bring Barnsley voters back to Labour?
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‘Let’s see what he can do’: will Burnham bring Barnsley voters back to Labour?

With questions over Farage’s finances and a new face in No 10, could Barnsley council be a bellwether for changing Labour fortunes?Labour marked its worst performance in more than 50 years when voters went to the polls in Barnsley in May, but 100 days on from those seismic local elections, the polit...

Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent
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Thames Water plans to restart desalination plant – after drought has ended
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Thames Water plans to restart desalination plant – after drought has ended

Utility company’s plant, which has only run five times, now has an estimated total cost of £500mThames Water is preparing the UK’s only desalination plant to restart operations later this year – but it will not be ready until the winter, long after the current drought is likely to have passed.The ut...

Jasper Jolly
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Iberian orca known for ramming boats seen with suspected gunshot wounds
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Iberian orca known for ramming boats seen with suspected gunshot wounds

Marine conservationist says deliberate attack would be ‘act of extreme cruelty’ against endangered populationSpanish officials have launched an investigation after the matriarch of an orca pod known for jostling and ramming boats off the Iberian Peninsula was spotted with wounds suggesting she had b...

Ashifa Kassam in Madrid
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Burnham temporarily bans disposable barbecue sales in ‘tinderbox’ Britain
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Burnham temporarily bans disposable barbecue sales in ‘tinderbox’ Britain

PM urges people not to risk lives and homes by starting fires as military brought in to help deal with wildfiresUK politics live – latest updatesDowning Street has issued a temporary GB-wide ban on the sale of disposable barbecue and brought in the military to help deal with wildfires as Andy Burnha...

Rowena Mason and Aletha Adu
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Train derails near Essex town of Wickford
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Train derails near Essex town of Wickford

Greater Anglia crash happens day after two passengers seriously injured in East Sussex derailmentA train has derailed in Essex, less than 24 hours after two people were seriously injured in a similar incident in East Sussex.British Transport Police (BTP) confirmed the rear carriages of the train der...

Guardian staff and agency
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Belt and braces PM: what wearing suit braces says about Burnham
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Belt and braces PM: what wearing suit braces says about Burnham

Mod fashion, nod to 80s excess or symbol of tradition? Andy Burnham’s wardrobe choice transcends class divisionsThe sartorial evolution of Andy Burnham reached another milestone this week when the prime minister appeared at a photocall in Derbyshire wearing a pair of braces under his suit.Navy, slim...

Morwenna Ferrier
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Two men charged with attempted murder of Sara Sharif’s father
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Two men charged with attempted murder of Sara Sharif’s father

Steven Sansom and Adam Watson accused of trying to kill Urfan Sharif, who murdered his daughter, in prisonTwo men have been charged over what is understood to be the attempted murder in prison of Urfan Sharif, who is serving a life sentence for murdering his 10-year-old daughter Sara.The Crown Prose...

Matthew Weaver
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