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  • Envelopes with HM Revenue and Customs printed on them on top of bank notes

    UK tax administration costs spiralling due to complex system, says watchdog

  • Canalside properties in Ancoats and New Islington areas of Manchester

    Average service charge for flat in England and Wales hit £2,300 last year

    Annual rise of 11% is likely to fuel fresh calls for Labour to accelerate overhaul of scandal-hit leasehold sector
  • A police officer talking to Yvette Cooper

    Home Office launches new immigration raids as it vaunts deportation numbers

    Labour’s boasts about tough immigration stance prompt disquiet in party as it attempts to counter Reform threat

  • Campaign launched to make public toilets a legal requirement in Britain

  • Freed Israeli hostage did not know of wife and daughters’ deaths, British family confirms

  • Burnley MP Oliver Ryan investigated by Labour over ‘unacceptable’ WhatsApp comments

  • Essex police officer sacked after admitting ‘tragedy chanting’ at Anfield

  • Church of England refuses call for gluten-free wafers and non-alcoholic wine

  • Britain’s system for controlling arms exports is broken, former diplomat claims

  • Changes to law would give police ‘licence to kill’, UK rights groups warn

UK politics

  • A view down Union Street, the main road in the city centre, February 2023: the light is low and the tall historic buildings on one side of the street are in shadow but the pale stone is seen clearly on the other side; people are crossing the road and there are church spires towards the top of the street which rises uphill.

    GB Energy faces ‘challenging’ task to find CEO for Aberdeen HQ, sources say

  • Smog over London

    Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK

    • Labour urged to defend workers’ rights bill as poll shows huge public support

    • More Labour figures may be suspended as party investigates WhatsApp group

    • ‘Kemi hates doing media’: Tory anxiety after 100 days of Badenoch leadership

    • Angela Rayner defends handling of meeting with Grenfell survivors and families

    • From ribbon cutting to real-world impact: how William and Kate are treading a fine political line

    • Cash-strapped schools plan to lay off teachers in blow to Labour’s promise

Analysis and explainers

  • Nigel Farage makes a speech, his hand stretching towards the camera

    Nigel Farage has been a threat to every recent UK prime minister. But this is something new

  • Terrace house rooftops in Leicester

    What does the Bank of England interest rate cut mean for mortgages and savings?

  • A man is silhouetted in front of the Bank of England in London

    Rate cut can lift mood but Bank’s forecasts are unambiguously bleak

  • Lucy Letby

    After experts find ‘no medical evidence’ of murder, will Lucy Letby get a retrial?

Culture

  • Keir Starmer takes his test in the company of Beverley Knight (left) and Richard Angell of the Terrence Higgins Trust

    Keir Starmer takes public HIV test in push to destigmatise testing for virus

  • The glasses belonging to Eric Morecambe on display before the auction

    ‘Best of the best’: Robbie Williams buys Eric Morecambe’s glasses for £20,000

    Singer says he cried ‘happy, childlike tears’ after placing winning bid on late comedian’s glasses and pipe at auction
  • A black and white image of Samuel Beckett leaving the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1976.

    Diaries at the ready: Samuel West lined up to star in Beckett play... in 2036

    In a world first, the actor will feature with a recording of his younger self in the time-lapse drama Krapp’s Last Tape

  • Artists decry ‘irresponsible’ plans to demolish brutalist Midlands tower

  • Dreams ‘crushed’ as Ticketmaster cancels fans’ Oasis ’25 tickets

  • English writer’s forgotten ‘masterpiece’ predicting rise of Nazis gets new lease of life

  • Gino D’Acampo denies ‘dozens’ of claims of misconduct

Education

  • Prof Deborah Prentice, University of Cambridge's Vice-Chancellor.

    Cambridge risks losing ‘unbelievable talent’ amid PhD funding cut

  • Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall outside Downing Street, London

    Some people on sickness and disability benefits ‘taking the mickey’, says Liz Kendall – as it happened

  • A person walks past a poster advertising Gujarat International Finance Tec City

    UK universities look to open campuses in India amid financial woes at home

  • Bridget Phillipson on Monday.

    Bridget Phillipson accused of having ‘Marxist ideological dislike of academies’ by Tory-linked headteacher – as it happened

Society

  • Two women look out a window in shadow

    NHS staff barred from workplace for considering Palestine demonstration

  • Silhouette of a person sitting with head in hand by window

    ‘Time running out’ for UK to apologise over forced adoptions

    • Room full of belongings including a large teddy bear

      ‘I just didn’t see mess’: help emerges for children of parents who hoard

    • Elsie Dot Stancombe and Bebe King

      Parents of two murdered Southport girls speak of hearing news of attack

    • Andrew Gwynne on a city street

      Health minister Andrew Gwynne sacked over offensive WhatsApp comments

Multimedia

  • A staff member of Christie's holds a cartoon drawing against a backdrop of Barry Humphries and Dame Edna, during a preview of Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection in London.

    A nocturnal dip and Dame Edna’s auction: photos of the day – Friday

  • Country cottage in Riseley, Bedfordshire

    Homes for sale for first-time buyers in England – in pictures

    • Pippa Crerar visits Ukraine with David Lammy. Photograph: Ben Dance/FCDO

      Special episode: Behind the scenes of David Lammy’s Ukraine trip

    • Bank of England cuts rates as governor warns of inflation bump – video

    • Members of the Louisiana State Police walk by blue and gold macaws as they provide enhanced security along Bourbon Street in the French Quarter d

      Hairy Hoff crabs and a Trudeau selfie: photos of the day – Thursday

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