23 h. ago Thames Water accused of 'holding gun' to taxpayers’ heads over fine threats

Results revealed losses at Britain's biggest water company rocketed last year - as bosses were given another grilling by MPs

Economics

47 h. ago EasyJet staff get Brexit passport rules wrong again and wreck family’s birthday trip to Paris

Exclusive: Britain’s biggest budget airline continues to play ‘passport roulette’ with passengers, denying a family a 50th-birthday weekend

Politics

48 h. ago City bins left overflowing on the hottest weekend of the year

The council has said that during major events their crews cannot access cordoned off areas

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4 d. ago Rats and rotting piles of waste overflowing the streets of Birmingham amid 32C heatwave after four months of walkouts from striking bin workers

Cramped inner city areas such as Small Heath and Bordesley Green have been most affected - and today they were literally overflowing with rubbish.

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6 d. ago Fury as Thames Water bosses 'refuse to claw back' £2.5m of bonuses paid to execs

Thames Water, Britain's biggest supplier, paid the money to 21 senior managers. Critics called it a "shambles" while MPs have called the water firm's bosses back to appear before them after it emerged regulator Ofwat cannot recover the sum

Economics

7 d. ago Fury as tourists and daytrippers overrun beauty spot close to river immortalised by iconic British painter John Constable

The village of Dedham in Essex, just half mile away from the iconic scene of Constable's The Hay Wain, is now the site of overflowing bins.

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7 d. ago Body found in hunt for missing soldier who vanished from army base

Alex Cairnie's disappearance sparked a major search operation including troops combing the local area

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7 d. ago Body found in search for missing soldier who vanished from UK army base

Sergeant Alex Cairnie, 30, was last seen at around noon on July 6 leaving Tidworth camp in Wiltshire. His disappearance sparked a huge hunt, with soldiers scouring the countryside

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8 d. ago Brits given 'cash ISA reform warning' as Labour's plans could hike mortgage costs

The bosses of Britain's biggest building societies have warned that plans to slash the amount savers can put into cash ISAs could hike borrowing costs for homeowners

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1 week ago Boarded up shops and overflowing bins. Sorry state of the gateway to the world's most prestigious tennis tournament

The train draws to a halt with a sharp squeal, causing an elderly tennis fan in a panama hat to curse. 'At least we made it though, darling,' says his wife, patting his arm.

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1 week ago 'Oasis can be incredible or terrible live but in Cardiff I was left in no doubt'

EXCLUSIVE: Oasis gigs this century lurched from incredible to terrible as Liam and Noel Gallagher broke up Britain's biggest band, but at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff our man's verdict was clear

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2 w. ago Man spends 17 hours at Britain's biggest Wetherspoons and bill leaves him floored

With the nation's boozers under threat, the UK's – and the world's – largest Wetherspoons is on a mission to challenge cheap supermarket alcohol prices

Economics

2 w. ago I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes?

A biopic of Frantz Fanon and other remarkable new movies are finding success via social media, yet remain invisible at the big film festivalsFrance’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was historically among the most significant in Europe. After Britain, France had the second biggest colonial empire. We know that 1.38 million people were deported in at least 4,220 documented French slave trade expeditions. Yet the stories of the lives of those people are almost entirely absent from the French collective imagination.Growing up in France, the only images of this crime against humanity I ever saw on screen were in US-made films. I learned about it from the 1970s TV series Roots and from Steven Spielberg’s movie Amistad. Today in France, Hollywood films such as 12 Years a Slave or Django Unchained are still the references when it comes to depicting the horrors experienced by enslaved people.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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2 w. ago I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes? | Rokhaya Diallo

A biopic of Frantz Fanon and other remarkable new movies are finding success via social media, yet remain invisible at the big film festivalsFrance’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was historically among the most significant in Europe. After Britain, France had the second biggest colonial empire. We know that 1.38 million people were deported in at least 4,220 documented French slave trade expeditions. Yet the stories of the lives of those people are almost entirely absent from the French collective imagination.Growing up in France, the only images of this crime against humanity I ever saw on screen were in US-made films. I learned about it from the 1970s TV series Roots and from Steven Spielberg’s movie Amistad. Today in France, Hollywood films such as 12 Years a Slave or Django Unchained are still the references when it comes to depicting the horrors experienced by enslaved people.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Secrets of Britain's biggest Wetherspoons. It can fit 1,400 people and has 100 beers on tap. Now HARRY WALLOP exposes exactly what goes on... and why they constantly need to change the carpet

Nearly 75 years ago, George Orwell wrote that the pub was part of 'something distinctive and recognisable in English civilization', a place where all types could gather.

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2 w. ago Police unveil 'revolutionary' new handheld gadget that captures even slightest bruising on domestic abuse victims for use as evidence

Britain's biggest force is today unveiling the device which will allow frontline officers to gather forensic-grade material that can be used as evidence in court within minutes of first contact.

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2 w. ago The feud at the heart of Britain's biggest festivals: Former Disney stars Olivia Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter are set to dominate Glastonbury and BST this weekend

Olivia, 22, is headlining Glastonbury this weekend, while Sabrina, 26, will be at British Summer Time (BST) at Hyde Park . Both the 'pop girlies' are near neck and neck in their successes.

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2 w. ago Welsh pub Liam Gallagher loved to drink at all night instead of recording Oasis' hit album

The rock and roll star and frontman of one of Britain's biggest ever bands is coming back to Wales this week - and it will be 30 years after he used to be seen regularly in one Monmouth boozer

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3 w. ago Job that makes you more likely to succumb to one of Britain's biggest killers, according to major study

Swedish experts, analysing data from 3million people, found those with a particular type of job were far more likely to develop the potentially deadly condition.

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3 w. ago I had a demon inside me... sex abuse fed the monster and drove my horrific crimes: One of Britain's biggest drug smugglers who was jailed with Reggie Kray comes clean

'When I got involved with crime, I loved it,' Michael admitted. 'It was exciting. People say: "How can you like criminality?" I'm not saying I like the action of crime - I liked the feeling, the high it brought.'

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