1 hour ago Met Office urges anyone on public transport to carry 2 things with them this week

The Met Office is predicting a steady increase in temperatures again this week with a heatwave set to return - with specific advice for commuters to follow

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3 h. ago The Salt Path author could face legal action from publisher if she misled readers over best

EXCLUSIVE: Raynor Winn has been accused of fabricating, or misleading readers, about some parts of her best-selling book including her husband Moth's battle with a degenerative illness.

Culture

4 h. ago Labour's pledge of 6,500 teachers funded by private school VAT 'lacks coherent plan'

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said it is 'unclear' how meeting this pledge will ensure there are enough teachers in the right areas.

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4 h. ago Wes Streeting warns doctors ‘the public will not forgive you’ as NHS strike chaos looms

NHS would face major disruption over industrial action, threatening to put Sir Keir Starmer's plans for health service at risk

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4 h. ago ASA cracks down on online pharmacies advertising weight loss injections

Watchdog releases nine new rulings setting clear precedents for online sellingOnline pharmacies are no longer allowed to run adverts for weight loss injections, the advertising watchdog has ruled, as part of a crackdown on what has been described as a “wild west” culture of online selling.In the UK, advertising prescription-only medications (POMs) – which includes all weight loss jabs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro – to the public is illegal. However, a Guardian investigation previously found some online pharmacies either breaking these rules outright, or exploiting grey areas to peddle the medications to the public. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Public ‘will not forgive’ strike action by resident doctors, says Streeting

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said walkouts would be a ‘disaster’ for patients.

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5 h. ago Coronation Street star Georgia May Foote is 'still living with husband Kris Evans' despite the couple 'heading for divorce'

The former Coronation Street star, 34, has endured a torrid time of late after a fire ripped through her beauty business last month.

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6 h. ago How Labour is coming for YOUR money: Reeves is targeting wealth, pensions and Isas, warns JEFF PRESTRIDGE

Brace yourself for a summer of doom and gloom as Chancellor Rachel Reeves works out how to fill a gaping £40bn hole in the public finances.

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7 h. ago British couple detained in Iran vanished for weeks amid fears they were in Israel

Lindsay and Craig Foreman’s family feared they were being held in Iran’s Evin prison when it was bombed by Israel

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8 h. ago Man shot by armed police outside rural Kent pub was 'wielding a chainsaw and another object officers thought was a homemade BOMB'

Cops in protective clothing and bomb squad officers flocked to the area outside the Park Gate Inn in Hollingbourne, Kent last night..

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8 h. ago Brits demand cuts to spending as £30bn Rachel Reeves tax raid looms

The public is demanding spending is cut, not taxes hiked, with Chancellor Rachel Reeves facing a battle to balance the books, fresh polling has found

Economics

8 h. ago I drove 90 minutes to eat at Jeremy Clarkson's pub — 1 thing I wish I'd known before leaving

The Clarkson's Farm host's pub, The Farmer's Dog, is not far from his Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds, made famous by the hit Amazon Prime Video series

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9 h. ago Wimbledon chiefs think SW19's iconic hawk Rufus could be gay after he failed to breed a successor

The bird has patrolled the grounds of the All England Club for 17 years, with the sole job of keeping it pigeon free while the players take to the grass for two weeks a year.

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9 h. ago I ate at Jeremy Clarkson's pub 90 minutes from Wales — 1 thing I wish I'd known before going

Jeremy Clarkson's pub, The Farmer's Dog, has been open for around 10 months and I was dying to see what it was like — but I didn't know the full story when I arrived

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9 h. ago Financial redress for LGBT veterans must be sped up, MPs to urge ministers

A group of MPs will call for the redress scheme for veterans who suffered under the so-called ‘gay ban” to be rolled out as quickly as possible.

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9 h. ago Man shot outside rural Kent pub was wielding a chainsaw and another object they thought was a homemade BOMB, police reveal

Cops in protective clothing and bomb squad officers flocked to the area outside the Park Gate Inn in Hollingbourne, Kent last night.

Events

9 h. ago Dwight Howard’s wife files for divorce less than six months into marriage

Couple first went public with their relationship in December

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9 h. ago Pentagon provided $2.4tn to private arms firms to ‘fund war and weapons’, report finds

Exclusive: Most of defense department’s discretionary spending from 2020 to 2024 went to military contractorsA new study of defense department spending previewed exclusively to the Guardian shows that most of the Pentagon’s discretionary spending from 2020 to 2024 has gone to outside military contractors, providing a $2.4tn boon in public funds to private firms in what was described as a “continuing and massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to fund war and weapons manufacturing”.The report from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and Costs of War project at Brown University said that the Trump administration’s new Pentagon budget will push annual US military spending past the $1tn mark. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Gemma Atkinson reveals Gorka Marquez's blunt response to family suggestion after sweet update

The couple recently had reason to celebrate alongside their two children, Mia and Thiago

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10 h. ago AI translation service launched for fiction writers and publishers prompts dismay among translators

UK-based GlobeScribe is charging $100 per book, per language for use of its services, but translators say that nuanced work can only be produced by humansAn AI fiction translation service aimed at both traditional publishers and self-published authors has been launched in the UK. GlobeScribe.ai is currently charging $100 per book, per language for use of its translation services.“There will always be a place for expert human translation, especially for highly literary or complex texts,” said the founders Fred Freeman and Betsy Reavley, who previously founded Bloodhound Books, which specialises in crime and thrillers. “But GlobeScribe.ai opens the door to new opportunities, making translation a viable option for a much broader range of fiction.” Continue reading...

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