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  • Met officer convicted for pepper spraying man as he climbed down building

  • Cost of living crisis forcing students to take on more hours of paid work

    Most university students supporting themselves say it is negatively affecting their studies, survey finds

  • Health bosses warn of heart disease emergency in England

    Charity calls for prioritisation of NHS heart care after nearly 100,000 excess deaths since March 2020

  • Big tech is trying to weaken new digital markets regulator, Rishi Sunak warned

  • MPs vote down Labour attempt to revive animal welfare bill

  • Search called off for swimmer who went missing attempting Channel crossing

  • ‘It’s not going to happen’: Ben Wallace expects hopes of top Nato job to be dashed

  • Labour piles pressure on Sunak with plan to prevent ‘mortgage catastrophe’

  • Author convicted over Sheffield tree-felling protest says council’s apology not enough

  • Titanic sub search team still hearing underwater noises, says US Coast Guard

UK politics

  • UK could have avoided lockdown if better prepared, says Jeremy Hunt

  • Jeremy Hunt tells Covid inquiry quarantining people sooner ‘might have avoided’ first lockdown – as it happened

    • New guidance needed to stop ministers putting friends on Whitehall boards

    • Labour defends plan to appoint dozens of peers to House of Lords

    • Bank report details Peter Mandelson’s apparent contact with Jeffrey Epstein

    • Labour will appoint diversity tsar to remove barriers to enter politics

    • Jo Cox’s widower to marry violence against women campaigner

    • Sunak defends inflation plan as Starmer labels him out of touch over mortgages

Analysis and explainers

  • Will Rishi Sunak meet his December deadline to halve UK inflation?

  • Why is inflation in the UK worse than in other major economies?

  • UK mortgage rates rollercoaster is the price to pay for cheap, short-term deals

  • Best and worst case scenarios to explain Titan’s loss of contact with surface

Culture

  • Barbican apologises after asking speaker to avoid topic of ‘free Palestine’

  • Glastonbury 2023: festival officially begins amid torrential downpours

    Wet weather forecast to ease by Friday, when there is doubt over whether headliners Arctic Monkeys will perform

  • Showers forecast for UK as festivalgoers arrive at Glastonbury

    Scattered showers set for Wednesday and Thursday but temperatures to exceed 30C by the weekend

  • Joe Lycett backs out of award ceremony over fossil fuel links

  • Taylor Swift’s Eras tour to reach the UK and Europe in summer 2024

  • Search for missing actor Julian Sands scaled back

  • Hymns in and Monty Python out of UK funeral songs top 10

Education

  • Teachers in England: have you left, or considered leaving the profession?

  • University of Melbourne vice-chancellor calls for free university education

  • 180 pupils a day in England given special needs support plan

  • Tutoring not a long-term plan to help English pupils catch up, say teachers

Society

  • One in 10 health workers in England had suicidal thoughts during pandemic

  • Children raised under UK austerity shorter than European peers, study finds

    • One in five women conceive naturally after having baby via fertility treatment

    • UK supermarket supplier’s chickens given antibiotics critical for humans

    • Fixing UK’s draughty homes could add £40bn to economy, says Citizens Advice

Multimedia

  • Britain’s mortgage timebomb

     

  • Glastonbury festival and the summer solstice: Wednesday’s best photos

     

    • PMQs: 'Tory mortgage penalty' costing households £2,900 a year, says Starmer – video highlights

       

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    • Summer solstice 2023 celebrations at Stonehenge – in pictures

       

    • George Osborne 'completely rejects' claims austerity weakened health care before pandemic – video

       

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