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Fresh crisis for Thames Water as investors pull plug on £500m of funding
Decision raises concerns about financial future of UK’s biggest water companyBusiness live – latest updatesInvestors at...
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Tory donor Frank Hester raised complaint about NHS contract with health secretary
Exclusive: Man who has now given party at least £10m copied Steve Barclay into email about...
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Transgender judge seeks leave to intervene in UK court case over legal definition of ‘woman’
Victoria McCloud wants leave to join litigation in supreme court appeal brought by For Women ScotlandThe...
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Ireland backs bid to include blocking of aid in definition of genocide
Dublin joins South Africa’s case in the international court of justice, arguing that stopping delivery of...
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More than half of UK female musicians have experienced discrimination – report
Insight report based on data from UK Musicians’ Census also found 33% said they had been...
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Yorkshire estate known as world’s first nature reserve gets Grade II listing
Eccentric Victorian owner of Waterton Park, near Wakefield, made pioneering decisions to protect wildlifeA Yorkshire parkland...
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Minimum wage is UK’s ‘most successful economic policy in a generation’
Resolution Foundation study suggests lowest earners are £6,000 a year better off due to policyThe minimum...
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Mental illness costs England £300bn a year, study shows
Yearly cost to people, business and public sector found to be twice as big as NHS...
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WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann bids to buy it back for more than $500m
Former CEO of shared office space rental company has reportedly been in talks with investorsBusiness live...
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Minister told to name sources in Afghan inquiry or face potential jail term
Johnny Mercer given 10 days to reveal source of claims British troops engaged in war crimesThe...
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UK food price inflation slows to 4.5% but many still struggling
Waitrose and Ocado win new shoppers while a quarter of households are feeling the squeezeBusiness live...
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Tuesday briefing: Why the US and UK are going public with warnings about Chinese hacking
In today’s newsletter: Information about 40 million UK voters was stolen by Chinese spies in a...
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‘Nothing has really changed’: letters from 1719 reveal familiar worries of London life
From expensive rent to efforts to keep up with fashion, a young man’s missives on display...
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School leaders welcome proposal to tackle harassment of teachers
Creation of a ‘cohesion and conflict unit’ in England is among recommendations in government-commissioned reviewSchool leaders...
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Poem inspired by New York mugging wins top prize in National Poetry Competition
Imogen Wade’s The Time I Was Mugged in New York City impresses judges for ‘lyricism in...
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Labour tells China it will act on interference in UK democracy
Exclusive: Warning came at party’s first public meeting with Chinese government since Keir Starmer became Labour...
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UK ‘slow to hold China to account’ for cyber-attacks against MPs and voters
As deputy PM expected to impose sanctions, head of international alliance says ministers have taken years...
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Australia’s $4.6bn Aukus funding to help create more than 1,000 jobs in UK, Rolls-Royce says
Company says work is already under way ‘to double the size of the Rolls-Royce Submarines site...
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Northern lights predicted in US and UK on Monday night in wake of solar storms
Spectacular aurora borealis caused by geomagnetic storms on sun’s surface may be visible in North America...
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AI to track hedgehog populations in pioneering UK project
National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme aims to understand why population has declinedArtificial intelligence will be used for...
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Foreign Office merger has diminished UK’s aid capability, finds watchdog
National Audit Office says merging DfID with Foreign Office has led to loss of dedicated senior...
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Thousands of foreign nurses a year leave UK to work abroad
Exclusive: Surge in nurses originally from outside the EU moving overseas prompts concern Britain is a...
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At least 14m Easter car journeys could take twice as long as usual, RAC says
Bank holiday weekend and start of school holidays take place at same time, with high traffic...
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Details of millions of UK voters accessed by Chinese state, ministers will say
Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden to update MPs on cyber-attacks by Beijing, some of whom may...