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Wind and solar farms power Great Britain’s grid to greenest ever summer

Exclusive: Reliance on fossil fuels fell in August to less than one-fifth of all electricity generated across country

The Guardian - UK

Great Britain end Paralympics voodoo to reach wheelchair basketball showpiece

ParalympicsGB’s men’s team defeated Germany 71-43 at the Bercy Arena to book their place in the final

The Independent UK

Shoplifting is now at record levels. Here’s how it went from a crime punishable by death to police ‘turning a blind eye’

Wherever you are on the political spectrum, shoplifting has come to symbolise today’s “broken Britain”. On the left, it is an inevitable product of the cost of living crisis and poverty, fuelled in part by growing levels of drug and alcohol addiction. On the right, it is a damning symptom…

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Want justice for the victims of Grenfell? It’s now clearer than ever that public inquiries are not the answer

Too much time and money is wasted on these buck-passing exercises, which only allow politicians and regulators off the hook, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Stevie Williams doubles up with Tour of Britain stage three victory

The Brit triumphed in an uphill sprint at the end of a wet and attritional day

Cycling Weekly

Rare moth found in Norfolk village 50 years after becoming ‘extinct’ in Britain

Enthusiasts discovered Norfolk snout, thought to have died out in the UK in 1971, in their garden

The Guardian - UK

Former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier named France’s new prime minister

Barnier negotiated Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union between 2016 and 2019

The Independent UK

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First legally binding international treaty on AI to be signed by US, Britain and Brussels

Britain, Europe and America join forces to sign an legally binding international treaty to protect citizens from AI.

TechRadar

'Jail the Grenfell culprits': Families call for manslaughter charges over tower blaze

Any court cases are only expected to start in 2027, a decade after fire ripped through Grenfell Tower in the deadliest housing scandal in Britain’s history

Evening Standard

The UK says water bosses could face prison under plans to clean up sewage-clogged rivers

The bosses of water companies that pollute waterways could go to prison under a new aimed at cleaning up Britain's sewage-clogged rivers, lakes and beaches

The Independent UK

Magazine: Ferrari’s special day at Monza

Charles Leclerc’s brilliant home win for Ferrari and questions over McLaren’s lack of team orders dominate this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (5 September).Even for non-Ferrari fans, a victory for the legendary team in the Italian Grand Prix is special. While we’ll have to see whether the SF-24’s latest upgrades…

Autosport

US Open : Jack Draper, Karolina Muchova enter US Open semifinals

Jack Draper, the 25th seed from Britain, advanced to the US Open semi-finals on Wednesday with a commanding victory over Australia's Alex de Minaur. Draper won in straight sets, 6-3, 7-5, 6-2, becoming the first British man to reach the final four at Flushing Meadows since Andy Murray's triumph in…

The Times of India

Coutya takes gold for Britain in wheelchair fencing

Just over 24 hours after failing in his bid to win the sabre event in the men's wheelchair fencing, Dimitri Coutya claimed the Paralympic gold medal for Britain in the foil with a dominant display over Yanke Feng from China.

Radio France Internationale

Water bosses could face prison time over dumping sewage into Britain’s rivers and lakes

Environment secretary Steve Reed is to tell an invited audience of water company executives that they will lose their bonuses and face prison if they continue pumping filth into rivers and lakes

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Evening Standard

OPINION - As the Grenfell report is published, why is cladding still on countless English homes?

As Britain absorbs the second phase of the report into the Grenfell Tower inferno, with its accumulation of horrors, an event last week serves as warning and a rebuke to the pace with which we have got here. Is it really possible, seven years after that disaster, that the cause…

The Independent UK

Alert over bee-eating Asian hornets that threaten UK food security as queens seen overwintering for first time

People asked to watch out for species spotted in record numbers last year in Britain

The Independent UK

The Grenfell fire inquiry has ended with a damning report. So now what?

Now that an independent inquiry has completed its investigation into Britain’s deadliest residential fire since World War II, survivors and bereaved relatives are demanding that criminal charges be brought against those responsible for the blaze that killed 72 people in 2017

Autosport

Can Rali Ceredigion act as a catalyst for a WRC Rally GB revival?

International rallying returned to Britain for the first time since 2019 last weekend as Rali Ceredigion made a resoundingly successful debut as part of the European Rally Championship. The event certainly filled British rally fans with hope and, just maybe, could be a catalyst for a Rally GB revival.

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OPINION - Britain's partial arms sales ban to is legalistic — politics is the only real solution to the Israel-Hamas conflict

Britain’s decision to suspend 30 export licences for defence equipment for Israel is symbolic as much as practical — but it is a potent symbol at that. In all there are 350 such licences for defence equipment — and Britain supplies only about one per cent of Israel’s defence imports.

The Independent UK

Timeline of events surrounding the 2017 fire at Grenfell Tower in West London that killed 72

The inquiry into Britain’s worst residential fire since World War II is releasing its final report on failings that led to deaths of 72 people at a high-rise apartment building in west London more than seven years ago

Cycling News

‘You can't separate life from politics’ - Demonstrators target Israel-Premier Tech at the Tour of Britain in Scotland

More demonstrations are expected when the riders start in Sheffield on stage 3

Radio France Internationale

French minister says EU, UK need 'migration treaty' after Channel deaths

France's Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin called for a treaty on migration between the EU and Britain Tuesday, after 12 migrants died trying to cross the Channel in the worst such incident this year.

Evening Standard

Channel migrants: Packed dinghy spotted crossing sea from France a day after 12 drown in latest tragedy

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin warns Britain’s black economy will continue to be a magnet for illegal immigrants

The Independent UK

I’m proud that I’m not proud to be British

National pride has taken a nosedive over the last decade. But with Brexit, Covid cronyism and unsavoury royal revelations, is it any wonder, asks Helen Coffey

The Guardian - UK

EU leaders may envy Starmer’s stable majority – Brexit’s part in it less so

Britain has already had its populist reckoning, in 2016. European states can take few lessons from our current calm, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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