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The company operating Britain’s massive railway network is withholding bonuses from as many as 20,000 workers because they went on strike

The U.K.’s biggest rail strike in decades brought trains across the country to a halt.

Fortune

Cleverly China visit: can UK pull off tricky diplomatic balancing act?

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly visits China on Wednesday hoping to tread a fine diplomatic line between calling out Beijing over human rights abuses and posturing over Taiwan and seeking greater cooperation on economic ties and climate change.

The Week

Team GB must maintain positive Budapest vibes into Paris Olympics

As the dust settled here on Britain equalling its best-ever medal haul of 10 at a World Championships, UK Athletics technical director Stephen Maguire spoke of a need for athletes to step up to another level at the Paris Olympics in a year's time.

Evening Standard

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Britain's foreign secretary will visit China in an attempt to shore up ties

Britain’s top diplomat James Cleverly is set to visit China on Wednesday in the first trip by a U.K. foreign secretary to the country in more than five years

The Independent UK

A Very British Space Launch review – as flimsy as Richard Branson’s rockets

There’s lots of fascinating detail in this documentary about Virgin Orbit’s attempt to get Britain into the space race. But like the flight itself, it falls short

The Guardian - UK

US Open 2023: Britain’s Lily Miyazaki reflects on ‘huge’ financial boost after first ever Grand Slam win

The 27-year-old got British hopes off to a perfect start at Flushing Meadows as she set up a clash with Belinda Bencic

Evening Standard

Britain’s Lily Miyazaki calls US Open debut ‘surreal’ after first-round victory

Britain’s sole representative on day one, Miyazaki, beat Russian Margarita Betova 6-3 6-3.

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Team GB has ‘feelgood factor’ back but Paris will be step up, says athletics chief

Britain has rediscovered the feelgood factor but the Paris Olympics will be ‘another level’, UK Athletics’ technical director has warned

The Guardian - UK

British qualifier Lily Miyazaki wins her first grand slam match on US Open debut

There were echoes of Emma Raducanu after the 27-year-old qualifier, Britain’s sole representative on day one, beat Russian Margarita Betova 6-3 6-3.

The Independent UK

Abandoning a wealth tax is a ruinous Labour strategy. It’s ‘Blairism without the cash’

The tough choice is not to court big business, but to invest in rebuilding our shattered society, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

UK air traffic control says it has fixed a technical problem that sparked delays and cancellations

Britain’s air traffic control system says it has fixed a “technical issue” that caused heavy delays and cancellations

The Independent UK

Hate London and all it stands for? You’re not alone – but you’re in terrible company

First it was culture warriors moaning about cappuccinos; now it’s a top Tory knocking Notting Hill carnival. For the sake of the whole of Britain, can we please change the subject?

The Guardian - UK

Lack of defibrillators in Britain putting lives at risk, say researchers

Study finds average walking time to retrieve public access defibrillator from centre of any given postcode is 19 minutes

The Guardian - UK

Controversial Legacy Bill risks Northern Ireland peace agreement, say US senators

Senior Democrats make clear their concerns over the proposed legislation that would end Troubles-era cases and inquests – saying peace and justice in Northern Ireland is crucial to the UK-US ‘Special Relationship’

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Great Britain primed for Paris Olympics after best World Athletics Championships for 30 years

British athletes took 10 medals away from Budapest in a promising performance ahead of Paris 2024

The Independent UK

World Athletics Championships 2023 talking points as Britain match previous best

Great Britain ended the World Championships in Budapest with a joint-high of 10 medals

Radio France Internationale

Royal nod for renaming French airport after Queen Elizabeth II

The French seaside resort of Le Touquet this week said it had received the official go-ahead from Britain's King Charles to rename its airport after his mother Queen Elizabeth II, who died last September.

The Guardian - UK

Here come the girls! All-female K-pop groups conquer Britain

Korean boybands have already scored huge global success. Now the gender balance is being reset

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The Independent UK

Police chiefs to get more powers to sack ‘rogue’ officers under Government plans

Britain’s most senior police officer, Sir Mark Rowley, has been calling for reform.

The Guardian - UK

‘The UK’s importing of food is a travesty’: farmer’s wife Helen Rebanks tells her own story

Rebanks, wife of bestselling The Shepherd’s Life author James, publishes her debut book this week and gives short shrift to Britain’s farms policy

The Guardian - UK

The Edinburgh fringe is just another choking canary in the toxic national mine

But if I’m going to watch the Britain I loved expire slowly, I’d rather do it from the top of the Royal Mile in August

The Independent UK

Britain’s most notorious whole life killers as Sunak plans to make UK’s toughest sentence mandatory

Ministry of Justice confirmed 70 criminals are currently serving a whole-life order in UK

The Guardian - UK

‘We’ll launch rockets every month’: Britain finally joins the space race

Fifty years after the UK sent its first satellite into space, a Scottish town is among rivals vying for another shot

The Guardian - UK

China wants to erase Tibet. Will Britain stay quiet about this crime?

The US has taken a public stand over China’s crimes against humanity. In Beijing this week, the UK foreign secretary should do the same and shame his hosts

The Guardian - UK

Political vision can close Britain’s growing education divide. But who has it?

We all have a stake in fixing the regional and class-driven disadvantage that the exam results expose

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