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Barbados gained independence from the UK back in 1966, meaning it's been a sovereign state for 57 years

The BBBofC said this week that it had denied an application for Conor Benn to box in Britain

In the Commons, she ripped into the Tories’ economic mismanagement – and pointed a way forward for Labour, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

‘We cannot allow antisemitism to win in Britain’ Andrew Rosindell said after Havering Council’s decision

When 200 unaccompanied child refugees arrived in Harwich, Essex, in early December 1938, they did so through a new visa-waiver scheme. These children from Berlin were escaping Nazi persecution, and eventually more than 10,000 children – mostly from Jewish families – would arrive in Britain via the same process.

Elton John has urged British lawmakers to do more to fight HIV and AIDS

Far from freeing the UK from continental insecurities, Brexit has made some of them worse. Isolationism won’t help, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Yang Guang and Tian Tian have lived at zoo in Scotland since 2011

Opposition vows to tackle rural connection delays to the grid while Conservatives call for offshore network to preserve landscapes

Rishi Sunak is under fire over a last-minute snub to the Greek PM on the Elgin Marbles issue which led to the Greek PM returning to Greece without discussing issues like illegal immigration and Gaza.

Editorial: The prime minister’s overreaction to comments by his Greek counterpart testify to poor strategic judgment