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There are no signs yet that last year’s 40C will be breached again, but meteorologists predict such peaks could become the norm

The flamboyant and populist former U.K. prime minister quit his parliamentary seat. He called the panel examining whether he lied to fellow lawmakers about COVID social gatherings a "kangaroo court."

Talk of toxicity on This Morning is dwarfed by real problems such as people going hungry and the war in Ukraine

Editorial: State-led public investment is needed to repair a decade of cuts. Labour should say so, not cleave to failed orthodoxies

Beau Avis was bitten by an adder - Britain's only venomous snake - while wearing sandals to walk her dog near Brentwood, Essex, and has warned others of the dangers

The 800 West Indians who walked down the gangway at Tilbury to make new lives in England in June 1948 had been encouraged to think of the country as their motherland. The literary contribution of the Windrush generation is just one example of how Caribbean-British people enriched the nation, but…

Child competed in the 1948 London Olympics in diving.

Britain’s health is a national scandal, not just because of the state of the NHS, but because the government refuses to take action on our diets, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Former prime minister to be suspended for 10 days and will not stand again in Uxbridge and South Ruislip