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Spitting Image stages revival – and this time the puppets are on a mission

Live theatre version of 1980s TV satire features Tom Cruise and other stars of showbiz trying to save ‘broken Britain’

The Guardian - UK

Britain lavishes benefits on plenty of rich pensioners. Let’s means test them now

Bumping the state pension age up to 68 will do little to help those who are so poor, they won’t even reach that age, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Remains of Britain’s ‘oldest northerner’ found, according to experts

The remains were dated at around 11,000 years old, just after the Ice Age

The Independent UK

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'Snooty' UK town mocked as locals 'show up for school run in flashy cars with a Babycino'

In an article published on iLiveHere, Farnham in Surrey has been branded as one of the 'snootiest' towns in Britain with a list of mocking telltale signs that suggest someone lives there.

Daily Record

The Holocaust: remembering the powerful acts of 'ordinary people'

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” the British author LP Hartley once wrote, hinting at the mystique of history – the idea that people in the past were somehow different to us in the 21st century.

The Conversation

King Charles enjoys best success as racehorse owner as Chalk Stream wins on Australia Day

The King inherited Chalk Stream from the late Queen Elizabeth II who bred the horse and raced him in Britain before sending him to Royal Ascot-wining trainer Chris Waller

Daily Mirror

‘This has saved us’: UK food banks on front line of cost of living crisis face soaring demand

As Britain faces a cost of living crisis, the last of FRANCE 24’s series of special reports focuses on food banks, institutions that are on the front line of the fight against poverty. But the demand for their services is soaring these days and smaller charities, reliant on small donors,…

France 24

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Labour vows Britain's steel industry will have a 'bright future' if it gets into power

Shadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds pledged to help the steel industry go green as he gathered the bosses of firms and trade union representatives for a summit

Daily Mirror

Tax boss: Nadhim Zahawi wouldn’t have been fined for ‘innocent’ mistake

Nadhim Zahawi’s future as Tory party chairman looked in increasing jeopardy on Thursday as Britain’s tax chief suggested the former chancellor would not have been given a penalty for making an “innocent” mistake in his declarations. Cabinet minister Mr Zahawi is insisting he has not done anything wrong, saying he…

Evening Standard

Aryna Sabalenka to face Elena Rybakina in Australian Open final with first-time winner guaranteed

Britain’s Alfie Hewitt is on course for a potential double after reaching the wheelchair singles and doubles finals

Evening Standard

Biden’s clean energy brainwave paves Britain’s way to post-Brexit growth. Dare we copy him?

Where the US leads in using state aid and subsidies, the EU is now following. But the UK will need a change of mindset, says the Guardian’s economics editor, Larry Elliott

The Guardian - UK

Britain, here’s a plan: stop applying old fixes to new problems. And stop obsessing about growth

Crises in productivity and wealth inequality won’t be solved with ideas from the 80s, says the author and historian David Edgerton

The Guardian - UK

Finding Britain's 'shadow woods' offers the fastest way to reforest the countryside

When William the Conqueror surveyed his new kingdom in 1086, from lowland to upland, Britain was covered with trees. In low-lying Yorkshire, the East Anglian Fens and the Somerset Levels, wet woods of tall white willows and alders lined great rivers. On windswept highlands in the Pennines, north Yorkshire and…

The Conversation

'Even the winners are losing': Lisa Nandy warns against levelling up like London

The shadow levelling up secretary and Wigan MP told a major regional conference in Manchester that a Labour government would unleash the 'power of all people in all parts of Britain'

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Iran Sanctions Europeans over Criticism of Protest Crackdown

Iran on Wednesday announced sanctions targeting more than 30 European individuals and entities, portraying the move as a response to recent European sanctions against officials linked to a crackdown on nationwide protests. Those targeted with sanctions include Britain's attorney general and army chief of staff, several European parliamentarians and European…

Radio France Internationale

Iran vows tit-for-tat response to EU, UK sanctions over protests

Iran has vowed it will respond to new sanctions imposed by the European Union and Britain over Tehran's handling of months-long protests triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.

Daily Mirror

Exact date when UK will finally warm up as Arctic-conditions swamp Britain

The country has shivered in chilly temperatures for most of 2023 so far with freezing fog the latest to test people's nerves, but the Met Office has revealed warmer times are coming

Evening Standard

Rooting Out Corrupt Police Officers ‘Won’t Be Rapid And Will Be Painful’

The head of Britain’s biggest police force said “painful stories” will emerge as work progresses to get rid of hundreds of corrupt officers. Sir Mark Rowley on Wednesday appealed to the people of London not to lose heart over “painful” and “ghastly” new crimes by Met officers that will be…

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Daily Mirror

Britain's fastest cop has never failed to catch a suspect and even chased down a van

PC Luke Watson has been branded Britain's fastest cop as the Essex-based copper has a 100 per cent success rate running down crooks on foot, even catching up to a van on one occasion

Daily Mirror

Snow warning for UK with blizzard-like conditions to hit and temperatures PLUMMET

More wintry weather is expected to fall in the coming weeks with several centimetres set to bring roads to a halt in some areas after weekend of freezing conditions

The Independent UK

Britain leads the way with tanks for Ukraine

Rishi Sunak told President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier this month that the UK is to send 14 Challenger 2s as part of its latest support package.

Daily Mirror

Visitors to the UK's smallest house complain famous tiny property is ‘too small’

The clue may be in its name, but some people visiting the Smallest House in Britain in Conwy, north Wales, have been less than impressed by its diminutive size

The Independent UK

Who is Nadhim Zahawi? All you need to know about the ex-Tory Party chairman

Iraqi refugee who arrived in Britain aged nine with no English rose to No 11 Downing Street and propped up Boris Johnson’s ailing administration last summer, only to be brought down by scandal of his own

Asharq Al-Awsat

Microsoft Probes Teams, Outlook Outage as Thousands of Users Report Disruption

Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it was investigating a networking issue that impacted multiple services including Teams and Outlook, with outage reports saying the platforms were down for thousands of users globally. Microsoft did not disclose the number of users affected by the disruption, but data from outage tracking website…

Reuters

Factbox-Tanks for Ukraine: who is lining up to send them to Kyiv?

Germany, the United States and more allies are poised to announce plans to send tanks to Ukraine, officials and sources say, after Britain said it would send its Challenger 2 tanks and Poland pressed Berlin for approval to send German-built tanks.

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