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Europe's power system feels the heat as cooling demand soars

Just as Europe is racing to store enough gas to see it through winter, its power system is being strained by sweltering summer temperatures, forcing air conditioners into action and drying up rivers needed to cool nuclear plants.

Reuters

Analysis-Race for Downing Street drives tax policy split into UK Conservatives

Differences over how to revive Britain's slow-growth, high-inflation economy could hardly be starker within the ruling Conservative Party as the two remaining contenders to become its new leader, and thereby prime minister, clash over tax.

Reuters

Fuel protests to block rush-hour traffic on major roads across UK on Friday

Police are urging drivers to make alternative plans for travel

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Glam mum becomes one of Britain's youngest grans after her daughter fell pregnant at 14

Young nan Haley Tricker is enjoying being a 'glam-ma' - and there is only a six-year age gap between her youngest and her grandson

Daily Mirror

BBC agrees 'substantial damages' to ex-royal nanny over Diana interview

The BBC said on Thursday it had agreed to pay "substantial damages" to the former nanny of Britain's Prince William and Prince Harry over the broadcaster's now much-criticised 1995 interview with their mother, the late Princess Diana.

Reuters

Heat on Leclerc to Deliver Ferrari Hat-trick in France

Charles Leclerc will seek to complete Ferrari's first hat-trick since 2019 by fending off world champion Max Verstappen and a likely threat from reinvigorated Lewis Hamilton at this weekend's French Grand Prix. The 24-year-old Leclerc, who battled to victory in Austria last time out after team-mate Carlos Sainz triumphed in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UK boosts arms supply to Ukraine with more anti-tank weapons

Britain will send scores of artillery guns and more than 1,600 anti-tank weapons to Ukraine in the latest supply of Western arms to help bolster the country's defence against Russia, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Thursday.

Reuters

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Covid inquiry chair warns: ‘We must prepare for another pandemic’, as first public hearings set for Spring 2023

The chair of the Covid-19 public inquiry said Britain must prepare for another pandemic as she promised a “rigorous and fair” investigation into whether lives could have been saved.

Evening Standard

Conservative leadership latest: Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak clash as real race begins

Truss pledges action on cost of living while Sunak vows to govern like Margaret Thatcher

Evening Standard

UK's handling of migrants arriving by boat is unacceptable - official report

Britain's handling of migrants who arrive by small boats from Northern France has been unacceptable, ineffective and inefficient, an independent inspection published on Thursday said.

Reuters

Liz Truss vows to ‘bulldoze through’ policies needed to save Britain from recession

The Foreign Secretary denied her proposed tax cuts of around £30 billion would worsen the cost-of-living crisis by fuelling inflation

Evening Standard

We are still sleepwalking headlong into disasters that are all too visible

When to start worrying that something catastrophic is on the horizon? Most of us tend to start at some point after it has already happened. We buy insurance against a particular disaster only after we have experienced it (and then cancel it a few years later). We fail to evacuate…

Evening Standard

WHO again considers declaring monkeypox a global emergency

The World Health Organization is convening its emergency committee to consider for the second time within weeks whether the expanding outbreak of monkeypox should be declared a global crisis

The Independent UK

2 contenders battle for Conservative votes in UK leader race

The two candidates to become Britain’s next prime minister have begun a head-to-head battle for the votes of Conservative Party members who will choose the country’s new leader

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This summer’s strikes are already working – unions, set your sights even higher

With spiralling inflation and a tight labour market, workers’ power is on a high. But that doesn’t guarantee success, writes labour correspondent Polly Smythe

Wales Online

47% of us say we've never seen a hedgehog

A new report highlights the native species many of us have never spotted

The Independent UK

What was Britain’s notorious heatwave of 1976 like?

The hottest day of the year proved to be 3 July, when the mercury hit an alarming 35.9C in Cheltenham

Daily Mirror

How UK can prepare for hotter future as heatwaves predicted to cause more deaths

University of Reading’s Prof Hannah Cloke says we need to start thinking about heatwaves 'very differently'. Hot temperatures this week reminded us of how poorly Britain is prepared to cope

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Medal hope Max Burgin pulls out of World Athletics Championships 800m heat with calf injury

Britain’s hopes of continuing its medal rush in the middle-distance races at the World Athletics Championships suffered a massive blow when Max Burgin pulled out of his 800metre heat with a calf injury.

ABC News

MPs and ordinary voters no longer have a say in who becomes Britain's next PM. Here's what happens next

Only a small section of the British public will decide who gets to lead the country following Boris Johnson's resignation. So who are they and who will they vote for?

ABC News

Birmingham Commonwealth Games athletes add UK heatwave to their list of challenges

The record temperatures in Britain have had mixed results on Australia's Commonwealth Games hopefuls, with the opening ceremony now just a week away.

Daily Mirror

Man's tattoo of late wife is only remaining picture of her after house went up in flames

Keith Gant's home in Ashmanhaugh, Norfolk, was engulfed by one of the many wildfires that raged across Britain on Tuesday, destroying all his pictures of his late wife

Daily Mirror

'All voters in Britain should choose our next Prime Minister, not just the Tory Party'

We the people should decide who is to be Prime Minister, not the less than 0.3% of the population who are in the tiny Tory Party. Britain needs a fresh direction and a new Government

Daily Mirror

Jake Wightman's dad tells all after sharing world gold medal joy with his son

Geoff Wightman had provided the soundtrack to his son’s races for as long as he could remember, but this was something new. Jake had just become Britain’s first male world 1500m champion since Steve Cram in 1983

The Conversation

Deconstructing the cult of Winston Churchill: racism, deification and nostalgia for empire

Only one prime minister is honoured with a statue on the grounds of the Australian National University. Despite the university’s name, it is not an Australian. Rather, the stern face of Britain’s war-time prime minister Winston Churchill greets students on the Canberra campus. Although the ANU was founded in 1946,…

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