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Lord Sebastian Coe adamant London 2012 Olympics was "best games ever"

Coe led Britain's bid to be the host country in 2012 as London delivered a memorable games including the iconic Super Saturday when Mo Farah, Greg Rutherford and Jessica Ennis-Hill all won gold

Daily Mirror

Defiant Sebastian Coe flies flag for London Olympics with a murky legacy

Lord Coe maintains pride in what the 2012 Games gave UK sport and reveals Sir Alex Ferguson almost managed Team GB

The Guardian - UK

Michael Pascoe: Business isn’t wasting a good crisis while China plays the long game

Ampol’s increased refinery profits, the price of bread in Britain, environmentalists making coal miners richer and China selling its US Treasuries stash.

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London Underground train staff to strike on Aug 19 - PA Media

London underground train staff plan to strike on Aug. 19 over jobs and pensions, PA Media reported on Tuesday, citing the RMT union, in Britain's latest industrial dispute that could affect transport services.

Reuters

Truss attacks Sunak’s ‘disastrous’ economic plan ahead of second TV debate

Liz Truss told Sky News the former chancellor’s tax plans will “put off people who want to invest in Britain”.

The Independent UK

Britain begins drought planning after record heatwave

Britain is enacting the early stages of drought plans which involve using water carefully to protect supplies, the government said on Tuesday, following record-breaking temperatures.

Reuters

Opinion: How Britain’s industrial heartlands can forge a greener future

UK decarbonisation champion and director of Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre, Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer, writes for Business Live.

Birmingham Post

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Britain targets Russian officials in new wave of sanctions

Britain said on Tuesday it had sanctioned Kremlin-imposed officials in the Luhansk and Donetsk provinces in eastern Ukraine as well as 29 regional governors across Russia in response to Moscow's invasion of the former Soviet republic.

Reuters

Gatwick disruption pushes easyJet into loss

Fares for July, August and September are 13% higher than before pandemic on Britain's biggest budget airline

The Independent UK

French to blame for travel chaos at UK ports, claims Jeremy Hunt

‘There is a lack of willingness in the French government to be cooperative with Britain in any way at all’

The Independent UK

‘The council tenants weren’t going to be allowed back’: how Britain’s ‘ugliest building’ was gentrified

The east London brutalist landmark Balfron Tower was conceived as the perfect neighbourhood in the sky by its Marxist architect. Now its flats are being sold as ‘trophy properties’

The Guardian - UK

Sam Ryder reminds fans that Eurovision 2023 is still ‘Ukraine’s party’

The singer said Britain would be ‘loving facilitators’ following the announcement that the competition will be held in the UK in 2023.

The Independent UK

Inflation concerns hit 40-year high as prices keep rising

More people in Britain are concerned about inflation now than at any point since the early 1980s, an Ipsos survey suggests.

The Independent UK

UK prime minister hopefuls feud over tax and spending plans

The final two candidates in the race to succeed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson clashed on Monday in a televised debate, during which they tore into each other's tax and spending plans.

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UK PM hopeful Truss takes aim at trade unions in leadership contest

Foreign secretary Liz Truss will promise on Tuesday to bring in "tough and decisive action" to limit strike action by trade unions if she becomes Britain's next prime minister, the latest salvo in a divisive fight to lead the Conservative Party.

The Conversation

Do we care enough about COVID?

The COVID-19 pandemic has already generated its own mythology. In Britain, they talk of the “myth of the blitz” – the idea of a society that pulled together in the second world war to withstand the bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe with pluck, bravery and humour.

Daily Mirror

Dame Laura Kenny admits she nearly quit cycling after miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy

Britain's greatest female Olympian goes for gold in the Commonwealth Games this week - but 2022 has not gone the way she planned and she only got back on her bike because it felt like a 'safe place'

Daily Mirror

Taste test of The Radfords' pies from baking business of Britain's biggest family

Noel Radford, who has been a baker for over 25 years, launched the Radford Pie Company in 1999, which he says allows him to 'manage to provide for (and feed) our huge and expanding family as well as for the local people of Heysham and Morecambe'

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The Guardian - UK

Housebuilding standards need a climate update

Letters: Louis Hellman suggests an overhaul of building regulations, while Jon Reeds looks at Britain’s very low housing densities

The Guardian - UK

There is one man to blame for the lorries backed up in Dover: Boris Johnson

Tory leadership candidates, as they spout their pseudo-Thatcherite cliches, lack the guts to admit Brexit is not working, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Radio France Internationale

Britain to host 2023 Eurovision as Ukraine bows out

Britain said Monday it had agreed to host next year's Eurovision song contest, after organisers said there was no prospect of the event going ahead in Ukraine, which is engaged in a war with neighbouring Russia. Kyiv has welcomed the decision.

The Independent UK

2 UK leadership contenders face head-to-head TV debate

The two candidates vying to be Britain’s next prime minister are set to face off in a TV debate as they seek to woo members of the Conservative Party who will choose the new leader

Evening Standard

UK drought warning as further heatwaves cannot be ruled out

Officials warn UK could fall into drought

The Independent UK

UK to host 2023 Eurovision after Ukraine ruled too risky

Organizers say next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be staged in Britain because it is too risky to hold it in the designated host country, Ukraine

Reuters

Britain to host 2023 Eurovision Song Contest on Ukraine's behalf

Britain will host next year's Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of winners Ukraine due to the ongoing conflict there, the competition's organisers said on Monday.

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