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Map: The 12 new towns set to be built around UK

Each development is expected to have at least 10,000 homes

The Independent UK

Weight-loss jabs should be available to millions more on NHS, Streeting suggests

Health should not be determined by wealth, says Wes Streeting at the Labour Party conference

The Independent UK

Voices: ‘Easy to snipe from the sidelines’: Readers defend Starmer amid questions over Burnham’s leadership ambitions

YOUR VIEWS: Our community sees Andy Burnham’s supposed leadership manoeuvres as divisive. While some defended Keir Starmer’s authority, others questioned Labour’s overall direction and unity

The Independent UK

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Streeting to set out £500m package to boost social care pay

Health Secretary Wes Streeting will vow to end ‘poverty pay’ in social care.

The Independent UK

Rescuers run oxygen to survivors in Indonesia school building collapse that buried dozens

Rescuers ran oxygen and water to students trapped in the unstable concrete rubble of a collapsed school building in Indonesia, as they desperately worked to free survivors

The Independent UK

Sir Gary Oldman receives knighthood from Prince William

The Oscar winner was recognised for his services to drama in the King’s Birthday Honours

The Independent UK

NHS hospital becomes first to offer new ovarian cancer surveillance test

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie raised awareness of BRCA mutations in 2013 when she had a double mastectomy to cut her chance of developing cancer.

The Independent UK

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Voices: First jobs are awful. You should get one anyway

COMMENT: The chancellor Rachel Reeves’s pitch to get nearly a million young people into work is flawed – and the truth is that working in a place you hate can be torturous. But it’s also character-building, writes former supermarket checkout assistant Victoria Richards

The Independent UK

Bridget Phillipson pushes back at criticism over potential Year 8 reading tests

The Government is set to introduce compulsory reading tests as part of its upcoming Schools White Paper.

The Independent UK

Reform ‘proudly embracing’ anti-abortion politics as experts warn issue faces US-style politicisation in UK

Campaigners accuse party of ‘fast becoming the political refuge for anti-abortion hardliners’

The Independent UK

Battle of Blackheath: Inside the celebrity fight against ‘ugly’ new housing in picturesque London hotspot

Blackheath locals including LBC presenter Nick Ferrari and actor Sarah Hadland tell The Independent their fight against ‘ugly’ proposed development could soon be repeated around the UK amid the government’s house-building pledges

The Independent UK

Union leader issues ‘wake-up call’ to Labour over ‘widespread disappointment’

The general secretary of the NASUWT teachers’ union said frustration is rooted in ‘decades of neglect’

The Independent UK

Meet the Shard Climber, who refuses to give up his passion despite knowing it could kill him

EXCLUSIVE: George King, known as the ‘Shard Climber’, tells Hebe Campbell about the compulsions that drive him to risk his life – and why he can’t stop climbing

The Independent UK

Fury in Greenwich as residents protest council’s ‘Stalinist’ parking proposals

A crowd of angry residents gathered outside Woolwich Town Hall on Wednesday evening

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Tesco, Asda and Morrisons axe supplier after secret farm footage shows piglets beaten to death

Exclusive: Tesco, Asda and Morrisons suspend supplier and meat giant sacks four staff after hidden cameras capture cruelty

The Independent UK

Voices: ‘Get over the alarmism’: Readers say ID cards work well abroad as Starmer’s plan sparks division

YOUR VIEWS: Starmer’s digital ID plan has split opinion, but many in our community have drawn on experiences overseas to argue ID cards are practical and long overdue

The Guardian - UK

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

The Independent UK

Tories set out plan to cut red tape and end ‘woke’ practices

The party has vowed to create a ‘business-led’ law to scrap regulations.

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The Independent UK

Community urged not to take law into their own hands over ‘African tribe’

Police have received a report in relation to an incident where the group says someone threw stones at them.

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s head of communications Steph Driver quits in latest No 10 exit

Exclusive: Departure of key figure comes little over a week after that of director of political strategy

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson brands Nigel Farage’s party ‘extremely dangerous’ as he rules out Reform move

Boris Johnson said Nigel Farage can’t be trusted as PM with rising tensions in Eastern Europe

The Independent UK

Minister refuses to guarantee Labour will end use of asylum hotels by 2029

Matthew Pennycook refused to guarantee the use of asylum hotels will end by 2029

The Guardian - UK

Six great reads: my Couples Therapy hell, the plot to dethrone Keir Starmer and a ‘creepy’ AI toy

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days

The Conversation

Trump, Charles and Starmer: a successful state visit steadies an uncertain premiership

Donald Trump’s first state visit to the UK, in June 2019, was an attempt by the British government to try to forestall the threat of Trumpism, a set of ideas and style of leadership that were not, in the end, embedded. The unprecedented second state visit of September 2025 has…

The Independent UK

Voices: The King has single-handedly saved our embattled prime minister

COMMENT: Feted by British royalty like no other American president, Donald Trump, the brash real-estate guy from Queens who is shunned by New York’s grand old families, was made to feel right at home, says Emily Sheffield. But it was a crowning achievement for Keir Starmer, too

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