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June 28, 2022

Queen's secret influence on Scottish law revealed

A Scottish government memo obtained by the Guardian reveals that "it is almost certain" draft laws had been secretly changed to secure the Queen's approval. Under an arcane mechanism known as Queen's consent, the monarch is routinely given advance sight of proposed laws that could affect her personal property and public powers.

4 mins

New Northern Ireland law may be in place this year, says PM

Proposed legislation to allow the UK to unilaterally rip up Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland at the risk of a trade war with the EU looked set to easily pass the first voting stage in the House of Commons last night.

2 mins

Common people A Sheffield council house and the birth of electric dreams

A band turning up for a session at Studio Electrophonique in the late 1970s could have been forgiven for thinking they had the wrong address. An ordinary Sheffield council house with a caravan parked on the driveway, it was semi-detached with deep pile carpets and a toy poodle with a bark like a wildebeest.

2 mins

Parisian bikers rue end of free parking as city chiefs try to end ‘chaos’

For years, drivers of cars and vans in Paris have been hit by rising parking charges while the city’s estimated half a million motorbike and moped riders have parked wherever they wanted for free.

1 min

Zelenskiy urges leaders of G7 to help Ukraine end conflict by winter

The Ukrainian president, Voldymyr Zelenskiy, yesterday urged G7 leaders gathered in Germany to help end the war in Ukraine by the winter as they planned further economic measures against Russia and vowed to "stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes".

3 mins

'Putin's trap' Scholz insists world is united behind Kyiv as war dominates agenda

The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has argued the world is more unified in its support for Ukraine than Russia suggests, as the war dominated a meeting also tasked with crises in food supply, the climate emergency and a breakdown in global order.

3 mins

Nato 300,000 troops to be put on high alert over Russia threat

Nato's secretary-general has said this week's Madrid summit will agree the alliance's most significant transformation for a generation, putting 300,000 troops at high readiness in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

2 mins

Vaughan role 'inexcusable', says BBC diversity group

An in-house diversity group at the BBC has sent an extraordinary email to staff at the corporation criticising as "totally inexcusable" the decision to employ the former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan as part of the team covering the third Test against New Zealand at Headingley.

1 min

Ecstatic fans cheer Raducanu's win as Wimbledon bounces back in high style

Thousands of tennis fans cheered Emma Raducanu to victory at Wimbledon yesterday as the tournament returned to capacity for the first time in three years.

2 mins

Government owns stake in business that plans sex parties

Taxpayers have become shareholders in Killing Kittens, a business that organises sex parties, as part of the fallout from a government rescue funding scheme set up during the coronavirus pandemic.

1 min

NHS trusts clash over 'clinical harm' of rebuild plan

An extraordinary row has broken out between two NHS hospital trusts, with one accusing the other of endangering the safety of seriously ill patients through a £190m development scheme.

2 mins

Man arrested after woman dies in 'horrific attack' close to her home

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 35-year-old woman was beaten to death in a London street.

2 mins

V&A show fashions a new view of pan-African creativity

The Victoria and Albert Museum will open its first African fashion exhibition this week, more than 170 years after it was founded.

2 mins

'Lying' supreme court justices should face impeachment, says Ocasio-Cortez

Political pressure is mounting on Joe Biden to take more action to protect abortion rights across the US as New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on supreme court justices to be impeached for misleading statements about their views on Roe v Wade.

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