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Suspended Labour councillor cleared of encouraging violent disorder
A suspended Labour councillor who called at an anti-racism rally for far-right activists' throats to be cut has been found not guilty of encouraging violent disorder.
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August 16, 2025
The Guardian
On the flipside Could Apple make devices exciting again with its first folding phone?
Back in 2005, nothing felt more high-powered and sophisticated than ending a call by snapping shut a clamshell flip phone.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
The name's Bond... Oddjob's hatter and King Charles's tailor supply evidence in 007 trademark fight
King Charles's personal shirtmaker. The world's oldest hatters, designer of fitments for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation crown and with fans including Winston Churchill. A luxury sports brand with a \"spy-ready\" ski-suit. Has James Bond assembled a crack team that can take on his latest adversary?
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Stage review Audacious testament to a jazz genius
Celebrity biographical dramas are ten a penny but it takes audacity for a performer to emulate the famous person in question. What elevates Miles, a tribute to the jazz legend Miles Davis, is the role of the musician Jay Phelps.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Britain's Biggest Bailiff Firm Forced to Set Up Refunds Scheme After Overcharging
Britain's biggest bailiff company overcharged people it was pursuing for unpaid debts and has been forced to launch a refunds programme, the Guardian can reveal.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Tales of rows, insults and online hostilities in Britain's royal families
I'm not sure I can bring myself to actually read it, but the publication this week of Entitled: the Rise and Fall of the House of York, by Andrew Lownie, promises to enliven a dead patch of summer with — putting Jeffrey Epstein aside — a wealth of petty revelations, a jog back through Prince Andrew's most ridiculous episodes and an opportunity to use the phrase \"the disgraced duke.\" Shall we?
4 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Vienna's living streets The city where anyone can build an urban oasis
In a quiet corner of Vienna's well-to-do 18th district, Jana is explaining how her assembly of wooden decking and planters is bringing a bit of greenery to the area. \"There's not a single tree on this whole street - it's just parking spaces on both sides.\"
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Farage calls for PM to appoint Reform peers to House of Lords
Nigel Farage has called for the right to nominate Reform UK supporters to the House of Lords, claiming it would address a \"democratic disparity\".
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Money Hacks: Blazers to Biros – Get Set for the New School Year
To get your children's uniforms sorted in time, and at a good price, you need to start early – you will avoid long queues and have plenty of choice of style, size and price point.
4 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Comedy review Prehistoric passions are the new Long game
\"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born.\"
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Waterstones says book sales up as young adults snub screens
Times may be tough on the high street, but the bookseller Waterstones is enjoying strong sales as younger adults embrace reading as an escape from their screens and online competition eases.
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Essex protests Council seeks order to shut asylum hotel
A high court judge has been asked to shut down a hotel housing asylum seekers amid concerns about violence and disorder seen at far-right protests at the site.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
North Korea Putin sends letter to thank 'heroic' troops
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, hailed North Korean troops sent to fight in Ukraine as \"heroic\" in a letter to Kim Jong-un, North Korean state media reported yesterday.
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August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Firefighters 'pushed to the brink' as UK record for wildfires set to be broken
Firefighters have warned that 2025 is on track to beat the UK record for wildfires, with frontline staff \"pushed to their limits\".
2 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
'What about us?' Emotions run high in frontline city over risk of deal ceding land to Moscow
Zaporizhzhia, an industrial hub in south-east Ukraine, is as good a place as any to grasp the stakes of freezing Russia's invasion of Ukraine along its current frontlines, or of implementing a \"land swap for peace\" deal as envisioned by Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
4 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
'Oxford is lucky to have him' Birkenhead college students exceed the national average
Birkenhead college students exceed the national average
3 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
Theologian in Jenrick row offers olive branch
The theologian who accused Robert Jenrick of xenophobia on the BBC has invited the shadow justice minister to work with him to ease tensions over migration rather than \"ramping up anti-immigrant sentiment\".
3 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
West Bank 'Illegal' settlement plan likely to gain planning approval
Israel appears set to give formal planning approval to a settlement project for more than 3,400 new homes - which has been on hold for decades - which critics say would split the occupied West Bank in half.
2 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
Wavy walls Fears for future of unique houses in Burkina Faso
A world heritage site that was once a famous tourist destination is under threat amid changing weather patterns.
2 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
World records for Richardson and Bjergfelt
Britain's Matt Richardson and Will Bjergfelt set world records at a special event backed by British Cycling in Turkey yesterday.
1 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
Family of Southport victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects
The family of Bebe King, one of the three girls killed in the Southport attack last year, have urged ministers to reconsider their support for disclosing the ethnicity of serious crime suspects, saying this information is \"completely irrelevant\" and that \"the propensity to commit crime happens in any ethnicity, nationality or race\".
2 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
Israel 'weaponising aid' to Gaza with rules on permits, humanitarian groups say
More than 100 aid organisations working in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have accused Israel of dangerously \"weaponising aid\" in its application of new rules for registering groups involved in delivering humanitarian assistance.
2 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
Putin is ready to make a deal, says Trump ahead of Alaska meeting
Donald Trump said he believed Vladimir Putin was ready to make a deal on the war in Ukraine as the two leaders prepared for their summit in Alaska today, but his suggestion that Moscow and Kyiv would \"divvy things up\" may cause alarm.
5 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
The big show is back! Premier League returns with new thrills and a new threat
Clubs are spending like the world's on fire, from Wirtz to Gyökeres and Sesko, but who can say yet who has found the right chemistry?
1 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
Sky expects to fend off Netflix for live rights to US Open
Sky Sports is in advanced talks over signing a new six-year deal for exclusive UK live rights for the US Open. The current contract expires after next year's Championship at Shinnecock Hills and it is expecting to beat off competition from other broadcasters, including Netflix, to secure an extension.
1 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
Manager sets the bar high for Wirtz to meet Liverpool expectations
Club's record signing must follow Salah's standards and stay fit, says head coach
2 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
Centrica in £1.5bn deal to buy huge gas terminal
The owner of British Gas has placed a £1.5bn bet on the UK's future reliance on fossil fuel imports after striking a deal to buy Europe's biggest gas import terminal.
1 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
Eli Lilly raises UK price of weight loss jab Mounjaro by up to 170%
The price of the weight loss jab Mounjaro will rise by up to 170% in the UK, its US manufacturer has said, as Donald Trump steps up pressure on drugmakers to increase their prices for Europeans so that they can make them more affordable for Americans.
1 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
Contaminated fentanyl kills up to 96 people in Argentina
As many as 96 people are thought to have died in Argentina after being treated with medical-use fentanyl that was tainted with bacteria.
2 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
Scottish teenager named a Time 'girl of the year'
A Scottish child has been named a \"girl of the year\" by Time magazine after she invented a solar-powered thermal blanket to help rough sleepers keep warm.
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