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Murder suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky were pulled over and searched by First Nation safety officers checking for alcoholThe manhunt for accused killers Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky in northern Canada has taken another frustrating turn, with authorities confirming the duo was stopped at a checkpoint but then let go.The pair, who are suspected of shooting dead Australian tourist Lucas Fowler and his American girlfriend Chynna Deese along with Canadian botanist Leonard Dyck, have been on the run in northern Canada for two weeks. Continue reading...

Officer who told woman she was wasting police time was given a lesser charge by panelThe parents of a woman who was accused of wasting police time five months before she was killed by her ex-boyfriend have denounced disciplinary proceedings against the police officer involved as a sham after he was found not to have committed gross misconduct.A panel sitting in Lewes, East Sussex found Trevor Godfrey failed to adequately investigate Shana Grice’s allegations of harassment and stalking and failed to treat her as a victim – behaviour that amounted to a breach of police rules. But it said his actions amounted to the lesser disciplinary offence of misconduct for which Godfrey, now retired, would not have been sacked, were he still working. Continue reading...

Cost covers three-month period during which high court had halted enforced return policyThe Home Office has spent a quarter of a million pounds on charter flights to deport people in the last three months without a single plane leaving the runway in that period, it has been revealed.About 12,000 migrants are forcibly removed from the UK each year with another 20,000 removed through the voluntary returns route. Approximately 2,000 of those forcibly removed are put on planes privately chartered by the Home Office. Continue reading...

Kim Carr stirs caucus meeting over decision not to fight child sexual exploitation legislationA former Labor frontbencher, Kim Carr, has challenged his party’s repositioning post-election, asking why the ALP would decline to vote against government legislation that contravened the party’s national policy platform.Carr’s pointed intervention came during a caucus meeting where the Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, told colleagues the Coalition would get most of its legislation through the Senate in this parliament because there was an effective conservative majority post-election. Continue reading...

Scotland’s first minister criticises Boris Johnson’s ‘hardline position’ on BrexitBoris Johnson has been accused by Nicola Sturgeon of intentionally pushing the UK towards a no-deal Brexit, despite his “bluff and bluster” about wanting an agreement with EU leaders.After meeting Johnson face-to-face in Edinburgh, the Scottish first minister said she believed he was pursuing a “dangerous” hardline strategy with EU leaders, with the likely outcome of no-deal Brexit. Continue reading...

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Canadian authorities urge people to remain vigilant as search for Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky continuesCanadian authorities have suffered a frustrating blow in their search for two teenage suspects wanted over a series of killing in remote northern Canada.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced late on Monday that a possible sighting of Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, at a garbage dump could not be substantiated after a “thorough and exhaustive search”. Continue reading...

Lifelong anonymity for Blackburn teenager who plotted to murder Australian police officersThe identity of Britain’s youngest terrorist, who plotted to murder police officers in Australia, will remain a secret for the rest of his life following a high court ruling.The teenager, from Blackburn, Lancashire, who can be identified only as RXG, sent encrypted messages when he was 14 instructing an Australian jihadist to launch attacks during a 2015 Anzac Day parade. Now 18, he was jailed for life at Manchester crown court in October 2015 after he admitted inciting terrorism overseas. Continue reading...

To rebuild trust, the embattled fund manager should start by scrapping his management feesNeil Woodford once had a reputation as Britain’s answer to Warren Buffet, with the celebrity kudos to bring in more than £10bn of other people’s money to manage on their behalf.Stock watchers used to refer to the “Woodford effect” of investors picking a star manager, rather than a particular asset class or market. The situation could not be any more different today with his Equity Income Fund in crisis. Continue reading...

Tony Robinson, a minister in the late 2000s, accuses the Victorian regulator of failing to properly supervise the casinoA former Victorian gaming minister has demanded the state’s gambling regulator investigate allegations aired by Nine against the operator of Melbourne’s casino, Crown Resorts, that include accusations of links to organised crime in China.Tony Robinson, who was minister for gaming in the late 2000s under the Labor premier John Brumby, said the Melbourne casino had the potential to damage the state’s reputation, and the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation must allocate more resources to supervising it. Continue reading...

Joy and Richard Webb respond to recent negative coverage about the fair trade movementAs committed and hardworking supporters of fair trade for almost 30 years, we feel your correspondents (Letters, 27 July) missed the point of “The death of fair trade?” (The long read, 23 July) which showed how large corporations are trying to circumvent fair trade and undermine the highly successful Fairtrade mark with their own “fairly traded” and the like. Rest assured, the Fairtrade mark remains an absolutely trustworthy guarantee of internationally agreed standards.Tim Gossling blames the EU for “not allowing” the production of Divine chocolate in Ghana. This is not true. The EU is primarily a trading bloc, it imposes tariffs on products from outside that bloc. That’s what trading blocs do. It benefits UK manufacturers and farmers, too. No wonder the TUC, CBI and NFU are all appalled at the thought of similar tariffs being slapped on our products after Brexit. Continue reading...

Bosses of huge publicly funded project paid firm £59,000 over three years, documents showSenior managers at Crossrail, the huge publicly funded rail project in London, hired a corporate security company to monitor trade unionists who were campaigning against blacklisting across the construction industry, previously secret documents reveal.The managers paid £59,000 to the company, Control Risks, over three years. They said the monitoring of the trade unionists was part of work to protect the project from outside threats. Continue reading...

More than 400 hot air balloons attempt to break the simultaneous takeoff world record in the Grand Est Mondial Air Ballons festival at Chambley-Bussières airbase in eastern France Continue reading...

Paul Bussetti told police the incident was ‘one of those stupid moments’, court hearsA man who filmed an effigy of Grenfell Tower being burned on a bonfire told police it was a “stupid moment”, a court has heard.Paul Bussetti, who is accused of sending a grossly offensive video on WhatsApp and causing footage of a menacing nature to be uploaded to YouTube, said he did not know why he took the footage. Continue reading...

Woman rolled to safety but boy, eight, was struck by high-speed train, say police in FrankfurtAn eight-year-old boy has died after he and his mother were deliberately pushed on to train tracks at Frankfurt’s main railway station, German police have said.The boy was hit by a high-speed ICE train and killed instantly. His mother was able to roll into a safe gap between two platforms and escaped injury. Continue reading...

Family says car crash that left two relatives dead was attempt to silence alleged victimA teenager who alleged she had been raped by a ruling party official in India is critically injured in hospital after a car crash.Two female relatives were killed in the crash, which occurred on Sunday when a truck collided with their car in Uttar Pradesh. Her lawyer was also badly injured. Continue reading...

Rebecca Kanter is accused of abusing staff and damaging property at Washington DC embassyA fan of the rapper A$AP Rocky has been arrested in Washington DC after allegedly threatening to “blow up” the Swedish embassy there. The rapper is currently jailed in Sweden, awaiting trial for an assault charge after footage emerged of him and his entourage allegedly punching and kicking a pair of men on a Stockholm street.According to a written statement by a Secret Service officer, Rebecca Kanter is accused of screaming at embassy staff, accosting a group of students visiting the embassy and damaging property. She was arrested after refusing to leave the premises, and charged with wilfully injuring and damaging property of a foreign government, and refusing to depart a foreign embassy. The previous day she had allegedly thrown liquid from a Coca-Cola bottle at the embassy and shouted: “I’m going to blow this motherfucker up.” She wrote on social media that she had “defiled the House of Sweden … why aren’t I getting press for A$AP”. She has been released on bail. Continue reading...

Roads closed in north-west after Manchester area gets two weeks’ worth of rain in 24 hours

Man arrested as army bomb disposal team called to property in LowestoftTwo military grenades and “unidentified chemicals” have been found by police in Suffolk, leading to more than than 60 homes being evacuated.Officers from Suffolk constabulary made the discovery on Sunday afternoon while executing an arrest warrant at a property in Lowestoft. Continue reading...

Rona Mcseveny, a former patient of UCHL, is showcasing her photos of the continent at the hospital’s Street Gallery. The exhibition is a thank-you to the NHS for the treatment she received. Below, she details the spellbinding sights she captured on her trip

‘Multiple resources’ being sent to York Landing in Manitoba, 80km from remote town of Gillam where were confirmed sightings of the pairCanadian police are headed to the community of York Landing, Manitoba, in pursuit of fugitives Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, after the pair were spotted by members of an Indigenous patrol group.The fugitives were seen by members of the Bear Clan Patrol, who are based in the provincial capital of Winnipeg. The group has been assisting community members in the Fox Lake Cree Nation, which is next door to the remote community of Gillam, where the search has been focussed. Continue reading...

Monday: Newstart recipients regularly skip meals and other essentials to make ends meet. Plus: Boris Johnson goes for brokeGood morning, this is Helen Sullivan bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Monday 29 July. Continue reading...

Push to set up Senate inquiry takes a step forward, as Coalition faces questions on why energy prices keep risingLabor will continue to target the energy minister, Angus Taylor, as the government’s weak link, citing power price rises since 2015 and renewing its push to set up a Senate inquiry into his meetings with the environment department over endangered grasslands.On Sunday the mooted inquiry took a step forward with Rex Patrick reversing Centre Alliance’s position and pledging to support the move, although Labor and the Greens still need Cory Bernardi or One Nation’s votes to succeed. Continue reading...

Readers suggest a tale of a 19th-century small-town newspaper standing in the path of ‘despotic enemies’ may not be apocryphal after allA few columns ago I cited a story often told among journalists, for fun and to caution against self-importance, usually in vain. Variously attributed to small newspapers in remote locations at some time in the 19th century, an editorial discussing Russian foreign policy is said to have thundered: “We warn the Tsar!”Related: The Last Czars: the historical drama that the whole of Russia is laughing at Continue reading...

Alexandra Macesanu, 15, told police “he’s coming, he’s coming” in final phone call but took 19 hours to find herA murder suspect in the southern Romanian town of Caracal has admitted to killing two teenage girls, his lawyer has said, in a case that sparked nationwide outrage over the way authorities handled it.Gheorghe Dinca, 65, a mechanic, has been detained pending an investigation into the deaths of Alexandra Macesanu, 15, who was last seen earlier this week, and Luiza Melencu, 18, who was reported missing in April. Continue reading...

Metropolitan police pay £2,500 to Oluwole Ilesanmi after snatching Bible from his handA Christian street preacher who had his Bible confiscated as he was handcuffed by police has been awarded £2,500 for wrongful arrest.A video of Oluwole Ilesanmi pleading with a police officer to “not take my Bible away” has been viewed millions of times since his arrest in February. Continue reading...

Man in clown suit reportedly sparked fight on Friday – but P&O says there was no clown

Public warned to check travel information before leaving home as disruption from heatwave continuesRail travellers face continued disruption on Sunday after record temperatures, thunderstorms and heavy rainfall played havoc with the transport network.A spokesman for East Midlands Trains told people to expect a significantly reduced service in and out of London at the weekend after an overhead line was damaged. Meanwhile, the number of flights arriving at airports continued to be restricted. Continue reading...

Prime minister blasted for ‘terrible error of judgement’ in making Dominic Cummings – found in contempt of parliament - his aideProminent MPs on the committee investigating fake news and disinformation want Boris Johnson’s aide Dominic Cummings, who has been found in contempt of parliament, to face sanctions in his new role at the heart of government. These could include docking his salary, denying him a security pass and putting pressure on the prime minister to force him to give evidence to parliament.Johnson’s decision to appoint Cummings as a key adviser outraged many MPs because it came less than four months after parliament unanimously passed a motion, tabled by the government, to censure him for failing to testify at the fake news inquiry. Continue reading...

Starring in Crazy Rich Asians and Captain Marvel turned Gemma Chan into a household name. But it was not always so easy. She talks about giving up law, dealing with shyness and becoming Hollywood royaltyGemma Chan is nervous, as if she’s waiting for the dentist to perform a particularly painful extraction. We meet in a café filled with babies and tired-looking mothers, in a fancy, rich-people part of north London. The setting is appropriate, given what we’re here to talk about: I Am Hannah, the new improvised Channel 4 drama she co-created with director Dominic Savage. It tells the story of a woman in her mid-30s who dates, scattershot, via apps, while feeling the weight of the biological and social pressures to have a baby. Chan, 36, is keen to point out that it is not autobiographical.“I mean, God. I have friends who are so happily married with children, on their third, some friends who’ve done it who are struggling with elements of it, and other friends who have no interest in it, are free and single.” She inhales sharply. “Yeah. It’s weird. I do find it strange that in your 30s, suddenly, you become more aware that, if I’m going to do it, try to have a biological child, I need to think about it now.” She clams up. “Sorry, I don’t have anything to add to that.” Continue reading...

If street protests are too shouty, craftivism may offer an alternative and still powerful means of political expressionCraftivism is like punk. Sarah Corbett say this so gently and rationally that if you squint at her workshop of women peacefully stitching dream clouds in a Devon studio, you might try to summon the spirit of the Sex Pistols at Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall. You might.Where punk snarled and spat to dramatically shake up the nation, craft looks ineffably twee by comparison: needlework is not the Buzzcocks, knitting is not the Ramones. And yet through painstaking, collective action, craftivism has become an unlikely social and political force. Continue reading...

Independent MP Alex Greenwich to introduce bill developed by cross-party working groupThe New South Wales health minister has declared it’s “time for change” when it comes to abortion law, ahead of the introduction of a new bill which would see pregnancy terminations regulated as a medical procedure around the state.Currently abortions in NSW are dealt with under the Crimes Act 1900. Continue reading...

CSIRO says dramatic climate events are compounding the effects of underlying global heatingExtreme climate events such as heatwaves, floods and drought damaged 45% of the marine ecosystems along Australia’s coast in a seven-year period, CSIRO research shows.More than 8,000km of Australia’s coast was affected by extreme climate events from 2011 to 2017, and in some cases they caused irreversible changes to marine habitats. Continue reading...

Thousands of curious visitors – and fascists – descend on the Apennine townDressed in black T-shirts, their arms inked with tattoos, Fabrizio and Mameli Gamberini are on their yearly homage trip to Predappio, the birth town and burial place of Benito Mussolini.“We’re fascists,” Mameli proudly admits as she leaves Predappio Tricolore, a souvenir shop teeming with Mussolini memorabilia, on Friday morning. “We come every year at the end of July to buy a few new keepsakes, visit his tomb and leave some flowers in his honour.” Continue reading...

Passengers advised to check conditions before travel as Met Office issues yellow weather warningFlights have been cancelled and rail travellers face delays after the UK experienced record temperatures, thunderstorms and heavy rainfall.East Midlands Trains (EMT) told people to expect a significantly reduced service in and out of London at the weekend after serious damage was caused to an overhead line, while the rate of arrivals was restricted at airports. Continue reading...

An ever closer alliance between Beijing and Moscow has the Pentagon worried as a threat to US power in east AsiaIt sounds unpleasant, even painful. But as they ponder the linked challenges posed by China and Russia, Pentagon strategists are earnestly discussing whether Vladimir Putin, Russia’s famously athletic leader, will perform a “reverse Nixon”.This is neither a daring swivel on the parallel bars nor an unusual sexual position. At issue is whether Putin will emulate the 37th US president, Richard Nixon, whose groundbreaking 1972 cold war outreach to China tilted the strategic balance in America’s favour. Continue reading...

When the writer and director arrived in Wales to shoot a new drama, she was nursing a broken heart and romantic ideas of British life. Then she discovered the reality soap opera...As I planned my summer in Wales, my head filled with visions of romance, I supposed I’d do what the heroines of novels did when they crossed the pond for a new life: go to the shore to take the healing air. Meet a man and move into his stunning manor, possibly watched over by a sinister housemaid. Scurry through cobblestoned streets and into dusty bookshops, furtively pulling up the hood of my cloak. Go to a banquet and dance to piano music in a great hall. Taste gamey meats on a date with a count, then become a countess. Shoot a bow and arrow. Develop a slight accent. Images of everything from Brighton Rock to Emma, The Woman In White to Notting Hill, filled my head. There was even a little 24 Hour Party People in there. But as it would happen, my days were long, and much more Wernham Hogg than Wuthering Heights. And my nights were short because soon I was smacked with a 9pm curfew. No, I haven’t been convicted of a crime and placed under house arrest. I discovered Love Island.The real drama is in what they don’t say as they wash their bronzer off for bed and change into their night-time thongs Continue reading...

Police being given military air support as authorities scour areas of Manitoba for teenage murder suspectsCanada’s armed forces have been drafted in to provide air support as police go door to door in the search for two teenagers suspected in three killings in the country’s remote wilderness.Authorities have urged “all Canadians” to be on the lookout for 19-year-old Kam McLeod and 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky, after the fatal shooting of a tourist couple – American woman Chynna Deese, 24, and her Australian boyfriend Lucas Fowler, 23 – and the murder of Vancouver professor Leonard Dyck, 64. Continue reading...

Berejiklian government says stage two offer from Lendlease ‘did not meet the government’s expectations’A firm that knocked down Sydney’s Allianz stadium has refused to rebuild the venue for the amount of money on offer from the Berejiklian government.The New South Wales government is searching for another company to rebuild the stadium after Lendlease rejected its offer. Continue reading...

Canadian authorities have released surveillance video from a store in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, taken on 21 July that shows teenage murder suspects Kam McLeod (with moustache and beard) and Bryer Schmegelsky (in army fatigues). Both teenagers are being sought by police after they were charged with the murder of Vancouver university professor Leonard Dyck and are suspected in the murder of a young Australian-American couple – Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese.

A reluctance to offend China and an information blackout has meant the persecution of the ethnic minority has gone under the radar. But pressure for change is buildingOn Wednesday, Sadam Abdusalam went to Australia’s federal Parliament House for the first time and spent almost 12 hours meeting politicians – meetings he has spent almost two years hoping for – in which he pleaded for their help to bring his wife and nearly two-year-old son home.Last week Abdusalam’s story was broadcast on Four Corners, detailing how his wife and son are trapped in China because they are Uighurs – ethnic minority Muslims. Continue reading...

The Labor leader defends the party’s recent pattern of capitulation, promising a policy reboot that won’t happen overnightAnthony Albanese does not hold back when sharing his situation report. “We’ve just got the lowest vote for the Australian Labor party in over 100 years,” the Labor leader tells Guardian Australia’s politics podcast.We are talking about a progressive backlash evident on social media – a negative response to Labor’s tendency post-election to vote for the Morrison government’s policy after critiquing it. Continue reading...

The Arctic Circle is suffering from an unprecedented number of wildfires in the latest sign of a climate crisis. With some blazes the size of 100,000 football pitches, vast areas in Siberia, Alaska and Greenland are engulfed in flames. The World Meteorological Organisation has said these fires emitted as much carbon dioxide in a month as the whole of Sweden does in a year

The owner of Sports Direct has battled with investors since his company’s stock market debutThe farce over Sports Direct’s annual results is the latest fraught episode in Mike Ashley’s relationship with the City.Shares in the company sank on the group’s stock market debut in 2007 and continued their downward trajectory for two years as profits disappointed and Ashley, the founder and controlling shareholder, kept his distance from investors and the media. A pick up in trading then won over fund managers, helping to nearly triple Sports Direct’s share price, taking the company’s value to a peak of more than £5bn by mid 2014. Continue reading...

Forty cases may have been tainted by involvement of police informer Nicola GobboMore than a dozen of Australia’s most high-profile criminals could have their convictions quashed after their lawyer was revealed to be a police informant.At the end of the first trial related to the “Lawyer X” informant scandal, Faruk Orman was freed on Friday after serving 12 years in jail for the killing of a Melbourne crime figure. Continue reading...

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Joseph McCann fails to enter pleas on 35 charges relating to attacks against 11 victimsThe alleged serial rapist Joseph McCann has again refused to appear in court to enter his pleas over 35 charges relating to attacks against 11 victims.The 34-year-old is accused of attacking victims aged between 11 and 71 across five police force areas over a two-week period between 20 April and 5 May. Continue reading...

Sheffield Hallam MP stops short of quitting after being accused of sexual harassmentSheffield Hallam MP, Jared O’Mara, has announced he will be taking time out to deal with his mental health after his former aide accused him of being “the most disgustingly morally bankrupt person I have ever had the displeasure of working with”.In a statement on his website, the independent MP apologised to his friends, family and constituents, saying: “I have not been honest with you about the depths of my depression and self-loathing.” Continue reading...

Ex-Swedish PM tells US president political interference in rule of law is off limitsSweden has hit back at Donald Trump after the US president reacted angrily to a decision to press assault charges against the American rapper A$AP Rocky, insisting its independent judicial system must do its work.“The rule of the law applies to everyone equally and is exercised by an independent judiciary,” tweeted former prime minister Carl Bildt. “That’s the way it is in the US, and that’s certainly the way it is in Sweden. Political interference in the process is distinctly off limits. Clear?” Continue reading...

Extra police called in to restore order after disturbance at party in Bavarian townAbout 50 German teenagers rioted as they attempted to free a 15-year-old reveller from police custody after he disrupted a school-leavers’ party, police in Bavaria have said.The police said only a large-scale show of force restored order after the teenagers threw bottles at the windows of the police station in Starnberg, near Munich, and tried to break open the entrance door late on Thursday. Continue reading...