Ex-footballer in running for National Television award after controversy in which he shared social media post about ZionismGary Lineker has been shortlisted for the National Television award for best TV presenter, a few months after his exit from the BBC's Match Of The Day.The former footballer will compete against Ant and Dec, who have won the prize for 23 years in a row. Continue reading...
Director names his masterpiece' film, along with his favourite and the one he was born to make'It's one of cinema's most contested subjects: which Quentin Tarantino movie is the best? The director himself has finally weighed in - while also sharing his personal favourite and which of his films he was born to make".Speaking on The Church of Tarantino podcast, the 62-year-old film-maker said his 2009 second world war drama Inglourious Basterds was the best of his nine films, while his 2019 movie Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood was his favourite. Continue reading...
by Sally Weale Education correspondent on (#6ZD99)
Education secretary urges schools to change uniform requirements as costs force many parents into debtParents in England are skipping meals and turning to buy-now-pay-later services such as Klarna in order to afford school uniforms before the autumn term, according to a survey.Almost half (47%) of the 2,000 parents who took part in the poll said they were worried about uniform costs, which can run into hundreds of pounds due to expensive branded items, while more than a quarter (29%) said they had forgone food or heating to pay for uniforms. Continue reading...
Shadow minister posts picture of himself at protest outside Essex hotel that has become anti-immigration flashpointRobert Jenrick has been severely criticised by Labour after the shadow justice secretary was pictured at an anti-asylum rally in Essex attended by a veteran far-right activist.Jenrick posted photos on X showing himself visiting the protest outside the Bell hotel in Epping, where police have been attacked and police vehicles vandalised by groups of men taking part in the demonstration. The MP met protesters including a woman with a T-shirt bearing the message: Send them home." Continue reading...
Family of Edgar Lungu trying to prevent repatriation of his body for state funeral presided over by his successorA furious row is raging over whether the Zambian president, Hakainde Hichilema, will preside over the funeral of his predecessor, Edgar Lungu, as the former president's family wage a legal battle in South Africa to try to prevent his body from being repatriated.The legal fight marks the latest twist in a feud between the two men that goes back at least a decade and has now outlasted the former president, who died in South Africa in June aged 68 while being treated for an undisclosed illness. Continue reading...
Deal would include 60-day halt to violence and exchange of half of living Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisonersHamas officials say they have accepted a proposal for a Gaza ceasefire deal that would include the release of half of the approximately 20 remaining living Israeli hostages as part of a phased resolution to the war, as Gaza health officials said 62,000 Palestinians had died in the 22 months of war.The proposed deal follows negotiations between Hamas and Egyptian and Qatari officials that have been taking place in Cairo in recent days, and comes after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was confronted on Sunday by Israel's biggest protests of the war, which called for a deal to secure the release of the hostages. Continue reading...
Mother of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, who was killed aged nine in 2022, joins others to call for courage in tackling gun crimeThe mother of a girl who was killed as a result of gang violence in Liverpool has joined the families of other victims of gun crime to speak out against it.Olivia Pratt-Korbel was nine when she was killed in her home in Dovecoat on 22 August 2022. She was shot by Thomas Cashman, a drug dealer, as he chased a competitor. Continue reading...
by Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent on (#6ZCM2)
Exclusive: Victoria McCloud says court undermined her rights to a fair trial when it refused to hear her evidenceThe UK's first transgender judge has launched a case against the UK in the European court of human rights challenging the process that led to the supreme court's ruling on biological sex.The retired judge Victoria McCloud, who is now a litigation strategist at W-Legal, is seeking a rehearing of the case, arguing that the supreme court undermined her article 6 rights to a fair trial when it refused to hear representation from her and did not hear evidence from any other trans individuals or groups. Continue reading...
Figure is about a third of budget from central government while thousands of families face prospect of homelessnessMore than 300m given to English councils to help Ukrainian refugees into accommodation has not been spent, while thousands of them face homelessness.Freedom of information requests to 150 councils in England, shared with the Guardian, identified that 327m - about a third of the 1bn budget - was still sitting in council bank accounts more than three years after Russia invaded Ukraine. Continue reading...
Government says 100 community diagnostic centres are open seven days a week for services such as MRI scansPatients in England now have greater access to important tests such as MRI scans and endoscopies in the evenings and weekends, the government has said, after increasing the number of community diagnostic centres (CDCs) offering out of hours services.There are 170 CDCs operating in England, which are often in shopping centres, football stadiums and on university campuses. Patients can access them through a referral from their GP or clinical teams at hospitals. Continue reading...
Campaign group that won supreme court case brings challenge over transgender guidance in schools and prisonsA campaign group that won a legal victory on the definition of gender is taking action against the Scottish government over policies it says are inconsistent" with the ruling.For Women Scotland's legal battle with Scottish ministers over the definition of a woman ended in the UK's supreme court, which ruled in April that the words woman" and sex" in the Equality Act 2010 referred to a biological woman and biological sex. Continue reading...
First Atlantic hurricane of 2025 diminishes but tropical storm warnings issued for Turks and CaicosHurricane Erin was downgraded to a category 3 hurricane early Sunday as its outer bands continued to lash the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico with heavy rains and tropical-storm force winds.While Erin's maximum winds diminished, the storm's overall size grew and forecasters issued tropical storm warnings for the Turks and Caicos Islands and a watch for the south-east Bahamas. Continue reading...
Lady Mary Crawley's wedding dress and the Granthams' family car, a 1925 Sunbeam Saloon, are among the lotsDownton Abbey fans will be able to secure a souvenir from the period drama as costumes worn by the characters, furniture used to adorn the stately home, and even the family car used in the popular ITV series and subsequent films are to be sold at auction for charity.A dress worn by the late Dame Maggie Smith, who starred as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, is one of the star lots. Continue reading...
Union to challenge order issued less than 12 hours after start of action that has left more than 100,000 travellers strandedAir Canada's flight attendants plan to remain on strike, their union has said, defying government efforts to force them back to work and into binding arbitration over a dispute that has left more than 100,000 travellers stranded around the world during the peak summer travel season.About 10,000 flight attendants who work for Canada's largest airline walked out on the job early on Saturday amid a bitter dispute over what the union has described as poverty wages" and unpaid labour. Continue reading...
Attempt to secure pre-pack administration deal comes as government officials step up planning for its collapseSanjeev Gupta is preparing a last-ditch attempt to save the remaining arm of his Liberty Steel business as government officials step up planning for a collapse of the business within days.Gupta is understood to have spent the weekend planning an 11th-hour rescue deal to save the company's Speciality Steel UK (SSUK) division days before a courtroom showdown with its creditors on Wednesday. Continue reading...
A growing focus on hunger in Gaza in the global media has led some Israeli outlets to report on it for the first timeImages of Palestinian children in Gaza, emaciated by hunger under the blockade imposed by Israel, and of families grieving the more than 61,000 people killed in the territory have stirred outrage among foreign governments and much of the global public. Inside Israel, however, the reaction has been markedly different.In a poll conducted in late July by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), more than three-quarters of Jewish Israelis - 79% - said they were either not very troubled" or not troubled at all" by reports of famine and suffering among Gaza's Palestinian population. Continue reading...
Ryan Wardwell was rappelling down Seven Teacups falls when extreme hydraulics' trapped him behind a cascadeA California man who recently became trapped behind a waterfall for two days while climbing was dramatically rescued by police utilizing a helicopter.Ryan Wardwell, 46, of Long Beach, went to waterfalls known as the Seven Teacups on 10 August with plans to rappel down, the sheriff's office of Tulare country said in a social media post. But the extreme hydraulics" of the waterfalls pushed Wardwell off his rappelling lines and trapped him behind a cascade of the Kern river, according to the sheriff's office. Continue reading...
by Peter Walker Senior political correspondent on (#6ZC8B)
Exclusive: Growing sense that eco-populist' could win after mounting what one opponent called a hostile takeover'Zack Polanski, the insurgent candidate for Green party leader whose eco-populism" and social media savvy have upended the race, is starting to pull away from his more-established rivals, senior figures believe.There is a growing expectation that the election will be won by the 42-year-old former Liberal Democrat, who appears to have seized the initiative from his opponents. One likened it to a hostile takeover". Continue reading...
Bookshop chain says people are keen to escape their screens and says rise in sales is partly down to BookTokTimes 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 as online competition eases.People have come back to reading and buying books in bookshops as we have made a place which is an enjoyable and effective way to buy books," says James Daunt, the CEO of the British retailer, which has 320 UK bookshops and owns the Foyles, Hatchards and Blackwell's names, and whose parent group also owns Barnes & Noble, the US's largest bookstore chain. Continue reading...
A biotech firm has announced trials for a dog implant that mimics the drugs taken by humans to help tackle obesityWhere humans lead, their dogs tend to follow - now it seems that might even apply to weight-loss wonder drugs.Medications such as Wegovy have become ubiquitous among people hoping to shed pounds quickly. But businesses keen to cash in on the science behind the weight-loss jabs are now investigating other applications for the drugs, and our four-legged friends could be the next in line for a slimming solution. Continue reading...
This blog is now closedTim Wilson sidesteps question about whether Coalition will dump support for net zeroFinally, Wilson was asked about internal pressure within the Coalition to abandon support for any policies that might help Australia achieve net zero and to address the climate crisis.We should make sure that we have net zero outages, net zero price increases, and net zero emissions, because you need to have things in a position of balance of policy to make sure that we can grow the future of the Australian economy, because that's also the basis of social licence to cut emissions as well. If you don't have net zero outages and net zero price increases, public support for net zero emissions reduction is also going to fray.I'm going to work with my colleagues to make sure we drive them forward as part of a policy package to take to the next election. I'm absolutely committed to making sure we have simplification, to make it easier to employ more Australians, and to raise standards of living, and improve the number of Australians [getting jobs] and well-paid jobs.We've got big challenges coming ahead around [things] like artificial intelligence and making sure we make workplaces more productive, but also building out the capacity for small businesses to be successful as part of a dynamic economy. Continue reading...
by Agence France-Press and Guardian staff on (#6ZC5M)
Exiled former lawmaker with $200,000 bounty for his arrest, who now works as a solicitor in Adelaide, says he and his family granted protection visas this week
Former Labour leader says rising UK poverty would make Dickens furious' and calls for wealth tax to help reverse itLabour must scrap the two-child cap on benefits to lift children out of poverty, the party's former leader Neil Kinnock has urged.Rising levels of poverty would make Charles Dickens furious", Lord Kinnock said in an interview with the Sunday Mirror, in which he also called on ministers to introduce a wealth tax. Continue reading...
Move comes after claims earlier this month that two stars of the TV dance show used cocaineThe BBC has asked the police to investigate Strictly Come Dancing amid fresh allegations, according to reports, after claims two of its stars used cocaine.The Sun on Sunday reported that the corporation has alerted the Metropolitan police to new allegations about the dance competition show, the details of which it does not specify. Continue reading...
Afzal Khan had said visit to Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus was in personal capacity but resigned after furoreCyprus has welcomed the resignation of the UK's trade envoy to Turkey, Afzal Khan, saying it sends a resounding message" amid widespread criticism of the Labour MP's recent visit to the island's breakaway Turkish-occupied north.Khan had defended his trip on 8 August in a letter to the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, claiming it was conducted in a personal capacity during the parliamentary recess". Continue reading...
Erin not expected to make landfall, though nearby islands, including Puerto Rico, brace for floodingHurricane Erin has intensified into a category 5 storm as it churns its way over the Atlantic, brushing past islands in the north-east Caribbean.The National Hurricane Center (NHC), in Miami, said on Saturday that Erin - which it described as catastrophic" - was still not expected to hit land in the US and would swerve away, but forecasters have warned that strong winds and heavy rain could cause flooding and landslides on nearby islands. Continue reading...
by Peter Walker Senior political correspondent on (#6ZC0Y)
Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may regain' former colonies in future and suggests end to support for UkraineAn adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany.Jack Anderton, who ran Farage's hugely successful TikTok account before helping Luke Campbell become the Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, also said the UK should not support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression. Continue reading...
by Kyriakos Petrakos (now); Emily Mackay (earlier) on (#6ZBVQ)
This blog is now closed. You can read all our Middle East coverage here.The Metropolitan police has said that 60 more people will be prosecuted for showing support for Palestine Action, which was proscribed by the UK government last month.More than 700 people have been arrested for supporting the group since its proscription on 5 July.We are deeply concerned about the unimaginable crisis in Gaza, which is having a terrible impact on civilians and especially the children.Starvation is deepening. Water scarcity is increasing very much each day. Colleagues on the ground are reporting that people are now basically rationing between either using water for drinking or for hygiene. Continue reading...
Police accused of brutality against demonstrators as unrest continues across cities for fourth nightAnti-government protests in Serbia escalated on Friday night amid reports of police brutality and excessive use of force. It was the fourth day of unrest in cities across the Balkan country, including in the capital, Belgrade, where police fired teargas at demonstrators and tried to separate rival groups of protesters.Dozens of people have been injured in the violent clashes, while hundreds have been detained over the past week, as nine months of largely peaceful anti-corruption and pro-democracy protests have reached boiling point. Continue reading...
Meteorologist says while there is disagreement over how much rain will fall, the general consensus is NSW and Queensland will have another wet weekFor Australia's east coast, the wet weeks are dragging on with no immediate reprieve in sight.I know people in Sydney and other parts of New South Wales will be sick of hearing this," the Bureau of Meteorology's Angus Hines told the ABC on Saturday. But it will be another wet week across the eastern coastline, all the way from the Illawarra through New South Wales, through Sydney, Newcastle, through Brisbane up to the Wide Bay in Queensland". Continue reading...
Most of the dead were reported in the mountainous province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with more rain forecastThe death toll from heavy monsoon rains that have triggered flash floods across northern Pakistan has risen to at least 321 people in the past 48 hours, the country's disaster authority said on Saturday.The majority of the deaths, 307, were recorded in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to the National Disaster Management Authority. Continue reading...
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