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Millions in poor housing in England suffer ill-health due to legal delays, says Shelter
Exclusive: Campaigners concerned that opposition from Tory MPs is delaying legal protections for rentersMillions of people living in damp and run-down properties are suffering worsening mental and physical health due to delays passing crucial reforms into law, research suggests.A survey by the homelessness charity Shelter found that about 40% of people in rented homes had experienced poor health as a result of their living conditions in the last year - amounting to almost 3 million people in England. Continue reading...
Rescuers continue search for bodies at Spanish nightclubs after deadly blaze
Thirteen bodies found after fire tore through three adjoining clubs in Murcia but police fear number could riseThe death toll from a fire that tore through three adjoining nightclubs in south-eastern Spain, killing at least 13 people, could rise as rescuers continue to search through the wreckage, police have said.The blaze in the city of Murcia broke out at about 6am on Sunday morning in the La Fonda club, before spreading to the neighbouring Teatre and Golden clubs, officials said. Continue reading...
Beyoncé announces Renaissance world tour concert film
A new trailer teases footage from behind the scenes of her stunning sellout spectacle, live performances and time with Jay-Z and their children, including rehearsals with daughter Blue IvyBeyonce has announced a new concert film based on this year's massive tour for her 2022 album Renaissance.When I am performing, I am nothing but free," the musician, 42, says in the trailer for Renaissance: A Film By Beyonce. My goal for this tour was to create a place where everyone is free and no one is judged." Continue reading...
The business leaders who are paying £3,300 for lunch with Rishi Sunak
Raising money from business leaders and wooing megadonors for cash is a big game at party conferenceLunch with Rishi Sunak and the chance to hobnob with senior ministers? That will set you back 3,300 a person at the Conservatives' conference business day this year.Raising money from business leaders and wooing donors for more cash is a big game at the annual gathering, which is a profit-making endeavour for the party. Corporate leaders will be gathering for special closed sessions and policy roundtables on Monday with ministers, the events including Jeremy Hunt in conversation with the managing director of Barclays, CS Venkatakrishnan. Continue reading...
NSW Labor rejects renewed calls for pill testing after festival deaths
Health minister says on-site checking not a silver bullet' as advocates warn expected hot summer increases likelihood of harm for drug-takers
Bob Geldof gives nod of approval to the Old Vic’s Live Aid musical
Just for One Day to tell stories around 1985 fundraising concert during two-month run next yearBob Geldof, the musician who harnessed the power of rock and pop to save lives, has issued a characteristic warning to the Old Vic over its plans for a musical about the 1985 Live Aid concert.It better not be shit," Geldof said, while giving his approval for the London theatre's production. Continue reading...
Midnight Oil launch ad targeting voice ‘scare campaigns’ – as it happened
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PwC expected to face Senate inquiry over alleged wrongdoings as global CEO travels to Australia
Labor's Deborah O'Neill believes visit from Bob Moritz is a PR exercise' that comes amid fresh allegations against the firm
Jacinta Allan’s cabinet reshuffle proves she’s not just going to be a carbon copy of Daniel Andrews | Benita Kolovos
But that has to be coupled with a more collaborative approach to cabinet from the new premier,' one right-aligned Labor MP says
Monday briefing: What is the cause of Sweden’s ‘terrorist-like’ epidemic of violence?
In today's newsletter: Eleven people have died since the start of September in a spate of shootings and bombings - this is how the country is managing Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGod morgon. The prime minister of Sweden is calling in the army to help tackle an unprecedented" epidemic of gang violence and terrorist-like" attacks that has seen a record 11 people die in shootings in September alone and a wave of bomb attacks - including four within a single hour.It might not be what we in Britain expect in Scandinavia, but maybe we should have seen it coming - the issue has dominated Swedish politics for the last few years and partly led to the country last year electing the most far-right government in its history.Conservatives | Tory MPs should get over their excess of doom and gloom" about their electoral prospects and get behind" Rishi Sunak, international development minister Andrew Mitchell has said. Mitchell suggested that rival groups of Conservative MPs at the party conference in Manchester should be more disciplined before the election.Brexit | The government has admitted it will cost businesses 330m each year in additional charges when new post-Brexit border controls on animal and plant products imported from the European Union are implemented next year.Cost of living | Families are eating less healthily and turning to ready meals and processed foods due to the cost of living crisis, a study has found. More than two-thirds of people (69%) said they considered themselves to be healthy eaters but 28% said they were eating less nutritious food because it is too expensive, according to the BBC Good Food Nation survey.Climate crisis | Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland and Switzerland have all experienced their hottest Septembers on record, with unseasonably high temperatures set to continue into October, in a year likely to be the warmest in human history.Jake Abraham | The actor Jake Abraham, best known for his role in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, has died aged 56. Abraham, who played Dean in the British gangster film, revealed his prostate cancer diagnosis in July and said he was receiving palliative care. Continue reading...
‘We’re a tough mob up here’: Queenslanders try to put on brave face after hat-trick of grand final heartaches
They're shattered, gutted, cursing the football gods. And yet fans of the Broncos, Lions and Titans say they'd do it all again tomorrow
Voice to parliament referendum: early voting opens as yes and no campaigners hit the hustings
Early polling locations open in Victoria, Tasmania, WA and NT with other states to follow on Tuesday
Kosovo’s troubles may not have come to a head, but the crisis still festers
Swift western pressure on Serbia to step back from conflict does not resolve the chronic problems of Kosovo's nationhoodThe signs this weekend suggest that the immediate crisis over Kosovo has been defused. Some Serbian troops are pulling back from the border, and the threat of a return to armed conflict has receded for now.The Biden administration acted decisively on Friday, drawing on some of the lessons from the run-up to the Ukraine invasion, going public with US intelligence on Serbian troops movements, and calling Belgrade to threaten sanctions and ostracism. The Nato peacekeeping force, Kfor, was immediately reinforced by the transfer of command of a battalion of British troops who were in the region for training. Continue reading...
Tory MPs should ‘get behind’ Sunak, says Andrew Mitchell
International development minister warns colleagues jostling for position not to be self-indulgent'Tory MPs should get over their excess of doom and gloom" about their electoral prospects and get behind" Rishi Sunak, a cabinet minister has said, with a veiled warning to colleagues jostling for position not to be self-indulgent".The international development minister, Andrew Mitchell, suggested on Sunday that rival groups of Conservative MPs, who have been proposing an array of policy ideas at the party conference in Manchester, should be more disciplined before the election. Continue reading...
AI Vincent van Gogh talks of ‘mental health struggles’ in Paris exhibition
Musee d'Orsay adds AI and VR to display of artist's last works, never previously seen togetherFor a man who died in 1890, Vincent van Gogh seemed remarkably au fait with 21st-century parlance.Asked why he had cut off his left ear, the artist replied that this was a misconception and he had in fact only cut off part of my earlobe". So why did he shoot himself in the chest with a revolver, causing injuries from which he died two days later? Continue reading...
‘Braverman knows exactly what she’s unleashing’: Ken Loach on his latest, and possibly last, film
The Old Oak, about tensions in a former mining village when refugees arrive, has touched a nerve more raw now than when filming beganThe veteran film-maker Ken Loach is famous for storylines that depict life's bleakest injustices. But his latest film has touched a political nerve that is more raw now than when it was conceived before the pandemic.Loach, now 87, has said that The Old Oak, which opened in cinemas on Friday, will be his last in a career spanning more than six decades. The six-week shoot was challenging, he says, but plays down the difficulties of making a big film at his age with the sight in one eye almost gone. Continue reading...
Mexico church roof collapses during mass, killing at least nine killed and injuring 50
A structural failure' during Sunday service trapped dozens in Santa Cruz church in Gulf coast city of Ciudad MaderoThe roof of a church has collapsed in northern Mexico during a Sunday mass, killing at least nine people and injuring about 50, authorities said as searchers probed the wreckage late into the night looking for survivors and other victims.Approximately 30 parishioners were believed to have been trapped in the rubble when the roof caved in, officials said. Searchers crawled under the roof slabs and officials brought in dogs to help search for possible survivors. Continue reading...
Paris-Berlin relations slump is holding up key EU decisions, says German MEP
Exclusive: Defence and trade affected by poor post-Merkel rapport, says chair of foreign affairs committeePoor relations between France and Germany are slowing down key decisions in the EU including deals on defence in Ukraine and trade, an influential German MEP has claimed.David McAllister, chair of the European parliament's foreign affairs committee and a key figure in the opposition Christian Democrats party, says he is concerned that the lack of contact between the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, is causing delays on key decisions on battle tanks and fighter jets, and a future trade deal with Latin America. Continue reading...
International students in crisis not seeking mental health support, inquest finds
Victorian coroner examining five suicide deaths says tertiary sector faces difficult challenge in encouraging students to seek help
Brisbane man charged with murder after allegedly throwing elderly resident off balcony
Police allege the accused was aggressively seeking items' from units before knocking on alleged victim's door
Labor to ban agents being paid for poaching international students amid wider crackdown
Home affairs minister, Clare O'Neil, says rorts and loopholes' in sector will be shut down
Tasmania’s government is in crisis. Could it spell the end for Australia’s last Liberal administration?
Jeremy Rockcliff's administration is teetering on the edge of collapse after Elise Archer quit as attorney general amid a leaked messages scandal. Here's the state of play
Biden urges Republicans to approve Ukraine aid, saying support cannot waver
US president says he is sick and tired' of domestic political brinkmanship as Volodymyr Zelenskiy vows to fight on in speech released on Defenders Day
Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 586 of the invasion
Joe Biden urges Congress to swiftly approve Ukraine aid left out of US government funding bill; Rishi Sunak rows back on defence minister's suggestion that British troops could carry out training in Ukraine
Man in serious condition after allegedly being set alight at the Deni Ute Muster
The 22-year-old was flown to the Alfred hospital in Victoria with facial injuries on Saturday night
No immediate plans to send British military instructors to Ukraine, says Rishi Sunak
Comments from the UK prime minister come after his defence secretary, Grant Shapps, said soldiers could be deployed to Ukraine to carry out trainingThere are no immediate plans to deploy military instructors to Ukraine, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday, rowing back from comments by his defence minister who had suggested troops could carry out training in the country.To date, Britain and its allies have avoided a formal military presence in Ukraine to reduce the risk of a direct conflict with Russia. Continue reading...
Charity challenges home secretary’s claims about ‘economic migrants’
Refugee Council study suggests asylum claims by three out of four crossing Channel would be grantedSuella Braverman's claim that most asylum seekers are economic migrants has been challenged by an analysis which suggests that three out of four people crossing the English Channel in small boats this year would be granted asylum if their claims were processed.Using Home Office statistics on Channel crossings, the Refugee Council said that 74% of arrivals in 2023 would be recognised as asylum seekers, an increase from 65% last year. Continue reading...
Catholic and C of E primary schools in England ‘take fewer Send pupils’
LSE research suggests faith-based admissions requirements deter disadvantaged childrenChurch of England and Roman Catholic primary schools take fewer pupils with disabilities or special needs than other local schools in England, according to research that suggests faith-based admissions requirements deter pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.The findings led the author, Dr Tammy Campbell of the London School of Economics, to conclude that faith schools serve as hubs of relative advantage" for children from more affluent families who were less likely to have special needs. Continue reading...
Half of UK firms open offices outside city centres, study claims
Workspace provider IWG says 73% have cut rental costs while 80% have changed to accommodate hybrid workingMore than half of businesses have opened offices or working spaces outside city centres, in response to the shift towards hybrid working, according to new research.Flexible workspace provider IWG, which operates about 300 offices under brands including Regus and Spaces, said that 82% of firms have changed their office space needs to cater for more flexible working.If you ask intelligent people to commute unnecessarily for two hours a day, to come to an office to use a laptop that they could have used down the road from their home, they are going to question that." Continue reading...
Bradley Lowery: man charged over ‘taunt’ at football match
Arrest made after reports that image of deceased young mascot was displayed at football ground to goad Sunderland fansA man has been charged with a public order offence after the image of football mascot Bradley Lowery was displayed during a match.The six-year-old Sunderland fan, who struck up a close friendship with the team's striker Jermain Defoe after being diagnosed with neuroblastoma, died in 2017 having helped raise more than 1m for charity. Continue reading...
Little sign of Tory unity as factions jostle on first day of conference
Rishi Sunak's hopes of united front flounder with MPs and even ministers challenging policy and jockeying for positionRishi Sunak is struggling to hold together his fractured party as the first day of the Conservative conference saw attempts at a united front collapse into rival groups battling over tax, culture wars and the fight to be the next Tory leader.In his own carefully planned comments, the prime minister used interviews and a rally in Manchester to portray himself as a figure of change, making difficult but necessary long-term choices above the fray of petty politics. Continue reading...
Turkish planes raid Kurdish targets in Iraq after terror attack in Ankara
Action follows suicide bomb blast outside Turkish government building claimed by Kurdish militantsThe Turkish defence ministry says its warplanes carried out raids on suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Sunday after a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital.A ministry statement said 20 targets of the Kurdistan Workers' party, or PKK, were destroyed" in the aerial operation, including caves, shelters and depots. Continue reading...
Warren Mundine’s daughter says his opposition to voice not ‘morally right’
Garigarra Riley-Mundine feels the opinions of the leading no campaigner are at odds with how her family was raised
NHS will be Tories’ ‘achilles heel’ at next election, ministers warned
Exclusive: Conservatives' standing badly undermined by broken promises made in 2019, says report
Sunday at Tory conference: highlights of the day
A row over tax cuts, a car crash start for Onward and the home secretary accused of attention-seekingI don't know what the intention was around that - it might just be get attention ... This side of a general election, I might politely suggest it is about delivery, and the government will be judged on delivery.- Priti Patel on home secretary Suella Braverman's speech in the US this week Continue reading...
Katherine Ryan says she got pushback over ‘dangerous male comic’ claims
Speaking on Desert Island Discs, comedian revealed how she confronted unnamed man she believed to be a perpetrator of sexual assault'The comedian Katherine Ryan has spoken on Desert Island Discs about the moment she decided to confront a male comedian over allegations of predatory behaviour.Last month Deadline reported that Russell Brand, who is facing allegations of sexual assault and rape against him after an investigation by the Times, the Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches first published on 16 September, was dropped from Comedy Central's Roast Battle in 2018 after Brand was reluctant to be roasted when Ryan, repeatedly accused him of being a sexual predator" in comments which were not broadcast. Continue reading...
Tories’ 2019 NHS promises may come back to bite them
Party succeeded in neutralising' issue of public services with generous promises that are now unmet and unrepeatable
East Libya postpone Derna reconstruction conference amid calls for unity
Rival governments urged to work together to best manage donations for Derna after catastrophic floodingThe government in eastern Libya has been forced to postpone a reconstruction conference for the stricken city of Derna amid concerns about how donations will be spent and a lack of coordination with the west of the country.A large part of Derna was destroyed on the night of 10 September when severe flooding caused two dams above the town to burst. The death toll has been put at more than 10,000, but no official figure is yet deemed accurate. Continue reading...
Rishi Sunak claims putting reducing inflation ahead of tax cuts Thatcherite and ‘deeply Conservative’ – as it happened
Prime minister says the best tax cut we can give is to cut inflation' after Michael Gove says taxes should be cut before general electionThe BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg is starting. As well as Rishi Sunak, Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, is also being interviewed.Q: Do you still think we've had enough of experts?Economic forecasting was invented to make astrology look respectable. Continue reading...
At least 13 people dead after fire at Spanish nightclub
Four others were injured in the blaze in the Teatre club in Murcia, south-eastern Spain, as rescue workers search for more victimsAt least 13 people have been killed in a fire in adjoining Spanish nightclubs, amid fears the death toll could rise further as rescue workers continued to search for those still unaccounted for.Outside the club, young people hugged each other as they waited for information after the fire, which broke out in the early hours in the two-storey Teatre nightclub, also called Fonda Milagros, on the outskirts of the southern city of Murcia. Continue reading...
‘Energy war’: Ukraine tries to protect electricity supply before winter
It seems likely Russia will target the grid with its missiles again, but engineers say they are better prepared now
Tusk tells election rally in Warsaw: ‘change for the better is inevitable’
Leader of Polish opposition addresses supporters as large parts of the capital come to a standstillHuge crowds have gathered in central Warsaw at a rally organised by opposition leader Donald Tusk, two weeks before a crucial election that will have major implications for the future political course of Poland and its role in Europe.As a closely fought and vicious campaign enters its final straight, Tusk had called on supporters to rally in Warsaw to put on a show of strength and galvanise the opposition. Victory, he claimed, was in sight. Continue reading...
Neurodiverse kids ‘dumped’ from mainstream education amid debate over special schools
The disability royal commission was split in its final report over whether segregated education should be phased out from 2025
Kosovan government calls on Serbia to pull all troops from border
Demand follows part withdrawal after US warning of potential punitive measures against BelgradeKosovo has demanded that Serbia pull its troops back from their common border and warned it was ready to protect its territorial integrity, after the US warned of punitive measures against Belgrade and Serbia's president insisted he does not want war".We call on ... Serbia to immediately withdraw all troops from the border with Kosovo," the Kosovan government said, demanding that Belgrade demilitarise" 48 forward military and police bases, which pose a permanent threat to our country". Continue reading...
Bob Menendez’s daughter says MSNBC colleagues will cover story ‘aggressively’
Alicia Menendez, a weekend anchor on liberal network, says she has been watching father's case along with all of you as a citizen'The MSNBC anchor Alicia Menendez said her colleagues at the network would aggressively" cover the corruption scandal involving her father, the indicted New Jersey senator, Bob Menendez - as they should".Alicia Menendez hosts a weekend show on the liberal-leaning network. Continue reading...
Bolivian ex-president to pay damages to victims of military in landmark US case
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and former defence minister agree to pay for 2003 violence in which 60 protesters were killedA former Bolivian president and his defence minister have agreed to pay damages to the families of people killed by the military during their government, in a landmark settlement that sets a precedent by which other foreign leaders could face accountability for human rights abuse in US courts.The settlement concerns events in 2003, when massive protests broke out over then president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada's plan to export Bolivia's natural gas. The army was sent to clear blockades in the largely Indigenous and working-class city of El Alto, killing more than 60 protesters and injuring hundreds. Continue reading...
Rishi Sunak shrugs off concerns that U-turns might make UK a ‘laughing stock’
Prime minister says investors are excited about Britain and that he instinctively understands what the public wants
Slovakia election: pro-Moscow former PM on course to win with almost all votes counted
Robert Fico's Smer party moves ahead of Progressive Slovakia in vote that could fuel fears about future foreign policy stanceThe Smer party, led by the populist former prime minister Robert Fico, was on course to win Slovakia's election on Sunday, garnering more support than its rival Progressive Slovakia in a dramatic knife-edge race.With almost all votes counted, Smer was poised to take nearly 23% of the vote. Michal imeka's Progressive Slovakia (PS) came second with close to 18%, followed by Peter Pellegrini's Hlas with 14%. Continue reading...
‘No more lives lost’: Glasgow architects urge road changes after colleague’s cycling death
Road infrastructure campaign has been launched in honour of designer Emma Burke Newman, who was killed in lorry collisionOn the long and busy stretch of road where Glasgow's riverside meets its city centre, hundreds of commuters and visitors travel into and out of town each day. Since January this year, many will have spotted a new addition to their route: a white ghost bike", adorned with flowers and messages, parked at a busy junction where 22-year-old French-American architecture student and experienced cyclist Emma Burke Newman was killed in a collision with a lorry, just six months after moving to the city.Now, former colleagues at architectural firm New Practice, where she worked as a designer while studying at Glasgow School of Art, have launched a road infrastructure campaign in her honour. Focusing on three specific junctions along the riverside, including the one where Burke Newman lost her life, the Waiting To Happen campaign aims to gather data about road users' experiences of these locations with a view to creating a set of possible improvements. Continue reading...
Former race lead sues EHRC for race discrimination
Exclusive: former staff member at equality watchdog says she was vilified, silenced and punished for speaking up on raceA former staff member at the Equality and Human Rights Commission is suing the watchdog, alleging race discrimination and unfair dismissal, at an employment tribunal this week.Preeti Kathreca, a senior associate and race protected-characteristic lead at Britain's equality watchdog until 2021, claims she was vilified, silenced and punished for doing my job" by speaking up about race. Continue reading...
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