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Case continues into 2017 death in Bath of Celia Marsh, who had a severe allergy to cow’s milkThe founder of a company that made what was meant to be dairy-free yoghurt used in a Pret a Manger “vegan” wrap has tearfully told an inquest she had no idea a “secret ingredient” contained traces of milk protein.Bethany Eaton, the managing director of Planet Coconut, said she accepted the bags the ingredient arrived in stipulated that it was manufactured in a factory that also handled milk but believed it would have been made in a separate allergen-free area. Continue reading...

This live blog has now closed, you can read more on this story hereIn its response to the legal proceedings launched by the EU over the Northern Ireland protocol (see 11.54am), the UK government has said that it has unilaterally decided to continue suspending border checks on farm produce and other goods entering NI from Great Britain, my colleague Lisa O’Carroll reports.The European Union is considering its next steps after receiving the UK’s response to legal threats over the failure to comply with the post-Brexit Northern Ireland protocol, PA Media reports. PA says:Despite politics as normal being paused while the nation mourns the Queen’s death, the government responded to the action ahead of today’s deadline.The bloc had requested a response to its raft of infringement proceedings over the UK’s failure to comply with the rules before the end of the day. Continue reading...

Flights will be halted for half an hour so aircraft noise does not disrupt two minutes’ silenceFlights to and from Heathrow will be halted for half an hour on Monday to ensure the two minutes’ silence at the end of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral is not disrupted by aircraft noise over London.Britain’s main airport will also halt arrivals in the early afternoon to avoid planes coming in to land over the west of the capital during the procession of the Queen’s hearse, and stop take-offs later to not disturb the ceremonial procession to Windsor.11.40am–12.10pm: no take-offs or landings from Heathrow, around the two-minute silence at the end of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.1.45–2.20pm: no arrivals to support the procession of the Queen’s hearse.3.05–4.45pm: no departures.4.45–9pm: reduced departure rate during the service. Continue reading...

Officials say they find the new UK health secretary’s memo ‘super patronising’

Prince Edward and Sophie chat to crowds in Manchester, as Princess Anne views condolence book in GlasgowCrowds broke out into appreciative applause as Princess Anne visited Glasgow and Prince Edward travelled to Manchester to view floral tributes and books of condolence.In a sunny Manchester, Edward and his wife, Sophie, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, charmed the crowds of people who had gathered in St Ann’s Square, many only just finding out that the visit was being made. Continue reading...

Volodymyr Zelenskiy makes surprise visit to liberated city of Izium; Ukrainian president involved in car crash in Kyiv but not seriously hurt

MEPs back resolution stating country led by Viktor Orbán has become ‘hybrid regime of electoral autocracy’Hungary can no longer be considered a full democracy, the European parliament has said in a powerful symbolic vote against Viktor Orbán’s government.In a resolution backed by 81% of MEPs present to vote, the parliament stated that Hungary had become a “hybrid regime of electoral autocracy”, citing a breakdown in democracy, fundamental rights and the rule of law. Continue reading...

Events are disrupted and coverage of the Queen’s death continues to dominate the media. Nine readers share thoughts on the days leading up to her funeralThe UK is in the middle of a period of national mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.The day of the Queen’s state funeral, Monday 19 September, has been declared a bank holiday and schools and offices will close. Continue reading...

With warnings of 10-hour waits to pay their last respects, people come prepared with snacks and folding chairs

Books and other belongings of 19th-century PM on show during festival at Hawarden estate in north WalesThe room reveals itself gradually as the visitor lingers. The books, the papers and carefully ordered desks tell of a hard-working statesman with a thirst for knowledge and a deep love of culture.But it is in the personal objects and features that a warmer side of the man emerges: the axes in the fireplace that he used for chopping wood as he cleared his mind; a hedgehog paperweight, the prominence of which must mean it has long-forgotten value; pencil marks on the wall recording the heights of his children as they grew. Continue reading...

Mourners wears favourite colour of nine-year-old, killed when gunman burst into Liverpool homeHundreds of people have gathered in Liverpool to pay their respects at the funeral nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, a girl “loved and adored by everyone”, who was shot dead in her own home.Family, friends and many members of the community wore black and various shades of pink – Olivia’s favourite colour – as they paid tribute to Olivia, who was killed when a masked gunman burst into her home in the Dovecot area of Liverpool on 22 August. Continue reading...

Chancellor to bring in winter tax cuts and announce further energy support at end of mourning periodKwasi Kwarteng will deliver his emergency mini-budget to bring in winter tax cuts for millions of people and set out more detail on energy support next Friday, according to sources.Although normal politics has been paralysed by the death of the Queen, the chancellor and his team have been putting the final touches to the budget with the aim of announcing it once the country emerges from national mourning. Continue reading...

Announcement in early hours comes a day before deadline for deal as freight strike threatened widespread disruptionA tentative agreement has been reached to avert a freight rail strike that could have disrupted commuter rail services across the US, Joe Biden said on Thursday.A strike would also have dealt a major blow to Democrats two months before midterm elections in which they will try to keep control of the Senate and the House. Continue reading...

Critics question chancellor’s idea of abolishing rules imposed after 2008 financial crash during cost of living crisis

Move is likely to further antagonise EU but leaders hope Queen’s death may help bring about reconciliation

Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy draw on a vein of fascism in a country that – unlike Germany – has never had to confront its pastA hundred years after the rise of Italian fascism was heralded by Mussolini’s 1922 march on Rome, the country is on the verge of electing a party with its roots in neo-fascism.With just over a week to go until polling day, the smiling face of Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the Brothers of Italy, is emblazoned on thousands of posters from the heel in the south to the Alps in the north. Continue reading...

shEqual wants to reduce sexist stereotyping in advertising to avoid reinforcing dangerous social norms

Notice of appeal lodged in federal court says $150,000 in damages paid to Sky News broadcaster is ‘manifestly excessive’

The former school principal was abducted during a medical mission in Bukina Faso in a case that drew international attentionA Catholic nun from New Orleans who was kidnapped while working in western Africa, contracted malaria as she was held for nearly five months and was ultimately freed, said reciting prayers helped her survive her ordeal.“Prayer sustained me,” Suellen Tennyson, 83 and a former principal of a Catholic elementary school, told the in-house newspaper of the New Orleans archdiocese. “That was the thing that kept me going because I had nothing.” Continue reading...

TGA report recommends reduced packet sizes and restricting over-the-counter sales of the drug to people 18 and over

Police say 36-year-old was weak but otherwise in good health after surviving five days in far north Queensland without supplies

NGOs want investigation into border counter-terrorism operation that allegedly ended up bombing suspected smugglersTwo international NGOs have asked French prosecutors and the UN to investigate the French state’s involvement in Egypt allegedly committing crimes against humanity in a secret military operation on the Egyptian-Libyan border.A 2021 leak appeared to show how French officers complained they were being asked to facilitate Egyptian airstrikes, codenamed Operation Sirli, on the Egyptian-Libyan border, even though the original counter-terrorism purpose had been subverted by the Egyptian military into taking out vehicles containing nothing more than contraband. Dozens are estimated to have been killed or injured. Continue reading...

It’s been a week of wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Meanwhile anti-monarchy protesters have been arrested, food banks closed and hospital appointments cancelled in her honour. The Guardian’s John Harris is joined by the Observer’s Sonia Sodha and Guardian columnist Rafael Behr to look at what this all tells us about the UK’s media, the monarchy and democracy. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Labor had last year asked Coalition to consider removing Mundine from broadcaster over controversial social media posts

Opposition leader accuses Labor minister of rewriting history over suggestion King Charles III might not appear on $5 note

More than 250 additional submissions were made to inquiry after sensational evidence by the state’s commissioner

The labour market figure will be watched by economists as a guide to the Reserve Bank’s decision on whether to further raise interest rates

Supporters in shock as Kremlin reneges on vow that helped project power into captured towns and villages

Brooke Warne lashes out at Nine over plans for a two-part miniseries, Warnie, just ‘6 months after he has passed away’

Loose coalition of far-right Sweden Democrats and centre-right parties wins majority of three in parliamentThe leader of Sweden’s incumbent Social Democrats has resigned as prime minister after conceding defeat in the country’s knife-edge election, handing victory to a loose bloc of rightwing parties that includes the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD).The PM, Magdalena Andersson, called a press conference at which she accepted defeat, while pointing out that her Social Democrats remained Sweden’s largest party with more than 30% of the vote – and that the majority in parliament for the right bloc was very slim. Continue reading...

Police in Auckland request extradition of 42-year-old woman to face two charges of murderA 42-year-old woman has been arrested in South Korea for the alleged murder of two children whose bodies were discovered in suitcases bought at an auction in New Zealand.South Korean authorities arrested the woman today on a Korean arrest warrant for two charges of murder.A previous version of this story said the woman had been arrested in Seoul. Korean police said on Thursday that she was arrested in the southern city of Ulsan. Continue reading...

Thousands queue on streets of London to file past Queen after procession from Buckingham PalaceGuardian columnist Andy Beckett has written today about how there is no single “national mood” in the aftermath of the Queen’s death, in a country where support for the monarchy has fallen significantly over the last decade.The idea that the whole country is mourning the Queen and welcoming her successor is a fiction: energetically disseminated, seductive for many in a time of division, but a fiction nonetheless. There is no single ‘national mood’ about the royal family, and there never has been, whatever most journalists and politicians say. Instead there is an assortment of feelings, even right outside Buckingham Palace.But over the longer term, the reign of her more divisive, less historically resonant son may cause that surge to fade, and the decline in royal popularity to resume, even accelerate. With Charles, known for his impatience with staff and extravagant lifestyle, the sense of entitlement, which is as fundamental to the royal family as a sense of duty, is more obvious.The poorer country that the UK is likely to become over the next few years may also be less tolerant of one of the world’s most lavish monarchies. The Queen’s old-fashioned, relatively plain public persona, and the length of her reign – to an extent, she continued to be judged by rather deferential, mid-20th century standards – means that modern Britain’s appetite for a less self-effacing ruler has not yet been tested. Continue reading...

Ukraine says cell has Lord’s Prayer carved into the wall in Ukrainian

People travel from across the country to see procession from Buckingham Palace and attend lying-in-state at Westminster HallJoyce Dawson, 54, from Middlesbrough, was watching the news on Tuesday night when she decided to make her first ever visit to London to see the Queen lying in state.“I texted my daughter and said: ‘We have to go to London tonight,’” she said. “It was a spur of the moment thing.” Continue reading...

Twelve restaurants received one star and one restaurant received two as Toronto becomes the first Canadian city to be featuredToronto has finally sealed its reputation as an international culinary destination after 13 of its restaurants received Michelin stars for quality – the first time a Canadian city has ever featured in the prestigious guide.Canada’s largest city has long been keen to compete on the world stage, and many residents were thrilled when the French publication announced in May it would include Toronto in its upcoming guide. Continue reading...

Global weekly deaths down to 11,118 on 5 September – the lowest level since March 2020The end of the Covid-19 pandemic is “in sight”, the World Health Organization has declared, after revealing that weekly deaths from the virus around the world were at the lowest level since March 2020.The weekly global deaths figure on 5 September 2022 was 11,118, according to the WHO’s website. March 2020 was the month that the UK entered its first lockdown. Continue reading...

The designer’s contribution to New York fashion week suggests his eye-grabbing looks are a fantasy women are still pursuingMichael Kors, one of the few big names not to have abandoned New York for a European fashion week, can always be relied on for glossy, leisure-class womenswear straight from the pages of Condé Nast Traveller. Or as Kors puts it: “Clothes for women who like to be noticed”.On Wednesday morning, in a glass warehouse in downtown Manhattan filled with palm fronds, he put his money where his mouth is. His spring show opened with a white Halston-style silk skirt suit that heavily referenced the one worn by Scarface star Michelle Pfeiffer as character Elvira Hancock – complete with plunging neckline and nattily placed tit-tape. As proven by the suit’s legacy in film costume lore, it wasn’t just noticeable but impossible to ignore. Continue reading...

IPOC watchdog insists review of evidence led it to investigate firearms officer for homicideThe family of Chris Kaba will be allowed to watch police video of the incident that led to his killing, the Guardian has learned, as the police watchdog insisted evidence and not public pressure led it to investigate an officer for homicide offences.Kaba, 24, who was unarmed, was shot once by an officer from the Metropolitan police on 5 September. The bullet struck him in the head as he sat in the driver’s seat of a car which had come under suspicion in Lambeth, south London. He died just over two hours later. Continue reading...

A man found with ‘serious injuries’ has been arrested on suspicion of two murders and remains in hospital

Moscow’s influence in the Caucasus and central Asia is being unravelled by its ‘special military operation’The rout of the Russian army in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region seems likely to be a turning point in Kyiv’s battle to kick Russian troops out of the country, but it may also cause much broader fallout for Moscow in the wider region, as other former Soviet countries witness what appears to be the limits of Moscow’s capabilities.“The power of the Russian flag has declined considerably, and the security system across the former Soviet space does seem to be broken,” said Laurence Broers, associate fellow at Chatham House. Continue reading...

While some progress has been made, analysts fear China is leaping ahead in capabilities and the defence department doesn’t sense the urgency

Greens senator says One Nation leader created hostile and unsafe workplace and she has since been subjected to racist hate speech by others

State transport department seeking legal advice over plans by the Rail, Tram and Bus Union to switch off electronic gates

Australia Institute urges 60% income tax on earnings above $1m a year

Letters reveal former PM didn’t mention pandemic when requesting right to administer industry, treasury and home affairs departments

Assurance comes after reports that crucial support scheme may not be in operation until November. This blog is now closedAt the Downing Street lobby briefing the prime minister’s spokesperson was asked what businesses should do if they are asked at the start of October to sign an energy contract charging them five times or more what they were paying, at a point where the government scheme for businesses is not yet operational. Should they just sign up, and assume the government will cover the difference?The spokesperson replied:I don’t want to be prescriptive without knowing individual circumstances. What we have said at this point is that we will look to give equivalent support to what we have done with with households and there’ll be a bit more detail on that next week.We are speaking to stakeholder groups as well to provide as much information as possible so they have clarity if they are required to make those decisions.We will confirm further details of the business support scheme next week. The scheme will support businesses with their October energy bills and that includes through backdating if necessary. Continue reading...