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  • Alexander Sloley

    Police offer £10,000 reward for information on boy who disappeared in London in 2008

  • Aerial view of the former stationmaster's house: it has an L-shaped structure and the roof on one side is burned through with charred timbers visible. The house is pale stone with high arched windows and tall brick chimneys, and stands next to a railway line.

    Man arrested over deaths in house fire near Kettering is released

    Police say man, 54, will not be charged after four-year-old girl, young man and woman killed by blaze in Rushton
  • Donald Trump and Alexander Stubb stand side by side on the golf course; Trump wears a red Maga baseball cap and both wear white short-sleeved shirts.

    Trump ‘running out of patience’ with Putin over Ukraine ceasefire, says Finnish president

    Alexander Stubb – who played golf with Trump this weekend – suggested deadline and US sanctions package

  • Nearly 20 councils in England ‘at risk of insolvency’ due to Send costs

  • Youth Demand says more protesters have signed up since Quaker house raid

  • Donors quit Prince Harry’s charity when he left UK, says Sentebale chair

  • Police officers ‘mocked and ostracised’ for paternity leave in England and Wales

  • Shabana Mahmood plans bill to overrule Sentencing Council in ‘two-tier justice’ row

  • Anti-scam campaign groups urge UK police forces to get tougher on fraudsters

  • Minister attacks expenses rules after Labour MP’s claim for ‘pet rent’

UK politics

  • A smiling Natalie Fleet wearing a pink sweatshirt with the word Nana on it

    MP, rape victim, teenage mum . . . and first Mother’s Day as a grandparent

  • Portrait photograph of Abraham Lincoln

    From Lincoln to Nixon, Trump’s not the first US president to shock the UK on trade

    • Labour group tells MPs they must be on YouTube and TikTok

    • Yvette Cooper reviews right to family life for people who enter UK irregularly

    • Whitehall has left generation of teenagers with no hope, says Andy Burnham

    • Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five years

    • MPs to vote on disability benefit cuts without knowing ‘full impact’

    • Who is running Britain’s economy – Rachel Reeves or Donald Trump?

Analysis and explainers

  • Children's hands raised in class

    Scores of English councils could go bankrupt when hidden Send debt reappears

  • Prince Harry and Sophie Chandauka seated next to each other holding microphones

    Prince Harry charity row: why did he resign and what is dispute about?

  • Partial solar eclipse<br>A partial solar eclipse seen from Cambourne, Cambridgeshire . Picture date: Thursday June 10, 2021. PA Photo. Weather permitting, observers in the UK and Ireland are seeing a crescent sun instead of the 'ring of fire' formed by a total eclipse. See PA story SCIENCE Eclipse. Photo credit should read: PA Wire

    Saturday’s partial solar eclipse: where can I see it and what time will it happen?

  • Keir Starmer in the House of Commons chamber

    UK ministers need to ask why they are offered freebies – and who loses out

Culture

  • David Hockney, painting behind him

    Hockney says he did not offer to paint King Charles during royal visit

  • Musicians of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective rehearsing at Wigmore Hall in London

    Arts Council England defends support of classical music amid loss of trust

    Arts funding body responds to criticism as Wigmore Hall in London says it will operate independently from 2026
  • Hands hold a fluffy dog's face

    Gigil: word for ‘cute aggression’ among new Oxford English Dictionary entries

    Other foreign language additions include alamak, a cry of outrage in Singapore and Malaysia, and tapau, a Chinese word for takeaway

  • Robert Icke’s modern-day Oedipus triumphs at Critics’ Circle theatre awards

  • ‘I want to help’: Somewhere Boy actor launches drama school in Bradford

  • Judge accuses RAF pair of ‘wanton vandalism’ for destroying Paddington Bear statue

  • Ill-fated Monmouth rebellion remembered 340 years on in Somerset

Education

  • Councillor Maxie Allen.

    Parents arrested by Hertfordshire police for complaining about daughter’s school

  • Amanda Spielman: the former Ofsted chief inspector has been nominated for the House of Lords by the Conservatives.

    ‘An insult’: Amanda Spielman, Ofsted chief at time of Ruth Perry’s suicide, to be given a peerage

  • A student in a mechanic's environment reaching for a wrench.

    T-level qualifications still less popular and more expensive than BTecs, watchdog finds

  • Sasha Roseneil

    University of Sussex taking legal action over £585,000 free speech fine

Society

  • A woman reaches up to a shelf in a pharmacy

    Morning-after pill to be offered without charge at pharmacies in England

  • Illustration of a young woman in varied sleeping positions.

    Is it safe? Is it spying? Disquiet over NHS ‘magic eye’ surveillance camera in mental health units

    • Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, is one of the ministers to have been the target of briefings.

      ‘Cabinet no longer feels safe’: Labour MPs criticise briefings against female ministers

    • Esther Rantzen in 2022.

      Esther Rantzen’s life-preserving cancer drugs no longer working, says daughter

    • A young person in a corridor in prison wearing jogging bottoms and trainers

      Keir Starmer says all options on table in ‘two-tier’ row with Sentencing Council

Multimedia

  • Upset teenager resting his head on his hand as he sits on the kerb in front of his school

    Adolescence: what teen boys really think of girls, influencers and porn – podcast

  • A crowd of people is reflected in a mirrored arch through which a beach can been seen in the distance

    Eid al-Fitr, Mother’s Day and a mud bath: photos of the weekend

    • Statue in near darkness with crescent of sun in sky with moon partly covering

      From Greenland to Europe and Senegal: the partial solar eclipse – in pictures

    • Partial solar eclipse visible across northern hemisphere – video

    • Pink-coloured building leans at an angle after earthquake

      An earthquake in Myanmar and elephants by the sea: photos of the day – Friday

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