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Temperatures will soar above 30C in parts of the UK by Monday with another exceptionally hot spell bringing a yellow health alert. A fine day on Sunday will be followed by “strong August sunshine” for England and Wales in the new week, with even the chance of isolated thunderstorms developing, the Met Office said. The forecaster previously said temperatures could reach the mid-30s across central, southern and eastern areas of […]

Foreign criminals will be sent “packing”, deported immediately when they receive a custodial sentence, the Justice Secretary has pledged. Shabana Mahmood has proposed a law change, which could save taxpayers an average £54,000 per year, per prison place. The changes would apply to prisoners serving fixed-term “determinate” sentences, and authorities would retain their power not to deport a criminal but instead keep them in custody, for example, if the offender […]

More than 460 people have been arrested for supporting banned group Palestine Action, with a further five detained for assaulting police officers after protesters gathered in central London. Hundreds attended Saturday’s demonstration in Parliament Square, organised by Defend Our Juries, with the Metropolitan Police warning it would arrest anyone expressing support for Palestine Action. In an update posted on X on Saturday evening, Scotland Yard said 466 people had been […]

A second person has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found dead near a canal towpath. Robert Brown, 57, was found fatally injured on a bench near the River Nene in Northampton town centre after officers were called at about 6.30am on August 1. A post-mortem examination found that the victim, from Northampton, had a wound to his arm, although his cause of death is yet […]

Manchester United have completed the signing of RB Leipzig striker Benjamin Sesko in a deal worth up to £73.7million. After finishing 15th in the Premier League last season – their worst top-flight campaign in 51 years – and losing the Europa League final, the Red Devils have spent the summer undertaking an eye-catching rebuild. Ruben Amorim’s men signed Matheus Cunha from Wolves for £62.5m and Brentford’s Bryan Mbeumo for £65m […]

The proportion of A-level entries scoring top grades this summer is likely to be higher than pre-Covid years, it has been suggested. An education expert has predicted that a higher percentage of UK A-level entries awarded an A or A* grade – compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic – may be the “new normal”. Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research (CEER) at the University […]

Newly qualified doctors are driving Ubers and working in bars to make ends meet as they face a “recurring cycle of debt”, the British Medical Association (BMA) has said. Students from poorer backgrounds are hit hardest, the union claims, as it calls on the Government to address the funding gap and make a career in medicine accessible to people from as many backgrounds as possible. Students in their final undergraduate […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “not a partner in peace” who will eventually have to answer to international courts over the crisis in Gaza, the leader of Scottish Labour has said. Anas Sarwar hit out at the Israeli premier as he announced plans to take over Gaza City in a new offensive. While Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the plans were “wrong”, Mr Sarwar was much more strident, […]

A schoolboy who stabbed another pupil to death during their lunch break has been found guilty of murder. Harvey Willgoose, 15, was stabbed in the heart in front of horrified children by another 15-year-old boy who had taken a hunting knife to school. Sheffield Crown Court heard how other pupils fled “in fear and panic”, some locking themselves in a school cupboard, after the fatal attack at All Saints Catholic High […]