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  • BBC sign outside Broadcasting House

    Anger as BBC withdraws jobs promise for apprentices amid sweeping cuts

    Exclusive: Some staff call decision a betrayal of young apprentices who are often selected to increase diversity
  • Burnham will be making a statement in the Commons after 3.30pm.

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    Burnham to say he wants to unlock ‘positivity’ in first statement to MPs since becoming PM – UK politics live

  • A scene from an animation of Shaun the Sheep.

    Shaun the Sheep hailed on latest list of storm names

  • Nikhil Rathi, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority.

    Boss of City regulator accused of threatening consumer group over £9.1bn car loan scheme

  • Young person in black jumper and hoodie with head in hands sitting against a wire fence.

    Number of young people with no close friends has soared since 2014 in England

  • A person holding a sign saying 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action' is detained by police in London

    Almost half of terrorism arrests in Great Britain since 9/11 have been in past year

  • Composite photo of Natalie McDonald, 34, and her niece Valentina Foster, seven.

    Man, 23, charged with murder after fatal Teesside house fire

  • Installing solar panels on the roof of a house

    Solar cuts ‘at least £400 from bills in even the cloudiest British areas’

  • A person's arm holds a shopping basket filled with fruits, vegetables, and packaged food in a supermarket

    Price rises gather pace in UK shops amid higher energy costs

  • Annette and Kevin Maxwell in their garden

    ‘Alarm bells were going off’: parents tell of ordeal at Send school closed down after abuse allegations

    Annette and Kevin Maxwell say children with special needs have become moneymaking tool for private companies
  • John Healey

    John Healey invites October budget ideas from Treasury staff of all levels

  • Kemi Badenoch holding a tape measure and Andrew Griffith raising his arm in front of a bank of shirts in a shop

    Conservative reshuffle: who’s who in Kemi Badenoch’s top team?

  • Andy Burnham stood outside 10 Downing Street

    More public control is the way to grow UK economy, Burnham to tell MPs

  • Kemi Badenoch, Mel Stride and Andrew Griffith walking down a street

    Andrew Griffith and Tom Tugendhat join Badenoch’s top team in Tory reshuffle

Analysis & explainers

  • Nigel Farage waves as he walks past people in Clacton

    Can Reform UK recover from its summer horribilis?

  • A young woman looking at properties in an estate agent's window.

    First-time buyer Isa v lifetime Isa – which one should you choose?

  • The imposing brick facade of HMP Wandsworth

    What is Burnham doing to the early prison release scheme and why?

  • Flood victims watch from a hilltop as their flooded town in Nuwakot, Nepal, lies submerged below

    Which countries have citizens killed or missing after Nepal-Tibet flash flood?

  • Rejoining the EU, Burnham’s donors and the bedroom tax: Politics Weekly answers your questions – podcast

    Podcast20:06

  • Andy Burnham’s autumn of pain– podcast

    Podcast27:25

  • Black Box: The Chatbots: a new series from The Guardian Investigates – trailer

    Podcast02:29

  • Revisited – Brexit: an oral history – podcast

    Podcast47:13

News reads

  • Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, walk hand in hand smiling outdoors

    Meghan as the next Bond? Five roles that almost certainly don’t lie behind UK return

  • Military personnel cut fire breaks in a wooded area

    ‘It’s been very tough’: hope of progress in gruelling battle against south Wales wildfire

  • A tall, strongly-built male police officer and smaller female officer are photographed from behind as they walk through a dark tunnel or underpass which has graffiti on the walls and litter on the floor.

    ‘Absolutely manic’: hot weather puts unprecedented pressure on Greater Manchester police

  • James Green in the Forge. There are trays of oysters behind him and he is looking directly at the camera with a serious expression

    ‘Why did it become personal?’: furore over plans to expand Kent oyster shack

Health & science news

  • Heart monitor screen.

    ‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds

  • A young girl smelling sunflowers in a garden

    Smelling test: children need education in sniffing aromas, scientist says

  • Hands of female hospital patient with heart rate monitor on her finger

    New heart attack definition promises better care for women

  • Overhead view of brown eggs arranged in neat rows in a cardboard carton

    Salmonella cases in UK likely to rise until source of outbreak is found

  • A sewage outflow creates foamy water in a muddy tidal creek in Kent, England

    Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny

  • An apprentice engineer works on an aircraft interior in an aerospace engineering factory.

    ‘A huge learning curve’: apprentices on the benefits and pitfalls of vocational training

  • A twenty-pound note sticks out of a light blue piggy bank's slot

    Child trust fund firms face review over efforts to find who owns £1.5bn worth of pots

  • Woman looking at houses for sale in window of an estate agent

    UK houses near top state secondary schools cost £40,000 more, research reveals

  • microplastic fragments on an open hand

    Rising microplastics in soil a threat to UK food security, MPs and campaigners say

  • A swimmer wearing sunglasses keeps their head above water at Brighton beach

    ‘Tiny bit of rain and the sewage comes’: Brighton swimmers vent fury at sea pollution

  • Exmouth beach with people in the sea

    South West Water has worst environmental record in England, analysis shows

  • Protesters wearing flame-coloured robes and headgear form a line outside the Science Museum entrance

    London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership

  • Simon Callow as William Beveridge stands at a desk in a book-lined study, looking down

    Beveridge revisited: Simon Callow film celebrates the radical co-founder of Britain’s welfare state

  • Peter Thiel

    British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

  • An older woman with a look of angst on her face looks at a younger woman, who is looking upwards, to the right of the frame.

    Women in UK arts feel they do not have equal opportunities for roles, says report

  • Comedian Chris Cantrill laughs while speaking into a microphone on stage

    Fourth time lucky as Chris Cantrill’s spoof whodunnit wins Edinburgh comedy award 2026

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