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Labour-run Birmingham City Council is under fire after £11M probe over eye-watering payments made to taxi firm charging more than £200 a day to take a child three miles to school and back

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

Rishi Sunak’s Family Profiting from Ties to Oil Giant Shell – Byline Times

NHS: Midwife sacked for claiming terrorists could poison baby milk

UK government cuts cost of polluting in latest anti-green move

Cost of Grenfell Tower disaster soars to nearly £1.2bn

Step to riches? Disused stairwell in London could be yours for just £20,000

'The cost of living started my shoplifting': Why stealing goods is on the rise

Home Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting

The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide

Most Labour voters motivated by ‘hostility towards government’

Mum of criminal angry after her law role 'leaked'

10 perfumes celebrities actually wear—and aren't paid to rave about

Paws up time for 'longest-serving' Hertfordshire fire dog

Royal Mail: Three days left to use non-barcoded stamps

Brexit fallout: Irish Government funds Northern Ireland students to continue with EU Erasmus+ programme

British crop yields rise despite cut in fertiliser use, research finds | Farming

Home Office buys tents to house asylum seekers

No trains to Brighton on Pride due to overtime ban

UK rapper turned Islamic State fighter dies in Spanish jail

'Routine' housing of child asylum seekers in hotels unlawful, High Court rules

British Gas reports record £969m profit after price cap increase

Extra hospital beds made available for winter - NHS England

Less food for families on summer-holiday support

Sinéad O'Connor: Irish singer dies aged 56

Paralympic medalist left in tears by treatment on West Coast Main Line | ITV News Granada

Key Assange supporter says Wikileaks founder could cut deal to secure freedom

Police in England to attend fewer mental-health calls

NatWest boss steps down with immediate effect over Nigel Farage bank account leak

DB Cargo UK grounds electric fleet following rocketing electricity prices

Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis indicted over insider trading scheme

Rhodes fires: Brits escape Greek fires as travel advice updated

How Britain became the G7’s inflation outlier – in one chart | Inflation

Just Stop Oil banquet crashed by Just Stop P---ing People Off YouTube pranksters

Jacob Rees-Mogg presses Tories to scale back net zero plans

Reports of modern slavery double in UK care sector

Rail bosses spend £10,000 a week on flights – because it’s cheaper than trains

Those who kill a partner after years of abuse will be treated more leniently under new ‘Sally’s law’

Ministers urged to resolve NHS strikes that could cost ‘billions’

Men sentenced over fake cranberry sauce sales

Whatever it is that takes to make an icon, we can be fairly certain that Dior’s Saddle bag has *it*

Most NHS staff say they don’t have enough time to spend with patients

Flooding in Tyrone and Donegal causes “catastrophic damage”

Battling with a flaky scalp? We've tried them all, and these are the 9 best shampoos for dandruff

'Latte make-up' is the no-fuss summer make-up trend the internet is loving right now

‘Barbaric’ dog fighting still rife in Norfolk and Suffolk

Yellow rain warning issued for Sunday across northern England and Wales

Revealed: drug firms funding UK patient groups that lobby for NHS approval of medicines

Merthyr Tydfil: Ffos-y-Fran mine accused of licence breach

‘We are at 50% of the quota we had’: boss of UK’s last long-range trawler rues ‘squandered’ Brexit hopes

‘We could soon see a Jane Austen-style marriage market’: how the housing crisis is turning modern dating on its head

Amendments to UK’s Online Safety Bill Mandate Scanning Encrypted Messages, Raising Privacy and Oversight Concerns

‘Starmer may use Uxbridge to warn against radicalism at NPF summit’

Experts and beauty editors swear by this simple (but effective) skincare ingredient

Wet and windy forecast for Saturday dampens start of summer holidays

Brian Cox and Simon Pegg among British stars rallying in support of Hollywood strike: 'AI is taking our jobs'

​Inside the giant Home Office barge where up to 500 asylum seekers will be held