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  • Post office workers outside of the Royal Courts of Justice hold a banner

    Post Office
    Alan Bates calls for protection of legal funding that helped bring Horizon scandal to court

  • Small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly

    Environment
    Mass planting of marsh violets key to saving rare UK butterfly, says National Trust

    • Live
      Rafah offensive could give Hamas ‘strategic victory’, US says; UNGA in new Palestinian vote

    • NHS
      Adapted bowel cancer test developed for blind and partly sighted people

    • Eurovision
      Israel qualifies for song contest final amid protests

    • Australia
      Rwandans arrive on Saibai Island after perilous journey to claim asylum

    • London
      Man, 22, arrested on suspicion of murder after woman in 60s stabbed to death in broad daylight

    • Baby Reindeer
      ‘Inspiration’ for stalker character says she received death threats

News in focus

  • Environmental scientist Dr Shobha Maharaj stands in front of the coastline in San Fernando, Trinidad, where coastal stabilization works have been done, in an attempt to preserve the coastline.

    ‘I am starting to panic'
    Fifth of female climate scientists opting for no or fewer children

  • The Vulcan Hotel, which once stood in the Adamsdown area of Cardiff, has been rebuilt in its original 1915 state at St Fagans National Museum of History, Wales, UK<br>Pictured: Exterior view of the Vulcan Hotel. Thursday 09 May 2024 Re: The Vulcan Hotel, which once stood in the Adamsdown area of Cardiff, has been rebuilt in its original 1915 state at St Fagans National Museum of History, Wales, UK.

    'Weird but wonderful'
    Beloved Cardiff pub demolished in 2012 reopens after brick-by-brick rebuild on new site

    Historic alehouse frequented by a Manic Street Preacher and All Black rugby players reconstructed on edge of Welsh capital
  • A general view of Tokyo's Ginza area

    Tokuryū
    The shadowy criminal groups taking over from yakuza in Japan

    Organised in a deliberately loose fashion, tokuryū pose fresh problems for police, as years of crackdowns see the appeal of a yakuza life fade

Spotlight

  • Press shot of Jonny Greenwood, he has his fingers in his ears. Behind him are large pink/purple flowers on a bush.

    Jonny Greenwood
    ‘I’m still arsing around on instruments like when I was a kid’

    The Radiohead guitarist changed rock music, then conquered the world of soundtracks. But can he revolutionise the church organ with an eight-hour composition?
  • Ann Peetermans, (47, top left) has dinner with the three boarders, Iosif (53, top right), Etty (71, bottom left) and Luc (75, bottom right).

    Belgium
    The town where families take in people with psychiatric conditions

  • Ta-da! Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in The Crown.

    The Crown to Happy Valley
    Who will win the TV Baftas … and who should?

    As the biggest night in TV approaches, can Ghost Diana really reign supreme? Will Hannah Waddingham beat Ant and Dec? And will one of the world’s greatest actors get his first gong after almost 40 years?
  • Damian and Liz Hurley at an Oscars party in Beverly Hills, March 2024

    ‘I love erotic thrillers, but this so isn’t one’
    Damian Hurley on directing his mother, Elizabeth, in a ‘sensual mystery’

    At 22, Damian Hurley has made his first feature film, in which his very famous mum is snogged and fondled by her female co-star. He talks about being a nepo baby, finally getting to vote, and coping with the deaths of his father and stepfather
    • Judge 11th May - WEB

      You be the judge
      Should my girlfriend buy expensive sunglasses when she keeps losing cheap ones?

    • Squash coach Rob Owen at his home in Hampton-in-Arden

      Meet Rob Owen
      Overweight, millionaire gambler and sport’s unlikeliest coach

    • High angle view at gabled houses, Grosse Petersgrube, Luebeck, Schleswig Holstein, Germany, Europe<br>BH1K5T High angle view at gabled houses, Grosse Petersgrube, Luebeck, Schleswig Holstein, Germany, Europe

      Readers’ favourite trips in Germany
      ‘We wandered every cobbled street and climbed every gothic tower’

    • Bath, a favourite location for filming Bridgerton.

      Fantasy house hunt
      Georgian homes for sale in England for Bridgerton fans

Opinion

  • Post office scandal, London, UK - 23 Apr 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX/Shutterstock (11872250a) A group of former sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses have seen their names cleared at the Court of Appeal Post office scandal, London, UK - 23 Apr 2021

    Our Post Office victory is being twisted by those who don’t want to see its like again

    Alan Bates
    Litigation funders didn’t ‘exploit’ subpostmasters, they helped us. Those who attack them have corporate interests at heart
  • Illustration: Bill Bragg

    Why is Britain’s mental health so incredibly poor? It’s because our society is spiralling backwards

    George Monbiot
  • The new Boxberg solar park, built on a former open-pit coal mine in Nochten, Germany.

    I understand climate scientists’ despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope

    Christiana Figueres
    Fighting spirit helped us achieve the Paris accords in 2015 – and we need it now
  • A pro-Palestinian demonstration in Malmö on 9 May against Israel’s inclusion in Eurovision.

    Eurovision is a joyful, powerful event – but it can’t carry the weight of the war in Gaza

    Gaby Hinsliff
    Although calls for a boycott are understandable, it is wrong to expect pop stars or organisers to fix world affairs
    • Natalie Elphicke defects to Labour party<br>Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke in his parliamentary office in the House of Commons, London, after it was announced she has defected to Labour, hitting out at the "broken promises of Rishi Sunak's tired and chaotic government". Picture date: Wednesday May 8, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Elphicke. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

      Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntled voters – not their turncoat MPs

      Polly Toynbee
    • two men sitting next to each other in front of israeli flags

      Will Biden finally stop enabling Netanyahu’s extremist government?

      Mohamad Bazzi
    • John Crace

      It’s Labour’s turn to crash and burn as party can’t defend Elphicke’s defection

      John Crace
    • The Garrick Club, London, 4 April 2024.

      It’s as if misogyny was the vice that dared not speak its name at the Garrick. That cloud has now lifted

      Simon Jenkins

Editorials & Letters

  • Sewage and plant debris floats on the Jubilee River in Dorney Reach, Buckinghamshire.

    The Guardian view
    Britain’s dirty waterways: a failure of industry and regulation

  • First Minister of Scotland John Swinney speaks during his debut at First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh.

    The Guardian view
    John Swinney’s Scotland: a new start but also more of the same

  • A general view of the Woking Borough Council offices in 2023

    Letters
    How savage Tory cuts hollowed out all our public services

  • Keir Starmer with former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke in his parliamentary office in the House of Commons, London, after it was announced she has defected to Labour.

    Letters
    Should Labour be embracing the likes of Natalie Elphicke?

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  • An elderly woman holding hands with her daughter

    Carers
    DWP’s unchecked database leaves tens of thousands at risk of debt and prosecution

    50% of earnings ‘alerts’ for carer’s allowance overpayments not looked at by staff, figures reveal
  • The imposing facade of a Victorian-era prison

    Exclusive
    Government triggers crisis measure to ease prison overcrowding

  • General view of the Tata Steelworks in Port Talbot, with a road sign in the foreground

    Tata
    Steelworkers vote to take industrial action over job losses

  • John Swinney walks with Kate Forbes down a corridor at the Scottish parliament in Holyrood; pale wood doorways and window frames are seen to either side of them. He wears a black suit, white shirt and tie, and she wears a black jacket over a skirt which is half bright pink and half red. They both look cheerful.

    Scotland
    Kate Forbes elected deputy first minister despite Green opposition

    • Protests
      Universities must protect Jewish students, Sunak says

    • Telegraph takeover
      Zucker ‘would have done bid differently’ in hindsight

    • ‘Shaped like Table Mountain’
      Interest rates are close to a descent – maybe starting as soon as next month

    • Rwanda scheme
      Rising protests among UK asylum seekers held for deportation

    • Israel
      UK will not withhold arms sales, David Cameron says

    • ‘Gruesome’
      How ‘eunuch maker’ livestreamed extreme body modifications and sold body parts

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  • A sign asking for an investigation on India's alleged role in the killing of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada.

    Canada
    India says country has offered no evidence it was involved in death of Sikh separatist

  • Supplied images for Biodiesel story Papua new Guinea Kulili Tractors run on biodiesel to collect Cocoa

    Papua New Guinea
    The humble coconut is starting to fuel parts of the country

    • WPP
      CEO of world’s biggest ad firm targeted by deepfake scam

    • Vladimir Putin
      Russian leader watchers military parade featuring a solitary, Soviet-era tank

    • Toomaj Salehi
      Coldplay and Sting call for release of Iranian rapper sentenced to death

    • Brian Wilson
      Judge places Beach Boys’ star in conservatorship

    • India
      Women are shaping the country's political landscape

    • ‘Destruction of the human experience’
      Apple apologises for iPad ad after backlash

Culture

  • Taylor Swift on stage dressed in a red bodysuit holding up a microphone

    Taylor Swift
    Singer debuts new tracks as she returns to The Eras Tour

    Pop star thrills Paris crowds with songs from newest album The Tortured Poets Department
  • André Holland as Huey P Newton in The Big Cigar.

    The Big Cigar to Bridgerton
    The seven best shows to stream this week

  • Sensitive soulmates … Wadada Leo Smith and Amina Claudine Myers.

    'An elegiac homage to New York’s green lung'
    Wadada Leo Smith and Amina Claudine Myers

  • A cat at the Paphos archaeological site.

    'An exploration of Cyprus’s cultural resilience'
    Cypria by Alex Christofi review

  • Alex Murphy as Conor MacSweeney in The Young Offenders

    TV tonight
    Riotously funny prison comedy The Young Offenders is back

  • Portrait photograph of Shirley Conran

    Shirley Conran
    Campaigner and ‘queen of the bonkbuster’ dies aged 91

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    Hot to trot
    What to wear to a spring fayre

    Will you make a beeline for the handicrafts, the homemade cakes or the plants? Here’s how to cut a dash at your local fete
  • spirit level balancing on a tooth

    Sali Hughes on beauty
    Train-track braces are the quickest route to straighter teeth – and better cheekbones

  • Painting: An Old Woman Cooking Eggs (1618) by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez

    Leading questions
    My mother spends her days serving a ‘holy man’. How can I make her see he is not a positive force?

  • Barb Jungr and Julian Clary, pictured at The Café Carlyle in 2009

    How Julian Clary and Barb Jungr met
    We both follow our hearts – and we both have psychic skills

  • French bakers with a big baguette

    Thursday quiz
    Musical riots, 1984 books, and extra-long bread

  • Black-and-white image of two white children, perhaps from the 50s or made to look like it's from the 50s, with the little boy blowing up a balloon over the head of the little girl, who is grimacing with her eyes closed and sticking her fingers in her ears.

    ‘I couldn't stand her’
    What makes people annoying?

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  • Free Palestine<br>Over 50 students began an occupation of the Parkinson Building of Leeds University on Friday 08.03.2024 in protest of the conflict in Gaza. What was planned as a 24 hour occupation has changed into a indefination occupation after the University decided to lock the doors of the building restricting access to and from the main building. The students have built an encampment within the building and are living off water and food smuggled onto the site. Rally for Palestine by Leeds Students and University Staff. Leeds.

    Students in UK
    Share your experience of pro-Palestinian university protests

  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Luxury goods sector
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • Kris Hallenga and her twin sister Maren Hallenga during a flashmob for breast cancer charity CoppaFeel!

    Breast cancer
    How have you been affected by the CoppaFeel! campaign?

  • Photo of a sold and for sale signs.

    Housing
    Have you bought a house in the UK with your friend?

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  • Sugar comes in many different forms. This blend contains sugars from Barbados, Colombia and India, which have variations in color, texture and taste.

    ‘Sugar is brown!’
    There’s more to the sweet stuff than its pure white version

    Sugar’s texture and taste can be as individualistic as coffee beans or wine grapes grown in specific regions, but most of us don’t know that
  • images of two students and a person sitting on a lawn surrounded by signs

    ‘A slap in the face’
    Students blast cancellation of graduation ceremonies

  • Yevhen Miezientsev (left) and Mykola Misechko on top of a high-rise apartment block in Kyiv.

    Judges with machine guns
    The part-time drone hunters defending Kyiv

  • Robert Ballard speaking at a conference in California.

    Robert Ballard
    I discovered hydrothermal vents, but I’m only known for finding the Titanic

  • Signs and flags are seen on the property of William Denby, Ontario, Canada on April 25, 2024. (Cole Burston)

    Canada
    Is a previously unheard-of First Nation just the latest Pretendian case?

  • Liao Yiwu in Paris in 2019.

    Two poems, four years in detention
    The long read: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison

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    'Swept under the rug for too long'
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  • Reena Barai: she is standing in a doorway between shelves of medicines in packaging, and wears a black and white striped dress with black cardigan. She is Asian and has collar-length curly dark hair and glasses; she is smiling and resting one hand on a black desk

    ‘We’re firefighting’
    The pharmacists coping with record drug shortages

  • Dr Ruth Cerezo-Mota and the planet

    ‘Hopeless and broken'
    Why top climate scientists are terrified

  • An illustration of Marc Conway, who is serving an IPP sentence on licence

    The IPP scandal
    Marc Conway risked his life to stop the London Bridge terror attack. Why did he fear being sent to prison for it?

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  • A march to protest against mining in El Salvador in 2017. Photograph: José Cabezas/Reuters

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  • Natalie Elphicke and Keir Starmer sitting on armchairs talking one another (Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

    Today in Focus
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  • Champions League - Semi Final - Second Leg - Real Madrid v Bayern Munich<br>Soccer Football - Champions League - Semi Final - Second Leg - Real Madrid v Bayern Munich - Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain - May 8, 2024 Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham and Eduardo Camavinga celebrate after the match REUTERS/Juan Medina TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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  • G2: how to harness protein power

    Science Weekly
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  • People flee the eastern parts of Rafah in Gaza. Photo by Aaed Baker/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

    Today in Focus
    Escaping Rafah: on the ground in Gaza’s last refuge

  • Borussia Dortmund is in the final of the Champions League, Parc de Prince, Paris, North Rhine-Westphalia, France - 07 May 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Action Press/REX/Shutterstock (14468424le) Nico Schlotterbeck #4 (Borussia Dortmund), Paris Saint-Germain vs. Borussia Dortmund, Football, Champions League, semi-finals Borussia Dortmund is in the final of the Champions League, Parc de Prince, Paris, North Rhine-Westphalia, France - 07 May 2024

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    Stormy Daniels takes the stand in Trump trial

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  • A line of female military cadets. Nearest the camera, one applies red lipstick to the cadet next to her

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