‘We’ve got our club back’: Southend fans celebrate win and takeover deal Tuesday’s victory over Oxford City came after a sale, led by Australian investor Justin Rees, had been agreed at the last minute The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2023
Teenage fix: the London council spending big on youth services With its surging population and rife child poverty, Tower Hamlets says its £13.7m funding package will pay off The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2023
‘I’m a better musician than I ever was a drug dealer’: rapper Potter Payper on leaving prison behind The UK’s hottest hip-hop star missed the launch of his debut album when he returned to jail for the 15th time. There’s more to him than his troubled past The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2023
‘I think it’s a new artform’: Chris Fonseca, the man bringing Deaf dance to the mainstream With his primetime TV appearances, West End shows, tours and plans for a film, choreographer Chris Fonseca is using music and dance to explore his identity. But he rejects tokenism, and ‘it’s not a Ted talk’ The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2023
‘You could fill a museum with it’: the $963m Roman Abramovich art collection revealed Leak suggests the oil and gas tycoon and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova amassed one of the most significant collections of modern art in private hands The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2023
Rick Astley: ‘There’s definitely something in the idea that music saved my life’ The pop star on charming Glastonbury, his difficult childhood and the secret of his long marriage The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2023
Author Mick Herron: ‘I’d have made an awful spy. I don’t have a smartphone or wifi’ As he publishes a new standalone novel, the spotlight-shunning author of the Slow Horses books talks about politics, time-travel and identity-swapping The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2023
‘This is a public health crisis’: how the expansion of Ulez is affecting the daily lives of Londoners Some welcome the low emissions zone, others question it … and many despise it. But almost everyone agrees something has to be done about air pollution in London The Guardian - UK · Aug 26, 2023
‘An excuse against Labour’: Uxbridge unconvinced Ulez led to Tory byelection win Residents have mixed views and misgivings about policy but some say they voted Labour nonetheless The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2023
Frank Skinner: ‘I’ve always operated near the line. If it moves, I move with it’ The comedian on his love of poetry, navigating political landmines and why Edinburgh is so close to his heart The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2023
Like the world’s best sports day: state-school cricketers take over Lord’s Drama of National Hubs final day is thrilling, and the community spirit of these groups will have a lasting impact The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2023
‘In some ways, Parkinson’s has meant a new lease of life’: meet the Movers and Shakers Tim Adams joins Jeremy Paxman and five high-flying friends as they record the second series of their unmissable podcast about living with the disease The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2023
Satanic mills and sexy acorns: the choir complaining about Northampton From the terrible parking to the awful mural of Charles and Camilla, the Northampton Complaints Choir puts it all in song. Our man joins to vent his frustrations – and gets a surprise The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2023
‘We get braver as we get older’: Maxine Peake on her daring dystopia play performed in a library Kay Dick’s novel They was almost forgotten – but its dark predictions are eerily prescient. Perfect fodder for Peake and her new company to bring to life in Manchester The Guardian - UK · Jun 30, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Jun 25, 2023 £5m Surrey mansion at centre of row over Russian bank sanctions loophole Lawyers claim the assets of a Russian banker accused of fraud can be legally sent to a bank controlled by Vladimir Putin
The Guardian - UK · Jun 22, 2023 ‘We’ll play until our teeth drop out!’ The long, remarkable lives of Britain’s Windrush-era musicians Now in their 80s and 90s, having faced down racism and neglect, musicians of Caribbean heritage are still centre stage in the adopted country where they’ve enriched music in so many ways
The Guardian - UK · Jun 22, 2023 ‘I have overwhelming impostor syndrome’: TV judge Rob Rinder on empathy, shame and survival He grew up gay in a working-class community, before becoming a criminal barrister, then moving into television. Now he has written his first novel
The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2023 How Boris Johnson’s fall exposed bogus Brexit promises on taking back control The former prime minister is at war with the parliament whose powers and authority he claimed to hold so dear to bolster the Vote Leave endeavour
The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2023 ‘Nobody’s happy’: junior doctors in Oxford voice NHS frustrations As 72-hour strike gets under way, there are concerns over staffing, infrastructure and morale
The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2023 Labour and Lib Dems scent victory in Nadine Dorries’ seat Both parties feel they have a real chance of capitalising on voters’ dismay with Boris Johnson and toppling the Tories
The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2023 Kissinger at 100: The ‘bloody, dreadful, filthy’ Angolan civil war – in pictures The Guardian visited Angola in 2001 as the long civil war – aggravated by the interventions of Henry Kissinger – between Unita and the government wound down. The images show how the conflict affected the people and landscape around the city of Kuito in Bie province
The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2023 Single-use vapes sparking surge in fires at UK waste plants The 1.3m disposable e-cigarettes discarded every week often end up in general waste and their broken batteries are highly flammable
The Guardian - UK · Apr 22, 2023 Lake or mistake? The row over water firms, drought and Abingdon’s new super-reservoir A proposal for 150bn litres of storage in Oxfordshire is mired in controversy and distrust of a privatised water industry
The Guardian - UK · Apr 15, 2023 ‘A huge amount of nostalgia’: end of an era as London’s famed Sylvanian Families shop shuts Magnet for thousands of collectors of furry toys will close doors next week
The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2023 Dining across the divide: ‘He thinks everyone gets more conservative as they get older’ A sales director and a demand planner, at different stages of their respective careers, compare views on how they should be taxed