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UK set to ban tobacco sales for a ‘smoke-free’ generation. Will it work?

The UK’s smoking ban aims to phase out sales of tobacco, which is one of the main causes of cancer deaths in Britain.

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Compensation payouts to UK rail passengers for delays hit £100m a year

Record sum follows cancellation or part-cancellation of almost 320,000 train services in past year

The Guardian - UK

The obstacles Yamaha has to overcome to have a satellite MotoGP team in 2025

After 26 seasons at the helm of Yamaha, Britain's Lin Jarvis revealed last weekend in an interview with Autosport that 2024 will be his final year as the brand's most senior executive. Before closing this chapter, Jarvis managed to extend 2021 world champion Fabio Quartararo's contract until the end of…

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There’s a gaping hole at the centre of the Tory party where ideas should be. The risk is Liz Truss will fill it

Sunak likes to pretend his predecessor never happened. But are the moderates going to sit back and cede their party to fanatics, asks Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

Dina Asher-Smith: ‘For the first time in 10 years, I can just kind of be’

Britain’s greatest female sprinter tells Sean Ingle she has found herself on and off the track after a life-changing move to Texas to prepare for Paris 2024

The Guardian - UK

Team GB predicted to win 66 medals at Paris Olympics but just 13 gold

Britain has been predicted to exceed its medal tally from the last Olympics in Paris this summer.

Evening Standard

Labour’s foreign policy will be realistic about us as a nation, not nostalgic about what we used to be

Our guiding light will be progressive realism and an end to the reckless, gaffe-prone diplomacy of the Tory years, says shadow foreign secretary David Lammy

The Guardian - UK

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‘Although I’m tetraplegic, I’ve started to feel normal’: Hanif Kureishi on staging The Buddha of Suburbia

As his coming-of-age rollercoaster hits the stage, the novelist talks about the boredom of hospitals, how Britain has changed since Buddha – and why shouting at his kids is a great way to write blogs

The Guardian - UK

Bill To Phase Out Smoking Advances In UK Parliament

A contentious bill that aims to eventually phase out smoking in Britain advanced in parliament on Tuesday, as the House of Commons voted in favour of the controversial measure.

International Business Times

OPINION - The warning lights are flashing red — Britain must prepare its defences for worldwide chaos

While the world awaits the next twist in the Middle East conflict, there are some hard lessons from what happened across Israeli skies at the weekend — especially for Nato’s European partners — Britain included.

Evening Standard

A bottle of the finest Chateau Sewage for our dearest Tory MPs

Brief letters: Polluted rivers | Donald Trump’s trial | Women walking alone | John Crace’s return | A better Britain

The Guardian - UK

Headteacher’s prayer ban ‘lawful’ & London primary school places: The Standard podcast

A high court judge has ruled that a prayer ban at one of the highest-performing state schools in England run by ‘Britain’s strictest headteacher’ - was not unlawful.

Evening Standard

‘We work just as hard’: Team GB swimmers want Olympic prize money

Britain’s double Tokyo 2020 champion Tom Dean has joined a chorus of calls for prize money to be paid at the Olympic Games

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The private letter that proves there's even less to Liz Truss than meets the eye

Liz Truss has beliefs. The former environment secretary is a fierce supporter of free markets, low taxes and a Britain outside of the European Union. She is also a self-described China hawk, having called the country "the largest threat, both to the world and to the United Kingdom, for freedom…

Evening Standard

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‘Not even a pipe dream’: John Akomfrah represents Britain at Venice Biennale

Founder of Black Audio Film Collective says he would have laughed if someone had said he’d someday be in the UK pavilion

Evening Standard

'A victory for all schools': Britain's 'strictest headteacher' Katharine Birbalsingh hails High Court prayer ban ruling

Michaela Community school is ‘a joy to be in’ thanks to strict rules, says Katharine Birbalsingh

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Civil servants should lead by example and get back to the office

It has been almost one year since the World Health Organisation declared the end of Covid-19 as a public health emergency, and nearly two since the last pandemic restrictions in Britain were lifted. Yet saunter around Whitehall and you might be forgiven for thinking it is still late March 2020.

The Guardian - UK

Britain has no business intervening in the war in Gaza. So why did it defend Israel against Iran?

Our leaders are too eager to revisit the UK’s one-time role as police officer to the world. This isn’t the way to do foreign affairs, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Evening Standard

Who is ‘Britain’s strictest headteacher’ Katharine Birbalsingh?

Michaela Community School in London is at the centre of a legal challenge

Evening Standard

London's most expensive streets revealed — can you guess the pricey addresses?

A street in the capital where houses are regularly priced at over £9 million has been named Britain’s most expensive

The Guardian - UK

This is the kind of Britain we must now strive to become

Letters: Readers agree with Martin Kettle that Britain needs realism, not an outdated notion of its own superiority

Evening Standard

Defiance: how Britain’s South Asian communities went from being brutalised to surviving and thriving

As a new Channel 4 documentary shows, In the midst of the horror that Britain’s South Asian communities faced in the Seventies is an inspiring story of how they came together in the face of murderous threat, fought back and changed the country

Cycling News

Wales to host opening stages for rebranded Tour of Britain Women in June

'It’s been a monumental effort by the whole team' says Tour of Britain race director Ellingworth about restoration of events

The Guardian - UK

Seán Hutton obituary

Other lives: Champion of the Irish in Britain who held a key position in the Federation of Irish Societies for more than two decades

The Guardian - UK

RAF shot down Iranian drones heading for Israel, Sunak confirms

Prime minister says UK was involved to save lives in Israel and neighbouring countries

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