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Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads review – a burning portrait of racism in Britain

Two decades since the debut of Roy Williams’s play set in a pub during an England v Germany World Cup qualifier, the script is as hot as ever

The Guardian - UK

Power supplies could be 'tight' at times this winter, electricity body says

But The Electricity System Operator (ESO) believes it should be able to keep the lights on

Wales Online

Britain's biggest family the Radfords face £900 bill per meal on next Disney World trip

The Radfords have another trip to Disney World in the pipeline, with mum-of-22 Sue, 47, showing her extortionate food bill ahead of the holiday

Daily Mirror

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Unions issue threat of UK general strike as rail crisis grows

Aslef members voted for action in August, while the RMT chief, Mick Lynch, is calling for a general strike

The Guardian - UK

Britain's rail network hit by new strike action over pay dispute

Britain's rail network suffered major disruption again on Wednesday as staff walked out in a row over pay and conditions, the latest in a wave of industrial unrest as wages fail to keep pace with soaring inflation.

Reuters

The Leader podcast: How successful are union train strikes?

One of Britain’s leading transport experts on the effectiveness and impact of pickets

Evening Standard

Video Shows Huge Machine Tunneling For Britain’s High-Speed Rail Project

Dorothy is named after Dorothy Hodgkin, who in 1964 became the first British woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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I am glad UK will host Eurovision, says former Ukrainian winner Jamala

The singer said that, while it would have been ‘symbolic’ for Ukraine to host the contest, Britain is the ‘rational’ option.

The Independent UK

Rail strikes: disruption affects millions in UK as Shapps threatens crackdown

Travel disrupted for millions amid worsening row with rail firms over jobs, pay, pensions and conditions

The Guardian - UK

Kate Garraway to miss Good Morning Britain for second week as husband Derek Draper remains in hospital

The TV presenter has been missing from the ITV breakfast show since last Wednesday and it is unclear when she is likely to return

Evening Standard

Inside abandoned housing estate dubbed 'Scotland's Chernobyl' where 20 people still live

Under 20 people are thought to be living on Clune Park estate, which was once the cheapest property in Britain after one flat sold for just £7,000 at auction.

Daily Record

New UK rail strike brings train services to a crawl

Britain’s railway network has ground to a crawl after 40,000 staff walked off the job in a dispute over jobs, pay and working conditions

The Independent UK

Edinburgh BBC presenter Nicky Campbell tells of sexual abuse at private school

Making the announcement on his BBC podcast, released on Wednesday, he also speaks with journalist Alex Renton on the endemic abuse in Britain's public schools. Nicky said the abuse began when he was aged just ten, and has a long-lasting impact on his adult life

Edinburgh Live

Boxxer’s Ben Shalom: ‘I sacrificed my twenties, I sacrificed absolutely everything’

Exclusive interview: The 28-year-old discusses his journey from becoming Britain’s youngest licensed boxing promoter to positioning Boxxer as one of the country’s leading forces

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The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer sacks shadow transport minister who joined picket line; train drivers vote for fresh strike – as it happened

Labour leader fires Sam Tarry from frontbench after he gave interviews on picket line; Aslef announces drivers will strike again over pay

Reuters

Prime ministerial hopeful Sunak pitches UK energy bill tax cuts

Rishi Sunak, trailing in the race to become Britain's prime minister, pledged on Wednesday to temporarily scrap taxes on energy bills paid by households, part of a "winter plan" to ease the cost-of-living crisis.

Newslaundry

India’s media is taking the wrong lessons from Rishi Sunak’s rise

In February 2020, when the now disgraced prime minister Boris Johnson appointed Rishi Sunak, the British-born third-generation son of Indian immigrants, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, the second most important of the great offices of state, the news was greeted with gleeful astonishment and a sense of arrival - in…

Insider UK

Carbon capture could be worth £100 billion to UK economy by 2050

Offshore Energies UK report warns that Britain’s supply chain to support sector is fragile

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10 Killed in South Syria Clashes

Gunmen supporting Syria's government and others opposed to Damascus clashed in the southern Syrian province of Sweida Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, a war monitor said. Six loyalists and four people against the regime lost their lives after the fighting erupted in two villages in the Druze-majority province, the…

The Independent UK

Ukrainian family of nine evicted from UK home fear becoming homeless after being rejected by 15 landlords

Maxim and Olga Hyryk are still struggling to find somewhere to rent with their five young children and two mothers despite raising £20,000 after fleeing to Britain

Daily Mirror

Lord Sebastian Coe adamant London 2012 Olympics was "best games ever"

Coe led Britain's bid to be the host country in 2012 as London delivered a memorable games including the iconic Super Saturday when Mo Farah, Greg Rutherford and Jessica Ennis-Hill all won gold

The Guardian - UK

Defiant Sebastian Coe flies flag for London Olympics with a murky legacy

Lord Coe maintains pride in what the 2012 Games gave UK sport and reveals Sir Alex Ferguson almost managed Team GB

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe: Business isn’t wasting a good crisis while China plays the long game

Ampol’s increased refinery profits, the price of bread in Britain, environmentalists making coal miners richer and China selling its US Treasuries stash.

Reuters

London Underground train staff to strike on Aug 19 - PA Media

London underground train staff plan to strike on Aug. 19 over jobs and pensions, PA Media reported on Tuesday, citing the RMT union, in Britain's latest industrial dispute that could affect transport services.

The Independent UK

Truss attacks Sunak’s ‘disastrous’ economic plan ahead of second TV debate

Liz Truss told Sky News the former chancellor’s tax plans will “put off people who want to invest in Britain”.

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