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Underwhelmed by government pay rises, UK's doctors, nurses and teachers mull strikes

Britain's nurses, doctors and teachers moved towards strike action on Wednesday, demanding wages keep pace with soaring prices as the government defended its decision to award below-inflation pay rises for public sector workers.

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UK weather turmoil disrupts train travel for 3rd day

Britain’s record-breaking heat wave has disrupted travel for a third day and firefighters remain on alert even as cloudy skies and showers have brought relief from the scorching temperatures of recent days

The Independent UK

Britain counts cost of historic heatwave as 13 die

At least 13 people have died in Britain while swimming during a spell of record-breaking hot weather that sparked wildfires, damaged train tracks and triggered warnings that efforts to tackle climate change needed to be stepped up.

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NatWest announces £1.25bn support package for UK farmers

The news comes as Britain's agricultural sector faces increasing pressure from rising inflation

Birmingham Post

‘Stuff your 5%!’ Is the UK facing a summer of discontent – and what can we learn from the winter of 1979?

Transport workers, barristers, doctors, teachers, nurses, civil servants: if they haven’t yet voted to strike, they’re likely to do so. The last time anything like this happened, it brought down the government …

The Guardian - UK

‘Hellfire’: what the papers say about UK’s hottest ever day

Record 40.3C temperature dominates front pages along with dramatic pictures of burning houses on the outskirts of London

The Guardian - AU

What the papers say – July 20

The front pages are dominated by apocalyptic scenes of homes going up in flames on ‘the day Britain burned’.

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Britain’s Tourette’s Mystery review – is Tik Tok really causing the boom in tics?

Doctors who once saw four or five cases in teens a year now see that many per week. Scarlett Moffatt – who had a tic as a child – is the perfect person to investigate the phenomenon’s link to social media

The Guardian - UK

Chancellor says public sector pay rises will not fuel inflation

Britain’s biggest public-sector pay increases in nearly 20 years will not fuel price pressures, Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi said.

Evening Standard

Europe and UK heatwave updates: Air pollution surges as temperatures soar to 40C — as it happened

Air pollution is spiking across Britain, France, and southern Europe amid record-breaking temperatures and scorching wildfires. Catch up on the latest updates from overnight.

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Laura Muir reveals brutal physical cost of winning World Championship bronze

Flying Scot endured the hardest race of her life and ran her fastest ever time to cement her place as one of Britain's middle-distance greats

Daily Mirror

Major incidents declared in parts of England as country swelters in record 40.3C heat

Firefighters battled major blazes across England after days of exceptional heat left much of the country tinder dry

The Independent UK

Scarlett Moffatt's face tic hell and why UK is in midst of mystery Tourette's outbreak

In Channel 4 documentary Britain's Tourette's Mystery: Scarlett Moffatt Investigates, the former Gogglebox star attempts uncover the potential causes of this medical phenomenon

Daily Mirror

Lawsuit: UK officials had concerns with Rwanda deportations

A lawsuit against the British government says officials at the U.K.'s Foreign Office had misgivings about plans to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda because of the East African nation's human rights record

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Evening Standard

Monkeypox: Britain buys another 100,000 doses of vaccine

Britain has bought another 100,000 doses of vaccine to stop monkeypox as the number of cases across the country has risen to more than 2,130.

The Guardian - UK

Why do Britain’s roads melt and its rails buckle in heat?

Some countries have designed their transport infrastructure for wider extremes of weather – but that comes at a cost

The Guardian - UK

Government inertia is the biggest barrier to tackling climate crisis

Letters: David Alexander, Robert Pringle and Alex Bransby-Sharples respond to an article by Bill McGuire on the extreme weather that Britain – and the world – will have to cope with

The Independent UK

Serlina Boyd on launching Britain’s first Black journalism school: ‘So many stories have never been told’

Exclusive: The experienced publisher defied the doubters when she launched ‘Cocoa Girl’ and ‘Cocoa Boy’, which have attracted more than a million readers. Now she is launching the UK’s first Black journalism school. She talks to Nadine White about overcoming ‘sabotage’, tackling a deep-rooted problem and inspiring the younger generation

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UK awards below-inflation pay rises for police and health workers

Britain announced below-inflation pay rises for police officers and National Health Service (NHS) staff on Tuesday, as part of an annual pay review for public sector workers that comes amid soaring prices.

The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS: Europe seeks to stay cool in record-breaking heat

From a usually-temperate Britain to Europe's blistering southern nations, people across the continent are trying to stay cool amid sweltering temperatures.

The Guardian - UK

A bitter, unrepentant Boris Johnson will be a curse on the next prime minister

The next Tory leader will have no mandate – and a predecessor who, deep down, wants them to fail, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Independent UK

Transport Secretary insists Britain must be ready for more extreme weather

On Tuesday, London Heathrow saw a provisional high of 40.2C.

France 24

Sunak tops Tory MPs’ latest vote for new UK prime minister as race narrows

Britain's ex-finance minister Rishi Sunak again topped the latest vote by Conservative MPs to choose a new prime minister, as another candidate was eliminated to leave three contenders in the race.

Daily Record

Stirling records hottest ever July day as Britain bakes under "extreme" heatwave

This week saw Stirling record its hottest July day since 2009 as Britain was gripped by a heatwave. The city saw temperatures soar to 30.9C on Monday, making it the warmest day in July since local records began in 2009. The scorching heat saw sun w

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London declares 'major incident' as fires surge amid record heatwave

London's firefighting authority declared a major incident in the British capital on Tuesday in response to the surge in fires amid a record-breaking heatwave in Britain and Europe.

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