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‘The wounds don’t ever heal’: 30 years after James Bulger’s murder, Bootle cannot forget

In 1993, the UK was held in horror by the murder of two-year-old James Bulger. From the scene of his abduction to the youth justice system, the distress still reverberates

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West Lancashire byelection: Labour odds-on favourite to hold seat

Contest was triggered by MP Rosie Cooper’s resignation after being targeted in rightwing plot

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Strikers unite across England: ‘Our disputes may be separate but we have one aim’

Voices from picket lines and protests in Bristol, Birmingham and London on a day of mass industrial action

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Spitting Image stages revival – and this time the puppets are on a mission

Live theatre version of 1980s TV satire features Tom Cruise and other stars of showbiz trying to save ‘broken Britain’

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‘It will affect all of us’: how bank closures have hit one UK town

In a week when several big banks announced they were axing branches, we talk to locals concerned over effect on elderly and vulnerable people

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Dining across the divide: ‘He’s not visibly queer like me and I don’t think he faces the same issues’

One votes Labour, the other has a dog called Thatcher, but they agree to disagree on politics. Will they be on such amicable ground when it comes to gender?

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The new-build ‘homes’ where energy scientists play God with the weather

Researchers hope £16m temperature-controlled chamber can stress test green tech to help make houses energy efficient

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Animal ambulances answer growing demand for pet emergency care

Firms such as Animals at Home offer range of care services and can step in when pets are in trouble

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‘A stepping stone back into society’: the gardening club helping recovering addicts

The Lost Plot in Leeds is one of many groups run by charity that will benefit from Guardian and Observer charity appeal

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Climate crisis prompts RHS to plan for sending rhododendrons north

Plants are thought more likely to thrive at Harlow Carr in Yorkshire than at their current home at Wisley in Surrey

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‘People use candles because they’re scared of the bills’: a day with a debt charity helpline

Advisers at StepChange deal with rising number of calls amid UK cost of living crisis, and more people higher up income scale

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Aptamer: the York biotech working on precision cancer treatments

UK firm links with up global drug firms to make synthetic antibodies capable of binding to targets such as tumour cells

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‘This lot? No way’: what ‘red wall’ voters think now of Johnson, the Tories and Labour

We visit Blyth, Bury and Penistone to find out what has changed in the three years since they turned blue

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‘I feel like a target’: Welsh woman braces for her stalker’s possible release

Exclusive: Rhianon Bragg says she feels vulnerable in her isolated home as her ex-partner could be freed from prison

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Thursday briefing: How the north’s rail services went off track

In today’s newsletter: Perhaps nowhere in the UK are trains more in a crisis than in the north of England, where problems are thought to be costing the region up to £400m a year. What could be done to fix it?

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Top 10 dissenting life stories

From Doris Lessing’s frank memoirs of social change to less famous campaigners in decisive struggles, these accounts provide an inspiring look ‘into the window’ of history

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Wales fans proud and unbowed after early World Cup exit

Fans in Wrexham, gathered for what proved team’s last game of first World Cup in 64 years, say contest has boosted national profile

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Britain’s ‘loneliest house’ goes on sale for reported £10m

Skiddaw House on the market for first time, along with 1,214 hectares of Lake District land – including three mountaintops

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‘We’re in a hellhole’: Newcastle food bank struggles with drop in donations

Trussell Trust research shows profile of food bank users changing as cost of living bites

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‘It left me in awe’: my hands-on initiation to wheelchair rugby league

The Guardian’s rugby league writer enjoys/suffers a training session as England prepare for their World Cup campaign

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Giant rabbits ‘bred for meat’ looking for new homes after Northumberland rescue

RSPCA rescues 42 Flemish giant rabbits that are now being cared for in several shelters across north-east England

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12-hour party people? Manchester tells Night & Day cafe to abate

Pioneering music venue and crux of city’s Northern Quarter faces noise abatement notice after neighbour’s complaint

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Ropes come down as National Trust lets children roam free at Sudbury Hall

Visitors to Children’s Country House can dress up in the saloon, curl up in the library and play in the kitchen

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Beach balls and lime green loos: a brief stop at Britain’s worst services

A survey put the eastbound M62 Hartshead Moor services at the bottom of the pile. Our writer went to find out why

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‘I just wanted a chance’: the Mansfield goalkeeping coach who fled Syria

Fahd Saleh vowed to escape Homs after his apartment block was bombed and has realised a dream in English football

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