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Breakout indie band Westside Cowboy on rejecting tech and loving imperfection: ‘We’re not hermits!’

By Daniel Dylan Wray

Despite their fast rise, the Manchester indie-pop band are happily going at their own pace. But what – if anything – did they learn from the advice of Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon? When Westside Cowboy played Later … With Jools Holland earlier this year, fellow guests Duran Duran offered some advice. “Nerves are just your mind telling you that you’re about to do something extraordinary,” Simon Le Bon told the band, who

Football Daily | The Premier League soap opera is back – and Spurs are already hogging the narrative

By Barry Glendenning

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! While the opening round of Premier League fixtures hasn’t yet concluded, Football Daily can’t be alone in having jerked both knees to the point of dislocation based on the evidence of what little we’ve seen thus far. Newly-promoted Hull City look the most likely contenders to challenge Arsenal for the title. Ipswich Town’s Julio Enciso already looks a shoo-in for th

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Survivors of violent crime criticise MoJ for not explaining offender restriction zones

By Steven Morris

Campaigners accuse ministers of trying to grab headlines with announcement before a working system is ready Survivors of violent crime and families of victims have criticised the UK government for announcing “world first” plans to introduce restriction zones for serious offenders freed from prison within a few weeks without spelling out how they would work. Key campaigners who have championed the idea of the zones, d

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Demand soars for free school uniform, says charity

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Doreen's repurposes old uniforms and gives them to families in Hull and East Yorkshire for free.

Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon price rises in western Europe ‘highest in world’

By Mark Sweney

World’s largest streaming services have also increased subscription costs repeatedly in US, research finds Business live – latest updates Subscribers to Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video in western Europe have faced higher price increases than in any other market in recent years, according to research. Over the past four years the world’s largest subscription video streaming services have dramatically changed t

Fisheries agency thanks PR firm for ‘invaluable’ PAC hearing prep costing €54,000

By Ken Foxe

Opposition TDS criticised the spend as ‘ludicrous’ and ‘an extraordinary unjustifiable use of public money’

‘Better than The Godfather’: how we made brutal Yorkshire crime classic Red Riding

By Interviews by Michael Hogan

‘The show’s hardly an advert for Yorkshire. Sets would have a burnt-out car and maybe an upturned shopping trolley. Locals would say, “Can’t you put a nice floral arrangement there instead?”’ I’d been writing screenplays with Michael Winterbottom and in 2006, his producer Andrew Eaton said: “There’s this quartet of novels by David Peace. Are you interested in adapting them?” I read the first, 1974, and was drawn to i

Two National Trust visitor centres and cafes to shut

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The charity says the cafes and visitor centres at Robin Hood's Bay and Ravenscar are no longer viable.

London bus strikes to begin over hot conditions

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The Unite union is demanding air conditioning in cabs as drivers complain of heatstroke.

Guardian-produced Gaza documentary from Oscar-winning Israeli directors of No Other Land to screen at Venice film festival

By Andrew Pulver

Film directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, co-directors of No Other Land along with Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal, investigates ‘Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians’ during the war A new documentary about Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza, directed by Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian, is to receive its world premiere at the Venice film festiv

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Troy Parrott could make La Liga debut on Tuesday as Pellegrini says he is ‘ready to play’

By David Gorman

Real Betis play Valencia in their second La Liga game of the season on Tuesday

Population rises to 5.5m but the number of births continues to decline

By Órla Ryan

CSO figures show 12% decrease in number of immigrants compared with corresponding period ending in April 2025

We would like to hear from young people in England who didn’t pass English and/or Maths GCSE

By Guardian community team

How did it affect your plans for either further education or getting a job? Did you go through resits? Tell us The government plans to introduce a new “stepping stone” qualification from 2028 for students in England who do not achieve a pass in GCSE maths or English. The new preparatory level 1 qualifications - one level below GCSEs - will “give students the essential knowledge and skills before they resit English or

French police accused of rising use of violence to stop Channel crossings

By Diane Taylor

NGO criticises ‘human cost’ of UK-funded crackdown on attempts to set off from French beaches in small boats People trying to cross the Channel to the UK have reported an increase in French police use of violence on beaches to prevent them from getting into dinghies, according to a French NGO. Utopia 56, which works on beaches from where migrants attempt Channel crossings, says so far this year 2,720 people have repo

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Thames Water creditors accused of ‘shuffling chairs on Titanic’ with plan for new board

By Alex Daniel

Campaigners say proposal for £10bn rescue deal in bid to avoid nationalisation is a ‘cosy stitch-up’ Business live – latest updates The group of creditors pursuing a rescue bid for Thames Water have been accused of shuffling the deckchairs on the Titanic after proposing an overhaul of the stricken utility’s board. In a bid to stave off temporary nationalisation by Andy Burnham, the lenders said they would appoint Liz

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Dog rescued after two days lost underground

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Cello, a six-year-old parson Russell Terrier, got trapped in a badger sett for 48 hours.

Women Photograph announces 2026 grant recipients – in pictures

By Matt Fidler

Women Photograph, a non-profit launched in 2017 to amplify the voices of women and non-binary visual journalists, has announced three recipients of its 2026 grants. Grants of $10,000 have been awarded to Fatma Fahmy, Caroline Gutman and Yixi Tian. This year’s grants were sponsored by Leica USA Continue reading...

Charity says Reform UK’s plan to prioritise British-born workers for social housing are ‘designed to stoke division’– UK politics live

By Martin Belam (now) and Yohannes Lowe (earlier)

Shelter warn plans would ‘tear communities apart’ as Labour says proposed policy goes after long-term UK residents including NHS staff Reform says it would put foreign-born UK citizens lower on social housing list Lee Anderson, the Reform UK MP for Ashfield, is first up to speak. He says young people in his constituency – and in many areas across the country – have “absolutely no chance” of securing council housing o

Up to £464m ‘moved through more than 3,000 UK high street shell companies’

By Simon Goodley

Research shows firms are branded as beauty and convenience but apparently operate in money-laundering and terrorist financing sectors Up to £464m has “moved through” more than 3,000 UK shell companies branded as beauty and convenience stores but apparently operating in the money-laundering and terrorist financing sectors, a new analysis sets out. The companies – listed as hairdressers, barber shops and salons, on the

World’s oceans hit hottest temperature on record in August

By Damian Carrington Environment editor

Average sea surface temperature outside polar regions was 21.1C on Saturday, latest data finds The world’s oceans were hotter than ever previously recorded on Saturday, according to the latest data. The average surface temperature was 21.1C, with the rising marine heat a stark indicator of the climate crisis. More than 90% of the heat trapped by carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning enters the oceans. The Guardian’

No 10 backs ‘tough action’ if social media fail to remove dangerous driving posts after A66 crash

By Raphael Boyd

Downing Street condemns ‘utterly disgraceful’ clips and says platforms are legally obliged to take the down The government has given its full backing to Ofcom to take “tough action” against social media platforms that fail to remove videos which depict dangerous driving after a crash that killed seven people near Middlesbrough. The collision in the early hours of Saturday, in which PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough

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Race Across the World star Jo Gardiner dies a year after son

By Kevin Rawlinson and agency

Gardiner, who had cancer, is remembered as ‘one of a kind’ after competing in BBC show with son Sam in 2020 Tributes have been paid to the Race Across the World star Jo Gardiner, who has died a year after her son and co-star Sam was killed in a car crash. The physiotherapist from Manchester died after “a long and courageous battle with cancer”, relatives said. She was 61 and is survived by her other son, Charlie. Con

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Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marquise Gilmore review – bassoon earns its spotlight in Thea Musgrave’s Out of the Darkness

By Flora Willson

Royal Albert Hall, London Amy Harman brought a warm baritonal vocalise to premiere from nonagenarian Thea Musgrave, while Felix Klieser bent his unique horn technique to Mozart Amid this year’s crop of Proms premieres, one stood out a mile – long before any of us had heard a note of it. Out of the Darkness is a new bassoon concerto by the 98-year-old Scottish composer Thea Musgrave, whose music was first heard at the

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State urged to 'go further' in redress scheme promotion

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The State has been urged "to go further" in its promotion of the Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme.

UK police arrest 12 people as investigation into wrong-way Middlesbrough crash widens

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Comments follow fatal wrong-way collision that killed seven people in Middlesbrough

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