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  • The Bank of England building in Threadneedle Street in the City of London.

    UK recovery ‘will accelerate and force Bank to keep interest rates higher for longer’

  • Gemma Collins.

    Watchdog bans Gemma Collins advert promoting headset to treat depression

    ASA says Instagram video featuring TV star wearing device ‘encouraged people to take their treatment into own hands’
  • Artificial stone worktops on display in a showroom

    UK urged to consider ban on artificial stone worktops over silicosis risk

    Leading medic calls for urgent action to protect those who cut the material after rise in cases of the incurable disease

  • Keir Starmer promises to protect communities amid fears of further riots

  • Woman pleads for rioters to avoid grandmother’s home in Nottingham

  • Immigration lawyers ‘at risk’ amid far-right threats to target advice centres

  • UK riots live: Keir Starmer promises communities ‘will be safe’ following Cobra meeting

  • Journalists’ union calls for action over increased violence against news gatherers

  • UK police arrest two pro-Palestine activists under organised crime laws

  • Prospect of blind competitor on Strictly thrills visually impaired ballroom dancers

UK politics

  • Crowds of men, some wearing masks, in Bordesely Green, Birmingham, on Monday.

    Muslim leaders urge restraint in response to far-right attacks

  • Eluned Morgan raises her hand in the Senedd as she addresses the Welsh government on her first day as first minister

    Public services priority for Welsh people, not devolution, says new first minister

    • Unions welcome scrapping of Tories’ ‘spiteful’ minimum service law

    • UK reportedly suspends arms export licence applications for Israel ‘pending review’

    • Two-child benefit cap is cementing regional poverty, Starmer told

    • ‘Some threatened to kill us’: asylum seekers left fearful by far-right mobs

    • Are the authorities powerless to stop Tommy Robinson’s online output?

    • Police officers injured amid standoff in Plymouth – England riots as it happened

Analysis and explainers

  • Sewage floats on the River Thames in Datchet, Berkshire, in April

    UK rivers and beaches have been heaped with pollution for years – when will we talk about restoration?

  • A man is detained by police amid far-right disorder in Middlesbrough on Sunday.

    England riots: how has ‘two-tier policing’ myth become widespread?

  • A young man with hood pulled up throws a brick, as another stands nearby. Flames and a crowd of people are behind

    Why are people rioting across England and how many are involved?

  • An upturned car burns after it was set on fire in front of houses in Middlesbrough

    England riots: what help is available for affected homeowners and businesses?

Culture

  • Black spraypainted elephant heads face each other from two white-painted blocked-out windows, with their trunks reaching out towards each other

    Banksy reveals second animal artwork within 24 hours in London

  • The destroyed interior of the Spellow Hub community library after a night of violent disorder in Liverpool.

    Liverpool library torched by far-right rioters raises repair funds

    Appeal for donations to repair fire damage caused to Spellow Hub library has raised more than £120,000 in two days
  • A red chalk drawing a naked woman in three different poses

    ‘Unique opportunity’ to see Italian Renaissance drawings in London

    Exhibition from royal collection will include about 160 works from Titian, Michelangelo, Leonardo and others

  • Plaque honouring Huw Edwards removed from Cardiff Castle

  • Reclusive artist to show ‘extraordinary’ work in UK for first time in decades

  • Police investigate alleged death threat sent to Amanda Abbington

  • First black couple to win Love Island hope victory is ‘start of something good’

Education

  • Five students jump in the air with their results

    Scotland exam results: pass rate falls as attainment gap widens across board

  • Somal leans, with folded arms, against a breeze-block pillar

    Special educational needs system in England in ‘utter disarray’, says ombudsman

  • A teacher drawing on paper with young pupils in a preschool class

    Free childcare pledge in England in peril after Tories ‘recklessly rushed out’ plan

  • Image of a school teacher looking stressed next to piles of classroom books.

    Teachers’ regulator in England investigated after claims it has left teachers in distress

Society

  • Children clamber up logs on the Highfields Adventure Playground in Leicester

    End of the adventure: council funding cuts imperil Leicester’s playgrounds

  • Gravestones in Nunhead cemetery, south-east London.

    ‘Celebrations of life’ increasingly replacing traditional funerals in UK, study shows

    • Doctor working in a consulting room with a sign on the door

      NHS ‘soup and shake’ diet puts almost a third of type 2 diabetes cases in remission

    • Ambulances parked outside the accident and emergency department at the Queen Alexandra hospital

      Portsmouth hospital reopens A&E after restoring power

    • Side by side, Meghan smiling

      Meghan: I’m airing my struggle with suicidal thoughts to help others

Multimedia

  • Keir Starmer has promised communities 'will be safe' following a Cobra meeting

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    Communities 'will be safe', promises Keir Starmer – video

  • The Italian illusionist Arturo Brachetti performs in the mirrored mazes of Camera Obscura, in Edinburgh, UK.

    Far-right violence, a flying wrestler and illusions: photos of the day – Tuesday

    • 'I will listen': Eluned Morgan selected as Welsh first minister – video

    • Families on the beach in front of rows of beach huts in Walton-On-The-Naze, Essex.

      Shore thing: English beach huts – in pictures

    • Asylum seekers film rioters making threatening gestures as they surround Rotherham hotel – video

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