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July 2024

  • Amelia Williams in a holiday snap, leaning on railings with a sunny seaside city below

    ‘I want Keir Starmer to have a sudden massive personality change’: gen Z on their hopes for a Labour government

    Anyone under 32 has lived their entire adult life under the Tories. What do they make of the new political landscape?

February 2024

  • Michael Dolan, 75 from Cheltenham - Tetbury, Gloucestetrshire, Uk. Vox pop interview by Jessica Murray for The Guardain.

    ‘Huge blow’: King Charles’s Highgrove neighbours saddened by cancer news

    Residents near monarch’s country estate in Gloucestershire say they are in shock at hearing of health issues so early in his reign

October 2022

  • View of the pedestrianised  city centre in Worcester

    ‘I’ve lost confidence in them but I don’t know if I can switch’: Tories in West Midlands face voting dilemma

    Few seem willing to change parties in the home of the fabled swing-voting ‘Worcester woman’ but Liz Truss’s days may be numbered

September 2022

  • Mourners lay flowers at Government House in Melbourne

    ‘She’s all I’ve ever known’: Australians react to the death of Queen Elizabeth II

  • A sign mourning Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September in New York’s Time Square.

    ‘A global icon’ who did ‘good for the world’: Americans remember the Queen

July 2022

  • The centre of Tamworth in Staffordshire

    ‘He needs to resign’: Chris Pincher’s constituents on their disgraced MP

  • Sue Snell

    ‘Oh no!’: opinions aplenty but little consensus in Boris Johnson’s Uxbridge constituency

January 2022

  • Birmingham’s New Street station on the day rules on the wearing of face masks were relaxed

    ‘I’ll wear one for the foreseeable’: masks abound despite England rule change

    Many shoppers and commuters in London and Birmingham kept their faces covered – although not all

July 2021

  • Amy

    ‘I’m frightened’: readers at greater risk from Covid share their thoughts

    Four people with invisible conditions tell of their fears that others will assume they are healthy and so not wear a mask around them

April 2020

  • Mohammed Faz of Ashley’s News, Ilford

    Corner shops describe life under lockdown as they stay open for their community

  • Mary O’Hara

    Coronavirus will cause child poverty to soar. So what can we do about it?

    Mary O’Hara

December 2018

  • Ian Hillard, right, who runs the Market Cobbler stall in Peterborough market and voted leave, with friend Cliff Walker, an EU remainer.

    Peterborough voices: Brexit fog dims festive lights

  • I wish it could be Christmas every day ...

    Shortcuts
    ‘I think Christmas starts a bit late to be honest’: is early December too soon to start celebrating?

January 2018

  • The Mastermind chair.

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    Mastermind: what would be your specialist subject?

    The makers of the venerable quiz show have banned certain specialist subjects due to running out of questions about them. So, we asked the British public what they would choose if they were on the programme
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