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  • EU-BRITAIN-DIPLOMACY<br>Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks at a press conference, during his visit to the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on October 2, 2024. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed Wednesday to put ties with the EU on a "positive footing", as he kicked off a first visit to Brussels aimed at rebooting relations after the rancour of Brexit. (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL / POOL / AFP) (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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    Tories challenge other Labour ministers to follow Keir Starmer in paying back donations – UK politics live

  • View of a person at other end of a corridor in a hospital

    Job advisers may be posted in NHS hospitals to get long-term sick back to work

    Disability charity says Labour plan must not become punitive measure exacerbating ‘culture of mistrust and fear’
  • USAF B-1 Bombers at the air base on Diego Garcia.

    Britain to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius ending years of dispute

    Agreement to hand back UK’s last African colony follows rounds of negotiations and international pressure

  • Tesco boss says new workers’ rights laws must not hurt growth

  • Starmer repaid freebies to restore trust in politics, minister says

  • Europe’s exhausted oyster reefs ‘once covered area size of Northern Ireland’

  • Graves could be reused under proposals to tackle lack of space for the dead

  • BBC cancels Boris Johnson interview after Laura Kuenssberg message gaffe

  • Unresolved water complaints in England and Wales rise to near-decade high

  • Pioneering aerial photographer’s pictures show England of the 1930s

UK politics

  • Andrew Bailey has been governor of the Bank of England since 16 March 2020.

    ‘Very serious’: Bank of England governor warns of Middle East oil shock risk

  • An abandoned painted children’s football goal in a playground with peeling paint.

    Rising cost of social services in England putting arts and youth services at risk, say councils

    • Starmer vows to turn page on UK’s relationship with the EU

    • Keir Starmer pays back £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality

    • Keir Starmer tells Brussels press conference it was ‘right’ for him to repay £6,000 worth of gifts – as it happened

    • Bad jokes, war stories and rehashed rhetoric: key takeaways from the Tory leadership speeches

    • Labour donor Waheed Alli under Lords investigation over register of interests

    • Head of civil service Simon Case rejoins Garrick Club six months after quitting it

Analysis and explainers

  • Keir Starmer in Brussels behind a union jack.

    Why official register of MPs’ financial interests is now a must-read

  • Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets, as seen from Ashkelon<br>Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, October 1, 2024 REUTERS/Amir Cohen ATTENTION EDITORS: ADDING INFORMATION

    Israel able to repel Iranian attack without need for major help from allies

  • Pedestrian walking past road sign for Parliament St and Whitehall

    Cabinet secretary contenders: who could be next top UK civil servant?

  • Robert Jenrick turns his head to look at Kemi Badenoch, who returns his gaze, as they sit in chairs in the TV studio

    As rumours grow of a stop Badenoch campaign, Tories cannot risk a stitch-up

Culture

  • Panelists at the 2023 Black British Book festival.

    Black British Book festival founder criticises lack of diversity in publishing

  • A still from the trailer for Robbie Williams biopic Better Man.

    Better Man: see Robbie Williams as a CGI monkey in first trailer for biopic

    Bizarre but critically acclaimed film from director Michael Gracey is set for a Boxing Day release
  • Daniel Day-Lewis

    Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting after seven years

    Three-time Oscar winner to star in his son Ronan’s directorial debut, Anemone, which he also co-wrote

  • Ross Raisin’s Ghost Kitchen wins 2024 BBC national short story award with dark gig economy tale – read it here

  • In 2017, Cardiff’s music scene was collapsing. What’s the secret of its amazing revival?

  • UK Black History Month kicks off aiming to ‘reclaim narratives’

  • Oasis announce dates in the US, Canada and Mexico – and no dynamic pricing

Education

  • A boy lying on a bed while watching television in a cell

    Children in youth offender institutions in England denied access to education, report finds

  • Daniel Kebede at a teachers' strike with flags that read 'pay up'

    Teachers in England vote overwhelmingly to accept pay rise offer

  • The three women are pictured in the school kitchen.

    Dinner lady congratulated by Jamie Oliver after 40 years at Oldham school

  • Graduates at Birmingham University

    Aim for 70% tertiary education takeup by 2040, say UK university chiefs

Society

  • A woman walks through a stately home in Preston, Lancashire

    Rare court records show how poor women pioneered foster care in 1600s

  • A doctor and patient in a consulting room at a GP surgery

    Number of people in UK out of work due to ill health growing by 300,000 a year

    • One young man and one young woman sit on university steps as the man vapes

      One million people in England vape despite never having smoked regularly, study finds

    • Silhouette of man looking through steel bars with sea in background

      Migration during adolescence linked to increased psychosis risk, study finds

    • A midwife examines a newborn baby

      Targeted support could reduce infant mortality gap across England, study finds

Multimedia

  • The Crystal Palace on Sydenham Hill

    1930s England from the air – in pictures

  • 3D rendering of Covid-19

    Everything you need to know about Covid this autumn – podcast

    • Conservative party leadership contenders Robert Jenrick, Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat.

      Tory leadership contenders square off at conference – Politics Weekly UK

    • Dancers perform a lion dance

      Stranded whales and a vegetarian festival: photos of the day – Wednesday

    • Orange Order marchers in a 'loud, proud' pro-union parade in Edinburgh. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod

      10 years of the long read: Is this the end of Britishness? (2014) – podcast

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