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• Bukayo Saka is playing through pain barrier, says Tuchel, as World Cup looms

  09-06-2026 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Arsenal forward still struggling with achilles injury‘Bukayo is just not there yet. Some things are missing’Bukayo Saka continues to play through the pain of an achilles injury, according to the England manager, Thomas Tuchel, and must be managed carefully as the start of the World Cup looms large.The Arsenal winger joined up with the England squad in West Palm Beach on Saturday after being given an extra week off after his involvement in the Champions League final against Paris Sain
  
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• Lionesses ease past Ukraine but must navigate playoffs to qualify for World Cup

  09-06-2026 22:59 via theguardian.com
  England 3-0 UkraineCarter 14, Stanway 37, Mead 67Sarina Wiegman calmly asserted that she was confident England will still qualify for next summer’s World Cup, despite having to settle for a place in the playoffs as Spain’s 6-1 win in Iceland forced England to finish in second spot.England cruised to victory over Ukraine on Merseyside but the result proved insignificant with Spain getting the result they needed. The Lionesses finish this group with 15 points from a possible 18 but mis
  
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• Wembanyama condemns apparent attacks on Spurs fans in New York during NBA finals

  09-06-2026 21:46 via theguardian.com
  Videos show Spurs fans having jerseys ripped offPlayers from both teams say incidents are unacceptablePlayers from both teams in the NBA finals have condemned apparent attacks on San Antonio Spurs fans by supporters of the New York Knicks.Videos circulating on social media showed Spurs fans having their jerseys ripped off on the streets of New York in the aftermath of the Knicks’ loss in Game 3 of the finals at Madison Square Garden. Continue reading...
  
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• Isis-linked trio found guilty of murdering UK botanists - The Times

  09-06-2026 21:40 via news.google.com
  Isis-linked trio found guilty of murdering UK botanists  The TimesSentencing of British couple’s killers in KwaZulu-Natal set for NINE years later  The South AfricanInternational Botanists Murdered in South Africa Following Plant Expedition  streamlinefeed.co.keGuilty verdicts in Saunders murder case bring ‘measure of closure’, says family  East Coast RadioTrial of British botanists' murder case uncovers shocking details  themer
  
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• Best Medicine review – this US remake of Doc Martin is perfect rubbish … and you need it in your life

  09-06-2026 21:30 via theguardian.com
  
  This cosy medical drama does exactly what it sets out to do – soothe viewers’ souls with a celebration of smalltown values and secret goodness. It’s TV where nothing will distress youWell, what in the cultural cringe is going on here? Of all the things I could possibly have imagined the US would take an interest in to the point of executing a straight-to-series commission, Doc Martin would not have been one of them. And yet here we are: Dominic Minghella’s creation, starr
  
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• Didier Deschamps: ‘Mbappé knows that when he speaks, he speaks for all the players’

  09-06-2026 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Questioned in France but championed from afar, the departing head coach has forged a legacy that no one – bar, perhaps, himself – would dare disputeFollow the verdant path towards the Château de Clairefontaine and you are met by a three-metre replica of the World Cup trophy accompanied by two stars, representing France’s World Cup triumphs. Didier Deschamps had his hand in both of them, captaining his side to victory in 1998 before repeating the feat as manager in 2018.Th
  
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• Attachment review – adoption is a marathon in this sprint of a show

  09-06-2026 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Everyman theatre, Liverpool
  Julia Cranney’s play illustrates complex processes as it explores one woman’s plans to start a family but it hops too quickly through her lifeAdoption and the care system are at the emotional centre of Julia Cranney’s new monologue. There are hoops to jump through, questions that require you to crack your soul open and hope bubbling beneath it all. Mat (Paislie Reid) and her partner, James, are drawn into early permanence, a pathway in which babies a
  
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• How Belfast knife attack became the latest far-right ‘trigger event’

  09-06-2026 20:57 via theguardian.com
  The rapid spread of footage shows how social media is pivotal in enabling far-right agitators to mobilise internationallyFilmed at about 10.30pm on Monday night on a Belfast street, bystanders captured the moment when a man, believed to be a Sudanese asylum seeker, wielded a knife over another man he had pinned to the ground.By Tuesday, the clip had become the latest transnational “trigger event” – in the mould of the Southport killings and the case of the murdered 18-year-old
  
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• Two men jailed for violence at protest over police treatment of Henry Nowak

  09-06-2026 20:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Leon O’Leary threw a smoke grenade and Connor Bishop a traffic cone at officers during disturbance in SouthamptonTwo men who threw a smoke grenade and traffic cone at police during the violence in Southampton that followed the sentencing of Henry Nowak’s killer have been jailed.Leon O’Leary, 41, from Basingstoke, Hampshire, was sentenced to three years and one month after throwing a smoke grenade at officers. Continue reading...
  
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• Serena Williams makes winning return to tennis with victory in Queen’s doubles

  09-06-2026 20:52 via theguardian.com
  44-year-old victorious alongside partner Victoria MbokoPair win 7-6 (2), 6-2 over Melichar-Martinez and RoutliffeAt the most tense moment of Serena Williams’s comeback to professional tennis, the score uncertainly balanced at 5-5, 30-30, an audience member could no longer hold her tongue. Her voice booming across all corners of Andy Murray Arena, she shouted: “Come on Serena, come on Victoria. You got it!” From the stands, a sneering spectator responded by stating that he did n
  
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• Passenger on train to London given first sentence for harassment under new law

  09-06-2026 20:46 via theguardian.com
  David Stroud grabbed a woman’s hair and asked if he could kiss her two days after legislation took effectA train passenger has become the first person to be sentenced under a new harassment law after a prosecution brought by the British Transport Police (BTP).David Stroud, 44, grabbed a woman’s hair and asked her “can I kiss you?” on a rail journey to London on 3 April, two days after the new legislation came into force banning harassment motivated by a person’s sex
  
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• Lawyer for murdered French girl’s family calls for more justice system funding

  09-06-2026 20:40 via theguardian.com
  
  The death of the 11-year-old, named only as Lyhanna, has pushed the issue of male violence against girls to the top of the agendaA lawyer for the family of an 11-year-old girl whose disappearance and murder sparked protests across France has called for more funding for the struggling justice system, amid a political row over the French state’s failure to tackle sexual violence against children.“Frankly, if the justice system had more resources, this tragedy and all the others wouldn&
  
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• Apple iOS 27 Release Date: When You Can Download The New iPhone Software — Starts Now - Forbes

  09-06-2026 20:40 via news.google.com
  Apple iOS 27 Release Date: When You Can Download The New iPhone Software — Starts Now  ForbesApple unveils innovative features and intelligence experiences across services  Apple5 things I already love from the iOS 27 beta  The VergeiOS 27 and iPadOS 27 don’t drop support for any iPhones—and just a few iPads  Ars TechnicaApple Shares List of 250 Changes Across iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, and More  MacRumors
  
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• Hard-right groups have expanded their influence across US government, report finds

  09-06-2026 20:39 via theguardian.com
  Southern Poverty Law Center releases report as US government pursues federal fraud charges against groupA new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) finds hard-right groups have increasingly expanded their influence across the US government, which is pursuing a federal fraud case into the civil rights organization.Tuesday’s report – which identified 1,263 hate and anti-government groups in operation throughout 2025 – comes less than two months after it was indicted
  
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• Identical twin given six months to live says leaving sister is 'unthinkable'

  09-06-2026 20:05 via bbc.com
  
  Caitlin Leggett is fundraising £500,000 to pursue overseas treatment for leukaemia after the cancer returned.
  
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• Why ‘podcast wars’ will be real broadcast battleground at this World Cup

  09-06-2026 20:00 via theguardian.com
  This summer’s hottest rivalry no longer belongs to the BBC and ITV, but football’s online and streaming presenceFor the first time since the BBC and ITV began sharing World Cup coverage in 1966 their local rivalry will not be the main broadcasting battleground this summer.In keeping with the first World Cup staged across three countries the expanded 48-team tournament will play out as a global media event, with YouTube and TikTok broadcasting live action for the first time and Netfli
  
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• Stranger Things: The First Shadow announces final curtain in London and New York

  09-06-2026 20:00 via theguardian.com
  The theatrical prequel to the Duffer Brothers’ smash-hit Netflix series is to shut down in the West End and on Broadway this winter, after selling more than 1.5m ticketsThe London and New York productions of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the theatrical prequel to Netflix’s TV blockbuster, are to both close this winter. The stage spectacular will have run for just over three years in the West End, where it won two Olivier awards, and for just over 20 months on Broadway, where it
  
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• Man, 30, charged with attempted murder after knife attack in Belfast

  09-06-2026 20:00 via bbc.com
  
  The man has also been charged with possession of an article with blade in a public place and threats to kill.
  
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• World Cup Q&A: ‘Are you allowed to be scared of the prospect of losing to Haiti? Of course you are!’

  09-06-2026 19:54 via theguardian.com
  Ewan Murray is in North Carolina to report on Scotland’s first World Cup since France 98. He answered your questions on Steve Clarke’s selections, his outsider tip and what Scotland-Haiti’s equivalent of the ‘Frey Bentos trophy’ would beKTwoDJF asks: I know that there is technically a path to it, but what are the chances USA will be knocked out of the tournament by Iran ?I have the USA being knocked out by Belgium. But I also have the USA winning their section; the
  
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• David Sullivan banned from contact with West Ham women's and youth teams since 2023

  09-06-2026 19:53 via bbc.com
  
  The decision followed a safeguarding investigation opened by the the Football Association.
  
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• Crackdown on tech platforms will go ahead despite US intervention, says No 10

  09-06-2026 19:47 via theguardian.com
  US embassy came out against UK’s proposed under-16 social media ban, which would affect American firmsWhite House displeasure over the prospect of an under-16 social media ban will not deter the UK from cracking down on tech platforms, the British government has said.The technology secretary, Liz Kendall, told the Guardian she was not concerned “in the slightest” by the Trump administration’s intervention in the debate over restrictions, after the US embassy in London pos
  
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• Ben Stokes set to be left out of England squad for second New Zealand Test

  09-06-2026 19:47 via theguardian.com
  England captain considering his long-term futureECB continuing investigation into nightclub incidentBen Stokes is highly unlikely to be included in England’s squad for the second Test against New Zealand after the 35-year-old asked for space and time to consider his long-term future amid the fallout from a nightclub incident in the early hours of Monday morning.The England and Wales Cricket Board is determined to bring the latest furore surrounding the culture of the men’s Test team
  
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• Ella Baron on social division and the spread of disinformation – cartoon

  09-06-2026 19:45 via theguardian.com
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• Men jailed for violence at Henry Nowak police protest

  09-06-2026 19:33 via bbc.com
  
  Disorder broke out in Southampton close to where the 18-year-old student was murdered.
  
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• The Guardian view on Ukraine and the prospects of peace: time to ramp up the pressure on Putin | Editorial

  09-06-2026 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Russia’s ‘spring offensive’ is failing and Kyiv’s drones have brought the war to Moscow and other cities. Europe must strengthen Zelenskyy’s hand furtherLast week, Vladimir Putin responded with characteristic disdain to an open letter from Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling for face-to-face talks. Declining to mention Ukraine’s president by name at an economic forum in St Petersburg, he said that he saw “no point” in a meeting and insisted that all Russia
  
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• The Guardian view on the care system: support for teens must go beyond reunions with old friends | Editorial

  09-06-2026 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  A new scheme to support care leavers’ relationships is welcome. But loneliness is one problem among manyIt might sound obvious that – as Benjamin Zephaniah wrote – “People will always need people / To make life appealing / And give life some meaning.” But the care system has not always behaved as though relationships are a condition of human flourishing. So it is good to see this simple yet crucial idea reflected in the latest announcement about support for care lea
  
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• Former Air Canada pilot charged after allegedly flying without proper license for 16 years

  09-06-2026 19:10 via theguardian.com
  Geoffrey Wall is alleged to have flown over 900 flights domestically and internationally between 2009 and 2025A former Air Canada pilot has been charged after flying for years without a proper license, Canadian police have said.Geoffrey Wall, of Barrie, Ontario, is alleged to have operated as an airline captain between 2009 and 2025 without a license to fly large commercial passenger planes, according to Peel regional police. Continue reading...
  
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• UK and allies impose sanctions on firms enabling West Bank settler violence

  09-06-2026 19:08 via theguardian.com
  Labour backbenchers disappointed as new trade guidance over illegal settlements stops short of outright banThe UK in alliance with a group of other western powers including Australia, France and Norway has announced it is imposing sanctions on six firms and one individual involved in enabling and financing the recent upsurge in settler violence in the West Bank.However, the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, disappointed many of her own backbenchers by stopping short of banning trade, saying inst
  
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• ‘Earth’s first starfleet’: Nasa reveals Artemis III crew and project’s next steps

  09-06-2026 19:07 via theguardian.com
  Luca Parmitano to pilot all-male crew of four paving way for planned first human landing on Artemis IV in 2028Jared Isaacman, the Nasa administrator, hailed the creation of “Earth’s first starfleet” on Tuesday as he revealed the Artemis III crew and details of the next stages of the space agency’s project to return humans to the moon.An Italian astronaut, Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (ESA), will be the pilot of the planned two-week mission to lower Earth or
  
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• Wild swimming should be embraced, not condemned | Letters

  09-06-2026 18:49 via theguardian.com
  An individual needs to make a risk assessment if they choose to wild swim, just as they do when they ski, climb or ride a bike in traffic, says Nick Hopewell-SmithI’m not among those offended by young people seeking relief in cool local waterways in hot weather (The row at Hampstead Heath is about far more than a few thoughtless swimmers in a heatwave, 3 June). Nor do I find the growing trend for wild swimming irritating in any way. The author of Waterlog – my erstwhile English teach
  
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• Labour has to reassess what it is for, and that is no bad thing | Letters

  09-06-2026 18:49 via theguardian.com
  Responding to an article by Polly Toynbee, Patrick Diamond says the party must have courage to think anew. Plus letters from Tom Kelly and Michael OrtonPolly Toynbee is right to argue that Labour, and the centre-left more broadly, need the genuine debate about ideas they unwisely avoided before the last general election (British politics is fractured and chaotic – but at last it’s brimming with ideas for the future, 2 June). They must have the courage to think anew. The issue is not
  
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• It helps to keep zombie Blairites on side | Letters

  09-06-2026 18:49 via theguardian.com
  Joseph Hanlon and Derrick Cameron respond to an article by Aditya Chakrabortty about a backward-looking government that remains in Tony Blair’s thrallMozambique knows the importance of the zombie Blairites that Aditya Chakrabortty writes about (Zombie Blairites still have British politics in their grip – it’s time to break free, 4 June). In December, the UK trade envoy Calvin Bailey MP was in Mozambique to sign an agreement for £400,000 in UK government funding for the To
  
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• Did Harold II take an arrow to the eye? We cannot be sure | Letters

  09-06-2026 18:49 via theguardian.com
  Jane M Card, Tim Wicks and Rev Dr John Caperon respond to an article about the Bayeux tapestry’s journey to the UKYour article on the loan of the Bayeux tapestry to the British Museum states with admirable caution that Harold II is “represented in his final scenes in the embroidery with an arrow in his eye” (‘Of course we will give it back’: Bayeux tapestry set for secret journey across Channel, 3 June). But was this always the case?In 1816 the Society of Antiquarie
  
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• Can Badenoch’s culture war win back Reform supporters? - The Latest

  09-06-2026 18:47 via theguardian.com
  Kemi Badenoch has vowed to reform the Equality Act in what is viewed as an attempt to win back support from Reform voters.The Conservative leader, who also served as equalities minister from 2020 to 2022, wants to scrap the public sector equality duty – a legal requirement that forces public institutions to to actively consider how their decisions affect equality.Nosheen Iqbal speaks to community affairs correspondent Aamna Mohdin Continue reading...
  
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• Farage says Reform has contacted X 'to highest level' over fake AI ads

  09-06-2026 18:45 via bbc.com
  
  The fake ads feature the governor of the Bank of England - the Bank has urged people to report them.
  
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• Lady Donaldson told police Sir Jeffrey would not talk about alleged breast touching incident

  09-06-2026 18:44 via bbc.com
  
  Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the former DUP leader, is on trial for 18 sex abuse charges, including one count of rape, all of which he denies.
  
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• Scrap legal equality duty for public services, says Badenoch

  09-06-2026 18:43 via bbc.com
  
  The Conservative leader says the rules have led to public bodies becoming "institutionally incompetent".
  
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• Boy who died in lake 'could not swim' - inquest

  09-06-2026 18:23 via bbc.com
  
  Muhammed Secka died at Rother Valley Country Park during the recent heatwave, a court hears.
  
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• Spyware firm targeted WhatsApp users in defiance of US court order, Meta says

  09-06-2026 18:20 via theguardian.com
  Tech company says it ‘caught and disrupted’ NSO Group’s attempts to access accounts in Jordan and LebanonA spyware firm has been targeting WhatsApp users with malicious links in contravention of a US court order forbidding it from doing so, Meta has said.In a post, Meta said WhatsApp had “caught and disrupted spear phishing attempts” by NSO Group, which a spokesperson said targeted a handful of users in Jordan and Lebanon. It had also caught the group creating &ldqu
  
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• Vagina lasers, bananas and an awkward Cumberbatch: 10 surprising moments in Madonna’s new video

  09-06-2026 18:18 via theguardian.com
  Sabrina Carpenter, a car crash, a urinal, Kate Moss and, of course, those perplexing green lasers: Confessions II has it all. Let’s make some sense of it …Madonna’s new video is called Confessions II because it’s the follow-up to her album Confessions on a Dance Floor, released in 2005. Nope, wrong: that was not more than 20 years ago. That was last week. Years are for little people. Madonna can hold back the passage of time with the power of her imagination, and that ha
  
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• Practice dates: should you swipe right on people you’re not attracted to?

  09-06-2026 18:05 via theguardian.com
  Still hoping to meet ‘the one’? While you’re waiting, one dating expert says you should romance someone you’re not totally smitten with. It could be the start of something beautifulName: Practice dates.Age: The term date – to mean romantic dating – was inadvertently coined by American columnist George Ade in 1896, when he described a “date book” used by a shop cashier to record all her meetings with suitors. Practice dating is a 2026 concept. Conti
  
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• Search black boys, protect white folk: Kemi vies to out-right the far right | John Crace

  09-06-2026 18:02 via theguardian.com
  When politicians talk ‘common sense’ it’s time to worry; when the Tory leader does, it’s time to be doubly vigilantYou know how it is. You’re a middle class, straight white man in his 60s in A&E. Possibly the most disadvantaged person in the entire country. You complain of chest pains. In the adjoining triage queue there is a black woman with what looks like a broken toe. You know what happens next. The black woman is seen within minutes. You have a cardiac arre
  
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• RSPB buys Bass Rock after 300 years in private hands

  09-06-2026 18:00 via bbc.com
  
  The charity says the purchase is an important step in halting declining seabird numbers in the Firth of Forth.
  
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• Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular

  09-06-2026 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Humans have been secretly abusing aliens for almost 80 years in this big-hearted thriller starring Josh O’Connor as a worried whistleblower and a never-more-magnetic Emily Blunt as a weather forecaster channelling UFO chatThe old school is the new school in this very enjoyable and entirely ridiculous space-alien conspiracy adventure from screenwriter David Koepp and director Steven Spielberg; it is cheerfully mischievous and deadly serious in equal measure. It has something of Hitchcock fr
  
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• British firms to be favoured in defence spending

  09-06-2026 17:59 via bbc.com
  
  The defence secretary says he wants to take an "unashamedly pro-Britain" approach when awarding contracts.
  
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• Tell us your favourite TV shows of 2026 so far

  09-06-2026 17:52 via theguardian.com
  We would like to hear about your television highlights of the year so far. Share your thoughts nowThe Guardian’s culture writers have compiled their favourite TV shows of the year so far – and we’d like to hear about yours, too.Are there any new series that you would recommend watching? What have been best TV shows of the year so far, and why? Continue reading...
  
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• UK’s biggest retailers urge government to act on youth unemployment

  09-06-2026 17:50 via theguardian.com
  Bosses of M&S, Sainsbury’s and Tesco among those writing to Starmer that the ‘ladder of opportunity’ is wobblingWe would like to hear from young people in the UK about their job-hunting experiencesSome of the UK’s biggest retailers are planning to write to the prime minister urging him to tackle the youth unemployment crisis, with signatories expected to include the bosses of Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s and Tesco.Lobby group the British Retail Consortium sa
  
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• Construction on fire site by Glasgow Central Station might not start for several years

  09-06-2026 17:45 via bbc.com
  
  Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken says the planning and consultation process regarding the land is likely to last until about 2030.
  
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• Hidden camera found in government building

  09-06-2026 17:35 via bbc.com
  
  The complex is shared by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and the Home Office.
  
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• Teenage sensation Gout Gout ready to dive in at Diamond League deep end

  09-06-2026 17:33 via theguardian.com
  Young sprinter up against the ‘big boys’ for the first time but he still takes life in the spotlight in his strideLife comes at you fast, especially when you are Gout Gout. In April, the 18-year-old prodigy became the fastest teenager over 200m in history. Then last month, he finally got his own bedroom for the first time, having bought his family a new six-bedroom house in Brisbane. Now, in Oslo on Wednesday, he is one of the headline acts in his first senior Diamond League race.Exc
  
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