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Scientists launch search for genetic test to spot killer prostate cancer

Posted on May 09, 2021

Scientists have begun work to create a prostate cancer screening service for the UK. In a few years, middle-aged men could be tested to reveal their genetic susceptibi


Cost of building work on UK homes to rise as price of materials soars

Posted on May 09, 2021

UK homeowners face higher bills for renovation work as builders grapple with soaring material costs and shortages of essentials ranging from concrete and timber to tap


Covid restricted Keir Starmer from setting out vision for UK, says Labour

Posted on May 09, 2021

Labour has been unable to set out its vision for the country because of the pandemic, the party’s shadow home secretary has said, with the party braced for further kni


The Guardian view on secondhand clothes: the thrill of the old

Posted on May 09, 2021

“F ew articles change owners more frequently than clothes. They travel downwards from grade to grade in the social scale with remarkable regularit


Tui’s feeling beach-ready, thanks partly to a big bailout from Berlin

Posted on May 09, 2021

T ristan da Cunha, here we come. Travel firm Tui will have given one tiny cheer at the end of last week, when the UK government finally confirmed


UK government ‘failed to consider gender’ in its response to Covid pandemic

Posted on May 09, 2021

The government has “consistently failed” to consider gender in its response to Covid-19 despite men and women being affected in distinct ways by the pandemic, clai


UK high-speed trains cancelled after cracks found in carriages

Posted on May 09, 2021

Rail services on Britain’s main intercity lines were halted and passengers told of potential prolonged disruption ahead, after cracks were found on high-speed trains.


Scotland elects first woman of colour to Scottish parliament

Posted on May 09, 2021

History was made in Scotland on Saturday as the country elected its first woman of colour to serve as a member of the Scottish parliament (MSP). Kaukab Stewart won h


SNP election win: Johnson sets up summit as Sturgeon pledges second referendum

Posted on May 09, 2021

Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to press ahead with plans for a second independence referendum after the Scottish National party won its fourth consecutive Holyrood electi


Your bed's tiny, your pet's a pest and as for your children! Here's 25 reasons I don't want to come and stay (even when it's legal)

Posted on May 06, 2021

Drinks inside a pub rather than shivering in a beer garden. A meal in a restaurant. A night in my favourite hotel and a big family barbecue — the further lifting of lo


KPMG UK staff to work in office only two days a week after pandemic

Posted on May 06, 2021

Accounting and consultancy group KPMG has told its 16,000 UK staff that they will have to work only an average of two days in the office each week from next month, as


Pakistan police search for two men suspected of killing UK law graduate

Posted on May 06, 2021

Pakistan police are searching Lahore for two men suspected of killing a law graduate from London, amid claims that both men had pressured her to marry them. Mayra Zu


The Guardian view on foreign policy after Brexit: growing pains

Posted on May 06, 2021

It is not unusual for disputes between neighbours to be petty, but small spats express major misunderstandings. So it is with Brexit. There are tensions wherever the b


Indivior’s UK shareholders have chance to put teeth into clawback clauses

Posted on May 06, 2021

“W e recognise that our remuneration structure is different in some respects from a typical UK package,” said Daniel Phelan, the chair of Indi


Brussels and London settle row over status of EU ambassador to UK

Posted on May 06, 2021

A row over the status of the EU’s ambassador to the UK has been settled, with the British government granting full diplomatic status after months of refusing to accede


Anger at reports of UK proposals to ban Troubles-era prosecutions

Posted on May 06, 2021

Politicians in Northern Ireland have condemned reports that the UK government is to ban prosecutions of British army veterans for alleged crimes during the Troubles.


UK government faces action over lack of age checks on adult sites

Posted on May 06, 2021

Lawyers have begun judicial review proceedings against the government over allegations it failed to stop children in the UK watching online pornography. Age verifica


UK sends navy vessels to Jersey amid post-Brexit fishing row with France

Posted on May 06, 2021

Boris Johnson has dispatched two Royal Navy patrol boats to protect Jersey from a feared blockade by French fishing vessels, in an escalation of a dispute over post-Br


Gaming in colour: uncovering video games’ black pioneers

Posted on May 05, 2021

I n the 1970s, in the fledgling days of the video games industry, an engineer named Gerald “Jerry” Lawson designed one of the earliest game co


More trafficking victims facing forcible removal from UK under rule change

Posted on May 05, 2021

More victims of trafficking will be locked up in detention and forcibly removed from the UK after MPs approved a change in Home Office rules relating to this vulnerabl


Pro-UK activists spend heavily to head off SNP majority at Holyrood

Posted on May 05, 2021

Anti-independence campaigners have spent tens of thousands of pounds in the past week calling for tactical voting to prevent the Scottish National party winning a Holy


UK watchdog bans Max Mara advert over model’s ‘gaunt’ appearance

Posted on May 05, 2021

A Max Mara advert has been banned for featuring a model with an “unhealthily thin” and “gaunt” appearance. The Advertising Standards Authority, which receive


England’s IPL players will complete return from India on Thursday

Posted on May 05, 2021

Eoin Morgan, Dawid Malan and Chris Jordan are expected to depart India on Thursday, completing the return of all 11 England players at the Indian Premier League after


Until Labour remainers properly accept Brexit, the party will be stuck in limbo

Posted on May 05, 2021

T raditionally, Europe is the issue that afflicts the Conservative party. Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron and Theresa May were all –