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  • UK economy in recovery mode before lockdown easing

    Britain's economy began to recover strongly at the end of the first quarter despite only minor easing of lockdowns, official data revealed on Wednesday.

  • UK finance minister Sunak hopes household spending will bounce back

    British finance minister Rishi Sunak said he hoped domestic consumption would bounce back this year without the need for government schemes to spur spending because household incomes had been protected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Asked if this summer would see a return of offers similar to last year's "Eat Out to Help Out" restaurant scheme, or whether he would instead trust consumers to get out and spend money, Sunak said: "As a result of the actions that we've taken over the past year, we've managed to protect a lot of household incomes."

  • Boris Johnson to challenge court order against him for unpaid debt of £535

    No 10 blindsided by revelation of the debt – said to date back to last October

  • COVID-19: No easy answers for Bolton's route out of lockdown after surge in cases caused by Indian variant

    Everyone just wants it to be over - but in Bolton, it's starting again. There's a surge in coronavirus cases and a frantic effort to hold on to all the good work that's been done. The vaccination rollout is already being ramped up - people can just turn up for a jab at Bolton's mobile vaccine bus.

  • Woman, 38, ‘had baby with boy she sexually abused’

    Sarah Campbell is charged with 16 counts of sexual abuse against two boys.

  • Instagram influencer busted for allegedly using Covid relief money to fund lavish lifestyle

    Funds obtained with false identity reportedly used to buy private flights and stays at luxury hotels in California

  • Scientists hold urgent talks as fears spread of Indian Covid variant could delay final lockdown exit

    Cases thought to have tripled in a week to more than 1,700

  • UK could 'turn into another India' if Boris Johnson dithers over variant, COVID adviser warns

    A Sage adviser warned that if the Indian COVID variant can evade vaccines, Boris Johnson must not 'dither and delay as in the past'.

  • Coronation Street's Kelly Neelan charged with the murder of Seb Franklin

    Can Imran prove it wasn't her?

  • British citizens living in the EU 'left out in the cold' with Brexit

    "The British government has left us out in the cold," says Terence Knott. He's the man behind EUBritizens, an action group of British people living in Europe whose lives have changed dramatically due to Brexit. They've lost their freedom of movement and their right to study, their professional qualifications no longer apply and some are even stuck at home unable to drive as their driving licenses are no longer valid. They're aiming long term to win back European citizenship, starting with a legal case to allow them the right to vote in Europe as they say they've been disenfranchised. Knott joined us for Perspective.

  • Brit Awards 2021: Jack Whitehall mocks Laurence Fox after failed London mayor bid

    Comedian looks for positives after year in which music industry “has had it tough”

  • GCSE and A-level papers being sold on social media for £1

    GCSE and A-level papers being sold on social media for £1. The papers from last year’s cancelled exams are being used by many schools in England this summer

  • Mental health awareness week: Anxiety gadgets to help you find your zen

    Tired, wired and worried about how you’ll cope with the big office return? Help is at hand — Katie Strick presents a smart toolkit to help you find your calm (at last!)

  • Covid pandemic was preventable, says WHO-commissioned report

    Covid pandemic was preventable, says WHO-commissioned reportIndependent high-level panel castigates global leaders and calls for major changes to ensure it cannot happen againCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage The report says the Chinese detected and identified the new virus promptly when it emerged at the end of 2019 and gave warnings that should have been heedede. Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

  • Meghan Markle wins copyright case against Mail On Sunday and MailOnline

    The newspaper had argued she was not the sole author of the letter to her father.

  • WHO faces rape claims amid new accusations of mass sex abuse among aid workers

    More than 20 women in the city of Butembo, DRC, have made allegations against male aid workers responding to the Ebola crisis between 2018 and 2020.

  • How Hamas pierced Israel's famous Iron Dome shield

    Israel's military was facing questions on Wednesday as to whether its Iron Dome missile defence system needed an upgrade, after five Israeli civilians were killed by rocket strikes. The system, which Israeli officials say has a 90 per cent interception rate, has already avoided heavy loss of life in Tel Aviv, Ashkelon and other cities which became a focal point for Hamas as it sought to overwhelm air defences. But on Wednesday, Israeli analysts said that for some time intelligence sources had been warning that Hamas had significantly improved its weaponry, to the extent that it could "pierce the Iron Dome shield." “Iron Dome always had a weakness,” the Jerusalem Post’s intelligence, terrorism and legal analyst Yonah Jeremy Bob wrote in an article on Wednesday, referring to the system’s success rate. Mr Bob stressed that this did not mean that the Iron Dome was no longer effective.

  • 13 best plastic-free tea bags to make your brew better for the planet

    Be kind to the environment – without sacrificing the most important drink of the day

  • How sex work has been affected by the pandemic

    New research into sex work in the UK highlights some of the changes and challenges sex workers have faced.

  • Duchess of Sussex's legal battle with Mail on Sunday branded 'tortuous' by judge

    A High Court judge branded arguments in the Duchess of Sussex’s legal case against the Mail on Sunday as "tortuous". Lord Justice Warby ruled that the Duchess, 39, won her copyright claim after a letter sent by former aide Jason Knauf "emphatically" denying ownership of a letter she wrote to her father rendered the newspaper’s case "unreal". In a ruling explaining his decision, the judge noted that it was his eighth judgment in the case and appeared to criticise both sides about the lengthy courtroom tussles on every point. Summarising a long-winded argument about the misuse of private information claim, he referred to one response as "the final twist (so far) in this tortuous story". The Duchess successfully sued Associated Newspapers for breach of privacy and copyright in relation to the publication of five articles featuring extracts of the letter sent to her estranged father, Thomas Markle, in February 2019. Earlier this year she won a summary judgment - a legal step negating the need for witness evidence - in relation to the privacy claim and the bulk of the copyright claim. Lord Justice Warby last week awarded a summary judgment on the outstanding copyright claim. The Duchess’s legal team applied for indemnity or higher costs after they were copied in on a series of emails sent from the Mail on Sunday’s legal team to Mr Knauf’s lawyers in error. Meghan, 39, had revealed that when drafting the letter to her estranged father, Mr Knauf "provided feedback" in the form of "general ideas".