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Residents concerned for asylum-seekers at 'stalag-style' camp

Residents in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as reminiscent of a German prisoner of war camp

Ulez London mayor in talks over impact of car levy but intends to stick to timetable

Sadiq Khan is open to new ideas for mitigating the impact of the anti-pollution levy in London that is being expanded next month but is refusing to back down on the planned timing of its implementation

North on flood alert as heavy rain deals blow to festivalgoers and Ashes fans

Flood alerts were issued across the north of England yesterday, where heavy rain disrupted sporting events and left festivalgoers drenched

Dismay at proposal to axe professor's role and cut African history course he pioneered

A university has come under fire for proposing to make the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK redundant and cut the course he runs

Evan Davis told at his wedding that his father had killed himself

The BBC broadcaster Evan Davis has revealed that he learned on his wedding day that his father had taken his own life

Millions from aid budget spent on VAT for asylum hotels

Hundreds of millions of pounds in British aid spending is returning to the Treasury each year in tax, thanks to the spiralling cost of housing asylum seekers in UK hotels

"This is barbarism' Shock over airstrike on Odesa cathedral

\"Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy.\" The priest dabbed tears from his eyes as his sonorous voice emerged from loudspeakers hastily assembled outside his devastated cathedral, the incantation competing with the crash of debris being loaded on to lorries and the drilling of repair works on neighbouring buildings

Thousands forced to flee Rhodes fire 'nightmare'

Greece mounted its biggest evacuation ever, moving thousands of people from villages and resorts in Rhodes as wildfires, fanned by high speed winds, raged for a sixth straight day yesterday

Money hacks - How to start a self-employed pension

If you are self-employed, it's up to you to save for retirement, as you won't be enrolled into a company pension. But sorting out your own can be daunting, particularly when managing a fluctuating income and running your own business.

Car insurance - Shock as summer renewal quotes soar by up to 90%

Even with no claims or traffic offences, the cost of covering a normal family runabout is going through the roof, reports Zoe Wood

Deep-sea exploration - Submersible voyages 'safer than flying', insists James Cameron

Exploring the greatest depths of the ocean is \"safer than getting an elevator and safer than getting on an airplane\", says James Cameron. But the team behind last month's ill-fated submersible journey to the Titanic lacked the imagination to engineer against the \"most obvious risks\" to any deep sea voyage.

Explained - How ethnic rivalries led to protests, then brutal violence

Narendra Modi had not spoken about the conflict until this week

Four arrested after Manipur mob attack on women prompts anger across India

Four men have been arrested in connection with the case of women who were stripped naked, publicly paraded and allegedly gang raped in the Indian state of Manipur, an incident that caused outrage after it was captured in a viral video.

'We're trying to keep dancing' Odesa offers dream of escape amid missiles

As the sun set over Arcadia, an area of beach clubs and bars on the outskirts of Odesa, a group of four friends in brightly coloured bikinis giggled as they towelled off after emerging from a dip in the Black Sea.

'Sexist' People's party leader criticised over makeup jibe

The leader of Spain's conservative People's party (PP) has been accused of sexism after making an apparent reference to the deputy prime minister's makeup during a campaign rally.

Five decades after Franco's death, Spain votes on putting far right back in power

Spain is facing a stark choice between the left and right blocs as it prepares for a snap general election tomorrow that could see the far right winning a place in government for the first time since the country returned to democracy following General Franco's death almost five decades ago.

'Real danger' Campaigners hope to revive debate over disarmament

Strips of translucent, flesh-toned material tear off a woman's face in one of the closing scenes of Oppenheimer. She represents the atomic bomb's victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, whose skin was burned off in the blast.

Hats off Fedora sales soar after Murphy moves on from flat cap

Cillian Murphy's portrayal of the vicious gang boss Thomas Shelby in Peaky Blinders has caused old-fashioned flat caps to surge in popularity over the past seven years. But now it appears they are being shunted out of the spotlight by Murphy's new role in the biographical thriller Oppenheimer.

Nolan highlights 'parallels' between Oppenheimer and AI experts

The Oppenheimer director, Christopher Nolan, highlighted the difficulties of applying nuclear weapons-style regulation to artificial intelligence as he warned that the United Nations had become a \"very diminished\" force.

Impact of long Covid brain fog is 'like ageing 10 years'

The so-called \"brain fog\" symptom associated with long Covid is comparable to ageing 10 years, researchers have suggested.

Sunak urged to hold firm on net zero pledge as Ulez fight appears to swing vote

Environmentally minded Conservatives have urged Rishi Sunak to hold firm on net zero commitments after others in the party used their unexpected win in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip byelection to call for an end to \"very unpopular\" green policies.

Boris Johnson Tech experts manage to recover phone messages

Boris Johnson has vowed to pass his pandemic WhatsApp messages over to the Covid inquiry after experts managed to recover them from an old phone he had been advised not to use for security reasons.

Historic result - Magnitude of Selby and Ainsty win takes even Labour by surprise

In his pocket, Keir Starmer carries a list of the 150 target seats Labour wants to gain at the next election, most of them from the Conservatives. Before the latest round of byelections, the party needed to take 124 of them to win a majority of just one.

Couple celebrate victory in legal battle against 'gay tax' on fertility treatment

A married lesbian couple who launched a landmark legal test case against a branch of the NHS fertility sector in England, prompting a national debate and a major policy U-turn by the government last year, have claimed \"victory for equality\" after the health service agreed to change its rules.

I've waited for this for years': fans in the pink as Barbie finally arrives in cinemas

Following a year-long wink-wink, think-pink marketing blitz that shaded every corner of the public consciousness in Pantone 219C, devotees headed to the cinema for the first screenings of Greta Gerwig's sparkly tribute to the wasp-waisted Mattel doll.

British actors rally in support of Hollywood colleagues striking over pay and use of AI

Brian Cox, Imelda Staunton, Naomie Harris and Simon Pegg were among A-list stars leading a demonstration in central London yesterday in solidarity with the US strikes disrupting the film and television industries.

UK visitor numbers up as tourists avoid intense heat

Where once holidaymakers flocked south for the summer in search of scorching getaways, the climate emergency may be signalling a reversal of that trend.

Warnings of delays and traffic jams as getaway reaches peak

Holidaymakers have begun heading for airports and ferry ports as the great summer getaway reaches its peak this weekend.

Wilkinson shocks Norway to deliver historic win for hosts

New Zealand's initial goals for the World Cup were extremely modest by the standards of a host country: winning a game would be progress

Kyiv warns it could treat any ships using Russian-held ports as military targets

Ukraine has warned it could target all shipping coming out of Russian and Russian-occupied ports and signalled its readiness to fight on the Black Sea, after Moscow's declaration of a naval blockade and bombardment of Ukrainian ports