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Stunted growth, anxiety and tooth decay on rise as children go hungry

Children across Britain are suffering worsening levels of tooth decay, anxiety, and stunted growth, as the cost of food continues to soar, a survey questioning school nurses has found

Netting could save lives after Mäder death crash

Jonathan Vaughters, manager of the EF Education Easy Post team that is racing in this year's Tour de France, is the latest high-profile figure within cycling to advocate the use of safety netting on mountain descents

Smith leads Australia charge but late Root wickets provide hope

Everything pointed to bowling first. The skies were brooding, the air was moist, the pitch was green and the floodlights were on. When Ben Stokes won the toss and reconfirmed an England XI now featuring a four-pronged seam attack, not even a captain known for flipping convention could resist the obvious

García happy to see end to McIlroy hostilities

US Open was catalyst for mending relationship after pair fell out over LIV

Green on grass: Lack of experience with surface creates challenge for players ahead of Wimbledon

Moments after Coco Gauff had won her first match at the Eastbourne International and departed from Centre Court, she quickly reappeared on the practice courts nearby. After already spending over an hour in the heat of competition, Gauff began working through another training session

Ofcom to investigate BT over failure of 999 emergency call service

The communications watchdog has launched an investigation into BT after technical faults hit the 999 emergency telephone service on Sunday. Ofcom said it would look into the incident to establish whether the telecoms company had failed to comply with its regulatory duties

China to reach its clean energy targets five years early

China is shoring up its position as the world leader in renewable power and potentially outpacing its own ambitious energy targets, a report says

Amazon now in grip of crime after Bolsonaro axed curbs- policy chief

The Brazilian government's drug policy chief has admitted that the rapid advance of drug factions into the Amazon rainforest has produced \"a very difficult situation\" in the region, as a UN report warned that flourishing organised crime groups were driving a boom in environmental devastation

Nato: Kyiv seeks guarantee of membership when war ends

Ukraine's defence minister has raised the stakes before the next Nato summit, saying he expects a guarantee that his country will be invited to join the military alliance at the conclusion of the war with Russia, describing membership as non-negotiable

Children among 11 killed in missile strike on Ukrainian pizza restaurant

Four children were among 11 people killed in a devastating Russian rocket attack on a packed pizza restaurant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk

Uganda Mountain of seized traps shows scale of poaching

'Over the past 10 years, we've removed about 47 tonnes of snares and bear traps,\" says Michael Keigwin, the founder of the Uganda Conservation Foundation (UCF), a charity that works with the country's wildlife authorities

Go-ahead for plan to turn Cornish moors into protected area 'will wreck farming'

A controversial plan to turn moorland in the south-west of England into a heavily protected nature conservation area has been approved despite warnings from some that it would \"wreck farming\" in the region

Pupils and parents demand return of city playground shut by developer

Families in south London are demanding that an award-winning developer reopens a park that was boarded up in 2016 to facilitate the construction of new homes

TikTok Older singers using app to woo younger fans

They have long been a staple of older music lovers' playlists, but classic stars from Kate Bush to Fleetwood Mac and Kylie Minogue - are bypassing traditional music platforms to find younger audiences on TikTok, one of the app's music heads has said

'Helping families is our job': On the hunt for Bedford's missing students

Nadia Qayyum and Anne Greaves are patrolling the streets of Bedford, hoping to solve their next case. \"A car's in the driveway, looks like someone's home,\" Nadia says as they prepare to knock on the front door and ask questions

Pat Cullen: Union head vows to fight on as nurses end action

Ironically for the first head of the Royal College of Nursing to lead a walkout in its 106-year history, Pat Cullen originally joined the world's biggest nursing union because it never went on strike

'Everyone's excited': Croydon can't believe their luck as Stormzy and Zaha come home

When he was at secondary school, George Pickering, a diehard supporter of AFC Croydon Athletic, would make it a ritual to play football on a recreation ground near the club. One day, a young, \"really talkative\" kid with \"lots of energy\" turned up to play along

Tory quits London mayor race after groping claims

Daniel Korski has dropped out of the race to be the Conservative mayoral candidate for London hours after Downing Street and senior Tories deemed groping allegations made against him to be \"very serious\"

Racist backlash made 007 role speculation 'disgusting', says actor Elba

Idris Elba has said that the racist backlash to the prospect of him being cast as James Bond \"made the whole thing disgusting and offputting\"

Macron urges calm after French police kill 17-year-old boy during traffic stop

Emmanuel Macron called for calm and warned against unrest spreading across France yesterday after police shot dead a teenager during a traffic stop in Nanterre and then appeared to lie about the circumstances of the killing

Octopuses' changing colours may show they are dreaming

Octopuses may be the subject of some people's nightmares but new research has added to growing evidence that the cephalopods themselves dream while asleep

Happy unbirthday: South Koreans lose a year or so as ancient system to calculate their age is ditched

All South Koreans have instantly become a year or two younger, as the country ditched its traditional - and increasingly unpopular - system for counting someone's age and replaced it with the internationally accepted method

Just Stop Oil protesters invade pitch at Lord's during Ashes Test

Three Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested for aggravated trespass after interrupting the first morning of the second Ashes Test at Lord's

Johnson allies to be named in Partygate follow-up report

Boris Johnson's allies are to be named in a report published today about potential \"contempts of parliament\" committed following the official Partygate inquiry, the Guardian has learned

Crisis talks as Thames Water faces £10bn deficit

The government has \"no true grasp on the costs\" involved in preventing a collapse of Thames Water, with estimates presented to ministers and regulators suggesting the company could face a hole of £10bn in its finances, the Guardian can reveal

Pope confident Moeen will be fit to feature at Lord's

Six days after Moeen Ali ended the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston as a bystander, a raw patch on his spinning finger preventing him from contributing fully to England's failed attempt to dismiss Australia's lower order, the off-spinner is expected to be declared fit for the second game at Lord's starting tomorrow after bowling in training apparently without pain.

Rugby union: Vunipola faces fitness setback for World Cup after operation

Billy Vunipola has had a setback in his bid to be fit for selection for England's World Cup squad after another operation on his injured knee.

Tennis: Rybakina's Wimbledon defence hit by Eastbourne withdrawal

Kazakhstani pulls out of warm-up event with virus that ended her French Open

Italian intelligence 'was monitoring Lebedev villa while Johnson visited'

Italy's secret intelligence service was monitoring the luxury Umbrian villa owned by the Lebedev family when Boris Johnson visited in April 2018 while he was foreign secretary, a documentary has claimed.

Ukraine gains Troops said to have crossed Dnipro River

Ukrainian forces have reportedly crossed the Dnipro River and taken back territory on the left bank of Kherson province, in a move which paves the way for a possible advance towards Crimea.