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  • Police officers detain people after unrest in Plymouth on Monday evening.

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    UK riots live: man in serious condition after suspected hate crime; Welby says rioters ‘defile the flag’

  • Thames Water was fined £104m by Ofwat.

    Three water firms face record total £168m fine after sewage investigation

    Ofwat to penalise Thames, Northumbrian and Yorkshire for ‘catalogue of failure’ over illegal discharges
  • Domino s Pizza lunch meal deal mini pizza

    Domino’s Pizza promises more local deals as food costs fall

    Chain says it expects profit at lower end of market forecasts despite Euro 2024 driving sales

  • ‘Prison place waiting’ for far-right rioters, says justice minister

  • Two-child benefit cap is cementing regional poverty, Starmer told

  • End of the adventure: council funding cuts imperil Leicester’s playgrounds

  • HMP Wandsworth had seven inmate suicides in past year, report finds

  • Vaccinating badgers more effective than culls in stopping bovine TB, study finds

  • Warm weather lifts UK retail sales in July but shoppers shun big purchases

  • ‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

UK politics

  • A man and a police officer stand in front of a completely destroying glass wall of a Holiday Express

    ‘Some threatened to kill us’: asylum seekers left fearful by far-right mobs

  • Tommy Robinson was arrested near the Royal Courts of Justice in London on November 26 at a march against antisemitism. Picture date: Monday January 22, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Robinson. Photo credit should read: James Manning/PA Wire

    Are the authorities powerless to stop Tommy Robinson’s online output?

    • Police officers injured amid standoff in Plymouth – England riots as it happened

    • Worst far-right violence should be treated as terrorism, says ex-police chief

    • Ministers prepare extra 500 prison places to remand suspected rioters

    • ITV defends allowing Yvette Cooper to be interviewed by husband Ed Balls

    • No 10 criticises Elon Musk for ‘civil war is inevitable’ post on England riots

    • Priti Patel criticises Nigel Farage for comparing far-right riots to BLM protests

Analysis and explainers

  • Police in riot gear detain a man amid disturbances in Middlesbrough

    England riots: how has ‘two-tier policing’ myth become widespread?

  • A young man with hood pulled up throws a brick, as another stands nearby. Flames and a crowd of people are behind

    Why are people rioting across England and how many are involved?

  • An upturned car burns after it was set on fire in front of houses in Middlesbrough

    England riots: what help is available for affected homeowners and businesses?

  • Crowds of people, some waving flags, surround a decorated truck with a picture of Ismail Haniyeh on it. A large Iranian flag hangs from a building above

    US and UK expected to be drawn in as Iran prepares retaliation against Israel

Culture

  • A red chalk drawing a naked woman in three different poses

    ‘Unique opportunity’ to see Italian Renaissance drawings in London

  • Huw Edwards wears sunglasses as he arrives at Westminster magistrates court in London

    Plaque honouring Huw Edwards removed from Cardiff Castle

    Mural featuring disgraced presenter also painted over in his home village of Llangennech, Carmarthenshire
  • A stylised, surrealist landscape with objects floating in the air

    Reclusive artist to show ‘extraordinary’ work in UK for first time in decades

    Henry Orlik withdrew from art world after early success but his surrealist-influenced paintings will now go on display

  • Police investigate alleged death threat sent to Amanda Abbington

  • First black couple to win Love Island hope victory is ‘start of something good’

  • BBC wipes Huw Edwards from archive but role in state occasions presents challenge

  • ‘We have to adapt or die’: Daniel Bedingfield says AI is music’s future

Education

  • Somal leans, with folded arms, against a breeze-block pillar

    Special educational needs system in England in ‘utter disarray’, says ombudsman

  • A teacher drawing on paper with young pupils in a preschool class

    Free childcare pledge in England in peril after Tories ‘recklessly rushed out’ plan

  • Image of a school teacher looking stressed next to piles of classroom books.

    Teachers’ regulator in England investigated after claims it has left teachers in distress

  • Head and shoulders shot of Paul Givan in suit and tie

    Minister apologises for Northern Ireland special education needs data breach

Society

  • Gravestones in Nunhead cemetery, south-east London.

    ‘Celebrations of life’ increasingly replacing traditional funerals in UK, study shows

  • Doctor working in a consulting room with a sign on the door

    NHS ‘soup and shake’ diet puts almost a third of type 2 diabetes cases in remission

    • Ambulances parked outside the accident and emergency department at the Queen Alexandra hospital

      Portsmouth hospital reopens A&E after restoring power

    • Side by side, Meghan smiling

      Meghan: I’m airing my struggle with suicidal thoughts to help others

    • Bottles of spirits on a table

      Exclude drinks industry from alcohol policy planning, UK campaigners urge

Multimedia

  • Families on the beach in front of rows of beach huts

    Shore thing: English beach huts – in pictures

  • Footage shows far-right rioters making threatening gestures at asylum seekers inside Rotherham hotel

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    Asylum seekers film rioters making threatening gestures as they surround Rotherham hotel – video

    • A group of people holding planks surround one man crouching in the middle and another stood over him trying to move the crowd away

      England riots, Djokovic’s joy and Vikings: photos of the day – Monday

    • Rioters clash with police and damage hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham – video

    • 'Far-right thugs' in UK will be swiftly brought to justice, says Keir Starmer – video

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