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Brits can expect 31C weather again on Sunday as the UK is hit by its third heatwave of the year. The soaring temperatures are a slight respite from the 33.1C recorded on Saturday in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, but still mark a sweaty UK summer so far. Scotland recorded its hottest day of the year yesterday, with 32C reached in Aviemore in ...

A Palestinian family of six who are stuck in Gaza despite having permission to join a relative in Britain asked London’s High Court on Wednesday to make officials reconsider their refusal to ask Israel for help to leave the enclave, reports Reuters. Lawyers representing a Palestinian couple and their four children said the family were given leave to enter the ...

The names of the 52 people killed in London’s 7/7 bombings were read out at a memorial service at St Paul’s Cathedral 20 years since the attacks. Saba Edwards, the daughter of Behnaz Mozakka who died when one of the bombs detonated on the London Underground, began to cry as she read out her mother’s name among the list of ...

“I’ve not had as much quality time with my colleagues since the Brexit wars,” a minister told me with a wry smile. A remark that gets to the heart of the row over changes to the benefits system within the Labour Party: this is a government with a big majority, that has already performed a big U-turn and yet is ...

Temperatures are continuing to soar in parts of England, with the heat on course to potentially hit 34C or 35C in the south. Tuesday could officially become the hottest day of the year so far, topping the 33.2C recorded in Surrey 10 days ago. The Midlands will also see above-average temperatures – but there is a stark contrast in conditions ...

Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK’s benefits system is broken and fixing it is a “moral imperative”, a day after a backbench Labour revolt saw him forced into a U-turn on welfare cuts. The prime minister told the Welsh Labour Party conference in Llandudno that the government would not take away the welfare “safety net that vulnerable people rely ...

“What an absolute bloody shambles!” When we tell you that this is the unvarnished view of a Labour MP now willing to back Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s benefits plans, you get a sense of how much anger this row has provoked and is still provoking. And there are still plenty who are not happy and still either pushing for further ...

Sir Keir Starmer has warned of a “risk of escalation” to the Middle East and beyond the region, as he calls for a return to the negotiating table after the US bombed Iranian nuclear sites overnight. The prime minister said he wanted to “reassure the British public that we’re doing everything we can to stabilise the situation” and find a ...

New soldiers should be offered a £10,000 bonus to rapidly boost troop numbers to deal with an increasingly unpredictable world, the Lib Dems have said. The government should also distribute pamphlets to make sure every British home is “war-ready” and able to deal with blackouts and chaos caused by the outbreak of conflict or cyber-attacks, Lib Dem Leader Sir Ed ...

A British man has been arrested on suspicion of espionage and terrorism offences in Cyprus. He allegedly surveilled the RAF Akrotiri base on the island and is suspected of having links with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, local media reported. RAF Akrotiri is the UK’s most important airbase for operations in the Middle East. The Philenews website said the man was arrested ...