UK Space Command successfully launches first military satellite (www.gov.uk)
“A UK satellite to support military operations successfully launched into space last night....
Boy, 15, is first person charged with riot over recent English disorder (www.theguardian.com)
A 15-year-old boy has become the first person to be charged with riot over the recent disorder that swept towns and cities across England....
Schools to teach children how to spot fake news and ‘putrid’ conspiracies online (www.independent.co.uk)
Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and fake news online under planned changes to the school curriculum....
More than 200 pharmacies closed in 2024 - and funding crisis could shutter more (inews.co.uk)
Pupils achieve best A-level results in a generation but regional gap widens (www.theguardian.com)
Pupils achieved their best A-level results in a generation on Thursday with marks that highlighted the growing gap between the strongest and weakest-performing parts of the country....
Ukraine war latest: British-supplied tanks used in Ukraine's Russian incursion, BBC told (www.bbc.co.uk)
China resubmits application to build contested big embassy in London, saying decision to reject a first proposals in 2022 on security grounds and the impact on residents was “without merit” (www.euractiv.com)
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Liz Truss: Oppressed by Tweets, Victimized by Reality
Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ (www.theguardian.com)
UK economy continues recovery with 0.6% growth (www.bbc.com)
The UK’s economy grew by 0.6% between April and June as it continued its recovery from the recession at the end of last year....
Bluesky: Social media site reports surge in new UK users after Elon Musk's riot comments (news.sky.com)
Social media platform Bluesky says it has seen a surge in signups in the United Kingdom in recent days....
‘Two-tier justice’ in Britain is real – but it’s not what the right says it is (www.theguardian.com)
A functioning society depends on equality before the law. If crimes are not treated equally and dispassionately by the justice system, we lose trust in democracy and each other. But as sentences begin to be passed on racists who rioted earlier this month, we see once again a blatantly unequal application of the law....
Net-zero transition will deliver at least ‘£164bn in benefits’ to UK. (www.carbonbrief.org)
King Charles banknotes go for 11 times face value (www.bbc.com)
Banknotes with a face value of £78,430 have raised more than 11 times that amount for charity following a series of auctions....
What's gone wrong at Asda? (news.sky.com)
While attention has inevitably been on the first rise in grocery price inflation since March last year, the latest till roll data from Kantar Worldpanel also contains valuable insights into the grocery market itself....
Urgent tests underway after Walsall canal cyanide spill (www.bbc.co.uk)
The trouble with England – why rioting in the UK has not spread to Scotland and Wales (nation.cymru)
The violent unrest that has caused so much damage in the UK has not in fact happened across the UK. It has almost been exclusively confined to England....
Pocklington: Farmer dies after being run over by his Range Rover (www.bbc.co.uk)
Church of England paid-off priest assessed as a risk to children (www.bbc.co.uk)
They encouraged us to insulate our home. Now it’s unmortgageable (www.theguardian.com)
Householders are angered by the discovery they cannot remortgage or sell their homes after installing spray-foam insulation to cut energy use.
Britain’s far right enjoys unparalleled impunity on Telegram (www.politico.eu)
As riots swept the U.K. in recent days, far-right groups plotted attacks on immigration centers and swapped manuals for making petrol bombs on the fringe social network Telegram....
Owner of Southport’s Windsor Mini Mart: ‘My shop was looted by rioters, then saved by strangers’ (www.bbc.co.uk)
Chanaka Balasuriya, the 47-year-old owner of Southport’s Windsor Mini Mart, has been deeply affected by the violent unrest that spread across the UK - but also by the acts of compassion that followed.
Inflation set to rise back above 2% Bank of England target this week (inews.co.uk)
Photos of 12 people released in riot probe appeal (www.bbc.com)
Police have released photographs of 12 people they want to speak to over riots which took place on Merseyside days after the deaths of three girls in Southport.
Video doorbells, CCTV, facial recognition: how the police tracked UK rioters (www.theguardian.com)
The hunt to find the rioters and the people who incited them began the moment the first brick was thrown. But the efforts to catch them will last weeks or months, and involve super-recognisers, specialist software, video doorbells and, in a few cases, criminal stupidity....
