UK riots: five essential reads on what triggered a week of violence. (theconversation.com)
Planned anti-immigration demo in Doncaster passes quietly after only one protester turns up (www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk)
“There has been disorder and rioting at a number of other towns and cities across the UK – with building and vehicles set on fire on a night of rioting in Sunderland last night, while there have also been disturbances in Manchester, Hartlepool, London and Aldershot with anti-Islam and anti-immigrations chants shouted, along...
Britain’s nuclear submarine software built by Belarusian engineers (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Police station set on fire in Sunderland as unrest rolls on (www.theguardian.com)
A police station was set on fire in Sunderland on Friday as officers tried to contain several hundred protesters on another night of disorder....
Huw Edwards pleads guilty to making indecent images of children (www.bbc.co.uk)
'Lightning speed' broadband for rural areas (www.bbc.co.uk)
Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher (www.theguardian.com)
Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers. The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to the long-termism movement and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism, closed this week after 19 years of operation. Musk had donated £1m to the FIH...
Profits of UK’s private train-leasing firms treble in a year (www.theguardian.com)
Exotic ‘dinosaur-like’ turtle that can bite through bone found in Cumbria (www.independent.co.uk)
Yodel in final stages of talks amid concern over its future (www.bbc.co.uk)
Parcel delivery firm Yodel has said it is in the “final stages” of talks over options for the company amid concern over its future....
Pensioners will need £8,000 more than last year to have a modest retirement (inews.co.uk)
UK minister: Brexit checks ‘price you pay for being a sovereign state again’ (www.theguardian.com)
Households in England face above-inflation £2bn council tax raid (www.theguardian.com)
Corruption review finds 'red flags' in more than 130 Covid contracts (www.bbc.co.uk)
An anti-corruption charity says it has identified significant concerns in contracts worth over £15.3bn awarded by the Conservative government during the Covid pandemic, equivalent to one in every £3 spent.
Paddington Bear giant sculpture spotted in Cheshire (www.bbc.co.uk)
Mike Lynch's co-defendant dies after being hit by car days before yacht sinking (news.sky.com)
The two businessmen had faced charges of fraud and conspiracy but were acquitted by a US jury in June.
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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Urgent tests underway after Walsall canal cyanide spill (www.bbc.co.uk)
Pocklington: Farmer dies after being run over by his Range Rover (www.bbc.co.uk)
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.
The hypocrisy at the heart of racist riots. (theconversation.com)
Deep space radar site in Wales to go ahead to protect UK from ‘space warfare’ (www.theguardian.com)
Plans for a network of radars tracking deep space activity to help protect the UK from “space warfare” are to go ahead in Pembrokeshire, despite the opposition of local campaigners....
Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement (inews.co.uk)
Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness (www.ft.com)
Pretty depressing reading....