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...
UK riots LIVE: Clashes break out in Manchester, Liverpool and Hull - boys as young as 11 arrested (www.mirror.co.uk)
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....
Royal Mail deal to be probed over potential Russia links (www.bbc.co.uk)
More than 100 arrested in London as violence flares after Southport stabbings (www.theguardian.com)
Huw Edwards pleads guilty to making indecent images of children (www.bbc.co.uk)
'Lightning speed' broadband for rural areas (www.bbc.co.uk)
‘A huge opportunity’: Quantum leap for UK as tech industry receives £100m boost (www.theguardian.com)
Britain’s plans to create advanced devices based on the mind-bending physics of the quantum world have received a £100m boost, in a move ministers hope will have a transformative impact on healthcare, transport and national security....
Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement (inews.co.uk)
Review says puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise (www.bbc.com)
“There is no evidence of a large rise in suicides in young patients attending a gender identity clinic in London, an independent review has found.”...
Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness (www.ft.com)
Pretty depressing reading....
Britain’s richest family sentenced to 4 years in jail (www.theguardian.com)
A Swiss court has handed jail sentences to four members of Britain’s richest family for exploiting Indian staff at their Geneva mansion....
Please spread the word, help if you can. (www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org)
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)
Faith school banning parts of geography lessons, Ofsted finds (www.secularism.org.uk)
A faith school is censoring science and geography lessons on religious grounds, Ofsted has found....
Brexit voter U-turns after hospital experience (www.thelondoneconomic.com)
UK economy in recession as households cut spending (www.theguardian.com)
Jewish theatregoers felt 'unsafe' at comedy show - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
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....
Plot to kidnap child hatched a week before Madeleine McCann disappeared (news.sky.com)
Expat Ken Ralphs said that Christian B, the German drifter suspected of abducting Madeleine, tried to recruit a mutual friend to help find a youngster to sell to a childless couple.