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Pic shows boy surrounded by rubbish strewn on beach on hottest day of year
The image shows a child of around eight or nine years kneeling down looking at piles of trash on the shoreline
Forced marriage, murder and miscarriages of justice: 40 years of Southall Black Sisters and the battles ahead
Director and founding member Pragna Patel discusses past and future battles on gender violence, criminal justice and religious fundamentalism.
US to resume federal executions for first time since 2003
Attorney General William Barr instructed the Bureau of Prisons to schedule executions starting in December for five men.
G4S driver jailed for stealing nearly £1 million from one of firm’s vans
Joel March fled with deposit boxes after abandoning the cash-in-transit vehicle.
In pictures: Extinction Rebellion designs to go on display at V&A
The items including flags and artwork are at the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, London.
Metropolitan Police stop almost 100 e-scooter users in a week
E-scooters are banned from being ridden on pavements while the Department for Transport (DfT) says it is an offence to use them on roads.
Hottest day coincides with record number of flights in the sky
Over 225,000 flights were tracked by Flightradar yesterday for the first time ever, news that his been condemned by environmentalists.
Citizens of dictatorships react to The Sun front page, saying even their state-sponsored newspapers would be “subtler” than that
"Even Ceausescu’s Scinteia would be subtler than this".
It’s official: Today is the hottest ever July day as Mercury soars to 36.9C at Heathrow
The Met Office said the hottest temperature ever recorded in Britain could still be eclipsed today.