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Inmate numbers and self-harm cases are rising despite government pledge to improve conditions

Football star denies claims by Kate Greville that he was aggressive and controlling

Glasgow is the frontrunner to host the famous competition

UN warns that ‘land is drying up’ in countries across the globe

Household energy bills could go up before the expected October price cap rise

The issue has become a ‘key battleground’ in the Conservative leadership contest

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Former PM has made a series of high-profile interventions on the cost-of-living crisis

Gordon Brown calls for government to negotiate with energy providers for lower prices

Costs are soaring as people return to the capital after the Covid pandemic

Fewer opposite-sex couples are getting wed than ever before

Pharmacist says low supplies of medication means they are ‘always firefighting’

After a painful legal battle to keep their son on life support, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee were defeated

Met Office data shows we have enough water, the problems lie in timing

And other stories from the stranger side of life

One in 25 people in the UK are thought to have the virus

The Tory leadership hopeful and the former Labour PM are said to speak ‘fairly regularly’

The Snowman author ‘tried to avoid children’ and described himself as a ‘creative sociopath’

Institutions criticised for ‘cosseting students’ by axing ‘challenging’ texts

Campaign hopes to encourage one million people to cancel their direct debits to energy providers

Downing Street says no further measures will be rolled out before new PM is in place

Bookmakers slash odds on Liz Truss as poll puts her ahead of Labour leader in head-to-head

Critics of the prime minister have called for him to resign his Commons seat

Movement centred around doing bare minimum at work has been gaining traction on TikTok

Gordon Brown calls for an emergency budget to tackle spiralling living costs

Five men arrested after student nurse disappeared in London

Foreign secretary plans dramatic tax cuts – which the former chancellor says will ‘pour fuel on the fire’

‘Steepest decline in living standards on record’ forecast as recession expected to last until the end of 2023

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Inflation set to hit 13% by end of year as UK on course for recession, warns Bank of England

Post-pandemic waiting lists are pushing people to go private. Could this dramatically undermine the NHS?

Good news stories from the past seven days