High winds during El Niño could be deadly for England’s stressed trees, say experts
High winds associated with El Niño could cause widespread mortality among tree species already weakened by a prolonged period of extreme heat and drought, experts have warned. This summer much…
Dozens dead and hundreds locked up for 10 years too long: Injustice of indefinite prison terms laid bare
Britain’s former top judge said the IPP regime is a form of ‘preventative detention’ which has punished people ‘grossly excessively’ Almost 700 never-released prisoners trapped on indefinite jail terms have…
Dyson launches £420 toothbrush that films ‘live cleaning footage’ inside your mouth
It is the live stream you never wanted to see but may find impossible to resist: rolling footage beamed live from inside your mouth while you are cleaning your teeth.…
Burnham blames Brexit for ‘decade of low growth’ in UK
The prime minister used his first statement to the Commons since taking over from Keir Starmer to argue Brexit was one of ‘a series of wrong turns’ taken by the…
From the archive: ‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’ – podcast
Support the Guardian today: theguardian.com/longreadpod This is an edited extract from The Last Drop: Solving the World’s Water Crisis, published by Picador
British aid worker says Nepal authorities mistook him for floods survivor: ‘Sorry, I haven’t been rescued’
Former councillor Alastair Chambers, 45, said the mix-up happened when he returned to the capital Kathmandu on a humanitarian aid flight after volunteering in a remote village Authorities in Nepal…
UK entrepreneur makes £500,000 political donation to Restore Britain
The hard-right Restore Britain party has got its first major donation of £500,000 from an IT entrepreneur in a sign it may continue to pose a threat to Nigel Farage’s…
Israel will ‘act against Britain’ if it imposes sanctions over plans to expand illegal settlements
Ed Miliband’s Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar said his country’s government was likely to act in response to UK sanctions Israel has warned that it will respond in kind should the…
Swinney sticks with pledge to cap prices on basic foods in Scotland
John Swinney insisted on Tuesday he still planned to introduce a legally binding price cap on bread, milk and other essential food items in Scotland despite fierce opposition from farming…
Privatisation of water firms ‘difficult to reverse’, Burnham admits
Speaking in the Commons for the first time since he became Prime Minister, Burnham pledged to take ‘stronger public control’ over ‘essentials’, such as water Andy Burnham has cautioned that…