Northern Ireland police investigate burning of lifesize models of refugees | Northern Ireland

Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a loyalist bonfire that featured effigies of refugees sitting in a boat as a hate incident. Crowds in the County Tyrone village of Moygashel cheered on... Read more »

Macron tells UK parliament that Europe must end its dependency on the US and China – as it happened | Politics

Macron: Europe must end excessive dependencies on both the US and China Macron says European countries must end their “excessive dependencies on both the US and China”. He suggests China’s use of... Read more »

Scottish households urged to cut water use as climate crisis limits supplies | Water

Scottish households are being urged to cut back heavily on their water use and instead treat it as a precious resource due to the growing threat to supplies from climate heating. Alex... Read more »

Collectors can fight to pay £7m for a Birkin – but the ‘it’ handbag is no longer cool | Lauren Cochrane

The news that Jane Birkin’s original Hermès bag has sold for a record-breaking €8.6m (£7.4m) at auction will no doubt cause some jaws to drop to the floor. However, perhaps it should... Read more »

Starmer and Reeves promised honesty about public finances. Can they stay the course? | Tax and spending

During the first televised debate in the run-up to last summer’s general election, Keir Starmer used a phrase that received enthusiastic – and unanticipated – applause from the Salford audience. “I don’t... Read more »

Father given £1,173 refund from nursery in England after ‘top-up’ fees investigation | Childcare

A nursery has refunded a father almost £1,200 after an investigation found he had been charged mandatory “top-up” fees for hours of childcare that should have been free. Tiago Gomes’s daughter was... Read more »

Trump threatens 35% tariffs on Canadian goods

US President Donald Trump has said he will impose a 35% tariff on Canadian goods starting on 1 August, even as the two countries were days away from a self-imposed deadline to... Read more »

Rayner in deepening row with union over Birmingham bin strikes

Paul Seddon Political reporter Iain Watson Political correspondent Getty Images Angela Rayner is embroiled in an escalating row with Unite over her role in the long-running bin strikes in Birmingham. The union... Read more »

South Belfast bonfire set alight despite concerns over asbestos

Rebekah Wilson and Jayne McCormack BBC News NI BBC Controversy has surrounded the bonfire at Meridi Street, off the Donegall Road A bonfire on a site that contains asbestos was set alight... Read more »

‘Don’t tell me my baby wasn’t meant to be’

Siobhan Gorman Siobhan was 16-weeks pregnant and home alone when she gave birth to her baby Archie “There was probably something wrong with your baby”, “you could always try again”, “it wasn’t... Read more »