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‘He is on police bail pending further enquiries,’ police say

‘How can it be right to ask a generation saddled with university fees and high housing costs to pick up the tab?’

New rules would outlaw companies paying consumer catfish to produce or host bogus write-ups

‘Vaccine passport’ plan brought back for nightclubs on day one of ‘freedom’ – and could be needed for football matches and the pub

More than 50 land on one Kent beach from single dinghy

‘We’re not saying crowded pubs – we’re saying nightclubs and also larger ticketed events as well’

The UK’s chief negotiator has said the Brexit deal is contradictory, but what does that mean for the UK? The Independent’s chief political commentator John Rentoul will be on hand to answer questions

Treasury Committee says former prime minister should have been encouraged to lobby through ‘more formal’ channels

She said she was going public about the incident to stop it happening to others

US president wanted to eat at Indian restaurant rather than visit monarch during 1997 trip

Former aide Dominic Cummings releases messages with prime minister

Health service and care home workers given permission to skip self-isolation

‘It’s not addressing the issue,’ says business secretary on anti-racism protest

Lord Frost personally led the team that negotiated the Northern Ireland protocol but now wants it changed

Ospreys became extinct in the UK in the 20th century, mainly due to human activity, but have begun naturally recolonising areas in Scotland and northern England

‘If you’re going to euthanise a horse, you’ve got to get a bullet in the right place’

Downing Street in muddle over prime minister’s movements – as Labour demands to know if he knew Sajid Javid was feeling ill

‘I don’t want to have to close nightclubs,’ says PM – as chief scientist warns of super-spreader events

‘Getting a bonus when your company is being fined £90m is ridiculous’

The student fears that the man also knows where she lives

The missing documents were down to one individual’s blunder, an investigation found

Failure to uphold Brexit environmental standards is ‘frankly embarrassing’, campaigners say

Condition can persist for months, experts say

Downing Street in muddle over prime minister’s movements

Demonstrators chant ‘arrest Boris Johnson’ while holding signs saying ‘say no to the Covid vaccine’

People trying to order tests through the government website told that ‘no more tests can be ordered’

Every local area in country now seeing more than 100 cases per 100,000 people for first time since early January

The prime minister will appear via video link from Chequers

Labour leader demands answers and says government should change course on abruptly lifting Covid measures

Hundreds are demanding justice after being falsely accused of theft and false accounting due to defective technology

Downing Street warns certification will be made mandatory if venues don’t use it voluntarily

Minister says we have to wait until 16 August before double-jabbed can avoid isolation

It is illegal to injure or kill any species of gull under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

Exclusive: Sharon Vitalis, whose father came to Britain with Windrush generation and served in the RAF for 13 years, denied citizenship due to what lawyers term ‘discriminatory’ nationality laws

‘There is absolutely no reason, other than political manoeuvring, to wait,’ Sir Jeremy Farrar says

Supermarkets and retailers also facing disruption

Church apologises for ‘insensitivity of this plan and for any upset caused’

Mark Garnier accused of having ‘disgraced’ Conservative Friends of International Development, ahead of meeting showdown

Face coverings become matter of personal choice in many but not all public settings – causing widespread alarm

The lifeboat rescue team was called out twice to rescue the springer spaniel

Minister insists PM only ‘considered’ joining testing scheme – despite official No 10 statement