Koci Selamaj, 36, from Eastbourne, accused of killing schoolteacher on 17 SeptemberA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a primary schoolteacher whose body was found in a park near her home in south-east London.Koci Selamaj, 36, was ac…
Lego doubles profits as demand soars beyond Covid-19 lockdown
Brick brand says it does not not expect problems with Christmas stock despite global supply crisisLego profits more than doubled in the first six months of the year as brick fans stayed home to build Star Wars and Harry Potter models even after the Cov…
How much poorer would the rich need to be to provide a basic minimum income for everyone?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsHow much poorer would the rich need to be to provide a basic minimum income for …
Government to take over Southeastern after ‘serious’ breach of franchise
Department for Transport finds rail operator did not declare more than £25m of historical taxpayer fundingThe government is to strip Southeastern railway services from the private operator, Go-Ahead, after uncovering a missing £25m in what it said was …
Northern Irish unionist parties form alliance to oppose Brexit protocol
Four parties including DUP and Ulster Unionists issue statement warning of ‘grave damage’ under new rulesFour rival unionist parties in Northern Ireland have formed an alliance to fight the Brexit protocol, issuing a joint statement weeks after the De…
In a queue for petrol in Essex, I found an unexpected camaraderie | Tim Burrows
At first, I thought drivers lining up in case there was a fuel shortage were foolish. Then I joined themBefore this weekend, I had never seen a petrol station cashier answer a telephone. Yet here he was, this harassed man in front of me, fielding sever…
‘You’re in a new world’: refugee actors share their journey on stage
A new play touring England uses beds to reflect on experiences of former unaccompanied minorsFor most people, bed is a place of comfort, somewhere to recline and switch off. For others, it is a scene of displacement, a symbol of the precariousness of l…
Virgin Media’s recycling promise gets zero marks
I needed to dispose of au unused set-top box and it told me to put it in the binLast year I upgraded my Virgin Media TV package, and, as result, ended up with two set-top boxes I needed to dispose of.One, sent in error, was new and unused. Despite my r…
We argue over statues, yet history shows they’re really all about power | Mary Beard
Today it’s ‘culture wars’ – but from Caesar to Colston, public art has long been reviled and reinterpretedMary Beard is a professor of classics at Cambridge UniversityTwo thousand years ago the ancient Romans had some imaginative solutions to the probl…
Revealed: exploitation of meat plant workers rife across UK and Europe
Thousands of outsourced workers on inferior pay and conditions to fulfil demand for cheap meat, Guardian investigation showsRead more: ‘The whole system is rotten’: life inside Europe’s meat industryMeat companies across Europe have been hiring thousan…