The Guardian speaks to four people braving eye-watering price hikes to holiday in Britain this yearCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWith more and more people staying in the UK for their holidays, prices for campsites and rent…
Menopause at centre of increasing number of UK employment tribunals
Rise in women taking employers to court citing event as proof of unfair dismissal and discriminationCase study: the social worker fired while perimenopausalGrowing numbers of women are taking their employers to court citing the menopause as proof of un…
Keir Starmer calls on Boris Johnson to say sorry for coalmines joke
Labour leader says remarks about pit closures ‘utterly shameful’ and shows prime minister ‘out of touch’Keir Starmer has called on Boris Johnson to apologise for joking about Margaret Thatcher closing coalmines, describing the remarks as “utterly shame…
Barnado’s blogpost on white privilege did not breach charity laws
Charities regulator says post deemed ‘ideological dogma’ by Tory MPs was in line with the Barnado’s missionBarnardo’s did not breach charity laws when it published a blogpost on its website discussing racial inequality and white privilege, inadvertentl…
Drug poisoning deaths in England and Wales reach record high
Charities warn of a public health emergency after data shows 4,561 deaths in 2020 – up 3.8% on previous yearDeaths due to drug poisoning in England and Wales have reached a record high, with a growing number of people dying after using cocaine and opia…
Serious questions raised by solitary confinement in prisons | Letters
Emma Ginn and Annie Viswanathan on the effect of solitary confinement on immigration detainees and Dean Kingham on prisoners abandoned to close supervision centres. Plus, Howard Thomas on steps towards sending fewer people to prisonProlonged solitary c…
Police review teen killings in search of catalyst for spike in murders
Pilot scheme hopes to discover patterns that will help prevent more deathsMeasures are being introduced to try to identify what is driving rising murder rates in the wake of a spike in teenage deaths in some of the UK’s homicide hotspots.All homicides …
Assaults on police in England and Wales rise above 100 a day during pandemic
Officer morale sinks in the 43 forces as attacks rise by 20% during the Covid crisisA major increase in attacks on police has been recorded during the pandemic, according to official figures revealing that there were more than 100 assaults on officers …
Body of five-year-old child found in south Wales river
Boy was reported missing early on Saturday morning in Sarn village, north of BridgendThe body of a missing five-year-old boy has been found in a river in south Wales.Police were called at 5.45am on Saturday to a report of a missing child in Sarn, Bridg…
UK weather: flood warnings as Storm Evert moves eastwards
Unsettled weather forecast across England and Wales with ‘torrential thundery downpours’ in the eastThe Met Office has issued weather and flood warnings as Storm Evert moved eastwards across Britain with thunderstorms forecast for the weekend.Yellow wi…