Browsing: The Guardian

The Guardian returns to the cost of living crisis while events following the Queen’s death dominate headlines elsewhere. It reports that new Prime Minister Liz Truss is under pressure to reveal details about her energy plan before the Commons breaks up for party conferences towards the end of September.

Russia has launched “revenge attacks” on Ukraine, reports the Guardian. Infrastructure facilities, including power and water plants, are among those being targeted, after a concerted Ukrainian offensive made important gains, the paper says.

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The Guardian says Chengdu, the capital of the south-western Chinese province of Sichuan, has extended the coronavirus lockdown of most of its districts indefinitely as it hopes to stem further transmissions in the city of 21.2 million.

The Guardian says The death toll from a fire that tore through a karaoke bar in southern Vietnam has risen to 32, state media have said.

The Guardian says Liz Truss will finally present her long-awaited plans to tackle soaring energy bills on Thursday, with some Tory MPs conceding this is already a make-or-break moment for her entire premiership.

The Guardian says Graham Potter has verbally agreed to take the Chelsea manager’s job after holding talks. Terms are not finalised for the 47-year-old to join from Brighton but Chelsea are confident of appointing him.

The Guardian says The fugitive wanted over a mass stabbing in Canada that killed 10 people and injured 18 has died in hospital after his arrest, police have confirmed, with sources saying his death was the result of self-inflicted wounds.

The Guardian leads on energy bills, saying Liz Truss is “expected to announce to MPs that bills will be frozen at about £2,500 a year until 2024 as part of a package of support costing up to £130bn”.

The Guardian says Ryan Giggs has said he is “disappointed” to face a second trial next summer over allegations of assault and coercive behaviour against his former girlfriend.

The Guardian says Chelsea have sacked Thomas Tuchel as manager after their 1-0 defeat at Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League and are expected to approach Brighton for permission to speak to Graham Potter.

The Guardian says Funding to promote the uptake of NHS England’s autumn Covid and flu jabs has been slashed by 63%, it can be revealed, even as the World Health Organization warned of a wave of winter deaths.

The Guardian says The FBI recovered a document describing a foreign government’s nuclear capabilities during its search of Mar-a-Lago, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

The Guardian says China recorded its highest temperatures and one of its lowest levels of rainfall in 61 years during a two-month summer heatwave that caused forest fires, damaged crops and hit power supplies, the national meteorological agency said.

Liz Truss insisted the UK would “ride out the storm” of the worst cost of living crisis in a generation as she launched her premiership with a brutal cabinet clear-out, The Guardian reports.

The fourth prime minister in six years faces a race against time to address the cost-of-living emergency, The Guardian says.

Family of man who died in Thames during attempted arrest demand answers The Guardian says The family of a man…

UK weather: more thunderstorms expected after 36,000 lightning strikes The Guardian says Heavy rain and thunderstorms are set to return…

The Guardian says Spencer Elden, who appeared on the cover of Nirvana’s 1991 album Nevermind as a baby, has lost his lawsuit claiming that the image constituted child sexual abuse.

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Plans for the UK to be a “low tax economy” would apparently be on prime minister Truss’ radar, says the Guardian.

The Guardian – Gap in GCSE results brings fresh warnings over Covid

The Guardian says The family of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee have lodged a court application to have him moved to die “with dignity” in a hospice rather than in a hospital.

REVEALED: the far right web radicalising UK children – that’s the headline from the Guardian.

The Guardian says The mother of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee has said his life support treatment will be removed at 11am on Wednesday, hours after a last-minute attempt to postpone the hospital taking action was rejected by the UK’s supreme court “with a heavy heart”.