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  • Head and shoulders shot of Rageh Omaar

    Rageh Omaar recovering at home after hospital treatment, ITV says

  • An NHS blood bag.

    Revealed: UK government was warned of infected blood risks in 1970s

    Documents show officials were told blood plasma harvested from US convicts was contaminated with viruses
  • The wonky billboard on the side wall of a brick house with safety fencing blocking off the pavement below

    Wonky Waitrose billboard fenced off by London council as stunt backfires

    Concerned public contact council over safety fears after retailer erected askew billboard in Wandsworth

  • Teenager finds ‘holy grail’ Lego octopus from 1997 spill off Cornwall coast

  • Beleaguered Humza Yousaf says he does not rule out Scottish election

  • British army unsure if injured runaway horses will return to duties

  • Man dies in Devon after after taking ‘unusually strong batch’ of heroin

  • Man who raped his wife tried to convince court he was victim of domestic abuse

  • Let Rishi Sunak ‘get on with the job’, says Grant Shapps

  • Four Vietnamese nationals arrested in London over people smuggling

UK politics
  • A ballot box sitting on a table

    From Tyneside to London: five key battlegrounds in England’s 2 May local elections

  • A mash-up of mobile phones with emojis.

    What happens when an ex-Daily Star journalist applies clickbait tactics to running for election?

    • Work and pensions committee chair tells ministers to fix carer’s allowance issues

    • 20mph speed limit splits opinion in Welsh market town

    • Humza Yousaf fights to stay on as second no confidence motion tabled

    • Sadiq Khan urges young Londoners to vote or risk ‘repeat of Brexit and Trump victory’

    • Humza Yousaf says he’s ‘very confident’ of winning no confidence vote and he will ‘compromise’ with critics – as it happened

    • ‘I would not be alive’: anger at Sunak plan to strip GPs of sicknote powers

Analysis and explainers

  • Sadiq Khan photographed outdoors with a blurred background of grass and trees; he is wearing a brown quilted anorak zipped up high under a dark blue jacket

    Sadiq Khan’s green credentials may be critical in London mayoral election

  • Rishi Sunak adjusting an earpiece at a press conference

    Rishi Sunak struggling to smother frenzy of election rumours

  • Gideon Falter speaking to a Metropolitan police officer during a pro-Palestine march in London

    What is CAA, the group headed by campaigner in Met police antisemitism row?

  • A Trans Pennine Express train shortly after departing Manchester Piccadilly station at dusk.

    What is Labour’s plan for rail travel and will it make tickets cheaper?

Culture
  • The British Academy.

    The end of empire: revamped British Academy stakes claim for modern role in UK’s global mission

  • Land crab in defensive posture

    And now for the pinchline: competition crowns world’s funniest crab joke

    Inaugural contest at Crab Museum in Margate allows crustaceans to pick the winner, with the help of tinned fish used as bait
  • Taylor Swift at the 2024 Grammy awards.

    Taylor Swift equals Madonna’s record of 12 UK No 1 albums

    Swift now has joint highest number of chart-toppers for a female artist, as The Tortured Poets Department earns biggest opening week in seven years

  • Liz Truss book enters bestseller list in 70th place with 2,228 copies sold

  • Martha Mills young writers’ prize open for entries

  • More gigs postponed amid opening week chaos at Manchester Co-op Live arena

  • Booker prize urged to consider name change over slavery link

Education
  • three schoolgirls, seen from behind, sit with raised hands in a classroom while an anonymised adult woman, seen from the side with her head turned away, stands at a whiteboard

    Teaching assistants routinely cover lessons in England and Wales, survey finds

  • Secondary school pupils walking in a corridor

    Just two in five pupils in England always feel safe in school, survey finds

  • Cambridge Kings College Chapel Exterior

    Foreign states targeting sensitive research at UK universities, MI5 warns

  • A school banner advertising a 'good' rating

    Ruth Perry family furious as Ofsted single-word ratings are retained

Society
  • Demonstrators holding placards outside the inquiry into the infected blood scandal in London

    ‘My mum gave the injections that killed my brothers’: how UK’s infected blood scandal has torn lives apart

  • In this 1975 photo, prisoners ride a wagon train taking them to a work area at the Cummins Unit of Arkansas' Department of Corrections in Grady, Ark. The convict-leasing period, which officially ended in 1928, helped chart the path to America's modern-day prison-industrial complex. Incarceration was used not just for punishment or rehabilitation but for profit. (Bruce Jackson via AP)

    ‘Plasma was called liquid gold’: the true story of the UK infected blood scandal

    • Inga Rublite, right, with her twin sister Inese Briede, both smiling

      ‘It should have been safe’: twin of woman found under coat in A&E says death avoidable

    • A woman vaping

      Women should give up vaping if they want to get pregnant, study suggests

    • King Charles and Queen Camilla talk to each other, arm in arm, in a garden

      King Charles to return to public duties while continuing cancer treatment

Multimedia

  • Pro-Palestinian protesters chanted 'free Palestine' and 'ceasefire now' while marching from Parliament Square to Hyde Park

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    Protesters rally in London to continue calls for Gaza ceasefire – video

  • David Cameron stands behind the saddle of a horse

    D-day veterans and an Indian election: photos of the day – Friday

    • Elegant features in a seaside apartment in Ramsgate.

      Urban flats for sale in Great Britain for less than £500,000 – in pictures

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      Tory minister appears to mix up Rwanda and Congo on BBC Question Time – video

    • James Cleverly standing on a wooden step on a pier and holding onto a gangway that is being extended out to him from a boat

      Dancing in Haiti and a pink moon: photos of the day – Thursday

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