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Sunak ramps up promises to tackle cost-of-living crisis

Former chancellor says people ‘need reassurance now about what we will do’ to tackle the burden inflicted by rising bills.

Drought expected to be declared amid heatwave with UK hotter than Caribbean

Fuel costs soar for Premier League away fans

Councils call for clarity around spending of funds from soft drinks sugar levy

NHS staff shortages ‘impacting children’s services outside of hospital’

Stunning Wainwright Coast to Coast walk to get £5.6m upgrade

Co-op pledges to save communities from becoming ‘cash deserts’

Online Safety Bill is not fit for purpose, say IT experts

Do not let windfall tax run beyond 2025, energy chiefs tell PM candidates

Harrison Ford’s original Han Solo blaster expected to fetch £410,000 at auction

Rishi Sunak reveals Boris Johnson has been ignoring his calls

Residents express anger at gas company following Thornton Heath explosion

Tories ‘have put the smoke alarm on snooze’ as Britain faces wildfire risk

Labour pledges to address ‘unjustifiable’ costs of prepayment energy meters

Putin now unlikely to succeed in occupying Ukraine – Wallace

Positive E.coli test at reservoir left Oxfordshire village without water

In Pictures: Scorching day for Britons as heatwave intensifies

Ex-police officer gets seven years in prison over Washington Capitol riot

Justice Department seeks to unseal search warrant of Trump home

Strike vote by courts staff

Man charged over shootings which left a father-of-six dead and two people hurt

Labour shadow minister inadvertently breached MPs’ code of conduct

Register reveals MPs received tickets to see Sheeran, Wimbledon and other events

Rishi Sunak sets out measures to boost UK drought resilience

Labour shadow minister inadvertently breached MPs’ code of conduct

More Ukrainian households homeless or at risk of homelessness after UK arrival

Umbrella swept by wind kills woman at South Carolina beach

Vicar speaks of grief and loss as Keyham remembers shooting tragedy one year on

Tony Hudgell’s adoptive mother ‘over the moon’ that his abuser may stay in jail

Community police to encourage victims of institutions for women to come forward

Leadership candidates raise thousands but frontrunners’ backers remain a mystery

Death toll from weekend Israel-Gaza fighting rises to 48

Accumulation of ‘toxins’ in brain is why thinking hard is tiring, study suggests

Heathrow says airport travel chaos is easing

Latvian Parliament calls Russia a state sponsor of terrorism

Hospital admissions continue to fall as Covid-19 wave recedes

Extradition hearing for alleged US fugitive delayed again

Supreme Court refuses to hear Jeremy Corbyn appeal in libel case

Armed man demanding savings holds Beirut bank staff hostage

Two dead and girl seriously injured after car hits pedestrians

Ministers to hold crunch talks with energy bosses over winter price hikes

Which energy suppliers met with ministers and how much profit do they make?

Dame Olivia Newton-John to receive state memorial service in Australia

Scholz confident Germany can weather energy crisis this winter

Two in hospital after firearms incidents leave one dead

Sir Frederick Barclay told ‘debt will not go away’ as contempt hearing adjourned

Mask mandate returns in New Delhi as Covid cases rise

July was one of the worst months for A&Es in England, data shows

Football fans name beaver kits after Lionesses

Pistol found at scene after man shot by police

Alleged member of The Beatles terror cell appears before UK court

Temperatures forecast to soar up to 30C in some parts of Ireland

Suspected modern slavery victims in UK ‘at highest quarterly level on record’

Satellite data finds landfills are methane ‘super emitters’