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Lucy Letby: How the ‘average nurse’ turned into one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers

Letby, who has been found guilty of murdering seven babies, took advantage of her position to kill in plain sight. But despite a 10-month trial, we’re no closer to understanding the motive behind her horrifying crimes

The Independent UK

Katarina Johnson-Thompson wins epic duel to regain world heptathlon title

The heptathlete overcame career-threatening injury fears while Zharnel Hughes won Britain’s first men’s world 100m medal for 20 years

The Guardian - UK

Lyles flies to 100m title at Budapest world athletics championships

Noah Lyles lived up to his boasting on Sunday and claimed the men's 100m title at the world athletics championships in Budapest at the end of a pulsating night of action in which Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson produced two lifetime best performances to clinch gold in the women's heptathlon.

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Keir Starmer’s recipe for power is missing some ingredients – confidence and hope

Labour is in danger of becoming best known not for the policies it promotes, but for the pledges it has ditched and the ambitions it has diluted

The Guardian - UK

Small boat arrivals are not a threat

The number of migrants crossing the Channel in inflatables is tiny; most people come to the UK legitimately

The Guardian - UK

Joe Biden aims for a Middle East hat-trick. He’s delusional and out of time

The US president is pushing for a Saudi-Israel deal, a breakthrough on Palestine and an understanding with Iran. But the ‘American century’ is long gone

The Guardian - UK

Double Dutch tumble helps GB earn first medal at World Athletics Championships

Femke Bol fell in the closing stages of the 4x400m mixed relay in Budapest as Great Britain capitalised to take silver

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Prescod accuses UK Athletics of ‘emotional blackmail’ over relay withdrawal

Reece Prescod has accused UK Athletics of ‘emotional blackmail’ in an explosive interview during which he defended his sudden decision to pull out of Britain’s 4x100m relay team

The Guardian - UK

Small boat migrant arrivals top 25,000 since start of Sunak premiership

Labour accused the Prime Minister of failing to get a grip on the migrant crisis in the English Channel.

The Independent UK

I thought the best place for French food was Britain. Then my holiday breakfast arrived…

I long to believe the French eat better than everyone else. And, for one morning at least, it seemed to be true

The Guardian - UK

Le Gavroche: A fond farewell to the restaurant that changed Britain’s dining habits forever

Michel Roux has announced Le Gavroche is closing early next year. A landmark on the British culinary map, Mike Daw takes a look back at a titan of London restaurants

Evening Standard

HS2: is this the end of the line?

Britain has endured its fair share of doomed prestige projects, said Larry Elliott in The Guardian, but “as white elephants go, HS2 is in a class of its own”. Since the high-speed rail link got the formal parliamentary go-ahead in 2012, it has become a byword for bureaucratic incompetence and…

The Week

‘Lucy Letby tried to kill our twins - and became angry when she failed’

One of Britain’s worst criminals, Letby has been convicted of killing seven newborn babies and trying to murder six more

The Independent UK

World Athletics Championships: Zharnel Hughes leads race for gold as downsizing Brits hope to profit

Great Britain are sending their smallest team for 15 years to Budapest as UK Athletics hope streamlined selection will pay off

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The Guardian - UK

Lucy Letby joins grim list of Britain’s most notorious serial killers

As Letby, 33, is convicted of murder of seven babies, we take a look at some of the country’s most shocking murderers

The Conversation

Five bizarre historic leisure activities to try with friends – from gurning to stereoscopy

Leisure activities flourished in 19th-century Britain, as legislation was passed limiting the length of the working day and working week, giving people more free time. If you’re struggling to know how to spend your own free time this summer, take a leaf out of the Victorians’ book with these strangely…

The Independent UK

Carers who kill: Lucy Letby joins a gruesome list of medical monsters, from Harold Shipman to Beverley Allitt

As Letby is convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others, we look at other examples of killers who exploited a position of trust

The Independent UK

Lucy Letby joins gruesome list of Britain’s medical monsters - OLD

GP Harold Shipman tops the list, after being exposed as one of Britain’s most prolific serial killers.

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Last time Britain was this sick, drastic action was taken. This time, politicians don’t seem to care

With record numbers out of work, we need a solution as bold as the creation of the NHS in the 1940s, says Prof Dame Sally Davies, former chief medical officer for England

The Conversation

Edwardian local press invented the 'middlebrow' with a lively mix of local news, reviews and fiction

As the provincial press has declined in Britain, so too has local arts and cultural criticism. In the 19th and early 20th century, regional newspapers regularly published reviews of theatre productions and a wide variety of books including history, science, travel writing, poetry and fiction.

Radio France Internationale

Britain's Alex Yee goes in Seine to win Olympic triathlon test event

Britain's Alex Yee braved the waters of the Seine to win the men's triathlon test event for the Paris Olympics on Friday, on a course identical to the one set to be used for next year's event.

The Guardian - UK

Train drivers to strike in September, Aslef says; Ofgem price cap forecast to fall to £1,823 – as it happened

Regulator prepares to lower its cap on energy prices and will make announcement next week

The Guardian - UK

The 1973 coup against democratic socialism in Chile still matters – there, in Britain and beyond

It happened 50 years ago, changed the course of world history – and revealed just how authoritarian conservatives are, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Al Jazeera

UK’s Sunak, Saudi crown prince to meet ‘at the earliest opportunity’

Mohammed bin Salman has not visited Britain since March 2018 before the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The Independent UK

UK prime minister plans to meet with Saudi crown prince to discuss trade, defense cooperation

Britain’s prime minister says that he plans to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the “earliest opportunity,’’ after a U.K. newspaper reported that officials from both countries hoped to schedule a meeting between the two leaders before the end of the year in London

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