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Ivy, dandelions and other common wildflowers are often seen as weeds – but they're a crucial resource for pollinating insects

Since the end of the second world war, factors such as more intensive farming and urbanisation have reduced the abundance of wildflowers in Britain. In fact, the past 90 years have seen the loss of over 97% of the UK’s wildflower meadows.

The Conversation

The Great Train Robbery of 1963: Who was in the gang with Ronnie Biggs and how much was stolen?

New details have emerged 60 years on from one of Britain’s most infamous heists

Evening Standard

Watch: Shocking footage released after Met officer jailed over fatal Brixton crash

PC Nadeem Patel, 28, was responding to an emergency when his police car struck and killed Shante Daniel-Folkes, 25, as she crossed Stockwell Road

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‘It’s tough out there’: cracks in UK housebuilding sector grow by the day

Insolvencies rocket as army of small firms – seen as backbone of the sector – struggle with falling demand, rising interest rates and higher costs

The Guardian - UK

Contentious barge docked on UK coast begins hosting first migrants

Britain on Monday began housing migrants on board a barge docked off the southwest English coast, in its latest controversial immigration policy that has drawn heavy criticism from locals and rights campaigners.

Radio France Internationale

London pulls away from rest of Britain in competitiveness index

Capital and south-east become more attractive to investors as other areas fall behind, academic study finds

The Guardian - UK

What the papers say – August 7

A wide variety of stories feature in the newspapers across Britain on Monday.

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Starmer says Sunak’s lack of investment in wind power is ‘gift to Putin’

Labour leader claims Conservatives’ onshore turbine ban costs families £180 each and makes UK reliant on gas imports

The Guardian - UK

Katie Archibald honours late partner Rab Wardell with World team pursuit gold

Archibald, Elinor Barker, Josie Knight and Anna Morris beat New Zealand in Saturday’s final in Glasgow.

The National (Scotland)

Fire engulfs historic pub famed for being wonkiest in Britain

Firefighters called to tackle blaze at the Crooked House in Himley, West Midlands

The Guardian - UK

Scientists seek out source of dark matter in Yorkshire

Britain has a chance to solve the universe’s ultimate mystery – if it can get global support for a project 3,000ft below ground in the UK

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view: Britain’s brutal and overcrowded prisons pose a risk to us all

Nothing will change until politicians of all parties acknowledge that too many people are in prison

The Guardian - UK

Sand, sea and sewage, not this summer but in 1990

Smelly pollution is nothing new on Britain’s beaches. By Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK

Wrongly convicted in Britain no longer forced to pay ‘saved living costs’ in prison

The government has scrapped controversial guidance over deductions to compensation in miscarriage of justice cases

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Katie Archibald honours late partner Rab Wardell with emotional World Championship gold

Archibald, Elinor Barker, Josie Knight and Anna Morris took team pursuit victory in Glasgow

Cycling Weekly

Great Britain claim first women's team pursuit gold in nine years at World Championships

British quartet win by over four seconds in final, as Danes take back crown in men's event

The Independent UK

Emotional gold for Katie Archibald and GB women’s pursuit team in Glasgow

Five-time world champion Archibald is racing in Scotland to honour her late partner Rab Wardell.

Cycling News

Bittersweet World Championship silver for Britain's junior favourite Cat Ferguson

France's Julie Bego surprises home team with perfectly timed attack

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UCI World Championships: Julie Bego wins 2023 Junior Women's Road Race

French rider goes solo on Glasgow circuit to beat Britain's Cat Ferguson and Belgium’s Fleur Moors

Autosport

Autosport Podcast: Jake Dennis' road to becoming Formula E world champion

From the thrilling opening round in Mexico City to the final moments at the London E-Prix, Dennis relives how he fulfilled his dream of becoming Britain's first Formula E champion.

The Guardian - UK

‘Nostalgia trip’: Volvo estate owners reminisce about Swedish workhorse before its withdrawal from UK market

Carmaker will no longer sell its estate or saloon cars in Britain after 70 years due to sharp decline in demand

The Independent UK

Jody Cundy wins 14th straight kilo world title as Britain’s para-cyclists shine

These combined ‘super’ world championships are the first in which the track cycling and para-track cycling has been fully integrate

The Guardian - UK

Holl and Unwin strike gold again as Team GB women hit heights at worlds

British Paracyclists Jenny Holl and Sophie Unwin continued their gold medal winning spree in Glasgow

Evening Standard

Britain demands ‘immediate release’ of Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny

Navalny has been sentenced to 19 more years in a Russian prison

The Independent UK

Britain demands release of Putin critic Alexei Navalny

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly suggested the latest jail sentence was an attempt to silence dissent.

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