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Somali-born British Olympic boxer Ramla Ali is the subject of a new biopic, In the Shadows, directed by Anthony Wonke and starring Top Boy actor Jasmine Jobson, which follows her journey from fleeing the Somali civil war to the Tokyo Olympics.
The Chancellor has announced a package to help people into work, education and training, using the National Wealth Fund to create and support 130,000 jobs across the UK and expanding local apprenticeship services for young people.
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England striker Ivan Toney has pleaded not guilty to assaulting a man at a Soho nightclub last year.
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Police have told the BBC that tension and violence are rising among young people in south London, with some children in Lambeth and Southwark highly vulnerable to local gangs.
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A documentary follows Kenyan communities' fight for restitution over ancestral land in the central highlands, seized during the British colonial era and now partly occupied by multinational tea companies.
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A Guardian Long Wave column explores why ride-hailing drivers are often on long phone calls, arguing these marathon conversations help workers in solitary jobs navigate the dislocations of immigrant and diaspora life.
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A six-month British Transport Police trial of live facial recognition at London railway stations cost over £320,000 and nearly 100 police hours, scanning more than half a million faces, but produced only one false match and no arrests.
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Energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh, speaking to the Guardian at Labour's Liverpool conference, said her success would be judged on cutting energy bills and challenged Reform UK and the Conservatives over climate inaction, saying they were on the 'wrong side of history'.
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A UK judge has imposed a £100,000 bail condition on a man accused of killing, directing or encouraging the deaths of Tutsi people during the Rwandan genocide. He denies wrongdoing.
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Black British actor David Harewood, a Unicef UK ambassador, writes about visiting a special-care baby unit at Makeni regional hospital in Sierra Leone and argues UK overseas aid cuts should be reversed ahead of the Labour party conference.
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Angela Rayner has defended her criticism of Home Office reforms that would require low-paid migrants, including care workers, to spend 15 years in the UK before applying for settlement, calling the changes 'disruptive'.
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Angela Rayner has criticised government proposals to change waiting times for permanent residency, saying the plans are unfair because they "change the goalposts". The comments come ahead of the Labour conference.
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Cardiff is preparing for a global influx of fans ahead of the 11 December Tyson Fury v Anthony Joshua fight, expected to give a big economic boost, though the bout is reported to be 'in jeopardy'.
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The Home Office issued a record £66m in emergency security funding for mosques and related community sites in the UK after violent disorder followed the 2024 Southport attacks. Further figures show about £41m issued for 2025-26 under the protective security scheme.
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Camden council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali is Labour's candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection for Keir Starmer's former seat, focusing her campaign on local issues amid a Green party challenge.
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A total of 781 migrants arrived in the UK by small boat on Wednesday, a daily record for 2026, though the yearly total remains below the same point in 2025.
Read full story ↗The Oxford English Dictionary has added more than a dozen words long used in Bermuda and across the Caribbean, including 'vex money' and 'bimpert', a Bermudian term for a stupid or foolish person.
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Airtel Money, the mobile money arm of Airtel Africa controlled by Indian billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal, plans a $9bn IPO on the London Stock Exchange, one of the biggest UK listings in years. The business operates across Africa and the listing is seen as a boost for the struggling London market.
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Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood, 68, has been charged with two further offences: indecently assaulting a girl aged 16 or 17 in Hammersmith and Fulham in 1991 and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in 2004. He will appear at Westminster magistrates court on a date to be fixed.
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