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Covid cases not reached by Test and Trace hits nine-month high
Some 14.8 per cent of people transferred to Test and Trace in England in the week to 21 July were not reached.
Stormzy scholarship to fund another 30 black students at Cambridge
Stormzy called the expansion of his scholarship programme at Cambridge “an incredible milestone”.
New Zealand is the best place to survive the apocalypse – but Britain isn’t far behind
The UK is a "collapse lifeboat", researchers said - and apparently that's a good thing.
Queen’s exemption from green energy laws an ‘affront to democracy’
A draft law in the Scottish Parliament was amended after the Queen’s lawyers raised “concerns”, with the changes exempting her land from measures to encourage greener energy.
Watch: PM’s farcical umbrella act makes a mockery of police memorial event
'If #Brexit was an umbrella,' wrote on Twitter user.
Liverpool fan Andrew Devine is 97th Hillsborough victim, coroner rules
Andrew Devine, 55, died on Tuesday - more than 32 years after he was badly hurt in the tragedy.
‘I will try until I die’: The migrants in France determined to reach Britain
Around 2,000 migrants are reportedly living in northern France as they wait to cross the Channel.
Farage comments prompt a surge in donations to the RNLI
"Thank you Nigel Farage & Daily Mail for criticising the incredible work the RNLI does to rescue migrants. I'm now donating every month," one person said.
Syrian teen who won damages from Tommy Robinson plans to set up charity
Jamal Hijazi was 15 when a video of a fellow schoolboy assaulting him in Huddersfield was shared across social media.