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  • A disabled person in a wheelchair being helped getting into a specially adapted schoolbus

    English councils spending twice as much on Send pupil transport as fixing roads

  • Bridget Cotter outside a block of flats

    UK housing associations accused of mis-selling ‘affordable’ homes as service charges soar by up to 400%

    Buyers say they were misled over likely rise in costs after they moved in, which are now ‘ruining people’s lives’
  • A close-up of a blue eye

    High street opticians could use AI to spot dementia risk with eye scan

    New technique means the eye can be studied for markers of brain health and signs of neurodegeneration
  • A person holding a payment card and using a laptop

    Mastercard and Visa linked to illegal gambling sites accused of scamming UK customers

  • A mother consoles her son

    I adore my children. I’m also scared that one day my son will kill me

  • People sitting on benches in Harlow town centre, with a large former office block looming over them which has been converted into apartments

    London councils buy £140m of property to move homeless people out of city

  • Overhead view of spectators sitting in rows

    Sizing up: how stadiums, hospitals and airlines are adapting to rise in obesity

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Interviews & opinion

  • Amanda Nguyen, pictured during astronaut training

    ‘I screamed and the world listened’: how astronaut Amanda Nguyen survived rape to fight for other victims

  • Seamus O'Reilly and his son enjoy the spa.

    The dogma of ‘Britain’s Strictest Headmistress’ is a con as old as time - gentle parenting produces happier kids

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Author and activist Jackson Katz photographed in Massachusetts

    ‘This moment is medieval’: Jackson Katz on misogyny, the manosphere – and why men must oppose Trumpism

  • Richard Partington

    Labour’s revolution of local government will be seismic but won’t be straightforward

    Richard Partington
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In mind: focus on mental health

  • Peyo the horse licks the hands of Roger, a patient at the palliative care centre at Calais Hospital.

    ‘Doctor Peyo’: the horse comforting cancer patients in Calais – in pictures

  • illustration

    An illness in the shadows: life with borderline personality disorder

    BPD is one of the mental illnesses we still know least about, but now there is hope of a treatment
  • Yoni Yehuda, an Israeli psychotherapist, with Jack Daniels.

    Cats, camels and a Jesus lizard: the rise of animal-assisted therapy

    Once considered eccentric, using animals in psychotherapy is becoming popular as research reveals benefits
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My working week

  • A woman waits in the shadows

    My working week: ‘I wonder who buys sex from the vulnerable women I try to help’

  • ‘Minor changes make a big difference for disabled people.’

    My working week: 'Julie is disabled and the only one in her team made redundant'

  • GPs have had to adapt patient care during the pandemic.

    My working week: 'A patient arrives at my GP surgery with Covid symptoms'

  • ‘Faith feels lost after the removal of her children. So much of what she knows about herself is as a mother.’ Picture posed by model.

    My working week: 'Fiona's son was taken into care a year ago. Today is his birthday'

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Health

  • Face mask, decorated with UK flag, lying flat with elastic bands sticking out

    Coronavirus
    ‘The pandemic reinforced existing inequalities – it was a magnifying glass’: how Covid changed Britain

  • A stethoscope and blood pressure monitor on a blue background.

    Health, mind and body books
    The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O’Sullivan review – are we really getting sicker?

    A neurologist discusses the dangers of overdiagnosing conditions from Lyme disease to ADHD in an era where technology meets pathology
  • BRITAIN-HEALTH-VIRUS-HOSPITAL-PPE<br>Clinical staff wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as they care for patients at the Intensive Care unit at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, on May 5, 2020. - NHS staff wear an enhanced level of PPE in higher risk areas such as critical care to minimise the spread of infection between staff and patients. Britain's death toll from the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has topped 32,000, according to an updated official count released Tuesday, pushing the country past Italy to become the second-most impacted after the United States. (Photo by Neil HALL / POOL / AFP) (Photo by NEIL HALL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Coronavirus
    Covid, five years on: UK ‘still not ready to protect the population’

    Scientific triumphs were made in the battle against the pandemic, but the memories and lessons are already in danger of being lost

  • The Week in Patriarchy
    The pink protest at Trump’s speech shows the Democrats aren’t coming to save us

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • Trump administration
    Chaos on campuses as schools warn Trump cuts could harm US ‘for decades’

  • Wyoming
    Fate of Wyoming’s last abortion clinic in balance as Republicans take aim

  • Autobiography and memoir
    Scorpions by Tuppence Middleton review – living with OCD

  • Edith Pritchett on millennial life
    ‘Is dat weally necessawy?’: my painful visit to the dentist – the Edith Pritchett cartoon

  • Weekend
    Actor Danny Dyer on aliens and cocaine; the anti-vax parents who changed their minds; and Philippa Perry on feeling unimportant – podcast

Blood, sweat & tears

  • Patient receiving chemotherapy

    Watching my cancer patients go through treatment alone is heartbreaking

    Lucy Gossage
    Covid-19 has made this year tougher for those experiencing treatment and those of us who work in cancer care
  • Surgery

    I tried to take my life five years ago. Now I'm grateful to be alive

    Anonymous surgeon
  • Emergency service ambulance with blue lights flashing

    There's a patient I'll never forget. Their burns and screams still haunt me

    Anonymous
  • A protestor outside the Scottish parliament building

    My husband is in a care home. I visit him for 30 minutes each week in a car park

    Anonymous
  • Catherine Pointer University of Southampton general hospital

    I was diagnosed with cancer at 14. Now I work alongside a doctor who treated me

    Catherine Pointer
  • Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson

    I'm disabled but was told I won't receive critical care if I get Covid. It's terrifying

    Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson
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Social care

  • Wes Streeting in Downing Street, London, UK, on 25 Feb 2025.

    The Guardian view on Labour and the NHS: there is no miracle cure for a struggling health system

  • Molly Fox enjoys a cup of tea and chat.

    ‘I visit and his face lights up’: caring for West Yorkshire’s ageing population – photo essay

  • Birmingham city council building

    Almost half of England’s councils ‘could face bankruptcy over £4.6bn deficit’

  • Hilda Jackson, wearing UV make-up, a patterned dress and white cardigan, dances holding hands with another woman; there is UV lighting, balloons and a poster reading Hilda's Great Rave in the background.

    ‘I’m still dancing’: Derbyshire woman has 105th birthday rave at care home

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Central & local government

  • Pat McFadden on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

    Labour promises ‘radical’ shake-up of UK civil service

  • Angela Rayner, the housing, communities and local government secretary, speaks at the Convention of the North in Preston on 28 February 2025.

    The Guardian view on fixing England’s local democracy: reforming structures is the means, not the end

  • Edinburgh Castle photographed from The Vennel in the Old Town

    Council tax in Scotland to reach record high with 15% rise in some areas

  • The Council House in Birmingham

    Town hall leaders condemn ‘ill-thought-out’ plan to merge English councils

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Voluntary sector

  • Silhouette of young woman crouched in a room with her head on her knees

    ‘Criminals will go unpunished’ after victim services cuts, Reeves warned

  • Starmer addressing media at Downing Street

    Starmer defends slashing aid budget to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP - as it happened

  • Diana Melly [and collects of her and her late husband George] writer, photographed at her home in West London for the Family section.

    Diana Melly obituary

  • A Macmillan charity collector with a bucket.

    Macmillan Cancer Support cuts quarter of staff and scraps hardship scheme

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Housing

  • Burned wreckage of bunk beds in fire damaged flat

    London ebike fire: landlords of ‘grossly overcrowded’ flat fined almost £100,000

    • A construction worker carries bricks on a building site

      UK construction activity falls at fastest pace in nearly five years

    • A stylised illustration of Joe Black

      ‘It’s hell on earth for me’: how did Joe Black overdose in a homeless hostel with zero tolerance for drugs?

    • A general view of residential streets and housing in London, England on 3 March, 2025.

      Share how your experience of housing may have affected your political views

    • People with placards at a leaseholders’ rally in London.

      Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales

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