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  • HMP Risley, in Cheshire: its entrance seen on a dramatic cloudy day with buildings silhouetted against the sky

    Some crime victims ‘unaware’ of offenders’ early prison release in England and Wales

  • Newspaper article clippings from the time, Aberfan disaster 1966

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: The Journalist by Grahame Davies

  • Vaughan Gething at a podium with a Welsh dragon emblem behind him

    Former Welsh first minister Vaughan Gething to stand down at next election

    MS for Cardiff South and Penarth, who stood down after 140 days as first minister, will not seek re-election in 2026
  • People holding up umbrellas walk across Westminster Bridge in heavy rain

    Heavy rain to hit parts of UK over weekend as flooding risks remain

    Met Office says band of ‘heavy and thundery rain’ to sweep north through southern and central England and Wales
  • Side profile of Rachel Reeves

    Labour ministers reveal grave concerns about winter fuel payment cut

    Frontbenchers say they have had string of complaints from constituents and policy ‘won’t be worth the political hit’
  • Two prison vans outside the entrance to a large stone building

    Some probation officers given a week’s notice of serious offenders’ release, union says

    Exclusive: Napo says officers do not feel protected as 2,000 offenders to be let out early to try to ease prison crisis
  • A prison officer walks down the C wing at Wandsworth prison - a Victorian prison with white calls

    Prisons crisis needs ‘radical solutions’ in England and Wales, say former top judges

    Earlier release of killers and rapists on licence among the options suggested to potentially ease overcrowding
  • Ghost Orchid, UK, 2024

    A walk in the woods led to the ghost orchid

    Letters: We stumbled upon Epipogium aphyllum one afternoon in 1982, writes Mark Richards
  • Jonn Elledge

    Labour’s not declaring a 20mph war on motorists. Maybe it should

    Jonn Elledge
    It may outrage the right, but reducing speed limits in populated areas makes roads safer for everybody and journeys smoother, says author Jonn Elledge
  • Bed cover displayed by National Trust conservation worker

    National Trust repairs reveal ‘make do and mend’ secrets of rare 18th-century bed cover

    Chinese silk coverlet from Erddig Hall near Wrexham saved from ruin after first world war by mistress of house
  • Coils of barbed wire on prison wall

    Prison early release scheme to include some serious offenders, MoJ admits

  • Fiona Evans

    Other lives
    Fiona Evans obituary

  • A man running along a scenic shore of River Dee, with a bridge over the river in the distance

    UK weather: heavy rain and possible heatwave in ‘split’ forecast

  • The Drax power station in Selby, England. The site was one of the UK’s worst methane hotposts.

    UK’s methane hotspots include landfills and last coalmine

  • View of the house and garden

    National Trust reveals rise in visitor numbers but drop in members

  • Longboats race for the finish line in Aberystwyth.

    Country diary
    Country diary: Something’s in the water weaving between the rowers – apparently

August 2024

  • A view from below of a prisoner at HMP Pentonville walking through an atrium

    Prison population hits record high in England and Wales

  • Stock image of police tape

    Woman arrested on suspicion of murder after child dies in Swansea

  • Margaret Jones

    Other lives
    Margaret Jones obituary

  • A man walks along a pavement under street lights at dusk

    Suicide rates in England and Wales reach highest level since 1999

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