Frank Bough, host of BBC’s Grandstand, dies aged 87
The former TV presenter Frank Bough, greatest identified for presenting the BBC’s flagship sports activities present Grandstand, has died on
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No 10 under growing pressure to U-turn over free school meals
Downing Street is under mounting pressure to carry out a U-turn on offering free school meals over the vacations in
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Supermarkets in Wales given discretion over ban on selling non-essential items
Supermarkets could have discretion over the Welsh authorities’s ban on selling non-essential items in the course of the firebreak lockdown,
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Free school meals: the Tory MPs defending refusal to support campaign
Following final week’s parliamentary vote against backing Marcus Rashford’s campaign to lengthen free school meals (FSM) over the holidays to
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A political populism far removed from Donald Trump | Letters
Andy Beckett presents a completely adverse image of populism (This is a moment of truth for rightwing populists – but
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The Guardian view on the social care crisis: fix a broken system | Editorial
Coronavirus has yanked again the veil that had obscured the disaster in social care. The unfairness, confusion and humiliation felt
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The Guardian view on plant-based food: nothing wrong with a veggie burger | Editorial
The European parliament has not all the time had one of the best press. A peripatetic meeting with a messy
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Lawyers call for apology from Johnson and Patel for endangering colleagues
The UK prime minister and the house secretary are accused of endangering the non-public security of attorneys by their abusive
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Scores of councils in England activate half-term food schemes
More councils in England are providing food assist for struggling households over the half-term vacation amid public discomfort over the
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Forward poetry prize goes to ‘audacious, erotically charged’ The Air Year
British poets have gained all of this 12 months’s Forward prizes for poetry, with Caroline Bird’s “audacious and erotically charged”
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