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Welfare cuts: 'A new war on disabled people in the UK' ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYFUv...
A £5bn programme of disability benefits cuts planned by the UK government will disproportionately hit people living in Wales and northern England “entrenching deprivation”, according to new analysis.

The consultancy Policy in Practice has looked at how the proposed changes would affect individual regions and local authorities, and found the impact across the UK starkly uneven.

The research shows that north-east England, north-west England and Wales would be the hardest hit, suffering three times the economic impact and with twice as many affected residents as London and the south-east.

Read more ► www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/24/wales-and-…

1.Campaigners protesting against disability benefit cuts outside parliament last month – Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock

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How children with special educational needs are being failed ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K21bE...
Nigel Farage has claimed that doctors are “massively over-diagnosing” children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) and mental health conditions.

Asked at a press conference in Dover about the rising number of children diagnosed with Send, and what could be done to help them, Farage replied:

"It’s a massive problem. I have to say, for my own money, when you get to 18 and you put somebody on a disability register, unemployed, with a high level of benefits, you’re telling people aged 18 that they’re that they’re victims. And if you are told you’re a victim, and you think you’re a victim, you are likely to stay [a victim].

"So many of these diagnoses, for Send before 18, for disability register after 18 – so many of these have been conducted on Zoom, with the family GP.

"I think that is a massive mistake. I think you’re the family GP, and I’ve know your family for generations, and you’re saying to me there’s a real problem here with depression, or whatever it may be, it’s quite hard for me as your GP to say no.

"I don’t think any of these allocations should be done by family GPs. I think should be done independently.

"And I think we are massively – I’m not being heartless, I’m being frank – I think we are massively over-diagnosing those with mental illness problems and those with other general behavioural disabilities. And I think we’re creating class of victims in Britain that will struggle ever to get out of it."

Live updates ► www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/apr/24/ed-m…

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Watch: Human or AI ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Wfx...
Social media and other internet platforms will be legally required to block children’s access to harmful content from July or face large fines, Ofcom has announced.

Tech firms will have to apply the measures by 25 July or risk fines – and in extreme cases being shut down – under the UK’s Online Safety Act.

The communications watchdog published more than 40 measures on Monday covering sites and apps used by children, ranging from social media to search and gaming.

Read more ► www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/ofcom-r…

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Watch: Atomic secrets ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVPQJ...

At least nine people have been killed and more than 70 injured in Kyiv after Russia carried out one of the most devastating air attacks against Ukraine for months, with Kharkiv and other cities also targeted.

Waves of drones as well as ballistic and guided missiles struck the Ukrainian capital early on Thursday. There were explosions for much of the night, beginning at about 1am local time, and the rattle of anti-aircraft fire as Ukrainian defences tried to shoot the missiles down.

Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said rescuers were pulling survivors from under the rubble. The injured included six children and a pregnant woman. A house, cars, and other buildings were set on fire, with extensive damage caused by falling debris in several districts, he said.

Read more ► www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/24/kyiv-ukraine…

1. An explosion of a ballistic missile lights up the sky over the city during a Russian missile and drone strike – Gleb Garanich/Reuters
2. A ballistic missile explodes in the sky over Kyiv during the Russian attack – Gleb Garanich/Reuters
3. People shelter in the metro as Russian missiles hit Ukraine's capital – Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
4. Rescuers at the site of a building hit by a Russian ballistic missile strike in Kyiv on Thursday – Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

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From anxious children unable to cope with school to those with more complex, profound disabilities, England’s support for Send children is broken, with underfunded local authorities weaponising time in order to avoid legal obligations to support families and increasing numbers of parents unable to work, burnt out, judged and even suffering PTSD through attempting to navigate the system. ‪@theGuardian‬ meets parents and children from across the country, to get a sense of the scale of the issue

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Watch: Why are period dramas so white? ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnfQZ...
It has long been assumed that William Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway was less than happy. He moved to London to pursue his theatrical career, leaving her in Stratford-upon-Avon and stipulating in his will that she would receive his “second best bed”, although still a valued item.

Now a leading Shakespeare expert has analysed a fragment of a 17th-century letter that appears to cast dramatic new light on their relationship, overturning the idea that the couple never lived together in London.

Read more ► www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/apr/23/shakespear…

1-2.The letter fragment seems to place Anne Hathaway in London with William Shakespeare and mentions a joint debt – Hereford Cathedral and the Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust
3. An illustration of Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare from the 1860s-1870s. The couple married in 1582 and had three children – Heritage Image Partnership/Alamy

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Pope Francis’s most memorable moments ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUbAg...
Pope Francis’s body arrives at St Peter’s Basilica to lie in state – live ► www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/apr/23/pope-fr…

1. Alessandro Di Meo/EPA
2. Pope Francis's coffin is transferred to St Peter's Basilica for three days of lying in state, in Vatican City. Photograph: Massimo Percossi/EPA
3. A prelate holds a picture of Pope Francis as he enters the atrium of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Photograph: Andrew Medichini/Reuters
4. People gather in St. Peter’s Square as they await the arrival of the body of Pope Francis. Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP
5. People watch as the coffin with the body of Pope Francis, who will lie in state at St. Peter's Basilica for three days, is carried in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. Photograph: Andreea Alexandru/AP


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Pope Francis obituary ► www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/pope-francis…
Pope Francis, the pontiff revered by millions of Catholics around the world whose popular appeal reached far beyond his global congregation, has died at the age of 88.

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican camerlengo, said: “At 7.35 this morning, the bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the Father. His entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and of his church.″

Francis, who suffered from chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, was admitted to Gemelli hospital on 14 February for a respiratory crisis that developed into double pneumonia. He spent 38 days there, the longest hospitalisation of his 12-year papacy.

Francis, who was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1936, was elected pope in March 2013. He immediately signalled his style of papacy by taking the bus, rather than papal car, to his hotel, where he paid his bill before moving into the Vatican guesthouse, eschewing the opulent papal apartments. At his first media appearance, he expressed his wish for a “poor church and a church for the poor”.

He focused papal attention on poverty and inequality, calling unfettered capitalism the “dung of the devil”. Two years into his papacy, he issued an 180-page encyclical on the environment, demanding the world’s richest nations pay their “grave social debt” to the poor. Climate change represented “one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day”, the pope declared.

Read more ► www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/pope-francis…

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Watch: The protests that met Trump's first state visit ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSz42...
Donald Trump has said he is expecting to travel to to the UK in September for his second state visit.

King Charles is preparing to host the US president and first lady as the UK government tries to bolster transatlantic ties after Trump imposed a series of tariffs on trading partners.

The venue is expected to be Windsor Castle, with Keir Starmer and the US president understood to have discussed the visit during a phone call.

Read more ► www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/donald-tru…

1. Carl Court/Reuters

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Welfare cuts: 'A new war on disabled people in the UK' ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYFUv...
Ministers are scrambling to avoid a damaging rebellion this summer when MPs vote on controversial cuts to disability benefit payments, even offering potential rebels the chance to miss the vote altogether.

The government is due to hold a vote in June and dozens of Labour MPs are worried it will hurt their constituents and could cost them their seats.

Possible solutions include allowing backbenchers to abstain – a major climbdown from earlier votes, when rebels were disciplined or suspended from the party. Ministers are also looking for ways to mitigate the cuts with extra spending on measures to tackle child poverty, including extra benefits payments for poorer parents of children under five.

Read more ► www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/17/ministers…

1. Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, is looking for ways to lift children out of poverty without removing the two-child benefit cap – Stefan Rousseau/PA

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