Liverpool mobile greengrocer to reach ‘food deserts’ with aid of mapping tool
Exclusive: Government-funded pilot in areas where it’s ‘easier to buy a vape than an apple’ may be extended across UKA mobile greengrocer will deliver fresh fruit and vegetables in areas of Liverpool where it is “easier to buy a vape than an apple” as part of a new government scheme to tackle food inequality.Families in social housing will receive visits from the Queen of Greens, a mobile greengrocer in the city, which will be directed to the areas of highest need. Continue reading...
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Australia news live: Michele Bullock says RBA’s call to hold cash rate ‘about timing rather than direction’
Follow today’s news liveRBA interest rates: Reserve Bank of Australia leaves cash rate on hold at 3.85%Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland zoo to reopen two days after woman loses arm to lionessA woman has lost her arm after being attacked on Sunday at a Queensland zoo by a lioness, which the zoo insists “was not hungry” or maltreated.We can confirm that she was attacked by a lioness. She was not in its enclosure.As a result the Darling Downs zoo will reopen at 9am tomorrow [Tuesday] morning. Continue reading...
RBA interest rates: Reserve Bank of Australia leaves cash rate on hold at 3.85%
Decision will come as shock to financial markets and large majority of experts who were sure RBA board would cut for a second straight meetingFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA divided Reserve Bank of Australia has held rates at 3.85%, in a surprise decision that denies further mortgage relief for millions of households.The split decision came as a shock to financial markets and a large majority of experts who were sure the RBA board would cut interest rates for a second straight meeting.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
‘They rewrite the ending’: the knife crime play with its own outreach scheme
Sam Edmunds hopes to help young people with his play The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt ReturnGrowing up in Luton in the late 90s and early 00s, the playwright Sam Edmunds witnessed an abundance of knife violence that has stayed with him to this day.“Me and my friends had knives pulled on us on numerous occasions. We once saw someone being chased with a machete at the back of the field by our school. In drama class, I remember a boy went into his bag to get his notebook out and a massive knife fell out. A boy in my brother’s year was stabbed over 10 times on a night out.” Continue reading...
More trials with no jury will disadvantage people of colour, campaigners warn
Charities say more judge-only trials in England and Wales could lead to more miscarriages of justiceRemoving the right to a jury trial for more offences would disadvantage people of colour and other minorities and lead to more miscarriages of justice, reformers have warned.Sir Brian Leveson’s independent review of the criminal courts in England and Wales is expected to be published this week and recommend the creation of intermediate courts, sitting without a jury, to try some offences. Continue reading...
‘Gas belongs to the people’: WA premier Roger Cook urges federal Labor to adopt reserve policy
Cook says WA’s own policy has meant cheaper gas for local market as Albanese government embarks on six-month review of regulationsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe West Australian Labor premier, Roger Cook, has encouraged his federal counterparts to consider a gas reserve on the east coast as it mulls a regulatory overhaul to shore up supply and contain prices.Cook said WA’s gas reservation policy, which requires offshore producers set aside 15% of supplies for local users, has resulted in cheaper gas for households and business since it was introduced in 2006.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
Indonesian volcano spews massive ash cloud as it erupts again
Following a series of eruptions three weeks ago, Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki has begun spewing hot ash and lava again.
‘Fungi fatale’ and ‘death cap stare’: how the world’s media reported Erin Patterson’s guilty verdict
For more than two months, the Australian mushroom triple-murder trial has gripped the world – here’s how it finished up on the front pageFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe murder trial has spawned podcasts, documentaries, thousands of column inches, viral social media posts – and a rapt global audience.After a week of deliberation, a supreme court jury found Victorian woman Erin Patterson guilty of three counts of murder and one of attempted murder after three guests died and one almost died after eating her homemade beef wellington lunch. Continue reading...
Tuesday briefing: Is a ceasefire in Gaza on the table as Netanyahu and Trump meet in Washington?
In today’s newsletter: As Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump meet at the White House, a look at what is at stake for everyone involvedGood morning. The war in Gaza – which began with the horror of the Hamas slaughter and kidnapping of innocent Israelis on 7 October 2023, and has brought unimaginable death and destruction to the civilian population of Gaza almost every day since – has entered its 21st month.So far every attempt to end the conflict has failed. But the the fraying patience of the US president, Donald Trump, who has promised to deliver peace to Gaza, has seen Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu dispatch a team of negotiators to Qatar for indirect talks with Hamas, with the Israeli leader expected to come under pressure on this week’s trip to Washington DC to agree to a ceasefire.Immigration | Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are expected to announce plans for French police to do more to block small boats crossing the Channel at a summit in London this week, but a wider deal on returning asylum seekers is still up in the air.Iran | The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said in an interview released on Monday that Israel, which last month fought a 12-day war with Iran, had attempted to assassinate him by bombarding an area in which he was holding a meeting.Poverty | Children in England are living in “almost Dickensian levels of poverty” where deprivation has become normalised, the children’s commissioner has said, as she insisted the two-child benefit limit must be scrapped.Environment | Millions of tonnes of treated sewage sludge is spread on farmland across the UK every year despite containing forever chemicals, microplastics and toxic waste. An investigation by the Guardian and Watershed has identified England’s sludge-spreading hotspots and shown where the practice could be damaging rivers.US news | The Texas senator Ted Cruz ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, only to then go on vacation to Greece while his state was hit by deadly flooding – a disaster that critics say was worsened by cuts to meteorology. Continue reading...
Tiny fungus farming beetle from WA could wreak havoc on Sydney’s heritage trees
Invasive shot-hole borer only found in Perth in Australia, but as WA moves from eradication to management of pest, risk of spread is ‘heightened’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe chief scientist of the Botanic Gardens of Sydney is warning of an imminent and deadly risk to the city’s trees posed by an invasive beetle that has led to the removal of thousands of trees in Perth.The tiny polyphagous shot-hole borer, which is native to south-east Asia, is a “fungus farmer” that burrows into trees and can spread a fungus that kills the host tree. Continue reading...