A breast cancer drug from AstraZeneca will now be available in England after a pricing deal was reached, in part a result of the U.S.-U.K. pharma pact.
STAT•Andrew Joseph17 Sept
Research finds many in England lack proximity to green and blue spaces as Labour urged to speed up manifesto pledge Nearly half of all parliamentary constituencies in England have low access to nature despite a government target to ensure everyone is within a 15-minute walk from a green or blue space, new research reveals. The analysis by the Wildlife Trusts comes as the charity presents a green paper to ministers in an attempt to speed up Labour’s manifesto promise to improve access to nature and promote biodiversity. Make it more affordable for local authorities to use compulsory purchase powers for land purchase. Establish a community right to buy land for nature access. Treat nature as essential infrastructure, and free up capital funds to pay for the ongoing maintenance of natural spaces. Make it mandatory for developers to create climate- and nature-friendly housing estates. Make access to major rivers, especially those in urban areas, a statutory right. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Sandra Laville17 Sept
Patients in England with an incurable breast cancer can now access a life-extending drug on the NHS, two years after it was deemed too expensive by a health body.
BBC17 Sept
Thousands with HER2-low advanced breast cancer will have access to Enhertu after ministers strike deal on price Thousands of women in England with incurable breast cancer will get access to a life-extending drug on the NHS after negotiations over its cost proved successful. About 1,000 women a year with HER2-low advanced breast cancer will be able to obtain Enhertu from Thursday after ministers and the drug’s makers struck a deal on its price. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Denis Campbell and Anna Bawden17 Sept
Enhertu, which can give patients an extra seven months to live on average, has been prescribed in Scotland for more than two years and is available.
BBC16 Sept
After a 2024 rebuff, AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s star antibody drug conjugate Enhertu has been deemed cost effective for NHS use in HER2-low advanced breast cancer by England and Wales' drug value assessor.
Film-maker Jamie Roberts follows a Sussex man’s journey into the far right. If it wasn’t so horrific, parts could feel like they’d been written by Chris Morris Standing in the street shouting virulent slogans or chanting loaded refrains about Islam was the mainstay of British far-right groups such as the EDL in the early 2010s. Now, that behaviour feels almost quaint. Recent weeks have seen major anti-immigration blockades in Dover led by balaclava-wearing men, and direct action against asylum seekers arriving on a small boat in Portsmouth. Clearly, in 2026, the blame for much of the societal rot that has set in has been placed frequently at the feet of migrants, and vigilante tactics are on the rise. Channel 4’s one-off documentary arrives with depressing timeliness, then, telling a story that serves as a synecdoche for events playing out across the UK, at large. It is, says its maker, “the story of a community on the frontline of Britain’s broken asylum system, and one man’s journey into the heart of the far-right movement”. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Hannah J Davies16 Sept
Coach says Argentina’s gung-ho approach forced hand ‘No one is more hurt than me, no one wanted it more’ Thomas Tuchel stands by his heavily criticised defensive substitutions in the World Cup semi-final defeat against Argentina this summer, but the England head coach accepts he made them too early. Tuchel said England were “waiting for death”, unable to cope with the attacking tactics adopted by Argentina in Atlanta as they chased the game after Anthony Gordon’s opener on the hour. He said fatigue and the success of defending with a back five in knockout games against Mexico and Norway also influenced his decisions to sit on the lead. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Press Association16 Sept
England women's all-time record try scorer Amy Hardcastle announces her international retirement.
BBC16 Sept
Exclusive: Ten category C prisons in England and Wales asked to add second beds, which will breach safe occupancy limits The Prison Service has drawn up plans to “double up” hundreds of prisoners in temporary prefabricated cells built for one person, at the request of the Ministry of Justice, leaked documents show. Amid an ongoing overcrowding crisis in England and Wales, governors of 10 category C prisons have been asked to sign off the installation of second beds in “rapid deployment cells [RDCs]”. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor16 Sept
Stretching across much of eastern England, the Fens produce a third of the country's vegetables and support tens of thousands of jobs. Yet around 33% of the region lies below average sea level, while 87% is below the highest spring tides.
Residents of Piddington, a tiny, remote village in Oxfordshire in England, have staged a "referendum" on leaving the UK. They are objecting to plans to open an asylum reception center at a disused military base nearby.
Deutsche Welle16 Sept
Leicester Tigers and England A fly-half Billy Searle signs a new contract with the Prem club.
BBC16 Sept
Thomas Tuchel has passionately defended his controversial defensive substitutions during England's World Cup semi-final defeat to Argentina.
Sky Sports16 Sept
Teenager continues development with two goals at Ipswich Merino: ‘He is a big talent and we have to take care of him’ Mikel Merino says Max Dowman reminds him of Lamine Yamal after the Arsenal prodigy continued his development by scoring twice in his side’s 4-2 win against Ipswich . Dowman, who has been given a host of opportunities at senior level by Mikel Arteta, starred after being handed his first appearance of the season, at Portman Road on Tuesday. The 16-year-old attacker’s classy double eased Arsenal into the last 16 of the Carabao Cup and left Arteta admitting that containing the hype around the England youth international is not an easy task. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Jacob Steinberg16 Sept
A new report highlights the dangers experienced by those who seek to serve the public. People are being deterred and your democracy is suffering There is a rising tide of abuse in our politics and I feel it every day. This week, the Electoral Commission warned that harassment and intimidation are changing how candidates campaign , what they feel able to do and whether they stand again. This is a threat to our democracy – and we cannot ignore it. The figures are stark. Commission research into the May 2026 local and mayoral elections in England found that 55% of candidates said harassment or intimidation was a problem, up from 47% in 2025. Women, ethnic minority candidates and those with disabilities were most likely to encounter abuse. The experience was so unpleasant that a third considered not standing again. Dawn Butler is Labour MP for Brent East Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here . Continue reading...
The Guardian•Dawn Butler16 Sept
National Education Union welcomes news that schools will not have to partly fund increase from their own budgets The UK’s biggest education union is claiming a major victory after the government bowed to pressure and agreed to fully fund a forthcoming pay increase for teachers in England in a sudden U-turn on previous policy. Members of the National Education Union (NEU) were due to vote in a ballot for strike action next month over the government’s recent pay offer which provided for a 3.5% increase from this month, with an additional 3% from next September. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Sally Weale Education correspondent16 Sept
With tear gas, grenades and a new law, French authorities are targeting unlicensed music gatherings. Those in the rave scene explore the parallels with the UK in the 90s When Spiral Tribe fled England in 1992, they left behind an indelible mark on rave history. The itinerant sound system collective are best known for their involvement with Castlemorton Common festival, an unlicensed free party drawing more than 30,000 people and lasting nearly a week. After a drawn-out and notoriously expensive trial for public order offences, Spiral Tribe were acquitted of all charges. They decided to drive their repurposed military caravans out of the UK and never look back. Their documented history often stops there. But little known is the fact that they then kicked off “the biggest illegal underground movement that Europe had ever seen”, says Spiral Tribe associate Sebastian Vaughan, AKA electronic musician 69db. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Whitney Wei16 Sept
The number of shoplifting offences recorded in England and Wales in 2025-26 is still above pre-pandemic levels.
BBC16 SeptConservationists set up a colony of white storks in southern England, touching off a debate over whether they truly belong there.
The New York Times•Leo Sands and Hannah Reyes Morales16 Sept