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Reform UK Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick speaking on social care during a press conference at Millbank Tower, London, July 30, 2026
Politics / 16 August 2026
16 August 2026

‘Ultimately, all of Reform's policies benefit big business and attack workers and the poor,’ Diane Abbott MP tells the Star

Co-founder Garreth Wood (second from left)
Britain / 16 August 2026
16 August 2026
Soldiers deployed to assist South Wales firefighters with a firefighter at the weekend
Britain / 16 August 2026
16 August 2026
Demonstrators from CND and Fairford Action during an emergency protest outside the main gate of RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire, following an attack on Iran by a US B-1 bomber stationed there earlier this week, July 25, 2026
Iran War / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026

Peace activists and trade unionists to gather at RAF Fairford to protest against US bombers taking off from Britain to strike Iran

Scottish Labour MSP Joe Fagan arriving at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, May 11, 2026
Scottish Labour / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026
Houses damaged by a fire in Gorleston Road, Highers Heath, in the West Midlands, August 14, 2026
Climate Crisis / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026
A general view of the Thales missile factory in east Belfast, Ireland
Victory / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026
Count Binface reacts after the declaration for the Clacton by-election count at Clacton Leisure Centre in Essex, August 14, 2026
Politics / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026

Parliamentary probe into the Reform UK leader’s £5m gift from crypto-billionaire to resume

People take part in a rally outside the Scottish Parliament,
Workers' Rights / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026
Scottish Labour's Michael Marra with then party leader Anas Sarwar, August 27, 2024
Politics / 13 August 2026
13 August 2026
Money is stacked on top of an water bill
Cost-of-Living Crisis / 13 August 2026
13 August 2026
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Mental Health / 13 August 2026
13 August 2026
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Workers' Rights / 13 August 2026
13 August 2026
A vet holds a Bluetongue vaccine at Bixley Farms, Norfolk, May 2008
Animal Welfare / 13 August 2026
13 August 2026
Labour MSP Monica Lennon at the Protect The Right To Strike rally organised by the STUC, at the Donald Dewar Steps on Buchanan Street, Glasgow, February 1, 2023
Scotland / 12 August 2026
12 August 2026
Scotland's First Minister John Swinney, March 5, 2026
Scotland / 12 August 2026
12 August 2026
Students arrive for the Trinity May Ball at Cambridge University's Trinity College, June 22, 2026
Tribunal / 12 August 2026
12 August 2026
Union members and climate activists set up a ‘cool station’ outside Highbury and Islington station to hand out heatwave safety advice to workers [Pic: Immo Klink]
Heatwave strikes / 11 August 2026
11 August 2026

More than 1,500 London bus drivers set for heatwave strikes this Friday

Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers a speech during a visit to the Jewish Care, Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Campus care home in north London, on adult social care reform. Picture date: Wednesday July 29, 2026
Care and Support Alliance / 11 August 2026
11 August 2026
A view of signage for HM Treasury in Westminster, London
Workers' Rights / 11 August 2026
11 August 2026
People swim in the lido at Hampstead Heath, London, June 26, 2026
Education / 11 August 2026
11 August 2026
Thames Water sign at a water works in Islington, north London, July 23, 2026
Privatisation / 10 August 2026
10 August 2026
Scottish Green Party MSP Q Manivannan during the first sitting day of the new Scottish Parliament at Holyrood in Edinburgh, May 14, 2026
Scotland / 10 August 2026
10 August 2026
Mercedes Villalba
Britain / 10 August 2026
10 August 2026
A Travelodge hotel
Domestic Abuse / 10 August 2026
10 August 2026
First Minister of Scotland and SNP Leader John Swinney arrives on the CalMac ferry MV Loch Seaforth into Stornoway Harbour, on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, April 8, 2026
SNP / 10 August 2026
10 August 2026
Campaigners protest against plans for drilling in the Rosebank oil field, outside the Department For Energy Security And Net Zero (DESNZ) in Westminster, central London, July 22, 2026
Climate Crisis / 10 August 2026
10 August 2026
Laboratory [Pic: Julia Koblitz / Creative Commons]
Healthcare / 11 August 2026
11 August 2026
An electric vehicle charging centre in Stretford, Manchester, August 31, 2021
Climate Crisis / 10 August 2026
10 August 2026
Andy Burnham
Economy / 10 August 2026
10 August 2026
Polanski
Environment and military / 9 August 2026
9 August 2026
Monica Lennon
Leadership battle / 9 August 2026
9 August 2026
NP MP Lara Bird
Educational support allowance / 10 August 2026
10 August 2026
the Falcon Safety Platen Press which has been restored to full working order in time for the 160th anniversary of the UK's oldest working commercial letterpress printing works. The machine at Robert Smail's Printing Works in the Scottish Borders is now operational again for the first time in 10 years after undergoing restoration
Victorian press / 10 August 2026
10 August 2026
health concerns in Scotland
Scotland health / 10 August 2026
10 August 2026
Britain's first nuclear-powered submarine HMS Dreadnought, (3,000 tons), pictured in 1966
Engineering company / 7 August 2026
7 August 2026
 Damage caused to a house on Bracken Road following disorder in the village of Thetford in Norfolk
Xenophobia / 7 August 2026
7 August 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, speaks alongside British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband,
Cost-of-living crisis / 7 August 2026
7 August 2026
Monica Lennon
Leadership battle / 7 August 2026
7 August 2026
A Palestine solidarity demo from earlier this year
Palestine Solidarity Campaign / 7 August 2026
7 August 2026
RMT leader: Eddie Dempsey
Industrial / 7 August 2026
7 August 2026
Merseyrail trains
Industrial / 7 August 2026
7 August 2026
A graduation parade in an army college
Britain / 6 August 2026
6 August 2026
Nurses working at the nurses station in the Acute Receiving Ward at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, January 27, 2021
Employment / 6 August 2026
6 August 2026
Rehabilitation row: Bonehill-Paine
Britain / 6 August 2026
6 August 2026
Unite flag
Britain / 5 August 2026
5 August 2026
Andy Burnham
Britain / 5 August 2026
5 August 2026
Trump
Oil giant profits / 4 August 2026
4 August 2026
People carry water during a power outage in Havana, Cuba
Fundraising / 4 August 2026
4 August 2026
Cable St committee
Anti-fascist victory / 4 August 2026
4 August 2026
Deputy First Minister Sioned Williams, FM Rhun ap Iorwerth and Palestine Museum US director Faisal Saleh
EXCLUSIVE / 4 August 2026
4 August 2026
asylum-seekers need safer routes
Small boat crossings / 4 August 2026
4 August 2026
Industrial / 3 August 2026
3 August 2026
eisteddfod
Wales / 3 August 2026
3 August 2026
Kate Clark
Scottish Labour leadership / 3 August 2026
3 August 2026
Gaza child
War zone education / 4 August 2026
4 August 2026
Merseyrail train
Britain / 2 August 2026
2 August 2026
Hanging curds and whey in buckets
Britain / 2 August 2026
2 August 2026
BP
Britain / 31 July 2026
31 July 2026
Diane Abbott
Britain / 31 July 2026
31 July 2026
Argos
Britain / 31 July 2026
31 July 2026
Lawyer Aamer Anwar speaks to the media outside the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, November 13, 2025
Scotland / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026

‘Ah the irony:’ Aamer Anwar says he doubts Reform has handed over the names of the far-right thugs who went on the rampage in Glasgow last weekend to the Police

Prime Minister Andy Burnham in front of HMS Agamemnon during a visit to Submarine Academy for Skills and Knowledge (SASK) at BAE Systems, in Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, to set out his plans for British defence procurement and how the government will re-energise British procurement to create jobs across the country and increase production to make Britain safer, July 30, 2026
Militarism / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026

PM commits to blowing millions on nukes

One of the cells at HMP Millsike during it's official opening - the new Category C jail in Yorkshire will deliver 1,500 prison places, March 27, 2025
Scottish Human Rights Commission / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026
The sun rising behind a redundant oil platform moored in the Firth of Forth near Kirkcaldy, Fife
Climate Emergency / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026
West End pic
Workers' Rights / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026
Workers' Rights / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026
Generic prison [Pic: Matthew Ansley / Creative Commons]
Justice System / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026
Reform UK Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick speaking on social care during a press conference at Millbank Tower, London, July 30, 2026
Politics / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026
Voters at the polling station at St Chrysostom's Church, as voting gets underway in the Greater Manchester mayoral by-election, July 30, 2026
Northern England / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026