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Exclusive: Report on six Labour councillors comes just weeks before byelection triggered by Andrew Gwynne’s retirementLabour’s campaign for a vital byelection has been dealt a fresh blow after six local councillors were found to have breached standards rules in a “vile” WhatsApp chat.Andrew Gwynne, a former health minister, was suspended last year over offensive messages he sent in the “Trigger Me Timbers” group, including one saying he hoped a 72-year-old […]

More than 100 flood warnings issued in England, with two red warnings in Ottery St Mary and DorchesterStorm Chandra – live updatesTwo red flood warnings – meaning danger to life – are in force for rivers in south-west England as Storm Chandra brings heavy rain and strong winds to many areas of the UK, causing huge travel disruption and shutting hundreds of schools.The Environment Agency (EA) said severe flooding was […]

Manchester mayor suggests claims he was told Labour would not give him permission to stand were untrueUK politics live – latest updatesThe Labour party’s civil war over the Gorton and Denton byelection has intensified after Andy Burnham accused Downing Street sources of lying about his decision to apply to stand in the Manchester seat.The Manchester mayor was reacting to suggestions by unnamed Keir Starmer allies that he had been told […]

Milan’s mayor says agents ‘clearly not welcome’ in co-host city and that Italy can take care of security itselfA unit of US immigration and customs enforcement agents (ICE) will have a security role in the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Italy, sparking uproar and petitions against the deployment.Sources at the US embassy in Rome confirmed a statement from ICE, the agency embroiled in a brutal immigration crackdown in the US, […]

Manufacturers use method that labels plastic as ‘circular’ and climate-friendly, despite being mostly fossil-basedEurope’s supermarket shelves are packed with brands billing their plastic packaging as sustainable, but often only a fraction of the materials are truly recovered from waste, with the rest made from petroleum.Brands using plastic packaging – from Kraft’s Heinz Beanz to Mondelez’s Philadelphia – use materials made by the plastic manufacturing arm of the oil company Saudi […]

Move affecting those who have been in Spain five months or more runs counter to anti-migration policies across Europe Spain’s socialist-led coalition government has approved a decree it said would regularise 500,000 undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, rejecting the anti-migration policies and rhetoric prevalent across much of Europe.The decree, expected to come into effect in April, will apply to hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and people in Spain with […]

The heatwave in Melbourne and Adelaide this week is likely to become the norm. We should prepare nowWant to get this in your inbox when it publishes? Sign up for the Clear Air Australia newsletter hereOn Tuesday, Australia’s second largest city baked through one of its hottest days since modern instrumental records began in 1910. Several Melbourne suburbs topped 45C.The country’s fifth largest city, Adelaide, reached that temperature on Monday. […]