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Polluted chalk streams in England’s South Downs infuriated voters in Chichester, a seat that had been Conservative for a century...

The Turkish Detective is based on Barbara Nadel’s bestselling novels. Plus: the hippy days of Ibiza are brought back to life. Here’s what to watch this evening...

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With many MPs who served Blair and Brown, Starmer’s team is one of the most experienced in recent times

White storks could soon be wheeling in the skies above London and building their huge nests among towers, flats and spires as a result of new rewilding plans....

A grief therapist is forced to face her childhood in End of Summer. Plus: it’s England v Switzerland! Here’s what to watch this evening...

I don’t know if it’s just the extent to which Conservative activists were gaslit by the polling and CCHQ’s abject campaign, but the mood among those I spoke to as the night progressed was oddly chipper, given the Tory party was set to receive the worst result in its long history....

Peace Now says approval of more than 12 sq km is biggest since peace process began in 1993...

Laura Kuenssberg and Clive Myrie helm the BBC’s coverage, while Emily Maitlis and Krishnan Guru-Murthy do things a bit differently on Channel 4. Plus: more juicy drama in Douglas Is Cancelled. Here’s what to watch this evening...

Bruce Lehrmann has been committed to stand trial on rape charges....

Beloved by Shakespeare and the Beatles, the blackbird and its sweet song have captured the imagination of Britons for centuries....

The Jersey tiger, Euplagia quadripunctaria, is one of the more spectacular British moths. Rather than trying to blend in with its surroundings, its dramatic black and white wings, with additional orange flashes when flying, seem to be saying “eat me if you dare” and get a stomachache. Most potential predators appear to heed...

Labour administration says ‘globally pioneering’ legislation will be brought in before next Senedd elections in 2026...

Everyone loves bees and butterflies, but now moths are coming into the spotlight (as long as they don’t fly around it)....

Patriotic poems published under invented name of Gennady Rakitin were embraced as examples of ‘Z poetry’

Al-Shifa’s Mohammed Abu Salmiya alleges Israel tortured him across seven months of detention without charge...

The loan was finalized in February after the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, suggested sending pandas to the San Diego zoo as “envoys of friendship” between China and the US....