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β€˜Frankenchicken’ protesters crash Pret’s pre-launch opening in Spitalfields

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β€˜Frankenchicken’ protesters crash Pret’s pre-launch opening in Spitalfields

Pret A Manger’s Spitalfields launch event turned into a PR disaster on 7 July when campaigners dumped a giant animatronic “Frankenchicken” in front of its first 200 customers. Pret is facing significant backlash after breaking its promise to stop selling ultra fast-growing chickens by 2026. It originally made this commitment in 2018. These β€œfrankenchicken” breeds commonly suffer from deformities and heart strain due to being bred to grow too fast. They get slaughtered at around 35 days old. In response to Pret’s backtracking, animal welfare activists have launched a Β£1m accountability campaign. This aims to expose Pret’s continued use of these…

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β€˜Frankenchicken’ protesters crash Pret’s pre-launch opening in Spitalfields

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β€˜Frankenchicken’ protesters crash Pret’s pre-launch opening in Spitalfields

Pret A Manger’s Spitalfields launch event turned into a PR disaster on 7 July when campaigners dumped a giant animatronic “Frankenchicken” in front of its first 200 customers. Pret is facing significant backlash after breaking its promise to stop selling ultra fast-growing chickens by 2026. It originally made this commitment in 2018. These β€œfrankenchicken” breeds commonly suffer from deformities and heart strain due to being bred to grow too fast. They get slaughtered at around 35 days old. In response to Pret’s backtracking, animal welfare activists have launched a Β£1m accountability campaign. This aims to expose Pret’s continued use of these…

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Scandal-struck Farage resigns to force Clacton by-election

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Scandal-struck Farage resigns to force Clacton by-election

In a long and whiny speech, Nigel Farage has announced his intention to step down as a member of Parliament. He also announced his intention to run in the subsequent by-election, with the hope of becoming a member of Parliament as a result. Like us, you’re probably asking yourself: ‘so what are we doing here, exactly?‘ BREAKING: Nigel Farage has resigned as an MP to trigger a by-election in ClactonΒ  "This will be a people vs the establishment by-election. A chance to stick two fingers up to the entire establishment" pic.twitter.com/oMNHR9pFNZ — Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) July 7, 2026 Bye bye-election Earlier…

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Hot weather boosts requests for air conditioning installations

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Hot weather boosts requests for air conditioning installations

Home air conditioning installation requests have been monumentally increasing across Europe as a result of the hot weather, MyBuilder data has revealed. Online home services marketplace, MyBuilder.com, has released statistics showing that requests for air conditioning installations on their website are increasing by more than 300% each year. Requests have reached a record high this month due to the unprecedented hot weather across the UK and Europe. Installation requests are increasing 7.4 times per year in Germany. MyBuilder says one in four home improvement jobs in Germany on 28 June were for air conditioning installations. Installments have increased by four-times the…

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How the far right targeted City of Sanctuary with misinformation campaign

How the far right targeted City of Sanctuary with misinformation campaign

An exposΓ© by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) has laid bare how City of Sanctuary, a charity that promotes empathy and compassion towards asylum seekers and refugees, became the target of a far right misinformation campaign. Charity workers and schools faced death threats, Islamaphobic and hateful abuse for an activity meant to spread love. When freelance journalist Charlotte Gill took issue with one of the charity’s harmless Valentine’s Day activities,Β the charity found itself at the centre of a media storm. As part of the Schools of Sanctuary programme, students wrote heart-shapedΒ welcoming cards for refugees to be displayed at schools and…

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Criminal charges to be filed against senator in Paraguay for her β€œutterly abhorrent” racist remarks at MbappΓ©

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Criminal charges to be filed against senator in Paraguay for her β€œutterly abhorrent” racist remarks at MbappΓ©

A senator in Paraguay, Celeste Amarilla, is set to face criminal charges in a case levelled by the French Football Federation (FFF). In recent racist comments aimed at France’s Kylian MbappΓ©, she called him a: colonised Cameroonian, desperately trying to pass himself off as French Adding he is a: brute who had not learned to write Captain of the France World Cup team, MbappΓ© gave a damning response to her racist hate: Madame Celeste Amarilla, you are a despicable woman and unworthy of your position. You do not represent Paraguay, that country which has sweated passion and honour throughout the competition.…

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MPs accuse student loan system of β€œmis-selling” generation of graduates

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MPs accuse student loan system of β€œmis-selling” generation of graduates

MPs from the Treasury Committee have released a new report which accuses the government of mis-selling student loans, pointing out that comparisons to mobile phone bills or cinema tickets were not reflective of the true cost of repayments. The MPs also want Chancellor Rachel Reeves to scrap plans to freeze the repayment threshold for people on the expensive Plan 2 loans. As things stand, it’ll stay at Β£29,385 from 2027 to 2030, instead of going up with inflation, meaning many graduates will end up paying back more. This choice to freeze – which will increase students’ repayments year on year if…

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SNP β€˜breaching Israel boycott vote’ over bank bond plans

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SNP β€˜breaching Israel boycott vote’ over bank bond plans

The SNP is breaching a historic Holyrood vote for an Israel boycott, amid preparations to issue new government bonds. The government is also accused of allowing “secrecy” around a government agency, Scottish Enterprise, which “refused to publish key information” on preventing genocide in Gaza. The Zionist occupation entity continues murdering Lebanese, Iranian and especially Palestinian civilians en-masse, largely unchecked by Western governments. Scotland’s government was among few to have taken meaningful steps in line with the global Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement’s urgent call. The SNP-run Scottish government confirmed nine banks chosen to support a Β£1.5 billion issuance of bonds. Expected…

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β€˜Sunbathers’ protest new oil outside Parliament amidst heatwave

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β€˜Sunbathers’ protest new oil outside Parliament amidst heatwave

Campaigners from Fossil Free London protested new oil and gas in Parliament Square on 7 July as the third heatwave of the summer hits London. They wore matching red swimming costumes and lay on white towels, imitating popular media images of beachgoers in hot weather. Each sunbather waved a ‘Stop Rosebank’ fan and behind them a large banner read ‘No New Oil & Gas’. The protest comes as the UK just experienced its hottest June ever. And uncertainty lingers over whether Andy Burnham will approve the Rosebank and Jackdaw North Sea oil fields once he becomes prime minister. Heatwave after heatwave…

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Furious Farage threatens Sky News with β€˜serious consequences’

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Furious Farage threatens Sky News with β€˜serious consequences’

Nigel Farage has threatenedΒ Sky News with “serious consequences” in a belligerent airport encounter: This is seriously unravelling for Nigel Farage and Reform. https://t.co/2IWRdSnGdS — (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) July 6, 2026 Farage and Reform have since claimed thatΒ Sky News harassed his family.Β Sky News claim this did not happen. Either way, it’s clear the stress is getting to him. Farage raves about ‘serious consequences’ In theΒ Sky News clip above, a journalist asks Farage: Was it a mistake not to declare the gifts from George Cottrell, sir? If you don’t know who ‘Posh George’ Cottrell is, he’s the convicted fraudster who was funding Farage…

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Israeli arms firm returns after Westminster scandal

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Israeli arms firm returns after Westminster scandal

RUK Advanced Systems Ltd helped fund a group of British MPs as part of a β€˜PR and marketing campaign’ A British weapons firm owned by the Israeli government has been brought back to life, after its lobbying activities were exposed by Declassified last year. RUK Advanced System Ltd is registered in London, but records show it is a subsidiary of Israel’s state owned arms giant, Rafael. In October, documents were filed with Companies House to shut the business down, following our investigation. But it’s now been revived – and claims to be supplying British armed forces. Last year, we revealed how…

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Israeli policeman throws grenade into car with Palestinians inside

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Israeli policeman throws grenade into car with Palestinians inside

Content warning: This article contains videos with graphic footage of Israeli violence Shocking footage has emerged featuring an ‘Israeli’ border police officer throwing a stun grenade into a car with at least three Palestinians inside. The video, recorded in East Jerusalem, shows a uniformed apartheid enforcer looming over the driver beside his open door. The brutish goon then suddenly chucks a grenade into the vehicle and presses against the door to prevent the driver escaping. Χ©Χ•Χ˜Χ¨ ΧžΧ’"Χ‘ ΧžΧ©ΧœΧ™Χš Χ¨Χ™ΧžΧ•ΧŸ לΧͺΧ•Χš Χ¨Χ›Χ‘ Χ©Χ‘Χ• Χ©Χ Χ™ Χ€ΧœΧ‘Χ˜Χ™Χ Χ™Χ Χ•ΧžΧ•Χ Χ’ ΧžΧ”Χ ΧœΧ”Χ™ΧžΧœΧ˜. Χ©Χ™ΧžΧ•Χ© ΧœΧ€Χ™ Χ‘' 27א pic.twitter.com/bk24P4UoRM — הארΧ₯ Χ—Χ“Χ©Χ•Χͺ (@haaretznewsvid) July 6, 2026 Two passengers…

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Erling Haaland late double sends Brazil home

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Erling Haaland late double sends Brazil home

Erling Haaland delivered the decisive blows in New Jersey, striking twice in the final stages to send Norway into their first-ever World Cup quarter-final and dump brazil out at the last‑16. The Manchester City striker rose to meet a pinpoint Andreas Schjelderup cross on 79 minutes, then drove in a second in stoppage time to cap a clinical, minimal‑touch performance that punished Brazil’s wastefulness. Β  Neymar, introduced for only his second appearance of the tournament, converted a late penalty deep into added time, but it arrived too late to alter the outcome. Bruno GuimarΓ£es had earlier seen his own spot‑kick saved…

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FIFA rulebook faces stress test after Trump intervention

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FIFA rulebook faces stress test after Trump intervention

Not every crisis to hit football begins with a refereeing error. Some begin when fans lose faith that the law will have the final say, and when politics fills the space left behind. The latest controversy surrounding Folarin Balogun’s red card is no longer about whether the punishment was right or wrong. It is about whether FIFA’s disciplinary rules can withstand political pressure. Politics enters the equation Referees can make mistakes, but the rules have always been the final word. In fact, that was football’s strongest defence against those who suspected something more sinister. Errors are part of the game. However,…

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UK Government lied about β€˜renewable’ Scottish data centre plans

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UK Government lied about β€˜renewable’ Scottish data centre plans

Plans for a supposedly “renewable” multi-billion pound data centre project in Lanarkshire entirely misrepresented their actual environmental and economic impacts. The Guardian‘s recent investigation reveals that the Β£8.2bn-valued data complex, touted as being energy self-sufficient, was unfeasible from the start. The centre and adjoining power-plant in Scotland’s central belt was supposed to be powered by on-site renewables and nuclear energy. In theory, anyway. Built jointly by US corporation CoreWeave and Scottish data firm DataVita, the complex was supposed to power itself entirely by 2030. However, internal correspondence documents obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests show that the site had an…

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Trump confirms he asked FIFA to revoke US striker’s red card

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Trump confirms he asked FIFA to revoke US striker’s red card

Donald Trump has, remarkably, confirmed that he intervened with FIFA to overturn a red card for US striker Folarin Balogun. The World Cup 2026 has not been without political themes this tournament, particularly considering how players and referees have been prevented from making it into the US to compete with their national teams.Β  However, Trump’s latest intervention really takes the biscuit. The lawless US President lobbied FIFA in three phone calls made since 29 June to suspend a red card levelled against US striker Folarin Balogun. This lobbying has been successful, with the President saying: Thank you to FIFA for doing…

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Greens or Reform will lead Kirklees Council, but Tories block progress

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Greens or Reform will lead Kirklees Council, but Tories block progress

In the West Yorkshire borough of Kirklees, only the Green Party‘s group leader or Reform’s are in a position to lead the council. But Conservative councillors’ refusal to pick a side has been blocking progress, with two votes already failing to produce a winner. Ahead of another vote on 15 July, local Green leader Andrew Cooper told the Canary that Tory councillors should either “pick a side” or just “stay at home”. Green experience vs Reform incompetence In May’s local elections, Kirklees voters totally wiped out the Labour Party, whose previous administration had been incredibly controversial. On one side, this led…

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PSNI slammed for paramilitary policing cutbacks

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PSNI slammed for paramilitary policing cutbacks

Anti-racist group End Deportations Belfast (EDB) has strongly criticised the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) for failing to reallocate resources to tackling paramilitary violence. This comes in the wake of violent racist pogroms carried out by loyalist mobs, which the PSNI now confirm paramilitaries played a role in coordinating. As EDB note, in 2025 the PSNI chose to “collapse one of the three PCTF [Paramilitary Crime Task Force] investigative teams“. This followed Stormont’s decision to cut funding to the anti-paramilitary group by 21% for 2024/25. Upon the launch of the PCTF in 2017, the British National Crime Agency (NCA) described…

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Exclusive: disgusted Your Party exec members call no-confidence vote over suspensions

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Exclusive: disgusted Your Party exec members call no-confidence vote over suspensions

Outraged members of Your Party’s elected executive (CEC) have called for a no-confidence vote in the CEC’s chair and secretary. It is clear that committee members are outraged over the chair’s move to suspend three well-known members last week. Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Solma Ahmed and Mel Mullins were suspended for attending a socialist conference – even though Wimborne-Idrissi hadn’t attended. Your Party: more revelations In an email leaked to the Canary, one exec member wrote to fellow CEC members: Dear CEC members It is with huge regret that I write this email. But I feel strongly that it is needed. I have…

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The Future of Sustainable Outdoor Space Management

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The Future of Sustainable Outdoor Space Management

Sustainable outdoor space management has become an increasingly important consideration for facilities managers, estate managers and commercial property professionals as organisations seek to balance environmental responsibility with operational efficiency. External environments are no longer viewed solely as aesthetic assets; they are expected to support biodiversity, improve climate resilience, enhance user wellbeing and contribute towards wider Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) objectives. As expectations around sustainable land management continue to grow, investing in professionally managed grounds maintenance and landscaping has become essential for protecting both the value and functionality of commercial estates. When supported by strategic commercial grounds maintenance programmes, businesses can…

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