The Guardian Articles

Fears are growing for a truck driver who has spent three days trapped inside a sinkhole in

Japan

The 74-year-old, who has not been named, became

trapped

Police forces in England and Wales are facing “difficult and challenging” circumstances, the policing minister has accepted, as some have been forced to cut their number of officers.

Diana Johnson said forces would need to make decisions locally on how many officers to have, days after Essex police said they …

UK health bosses privately admitted that a lack of border inspections in the wake of Brexit had left British consumers exposed to diseased meat, an investigation has found.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has previously uncovered a host of

failings in the government’s handling

House prices rose for a fifth consecutive month in January, but the annual rate of growth slowed as the UK property market showed signs of “softening”, according to Nationwide.

The building society’s monthly tracker found that prices in January rose 0.1% on the previous month, with the cost of an …

Ugo Monye

Who is going to win and why?

The UK’s national league, the 4NCL, is turning into a two-horse race after last weekend’s third and fourth rounds at Peterborough. Wood Green, the 2024 and London League champions, and Manx Liberty, the 2023 winners whose core is a group of Romanian and Hungarian grandmasters, have both won all their …

Good morning. A new public accounts committee report has found that disability benefit claimants are receiving “unacceptably poor service” from the government, waiting on average 10 times longer than other claimants for their calls to be answered. Meanwhile, rising DWP underpayments are leaving many at greater risk of hardship.

For …

A novel use of technology could make refrigerators cheaper and more environmentally friendly, according to a report.

Domestic refrigerators and freezers consumed close to 4% of global electricity in 2019,

according to one estimate

Valuable farmland will be protected from housing, solar panels and onshore wind under a new

land use framework

The environment secretary, Steve Reed, will announce a consultation into how the limited land in England should be used and where is best to farm, …

Almost half of Danish people now consider the US to be a considerable threat to their country and the overwhelming majority oppose Greenland leaving to become part of the US, new polling has found.

The research by YouGov, shared exclusively with the Guardian, comes after weeks of tension between Denmark, …