Zero-hours contracts: peers accused of ‘trying to block stronger UK workers’ rights’

Lords ‘doing bidding of bad bosses’, says TUC, amid growing campaign by business leaders to water down Labour’s plans

Hundreds gather again at Essex asylum hotel in weekend of anti-immigrant protests

Protests at Bell hotel in Epping for fifth time on Sunday as others demonstrated in Norfolk and London

‘Dad, I love you. Pray for me’: the preventable death of Nimroy Hendricks, stabbed in the heart by a 14-year-old

Hendricks’ killer was a violent six-year-old who grew into a violent teenager. She was also the victim of brutality and neglect. As they mourn their son, Hendricks’ parents wish more had been done to help her

Dale Vince calls for Battle of the Beanfield to be included in Orgreave policing inquiry

Ecotricity founder was part of new-age convoy heading to Stonehenge in 1985 when more than 500 people were arrested

‘No shops, no schools’: homes in England built without basic amenities

Thousands of properties going up without access to playgrounds, community infrastructure and even doctors

‘Terrible racket’: bishop in dressing gown shuts down London choir concert

Jonathan Baker complained over noise ‘in my house’, telling stunned singers night is ‘over’

‘Before, I felt safe and the locals were nice’: asylum seekers on how Epping protests have transformed daily life

Men living in the Bell hotel in Essex tell how they have been verbally abused, chased and physically attacked

Beware the blizzard of lies: US advice on how to handle Farage’s Trump tactics

Pro-democracy campaigners suggest ‘pre-buttal’ is more powerful than factchecking in fighting falsehoods

‘We’re struggling’: unease as crowded Cotswolds braces for JD Vance’s summer holiday

In Stow-on-the-Wold resistance seems yet to mobilise but US vice-president and influx of tourists divides opinion