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Workers face record pay slump against surging inflation

The Office for National Statistics said regular pay, excluding bonuses, grew by 4.7% over the three months to June.

Classic film posters including Star Wars and James Bond up for auction

Long-hidden rare synagogue mural restored

South Korea and the US to begin expanded military drills

Sunak and Truss both promise more scrutiny of Scottish Government

Zelensky accuses Russia of ‘nuclear blackmail’ after shelling at power plant

What the papers say – August 16

Rudy Giuliani targeted in criminal probe of 2020 Georgia election

Flash floods and thunderstorms will give way to breezy conditions by end of week

Tax fuel on domestic flights to fund train fares freeze, urges lobby group

20 dead as bus rams into oil tanker in Pakistan

Educational disadvantage gap virtually unchanged in 20 years, says report

Strictly star Rose Ayling-Ellis unveils first Barbie doll with hearing aids

Midwife numbers fall in every English region, figures show

Scots 25% more likely to support independence under next PM, poll suggests

One in eight think energy bills will fall this winter

‘Next generation’ Covid booster jab to be offered to adults over 50 from autumn

Lib Dems urge freeze on energy bills and rail fares

Sunak commits to Civil Service cuts as part of plan for Whitehall ‘shake-up’

Nicola Sturgeon and Louise Welsh send message to Rushdie from book festival

Thunderstorms cause floods across Ireland

Three Britons among five people on trial in separatist-controlled Ukraine

Man stabbed to death near London’s Oxford Street

Heathrow cap on passenger numbers will be extended to end of October

Justice officials seek to improve safeguards for women in refuges

Taskforce set up in bid to deliver energy bill discount in Northern Ireland

Pay farmers to restore habitat on least productive farmland, think tank says

US defence secretary tests positive for Covid-19 for second time

Third Tory MP switches from Sunak camp to back Truss in leadership race

Journalists and lawyers file lawsuit against CIA over ‘spying’ on Assange visits

Kremlin critic Navalny says he is in solitary confinement

NI Secretary urges Stormont politicians to resurrect powersharing government

Vara offers to meet Noah Donohoe’s mother over withholding of information

Johnny Depp to direct first feature film in 25 years

Inquiry hears of mother’s heartbreak at losing son in hotel blaze

Gas company donates £500,000 to support residents affected by fatal explosion

Downing Street unable to confirm where PM will work from in final weeks

Starmer pledges to freeze fuel bills by extending windfall tax

Death toll in Armenia fireworks depot blast reaches six

Two men accused of throwing disposable BBQ into woodland charged with arson

‘Predator’ Benjamin Mendy turned pursuit of women for sex into game, court told

The Horse Whisperer author Nicholas Evans dies aged 72

Myanmar court convicts Suu Kyi on more corruption charges

Lawyers appeal against Brittney Griner’s Russian prison sentence

Comedian Jerry Sadowitz hits back at Edinburgh Fringe venue over racism claims

Scotland under thunderstorm warning as heavy rain expected on Tuesday

Adele gushes about boyfriend Rich Paul: ‘I’m obsessed with him’

Co-founder of UK Black Pride ‘blown away’ by community solidarity

Iran denies involvement in attack on Sir Salman Rushdie

Cornwall faces hosepipe ban amid drought and heatwave

China announces new military drills as US politicians visit Taiwan

Rail fares rise in England will be below inflation rate

Big Issue announces partnership with Citroen for electric vehicles

Inquiry into fire which claimed lives of two men at luxury hotel begins