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Andy Burnham will set out plans to tackle social care and youth unemployment in his speech at the Labour conference in Liverpool this afternoon. Senior government sources have suggested that the PM will signal he is willing to consider scrapping the pensions “triple lock” to help fund a new social care service, a move that one union boss described as “electoral suicide”.

Andy Burnham will set out plans to tackle social care and youth unemployment in his speech at the Labour conference in Liverpool this afternoon. Senior government sources have suggested that the PM will signal he is willing to consider scrapping the pensions “triple lock” to help fund a new social care service, a move that one union boss described as “electoral suicide”.

Counter-terrorism police are investigating whether Iran was behind a foiled bomb plot at RAF Fairford in the early hours of Sunday morning. A farmer returning late from a party alerted police after seeing three vans and a group of masked men around 400 metres from the Gloucestershire airbase. Five UK nationals were arrested on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offences, and 85 nearby homes were evacuated while bomb disposal robots examined the vehicles.

Counter-terrorism police are investigating whether Iran was behind a foiled bomb plot at RAF Fairford in the early hours of Sunday morning. A farmer returning late from a party alerted police after seeing three vans and a group of masked men around 400 metres from the Gloucestershire airbase. Five UK nationals were arrested on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offences, and 85 nearby homes were evacuated while bomb disposal robots examined the vehicles.

Counter-terrorism police are investigating whether Iran was behind a foiled bomb plot at RAF Fairford in the early hours of Sunday morning. A farmer returning late from a party alerted police after seeing three vans and a group of masked men around 400 metres from the Gloucestershire airbase. Five UK nationals were arrested on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offences, and 85 nearby homes were evacuated while bomb disposal robots examined the vehicles.

Alex Hassell making us lust after the shires in Rivals. BBC After years of cosmopolitan cool and high glamour, fashion has returned to an old faithful, says Lisa Armstrong in The Telegraph: “the British countryside”. Brands known for their “slick city tailoring” and “party-girl event dressing” are switching to cashmere roll-necks and woollen skirts.

Alex Hassell making us lust after the shires in Rivals. BBC After years of cosmopolitan cool and high glamour, fashion has returned to an old faithful, says Lisa Armstrong in The Telegraph: “the British countryside”. Brands known for their “slick city tailoring” and “party-girl event dressing” are switching to cashmere roll-necks and woollen skirts.

In the dog house: Merz (L) and Macron. Friedemann Vogel/Getty As German Chancellor Friedrich Merz comes under fire after losing painfully to the far-right AfD in a state election, he can console himself, says Janan Ganesh in the FT, that his counterpart in Paris is “also despised”. So were the two previous French presidents. None of the last five US leaders has managed an average approval rating above 50%.

In the dog house: Merz (L) and Macron. Friedemann Vogel/Getty As German Chancellor Friedrich Merz comes under fire after losing painfully to the far-right AfD in a state election, he can console himself, says Janan Ganesh in the FT, that his counterpart in Paris is “also despised”. So were the two previous French presidents. None of the last five US leaders has managed an average approval rating above 50%.

In the dog house: Merz (L) and Macron. Friedemann Vogel/Getty As German Chancellor Friedrich Merz comes under fire after losing painfully to the far-right AfD in a state election, he can console himself, says Janan Ganesh in the FT, that his counterpart in Paris is “also despised”. So were the two previous French presidents. None of the last five US leaders has managed an average approval rating above 50%.