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Parents take action while independent bookshops say they had already stopped stocking his titles In Sarah’s house, David Walliams has been a bedtime staple for years. Her children, aged eight, six and four, have dressed up as his characters for World Book Day – they love the over-the-top, unusual names and illustrations. Now, all the books are going. “I’ll probably take them away and replace them…

No 10 sources say PM wants party to refocus on Tories as electoral threat after prioritising Reform and Greens Andy Burnham has instructed the Labour party to “re-arm” to fight the Conservatives at the next election amid concern inside government that they must take the prospect of a Kemi Badenoch-led recovery seriously. Downing Street sources said the prime minister wanted Labour headquarters to…

Anneliese Midgley surprises colleagues after Burnham said whips office should not be ‘something to be feared’ If Andy Burnham has been accused of being a people pleaser by his critics, the same most certainly cannot be said of his chief whip. “I’m not going to take any shit and I don’t fuck about,” said Anneliese Midgley, the Labour government’s newest head of party discipline, shedding some ligh…

NHS suffering ‘serious’ and widespread disruption, while people are told of possible delays in receiving prescriptions Microsoft outage – live updates Vital UK services including hospitals and police have been hit by a global Microsoft outage that left NHS staff resorting to paper records and fuelled concerns about an over-reliance on a small number of tech companies A day of widespread disruptio…

Sales of built units fell to 3.75m in October, down by 8.8% from last year, with mortgage rates at nearly three-year high US existing home sales hit a 16-year low in October as buyers were driven away by high mortgage rates and rising inflation, according to new data released on Wednesday. Sales of already built units dropped to 3.75m in October, down by 8.8% from last year, the National Associat…

Mohammed Alfatih rearrested over alleged plot to target Israelis in Europe while detained for attack on bailiff A former Hamas bodyguard convicted of knife crime in the UK is wanted in Germany for allegedly plotting to murder Jewish people. Details of the plot can now be reported after Mohammed Alfatih, also known as Mohammed Naim, was found guilty on Friday of a knife attack on a bailiff outside…

Local officials warn some services remain unavailable even as Outlook starts to resume normal operations after outage Microsoft outage – live updates The Microsoft Outlook outage has shaken up companies and local governments across the US that use its suite of email, calendar, video conferencing and cloud storage systems. Even as Outlook started to resume normal operations Friday morning, local l…

Kurt Gödel left 1,009 pages of densely written text – much of it in an obsolete shorthand – which is now said to contain hundreds of proved theorems The Austrian logician Kurt Gödel was one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century. His two incompleteness theorems, published in 1931, transformed mathematics and paved the way for the digital age. After his seminal results of the 1930s, Göd…

Signing of agreement to smooth movement of food, plants and animals next week will not recoup huge sums firms were forced to spend The removal of border checks and paperwork on plant imports will “dissolve” £60m of annual costs for the horticulture industry when the UK and EU’s new post-Brexit deal comes in, the environment secretary has said. Before the UK-EU summit on 20 November , Angela Eagle…

Police say allegations of sexual misconduct are separate from those made by multiple women in Guardian and ITN investigation The Metropolitan police have announced a criminal investigation into David Walliams over alleged sexual misconduct. In reports by the Guardian and ITV News, Walliams, 55, has been accused by multiple women of using his power and celebrity status to prey on young women and t…

Gunman killed one person and injured at least four others in and around condo building not far from the White House More details were emerging on Friday about the previous morning’s shooting in north-west Washington DC, as a manager at the shooter’s residential building shared how he was angry over living conditions there and confessed to the killings. The gunman killed one person and injured at …

Censored books spanning 1926-96 contained themes ‘likely to corrupt or deprave’, or references to contraception or violence For almost a century, an Irish government building in the heart of Dublin has hosted a secret sanctum: the banned books room. The department of justice, on St Stephen’s Green, did not grant public access, because the shelves contained 12,000 books deemed indecent or obscene.…

First direct attack on US military installations for months was in response to US airstrike on communications tower Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it has targeted and destroyed a US early-warning radar in Bahrain in response to a US airstrike on a communications tower in Sirik overlooking the strait of Hormuz. It is Iran’s first direct attack on US military installations for months…

One company is proposing elongating the life of the dump, pungent smell and all, several more decades As a visual representation of how New York is running out of places to put its waste, the largest active landfill in the state is a striking one. The hulking Seneca Meadows landfill is already the height of the Statue of Liberty and its operators are seeking to raise it even further, to the const…

Young people are being found with ‘hard drives full of what can only be described as gore’, one expert says Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast In March, Guardian Australia revealed that most people who have been charged with the new federal crime of possession of violent extremist material are under 18. This week Australian federal police sounded the alarm about a surge …