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The fight to save Scotland's crumbling mountain paths
Brexit removed vital European cash for mountain path building and maintenance. Now, volunteers are taking action to help fill the gaps, as Peter…
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The Lead Untangles: Surging costs in weight loss jabs
Ella Glover tackles an issue which will affect 1.5m people in the UK alone.
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Ella Glover
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Live facial recognition has no place at Notting Hill Carnival
The Met Police is pushing ahead with plans to use divisive LFR at Notting Hill – it's another terrifying slide towards state surveillance. Plus: Zoë…
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Natalie Morris
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The leopard versus the Home Office
The high court's decision to close Epping's asylum hotel is the inevitable consequence of years of hostile anti-immigration rhetoric
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Zoe Grunewald
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Arts Council grant shutdown leaves creatives in limbo – and stunts UK innovation
A grant-giving system is offline for seven weeks, Fergal Kinney reports on the body-blow to creatives, and the precarity of the arts industry.
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The intolerable crisis of angry young men
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The Democrats walked into a deathtrap. Will Labour take note?
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Teesworks: £560m of public money spent and issues of 'governance and transparency' remain
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What the facts actually say about the far-right’s ‘grooming gangs’ obsession
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Live facial recognition has no place at Notting Hill Carnival
The Met Police is pushing ahead with plans to use divisive LFR at Notting Hill – it's another terrifying slide towards state surveillance. Plus: Zoë…
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Natalie Morris
 and 
The Lead
3
The leopard versus the Home Office
The high court's decision to close Epping's asylum hotel is the inevitable consequence of years of hostile anti-immigration rhetoric
 • 
Zoe Grunewald
6
Why is the right-wing media so desperate for a hot-riot summer?
Plus: Drilling into Farage's plan for crime, the latest on what Reform have been up to, The Lead Digest and updates from The Lead North team.
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Padraig Reidy
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The Lead Untangles: Surging costs in weight loss jabs
Ella Glover tackles an issue which will affect 1.5m people in the UK alone.
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Ella Glover
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The Lead
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The Lead Untangles: Why Britain isn’t built for the heat
Some may sneer at every heat-health warning, but high temperatures come with dangers our housing stock is not ready for. Can we improve things?
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Ella Glover
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The Lead Untangles: The right to protest and the laws it does not supersede
Protests – right across the political spectrum – are likely this weekend. But why are so many protestors ending up on the wrong side of the law?
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Ella Glover
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