Both walkouts have fallen on the same day, shoring up potential wide disruption to flights in Europe

Passengers were experiencing vomiting and diarrhoea on the ship

From historic landmarks to modern hideaways, hereas our selection of the very best places in the City of Angels to rest your head in 2025

Chocolate-makers in the Southern Italian town went to town with their 350kg Easter egg

Exclusive: The Independent predicts the worst traffic jams will be on the M5, M6, M25 and A303

Want to take the kids on holiday and still get a break yourself? Here are the ideal places to stay

From snorkelling the Great Barrier Reef to traversing the Outback, here are some of the most incredible Australian cruise itineraries to inspire your next booking

Soak in the natural thermal waters, try out a high-tech treatment or simply snooze on the massage table with these indulgent spa break hotels in Bath

Larger cruise ships could be on their way to the Kent coast

The news comes on the brink of an announcement from Virgin regarding new rail services between the UK and Europe

Deputy head says students panic and push to get onto over-capacity buses at the end of the day

Exclusive: Couple were wrongly told BA could not get them out earlier a but their holiday company could

The scheme aims to encourage teenagers to explore the continent by railway

Financial reasons were cited as the reason behind the shock closure

From mesmerising museums to animal encounters, weave selected some of the best things to do in London with children, whatever your budget

Passengers decry ainhumanea and aawfula situation at remote military airport

Advanced CT scanners at some UK and European airports mean liquids and laptops can stay in the travelleras bag a but the 100ml size limit remains

The head of state and his consort wed on April 9, 2005 following a romance that began when they were in their early 20s

Thompson is the longest-serving cast member on aSaturday Night Livea

Hailie revealed she gave birth to her son on March 14

Initial signs can include stiffness, losing your sense of smell and smaller handwriting

Sir Elton contracted an eye infection in the south of France last year, which has led to severe vision issues

Customers should contact Walkeras Wine Juice to determine how to dispose of the juice

Egg-cellent deals await you this Easter

The brideas TikTok received over 29 million views

Why cleansing matters, as a new study reveals one in five Brits donat wash their face every day

Men are the worse culprits when it comes to curtain twitching over a dispute

Just as connection with others is essential for our well-being, so is connection with ourselves

A casual glass of wine may seem harmless, but can cause problems over time

Sucralose increases activity in brain region known for regulating appetite and body weight

Spring cleaning can be fun until it comes to the chaos of the kitchen

Researchers have known for years that this friendly bacteria is associated with good health

Growing evidence suggests mental health may contribute to an increased risk on endometriosis. Dora Koller and Renato Polimanti reports

Snails are a protein-packed, and cheap, alternative to red meat

The days of getting low cost goods from brands like Temu could be numbered

Coupleas avery sada split comes after over two decades together and two children

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said he would agree to allow American chlorine-washed chicken to be sold in the UK as part of a free trade deal with the US

Executive producer David Bernad said this season had three key secrets during filming

Sir David Attenborough reflects on his decades-long career in a new trailer for his upcoming Ocean documentary.

Michael Joseph Branham has a realistic heart tattooed on his chest along with the word aScarletta

Netflixas Love On The Spectrum star Tanner Smith has fulfilled his life goal to meet Jack Black in a surprise encounter on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday, 3 April.

Ed Sheeran surprised Londoners with a lunchtime performance of his new single "Azizam" outside King"s Cross station on Friday, 4 April.

aI rung my agent and went aYouave got to get me out of herea,a ex-contestant said

Engrossing show gets increasingly better with every new episode

Sir Elton contracted an eye infection in the south of France last year, which has led to severe vision issues

aIave been a fan as long as I can remember but it was rough to watch,a one viewer complained

The four-time 007 actor added that there are agreat things you can do with AIa

aYou realise when you do films, youare so much better off handing over to the stunt people,a admitted the star

aTwo absolute icons and legends,a said one fan

The actor was at the theater for a Q&A session for his new movie, aThe Frienda

OJ Simpson played Detective Nordberg in the first three Naked Gun films

Is Gaitok about to go postal? Is Tim finally going to live out his murder-suicide fantasies? And what the hell is going on with Rick? Weave been speculating about what might play out in the season three finale

Baldoni and Lively, who is married to Reynolds, are involved in legal actions related to her sexual harassment allegation

Snow White, made on a reported budget of $270m, has so far only returned around $145.7m worldwide

Filmmaker is feeling the pressure

Former Little Mix singer says she wants her new album to sound like sheas afinding herself againa

Graham was told by the creator: aYou know you canat do a show for this long and not have conflicta

Pike swiftly grew embarrassed after a aclincha with Irish 007 star

Oscar-winning actor said the franchise was adrenched and born out of profound sexisma

Actor is getting candid over Morpheusas absence in aMatrix Resurrectionsa

Sitcom star admitted his first audition for the role of Mick Shipman didnat go to plan

Comedian is hosting the late-night comedy show for the fourth time, with Elton John and Brandi Carlile appearing as its musical guests

Fans are theorising the star is filming secret role for new movie

Gibson was charged with misdemeanour spousal battery in 2011

Jacob Stolworthy runs through the films that didnat get the attention they deserved

The Rocket Man and his longtime friend Carlile, along with familiar faces Bernie Taupin and Andrew Watt, recreate the playfulness and sense of fun of some of Johnas Seventies gems

This fine Disney+ series from the creator of aNew Girla finds new life in close proximity to death

Now living a low-key life in Minneapolis, singer-songwriter Samia wants people to know the real her. Making herself the ideal unknowable woman for men to project onto is the subject of her third album, aBloodlessa, she tells Hannah Ewens

Beijing imposes punitive 34% extra tariffs on all goods imported from US, exacerbating stock market sell-off

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China has hit back hard against Donald Trumpas abullyinga tariffs, raising fears that the escalating trade war could trigger a global recession and prompting fresh turmoil in financial markets.

Beijing retaliated on Friday with punitive 34% additional tariffs on all goods imported from the US a mirroring the US decision and exacerbating a sell-off on global stock markets.

Actor and comedian charged with rape, indecent assault, oral rape and two counts of sexual assault, say police

The comedian and actor Russell Brand has been charged with one count each of rape, indecent assault and oral rape as well as two counts of sexual assault.

Brand will appear in court in London on 2 May, according to the Metropolitan police, which began investigating him in September 2023 after a range of allegations.

Released court statement says alleged Chinese spy helped draft private letters to Chinese president

The Duke of York sent letters directly to Chinaas president, the princeas former senior adviser told a special immigration tribunal, with an alleged Chinese spy advising him on how to write them.

Dominic Hampshire, who worked for Andrew from 2019-22, said Andrew had aalways had a communication channela with Xi Jinping that was aaccepteda and may even have been encouraged by Buckingham Palace and the late queen.

Bafta endorsement could have escalated actoras allegedly abusive behaviour towards women, Katharine Viner said

The editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Katharine Viner, has told the high court there was a avery high public interesta in reporting allegations made against Noel Clarke after he received a special Bafta award.

In a witness statement, Viner said she believed it was conceivable that the actoras endorsement by the British academy film awards could lead to an escalation of his allegedly abusive behaviour towards women.

Labour accuses Nigel Farageas party of amass rebranda after research into nominations of former Conservatives

More than 60 of Reform UKas council candidates standing in this yearas elections are defectors from the Conservative party, according to research from the Labour party.

Reform has also selected an ex-Conservative for its candidate in the upcoming Runcorn and Helsby byelection, while the partyas mayoral candidate for Greater Lincolnshire is the former Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns, who lost her parliamentary seat in West Yorkshire last July.

At least 25 killed in attack on Khan Younis in south as Israel says it is aiming to pressure Hamas into releasing hostages

Israel has restarted ground operations in the northern Gaza Strip and killed at least 25 people in airstrikes on the southern city of Khan Younis in what it says is a renewed military campaign aimed at pressuring Hamas into releasing Israeli hostages.

At least 25 people were killed in the attack on Khan Younis early on Friday, the local Nasser hospital told AFP, as the search for survivors continued.

Data suggest viewers seek to atravel via their taste budsa in Monday ritual that has gone viral on social media

Beyond yodelling along to the opening credits or decoding hidden clues about the showas plot, some fans of the critically acclaimed comedy drama The White Lotus have taken their obsession a step further this season.

Since the drama a this season set in Thailand a premiered on 17 February in the UK, Thai takeaway orders through Just Eat have increased by 11%, as viewers look to a[travel] via their taste budsa.

Experts say UK may have to raise taxes in autumn as senior MPs caution against too many concessions in US trade talks

Donald Trumpas tariffs signal a new global economic era, Downing Street has said, as economists warned that the British government would probably have to raise taxes in response.

No 10 said on Friday the prime minister believed that this weekas trade announcement by the US president, which has started a global trade war and sent stock markets tumbling, marked a turning point in history.

Presidentas move has no historic parallels, but the deep uncertainty for the global economy may prove as destructive as the tariffs

From world leaders, to the tiniest manufacturers thousands of miles from Washington, decision-makers across the global economy are racked with uncertainty as they scramble to come to terms with Donald Trumpas historic tariffs.

Experts are all but unanimous that the impact on global growth of Wednesdayas extraordinary Rose Garden press conference will be negative a but just how bad remains highly uncertain.

While the US economy remains robust, Jerome Powell cautions there is high uncertainty over its direction

Donald Trumpas global tariffs assault is set to raise prices and slow down economic growth, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has warned, defying the US presidentas demands for an immediate interest rate cut.

While the US economy remains robust, Powell cautioned that there is high uncertainty over its direction. aDownside risks have risen,a he told an event in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday.

Welsh and Scottish whisky makers, as well as craft breweries, fear losing exports to US

To some extent, the US owes its very existence to the Welsh.

Up to 18 of the 56 signatories of the 1776 Declaration of Independence claimed Welsh heritage, depending on which source you believe, including one delegate who was born in Llandaff.

As global stock markets fall, personal investments including pensions and stocks and shares could be affected

Global stock markets have been falling sharply for a second day running after Donald Trumpas announcement that the US planned to charge tariffs on goods from around the world. A global trade war intensified when China responded on Friday by announcing tariffs of 34% on imports of US goods, accelerating the market sell-off. For people in the UK, there are reasons to be concerned about the falls:

Companies with suppliers in Asian countries are likely to have to raise prices after the US presidentas measures

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Donald Trumpas aliberation daya tariff war has so far wiped trillions off the market value of publicly traded companies, with the sweeping border taxes of up to 50% poised to wreak havoc on businesses across the world.

US-based global brands from Nike to Apple have suffered some of the heaviest falls in share price and market value, as investors react to fears of price increases and a potential slowdown in consumer spending. Here, we examine some of the most exposed industries and brands.

There are major concerns about the potentially acatastrophica impact US policy will have on vehicle makers

Emerging into the springtime sun from gate 17 at Volkswagenas main factory in Wolfsburg at the end of his shift, Carsten, 63, pulled heavily on a cigarette and shook his head when asked about Donald Trumpas US tariff policies.

aItas just another nail in the coffin for the German car industry,a the assembly line worker said on Thursday. He cited managersa plans to slash jobs and close factories earlier this year, and a decade before that the adieselgatea scandal acostly financially and reputationally a when Germanyas largest carmaker was found to have falsified CO₂ emissions tests.

The Guardian joins a pest controller on the cityas streets as residents fear a rise in rodents during bin workersa strikes

aTheyare not fussy,a said Martin Curry, describing the far from epicurean appetites of the scurrying rodents that the residents of Birmingham fear could flood the streets of their city.

aRats all have their own personal tastes but if food is scarce theyall eat anything,a he said. Curry, who has been called the arat kinga locally, runs MC Environmental Pest Control. He has been on the frontline of stamping out the rodent threat amid a weeks-long bin strike that has caused bins to pile up on Birminghamas streets.

Guardian readers recall encounters with a brilliant actor who was kind, generous and much more than a heart-throb

aC/ Val Kilmer, star of Top Gun and The Doors, dies aged 65
aC/ An ethereally handsome actor who evolved into droll self-awareness
aC/ A life in pictures

I worked as a dialogue coach on Oliver Stoneas Alexander in 2003. Val was playing Alexanderas father, Philip II of Macedon. Oliver wanted the Macedonians to have Celtic accents in contrast to the Greeks, who looked down on the Macedonians, as the English have only too frequently done to neighbours of the UK. We were prepping in Morocco and I had been working for a while with Val on his Irish accent when my 95-year-old mother died and I had to leave for a couple of days for her funeral. During my absence, Val had to go home for a short while. When I returned I opened my hotel room door to find it awash with beautiful white roses. Val had sent them before he left, leaving a note of condolence and both his personal phone numbers so that I might call any time if I needed someone. Such unexpected kindness I have never forgotten. Catherine Charlton, voice coach, St Leonards-on-Sea

This UK-Aussie comedyas depiction of Britishness is painfully twee and trite despite starring Sally Phillips and Ben Miller. Good job that its lead, Michael Theo, is such a joy

We briefly meet Austin, the namesake of this British-Australian sitcom, at the very beginning of the opening episode: heas walking through his workplace a a warehouse, heas a forklift driver a bluntly dispensing unsolicited advice to his colleagues (aBest hangover cure: sardines on toast!a). But before we know it, weave been torn away from this offbeat sage and thrown into the orbit of a far less wise man. Julian (Ben Miller) is a childrenas author in crisis. He has come to Australia with his illustrator wife Ingrid (Sally Phillips) to promote the latest instalment in their wildly successful Big Bear franchise. Before takeoff, Julian retweeted a missive about free speech from a neo-Nazi (he didnat realise they were a neo-Nazi). Upon arrival, he discovers his career has effectively been destroyed.

Book tour (and self) cancelled, Julian hastily arranges a signing in one of the only shops that will still have him, a Mein Kampf-laden store run by a neo-Nazi (he didnat realise they were a neo a| you get the picture). After the penny finally drops, Julian starts packing up a thatas when Austin arrives, Big Bear back catalogue in tow. He wants his books signed and to deliver some news. aIam pretty sure that,a he begins, pausing idiosyncratically, aIam your son.a

Looking to refresh your outdoor space? We asked garden professionals for their top tips, from planting and composting to new garden furniture

aC/ The best gardening tools, chosen by the experts

Is your garden about to burst with blossom and bulbs, but still looking messy after its winter hibernation? Nowas the time to get it spring- and summer-ready.

From finding the perfect fruit tree to sprucing up your fences and furniture, these are the easy jobs to tackle now that will transform your garden for the months ahead.

Traditionalists rail at the aPlastic Nationala but a third of all adults will have a bet on the worldas most famous race

The numbers are nearly as breathtaking as the sight of 34 horses soaring over Aintreeas famous fences. Before Saturdayas Grand National, a third of adults in Britain will place some sort of bet on the worldas most famous steeplechase. APS150m will be wagered in total. And six million will then tune in for the spectacle.

But amid all the noise and fanfare surrounding the 177th running of the apeopleas racea, organisers are increasingly engaged in a delicate high-wire act. Because the more they try to ensure the thrills come without horrific spills a and potential deaths a the more they upset traditionalists, who fear that the National has gone too soft.

Doing laundry can be a tedious task and how often you wash each type of item depends on how much contact it has with your skin

Is there any domestic task more sisyphean than laundry? No sooner have you pulled a crisp, clean sheet on to your bed than it is time to strip it off and start over. Blink and a clean towel becomes dirty. Somehow, lives, careers and relationships must fit into the tiny slivers of time between loads.

I donat enjoy laundry; give me dish duty any day. I do, however, enjoy living in a clean space that doesnat smell like a locker room. Textiles can really trap scent a and bacteria.

After years of creating dark, disturbing, thought-provoking TV, Charlie Brooker is changing it up. The creator and star-studded cast of Black Mirror talk about why this season is the most moving and vulnerable yet

Charlie Brooker has been contemplating the passing of time, and heas not happy about it. Weare on set at Shepperton for USS Callister: Into Infinity, the sequel to the 2017 space opera from his terrifying tech anthology Black Mirror. aThe cast donat seem to have aged at all,a he grumbles, awhereas I�am a wizened old gentleman.a

There is a more reflective, almost nostalgic tone to this seventh season. The episode Plaything flashes back to Brookeras early years as a gaming journalist in a Bandersnatch-adjacent slice of computer-induced madness; Eulogy immerses Paul Giamatti in his memories as he literally enters decades-old photos; gaslighting parable BAate Noire forces Siena Kellyas chocolatier to reckon with youthful misdemeanours; Hotel Reverie stars Emma Corrin as a 1940s matinee idol falling for Issa Raeas modern film star, who plays her white, male love interest in an AI remake of a vintage romance.

Lots of adolescents like you missed out on key developmental stages during Covid. Taking risks is scary a but so is missing opportunities
Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a problem sent in by a reader

Iam 16 and have never really had crushes. Along with that, I moved around a lot as a kid and never really had many friends until year 7. Iave struggled a lot with maintaining friendships and Iave always felt a bit awkward and isolated from my peers. I guess part of it was Covid; I never really developed social skills and have always relied on others to help me make friends.

Recently, I met this really nice guy at a debate competition. He seemed genuinely interested in me and kept trying to talk to me. I liked talking to him; it felt really comfortable. For the first time, it felt as if I had met someone I aclickeda with. I actively sought out interactions with him and was praying head be on my team, which he was. I just thought I liked him as a friend at first, so I didnat get any sort of contact information and assumed Iad forget about him.

We have had to be resilient because no one has come to our aid. Myanmar needs tangible support before the humanitarian crisis claims even more lives

Two thoughts entered my head as soon as I saw that Myanmar, my home country, had been hit by an earthquake: aIs everyone OK?a, followed by, aWe just canat catch a breaka.

My loved ones thankfully turned out to be badly shaken but physically OK. There were material losses but nothing compared with what so many others are going through.

Amid claims that a chatbot helped shape the key calculations, the president is now off playing golf. Heall find the world economy in a bunker

Thereas a scene in the very first episode of Yellowstone where the casino-owning Native American chief explains the basic financial logic of all casinos to an uncomfortable politician: aThe gamblersa money is like a river a flowing one way. Our way.a Oh no, hang on, wait a| Not all casinos. In fact, it could be that when all is said and done, the historians looking for that one key fact to illustrate the eventual legacy of Donald Trump will not go with his two stunning presidential election wins. Instead, theyall point out that in the 90s, he literally managed to bankrupt casinos. To repeat: this is a man who somehow contrived to bankrupt multiple casinos. Is he the guy to reshape the entire global economic order of the past century? Letas find out! Either way, only 45 months of his presidency left to go.

Anyway: tariffs. Rather than using actual tariff data, the United States of America this week appeared to have genuinely used a basic ChatGPT-style model to calculate the tariffs it would immediately impose on friends/foes/arctic wildlife. This was called either aliberation daya, or the adeclaration of economic independencea (sadly not abbreviated a yet a to DEI).

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

There is a principle that even the most powerful leaders must be accountable. Increasingly, that is under threat, but it must be defended

It was unsurprising that Benjamin Netanyahu praised Viktor OrbA!nas abold and principleda stand, in response to Hungaryas announcement yesterday that it will leave the international criminal court (ICC). More dismaying is that too few governments seem ready to stand up against impunity at a time when, because of Donald Trump, the very existence of the Hague court is under threat.

Hungaryas leader described the ICC as aa political foruma; the Israeli prime minister, during his defiant visit to Budapest this week, complained of a acorrupt organisationa. That is all logical enough. Four months ago, the court confirmed an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. He could hardly be expected to praise his own indictment.

Steve Crawshaw is the author of Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice. He is a former chief foreign correspondent at the Independent and former UK director at Human Rights Watch

From US travel fears to wondering if Ringo deserves a biopic, itas been an out-of-kilter week of existential musings and political absurdities

Grief is an unnerving companion. Continually nudging me off centre. Even though the world appears much as it did before my mum, Rosemary, died, everything feels slightly out of kilter. Not quite right. Not as I remembered it. Sometimes, I even have to double-check the chair is where I thought it was. The physical merges into the metaphysical. Most of the time I feel OK. Tell myself that it was the right time for her time to die and that no one can feel cheated at 101. That it is a blessing she is no longer subject to the terrors of her dementia. That she is at peace. I just get on with my work and spend time with family and friends.

Using the platform was dangerous and wrong a but officials appeared to prioritize shielding themselves from litigation

No senior US government official in the now-infamous aHouthi PC Small Groupa Signal chat seemed new to that kind of group, nor surprised by the sensitivity of the subject discussed in that insecure forum, not even when the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, chimed in with details of a coming airstrike. No one objected a not the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who was abroad and using her personal cellphone to discuss pending military operations; not even the presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, who was in Moscow at the time. Yet most of these officials enjoy the luxury of access to secure government communications systems 24/7/365.

Reasonable conclusions may be drawn from these facts. First, Trumpas national security cabinet commonly discusses secret information on insecure personal devices. Second, sophisticated adversaries such as Russia and China intercept such communications, especially those sent or received in their countries. Third, as a result, hostile intelligence services now probably possess blackmail material regarding these officialsa indiscreet past conversations on similar topics. Fourth, as a first-term Trump administration official and ex-CIA officer, I believe the reason these officials risk interacting in this way is to prevent their communications from being preserved as required by the Presidential Records Act, and avoid them being discoverable in litigation, or subject to a subpoena or Freedom of Information Act request. And fifth, no one seems to have feared being investigated by the justice department for what appears to be a violation of the Espionage Actas Section 793(f), which makes gross negligence in mishandling classified information a felony; the FBI director, Kash Patel, and attorney general, Pam Bondi, quickly confirmed that hunch. Remarkably, the CIA director John Ratcliffe wouldnat even admit to Congress that he and his colleagues had made a mistake.

Funding schools to set up nurseries works. Why spend more on older children, when we know spending earlier is most effective?

Despite the rampaging rogue state across the Atlantic, around the cabinet table ministers push on with their plans. Too often ignored in all this sound and fury, there is some good news. This week Bridget Phillipson awarded the first 300 primary schools funding to set up nurseries that will add up to 4,000 places by the end of September. In the great dash for growth, growth, growth the OBR predicted an extra 0.2% of GDP due to the provision of free nursery hours for under twos, which are now coming on stream.

Nurseries may lack the glamour of mighty infrastructure projects, but the growth effect is immediate, letting more parents work, or work more hours. But the overriding motive of Labouras early years push is to drive life chances of children whose future is too often determined long before they reach primary school.

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist

The UK is among those least hit by the US presidentas war on the world economy. Retaliation at this point makes no sense

The tirade was astonishing. On Wednesday afternoon the world watched as the leader of its most powerful nation accused friends and foes alike of having alooted, pillaged, raped, plundereda, and simultaneously waved a bogus list of tariff imbalances. The playground paranoia was cringeworthy. What on earth was going on?

The answer can only be that Donald Trump is Americaas elected president for the next four years. He says he wants to end the military conflicts the US has fought or sponsored round the globe for a quarter of a century. We are waiting for that. Meanwhile, he is waging an economic war on world trade, a response that his biographer and ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, blames on his childhood: aa life spent feeling like a victim a| any time he does not totally dominate he feels ripped offa.

As the White House retools US imperialism with import duties, others must resist dependency a deepening regional ties and reducing exposure to chokepoints

When Donald Trump stood before union auto workers in the Rose Garden he declared aLiberation Daya, promising to stand up for Main Street. Whether that pledge will be fulfilled is moot. He will declare victory either way. What the US president offered was not just an economic programme, but an imperial one.

Mr Trumpas logic, if it exists, lies in the 397-page report on aforeign trade barriersa he brandished on Wednesday. Its message is brutally simple: you may sell your goods to Walmart shoppers, but only if you let US cloud services hoover up your data, US media flood your screens and US tech monopolies operate on their terms a not yours.�TikTok is the test case for Trumpas platform nationalism: only US firms may mine data, reap profits and rule the digital empire.

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Welsh culture is in crisis. The actoras intervention is to be applauded, but it is not a long-term solution

Michael Sheenas statement of intent for his newly founded national theatre for Wales couldnat be more clear. The Welsh actor launched the company in January after the demise of National Theatre Wales owing to funding cuts. This week, Sheen announced that one of his first plays will be Owain & Henry, the story of Owain GlyndAur, who led a 15-year revolt against the English in 1400. Sheen will star as GlyndAur, adding the last Welshman to have been proclaimed Prince of Wales to a rA(c)sumA(c) that includes Tony Blair, David Frost and, most recently, another Welsh hero, Aneurin Bevan.

Retelling Shakespeareas Henry IV from the Welsh perspective was aan act of defiancea and aresistancea, Sheen told BBC Fouras Front Row, saying that he hoped�the play would spark national conversations, not least about his countryas relationship with England. Sheen returned his OBE in 2017, calling for an end to the practice of keeping the title of Prince of Wales in the English royal family.

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Guardian readers respond to Daniel Lavelleas piece about living in class limbo

In his critical reflections on the Marxist definition of the working class (My life in class limbo: am I working class or insufferably bourgeois?, 2 April), Daniel Lavelle wonders how a cleaner and a Premier League footballer could be deemed as part of the same class. They shouldnat be, because theyare not the same class. Unlike the cleaner, the Premier League footballer doesnat depend on his wage to survive, because he has probably accumulated enough wealth to do so even if he stops playing football�tomorrow.

Being working class is not simply about selling your labour, but having to sell your labour to make ends meet. If you have other sources of income that could cover that (profits, savings, inheritance, dividends, rent), then you are not working class. Itas less about, therefore, whether you own the means of production or not, and more about whether you own the means of self-reproduction or not.

Readers respond to an article by Kate McCusker about the joy that can be found in daily walks

Kate McCuskeras article on walking resonated with me (The one change that worked: I loathed all forms of exercise a until I moved to a big city and walked miles, 31 March). I, too, have signed up for aerobic classes, pilates sessions, tai chi courses and other activities, and though I did enjoy them, I hated being indoors. I began walking every day for long periods when both my children were chronically ill for several years. My daily walks helped me manage the stresses of being a caregiver. They got me out of the house without having to go too far, lifted my mood and delighted my senses.

I found beautiful walks near my home through fields and parks and am fortunate to have some wooded areas within walking distance. My children are now grown, but I rarely miss a day of walking. I stroll through cities while on vacation, hike up mountains near my cottage and generally walk every day without fail, regardless of the weather.

McLaren driver is determined to succeed as a nice guy in F1 but donat mistake his kindness for a lack of fight

His credentials as a potential Formula One world champion have been questioned but Lando Norris is unperturbed. With an almost startling level of honesty, highly unusual in the sport, the British driver has considered conventional wisdom and its implications and rejected it. That he wants to win is in no doubt but he will not allow his sense of self to be subsumed at the altar of success at all costs.

aI feel like there is a very prescribed version of how people say a world champion needs to be a overly aggressive,a he says in his McLaren teamas hospitality on a chilly day in Suzuka before this weekendas Japanese Grand Prix. aI want to win a championship. Iad rather just be a good person and try to do well. Iall do whatever I can to win a championship but maybe I wonat sacrifice in my life as much as some others, in terms of who I am as a person and have the afuck youa mentality people say youave got to have. I still believe I can be a world champion but doing it by being a nice guy.a

The City midfielder made his teammates look like geniuses and once more he is making just the right move at just the right moment

Not for the first time, Kevin De Bruyne read the situation to perfection. Not for the first time, he spotted the right play just a little earlier than everyone else. And of course this was always his gift: not simply to pick the right option but to do it faster than anyone else, buying him those crucial fractions of a second when�everything else was in flux and only he in stillness.

And of course this was not the only respect in which De Bruyne understood the game of football better than most. As a struggling teenager in the Genk academy, he noticed the way the club abruptly stopped paying for a foster family to house him, and then quietly resumed when he started banging in goals for the second team. Cast adrift at Chelsea, he noticed how he was ignored while first-team players were lavished with attention and bespoke coaching.

England moved to the top of their Nations League group with a commanding win over Belgium in Bristol.

Sarina Wiegmanas side had shown they could turn up and beat the best, their stunning performance in a 1-0 win over Spain two months ago demonstrating a fluency that had been lacking. Here they had the chance to prove they could deliver against lower ranked opposition and they did so in style.

Crystal Palace out to earn first double over rivals since 1933 in aA23 derbya that has import beyond bragging rights

When Fabian HA1/4rzeler called Oliver Glasner a few days after his appointment by Brighton last June, he found the Crystal Palace manager was only too happy to offer a few pointers about life in the Premier League. aHe is very helpful and open-minded,a HA1/4rzeler later said. aHe is a role model, I think, in how he acts and how humble and grounded he is.a

Although Glasner and HA1/4rzeler were managers in Germany at the same time at Eintracht Frankfurt and St Pauli respectively, they worked in different divisions and had not come face to face until IsmaA-la Sarr scored twice in a 3-1 Palace victory at the Amex in December. The Austrian had warned his Brighton counterpart in one of their frequent chats that their friendship would be put aside for the afternoon as arch-rival clubs met in the fixture some outsiders have taken to referring to as the aA23 derbya.

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Ange Postecoglou believes Tottenham must make material changes to their outlook as a club if they are to reach the level of success they crave. The manager, who is fighting to continue into next season, described his job as different to anything he had experienced because of the aweight of things youare trying to rail againsta.

They include the isolation of the post, how the Spurs manager is normally the lone spokesperson for the club, nobody from the hierarchy publicly defending its positions. This echoed the sentiments of some of his predecessors, especially Antonio Conte. Postecoglou did not name names but it is a matter of fact that the chairman, Daniel Levy, almost never gives interviews. The chief football officer, Scott Munn, and the technical director, Johan Lange, are similarly low-profile.

Tearful send-off for Warwickshireas operations manager after 52 years symbolises spirit that must be preserved

The County Championship returned under splendid spring sunshine on Friday and all it took was a quick glance around the grounds a or a scroll through social media and the Guardianas live blog a to challenge the notion of a competition struggling for relevance.

It may have been pushed to the bookends of summer, and be due for its umpteenth review in the coming months, but in some ways the Championship feels more important than ever. As private money reshapes the sport, accelerating the rise of a dystopian year-round T20 circuit, it remains a vital touchstone: 135 years of unrivalled history and heritage that has only ever paused for two world wars and a pandemic.

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The BBC and ITV have declined to pursue the chance to televise this summeras Club World Cup, leaving Fifa increasingly concerned about the visibility of its flagship new tournament in a key market.

The streaming platform Dazn agreed to pay $1bn (APS787bn) for global Club World Cup rights in a deal which involved the company pledging to make all 63 matches available free-to-air on its app.

Trumpas new 10% universal tariffs will not apply to many fossil fuel products in sign of his fealty, advocates say

The sweeping package of tariffs unveiled by Donald Trump on Wednesday includes an exemption for the energy sector, which is a clear sign of the presidentas fealty to his big oil donors over the American people, advocates say.

Trumpas new 10% universal tariffs a which are higher for many major economies a are wreaking havoc on the global economy and are expected to increase consumer prices in the US. But the levies will not apply to many fossil fuel products, including liquefied natural gas imports, crude oil from Canada, and materials needed for making petrochemicals.

FoI release shows further evidence of Lord Evans of Watfordas role in apparent cash-for-access venture

New documents reveal the extent of a Labour peeras involvement in organising the attendance of a minister at a commercial event in parliament.

Emails show how David Evans contacted officials working closely with Sharon Taylor, a housing minister in the House of Lords, who was to be the keynote speaker at an event on housing that Lord Evans of Watford was hosting in parliament.

Move ends bid for site near Whitehaven, Cumbria after planning permission was quashed by high court

The Whitehaven coalmineas planning application has been withdrawn, bringing an end to a process that could have created the UKas first deep coalmine in 30 years in Cumbria.

Planning permission for the mine was quashed in the high court last year which meant the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government had to reassess the planning application. However, the company has now written to the government withdrawing its planning application.

Her introduction to politics began in Birmingham as the child of a Labour councillor and as justice secretary sheas made tough decisions from day one

Shabana Mahmoodas potential as a future cabinet minister was first noticed by the former deputy Labour leader Tom Watson in the 90s over tea and samosas at her familyas end-of-terrace Birmingham home.

Watson, a seasoned fixer, had become a close friend of her father, Mahmood Ahmed, a Labour councillor. When political problems arose, Watson and fellow Labour party organisers would be guided through to comfy sofas in the family sitting room.

Broadcaster wants to branch out with shows covering crime, history and sport and says he has investors lined up

Piers Morgan is planning to create a YouTube empire covering true crime, history and other genres, claiming to have asignificant playersa already lining up to invest.

Morgan said he was looking to branch out from his Piers Morgan Uncensored YouTube channel and find a series of amini-mesa to front other shows under the brand. He said his current show was already turning a profit since he broke away from Rupert Murdochas media empire in January.

Joanne Sharkey admitted manslaughter after secret birth while she had postnatal depression after first child

A woman who killed her newborn baby 27 years ago while she had severe postnatal depression has been handed a suspended prison sentence, as a judge said the case acalls for compassiona.

Joanne Sharkey, 55, admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility over the death of her days-old son, whose body was found wrapped in bin bags in woodland in 1998.

Ladies Day visitors happy to make financial sacrifices to wear spectacular outfits at annual Liverpool event

The tradition of fascinators and hats during Ladies Day is usually more about showcasing excellent style than being practical. But this year, spectators at Aintree had good need for their headwear, as the sun shone at the racecourse for the first time in almost a decade.

A crowd of 45,000 people had been predicted, and as temperatures reached 19C on Friday, the Met Office said it was just short of being the warmest Aintree festival this century.

Livia Tossici-Bolt given conditional discharge and ordered to pay APS20,000 costs in case that drew US state department concern

An activist whose case had been cited by the US state department over afreedom of expressiona concerns in the UK has been convicted of breaching a buffer zone outside an abortion clinic.

Livia Tossici-Bolt, an anti-abortion campaigner, went on trial at Poole magistrates court last month accused of breaching a public spaces protection order on two days in March 2023 near to a clinic in Bournemouth. On Friday she was found guilty of two charges of breaching the order.

Temperature could hit 24C in central England on Friday with avery high to extremea risk of wildfires across Britain

The UK could experience its warmest day of the year so far, with temperatures higher than European holiday hotspots.

The Met Office said much of the country would be dry and sunny on Friday, and some of central England could hit 24C (75F) as weather anearer to what wead expect in Julya continued.

Shoppers also face more ashrinkflationa as manufacturers atry to offset rising production costsa

Exchanging Easter eggs and tucking into a roast dinner are among the highlights of the spring holiday but Britons face paying more for this yearas celebrations after a sharp rise in the price of essentials such as chocolate, lamb and hot cross buns.

A leg of lamb joint now costs on average APS13.94 a kilo in supermarkets, which is 10%, or APS1.31, more than last year, according to the price analysts Assosia. Over two years, the jump is nearly 27%, or approaching APS3 more a kilo, based on the pre-promotion price across Tesco, Sainsburyas, Asda and Morrisons.

Plan to add 90 turbines to Rampion will create 4,000 jobs in construction and could power 1m homes

The government has approved plans to build an offshore windfarm capable of powering about 1m British homes before the end of the decade.

The plan to extend the Rampion offshore windfarm by adding 90 turbines off the Sussex coast is expected to add about 1.2 gigawatts of clean power for British households and businesses.

In outback Queensland, an area four times the size of the UK has been inundated with torrential rain, leaving many cut off or forced to abandon homes

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The extent of flood waters that have engulfed Queensland over the past fortnight is so widespread it has covered an area more than four times the size of the United Kingdom. The inundation is larger than France and Germany combined a and is even bigger than Texas.

The seemingly endless plains of outback Queensland are so vast and remote as to boggle any attempts to visualise the scale of what is being described as one of the most devastating floods in living memory.

Verdict marks end of the first trial of 42 lawsuits filed about 12 years ago, alleging firmas projects destroyed the regions

Chevron has been ordered to pay more than $744m in damages for destroying parts of south-east Louisianaas coastal wetlands over the years.

The ruling, which came in the form of a civil jury verdict on Friday, marks the conclusion of the first trial among 42 lawsuits filed about 12 years earlier which alleged that the companyas oil and gas projects have led to the degradation of the regionas wetlands. Among other things, the wetlands play a key role in offering the area a measure of protection from hurricanes.

On social media, the president said, aMy policies will never changea, before suggesting possible change with Vietnam

Donald Trump doubled down on his decision to launch a global trade war, declaring that he would anevera back off from sweeping tariffs on US trading partners.

The US presidentas announced action sent shock waves around the world this week, prompting fierce threats of retaliation and sharp sell-offs in stock markets.

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