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• Police chiefs warn of crime surge if Labour's plans pass - as hunt for mistakenly released prisoners continues

  Police are preparing for a surge in crime if the government's plans to overhaul prison sentences go ahead - with hundreds of thousands more offences expected in a year.

• Prince William hails 'world's true action heroes' at Earthshot awards - and gets praise himself from Kylie

  Prince William has praised environmental innovators as the "world's true action heroes", describing them as the role models we need "in these uncertain times" at his Earthshot awards in Rio.

• Expensive, noisy and delayed - but is the Army's new fighting vehicle any good?

  Expensive, noisy and eight years late, but the British Army finally has a new armoured fighting vehicle that troops could deploy to Ukraine in the event of any peace deal.

• Reform deputy stands firm on climate change scepticism

  Humans have "possibly" impacted the climate, but only "modestly", Reform UK's deputy leader Richard Tice MP has told Sky News.

• 'Posh boys' playing gangsters: Eddie Marsan on TV and film industry's obsession with upper-class actors

  Over the last two decades, Eddie Marsan has established himself as one of Britain's most versatile and acclaimed character actors. From major blockbusters like the Sherlock Holmes films and Mission: Impossible III, to his roles on the TV series Ray Donovan, and more recently the sci-fi drama Supacell.

• Maccabi boss hits out at 'blatant falsehoods' peddled about their fans - but admits work to do on racism

  The chief executive of Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv has denounced "falsehoods" and hatred being spewed about their supporters, leading to them being banned from Aston Villa, while accepting there is work to do to eradicate racism in the fan base.

• Brits still buying EVs, heat pumps and solar panels despite drop in polling support and political attacks, Sky News analysis finds

  Uptake of electric vehicles, solar panels and heat pumps and commitment to vegetarian diets remain strong - and in some cases is accelerating - even in the face of political attacks on climate policies, Sky News has found.

• Feeble and inept - prison release fiasco is yet another political crisis

  The charitable view of the latest prison release blunder that has plunged the government into another political crisis is that it's extremely bad luck rather than an act of incompetence by ministers. 

• 'I'm desperately sorry': Axel Rudakubana's father accepts 'share of the responsibility' after Southport attack

  Axel Rudakubana's father has said he is "desperately sorry" for failing to challenge his son's violent behaviour over the years before the Southport attack.