Weir Cottage, on the island of Wheatley Eyot, by Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, is heated by an air-source heat pump that uses the same energy each day it takes to boil a kettle once. Via: Ex-home for convalescing WW2 soldiers is now £1m eco-cottage that costs £2.50 daily to run
National Security Advisor John Bolton was holding a notepad that included a handwritten line: 5,000 troops to Colombia while speaking to White House reporters regarding the crisis in Venezuela. Via: John Bolton's White House notes may have just revealed Trump's next move in Venezuela crisis
Theresa May says she will reopen Brexit withdrawal agreement with EU ahead of votes on anti-backstop and Article 50 amendmentsFull list of amendments to May’s statementEU dismisses Tory compromise Brexit plan as unworkableThe ‘Malthouse compromise’: everything you need to knowLabour backs Cooper plan to rule out no-deal Brexit 2.01pm GMT Read more
Longtime Trump adviser expected to plead not guilty but told the Guardian via text message he has ‘no idea’ what hearing will entailSign up for the Guardian’s daily morning briefing 2.00pm GMT Former Arizona senator Jeff Flake ruled out a 2020 presidential bid this morning.Flake, a Republican who was a Read more
New figures show more than half of councils don’t insist that agencies pay staff for their travel between appointmentsUntil he was 90, Michael Robinson’s father, James, was an active man, taking the grandchildren to school and going out every day, but gradually Michael noticed his father slowing down and his Read more
Ex-military chief aims to have broad appeal with message of ‘no more right and left’Israel’s former military chief Benny Gantz will officially launch his election campaign on Tuesday. Opinion polls suggest he is the only credible challenger to the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, despite having revealed almost none of his Read more
Follow live updates from Westminster Via: Brexit news – live: Theresa May to tell EU to reopen negotiation despite leaders repeatedly ruling it out, as crunch votes loom
‘Wow on today of all days! I thought you’d have something better to do,’ fellow Twitter user tells Chris Heaton-Harris Via: Junior Brexit minister tweets crude joke about 'Dyson ball cleaners' on crucial day of amendment votes on EU withdrawal
27-year-old victim left in tears after being pounced on in Glasgow flat by mother of two Via: Woman tried to have sex with sleeping younger man
A recall petition could force a by-election if it is signed by more than 10 per cent of local voters Via: Fiona Onasanya: Disgraced ex-Labour MP jailed for three months after lying to police about speeding