BBC Politics
Burnham offers Scotland a devolution deal during SNP conference week, while Swinney pushes independence by 2031 and Badenoch suggests reviewing the whole thing. Everyone agrees on more power - just not on who gets it.
BBC Health
A swimmer with inoperable brain tumours is off to Downing Street after crying on BBC Breakfast, because apparently that's what it takes to get a meeting about people dying.
The Guardian
Alan Milburn wants a national pre-apprenticeship route because Britain's youth apprenticeship pipeline is less a pipeline and more a dripping tap.
The Guardian
England's July wildfire record goes up in smoke - 624 fires in one month, hottest summer ever, and a government that scrapped its own preparation plans. Surely this is fine.
BBC Politics
UK PM Andy Burnham jets to Berlin to chat cyber threats and sabotage with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, because nothing bonds nations like mutual Russian paranoia and a freshly arrested ex-spy chief.
BBC Business
Energy suppliers warn the government that doing nothing about soaring bills will cost everyone more - including the £67 a year you're already paying to cover other people's debt.
The Guardian
Nigel Farage says Andy Burnham's EU talk is the 'biggest boost' of his career, because nothing says 'winning' like rerunning 2016.
The Guardian
Government pledges £79m and half a million trees to fight extreme weather, because nature apparently had the right idea all along and we just stopped listening.
BBC Business
Andy Burnham announces Great British Grid, a new public body to fix the energy market, because the private sector has done such a bang-up job.
BBC Politics
Avanti West Coast gets nationalised after years of delays, cancellations and overcrowding - proving that 'enough is enough' is a phrase that works best when you actually do something.
BBC Business
UK government borrows £18.3bn in August - almost a fifth more than last year - as inflation and debt interest costs pile pressure on Chancellor John Healey ahead of his 28 October Budget.
The Guardian
Europe suspects Russia is testing NATO's limits with a 'shadow war' of sabotage, while the UN general assembly kicks off and El Niño breaks temperature records.
BBC Health
England is urged to give dementia the cancer treatment - an 18-week waiting target, that is, because the current plan is apparently 'wait and see, forever.'
BBC Politics
The Conservatives want Burnham to rule out tax rises, Griffith won't commit to scrapping inheritance tax, and everyone is very concerned about the pips.
The Guardian Europe
Manchester United's Carabao Cup night is overshadowed by a 15-year-old's transfer flirtation, while Andy Burnham and Mark Carney play political VIP at Everton.
BBC Politics
Unions say making care workers wait 15 years for settlement while bankers get three is not a policy, it's a value statement.
BBC Business
Wales cuts business rates by 30% for pubs, hotels and gyms, funded by a 1p-in-the-pound hike on big businesses, because apparently even the Welsh government thinks a night out shouldn't require a second mortgage.
BBC Business
The government says it will end rough sleeping by Christmas, which is a bit like saying you'll finish that novel by the weekend - technically possible, but you're going to need a lot more than good intentions.
The Guardian Europe
IDF soldier shoots Palestinian man in the leg during settler standoff over livestock, because the West Bank is apparently the Wild West now.
The Guardian
Britain announces 29 battery-powered trains to fix the north, arriving in 2034 - just in time for the heat death of the universe, or your next commute, whichever comes first.
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