BBC Politics
Lords committee says monthly flea treatments are environmental overkill, recommends restricting sales to vets and pharmacists - because your dog's fleas aren't worth killing the river.
BBC Politics
Sadiq Khan joins 25 others in the House of Lords, because apparently the only way to fix an unelected chamber is to keep filling it.
BBC Politics
Vets tell UK parliament that monthly flea treatments are mostly unnecessary and are poisoning rivers; industry says hold your horses.
BBC Politics
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson backs a bill to fine airlines that mistreat disabled passengers, after her wheelchair was lost, cut in half, and returned with a suggestion to use duct tape.
The Guardian
South East Water asks residents to stop filling paddling pools after using 100m extra litres in a day, while customers who lost water for days suggest the company might want to look inward instead.
BBC Business
Parents report the Child Maintenance Service mistakenly taking thousands from bank accounts, sometimes decades after child support ended, and then fighting tooth and nail to get it back.
The Guardian Europe
Civil servants dodge accountability, MPs defend their booze, hereditary peers get the boot (sort of), and Spurs fans brace for the inevitable - all in a week's Westminster froth.
The Guardian Europe
House of Lords committee tells Rachel Reeves her £22bn fiscal buffer is historically puny, debt is unsustainable, and maybe stop treating the rules like a game of chicken.
BBC Health
The assisted dying bill collapses in the Lords after 1,200+ amendments and 17 months of parliamentary ping-pong - proving that even in death, bureaucracy finds a way.
The Good Times
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