Egyptian photographer and curator Farida Mahdy was inspired to document her grandmother’s style after finding a collection of her photos

This image is a portrait of me and my grandmother, Ehsan Ouf, in her flat in Cairo. It is part of a project Grandma and the Fur Coat that I started in 2024. I lived with her for four years, while I was studying photography, and we spent a lot of time chatting and watching TV on that couch.

The dress I’m wearing is her engagement dress from 1971 – one of the very few items she wore as a young woman that she still has – and the fur coat she’s wearing was a gift from my late grandfather. I persuaded her not to sell it – and that is partly why I decided to start this project: to document how stylish she was. In the 70s and 80s she dressed like a celebrity, wearing brands such as Chanel and Dior. She had a collection of wigs, and even matched the colour of her cigarettes to her outfits.

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David Lammy’s decision to increase minimum sentence for domestic murder victims follows years of tireless lobbying

David Lammy had gone quiet. Sitting in his ministerial office in the Palace of Westminster, the justice secretary had just been presented with pictures of women killed by their partners in their own homes, by their grieving mothers.

As she put the photographs in front of him, Carole Gould explained that her 17-year-old daughter, Ellie, was killed by fellow sixth-former Thomas Griffiths the day after she ended their relationship in 2019. Julie Devey, who was joining the call remotely, showed a photograph of her daughter, Poppy Devey Waterhouse, who was 24 when she was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, Joe Atkinson, on 14 December 2018.

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Nearly 100 academy chief executives earn more than £200,000 a year, and at least one more than £500,000

The era of academy school leaders in England receiving “banker-style salaries” and hefty annual increases may soon be over, with the government to introduce limits on executive pay.

Nearly 100 academy chief executives earn more than £200,000 a year, with pay in academy trusts equating to anything from less than £5 a pupil to more than £150. Only a quarter of the high-earners were women.

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Typical bill will surge by £220 a year from Wednesday, forcing 13.5m homes to spend over 10% of income on fuel

Millions of households in Great Britain will be pushed into fuel poverty after months of volatility on the global gas markets as energy bills rise by more than £220 a year under the government’s price cap from Wednesday.

As the cap on gas and electricity rates rises to the equivalent of £1,862 a year, the number of households forced to spend more than 10% of their income on energy bills will increase to 13.5m from almost 11.3m in April, according to fuel poverty campaigners.

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Nooit eerder verdiende een Amerikaanse president zoveel geld tijdens zijn presidentschap. Trump prees onder meer bijbels aan, verkocht memecoins en gouden sneakers.

De bejaarde Johan Derksen wil graag verhalen vertellen uit zijn oude doos, toen hij nog vrouwen verkrachtte met een kaas. En hij houdt ook van anekdotes over beffen en zo.

Maar zeker nu VI al om zeven uur 's avonds op het scherm is zijn er voor SBS en Talpa kennelijk grenzen. Wilfred Genee, de host van het programma, heeft bij herhaling gepoogd de vieze oudemannetjespraatjes te stoppen. Maar volgens insiders is de oude baas daar erg boos over. Derksen dreigt met een onmiddellijk vertrek uit Vandaag Inside als Genee hem nog eens vermanend toespreekt als hij over seks praat. “Het is gewoon leeftijdsdiscriminatie.”

Johan vertelt in zijn podcast Groeten uit Grolloo dat de frustratie écht was. “Ja, ik was heel pissig en dat is niet goed om dat op tv te uiten, maar aan de andere kant is dat de charme van het programma. Wilfred zei op een gegeven moment: ‘Een man van 77 moet niet over seks praten op de televisie.’”

Hij vervolgt: “Daarmee zei hij eigenlijk, vind ik, dat ik ongeschikt ben voor deze talkshow. Ik vind dat iemand die aan een talkshowtafel zit overal over mee moet kunnen praten. Ik weet ook niet waarom ik op mijn 77ste niet mee mag praten over seks, want dat staat nergens, er zijn regels voor. Ik heb de indruk dat de wokefamilie zo redeneert.”

In dit liveblog houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws van woensdag 1 juli.

In dit liveblog houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws van woensdag 1 juli.