Young activists who have been taking part in school strikes over the climate crisis will be joined by adults when they walk out on Friday. The entire city of Oxford – and surrounding areas in Oxfordshire – will go on strike to draw attention to the environment and call for the government to act. Being hailed the UK’s ‘first general strike since 1926’, those taking part say that for the first time school children will strike together with adults to ‘take action against climate breakdown’.

Wages are flatlining because companies are scrapping swathes of mid-tier positions – replacing them with algorithms and cheap offshore labour, according to a new report. White-collar recruitment specialist Hays found that with jobs like paralegal work and administration, new technology is making these roles redundant, leaving over-qualified professionals working in lower-tier positions instead.

The climate emergency is a bigger issue than Brexit for the nearly three-quarters of people in the UK, according to a new poll.

The European Court of Justice rules that the UK can cancel Brexit without the consent of the other EU states.

It’s been tough to find much to laugh about this year. But Britain’s most savage satirist is going to give it a go... By Frankie Boyle.

“Say Nothing” evokes the worlds of both the victims and their assailants

Anthem topped the UK boxed game sales chart during its first week of release, but with half the physical sales of BioWare's previous game Mass Effect Andromeda. Without digital sales through EA's Origin service on PC, or download sales on PlayStation or Xbox, it's difficult to draw exact comparisons. But from the comparisons we can make, Anthem's sales do not paint a hugely positive picture.

Owen Bennett-Jones on the state of the BBC.

The Queen may have overtaken Victoria’s reign of 63 years and 216 days, but she ranks just 48th in the league table of longest verifiable rulers. King Sobhuza II of Swaziland, who spent 82 years 253 days on the throne of the small southern African kingdom, claims top spot. He owes this auspicious historical footnote to the unfortunate demise of his father, King Ngwane V, aged 23, while dancing. The son was just four months old when he became king.

Emily Coxhead is the creator of the Happy Newspaper and quite possibly the most smiley person on the planet. Her publication, which subscribers get every three months, includes only positive news stories. She came up with the idea for the paper after she began feeling overwhelmed by certain things in the news. While Emily acknowledges people should be aware of what's happening in the world, she says people should hear about the good things too.

The University of Bristol has become the first in the country to declare a climate emergency. It follows a raft of organisations and local authorities, including the city council and North Somerset Council, across the UK in taking the step. Deputy vice-chancellor and provost Professor Judith Squires said the declaration reaffirmed the institution’s “key role” in fighting climate change.

The UK has gone a week without burning any coal to make electricity - the first coal-free week since 1882. Britain has relied on burning coal for power since the Industrial Revolution, which began in the UK in the 18th Century and spread to other parts of the world. The Industrial Revolution saw new factories being built and a massive increase in the use of fossil fuels. The world's first coal-fired power station was opened in London in 1882.

A petition signed by 350,000 people calls for "netting" of trees and hedges to be a criminal offence.

When she was was born - near the Irish border in County Fermanagh in 1942 - it was not unusual for families to live without electricity and running water. Margaret's neighbours only began to update their homes in the late 1940s and 1950s. But her family missed the opportunity to join the trend due to her mother's death, when Margaret was 10, and her father's ill health.

The onus is on MPs to ensure the government respects a legal ruling criticising the export of weapons used in Yemen

Jeremy Hunt had the nerve to call local councils ‘hidden victims of the cuts’, noticing that hospitals have been forced to prolong patient stays at great expense because of the disappearance of community care: ‘that wasn’t a smart move.’ No shit, Sherlock. By Tom Crewe.

Simon Kuper returns to the place where Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt began their climb to power.

Nestle has launched a new recyclable wrapper for a snack bar that it claims will degrade in a marine environment within six months. The YES! range will also be used on a high-speed packaging line in a "world-first" technological breakthrough.

The trade association for internet service providers in the UK has nominated Mozilla for this year's award of "Internet Villain" because of the browser maker's plans to support the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol in its Firefox browser. In a statement published this week, the Internet Services Providers Association (ISPAUK) claimed that Mozilla plans to support DNS-over-HTTPS "in such a way as to bypass UK filtering obligations and parental controls, undermining internet safety standards in the UK."

Thousands of UK consumers who can’t get a mobile signal at home – or don’t own a mobile phone – face being frozen out of internet shopping as banks are increasingly insisting that online payments are verified by text.