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Behind the doors of Kermit Gosnell’s ‘house of horrors’ clinic were countless vulnerable women with nowhere else to turn. But when his crimes were finally exposed, their stories became lost in the anti-abortion movement. Rachel Sharp reports

Exclusive: Ex-PM now ‘painfully on the rack’, says Michael Heseltine – as former aide gives him 5 out of 10 for morality

The Welsh-born painter Gwen John is generally remembered as a “fragile”, isolated figure, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Neglected for some time after her death, John (1876-1939) was rediscovered in the 1980s, when she was reassessed as a reclusive talent overshadowed by two “bombastic male egos”: her brother, the…

Woman was on a flight from Denver, Colorado to Charlotte, North Carolina

Let’s be clear, said Sean O’Grady in The Independent. We will be witnessing, in the coming months and years, “the slow death” of the British car industry – another success story sacrificed on the altar of Brexit. 

Exclusive: Home secretary was the director of a charity providing training to Rwandan government lawyers for five years

Ahead of his appearance at music and philosophy festival How the Light Gets In, singer and author Billy Bragg talks to Roisin O’Connor about the state of the nation

Exclusive: Expert says forced marriage inflicts ‘significant damage’ and constitutes child abuse

Tory MPs ‘seething’ over new row involving Johnson, as ex-PM cuts ties with government-appointed lawyers