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    Jeremy Corbyn has broken his silence over the antisemitism row engulfing Labour, acknowledging that there is a real problem but rejecting the idea that the party poses any threat to the Jewish community in the UK. Writing in the Guardian following a week of difficult headlines about the issue and amid growing calls for him to give a substantial response, the Labour leader accepted that the party’s incomplete adoption of an internationally recognised definition of antisemitism had caused genuine worries. Corbyn said he was confident the disagreement over the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition can be resolved through dialogue with community organisations, but gave no indication the party was about to switch policy. Addressing one of the key...

    Theresa May will publish scores of documents to prepare businesses and the public for a no-deal Brexit later in the summer but has denied putting the army on standby. No 10 rejected a report that soldiers are being lined up to deliver food, medicines and fuel in the event of shortages, insisting: There are no plans to involve the army in this. Downing Street instead revealed around 70 technical notices with advice to companies and consumers if the UK crashes out of the EU with no agreement would be issued in two sets in August and September. The prime minister’s spokesman rejected claims that plans to drip feed details of the preparations had been dropped because of fears it would scare voters too much. But he said: These notices will be published in August and Se...

    Russian hackers have attacked a Swiss lab that analysed Novichok nerve agent samples from the Salisbury, according to local media. The state-run Spiez laboratory near Bern was targeted by hackers believed to be linked to the Russian government ahead of a conference of chemical and biological warfare experts in September, the mass-market Swiss newspaper Blick reported. After Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury in March, the Swiss laboratory confirmed the British finding that they had fallen victim to the Soviet-developed military-grade nerve agent Novichok. Having created a fake email address to mimic the Spiez lab, the perpetrators sent a Word document to conference participants with malware embedded inside of it, the Federal Office for...

    Dixons Carphone says a data breach in 2017 was worse than originally thought and it affected 10 million customers. The firm also admitted that it has uncovered evidence that some of the data that was accessed may have been taken from its systems. It has assured customers that pin codes, card verification values and authentication data that could be used to make purchases have not been accessed and there is no evidence any fraud has resulted. The huge breach first came to light in June when Dixons Carphone revealed hackers had accessed 5.9 million payment cards used at Currys PC World and Dixons Travel, and 1.2 million personal data records. Biggest data breaches of the last 20 years. It meant that personal information belonging to millions of customers including t...

    Other A royal python which was found in a flat in Kensington, west London A woman got the fright of her life when she woke up to find a 3ft snake snuggled up next to her in bed. The royal python, believed to be an escaped pet, had curled up next to her as she slept. After jumping out of bed she rushed out of her bedroom and closed the door before calling the RSPCA for help on Monday morning. However, by the time the charity's animal collection officer Jill Sanders had arrived at her flat in Kensington, west London, the snake had slithered away and could not be found. Ms Sanders said: The poor resident must have had the fright of their life waking up to a snake in their bed. They jumped out of bed and closed their bedroom door to contain the snake but, when I arrive...

    Grenfell residents are angry after being told that the site of the tower tragedy in which 72 people died is to be handed back to Kensington and Chelsea council. A police investigation into the June 2017 inferno is expected to come to and end in the next couple of days after which the site, no longer considered a crime scene, will be handed back to the council. Adel Chaoui, from the survivors group Grenfell United, slammed the decision and said: It's a huge conflict of interest and distressing to the victims that RBKC, who are under investigation for corporate manslaughter, will have anything more to do with Grenfell tower, even in name. The Guardian reports that residents had hoped that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government would take on the sit...