CPS lead says she is not deterred from similar cases after Ryan Wellings, who was accused of causing partner’s suicide, was found not guilty of killing her

The not guilty verdict in the trial of a man accused of driving a young mother to suicide will not deter future manslaughter charges, with more such prosecutions already in the pipeline, a senior prosecutor has said.

Ryan Wellings, 30, was acquitted of the manslaughter of 23-year-old Kiena Dawes, who had left a note on her phone saying Wellings “killed me” . While he was jailed for six and a half years for assault and coercive and controlling behaviour, Dawes’s mother said: “Justice has not been done in the way we all hoped.”

In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie . In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org , or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org

The Duke of Sussex and the former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson are the last two claimants still suing

An extraordinary personal legal battle which has been years in preparation is to pit one of the most famous members of the British royal family against the world’s best-known media baron this week. On Tuesday Prince Harry’s lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper group, owners of the Sun and the now defunct News of the World , will officially begin at the High Court in London.

Fifth in line to the throne, King Charles’s younger son lives in self-imposed exile in California, but is due to appear in court in person once the case gets fully under way next month. The Duke of Sussex, 40, is suing News Group Newspapers (NGN), over claims that journalists on his popular titles worked unlawfully with private investigators, delving into his private life, between 1996 and 2011. He sees himself as the last man standing in a struggle to get the newspapers to take legal responsibility for the crimes he and others have alleged. Another surviving case brought by Lord Watson, the former Labour deputy leader, will be heard alongside the Prince’s.

Amazon’s Beast Games reflects the greed, narcissism and worship of aggro-capitalism that has brought us our second helping of Trump

The YouTube superstar Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson vowed to make his Amazon TV series Beast Games the “ biggest reality competition show ever ”, and by most metrics, he succeeded.

A little over halfway through its run, Beast Games has hit No 1 on Amazon in over 80 countries and is now the streamer’s No 1 unscripted show ever , with over 50 million viewers in just 25 days on the platform.

Money, Lies, and God exposes a Christian nationalist movement funded by the super-rich seeking to secure their wealth at the expense of others

There is a “real and very, very present” threat to the US from a shadowy collection of rightwing leaders, a new book on the movement behind Donald Trump warns, with the aim being “an end to pluralistic democracy”.

Katherine Stewart, a journalist who specializes in the religious right, spent years researching the money and influence that has aided and encouraged tens of millions of Americans in their worship at the throne of Trump.

The late director sided with the outsider and saw things in America no one else could see. His startling oeuvre changed film and television for ever

David Lynch, the director of Twin Peaks , Eraserhead and Blue Velvet , who has died at the age of 78, leaves behind the cinematic descriptor “Lynchian”, described in the Oxford English Dictionary as “juxtaposing surreal or sinister elements with the mundane” and “using compelling visual images to emphasise a dreamlike quality of mystery or menace”.

Even this may not be enough for Lynch obsessives, for whom he was the ultimate countercultural outlier, the weirdo’s weirdo, who changed film and television for ever.

Extracts from Mitford’s papers published but many more archives concerning British fascists remain concealed

Myths and suspicions have swirled around Unity Mitford ever since she decided to move to Munich to pursue her infatuation with Adolf Hitler. Were they lovers? Did she have his baby? Why was MI5 forbidden from speaking to her when she returned to Britain?

Now, after extracts from the socialite’s diaries were published on Saturday , censorship campaigners and authors say the gatekeepers of Britain’s official archives should end their increasingly secretive approach to historical documents.

Revered American musician Will Oldham on recording his new album with some of Nashville’s finest, helping Johnny Cash sing I See a Darkness, and his dismay at US politics

One afternoon in Los Angeles in 2000, only seven years after he began releasing records, Will Oldham met two people who would “stay in my mind for the rest of my life”. The first was a gruff sound engineer, David “Ferg” Ferguson, who had been mentored by “Cowboy” Jack Clement, the renowned Sun Records producer who worked with Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. The second, whom Oldham first saw in Rick Rubin’s studio hallway – “I’ll be unpacking this for the rest of my life” – was Johnny Cash.

“His physical size and his legacy towered over me at first and then steadily, warmly diminished,” Oldham remembers. Oldham had just turned 30; Cash was 68, ailing, but working hard on his third album of later-life covers, American Recordings III: Solitary Man . It included the title track from Oldham’s 1999 breakthrough album, I See a Darkness , his first under the moniker of Bonnie “Prince” Billy (one he’s been embarrassed about in the past, but loves now, “because the spirit of creation of that entity was that it had to be all about fun”).

A British-Israeli citizen, a Nova festivalgoer and a veterinary nurse are the three women to be freed

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A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has taken effect, pausing a 15-month war that has brought devastation and political change to the Middle East.

As part of the deal, three Israeli hostages are due to be released later on Sunday, named by Hamas as Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari.

Industry figures say unknown compensation bill makes it ‘difficult to operate’ owing to fears of ‘retrospection’

The car finance commission scandal is causing concern across the City about the UK’s approach to rules and regulation, with bosses and investors saying that the uncertainty is making it “difficult to operate”.

Lenders caught up in the scandal could be facing a compensation bill of up to £30bn, according to some estimates. But even companies that have no involvement in the alleged mis-selling of motor finance say it appears the authorities are allowing rules to be applied retrospectively.