• Knight leaves role as women’s captain after nine years
• The 34-year-old guided team to 2017 World Cup glory

Heather Knight has left her role as England captain after almost nine years.

The 34-year-old skippered England 199 times since 2016 and guided the team to World Cup glory in 2017 alongside two other finals.

Exclusive: Merseybeat act, contemporaries of the Beatles, will play final show at Glastonbury this year after farewell tour

They are the longest-running band in pop history, selling tens of millions of records and filling venues worldwide in a 68-year career. But now the Searchers have decided to take their final bow.

The group, who were contemporaries of the Beatles during “the British invasion” will play their last ever show at this year’s Glastonbury festival, after a “final farewell tour” of Britain.

Cafes are cracking down on remote workers – but we can save ourselves by following a few simple rules

Once upon a time, it was socially acceptable to smoke inside, wear those mad, wide ties and pat your secretary on the bottom. Norms change, and that’s often for the best. But when it comes to laptops in cafes, falling from favour as owners lose patience with remote workers, I am begging society to reconsider. Don’t take my cafe nook – it’s the only thing keeping the WFH brigade and lonely freelancers like me sane.

My kitchen table, where I do most of my work, is fine. It’s got a window next to it. There’s a kettle I can use whenever I like. I can play my own music, make loud phone calls and migrate to the sofa when being upright gets a bit much. But variety is the spice of life, and truly I would lose my mind if those were my only options. Yes, I’m aware of co-working spaces, but they are a) full of awful people and b) I can’t afford one. Luckily, the buzz of the outside world, the soothing white noise of life beyond my keyboard’s tip-tapping, is only as far away as the nearest cafe – for now.

Emily Watkins is a freelance writer based in London

Quick work + a quirky concept + a cool neighbour = a winning shot for this young Australian photographer

Joshua Hasanoff had been at school on the day he took this photo. The 14-year-old, who lives in Sydney, Australia, is on the shortlist for this year’s Sony World Photography awards youth competition. “The Australian winter sunset is notoriously fast-moving, so I started preparing for the shoot as soon as I got home,” Hasanoff says. “I knew I’d only have a 20-minute window to capture the mysterious light between sunset and darkness, which would contrast with the brightness of a torch.”

Holding that torch is Ryuji, Hasanoff’s neighbour and family friend, whom he describes as “extremely cool and charismatic, with great hair, who dresses like a DJ, although he’s actually an art student”.

Musk lambastes judges as leftwing activists in more than 20 posts as Trump administration’s judiciary clash intensifies

In the days after a federal judge ruled Elon Musk ’s dismantling of USAID likely violated the constitution , the world’s richest person issued a series of online attacks against the American judiciary, offered money to voters to sign a petition opposing “activist judges”, and called on Congress to remove his newfound legal opponents from office.

“This is a judicial coup,” Musk wrote on Wednesday, asking lawmakers to “impeach the judges”.

Which brand makes the cheesiest cheddar alternative? And whose tastes like grout? Meera Sodha samples popular plant-based blocks

• ‘Hands down my favourite bit of kit’: 13 kitchen gadgets top chefs can’t live without

When I was asked to review plant-based cheeses, I thought twice about doing so. Although there are some companies, usually smaller operations, that make non-dairy cheese out of fermented nuts or soya beans, more often than not it’s manufactured by big companies who are adept at recreating flavours, but who use ultra-processed ingredients such as emulsifiers, stabilisers and additives to get there.

I’ve used vegan cheese only a handful of times in the eight years I’ve been writing my vegan column for the Guardian , partly because I like to know what’s going into my body (and, on reading the ingredients, I am often bamboozled), and also because it varies so wildly in terms of how it behaves: does it melt, split, grate and, most importantly, how does it taste? For a food writer, that makes it tricky to use and make sure there’s consistency in the journey between my kitchen and yours.

Giant blobs along 5,000-mile-wide sargassum belt has killed animals, harmed human health and discouraged tourism

Scientists in Florida believe they have identified a “tipping point” in atmospheric conditions in the Atlantic Ocean they say caused giant clumps of toxic seaweed to inundate beaches around the Caribbean in recent summers.

Previous theories for the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt that has killed marine animals, harmed human health and plagued the tourism industry in several countries include a surfeit of nutrients in the water, such as nitrogen and phosphorus in runoff from intensive farming and carried into the ocean in the Congo, Amazon and Mississippi rivers.

The chef says we need to forget fads and focus on the joy of good food cooked with love

• Yotam’s recipes for roast chicken with butter beans, and perfect potatoes

The kids normally have breakfast at 7.30. I make eggs – soft boiled, scrambled or an omelette – sliced cucumber, toast with butter and a bowl of yoghurt on the side. Whether I eat too depends on how much I ate the previous night – and how late.

Last year, I decided I’d skip breakfast altogether. I was reading everywhere about the benefits of intermittent fasting (IF) and it didn’t feel like a huge sacrifice. Apparently, if I managed to avoid food for 16 hours, half of it spent sleeping anyway, I was more likely to sustain weight loss compared with following any other diet. On top of that, fasting periods are said to allow the body to repair cells and, as a result, help to reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes, general inflammation, memory loss, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other maladies.

Wave of spending is triggered by Rachel Reeves’s removal of IHT exemption on pensions from 2027

• What new UK rules on pension inheritance may mean for you

Financial companies are reporting a “huge” increase in well-off older people withdrawing sizeable sums from their pensions to splash out on family holidays and give to their children.

This wave of spending and gifting has been triggered by the chancellor Rachel Reeves’s decision to launch what some have called an “ inheritance tax raid ” on unspent pension money – thereby lobbing a grenade into many older people’s financial planning, say critics.