Former neonatal nurse and convicted child killer Lucy Letby is going on trial today accused of attempting to murder a baby girl.

What are the charges against her?
In August last year, Letby was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016. She was sentenced to 14 whole life terms in prison.

However, the jury was unable to reach a verdict on six additional counts of attempted murder in relation to five children. Letby is back in court to be retried on one of those counts, relating to a baby girl known as Child K, in a hearing expected to last for up to four weeks. She denies all the charges against her.

What are the reporting restrictions?
In September, the Crown Prosecution Service issued a ban on "reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings".

This includes "reporting of the identities of the surviving and dead children who were the subject of the allegations", said The Independent.
British-based news publications and social media users can report only the outcome of the original trial, including the jury's failure to return a verdict on the further six charges of attempted murder.

Why are the restrictions controversial?
International media are not bound by such restrictions. This could lead to a "showdown" between UK courts and publisher Condé Nast, said the Press Gazette, after a New Yorker story revisiting the Letby conviction was blocked on its website for UK users but made available in print and on mobile app editions.

The 13,000-word article "questioned the evidence used in the trial which convicted Letby", said ITV News.

Conservative MP David Davis – a long-time free speech advocate – criticised the web block on the story. "It seems to me in defiance of open justice," said Davis, who called on the government to review the orders restricting publication.

Hours after Emmanuel Macron and his centrist Renaissance party suffered a "calamitous result" in the European elections, the French president surprised even political insiders by calling a snap parliamentary election, said Sky News.

The two-rounds vote, on 30 June and 7 July, represents a prime opportunity for National Rally president Jordan Bardella, the far-right party's confirmed prime ministerial candidate. Bardella may appear an incongruous insurgent, but the "mild-mannered, impeccably dressed" 28-year-old increasingly appears to be the acceptable face of the far-right to France's youngest voters, said The New York Times.

'Boy from the banlieues'
Bardella grew up in a "drab tower block" on the edge of Paris, said France 24, and joined National Rally (then the National Front) at the age of 17. There, then-leader Marine Le Pen "spotted his potential" to help clean up the party's extremist image, said The Times. But although Bardella has been at the forefront of the push to "recast National Rally as a more moderate force", said the Daily Express, he is "not shy" to emphasise the party's talking points on "rampant Islamism and drug-related crime".

Bardella has also "formulated a political identity independent of Le Pen's", said The New Statesman, including his belief in the "Great Replacement" theory which posits that "elites are engineering a replacement of Europe's white population with immigrants from Africa and the Middle East".

'Rockstar'
Young voters have historically been averse to the far-right, but Bardella's "ideal son-in-law looks, muscular build and interview catchphrases" appear to have cut through to a generation that other French politicians have been unable to reach, said Le Monde.

The most inroads appear to have been made on social media, where Bardella has cultivated a "rockstar" image, said The Guardian, and "one of the biggest TikTok followings in French politics". With around a third of young people saying they will use TikTok to follow the election campaign, this could be Bardella's best chance of success.

His opponents have tried to fight back, painting him as an intellectual lightweight and "an 'arrogant' pro-Russia isolationist", said Politico. But with the party appearing to go from strength to strength, the criticism so far "isn't working".

The farm-to-table movement has been establishing itself over recent decades and restaurants finally seem to have clocked on: touting eco-friendly credentials can mean a major boost for business. 

The arrival of the Michelin Green Star in 2022 helped cement this shift. At its essence, farm-to-table dining is about cutting out carbon-heavy transportation costs and bringing ingredients from nearby farms directly to chefs in the kitchen.

Monachyle Mhor, Perthshire
For a "lochside lunch" assembled from the produce of a 200-acre working farm, said Rosalyn Wikeley in the London Evening Standard, make a pilgrimage to Monachyle Mhor. Situated in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, the journey to this "blush-pink farmhouse" is well worth the effort. The boutique hotel and restaurant's "pantry" is two gleaming lochs "brimming with fish", and a series of vegetable gardens laden with wild garlic.

Twenty Eight, Chester 
Conde Nast Traveller's readers crowned this little family-run no-dig farm as their favourite restaurant in the UK in March. The eatery opened next door to its decade-old sibling, Chef's Table, last year. Prices are "very reasonable", said Rick Jordan on the travel website, and the place is small enough to "experiment" with the farm produce and "have a bit of fun".

L'Enclume, Cumbria
A true "pioneer of the UK's farm-to-table movement", Simon Rogan's impact on the industry is colossal, said Lela London in Forbes. The chef established Our Farm back in 2011 to supply ingredients for his Michelin-starred restaurant, L'Enclume. A second star swiftly followed and, on its 20th anniversary, the eatery was crowned with a coveted third star. Growing ingredients in cold, rainy Cumbria has its challenges, yet L'Enclume "thrives" under Rogan's watchful eye.

Without shame there is no honour in politics
Tomiwa Owolade in The Times
Besides being one of the great Shakespearean characters, Falstaff "embodies a quality so pervasive in our political establishment: shamelessness", writes Tomiwa Owolade. "To talk of shame can sound antiquated", but politicians like Donald Trump are proof that "no shame at all is catastrophic". Shakespeare's Prince Hal ultimately realises "it is better to be honourable than to be shameless" and rejects Falstaff. That may be fiction but "honour is one of the virtues we need more of in our society".

The Orwellian use of facial recognition
Silkie Carlo in City A.M.
When "1984" was published 75 years ago this week, could "Londoner" George Orwell have "imagined the ANPR and ULEZ cameras taking millions of photos of our vehicles every day", or "live facial recognition vans, turning all of our faces into barcodes", asks Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch. This new surveillance technology has "increased live facial recognition snooping on the public by 1,000 per cent", and it's "putting us all at risk of intrusion and misidentifications".

My hay fever is so bad I feel I should be allowed to take to my hypoallergenic sheets
Ryan Coogan on The Independent
It promises to be a "particularly rough month" for hay fever sufferers, writes Ryan Coogan. Severe hay fever "is no joke" and the only way to "mitigate" the misery is to "stay indoors, preferably in the dark, preferably while unconscious – and I can't do those things while I'm working". If "any party" will let me take a sick day when the pollen count is high, "I'll vote for them, no questions asked."