Take five: A news summary for anxious times

Lost your appetite for rolling news? These are the stories you need to know about this week…

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Hello! It’s Friday, which means it’s time for Take Five. You probably know the score by now – this weekly summary aims to help you stay up to date with the news stories that matter to women and marginalised communities, without immersing yourself in the anxiety of the headlines.

Each weekly missive will round up five news stories you need to know about, alongside five good news tales to lighten the load, and a further five longer reads, columns or interviews I’ve found engaging or enlightening over the last week.

A note – as all rolling news this week has focussed almost exclusively on the Queen’s death, I’ve chosen to focus instead on those stories getting significantly less attention as a result.

No time to waste. Let’s get cracking…