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The first of about 500 asylum seekers were taken to live on the Bibby Stockholm barge on the Isle of Portland, north of the prison and linked to the mainland by one road. The arrival of 339 migrants by small boat across the Channel at the weekend brought the year’s total to 15,071. The government declared it would increase enforcement action against lawyers who ‘coach illegal migrants to lie’ in making claims. Fines were to be tripled for employers and landlords who allow illegal migrants to work for them (up to £45,000 per illegal worker for a first breach) or rent their properties, the Home Secretary announced. The 18th-century Crooked House pub, near Dudley, was gutted by fire a fortnight after being sold, and the next day reduced to rubble by a mechanical digger.

Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, said that interest rates (which rose last week from 5 to 5.25 per cent) would not fall until there is ‘solid evidence’ that rapid price rises are slowing. British Airways staff will get a pay rise of 13 per cent over 18 months. Average pay began to rise faster than inflation, according to Capital Economics. Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, wrote to the chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority asking it to investigate urgently who had been affected by debanking. Hunts and country shooting businesses had complained of having accounts closed. The Cornish Lithium mining company secured an initial investment of over £53 million, led by the UK Infrastructure Bank.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland mistakenly published the names of 10,000 officers and civilian personnel, where they are based and their roles. The Electoral Commission said that hackers had gained access to the names and addresses of people who registered to vote between 2014 and last year, including those not on the open register (but not those registered anonymously for safety or security reasons). Liz Truss, who served as prime minister for 45 days before announcing her resignation, produced an honours list with 14 names.

Abroad

A Ukrainian seaborne drone disabled the Olenegorsky Gornyak, a Russian navy landing ship, near the Russian port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea. The next day a Russian oil tanker was hit by a sea drone in the Kerch Strait off Crimea. A Russian ‘guided bomb’ hit a blood transfusion centre near Kharkiv, according to President Zelensky of Ukraine. A Russian court sentenced the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, already serving a nine-year sentence, to another 19 years in prison. Thousands lined the streets of Bray in Co. Wicklow to pay their respects to the singer Sinéad O’Connor as her coffin passed by.

Donald Trump, the former US president, pleaded not guilty in a Washington DC court to four charges: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy against the rights of citizens. He asked Tanya Chutkan, the judge in the case, to recuse herself. Two US Navy sailors in California, Jinchao Wei, 22, and Wenheng Zhao, 26, were charged with providing sensitive military information to China. China slipped into deflation, with consumer prices 0.3 per cent lower than a year ago. Chinese exports had fallen by 14.5 per cent in July compared with a year earlier, and imports by 12.4 per cent. Giacomo Chiapparini, aged 74, was crushed to death by hundreds of Grana Padano cheeses falling on him in his warehouse at Romano di Lombardia. Imran Khan, aged 70, the former prime minister of Pakistan, was sentenced to three years in jail on charges of not declaring money from selling gifts received in office. The Ecowas group of West African states demanded that President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger be reinstated. Research in Burkina Faso found that the Tres Cantos 1 strain of a bacterium called Delftia tsuruhatensis inhibited malaria parasites in mosquitoes. Two people were rescued when a migrant ship sank off Tunisia: a further 44 were missing. Two vessels sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, with more than 30 people missing. The government of Alberta halted its attempt to bring the Commonwealth Games to Calgary and Edmonton in 2030. A British contingent of 4,000 scouts retreated from the world jamboree of 40,000 camping on flooded land in great heat at Saemangeum in South Korea; the rest left early in the face of an approaching storm. In Lisbon about 1.5 million young people attended a Mass said by the Pope for World Youth Day.