Government to promise it will scrap existing scheme by reaching new deal with Brussels in next 18 months

UK companies spent up to £65m last year on licences to export food and agricultural products to the EU – costs that the government is promising to eliminate as part of a new deal to be agreed by 2027.

Government figures released on Tuesday showed it issued 328,727 such licences last year, at a cost of between £113 and £200 each. That would put the total cost to business at somewhere between £37m and £65m.

Premier League Leeds were embarrassingly knocked out of the Carabao Cup by a callow shadow side fielded by Sheffield Wednesday after a dramatic penalty shootout.

After failing to put away a side whose outfield players had an average age of 20 and a half in 90 minutes, Leeds succumbed in the spot-kick lottery. Owls goalkeeper Ethan Horvath saved from Joel Piroe and Sean Longstaff and Dominic Calvert-Lewin put his penalty over the bar and into a deserted Kop to hand the Owls a logic-defying win.

Visitors to Nevada’s desert for the annual festival have already encountered heavy winds and dust storms

Visitors arriving in Nevada’s desert for this year’s Burning Man festival have so far encountered heavy winds and dust storms, and could be in for thunderstorms as well, with the harsh conditions possibly persisting for several days.

The famous gathering began Sunday in the Black Rock Desert, roughly 100 miles (160km) north of Reno. Strong winds and dust storms disrupted the event over the weekend, temporarily pausing activities, tearing through tents and reducing visibility to nearly nothing.

This reconstruction of a real-life case – with participants role-playing jurors – is truly illuminating

Ever since The Traitors proved Britain still has a raging appetite for the kind of middlebrow social experiment-style reality shows that fuse irresistibly bananas interpersonal drama with compelling psychological insight – the Medjool date to Love Island and co’s Haribo Starmix, if you will – the TV industry has been pumping out fun yet relatively classy formats. Some have been fine (The Fortune Hotel), some mystifying (The Genius Game; Destination X), some too derivative (Million Dollar Secret) and some are yet to disappoint: persuasion-based gameshow The Inheritance, featuring Elizabeth Hurley, arrives imminently on Channel 4.

Really, though, the only show currently holding a candle to The Traitors is The Jury: Murder Trial (indeed, in May, they competed for the best reality Bafta; the latter won). Following two groups of 12 strangers as they play jury during a word-for-word reconstruction of a real criminal trial, the 2024 series shone a light on the enigma at the heart of the justice system. Jury deliberations are top secret, meaning lawyers, judges and academics have little understanding of how jurors digest evidence, draw individual conclusions or – crucially – arrive at a unanimous decision.