Britain is to review the law prohibiting medical cannabis, days after granting an exceptional licence for doctors to treat Billy Caldwell, a 12-year-old boy with life threatening epilepsy. Alex Stevens takes stock of how the law around cannabis evolved in Britain – and says the government now has a chance to create a balance between legal access and market regulation.

An international team of astronomers captured the moment when an exploding star was dragged into the mouth of a supermassive black hole. It is the first time an image of such an event has ever been recorded. Rob Beswick says the discovery may help scientists understand the environment in which galaxies developed billions of years ago.

Snobbery about accents is so commonly ingrained that we’re all likely to demonstrate it to some extent. But the contestants on reality show Love Island have come in for a torrent of abuse because of their regional accents. Sociolinguist Gerry Howley argues that it is a symptom of a class divide that is as deep as ever.

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