Israelis expected to flock to ceremonies, cemeteries and memorial sites around the country; strikes on Lebanon capital continue

• Israel on high alert for 7 October as it escalates Gaza and Lebanon conflicts

Pictures are beginning to come in from the site of the Nova music festival, where about 360 people were shot dead in last year’s Hamas attack, and where family and friends are holding commemorations.

President Isaac Herzog was among those holding a moment of silence there at 6.29am, when the attack began last year.

Quarter of posts in adult psychiatry vacant, forcing hospitals to rely on expensive private cover

Scotland’s health boards have paid up to £837 an hour for locum psychiatrists to help cope with a deepening staff shortage crisis in mental health services.

They have been charged more than £130m by dozens of private health care companies to provide temporary psychiatrists over the past five years, including one firm now owned by two billionaires from Texas.

Annual spending by Scotland’s 14 health boards on locum psychiatrists reached nearly £35m last year, up from £20m five years ago.

NHS Tayside has spent more than £30m since 2019, and NHS Fife nearly £26m.

One company charged NHS Lothian nearly £350,000 for 416 hours of cover in 2019, at an average hourly cost of £837.

NHS Western Isles paid £27,000 for one week of round-the-clock cover in April 2023.

After claims of infighting and micromanagement, chief of staff is replaced by Morgan McSweeney

Keir Starmer moved to shore up his top team after his embattled chief of staff Sue Gray quit following months of sniping and criticism that she acknowledged had undermined the new Labour government.

Gray resigned less than a week before the Labour government was due to mark its first 100 days in office, after becoming embroiled in a political storm at the heart of Downing Street.

Lobby group UK Steel said country faces ‘cliff edge’ in 2026 when current protections run out

The UK steel industry has called for the government to consider further protectionist trade measures as it braces for a flood of imported steel amid a global glut driven by China.

UK Steel, a lobby group, said the global industry has 543m tonnes of excess steel, 70 times more than the UK uses each year, in analysis published on Monday. It said the UK faces a “cliff edge” in 2026 when current protections run out.

Emergency services called at about 6pm on Sunday to flats in Kellie Place, Police Scotland said

An explosion has ripped through a block of flats in Scotland, leaving one man dead and several others injured.

Fire and emergency crews were called to Alloa at around 6pm on Sunday amid reports of an explosion at a block of flats.

Obstetricians, midwives and obstetric anaesthetists will take part in pilots after damning report by health regulator

NHS maternity staff will take part in a mandatory training programme to improve patient safety after a damning report by the health regulator said that poor care and harm in childbirth was in danger of becoming “normalised”.

Obstetricians, midwives and obstetric anaesthetists at nine maternity units across England will all have to do extra training from Monday under government plans to raise care standards for women and babies. The scheme will be rolled out to every maternity unit in the country if the pilots are successful.

Baloch Liberation Army claims it carried out the vehicle-borne attack in the southern Pakistani city

An explosion near the international airport of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi has killed two Chinese nationals and injured several others, officials from both countries said.

Police and the provincial government said a tanker exploded outside the airport, which is Pakistan’s biggest, on Sunday night. The nature of the blast was not immediately clear, the local broadcaster Geo News cited a provincial official as saying.

One of UK’s largest ever inquests to begin at Birmingham and Solihull coroner’s court with cases of 62 people

When Stuart Coyne received a letter to say his wife’s death, now 16 years ago, was being investigated to see if she had died unnecessarily after being operated on by the disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson, he was taken aback.

“It was a shock; it came out of the blue. When Catherine died, we all thought that she’d had the best treatment for the breast cancer that she had,” said Coyne, 70, who lives in Solihull. “Now, of course, it raises that question – would she still be here today?”

Obesity, type 2 diabetes, cancer, heart disease and other diseases all affecting people at younger ages, say experts

Baby boomers are living longer but are in worse health than previous generations were at the same age, despite advances in medicine and greater awareness of healthy lifestyles, a global study shows.

Researchers found people in their 50s and 60s were more likely to have serious health problems than people who were born before or during the second world war when they reached that age.

The 84-year-old actor speaks about contracting the virus in 2020, saying he ‘didn’t have a pulse’ and came to with six paramedics in his house

Al Pacino has revealed he almost died from Covid-19 in 2020, saying he “didn’t have a pulse” for several minutes.

In interviews with the New York Times and People magazine published on the weekend, the 84-year-old Godfather and Scarface actor detailed his experience with the virus, which he contracted in 2020 before a vaccine was available.