EVERY MORNING TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.

1. #HERSTORY: Hillary Clinton has officially accepted the Democratic presidential nomination.

2. #BANKING: Three former banking officials are due to be sentenced today for their part in misleading investors, depositors and lenders about the health of Anglo Irish Bank in 2008.

3. #MENTAL HEALTH: A new study has shown that locking mental health patients into wards ‘does not reduce suicide risk’.

4. #NORMANDY: Both people involved in the brutal killing of a priest in France were on government watchlists before the event.

5. #BANKRUPTCY: 800 people in Ireland will be moved out of bankruptcy today, as part of efforts to speed up the process.

6. #POWER PLANT: A nuclear power station will be built in the UK, just 250km from the Irish coast.

7. #ENERGY SAVING: A new report has found that Irish people switch their gas and electricity provider more than any other country in Europe, and it’s driving prices down.

8. #WALES: A woman died after side effects from the combined contraceptive pill were not treated, a UK coroner concluded.

9. #ARRESTS: Two men have been arrested over a serious sexual assault on a woman in Clondalkin yesterday.

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