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• Country diary 1917: lie down and listen to the lulling sound that comes with the wind

  01-10-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 8 October 1917
  Winchelsea, October 7Fine sensibilities have their penalties, God knows, more particularly in districts crowded by those who have them not; but the discriminations they make possible and the resultant harmonies of these discriminations are an offset that one would not forgo, especially with the added zest of memory. Lie on the dried bents, stretching your limbs to warm them in the last of the autumn sunshine; shut your eyes and li
  
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• Leicester space scientist wins BBC Two astronaut show

  01-10-2017 22:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Suzie Imber, who beat 11 people to the prize, is "excited" she could "one day end up in space".
  
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• Chinese firm behind Essex nuclear plant refuses to reveal security information

  01-10-2017 19:17 via theguardian.com
  State-owned company refused disclosure of security arrangements for Chinese plant the Bradwell nuclear station could be modelled onThe Chinese state-owned company planning a nuclear power station in Essex refused to share the security arrangements for a Chinese nuclear plant with the British authorities, it has been revealed.Inspectors from the UK nuclear regulator visited the China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) in Shenzhen earlier this year, as part of the four-year approval process f
  
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• David Tayler obituary

  01-10-2017 18:59 via theguardian.com
  My friend and colleague David Tayler, who has died aged 53, was a geographer, geologist and passionate conservationist who devoted his life to connecting people with landscapes. Through this he changed countless lives. Most of his career was spent in the Yorkshire Dales, running conservation, education and outreach projects.Born to John, a local government worker, and his wife, Margaret (nee Tyler), a teacher, in Maidenhead, Berkshire, he attended the local comprehensive, Desborough school (now
  
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• Vivienne Westwood only bathes once a week

  01-10-2017 16:57 via theguardian.com
  Fashion designer, 76, says not washing too much is the secret to seeming young, while her husband, Andreas Kronthaler, says he washes even less oftenAchieving eternal youth may not be as difficult as one imagines, according to the fashion designer and environmentalist Vivienne Westwood.This weekend the 76-year-old queen of punk revealed her secret to staying young: have a bath only once a week. Continue reading...
  
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• Vivienne Westwood on her secret to staying young: bathe once a week

  01-10-2017 16:57 via theguardian.com
  Fashion designer, 76, says not washing too much is the secret to seeming young, while her husband, Andreas Kronthaler, says he washes even less oftenAchieving eternal youth may not be as difficult as one imagines, according to the fashion designer and environmentalist Vivienne Westwood.This weekend the 76-year-old queen of punk revealed her secret to staying young: have a bath only once a week. Continue reading...
  
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• John Akomfrah: ‘Progress can cause profound suffering’

  01-10-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com
  For the British artist, global warming, the subject of his ambitious new video installation, is a process rooted in technology and exploitationJohn Akomfrah grew up in the 1960s, in the shadow of Battersea power station in south London. As a child, he remembers “feeling as if I was enveloped in something whenever I played on the street. You could sense it in the air, you felt it and saw it, whatever was emanating from the huge chimneys. We were being poisoned as we played, but no
  
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• GST could be used to force states to develop gas, Cormann says

  01-10-2017 04:50 via theguardian.com
  Finance minister indicates NSW, Victoria and Northern Territory could be penalised for their gas moratoriumsThe federal government has indicated it could use the GST to try to force states to end bans on gas exploration and development.As it seeks to avoid long-term gas shortages, the Coalition is escalating pressure on state governments to ease restrictions. Continue reading...
  
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• Actually, I’d prefer it if the wolf was kept from my door | Catherine Bennett

  01-10-2017 01:04 via theguardian.com
  Rewilders who want to bring back predator species have no idea what they’re risking. Time to spoil their funFor anyone raised on Grimms’ fairytales – or wary of cows, hostile-looking geese – there have always been certain obvious difficulties with ambitious rewilding campaigns. Reintroducing beavers is one thing. Boars: maybe. But among the more appealing aspects of life in Britain, for the nervous, is the relative certainty of never encountering a wolf pack.Recent celebr
  
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