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• Stranger Things Season 5 Shows Netflix’s Biggest Issue - ComingSoon.net

  28-11-2025 23:43 via news.google.com
  Stranger Things Season 5 Shows Netflix’s Biggest Issue  ComingSoon.netNetflix has a Stranger Things problem  The IndependentVolume I Of The Final Season Of "Stranger Things" Stumbles Out Of The Gate  Next Best PictureStranger Things ' bloated runtimes continue to dull a lot of the fun  AV ClubIt Might Be the Most Popular TV Show in the World. It Keeps Getting Worse and Worse.  Slate
  
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• New rules set to stop savers getting around reduced cash ISA limit - Sky News

  28-11-2025 22:19 via news.google.com
  New rules set to stop savers getting around reduced cash ISA limit  Sky NewsHMRC to punish savers who dodge cash Isa crackdown  The TelegraphFrom stocks to property, here’s what the Autumn Budget means for UK assets  CNBCGovt to impose charge on cash interest in stocks & shares ISAs  CitywireExpert gives five tips on how to start investing after cash ISA cut  The Independent
  
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• Moment man with 'Samurai sword' ran through Merry Hill before 'guy gets slashed' - Birmingham Live

  28-11-2025 22:10 via news.google.com
  Moment man with 'Samurai sword' ran through Merry Hill before 'guy gets slashed'  Birmingham LiveGroup 'armed with weapon' at Merry Hill shopping centre as teenager stabbed  Birmingham LiveBoy knife crime suspect due in court after blade recovered at Merry Hill shopping centre in Brierley Hill  Express & StarTeenager due in court after knife found during shopping centre patrol  Bromsgroveadvertiser.co.ukMerry Hill shopping centre stabbing LIVE as teena
  
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• GP names key symptom that means you have Covid - not a cold or flu - Daily Express

  28-11-2025 22:05 via news.google.com
  GP names key symptom that means you have Covid - not a cold or flu  Daily ExpressIs It Cold, Flu or Covid? What to Know About Symptoms and Testing.  The New York TimesOne symptom to look out for that could mean you've got Covid and not just a cold  UNILAD TechThe crucial symptom that means you might have Covid rather than a cold or flu  My London'I'm a GP - this symptom means you have Covid and not a cold or flu'  The Mirror
  
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• Two Scottish stadiums included in UK's bid to host World Cup - STV News

  28-11-2025 21:48 via news.google.com
  Two Scottish stadiums included in UK's bid to host World Cup  STV NewsWomen's World Cup 2035: New Old Trafford stadium on list of host venues  BBCUK unveils bid for 2035 women’s football World Cup with 15 cities and 22 stadiums in mix  The GuardianEaster Road Stadium Part Of UK’s 2035 FIFA Women’s World Cup Bid  Hibernian FCWomen's World Cup: UK set to host 2035 tournament after unopposed bid  Sky Sports
  
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• Arne Slot Liverpool latest - FSG update, Richard Hughes talks, Jurgen Klopp claim - Liverpool Echo

  28-11-2025 21:05 via news.google.com
  Arne Slot Liverpool latest - FSG update, Richard Hughes talks, Jurgen Klopp claim  Liverpool EchoTransfer strategy and Arne Slot reduce Liverpool to ‘Brendan bad’ levels | Andy Hunter  The GuardianArne Slot vows to 'fight on' as Liverpool manager despite dreadful form  ESPNRound-up: Arne Slot's press conference ahead of West Ham v Liverpool  Liverpool FCJamie Carragher: Arne Slot has a week to save his Liverpool job  The Telegraph
  
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• The best Black Friday deals in the UK under £50: eye serum, headphones and the ultimate travel mug

  28-11-2025 21:04 via theguardian.com
  Black Friday isn’t all about pricey electronics. Here are all our favourite 2025 deals under £50• How to shop smart this Black Friday
  • The best Black Friday deals on the products we loveGarmin watches and iPhones whose prices fall from insanely unaffordable to merely very expensive may be the headline-grabbers of Black Friday, but they’re not exactly cheap. In a cost-of-living crisis, the true bargains of the sales season are those useful and joy-giving items discoun
  
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• Volodymyr Zelenskyy loses brother-in-arms in Kyiv power shift - Financial Times

  28-11-2025 20:53 via news.google.com
  Volodymyr Zelenskyy loses brother-in-arms in Kyiv power shift  Financial TimesZelensky's chief of staff Andriy Yermak resigns after anti-corruption raid  BBCZelensky dismissed his right-hand man. Is he weaker or stronger now?  CNNZelenskyy will cut a lonely figure without his towering chief of staff  Sky NewsWhy Andriy Yermak’s ouster is a political earthquake for Ukraine  politico.eu
  
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• Experts advise against prostate screening for most men in UK | ITV News - ITVX

  28-11-2025 20:16 via news.google.com
  Experts advise against prostate screening for most men in UK | ITV News  ITVXProstate cancer screening should not be offered to most UK men, say experts  BBCExpert panel advises against prostate cancer screening for most men in UK  The GuardianFamous names affected by prostate cancer criticise NHS screening decision  Sky NewsStreeting urged to overrule experts on prostate cancer screening  The Telegraph
  
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• Fury after Rachel Reeves lifts two-child benefit cap - 'reckless and irresponsible'

  28-11-2025 19:44 via express.co.uk
  The Chancellor's decision to remove the two-child benefit cap will cost £3.1 billion over the remainder of the decade.
  
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• Migrant hotel chaos as asylum seeker 'stabbed' and police swarm building

  28-11-2025 19:42 via express.co.uk
  The incident occurred during an alleged gang attack at the hotel.
  
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• Winning EuroMillions numbers LIVE: Full lottery results with Thunderball on November 28

  28-11-2025 19:39 via express.co.uk
  Tonight's EuroMillions jackpot is a rollover from Friday, with a staggering £157million up for grabs.
  
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• The Guardian view on Ukraine peace talks: Putin is taking Trump for another ride on the Kremlin carousel | Editorial

  28-11-2025 19:30 via theguardian.com
  Russia’s president is only interested in a deal on Moscow’s terms. Equipping Kyiv with the resources to fight on is the quickest route to a just settlementAs Donald Trump’s Thanksgiving Day deadline for a Ukraine peace agreement came and went this week, the Russia expert Mark Galeotti pointed to a telling indicator of how the Kremlin is treating the latest flurry of White House diplomacy. In the government paper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, a foreign policy scholar close to Vladimir Put
  
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• The Guardian view on Turner and Constable: radical in different ways | Editorial

  28-11-2025 19:25 via theguardian.com
  Capturing the changing landscapes of the 18th century, the rivals transformed British art. The climate emergency gives new urgency to their workJMW Turner appears on £20 notes and gives his name to Britain’s most avant garde contemporary art prize. John Constable’s work adorns countless mugs and jigsaws. Both are emblematic English artists, but in the popular imagination, Turner is perceived as daring and dazzling, Constable as nice but a little bit dull. In a Radio 4 poll to f
  
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• Sainsbury’s makes major change to Nectar points

  28-11-2025 19:25 via express.co.uk
  About 24 million people use a Nectar card.
  
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• ‘The City can’t be taken for granted’: how banks won over Rachel Reeves

  28-11-2025 19:19 via theguardian.com
  JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs to expand UK presence after sector was sparedfrom higher taxes in budgetOver canapés of beef and stilton pie, bone marrow gravy and mushy peas, the financiers at JP Morgan’s New York headquarters held their champagne flutes aloft for a toast: “His majesty the king.”Just days before Rachel Reeves’s budget – amid the chancellor’s efforts to soothe business fears and bond market jitters – Jamie Dimon, the Wall Street banki
  
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• ‘Sexy and a little daring, but never too much’: sheer skirts hit the sweet spot

  28-11-2025 19:12 via theguardian.com
  If ‘naked dressing’ is a stretch too far, sheer fabrics can provide a real-life friendly compromiseFashion loves nothing more than an extreme trend, one difficult to imagine transferring to most people’s everyday lives. See naked dressing, where stars on the red carpet wear transparent and sometimes barely there gowns.This party season, however, there appears to be a real-life friendly compromise. Enter the sheer skirt. Continue reading...
  
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• Giant fashion retailer to make huge UK high street return with 15 new stores

  28-11-2025 19:11 via express.co.uk
  Recent years saw the chain close nearly half of its stores.
  
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• 'Beautiful' 14-year-old dies as 'completely heartbroken' family pay tribute - Wales Online

  28-11-2025 19:10 via news.google.com
  'Beautiful' 14-year-old dies as 'completely heartbroken' family pay tribute  Wales Online
  
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• Lidl offers free gift to customers after opening 1,000th UK supermarket

  28-11-2025 18:57 via express.co.uk
  The discount retailer is offering £1,000 in vouchers to lucky recipients.
  
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• Turner v Constable: Tate Britain exhibition invokes long history of artistic rivalries

  28-11-2025 18:51 via theguardian.com
  From Michelangelo and Leonardo to Picasso and Matisse, bitter feuds have defined art. But are contemporary artists more collaborative than their renaissance predecessors?“He has been here and fired a gun,” John Constable said of JMW Turner. A shootout between these two titans would make a good scene for in a film of their lives, but in reality all Turner did at the 1832 Royal Academy exhibition was add a splash of red to a seascape, to distract from the Constable canvas beside it.Tha
  
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• Mysterious Winds on Venus: Scientists Finally Uncover the Force Behind Them - The Daily Galaxy

  28-11-2025 18:45 via news.google.com
  Mysterious Winds on Venus: Scientists Finally Uncover the Force Behind Them  The Daily GalaxyKey Driver of Extreme Winds on Venus Identified  SpaceScientists Finally Identify What Drives Venus’s Fast Winds  Gadgets 360Scientists May Have Finally Uncovered What Drives Venus’s Insane 220-mph Winds  ZME Science
  
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• What Angela Rayner will do next on workers’ rights - New Statesman

  28-11-2025 18:33 via news.google.com
  What Angela Rayner will do next on workers’ rights  New StatesmanMinister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on workers' rights  BBCCongratulations everyone! Starmer survives another week, and it’s only cost us £26bn | Marina Hyde  The GuardianPolitics latest: Rachel Reeves accused of misleading voters over reason for tax rises  Sky NewsAn update on the Employment Rights Bill  GOV.UK
  
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• We older people are always a footnote | Brief letters

  28-11-2025 18:33 via theguardian.com
  Life’s five ‘eras’ | Levelling up Huddersfield | Favourite headlines | Posh breakfasts | Grieving nominative determinism lettersAs one of your older readers, I was looking forward to reading the interesting article on the five epochs of brain development (Brain has five ‘eras’, scientists say – with adult mode not starting until early 30s, 25 November). But why was I not surprised to find the final two epochs given just one sentence between them?
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• Was JMW Turner’s mother really ‘mentally ill’? | Letter

  28-11-2025 18:33 via theguardian.com
  It seems likely the artist’s family wanted to get rid of a woman who was just difficult to get along with, writes Helen JamesJMW Turner mother’s died when she was 29, when he was busy preparing for and opening his first public exhibition, and her “mental illness”, referred to in your review of the BBC Two documentary Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks (19 November), should be described as “purported”.We only have the testimony provided by the actions of her husban
  
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• The loss of access to and respect for autonomous midwifery is tragic | Letters

  28-11-2025 18:33 via theguardian.com
  A concerned NHS midwife responds to an article about the Free Birth SocietyI’m an NHS midwife, despairing over your article (Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world, 22 November). My key frustration, though, is how, as with any successful charlatanism, there is truth and real fear being exploited: medical overreach blights lives, women can and should trust their bodies, and a healthy body
  
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• The Green party’s policies on Israel are appealing to young British Jews | Letter

  28-11-2025 18:33 via theguardian.com
  Prof David Feldman, Dr Ben Gidley and Dr Brendan McGeever from the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism say it is wrong to characterise Jewish support for the Greens as ‘paradoxical’We were fascinated to read your article on the important report by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) on Jewish voting patterns in the UK (British Jews turn to Greens and Reform UK as support for main parties drops, 20 November). This demonstrates that growing numbers of Jews are d
  
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• Grandmother slashed to death 100 times – murderer found 6 months later

  28-11-2025 18:25 via express.co.uk
  June Henty spent six months in intensive care before dying from her injuries.
  
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• Dame Esther's plea: change the law quickly 'so everybody can have a choice'

  28-11-2025 18:20 via express.co.uk
  EXCLUSIVE: The campaigner recorded a conversation with her daughter reflecting on her health and the campaign to change the law.
  
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• Your Guardian sport weekend: a pivotal Qatar GP, Lionesses in action, and the big Chelsea-Arsenal clash

  28-11-2025 18:17 via theguardian.com
  Here’s how to follow along with our coverage – the finest writing and up-to-the-minute reports Continue reading...
  
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• Baikonur's only crew-capable pad busted after Soyuz flight - theregister.com

  28-11-2025 18:06 via news.google.com
  Baikonur's only crew-capable pad busted after Soyuz flight  theregister.comRussia accidentally destroys its only way of sending astronauts to space  The IndependentSoyuz MS-28: Launch pad damaged as Russian rocket blasts off for space station, agency says  CNNNASA Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Arrive at Space Station  NASA (.gov)Russian space agency says cosmodrome damaged after joint launch with US  Al Jazeera
  
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• Racing will have to 'take its pain' and black market operators will rise following the budget, warns Entain figure - Racing Post

  28-11-2025 17:52 via news.google.com
  Racing will have to 'take its pain' and black market operators will rise following the budget, warns Entain figure  Racing PostThe UK’s new gambling tax ups the odds of M&A  Financial TimesBudget bingo duty axe 'vote of confidence' in sector says operator  BBCBetting industry reels from online gambling tax raid  The TimesPaddy Power-owner warns of £434m hit from Labour’s gambling tax raid  The Telegraph
  
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• Sadiq Khan recalls past abuse as he urges Nigel Farage to apologise over racism claims

  28-11-2025 17:46 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: London mayor says allegations of teenage racism against Reform leader remind him of being called P-wordOpinion: Antisemitism allegations against the teenage Farage matter – look at what he went on to do Sadiq Khan has spoken of his dismay at Nigel Farage’s “desperate” denials of allegations of teenage racism as he described how his experience as a child shaped his life.The mayor of London said testimony from more than 20 individuals who made allegations about t
  
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• Changes to business rates lead to accusations of a new stealth tax - Financial Times

  28-11-2025 17:33 via news.google.com
  Changes to business rates lead to accusations of a new stealth tax  Financial TimesBudget 2025: Hospitality pleads for 'lifeline' as Rachel Reeves accused of imposing 'stealth tax'  Sky News'Business rates changes will cost me £62,000'  BBCPub owner says business rates changes will cost him £20,000 more per year | ITV News  ITVXRachel Reeves may have just killed the Great British pub  The Spectator
  
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• Doorbell captures theft of Christmas tree from porch

  28-11-2025 17:29 via bbc.com
  The tree had only been up for five days when it was stolen and dumped in a nearby park.
  
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• Prostate cancer screening should not be offered to most UK men, say experts

  28-11-2025 17:27 via bbc.com
  It recommends that only men with a confirmed genetic risk of prostate cancer should be screened for the disease.
  
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• Virginia Giuffre’s sons deny unsigned document is their mother’s will

  28-11-2025 17:14 via theguardian.com
  After Jeffrey Epstein abuse victim died intestate, sons reject claim that documents presented by her lawyer and carer represent her final intentionsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn unsigned will has emerged as the crux of the battle over the estate of Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein.Details of the document surfaced on Friday as hearings began in Western Australia’s supreme court, where her sons, her
  
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• Weather warnings issued ahead of weekend heavy rain and wintry showers

  28-11-2025 17:00 via bbc.com
  Colder weather is due to return over the weekend with warnings for heavy rain with the possibility of snow in some areas as Simon King explains.
  
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• London councils hit by cyberattack as security breach sparks panic in city

  28-11-2025 16:59 via express.co.uk
  Numerous councils have been targeted by a cyberattack.
  
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• Two teenagers accused of attempted rape in Northern Ireland to have charges dropped

  28-11-2025 16:56 via bbc.com
  The boys, aged 14 and 15, have been in custody since the alleged assault on 7 June which led to race riots across NI.
  
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• Romanian teens accused of rape attempt that sparked riots have charges dropped

  28-11-2025 16:56 via bbc.com
  The boys, aged 14 and 15, have been in custody since the alleged assault on 7 June which led to race riots across NI.
  
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• Ministers ordered to publish Sturgeon inquiry evidence

  28-11-2025 16:39 via bbc.com
  The Scottish government has been ordered to publish some of the written evidence from an investigation into whether Nicola Sturgeon broke the ministerial code.
  
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• A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – nightmarish take brings the brutal undercurrents roaring to the surface

  28-11-2025 16:26 via theguardian.com
  Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
  Director Holly Race Roughan transposes the summer tale into the darkest of winters as the fairies’ feud over the stolen child leaves the snow smeared with bloodPuck snatches the lovers’ breath from their bodies. They stop mid-sentence, floating under his spell, lanterns shining in the frozen night. Sergo Vares’ malevolent clown, dressed in half tux, half tutu, has chaos in his veins. In this wintery co-production between Headlong and the Globe, c
  
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• Sarah Ferguson's four-word nickname 'could hint at her next move'

  28-11-2025 16:14 via express.co.uk
  Royal commentators have been weighing in this week on what could happen if Sarah Ferguson sits down for a tell-all interview and who it might be with
  
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• Search for British man who fell from cruise ship off Tenerife coast

  28-11-2025 16:12 via bbc.com
  The Spanish coastguard has been coordinating search and rescue efforts since Thursday morning.
  
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• Minister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on unfair dismissal manifesto pledge

  28-11-2025 16:11 via bbc.com
  Bridget Phillipson told the BBC the climbdown would enable wider benefits to be delivered quickly.
  
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• New film adaptation of Camus’s L’Étranger opens old colonial wounds

  28-11-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  François Ozon’s handling of classic novel draws both praise and criticism, including from the author’s daughterMore than 80 years after it was published, Albert Camus’s L’Étranger remains one of the most widely read and fiercely contested French books in the world.Until now, few attempts have been made to adapt the novel, published in English as The Outsider, for television or cinema: it is considered problematic and divisive for its portrayal of France&rsqu
  
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• Fewer one night stands, more AI lovers: the data behind generation Z’s sex lives

  28-11-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Shaped by lockdown and two Trump presidencies, gen Z are grappling with a lot in love, dating and the bedroomThe sex lives of gen Z are of great interest – to politicians, to parents, to influencers and dating app executives and to you, apparently. Are gen Z so lonely they are falling in love with AI robots? Are they forming polycules across the US? Are they having enough sex? Are they having sex at all?Gen Z is defined roughly as young Americans aged 13 to 28. This generation came of age
  
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• Talks over UK joining EU defence fund break down

  28-11-2025 15:57 via bbc.com
  The two sides had been at odds over a fee to allow UK defence firms to access a greater share of loans.
  
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• 'Predatory' head teacher struck off after exposing himself in school

  28-11-2025 15:40 via bbc.com
  James 'Jamie' Richards left several staff traumatised and was described as "predatory" by a panel.
  
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