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• Toilet poll: your favourite Australian public loos, from architectural wonders to a ‘magnificent pissoir’

  25-01-2022 17:30
  
  We asked readers for the best pit stops around the country – and they returned with hidden gems, postmodern design and a ‘fabulous dunny’ on stiltsWhen you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go. But when you’re caught out in public – be it on an outback road trip or in the middle of a city – the pressure intensifies, and finding a public toilet that is clean, stocked and accessible can become painfully difficult.So, what makes Australia’s best publi
  
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• Cause of fire that destroyed Glasgow School of Art ‘will never be known’

  25-01-2022 17:14
  
  Mackintosh building was so badly damaged by 2018 blaze that the cause remains ‘undetermined’, according to long-awaited reportThe fire that ripped through Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building in 2018 was so fierce and all-consuming that the cause can never be known conclusively, according to a long-awaited report.The art school said it “shared the frustration” that the exact cause of the fire, which destroyed the iconic Grade A-listed building as it neared th
  
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