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• Matthew Kinross obituary

  17-02-2023 20:55
  
  My stepdad, Matthew Kinross, who has died aged 76, was an artist, architect and musician who always found beauty in his surroundings.Born in Shepperton, Surrey, to Rupert Kinross, a radio engineer who contributed to the invention of radar during the second world war, and Patience (nee English), who studied art in Vienna, Matt was the third of four siblings and lived in a house that backed onto the Thames. At the age of six he went to the King’s school, Canterbury, as a boarder. It was a lo
  
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• Heaven into hell: how a luxury block in Turkey became a mass grave

  17-02-2023 13:00
  
  The upscale Renaissance block of 249 apartments in Antakya was ripped from its foundations by the earthquakeA week after the deadly earthquake was supposed to be Sercan’s third birthday. The little boy who loved horses and Mickey Mouse was due to celebrate with his parents at their apartment in the upscale Renaissance building in Antakya. None of them knew when they went to bed one Sunday night that Sercan would never see his third birthday, even amid mounting questions about the safety of
  
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