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• Trump says trade deal will be done 'quickly and properly'

  15-01-2017 23:46
  Donald Trump has pledged to secure a quick post-Brexit trade deal with the UK in an interview with MP Michael Gove. The US President-elect told The Times newspaper leaving the European Union would be a "great thing" for the UK, hailing the referendum result as a demonstration that British people "want their own identity". In contrast to Barack Obama, who said the UK would be at the "back of the queue" for trade talks, Mr Trump made clear a deal with Britain would be a priority for his administra
  
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• Tunisia beach terror attack inquests to begin in London

  15-01-2017 23:12
  Many of the relatives of the 30 British tourists who were killed in the 2015 terrorist attack in Tunisia are planning to attend the inquests into their deaths, which get under way on Monday morning. The coroner, Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith will hear evidence at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, and the inquests will last at least six weeks. In total, 38 people were shot dead when a lone gunman, Seifeddine Rezgui, attacked the beach resort in Sousse on 26 June, 2015.
  
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• Stevan Jovetic seals Sevilla win over Real Madrid in thrilling late turnaround

  15-01-2017 23:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Stevan Jovetic, the former Manchester City player, ended Real Madrid’s 40-game unbeaten record in all competitions when he scored in added time to earn second-placed Sevilla a 2-1 victory over the La Liga leaders. They had come from behind with two late goals at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán.Real had looked on course for their 13th league win of the season after Cristiano Ronaldo had scored a joint-record 56th La Liga penalty in the 67th-minute but with five minutes left t
  
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• Martin Rowson on Theresa May's 'shared society' vision – cartoon

  15-01-2017 23:05 via theguardian.com
  
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• Do not abandon hope of two-state solution, world warns Israel and Trump

  15-01-2017 21:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Middle East peace conference in Paris was attended by 70 nations – but not by Israel and UK was present only as an observerThe major powers – with the exception of Britain – sent out a warning to Israel and Donald Trump on Sunday not to abandon the hope of a two-state solution to end the Arab-Israeli conflict and urged all parties to disassociate themselves from voices that reject such a diplomatic solution to the deepest conflict in the Middle East.Related: UK signals closenes
  
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• Boxing in urgent need of rapid rematch between James DeGale and Badou Jack | Bryan Armen Graham

  15-01-2017 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A majority draw was an unsatisfactory end to a stirring contest which the British fighter would have won but for a late knockdownThere was nothing to separate James DeGale and Badou Jack after their world super-middleweight title unification fight at the Barclays Center in New York. It ended in a majority draw which meant the world’s two best 168lb fighters retained their belts. But while an immediate rematch to settle unfinished business would seem the obvious next step, what is next for
  
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• Theresa May is going to be on the cover of US Vogue

  15-01-2017 20:56
  
  She’s the first British PM to do so.
  
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• Jürgen Klopp’s diamond surprise tires under Manchester United pressure | Michael Cox

  15-01-2017 20:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Liverpool’s narrow system allowed space down the flanks which José Mourinho’s team exploited with regular switches of play, sapping the energy of the visitorsFor the first time in the 25 seasons of the Premier League, the two league meetings between Manchester United and Liverpool both ended in a draw. This, however, was a much more exciting contest than the dreadful 0-0 in October. Jürgen Klopp sprung a tactical surprise from the outset by deploying a diamond midfield, a
  
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• At least 30 inmates killed in Brazil prison riot as gang war death toll rises

  15-01-2017 20:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Drug gang invaded Alcaçuz prison where rivals were on SaturdayAbout 140 people have died in violence since beginning of the yearAt least 30 inmates were killed in a Brazilian prison riot that broke out on Saturday, a person with direct knowledge of the situation said, adding to chaos in a penitentiary system in which about 140 inmates have died in gang warfare since the start of the year.Related: Trail of slaughter in prisons shocks Brazilians as gang war explodesContinue reading...
  
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• Crisis, what NHS crisis? Theresa May must stop this denial | Jan Filochowski

  15-01-2017 20:38 via theguardian.com
  
  I’ve turned around three failing hospitals, and I believe the NHS will keel over unless ministers start to address its problems and stop blaming GPs and patientsA few months into my first job in the NHS, some 38 years ago, I watched Prime Minister Jim Callaghan being interviewed, on his return to the UK after an international mid-winter summit in the Caribbean, about the strikes in public services that have come to be known as the winter of discontent. I and pretty well everyone working in
  
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• Senegal hosts president-elect of The Gambia as Jammeh urged to leave

  15-01-2017 20:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Gambians flee as west African states consider military intervention if Jammeh refuses to cede power to Adama Barrow Senegal is hosting Adama Barrow, president-elect of neighbouring the Gambia, until his inauguration on 19 January, as the small west African country’s longtime leader, Yahya Jammeh, refuses to step down peacefully despite mediation efforts and calls from regional and international leaders. Continue reading...
  
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• This political commentator tried to shame a city for litter, but it backfired massively

  15-01-2017 20:16
  
  And with that, a new meme was born.
  
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• Jeremy Hunt to get £15m payout from Hotcourses sale amid NHS crisis

  15-01-2017 20:12
  
  Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, is to land more than £15m from an education business he helped set up, even as he fights an increasingly intense political battle over the NHS’s latest winter crisis. Sky News has learnt that Hotcourses, a listings service set up by Mr Hunt and his business partner Mike Elms in 1996, is expected to announce this week that it has been sold for between £30m and £35m. Filings at Companies House suggest that Mr Hunt owns approximately 48% of
  
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• The Guardian view on child soldiers: stop recruiting, start reintegrating | Editorial

  15-01-2017 20:10 via theguardian.com
  
  A former abductee’s trial for war crimes highlights the problem of children enlisted or seized by armed forces or groups. But change is possibleDominic Ongwen’s trial, which begins in earnest on Monday, is one of the grimmest and most morally complex that the international criminal court has tackled. The body exists to try the worst offences: genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. It is not the horrifying list of charges, including rape and murder, that makes Mr Ongwen&rsq
  
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• The Guardian view on American Christianity: change and decay | Editorial

  15-01-2017 20:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Market-driven Christianity has boomed in the US but now it is beginning to bustIs Christianity ceasing to matter in the US? The question might seem absurd in the light of statistics that show a country which still publicly respects religion to an extent difficult for a European to imagine. Fewer than a third of all Americans admit that they seldom or never go to church. There is only one member of Congress who claims to have no religion, and every single congressional Republican identifies as a
  
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• Dozens arrested during Swiss protests against Chinese president's visit

  15-01-2017 19:43 via theguardian.com
  
  According to police, protesters failed to comply with instructions, and continued to protest past an agreed deadlineSwiss police detained 32 Tibetan and Swiss nationals protesting against a visit by Chinese president Xi Jinping on Sunday, a spokesman has said. Swiss authorities had given a two-hour time limit to the protest in the centre of Bern to avoid the kind of confrontation that marked the last visit by a Chinese president 18 years ago.Continue reading...
  
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• Theresa May to appear in Vogue magazine photoshoot in April

  15-01-2017 19:38
  Prime Minister Theresa May will appear in a glossy fashion spread for American Vogue magazine, Downing Street has confirmed. Mrs May secretly posed for renowned portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz in a shoot due to be featured in the magazine's April edition. Downing Street sources denied reports the photoshoot was linked to next month's visit to the US to meet incoming president Donald Trump.
  
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• French progressives dare to hope as maverick Macron surges in polls

  15-01-2017 19:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Pro-EU, socially liberal and a political outsider, the former economy minister is drawing crowds who fear rise of Marine Le Pen From the stage in a packed concert hall, France’s youngest presidential candidate looked up at the thousands of people who had come to witness his trademark thunderous speaking style.
  “Never accept those who promote exclusion, hatred or closing in on ourselves!” Emmanuel Macron urged the audience in Lille, a city surrounded by France’s leftwing n
  
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• English green belt set to get 360,000 new homes

  15-01-2017 19:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Countryside campaigners fear ministers are set to weaken green belt protection in order to meet housebuilding targetsThe number of homes being planned on green belt land in England has increased to more than 360,000, according to countryside campaigners, who fear ministers are poised to weaken protections to meet ambitious building targets.The assessment by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) found that the number of homes planned on sites previously meant to block urban sprawl has rise
  
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• Anthony King obituary

  15-01-2017 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Political scientist, author and professor of government at Essex University who became a popular television commentator on election nightsMost people will remember Anthony King, who has died aged 82, from election nights on television, when, following some breathless report of latest developments, he would swiftly, crisply and lucidly dig out their meaning. In 1992, he announced, on the basis of the first two results, that the polls that had been showing John Major on his way to defeat, and even
  
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• Light aircraft pilot dies in crash in Oxfordshire

  15-01-2017 19:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Man pronounced dead at scene in Aston Rowant nature reserve in Chilterns, where there had been heavy rain and low cloudA pilot has died after a light aircraft crashed in Oxfordshire.Emergency services raced to the scene, but the man was pronounced dead. His next-of-kin were in the process of being informed on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• Wigan farm – and Blackpool's donkeys – are threatened by housebuilding plan

  15-01-2017 19:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Latham House farm, home to livestock and holiday destination for Blackpool’s donkeys, is fighting building planLatham House farm in Wigan has been in Jimmy Morris’s family for more than 80 years. He and his wife, Gillian, use their nine hectares (23 acres) of greenbelt land to graze sheep and cows, and in the winter they welcome Blackpool beach’s donkeys for their holidays.The first they knew of proposals to build on their land was when a council notice was pinned to a lamppost
  
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• Do we want MPs like Tristram Hunt, who quit when a better job comes up? | Zoe Williams

  15-01-2017 19:06 via theguardian.com
  
  The MP’s departure suggests he didn’t see himself as a servant of his constituents. Some careerism in politics can be good, but we have the worst of both worldsThere are two competing narratives about MP Tristram Hunt’s resignation from his seat in Stoke-on-Trent, to take over the Victoria and Albert Museum. The first, distilled in the portentous tweeting of David Miliband, is that he is a good man, a brave man driven from the party he loves by the rabid left in a move that is
  
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• Briton jailed for 20 years for murdering fiancee released in France

  15-01-2017 18:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Businessman Ian Griffin had served less than two years of 14-year sentence for killing Polish-born millionaire Kinga LeggA British businessman jailed for 20 years in France for bludgeoning his fiancee to death has been released from prison after serving less than two years of his sentence.Ian Griffin, 47, was found guilty in December 2014 of murdering 36-year-old Kinga Legg, a Polish-born millionaire, in a suite at the five-star Bristol hotel in Paris in May 2009. Continue reading...
  
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• Serbian president warns Kosovo after reports of planned attack

  15-01-2017 18:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Tomislav Nikolić accuses ethnic Albanians of ‘wanting war’ after train with signs saying ‘Kosovo is Serbian’ is interceptedSerbia has told Kosovo it will defend “every inch of its territory” including its former province where Serbs are allegedly under threat from Kosovan Albanians. Related: Kosovo former PM arrested in France on Serbian warrantContinue reading...
  
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• Theresa May to become first PM on the cover of American Vogue

  15-01-2017 18:45 via theguardian.com
  
  The prime minister will appear in the April edition of the magazine, after a secret Annie Leibovitz photo shoot at ChequersTheresa May is to become the first British prime minister to feature on the cover of American Vogue.The cover was orchestrated, in secret, by editor Anna Wintour. The cover shot of May was taken last week by esteemed photographer Annie Leibovitz at Chequers, the prime minister’s country retreat. Continue reading...
  
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• Southwark free school in London to close after attracting only 60 pupils

  15-01-2017 18:45 via theguardian.com
  
  The school, supported by Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, had struggled to find a permanent site and recruit staff since 2012A free school supported by Michael Gove and Boris Johnson against local opposition will abruptly close next month after attracting only 60 pupils since it opened in 2012, and struggling to recruit staff and find a permanent site.Parents of pupils at Southwark free school, housed in a community hall and temporary cabins near Old Kent Road in south London, have been told the
  
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• Get Control of Sugar Now! by Paul McKenna – digested read | John Crace

  15-01-2017 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Here’s my patented Craving Buster: imagine a food that revolts you, mix it with cat poo, then picture it when you crave sugar’Inside the cover of this book is a CD. Please use it carefully, as it contains vital techniques of mind control. It is so powerful that I play it to my publishers every year – and each time they forget that I have already written 10 books for them promising to make people thinner, cleverer, richer, thinner, cleverer, richer and thinner again.Welco
  
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• Don’t let anti-vegan jokes and Peta’s antics put you off – try Veganuary | Arwa Mahdawi

  15-01-2017 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  There are sound health, ethical and environmental reasons to go vegan. So why do those who have adopted the diet still get branded as irritants?Why are vegans so irritating? Veganism is a laudable lifestyle choice, but there is something about it that seems to get on people’s nerves. Just ask the town of Aargau, in Switzerland, which recently denied citizenship to a foreign-born vegan resident because she was being too annoying. In Switzerland, local residents get a say in applications for
  
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• Prince Charles pens Ladybird book on climate change

  15-01-2017 17:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Prince teams up with campaigners Tony Juniper and Emily Shuckburgh to create peer-reviewed ‘basic guide’ for adultsPrince Charles, a vocal critic of climate change sceptics, has penned a Ladybird book on the subject after lamenting with experts the lack of a basic guide to the subject.The prince has joined forces with two leading environmental campaigners to produce The Ladybird Book on Climate Change, the first in a new series aimed at adults, The Ladybird Expert, is to be published
  
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• Artist takes a stand against Donald Trump by branding his own artwork that Ivanka bought as 'fake'

  15-01-2017 17:27
  
  That word sounds familiar…
  
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• Virat Kohli reels in England in style to give India win in first ODI

  15-01-2017 17:22 via theguardian.com
  
  • England 350-7 (50 overs); India 356-7 (48.1 overs)
  • India win first ODI by three wickets in PuneEngland were chased down in crushing, exhilarating fashion as Virat Kohli produced an innings of regal brilliance to help India pass England’s highest ever total against them with 11 balls to spare. There was also a stunning hundred from the 31-year-old local boy Kedar Jadhav, who played his part in a hall-of-famer fifth-wicket partnership of 200 in 25 overs as England were reduced
  
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• Bookmakers face losing their licence and huge fines over problem gambling

  15-01-2017 17:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Regulator to introduce tougher punishment for firms breaking rules governing responsible betting Gambling firms that fail to tackle problem gambling and money laundering face heftier fines and a higher risk of losing their operating licence under a tougher regime to be unveiled by the industry’s regulator.The Gambling Commission will lay out its new enforcement strategy this month, detailing how bookmakers, casinos and online gaming companies who are deemed to have breached regulations wil
  
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• ‘How to resign in a panic’ – and other courses for the Brexit studies syllabus

  15-01-2017 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Birmingham City University’s new Centre for Brexit Studies opens this month. Will its first modules look like this?Are you a student? Based in the Midlands? In possession of such a crippling compulsion to be correct that you’re willing to devote several years of your life to it?Great news, because Birmingham City University has just announced its new Centre for Brexit Studies. The centre promises to “further enhance understanding of the consequences of the UK withdrawing from t
  
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• Sunday surgery: How one GP practice is managing a seven-day service

  15-01-2017 16:57
  
  It is 9.30am on a Sunday morning and patients have started arriving for their appointments at Birmingham's Enki Medical Practice. There are only 18 slots available with GPs and all of them are booked up by Thursday. "It's difficult for me to get time off work," said lecturer Jacqui Lindsay.
  
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• Ademola Lookman adds flourish for Everton in defeat of Manchester City

  15-01-2017 16:44 via theguardian.com
  
  The “perfect afternoon”, according to Ronald Koeman, although that depends on the shade of blue. For Tom Davies, Ademola Lookman and those of a royal hue, it was undoubtedly true as Everton produced the finest display and result of the Koeman era. For Pep Guardiola, by contrast, this was a harrowing, humbling experience. Manchester City were dismantled and their revered manager left searching for answers to the heaviest league defeat of his glittering career. Related: Everton teenage
  
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• Westminster council could send homeless families to Coventry

  15-01-2017 16:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Those who lose homes in capital may increasingly be rehoused outside London as local authorities struggle with cutsPeople who lose their homes in one of London’s richest boroughs could be sent to live in temporary accommodation as far away as Coventry under new plans announced by the City of Westminster.
  Westminster council says rising homelessness, coupled with housing benefits cuts and government plans to force local authorities to sell off social housing gives it no option but to place
  
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• New York City's 2nd Ave subway stations – in pictures

  15-01-2017 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s taken almost 100 years to come to fruition, but the new subway stations on the Upper East side are beautiful. Impressive, open spaces with modern mosaics by artists like Chuck Close define the three new stations Continue reading...
  
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• Inside Peru's modern-day Machu Picchu – is this the best new building in the world?

  15-01-2017 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The soaring buttresses and hanging walkways of UTEC in Lima have earned it the RIBA international prize. And Grafton Architects, the Irish team behind it, have equally big plans for BritainListening to Irish architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara speaking about their work, you could be forgiven for thinking they were describing a dramatic mountain range, or the rocky coasts of County Clare. They talk of cliff faces, summits and ravines, of spaces being carved and cleft to form grottos, o
  
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• Watch Jeremy Corbyn give a direct message to Mesut Ozil over his Arsenal wages

  15-01-2017 15:57
  
  “Can you just live with what you’ve got?”
  
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• John Kerry returns to site where he killed man during Vietnam war

  15-01-2017 15:40 via theguardian.com
  
  The US secretary of state, a decorated veteran, meets former Viet Cong guerrilla who ambushed his patrol boat in 1969Vo Ban Tam, a Viet Cong veteran, remembers the first time he encountered John Kerry on the banks on the Bay Hap river, a day that ended in bloodshed.Almost half a century later, the Mekong delta shrimp farmer, now 70, grasped hands with the US secretary of state in mutual respect. Continue reading...
  
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• Hammond fires warning shot across Brussels' bows over single market

  15-01-2017 15:39
  
  Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has told Sky News he was "yet to be convinced" by Theresa May over Brexit. Mr Farage was speaking amid reports Mrs May will announce the UK is prepared to leave the single market in a speech on Tuesday.
  
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• May to urge national unity amid reports of 'hard Brexit'

  15-01-2017 15:09
  By William James and Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May will call on Britons to reject the acrimony of the Brexit referendum in a speech this week that some newspapers have billed as setting the stage for a "hard" exit from the European Union. Investors will scrutinise May's speech on Tuesday for clues on whether she plans to prioritise immigration controls and bilateral trade deals in a "hard Brexit" that would see Britain leave the EU's single market and customs unio
  
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• Nigel Farage 'yet to be convinced' by Prime Minister on Brexit

  15-01-2017 14:09
  
  Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has told Sky News he was "yet to be convinced" by Theresa May over Brexit. Mr Farage was speaking amid reports Mrs May will announce the UK is prepared to leave the single market in a speech on Tuesday.
  
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• The seven faces of Donald Trump – a psychologist’s view

  15-01-2017 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From the chin-jut to the zipped smile, we examine the president-elect’s signature facial expressions and what they tell us about himA great deal of Donald Trump’s political success can be put down to his body language and the unusual ways he uses his face. The first thing we notice about Trump’s facial expressions is the sheer variety. The second is their dramatic, often over-stated character. This was evident before and during the presidential election. While the other candida
  
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• Eiffel Tower to be given €300m facelift under 15-year renovation plan

  15-01-2017 13:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Proposal to improve security and visitor facilities announced as Paris bids for 2024 Olympics and 2025 Universal ExhibitionThe Eiffel Tower was never built to last, but 128 years after the “temporary” iron structure was opened it is not just still standing, but has become an instantly recognised symbol of Paris and a magnet for as many as 7 million visitors a year.Now, the city authorities have announced plans for a much-needed €300m (£262m) renovation, which will take pla
  
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• Norway’s $885bn-nil advantage in Britain’s sea of social troubles

  15-01-2017 13:51 via theguardian.com
  
  North Sea oil could have helped tackle the NHS crisis and pension liabilities by contributing to a sovereign wealth fund One of the most famous pieces of football commentary came at the end of a match in Oslo more than 35 years ago in which unfancied Norway beat England 2-1. Few fans could now name the Norwegian commentator, Bjørge Lillelien, but plenty remember the rant and how it ended: “Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me? Your boys took one hell of a beating.”The humiliation
  
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• Tory MP attacks PM for trying to 'scapegoat' GPs

  15-01-2017 13:50
  
  A senior Conservative has hit out at the Government for trying to "scapegoat" GPs for the pressures on emergency departments. Dr Sarah Wollaston, a former family doctor who chairs an influential committee of MPs, said the profession was under "relentless pressure" and did not have the capacity to extend opening hours as demanded by the Government. Outspoken Dr Wollaston hit out at the accusation - made by Downing Street - that GP surgeries were too often closing during the day.
  
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• Mind the closing doors - echoes of Thatcher in railway battle

  15-01-2017 13:34
  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Rona Jeff loved her job as a PR consultant for an education charity in central London. "It became untenable to try to go to work," said Jeff, whose journey into London from Brighton on England's south coast should have taken just over an hour, but was regularly taking 4 1/2 hours because of cancellations, slow-downs and strikes. Finally, the stress was wrecking her sleep: "It got to the point where I was ill." Southern Rail, one of more than a dozen privatise
  
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• Girl refuses to give up McDonald's chicken nugget even while a gun is pointed at her head

  15-01-2017 13:24
  
  New York City police said the girl smacked the gun away.
  
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