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• Mauricio Pochettino: Tottenham keeping key players like Harry Kane - SkySports

  18-05-2017 23:36 via skysports.com
  
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  Harry Kane scored four times in the rout to go top of the Premier League scoring charts while Heung-Min Son netted twice. There have been reports that clubs in the Premier League and around Europe are interested in Kane, along with the likes of Dele ...and more »
  
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• Gylfi Sigurdsson is better off at Swansea than bigger club, says Paul Clement

  18-05-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  • ‘He can’t have another situation like he had at Tottenham,’ says manager
  • ‘I hope he stays but I also hope in the future he gets to play for really big club’Paul Clement believes Gylfi Sigurdsson is better off being the key player at Swansea City rather than moving on this summer and risking a repeat of his experience at Tottenham Hotspur, where the midfielder spent two years trying to hold down a regular first-team place.Speaking after Sigurdsson had s
  
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• Faith Evans and Notorious BIG: The King & I review – an unmistakably juicy revival

  18-05-2017 23:15 via theguardian.com
  
  (Rhino)From Kurt Cobain’s basement tapes to Amy Winehouse’s leftovers, a posthumous release poses ethical problems at the best of times. Even more so when said release is a duet, which may feel ill-judged at worst, weird at best (see: Justin Timberlake teaming up with Michael Jackson). It’s a challenge Faith Evans tackles with class on this 22-track album featuring her late husband’s unmistakable flow – not always nimble but dominating and wry. With vocals smoother
  
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• Nicky Hayden, former MotoGP champion, has 'serious cerebral damage' after crash

  18-05-2017 23:11 via theguardian.com
  
  American remains in intensive care in Italian hospital35-year-old was struck by car while training on bicycleFormer MotoGP world champion Nicky Hayden remains in intensive care in an Italian hospital after being injured in a cycling accident on Wednesday. The 35-year-old American, who currently races for the Red Bull Honda World Superbike team, was hurt while on a training exercise along the Rimini coastline when his bicycle was in collision with a car. He had competed in the Superbike World Cha
  
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• Paul Nuttall kept calling Leanne Wood​ 'Natalie' during the Leaders' Debate and got roasted on the internet

  18-05-2017 23:05
  
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• Dylan Hartley in line for surprise Lions call-up for tour to New Zealand

  18-05-2017 23:05 via theguardian.com
  
  • Injury to Wales hooker Ken Owens opens door to England captain
  • Neil Jenkins: Ken misses big Scarlets game but we hope he will be OK for LionsThe England captain, Dylan Hartley, is in line for a call-up to the British & Irish Lions tour of New Zealand if Ken Owens fails to recover from an ankle injury.Owens sustained the injury training with his region, the Scarlets, this week and will be assessed by the Lions before the squad leaves on Sunday for a training camp in Dublin. He h
  
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• Roger Ailes obituary

  18-05-2017 23:02
  
  Roger Ailes, who has died aged 77, was arguably the most important shaper of American politics of the past half-century.Ailes then used his political savvy to build the Fox News Channel into a kingmaking force, generating huge profits for Fox television and shifting the entire template of television journalism.The man who once told Richard Nixon, “This is not a press conference, it’s a television show,” set the stage for Donald Trump, who absorbed Ailes’ message and appro
  
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• Stuart Lancaster’s England appointment no reason for regret, says Ian Ritchie

  18-05-2017 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  • Chief executive retires after stabilising RFU and appointing Eddie Jones
  • Ritchie: ‘I still think Stuart did a huge number of positive things’Ian Ritchie says he has no regrets over hiring Stuart Lancaster as England’s head coach despite the disastrous home World Cup campaign in 2015, and having announced his retirement as chief executive of the Rugby Football Union, he claims he leaves a side far better placed to make amends at Japan 2019. Related: Success for unp
  
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• Steve Bell on the Tory manifesto – cartoon

  18-05-2017 22:48 via theguardian.com
  
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• Cannes 2017 day two: Uma Thurman, Todd Haynes, Julianne Moore – in pictures

  18-05-2017 22:45 via theguardian.com
  
  The big films of Cannes’ second day are Todd Haynes’s Wonderstruck, and Loveless from Russian director Andrei ZvyagintsevRead Peter Bradshaw’s review of Wonderstruck
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• Met chief hears that six-year-olds 'carry knives for older youths'

  18-05-2017 22:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Cressida Dick tells community meeting that police are trying to halt recent spate of stabbings in capitalBritain’s top police officer has been told that children as young as six are carrying knives, as she vowed to try and halt an increase in stabbings. Related: 'When knife victims arrive at hospital in school uniform, it brings it home to you'Continue reading...
  
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• Met chief hears that six-year-olds 'carry knives for older youths'

  18-05-2017 22:44
  
  Cressida Dick discusses knife crime in Wandsworth.Britain’s top police officer has been told that children as young as six are carrying knives, as she vowed to try and halt an increase in stabbings.Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, heard the claim at a community meeting in London as she tried to demonstrate that the Met was on top of the issue and listening to people.
  
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• Tottenham’s Harry Kane strikes four in 6-1 thrashing of Leicester

  18-05-2017 22:41 via theguardian.com
  
  A team does not necessarily need a title to show their class, although Tottenham Hotspur do crave one. Spurs demonstrated their excellence at the King Power by swatting aside last season’s champions with regal aplomb and, in the process, Harry Kane struck four goals to enhance his chances of being crowned as the Premier League’s top scorer for the second season in a row. His tally for the campaign stands at 26, two more than Everton’s Romelu Lukaku with one round of matches to
  
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• Street protest against bad behaviour

  18-05-2017 22:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of residents of Belfast's Falls Road turn out for a rally against anti-social behaviour.
  
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• Dirty diesel: why ships are the worst offenders

  18-05-2017 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Ships belch out most of their sulphurous toxins far from land, but they could still be responsible for 60,000 deaths each yearIn all the controversy over toxic air pollution from diesel cars, little is heard of a worse source of pollution – shipping. Large ocean-going ships tend to use bunker fuel, the world’s dirtiest diesel fuel – a toxic, tar-like sludge that usually contains 3,500 times more sulphur than the diesel used for cars. And it’s also cheap. Shipping accounts
  
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• Everyone wanted to know where Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn were during ITV's Leaders’ Debate

  18-05-2017 22:16
  
  Both leaders declined to take part.
  
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• May signals break with Thatcherism in manifesto for 'country and community'

  18-05-2017 22:11 via theguardian.com
  
  PM seeks controversial shakeup of social care and end to ‘untrammelled free markets’ as Labour attacks uncosted promises as ‘84-page blank cheque’• General election 2017 - latest updatesTheresa May has promised to ditch right-wing, free-market dogma and return to “true Conservatism”, as she launched a general election manifesto heavy on philosophy and light on costed giveaways.
  Brandishing the slim navy volume, entitled Forward, Together, at a launch even
  
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• It's 50 years since Indigenous Australians first 'counted'. Why has so little changed?

  18-05-2017 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In 1967 Australia voted in a landmark referendum to finally include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in its census. But, as Paul Daley reports, the fight for genuine equality for the country’s first people is far from overSol Bellear, a former rugby league player for South Sydney Rabbitohs and Aboriginal rights activist, sits in the soft autumn sunshine at a cafe intersecting Redfern Park and the oval that remains the spiritual home of his beloved club.He sips a Red Bull “heart
  
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• Andy Murray’s conqueror Fognini backs Alexander Zverev as future world No1

  18-05-2017 21:53 via theguardian.com
  
  • Zverev knocks out Fognini and Novak Djokovic beats Roberto Bautista Agut
  • Johanna Konta defeated 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 by 36-year-old Venus WilliamsFabio Fognini, whose blazing two-set destruction of Andy Murray this week left the world No1 with a major headache on the eve of the French Open, thinks his own conqueror, Alexander Zverev, will one day usurp the Scot and the rest of the competition as the best player in the world. Related: Andy Murray is struggling and anxious – it may be
  
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• The FA ratifies required reform, but don’t mistake it for revolution | David Conn

  18-05-2017 21:41 via theguardian.com
  
  The Football Association has passed modest reform, which will see more women on its governing council and board and bring it in line with Sport England requirements, but the game has a long way to goThe Football Association has ratified the modest reforms proposed to its governing council and board, so mercifully drawing to a finish a torturous and long‑winded saga of internal reordering. The immediate consequence is that the FA’s structure and makeup of its board, which will have th
  
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• Lottery millionaire's son spent £1.6m – then sued his father for more cash

  18-05-2017 21:34
  
  Dave and Angie Dawes celebrate after winning more than £101m in the EuroMillions in 2011.A man who was given nearly £1.6m by his father after he won £101m in the Euromillions has had his claim for more cash thrown out by a judge.Michael Dawes, 32, took his father, Dave, and stepmother Angie to court after they stopped giving him more money.
  
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• Jamie Oliver says plan to scrap free school meals is a 'disgrace'

  18-05-2017 21:33
  Theresa May's plan to scrap free school meals for infant pupils if she wins the election is a "disgrace", according to celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.The TV star and campaigner said children did better at school after a "decent lunch" and said the policy would undermine teachers.The Conservative manifesto, which Mrs May launched earlier on Thursday, has promised that some of the money saved by ending universal free school lunches for infants in England would be used to provide all primary-aged chil
  
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• Soundgarden's Chris Cornell killed himself, coroner says

  18-05-2017 21:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Singer who was one of founders of Seattle grunge scene was found dead in a hotel room in DetroitSoundgarden frontman Chris Cornell died after hanging himself, a US coroner said on Thursday.Cornell, 52, was found dead in a bathroom in his room at the MGM Grand Detroit hotel on Wednesday night after performing in the city with the grunge band. Continue reading...
  
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• May's extra £8bn pledge for NHS is far less than it needs, experts say

  18-05-2017 20:59
  
  “Under the Conservatives’ manifesto plans, healthcare funding would not match the demand and cost pressures on the health service, which the independent OBR estimates at more than 4% a year above inflation,” said Prof Anita Charlesworth, director of research and economics at the Health Foundation and former director of public spending at the Treasury.All three main parties’ funding pledges would leave the NHS short of enough money to do its job properly, Charlesworth adde
  
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• Euromillions winner's son loses court battle for money for life

  18-05-2017 20:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The "profligate" son loses his court battle to force his Euromillons-win father to support him for life.
  
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• Time magazine's new cover has US and Russian influences - and it's taken the internet by storm

  18-05-2017 20:50
  
  Donald Trump may have something to do with it…
  
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• The Guardian view on America’s Russia investigation: watershed or Watergate? | Editorial

  18-05-2017 20:43 via theguardian.com
  
  The appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel means the road lies open to prosecutions that will define the future of the Trump administration – and perhaps its survivalThe first months of Donald Trump’s presidency have been marked by extraordinary chaos and disruption. The administration has begun to come apart at the seams, above all because of the president’s own behaviour and incompetence. Every day brings a new diversion. But the appointment by the US justice depart
  
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• Roger Ailes career timeline: from trusted Nixon ally to Fox News kingpin

  18-05-2017 20:38
  
  Ailes would go on to become one of the key members of the Murdoch television business.In 1967, a 27-year-old Ailes was working on the Mike Douglas Show when he met and impressed Richard Nixon.The following year he was hired as a political consultant to be “Nixon’s executive producer for television”.
  
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• Cineworld bosses to meet union over living wage dispute

  18-05-2017 20:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Meeting agreed after Picturehouse staff approached chairman at AGM following recent strike action by cinema workers Cineworld has agreed to meet union representatives to try to resolve a long-running dispute over pay and conditions at its Picturehouse chain.Staff at the Ritzy in Brixton and five other Picturehouse cinemas have gone on strike in recent months, disrupting the London film festival in October, in their battle to secure the independently calculated living wage and better sick pay for
  
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• Vote Labour to uphold the rights of disabled people | Letters

  18-05-2017 20:31
  
  Disability rights campaigners protesting outside parliament on 24 June 2015. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
  
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• Questions raised by Yvonne Fletcher case | Letters

  18-05-2017 20:31
  
  A memorial plaque for PC Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot outside the Libyan People’s Bureau (the country’s embassy) in St James’s Square on 17 April 1984.Your report (Suspect in Yvonne Fletcher murder freed after national security worries, 17 May) raises a serious unanswered question: what were the “reasons of national security” that meant “key material” was not made available to the police for use in court “in evidential form”?The answer could
  
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• Postwar prefabs were huge progress for many residents | Letter

  18-05-2017 20:30
  
  Norman Bone says his London in-laws did not have inside toilets and running hot water until they were rehoused in 1959.Your caption to a photo of postwar prefabs (Build your grand design for a humble price, 13 May) refers to “the bad old days of prefab housing”, which is about as far from the truth as it would be possible to get.My in-laws lived in central London and were not bombed but they did not get such facilities, that we today consider essential, until the London county counci
  
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• Two men jailed for historical child sex abuse

  18-05-2017 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pair involved in sexual assaults and taking indecent images dating back more than a decade.
  
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• Skepta wins songwriter of the year at Ivor Novello awards

  18-05-2017 20:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Star also won best contemporary song as rise of grime was seen at ceremony previously dominated by white artists Grime’s grip on the music industry was reaffirmed at this year’s Ivor Novello awards as Skepta won two of the biggest accolades.Related: #grime4Corbyn – why British MCs are uniting behind the Labour leaderContinue reading...
  
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• Roger Ailes death has little impact on series of lawsuits facing Fox News

  18-05-2017 20:27
  
  Fox News is mourning its founder, Roger Ailes.The death of the former Fox News president Roger Ailes on Thursday is being mourned at the network he turned into a television and political behemoth, and by figures including the former US president George HW Bush.Ailes, a formerly all-powerful executive who steered Fox News to ratings dominance and to its formidable role in shaping the modern Republican party, died less than a year after being forced out of Fox, and just as the network was beginnin
  
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• 'Here I am!' Chelsea Manning shares first photo after prison

  18-05-2017 20:25 via theguardian.com
  
  The famous leaker still has short hair that was imposed by the military, but in every other way she has thrown off the yoke
  ‘A day we never thought would come’: Chelsea Manning’s legacy explained“Okay, so here I am everyone!!” wrote Chelsea Manning on her Instagram page as one of the world’s most famous official leakers published the first photograph of herself as a free transgender woman. Related: Timeline: Chelsea Manning's long journey to freedomContinue re
  
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• Drug and alcohol charity Lifeline Project collapses

  18-05-2017 20:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Shock failure of charity serving 80,000 people a year and employing 1,300 comes after allegations over financial controlsOne of the UK’s leading drug and alcohol treatment charities has collapsed days after the Charity Commission launched an investigation into claims that it had critically weak financial controls.Frantic efforts are being made to save the jobs of 1,300 employees of the charity, Manchester-based Lifeline Project, and the services it provides for 80,000 people a year, includ
  
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• Tory social care plans: 'We should not be making the vulnerable feel more insecure'

  18-05-2017 20:20
  
  Nicola is incredulous at Conservative manifesto proposals to reform the system of funding for people like Alex, who receive care at home.The Tory proposal would count Alex’s home – valued at around £200,000 – as part of his means-testable assets, bringing it into line with rules of residential care funding and meaning that the state could earmark a chunk of the value of the home to put towards the cost of his care.The Conservative manifesto says that this change maximises
  
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• Mothercare looks to almost halve number of UK stores

  18-05-2017 20:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Retailer will also no longer sell clothes for children aged over four, as it reduces its 152 shops by up to 70 storesMothercare is to almost halve the size of its UK chain and stop selling clothes for older children as it tries to carve out a profitable future on the high street.Mark Newton-Jones, Mothercare chief executive, said it would look to close up to 70 of its 152 UK stores as it adapts to a digital age where 41% of sales are rung up online.Continue reading...
  
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• Factbox - UK investors and shareholders welcome May's corporate governance pledges

  18-05-2017 20:09
  Prime Minister Theresa May vowed to make it harder for foreign companies to take over British firms and threatened to clamp down on soaring executive pay as she set out her plans for Britain if her Conservative Party wins a parliamentary election on June 8.Company law is still constructed around the concept of shareholder primacy, and it is shareholders who have the greatest influence over company behaviour and cultural norms.""We call upon the new government to widen the focus on corporate gove
  
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• Lil Yachty: ‘Older hip-hop people don't understand evolution – or don't want it’

  18-05-2017 20:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Atlanta’s 19-year-old Lil Yachty is at the vanguard of a new wave of anything-goes rap – and he’s broken all the rules to get there. He talks about pickpocketing social media, creating a cartoon character and his love of ColdplayLil Yachty is not happy. Last night, the 19-year-old rapper played a sold-out London show with Migos, but feels that the crowd favoured the wildly hyped hip-hop trio over him. “I just didn’t get the energy,” he sighs, a little melodram
  
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• Atmosphere discovery makes Trappist-1 exoplanet priority in hunt for alien life

  18-05-2017 19:57 via theguardian.com
  
  An atmosphere that could have enveloped it for billions of years and possible liquid water make planet most likely home for life, say scientists An Earth-sized world that swings around a star in the constellation of Aquarius has become a priority in the search for extraterrestrial life after scientists found that an atmosphere could have enveloped the planet for billions of years.The planet is one of seven circling a small and feeble star called Trappist-1 which astronomers reported in a wave of
  
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• Surprise surge in UK retail sales powers pound to eight-month high

  18-05-2017 19:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Stronger-than-expected rise defies predictions of slowdown in consumer spending as UK pay squeeze continuesA surprise surge in retail sales in April helped push the pound to its highest level in eight months as Britain’s consumers shrugged off concerns over falling living standards.Warm weather and the Easter holidays encouraged shoppers back onto UK high streets, with retail sales up 2.3% over the month according to the Office for National Statistics. It was more than double the 1% rise f
  
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• Century-old tumours could shed light on rare childhood cancers

  18-05-2017 19:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Collection of samples found in hospital vault reveal genetic mutations that may be responsible for rarest forms of diseaseA collection of almost 100-year-old tumour samples has revealed genetic mutations that scientists believe could be responsible for some of the rarest forms of childhood cancer.Related: UK children with cancer could miss out on drug trials after Brexit, doctors warnContinue reading...
  
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• Ridwaan Shaikh jailed for Watford punch death

  18-05-2017 19:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bradley Cresswell never regained consciousness after he was punched by Shaikh during a night out.
  
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• Rachel Nickell's son on life after murder

  18-05-2017 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Alex Hanscombe is speaking for the first time since his mother was stabbed to death in 1992.
  
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• FCC votes to dismantle net neutrality as critics cry 'war on open internet'

  18-05-2017 19:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Federal Communications Commission will start formal process of repealing Obama-era rule that banned internet service providers from creating fast lanesDonald Trump’s newly installed media and telecoms regulator moved to repeal Obama-era rules aimed at protecting an open internet on Thursday, the most serious move to date in what looks set to be a hard fight over the future of the internet.The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), led by chairman Ajit Pai, voted two to one to start the f
  
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• Deal for Rangers sealed with a tossed coin, court hears

  18-05-2017 19:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The jury hears that a meeting at Sir David Murray's office to secure the takeover was "light-hearted".
  
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• Chris Cornell obituary

  18-05-2017 19:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Lead singer of rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, and one of the trailblazers of Seattle’s grunge sceneAs the lead singer of the Seattle-based band Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, who has died suddenly aged 52, had been one of the trailblazers of the city’s grunge movement in the late 1980s and 90s. Having achieved stardom with that band, he went on to further great success with Audioslave in the new millennium, while also developing a flourishing solo career. At the time of his deat
  
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• Number of soldiers in British Army falls

  18-05-2017 19:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ministry of Defence figures show the force hasn't met its target number for two years.
  
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