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• Lyon beat PSG on penalties to win women’s Champions League final

  01-06-2017 23:57 via theguardian.com
  
  • Lyon 0-0 PSG (aet; Lyon win 7-6 on pens)
  Lyon became champions of Europe for the fourth time – matching the record set by Frankfurt – after beating PSG in sudden death of a penalty shootout to successfully defend their women’s Champions League title. Related: Uefa Women's Champions League final: Lyon v PSG –as it happenedContinue reading...
  
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• Denny Solomona winning race to be fit for England’s tour to Argentina

  01-06-2017 23:31 via theguardian.com
  
  • Sale Sharks wing has been suffering with a foot injury
  • Eddie Jones confident player will make plane on SaturdayEddie Jones is confident Denny Solomona will be fit to win his first cap in Argentina and has challenged the youngsters in his squad to oust England’s British & Irish Lions for good.Jones rated Solomona as doubtful for the tour less than two weeks ago after he suffered a foot strain in Brighton but he has joined up with the England squad who leave for Argentina o
  
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• Warren Gatland’s Lions start fine-tuning for heist of the professional era | Robert Kitson

  01-06-2017 23:21 via theguardian.com
  
  The last three British & Irish Lions sides in New Zealand struggled for tries but the current squad boasts more talent and a formidable roster of goal-kickersTwelve years in international rugby union is a sporting eternity. The last time the British & Irish Lions embarked on the ultimate tour of tours to New Zealand, Maro Itoje was a 10-year-old and Tony Blair had just won his third election. That whole expedition – Gavin Henson, Alastair Campbell, the ill-fated Power of Four anthe
  
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• Warren Gatland says his Lions possess the X-factor to unnerve All Blacks

  01-06-2017 23:18 via theguardian.com
  
  • Lions coach tells players to express themselves on eve of tour opener
  •Jared Payne withdraws from replacements’ bench with calf injuryWarren Gatland believes his British & Irish Lions side have the “X-factor” to stun the All Blacks and win a Test series in New Zealand for only the second time in history. The Lions coach is also keen to update local perceptions of northern hemisphere rugby and earn the respect of the public here from the start of the 10-match tou
  
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• Saint Etienne: Home Counties review – finding Arcadia in the Brexit heartlands

  01-06-2017 23:15 via theguardian.com
  
  (Heavenly)Saint Etienne’s latest musical psychogeographic survey is of the UK’s southern counties, so what do this ever-cosmopolitan band make of the Brexit heartlands? Their Ray Davies-style vision of a green and pleasant “sweet Arcadia”, finding poetry in Seasalter and Peacehaven, is arguably close to Ukip territory; they’re not helped by the harpsichords and girl-group pastiches which, while knowing, are also twee. In the past their sampling has been atmospheric,
  
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• LeBron may or may not be a better player than Jordan, but he's a better man

  01-06-2017 23:09 via theguardian.com
  
  The integrity and bravery of the Cleveland star suggests maybe LeBron doesn’t need to be like Mike. Maybe Mike should have been and needs to be like LeBron
  It’s apropos that LeBron James, the greatest basketball player of the 21st century, has made (and will continue to make) the debate about whether he or Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player ever a valid and relevant one with his most underrated characteristics: his stamina and consistency. There has not been an NBA seas
  
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• Brazil exits recession -- but only just

  01-06-2017 23:09
  
  President Michel Temer is hoping improving economic data will give him a lifeline as he tries to fend off a huge corruption scandal
  
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• Tim Farron and Andrew Neil could not stop talking over each other during the Andrew Neil Interviews

  01-06-2017 23:03
  
  Did anybody manage to get a word in?
  
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• Theresa May aims to hit Tory migration target by end of next parliament

  01-06-2017 23:00
  
  Theresa May has signalled that she hopes to meet her manifesto target of reducing net migration to Britain to the tens of thousands by the end of the next parliament.With just a week to go before polling day, the prime minister repeatedly returned to the issue of immigration on Thursday as she toured Labour-held constituencies in northern England and Midlands and sought to inject fresh vigour into the Conservative campaign.
  
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• Princes William and Harry to talk about Diana's death for BBC documentary

  01-06-2017 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Royals to share for first time their memories of the week their mother died in Paris on eve of 20th anniversary Prince William and Prince Harry are to talk for the first time about the immediate aftermath of the death of Princess Diana for a new BBC1 documentary. With the 20th anniversary of their mother’s death in Paris approaching in August, the pair will discuss the events that followed in a special film, provisionally called Diana.Continue reading...
  
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• 'A grim reality': concern over longer waits for NHS operations

  01-06-2017 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Patients are being left in pain and discomfort due to fiancial pressures facing NHS, says Royal College of SurgeonsAn increasing number of patients are having to wait more than six months for an operation in hospital, official NHS figures show.
  The number of people in England being forced to wait that long has almost trebled in the past four years, from 45,054 in March 2013 to 126,188 in March this year – a 180% rise.Continue reading...
  
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• Steve Bell on the relaunch of the Tory election campaign – cartoon

  01-06-2017 22:53 via theguardian.com
  
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• Jim Carrey comes to Kathy Griffin's defense: 'Hold up a severed leg as well'

  01-06-2017 22:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Actor speaks out about controversial photo, featuring the severed head of Donald Trump, saying it’s the ‘job of a comedian to cross the line’Jim Carrey has come to Kathy Griffin’s defense, speaking out against the backlash generated by her widely derided photoshoot holding a facsimile of president Donald Trump’s severed head.Griffin posted a video apologizing for the photo on Twitter soon after, but on Wednesday was fired from her job as co-host of CNN’s New Y
  
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• Marika Hackman: I'm Not Your Man review – pop with a sultry swagger

  01-06-2017 22:45 via theguardian.com
  
  (AMR Records)Hurrah for Hackman! The British musician has, for her second album, set fire to her twee-ish sound and risen from the alt-folk scene like a proper stomping pop star, all sharp suits and songs that brood with breakup angst and simmer with sexuality. Her pearlescent lightness is still there in her sweetly sung cut-glass vocals, but in place of acoustic twangs there are heavy lidded licks and an overall louche noir. Grunge and shoegaze set the tone this time: the diaphanous guitar chim
  
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• Corbyn vows to meet Merkel 'straight away' if he becomes PM

  01-06-2017 22:33
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to fly to Berlin to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel "straight away" to negotiate Brexit if he wins the General Election.The Labour leader was asked by Sky News how he would deal with Brexit negotiations if he becomes Prime Minister next Friday, and what he would say to Mrs Merkel in particular."Ich bin ein Corbyn" joked the Labour leader in reply at his Brexit speech in Basildon in Essex.
  
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• 'Ich bin ein Corbyn' declares Corbyn

  01-06-2017 22:20
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has a joke with Sky's Political Editor.
  
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• Oliver Stone quizzes Vladimir Putin on Snowden in first clip from documentary

  01-06-2017 21:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Controversial director will bring four-part special The Putin Interviews to small screen this month, week after Megyn Kelly’s sit-down with Russian presidentJust a few hours after Megyn Kelly announced on NBC’s Today show that she would be interviewing Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg tomorrow at the International Economic Forum, Showtime released the first trailer and extended clip for The Putin Interviews, a sit-down with the Russian president conducted by the film-maker Oliver Ston
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon: Scotland could hold 'pivotal position' in election

  01-06-2017 21:50
  Scottish voters could be in a "pivotal position" in the General Election as polls narrow with a week to go, Nicola Sturgeon has said.While the SNP leader and First Minister said Theresa May is still on course to win, she suggested the size of the Conservative majority could come down to the outcome in Scotland and urged voters not to give the Prime Minister a "lifeline".The Scottish Conservatives are polling second in Scotland behind the SNP, and both parties have framed the election as a two-ho
  
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• Isco: the bandy-legged magician who is finally able to walk tall for Real Madrid | Sid Lowe

  01-06-2017 21:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Real Madrid midfielder will probably start the Champions League final against Juventus in Cardiff after supporting roles from the bench in the previous twoIsco has always had a wonky walk. “Odd,” he has called it: feet twisted, legs bendy, hips rolling, backside slung low – and still completely in control of the ball, never far from his foot. It was Iker Casillas and Sergio Ramos who first called him “Magia” but soon everyone in the Real Madrid dressing room followe
  
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• The myths about money that British voters should reject | Ha-Joon Chang

  01-06-2017 21:36 via theguardian.com
  
  The economy is held back by persistent illusions – such as the idea Britain spends a lot on welfareBefitting a surprise election, the manifestos from the main parties contained surprises. Labour is shaking off decades of shyness about nationalisation and tax increases for the rich and for the first time in decades has a policy agenda that is not Tory-lite. The Conservatives, meanwhile, say they are rejecting “the cult of selfish individualism” and “belief in untrammelled
  
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• Without EU regulations on chemicals, the UK will be a toxic dumping ground | Bruce Lourie

  01-06-2017 21:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Companies looking to flog products containing disease-causing substances will face few obstacles in Brexit BritainHow safe will it be to bring up your kids in Britain after Brexit? I’m not talking about crime, or abuse, or drugs, but something less visible. EU citizens are arguably the safest people on the planet when it comes to exposure to suspected cancer-causing or otherwise harmful toxins. This is because of Reach – the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of
  
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• Chris Woakes injury mars England’s win in Champions Trophy opener

  01-06-2017 21:35 via theguardian.com
  
  • Bowler could miss rest of tournament after pulling up with side strain
  • ‘It is a worry when he goes off,’ says Eoin Morgan after beating BangladeshJoe Root ensured England’s Champions Trophy campaign began in style as he scored a career-best unbeaten 133 in an eight-wicket victory over Bangladesh. But the winning start came at a cost, with Chris Woakes looking set to miss the remainder of the tournament after suffering a side strain.Woakes bowled only two overs bef
  
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• 'You are no eurosceptic Mr Farron!' Liberal Democrat leader torn apart during BBC grilling

  01-06-2017 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TIM FARRON was told he was “no eurosceptic” during a fiery BBC interview as Andrew Neil tore into the Lib Dem leader over his previous remarks.
  
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• Coffin of Polish president killed in plane crash contains remains of other victims

  01-06-2017 21:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Polish authorities say body parts of other people killed alongside Lech Kaczyński in 2010 ended up in his casketPolish authorities have found the remains of two other people in the coffin of former president Lech Kaczyński while investigating the plane crash in Russia that killed him and 95 others in2010.The caskets of 11 further victims also contained body parts of others, prosecutors said after examining 24 coffins from the crash. Continue reading...
  
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• Navratilova brands Court a racist and homophobe in arena row

  01-06-2017 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Tennis champion’s open letter over former world No1’s anti-gay rights stance accuses player of stigmatising LGBT communityMartina Navratilova has accused Margaret Court of being “a racist and a homophobe” after the former Australian tennis champion said tenniswas “full of lesbians” and transgender children were the work of “the devil”. Related: Margaret Court says 'tennis is full of lesbians' as row escalatesContinue reading...
  
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• Carrie Fisher’s and Debbie Reynolds’ Hollywood memorabilia to be auctioned

  01-06-2017 21:20 via theguardian.com
  
  A life-size C-3PO, a pair of ruby Wizard of Oz slippers, and a screen-worn dress from Singin’ in the Rain will be among the 1,500 items availableA life-size C-3PO, a pair of ruby Wizard of Oz slippers, and a dress from Singin’ in the Rain will be among 1,500 items available when Debbie Reynolds’ and Carrie Fisher’s estate is auctioned in September.Fisher died on 27 December 2016 after suffering a cardiac arrest. Reynolds died a day later. The mother and daughter lived on
  
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• The Guardian view on social media surveillance: Uncle Sam isn’t planning to friend you | Editorial

  01-06-2017 21:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Visa applicants to the US can now be asked for the names of their accounts. Suspicion that these changes are directed at Muslim travellers is only one of the reasons to objectThe appetite of the US national security apparatus for personal information appears insatiable. In December, the Obama administration began asking some foreign visitors for their social media account names. Civil liberties campaigners warned of the dangers then. Under President Trump that effort has been extended and enlarg
  
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• The Guardian view on May and the constitution: what does she mean by that? | Editorial

  01-06-2017 21:04 via theguardian.com
  
  The Conservative manifesto proposes abolishing the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. It doesn’t say why, and it doesn’t say what would replace itThe current general election will already be quite enough for most readers. Not even a masochist in an anorak will yet have given any serious thought to the one that comes after it. As things stand, that general election is now due on 5 May 2022. But not if Theresa May has her way.The Conservative general election manifesto contains a single
  
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• Shrinking tax base suggests personal allowance is generous enough

  01-06-2017 21:03
  
  HMRC expects 364,000 workers to be paying the top 45% rate by 2018, 50% more than seven years ago.At first glance, the latest income tax figures from HMRC make encouraging reading for anyone who believes in equality.Since 2013/14, around 300,000 people on low incomes no longer pay the 20p basic rate of tax, mostly thanks to the annual increases in the threshold at which people start paying income tax implemented by the previous government and the coalition before it.
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs influenced by dub

  01-06-2017 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Make your nomination in the comments and a reader will pick the best eligible tracks for a playlist next week – you have until Monday 5 June This week we’re looking at dub – and the music it has influenced over the past 60 years or so.
  You have until 11pm on Monday 5 June to post your nomination and make your justification. RR contributor George Boyland (who posts as sonofwebcore in the comments) will select from your recommendations and produce a playlist, to be published on 8
  
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• Council bosses ignored warnings of tram track danger, claims lawyer in cyclist death row

  01-06-2017 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TRANSPORT Minister Humza Yousaf is to meet safety campaigners after the death of a cyclist whose bike got stuck in tram tracks in Edinburgh.
  
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• Brazil's GDP grows in Q1; president sees recession's end

  01-06-2017 20:58
  
  SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian government says gross domestic product expanded 1 percent in this year's first quarter compared to the last quarter of 2016.
  
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• How Doctor Lambe uses scan to show there’s mutton wrong with sheep

  01-06-2017 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SHEEP are being screened by a medical CT scanner as part of a process to identify which are the best for breeding.
  
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• Up against the Maybot, Corbyn struggles not to be a personality | John Crace

  01-06-2017 20:43
  
  Call it the quantity theory of personality.The less warmth and spontaneity the Supreme Leader reveals she has, the more engaging Jeremy Corbyn becomes.For his big Brexit speech, Corbyn chose to come to Pitsea in Essex, a constituency in which 70% voted to leave the EU and in which Labour came third in the 2015 election behind both the Tories and Ukip.
  
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• Life’s a beach as Fife coastal town wins top award… then loses it within 24 hours

  01-06-2017 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A SEASIDE community has been left reeling after it was stripped of a coveted beach award – just 24 hours after being bestowed the honour.
  
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• 'You're not going to heckle me!' Andrew Neil rages at Tim Farron in extremely heated clash

  01-06-2017 20:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ANDREW NEIL snapped at Tim Farron during an interview as the pair continued shouting over each other over a potential second Brexit referendum.
  
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• Cigarettes and alcohol: Noel’s house party attracts the stars, but where’s our kid?

  01-06-2017 20:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Noel Gallagher’s Narcos-themed 50th birthday bash had them all – from Madonna and Bono to Theo from Hurts. But there was one parka-clad presence was missing …To a very big house in the country, full of Noel Gallagher and his friends, where Noel has decided to turn 50 in order to frighten people who were teenagers in the Britpop era into sorting out their lives.The Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds star, most famous for his High Flying Birds hit AKA … What a Life!
  
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• Disabled people’s voices needed in political debate | Letters

  01-06-2017 20:23
  
  Disability rights campaigners protest outside parliament in June 2015. ‘The next government must ensure disabled people have the security and stability they need to live independent lives and take part in society,’ writes Michelle Mitchell of the MS Society.The article by Frances Ryan (24 May) regarding the lack of support for disabled candidates seeking election raises an important issue that the next UK government must address.Missing from the article was reference to the situation
  
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• Are the Tories taking a flyer with May’s ‘official’ message? | Letters

  01-06-2017 20:22
  
  Reader Peter Little has concerns about an election communication the Tories sent to his mother.Among it was a “personal message” from Theresa May, printed on paper, and in an envelope, of the same colour as House of Commons notepaper.My pensioner brother – also a Teessider – has received a similar communication.
  
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• Who’s laughing now as polls swing to Jeremy Corbyn? | Brief letters

  01-06-2017 20:21
  
  Jeremy Corbyn gives an election campaign speech in Basildon.One poll now puts his Labour party just threee points behind the Conservatives.You say Jeremy Corbyn was ignored, then ridiculed and reviled (A future for the many, G2, 31 May).
  
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• Don’t want to lose you: how Lionel Richie keeps track of his girl

  01-06-2017 20:19 via theguardian.com
  
  No need for the singer to call his 18-year-old daughter Sofia to say hello. He just uses her phone tracker to see what she’s doingWho would have thought, back when he was winning fistfuls of Grammys, that Lionel Richie would chiefly be remembered for his capacity to parent self-absorbed starlets. Fourteen years after Nicole Richie became famous for being sticking her entire arm into a cow, Lionel has done it again. Sofia Richie is 18 and has yet to stick her arm into anything tabloid-
  
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• Julie Wadsworth: BBC host posed 'nearly naked' in calendar

  01-06-2017 20:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Julie Wadsworth starred in the 'Naughty but Nice' fundraiser for Children in Need, her trial hears.
  
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• Aidan O’Brien’s daughter becomes only third woman to contest the Derby

  01-06-2017 20:15 via theguardian.com
  
  • Apprentice Ana O’Brien to partner The Anvil for her father Aidan
  • Ryan Moore aboard joint favourite and one of six runners for BallydoyleA young apprentice jockey will attempt to become the first female rider to win the Derby on Saturday but the chance to make history will belong to Ana O’Brien, who will ride The Anvil for her father, Aidan, and not Gina Mangan, whose hopes of riding the 1,000-1 outsider Diore Lia were dashed by the British Horseracing Authority on Wedne
  
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• I used to be a shy Corbynite but I’m over that now | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  01-06-2017 20:10 via theguardian.com
  
  The Labour leader believes in a more equal society, as do his supporters. So stop treating us like foolsAs the Tories’ lead in the polls narrows, and Theresa May’s malfunctioning android interview technique exasperates journalists and the public alike, I’m beginning to feel something resembling hope. I am aware that this is not good. It’s the hope that kills you, in the end. Related: Corbyn gained an edge in this debate, even if he hasn’t forged an alliance | Zoe Wi
  
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• Huddersfield and Sheffield terror arrests after armed raids

  01-06-2017 20:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two properties in Huddersfield and Sheffield were stormed by armed officers, with two men arrested.
  
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• Manchester benefit gig: 'opportunists and touts' try to get free tickets

  01-06-2017 20:07
  
  An Ariana Grande poster lies amid tributes left in St Ann’s Square to the victims of the terrorist attack in Manchester.More than 10,000 “opportunists and touts” tried to get free tickets for this weekend’s One Love Manchester concert, even though they were intended for those affected by the Manchester bombing.Ticketmaster set aside free tickets to a benefit concert fronted by Ariana Grande for 14,200 people who were at the singer’s Manchester Arena gig when the bom
  
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• Scunthorpe steelworkers enjoy the rewards of act of faith in new owner

  01-06-2017 19:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Share handout puts staff at British Steel in a positive mood 18 months after pay was cut in a turnaround planMick Galvin, a 30-year veteran of the Scunthorpe steelworks, is feeling chipper. Along with more than 4,000 colleagues, he is celebrating the end of a year-long agreement to give up 3% of their wages to help secure the future of British Steel.The restoration of their pay coincides with a return to the black – a £47m underlying profit capping a dramatic turnaround since the pla
  
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• Construction firm Mears bans workers from having beards

  01-06-2017 19:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Workers must be clean shaven to wear dust masks effectively, firm tells staffThe construction firm Mears has banned its workers from having beards, citing health and safety grounds.Staff were told of the decision at a “tool box talk” in Tower Hamlets, east London, that beards were now banned so that workers could “wear appropriate dust masks effectively”.Continue reading...
  
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• Unseen Edith Wharton play found hidden in Texas archive

  01-06-2017 19:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Two scholars unearth 1901 work called The Shadow of a Doubt, written before author found fame with The Age of InnocenceLong before achieving literary fame with The Age of Innocence, the novelist Edith Wharton wrote a number of plays that never made it to the stage.Two scholars have discovered one of them, a previously unknown work dating back to 1901, among a bunch of papers in an archive in Austin, Texas. Continue reading...
  
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• Nigel Farage plays down any FBI interest in him

  01-06-2017 19:35
  
  Nigel Farage has dismissed a report that he is a "person of interest" in the FBI's investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
  
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