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• Championship round-up: Cardiff City break record with third consecutive win

  15-08-2017 23:49 via theguardian.com
  • Cardiff City win opening three games for first time in their 118-year history
  • Wolves beat Hull; Ipswich defeat Millwall; Middlesbrough overcome BurtonCardiff City created club history as a 2-0 victory over Sheffield United kept them top of the Sky Bet Championship.The Welsh club had never started a campaign with three league wins in their 118-year history but that odd statistic was consigned to history as Sean Morrison and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing put the gloss on a performance that
  
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• With Tuesday Remarks, Trump's Waffling On Denouncing White Nationalism Continues - NPR

  15-08-2017 23:46 via npr.org
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  With Tuesday Remarks, Trump's Waffling On Denouncing White Nationalism Continues
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  In a press conference on Tuesday, the president of the United States equated white supremacist marchers with counterprotesters who recently clashed in Charlottesville, Va. "I think there is blame on both sides," he said, going on to take aim at what he ...
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• Mark Stoneman’s debut against West Indies offers chance of Ashes place

  15-08-2017 23:37 via theguardian.com
  • Stoneman will be Alastair Cook’s 15th England opening partner
  • West Indies head coach Stuart Law urges his team to answer criticsMark Stoneman feels his Test debut against West Indies under lights this Thursday is justification for his winter move from Durham to Surrey as he prepares to become the latest batsman to try to crack the puzzle that is being Alastair Cook’s opening partner.At 30 years of age Stoneman will become the oldest specialist batsman to be handed a fir
  
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• Why the Charlottesville Marchers Were Obsessed With Jews - The Atlantic

  15-08-2017 23:33 via theatlantic.com
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  Why the Charlottesville Marchers Were Obsessed With Jews
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  Subscribe to The Atlantic's Politics & Policy Daily, a roundup of ideas and events in American politics. The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville was ostensibly about protecting a statue of Robert E. Lee. It was about asserting the legitimacy of ...
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• Leigh Griffiths says Astana tie is ‘make or break’ for Celtic’s season

  15-08-2017 23:33 via theguardian.com
  • Striker says Champions League play-off win ‘would put everyone on a high’
  • Brendan Rodgers adds European games had instilled resilience in his playersLeigh Griffiths says the success of Celtic’s entire campaign could hinge on Wednesday tonight’s Champions League play-off first leg with Astana.After sweeping all domestic rivals aside last season Brendan Rodgers’ side again have aspirations of making their mark in Europe. They take on the Kazakhstan champ
  
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• Liverpool have more pressing issues than Philippe Coutinho - as their performance against Hoffenheim proved - The Independent

  15-08-2017 23:31 via independent.co.uk
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  Liverpool have more pressing issues than Philippe Coutinho - as their performance against Hoffenheim proved
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  Roberto Firmino had conceded ahead of Liverpool's Champions League first-leg qualifier against Hoffenheim that it would be “awful” for the side to lose Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona. But, if Tuesday's performance at the Rhein-Neckar-Arena is anything ...
  Winners and losers from Liverpool's 2-1 win over Hoffenheim in the Champions League playoff
  
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• Donald Trump Defends Charlottesville Rally Attendees In Most Batsh*t Press Conference Of His Presidency

  15-08-2017 23:28
  In February, we told you Donald Trump gave the most insane press conference of his career and maybe even in the history of politics.
  
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• There is going to be a permanent memorial to the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena attack in the city - Manchester Evening News

  15-08-2017 23:15 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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• Liverpool close on Champions League group stage with win at Hoffenheim

  15-08-2017 22:50 via theguardian.com
  It took Liverpool 90 minutes to switch off at a set piece against Hoffenheim. Benjamin Hübner met Nadiem Amiri’s free-kick with an unmarked header six yards out and the recurring theme of Jürgen Klopp’s reign made a fleeting reappearance. Not again? Not this time. Hübner headed over and Liverpool found themselves within touching distance of the Champions League group stage – a vast reward for fine margins.Klopp left his homeland with a precious, timely play-off v
  
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• Southampton welcome new Chinese owners but how much will they invest? | David Conn

  15-08-2017 21:51 via theguardian.com
  Katharina Liebherr believes Jisheng Gao and his daughter Nelly are the right people to take the club forward after their £210m takeoverNot a lot was known in England about the Chinese businessman Jisheng Gao before he began negotiating to buy Southampton football club last year, and confirmation that he has paid £210m for an 80% stake has been accompanied by familiar Premier League levels of Googling. Of Gao and his company, Lander, nothing greatly notable is revealed, except for rep
  
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• Falling tree kills 13 on Portuguese island of Madeira - BBC News

  15-08-2017 21:47 via bbc.co.uk
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  Falling tree kills 13 on Portuguese island of Madeira
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  A falling tree has killed at least 13 people and injured 49 at a religious ceremony on the Portuguese island of Madeira. A video shows the tree crashing down on a crowded square in a suburb of the main town, Funchal, spreading panic among people ...
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• Juli Inkster urges Solheim Cup crowds not to heckle Europe’s Suzann Pettersen

  15-08-2017 21:45 via theguardian.com
  • USA captain believes players and fans have ‘moved on’ from 2015 controversy
  • Lexi Thompson doubtful with a virus – Angela Stanford is on standbyJuli Inkster, the USA’s Solheim Cup captain, has urged the anticipated record crowds at the event in Iowa this weekend not to abuse Suzann Pettersen. The last meeting of the US and Europe, two years ago in Germany, was hugely overshadowed by a controversy involving Pettersen and Alison Lee.Pettersen was widely castiga
  
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• Steve Bell on the UK's Brexit negotiations – cartoon

  15-08-2017 21:44 via theguardian.com
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• Teenager charged with murder after street fight in Manchester

  15-08-2017 21:35
  Sait Mboob’s family paid tribute to the 18-year-old on Tuesday.A 17-year-old boy has been charged with the murder after another teenager died in a street fight in Manchester during which three other people were stabbed.The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with the murder of Sait Mboob, 18, and three counts of attempted murder.
  
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• Everton agree £45m club record fee with Swansea for Gylfi Sigurdsson

  15-08-2017 21:34 via theguardian.com
  • Iceland playmaker will have his medical on Wednesday
  • Gareth Barry joins West Brom on one-year dealEverton have finally reached an agreement with Swansea City to sign Gylfi Sigurdsson, who will move to Goodison Park for a club-record fee of £45m subject to completing a medical on Wednesday. The breakthrough will come as a relief to both clubs after protracted talks and negotiations that have lasted for more than a month.Swansea rejected several offers from Everton for Sigurdss
  
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• CEOs are abandoning Trump’s manufacturing council over his response to Charlottesville

  15-08-2017 21:15
  CEOs from Merck, Intel, Under Armour and the Alliance for American Manufacturing have left the council.
  
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• Government pulls all Learndirect contracts and funding

  15-08-2017 21:03
  A leading thinktank said the alleged mismanagement at Learndirect was symptomatic of the systemic failure of public policy.The government is to cancel all contracts with Learndirect, the adult training provider that tried to suppress a damning regulator’s report into its poor standards.The Department for Education said on Tuesday that it would withdraw all funding from the organisation, which is responsible for almost 73,000 trainees, by July 2018 and that it had already banned it from tak
  
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• US faces critical moment to negotiate with North Korea, experts warn

  15-08-2017 21:01 via theguardian.com
  Analysts say the latest statement by Kim Jong-un, signally a pause on Guam strike, gives the US a brief window to end the tense standoffThe latest statement by Kim Jong-un signalling a pause in Pyongyang’s war of words with Washington has given the US a window of a few days to negotiate a way of defusing a dangerous standoff, experts said on Tuesday.
  Many longstanding observers of the North Korean regime expressed concern that the US could misinterpret the message that it sent on Monday wh
  
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• Homeless 'hero' charged with theft from victim of Manchester bombing

  15-08-2017 20:53 via theguardian.com
  Chris Parker, hailed for helping after Arena attack, is alleged to have stolen credit card from woman as she lay injuredA homeless man hailed as a hero after helping in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing has been charged with stealing the credit card of one of the victims.Chris Parker, 33, was arrested and charged with stealing the card from Pauline Healey as she lay injured following the attack at the Ariana Grande concert. Continue reading...
  
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• Grace Mugabe back in Zimbabwe after being accused of assaulting model in South Africa - The Independent

  15-08-2017 20:46 via independent.co.uk
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  Grace Mugabe back in Zimbabwe after being accused of assaulting model in South Africa
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  Zimbabwe's first lady, Grace Mugabe, returned home on Tuesday from South Africa after failing to turn herself in to police in Johannesburg to face charges of assaulting a model in a hotel room. There was no immediate public comment on the case from ...
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• IMF warns China over 'dangerous' growth in debt

  15-08-2017 20:37 via theguardian.com
  Washington-based fund says pursuit of growth at any cost risks sharp slowdown or financial crisisChina’s credit-fuelled economic strategy has been branded as dangerous by the International Monetary Fund in a strongly-worded statement warning that its approach risks financial turmoil.The IMF used its annual health check on the world’s second biggest economy to stress that faster expansion in 2017 was coming at the cost of a jump in private sector debt and an increasing use of complex
  
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• Donald Trump's Scottish Golf Course Expansion 'Threatens Environmental Disaster', Warns Petition

  15-08-2017 20:28
  Tens of thousands have signed a petition calling for plans to expand Donald Trump’s Scottish golf course to be halted, saying they threaten “environmental and economic disaster”.
  
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• Publish Prince Charles lobbying letters, Scottish government urged

  15-08-2017 20:27
  Opposition leaders have called on Scottish ministers to publish secret correspondence about lobbying by the Prince of Wales to reform Scotland’s teacher training system.Iain Gray, Scottish Labour’s education spokesman, said he would be pressing for a parliamentary debate on the disclosures.“This kind of policymaking under pressure of lobbying, in secret, is no way to embark on ditching a fundamental principle of Scottish education that we only use fully qualified teachers in ou
  
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• Rare Canadian oriole to fly thousands of miles back home – on passenger jet

  15-08-2017 20:25 via theguardian.com
  Bullock’s oriole who ended up in Ottawa to fly home on Air Canada flightSmall orange-plumed female first spotted in capital in late 2015Nearly two years ago, she was spotted perched on an apple tree in Ontario – thousands of miles from her natural habitat – capturing the attention of birdwatchers across Canada.Now a Bullock’s oriole who ended up in the Ottawa area is set to finally fly home to western North America – in the passenger cabin of an Air Canada flight. C
  
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• John Gosden’s plea fails to move BHA panel on Rab Havlin French drug ban

  15-08-2017 20:18 via theguardian.com
  • Trainer silences room at panel hearing with impassioned defence of jockey
  • Havlin has to serve rest of six-month ban for failing a drug testAn impassioned intervention by John Gosden was not enough to turn things around for his jockey Rab Havlin, who failed in his efforts to kill off a drugs ban imposed by the French authorities. Havlin hotly denied taking cocaine, which France Galop claims was found in a urine sample he gave at Saint-Cloud last autumn, but he will now have to serve
  
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• Should Hollywood do more to portray safer sex?

  15-08-2017 20:13 via theguardian.com
  Last week, Insecure’s Issa Rae responded to fans who claim the show should do more to depict safe sexual practices but the show isn’t alone in its portrayal of condom-free actionThere’s still something undeniably compelling about a good sex scene. Whether it’s to build intrigue, advance the plot or, well, indulge our collective wish to see Hollywood stars undress and simulate coitus, they remain attention-grabbing set-pieces. Related: Sex education: what do today’s
  
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• Militia leaders who descended on Charlottesville condemn 'rightwing lunatics'

  15-08-2017 20:12 via theguardian.com
  Members of armed groups, who decry violence and racism, say they visited Virginia to defend free speech – but white nationalists had ‘come to fight’With their loaded assault rifles and pistols, camouflage, combat boots and helmets, it looked like the army had descended on the pretty college town of Charlottesville, Virginia, as a white supremacy rally turned violent last weekend.The US military did turn up, in fact, in the form of the Virginia national guard, otherwise known as
  
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• Scottish parliament hit by cyber-attack similar to Westminster assault

  15-08-2017 20:07
  The cyber-attack of the Scottish parliament follows an assault on Westminster in June, which security officials have blamed on the Russian government.Hackers have mounted a “brute force” cyber-attack on the Scottish parliament’s computer systems, weeks after a similar attack on email accounts at Westminster.MSPs and Holyrood staff were warned on Tuesday that hackers were attempting to access numerous email accounts by systematically and repeatedly trying to crack their password
  
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• Usher Milly Forrest impresses critics after standing in for ill soprano

  15-08-2017 19:51
  It is a story that a classical singer could only dream of coming true.Milly Forrest, a music student who was working as an usher, found herself stepping on to the stage at Wigmore Hall as a late replacement after a soprano called in sick.The 23-year-old, who is training to be a classical singer, had auditioned at the prestigious classical venue before and been advised that her time would come when her voice matures.
  
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• Walnut snip: Nestlé cuts nut out of chocolate after prices surge

  15-08-2017 19:45 via theguardian.com
  Company says new Walnut Whips cater to people who do not like nuts, but it comes after UK prices rose 20% earlier this yearFollowing shrinking Maltesers bags and Toblerones with bigger gaps, Nestlé has announced the “walnot whip”, launching the first nut-free versions of its oldest chocolate brand after the price of the key ingredient surged.The vanilla and caramel versions of the Walnut Whip, a cone of milk chocolate with a fondant filling, will go on sale this week under the
  
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• Fringe views – why politics is yuge at Edinburgh this year

  15-08-2017 19:39 via theguardian.com
  It was once almost a taboo at the festival, but just about every performer this year, from the SNP’s Alex Salmond to an Irish wizard creating a kids’ utopia, wants to talk politics. But when the real world is so extreme, is it all beyond a joke? You can’t move for politics in Edinburgh. Whether it’s a practical guide to democracy for kids, or a big-name politician with more time on his hands than he would have wished for, politics is everywhere.And in Scotland you don&rsq
  
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• The big debate: would you rather have a dishwasher or a tumble dryer?

  15-08-2017 19:35 via theguardian.com
  A new survey found Brits split down the middle when asked to pick between these two appliances. We took to the streets to get the lay of the landBrits are in a spin as to which white good is the most essential: a tumble dryer or a dishwasher. With the cost of housing squeezing people into smaller spaces and the cost of living rising, the luxury of owning both is increasingly out of reach. Given a choice between the two, though, 47% of people in the UK favour a tumble dryer, while 44% would choos
  
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• Drug-related deaths in Scotland more than double in 10 years

  15-08-2017 19:35
  Heroin was the most lethal single drug, contributing to 55% of the 867 drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2016.More than twice as many people are dying from drug use in Scotland than a decade ago, according to figures that show the country’s rate of drug-related deaths is two and a half times that of the UK as a whole.A total of 867 people in Scotland died after using illegal or prescription drugs in 2016, 23% more than a year earlier, and 106% more than in 2006, figures from National Reco
  
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• The Guardian view on the Grenfell inquiry: not enough trust | Editorial

  15-08-2017 19:32 via theguardian.com
  Sir Martin Moore-Bick wants to keep his investigation mainly technical. But he wants another one to look at social housing, and he’s rightIt was not only the fire that destroyed confidence in the local council among the people who lived in Grenfell Tower; nor was it just the council’s chaotic response in the days afterwards, nor its apparent reluctance to take responsibility or express regret for the tragedy that unfolded in the early hours of 14 June. It was the culmination of
  
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• Bill Gates gives $4.6bn to charity in biggest donation since 2000

  15-08-2017 19:30 via theguardian.com
  Recipient of 64m Microsoft shares is a mystery, but is expected to be tech tycoon’s foundationBill Gates, the world’s richest man, has donated $4.6bn (£3.6bn) in the Microsoft founder’s biggest gift to charity since he set up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Gates donated 64m Microsoft shares according to a US Securities & Exchange Commission filing. The recipient of the gift was not specified but it is expected that the money will be directed to the foundation
  
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• 'I’m black so I look mean?' Serena Williams discusses race and pregnancy

  15-08-2017 19:24 via theguardian.com
  Former world No1 says she wants to return for Australian Open23-time grand slam champion says she has been judged due to raceSerena Williams has spoken about pregnancy, race and body image in a wide-ranging interview with Vogue.Williams and her fiance, the Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, are due to welcome their first child at the end of the year, but she says she wants to return as early as January to defend her Australian Open title. “It’s the most outrageous plan,” she sai
  
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• Nottingham man jailed for infecting lovers with HIV

  15-08-2017 19:21 via theguardian.com
  Antonio Reyes-Minana sentenced to seven years after having unprotected sex with two men despite knowing he had virus
  A man has been jailed for infecting two former lovers with HIV after purposely not telling them he had the virus.
  Antonio Reyes-Minana, 25, of Nottingham, denied two counts of grievous bodily harm but was convicted by a jury last week of infecting his partners. On Tuesday he was jailed for seven years and told he would serve half behind bars and half on licence. Continue reading..
  
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• Nottingham man jailed for deliberately infecting lovers with HIV

  15-08-2017 19:21 via theguardian.com
  Antonio Reyes-Minana sentenced to seven years after having unprotected sex with two men despite knowing he had virus
  A man has been jailed for infecting two former lovers with HIV after purposely not telling them he had the virus.Antonio Reyes-Minana, 25, of Nottingham, denied two counts of grievous bodily harm but was convicted by a jury last week of deliberately infecting his partners. On Tuesday he was jailed for seven years and told he would serve half behind bars and half on licence. Contin
  
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• New Orleans under water: 12 years after Katrina, officials can't get it right

  15-08-2017 19:15 via theguardian.com
  The city has seen rain almost every day since April – but pumps continue to malfunction as water board administrators offer wrong informationIt is true: New Orleans lives and dies by its water. We eat from the Gulf, lake and wetlands and we breathe deeply of a sweltering, airborne humidity. We get our drinking water from the muddy Mississippi river, which carries the effluvia of half the country. Thousands upon thousands of rainy years have amplified the continuing decay in wetlands surrou
  
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• Geneticists trace humble apple's exotic lineage all the way to the Silk Road

  15-08-2017 19:15 via theguardian.com
  The fruit’s evolutionary history has been unpicked for the first time by studying a range of wild and cultivated apples from China to North AmericaIt is a lunchbox staple so ubiquitous as to have become mundane. But the apple we know today is the fruit of an extraordinary journey, researchers have revealed.Scientists studying the genetics of the humble apple have unpicked how the cultivated species emerged as traders travelled back and forth along the Silk Road – ancient routes runni
  
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• Neo-Nazi group moves to 'Dark Web' after website goes down

  15-08-2017 19:09
  By Jim FinkleTORONTO (Reuters) - Neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, which helped organize a gathering in Virginia on Saturday that turned violent, moved to the so-called Dark Web on Tuesday because its registration to use the open internet was revoked.GoDaddy Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google canceled Daily Stormer's Internet registration on Monday, saying the group had violated terms of service, which prohibit clients from using their sites to incite violence.Andrew Anglin, the founder of Daily St
  
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• 'A fantasy': EU leaders dismiss UK's post-Brexit customs plan - The Guardian

  15-08-2017 19:07 via theguardian.com
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  'A fantasy': EU leaders dismiss UK's post-Brexit customs plan
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  A European commission spokesman said the EU was working on its own paper on customs issues. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters. Brexit. 'A fantasy': EU leaders dismiss UK's post-Brexit customs plan. Proposals for new arrangement given short shrift, ...
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• BT to scrap half of UK's remaining phone boxes after usage falls 90%

  15-08-2017 19:01 via theguardian.com
  Company says it is to remove 20,000 booths, many of which are rarely if ever used for their intended purposeA much-loved but almost obsolete feature is set to vanish from thousands of British streets when BT presses button B to cancel calls in 20,000 phone boxes - a reference that would have to be explained to an entire digital generation which has never made a call from a public phone.Faced with soaring maintenance costs and plummeting usage, BT plans to scrap half of the UK’s remaining p
  
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• Falling oak tree kills religious festivalgoers on Madeira

  15-08-2017 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Fall of 200-year-old tree kills at least 12 and injures scores during Celebration of Our Lady of the Mount festival near FunchalAt least 12 people have been killed after a 200-year-old oak tree fell into a crowd at a religious festival on the Portuguese island of Madeira.A government official said 52 others were injured when the tree fell outside a church in the hills above the capital of Funchal on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Listen to the tenants in social housing | Letters

  15-08-2017 18:51 via theguardian.com
  If you live in a tower block, your home is visible but you are not, writes Ed Mayo. Plus Tory London assembly member Tony Devenish defends the response of Kensington and Chelsea council to the Grenfell Tower fireWe need a national voice for tenants in social housing. Catch-up work and stop-start remedial action at tower blocks across the country after the fire at Grenfell Tower (Work starts on tower blocks found to be at risk of collapse, 12 August) is further evidence that if you live in a
  
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• A fairer way to finance university students | Letters

  15-08-2017 18:51
  What Jo Johnson, the universities minister, forgets (Student finance system is fair and efficient, 14 August) is the distorting effect of the very unequal distribution of wealth in this country.In other words, many graduates from well-to-do families escape having to pay this 9% addition to income tax, whereas those from less affluent backgrounds do not.Is this really a fair system?
  
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• Baby dolphin killed by Spanish beachgoers passing it around and taking selfies

  15-08-2017 18:47
  A baby dolphin died on a beach in Spain after hundreds of holidaymakers surrounded it and had their pictures taken with it rather than helping it swim back to its mother in the sea.The group criticised the behaviour of the beach goers on Facebook, saying: "Once again we note that the human being is the most irrational species that exists.Equinac say they were alerted to the stranded infant by Spanish authorities who noted that the lifeguard had "lost his nerve" and been unable to protect the cre
  
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• EasyJet could swoop for parts of Air Berlin as it goes into administration

  15-08-2017 18:43 via theguardian.com
  Lufthansa in talks to take over most of competitor after investor Etihad pulls its financingEasyJet could spread its wings in Germany as it emerged as a potential buyer for parts of Air Berlin, which filed for administration on Tuesday.The German government has provided an emergency €150m (£137m) loan to Air Berlin to enable it to keep flying its schedules. Continue reading...
  
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• It’s Now or Never: are Elvis jumpsuits catching on in menswear?

  15-08-2017 18:36 via theguardian.com
  An exhibition featuring 40 of the King’s jumpsuits is opening in the UK – just as they are finally being embraced without irony by fashion designers An exhibition at the O2 looking at Elvis’s career between 1969 and 1977 will feature 40 of his jumpsuits. The exhibition’s timing is also pertinent in menswear, where jumpsuits are in the process of becoming staples.Thankfully, this trend is only loosely inspired by the King. Elvis may have worn a rhinestone and gold lame jum
  
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• Brazilian police identify those involved in favela shooting of UK tourist

  15-08-2017 18:24 via theguardian.com
  Investigating officer says warrants issued for four men and two boys after Eloise Dixon was shot twice near Angra dos ReisBrazilian police say they have identified those responsible for shooting Eloise Dixon, the British tourist who was wounded by two bullets when her family’s rented car entered a poor community west of Rio de Janiero and came under fire from members of a drug gang.“We already have the dynamic of what happened,” the investigating officer, Bruno Gilaberte, said
  
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