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• KFC’s Double Down is arriving in the UK, and fans are very much ready for it

  02-10-2017 23:51
  As “sandwiches” go, this is quite a sight.
  
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• Harry Winks handed surprise call-up as England manager Gareth Southgate aims to give youth a chance - Telegraph.co.uk

  02-10-2017 23:30
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  Harry Winks handed surprise call-up as England manager Gareth Southgate aims to give youth a chance
  Telegraph.co.uk
  Gareth Southgate has handed a surprise England call-up to Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Harry Winks following the withdrawal of Fabian Delph and Phil Jones from his squad for the final two World Cup qualifiers. The 21-year-old has played just 122 ...
  Manchester United defender Phil Jones withdraws from England squad with injuryManchester Evening News
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• Back Theresa May or risk Labour government, Hunt warns Johnson

  02-10-2017 23:30
  The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, warned that Jeremy Corbyn ‘is also eyeing a different job’.Jeremy Hunt has issued a warning to Boris Johnson that failure to swing behind Theresa May risks opening the door to a Labour government, which he claimed could stop Brexit in its tracks.The health secretary made the comments after being asked if he feared the foreign secretary was “looking at the top job”.
  
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• Cheshire hospital stops spinal surgery after 'serious incidents'

  02-10-2017 22:45
  An NHS hospital has stopped performing spinal surgery after four “serious incidents,” two of which involved the death of a patient.Spinal operations will not resume at Warrington and Halton hospitals NHS foundation trust in Cheshire until an external investigation into surgical practice has finished.“We have made the decision to temporarily suspected our spinal surgery at Warrington and Halton hospitals following the identification of four serious incidents involving spinal sur
  
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• Jon Snow: C4 News presenter says it took him years to talk about his experience.

  02-10-2017 22:35 via bbc.co.uk
  The Channel 4 News presenter says it took him years to talk to anyone about his experience.
  
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• Spain in crisis after police violence in Catalan vote - News24

  02-10-2017 22:26
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  Spain in crisis after police violence in Catalan vote
  News24
  Protesters wave a Catalan pro-independence 'Estelada' flag during a demonstration outside the Spanish national police headquarters in Barcelona on October 2, 2017 to protest against the action of the national police during a banned independence ...
  Political Risk Makes a Comeback in EuropeBloomberg
  Europe refuses to blame police for 'shocking' violence at voteIndependent.ie
  Opinion divided by the Catalan referendumThe Guar
  
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• The world of sport is sending its thoughts to those affected by the Las Vegas shooting

  02-10-2017 22:23
  The mass shooting is the deadliest in modern US history.
  
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• Former Tesco executives were warned of profits hole, court told

  02-10-2017 21:38
  Former Tesco executives John Scouler, Carl Rogberg and Christopher Bush are appearing in court over the accounting scandal.Carl Rogberg, the former finance director of Tesco UK, John Scouler, the former commercial director for food, and Christopher Bush, the former managing director of Tesco UK, have all been charged with one count of fraud by abuse of position and one count of false accounting.The allegations relate to Tesco’s accounting records after a public announcement to the stock ma
  
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• Monarch Redundancies Announced, 1,858 Employees Lose Jobs

  02-10-2017 21:34
  Monarch’s woes have continued on Monday night after it was announced 1,858 employees of the collapsed travel firm have been made redundant.
  
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• London's East Croydon station to reopen after security check - police

  02-10-2017 21:15
  LONDON (Reuters) - London's East Croydon station was due to reopen on Monday after police said an item they had been investigating was not harmful. "The item at East Croydon has been declared non-suspicious," Britain's transport police said on Twitter. "The station will be reopening very shortly." The temporary closure caused delays for commuters and for travellers using the city's nearby Gatwick Airport. Britain is on its second-highest level of security alert after several attacks in the count
  
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• Redundancies follow Monarch Airlines collapse with 860,000 customers hit

  02-10-2017 20:45
  Administrators say 1,858 Monarch staff have been made redundant following the collapse of Britain's fifth-biggest airline.Approximately 860,000 passengers have been affected by the carrier's demise - and 110,000 people currently stranded abroad are being flown home in "the country's biggest-ever peacetime repatriation".Monarch's collapse has also meant that the future bookings of 750,000 passengers have been cancelled with immediate effect.
  
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• London's East Croydon station to reopen after security check - police - Yahoo Finance UK

  02-10-2017 20:45
  London's East Croydon station to reopen after security check - police
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  LONDON, Oct (Shenzhen: 000069.SZ - news) 2 (Reuters) - London's East Croydon station was due to reopen on Monday after police said an item they had been investigating was not harmful. "The item at East Croydon has been declared non-suspicious," ...and more »
  
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• Tate Modern Turbine Hall's three-seater swing

  02-10-2017 20:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Tate Modern's Turbine Hall has been turned into a giant adult playground - but why?
  
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• Freewheelin' Phil and preacher Jacob take the Tories back to the future | John Crace

  02-10-2017 20:28
  Philip Hammond: the applause had ended long before he had even left the stage. Job done. Photograph: Hannah Mckay/Reuters
  
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• Christian girl, 5, removed from Muslim foster carers 'says she misses them' - Metro

  02-10-2017 20:25
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  Christian girl, 5, removed from Muslim foster carers 'says she misses them'
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  A five-year-old Christian girl removed from her Muslim foster parents has apparently said that she misses them. The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was moved into her grandmother's care in August after it was claimed that her carers 'didn ...
  White Christian girl, five, taken away from her Muslim foster family after it was claimed they 'spoke Arabic and ...Daily Mailall 9 news articles &ra
  
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• Girl had 'warm relationship' with Muslim foster carers, court told

  02-10-2017 20:24
  Tower Hamlets council conducted an inquiry into allegations in the Times against the foster family and found they had provided ‘warm and appropriate’ care.A girl placed with Muslim foster carers in a case that ignited a media storm had a “warm relationship” with the family and wants to see them again, an internal council investigation has found.The row surrounding child AB, as she is known in court documents, was prompted by a front-page article in the Times headlined &ld
  
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• Questions to answer as the Tories flounder | Letters

  02-10-2017 20:11
  As Jeremy Corbyn pointed out in his conference speech, we live in an era of rentier capitalism, not free markets.The previous drivers of “growth” – rising house prices, financial services and the extraction of profit by private cartels from public services – do not reflect a productive economy and market competition, but rather a system dominated by rent-seeking.If the Conservative party is to have a future it must admit that the “free markets” it embraced wer
  
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• Business leaders give lukewarm response to Hammond's speech

  02-10-2017 19:56
  Philip Hammond addresses the Conservative party conference in Manchester.Business groups have given a lukewarm reception to Philip Hammond’s main speech to the Conservative party conference in which he announced no new policies and spent much of the address attacking Jeremy Corbyn.In a speech with an unusually strong focus on the opposition, the chancellor called the Labour leader “a clear and present danger” to prosperity and likened his economic policies to those in Cuba, Zim
  
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• Monarch Airlines collapse: UK’s biggest peacetime repatriation under way

  02-10-2017 19:31 via theguardian.com
  Civil Aviation Authority says it is taking action to get 110,000 people back to UK, with 750,000 future bookings cancelledEverything you need to know about the Monarch collapseTell us how you have been affected
  The UK’s biggest peacetime repatriation is under way after the collapse of Monarch Airlines, with 110,000 customers to be brought home on specially chartered planes and a further 750,000 told that their bookings have been cancelled.
  The 4am announcement that Britain’s longest-
  
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• Leanne McKie: Husband Darren McKie Charged With Murder Of Greater Manchester Police Detective

  02-10-2017 19:25
  The husband of a serving police detective who was pulled dead from a lake has been charged with her murder.
  
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• Lancashire fracking row rages on: ‘Theresa May forced it on us’

  02-10-2017 19:24 via theguardian.com
  As horizontal drilling starts in Fylde this month, the Guardian talks to protesters and gets a look inside the Cuadrilla siteMike Hill, sitting in his living room a few miles from a fracking site outside Blackpool, is brandishing a government letter brushing aside his concerns about the industry. “You, Theresa May, overruled democracy to force fracking on the residents of Fylde,” he says, reading from his own letter to the prime minister, in which he urges her to heed experts’
  
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• A new exhibit has turned the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into a playground

  02-10-2017 19:19
  Ever fancied trying a three-person swing?
  
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• Vivienne Westwood is as filthy as I am and we both look so much better for it | Sophie Heawood

  02-10-2017 19:12 via theguardian.com
  The designer and her husband have become too posh to wash. And I’m not saying I look stunning, but people are definitely surprised when I say I’m in my 40s – is it because my skin remains unsullied by regular battles with water?I am always confused by the general public still being referred to as the Great Unwashed, when my experience, as a member of said public, is that everyone else seems to be washing all the bloody time. Showers in the morning, baths at night, hair washing
  
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• Las Vegas shooting: death toll rises to 58 as police name suspect – latest updates

  02-10-2017 19:09 via theguardian.com
  Police say 58 people have died in the attack on the Route 91 festivalFull story: More than 50 dead in shooting at music festivalWhat we know so far about the shootingHow have you been affected? 6.06pm BSTWe are in need of certified trauma counselors. pic.twitter.com/zroSqEoc1T 5.34pm BSTIn a pattern repeated after high-profile mass shootings for years, shares in the US’s two largest gun companies have risen sharply after the Vegas attack. Sturm Ruger, America’s largest firearms manuf
  
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• Readers’ travel photo competition: October – win a trip to Costa Rica

  02-10-2017 19:02 via theguardian.com
  Use a camera rather than a phone when travelling? If so, and know how to create intelligent, witty or beautiful images, enter our competition and be in with a chance of winning a wildlife holiday for two to Costa Rica with Exodus TravelsThere is no theme this year, so the field is open. Whether it’s a stunning landscape, poignant portrait or a vibrant street scene, we are just looking for great travel shots.We’ll choose and publish a selection of our favourites, and the winning image
  
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• Peter Brook: 'To give way to despair is the ultimate cop-out'

  02-10-2017 19:00 via theguardian.com
  At 92, the visionary director refuses to slow down. He talks about how to silence audiences, the trouble with doing Shakespeare in French, the difference between Olivier and Gielgud, and why Elizabethan theatre would shock us todaySixty-five years ago, Kenneth Tynan identified the qualities of a young Peter Brook as “repose, curiosity and mental accuracy – plus, of course, the unlearnable lively flair”. Now 92, Brook may walk more slowly than he did but those gifts are still ab
  
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• Las Vegas gunman may have used special device to fire faster, expert says

  02-10-2017 18:55 via theguardian.com
  Stephen Paddock, 64, named as suspect in deadly Las Vegas attack
  ‘It’s faster than any human is able to pull a trigger on a semi-automatic’Las Vegas attack – live updatesLaw enforcement officials have yet to confirm what kind of firearms Stephen Paddock used to shoot from his Mandalay Bay hotel room into a crowd of people at a country music festival in Las Vegas, killing at least 58 people, though early reports suggest he had as many as 10 guns, including some rifles. Rel
  
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• Party Conference Marks May's Last Stand - HuffPost UK

  02-10-2017 18:53
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  Party Conference Marks May's Last Stand
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  With reports of Cabinet infighting increasing, and speculation of a potential leadership challenge mounting, the pressure facing the Prime Minister ahead of her key note speech to party conference this Wednesday is reaching fever pitch. To address ...
  "Overall I got a sense of desperation" - What teenagers make of the Conservative conferenceManchester Evening News
  Economic future will have close links to EU – ChancellorBelfas
  
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• The drugs don’t work: Liverpool’s Dejan Lovren takes risks with painkillers

  02-10-2017 18:52 via theguardian.com
  In a worrying trend, the defender is far from alone in using pills to get through matches, with more and more players gambling with their long-term healthHad Dejan Lovren not been bought as a direct replacement for Daniel Agger, he may have spent enough time in the Danish defender’s company to see the damage that can be done to a footballer’s career by not listening to your body. But they were team-mates for no more than a few weeks in 2014. Agger left the damaging high-intensity wor
  
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• Donald Trump's Las Vegas Shooting Speech Offers God And Platitudes - But Doesn't Call Out Guns

  02-10-2017 18:52
  Donald Trump has condemned the Las Vegas mass-shooting as an “act of pure evil” and said he is “praying” for “peace”, “unity” and “healing”.
  
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• Police forces across America are sending their support to officers in Las Vegas

  02-10-2017 18:50
  Messages are flooding social media in the wake of the deadly shooting at a festival.
  
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• Conservative conference 2017: Ruth Davidson suggests she would have sacked Boris Johnson over Brexit articles - Politics live

  02-10-2017 18:45 via theguardian.com
  Rolling coverage of the events at the Conservative party conference, including the speech by Philip Hammond, the chancellorPhilip Hammond’s morning interviews - Summary and analysisHammond’s speech - Snap verdictAfternoon summary 5.45pm BST 5.25pm BSTJacob Rees-Mogg is attracting huge audiences at his fringe meetings at the conference. These are from the latest.Moggmania at Leave Means Leave event #CPC17 pic.twitter.com/hWneTbzYOJMogg's latest fringe is so packed and so hot, someone
  
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• Dalí/Duchamp review – surreal bromance between art's odd couple

  02-10-2017 18:42 via theguardian.com
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  With their dirty jokes, sly puns and decadent eroticism, these subversive provocateurs have more in common than you might think – but there’s no doubt who was the greater artistIn a note on a piece of scrap paper, Marcel Duchamp explained why he adopted the name Rrose Sélavy for his female alter ego, who gazes out from a sultry black and white photo taken in the 1920s. The name of his drag persona is, he explains, “an easy pun”. Rrose Sé
  
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• The crisis in Catalonia is being fed by pernicious myths on both sides | Victor Lapuente Giné

  02-10-2017 18:34 via theguardian.com
  The referendum could cause a crisis in Europe, but Spain is not the oppressive centralised state the independence movement allegesHow is it that a country whose economic performance, human development and democratic integrity have improved so vastly over the past four decades is now dealing with one of Europe’s worst territorial and constitutional crises?The answer isn’t the economy. Spain, and particularly Catalonia, is growing faster than most European countries. It isn’t a d
  
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• Brother of terrorist in Jewish school shootings goes on trial in France

  02-10-2017 18:33 via theguardian.com
  Abdelkader Merah faces charge of complicity in 2012 attacks that killed seven people, including children and soldiers
  The brother of a French Islamic extremist who killed seven people including three children and their teacher at a Jewish school has gone on trial accused of helping him carry out the murders.Abdelkader Merah, 35, appeared at a special court in Paris accused of being an accomplice to murder linked to a terrorist group and helping to plan the deadly attacks in March 2012. Continue
  
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• Ex-FBI agent opens cold case review into who betrayed Anne Frank

  02-10-2017 18:31 via theguardian.com
  Vince Pankoke and his team will use new techniques to analyse large amounts of data to solve mystery of diarist’s captureA retired FBI agent has launched a cold case review into identifying those who may have betrayed the hiding place of Anne Frank and her family to the Gestapo in 1944.Investigative techniques developed in the past decade, including the crunching of big data to uncover leads, are to be used by a team of 19 forensic experts led by Vince Pankoke. Continue reading...
  
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• Are All White People Racist?

  02-10-2017 18:21
  The widely recognised definition of racism is missing something important.
  
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• Bronze pig sculpture stolen from Wiltshire pork pie town

  02-10-2017 18:20 via bbc.co.uk
  CCTV footage of the pigs being taken from their plinth in Calne is being reviewed by police.
  
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• Dehumanising Debate

  02-10-2017 18:18
  Over recent weeks we have seen a big spike in media coverage of trans issues, and on gender identity more generally.
  
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• Fund launched to create independent media free from rightwing bias

  02-10-2017 18:14
  Nick Robinson said alternative news sites were part of a ‘guerrilla war’ against the BBC.A cooperative organisation has been launched to advocate for and raise money for independent media free from state or corporate control.The Media Fund has launched days after the BBC’s Today programme presenter Nick Robinson said alternative news sites were part of a “guerrilla war” against the BBC and other mainstream media outlets.
  
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• How a Taylor Swift song is helping to stop people from using phones when driving

  02-10-2017 18:13
  Iowa Department of Transport included a sassy Swift reference in its weekly road safety message.
  
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• Deposit return scheme for plastic bottles planned in England

  02-10-2017 18:13
  The Government has taken a first step towards the introduction of a deposit return scheme for drinks bottles in England - with a view to tackling plastic pollution in the world's oceans.Environment Secretary Michael Gove has confirmed the Government is working with the industry to see how a "reward and return" scheme could work.The evidence submitted will be looked at as part of the Government's strategy to tackle litter, and will involve industry giants Coca Cola and Tesco.
  
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• Michael Gove calls for views on setting up plastic bottle deposit return scheme

  02-10-2017 18:02 via theguardian.com
  Environment secretary says working group will look at how a deposit return scheme could help reduce plastic waste in England A deposit return scheme aimed at slashing plastic pollution has moved significantly closer after environment secretary Michael Gove said he would work with the industry to see how a scheme can be implemented in England.Gove, speaking at the Conservative party conference in Manchester, announced a four-week call for views to inform how a deposit return scheme (DRS) would be
  
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• Should you be worried about this year’s ‘spider invasion’?

  02-10-2017 17:57 via theguardian.com
  The warm summer has produced a bumper crop of arachnids creeping into our homes. Britain’s eight-legged beasts can give you a fright, and some can even bite – but are any really dangerous?
  ’Tis the season when our lives become festooned with spiders. The humungous webs of plump orb-weaver spiders block our path outside, while indoors we are greeted by amorous male house spiders, which are not seeking to terrify us but simply searching for a mate. Some experts suggest this year&
  
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• Spanish PM will have lost votes – but maybe only in Catalonia

  02-10-2017 17:48 via theguardian.com
  Spain’s press largely supportive of Mariano Rajoy’s handling of Catalan referendum, blaming regional leaders for the chaosWhile Catalans swapped horror stories about police beatings on Monday, the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, continued to insist that the scenes at voting centres on Sunday were a reasonable reaction to an illegal referendum. But will pictures of bloodied grandmothers and allegations of police groping women turn his own supporters against Spain’s embatt
  
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• Roman Polanski on rape case sentence: 'As far as what I did: it's over'

  02-10-2017 17:48 via theguardian.com
  In a rare interview, the film-maker has addressed the sexual assault case against him in California and criticized the ‘corrupted’ judgesRoman Polanski has addressed his decades-old rape accusation in a new interview, claiming that he has finished his sentence. Related: Roman Polanski faces new accusation of sexual assault on minorContinue reading...
  
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• Driver shot dead by police in Somerset named

  02-10-2017 17:45 via theguardian.com
  IPCC reveals four officers opened fire on Spencer Ashworth, 29, after reports of man threatening another motorist with handgunA motorist shot dead by police after being spotted apparently pointing a gun at fellow drivers has been named as 29-year-old Spencer Ashworth. Ashworth’s last known address was in Portishead, Somerset, close to where the fatal shooting took place on Wednesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Fabian Delph and the rise of the full-backs – Football Weekly

  02-10-2017 17:44 via theguardian.com
  Max Rushden and the pod look at Manchester City’s newest weapon, more Palace woe, Burnley’s rise, Barcelona, Nadia Nadim and the Norwegian leagueRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.
  Hello and welcome! Max Rushden is back to review all of the weekend’s football action in a bumper edition with Barry Glendenning, Lars Sivertsen and Jacqui Oatley. Continue reading...
  
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• What a picture – Boris Johnson and the Sun’s editor, running out of power | Jonathan Jones

  02-10-2017 17:41 via theguardian.com
  The strength is almost visibly seeping from the foreign secretary and Tony Gallagher in this photograph, as their mandate turns to dustWhy are they running and where are they going? Like naked mole rats scurrying endlessly in a plastic burrow, foreign secretary Boris Johnson and the Sun editor Tony Gallagher are photographed together. They’re seemingly in the belief that the Conservative party and its media allies have a destination, somewhere to get to, something urgent to do – othe
  
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• Nine-seat Araki sushi restaurant wins three Michelin stars

  02-10-2017 17:32 via theguardian.com
  London eatery joins four other top-rated UK establishments, including Fat Duck and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, in 2018 guideA sushi restaurant in London with just nine seats is the latest British eatery to gain three Michelin stars, increasing the number of top-rated restaurants in the UK to five.The Araki, which opened off Regent Street in 2014, joined the top tier of restaurants in the latest Michelin Guide to Great Britain and Ireland, announced on Monday. Continue reading...
  
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