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• What next for Anthony Joshua?

  01-04-2018 22:04 via bbc.co.uk
  What is next for Anthony Joshua after he unified the WBA, IBF and WBO world heavyweight titles with victory over Joseph Parker?
  
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• Alarm as government rewrites UK 'torture guidance' in secret

  01-04-2018 20:00
  Officers from MI6 had helped to plan so-called rendition operations.A British government guidance paper that is intended to prevent the country’s intelligence officers from becoming involved in human rights abuses is being rewritten in secret, much to the alarm of civil liberties groups.Rights activists are deeply worried that the UK government may be tempted to water down the guidance at a time when the US president, Donald Trump, has said he hopes to restore waterboarding – “
  
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• Anthony Joshua vs Deontay Wilder: Talks for world heavyweight bout 'to start next week'

  01-04-2018 19:47
  Joshua added Joseph Parker's WBO title to his WBA and IBF belts with a points victory over the New Zealander in Cardiff last night.A match-up between Joshua and Wilder has been anticipated for some time, with the US fighter claiming he had "declared war" on Joshua earlier this year.Barry Hearn, chairman and founder of Joshua's promoters Matchroom, has revealed that negotiations to make the fight happen will start as soon as possible.
  
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• British army knew of IRA unit before it took the 'disappeared'

  01-04-2018 19:43
  The British army knew about the secret IRA group ‘the Unknowns’ months before the provisional unit murdered mother-of-ten Jean McConville.British military intelligence knew about the existence of a supposedly secret IRA unit called “the Unknowns” months before it started abducting, killing and secretly burying victims who became remembered as “the disappeared”.A military file recently unearthed from the National Archives in Kew in Surrey reveals that army comm
  
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• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are no-shows at Easter service

  01-04-2018 19:42
  The Queen has sent her “heartfelt congratulations” to the Royal Air Force on its centenary as she celebrated Easter at the church where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will marry in May.The engaged couple were conspicuous by their absence at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, on Sunday, as was Prince Philip, who has retired from public duties at 96.
  
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• Good news: tax gap down, tax take up

  01-04-2018 19:16
  HMRC never settles disputes for any less than the amount of tax we believe is due under the law (Report, 27 March).Last year alone HMRC secured £8bn in additional funding for our vital public services by intervening to make sure large businesses play by the rules.Since 2010 we have also secured around £2.5bn from tackling offshore tax dodgers.
  
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• Heavy rain and snow threaten to disrupt post-Easter UK travel

  01-04-2018 19:09
  The threat of snow combined with roadworks, rail engineering works and strikes could cause misery for many returning home from the Easter holiday weekend.Up to 60mm of rain may fall in parts of south-west England and southern Wales, and the Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for snow in parts of northern England and southern and central Scotland as the band of wet weather hits colder air to the north.The Met Office forecaster Helen Roberts said: “The main risk is rain.
  
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• Vast majority of teachers considered quitting in past year – poll

  01-04-2018 18:24
  The poll was conducted by the National Education Union.A poll of teachers in England has found that four out of five say they have considered quitting the profession over the past year because of the heavy workload that they have to endure.More than 80% of respondents to a question circulated by the National Education Union (NEU) said that they were thinking about other careers because of the long hours now required of classroom teachers.
  
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• Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge: Weary walkers offered bus ride to finish

  01-04-2018 16:35
  Walkers who find the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge a bit too challenging are being offered a ticket to ride their way to the end.From Sunday, an evening bus service is being put on for weary challenge trekkers to take them from Sulber crossroads, on the final stretch of the 24m (39km) walk, to the finish line in the village of Horton in Ribblesdale.The service is being started at the behest of volunteer rescue team, the Cave Rescue Organisation, which is frequently forced to come to the aid of
  
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• 7 of the best April Fools’ Day pranks from Easter Sunday

  01-04-2018 16:20
  Some go with the theme, others stick to classics.
  
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• British teenager arrested in Amsterdam over Essex murder

  01-04-2018 16:17
  A teenager wanted in connection with the murder of a man in Essex last year has been arrested in Amsterdam.A man identifying himself as Bradley Blundell, 18, was held after attending a police station in the Dutch capital, Essex Police said.Blundell, from Chelmsford, was arrested on suspicion of murder, possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, perverting the course of justice and handling stolen goods.
  
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• UK Easter Weather: Travel Warning As Snow And Heavy Rain Set To Return

  01-04-2018 16:09
  Forecasters have warned of treacherous driving conditions for Easter
  
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• Sharp rise in self-harm reported by mental health units in England

  01-04-2018 16:02
  The number of times patients have self-harmed while in mental health units has almost doubled in five years, prompting concern that services are struggling to help those in their care.Data obtained by the Guardian from nearly half of NHS mental health trusts across England show that the number of incidents of self-harm among inpatients shot up from 15,489 to 28,585 between 2013 and 2017.Experts said the rise was extremely concerning as it showed that services were struggling to provide the thera
  
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• Stain of antisemitism must be removed from Labour, says Eddie Izzard

  01-04-2018 15:21
  Eddie Izzard has joined Labour’s national executive committee.The comedian and activist Eddie Izzard has marked his arrival on Labour’s ruling national executive committee by saying the “stain of antisemitism” present among “a minority” of members has to be removed.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth attends Easter service at Windsor

  01-04-2018 15:10
  Britain's Queen Elizabeth attended the traditional Easter service at Windsor Castle on Sunday, joining other members of the Royal family at St George's Chapel, where her grandson Prince Harry is due to marry Meghan Markle next month.The British monarch, wearing a purple hat and coat and a floral dress, was greeted at the chapel by the Dean of Windsor David Conner, who will conduct the wedding service on May 19.
  
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• PM Announces Fund To End Child Burial Fees After Campaign By Bereaved MP

  01-04-2018 14:23
  Child burial fees are to be waived after a campaign spearheaded by an MP who
  
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• Travel delays expected as UK braced for more snow

  01-04-2018 13:33
  The UK is set for more disruption on the roads, air and railways as torrential rain and snow are on the way.There is a chance of travel delays on roads with some stranded vehicles and passengers, along with delayed or cancelled rail and air travel, the Met Office said.Road users can expect difficult driving conditions and a risk of localised flooding.
  
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• Major Labour Donor Attacks ‘Blatant Anti-Semitism’ Under Jeremy Corbyn

  01-04-2018 13:26
  One of Labour's biggest private donors has launched a bitter attack on the
  
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• British chipmaker Imagination hires veteran Li as CEO

  01-04-2018 12:55
  The British microchip developer Imagination Technologies has hired a semiconductor industry veteran as its new chief executive following last year's‎ £550m Chinese-backed takeover.Sky News has learnt that the company, which was forced to put itself up for sale after losing Apple as a customer, will announce this week that Leo Li is taking the helm.Mr Li, who chairs the Global Semiconductor Alliance, will replace Andrew Heath, who was appointed just two years ago to spearhead a turnarou
  
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• The Best And Worst April Fools' Day Stories And Gags

  01-04-2018 12:43
  It's one of Donald Trump's favourite retorts - "fake news" and was the word of
  
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• April Fool's Day: 10 stories that look like pranks but aren't

  01-04-2018 12:41 via bbc.co.uk
  It is even harder to decipher the fake news from the facts on April Fool's Day.
  
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• Government's Easter pay rise is not all it's cracked up to be

  01-04-2018 12:35
  In 2015 George Osborne promised Britain a national living wage.When George Osborne promised Britain a pay rise in the summer of 2015, fresh from electoral victory over Ed Miliband, he pledged a “national living wage” in an attempt to steal a march on his defeated opponent.Three years later, his promise means more than 2 million workers received an inflation-beating pay rise of 4.4% on Easter Sunday as the living wage rose for the second time, from £7.50 per hour to £7.83
  
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• Salisbury poisoning: Russia issues list of 14 questions for UK

  01-04-2018 12:03
  Russia has sent a list of fresh questions to British authorities over the investigation into the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.The embassy also repeatedly queries France's "involvement" in the investigation and asks if novichok - the nerve agent the UK says was used in the attack - could have been "researched, developed or produced in the UK".
  
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• South Africa v Australia: fourth Test, day three – live!

  01-04-2018 11:05
  Updates from the final match of the series in JohannesburgVic Marks on the week Australian cricket fell apartFeel free to get in touch on email or tweet @JPHowcroft 10.05am BST10.03am BST 52nd over: Australia 160-6 (Paine 32, Cummins 28) Morkel returns to his shortish length but his line is wayward this over, allowing Cummins to flay him for ten runs through the offside. This has been a composed hour of batting this morning from Australia.Continue reading...
  
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• 1,000-year-old silk shirt expected to fetch £500,000 at auction

  01-04-2018 11:02
  Golden garment made by Sogdian people decorated with images of ducks wearing scarves A golden silk shirt woven more than 1,000 years ago, which was among the greatest treasures of the nomadic Sogdian people, is coming up for auction valued at up to £500,000.The garment features a pattern of ducks wearing fluttering scarves – a sign, with the jewelled necklaces they carry in their beaks, that they belonged to the royal household. Continue reading...
  
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• Zlatan Ibrahimovic's theatre of the absurd comes to MLS on thrilling debut

  01-04-2018 11:00
  The Swede scored a stunning first goal for LA Galaxy before heading the winner in a 4-3 victory over local rivals LAFC. It’s what we’ve come to expectIt looks like Zlatan Ibrahimovic has arrived in LA then.Just over a decade ago, David Beckham made his LA Galaxy debut in a friendly against Chelsea. Clearly carrying an injury, he came off the bench for a cameo in front of the ESPN cameras that was short on running, let alone goals. The chief excitement was caused by his very presence
  
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• The bitter taste of Theresa May’s BlackBerry crumble | David Mitchell

  01-04-2018 11:00
  The PM has been forced to give up her ageing device and replace it with an iPhone. I can’t help but feel sorry for her…When Peep Show, a Channel 4 sitcom I was in, was first broadcast in 2003, it was watched by a disappointingly small number of people. Over the many years we made the show, that disappointing number crept marginally downwards. However, the vertiginous decline in television viewing figures surrounding it meant that, by the time the programme finished in 2015, it was a
  
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• Anthony Joshua goes the distance but road to Deontay Wilder remains rocky | Sean Ingle

  01-04-2018 11:00
  The British fighter has three of the four major heavyweight belts but his path to the fourth may not be entirely straightforwardOf all the boxes that Anthony Joshua had rushed to tick during his whirlwind four-year professional career, only one had remained blank until Saturday night: going the distance in the ring. No more. Joseph Parker proved as tough as advertised, outgunned but never overwhelmed, but – tellingly – it was Joshua, with his supposedly suspect stamina, who finished
  
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• April Fools' Day: best of the day's seasonal fake news

  01-04-2018 10:52
  Watch out for avocado Coke, Prince Harry’s spiritual stag weekend, and chocolate burgersAre you questioning that story about Prince Harry spending his stag weekend drinking laverbread smoothies? Or wondering whether Coca-Cola is really releasing an avocado-flavoured drink? The world is on April Fools’ Day watch, as newspapers, obscure tech companies and general pranksters attempt to pitch you carefully crafted “fake news”.Continue reading...
  
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• San Serriffe: April fool's quiz

  01-04-2018 10:30
  The Guardian’s most successful April fool’s joke, about a tiny archipelago where everything was named after typefaces and printing terms was published on 1 April 1977. Can you pick out the genuine features of San Serriffe in our quiz?April fool: San Serriffe - Archive teaching resource
  Each of the headlines in the special report included a reference to news printing and publishing. Which of the following was not a headline included in the supplement?Justified, left, right and centre
  
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• Royal Air Force centenary: born amid the thunders of battle - archive, 1918

  01-04-2018 10:15
  How the Guardian and the Observer reported the birth of the RAF 100 years agoOn 1 April 1918, the RAF was formed, becoming a new branch of the British military. It was created by the merging of the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps, ending an old rivalry.Continue reading...
  
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• The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream

  01-04-2018 10:00
  Health, climate change, animal welfare... what’s driving more people and brands to embrace a plant-based lifestyle? We investigate, and, below, four vegans explain their choiceLate on a Thursday afternoon in early March, just off Brick Lane in the heart of London’s nightlife hotspot Shoreditch, 23-year-old Louisa Davidson is taking calls and co-ordinating cables and scaffolds, as shocking pink Vegan Nights banners are hung around the expansive courtyards of the Truman Brewery. There
  
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• Shape of the future: how Barry’s Bootcamp changed the way we work out

  01-04-2018 10:00
  It offers five-star facilities, nightclub sound systems and celebrities sweating it out next to you… Laura Craik meets the brothers behind Barry’s BootcampIt seems fitting that the Barry’s Bootcamp I visit is on Euston Road, one of the unloveliest streets in Britain, a grim confluence of traffic jams, diesel fumes and passers-by hurrying to get somewhere nicer. Walking down the stairs to its shiny subterranean studio feels a relief, until you remember what you are in for. I wo
  
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• Lighten up: readers' photos on the theme of sparkling

  01-04-2018 10:00
  For last week’s photography assignment in the Observer New Review we asked you to share your photos on the theme of sparkling via GuardianWitness. Here’s a selection of our favouritesShare your photos on this week’s theme ‘steep’ by clicking the button below Continue reading...
  
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• Lara McNeill, Labour's New NEC Youth Rep: I Don't Want To Be An MP

  01-04-2018 09:43
  The newly-elected youth rep on Labour's ruling executive committee says she
  
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• "There Was No Golden Age": Two Farmers A Generation Apart Talk Globalisation, Brexit And The Role Of Women On The Farm

  01-04-2018 09:09
  Abi Reader's favourite moment of the working day comes just before daybreak,
  
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• Lizzie Simmonds: 'I am not on funding – and that’s 100% due to my age'

  01-04-2018 09:00
  The 27-year-old English swimmer competes at the Commonwealth Games but claims she has been denied British Swimming support because of age discriminationLizzie Simmonds will compete in her third Commonwealth Games, beginning on Wednesday in Australia’s sun-soaked Gold Coast. Among the most successful members of the team, with 11 British titles, world medals and a fourth-place finish at the Olympics, she has never dropped out of the top 15 in the world in her favoured event, the 200m backstr
  
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• Justin Welby: ‘Misuse of power is disgusting. But do you do a balance sheet?’

  01-04-2018 09:00
  The archbishop of Canterbury was raised by an alcoholic and answered God’s call ‘kicking and screaming’. Now, his unorthodox views are at odds with many in his Anglican church. Here he talks about his demons and his missionLambeth Palace, mucked about with down the centuries and later badly damaged by German bombs, is something of a muddle, architecturally speaking. Its looming gatehouse, for instance, is early Tudor, built of the same blood-red brick as Hampton Court; while th
  
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• 'I went to death row for 28 years through no fault of my own'

  01-04-2018 09:00
  Anthony Ray Hinton endured almost three decades behind bars, wrongly convicted by Alabama’s racist judiciary system. Here, he tells his incredible storyAnthony Ray Hinton was going out of his mind on Alabama’s death row as he repeatedly churned over the iniquities of the shambolic trial that put him there. So he started a book club.The prison warden wasn’t keen but after Hinton told him that it was better to have inmates applying their minds to reading than to ways of causing d
  
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• 'Heavy burden': Russian governor resigns over Siberia mall fire that killed 64

  01-04-2018 08:51
  Aman Tuleyev, governor of Kemerovo region says move is ‘the only right choice’Aman Tuleyev, the longtime governor of Russia’s Kemerovo region where a huge shopping mall fire killed at least 64 people last weekend, has resigned.
  “I submitted my resignation letter to the Russian president,” he said in a three-minute video address released by his office on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Splendid' fireball: China's Tiangong-1 space lab to hit Earth on Monday

  01-04-2018 08:48
  Wayward space station finally set to re-enter atmosphere, with debris landing anywhere between New Zealand and midwest US A defunct Chinese space laboratory is set to become a “splendid” meteor shower as it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere on Monday, Chinese authorities maintain.Hitting speeds of over 26,000km an hour before disintegrating, the Tiangong-1 is expected to make an uncontrolled earthbound plunge on Monday Beijing time, China’s Manned Space Agency said on Sunday &
  
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• Yanis Varoufakis: ‘Greece is a debtors’ prison’

  01-04-2018 08:00
  The maverick former finance minister is in fighting mood as he launches his new party, MeRA25Yanis Varoufakis is back. He, of course, would say he never went away, but in Greece’s hurly-burly world of politics his is a name prone to triggering toxic reaction.Abroad, the shaven-headed economist is feted as the man who took on Europe’s establishment. At home, the former finance minister is seen, on both left and right, as a reckless incarnation of all that was wrong with Greece at
  
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• When nature says 'Enough!': the river that appeared overnight in Argentina

  01-04-2018 08:00
  A new watercourse is playing havoc with farmland and roads and even threatening a city – but also highlights the potential cost of the country’s dependence on soya beans Continue reading...
  
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• The cult of being kind

  01-04-2018 08:00
  Kindness is replacing mindfulness as the buzzword for how we should live. So are we becoming more compassionate? Or is it just a marketing gimmick?One cold morning in Bristol, a man named Gavyn Emery tied a scarf to a lamppost, and on a cardboard tag wrote: “I am not lost.” It was 2016, and rough sleeping in Bristol had risen by more than 800% in seven years. As temperatures plummeted, more people were inspired to do the same, wrapping trees in coats, sticking hats on bollards, warmt
  
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• No April fool: it’s national price hike day in the UK

  01-04-2018 08:00
  From phone and TV bills to prescriptions and long-haul flights, the cost of a raft of goods and services goes up on SundayIf the Easter weekend is proving expensive, then stand by, because it’s only going to get worse. Sunday 1 April has been dubbed national price-hike day as a host of government bodies and private firms will increase charges, potentially adding at least £100 to family budgets this year. Continue reading...
  
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• Lily Bailey busts four myths about OCD

  01-04-2018 07:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Model and writer Lily Bailey wants to change how people talk about obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  
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• Stephon Clark family joins hundreds in Sacramento for fifth day of protest

  01-04-2018 07:52
  Pathologist’s finding that six bullets entered unarmed black man’s body from behind helps fuel latest demonstrations ‘They executed him’: police killing leaves family shatteredThe family of Stephon Clark joined hundreds of people at a peaceful rally on Saturday to renew calls for police reform nearly two weeks after the 22-year-old, unarmed black man was killed by Sacramento officers. Related: Stephon Clark was facing away from police when they shot him, lawyer saysContin
  
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• England lead by 231 at stumps on day three of second Test in New Zealand

  01-04-2018 07:50
  Mark Stoneman and James Vince made important half-centuries as England forged a strong position in the second Test against New Zealand in Christchurch 6.50am BST That’s all from me. Thanks for your company – Vic Marks’ report from Christchurch will be with you before too long. Speak soon! 6.49am BST And they decided it’s too dark. Bit odd, as the sun is still out. Does look gloomy though.An excellent batting display from England, then. Cook failed again but Stoneman and V
  
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• Newspaper headlines: Fresh Corbyn claims and Katie Price robbed

  01-04-2018 07:48 via bbc.co.uk
  The latest on the Labour Party's ongoing anti-Semitism scandal dominates several of the Sunday papers.
  
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• Yes, we’ve lost our faith in God, but we’ve lost our faith in reason too | Kenan Malik

  01-04-2018 07:00
  Our failure to create social movements that fill the space vacated by the church has left people feeling helplessAbandon all hope, ye who enter here. So runs the inscription above the gates of hell in Dante’s Inferno. Through those gates walks Dante with his guide Virgil: Continue reading...
  
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