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• Jimmy Page wins delay in permission for Robbie Williams to build pool

  29-05-2018 23:41 via theguardian.com
  Led Zeppelin guitarist fears major underground project will damage his homeLed Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has pleaded with planners not to allow his next-door neighbour, the singer Robbie Williams, to build an underground swimming pool in the latest skirmish in the long-running planning battle between the two musicians.The pair have been involved in a dispute for about five years since Williams bought his £17m mansion, the former home of film director Michael Winner, in Kensington, west
  
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• The Daughter-in-Law review – is this the best British working-class drama?

  29-05-2018 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Arcola, London
  Jack Gamble directs a first-rate revival of DH Lawrence’s even-handed account of a conflicted marriageThree years ago, the National Theatre pointlessly conflated DH Lawrence’s three mining-community plays into a single evening. However this work, written in 1913, deserves to stand alone. It is arguably the best account of working-class life in British drama.Jack Gamble’s revival, strongly cast and steeped in authentic east Midlands dialect, does it full justice.
  
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• José Mourinho targets Porto full-back Diogo Dalot for Manchester United

  29-05-2018 23:26 via theguardian.com
  • Manager sees 19-year-old as successor to Antonio Valencia
  • Dalot made debut last season and has release clause of £17.5mJosé Mourinho is hopeful of making Porto’s Diogo Dalot his first signing of the summer. Manchester United’s manager is targeting the 19-year-old as a long-term successor to Antonio Valencia at right-back.Dalot has a release clause of €20m (£17.5m) but it is understood this is yet to be triggered by United for a player who made hi
  
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• 14 people injured and 25 cars damaged after bus crash in Dartford

  29-05-2018 23:08
  Kent Police says 25 vehicles have been damaged and 14 people have been injured in a crash in Dartford town centre.A man has been arrested on suspicion of careless driving and remains in custody.Police were called at 6.48pm and the South East Coast Ambulance Service and Kent Fire and Rescue Service also attended the scene.
  
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• Roma to demand €90m from Liverpool for goalkeeper Alisson

  29-05-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  • Roma to resist Liverpool’s advances until after World Cup
  • Real Madrid also interested in making move for Brazil No 1Roma plan on resisting Liverpool’s advances for Alisson until at least after the World Cup and would expect to get around €90m (£79m) for the Brazil goalkeeper should they ultimately agree to sell him.Liverpool have yet to make an official approach for Alisson but have contacted Roma in regards to his availability as Jürgen Klopp targe
  
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• Consent review – bracingly clever courtroom drama

  29-05-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Harold Pinter theatre, London
  Roger Michell directs the West End transfer of Nina Raine’s smart play about a group of lawyers and their private livesConsent opens in an unapologetically upper-middle-class household: recent parents, Kitty and her barrister husband Ed (Claudie Blakley and Stephen Campbell Moore) are unpacking vintage light fittings for their new home, and squabbling over where their sofas should go. Their lawyer friends, Jake and Rachel (Adam James and Sian Clifford), are th
  
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• Chris Froome should not be listed with cycling greats, says Bernard Hinault

  29-05-2018 22:31 via theguardian.com
  • Hinault criticises Team Sky rider after Giro d’Italia win
  • Team Sky hit back, calling for fairness over FroomeBernard Hinault has launched a stinging attack on Chris Froome, claiming the Team Sky rider should never have been on the Giro d’Italia start line owing to his anti‑doping battle.Froome joined Hinault and Eddy Merckx by becoming the third man in history to win three consecutive grand tour titles. The 32-year-old executed an extraordinary comeback to win the
  
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• Government U-turn over anti-terror law used to deport migrants

  29-05-2018 22:22 via theguardian.com
  Section of Immigration Act to be reviewed after misuse of clause saw highly skilled migrants forced from UKThe government has agreed to stop deporting people under an immigration rule designed to tackle terrorism and those judged to be a threat to national security pending a review, after the Guardian highlighted numerous cases in which the power was being misused.The news came as the home secretary, Sajid Javid, admitted on Tuesday that at least 19 highly skilled migrants had been forced to lea
  
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• Woman 'posted footage of boyfriend's death on Snapchat'

  29-05-2018 22:07
  A woman organised the murder of her on-off boyfriend before posting footage of his death on Snapchat, a court has heard.Fatima Khan, 20, is accused of planning with Raza Khan the killing of Afghan asylum seeker Khalid Safi, 18, in North Acton, west London, on 1 December 2016.Mr Safi was repeatedly stabbed in the chest by Khan but, instead of calling for an ambulance, Fatima Khan, a self-confessed "Snapchat addict", is accused of filming him as he lay dying.
  
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• Mexican campaigns awash with dirty money, pre-election report finds

  29-05-2018 21:41 via theguardian.com
  Anti-graft group says that for every peso reported to election officials, 15 goes unreported For every peso spent by Mexican parties on campaigning and reported to electoral authorities, another 15 pesos goes unreported, according to a new study showing that the country’s political campaigns are awash in cash from dubious sources.
  The report, published on Tuesday by the anti-graft group Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity, comes four week’s before the country’s presidentia
  
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• Ex-WPP boss Martin Sorrell to build 'next-generation' ad group

  29-05-2018 21:22
  Sir Martin Sorrell, the long-serving chief executive of the world’s largest advertising group until he stood down amid personal misconduct allegations last month, is to become executive chairman of a financial holding company.The deal, agreed provisionally, will involve the acquisition by Derriston of S4 Capital.
  
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• FA backs England striker Raheem Sterling over 'unacceptable' gun tattoo

  29-05-2018 21:18
  The Football Association has defended England forward Raheem Sterling after his new M16 assault rifle tattoo was criticised by an anti-gun campaigner.An FA spokesperson said: "We all support Raheem Sterling and acknowledge the honest and heartfelt account he gave via Instagram last night.Earlier, the 23-year-old, who plays for Premier League champions Manchester City, posted a picture of himself training with his England teammates at St George's Park.
  
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• England's World Cup efforts in the studio have often been rewarded on the pitch | Scott Murray

  29-05-2018 21:00 via theguardian.com
  From Back Home to World in Motion via This Time (We’ll Get It Right), life often imitates World Cup art once England leave the studioThe official 2018 World Cup anthem – Live It Up, by reggaeton star Nicky Jam, dancehall singer Era Istrefi, and polite fast-talker Will Smith – was released at the weekend, and met by the worlds of football and music with thundering indifference ... just as committee-approved pop, designed to please everybody but satisfying no one, always should b
  
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• Skeleton unearthed of man crushed by huge rock in Vesuvius eruption

  29-05-2018 20:59 via theguardian.com
  Block of stone violently thrown up by volcanic cloud fell on to victim, Pompeii archaeologists say Officials at the Pompeii archaeological site have announced the discovery of the skeleton of a man crushed by an enormous stone while trying to flee the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.Pompeii officials on Tuesday released a photograph showing the skeleton protruding from beneath a large block of stone that may have been a door jamb which had been “violently thrown by the volcanic cloud&r
  
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• How Tommy Robinson's Misunderstanding Of The Law Gained Him A Global Following

  29-05-2018 20:34
  The founder of the far-right group, the English Defence League, has been
  
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• R&A chief executive calls for more action to address lack of diversity

  29-05-2018 20:31 via theguardian.com
  • Martin Slumbers says ‘we have to change fast’ or suffer
  • Local clubs expected to play integral role in attracting womenGolf requires a major facelift in order to attract more women and families and shift away from the stuffy, male‑dominated image it often conjures, according to the sport’s governing body.Martin Slumbers, the R&A chief executive, issued a call to arms as he launched the organisation’s first Women in Golf Charter, designed to increase
  
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• Belgium shooting: man kills passerby and two police officers in Liège

  29-05-2018 20:31 via theguardian.com
  Terrorism inquiry into attack by prisoner on day release who was later shot dead by policeBelgian investigators have opened a terrorism inquiry after a prisoner on day release shot dead two police officers and a passerby in the centre of Liège before being killed in a shootout.The man, named as Benjamin Herman, 31, approached the two female officers from behind and repeatedly slashed at them with a boxcutter, or Stanley knife, as they were checking parking meters on Tuesday morning. Conti
  
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• British interior minister to discuss Russia, terrorism on U.S. visit

  29-05-2018 20:30
  New British interior minister Sajid Javid will travel shortly to the United States to discuss threats posed by Russia, international terrorism and organised crime with top U.S. officials, Javid's office said on Tuesday.Javid will meet U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and other officials over the coming days in his first trip to the United States since being appointed on April 30.
  
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• Mother was 10 weeks pregnant when she died in Grenfell fire

  29-05-2018 20:22
  A mother who died alongside her 12-year-old son in the Grenfell Tower fire was ten weeks pregnant.The sisters of Berkti Haftom, 29, who lived on the 18th floor, told the inquiry into the disaster that she was pregnant when she died.Ms Haftom had also been preparing for her eldest son to join their family in the UK after living apart for more than a decade.
  
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• FA says sale of Wembley could pump £1bn into grassroots game

  29-05-2018 20:20 via theguardian.com
  • Stadium sale could mean 10-year bonanza, claims FA
  • Martin Glenn says proposed sale is not selling ‘soul of the game’The Football Association has told its council members that selling Wembley could enable more than £1bn to be spent on community football facilities over 10 years, while having £450m from the sale still untouched in the bank.The FA chief executive, Martin Glenn, said in a speech to the council that the proposed sale of Wembley for £600m to
  
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• UK weather to worsen with more flash floods and thunderstorms

  29-05-2018 20:19
  Hopes of a sunny half-term break have been dashed as parts of the country brace for flash floods and thunderstorms.More than 30 flood alerts are in place for England on Tuesday as warnings of travel disruption and power cuts are issued.Potential flash floods, poor visibility, heavy rain and balmy temperatures have been forecast.
  
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• Rwanda's £30m Arsenal sponsorship divides opinion

  29-05-2018 20:15 via theguardian.com
  The deal with the football club will pay for itself in increased tourism, insist officialsAnyone confused as to why Rwanda chose to spend £30m putting its name on the sleeve of Arsenal’s football shirts could begin to answer their question by looking at President Paul Kagame’s Twitter feed.In common with many of his countrymen, Kagame is an avid fan of his “beloved club” and the president – who has been Rwanda’s head of state for almost as long as Ars&eg
  
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• Ucas drops need for university applicants to declare convictions

  29-05-2018 20:14 via theguardian.com
  Ex-offenders will no longer have to declare criminal record when applying to university
  Ex-offenders who want to study for a degree may find it easier in future to secure a place on a course after the university admissions service, Ucas, confirmed it was dropping its requirement for students to declare convictions when they apply.Until now, former prisoners and those with unspent convictions have had to tick a criminal record disclosure box when applying to university. For many it acted as a det
  
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• Gavin Williamson cut off by TV interviewer for dodging questions

  29-05-2018 20:06
  The defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, had a live television interview cut off after he repeatedly dodged a question about his “Trump-esque” approach to Russia in the aftermath of the Salisbury poisoning.The Good Morning Britain presenter Richard Madeley repeatedly tried to get Williamson to answer a question on Tuesday and terminated the interview when he felt it had become clear Williamson would not do so.What are these politicians like, when you give them a straight question?&rd
  
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• FA backs England forward Raheem Sterling over 'unacceptable' gun tattoo

  29-05-2018 20:06
  The Football Association has defended England forward Raheem Sterling after his new M16 assault rifle tattoo was criticised by an anti-gun campaigner.An FA spokesperson said: "We all support Raheem Sterling and acknowledge the honest and heartfelt account he gave via Instagram last night.Earlier, the 23-year-old, who plays for Premier League champions Manchester City, posted a picture of himself training with his England teammates at St George's Park.
  
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• Holy shirt: Balenciaga is selling a 'T-shirt shirt' for $1,290

  29-05-2018 19:52 via theguardian.com
  The piece, which is just a T-shirt with a long-sleeved shirt draped on top of it, is the fashion house’s latest attention-seeking design.It’s the perfect gift for the man who has everything except, perhaps, self-respect: Balenciaga’s “T-shirt Shirt”. As the name suggests, the piece, which is part of the luxury’s fashion house’s Fall ‘18 collection, is a T-shirt with a shirt draped on top of it. You can get your hands on one for just $1,290 (£
  
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• DUP warns of 'consequences' over Northern Ireland abortion calls

  29-05-2018 19:42
  Theresa May is caught between her DUP allies, Tory MPs and opposition parties as pressure increases on the prime minister to bring Northern Ireland's abortion laws into line with the rest of the UK.The DUP, who prop up the Conservative government at Westminster and oppose altering Northern Ireland's strict abortion legislation, have warned of "consequences" if Mrs May acts on the issue.There have been growing calls for Westminster to move towards liberalising abortion laws in the absence of a de
  
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• Westminster Abbey unlocks hidden area to show off historical treasures

  29-05-2018 19:38
  Westminster Abbey, one of London's most famous tourist sites, is opening up an area previously closed to the public to show off 300 items including Prince William's marriage licence to chronicle its 1,000-year history.From the Westminster Retable altarpiece to Prince William and Kate Middleton's marriage licence, the items are exhibited along four themes - "Building Westminster Abbey", "Worship and Daily Life", "Westminster Abbey and the Monarchy" and "The Abbey and National Memory"."It's the fi
  
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• If only Brexit had been run like Ireland’s referendum | Fintan O’Toole

  29-05-2018 19:38 via theguardian.com
  A brave experiment in trusting the people helped defeat tribalism and fake ‘facts’In all the excitement of what happened in Ireland’s referendum on abortion, we should not lose sight of what did not happen. A vote on an emotive subject was not subverted. The tactics that have been so successful for the right and the far right in the UK, the US, Hungary and elsewhere did not work. A democracy navigated its way through some very rough terrain and came home not just alive but more
  
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• Steve Bell on EU fears about rising populism in Italy – cartoon

  29-05-2018 19:33 via theguardian.com
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• Varadkar: Northern Irish women may be able to have abortions in republic

  29-05-2018 19:30 via theguardian.com
  Irish PM says he cannot see why women would be barred from travelling for proceduresWomen from Northern Ireland may be able to have abortions in the Republic of Ireland once new laws are introduced there, the Irish prime minister has said.Leo Varadkar said he could not see why women would be barred from crossing the border for such procedures when they are already allowed access to healthcare in the Irish Republic. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on devolution: think twice – but change must come | Editorial

  29-05-2018 19:29 via theguardian.com
  Central governments are right to be cautious about overriding devolved ones. But Northern Ireland’s abortion laws need to change one way or anotherThere are good reasons of principle and practice why any central government should think twice before crudely overriding a devolved one. The clue to the reason of principle lies in the word devolution itself. Devolution is a solemn act of delegation, allowing decisions to be taken closer to those affected by them and not centrally. To override a
  
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• Kyle Edmund starts French Open campaign with comfortable victory

  29-05-2018 19:26 via theguardian.com
  • British No 1 defeats Australian Alex de Minaur in straight sets
  • ‘I played well, with intent. My concentration was very good’Kyle Edmund eased into this French Open on Tuesday with a three-set workout against Alex de Minaur that confirmed his status as one of his sport’s punishing cruiserweights, even if his opponent had the physical aura of a schoolboy.Napoleon, once of this parish, famously had a complex about his size, and bloodied a nose or two across Euro
  
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• Should Labour oppose Brexit?

  29-05-2018 19:23
  The situation of leave voters in Labour constituencies is even more favourable than the recent research shows (Labour Leave supporters may be ‘fewer than thought’, 29 May).Many leave voters were registering a protest at being the left-behind.The likelihood that these groups will flock to the ballot box to vote against Labour and for the worst Tory government in modern history or the now vestigial Ukip is very low.
  
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• Political aftershocks of the Irish abortion vote

  29-05-2018 19:23
  The people of Ireland have spoken yet again in favour of the more equal society we all believe in across these islands.While we welcome the calls for reform to Northern Ireland’s abortion laws this has triggered, we believe those who have advocated that this should be done by referendum (MPs call for Theresa May to permit poll on abortion in Northern Ireland, 28 May) are fundamentally wrong.This is a time for politicians to act – if power-sharing cannot be resumed in Stormont, the We
  
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• Give Boris Johnson more power and control of £100bn budget, urges Tory MP

  29-05-2018 19:23
  Boris Johnson should have greater power and control of a budget close to £100bn, an influential MP has claimed.Conservative Tom Tugendhat, the chair of the House of Commons foreign affairs committee, claimed the Foreign Office is "a shadow of its former self" after being "gradually hollowed out" by other Whitehall departments.In a speech in central London, the Tory backbencher called for a "new strategy" because "the success or failure of our foreign policy is now more important to the fut
  
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• A stitch in time would save the Sport section

  29-05-2018 19:22
  During the last two years of lies and smears it’s been encouraging that the Guardian always accurately reported on what I had said.It came as a shock therefore to read Gaby Hinsliff’s column (23 May) claiming that I said Hitler was a Zionist.Fortunately this was overshadowed by Sky News reporter Jon Craig’s claim that I had a pet newt called Adolf.
  
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• Rise in proportion of BAME suspects on Met’s gangs matrix

  29-05-2018 19:17 via theguardian.com
  Nearly nine in 10 suspected gang members on police list from minority ethnic groupsThe proportion of suspects on the Metropolitan police’s gangs matrix from minority ethnic groups has increased to nearly nine in 10, according to the force’s own figures.The data revealed after a question by Sian Berry, the London assembly member for the Green party, showed that 89% of the 3,362 individuals on the Met’s gangs list as of May 2018 were from black or minority ethnic groups. In Octob
  
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• Ruth Davidson urges PM to prioritise NHS over tax cuts

  29-05-2018 19:01
  Ruth Davidson has urged the government to prioritise NHS spending over tax cuts in a speech setting out what she called “centre-ground Conservative” vision, likely to be interpreted by many as a manifesto for a possible future bid to lead the party nationally.The head of the Conservatives in Scotland, who has been repeatedly linked with a move to a Westminster seat, also used the address at Glasgow university to call for a new land value-based tax, and to reiterate her opposition to
  
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• Italy's Mr Scissors gives markets the jitters over fate of the eurozone | Larry Elliott

  29-05-2018 19:01 via theguardian.com
  The choice of Carlo Cottarelli as Italy’s caretaker prime minister is a massive political gambleCarlo Cottarelli will not be Italy’s first caretaker leader. Nor will he be the first technocrat to take over the reins of power in Rome. But he is the first to be handed the job by a supposedly apolitical president in defiance of the democratic will of the people as manifested in the support they gave for two populist parties in the recent March election.Hence the turmoil in the financial
  
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• Soros-backed campaign to push for new Brexit vote within a year

  29-05-2018 18:37 via theguardian.com
  Billionaire says holding fresh referendum soon could save UK from ‘immense damage’A campaign to secure a second Brexit referendum within a year and save the UK from “immense damage” is to be launched in days, the philanthropist and financier George Soros has announced.The billionaire founder of the Open Society Foundation said the prospect of the UK’s prolonged divorce from Brussels could help persuade the British public by a “convincing margin” that EU
  
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• Joan Baez review – queen of folk bids a poignant farewell

  29-05-2018 18:31 via theguardian.com
  Royal Albert Hall, London
  Eco-protests met lover’s laments as the 77-year-old marked her final tour with a stirring reminder of her fighting spiritJoan Baez has said this will be her final tour, so this was less concert than communion, a congregation coming to terms with its collective past. The audience was greying, supportive and eager to join in with It’s All Over Now Baby Blue, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and The Boxer, the song with which she concluded her 100-minute set
  
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• Couple convicted for luring daughter to forced marriage

  29-05-2018 18:30
  "He was trying to get me to say yes but at no point did I say yes," the teenager told a jury at Leeds Crown Court.With the help of her younger sister, the A-level student was able to contact the British High Commission and was rescued days before the scheduled wedding.The parents were found guilty of forced marriage and using violence, threats and coercion.
  
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• 'A gothic space rocket to a secret realm' – Westminster Abbey's new £23m tower

  29-05-2018 18:30 via theguardian.com
  The Weston Tower, a sci-fi-style wonder by Ptolemy Dean, opens up a hidden gallery above the nave where William and Kate’s wedding certificate is likely to draw crowdsNestled into an armpit of Westminster Abbey, hidden behind a flying buttress that leaps up to the chapterhouse, stands what appears to be a gothic space rocket. Sinuous bronze tracery loops its way up the faceted shaft, framing crystalline windows between bands of lead arrowheads, like go-faster stripes shooting towards the h
  
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• Grenfell: survivors lament fire brigade advice to stay inside

  29-05-2018 18:28
  Isaac Paulos, 5, who died in the Grenfell Tower fire.On the sixth day day of hearings to remember the victims, Paulos Tekle, who lost his five-year-old son, Isaac, in the blaze repeatedly asked why they had been advised to stay in their flat on the 18th floor until it was too late.“I rang the fire brigade and I was told to wait and that they would come and get us,” Tekle said.
  
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• Tommy Robinson: Ex-leader of English Defence League jailed for breaching court orders

  29-05-2018 18:18
  The former leader of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, has been jailed for 13 months after flouting court orders for a second time.The EDL founder - whose real name Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon was listed on court documents - was sentenced to 10 months for contempt of court.Robinson was arrested on Friday outside Leeds Crown Court after using social media to broadcast details of a current trial which is subject to blanket reporting restrictions.
  
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• Bereaved Father Blames Firefighters For Five-Year-Old's Grenfell Blaze Death

  29-05-2018 18:18
  A five-year-old boy who died in the Grenfell Tower fire could still be alive
  
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• Paris 'Spider-Man' joins fire brigade after citizenship fast-tracked

  29-05-2018 18:15 via theguardian.com
  Mamoudou Gassama granted legal status and signs up for €600-a-month internshipMamoudou Gassama, the 22-year-old Malian hailed as a hero in France for saving a child hanging from a balcony, has been granted legal immigration status and has joined the French fire brigade.Gassama has been celebrated in France and Mali after a video went viral showing him scaling several storeys of a Paris building to save a four-year-old boy who had already dropped one floor and was dangling from a balcony rai
  
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• Teenagers’ brains not ready for GCSEs, says neuroscientist

  29-05-2018 18:07 via theguardian.com
  Sarah-Jayne Blakemore opposes timing of exams in a period of major cognitive changeTeenagers are being damaged by the British school system because of early start times and exams at 16 when their brains are going through enormous change, a leading neuroscientist has said.Sarah-Jayne Blakemore said it was only in recent years that the full scale of the changes that take place in the adolescent brain has been discovered. “That work has completely revolutionised what we think about this perio
  
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• What Does The Irish Abortion Referendum Mean For Northern Ireland?

  29-05-2018 17:54
  This weekend Ireland voted resoundingly to change its strict abortion laws,
  
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