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• The most eye-catching World Cup kits through the years – video

  02-06-2018 23:59 via theguardian.com
  Nigeria’s World Cup kit sold out in a matter of minutes. People loved a colourful design that reminded them of more daring days. In this video we go through some of shirts that caught our eye through World Cup history.Nigeria World Cup football shirts captures public imagination Continue reading...
  
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• London violence: One man shot in Peckham, another stabbed in Greenwich

  02-06-2018 23:58
  At least one man has been shot in Peckham and another has been stabbed in Greenwich on an evening of violence in southeast London.Armed officers attended the crime scene and a police cordon remains in place, but no arrests have been made.An air ambulance landed at a playground near the scene of the incident, and a car was seen with visible damage to its front-right window.
  
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• Fire rips through six-storey building on London's Harley Street

  02-06-2018 23:46
  Firefighters have tackled a blaze at a six-storey block of flats in central London.Ten fire engines and 72 firefighters and officers were called to the fire on Harley Street just before 6pm.The whole of the fourth floor and half of the fifth floor were alight, the London Fire Brigade said.
  
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• Trump lawyers to Mueller: Trump cannot be forced to testify – report

  02-06-2018 23:31 via theguardian.com
  Private letter published by the New York Times also asserts the president’s absolute authority over all federal investigations
  Donald Trump’s lawyers sent a private 20-page letter to the special counsel Robert Mueller to assert that he cannot be forced to testify in the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to a report.They also argue that Trump could not have committed obstruction because he has absolute authority over all federal investigations.Continu
  
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• Man charged with murder over stabbing of woman in Brent

  02-06-2018 23:26
  Detectives have charged a man with murder after a 28-year-old woman was fatally stabbed in the neck.
  
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• Immunotherapy 'could benefit prostate cancer patients'

  02-06-2018 23:14
  Men given just months or weeks to live after being diagnosed with prostate cancer are surviving for more than a year thanks to a breakthrough in immunotherapy treatment, a trial has shown.Almost 40% of patients who spent 12 months on the drug pembrolizumab - known as a "checkpoint inhibitor" - as part of a new study were still alive and one in 10 had not seen the cancer grow.The 258 men with advanced prostate cancer were treated with the drug as part of a trial led by a team at the Institute of
  
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• Summer tours offer chance to blow away mists over European rugby | Paul Rees

  02-06-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Southern hemisphere sides dominated the 2015 World Cup in England but since then three out of the four have struggledMaro Itoje was in reflective mood as he sprawled himself in a chair that struggled to contain his 6ft 6in frame at England’s Bagshot base. “I have been in camp for only two days but you get the feeling something big is about to happen,” said the Lions and Saracens second‑row before Eddie Jones’s squad flew out to South Africa.He was talking about Engl
  
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• Mako Vunipola: ‘What has pleased me most is playing so many games‘

  02-06-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  After a gruelling year the Saracens prop should be resting but instead is off to South Africa for England’s three-Test seriesA year ago this weekend Mako Vunipola was on the Lions’ bench for the opening match of their New Zealand tour and was pressed into action nine minutes into the second half to head off the prospect of an unthinkable defeat by a side scavenged from the lower reaches of the professional game in the land of the World Cup holders. The England prop has made 35 appear
  
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• Lysette Anthony welcomes start of Harvey Weinstein trial

  02-06-2018 22:41 via theguardian.com
  ‘It’s all we ever wanted,’ says Hollyoaks star, before calling for women to stand togetherLysette Anthony welcomed the beginning of legal proceedings against Harvey Weinstein as she sported a #MeToo slogan on her wrist at the British Soap Awards. The Hollyoaks star is one of dozens of women who have made allegations against the movie mogul and said he needed be tried. She has said that she told the Metropolitan police she was attacked by him in her London home in the late 1980s
  
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• Legalising cannabis ‘could earn Treasury £3.5bn’

  02-06-2018 22:30
  The Lib Dems and Greens favour a regulated cannabis market, and 47% people in the UK support selling the drug in licensed shops.Introducing a legal cannabis market to the UK could earn the Treasury between £1bn and £3.5bn a year in tax revenues, a report has suggested.Health Poverty Action, an international development organisation, claims that regulating and legalising cannabis in the UK is an “idea whose time has come” and that the windfall could be used to plug the gap
  
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• Deliveroo thanks Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch for cyclist 'heroics'

  02-06-2018 22:27
  Deliveroo has thanked Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch for his "heroic actions" in saving one of its food delivery riders from being attacked by a gang in central London.The British actor, 41, is said to have helped the cyclist after he spotted him being beaten up by a gang of four people in central London while riding in a taxi with wife Sophie Hunter in Marylebone High Street."Deliveroo riders are heroes delivering millions of meals to hungry customers right across the country," said a compa
  
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• Yours for £2: artist Chemical X donates ‘ecstasy’ work as prize for drug test charity

  02-06-2018 22:24 via theguardian.com
  Competition to win artwork made with 4,111 pills and worth £50,000 will aid drug harm reduction groupHe shot to national prominence with an artwork that depicted supermodel Cara Delevingne in an arrangement of 7,000 ecstasy pills. Now Chemical X, the anonymous artist credited with designing the Ministry of Sound logo, is revisiting his fascination with Britain’s drugs subculture to produce another ecstasy-themed work – this time to help a groundbreaking organisation that provid
  
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• MPs step up pressure for Northern Ireland abortion reform

  02-06-2018 22:01 via theguardian.com
  Cross-party calls for backing on plan to force May to interveneMPs are being canvassed to back a plan to force through measures liberalising abortion in Northern Ireland, it has emerged.A cross-party coalition has drawn up a proposal that would force Theresa May into taking action. Some of the most senior women in the Tory party are said to be supportive of the campaign following the landslide result in Ireland’s referendum in favour of ending its near total ban on abortion. Continue readi
  
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• Tory Remainers could hold the key to 86 of the party’s seats

  02-06-2018 22:00
  New research highlights the strength of pro-Remain support among Tory voters.More than 80 Conservative MPs face a major electoral challenge as a result of Theresa May’s pursuit of a hard Brexit, a major new study reveals.In an analysis that exposes the scale of the party’s support from voters who backed Remain, it found that 3.5 million people in Britain voted to remain in the European Union in 2016 and then went on to back the Conservatives in last year’s election.
  
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• Replace May with Gove to sort out Brexit, Tory donor urges

  02-06-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Government should be bolder in talks with Brussels, Leave campaign backer claimsMichael Gove should be installed as the new Tory leader because Theresa May has shown that she cannot “carry Brexit through”, a major party donor has publicly warned.In a stark sign of the frustration among prominent Brexit supporters over the government’s handling of negotiations with the EU, Crispin Odey, a hedge fund manager who backed the Leave campaign, said he believed the environment secretar
  
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• Juncker: EU won’t ‘meddle’ in Italy’s affairs

  02-06-2018 21:25 via theguardian.com
  Commission president says he wants to avoid mistakes of Greek crisis
  Jean-Claude Juncker has thrown the new government in Rome an olive branch, warning that Brussels and “German-speaking countries” must not repeat the error made during the Greek crisis by reading stern lectures to the Italian people.The president of the European commission said that, while he had been tempted to intervene during the recent political impasse in Italy, he was determined not to feed the populist narrati
  
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• Government facing High Court challenge over 'hostile environment' immigration policy

  02-06-2018 21:16
  Campaigners will next week go to the High Court to challenge a key part of the government's "hostile environment" policy on illegal immigration.The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) says the "right to rent" scheme, which requires landlords in England to check the immigration status of their tenants, encourages "systematic discrimination" against ethnic minorities and people without British passports.There has been renewed scrutiny of the policy in the wake of the Windrush scanda
  
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• Visa says it is now 'working normally' after service disruption

  02-06-2018 21:02
  Visa says it is now "working normally" after a technical issue left millions of customers unable to pay for goods and services.The financial services company also said that its customers "should not be charged" if transactions did not complete during the disruption on Friday."The technical issue we experienced yesterday has been resolved.
  
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• Serena Williams slams Maria Sharapova over book ‘hearsay’ as showdown looms

  02-06-2018 20:59 via theguardian.com
  • Pair will meet in the French Open fourth round on Monday
  • ‘Her book was 100% hearsay which was a little disappointing’The cold war is over. Serena Williams, husbanding as much diplomatic warmth as she deemed appropriate, inferred strongly before her blockbuster match here on Monday against Maria Sharapova that her Russian rival had been indulging in fake news. Related: Maria Sharapova on failing that drug test: ‘I felt trapped, tricked’Continue reading...
  
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• Dom Bess and Jos Buttler impress as England turn screw on Pakistan

  02-06-2018 20:41 via theguardian.com
  • Second Test, day two: Pakistan 174; England 302-7
  • Bess top-scores with 49 as hosts take complete controlEngland ended a rain-shortened day in a dominant position on 302 for seven, even if they got there by an unusual route. When the sun finally made an appearance in the last session, the home team’s lead had been extended to 128 runs with three wickets remaining. Yet not a single batsman managed to post a half-century, the highest score being Dom Bess’s 49 in his first
  
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• England blow hot and cold against Nigeria after Gary Cahill’s quick start

  02-06-2018 20:21 via theguardian.com
  The encouraging news for England is that Harry Kane is looking sharp, Raheem Sterling seems remarkably unaffected by all the recent scrutiny and, if Gareth Southgate’s team can play in the World Cup as they did here during the opening 45 minutes, perhaps it is not too outlandish to think they can make a decent impression in Russia after all.Unfortunately that tells only part of the story and with England there always seems to be a cloud attached to every silver lining. Two-nil ahead at hal
  
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• Immunotherapy could stop prostate cancer spreading, trial shows

  02-06-2018 19:51 via theguardian.com
  Researchers say it is the first time this treatment has been shown to benefit some menMen with otherwise untreatable prostate cancer could halt its spread and survive longer by undergoing immunotherapy treatment, a trial has shown. More than a third of men with an advanced form of the cancer were still alive and one-in-10 had not had further growth after a year on the drug pembrolizumab, the study found.Continue reading...
  
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• Doreen Lawrence: Grenfell tenants faced ‘institutional indifference’

  02-06-2018 19:46 via theguardian.com
  The campaigner, whose son’s murder led to an inquiry, says the stories of the fire’s survivors haveparallels to her own experienceDoreen Lawrence has attacked the “institutional indifference” faced by the residents of Grenfell Tower and others living in social housing.The campaigner, whose son, Stephen Lawrence, was murdered in a racist attack in 1993, writes in the Observer that the indifference of the authorities to Grenfell residents meant “they had no right to s
  
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• Niall Ferguson quits Stanford free speech role over leaked emails

  02-06-2018 19:27 via theguardian.com
  British historian resigns after urging ‘opposition research’ be done on a leftwing studentNiall Ferguson, the conservative British historian and political commentator, has resigned from a key position on a US university free speech programme after leaked emails revealed that he urged a group of Republican students to conduct “opposition research” on a leftwing student.Ferguson had been serving in a senior leadership role on the Cardinal Conversations, a Stanford Universit
  
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• 'Robots can't beat us': Las Vegas casino workers prep for strike over automation

  02-06-2018 19:05 via theguardian.com
  Increasing automation has become a sticking point alongside other issues that could see workers bring city to a standstill
  At the Tipsy Robot in Las Vegas, a mechanical arm mixes cocktails that patrons order on tablet computers. “Galactic ambassadors” – human waitresses in shiny silver skirts – are sometimes available to deliver drinks. But the underlying message at the future-themed bar is that humans are irrelevant.It’s a novelty experience, but the future Tipsy R
  
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• The big picture: America says goodbye to Robert F Kennedy

  02-06-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  On 8 June 1968, photographer Paul Fusco captured the neighbourhood crowds who came out to see the train carrying the body of the assassinated US senatorOn the 8 June 1968, three days after he was assassinated in Los Angeles, Robert Kennedy’s funeral took place at St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York. His body had been returned from California because he represented New York in the Senate; after the service, his coffin was loaded on to a train and taken to Washington for burial. Paul Fusc
  
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• Roxane Gay: ‘No one is guaranteed love or affection’

  02-06-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  The author of Bad Feminist and Hunger has strong words for ‘incels’, harassers in publishing and diet gurusBorn in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1974, Roxane Gay is an author, essayist, New York Times opinion writer and associate professor of English at Indiana’s Purdue University. She has published a novel, An Untamed State, two short story collections, Ayiti and Difficult Women, the New York Times bestseller Bad Feminist (which Time magazine described as “a manual on how to be hu
  
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• Book clinic: what to read on a road trip in the deep south

  02-06-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  From William Faulkner to John Kennedy Toole, Alex Preston selects authors who evoke America’s civil rights historyQ: ​I am about to go on a road trip through Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana and would welcome some scene-setting fiction.
  Ivan CornfordA: Alex Preston, journalist and author, whose most recent book is As Kingfishers Catch Fire
  You must begin with the best novel to come out of the south, perhaps the best American novel, full stop: Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner. Y
  
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• A story of survival: New York’s last remaining independent bookshops

  02-06-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  With small traders struggling to stay afloat, writer Philippe Ungar and photographer Franck Bohbot travelled across the Big Apple to meet 50 indie booksellers in their habitatsYears ago, a friend invited me to something called Brazenhead Books, only she didn’t call it that. She, like everyone else, called it “the secret bookstore”. Except it wasn’t a bookshop so much as a small apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, deliriously overstuffed with paperbacks and pre
  
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• Grenfell inquiry brings painful memories of the fight for justice for my son, Stephen Lawrence | Doreen Lawrence

  02-06-2018 18:59 via theguardian.com
  Race and class have played a huge part in both tragedies and their aftermathMany years ago, I lived in social housing in London before my family saved up to buy our first property. Those years have been on my mind as, like many others, I have listened intently to the heartbreaking stories of those who lived and died in Grenfell Tower, as the public inquiry finally has got under way.I understand acutely the pain of those speaking out about their loss. Sitting in a public inquiry day after da
  
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• Thousands Take To Streets Of Belfast To Call For Equal Marriage In Northern Ireland

  02-06-2018 18:51
  Same sex marriage campaigners have insisted any deal to restore Stormont
  
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• Masar gives Sheikh Mohammed first Derby win

  02-06-2018 18:50
  Masar romped home in Britain's richest horse race to deliver a first Epsom Derby triumph for Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum's Godolphin stable on Saturday.The 16-1 shot, trained by Charlie Appleby and ridden by William Buick, dominated the 239th running of the race to scoop the 920,000-pound first prize ahead of second-placed Dee Ex Bee (20-1) and Roaring Lion (6-1) in third.Hot favourite Saxon Warrior could finish only fourth in the 12-horse field.
  
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• British discount retailer Poundworld nears rescue - Sky News

  02-06-2018 18:49
  British discount retailer Poundworld is close to a rescue deal with former Austin Reed owner Alteri Investors, Sky News reported on Saturday, with the deal likely to be announced next week.Private equity group TPG put Poundworld up for sale after receiving expressions of interest, prompting it to put a planned restructuring of the group on hold, a person familiar with the matter said last month.Sky said the new owners would restructure Poundworld after the deal, which would lead to the closure o
  
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• 'Lads Alliance' Manchester March Slammed By Dan Hett, Brother Of Bombing Victim, Martin

  02-06-2018 18:31
  An anti-extremist march purportedly to honour victims of the Manchester
  
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• Liverpool Lime Street station closes for major upgrade

  02-06-2018 18:26 via theguardian.com
  Mainline passengers services to be diverted to Liverpool South Parkway for two months
  Rail journeys to Liverpool are to be severely disrupted for eight weeks as the city’s main station closes for a major upgrade. During the Lime Street station closure, which runs from Saturday until 29 July, many mainline services will be diverted to Liverpool South Parkway, near the airport.Continue reading...
  
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• Lush 'intimidated by ex-police officers' over controversial campaign

  02-06-2018 18:25
  Lush says it has taken its controversial campaign down from some shops due to "intimidation" of their staff by ex-police officers.The company sparked outrage over its latest ad campaign that claimed police have been "paid to lie".Lush said it would continue with the SpyCops campaign even despite not feeling "able" to have it in the windows of some of their shops.
  
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• Father Ted to become pope in stage musical

  02-06-2018 18:05 via theguardian.com
  Graham Linehan announces ‘real final episode’ of popular sitcom is almost written
  The “real final episode” of the popular sitcom Father Ted is set to be viewed not on the small screen, but on stage, next year.Graham Linehan, a co-writer of the Channel 4 show, revealed on Saturday that Pope Ted – the Father Ted Musical, was “almost written”.Continue reading...
  
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• Five dead in E coli outbreak linked to Arizona romaine lettuce

  02-06-2018 18:03 via theguardian.com
  Nearly 200 people have been sickened across 35 states in largest US outbreak for more than a decade
  A total of five people have died and 197 have been stricken with illness following a deadly E coli outbreak that has reached 35 states in the US, health officials have reported.The nation’s largest multi-state E coli outbreak in more than a decade has been blamed upon contaminated Romaine lettuce from the Yuma growing region of Arizona. The harvesting season for the lettuce ended in April so
  
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• Women's banners to celebrate 100 years of suffrage – in pictures

  02-06-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Crafted by 100 female artists working with community organisations around the UK, these banners have been made for Processions: an event on Sunday 10 June in London, Cardiff, Belfast and Edinburgh where women will walk together wearing green, white or violet scarves – the suffragettes’ colours. Produced by Artichoke, known for their Lumiere light festival, and commissioned by 14-18 NOW, the event celebrates the centenary of 1918, when some women won the vote. Groups including women&r
  
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• Masar wins first Derby for Sheikh Mohammed as Warrior only fourth

  02-06-2018 17:56 via theguardian.com
  • Jockey William Buick and trainer Charlie Appleby celebrate win
  • Hot favourite only fourth after rough passage in home straightCharlie Appleby had Aidan O’Brien and the pre-eminence of his Balldoyle stable on his mind as he drove home after saddling the runner-up in Friday’s Oaks. “I have to admit, I was starting to wonder what we would have to do to beat them,” he said here on Saturday. Twenty-four hours later, he found out, as his 16-1 chance Masar turned ov
  
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• David Miliband: I would join any campaign against any Brexit deal

  02-06-2018 17:43 via theguardian.com
  The former foreign secretary says there should be a second vote on BrexitDavid Miliband has said he would take part in any campaign to vote against the terms of any Brexit deal but has no plans to return to the cut and thrust of UK politics.
  Miliband, who has been based in New York as president of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) since 2013, is still seen as a future leader of the Labour party and has never categorically ruled it out. Continue reading...
  
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• Former Mo Farah aide Jama Aden could face prison over doping offences

  02-06-2018 17:30 via theguardian.com
  • Prosecutors target Farah’s former ‘unofficial facilitator’
  • Report accuses coach of putting health of athletes at riskJama Aden, the coach who guided Genzebe Dibaba to the 1500m world record and worked as an “unofficial facilitator” with Mo Farah when he trained in Ethiopia, could face up to four and a half years in prison if found guilty of alleged doping offences, according to reports.The Spanish paper El País said it has seen the prosecutor&rs
  
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• Ah go on! Classic sitcom Father Ted to make musical comeback

  02-06-2018 17:25
  Classic Irish sitcom Father Ted, which last aired more than 20 years ago, is set to make a musical comeback.The show's co-writer Graham Linehan revealed on Twitter that a stage version of the much-loved comedy is "nearly written".The play, named Pope Ted - Father Ted Musical, has been created by Linehan and the show's other original co-writer, Arthur Matthews.
  
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• World War One soldier Richard Bullimore's 103-year-old chocolate found

  02-06-2018 17:07
  One of the tins was found in a collection belonging to Leicestershire Regiment soldier Richard Bullimore.The company's Paul Cooper said: "The tin was made by Barringer Wallis & Manners of Mansfield, one of the world's leading manufacturers of decorative tinwear.Cadburys made the chocolate bars.
  
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• Tenth of school staff suffer in ‘epidemic of abuse’ by pupils

  02-06-2018 17:05 via theguardian.com
  GMB union calls for zero tolerance of harassment of classroom assistants and other support staffMore than one in 10 teaching support staff say they have experienced sexually inappropriate behaviour from pupils, according to a leading union. The finding has triggered calls for schools to adopt “zero tolerance” to a problem that, the GMB says, can leave its members mentally scarred.A survey by the union, which this week holds its 101st annual congress, said 11% of classroom-based staff
  
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• Retirement doesn’t suit Sir Martin Sorrell, but making a point does

  02-06-2018 17:00
  Sir Martin Sorrell spent more than three decades building his first empire.Within weeks of being ousted from WPP, which he built from a small Kent-based maker of wire baskets into the world’s biggest ad group, Sorrell began plotting his return.Last week, he announced the reverse takeover of another small listed vehicle – to be renamed S4 Capital in reference to four generations of the Sorrell family – fronting £40m of his own money to rebuild his empire.
  
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• Ragbag of tax and spending policies risks meltdown for Italy’s economy

  02-06-2018 17:00 via theguardian.com
  As the Five Star Movement and the League step in, economists fear that a false step could send the deficit spirallingItaly’s new government has a loose collection of contradictory policies that, if implemented, will quickly unravel.That is the view of the senior economist who, until Friday, was on track to become Italy’s finance minister in the government of experts commissioned by the country’s president. Continue reading...
  
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• Benedict Cumberbatch 'saves cyclist from four attackers in London'

  02-06-2018 16:50 via theguardian.com
  Sherlock actor said to have jumped out of cab after seeing Deliveroo rider being attackedBenedict Cumberbatch is reported to have saved a cyclist who was being attacked. The actor, who plays Sherlock Holmes in the hit BBC series, is said to have rescued a Deliveroo rider who was being beaten up by a group of four people, it emerged on Friday night. Continue reading...
  
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• Nafessa Williams: ‘As a young black girl I didn’t have a superhero like me to look up to’

  02-06-2018 16:37 via theguardian.com
  Nafessa Williams, who plays Thunder in Black Lightning, hopes her character will be an inspirationIt’s a genre dominated by white, straight males, so American actress Nafessa Williams admits she was moved to tears when she pulled on her costume for the first time to play a black, lesbian superhero. “It was a moment,” she says. “I mean, I’m representing a whole group of people who need to see themselves on TV.”Williams plays Thunder in the hit television series
  
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• 11 Horrifying Tales Of Hardship From Yesterday's Visa Blackout

  02-06-2018 16:14
  On Friday evening all hell broke loose across Europe as people were left
  
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