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• Prada guides Milan through the gaze of the 'sexy boy'

  17-06-2018 23:59 via theguardian.com
  The menswear 2019 spring silhouette is top-heavy with looks consciously mismatchedGenerally speaking, Miuccia Prada is know for taking an oppositional stance to received notions of beauty.The brand’s head designer tends to create womenswear that refuses to adhere to the male gaze – it was arguably her designs that prompted the term “ugly chic”. For her spring menswear show, which took place on Sunday night in Milan, she made a collection that was exactly for that gaze. Th
  
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• Gareth Southgate calls on England to transfer energy to world stage

  17-06-2018 23:42 via theguardian.com
  Coach believes his players are ready to be a bold, attacking presence in Russia starting in their opener against TunisiaIt was France 98 on the last occasion England faced Tunisia in a World Cup. That one kicked off in the middle of the day and a 2-0 win, as always with England, sent the giddy-meter spinning. The lingering memory, however, is still the line with which Des Lynam opened the television coverage. “Good afternoon,” he greeted the viewers. “Shouldn’t you be at
  
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• Indecision, spats and flogged players – England crumble under Eddie Jones

  17-06-2018 23:39 via theguardian.com
  A fifth successive Test defeat and loss of series in South Africa has exposed an unhealthy regime that needs a drastic rebootThe Eddie Jones era has been nothing if not educational for the Rugby Football Union. The idea was to hire the world’s most experienced coach, shower him in cash and then sit back and watch him reel in the 2019 World Cup. The only thing Jones will be catching between now and Christmas, at this rate, is a flight back to Australia.Harsh, perhaps, on the guru who steere
  
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• May's NHS 'Brexit dividend' claim draws scepticism and doubt

  17-06-2018 23:38 via theguardian.com
  Assertion windfall can help fund £20bn injection ‘treats public as fools’, says Tory MPTheresa May’s promise of £400m extra in weekly NHS spending within five years has been overshadowed by scepticism among experts and her own backbenchers over her claim it can be financed through a windfall delivered by Brexit.Ahead of a major speech by the prime minister in which she will pledge a £20bn annual real-terms NHS funding increase by 2023-24, May was ridiculed for
  
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• May's NHS 'Brexit dividend' claim draws scepticism and doubt

  17-06-2018 23:38
  Theresa May’s promise of £400m extra in weekly NHS spending within five years has been overshadowed by scepticism among experts and her own backbenchers over her claim it can be financed through a windfall delivered by Brexit.Ahead of a major speech by the prime minister in which she will pledge a £20bn annual real-terms NHS funding increase by 2023-24, May was ridiculed for arguing that some of the money would come from a so-called Brexit dividend.What is a Brexit dividend?
  
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• Separation at the border: children wait in cages at south Texas warehouse

  17-06-2018 23:22 via theguardian.com
  US Border Patrol allows reporters to visit holding facilityDemocrats press on separations but White House digs inInside an old warehouse in south Texas, hundreds of children wait away from their parents in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.Continue reading...
  
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• Father and son found dead in Huddersfield river 'were looking for metal'

  17-06-2018 23:18
  The bodies of a father and son have been discovered in a river after the pair went missing during a magnet fishing trip.Police said divers made the discovery in the River Calder, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, on Saturday evening after they were alerted earlier in the morning.The men have been named locally as Martin Andrews and his teenage son Jack, according to the Huddersfield Daily Examiner.
  
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• The Handmaid's Tale recap: season 2, episode 5 - a glimpse of hope amid the gloom

  17-06-2018 23:15 via theguardian.com
  June – or is it Offred? – continues to suffer back in Gilead in an unrelenting episode, but at least she’s not giving up just yetSpoiler alert: this recap is for people watching The Handmaid’s Tale, series two, on Channel 4 in the UK. Please do not add spoilers from later episodes.She’s Offred. She’s June. She’s Offred again. The pendulum swings back and forth, but June has promised her unborn baby that it won’t grow up in Gilead, so the light of h
  
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• WHO: Gaming addiction 'a mental health condition'

  17-06-2018 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  For millions, it is a harmless hobby but for some it can become more than that.
  
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• Question Time: David Dimbleby to step down after 25 years

  17-06-2018 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  David Dimbleby, who has hosted Question Time since 1994, says he will leave it at the end of the year.
  
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• Poldark recap: series four, episode two – strong stomachs required

  17-06-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Eye-gouging scenes and grisly medical procedures featured as the series ventured into darker and more dangerous territoryBrace e’selves, ’Darkers! For everything is to change! For while Nampara and its surroundings may be bathed in dappled sunlight, a gloomy shadow do loom over Ross and Demelza now that he has sold his soul, become a politician and moved to the ends of the earth (ie London). This was the result of an extraordinary contest modern political parties could only dream of,
  
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• Managing England: The Impossible Job review – tracing 52 years of hurt

  17-06-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  From Sir Alf to Southgate, this thorough, and thoroughly enjoyable, documentary looks at the history of the one of the toughest jobs in sportHe doesn’t look as if he’s going to score, does he? And he doesn’t. It’s a poor penalty, along the ground and too close to the keeper, who guesses right and saves it easily. “Oh no,” cried Barry Davies, commentating, as England go out of another tournament, on penalties (to the Germans).God, can it really be 22 years ago,
  
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• David Dimbleby to step down as chair of BBC's Question Time

  17-06-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Presenter, who has hosted the show for 25 years, says he plans to return to reportingDavid Dimbleby is to step down as chairman of the BBC’s Question Time programme after 25 years in the job.“At the end of the year I will have been chairing Question Time for a quarter of a century and I have decided that this is the right moment to leave,” the presenter said.Continue reading...
  
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• David Dimbleby to step down as chair of BBC's Question Time

  17-06-2018 23:00
  David Dimbleby will present his last Question Time on 13 December.David Dimbleby is to step down as chairman of the BBC’s Question Time programme after 25 years in the job.“At the end of the year I will have been chairing Question Time for a quarter of a century and I have decided that this is the right moment to leave,” the presenter said.
  
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• Mexico play for the love of winning to seal one of their greatest victories

  17-06-2018 22:45 via theguardian.com
  Juan Carlos Osorio has been pilloried in the Mexican media for his constant tinkering but he masterminded a huge shock over world champions GermanyThe Mexico coach, Juan Carlos Osorio, is known for carrying a spiral notebook, in which he jots down observations and scribbles his thoughts during games. It has become a symbol of the Colombian’s meticulous planning for his team, one of the strongest line-ups Mexico has ever brought to the World Cup.All the prep work paid off on Sunday, when Me
  
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• US and South Korea to announce suspension of 'large-scale' military drill

  17-06-2018 21:04 via theguardian.com
  Trump pledged to end ‘war games’ at summit with Kim Jong-un but drills could restart if North Korea fails to denuclearise South Korea and the US are expected to announce the suspension of “large-scale” military drills next week, with the provision that they will restart if North Korea fails to keep its promise to denuclearise, a South Korean news agency said on Sunday.Citing an unnamed government source, the Yonhap agency said the suspension was likely to affect only majo
  
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• Trump lawyer shrugs off Roger Stone meeting with Russian over Clinton dirt

  17-06-2018 21:03 via theguardian.com
  Rudy Giuliani ‘doubts’ president knew about 2016 meeting in which Russian demanded $2m for damaging information
  Donald Trump’s lawyer said on Sunday he “doubted” the president knew about a newly reported May 2016 meeting between sometime adviser Roger Stone and a Russian offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton, then Trump’s rival for the White House. Related: Pittsburgh cartoonist says he was fired after 25 years for making fun of TrumpContinue rea
  
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• MoD may duck decision on army numbers in review

  17-06-2018 21:00
  HMS Bulwark, which could be spared the axe.The Ministry of Defence is struggling to complete a review aimed at modernising British forces in the face of a renewed threat from Russia and new threats such as cyber and electronic warfare.The review was supposed to be finished in time for Theresa May to brief Nato allies including Donald Trump at what is shaping up to be a potentially fractious summit in Brussels on 11 and 12 July.
  
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• Joachim Löw accepts ‘haphazard’ Germany on thin ice after Mexico loss

  17-06-2018 20:45 via theguardian.com
  • Holders suffer first opening World Cup defeat since 1982
  • Löw: ‘The next game is vital for us, We have to win it’Joachim Löw accepted his defending champions had been “negligent” and “haphazard” after Germany’s Group F defeat against Mexico in Moscow.“The next game is vital for us, we have to win it,” Löw said of a team who had lost their opening game at a World Cup for the first time since 1982. Continue reading..
  
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• Pro-EU lawmaker in Conservative party - 'We could collapse government'

  17-06-2018 20:42
  A leading pro-European Union lawmaker in Britain's ruling Conservative Party warned on Sunday that a row over parliament's influence on the Brexit process could collapse the government, but said he hoped to find a way to avoid that.Prime Minister Theresa May's minority Conservative government is fighting with rebels from her own party over the final wording of the laws that will end Britain's EU membership -a bitter row which threatens to undermine her authority."We could collapse the government
  
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• US woman fights off rabid bobcat, strangling it with bare hands

  17-06-2018 20:17 via theguardian.com
  ‘I thought, not today ... there was no way I was going to die’ says Georgia grandmother who strangled animal to death
  A 46-year-old grandmother strangled a rabid bobcat to death after the animal attacked her in her front yard in north-eastern Georgia. The Athens-Banner Herald reported that DeDe Phillips of Hart county had gone outside on 7 June to take a picture when the bobcat lunged at her.Continue reading...
  
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• Father and son found dead in Huddersfield river after fishing trip

  17-06-2018 20:08
  The bodies of a father and son have been discovered in a river after the pair went missing during a fishing trip.Police said divers made the discovery in the River Calder, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, on Saturday evening after they were alerted earlier in the morning.The men have been named locally as Martin Andrews and his teenage son Jack, according to the Huddersfield Daily Examiner.
  
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• Ben Jennings on the £20bn 'Brexit dividend' for the NHS – cartoon

  17-06-2018 20:04 via theguardian.com
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• Labour festival hailed a success by Corbyn's party despite ridicule

  17-06-2018 19:58 via theguardian.com
  Shadow chancellor John McDonnell says the event shows Labour ‘on the march’Labour has hailed its one-day festival of music and political debate as a success, despite criticism and ridicule from the opposite side of the political divide.Related: Labour Live: Never mind the scepticism, it’s the JezFestContinue reading...
  
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• Labour festival hailed a success by Corbyn's party despite ridicule

  17-06-2018 19:58
  Jeremy Corbyn speaks to the crowd on the main stage at Labour Live.Labour has hailed its one-day festival of music and political debate as a success, despite criticism and ridicule from the opposite side of the political divide.The party said 13,000 people bought advance tickets for the event and “many more” turned up on the day, while MPs and supporters tweeted photographs showing crowds of people listening to a speech from the leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
  
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• The Guardian view on Yemen: our complicity lies bare | Editorial

  17-06-2018 19:47 via theguardian.com
  Even if the UK warned against attacking the vital port of Hodeidah, we bear responsibility for the horrors of this warThe fig leaves covered little to start with, and withered long ago. Now the excuses for our role in Yemen’s misery have fallen away entirely. The assault on Hodeidah by the Saudi- and Emirati-led coalition can only deepen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis; 70% of the country’s imports pass through the port. Britain and France urged Saudi Arabia not to l
  
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• Johanna Konta calls umpire ‘absolute joke’ after defeat to Ashleigh Barty

  17-06-2018 19:44 via theguardian.com
  • British No 1 storms off court after Nature Valley Open final
  • Line call from chair umpire prompts angry outburstJohanna Konta, who blew a 4-1 lead in the deciding set, was furious with the chair umpire over a poor line call and stormed off court to cool down before returning to congratulate Ashleigh Barty for winning the Nature Valley Open in Nottingham on Sunday.“This is an absolute joke. We are out here busting our chops. You are making decisions that affect all our lives,&r
  
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• Royal Ascot steps up crackdown on brawling amid the finery

  17-06-2018 19:13 via theguardian.com
  • Course has new initiatives, including more use of sniffer dogs
  • Mobile beer hawkers will no longer operateFrom the inside looking out this year’s Royal Ascot promises to do what it has always done so well and offer a stage for outstanding racehorses to create unforgettable moments of high drama. From the speed duel between Battaash and Lady Aurelia on day one on Tuesday to Cracksman, Order Of St George and many more exciting talents and prospects that will be racing over the c
  
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• Suicides raise alarm about UK's treatment of child refugees

  17-06-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Three Eritrean teenagers killed themselves after travelling to Britain without their parents At least three teenage refugees who arrived in Britain from the migrant camp in Calais have killed themselves in the past six months, raising questions about how the Home Office and local authorities handle profoundly vulnerable asylum-seeking children and young people in the UK.Three young men from Eritrea, two of them aged 18 and one aged 19, have taken their own lives in London since last November. Al
  
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• Police: Taxi driver who hit 8 Moscow pedestrians fell asleep

  17-06-2018 18:59
  MOSCOW (AP) — The suspect in a taxi crash near Red Square that injured two Mexican soccer fans and six other pedestrians as Russia hosts the World Cup told interrogators he fell asleep at the wheel, Moscow city police said Sunday.
  
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• Inflammatory language amid the battle of Brexit

  17-06-2018 18:56
  ‘Martin Kettle’s reference to the “monstering” of Dominic Grieve in the Daily Mail last week does not comment on the apocalyptic tone of its final paragraphs,’ writes the Lib Dem peer William Wallace.Gaby Hinsliff unwittingly exposes a key fault line that produced a seismic referendum result (Brexiters have a choice: visa caps or doctors, 13 June).Such a blithe acceptance of how free-market economics has impacted on employment conditions in so many sectors – a
  
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• The vanity project that is Iain Duncan Smith’s universal credit

  17-06-2018 18:55
  Iain Duncan Smith. ‘The cash spent to date establishing an imperfect system is a monument to his obstinacy,’ writes Les Bright.Along the way many vulnerable people have experienced unnecessary hardship (Costly and unwieldy: watchdog savages universal credit system, 15 June).Iain Duncan Smith, who was the brains behind this project, believed that he had found the answer to eradicating poverty, and the way to rebuild the self-esteem of people receiving some or all of their income from
  
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• Sir Matt Busby airbrushed from Liverpool FC history? | Brief letters

  17-06-2018 18:55 via theguardian.com
  Upskirting | Sir Matt Busby | Sign language | Vegetarianism | Thameslink | Clive JamesOnce the law is eventually passed to class upskirting as the criminal offence it clearly is (Upskirting bill is blocked by single Tory objection, 16 June), can the powers that be take this opportunity to give it a more appropriate name? Upskirting sounds like something you would purchase by the yard at B&Q, rather than the sexually abusive, insidious crime that it really is.
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• Eden Hazard in form of his life, says Belgium teammate Thibaut Courtois

  17-06-2018 18:55 via theguardian.com
  • Manager and colleagues heap praise on Chelsea forward
  • ‘Only winning the World Cup would count as success’Eden Hazard has never looked better. That was the verdict of his clubmate Thibaut Courtois as Belgium arrived in Sochi for their opening game against Panama. Roberto Martínez, meanwhile, said that the Chelsea forward was in a “great moment” and insisted that “one on one”, he is “as good as anyone in the world”.The Belgium ma
  
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• Former al-Qaida agent turned MI6 spy reveals role in US laptop ban

  17-06-2018 18:53 via theguardian.com
  Aimen Dean said he discovered that Hamayun Tariq, a Briton, was planning to bomb flights to US A former MI6 spy has revealed how the actions of a West Midlands man who became a master bomb-maker for Isis led to America’s laptop ban on flights.Aimen Dean made the revelation in his autobiography, explaining how Hamayun Tariq, from Dudley, had plans to smuggle bombs “disguised as laptop batteries”. Continue reading...
  
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• Merkel gets extra time to reach deal with EU over asylum row

  17-06-2018 18:38 via theguardian.com
  Chancellor given two weeks by interior minister who says he does not intend to topple her Germany’s interior minister, Horst Seehofer, has signalled he is open to giving Angela Merkel more time to reach a deal with Germany’s EU partners over an asylum row that has threatened to bring down her government.As the German chancellor met leaders of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on Sunday in an attempt to divert the collapse of her fledgling administration, Seehofer emerged from emer
  
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• Repairing Glasgow School of Art building would cost at least £100m, say experts

  17-06-2018 18:25
  Rebuilding the Glasgow School of Art following a the devastating fire could cost at least £100m, according to experts.Academics specialising in fire risk and construction management at Glasgow Caledonian University came up with the estimated cost of rebuilding the Mackintosh building.Professor Billy Hare said: "The damage to the School of Art appeared to be overwhelming, much worse than the last fire from which recovered materials were painstakingly analysed and used in the refurbishment o
  
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• BIS wants tighter rules for funds offering credit, fintech

  17-06-2018 18:14
  Regulations introduced after the financial crisis a decade ago to smooth out banking booms and busts should be extended to funds that provide credit, or shadow banks, and fintech firms, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said on Sunday.The introduction of "macroprudential" policy requiring banks to build up separate "countercyclical" buffers of capital if credit markets become frothy was a core crisis-era innovation.The buffers can be released if loans begin turning sour and maintain r
  
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• New Jersey town made famous by Springsteen at centre of gentrification row

  17-06-2018 17:50 via theguardian.com
  The Boss will play a hometown show in Asbury Park on Monday, but as luxury apartments spring up around the seaside resort, not everyone is pleasedInside Asbury Park’s showy new music venue Asbury Lanes, locals stare open-mouthed at what used to be a retro bowling alley played by local bands and burlesque acts. Where just a few years ago there was an orange drop ceiling, some old lanes and a bar with $4 grilled cheese, there are now sleek liquor cages struck by cool blue lights.Kurt Vile an
  
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• Police prepare for domestic abuse surge as England start World Cup campaign

  17-06-2018 17:33
  Police officers across the UK are preparing for an increase in domestic violence during England's World Cup games.Several forces have joined the Give Domestic Abuse the Red Card campaign after research found domestic violence increased when England both lost and won matches during previous tournaments.Analysis by Lancaster University found during the last World Cup in 2014 incidents of domestic abuse in Lancashire rose by 38% when England lost.
  
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• Man critical but stable after possible ammonia attack in east London

  17-06-2018 17:23
  Detectives want to speak to William Deo (left) and Gavin Okwu-Brewis about the attack.A man is in a critical but stable condition in hospital after being attacked with noxious substance in east London.Police are searching for two men – William Deo, 20, and Gavin Okwu-Brewis, 29 – in connection with the incident in Ilford on Wednesday night.
  
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• Fears mount over WhatsApp's role in spreading fake news

  17-06-2018 17:22 via theguardian.com
  App blamed for circulating false information in India, Brazil, Kenya and now the UKAbijeet Nath and Nilotpal Das were driving back from a visit to a waterfall in the Indian province of Assam earlier this month when they stopped in a village to ask for directions. The two men were pulled out of their car and beaten to death by a mob who accused them of stealing children. “The villagers got suspicious of the strangers as for the last three or four days messages were going around on WhatsApp,
  
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• Former minister Phillip Lee hints others could follow his lead and quit over Brexit

  17-06-2018 17:19
  A Conservative MP who resigned from the government over Brexit has hinted that other ministers could follow suit.Former justice minister Phillip Lee told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme he had spoken to ministers who also had concerns about the government's approach to Britain's EU exit.Dr Lee said: "Before I made my decision, I made my decision in isolation, it was a decision about my own future on the basis of what I thought.
  
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• Macedonia changes name, ending bitter dispute with Greece

  17-06-2018 17:13 via theguardian.com
  Leaders sign historic accord that will lead to country becoming Republic of North MacedoniaAfter almost three decades, one of the most intractable Balkan disputes has ended on the banks of a lake as Greece and Macedonia signed an accord formally heralding a new era of peace. On a historic day for a region long soaked in the politics of animosity, the prime ministers of the neighbouring states declared that the bitter dispute over Macedonia’s name was finally over.Continue reading...
  
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• The Daily Mail's Paul Dacre: hard on going soft?

  17-06-2018 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Editor warns of ‘editorial suicide’ if his successor Geordie Greig changes paper’s Brexit stanceAny glimmer of hope felt by the incoming editor of the Daily Mail that his predecessor will go quietly was snuffed out by Paul Dacre’s fang-baring performance in this week’s Spectator. For those Guardian readers not willing to pay the subscription fee for the pleasure, it can handily be summed up as the almost septuagenarian newsman warning of dire consequences if Geordie
  
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• The Daily Mail's Paul Dacre: hard on going soft?

  17-06-2018 17:00
  Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre: dire warning to Geordie Greig in the Spectator.Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
  
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• ‘Like something handed down by God’ – how Panama reached the World Cup | Sid Lowe

  17-06-2018 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Crying ballboys kicked balls into the stands, someone turned the lights out and a woman fainted on the pitch as Panama made it to their first finals by the skin of their teeth“When the goal went in, I could have gone out and got so drunk I wouldn’t have remembered a thing the next day.” You and the rest of the country, Hernán.The Panama manager, Hernán Darío “Bolillo” Gómez, says he is a “believer” and insists he “k
  
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• Upskirting row MP: Why did you give Chope a knighthood?

  17-06-2018 16:44 via bbc.co.uk
  The prime minister told Andrew Marr a law would still be passed to make upskirting a criminal offence.
  
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• Ant McPartlin's wife Lisa Armstrong's 'heartbreak' as TV star reportedly finds new love

  17-06-2018 16:43
  Ant McPartlin's estranged wife has hinted at her heartbreak hours after it emerged he is dating his personal assistant - who his wife says was her friend.Make-up artist Lisa Armstrong, 41, tweeted an image of two broken hearts and a whole heart just after 5am on Sunday.Just hours before, it was revealed McPartlin - one half of presenting duo Ant and Dec - is believed to be seeing Anne-Marie Corbett, his 42-year-old personal assistant.
  
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• Police search for men after noxious substance attack in east London

  17-06-2018 16:28
  A man is in a critical but stable condition after a noxious substance was thrown at him during an incident in east London.Police are now searching for two men in connection with the attack, which took place on Wednesday at 10pm in the Ilford area.In a statement, officers said they wanted to speak to William Deo, 20, and Gavin Okwu-Brewis, 29, and have warned members of the public not to approach the men.
  
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