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• Alexander Zverev has to stomach Wimbledon defeat by Ernests Gulbis

  07-07-2018 23:41 via theguardian.com
  Zverev undone by illness in five-set match and Gulbis takes advantage to set up a fourth-round meeting with Kei NishikoriOfficially, Alexander Zverev’s dreams of a first grand slam title ended after three hours and 20 minutes of gloriously unpredictable tennis with a sorrowful shake of Ernests Gulbis’s hand. Deep down, however, the No 4 seed knew the game was up long before his 7-6 (2), 4-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-0 defeat after the effects of a stomach bug ripped all the energy from his body.&
  
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• Federer and Serena Williams remain but exodus of seeds raises questions

  07-07-2018 23:29 via theguardian.com
  Upsets have been the norm at Wimbledon and grand slams may have to rethink their plans to revert to 16 seedsRoger Federer and Serena Williams have marched through in dominant fashion but fans coming to the All England Club in the second week may need to have a flick-through their programme to get the lowdown on some unfamiliar names.Upsets have been the norm, rather than the exception, with only one of the women’s top 10 seeds still involved and four of the men’s top eight. Continue
  
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• Theresa May’s EU deal under fire from hardline Brexiters

  07-07-2018 23:19 via theguardian.com
  Anti-EU MPs warn blueprint could be worse than no deal, while entrepreneurs say plans are unworkableTheresa May’s desperate attempts to unite her party and country behind a new Brexit blueprint were under severe strain on Saturday night, as more than 100 entrepreneurs and founders of UK businesses dismissed it as unworkable – and hardline anti-EU Tory MPs warned it could mean an outcome worse than “no deal” at all.There were also signs that Brussels was less than impresse
  
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• Croatia book World Cup semi-final with England after penalty shootout win

  07-07-2018 22:53 via theguardian.com
  The drama was unremitting but when Ivan Rakitic strode forward to address the penalty to win it for Croatia, he located a pocket of calm. The Barcelona midfielder had been in the same position last Sunday, standing over the shootout kick to beat Denmark in the last 16, and he had risen to the challenge.He would do likewise here and, in truth, it never looked in doubt. When Rakitic picked out the bottom corner, Croatia’s joy knew no bounds. At last, they have emulated the glory boys fr
  
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• Novak Djokovic fights back to end Kyle Edmund’s Wimbledon hopes

  07-07-2018 22:15 via theguardian.com
  • British No 1 takes first set but loses 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4
  • Djokovic sets up fourth-round meeting with Karen KhachanovPut away the flags, turn down the music, take off that silly hat, don’t forget to put out the cat. Kyle Edmund, surfing the wave of national euphoria that had drifted over from the Volga and enveloped the nation just as he walked on to Centre Court with Novak Djokovic, tried hard to keep the party going but had to settle for the consolation of taking a set off o
  
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• Amesbury poisoning: Police officer in hospital for suspected novichok exposure

  07-07-2018 22:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  A POLICE officer has been rushed to hospital amid concerns of possible exposure to nerve agent Novichok, it has emerged.
  
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• Government rejects proposal to teach boxing in prisons

  07-07-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Ex-justice minister Phillip Lee hits out at ‘culture of cowardice’ after report he commissioned is shelvedA former justice minister has accused the government of “cowardice” and “policymaking through dogma” after a member of the cabinet told colleagues to dismiss the findings of an unpublished independent report that calls for prisoners to be taught boxing and other martial arts as part of their rehabilitation.The ex-justice minister, Phillip Lee – the T
  
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• Chris Froome given little sympathy as Team Sky get a sense of deja vu

  07-07-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Rider faces barrage of boos on Tour de France first stage while rivals bemoan lack of clarity over his adverse analytical findingTeam Sky have been here before at the Tour de France, and not just in the sense that the 2011 race started in the same region, the Vendée, that hosts this year’s Grand Départ. It is all familiar: the questions, the doubts, the innuendo, the attempts at spin-doctoring, the less than entirely warm welcome from the French public and press.It has become
  
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• Jordan Pickford allays fears over ‘daft’ hand injury after thumping knee

  07-07-2018 21:32 via theguardian.com
  • Goalkeeper injures hand after missing the ground
  • ‘It was a daft injury – but I’m a man, not a mouse’Jordan Pickford has allayed fears over his fitness for England’s first World Cup semi-final in 28 years, despite departing Samara clutching the man of the match award while sporting heavy bandaging on his left hand.The Everton goalkeeper’s trio of outstanding second-half saves, denying Marcus Berg twice and Viktor Claesson, secured England a first
  
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• Supreme court pick could put 40 years of affirmative action precedent at risk

  07-07-2018 21:01 via theguardian.com
  ‘This is a time for concern’ says law professor with Trump poised to alter the court’s balance after Anthony Kennedy’s resignationAdvocates of affirmative action have expressed concern over Donald Trump’s potential pick for a new supreme court justice, warning that his choice could threaten 40 years of legal precedent advancing diversity in schools, colleges and the workplace.Following the resignation of Justice Anthony Kennedy last week, the president is set to ann
  
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• Gareth Southgate’s science rockets England towards the moon | Barney Ronay

  07-07-2018 20:59 via theguardian.com
  As England reach their first World Cup semi-final since 1990, take a breath to drink it all in and savour the momentThe red and white train just keeps rolling along. In the city where Russia’s space programme shot for the moon, England’s footballers have now entered their own near-earth orbit. There they go now, a little giddy but still upright, out there floating in their tin can, high above the world.It has been a month and a day in Russia, all the way from the fly pits of Volgogra
  
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• ‘None of us fancied going home’ says Southgate as England reach semi-finals

  07-07-2018 20:37 via theguardian.com
  • England manager savours ‘best day in coaching’
  • ‘We’ve got here because the collective has been so strong’Gareth Southgate has spoken of his pride at following in the footsteps of Sir Alf Ramsey, Sir Bobby Robson and Terry Venables in becoming the fourth England manager to steer the national side to the semi-final of a major tournament.England will compete in the last four of the World Cup for the first since 1990 in Moscow on Wednesday with Southgate h
  
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• From drag artists to dreamers, meet UK’s coalition of anti-Trump protest

  07-07-2018 20:29 via theguardian.com
  More than 50,000 are to march in London when the president visits Britain – and for many it will be their first demoWith less than a weekto go until Donald Trump arrives in the UK, preparations are being made for protests up and down the country. More than 50,000 are expected to march in London on Friday in what has been billed as a carnival of resistance with dozens of organising blocs – including Vegans Against Trump, Muslims Against Trump, Trumpeters Against Trump – rallying
  
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• England’s Katherine Brunt a local hero in ruthless ODI defeat of New Zealand

  07-07-2018 20:13 via theguardian.com
  • First ODI: England 290-5; New Zealand 148
  • Brunt’s hit gets biggest cheer as England win by 142 runsEngland got the three-match series against New Zealand off to the perfect start with a 142-run win on Saturday, in the first women’s ODI to be staged at Headingley.Half-centuries from Amy Jones and Heather Knight at both ends of the England innings took the home side to 290 for five – their highest ODI total against New Zealand – after they won the toss and cho
  
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• Trapped: how survivors deal with trauma of cave ordeals

  07-07-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
  The Thai boys could soon be saved – but their problems will continue, as survivors of previous rescues explainRetired army major Jonathan Sims knows exactly how it feels to be trapped in a damp, dark cave, blocked in by an impenetrable barrier of water that is rising with each passing hour. He spent 10 days trapped in a flooded Mexican cave in 2004, before being rescued by Rick Stanton, the British cave diver who found the boys in Thailand last Monday.“I remember feeling overjoyed wh
  
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• Brazil going out of World Cup hurts but Tite must stay to finish his work | Marta

  07-07-2018 19:35 via theguardian.com
  Brazil lost to a very good Belgium side and we must remember the positives from the tournament as well as the negativesIt took time for Brazil’s defeat against Belgium to sink in. I felt sadness, there is no doubt about that, but defeats are part of sport. Having played in many important tournaments for my clubs and my country I know that we do not live just through wins, we have to live through defeats as well.Brazil were beaten by a team with a very good strategy and they were helped by
  
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• Rafael Nadal pulls no punches to knock out teenager Alex de Minaur

  07-07-2018 18:59 via theguardian.com
  • Spaniard defeats 19-year-old Australian 6-1, 6-2, 6-4
  • Nadal retains No 1 ranking going into fourth roundRafael Nadal, who saw off the Australian teenager Alex De Minaur in three sets on Saturday, is enjoying the sort of renaissance only champions such as Roger Federer know – and the two finest players of their generation remain on course to contest the title for a fourth time next Sunday.The 36-year-old Federer resumes his campaign on Monday against the efficient Frenchman Ad
  
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• 'The problem is the reader': Howard Jacobson says the novel is not dead

  07-07-2018 18:51 via theguardian.com
  Writer laments short attention spans and decline of nuanced criticism in age of social mediaIn the face of plummeting sales of literary fiction, the writer Howard Jacobson has declared that the novel is not dead: the problem is the modern reader, who apparently lacks the attention span to enjoy the intellectual challenge of reading.
  In a speech, which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programme on Thursday, Jacobson lamented the distractions facing today’s reader and t
  
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• At least nine killed in al-Shabaab car bomb attack in Somalia

  07-07-2018 18:26 via theguardian.com
  Security forces kill all three attackers who hit interior ministry in MogadishuAt least nine people were killed in an attack on Somalia’s interior ministry, police have said.Security forces killed all three attackers after a two-hour gun battle in the capital, Mogadishu, on Saturday, police said. The Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack. Continue reading...
  
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• Inside the fearful Bedouin village that could decide fate of Palestinian state

  07-07-2018 18:17 via theguardian.com
  Only a court order stands between Khan al-Ahmar and the bulldozers. And if it goes, the West Bank will be split in twoCommuters speeding along the four-lane highway that connects Jerusalem to Jericho might not notice this tiny Bedouin village of fewer than 200 people tucked in the dip of two hills. Tents hoisted with chipped scrap-wood and sand-covered corrugated-iron shacks are home to once-nomadic families who settled after the Israeli army expelled them from the southern desert seven decades
  
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• Investigation launched after man dies in police custody in Manchester

  07-07-2018 17:33 via theguardian.com
  Officers had used CS spray on man later found unresponsive in back of police vanAn investigation has been launched after a man died in police custody following the use of CS spray during his arrest.The man was found to be unresponsive in the back of the police van by the time he arrived at the custody station following a journey of about four miles.Continue reading...
  
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• London's beautiful launderettes – in pictures

  07-07-2018 17:00 via theguardian.com
  “I love launderettes. I love the smell of washing, the sound of the dryers and the punning names,” says Joshua Blackburn. The London-based photographer plans to immortalise every launderette in the capital: out of more than 300 he has, since the spring, shot 40. “I want the project to be a record of these amazing businesses at a time when they’re struggling to survive,” he explains. Across the UK, there are now fewer than 3,000 launderettes – down from 12,500
  
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• Lewis Hamilton sets track record to beat Sebastian Vettel for British F1 GP pole

  07-07-2018 16:59 via theguardian.com
  • Mercedes driver snatches pole on final qualifying lap
  • Vettel will start second on grid with Kimi Räikkönen thirdIf ever Lewis Hamilton needed a lift, it was here, in the cauldron of qualifying for the British Grand Prix. Pushed to produce one of his best ever laps to take pole from Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, who will start second, the four-times world champion once again found inspiration from the huge crowd at Silverstone. They, in turn, were rewarded with an exce
  
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• Thailand: Phuket boat sinking death toll continues to rise

  07-07-2018 16:46 via theguardian.com
  At least 41 people dead and 15 more missing two days after boat carrying 105 people sankThe death toll in the sinking of a tour boat off the Thai resort island of Phuket has climbed to 41, with 15 people missing.The Phuket governor, Norraphat Plodthong, announced the news at a press conference on Saturday evening, two days after the boat capsized and sank after it was hit by five-metre (16-foot) waves. It was carrying 105 people, including 93 tourists, mostly Chinese. Continue reading...
  
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• Pride in London: a sea of rainbow flags - in pictures

  07-07-2018 16:38 via theguardian.com
  Huge crowds enjoy the sun and the parade at the city’s annual LGBT Pride celebration. Continue reading...
  
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• Can Facebook clean up its act?

  07-07-2018 16:00 via theguardian.com
  The social media giant has assembled a team of experts to spot abuses and protect the company’s reputation. But what do security experts think?Technology companies like to talk about the huge benign changes their products will bring about. Take Facebook, with its mission to “give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together”. Or Google, which wants to “organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. M
  
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• Birmingham homes left without water as pipe bursts

  07-07-2018 15:21 via theguardian.com
  Roads and properties flooded as water main bursts in Newtown area of cityHomes have been flooded and left without water on one of the hottest days of the year after a large pipe burst in Birmingham.Cars were partially submerged and stretches of road ruined as rescue teams rushed to help vulnerable residents in Wheeler Street, Newtown, at about 8am on Saturday.Continue reading...
  
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• Soft Brexit proposal welcomed on both sides of Irish border

  07-07-2018 13:17 via theguardian.com
  Dublin says free trade area plan ‘deserves consideration’ as DUP endorses dealThe Irish government says Theresa May’s proposals for Brexit “deserve consideration” but has warned that much work needs to be done to get to a deal.Echoing the chief EU Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, the country’s deputy prime minister, Simon Coveney, said it needs to see the white paper before it can progress to negotiations. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump ‘will empower the Kremlin’ if he continues to undermine Nato

  07-07-2018 13:03 via theguardian.com
  Sir Malcolm Rifkind says Theresa May should warn the US leader on his UK visit of consequences of weakening allianceTheresa May should tell Donald Trump during his visit to Britain this week that he will wreck his own mission to “make America great again”, and instead empower the Kremlin, if he continues to undermine Nato, the former Tory foreign secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, has said.Senior UK politicians and diplomats believe the next 10 days of international diplomacy – du
  
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• The slice of LGBTQ+ history I found in my mate's loft – video

  07-07-2018 12:55 via theguardian.com
  Gavin McGregor was rummaging around in his friend's attic when he stumbled across a treasure trove of LGBTQ+ campaign material from the 1980s – a pivotal time in the fight for equality. In the run-up to London Pride he picks his favourites from the collection and says it should serve as a reminder of the bravery of activists from the time Continue reading...
  
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• MPs to demand apology for forced adoptions in UK

  07-07-2018 12:23 via theguardian.com
  Commons debate to recognise suffering caused by practice from 1960s onwardsThe government must apologise to women who were pressured into handing over babies for adoption half a century ago, MPs will demand in a three-hour debate in the Commons on Thursday.
  A motion tabled by a group of cross-party backbench MPs calls for recognition for the “pain and suffering that the practice of forced adoption caused many women from the 1960s onwards”. It says the government must issue an apology
  
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• Five people hurt in Pamplona bull run

  07-07-2018 10:35 via theguardian.com
  At least one of the injured was gored by a bull’s horn during event in northern Spanish city Five people have been injured at the traditional running of the bulls festival in Pamplona, Spain, with at least one man gored by a bull’s horns, officials say.Among those receiving medical treatment was a 20-year-old Canadian man with mild traumatic injuries, the officials from the Navarra regional government said. Continue reading...
  
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• Brexit: Cabinet agrees 'collective' stance on future EU deal

  07-07-2018 09:09 via bbc.co.uk
  The PM says the plan, agreed after a 12-hour meeting, will give the UK a "positive future" outside the EU.
  
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• Ryanair strikes: 'Their brand is built on being reliable bastards'

  07-07-2018 09:00 via theguardian.com
  How much pain will a summer of industrial action inflict on Europe’s largest airline?When Ryanair flies into a storm, it usually does so on a course charted with meticulous precision by chief executive Michael O’Leary.The boss of Europe’s largest airline has an unrivalled talent for generating publicity through controversy, adhering to the dogma that it doesn’t matter what people say about Ryanair as long as they say Ryanair often enough. Continue reading...
  
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• World Cup 2018: England face Sweden for semi-final place in Russia

  07-07-2018 08:43 via bbc.co.uk
  England is set to come to a standstill on Saturday as the national football team faces Sweden for a place in the World Cup semi finals.
  
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• Story of resurrected Welsh warrior inspires St Thomas Way

  07-07-2018 08:30 via theguardian.com
  Paths to follow tale of William Cragh’s medieval pilgrimage after being brought back to lifeA series of hiking paths based on the supposed pilgrimage of a medieval warrior who came back to life after being executed for fighting against the English is to open in the Welsh Marches.Named St Thomas Way, the paths meander through the long-disputed borderland, linking Hereford and Swansea. Continue reading...
  
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• Newspaper headlines: Cabinet Brexit agreement and England match preparations

  07-07-2018 06:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Saturday's papers feature Theresa May's cabinet Brexit agreement and England's World Cup game build-up.
  
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• Senior Met Police officer investigated over honours

  07-07-2018 06:02 via bbc.co.uk
  The Met Police officer could potentially face a serious disciplinary charge, such as dismissal.
  
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• Airport parking is extortionate, says RAC

  07-07-2018 05:04 via bbc.co.uk
  Fourteen UK airports now charge to drop off passengers, although Heathrow and Gatwick are free.
  
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• Amesbury Novichok police operation 'will take months'

  07-07-2018 04:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Police say the operation after two people were hospitalised by a nerve agent has "unique challenges".
  
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• From podium to boardroom

  07-07-2018 02:48 via bbc.co.uk
  David Coulthard swapped the high-powered world of Formula 1 for a new career path in the media and business.
  
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• Flying the flag: What this World Cup has done for England

  07-07-2018 02:31 via bbc.co.uk
  How people across England will be flying the cross of St George to support the England World Cup team.
  
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• London Pride: The friends who took part in the first march

  07-07-2018 02:24 via bbc.co.uk
  Stuart and Andrew took part in the first London Pride march. They shared their memories on a walk along the original route.
  
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• Womb cancer: 'I could have suffered less with earlier diagnosis'

  07-07-2018 02:20 via bbc.co.uk
  It is the fourth most common cancer in UK women but few know the symptoms to look out for.
  
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• Dame Barbara Windsor back on the BBC after Alzheimer's diagnosis

  07-07-2018 02:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Radio 2 documentary Double Acts will be her first project since revealing her Alzheimer's diagnosis.
  
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• Reality Check: Do footballers get paid for internationals?

  07-07-2018 01:53 via bbc.co.uk
  With World Cup fever growing, how much do footballers get paid for playing for their country?
  
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• Sliced bread: Ninety years of pre-cut loaves

  07-07-2018 01:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Celebrating the sliced loaf, ninety years on from when it first went on sale.
  
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• 'Where is the action?' overdose Mum asks mental health minister

  07-07-2018 01:33 via bbc.co.uk
  On the second anniversary of her daughter's death, Annette McKenzie begs for better mental health services.
  
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• 'We were all kids': WWII pilot's memories

  07-07-2018 01:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Tom Neil flew 141 combat missions during the Battle of Britain in 1940.
  
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• Summer's 50 best swimsuits for her and him – in pictures

  07-07-2018 01:30 via theguardian.com
  Grab a one-piece, bikini, rash vest or trunks and make a splash, or keep cool lounging by the pool, in stripes, polka dots or tropical printsOnce your swimwear’s sorted, check out summer’s 50 best dresses Continue reading...
  
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