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• Huddersfield shooting: Cars shot at near retail park

  14-07-2018 23:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Three men have been arrested on suspicion of firearms offences and remain in custody.
  
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• 'We went beyond what we thought possible'

  14-07-2018 20:07 via bbc.co.uk
  England manager Gareth Southgate praises the attitude and performance of his side during the 2018 World Cup and believes they gave it everything during the third place play-off game against Belgium.
  
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• World Cup Golden Boot: Harry Kane on brink of finishing as top scorer

  14-07-2018 19:47 via bbc.co.uk
  England striker Harry Kane is in a commanding position to finish as top scorer at the World Cup, with one match remaining.
  
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• Attenborough launches 'Boaty McBoatface' polar ship

  14-07-2018 17:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Sir David Attenborough has launched the hull of the UK's newest polar ship, which is named after him.
  
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• Paraglider interrupts Trump's resort visit in Scotland

  14-07-2018 16:02 via bbc.co.uk
  A paragliding protester appeared to breach security around the president by flying close to the Turnberry Hotel.
  
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• Trump takes to the Turnberry golf course

  14-07-2018 14:53 via bbc.co.uk
  US President Donald Trump is playing golf at Turnberry during his private visit to Scotland.
  
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• Internet jokes after longest Wimbledon semi-final

  14-07-2018 12:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Kevin Anderson beat John Isner, 26-24 in the final set, in a match lasting six hours and 35 minutes.
  
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• From drag queens to rappers: up close with the UK's anti-Trump protesters - video

  14-07-2018 11:11 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian spends the day getting to know the people Donald Trump tried to avoid during his visit to the UK. More than 100,000 people travelled to London from around the country to protest against the US president, according to the organisers of the two marches that converged on Trafalgar SquareContinue reading...
  
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• Bristol Pride: Poet Chris Hyde's "Heart in Mouth" on LGBT equality

  14-07-2018 09:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Poet Chris Hyde's "Heart in Mouth" on attitudes towards LGBT+ people ahead of Bristol Pride.
  
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• World Cup 2018: Final buildup as England battle Belgium for bronze – live

  14-07-2018 09:12 via theguardian.com
  Latest news, reaction and comment on the World Cup’s penultimate dayMarta: my head says France, my heart says CroatiaLions, unicorns, dashed dreams - England’s video journey
  Any comments? You can email Scott here 8.12am BST Good morning. Welcome to the business end of the World Cup. The biggest game in football is just one day away! It’s what we’ve all waited for; it’s what we all live for! And yet ... it’s nearly over. Another four-year cycle is pretty much c
  
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• 'Boaty McBoatface' makes debut in Liverpool

  14-07-2018 08:30 via theguardian.com
  Hull of research vessel officially known as RRS David Attenborough launches into the River MerseyThe vessel popularly known as Boaty McBoatface will make its debut on Saturday in Liverpool, where the hull will be launched into the River Mersey before shipbuilders get to work finishing the ship in wet basin.RRS Sir David Attenborough – the boat was officially named after the naturalist after the internet poll’s top suggestion was rejected – will be used by the British Antarctic
  
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• Kate Bush fans mark 'Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever' – in pictures

  14-07-2018 08:20 via theguardian.com
  Hundreds of crimson-clad Kate Bush fans in Sydney take advantage of the city’s glorious winter weather to celebrate the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, an event in which people around the world recreate the British singer’s 1978 Wuthering Heights music video, inspired by Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Continue reading...
  
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• Nancy Sinatra Sr, first wife of Frank Sinatra, dies at 101

  14-07-2018 08:09 via theguardian.com
  The former Nancy Barbato was the first of the singer’s four wives and the mother of his three childrenNancy Sinatra Sr, the childhood sweetheart of Frank Sinatra who became the first of his four wives and the mother of his three children, has died. She was 101.Her daughter, Nancy Sinatra Jr, tweeted that her mother died Friday and a posting on her web page said she died at 6:02 p.m. but didn’t indicate where she died. Continue reading...
  
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• State of pay: tennis has gaping gender gap in earning power

  14-07-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  More than 70% of men in the world’s top 200 have earned more than their female counterparts in 2018 with prize money only equal at the majorsWhether it is Serena Williams who completes her fairytale comeback in the Wimbledon ladies final on Saturday or Angelique Kerber who spoils the American’s happy ending, the ladies singles’ champion in 2018 will walk away with the same £2.25m cheque as their male counterpart. Serena was one of the leading campaigners when Wimbledon be
  
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• Six of the best summer cheese recipes

  14-07-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Make a bright baguette with peach and gorgonzola or dig into a sharing plate of sticky baked fetaPrep 10 min
  Cook 30 min
  Serves 4 Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I’m on £14,500 a year and it’s a knife-edge lifestyle’

  14-07-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Children’s services support officer Claire Mynott on her finances – and why it is a scandal how little women are paidI live on the brink. I work 35 hours for 39 weeks plus five weeks’ paid leave and, as a result of recent changes, three of us are doing the job of five, which means we are always playing catch-up.I’m now on £14,512 a year. It’s a knife-edge lifestyle. I just scrape by, but if anything unexpected happens it tips me over the edge and I have to bor
  
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• I was mugged on holiday. Don’t make the mistakes I made | Patrick Collinson

  14-07-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  I’d just written about holiday money but hadn’t reckoned on the gangs that target touristsIt happened within an hour of arriving at Barcelona airport – and just a day after I had filed a piece on holiday money for these pages. What I hadn’t reckoned on was the organised gangs that are out to target tourists, particularly, it has to be said, in Spain. And how, with just a few simple steps, I could have protected myself (and my money).This is what you’re supposed to d
  
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• Let’s rock! Why Dwayne Johnson is the new Schwarzenegger

  14-07-2018 07:59 via theguardian.com
  The action hero dominates the box office, with his new film Skyscraper set to soar. From his apolitical attitude to his everyman heritage, we explore the magic behind the muscleModern Toss on The RockOn 24 June , Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson posted the following to his 109 million Instagram followers: “Starting off my Sat by reviewing new TV spots for SKYSCRAPER. Note pad and pen at the ready and diggin’ in to my pre-workout breakfast of egg whites and flank steak aka dead c
  
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• A letter to… my son’s ex-girlfriend

  14-07-2018 07:44 via theguardian.com
  ‘I saw my strong son tearful and bemused by your quixotic mood changes and possessiveness’: the letter you always wanted to writeI won’t ever send this to you because I don’t know where you are now. I am sure you thought I was a rather intense mother to my son. Well, possibly I am: I pretty much brought him and his brother up alone and we faced tough times (like many, of course), and adversity forged an amazing bond.I have always been more than happy to embrace my childre
  
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• Tim Dowling: what’s the point in having two cars if neither of them works properly?

  14-07-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Taking the Mini for its MOT is like taking an old and infirm dog to the vet; if it never comes back, it might not be a bad thing for all concernedMy wife and I are driving through London in two cars, one behind the other. The old Mini is due its MOT and my wife said that if I drove it to Farouk’s garage, she would follow me and take me home in the other car.But she’s ended up in front and the Mini is struggling to keep up in traffic. It has already stalled once. I feel as if I’
  
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• This, the third great summer of my lifetime, feels ominous | Ian Jack

  14-07-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  1955, 1976 and 2018 – the weeks of sun that were once an innocent pleasure, I now see in the context of climate changeThe sun shone and shone over County Cork last week, just as it did over most of Britain. When we came last year, to the same place in the same week, the steep banks of the lanes grew thick with wild roses, fuchsia and foxgloves; now the vegetation looked limper and dustier, the roses drier, the foxgloves solitary and stooped. But a poorer foreground view had its compensatio
  
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• Theresa May is approaching her Zero Dark Thirty moment | Anne McElvoy

  14-07-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  After a Brexit white paper that pleases no one, a serious move to oust the prime minister seems perilously closeDonald Trump’s outburst may have done Theresa May a fleeting favour. Had the grand Shrek not delivered every imaginable insult (short of impugning St Gareth of Southgate) to his host country yesterday, the story in the spotlight this weekend would have been on the growing disquiet around May’s handling of the Chequers agreement on Brexit, and the darkening mood that has des
  
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• Modern life is rubbish, but internet friendships are ​good

  14-07-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Before I even booked my ticket for my holiday, I’d contacted an internet stranger-friend to inform them of my plansIn the days when the internet was young, the people you met online were, fundamentally, Not To Be Trusted. Internet illiteracy – not to be confused with illiterate people on the internet – was rife: an era in which people really did believe chatrooms were filled with catfishing axe murderers. The prevailing wisdom was that you had to be a special kind of foolish wi
  
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• Is Tom Steyer the progressive answer to the Koch brothers?

  14-07-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The former hedge fund manager wants to impeach Trump and is putting his money where his mouth is. It sounds like a leftwing dream … but is he plotting his own White House run?Tom Steyer is a billionaire from San Francisco who comes bearing tantalising gifts for American progressives.The first is a confetti of cash to fight elections and ballot measures across the country, a bounty to counter the Koch brothers’ funding of conservative candidates and causes and possibly set the US on
  
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• Blind date: ‘I definitely got a little tipsy’

  14-07-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Emily, 22 university administrator, meets Krishan, 24, investment analyst
  What were you hoping for?Leonardo DiCaprio circa 1997. Failing that, a cute guy who doesn’t take himself too seriously. Continue reading...
  
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• My partner didn't want children. I did. Then I got pregnant...

  14-07-2018 06:59 via theguardian.com
  We’re both writers and he didn’t want the distraction of kids. Could our relationship survive?Last week, while driving along a country lane, I listened to the writer Michael Chabon, father of four, describe an encounter he had as a young, newly successful novelist: a famous older writer approached him with advice on how to succeed artistically, “Don’t have children. That’s the whole of the law.” In one sense, what good advice! Keep your rucksack light, your mu
  
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• Gerry Adams home attacked with 'explosive device'

  14-07-2018 06:50 via theguardian.com
  Sinn Féin calls attacks on Adams and fellow republican figure Bobby Storey in Belfast ‘reprehensible and cowardly’Explosive devices were thrown at the homes of prominent republican figures in Northern Ireland, including the former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, on Friday night, the party has said.The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) confirmed on Friday it was dealing with two incidents at two addresses in west Belfast, though officers declined to give any furthe
  
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• 'We don't know how it worked': the inside story of the Thai cave rescue

  14-07-2018 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Rescuers describe the doubts and pressures that assailed them as they pulled 12 boys and their coach to safetyIn the end it was a textbook rescue operation. Divers managed to carry, pull and at times swim the 12 young Wild Boars footballers and their coach along more than two miles of flooded and cramped tunnels in the Tham Luang cave complex, as billions of people around the world watched. But briefings by Thai officials and interviews with six Australian, American, Chinese and Thai divers invo
  
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• Microsoft calls for facial recognition technology rules given 'potential for abuse'

  14-07-2018 05:36 via theguardian.com
  President Brad Smith warns authorities might track, investigate or arrest people based on flawed evidenceMicrosoft has called for facial recognition technology to be regulated by government, with for laws governing its acceptable uses. In a blog post on the company’s website on Friday, Microsoft president Brad Smith called for a congressional bipartisan “expert commission” to look into regulating the technology in the US. Continue reading...
  
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• 'We can share in the joy': World Cup unites Croatia and Australian diaspora

  14-07-2018 04:13 via theguardian.com
  Footballing prowess brings together Croatians from far and wide, giving some a snapshot of life there since independence in 1991
  After Ivan Rakitic scored the third goal in Croatia’s group-stage win over Argentina, Jozo Kolakusic, a 25-year-old Australian-born Croatian, threw his arms around his father at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium. Together they sang patriotic songs and shed tears of joy.Related: Ivan Rakitic: Croatia will have 4.5m players on pitch in World Cup finalContinue reading...
  
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• US indicts 12 Russians for hacking DNC emails during the 2016 election

  14-07-2018 03:29 via theguardian.com
  Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein announces that 12 individuals have been charged as part of the investigation into Russian interferenceA dozen Russians were criminally charged on Friday with hacking and leaking the emails of senior Democrats during the 2016 presidential election campaign.Grand jury indictments against the 12 alleged Russian intelligence officials were announced by Rod Rosenstein, the deputy US attorney general, at a press conference in Washington. Continue reading...
  
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• World Cup 2018: How Kane, Southgate and Pickford inspired an artist

  14-07-2018 03:24 via bbc.co.uk
  How England's World Cup campaign inspired London artist Reuben Dangoor.
  
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• 'Like losing family': time may be running out for New Zealand's most sacred tree

  14-07-2018 03:24 via theguardian.com
  Tāne Mahuta (Lord of the Forest) is about 2,500 years old. But its days will be numbered if it succumbs to kauri diebackNew Zealand’s oldest and most sacred tree stands 60 metres from death, as a fungal disease known as kauri dieback spreads unabated across the country.Tāne Mahuta (Lord of the Forest) is a giant kauri tree located in the Waipoua forest in the north of the country, and is sacred to the Māori people, who regard it as a living ancestor. Continue reading...
  
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• Terminally ill boy, five, writes own obituary: 'See ya later, suckas!'

  14-07-2018 02:28 via theguardian.com
  Garrett Matthias, who died of a rare cancer, had a hand in authoring unique obit now garnering attention in US
  A unique memorial service set for Garrett Matthias, a five-year-old from central Iowa, is matched only by the one-of-a-kind obituary the preschooler had a hand in authoring.Garrett died 6 July of a rare cancer that attacked his temporal bone and cranial nerve. His obituary, which is now garnering national attention, includes details of some of the painful treatments he endured.Continue
  
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• Talking Horses: Sands Of Mali can lift July Cup on racing’s Super Saturday

  14-07-2018 01:01 via theguardian.com
  The zippy three-year-old appeals at 8-1 for the highlight of a typically action-packed Super Saturday with 10 televised racesRichard Fahey stunned the betting market by saddling Mayson to win the July Cup at 20-1 six years ago and now the Yorkshire trainer may be about to follow up with a rather more obvious contender in Sands Of Mali (2.15). The zippy three-year-old appeals at 8-1 for the highlight of a typically action-packed Super Saturday with 10 televised races.He may have been a shade unlu
  
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• Novak Djokovic edges ahead in Wimbledon semi-final with Rafael Nadal

  14-07-2018 00:26 via theguardian.com
  • Former world No 1 takes third set on tie-break
  • Nadal had hit back to level semi-final showdownAt the end of a very long Friday when nothing could be taken for granted, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic added an entertaining late-night postscript to the heroics that had earlier transfixed Centre Court in the sunshine for six hours and 36 minutes, but must return on Saturday to determine who meets Kevin Anderson in Sunday’s final.Djokovic took the first 6-4 and the third 7-6 (9),
  
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