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• Great Britain to host home Fed Cup ties for first time in more than 25 years

  02-10-2018 23:59 via theguardian.com
  • Bath University to host matches in 2019
  • ‘This will show everyone what Fed Cup is all about’Great Britain will host a home Fed Cup tie for the first time in more than 25 years in 2019, it was confirmed on Tuesday.The round-robin at Bath University from 6 to 9 February will be part of the Europe/Africa Group One zonal event shared with Poland and will feature some of the biggest names in tennis from eight countries. The winner of each tie will go into the World Group Two
  
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• Southampton’s Cédric Soares holds nerve from spot to oust Everton

  02-10-2018 23:41 via theguardian.com
  Southampton put their difficult start to the Premier League season to one side to beat Everton 4-3 on penalties and progress to the Carabao Cup fourth round.Defender Cédric Soares scored the decisive spot-kick after misses from the hosts’ £45million summer signing Richarlison and fellow substitute Theo Walcott, whose 85th-minute equaliser had sent the tie to a shootout. Continue reading...
  
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• May appeals to ‘decent patriots’ in effort to halt Johnson leadership bid

  02-10-2018 23:33
  Theresa May will declare that the Conservatives can represent the “decent, moderate and patriotic” as she seeks to reassert her authority on Wednesday, a day after Boris Johnson made an overt pitch for the leadership of the party.The prime minister will try to set out her political values after a testing day in which she conceded that Johnson’s crowd-pleasing pitch to a capacity audience of 1,500 had made her “cross” because of his rejection of her Brexit strategy.D
  
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• Challenging her critics, May embraces Brexit 'opportunity'

  02-10-2018 23:33
  In a speech on the final day of her party's conference, May, who quietly campaigned to stay in the EU in a 2016 referendum, will take aim at critics who accuse her of failing to embrace Brexit.With only six months before Britain leaves the EU, May is under pressure over Brexit in Brussels and at home, where some of her loudest critics, particularly former foreign minister Boris Johnson, have done little to hide their leadership ambitions.
  
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• Klopp and Wijnaldum back Salah as Liverpool prepare for Napoli test

  02-10-2018 23:30 via theguardian.com
  • Midfielder says Salah can match Messi and Ronaldo
  • Klopp: ‘Mo is not someone who is scared of pressure’In the oppressive heat of the press room at the Stadio San Paolo, Jürgen Klopp made it very clear he would not join the debate over Mohamed Salah’s form. “Be relaxed, completely relaxed,” was his final piece of advice to the Liverpool striker, having straight-batted several questions on a subject he considers overblown. Gini Wijnaldum then replace
  
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• Blair trying to 'SUBVERT democracy' as he repeatedly calls for second Brexit vote, says MP

  02-10-2018 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXITEER Priti Patel has launched a scathing attack on former Prime Minister Tony Blair for attempting to “subvert the will of the public” by repeatedly calling for a second Brexit referendum.
  
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• Three men stabbed in Birmingham city centre following 'disorder'

  02-10-2018 23:24
  Three men have been stabbed in Birmingham city centre, police have said.Emergency services were called to reports of disorder in the city's High Street just before 5.45pm.A police cordon remains in place around the High Street and Dale End area and reports say it could be closed for several hours.
  
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• Relief for Pep Guardiola after Manchester City overcome fear factor

  02-10-2018 23:07 via theguardian.com
  • Guardiola: ‘After Lyon is was so important we didn’t lose’
  • City beat Hoffenheim 2-1 thanks to David Silva’s late winnerPep Guardiola admitted Manchester City played with some fear in the first half against Hoffenheim but said they were more intense after the break, as they forced a late David Silva goal to secure a 2-1 win in their second Champions League Group F match.City fell behind to a goal from Ishak Belfodil inside 60 seconds at the Rheine-Neckar-Aren
  
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• The Bank That Almost Broke Britain review – 10 years since the brink of disaster

  02-10-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Time has done nothing to dilute the potent story of how greed, arrogance, hubris and a government in thrall to the tax revenues combined to bring an entire economy to within hours of collapseHappy anniversary, averted Armageddon! Let’s have a look back, with some of the people who were there, at the people who can most-legally-unchallengeably be said to have caused it! A kind of Greatest Shits parade. The Bank That Almost Broke Britain (BBC Two) was a history of the Royal Bank of Scotland
  
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• Ghesquière’s sci-fi silhouettes take flight for Louis Vuitton at Paris show

  02-10-2018 22:55 via theguardian.com
  Neat jackets and A-line dresses grace Louvre courtyard catwalk as designer ‘obsessed with empowering women’ closes fashion week“Every piece that I designed for this collection, I asked the question: is it powerful for a woman to wear this? Does it give her strength?”You don’t get to be the designer who closes Paris fashion week without having something to contribute to the cultural conversation. Nicolas Ghesquière, whose collection for Louis Vuitton was stage
  
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• Mike Pompeo to visit North Korea for further talks with Kim Jong-un

  02-10-2018 22:50 via theguardian.com
  State department says denuclearization visit ‘shows forward progress and momentum’ as Pompeo returns to PyongyangMike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, will travel to Pyongyang on Saturday to try to further denuclearization talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the state department has announced.Pompeo will also travel to Japan, South Korea and China between 6 and 8 October, US state department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump defends Kavanaugh but says 'a lot will depend' on FBI investigation

  02-10-2018 22:44 via theguardian.com
  As Republicans prepare for vote, Trump hints support could be withdrawn if investigation finds Kavanaugh lied to the SenateDonald Trump once again defended supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday, as Senate Republicans prepared to vote on the nomination this week. But the president also warned his support could be withdrawn if the FBI determines the judge lied to the Senate in testimony regarding an allegation of sexual assault. Related: Brett Kavanaugh faced police questioning over 198
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo rape allegation: police reopen investigation into 2009 claim

  02-10-2018 22:44 via theguardian.com
  Kathryn Mayorga claims she was assaulted by footballerJuventus star’s lawyers say allegations are untrueLas Vegas police have confirmed they have reopened an investigation stemming from a 2009 complaint involving a woman who claims she was raped by Cristiano Ronaldo.Kathryn Mayorga says the former Real Madrid and Manchester United star forced her to have sex with him at a Las Vegas hotel in 2009. The 34-year-old says she later reached an out-of-court settlement with the footballer, in whic
  
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• Man charged with murder after pensioner died following Staffordshire burglary

  02-10-2018 22:43
  A man has been charged with murder following the death of Staffordshire pensioner Arthur Gumbley.Mr Gumbley - known as Bob - was attacked at his house in Sutton Coldfield, on 21 November, and jewellery, cash and a purse belonging to his late wife were stolen.The 87-year-old was found lying on the floor and covered in blood.
  
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• Sajid Javid backs plans for stricter citizenship rules after Brexit

  02-10-2018 22:42
  The government has announced stricter immigration and citizenship rules to come into place after Brexit, with Sajid Javid later telling the Guardian’s editor-in-chief Katharine Viner that he was unworried by the suggestion such rules would have prevented his own father entering the UK.The home secretary used his speech to the Conservative party conference to say people seeking British citizenship would face tougher English-language requirements, part of an immigration overhaul that will in
  
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• Manchester United v Valencia: Champions League – live!

  02-10-2018 22:41 via theguardian.com
  Latest updates from the 8.05pm BST kick-offHoffenheim 1-2 Man City | Live scoreboardAnd feel free to email Jacob or tweet @JacobSteinberg 9.41pm BST 73 min: Valencia bring on the speedy Kevin Gameiro for the ineffective Michy Batshuayi. 9.40pm BST 72 min: Valencia deal with the corner and Batshuayi rumbles through a couple of challenges before knocking a pass through to Guedes. United have been completely caught out! Guedes has started his run from inside his own half and he’s got nobody b
  
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• Charlottesville: four members of white supremacist group charged over violent 2017 rally

  02-10-2018 22:28 via theguardian.com
  The four men arrested in California were connected to the group Rise Above Movement and were charged with rioting Federal prosecutors in Charlottesville have charged four people tied to violent unrest during a far-right rally in the city last year.The four men, connected to the white supremacist group Rise Above Movement, were all arrested in California on Tuesday morning and charged with rioting and conspiracy to riot. Continue reading...
  
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• Theresa May car crash conference speech - WATCH what went wrong last year

  02-10-2018 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  THERESA MAY suffered a car crash conference speech last year when she was served with a P45 by a prankster, the party slogan fell apart behind her and she endured a coughing fit – watch the speech back as the Prime Minister prepares to take the stage one year on.
  
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• Hackney Central knife attack: Man stabbed on London Overground

  02-10-2018 22:18 via theguardian.com
  Victim being treated in hospital after ‘serious stabbing’ on packed commuter train A man is being treated in hospital after being stabbed on a packed commuter train in east London on Tuesday evening, police have said.One man was arrested after what British Transport police called a “serious stabbing”, which happened on a London Overground train at Hackney Central station shortly after 6pm. Continue reading...
  
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• Blue without Peggy Sue: Buddy Holly muse dies at 78

  02-10-2018 22:16 via theguardian.com
  Peggy Sue Gerron Rackham inspired 1958 rock n roll hitSon-in-law: song first called Cindy Lou after Holly’s niecePeggy Sue Gerron Rackham, the woman who inspired the 1958 Buddy Holly song Peggy Sue, has died. She was 78. Related: Buddy Holly: the rocker next door – a classic profile by Mick FarrenContinue reading...
  
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• Birmingham stabbing: Three men stabbed on Birmingham High Street – police cordon

  02-10-2018 21:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  POLICE have rushed to Birmingham city centre after initial reports of a stabbing in which there were three people were stabbed.
  
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• Trump helped parents hide money on tax returns – New York Times

  02-10-2018 21:58 via theguardian.com
  Times investigation cited a ‘vast trove’ of confidential tax return and financial recordsDonald Trump engaged in tax schemes that included cases of fraud in which he and his siblings helped their parents dodge taxes, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing more than 200 tax returns it has obtained.The Times investigation showed Trump received from his father’s real estate business the equivalent today of at least $413m, the Times reported, citing a “vast trove&rdqu
  
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• Education Secretary Damian Hinds Could Face Probe From Statistics Watchdog Over Conference Speech

  02-10-2018 21:53
  Education Secretary Damian Hinds could face a probe from the statistics
  
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• Joe Marler to face no punishment over England suspension comments

  02-10-2018 21:41 via theguardian.com
  • Harlequins prop says comments have been misinterpreted
  • Marler was contacted by the RFU for clarificationJoe Marler will not face any disciplinary action from the Rugby Football Union over comments outlining how he used to try to get himself suspended in order to avoid England duty. It is understood Marler was contacted by the RFU for clarification over his remarks but the matter will not be taken any further.The 28-year-old announced his surprise international retirement last week,
  
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• Trump’s family separations: watchdog review paints damning picture of policy

  02-10-2018 21:40 via theguardian.com
  Report says 2,600 children were separated from their parents without adequate systems in place to track or reunite familiesDonald Trump’s administration separated more than 2,600 children from their parents without adequate systems in place to track or reunite families, according to the first government review of the controversial family separation policy.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) struggled to monitor and reunite families and provided parents crossing the border with incons
  
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• Ireland air traffic BLACKOUT: Radar issue GROUNDS all Ireland flights except over Dublin

  02-10-2018 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  ALL AIR traffic over Ireland bar planes flying in and out of Dublin have been grounded due to a radar issue.
  
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• Three men stabbed in Birmingham city centre

  02-10-2018 21:17
  Three men have been stabbed in Birmingham city centre, police have said.Emergency services were called to reports of disorder on the city's High Street just before 5.45pm.A police cordon remains in place around the High Street and Dale End area and reports say the area could be closed for several hours.
  
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• David Silva snatches face-saving winner for Manchester City at Hoffenheim

  02-10-2018 21:13 via theguardian.com
  Manchester City are spluttering at the start of the Champions League and needed a late David Silva winner to beat Hoffenheim. A scrappy display followed the opening defeat to Lyon and while Pep Guardiola pointed to his side’s spirit and three points he will be concerned.This was Hoffenheim’s home debut in the competition and Julian Nagelsmann’s men can be proud of knocking heralded opponents out of their rhythm. Continue reading...
  
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• Westcott Space Cluster: Disused airbase becomes major hub for UK space industry

  02-10-2018 21:07
  A cluster of companies building a new generation of cheap rockets has been officially launched at a disused airbase in Buckinghamshire.Eight start-ups are so far on-site at the Westcott Space Cluster, with backing from the UK and European space agencies.Airborne Engineering is building rocket systems to test technologies needed to land on other planets.
  
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• Woman snaps photo of suspected thief in her stolen car

  02-10-2018 20:48
  A day after her car was stolen during a house burglary in Bournemouth, the woman spotted the Ford Fiesta parked nearby.Anyone with information can contact Dorset Police at www.dorset.police.uk, via email [email protected] or by calling 101, quoting occurrence number 55180141820.
  
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• Ingrid Persaud wins BBC national short story award for debut tale

  02-10-2018 20:45 via theguardian.com
  Seeing off an all-female shortlist, The Sweet Sop – about an estranged father and son united by chocolate – scooped the £15,000 prize• Read the story belowTrinidadian writer Ingrid Persaud has won the £15,000 BBC national short story award with the first short fiction she has written, the tale of a dying father and his estranged son, which judges called both “tender and ebullient”. Related: BBC short story prize selects all-female shortlist for fifth time
  
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• Activists accused of blocking Stansted flight go on trial over terror charge

  02-10-2018 20:40
  The 15 anti-deportation activists are accused of blocking the takeoff of a flight chartered by the Home Office.Fifteen activists who locked themselves together around an immigration removal charter flight to prevent its departure from Stansted and displayed a banner proclaiming “mass deportations kill” have gone on trial charged with a terrorist offence.Jurors at Chelmsford crown court heard how the members of the campaign group End Deportations used lock-on devices to secure themsel
  
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• High street sports titans ride into battle for Evans Cycles

  02-10-2018 20:32
  The two biggest sports retailers on the high street have joined the battle for control of Evans Cycles, one of Britain's biggest bike retailers.Sky News has learnt that JD Sports Fashion and Sports Direct International both tabled indicative offers for Evans last week, pitting them against Halfords and a number of financial investors.News of JD Sports' and Sports Direct's interest highlights an unexpectedly fierce contest to buy Evans, which has racked up losses of more than £8m in the las
  
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• Trump again backs Kavanaugh but says lying to Senate would be unacceptable

  02-10-2018 20:31 via theguardian.com
  Chuck Schumer: testimony ‘flies in the face of being truthful’Republicans retort by praising ‘stunningly qualified nominee’Donald Trump once again defended his embattled supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday. But the president also warned that his support could be withdrawn if an FBI investigation determined the judge had lied to the Senate. Related: Brett Kavanaugh faced police questioning over 1985 bar brawl – reportContinue reading...
  
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• Mrs Dalloway review – a cacophonous take on Virginia Woolf's classic

  02-10-2018 20:30 via theguardian.com
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  A cast of five take on more than 20 characters in Hal Coase’s experimental adaptation of the novelVirginia Woolf’s 1925 novel about a day in the life (and life in the day) of Clarissa Dalloway, a high-society wife in postwar London, is not an easy story to adapt for the stage. It jumps from past to present and from one character’s stream-of-consciousness to another.The writer Hal Coase meets Woolf’s experimentalism with his own. In the first scene, actors a
  
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• Housing Minister Kit Malthouse Says Young People Have To Wait For Parents ‘To Die’ Before They Get On Property Ladder

  02-10-2018 20:29
  One of Theresa May's ministers has admitted that Britain's housing crisis is
  
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• Ukraine minister says Skripal suspect helped ex-leader flee in 2014

  02-10-2018 20:23
  Ukraine's interior minister said on Tuesday a suspect in the Skripal poisoning case, working for Russian military intelligence, had been identified in Ukraine as a man who helped the former Ukrainian president flee to Russia in 2014.It was not immediately clear whether minister Arsen Avakov was citing information from Ukrainian intelligence or quoting the accounts of journalists.A lawyer for former President Viktor Yanukovich, who escaped to Russia in February 2014 during a wave of street protes
  
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• Steve Bell on Boris Johnson's conference speech – cartoon

  02-10-2018 20:17 via theguardian.com
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• Mauricio Pochettino hopes for sweet reunion with Ernesto Valverde

  02-10-2018 20:17 via theguardian.com
  The Tottenham manager will face the man who once culled him from Espanyol and knows victory over Barcelona would ease a problematic period for his current clubMauricio Pochettino was, by his own admission, living inside the typical footballer’s bubble. Ernesto Valverde was the man who popped it and, boy, did it come as a shock. It was the summer of 2006 and Valverde had been installed as the new Espanyol manager. Pochettino was one of the club’s senior players, the most influential v
  
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• Italian deputy PM threatens to sue EU boss over budget criticism

  02-10-2018 20:14 via theguardian.com
  Matteo Salvini claims Jean-Claude Juncker’s comments drove up Rome’s cost of borrowingThe Italian deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, has threatened to sue Jean-Claude Juncker for damages, accusing the EU president of pushing up Rome’s cost of borrowing by likening Italy to Greece.Salvini, who is also Italy’s interior minister and leader of the far-right League party, was speaking after Juncker’s comments helped send the yield on Italian benchmark bonds to a four
  
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• French court orders return of looted painting to Jewish family

  02-10-2018 20:10 via theguardian.com
  American owners lose appeal over Pissarro work seized by Vichy government during warA Paris court has decreed that a Pissarro painting stolen from a French Jewish family during the German occupation must be returned to them.The painting’s American owners had appealed against an earlier ruling ordering them to hand over the work, called La Cueillette des pois (Pea Picking), saying they had bought it in good faith in 1995. Continue reading...
  
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• Amazon signs major deals with Neil Gaiman and Bear Grylls

  02-10-2018 20:10 via theguardian.com
  Deals with author and adventurer are part of strategy to take battle to NetflixAmazon has signed deals with the author Neil Gaiman and the adventurer Bear Grylls as part of a set of moves that will strengthen its armoury for battle with Netflix in the fast-growing online streaming video industry.The company is increasingly signing up star writers such as Gaiman on first-look deals, which give it first refusal on potential TV ideas, as it ramps up spending on original content in an effort to lock
  
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• Science doesn’t belong to men. Here’s the proof | Afua Hirsch

  02-10-2018 19:58 via theguardian.com
  The Cern physicist who claimed women have made no contribution to research could be an isolated misogynist, but there’s something deeper going on• ‘Physics was built by men’: Cern suspends scientist over remarksIf anywhere were to be immune from our planetary post-fact plague, you’d think it would be the realm of nuclear physics. Cern – the nuclear research centre in Geneva, currently at the centre of a sexism row – spends a billion dollars a year looking
  
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• Catalan leader issues ultimatum to Spanish PM over independence

  02-10-2018 19:58 via theguardian.com
  Quim Torra tells Pedro Sánchez he will retract parliamentary support in absence of progressThe Catalan president, Quim Torra, has threatened to withdraw his crucial parliamentary support for Spain’s minority government unless it offers a new plan for regional independence by the end of the month.His ultimatum to Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, came a day after protests to mark the first anniversary of Catalonia’s unilateral independence referendum ended with
  
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• The Guardian view on Javid and Johnson: what’s the Conservative future? | Editorial

  02-10-2018 19:46 via theguardian.com
  Two men with ambitions for the leadership addressed the Tory party conference todayTwo of the biggest names in Conservative politics took to the stage today and presented contrasting views of the future of the Tory party. Neither was a liberal speech. Sajid Javid’s peroration at least had the virtue of being serious. Boris Johnson’s declamation was a trademark rabble-rousing rejection of normal political processes of bargain and compromise. Mr Johnson has turned being disloyal on the
  
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• Where are all the blue plaques celebrating women?

  02-10-2018 19:39 via theguardian.com
  There are so many blue plaques these days, they are being devalued, says the head of the British Plaque Trust, former DJ Mike Read. But maybe there’s just a glut of men …We have too many blue plaques these days, according to the head of the British Plaque Trust, Mike Read. The former Radio 1 DJ is worried about devaluing the properly important ones by erecting a bunch of lesser ones.Such as those for women. “I’m not [an] advocate of putting up a great flurry of plaques t
  
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• Families take Surrey council to court over special needs funding

  02-10-2018 19:39
  Sarah Jones (left) and Alicia McColl, two parents of children with special educational needs, outside the Royal Courts of Justice.A group of children and their parents have gone to the high court to try to quash a decision by their local council to cut more than £21m from its special educational needs and disabilities (Send) budget.The public gallery of court three in the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with children, parents and supporters on Tuesday as an application for jud
  
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• Man 'killed by falling window pane' near London building

  02-10-2018 19:37 via theguardian.com
  Man appears to have been struck by pane from luxury flats on Albert EmbankmentPolice are investigating the death of a man believed to have been killed by a window pane that fell from a new apartment block in central London.The man, who officers believe to be in his 50s, was pronounced dead at the entrance of the Corniche building on the Albert Embankment at 10.42am on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Man 'killed by falling window pane' near London building

  02-10-2018 19:37
  Police are investigating the death of a man believed to have been killed by a window pane that fell from a new apartment block in central London.The man, who officers believe to be in his 50s, was pronounced dead at the entrance of the Corniche building on the Albert Embankment at 10.42am on Tuesday.The Metropolitan police said officers were called by the London ambulance service.
  
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• The Tories must come clean on the economy

  02-10-2018 19:28
  As well as taxing web giants, perhaps Philip Hammond should tax cognitive dissonance – his conference speech alone could secure prosperity for a generation (Hammond pledges digital services tax on web giants, 1 October).
  
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