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• Strikes: How likely are teachers in Wales to take action?

  26-10-2022 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Two unions are balloting their members to vote on industrial action over pay in Great Britain.
  
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• Phil Spencer admits Xbox won't be able to avoid price hikes forever - Eurogamer.net

  26-10-2022 22:37 via news.google.com
  Phil Spencer admits Xbox won't be able to avoid price hikes forever  Eurogamer.netXbox price rise for consoles & games confirmed as Game Pass subs slow  Metro.co.ukGame Pass price increase hinted at by Xbox boss  TrueAchievementsXbox Game Pass is profitable claims Phil Spencer  KitGuruXbox Boss Phil Spencer Hints At Plans To 'Raise Prices' In The Future  Pure XboxView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Ajax v Liverpool: Champions League – live updates

  26-10-2022 22:13 via theguardian.com
  Follow the 8pm BST kick-off at the Johan Cruyff ArenaChampions League clockwatch | Wednesday scoreboardGet in touch! You can email Scott with your thoughts hereLiverpool get the ball rolling. No surprise that there’s a wild atmosphere in the Johan Cruyff ArenA. “I heard that a long time ago Peter Oh sent in ten different entries to The Guardian’s Pun of the Week competition, hoping one of them was good enough to win. Alas, no pun in ten did.” Justin Kavanagh, ladies and g
  
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• Chelsea v Vllaznia: Women’s Champions League – live

  26-10-2022 22:12 via theguardian.com
  Updates from the 8pm BST kick-off at KingsmeadowWomen’s Football Weekly: Leaders 100% and World Cup drawGet in touch! You can email Sarah or tweet herChelsea captain Magdalena Eriksson said ahead of the Vllaznia match: “We learned we have it in us to go all the way [in 2021]. That brings big confidence to the group knowing we can do it and we definitely have the quality in the squad. Last year we got to understand the difficulty of the group stages where there are six games and you h
  
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• Tottenham v Sporting, Napoli v Rangers and more: Champions League clockwatch – live

  26-10-2022 22:11 via theguardian.com
  Updates from the 8pm group games around EuropeAjax v Liverpool | Live scores: all the goals as they go inGet in touch! You can email Luke or tweet himHere’s a photo of Steve Coppell and Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott. Why? Well, why not?Goal: Inter 4-0 Plzen (Lukaku) Continue reading...
  
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• Tesla under US criminal investigation over self-driving claims, sources say

  26-10-2022 22:07 via theguardian.com
  Reuters learns US DoJ launched investigation last year after more than a dozen crashes, some fatal, involving Autopilot systemTesla is under criminal investigation in the United States over claims that the company’s electric vehicles can drive themselves, three people familiar with the matter said.The US Department of Justice launched the previously undisclosed investigation last year following more than a dozen crashes, some of them fatal, involving Tesla’s driver assistance system
  
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• Rishi Sunak brings back fracking ban in first PMQs

  26-10-2022 22:07 via bbc.co.uk
  The ban for England had been lifted by Liz Truss, but Rishi Sunak made it one of his first reversals as PM.
  
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• Second woman says Herschel Walker pressured her to have abortion

  26-10-2022 21:56 via theguardian.com
  Lawyer Gloria Allred introduces woman as Jane Doe who alleges anti-abortion candidate drove her to a clinic in the 1990sA new woman has claimed that Herschel Walker pressured her into having an abortion and drove her to a clinic to obtain one.On Wednesday, lawyer Gloria Allred – who has represented numerous alleged victims of sexual misconduct and assault – introduced to reporters a woman who alleges Walker, the anti-abortion Republican candidate for Senate in Georgia, took her to an
  
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• Tory MP under fire for transphobic comments about Eddie Izzard

  26-10-2022 21:39 via theguardian.com
  ‘Playground bully’ Lee Anderson’s remarks described as ‘vile and disgusting’ by MPs from his own partyA Conservative MP has been criticised for making transphobic comments that questioned whether female representation in parliament would “increase or decrease” if Eddie Izzard was elected as an MP.Lee Anderson, MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, told Talk TV he “would not follow him into the toilets” if she came to parliament, and even said K
  
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• Iran: gunmen kill at least 15 people at Shia shrine in Shiraz

  26-10-2022 21:38 via theguardian.com
  Attack takes place same day security forces reportedly open fire at mourners in Mahsa Amini’s hometownArmed men have attacked a Shia Muslim shrine in the Iranian city of Shiraz, killing at least 15 people, the state news agency Irna said, as security forces clashed with protesters marking 40 days since the death of Mahsa Amini in custody.Irna described the attackers as “takfiri terrorists”, a label used by officials in predominantly Shia Muslim Iran to refer to hardline, armed
  
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• Arthur C Clarke award goes to ‘thrilling’ verse novel by Harry Josephine Giles

  26-10-2022 21:30 via theguardian.com
  Deep Wheel Orcadia, set on a distant space station struggling for survival, is praised by judges for ‘making you rethink what science fiction can do’Poet Harry Josephine Giles’s verse novel, Deep Wheel Orcadia, has won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction book of the year.The book is told in the Orkney dialect and comes with a parallel translation into English. Continue reading...
  
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• Malaysia’s youth election: will the biggest ever cohort of under-40s voters make a difference?

  26-10-2022 21:00 via theguardian.com
  After the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18, the youth vote has become key to the outcome of November’s electionSuba, a 23-year-old international relations student from outside Kuala Lumpur, didn’t grow up in a household that talked about politics, but over the years his interest in government has grown. Suba will soon become one of millions of people voting for the first time after the south-east Asian country lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.“I’m anxious,”
  
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• Steve Bell on Rishi Sunak’s takeover at No 10 – cartoon

  26-10-2022 20:59 via theguardian.com
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• Gabriel Jesus says Arsenal will not suffer burnout despite mammoth schedule

  26-10-2022 20:57 via theguardian.com
  Striker is ready to hit Mikel Arteta’s target and play 70 games Jesus sanguine over dip in goalscoring form amid busy scheduleGabriel Jesus believes suggestions Arsenal’s players could experience burnout this season are unfounded and says he has no fear of fatigue during a campaign in which he could play more than 60 games for club and country.Eyebrows were raised last week when Mikel Arteta said his team, in relation to their workload and Bukayo Saka’s inclusion in European ti
  
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• Sunak dismantles remainder of Truss legacy on first full day in office

  26-10-2022 20:50 via theguardian.com
  Prime minister abandons fracking and refuses to guarantee pensions triple lock or defence spending riseRishi Sunak has dismantled what was left of Liz Truss’s legacy on his first full day as prime minister, abandoning fracking and refusing to guarantee the pensions triple lock or a defence spending rise.Any change to pensions or a decision not to uprate benefits in line with inflation would draw new battle lines between Sunak and Conservative MPs, a number of whom have said they would not
  
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• Tree rings reveal devastating radiation storms - HeritageDaily

  26-10-2022 20:28 via news.google.com
  Tree rings reveal devastating radiation storms  HeritageDailyMysterious solar storms to 'take out power lines, satellites and internet'  ExpressRare radiation blast from space could happen without warning and knock out the internet  The TelegraphScientists warn space storm could cause 'internet apocalypse' and 'leave people offline for years'  Daily RecordAncient Tree Rings Reveal ‘Unimaginable’ Two-Year Solar Storms That Could Destroy Global I
  
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• Manchester police launch murder investigation after stabbing of student

  26-10-2022 20:17 via theguardian.com
  Unnamed 19-year-old man attending Manchester Metropolitan University found with knife wound in FallowfieldPolice have launched a murder investigation after a 19-year-old university student was fatally stabbed in Manchester.The teenager, who attended Manchester Metropolitan University, was found with a serious knife wound near a large halls of residence at 2am on Wednesday, police said. Continue reading...
  
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• Meta Quest Pro Review: First Generation Mixed Reality - UploadVR

  26-10-2022 20:14 via news.google.com
  Meta Quest Pro Review: First Generation Mixed Reality  UploadVRMeta says the Oculus Quest 3 will launch “next year”  TechRadarMeta Quest 3: New VR headset to be released in 2023  MIXED Reality NewsIs Meta Quest Pro wireless?  WePC - PC Tech & PC Gaming NewsThe Meta Quest 3 Headset Is Coming Next Year  IGNView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• The Guardian view on Sunak v Starmer: time to get real | Editorial

  26-10-2022 19:57 via theguardian.com
  It’s the economic crisis, stupid. And neither the Tories nor Labour are preparedForget Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder – Westminster is braced for its own epic bout: “weird guy” versus “centrist dad”. At least, that is how advisers to Sir Keir Starmer would like it framed: the super-wealthy and preternaturally young new prime minister versus their reliably grownup leader.If Wednesday’s prime minister’s questions is any guide, Labour ministers will ne
  
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• The Guardian view on Russia’s war machine: little more than a brittle facade | Editorial

  26-10-2022 19:56 via theguardian.com
  Vladimir Putin’s defeat in Ukraine is needed for the restoration of hope to Russians wanting a better future for themselves as well as their neighboursVladimir Putin is losing the war in Ukraine, but this does not make him any less dangerous. A despot whose authority at home depends on projecting strength abroad cannot afford the humiliation of defeat. So far, the Russian president has responded to every setback with more aggression. That involves more indiscriminate attacks on civilians a
  
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• Asylum seekers: UK spending almost £7m a day on hotels

  26-10-2022 19:56 via bbc.co.uk
  The figure is likely to rise further, as Albanians become the largest migrant group, MPs have heard.
  
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• Rochdale grooming gang members to be deported to Pakistan

  26-10-2022 19:55 via theguardian.com
  Adil Khan and Qari Abdul Rauf lose appeal as judges say ‘very strong public interest’ to deport themTwo members of a Rochdale grooming gang are to be deported to Pakistan after losing a seven-year legal fight to remain in Britain.Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Abdul Rauf, 53, were convicted in 2012 of a series of sexual offences against young girls and jailed later the same year. Continue reading...
  
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• Labour tells MP Nadia Whittome to delete Rishi Sunak tweet

  26-10-2022 19:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Nottingham MP Nadia Whittome had said Sunak's appointment "isn't a win for Asian representation".
  
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• Artists flock to Brixton to mark 40th anniversary of UK black arts movement

  26-10-2022 19:36 via theguardian.com
  More than 50 artists gather at Black Cultural Archives in London to have photograph takenIt had the makings of a great day in Brixton. Before noon more than 50 artists from across generations had flocked to the Black Cultural Archives to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the British black arts movement.It is not often you’ll find Britain’s foremost artists of African and Caribbean ancestry including Charlie Phillips, Keith Piper, Marlene Smith and Claudette Johnson, among others, g
  
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• Ian Poulter insists he will play in Ryder Cup again despite signing for LIV Golf

  26-10-2022 19:34 via theguardian.com
  Rory McIlroy wants Ryder Cup to be free of LIV playersPoulter: ‘We can still qualify for the team as far as I am aware’Ian Poulter has insisted his Ryder Cup days are far from over, while dismissing any sense he has turned his back on the biennial joust between Europe and the US by signing for LIV Golf.Poulter, an iconic figure for the European team, is at the forefront of a legal challenge to the DP World Tour aimed at allowing LIV golfers to feature on that circuit. Regardless of t
  
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• End of the road for Ford Fiesta: UK’s all-time bestselling car halts production

  26-10-2022 19:33 via theguardian.com
  Owners mourn ‘modern-day classic’ as last factory in Germany switches to new electric models“I don’t know what I’d go for if I didn’t have the Fiesta,” said Karen Fox, a civil servant in Edinburgh. She is due to pick up her fourth version of the model on Saturday, but it is likely to be her last: Ford on Wednesday confirmed it will end production of the UK’s all-time bestselling car next June.The model’s end will become only the latest symbol
  
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• Ukraine refugees told not to return yet as energy crisis looms

  26-10-2022 19:30 via theguardian.com
  Government tells citizens to wait until spring, amid warning damaged networks ‘will not cope’ as fighting continuesRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesUkraine’s government is advising refugees living abroad not to return until the spring amid mounting fears over whether the country’s damaged energy infrastructure can cope with demand this winter.The energy crisis comes as officials in Kyiv warned that the coming winter may herald the heaviest fighting of the war
  
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• Spray-on ‘metallic’ plastic could be used for wearable electronics - The Guardian

  26-10-2022 19:22 via news.google.com
  Spray-on ‘metallic’ plastic could be used for wearable electronics  The GuardianScientists create entirely new material with plastic and metal properties that ‘can’t be explained’  The IndependentPlay-Doh-like new material bends like plastic AND conducts electricity like metal  Daily MailNovel rule-breaking material behaves like "conductive Play-Doh"  New AtlasScientists find spray on chain polymer that can be electrified 
  
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• Spray-on ‘metallic’ plastic could be used for wearable electronics

  26-10-2022 19:22 via theguardian.com
  Metallopolymer conducts electricity and can be painted, sprayed or moulded into any shapeA plastic material that has metallic properties and remains stable even when heated, chilled, left in the air or exposed to acid has been revealed, with researchers saying it could prove valuable in wearable electronics.What’s more, the material can be made into any shape, the researchers say. Continue reading...
  
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• Conor Benn relinquishes boxing licence with ‘allegations of misconduct upheld’

  26-10-2022 19:19 via theguardian.com
  Benn was due to face a BBBofC hearing last FridayFight against Chris Eubank Jr was cancelled this monthConor Benn has relinquished his licence with the British Boxing Board of Control, the governing body has announced.Benn was due to face a BBBofC hearing last Friday at which allegations of misconduct following the cancellation of his fight against Chris Eubank Jr were upheld. Continue reading...
  
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• Living in Downing Street: Rishi Sunak and family move back in

  26-10-2022 19:16 via bbc.co.uk
  A few pictures from past decades offer a glimpse of what it is like behind the famous No 10 door.
  
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• Is Sunak’s cabinet representative of the nation it governs?

  26-10-2022 19:16 via theguardian.com
  New PM said he would ‘unite our country’ but do his ministerial appointments reflect population?‘Massive blind spot’: anger at low proportion of women in Sunak’s cabinet“I will unite our country, not with words, but with action,” Rishi Sunak tweeted, an hour before he began officially naming his first cabinet.And at first glance the 31-strong cabinet does appear to make concessions to his rival candidates for party leader (notwithstanding the fact that o
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 245 of the invasion

  26-10-2022 19:07 via theguardian.com
  1,000 bodies exhumed in Kharkiv oblast; Ukraine offensive in Kherson more difficult because of weather, says defence ministerFull coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war Continue reading...
  
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• How was Kanye West allowed to air his far-right views for so long? | Emma Brockes

  26-10-2022 19:03 via theguardian.com
  Ye’s actions are straight out of Trump’s playbook of chaos. But online trolling all too often has real-world consequencesIf there has been a single enjoyable aspect to the initially sad, latterly alarming downfall of Ye, the rapper and mogul formerly known as Kanye West, it has been the sound of screeching tyres this week as successive associates understood – finally – that supporting him wasn’t in their interests, and slammed on the brakes.Without Ye and his frothi
  
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• England’s Covid catch-up tutoring often ‘haphazard and poor’, Ofsted finds

  26-10-2022 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Concern about quality of some tutors as inspectors find ‘strong’ programme in only half of 63 schools visitedExtra tuition designed to help children in England catch up on learning lost during the Covid pandemic was often “haphazard and poorly planned”, and in some cases disrupted the school day, an independent review by Ofsted inspectors has found.The Ofsted review said that while the tutoring given through the government’s national tutoring programme (NTP) was &ld
  
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• Our public services won’t survive another round of Tory austerity | Letters

  26-10-2022 18:53 via theguardian.com
  We need a higher tax model to properly fund vital services, says Christine Kearns, while Geoff Renshaw says government borrowing is preferable to spending cuts. Plus a letter from Bill StephensonChris Mullin is right about taxes (Forget tax cuts. We need a tax rise – or Britain’s public services will collapse, 23 October). As a nation, we need to adopt a totally different approach. Why are we not encouraged to think of tax as an investment in our future health and wellbeing instead o
  
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• My 91-year-old brother waited hours on the floor for an ambulance | Letter

  26-10-2022 18:51 via theguardian.com
  Rosemary Hale on the upsetting experience her family went through with the NHSMy 91-year-old brother spent nine and a half hours lying on the floor waiting for an ambulance. It was requested at 6.30pm and finally arrived at 4am. He was in great pain, with a broken shoulder and a head injury. We made three 999 calls as he was drifting in and out of consciousness and slurred in speech, but then he would rally for a while. They only wanted to know if he was still breathing. He was, but, lying flat
  
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• Rishi Sunak's first PMQs offers glimpse into political future

  26-10-2022 18:50 via bbc.co.uk
  The new PM's first face-off against Labour's Keir Starmer saw the roaring return of partisan politics.
  
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• EU on track to break pledge to cut methane emissions by 30%, warns report

  26-10-2022 18:49 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: ‘Policy vacuum’ on livestock emissions amid pressure from industry lobbyists blamed for failingsAtmospheric levels of all three greenhouse gases hit record highThe EU is on track to break a promise to cut methane emissions by 30% by 2030 made due to a “policy vacuum” on livestock emissions, a report has warned.Methane is the second biggest contributor to global heating after carbon dioxide, with a greenhouse gas impact at least 27 times worse than CO2 over a 10
  
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• Boy, 15, arrested for suspected attempted murder in west London

  26-10-2022 18:45 via theguardian.com
  Man was stabbed close to hotel used by Home Office to accommodate asylum seekers on Saturday nightPolice have launched an attempted murder investigation after a stabbing close to a hotel used by the Home Office to accommodate asylum seekers.The Guardian has received reports that a man, believed to be an asylum seeker who was being accommodated at the hotel, was found bleeding near the building after the incident, which happened late on Saturday evening. Continue reading...
  
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• Tory crowd leaves early as Sunak and Starmer play out goalless draw at PMQs

  26-10-2022 18:33 via theguardian.com
  City PowerPoint geek’s Flickers of Boris-lite from fail to ignite party more used to narcissistic fantasistsIt only took a few hours. That was the length of time between Rishi Sunak looking ever so humble and sincere outside Downing Street on Tuesday morning as he promised to govern with “accountability, integrity and professionalism” and him appointing Suella Braverman as his home secretary just six days after she left government for breaking the ministerial code.Rish! likes t
  
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• Kanye West wax figure removed from public view at Madame Tussauds

  26-10-2022 18:32 via theguardian.com
  London museum moves figure of US rapper to archive room following recent antisemitic and anti-black remarksMadame Tussauds has removed its wax figure of Kanye West from public view – becoming the latest institution to effectively “drop” the US rapper following antisemitic and anti-black remarks.The landmark London museum moved the figure of the rapper – who has legally changed his name to Ye – to an archive room, a symbolic representation of his fall from grace over
  
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• Borders watchdog left ‘speechless’ by failings at migrant centre in Kent

  26-10-2022 18:32 via theguardian.com
  Chief inspector told MPs that Manston processing site was unsafe, understaffed and ‘wretched’The borders watchdog said he was left speechless by “wretched conditions” during a visit to a migrant processing centre at Manston, which has already passed the point of being unsafe.The independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Neal, was also concerned after discovering some of those guarding people on the site are not specifically qualified to do so. Continue
  
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• Sleaford: Referee Michael Grant dies after being hit by football

  26-10-2022 18:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Michael Grant, a well-known figure in grassroots football, died on Monday from a bleed on the brain.
  
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• Sunak’s job now is not about securing a Tory win, but merely avoiding an electoral disaster | Martin Kettle

  26-10-2022 18:26 via theguardian.com
  The new PM is far from a magic bullet for the Conservatives – and rehiring Suella Braverman has already shown his weaknessAs Rishi Sunak was pronounced Conservative leader by the backbench 1922 Committee this week, few noticed a tantalising anniversary. It was 100 years ago this month that Tory MPs abandoned the coalition that David Lloyd George had led since the end of the first world war. The decision proved to be a Tory triumph. The party won the resulting election and, without knowing
  
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• ‘I’m not very well and I need heat’: at the warm bank in Wolverhampton

  26-10-2022 18:22 via theguardian.com
  Warm spaces open amid cost of living crisis in area with country’s highest rate of fuel poverty A big poster outside the Bob Jones Community Hub in Wolverhampton proclaims “I’m a warm space” and offers people free hot drinks, phone charging points and place to keep warm for as long as they like.It is one of 38 warm banks, branded as Warm Spaces, opening across the city this week in preparation for a cold winter amid the cost of living crisis, in a local authority with the
  
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• ‘A vice so many have’: Pope admits nuns and priests not immune to porn

  26-10-2022 18:20 via theguardian.com
  Francis urges use of social media to promote Christian message but says vice of pornography, even among clergy, allows devil to enterPope Francis has warned seminarians against the “devil” of digital pornography, while admitting that watching online porn is also a vice of priests and nuns.The pontiff made the remarks during a convention with seminarians in Rome on Monday, in response to a question about how a new generation of clergy immersed in social media can use digital tools to
  
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• LGBT football fans told to be respectful at Qatar World Cup

  26-10-2022 18:11 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour called Foreign Secretary James Cleverly's remarks about the World Cup "shockingly tone-deaf".
  
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• Finnish MPs abolish need to see two doctors before abortion

  26-10-2022 18:10 via theguardian.com
  Pregnant woman’s request will be sufficient to obtain procedure without need for further reasonsLawmakers in Finland have approved a legislative reform that will ease the process of getting an abortion in the country, which currently has the Nordic region’s strictest abortion law.Finland’s 200-seat Eduskunta legislature on Wednesday voted by a wide margin 125-41 in favour of a law reform that will, among other things, abolish the need for approval from two doctors to terminate
  
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• Why Sunak’s garden party boast may still mean levelling-up agenda in name only

  26-10-2022 18:03 via theguardian.com
  New PM doubles down on remarks at garden party about changes that moved funding towards Tory heartlandsUK politics live – latest news updatesRishi Sunak’s boast at a Tunbridge Wells summer garden party of undoing Labour policy that “shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas” to give more to regions such as Kent looks likely to haunt him as his commitment to levelling up is questioned.At Sunak’s first prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, the Labour l
  
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