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• DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Start day with a walk, eat breakfast hour later and opt for 'eccentric' exercise - Daily Mail

  29-10-2022 23:00 via news.google.com
  DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Start day with a walk, eat breakfast hour later and opt for 'eccentric' exercise  Daily MailAfternoon naps, dark chocolate and video games: Dr MICHAEL MOSLEY advises on health improvements  Daily MailDR MICHAEL MOSLEY: The wonderfully simple tricks that can transform YOUR health  Daily MailView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Brighton v Chelsea, Newcastle v Aston Villa: Premier League – live

  29-10-2022 16:41 via theguardian.com
  Updates from the 3pm BST games in top flight and beyondLive scoreboard | And you can get in touch by mailing ScottThere are also a couple of Premier League matches to be played later this evening. Not that Clocko™ will have anything to do with them, you understand – there will be hot MBM action, don’t worry – but the point remains. Everton travel to Fulham for the 5.30pm kick-off, while at 7.45pm, Liverpool host Leeds United in a replay of the 1965 FA Cup final / 1974 Cha
  
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• Oldest Guantánamo prisoner released after 17 years

  29-10-2022 16:40 via theguardian.com
  Saifullah Paracha, 75, returns to Pakistan after being held, but never charged, over suspected al-Qaida tiesA 75-year-old Pakistani man who was the oldest prisoner at the Guantánamo Bay detention centre, has been released and returned home, the foreign affairs ministry in Islamabad said.Saifullah Paracha was reunited with his family after more than 17 years in custody at the US base in Cuba, the ministry added. Continue reading...
  
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• England v Greece: Rugby League World Cup – live

  29-10-2022 16:40 via theguardian.com
  Group A game at Bramall Lane kicks off at 2.30pm BSTSydney to Sheffield: Radley’s World Cup homecomingGet in touch: email Stuart or tweet @stuartgoodwin7 mins: England 6-0 Greece Some nice possession for Greece in immediate response, as they tap away on the right wing. They get a third set of six, and eventually find Mitsias with a glimmer of an opening. He hesitates at the crucial moment as England’s defence re-gathers, is held up, and possession turns over. 4 mins: Uh oh. The hosts
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: UK says Russia peddling false claims over gas pipeline blasts

  29-10-2022 16:30 via theguardian.com
  Moscow plans expedited Kherson withdrawal, says MoD; Guterres calls for west to help remove blocks to Russian grain exportsUkrainians use phone app to spot deadly Russian drone attacksWhat we know on day 248 of the invasionSpeaking during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, said 82,000 conscripts had already been sent to Ukraine.Shoigu added that Russia was no longer recruiting people for its armed forces, saying that “citizen notificati
  
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• How a desert bloomed in the driest place on earth

  29-10-2022 16:24 via theguardian.com
  Unexpected emergence of flowering bulbs prompts move to designate Chile’s Atacama desert a protected national parkUnusual winter rainfall has produced a floral bloom and explosion of colour on the barren plains of the Atacama desert, prompting Chile’s government to move to protect the area.This month, the new president, Gabriel Boric, announced that the area would be made into a national park – the highest protected status the country bestows – to safeguard the flowering
  
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• NASA details totally doable, not science fiction plan for sending Mars rocks to Earth - The Register

  29-10-2022 16:23 via news.google.com
  NASA details totally doable, not science fiction plan for sending Mars rocks to Earth  The RegisterPerseverance to establish sample cache for later return to Earth  SpaceNewsThe Perseverance rover is collecting rock samples from Mars to bring back to Earth  The ConversationScientists pick stash site for Mars soil samples collected by Perseverance rover  The IndependentNASA and ESA Agree on Next Steps to Return Mars Samples to Earth  NASA Jet Prop
  
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• Mogadishu car bombs leave ‘scores of civilian casualties’

  29-10-2022 16:16 via theguardian.com
  Two explosions occur at same busy junction where al-Shabaab blasts killed 500 people five years agoTwo car bombs have exploded at a busy junction in Mogadishu near key government offices, leaving “scores of civilian casualties,” police told Somali state media.The attack on Saturday occurred five years after a massive blast at the same location killed hundreds of people. Continue reading...
  
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• Just Stop Oil activists dragged out of way by motorists at London protests

  29-10-2022 16:09 via theguardian.com
  Videos posted by the group show drivers moving protesters, who keep returning to retake their placesMotorists dragged Just Stop Oil protesters out of the way as activists halted traffic flow across four central London roads on Saturday.The group said 61 Just Stop Oil supporters stopped traffic on Charing Cross Road, Kensington High Street, Kennington Road and Blackfriars Road, “demanding that the government halts all new oil and gas consents and licences”. Continue reading...
  
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• Portmeirion to Coleg Harlech: an architectural odyssey in north-west Wales

  29-10-2022 16:00 via theguardian.com
  One’s an architect’s idyll, the other a faded brutalist gem, but both are worth seeing on this scenic coastal hike between the twoIt’s hard to think of two building projects less alike than Portmeirion, the whimsical Italianate holiday village that was the career-long labour of love of the architect Clough Williams-Ellis, and the theatre and student housing tower of Coleg Harlech, a rugged work of concrete brutalism. Yet they were completed within a few years of each other, 197
  
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• On my radar: Derek Owusu’s cultural highlights

  29-10-2022 16:00 via theguardian.com
  The poet and novelist on Chuck Klosterman’s take on the 90s, time-travel as a never-ending party and how Beyoncé helped him embrace albumsBorn in London in 1988, Derek Owusu is a poet, writer and one of the founding members of the Black Writers’ Guild. Between 2017 and 2019, he co-hosted literature podcast Mostly Lit and edited the anthology Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space. In 2019, he published his debut novel, That Reminds Me, on Stormzy’s #Merky publishing
  
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• Can a new form of cryptography solve the internet’s privacy problem?

  29-10-2022 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Techniques which allow the sharing of data whilst keeping it secure may revolutionise fields from healthcare to law enforcementRachel is a student at a US university who was sexually assaulted on campus. She decided against reporting it (fewer than 10% of survivors do). What she did, however, was register the assault on a website that is using novel ideas from cryptography to help catch serial sexual predators.The organisation Callisto lets a survivor enter their name in a database, together wit
  
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• Rishi Sunak hires ITV head of UK news as communications chief

  29-10-2022 15:57 via theguardian.com
  Journalist Amber de Botton takes special adviser role for new prime ministerRishi Sunak has hired Amber de Botton as his director of communications, Downing Street confirmed on Saturday, in the latest in a series of appointments made by the prime minister in his first week in office.
  De Botton’s career as a journalist has included working for ITV News and Sky News. She leaves ITV News, where she was head of UK news and previously politics.Unlike an impartial civil servant, the special advi
  
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• Brexit red tape puts brakes on UK innovation and EU sales

  29-10-2022 15:49 via theguardian.com
  Many new products now need multiple safety test facilities for home and abroad, say entrepreneursBritish inventions are being brought to market overseas because new Brexit safety certification rules mean they can’t be sold in the UK.Trade bodies and entrepreneurs have blamed the government’s decision to stop accepting the European Union’s CE mark and instead create a new UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) mark showing that a product is safe. Continue reading...
  
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• De Bruyne’s terrific free-kick gives Manchester City edge against Leicester

  29-10-2022 15:32 via theguardian.com
  Manchester City may have been without Erling Haaland but Pep Guardiola’s side are so awash with talent that it just meant another of their stars came to the fore. The pass-o-meter was heavily in the visitors’ favour but in the end Kevin De Bruyne’s majestic second-half free-kick proved the difference as the champions clinched victory and moved top of the pile.Guardiola spent much of the three minutes of second-half stoppage time crouched on the edge of his technical area as if
  
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• Maro Itoje: ‘My guilty pleasure is Downton Abbey. I’m a big fan.’

  29-10-2022 15:00 via theguardian.com
  The England rugby star on humility and grace, New York cheesecake and the occasional ice bathMy earliest memory? Sitting in my uncle’s old-school Range Rover. It had two seats at the back that faced the window. He lived in the countryside and I went on trips there as a toddler with my brother, Jeremy, and my parents (Florence and Efe).I’m a combination of my parents. Mum is calm and measured – I’m measured, too. But I get my on-field rugby personality from my dad. He can
  
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• How bad will Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover be? My guess is he’ll get bored of it | Arwa Mahdawi

  29-10-2022 15:00 via theguardian.com
  It seems inevitable he’ll allow more abuse and restore Trump’s account – but it’s still a niche platform most people don’t useAll hail Elon Musk! The world’s richest person has single-handedly saved free speech! After months of drama Musk has finally completed his $44bn acquisition of Twitter and become– in his own words – “Chief Twit”. Conservatives are ecstatic about this. “Let’s be honest, Elon Musk buying Twitter is the
  
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• Arctic Monkeys: The Car review – oblique reflections in the rearview

  29-10-2022 15:00 via theguardian.com
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  The arch Sheffield quartet are contemplative, cryptic but still occasionally anthemic on an album of goodbyes laced with crooner soul and loungey funk From the gleaming tailfins of 50s rock’n’roll through Bruce Springsteen and beyond, cars are one of the most well-travelled tropes in rock. Mostly, they equate with the freedom of the open road, with status and flash, with outrunning the law. Or they provide a place to have it off.Arctic Monkeys’ elegant seventh album, T
  
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• Iran: Revolutionary Guards chief tells protesters today is last day on streets

  29-10-2022 14:53 via theguardian.com
  Hossein Salami’s tough language raises fears security forces may be about to intensify crackdown on unrestThe head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has told protesters that Saturday will be their last day of taking to the streets, in a sign that security forces may intensify their crackdown on unrest sweeping the country.Iran has been gripped by protests since the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, in the custody of the morality police last month, posing one of the bold
  
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• Brazil election goes to the wire after ill-tempered final TV debate

  29-10-2022 14:50 via theguardian.com
  Veteran leftist Lula da Silva holds slender poll lead over Jair Bolsonaro as national divide grows before Sunday voteThe two political heavyweights vying to become Brazil’s next president have locked horns during the final television debate before a momentous election with profound implications for the Amazon rainforest, the global climate emergency and the future of one of the world’s largest democracies.The former leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the far-right
  
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• Twitter could split into strands allowing users to stage rows, Elon Musk says

  29-10-2022 14:36 via theguardian.com
  The billionaire owner suggests the platform could have different video game-style modes, including a ‘player versus player’Elon Musk has indicated that Twitter could be split into different strands where users give their posts content ratings and stage online rows in a specially created space on the platform.The world’s richest man moved to assuage concerns about a rise in harmful content under his ownership on Friday by announcing the creation of a content moderation council.
  
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• Nasa captures pic of the Sun 'smiling' with a happy face - BBC

  29-10-2022 14:30 via news.google.com
  Nasa captures pic of the Sun 'smiling' with a happy face  BBCNASA warns happy image of smiling sun could be sign of upcoming solar storm  Daily StarNASA captures photo of 'smiling' sun. It's not as cute as it looks.  The Washington PostNASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the sun ‘smiling’  EngadgetNASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Caught the Sun “Smiling”  SciTechDailyView Full coverage on Go
  
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• Rail services disrupted by latest ScotRail 24-hour strike

  29-10-2022 14:15 via bbc.co.uk
  More than 2,000 RMT workers are staging another 24-hour stoppage after rejecting the latest pay offer.
  
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• Bristol march calls on government to help with childcare costs

  29-10-2022 13:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Organiser of the Bristol protest Helen Ince says current costs drive many women to give up work.
  
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• Fallowfield student stabbing: Man held in murder inquiry

  29-10-2022 13:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the death of 19-year-old Luke O'Connor.
  
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• South Africa’s first new Zulu king in 51 years crowned in Durban

  29-10-2022 13:42 via theguardian.com
  Coronation of Misuzulu Zulu at football stadium follows bitter feuding over royal successionTens of thousands of people gathered at a football stadium in Durban on Saturday to celebrate the coronation of South Africa’s Zulu king.President Cyril Ramaphosa was to hand over the certificate to formally recognise the 48-year-old new ruler of the country’s richest and most influential traditional monarchy. Continue reading...
  
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• Blairgowrie laundrette destroyed in large fire

  29-10-2022 13:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Six fire engines attended the blaze at Blair's Laundry in Blairgowrie on Friday evening.
  
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• Royal Navy investigates after women come forward with abuse claims

  29-10-2022 13:25 via bbc.co.uk
  The head of the Royal Navy says he is disturbed by "abhorrent" accusations from women personnel.
  
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• Octopus Energy to take over collapsed supplier Bulb

  29-10-2022 13:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Bulb's 1.5 million customers will not experience any change to energy supplies, the UK government says.
  
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• Trevor Noah insists he never said ‘entire UK is racist’ after Rishi Sunak row

  29-10-2022 13:01 via theguardian.com
  Comedian defends remarks about reaction to new PM’s appointment after widespread criticismThe comedian Trevor Noah has said he did not claim “the entire UK is racist” after a row over his skit about Rishi Sunak’s appointment as the UK prime minister.Noah said on the US news programme The Daily Show earlier this week that there had been a “backlash” over Sunak, comments that were widely criticised in the UK. The former chancellor Sajid Javid said Noah had been
  
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• Newport driver sacked after bus almost hit girl, 7

  29-10-2022 13:01 via bbc.co.uk
  The bus company says it's "deeply sorry" after Courtney narrowly avoided being hit on a crossing.
  
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• McFly’s Tom Fletcher looks back: ‘People threw things at us in the street. These days, they just want to say something nice’

  29-10-2022 13:00 via theguardian.com
  The songwriter turned children’s author recreates an old photo and talks about the calm after his wild boyband daysBorn in 1985, Tom Fletcher is a hit songwriter turned bestselling children’s author. After missing out on a place in Busted in 2001, he got a record deal with pop-punk four-piece McFly, one of the decade’s most successful groups with tracks such as Obviously, Five Colours in Her Hair and All About You. Fletcher has penned 10 UK No 1 singles and 21 top-10s, writing
  
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• Marcus Rashford the best striking solution for Ten Hag in short term

  29-10-2022 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Manchester United striker’s self-assurance has returned and West Ham’s defence will be fearful of facing him on SundayWhen Marcus Rashford made his Manchester United debut under Louis van Gaal in 2016 he was seen as a striking stopgap, thrust into the limelight due to a lack of options. He quickly solved the problem. The England international is back in the No 9 position as a short-term fix for another Dutchman, as United and Rashford look to reap the rewards of a carefree footballer
  
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• ‘It provoked an erotic shock in me’ – Marian Keyes, Nick Hornby, Leïla Slimani and other writers on the books that changed them

  29-10-2022 13:00 via theguardian.com
  From Benjamin Zephaniah on Ain’t I a Woman to Elif Shafak on Orlando by Virginia Woolf – authors tell the story of the moment a book saved their lifeI turned 11 in April 1968, which was around the time the wheels came off the family car. They were already pretty loose. My father was one of those 1960s men who, in the pre-digital crossed-line age of phone boxes and busy signals and telegrams in an emergency, managed to start a second family without the first one knowing anything about
  
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• Bad weather is good for you: take a walk in the wind and rain

  29-10-2022 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Don’t be put off by winter weather – going out into the mud and cold is highly beneficial to our immunity and general healthIn dozens of early letters, the artist Georgia O’Keeffe raved about walking in extreme wind. “I love it,” she wrote, again and again. A few other walkers have enthused about mud, snow, rain, darkness and cold. And yet, as the days draw in and the temperature falls, most of us hang up our walking boots.Big mistake! In the last few years research
  
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• Slough bus station fire spread across whole roof

  29-10-2022 12:31 via bbc.co.uk
  The blaze started overnight and spread across the whole roof of the bus station.
  
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• Octopus Energy announces takeover of collapsed supplier Bulb

  29-10-2022 12:26 via theguardian.com
  Octopus to pay government to take on 1.5m customers and 650 staff of taxpayer-supported rival Octopus Energy Group has sealed a deal to take on its collapsed rival Bulb Energy.Octopus said it would take on the company’s 1.5 million customers, “bringing an end to taxpayer losses and uncertainty for Bulb customers and its 650 employees”. Continue reading...
  
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• Grays lorry deaths: Marius Draghici faces 39 manslaughter charges

  29-10-2022 12:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Marius Draghici is accused of manslaughter over the body finds in a lorry in Grays, Essex.
  
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• Skiing in Scotland: ‘On a good day it’s up there with anywhere in the world’

  29-10-2022 12:00 via theguardian.com
  With five resorts all a two-hour drive from Aviemore, the Highlands glitter with the promise of ski adventures – and whiskyTake a right from the top lift at Glencoe Mountain Resort and you will quickly be confronted with one of the greatest views in Scottish skiing. The rugged bulk of Buachaille Etive Mòr, often called Scotland’s most beautiful mountain, overlooks the deep valley of Glencoe, just around the corner from the “007 Skyfall road”. The panorama then lead
  
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• PFAS left dangerous blood compounds in nearly all US study participants

  29-10-2022 12:00 via theguardian.com
  The toxic ‘forever chemicals’ can stay in human blood for years, and are linked to cancers, kidney damage and heart diseaseNearly all participants in a new study looking at exposure to PFAS “forever chemicals” in the US state of North Carolina have multiple dangerous compounds in their blood, and most at levels that researchers say requires medical screening.The North Carolina State University study, which is among the largest ever conducted, checked about 1,500 blood sam
  
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• ‘It was more than a pub’ – the story of five boozers forced to call last orders

  29-10-2022 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Squeezed by the pandemic, staff shortages, redevelopment and a cost of living crisis, pubs across the country are shutting in droves. We meet five landlords who have recently had to call time for goodThe smoking area takes over the whole pavement. Inside everyone shouts and screams along to the karaoke, clinging to each other on the dancefloor. Every inch of the bar at the Lillie Langtry pub in Kilburn, north London, is crowded with fresh drinks as the last-orders bell rings, for the final time,
  
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• ‘A change of heart’: sympathies shift toward migrants in Texas border town

  29-10-2022 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Eagle Pass has been a way station for undocumented immigrants for years, but recently their numbers have grown – and residents are dividedHector Guerrero tries to make it to the Eagle Pass public golf course once a week.By virtue of its location along the Rio Grande, the scenic but all too often deadly river that delineates the border between Texas and Mexico, the course is surrounded by different iterations of boundary fences and international bridges. Continue reading...
  
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• Trevor Noah: I never said entire UK racist, says comic after Rishi Sunak row

  29-10-2022 11:16 via bbc.co.uk
  TV host Trevor Noah was criticised for saying there had been a backlash in the UK to Rishi Sunak.
  
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• Leicester disorder: Hindu groups set to boycott review

  29-10-2022 11:06 via bbc.co.uk
  Hindu and Jain groups say the academic leading the review has made statements that show serious bias.
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for movie night snacks

  29-10-2022 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Sticky wings with pickles, peanut butter and cherry rice pop squares, and mushroom quesadillas with plum salsa: just add a dash of Hollywood for a night in at homeIs there anything better than movie night? Feet up, film chosen, food on tray. Ordering something in is often the way to go on such occasions, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Cooking a dish or two for a sofa session takes some planning, true, but a takeout is not the only way to spend a night in. Here are some of my movie-nig
  
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• UK supermarket loyalty schemes: which offer the best deals?

  29-10-2022 11:00 via theguardian.com
  As cost of living crisis pushes more households to cut shopping budgets, we assess stores’ offersGrocery prices are rising at their fastest rate in more than 40 years, with the cost of budget items such as vegetable oil and pasta shooting up by 65% and 60% respectively over the past year, according to official figures this week.These big increases are adding almost £650 to the average amount that households will pay at the checkout this year. Continue reading...
  
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• Orbán says Hungary is ‘exempt’ from the conflict: tell that to his friend in Moscow | György Dalos

  29-10-2022 11:00 via theguardian.com
  In this, one of a series of essays on the war in Ukraine from countries in or neighbouring the former Eastern bloc, a Hungarian historian asks how long the country can remain on the fenceThe invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 will go down in the annals of European history. Russia’s undeclared war has cast an almost apocalyptic shadow. And it has dramatically altered the relationships that had prevailed between east and west since the collapse of the USSR. Whenever or however this arme
  
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• ‘It wasn’t my best parenting decision’: Mark Chilvers’ best phone picture

  29-10-2022 11:00 via theguardian.com
  The British photographer said his son could ride the ghost train – but didn’t expect to see him quite so spookedLooking back, Mark Chilvers says he thought the ghost train he put his then six-year-old son Louie on would be a “Scooby-Doo level of scary”. The pair were at a London funfair in the early summer of 2016 when they bumped into Louie’s school friend Zavian and his mum.“Zavian was pestering to go on the ghost train, and my son tagged along with the idea
  
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• Garth Marenghi: ‘Many writers cite me as an influence ... and I will be suing them all’

  29-10-2022 11:00 via theguardian.com
  After changing horror for ever with his TV series Darkplace, the dream weaver and novelist disappeared for two decades. Now he returns with a chilling new novel, TerrorTome, and some strong words for pretenders to his crown (back off, Richard Osman) Read an exclusive extract from TerrorTomeHorror writers don’t come much more elusive than Garth Marenghi, AKA “the dream weaver”, AKA the “titan of terror”. The author (who bears an uncanny resemblance to comedian Matthe
  
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• Woodman blasts Black Ferns past Wales into Women’s Rugby World Cup semis

  29-10-2022 10:52 via theguardian.com
  Quarter-final: New Zealand 55-3 WalesPortia Woodman becomes all-time World Cup top try-scorerWales’s World Cup dreams have been extinguished and the dying of the light, in the end, made for pretty tough viewing. Denying the Black Ferns a semi-final berth was always a fanciful notion and, for all the plentiful red-shirted spirit and heart, few teams in the world would have fancied shutting down the constant darting menace of New Zealand’s back three.With the dynamic duo of Portia Wood
  
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