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• World Cup 2022: What next for Spain & Luis Enrique after shock loss to Morocco on penalties? - BBC

  06-12-2022 23:51 via news.google.com
  World Cup 2022: What next for Spain & Luis Enrique after shock loss to Morocco on penalties?  BBCHIGHLIGHTS | Spain crash out of World Cup after Morocco win penalty shootout | ITV Sport  ITV SportMorocco knock out Spain on penalties to reach World Cup quarter-final – as it happened  The GuardianSpain doesn't have the Mbappe's, the Dembele's, the Neymar's... - Luis Garcia | ESPN FC  ESPN UKMorocco vs Spain World Cup game sees riot police deployed
  
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• Tax fraud verdict again exposes illusion of Trump the master businessman

  06-12-2022 23:48 via theguardian.com
  The former president can add tax fraud to his accomplishments after his company was convicted of a 15-year criminal schemeWhen sorrows come, Shakespeare observed, they come not single spies, but in battalions. The same goes for former US president Donald Trump’s legal troubles.The latest trouble for Trump strikes at the heart of his identity as a wealthy businessman who wrote the bestselling book The Art of the Deal. On Tuesday his company was convicted of a 15-year criminal scheme to defr
  
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• Sunak set to end ban on new onshore windfarms in face of Tory rebellion - The Guardian

  06-12-2022 23:41 via news.google.com
  Sunak set to end ban on new onshore windfarms in face of Tory rebellion  The GuardianOnshore wind rules to be relaxed after Tory revolt  BBCOnshore windfarm ban to be lifted in government U-turn  Sky NewsRishi Sunak bows to pressure from Tory backbenchers to allow new onshore wind  Evening StandardGovernment to launch consultation on local support on onshore wind  GOV.UKView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• England hope coach’s knowhow can shackle Kylian Mbappé | Jacob Steinberg

  06-12-2022 23:37 via theguardian.com
  Gareth Southgate’s assistant has a history of working out ways to nullify the world’s best playersAs trepidation grows over the thought of Harry Maguire and John Stones trying to stop Kylian Mbappé when England face France on Saturday night, Gareth Southgate can take comfort from the knowledge his right-hand man dealt with this kind of situation when Chelsea won the Champions League in 2012.Steve Holland’s experience is a reminder that any player, even the most devastati
  
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• Road closed and drinkers evacuated after BMW crashes into pub - Liverpool Echo

  06-12-2022 23:25 via news.google.com
  Road closed and drinkers evacuated after BMW crashes into pub  Liverpool EchoDrinkers evacuated after BMW crashes into Liverpool pub as locals urged to avoid area  The MirrorLate night repairs near The Hobgoblin Brighton after crash  The ArgusLive updates as road closed after BMW crashes into bar  Liverpool EchoView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Humanity has become ‘weapon of mass extinction’, UN head tells Cop15 launch

  06-12-2022 23:24 via theguardian.com
  António Guterres calls for end to destruction of nature as Canada pushes proposal to protect 30% of EarthHumanity has become a weapon of mass extinction and governments must end the “orgy of destruction”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said at the beginning of the biodiversity Cop15.“We are out of harmony with nature. In fact, we are playing an entirely different song. Around the world, for hundreds of years, we have conducted a cacophony of chaos
  
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• Angry birds: traffic noise makes robins more aggressive, study finds

  06-12-2022 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Researchers think sound of vehicles can interfere with birds’ normal song when trying to warn off nearby rivalsIt isn’t just people who get road rage. Robins in the countryside become more aggressive when they hear the sound of traffic, according to a study.Beloved for their plump appearance, proud bearing and sweet song, European robins are actually fiercely competitive creatures, whose calls and behaviours are part of a struggle for territorial dominance fought daily with their nei
  
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• Argentina's Cristina Fernández de Kirchner convicted of corruption - Financial Times

  06-12-2022 22:33 via news.google.com
  Argentina's Cristina Fernández de Kirchner convicted of corruption  Financial TimesCristina Fernández: Argentina vice-president found guilty of corruption  BBCArgentina’s Cristina Fernández sentenced to six years in $1bn fraud case  The GuardianCristina Fernández de Kirchner gets jail term over embezzlement  The TimesArgentina's vice-president Cristina Fernandez convicted, sentenced over $US1 billion fraud  The T
  
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• Stephen Bear shared sex footage with ex 'for money', court told

  06-12-2022 22:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Stephen Bear denies voyeurism and two counts of disclosing private, sexual photographs and films.
  
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• Onshore wind rules to be relaxed after Tory revolt

  06-12-2022 22:22 via bbc.co.uk
  The government says it will rewrite a planning rule restricting new turbines in England.
  
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• Inside Eddie Jones' last 48 hours as England head coach - The Telegraph

  06-12-2022 22:14 via news.google.com
  Inside Eddie Jones' last 48 hours as England head coach  The TelegraphSteve Borthwick needs voices that will challenge him or he is doomed  The TimesEddie Jones sacked by England after review into poor run of form  BBCEDDIE JONES SACKED AS ENGLAND HEAD COACH "The José Mourinho of Rugby"  talkSPORTEngland coach Jones to be sacked, say UK media  ReutersView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Avatar is back after 13 years - but will the sequel live up to the original? - Sky News

  06-12-2022 22:07 via news.google.com
  Avatar is back after 13 years - but will the sequel live up to the original?  Sky NewsThe Avatar Movie You'll Never Get To See  LooperPandora’s box office: will Avatar 2 compel the crowds it needs?  The GuardianWill Movies Other Than 'Avatar 2' Succeed at Holiday Box Office?  VarietyA Fascinating Fact Explains Why a Classic Sequel Cost 16 Times More  We Got This CoveredView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• ‘Dark activities’ of Russian-linked oil tankers have doubled, analysis shows - The Guardian

  06-12-2022 22:04 via news.google.com
  ‘Dark activities’ of Russian-linked oil tankers have doubled, analysis shows  The GuardianWhat to Know About the Russian Oil Price Cap  Foreign PolicyRussia Oil Price Cap: How It Works, Risks and Pitfalls  BloombergWhy imposing price restrictions on Russian oil is a bad idea  The Indian ExpressRussian Oil Price Cap Will Please the US, and No One Else  BloombergView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Tories in hiding as Commons scrutinises Michelle Mone’s Covid fortunes

  06-12-2022 21:58 via theguardian.com
  Tory peer not the only one to make herself scarce as Labour queries VIP access for vendor of dodgy PPEBetter late and all that. You’d have thought the Tories might have wanted to remove the whip from Michelle Mone. After all, they wouldn’t want everyone to think that every Conservative peer may be on the make. Or that phoning up Michael Gove and Lord Agnew “for a government contract” is standard practice. Even if it appears to be so.But apparently not. Instead, Lady Mone
  
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• 'Prince Harry's fight against Mail on Sunday will cost him £1.2m' - The Telegraph

  06-12-2022 21:47 via news.google.com
  'Prince Harry's fight against Mail on Sunday will cost him £1.2m'  The TelegraphJudge pauses Prince Harry libel case against publishers of Mail on Sunday  ExpressPrince Harry and Mail on Sunday in libel settlement negotiations  Press GazettePrince Harry's libel case PAUSED for this reason - latest update  HELLO!Prince Harry and UK newspaper publisher agree pause of libel case  Reuters UKView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Matt Lucas ends run as Great British Bake Off host

  06-12-2022 21:24 via bbc.co.uk
  The presenter leaves the tent after three series helping oversee signature bakes and show stoppers.
  
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• Thousands take to streets in Greece in protest over 2008 shooting of teenager

  06-12-2022 21:15 via theguardian.com
  Police tactics again in spotlight after shooting of Romany boy on eve of annual march for Alexis GrigoropoulosThousands of people have joined protests in Athens, Thessaloniki and other Greek cities to commemorate the fatal police shooting of a teenager, hours after violence erupted over a similar incident in the north of the country.Police estimated more than 11,000 protesters had joined protests on Tuesday amid fears of renewed clashes as a Romany boy, shot in the head by an officer, fought for
  
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• Fred Sirieix makes a rare appearance with his fiancée at The National Lottery's annual Big Bash - Daily Mail

  06-12-2022 21:12 via news.google.com
  Fred Sirieix makes a rare appearance with his fiancée at The National Lottery's annual Big Bash  Daily MailKatherine Jenkins as the National Lottery hosts its star-studded annual Big Bash  Daily MailI'm A Celebrity's Babatunde Aleshe joins wife Leonie at The National Lottery's Big Bash event  Daily MailJill Scott looks stylish in a white jumpsuit at The National Lottery's annual Big Bash  Daily MailOti Mabuse flashes her legs in an unmissable green
  
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• Thérèse Coffey rules out help for farmers and consumers facing higher costs

  06-12-2022 21:09 via theguardian.com
  The environment secretary tells MPs it is ‘not the role of government to provide free food’ or to intervene in marketsThe government has ruled out making any intervention in the market to help farmers or consumers with high food prices, the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, has said.Food prices have soared in the past year, in part owing to higher input prices such as energy, fertiliser and animal feed. Last month, food price inflation hit a fresh high of 12.4%, wi
  
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• Strep A concerns create ‘carnage’ and ‘eyewatering demand’ for the NHS - The Independent

  06-12-2022 21:00 via news.google.com
  Strep A concerns create ‘carnage’ and ‘eyewatering demand’ for the NHS  The IndependentGPs warn they are in 'danger of being 'overwhelmed' by Strep A  Daily MailSchools affected by Strep A in Scotland could get antibiotics, says health secretary Humza Yousaf  STV NewsStrep A latest in Scotland as infections increase, but no deaths despite UK rise  Scottish Daily ExpressHumza Yousaf expects Scottish Strep A cases to 'rise over the co
  
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• Strep A: Five-year-old girl dies from illness linked to bacterial infection - BBC

  06-12-2022 20:59 via news.google.com
  Strep A: Five-year-old girl dies from illness linked to bacterial infection  BBCStrep A Warning After Eighth Child Dies | Good Morning Britain  Good Morning BritainOpinion: As a parent, Strep A is all I can think about  The IndependentStrep A schools may be given preventive antibiotics  BBCSchools should be bringing in pandemic measures to protect children from Strep A  iNewsView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Boy, 12, killed in Birmingham e-scooter crash with bus - BBC

  06-12-2022 20:43 via news.google.com
  Boy, 12, killed in Birmingham e-scooter crash with bus  BBCBirmingham Boy, 12, dies after his e-scooter collides with a bus in horror crash  Daily MailBoy, 12, on e-scooter killed in Bordesley Green bus crash - updates  Birmingham LiveSchoolboy, 12, tragically killed after colliding with bus while riding e-scooter during rush hour  Daily RecordBoy, 12, killed on e-scooter after crash with bus outside McDonald's  Metro.co.ukView Full coverage on G
  
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• Early medieval female burial site is ‘most significant ever discovered’ in UK

  06-12-2022 20:31 via theguardian.com
  Find dating from about 650AD in Northamptonshire includes jewelled necklace and changed archaeologists’ view of the periodArchaeologists don’t often bounce with excitement, but the Museum of London archaeology team could hardly contain themselves on Tuesday as they unveiled an “exhilarating” discovery made on the last day of an otherwise barren dig in the spring.“This is the most significant early medieval female burial ever discovered in Britain,” said the le
  
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• Conservative peer Michelle Mone to take leave of absence from Lords

  06-12-2022 20:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Baroness Mone is accused of benefitting from a company she recommended for a Covid contract.
  
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• Imminent Cumbria coalmine decision likely to cause new Tory split

  06-12-2022 20:16 via theguardian.com
  Expected approval for coalmine opening could provoke backlash from party’s many opposing voicesMichael Gove could green light the first UK coalmine in a generation as soon as Wednesday, in a move likely to open up new dividing lines among Conservatives.A number of high-profile Tories have previously spoken out against the plans for a new mine outside Whitehaven in Cumbria, including former cabinet ministers Kwasi Kwarteng, Alok Sharma, Robert Buckland and Tobias Ellwood. Continue reading..
  
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• Stephen Flynn becomes new SNP Westminster leader in blow to Nicola Sturgeon - The Telegraph

  06-12-2022 20:03 via news.google.com
  Stephen Flynn becomes new SNP Westminster leader in blow to Nicola Sturgeon  The TelegraphAberdeenshire MP elected new SNP leader at Westminster  The GuardianStephen Flynn and Mhairi Black elected SNP Westminster leaders  Daily RecordSex, lies and SNP politics: The ousting of Ian Blackford will not have been as easy as we've been led to believe – Murdo Fraser  The ScotsmanLive news: Andrew Forrest's Squadron Energy buys Australian wind power company
  
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• The Guardian view on Myanmar’s military: in power but not in control | Editorial

  06-12-2022 20:01 via theguardian.com
  Despite the Tatmadaw’s increasing viciousness, it appears unable to suppress resistanceIn February 2021, Myanmar’s army ended its decade-long, grudging tolerance of limited democracy by launching a coup, detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other elected civilian politicians. Since then, its ruthlessness has only increased. The number of political prisoners has soared to more than 13,000. The junta has resumed executions for the first time in decades. The UN human rights chief, Volker T&uu
  
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• The Guardian view on apprenticeships: time to learn from past mistakes | Editorial

  06-12-2022 20:01 via theguardian.com
  A damning study highlights a flawed and underregulated system in dire need of reformThat the economy has a skills and productivity problem has been one of the recurring themes of 2022. Rishi Sunak has in the past noted that employers spend only half the European average on training their workers. Since 2005, according to the Learning and Work Institute, business investment in skills has fallen by 28%. Such lamentable statistics, it is widely accepted, have contributed to Britain’s historic
  
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• House January 6 panel to issue criminal referrals to DoJ as tensions heighten

  06-12-2022 19:53 via theguardian.com
  Targets and details of referrals in investigation of Capitol attack were not immediately clear but could follow two tracksThe House January 6 select committee will make criminal referrals to the US justice department in connection with its investigation into the Capitol attack, the chairman of the panel said Tuesday, heightening tensions ahead of the release of its final report expected to come later this month.The targets and details about the referrals were not immediately clear, and the panel
  
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• Christmas travel chaos looms as Border Force strike could see fifth of flights axed - The Telegraph

  06-12-2022 19:49 via news.google.com
  Christmas travel chaos looms as Border Force strike could see fifth of flights axed  The TelegraphView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Revealed: Second firm pushed by Michelle Mone was secret entity of husband’s office

  06-12-2022 19:43 via theguardian.com
  Revelation that LFI Diagnostics was entity of office that manages wealth of Douglas Barrowman deepens controversy over Tory peerA second company that the Tory peer Michelle Mone lobbied ministers over in an attempt to secure government Covid contracts was a secret entity of her husband’s family office, the Guardian can reveal.Lady Mone’s lobbying on behalf of the company, LFI Diagnostics, which she tried to help secure government contracts for Covid lateral flow tests, prompted a for
  
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• Who creates more wealth in society – bankers or nurses? Letters

  06-12-2022 19:37 via theguardian.com
  Disgraceful inequality will continue to grow if we think of people’s worth in binary terms, says Canon Andrew Lightbown. Plus Prof Roger Bayston on the fickle perception of public service workersJulia Davis and Winsome Hill are surely right (One of us is a millionaire, the other a care worker. The cruel divide between rich and poor disgusts us both, 1 December). All of us should be disgusted by the alarming disparities in access to the necessities that promote the good life and human flour
  
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• Tories are still repeating the myth of the workshy poor | Letter

  06-12-2022 19:37 via theguardian.com
  The idea that there is a ‘culture of worklessness’ has been debunked, but Conservatives keep making such claims to justify punitive welfare reforms, writes Carolyn McAllisterThe leader of Grimsby council, Philip Jackson, attributes unemployment in the town in part to “attitudinal issues” and says that some families have not seen work in two or three generations (‘It has hit Grimsby very hard’: health in decline after years of austerity, 5 December).This is mer
  
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• Apple expands DIY iPhone and Mac repairs to UK and Europe - The Guardian

  06-12-2022 19:17 via news.google.com
  Apple expands DIY iPhone and Mac repairs to UK and Europe  The GuardianApple self-repair service comes to UK  BBCApple's Self Service repair program expands to eight European countries - comments  GSMArena.comApple to allow Mac and iPhone owners in Europe to repair their own devices  TechRadarWhat is Apple Self Service Repair and how does it work?  TrustedReviewsView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Medieval necklace found near Northampton 'internationally important'

  06-12-2022 19:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Experts uncover a "once-in-a-lifetime" discovery near Northampton of international significance.
  
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• Samba in the soul: Brazil’s dancing celebrations part of a rich tradition

  06-12-2022 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Samba and football were adopted by country’s working classes in 1930s and have been passed down via Pelé to new generation“I was afraid of playing football because I had often seen a black player get struck on the pitch for committing a foul,” said Domingos da Guia, a defender who played for Brazil in the 1938 World Cup. “But I was a very good dancer and that helped me on the pitch. I invented the short dribble by imitating the miudinho, a form of samba.”Roy
  
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• ‘Our belief is unrivalled’: Ollie Robinson hails his proudest moment

  06-12-2022 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Match-winning seamer finds hard work has paid off as England’s style leaves Pakistan scrambling for a responseAn England team batting like they are in something of a rush was hit by an immediate delay when travelling from Rawalpindi, scene of their seismic victory against Pakistan in the first Test, to bustling Multan.As the press corps went by road through the Valley of Peacocks, Kallar Kahar, past the orange groves of Sargodha and the smoking brick kilns on the outskirts of Faisalabad, t
  
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• The real reason you're more likely to get a cold in the winter - The Telegraph

  06-12-2022 18:57 via news.google.com
  The real reason you're more likely to get a cold in the winter  The TelegraphScientists uncover why colds spike when the temperature drops  Daily MailRevealed: The reason why colds surge when temperatures drop  The IndependentScientists finally work out why you’re more likely to get a cold in the winter...  The SunWarmer noses are better at fighting colds: study  FRANCE 24 EnglishView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Iran has not sent ballistic missiles to Russia so far, says Ukrainian official

  06-12-2022 18:57 via theguardian.com
  Mykhailo Podolyak says pressure on Tehran from overseas and distraction of civil unrest mean helping Moscow is not a priorityRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesIran has so far not delivered ballistic missiles to Russia and may not do so, as a result of diplomatic pressure and Iran’s own internal political turmoil, a senior Ukrainian presidential adviser has said.Mykhailo Podolyak also told the Guardian that Russian forces had run short of their first batch of Iranian drones &nda
  
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• What is ultraprocessed food? MailOnline's guide will help you tell them apart - Daily Mail

  06-12-2022 18:33 via news.google.com
  What is ultraprocessed food? MailOnline's guide will help you tell them apart  Daily MailEating ultra-processed foods increases risk of cognitive decline  News-Medical.NetEating ultraprocessed food could increase dementia risk, study warns  The IndependentUltra-processed foods: Eating diet too heavy in cakes, biscuits and crisps may lead to dementia  Daily MailEating highly processed food could up your risk of dementia, scientists warn...  The Su
  
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• Yellowstone supervolcano has much more magma than previously thought, study finds - The Independent

  06-12-2022 18:29 via news.google.com
  Yellowstone supervolcano has much more magma than previously thought, study finds  The IndependentView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Hunt to urge banks to aid mortgage borrowers amid cost-of-living crisis

  06-12-2022 18:28 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Chancellor to meet heads of UK’s major lenders and consumer champion Martin Lewis on WednesdayUK politics live – latest news updatesThe chancellor will urge the UK’s largest banks to do all they can to support those struggling to pay their mortgage during the cost-of-living crisis when he holds his first talks with chief executives on Wednesday.Jeremy Hunt will host a roundtable with heads of major mortgage lenders, including Debbie Crosbie of Nationwide, HSBC UK&rsq
  
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• Covid: Why were the government's Covid contracts challenged?

  06-12-2022 18:19 via bbc.co.uk
  The government awarded thousands of contracts to private companies during the pandemic.
  
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• Think our plan to fix British politics is a pipe dream? Think again | Gordon Brown

  06-12-2022 18:06 via theguardian.com
  Critics are already circling, but at a stroke Labour would clear out the rot from Westminster and give power to our regionsEverywhere I travel in Britain, I find creative talents waiting to be tapped, entrepreneurial flair ready to be unleashed and outstanding young people impatient to be given their chance. All are being held back by our broken economy and broken politics. Twelve years of Conservative government have made the United Kingdom the most regionally unequal economy in Europe, and its
  
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• Watch pupils shock as they learn they will sing to the King

  06-12-2022 17:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Video captures the surprise and excitement of a choir as it is told about a special performance.
  
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• Five-star Old Trafford show and Chelsea strike eight – Women’s Football Weekly podcast

  06-12-2022 16:23 via theguardian.com
  Faye Carruthers, Suzanne Wrack, Anne-Marie Batson and Sophie Downey wrap up the latest weekend of WSL actionJust another average weekend in the Women’s Super League, hey?!Eight goals for Chelsea, five for Manchester United, 30,000 plus fans in the stands at Old Trafford – plus a title race that continues to hot up … Continue reading...
  
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• Postcode checker: how has your High Street changed since 2020?

  06-12-2022 16:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Fewer banks and shops but more tattoo studios and beauty salons since 2020 - how does your High Street compare?
  
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• Share your views on Indonesia’s new laws criminalising sex outside marriage

  06-12-2022 15:57 via theguardian.com
  We’d like to hear from people living in or who are planning to visit Indonesia what their views are on the country’s new controversial legislation outlawing extramarital sexIndonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy, has approved legislation that outlaws sex outside marriage as one of several sweeping changes to the country’s criminal code.The new code, which will apply to Indonesians and visiting foreigners alike and has prompted alarm from human rights campaigners,
  
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• Raheem Sterling to take more time over decision on England World Cup return

  06-12-2022 15:11 via theguardian.com
  Winger returned to UK after his Surrey home was burgledEngland face quarter-final against France in Qatar on SaturdayRaheem Sterling will take more time to decide whether to return to Qatar before England’s World Cup quarter-final against France after the burglary of his Surrey home.Sterling, who has scored 20 goals in 81 appearances for England, missed their victory over Senegal after flying back to the UK due to a “family matter”. Jewellery and watches were among the items st
  
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• Scallops, sprouts, ackee and saltfish: my family’s Christmas food rituals

  06-12-2022 15:00 via theguardian.com
  I grew up with a mix of Jamaican, Maltese and British food for Christmas lunch. Then last year we broke with tradition …When I was growing up, my family didn’t so much have Christmas traditions as periods. Our festive celebrations reflected where we were as a family at any given time.The Scallop Period was probably my favourite. A couple, Colin and Anne, moved into the house next door to my childhood home in Weymouth, and every now and then, Colin, a trawlerman, would leave a massiv
  
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