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• Kalvin Phillips left out of Manchester City squad because he was ‘overweight’

  23-12-2022 23:30
  Pep Guardiola says player returned from Qatar out of condition‘He didn’t arrive in the condition to do training and to play’Pep Guardiola has said he left out Kalvin Phillips from Thursday’s Carabao Cup win over Liverpool because the player was “overweight” and added that he will speak to the midfielder privately.After being part of England’s World Cup squad the 27-year-old was given time off but when he returned to City was not in the condition to train
  
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• Motherland Christmas special review – you’ll laugh, gasp in shock ... then punch the air

  23-12-2022 23:00
  This parenting sitcom’s gift for gleefully inappropriate humour runs amok in its festive special – which features an event that flips the regular Christmas Day tribulations on their headSometimes after a hard day’s parenting – or a hard year’s parenting – it’s difficult to know whether a parenting sitcom is really what you want to watch. From Outnumbered to Breeders and, back now for a Christmas special, Motherland (BBC One), they do tend towards bleakne
  
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• King Charles chooses chapel at Windsor for first Christmas message

  23-12-2022 23:00
  Monarch expected to pay tribute to late mother during festive address from St George’s chapelKing Charles has chosen to broadcast his first Christmas message from St George’s chapel at Windsor Castle, where the committal service of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth, was held three months ago.In a photograph released before the broadcast on Christmas Day, the king is seen standing in the quire for his inaugural festive address to the country and the rest of the Commonwealth. Continue r
  
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• FTX founder's girlfriend Caroline Ellison tells court her actions at collapsed exchange were 'wrong' - The Telegraph

  23-12-2022 22:16 via news.google.com
  FTX founder's girlfriend Caroline Ellison tells court her actions at collapsed exchange were 'wrong'  The TelegraphFTX Sam Bankman-Fried: Caroline Ellison breaks silence about taking part in alleged fraud  UNILADCEO of FTX Sister Company Caroline Ellison Confesses to Misusing Customer Funds – Here's What You Need to Know  CryptonewsSam Bankman-Fried's ex Caroline Ellison admits knowing her actions were ILLEGAL in plea deal  Daily MailChief executive
  
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• Clashes in Paris after three people killed in shooting at Kurdish centre

  23-12-2022 21:15
  French media say a 69-year-old opened fire on group of people, and government says incident seemed to have been racially motivatedClashes have erupted in Paris after three people were killed in a shooting at a Kurdish cultural centre that the French government said appeared to have been racially motivated.French media reported that a 69-year-old man opened fire on a group of people at the Ahmet-Kaya centre on Rue d’Enghien in the 10th arrondissement on Friday morning. Shots were also fired
  
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• The Sun apologises for Jeremy Clarkson’s column on Meghan

  23-12-2022 20:33
  Paper says that ‘as a publisher, we realise that with free expression comes responsibility’The Sun has apologised for Jeremy Clarkson’s column, in which he said he “hated” the Duchess of Sussex, but has not stated whether any action has been taken against him.Last week’s column has become the Independent Press Standards Organisation’s most complained about article, with more than 17,500 people contacting it over the piece as of Tuesday morning. Continue
  
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• Martin Rowson on the government’s pay offers to striking workers – cartoon

  23-12-2022 20:30
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• One-in-ten cigarette smokers in their 40s suffer cognitive decline - Daily Mail

  23-12-2022 20:03 via news.google.com
  One-in-ten cigarette smokers in their 40s suffer cognitive decline  Daily MailSmokers 'more likely to develop memory loss when middle-aged'  The IndependentSmokers likelier to experience memory loss  Geo NewsStudy Links Smoking to Memory Loss, Cognitive Decline  WebMDSmoking found linked to increased chances of mid-life memory loss, confusion  The IndependentView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• No money for nurses as billionaires’ wealth rises? | Letters

  23-12-2022 19:25
  Readers write in support of industrial action over poor pay by public sector workersI asked my daughter, a nurse who is 30 years in the job and working on a very busy geriatric ward, what going on strike meant for her. “I will arrive just before 7am, leave at 7.30pm, and take my full 30-minute unpaid meal break,” was the reply. In other words, she will put in the hours she is paid for, instead of arriving 30 minutes early, eating a sandwich while dealing with phones and paperwork, an
  
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• Where have all the carol singers gone? | Letter

  23-12-2022 19:22
  Gary Freestone recalls December evenings when carollers would go door to door, singing in return for a small cash prize. Plus a letter from Alan LaffertyAre carol singers now extinct? Some years ago, early evenings in December were regularly punctuated with a knocked door or rung bell.Immediately after, the melodic, or more often cacophonous, rendition of Oh Come, All Ye Faithful could be heard. When the exuberant caterwauling could no longer be tolerated, the door was opened. Continue reading..
  
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• Freewheeling England are leading the march towards Total Cricket | Mark Ramprakash

  23-12-2022 19:00
  Since Ben Stokes took over as captain, the Test side have had all the answers, but there are difficult questions to come in 2023I’ve just been to India with the cricketers from Harrow school, where I coach. There are some very strong players and a bit of depth in the first-team squad at the moment, which means I am lucky enough to be able to rotate players around.I always encourage young players to be all-rounders – you want athletic cricketers who hopefully can contribute with the b
  
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• US fails to give money promised for developing countries to ease climate impacts

  23-12-2022 18:40
  Spending bill passed by Senate includes less than $1bn in climate assistance for poorer nations even though Biden promised $11.4bnThe US has risked alienating developing countries hit hardest by the climate crisis, after Congress delivered just a fraction of the money promised by Joe Biden to help poorer nations adapt to worsening storms, floods and droughts.Biden has promised $11.4bn each year for developing countries to ease climate impacts and help them shift to renewable energy but the vast
  
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• Scientists find secret to how glass frogs turn transparent - BBC

  23-12-2022 18:39 via news.google.com
  Scientists find secret to how glass frogs turn transparent  BBCScientists reveal secrets of glass frogs that HIDE their red blood cells  Daily MailScientists find how glass frogs turn transparent, with hint at better understanding of human blood clotting  WIONThese Frogs Turn Nearly Invisible While Sleeping | Smart News  Smithsonian MagazineMystery of glass frog transparency solved, researchers say  UPI NewsView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• The Guardian view on pulpit politics: not just for Christmas | Editorial

  23-12-2022 18:30
  The archbishop of Canterbury’s defence of refugee rights has been a necessary counterweight to cruel government policyAfter a challenging year, the Anglican hierarchy was afforded some light relief last week by Jonathan Gullis, the reliably belligerent Conservative MP for Stoke-on-Trent North. Taking exception to the archbishop of Canterbury’s excoriation of the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, Mr Gullis discerned a troubling modern tendency to use “the
  
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• ‘Deeply personal’ Zelenskiy-Biden meeting cemented their bond, says top adviser

  23-12-2022 18:30
  Exclusive: Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian president’s top adviser, describes the significance of this week’s White House visitRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesVolodymyr Zelenskiy’s visit to the White House confirmed that Ukraine and the US are “strategic partners” for the first time in history, the Ukrainian leader’s most senior adviser has said in an interview on his return home.Andriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainan president’s office, told
  
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• Steak restaurant on paddle steamer in Essex starts sinking into lake

  23-12-2022 18:26
  Shopping centre eatery said to have begun sinking before lunch service and observers describe it as ‘going down like the Titanic’A restaurant on a converted paddle steamer has begun to sink into a lake in Essex.Photographs of the Miller & Carter Steakhouse at the Lakeside shopping centre showing it partially submerged emerged online on Friday. Some observers described the venue as “going down like the Titanic”, while one wrote online: “Looks like my family meal
  
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• The Guardian view on pantomime: the goose that keeps on laying | Editorial

  23-12-2022 18:25
  There’s nothing like a panto to banish the blues, especially if it stars Sir Ian McKellen as Mother Goose – the grande dame of seasonal fun and frolics The actor Sir Ian McKellen and the comedian John Bishop are stepping out on to the West End stage over Christmas in the matriarch of all pantomimes, Mother Goose. They have already been to Brighton and before their unusually long season is over they will have played in six more cities, from Liverpool to Dublin, finishing in Cardiff on
  
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• Food bank delivers Christmas spirit in Oxfordshire with 'Big Lunch'

  23-12-2022 18:19 via bbc.co.uk
  A community group welcomes 150 people to a festive meal in Oxfordshire to fight loneliness and isolation.
  
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• Nintendo Shares Final Day Of Festive Indie Game News And Switch eShop Shadow Drops - Nintendo Life

  23-12-2022 18:08 via news.google.com
  Nintendo Shares Final Day Of Festive Indie Game News And Switch eShop Shadow Drops  Nintendo LifeSwitch exclusive Sports Story has officially released | VGC  Video Games ChronicleSports Story now available on Nintendo Switch eShop  My Nintendo NewsSports Story Gameplay on Nintendo Switch - How's It Lookin'?  Nintendo LifeLong-awaited comedy RPG Sports Story is finally out on Switch today  GamesradarView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Passengers are rightly angry about our northern railways – as a driver, I’m mortified | Secret Train Driver

  23-12-2022 17:33
  TransPennine Express is not being straight about a major cause of its cancellations: it has lost the goodwill of the staffThe Secret Train Driver is a driver with TransPennine ExpressI’ve been with TransPennine Express (TPE) for quite a few years now and I love being a train driver. I used to thoroughly enjoy my job but now I am completely demoralised. We all are. It is embarrassing to talk to passengers when 20% or 30% of trains every day are being cancelled. On Wednesday they cancelled 2
  
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• In Borthwick has the RFU found England’s Gareth Southgate or Steve McClaren? | Gerard Meagher

  23-12-2022 17:22
  RFU chiefs will hope Borthwick brings joy back for players and fans as they cross their fingers he gets a waistcoat for ChristmasEngland have recently parted company with their first foreign super coach – someone arguably indulged too long and with a tendency to cause his employers unwanted headlines. His replacement is English, less colourful, earnest to a fault and has been on the coaching staff before. Someone who as a coach – in the truest sense of the world – is considered
  
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• Zara Aleena: Family members 'completely destroyed' by murder

  23-12-2022 16:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Zara Aleena's aunt says the family is struggling with daily life six months on from her murder.
  
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• What exactly is in the $1.7tr US spending bill? - BBC

  23-12-2022 15:38 via news.google.com
  What exactly is in the $1.7tr US spending bill?  BBCSenate Passes $1.7 trillion Government Funding Bill | Republicans Oppose $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill  CNN-News18Senate passes $1.7tn funding bill to avert US government shutdown  The Guardian USDemocrats failed terribly with an extinction omnibus  The HillWith House shifting, Congress moves to lock in Ukraine funds  The IndependentView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Paris shooting: Three dead and several injured in attack - BBC

  23-12-2022 15:25 via news.google.com
  Paris shooting: Three dead and several injured in attack  BBCParis shooting attack leaves three dead and several wounded - BBC News  BBC NewsThree dead and three injured in Paris shooting, reports say  The GuardianThree dead and three injured in shooting at Kurdish cultural centre in Paris  The Local FranceParis shooting: Three dead in attack by lone gunman  The TimesView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Watch this space: a bird’s-eye view of 2022 – in pictures

  23-12-2022 15:00
  Historic events and significant change have punctuated the year worldwide. Space tech company Maxar Technologies has kept an eye on developments from roughly 724km above Earth, capturing all the news from space Continue reading...
  
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• ‘No one came out of there unchanged’: the Ukrainian soldiers who survived the siege of Azovstal

  23-12-2022 15:00
  Thousands took shelter in the tunnels of the steelworks in Mariupol for more than two months as Russia bombarded it with missiles. It remains unclear how many are now in captivityRussia-Ukraine war at a glanceIf one battle more than any other has defined the brutality of Russia’s war in Ukraine, it is the three-month siege of Mariupol’s steelworks this spring, and the harrowing experience of its last defenders. Holed up in Azovstal, one of Europe’s largest metal-producing plant
  
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• Ministers made a choice about this economic crisis – to make working people pay for it | Sharon Graham

  23-12-2022 15:00
  Rishi Sunak says his government is different, but the pro-elite and anti-worker policies have carried on without a pauseSharon Graham is the general secretary of UniteRecently the government made two major policy interventions. One was a proposed attack on workers: “new tough laws” against the right to strike, while refusing to negotiate with NHS workers. The other was a gift to the City: uncapping bankers’ bonuses and looking to remove safeguards brought in to tame markets aft
  
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• Ana de Armas fans told they can sue over Yesterday trailer - BBC

  23-12-2022 14:29 via news.google.com
  Ana de Armas fans told they can sue over Yesterday trailer  BBCAna de Armas fans allowed to sue over Yesterday trailer  The IndependentAna de Armas fans' lawsuit could lead to studios being sued over trailers  Digital SpyFans of actress Ana De Armas suing Universal Studios after cutting her role in Yesterday film  Daily MailIt's Now Possible To Sue Movie Studios For Releasing "Misleading" Trailers  CBM (Comic Book Movie)View Full coverage on Goog
  
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• Russia poised to send rescue ship to ISS after cosmonauts stranded with capsule leak - Express

  23-12-2022 14:27 via news.google.com
  Russia poised to send rescue ship to ISS after cosmonauts stranded with capsule leak  ExpressISS rescue mission may take TWO MONTHS as astronauts stranded by mystery leak  The MirrorRussia might send up rescue ship for ISS crew  HT TechRescue Soyuz spacecraft could reach space station in February  Space.comRussia weighs early return of International Space Station crew after Soyuz capsule leak  ABC NewsView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Live updates as Lakeside restaurant 'sinking into the water' beside popular shopping centre - Essex Live

  23-12-2022 14:24 via news.google.com
  Live updates as Lakeside restaurant 'sinking into the water' beside popular shopping centre  Essex LiveMiller and Carter restaurant 'sinking into water' at lakeside shopping centre  Birmingham LiveLakeside Miller & Carter floating restaurant partially sinks  BBCLakeside restaurant staff evacuated after it started sinking into the water  Essex LiveView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Workers on London's new Elizabeth line to walkout in row over pay just weeks after it fully opened - Daily Mail

  23-12-2022 14:23 via news.google.com
  Workers on London's new Elizabeth line to walkout in row over pay just weeks after it fully opened  Daily MailView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Meta settles Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725m - BBC

  23-12-2022 14:13 via news.google.com
  Meta settles Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725m  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Rishi Sunak 'sad and disappointed' by strikes threatening Christmas getaways - Sky News

  23-12-2022 14:07 via news.google.com
  Rishi Sunak 'sad and disappointed' by strikes threatening Christmas getaways  Sky NewsSunak ‘disappointed’ over Xmas strikes as thousands try to get home  Evening StandardSunak ‘sad’ about strikes but insists no negotiation on pay is ‘right thing’  The IndependentSunak is the ‘too little, too late’ PM. That’s why he’s failing over the NHS and this wave of strikes  The GuardianUK PM Sunak 'disappoi
  
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• China estimates 250mn people have caught Covid in 20 days - Financial Times

  23-12-2022 14:01 via news.google.com
  China estimates 250mn people have caught Covid in 20 days  Financial Times
  
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• Who can doubt the futuristic brilliance of Sunak and co? They’ve given us driverless government | Marina Hyde

  23-12-2022 13:59
  On site visits, the PM and ministers like to dress up as workers, but their only actual power is to make everything worseChristmas week brings an exciting labour market win for Rishi Sunak, as the prime minister finally manages to appoint an ethics adviser. For the past few months, this empty role has begun to look like one of the jobs that British people no longer seem minded to do, like fruit picking or being Nigel Farage’s wife. As part of Sunak’s commitment to being the change he
  
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• Manchester City 3-2 Liverpool: Erling Haaland on scoresheet as Citizens progress to Carabao Cup quarter-final - Eurosport COM

  23-12-2022 13:59 via news.google.com
  Manchester City 3-2 Liverpool: Erling Haaland on scoresheet as Citizens progress to Carabao Cup quarter-final  Eurosport COMEXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS | Man City 3-2 Liverpool | CITY through after five-goal classic  Man City(Video) Fabinho and Rodri square up to each other as tempers flare at the Etihad  Empire of The KopANOTHER Manchester City V LIVERPOOL CLASSIC! | Carabao Cup five goal thriller highlights!  EFLManchester City 3-2 Liverpool: EFL Cup fourth-roun
  
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• Don’t put others at risk this Christmas if you have flu symptoms, UK health experts urge - The Guardian

  23-12-2022 13:59 via news.google.com
  Don’t put others at risk this Christmas if you have flu symptoms, UK health experts urge  The GuardianFlu and Covid: People told to avoid mixing at Christmas if unwell  BBCExperts issue warning to stay at home if you’re unwell as flu and Covid cases rise  Manchester Evening NewsUrgent warning as number of Brits in hospital with flu ‘increases dramatically’ – the 12 signs you must kno...  The SunNumber of patients in hospital w
  
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• M25 traffic chaos with Christmas getaway congestion after flooding closes multiple lanes

  23-12-2022 13:35 via express.co.uk
  National Highways England said flooding has caused several miles of congestion, with journey times increased by up to half an hour.
  
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• Thousands of nurses to go on strike again in January - but next ambulance walkout called off - Sky News

  23-12-2022 13:33 via news.google.com
  Thousands of nurses to go on strike again in January - but next ambulance walkout called off  Sky NewsStruggling Scots nurse 'taking on extra shifts just to afford petrol for work'  Daily RecordNurses to strike for two days across England on 18-19 January  The GuardianFMQs: Nicola Sturgeon says 'faux anger' will not fix Scotland NHS problems as nursing and midwife strikes loom  The ScotsmanNicola Sturgeon vows Scottish government will do 'everything they c
  
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• Strictly's Giovanni Pernice shops amid 'romance' with Jowita Przystal - Daily Mail

  23-12-2022 13:19 via news.google.com
  Strictly's Giovanni Pernice shops amid 'romance' with Jowita Przystal  Daily MailBBC Strictly Come Dancing star Giovanni Pernice dating fellow pro as they go public  Birmingham LiveStrictly Come Dancing champion Jowita Przystal 'is secretly dating fellow pro Giovanni Pernice'  Daily MailStrictly's Giovanni Pernice 'dating fellow pro Jowita Pryzstal' as pair go public  OK! magazineGiovanni Pernice kisses Strictly co-star in backstage photo as fans say the s
  
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• Euro 2022: The inside story of England's win, as told by the Lionesses

  23-12-2022 13:17 via bbc.co.uk
  In a new BBC film, Lionesses: Champions of Europe, members of the England team tell the inside story of Euro 2022.
  
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• Woke father branded ‘killjoy’ for banning his daughter from watching 'sexist' Disney films

  23-12-2022 13:15 via express.co.uk
  Orel Asformas says his daughter can watch the more "outdated" Disney films when she "understands their true meaning".
  
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• England World Cup winner George Cohen dies aged 83 - Sky News

  23-12-2022 13:11 via news.google.com
  England World Cup winner George Cohen dies aged 83  Sky News1966 World Cup winner George Cohen passes away. Simon Jordan, Jim White & Carlton Palmer pay tribute  talkSPORTGeorge Cohen, World Cup winner with England in 1966, dies aged 83  The GuardianGeorge Cohen dies: Fulham great and 'England's greatest right-back'  BBCGeorge Cohen dead: Legendary England 1966 World Cup winner dies aged 83  The MirrorView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Ex-soldier praises 'amazing' Army for snuffing out Heathrow chaos despite strikes

  23-12-2022 13:09 via express.co.uk
  About 1,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services union walked out on Friday at Heathrow, Birmingham, Cardiff, Gatwick, Glasgow and Manchester airports.
  
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• How Watford got all its homeless people off the streets

  23-12-2022 13:03 via bbc.co.uk
  Homelessness in England is on the rise, but one scheme to stop rough sleeping has proved a success.
  
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• George Cohen – a life in pictures

  23-12-2022 12:55
  The World Cup-winning England and Fulham full-back George Cohen has died aged 83 Continue reading...
  
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• George Cohen dies: Fulham great and 'England's greatest right-back'

  23-12-2022 12:54 via bbc.co.uk
  George Cohen will forever be immortalised as one of just 11 men to start and win a football World Cup final with England.
  
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• Jan 6 committee report finds Trump and his allies engaged in 200 acts attempting to overturn election - The Independent

  23-12-2022 12:50 via news.google.com
  Jan 6 committee report finds Trump and his allies engaged in 200 acts attempting to overturn election  The IndependentDonald Trump accused of multi-part conspiracy over 6 January attack  BBCJan. 6 Committee’s new report flips a script on history  The HillOpinion | The Last Lesson of the Jan. 6 Committee  The New York TimesView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Flu and Covid: People told to stay home for Christmas if unwell - BBC

  23-12-2022 12:49 via news.google.com
  Flu and Covid: People told to stay home for Christmas if unwell  BBCHundreds of people in Hampshire hospitals suffering from the flu  Basingstoke GazetteRising number of flu patients at Isle of Wight hospital  Isle of Wight County PressCovid admissions higher than last Christmas | News | Health Service Journal  Health Service JournalView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Ambulance workers suspend planned strike on 28 December - The Guardian

  23-12-2022 12:48 via news.google.com
  Ambulance workers suspend planned strike on 28 December  The GuardianMore ambulance worker and rail strikes as fares to going up nearly 6%  Channel 4 NewsAmbulance workers in England to strike again in January  BBCThe media damns striking nurses and ambulance staff as the enemy, just as they did the miners  The GuardianScots nurses have been undervalued for years – give them the raise they deserve  Daily RecordView Full coverage on Google N
  
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