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• Euston shooting: Girl, 7, and five others injured near church

  14-01-2023 23:52 via bbc.co.uk
  A girl is in a life-threatening condition after a shooting which injured another child and four women.
  
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• UK weather: More flood warnings ahead of colder spell

  14-01-2023 23:10 via bbc.co.uk
  More than 100 flood warnings are in place across the UK, as a cold weather alert is also issued.
  
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• Pancreatic cancer: What losing my wife taught me about life and loss

  14-01-2023 22:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Four months ago, Geraint John lost his 43-year-old wife and the mother of his three children to cancer.
  
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• Hospitality businesses in Wales offer perks to lure staff

  14-01-2023 22:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Incentives are being used by businesses to lure workers back to hotels, restaurants and pubs.
  
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• European roundup: Milan fight back to salvage draw, Lens keep pressure on PSG

  14-01-2023 22:17 via theguardian.com
  Leão and Calabria earn champions 2-2 draw with LecceLens beat Auxerre to move within three points of PSGSecond-half goals from Rafael Leão and Davide Calabria helped champions Milan to fight back from two goals down and salvage a 2-2 draw at Lecce in Serie A.Lecce shocked their more celebrated opponents when they took the lead after just three minutes, with Theo Hernandez chesting in an own goal following a defensive blunder from Pierre Kalulu. Continue reading...
  
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• Alireza Akbari: Widespread outrage after British-Iranian executed

  14-01-2023 22:08 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK described the Iranian regime, which sentenced Alireza Akbari to death for spying, as "barbaric".
  
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• Leeds United sign Hoffenheim striker Georginio Rutter in club record deal

  14-01-2023 21:43 via theguardian.com
  Forward signs five-and-a-half year deal at Elland RoadFee could rise as high as £32m according to reportsLeeds United have completed the signing of France Under-21 striker Georginio Rutter from Hoffenheim in a club record deal, subject to international clearance.Leeds have not revealed the fee they will pay the German side, but it has been reported it could rise as high as £35m depending on certain clauses being met. Continue reading...
  
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• Girl, 7, critically injured in shooting at double memorial service in London

  14-01-2023 21:28 via theguardian.com
  Another child and four women also injured in incident close to Euston following joint service for a mother and daughterA seven-year-old girl is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after a suspected driveby shooting outside a memorial service in north London, the Metropolitan police have said.A second child, a 12-year-old girl, was taken to hospital with a minor leg injury but has now been discharged. Continue reading...
  
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• Biden lawyers found more classified documents at his home than was known

  14-01-2023 21:07 via theguardian.com
  White House acknowledges six pages of classified documents had been found in a search of private libraryLawyers for Joe Biden found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, than previously known, the White House acknowledged on Saturday.The White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement that a total of six pages of classified documents were found during a search of Biden’s private library. The White House had said previously that only a single page had been fou
  
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• The day I tried revolutionary new health MOT that can spot most cancers years before symptoms emerge - The Telegraph

  14-01-2023 21:00 via news.google.com
  The day I tried revolutionary new health MOT that can spot most cancers years before symptoms emerge  The Telegraph
  
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• Suella Braverman tells Holocaust survivor she will not apologise for ‘invasion’ rhetoric

  14-01-2023 20:53 via theguardian.com
  Joan Salter, 83, said language over migration was akin to what the Nazis used to justify murdering her familySuella Braverman has said she will not apologise for her language after a Holocaust survivor told the home secretary her description of migrants as an “invasion” was akin to rhetoric the Nazis used to justify murdering her family.Braverman was confronted by Joan Salter, 83, during a meeting in her Fareham constituency in Hampshire on Friday evening. Continue reading...
  
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• Apple’s Massive MacBook Pro Failure - Forbes

  14-01-2023 20:53 via news.google.com
  Apple’s Massive MacBook Pro Failure  Forbes
  
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• RFU intervenes to let Borthwick pick Farrell in England Six Nations squad

  14-01-2023 20:52 via theguardian.com
  Move means Owen Farrell’s ban expires before Scotland matchHenry Slade could miss start of England’s Six Nations campaignA remarkable intervention from the Rugby Football Union has cleared Steve Borthwick to pick the suspended Owen Farrell in his Six Nations squad on Monday without jeopardising his availability for England’s championship opener against Scotland.With the uncertainty that Farrell’s ban would be updated to include the Scotland fixture on 4 February if select
  
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• Daizen Maeda’s touch leads Celtic past Kilmarnock on way to another final

  14-01-2023 20:46 via theguardian.com
  For Celtic, a return to Hampden Park for the League Cup final in late February. This ­tournament is often derided as the poor ­relation of Scotland’s three main ­domestic ­competitions but it holds a special place in the heart of Ange Postecoglou. This marked the first trophy the Australian claimed as the Celtic ­manager. Without it, there is no chance of a much-coveted treble.As Celtic celebrated, Kilmarnock were due high praise. They posed as much of a challenge to Po
  
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• Everton board stay away from game after ‘threat to safety and security’

  14-01-2023 20:19 via theguardian.com
  Kenwright and Barrett-Baxendale among those absentClub call decision ‘unprecedented’ and ‘profoundly sad day’Everton’s board of directors missed the Premier League defeat by Southampton at Goodison Park due to what the club described as “a real and credible threat to their safety and security.”The unprecedented move was announced before a sit-in demonstration against the board by thousands of Everton fans, who called on owner Farhad Moshiri to make &ldqu
  
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• Straw Bear Festival returns to Whittlesey streets after Covid hiatus

  14-01-2023 20:14 via bbc.co.uk
  The Straw Bear Festival sees a person dressed in straw and Morris troupes dancing in the streets.
  
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• UK set to brand Iran’s revolutionary guards as terrorists after Akbari execution

  14-01-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Britain and EU expected to coordinate response to hanging of British-Iranian accused of spyingThe UK and the European Union are expected to coordinate moves to brand the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation after the execution of Alireza Akbari, a British-Iranian dual national who was lured back to Iran by the security services three years ago.Akbari, who had been a senior defence figure in reformist governments nearly two decades ago, was hanged for being a spy
  
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• Planting the seed: the botanist who harnessed the arts to grow Melbourne’s botanic gardens

  14-01-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  As he prepares to depart after 10 years at the helm, Tim Entwisle speaks of making the gardens ‘less introverted’ while staying focused on conservationGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastEvery morning, Prof Tim Entwisle arrives at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens just after 7am, usually in time to see the morning sun stream through the oak tree lawn.“At that time of day the light coming through them is just spectacular,” he says
  
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• One Afghan refugee’s stunning photographs of the country’s ‘many stories that need to be told’

  14-01-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  When Hazara photographer Muzafar Ali fled, he smuggled a hard drive of 13,000 photos out with him in a sleeping bag. They show an Afghanistan that disappeared when the Taliban took powerGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMuzafar Ali, who lives in Adelaide, grew up as a refugee in Pakistan after his family fled Afghanistan in the mid-1980s. As a child, the only pictures he saw of his birth country were through Taliban-issued jihadi calendars and the occasiona
  
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• ‘Is there going to be another tsunami?’: Tonga in limbo a year after volcano eruption

  14-01-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai caused devastation across the Pacific island nation that remains ongoing a year laterWhen ‘Eleni Via, 67, lived on the island of Atatā, her family were able to live off the land and the sea, surviving on crops planted in their garden and fresh seafood from the ocean.But in the last year, life has changed dramatically. Now, they struggle in a new home, attempting to cultivate a land that is not as fertile as it should be. For the first ti
  
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• Buccal fat removal is a new take on an old theme: a means to keep women in their place | Martha Gill

  14-01-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  When fashion demands that females mutilate themselves, it begins to look a lot like abuseIt’s a rather mixed message. No sooner have we given birth to a new female beauty trend than we line up to make fun of those stupid enough to follow it. You may have heard of the new craze for buccal fat removal, where a surgeon cuts out a glob of your cheek to give you sharper cheekbones. Chrissy Teigen is the only celebrity known to have “admitted” to the procedure, but already there is w
  
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• Clash looms on Scottish gender bill as UK government considers veto

  14-01-2023 19:51 via bbc.co.uk
  A clash between the UK and Scottish governments could be imminent if a bill is blocked by UK ministers.
  
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• Laura Kuenssberg: Is Keir Starmer a prime minister in waiting?

  14-01-2023 19:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour are ahead in the polls, but leader Keir Starmer has his work cut out, writes Laura Kuenssberg.
  
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• Derry woman injured in suspected gas explosion in Kylemore Park

  14-01-2023 19:40 via bbc.co.uk
  A woman is taken to hospital by ambulance after the blast in Kylemore Park in Londonderry.
  
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• Chelsea move to gazump Arsenal for Mudryk signing with €100m deal

  14-01-2023 19:16 via theguardian.com
  Fee agreed with Shakhtar and medical scheduled for SundayBlues also enquired to West Ham about Michail Antonio loanChelsea are close to hijacking Arsenal’s move for Mykhailo Mudryk after agreeing a €100m fee for the winger with Shakhtar Donetsk.Arsenal had been hopeful of strengthening their title bid by signing Mudryk, but Chelsea have moved swiftly to gazump their London rivals. The Stamford Bridge club have scheduled a medical for the 22-year-old on Sunday and are confident they wi
  
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• Southern Water failed Eastbourne tenants over sewage, landlord says

  14-01-2023 19:10 via bbc.co.uk
  A landlord says Southern Water left his tenants living with sewage water flooding for three weeks.
  
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• Rishi Sunak: lost leader – cartoon

  14-01-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Strikes, Brexit, the Tory right – the prime minister is beset by problems• You can order your own copy of this cartoon Continue reading...
  
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• Revealed: cabinet split over NHS pay disputes piles pressure on Sunak

  14-01-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Health secretary Steve Barclay urges unions to lobby PM over improved pay offer for striking nurses and ambulance workersThe health and social care secretary Steve Barclay has privately urged trade unions to help him make the case to the Treasury and No 10 for extra money for nurses, ambulance workers and other NHS staff in an extraordinary twist to the escalating crisis over health service strikes, the Observer can reveal.A serious cabinet split has opened up, with Barclay now wanting more mone
  
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• Prince Harry’s left the zoo, so why is he being treated like a caged animal? | Catherine Bennett

  14-01-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Accused of trying to destroy the monarchy, he’s merely revealing the appalling conditions they are forced to live underEarly signs are that Prince Harry’s revelations may not, frustratingly for experts and republicans alike, seriously threaten the monarchy. Even if he’d wanted to, he probably picked the wrong moment, the public still being in an exceptionally forgiving mood.For all his divulging, to seriously “stain” or “trash”, as alleged, the royal bra
  
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• Bret Easton Ellis: ‘James and the Giant Peach changed my life’

  14-01-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  The provocative novelist on looking back at his teenage self, the sales generated by a hostile Q&A and his obsession with Marilyn MonroeBret Easton Ellis, 58, is the author of nine books, most recently White (2019), a memoir of culture and politics that describes, among other things, the impact of reading Thomas Tryon’s violent 1971 horror classic The Other when he was seven years old. Speaking from home in Los Angeles, where he’s currently at work on a mock true-crime audio show
  
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• Ex-Russian president suggests Japanese PM should ritually disembowel himself

  14-01-2023 18:56 via theguardian.com
  Dmitry Medvedev accuses Fumio Kishida of shameful subservience to US after Joe Biden meetingFormer Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has accused Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida of shameful subservience to the US and suggested he should ritually disembowel himself.His remarks on Saturday were the latest in a long line of shocking and provocative statements from Medvedev, who was once seen as a western-leaning reformer but has reinvented himself as an arch-hawk since Russia’s invasion
  
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• Environment Agency warns of worsening picture after flooding

  14-01-2023 18:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Flood warnings remain in place in the West Midlands region and river peaks are expected.
  
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• Russia carries out two mass rocket strikes on Ukraine killing at least five people

  14-01-2023 18:46 via theguardian.com
  The targets of the attack, in which 39 people were injured, was Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, authorities saidRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesRussia has carried out two mass rocket strikes on Ukraine on Saturday, devastating an apartment block in the south-central city of Dnipro, where at least five people have died and 39 were injured. Rescue workers are still clearing the rubble at the scene.The targets of the attack, said Ukraine’s authorities earlier on Saturday,
  
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• HRT could cut Alzheimer's risk in some women - early study - BBC

  14-01-2023 18:46 via news.google.com
  HRT could cut Alzheimer's risk in some women - early study  BBCHRT could prevent Alzheimer's disease in at-risk women, study suggests  Sky NewsHormone Replacement Therapy Could Ward off Alzheimer’s Among At-Risk Women  Neuroscience NewsHRT ‘potentially important’ in reducing women’s dementia risk  The GuardianHormone replacement therapy may lower chance of developing Alzheimer's in women with high-risk gene  Daily MailView
  
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• HRT could cut Alzheimer's risk in some women - early study

  14-01-2023 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Alzheimer's Research UK said the findings were encouraging but said more and larger studies were needed.
  
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• Everton directors miss Southampton game over safety threat

  14-01-2023 18:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Everton's board of directors miss Saturday's home Premier League game against Southampton because of a "real and credible" safety threat.
  
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• Three dead boa constrictors discovered at Carbeth Loch near Glasgow

  14-01-2023 18:18 via theguardian.com
  SSPCA says circumstances ofincident suspicious as its launches appeal for information about the snakesAn animal rights charity is appealing for information after the bodies of three snakes were found at a fly-tipping spot near Glasgow.The Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) said the boa constrictors were discovered by a member of the public at a site near Carbeth Loch in Blanefield. Continue reading...
  
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• SNP members offered two routes to independence

  14-01-2023 18:14 via bbc.co.uk
  The party says the next UK election will either be a de facto referendum or a mandate for an indyref2 vote in 2026.
  
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• Washed away: can Britain’s crumbling castles be saved from the sea?

  14-01-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  From Cornwall to the Orkney isles, heritage experts are battling to preserve the UK’s historic sites from coastal erosionOn a cold, windy winter’s day, standing among the 13th-century remains of one of Britain’s most famous castles, you can see why Tintagel has inspired poets, artists and storytellers over the centuries.Looking at the crumbling, toothy remains of the walls, it is easy to imagine a time when people dined in splendour in the great feasting hall. King Arthur, than
  
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• UK looks clumsy and powerless in wake of Iran’s execution of Alireza Akbari

  14-01-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Culturally insulting language used by Rishi Sunak and James Cleverly will increase tension between the two countriesBritain’s relationship with Iran has a fraught, unedifying history, dating back to the 18th-century imperial tussle between England, Napoleonic France, and tsarist Russia for control of Persia. Iranians have long memories. To this day, they blame the UK for many of their woes.Britain invaded in 1941 to limit Nazi influence and protect the Anglo-Persian company’s oilfiel
  
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• The week in audio: Partygate: The Inside Story; In Dark Corners; I’m Not a Monster; The Goop Pursuit

  14-01-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Yet more revelations from inside Boris Johnson’s No 10; the great Prince Harry debate; an update on Alex Renton’s investigation of abuse at public schools; and Shamima Begum’s story in her own wordsPartygate: The Inside Story (ITV News) | itv.com
  Mike Graham (TalkRadio) | talk.tv
  James O’Brien (LBC) | globalplayer.comNicky Campbell (BBC Radio 5 Live) | BBC Sounds
  In Dark Corners (BBC Radio 4) | BBC SoundsI’m Not a Monster: The Shamima Begum Story BBC SoundsThe Goop
  
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• Revealed: ministers sought Charles’s consent to pass conservation laws affecting his business

  14-01-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  The government wrote to the then Prince of Wales in 2019, seeking approval for legislation that had implications for his estatesThe government asked King Charles for permission to pass its post-Brexit “world-leading” Environment Act because laws requiring landowners to enhance conservation could affect his business interests.Environment minister Rebecca Pow wrote to the then Prince of Wales in 2019 to ask if he would accept section seven of the environment bill, which became law in N
  
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• Modern gadgets in the style of Gaudí – in pictures

  14-01-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  “We live in an age of Apple and Tesla,” says Marcus Byrne of creative agency Thinkerbell in Australia. “Minimal design has taken charge and logos are stripped back to live on mobile devices.” He’s challenged that ideal by asking: “What would Gaudí do?” – using the Midjourney AI software and Photoshop to create a set of modern gadgets in the Spanish architect’s colourful, curvilinear style. “It turns minimal appliances into art-no
  
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• Business is doing nicely, thank you, while workers get steadily poorer

  14-01-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  With prices soaring but wage rises still well below inflation, employees in the UK are getting the rawest deal in EuropeSigns that corporate Britain is winning the inflation war can be found wherever you look.Gaze beyond the ailing independent retailers and small-scale manufacturers that dominate TV and radio news coverage to the sales and profits of our largest businesses, where robust performance is the norm and promises of bumper shareholder payouts are being kept. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump testified E Jean Carroll was ‘nut job’ who said she enjoyed being sexually assaulted

  14-01-2023 17:31 via theguardian.com
  Lawyer for writer who accused him of rape asked if ex-president was admitting to it, unsealed testimony showsDonald Trump called the writer E Jean Carroll a “nut job” in video testimony last year and falsely claimed she had enjoyed being sexually assaulted – prompting her lawyer to ask if he was admitting he had raped her, according to freshly unsealed testimony.Questioned for a lawsuit, Trump, the former US president, angrily hurled insults and threatened to sue the columnist
  
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• Absurd offside law cannot disguise shifting of sands in Manchester | Jonathan Wilson

  14-01-2023 17:07 via theguardian.com
  United’s controversial equaliser exposed a major flaw in the rules but also gave them a platform to close the gap on CityA forward makes a run for a through-ball. The defender steps up. The ball is played and the forward is in an offside position. The forward chases the ball, following it, escorting it. Something in his head – perhaps Bruno Fernandes screaming – warns him that he might be offside and so he pulls away, allowing another forward (let’s call him “Bruno
  
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• Whitehall spending ‘tens of millions’ on Rees-Mogg’s bill to scrap EU laws

  14-01-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Opposition MPs call for government rethink on ‘reckless’ plans to rewrite almost 4,000 European regulations Civil servants are estimated to be spending tens of millions of pounds establishing which laws and regulations could be scrapped under the government’s controversial retained EU laws bill. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) last week admitted it spent £600,000 on staffing costs alone in just two months as part of its review of the bil
  
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• What’s the point of personal statements when ChatGPT can say it so much better? | Tim Adams

  14-01-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Thanks in part to AI, students will no longer have to wax lyrical about struggles and achievements to secure a university placeThe decision to scrap personal statements from university applications is overdue. Not only for the stated reason – that the practice of writing a 4,000-character essay about yourself is seen to favour middle-class kids (and the genetically smug) – but also because the temptations of help from artificial intelligence are increasingly hard to resist. Who is go
  
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• Turning the tide with a nautical themed home on the French coast

  14-01-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  A home on France’s genteel Ile de Ré that pays homage to Tintin, elderly aunts and the seafaring past of this stunningly beautiful Atlantic islandLocated off its west coast and linked to the mainland by a bridge, the Ile de Ré is one of France’s most sought-after seaside destinations. Renowned for its picture-perfect villages and 60 miles of sandy coastline, it has, over the years, attracted a well-heeled, essentially bourgeois crowd, as well as celebrities such as Vane
  
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• Juni Habel: Carvings review – intense, twilit Norwegian folk

  14-01-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
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  Accompanied by her husband, brother and uncle, the singer’s sparse, jazz-tinged record, which circles around a family tragedy, feels timelessRight on cue for the dark days of winter comes this pensive, intimate album, conceived and recorded in the south Norwegian countryside. The house where its eight songs were captured stands on the cover, with twentysomething Juni Habel on its step and its owner, her grandmother, looking on from a window. Habel’s brother, husband and
  
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