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• What's happening with Scotland's gender reforms - in 70 seconds

  18-01-2023 22:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Philip Sim explains the gender reform row - and what might come next.
  
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• The Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas serenades Parliament

  18-01-2023 21:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Commons Speaker welcomes the Gurkhas' 37-strong band, to perform a medley of Highland tunes.
  
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• ‘No explanation why my healthy child died’

  18-01-2023 18:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hannah and Claire’s young sons both died suddenly and unexpectedly.
  
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• 17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica - Phys.org

  18-01-2023 18:28 via news.google.com
  17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica  Phys.orgView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Will some teachers receive a 15.9% pay rise?

  18-01-2023 17:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fact-checking claims by Education Secretary Gillian Keegan and teachers' union boss Mary Bousted.
  
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• Peterborough doorbell video sees man trying to enter 15 homes

  18-01-2023 16:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After police appealed for doorbell footage, the attempted burglar was identified and jailed.
  
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• Radio signal from ancient galaxy is most distant ever detected - Yahoo News UK

  18-01-2023 15:58 via news.google.com
  Radio signal from ancient galaxy is most distant ever detected  Yahoo News UKView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Spectacular comet 'last seen by the Neanderthals' to streak through skies again - Daily Record

  18-01-2023 15:37 via news.google.com
  Spectacular comet 'last seen by the Neanderthals' to streak through skies again  Daily RecordGreen comet to shoot through skies - How and when to see it in Edinburgh  Edinburgh LiveHave You Seen The ‘Green Comet’ Yet? The Inconvenient Truth Behind The Headlines  ForbesGreen comet that hasn't been seen in 50000 years to appear soon in sky  KOCO 5 NewsStunning image reveals '3 days in the life of a comet' (photo)  Space.comView Full cov
  
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• Ukraine: senior officials die in helicopter crash near nursery – video report

  18-01-2023 15:24 via theguardian.com
  
  A helicopter believed to have been travelling to the frontline has crashed in a Kyiv suburb, killing senior officials including the interior minister, Denys Monastyrsky, and a number of children who died after debris hit a nearby nursery. Footage from the immediate aftermath shows a building and cars on fire, with video released by the Ukrainian police showing parts of the helicopter scattered across the crash site. Security services are investigating possible causes, including a technical malfu
  
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• Rush for bags and scarves helps Burberry offset China Covid slump

  18-01-2023 12:59 via theguardian.com
  
  British luxury goods firm reports 1% increase in global sales in last quarter of 2022Burberry offset a plunge in Chinese sales of more than a fifth amid Covid disruption, thanks to the return of tourists to Europe who snapped up bags, scarves and trenchcoats in the run-up to Christmas.The British luxury goods firm reported a 1% increase in global sales in the three months to the end of December, below its 2% target and sharply down compared with the 11% growth reported in the previous quarter. C
  
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• Australian Open 2023: Gauff knocks out Raducanu, Medvedev beats Millman – live

  18-01-2023 12:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Tsitsipas, Collins and Rybakina also in action on day threeHobbled Nadal bows out | Swiatek and Pegula power throughShare your thoughts with David via email or on TwitterGauff 5-2 Raducanu* (*denotes next server)Raducanu whips away a backhand crosscourt winner to secure 15-30 and sniffs a second straight break back. But there are just too many errors creeping in from the Brit and Gauff isn’t having to work as hard as she might for points. The American wins the next three and moves 5-2 in f
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war latest: Zelenskiy says helicopter crash that killed at least 15 people is ‘terrible tragedy’

  18-01-2023 12:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Interior minister and three children among those killed as Ukrainian president says exact number of victims in Brovary, near Kyiv, still unclearDmytro Zhyvytskyi, governor of Sumy region, and Maksym Kozytskyi, governor of Lviv region, have both posted their regular morning status updates on Telegram, and both say that their regions passed the night without any shelling or air raid warnings taking effect.Politico’s chief Brussels correspondent Suzanne Lynch reports from Brussels that the Li
  
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• PMQs live: Sunak faces Starmer as minister says rail strikes have cost more than settling pay dispute

  18-01-2023 12:56 via theguardian.com
  Prime minister facing questions from leader of the Labour party and other MPsHuw Merriman, the rail minister, told MPs this morning that the government has lost more money due to the impact of rail strikes than it would have cost to settle the disputes months ago, PA Media reports. PA says:Merriman told MPs the row has “ended up costing more” but insisted the “overall impact” on all public sector pay deals must be considered.Ben Bradshaw, a Labour member of the committee,
  
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• Ten suspended Chinese snooker players charged with match-fixing by WPBSA

  18-01-2023 12:53 via theguardian.com
  
  WPBSA decides players have case to answer over allegationsLiang Wenbo among those charged with approaching othersWorld snooker’s governing body has decided that 10 Chinese players have a case to answer in relation to alleged match-fixing.The allegations include fixing matches, approaching players to cheat, betting on snooker and seeking to obstruct the investigation. Continue reading...
  
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• Will The Last of Us open the floodgates for good video-game adaptations?

  18-01-2023 12:40 via theguardian.com
  
  The HBO version of the post-apocalyptic has had rave reviews. From Silent Hill to Broken Sword, here are others that could really shine on the small screenDon’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWith the benefit of hindsight, it was always going to be television and not film where the first genuinely authentic video game tie-in would happen. The format of the ongoing drama series, with its capacity for multiple character and narrative arcs, as well as its extended ru
  
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• Aldi increases pay for UK warehouse workers for third time in a year

  18-01-2023 12:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Supermarket’s rise to £13.18 on 1 February puts hourly minimum rate 20% ahead of January 2022Aldi is increasing pay for UK warehouse workers for the third time in a year – with the hourly minimum rate now 20% ahead of last January.The German-owned discounter, which is the UK’s fourth-largest supermarket chain, said pay would rise to £13.18 on 1 February, up 4% on the current minimum of £12.66, which was introduced in September. Continue reading...
  
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• One Piece Odyssey review – the pirate adventure that manga fans deserve

  18-01-2023 12:32 via theguardian.com
  
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  A bonkers collection of epic adventures and side-quests sprinkled with puzzles that fans of the Japanese pop-cultural behemoth have been crying out forOne Piece is a pop-culture behemoth that, unaccountably, never gained traction outside of Japan. Officially the biggest-selling manga comic series ever, it is now celebrating its 25th anniversary, and One Piece Odyssey honours that milestone. Previous attempts to expand this fun-loving pirate crew&r
  
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• East Yorkshire's Peggy the Pugese bids to be named UK's ugliest dog

  18-01-2023 12:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The unusual-looking dog, from East Yorkshire, is one of several in line for winning the title.
  
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• Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir hails landmark maternity pay ruling as ‘wake-up call’ for football

  18-01-2023 12:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Iceland captain wins pay claim against former club LyonFifpro union helped player to fight for pregnancy rightsThe Iceland captain Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir has won her maternity claim against Lyon after she was not paid her full salary during pregnancy and has hailed the ruling as a “wake-up call for clubs”.The 32-year-old turned to Fifpro to lodge her complaint with Fifa and football’s global body ruled in August last year that the club must pay the full amount owe
  
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• The Sex Lives of College Girls review – this comedy’s spectacular chemistry makes it the modern-day Friends

  18-01-2023 12:29 via theguardian.com
  
  The gang of pitch-perfect actors give this show the perfect, elusive blend of truthful, joyful and funnyI have been remiss. I realise now, as its second series begins, that I have neglected to proclaim to you at every possible opportunity over these last few vexing years that help was at hand to smooth your passage through the dark days. I apologise unreservedly and say now: let The Sex Lives of College Girls (ITVX) comfort you and, also, I must state that it is not porn because I know that&rsqu
  
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• How did gas stoves ignite a culture war in the US? | Jill Filipovic

  18-01-2023 12:20 via theguardian.com
  
  I recently moved from a gas stove to an induction range, and I love it. Other Americans probably will, tooOf all the political issues I assumed would come to the fore in 2023, gas stoves were not on my bingo card. And yet Americans’ right to cook on an open gas flame has turned into a red-hot culture war issue. Conservatives are gearing up for a War of the Cooktops – and unfortunately, some Democrats aren’t helping.Some five decades’ worth of studies have found that gas s
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 329 of the invasion

  18-01-2023 12:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukraine’s interior minister Denys Monastyrskiy among at least 15 dead after helicopter crashes near kindergarten in Kyiv outskirtsSee all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage Continue reading...
  
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• UK sports facilities face closure without government help, warn leading bodies

  18-01-2023 12:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Government urged to change decision on energy discount‘This will impact millions of people, of all ages and backgrounds’The government must reverse its decision to exclude swimming pools from its energy discount scheme or face nationwide closures this year, a group of leading bodies has warned.Eight organisations, including UK Active and the Youth Sport Trust, alongside the Local Government Association, have issued an urgent plea for change, after the government kept leisure services
  
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• China’s football crisis: what happened next after Covid struck?

  18-01-2023 12:11 via theguardian.com
  
  There are finally positive signs for the game, but only after three years that diminished the CSL from its global standingThere cannot be many, if any, leagues that have been affected by the pandemic as much as the Chinese Super League. It was the first to deal with Covid-19 and, with China keeping stringent restrictions on daily life longer than elsewhere, the last to operate in tightly controlled conditions. With Beijing’s so-called zero-Covid policy recently abandoned, the country of 1.
  
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• UK inflation dips slightly to 10.5% but people continue to feel pinch - The Guardian

  18-01-2023 12:05 via news.google.com
  UK inflation dips slightly to 10.5% but people continue to feel pinch  The GuardianUK inflation drops but food keeps inflation high  BBCInflation rate FALLS but STILL in double digits: 'This is pretty disappointing'  GBNewsFTSE 100 crawls up as UK inflation eases further  ReutersUK inflation eases back, but remains among the highest in the western world  IG UKView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• How will drop in inflation affect plans to raise UK interest rates?

  18-01-2023 12:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Bank of England must proceed with caution as households are still cutting back and business confidence is weakUK inflation dips slightly to 10.5%Baker Warburtons battles soaring food inflationThere is hope for households across Britain that inflation, finally, has peaked. After hitting a 41-year high of more than 11% in October as energy bills soared, the fall in the annual inflation rate in December for a second consecutive month will come as a relief.However, prices remain high and are still r
  
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• The Spin | Whatever your view, Smith’s interest shows value of County Championship

  18-01-2023 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Australia’s best-since-Bradman wants to play a few games before the Ashes but the chance to learn may not be all one wayAt a time when cricketers bounce from one Twenty20 league to the next without much fuss – often halfway through, like cowboy builders yet to finish off the skirting boards – it’s almost reassuring that the idea of a player dropping into the County Championship for “three or four” matches can get plenty of backs up.The player in question is no
  
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• The Problem of Democracy by Shadi Hamid review – democracy and its discontents

  18-01-2023 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Should US foreign policy demand liberalism, as well as free elections? Whatever else he leaves behind, Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto-whiz charged with multiple counts of fraud, has bequeathed a lasting gift to the publishing business. “I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that,” mused SBF to an interviewer. “If you wrote a book, you fucked up and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.”Of cours
  
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• More Than Ever review – dying Vicky Krieps acts up a storm in end-of-life drama

  18-01-2023 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Krieps and the late Gaspard Ulliel bring great conviction and intelligence to this unlikely tale of a woman’s last adventureHere is a painful, intimate, impeccably acted if not entirely plausible drama of terminal illness with an extra-textual layer of sadness and irony. The estimable Vicky Krieps plays Hélène, who is dying of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (a rare lung disease) and her partner is becoming her carer: this is Matthieu, played by Gaspard Ulliel – who died
  
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• Children of the storm: can a climate disaster hurt the unborn in the womb?

  18-01-2023 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Study suggests children who were in the womb during Superstorm Sandy are more likely to have behavior disordersWhen Superstorm Sandy hit in October 2012, Celia Sporer-Newman was about eight months pregnant and working full-time as a paramedic in Queens, New York.Sporer-Newman had worked through previous disasters, including Hurricane Irene the year before, but this felt different. She saw news reports that said Sandy was going to be worse than anything New Yorkers had seen before. Continue readi
  
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• Davos day 2: UN chief Guterres accuses big oil of peddling big lie on climate change – business live - The Guardian

  18-01-2023 11:59 via news.google.com
  Davos day 2: UN chief Guterres accuses big oil of peddling big lie on climate change – business live  The GuardianEU Commission president: Western allies need to 'step up' military support to Ukraine  CNNUkraine urges world leaders to intensify war efforts on first day at Davos  The GuardianSpecial Address by the President at the World Economic Forum  European CommissionDavos 23: Special Address by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Comm
  
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• Grace Wales Bonner pays homage to black icons in Paris show

  18-01-2023 11:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Frontrunner for Louis Vuitton job enlists Kendrick Lamar, Lubaina Himid and the Jamaica football team for new collectionBackstage after her Paris show, the British menswear designer Grace Wales Bonner said she wasn’t interested in the rumours spreading across the French capital.The 31-year-old, who is mixed-race, is said to be the frontrunner to take over at Louis Vuitton, which would make her one of the youngest creative directors at one of the world’s biggest fashion brands. Contin
  
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• Man questioned over London church drive-by shooting is bailed

  18-01-2023 11:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Girl, seven, remains in serious but stable condition after shooting in Euston on Saturday, say policeA man questioned over a drive-by shooting at a church in central London that left a seven-year-old girl in a life-threatening condition has been bailed.Mourners attending a memorial service for a young woman and her mother came under gunfire outside St Aloysius church in Phoenix Road, Euston, central London, on Saturday. Continue reading...
  
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• London mayor to ask home secretary to strip David Carrick of police pension

  18-01-2023 11:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Sadiq Khan says he will seek to prevent serial rapist from receiving the estimated £22,000-a-year pension The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has said he will apply to the home secretary to strip serial rapist David Carrick of his police pension.A spokesperson for the mayor said Khan would make the move to strip the former Metropolitan police officer of his estimated £22,000-a-year pension because his crimes were committed in connection with his job. Continue reading...
  
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• Liz Truss Jenga-style podium cost taxpayers £4,175

  18-01-2023 11:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Lectern featuring blocks of wood resembling popular game was made for ex-PM who lasted 45 days UK politics live – latest news updatesA Jenga-style podium used by Liz Truss in her short-lived stint as prime minister cost taxpayers £4,175, it has emerged.The lectern was compared to a Jenga tower, from the board game that results in total collapse, as it featured pieces of wood that resembled Jenga blocks ready to topple. It was specially made for the former prime minister who lasted 45
  
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• Little Demon review – Danny DeVito’s super-fun animation is absolute filth

  18-01-2023 11:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Packed with gore and glorious zingers, this animation about the daughter of Satan is here to have a good time – and it’s like Rick and Morty meets The Simpsons at its peakOne minute your daughter is all party dresses and popcorn, the next she’s a bloody monster. Many stories have been told about mothers helping their child through their first period and into young adulthood, and the animated comedy Little Demon (Disney+) begins by following the usual script. Single mother Laura
  
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• Hoppy feet: the nostalgic return of frog-faced wellies

  18-01-2023 11:28 via theguardian.com
  
  First the designer JW Anderson gave us a bag shaped like a pigeon. Now he’s sure to start a new trend with his ‘clogs’ made in collaboration with royal favourites WellipetsWhat has two eyes, green skin, and kept your feet dry when you were a child? Anyone born in the 1980s will recall that whenever the heavens opened, off came the Dunlops and out came a pair of anthropomorphised, amphibious wellington boots. Now, almost forty years later, they’re back.Made by Wellipets, a
  
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• Ukraine's interior ministry leadership killed in helicopter crash - BBC

  18-01-2023 11:21 via news.google.com
  
  Ukraine's interior ministry leadership killed in helicopter crash  BBCRussia-Ukraine war live: Several people including Ukraine Interior Minister killed in chopper crash  WIONUkraine ministers among those killed in helicopter crash near Kyiv nursery - BBC News  BBC NewsUkraine-Russia war latest: Ukraine's interior minister killed in kindergarten helicopter crash  The TelegraphUkraine helicopter crash: Officials killed in crash were travelling to front line
  
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• 'Bloody hard work': baker Warburtons battles soaring food inflation - The Guardian

  18-01-2023 11:18 via news.google.com
  'Bloody hard work': baker Warburtons battles soaring food inflation  The Guardian
  
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• UN head accuses fossil fuel firms of business models 'inconsistent with human survival' - The Guardian

  18-01-2023 11:15 via news.google.com
  UN head accuses fossil fuel firms of business models 'inconsistent with human survival'  The GuardianLive: UN Secretary-General Guterres addresses World Economic Forum  The IndependentDavos 2023: UN chief urges 'credible' net-zero pledges or risk greenwashing  ReutersDavos: UN chief António Guterres addresses World Economic Forum – watch live  Guardian News‘Big Oil peddled the big lie’: UN chief slams energy giants for ignoring the
  
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• UN head accuses fossil fuel firms of business models ‘inconsistent with human survival’

  18-01-2023 11:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Criticism at Davos for big companies who, ‘like the tobacco industry’, ride roughshod over their own scienceThe head of the United Nations has accused the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies of refusing to abandon a business model at odds with human survival despite knowingly putting the world on course for a climate meltdown decades ago.Speaking at the Davos summit of business and political leaders, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, launched a strong attack
  
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• Ipswich stabbing: Man, 18, dies after town centre attack - BBC

  18-01-2023 11:13 via news.google.com
  
  Ipswich stabbing: Man, 18, dies after town centre attack  BBCCops launch murder probe after teenager, 18, is stabbed to death  Daily MailIpswich: Man, 18, dies in Westgate Street stabbing  Ipswich StarTeen, 18, stabbed to death in front of horrified shoppers in 'brazen attack' on street  The MirrorView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Sint Maarten approves plan to cull entire population of vervet monkeys

  18-01-2023 11:10 via theguardian.com
  
  The Caribbean territory plans to exterminate at least 450 of the invasive primates – but critics disagree with the proposalThe government of Sint Maarten in the eastern Caribbean has approved a controversial plan to cull its entire population of vervet monkeys, as the proliferation of the invasive species becomes an increasing nuisance on the Dutch island territory.Authorities will fund the Nature Foundation St Maarten NGO to capture and euthanise at least 450 monkeys over the next three y
  
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• Labour to force Commons vote on plans to 'sunset' 4000 EU laws - The Guardian

  18-01-2023 11:07 via news.google.com
  Labour to force Commons vote on plans to 'sunset' 4000 EU laws  The GuardianBrexit: Clash looms over plan to scrap EU-derived laws  BBCPolitical interests drive the retained EU bill, not policy  Financial TimesJacob Rees-Mogg's bonfire of EU laws is a vanity project that even Brexiteers think is too extreme  iNewsThe Brexiters are getting their bonfire of EU law – and democracy will lie in the ashes  The GuardianView Full coverage on Google
  
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• The royals’ shroud of secrecy serves a dismaying purpose | Jemimah Steinfeld

  18-01-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Prince Harry aside, the royals excel at hiding information about themselves – and this prevents them being held to accountThis article won’t feature any revelations about how the then third-in-line to the throne lost his virginity in a field. There will be no details as specific as a dog bowl or a necklace left broken on a kitchen floor. And there will be nothing as bizarre as family broigus sparked by a beard. It won’t, in fact, reveal much about the royal family at all &ndash
  
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• Dating burnout: meet the people who ditched the apps – and found love offline

  18-01-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Internet dating can feel soul-destroying, unnerving and transactional. Couples explain how their love lives were transformed when they finally stopped swipingWhen Georgie Thorogood’s date made a sleazy joke about “horsey girls carrying whips”, she knew it was time to make a hasty exit. After meeting Tom through a dating app in the summer of 2021, she had been hoping for some polite conversation over a few drinks, maybe some romantic chemistry if she was lucky. What she got was
  
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• ‘An anachronic system’: focus on military police reform after Brazil riot

  18-01-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Force faces growing calls for change amid what experts say could be a ‘window of opportunity’ for LulaThe mob attack on Brazil’s supreme court, congress and presidential palace earlier this month has focused attention on the country’s military police, with calls for the force to be reformed growing amid what experts say could be a “window of opportunity” for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.Thousands of far-right radicals supportive of former preside
  
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• Church of England bishops refuse to back gay marriage

  18-01-2023 10:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Bishops resist change that would allow clergy to marry same-sex couples but propose civil marriages can be blessed in churchThe Church of England has rejected demands to allow clergy to conduct same-sex marriages but is proposing that couples who married in a civil ceremony may have their union blessed in church.The C of E released “historic plans” on Wednesday outlining a proposed way forward after decades of bitter and anguished division over sexuality. The proposal, endorsed by bi
  
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• Cabbage-growing experiment shows human waste can be good to use as fertiliser

  18-01-2023 10:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Scientists say yields from crops fertilised with recycled human waste rival those produced by organic methodsUsing fertilisers derived from human faeces and urine can be as productive as conventional organic ones, with no risk of transmitting disease, according to new research.It may seem unappetising, but humans have been using human waste as a fertiliser for thousands of years because it contains the key nutrients that plants need to grow, including nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Ploughin
  
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• London mayor to ask home secretary to strip David Carrick of police pension - The Guardian

  18-01-2023 10:10 via news.google.com
  London mayor to ask home secretary to strip David Carrick of police pension  The GuardianDavid Carrick: Metropolitan Police sack serial rapist police officer  BBCThe public wants to see action not words from the Metropolitan Police  The TelegraphFury that rapist cop David Carrick could keep pension as Khan and Braverman call for payment to be scrapped  LBCDon't tell me that David Carrick's crimes were 'unbelievable'. The problem is victims aren't believed&
  
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