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• King Charles's coronation plans include Windsor concert

  21-01-2023 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The event to be broadcast live on the BBC is among the celebrations to mark the coronation in May.
  
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• Buckingham Palace reveals details of three-day celebration to mark King Charles III's coronation - CNN International

  21-01-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  Buckingham Palace reveals details of three-day celebration to mark King Charles III's coronation  CNN InternationalKing Charles's coronation plans include Windsor concert  BBCCharles' coronation will be very different to the Queen's, says MARGARET HOLDER  ExpressKing Charles 'without question' wants a scaled down Coronation says former royal butler  GBNewsSpend a day volunteering to mark coronation, urges palace  The GuardianView Full coverage on
  
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• Labour reports Boris Johnson to standards watchdog over 'quagmire of sleaze' engulfing former PM - Sky News

  21-01-2023 23:17 via news.google.com
  Labour reports Boris Johnson to standards watchdog over 'quagmire of sleaze' engulfing former PM  Sky NewsView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Turkey condemns burning of Qur’an during far-right protest in Sweden

  21-01-2023 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Event in front of Turkish embassy will further inflame tensions between two countriesTurkey has condemned a demonstration involving the burning of Qur’ans in Sweden on Saturday, further inflaming tensions between the two countries amid Stockholm’s Nato bid.The protest in Stockholm, which took place under heavy police protection in front of Turkey’s embassy, gathered about 100 people and a crowd of reporters, Agence France-Presse reported. Continue reading...
  
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• PREMIER LEAGUE HIGHLIGHTS: WEST HAM UNITED 2-0 EVERTON - Everton Football Club

  21-01-2023 23:00 via news.google.com
  
  PREMIER LEAGUE HIGHLIGHTS: WEST HAM UNITED 2-0 EVERTON  Everton Football ClubFrank Lampard vows to ‘dig in’ after Everton loss leaves him clinging to job  The Guardian"We'll Never Give Up" | West Ham 2-0 Everton | Jarrod Bowen & Declan Rice | Post Match Reaction  West Ham United FCRobbie Savage loses it live on BT Sport at James Tarkowski after what he did during Everton v West Ham United  Goodison NewsWEST HAM UNITED 2-0 EVERTON: FRANK LAM
  
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• Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World review – Chuck D is a brilliant history teacher

  21-01-2023 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Some of the greatest pop music ever made gets the respectful, rigorous sociological treatment it deserves – thanks to this documentary series from the Public Enemy starThere’s almost no hip-hop in the first episode of BBC Two’s new four-part documentary about the genre, a series that labours under the vanilla title Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five only drop The Message in the last five minutes. Instead, we are given an hour-
  
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• Lula sacks head of Brazilian army after January 8 insurgency

  21-01-2023 22:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Júlio Cesar de Arruda reportedly stopped police detaining suspected rioters who took refuge outside army headquarters The head of the Brazilian army has been sacked by the country’s new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, after claims the commander tried to shield rightwing rioters from arrest after the 8 January insurrection in Brasília.Gen Júlio Cesar de Arruda, who only took up the role in late December, was removed from his position on Saturday, nearly two
  
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• ADHD: Women tell of their diagnosis struggles

  21-01-2023 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bronwen Lewis went private rather rather than face more than a year's wait for an NHS assessment.
  
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• Thousands march across Dartmoor to demand right to wild camp

  21-01-2023 22:46 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 3,000 people protest on estate of Alexander Darwall after his court victory ends right to wild camp in EnglandMore than 3,000 people on Saturday joined one of the UK’s largest ever countryside access protests on the Dartmoor estate of a wealthy landowner who won a case ending the right to wild camp in England.Groups of walkers, families, students and local people arrived by foot, shuttle bus and bike to the small Dartmoor village of Cornwood throughout the morning and then throng
  
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• Masked Singer's Pigeon's identity 'solved' by fans after telling accent clue - Daily Record

  21-01-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  Masked Singer's Pigeon's identity 'solved' by fans after telling accent clue  Daily RecordRubbish unveiled as snooker champ Stephen Hendry on Masked Singer in latest elimination  The MirrorSteven Hendry shocks The Masked Singer panel as he is unmasked as Rubbish  Daily MailScots snooker player Stephen Hendry revealed on The Masked Singer  STV NewsThe Masked Singer fans all say the same thing about Fawn after noticing she sounds ‘just like’ majo
  
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• The Starling Girl review – Eliza Scanlen shines in transgressive coming of age drama

  21-01-2023 21:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Sundance film festival: the Sharp Objects star steals the spotlight as a 17-year-old fundamentalist Christian in an intoxicating, forbidden relationship with her older youth pastorThe Starling Girl, the feature debut from writer-director Laurel Parmet, sets forth two difficult, easily muddled tasks. First, striking the correct tonal balance for a sexual relationship separated by age and authority – in this case, an intoxicating, transgressive romance between 17-year-old Jem Starling (Eliza
  
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• Ipswich town centre fatal stabbing: Two arrested

  21-01-2023 21:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Raymond James Quigley, known as James, was stabbed four times in Ipswich town centre on Tuesday.
  
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• Ron Klain to reportedly step down as Biden chief of staff

  21-01-2023 21:10 via theguardian.com
  
  New York Times reports Klain to announce departure in coming weeks, following two grueling years since president took officeRon Klain, Joe Biden’s chief of staff, is reportedly set to step down from his position, in what will be the biggest change to the US president’s inner circle of advisors since he took office two years ago.Klain will announce his departure in the coming weeks, according to the New York Times, after telling colleagues that he is ready to move on following a gruel
  
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• What’s stopping German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine? - Al Jazeera English

  21-01-2023 21:06 via news.google.com
  What’s stopping German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine?  Al Jazeera EnglishUkraine urges western allies to speed up decision on tanks as Russia attacks south east  Channel 4 NewsUkraine has 'frank' talks with Germany as it pushes for tanks - BBC News  BBC NewsLeopard 2 tanks: what are they and why does Ukraine want them?  The GuardianIs Germany Letting Ukraine Down? It's Not That Simple  BloombergView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• How an app is helping low vision people navigate life better - BBC News - BBC News

  21-01-2023 21:00 via news.google.com
  
  How an app is helping low vision people navigate life better - BBC News  BBC News
  
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• Erling Haaland, system-based teams and the role of the goalscorer | Jonathan Wilson

  21-01-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Great strikers win games and yet they can disrupt tactical systems where dominating the ball is crucial – just like atCityErling Haaland is a phenomenon. It’s not just that he has scored 22 goals already this season, plus a further five goals in the Champions League. It’s the sense he offers of being unstoppable: almost unbeatable for pace, almost impossible to knock off the ball and with a clinical eye for goal as well.His phlegmatic, almost flippant, personality makes him mor
  
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• Henry Slade shows his old class as Exeter overcome card-happy Castres

  21-01-2023 20:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Pool A: Exeter 40-3 CastresScrappy French side pick up one red card and three yellowsThey claim a home tie in the final 16, but Exeter looked as off-colour in overcoming a motiveless Castres as any of the English sides who have laboured through this year’s edition. Six tries and 40 points may look comfortable enough, but Castres defied expectation to cause their hosts real problems.Exeter came up trumps in this one on the card lottery. Castres were shown four of them, one red, three in thr
  
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• Three arrested after mass brawl erupts outside Walton Road Wetherspoons - Liverpool Echo

  21-01-2023 20:36 via news.google.com
  Three arrested after mass brawl erupts outside Walton Road Wetherspoons  Liverpool EchoShocking moment thugs brawl in the street, throw bottles and attack workers outside Wetherspoons pub...  The SunView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Newcastle forced to settle for point at stubborn Crystal Palace

  21-01-2023 20:32 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s been so long since Newcastle last conceded a goal in the Premier League that even Eddie Howe could be forgiven for not remembering who scored it. Yet another clean sheet – their sixth in succession – ensured that his side moved above Manchester United on goal difference and into third spot in the table despite failing to find a breakthrough against a stubborn Crystal Palace defence.For the record, Romain Perraud’s consolation for Southampton back on 6 November was th
  
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• Head of Kurdish people-smuggling ring arrested after going on the run

  21-01-2023 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Tarik Namik fled UK before sentencing in December but detained after returning to Manchester airportThe head of a Kurdish people-smuggling ring has been arrested after going on the run before his sentencing, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.Tarik Namik, 45, from Oldham, failed to show up at Manchester crown court and was given an eight-year jail term in his absence on 9 December. Continue reading...
  
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• Frank Lampard vows to ‘dig in’ after Everton loss leaves him clinging to job

  21-01-2023 20:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Everton board are present for 2-0 defeat at West Ham‘It is my job to work, focus and keep my head down’Frank Lampard vowed to “dig in” after a damaging defeat by West Ham in a crucial clash at the bottom of the table left Everton’s manager clinging to his job.In a potentially significant development Everton’s majority shareholder, Farhad Moshiri, was at the London Stadium to watch Lampard’s side slip deeper into relegation trouble. Moshiri had not attend
  
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• Nadhim Zahawi: the questions over his tax affairs that won’t go away - The Guardian

  21-01-2023 20:19 via news.google.com
  Nadhim Zahawi: the questions over his tax affairs that won’t go away  The GuardianView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Nadhim Zahawi fights for his political life after admitting tax ‘error’

  21-01-2023 20:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Embattled Tory party chair reveals he made ‘careless but not deliberate’ error over multimillion-pound share saleNadhim Zahawi was battling to save his political career on Saturday night after he finally admitted reaching a tax settlement with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) following an “error” over a controversial multimillion-pound shareholding in the polling company YouGov.In a carefully worded statement, Zahawi appeared to confirm that HMRC had carried out an investiga
  
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• Sturgeon: I trust 16-year-olds to make decisions

  21-01-2023 20:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nicola Sturgeon argues for debate on rights for teenagers, as she defends gender recognition plans.
  
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• Turkish anger after Quran burning, Kurd protests in Sweden - Al Jazeera English

  21-01-2023 20:02 via news.google.com
  Turkish anger after Quran burning, Kurd protests in Sweden  Al Jazeera EnglishTurkey cancels Swedish defence minister's visit over protest permits • FRANCE 24 English  FRANCE 24 EnglishTurkey condemns 'vile' Sweden Quran-burning protest  BBCProtest in Istanbul after Swedish politician burns the Qoran in Stockholm  euronewsTurkey condemns burning of Qur’an during far-right protest in Sweden  The GuardianView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• What are we worrying about when we worry about TikTok? | Samantha Floreani

  21-01-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sensationalist headlines and reactionary calls for stricter moderation risk missing the forest for the treesIs there any platform that creates as much collective angst as TikTok? For some, TikTok is just a silly video app. For others, it’s a symbol of our most potent social and political fears. What are young people engaging with? Isn’t it collecting a huge amount of data? Are they being dragged down dangerous rabbit holes? And is China spying on them? Continue reading...
  
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• The moment I knew: I was on a quest to figure out exactly how gay I was. But I kept coming back to her

  21-01-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Turning up at a party in the same outfit as someone else can be awkward, but one summer in New York, a sartorial coincidence blossomed into romanceGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailKay first caught my eye at a house party in Brooklyn. Not because she was beautiful (she was), or because she spoke in a jaunty Australian accent (she did), but because she and I were wearing almost exactly the same outfit.It was a popular look in the summer of 2017: a black dress paired with a jean jacket or
  
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• Stoking a culture war? No, Nicola Sturgeon, this is about balancing conflicting rights | Sonia Sodha

  21-01-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Scottish gender reform plans jeopardise legal protections for womenThe term “culture war” once had meaning: the weaponisation of socio-cultural issues to foment division. But, like the words bigoted and phobic, it is being rendered impotent by how often it is now used to mean “opinion I disagree with”.Not just in social media spats: Nicola Sturgeon last week accused the Conservative government of “stoking a culture war” by using section 35 of the Scotland Act
  
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• Stalking the dead: how tracing old photographs helped me resurrect my mother’s past

  21-01-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  I spent my youth running away from my mother’s Holocaust story. As mother to the grandchildren she never knew, I ached to know moreMy mother had four different first names, depending on which language she was speaking at the time. She was Anka in German, Hanka in Polish, Chanka in Yiddish, and after arriving in Australia on a refugee passport in 1949, she adopted the anglicised version of herself, Hannah. Her surname was Altman, although after she married my father, that vestige of her for
  
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• ‘It’s not medical tourism, it’s desperation’: rising number of Britons resort to treatment abroad

  21-01-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Despair over NHS waiting lists is driving people who could never afford private care in UK to countries like LithuaniaCathy Rice had been in all-consuming pain for 18 months when she decided to fly to Lithuania. “I was going up the stairs on my hands and knees. I couldn’t get to the shop. I had no quality of life,” she says.Rice, 68, who has four grandchildren, had been told she needed a knee replacement for an injury caused by osteoarthritis but – like millions of NHS pa
  
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• Arsenal line-ups vs Man United with Trossard debut decision, Partey gets chance and Saka starts - Football.London

  21-01-2023 20:00 via news.google.com
  Arsenal line-ups vs Man United with Trossard debut decision, Partey gets chance and Saka starts  Football.LondonMan Utd boss Erik ten Hag has suffered four blows ahead of crunch Arsenal clash  ExpressManchester United squad vs Arsenal revealed as two missing  Manchester Evening NewsMark Goldbridge previews Arsenal's Premier League title showdown against Man United!  talkSPORTKeown discusses the importance of Saka and Martinelli to Arsenal’s game 
  
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• Hiding in plain sight: how Sicily’s mafia godfather eluded capture for 30 years - The Guardian

  21-01-2023 19:36 via news.google.com
  Hiding in plain sight: how Sicily’s mafia godfather eluded capture for 30 years  The GuardianMessina Denaro: How silence and compliance kept Mafia boss at large  BBCWorld's most infamous fugitives on the run for YEARS just like Mafia boss Messina Denaro  The MirrorItaly police at hospital, site of Denaro arrest  AP ArchiveMatteo Messina Denaro: After the arrest of Italy's most wanted criminal, what next for the Mafia?  Sky NewsView Full cov
  
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• 'Once in a lifetime' comet filmed flying over Kent - Kent Online

  21-01-2023 19:25 via news.google.com
  'Once in a lifetime' comet filmed flying over Kent  Kent OnlineGreen comet that will be visible from Earth for first time since ice age is undergoing unusual changes  The IndependentGreen comet that will be visible in the night sky next month loses part of its TAIL  Daily MailHow to See the 'Green Comet' Everyone's Talking About  GizmodoNASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 21 January 2023: Comet ZTF in all its glory!  HT TechView Full coverage on Go
  
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• Birmingham City and Preston fans applaud murdered Arthur Labinjo-Hughes

  21-01-2023 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Blues players wear a one-off kit to raise money for the NSPCC in memory of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.
  
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• Revealed: scores of child asylum seekers kidnapped from Home Office hotel

  21-01-2023 19:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Call for inquiry after Observer investigation uncovers scale of trafficking by criminal gangsDozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs from a Brighton hotel run by the Home Office in a pattern apparently being repeated across the south coast, an Observer investigation can reveal.A whistleblower, who works for Home Office contractor Mitie, and child protection sources describe children being abducted off the street outside the hotel and bundled into cars. Continue reading...
  
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• The life of Ann Gloag: Philanthropist charged with human trafficking - The Times

  21-01-2023 19:00 via news.google.com
  
  The life of Ann Gloag: Philanthropist charged with human trafficking  The TimesStagecoach co-founder Dame Ann Gloag charged with human trafficking offences  BBCStagecoach co-founder Ann Gloag charged with human trafficking  The GuardianStagecoach founder Ann Gloag ‘strongly disputes’ trafficking allegations  Evening StandardDame Ann Gloag: Wife of ex-PM voices support for Stagecoach founder | HeraldScotland  HeraldScotlandView Full co
  
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• Levelling up the Conservative way – cartoon

  21-01-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  All animals are equal but some are more equal than others…• You can order your own copy of this cartoon Continue reading...
  
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• Being single has a lot going for it, but £10k a year seems too high a price for the privilege | Emma John

  21-01-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  People who live alone spend almost twice as much per person as those in couples, research has revealedSome claim that the first day in the third week of January is the most depressing one in the calendar. This year, Blue Monday arrived with added cruelty – for those of us who happen to be single, at least. A financial services firm chose just that miserable moment to reveal how much more expensive it is to live on your own than in a couple.If you’re currently alone, and the post-holi
  
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• Arteta and Ten Hag take inspiration from Cruyff in their full-back fluidity

  21-01-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Arsenal and Manchester United managers have boldly redeployed their defensive players in adapted rolesIt was in the heat of summer that Mikel Arteta finally decided to press the button on a strategy he had been brewing for almost a year. For much of the previous season he had become convinced that Ben White was a right-back in the making: quick, calm on the ball and blessed with sound positional sense and a high level of tactical intelligence. The problem was everyone else. None of the squad, he
  
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• Aleksandar Hemon: ‘A book isn’t a car – not everything has to work’

  21-01-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Sarajevo-born author on his new historical novel’s multilingual sensibility, turning screenwriter for The Matrix sequel and pretending to be Kevin KeeganAleksandar Hemon, 58, was born in Sarajevo and lives in New Jersey. His diverse output includes The Lazarus Project (2008), a novel drawing on the 1908 shooting of a Jewish migrant by Chicago police; the autobiographical essay collection The Book of My Lives (2013), which discusses the death of Hemon’s second child; and the scree
  
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• Nadhim Zahawi: Tax error was careless and not deliberate

  21-01-2023 18:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour calls on the ex-chancellor to answer questions after he addresses "confusion" about his taxes.
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes tried to ‘flee’ US with one-way Mexico ticket, prosecutors say

  21-01-2023 18:42 via theguardian.com
  
  New court filing says ex-Theranos founder booked flight departing 26 January last year, shortly after fraud convictionThe disgraced founder of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, made an “attempt to flee the country” by purchasing a one-way ticket to Mexico after she was found guilty on four counts of fraud last January, according to prosecutors.In the new filing on Thursday, prosecutors said that “contrary to defendant’s assertion that she has a ‘flawless record with US Pr
  
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• Why are so many jobs being shed in Big Tech sector worldwide? | Inside Story - Al Jazeera English

  21-01-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
  Why are so many jobs being shed in Big Tech sector worldwide? | Inside Story  Al Jazeera EnglishBloated Silicon Valley is paying the price for its own waste and extravagance  The TelegraphGoogle's parent company Alphabet to cut 12000 jobs worldwide - BBC News  BBC NewsUS technology giant Google cuts 12,000 jobs | Business  The TimesGoogle's mega layoffs immediately turned into Squid Game  indy100View Full coverage on Google News
  
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• UK steel industry a whisker away from collapse - Unite

  21-01-2023 18:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Unite has written a letter to the Business Secretary Grant Shapps seeking more government support.
  
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• Andy Murray rolled back the years, but even heroes have their limits

  21-01-2023 18:13 via theguardian.com
  
  The Scot’s feats at the Australian Open have been all the more enthralling for coming at the end of his career, not the peakOver the past week at the Australian Open in Melbourne Sir Andy Murray has often seemed more like a medieval knight than a tennis player, undergoing the kinds of physical trials and feats of endurance that were the stuff of chivalric romances. He’s even carried a war wound from previous campaigns, a metal plate that supports a damaged hip. But in the end, despit
  
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• You’ll grow out of them: trainers transformed into plants – in pictures

  21-01-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Though artist Christophe Guinet was born in Paris and loves the urban environment, he’s always felt in touch with nature. “I’ve been passionate about plants since adolescence. I fell in love with orchids at age 15 and learned to cultivate them. They require patience but they are worth it.” Guinet went on to work in marketing until a trip to India eight years ago to escape the corporate grind. There he conceived his art persona, Monsieur Plant (“Well, I am a mister w
  
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• The week in audio: Joanna & the Maestro; Conversations from a Long Marriage; Real Money; Ken Bruce

  21-01-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Joanna Lumley delights in musical exchanges with her real husband, and turns up the comedy with a fictional spouse; the excellent Aleks Krotoski tells the story of cryptocurrency Tether; and Ken Bruce pulls a shockerJoanna & the Maestro (Cup & Nuzzle, Burning Bright Productions and Bauer Media) | Planet RadioConversations from a Long Marriage (Radio 4) | BBC SoundsReal Money: The Hunt for Tether’s Billions (Tortoise Media) | TortoiseKen Bruce (Radio 2) | BBC SoundsAll-the-medals na
  
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• Some dishes stay with you forever. Should I look for them again? | Rachel Cooke

  21-01-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Revisiting things we love often leads to disappointment. But there was this mousse with mussels, and I can’t resist…At this time of year, it’s tempting to devote a space like this to the making and breaking of kitchen resolutions (I refuse to say the word diet). But I’m going to be awkward, and save all that for next month. January is bad enough without talk of waistlines. What about some happy news instead, like the fact that the beloved and supremely talented chef Henr
  
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• ‘Like knocking down the Eiffel tower’: battle to save historic Prague bridge

  21-01-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A plan from Czech railways to replace the emblematic landmark with a modern structure is facing an impassioned backlashA historic Prague railway bridge, whose importance to the city’s landscape has been compared to the Eiffel tower in Paris, has been earmarked for demolition in a move denounced by architects and preservationists.The much-photographed Vyšehrad bridge – instantly recognisable for its parabolic lattice steel structure – is unfit to carry an anticipated risi
  
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• Director Simon Stone: ‘My heroes are women’

  21-01-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The innovative Australian director who gained acclaim for his version of Yerma starring Billie Piper is now reframing Phaedra as a postmenopausal love story with Janet McTeerSimon Stone does things differently. As a young director he was described as the enfant terrible of Australian theatre. He’s 38 years old now so no longer an “enfant”, while his reputation has spread far beyond Australia and beyond theatre, too, into film and opera. But a few days before interviewing him, I
  
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