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• Potter admits challenge of keeping larger dressing room happy at Chelsea

  02-02-2023 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Eight January signings including £106.8m Enzo FernándezTotal spending now more than £500m under Todd BoehlyGraham Potter has admitted it will be challenging to maintain dressing-room harmony after Chelsea increased the size of their squad with their frantic January transfer business.The club took their spending to more than £500m under the Todd Boehly-Clearlake Capital ownership when they broke the British transfer record by buying Enzo Fernández from Benfica for
  
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• Ofgem warns suppliers over forcible installation of prepayment meters

  02-02-2023 23:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Directive comes as energy minister expresses ‘horror’ at claims British Gas contractor allegedly broke into vulnerable customers’ homesThe energy minister has expressed “horror” at revelations about a British Gas contractor allegedly breaking into vulnerable customers’ homes as the market watchdog Ofgem warned all suppliers against forcibly installing prepayment meters.Graham Stuart met Chris O’Shea, the chief executive of Centrica, which owns British Ga
  
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• In full: US Spacewalk 85 at the International Space Station - Sky News

  02-02-2023 21:55 via news.google.com
  
  In full: US Spacewalk 85 at the International Space Station  Sky NewsWatch live: Astronauts step out of the International Space Station for seven-hour spacewalk  The IndependentSpacewalkers Complete Construction Job to Upgrade Station Power  NASA BlogsSpace station astronauts finish preps for next pair of new solar arrays – Spaceflight Now  Spaceflight NowSee astronauts work outside space station in 2nd spacewalk of 2023  VideoFromSpaceView
  
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• Movers, shakers and loan rangers: key takeaways from the women’s window

  02-02-2023 21:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Star players moving (or not) between top rivals is a hot potato, especially Arsenal’s bid for Manchester United’s Alessia RussoArsenal’s late bid for the Manchester United forward Alessia Russo and Chelsea’s reported interest in Arsenal’s Katie McCabe stirred the pot. Players moving between rival clubs is far more common in women’s football than in men’s football. Short-term contracts have been the norm, and big-money transfers are a relatively new pheno
  
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• Guantánamo detainee who was tortured by CIA released to Belize

  02-02-2023 21:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Al-Qaida courier turned informant Majid Khan to be permanently resettled after being held in US custody for nearly 20 yearsThe US has released Majid Khan, an al-Qaida courier turned informant who was tortured in secret CIA prisons and held in custody for nearly 20 years, marking the first time a “high-value detainee” has been freed from Guantánamo Bay.Khan, a 42-year-old Pakistani born in Saudi Arabia, completed his jail term last March and landed in Belize on Thursday, where
  
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• Bird flu spreads to foxes and otters - The Telegraph

  02-02-2023 21:38 via news.google.com
  
  Bird flu spreads to foxes and otters  The TelegraphBird flu now infects mammals - what are the risks to humans? | Eastern Daily Press  Eastern Daily PressBird flu outbreak found at Scots poultry farm sparking 3km lockdown by health chiefs  Daily RecordBird flu has jumped to mammals in the UK - so how worried should humans be?  Sky NewsBird flu jumps to mammals - so should humans be worried?  STV NewsView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Manchester United face a huge decision over Mason Greenwood | Jamie Jackson

  02-02-2023 21:26 via theguardian.com
  
  After charges were dropped against perhaps the club’s most talented young player, will they take him back?After Mason Greenwood’s attempted rape and assault charges were dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service on Thursday, what next for his Manchester United career?The 21-year-old last pulled on a team jersey on 22 January 2022 at Old Trafford, in a 1-0 win over West Ham. He was arrested later that month, then, in October, charged with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behavi
  
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• Afghan refugees settled in London told to uproot families and move 200 miles

  02-02-2023 20:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Forty families brought to UK after fleeing Taliban given only weeks to move to West YorkshireHundreds of Afghan refugees who settled in London after fleeing the Taliban 18 months ago have been told they have only weeks to uproot and move 200 miles away, the Guardian can reveal.The Home Office has told 40 families with 150 children who have lived for more than a year in Kensington, west London, that they must leave the capital for another hotel in Wetherby, on the outskirts of Leeds. Continue rea
  
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• Spirits of Downing St present and past submit to TalkTV’s finest inquisitors | John Crace

  02-02-2023 20:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Sunak v Morgan and Johnson v Dorries delivered a double whammy of political insight and revelationRishi Sunak and Boris Johnson have both given interviews to TalkTV. The Guardian got to see the out-takes.Piers Morgan: Good to see you prime minister. It must be an honour for you to come on my show. Continue reading...
  
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• Ben Jennings on Shell’s record-breaking profits – cartoon

  02-02-2023 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
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• Scientists made a new kind of ice that might exist on distant moons - Nature.com

  02-02-2023 20:02 via news.google.com
  
  Scientists made a new kind of ice that might exist on distant moons  Nature.comScientists create an entirely new type of ice that neither floats nor sinks  Daily MailEntirely new type of ice made using extremely cold steel balls  New ScientistWith frigid innovation, scientists make a new form of ice  ZAWYADiscovery of new ice may change our understanding of water  Phys.orgView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Medium-density amorphous ice - Science

  02-02-2023 20:00 via news.google.com
  
  Medium-density amorphous ice  ScienceScientists create an entirely new type of ice that neither floats nor sinks  Daily MailEntirely new type of ice made using extremely cold steel balls  New ScientistDiscovery of new ice may change our understanding of water  Phys.orgScientists discover new form of ice that could be key to finally finding alien life  Daily StarView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Bolsonaro attended meeting about plot to keep him in power, senator says

  02-02-2023 19:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Senator says he was asked to get justice to make compromising comments on tape as Bolsonaro ‘sat in silence’A close ally of Jair Bolsonaro has turned against Brazil’s former president, claiming that an aide to the far-right leader tried to “coerce” him into joining a conspiracy to annul the October elections and keep Bolsonaro in power.Senator Marcos do Val claimed at a news conference on Thursday that he was invited to a meeting on 9 December with the then presiden
  
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• Green light for Omagh bombing inquiry is belated win in long campaign for truth

  02-02-2023 19:48 via theguardian.com
  
  No one ever convicted of deadliest atrocity of Troubles, but injured and bereaved may be closer to knowing full storyThe government’s decision to hold an inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing is the result of a long, lonely campaign by some of the injured and bereaved for truth and justice.Chris Heaton-Harris’s announcement on Thursday about an independent statutory inquiry raises hope for the former, not the latter. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on a Northern Ireland deal: time to beat the clock | Editorial

  02-02-2023 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Rishi Sunak is right to want the protocol dispute sorted. That means standing up against his party’s ultra-sovereigntist wingStopping the clock has sometimes been a useful device for meeting the most intractable deadlines in Northern Irish politics. But the clock is currently ticking unceasingly towards two important dates, neither of them many weeks distant now, where stopping it will not be an option for Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary. Mr Heaton-Harris is in a race a
  
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• I’m a doctor and I don’t like wearing masks at work. Does that make me selfish? | Letters

  02-02-2023 19:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Readers respond to a piece by George Monbiot in which he discusses mask-wearing, clean air and empathyIt is rare for me to disagree with George Monbiot, but I must do so when he suggests that all those who wish to taper off some of the Covid restrictions are selfish (We are all playing Covid roulette. Without clean air, the next infection could permanently disable you, 26 January). As a frontline healthcare worker, I am against the ongoing requirement for mask-wearing in all clinical areas, for
  
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• This land is our land – but greed is trumping freedom | Letters

  02-02-2023 19:28 via theguardian.com
  
  It seems we have no right to be on this planet without the permission of landowners, writes Peter Reilly; plus letters from Linda Gresham and Paul DobbsRe your report (Dartmoor national park to pay landowners to allow wild camping, 19 January), it seems the local authorities and courts ignore the principle that everyone has an equal right to life. It seems we have no right to be on this planet without the permission of landowners.Nobody made the land or creates its value; it should be our common
  
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• Kate Moss helps to cast Ellie Bamber to play her in biopic

  02-02-2023 19:27 via theguardian.com
  
  British supermodel has hand in choosing rising actor in film that recounts how she sat for Lucian Freud in 2002Kate Moss – one of the most recognisable faces in the world – has helped to cast the British actor Ellie Bamber to play her in upcoming biopic, Moss & Freud.The film, directed by James Lucas, tells the story of the supermodel sitting for painter Lucian Freud in 2002. Moss has been closely involved with the project and the casting was part of this work. Continue reading..
  
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• The Guardian view on the care home sector: trouble looms as rents rise | Editorial

  02-02-2023 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  An inflationary environment makes care home collapses more probable, given the way they’re financing themselvesWhen Britain’s largest care home operator, Southern Cross, collapsed in 2011, it heaped anxiety on elderly residents and ignited a debate about the role of private finance in the sector. The company had sold off most of its freehold properties to landlords, leaving it with a £230m annual rental bill. Many of these properties were locked into 30-year leases with increas
  
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• Rishi Sunak says people arriving in UK illegally will be deported ‘within days’

  02-02-2023 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  PM says he wants new law barring people arriving without valid documents from claiming asylum Rishi Sunak has said new laws will mean people arriving in the UK without valid documents will be deported “within days”, with asylum claims rejected and migrants returned.The prime minister also said he was committed to the Rwanda deportation policy, despite legal challenges, replying “yes” when asked if it would ever go ahead. Continue reading...
  
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• Jane Hill and Ben Brown among anchors axed as BBC merges news channels

  02-02-2023 19:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Insiders say departure of popular BBC News presenters – with Martine Croxall also going – could prompt ageism rowSome of the BBC News channel’s most famous faces, including Jane Hill, Ben Brown and Martine Croxall, have been axed before the launch this spring of a channel that combines international and domestic news.The trio have become familiar to UK viewers during times of political and economic turmoil and their departure could prompt a row about ageism, according to BBC in
  
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• Former Russian soldier reveals he saw Ukrainian prisoners of war tortured

  02-02-2023 19:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Konstantin Yefremov escaped Russia after serving three months as a lieutenant in Zaporizhzhia oblastA senior Russian lieutenant who fled after serving in Ukraine has described how his country’s troops tortured prisoners of war and threatened some with rape.Konstantin Yefremov left Russia in December after spending three months in the parts of the southern Zaporizhzhia oblast that were occupied in Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...
  
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• Artemis 1 moon rocket looks ready to launch astronauts, NASA says - Space.com

  02-02-2023 19:00 via news.google.com
  
  Artemis 1 moon rocket looks ready to launch astronauts, NASA says  Space.comNASA's Artemis I Rocket Launch from Launch Pad 39B Perimeter  NASANASA flight software for SLS navigates through clean first launch - NASASpaceFlight.com  NASASpaceflight.comWorld's Largest Hydrogen Tank Will Make It Easier for NASA to Launch SLS Megarocket  GizmodoWorld's Largest Hydrogen Tank Will Make It Easier for NASA to Launch SLS Megarocket  Yahoo NewsView Full cov
  
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• You can’t raise children on the cheap, so why is this government set on doing so? | Rebekah Pierre

  02-02-2023 18:49 via theguardian.com
  
  As a care leaver-turned-social worker, I’m appalled by the Tories’ paltry plans for the care sectorUnder normal circumstances, I would do anything for this government to stop lying. But on this occasion, following its response to the “once in a generation” review of children’s social care, I find myself hoping it has lied.We cannot wait another generation for the meaningful change we were promised. This strategy offers a pittance – just £200m split among
  
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• ‘People don’t vanish’: family of missing Nicola Bulley appeal for information

  02-02-2023 18:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Police release timeline of last known movements of missing Lancashire womanA timeline of the last known movements of the missing Lancashire woman Nicola Bulley has been released by police as her family made an appeal for information.Speaking to Sky News, her sister Louise Cunningham said: “Something has got to have been missed. Somebody must know something. People don’t just vanish into thin air.” Continue reading...
  
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• Energy bailiffs for the poorest, huge profits for the richest: this is Britain in 2023 | Gaby Hinsliff

  02-02-2023 18:27 via theguardian.com
  
  The British Gas scandal about vulnerable people being forced on to prepayment meters is just the latest cruelty in this crisisElderly ladies make easy pickings. Single parents, the new recruit was told, are also a mainstay of the trade. So harden your heart to their pleading, even if they do have tiny children, because: “If every single mum that starts getting a bit teary you’re going to walk away from, you won’t be earning any bonus.” Just get yourself inside the house a
  
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• F1 teams hold right of veto over new entrants to the grid, FIA confirms

  02-02-2023 18:26 via theguardian.com
  
  FIA open process on applications to join in 2026‘F1 teams will be given priority over new applicants’The FIA has conceded that any new entrants to Formula One will still be dependent on the permission of F1’s owners and teams as the governing body formally opened the process for new teams to apply.The FIA president, Mohammed ben Sulayem, said last month that the FIA was evaluating the process of allowing new applications to join the 10 squads. It was met with a lukewarm respons
  
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• Football and the climate crisis: does the game really want to tackle it?

  02-02-2023 18:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Green Football Weekend raises awkward questions about the game’s readiness to start taking genuinely ambitious actionAbout three years ago, in the thick of a League Two promotion campaign, Michael Doughty began to notice something. An unusually wet winter had flooded Swindon Town’s training pitches, forcing them to trek up and down the country in search of a usable facility. The postponements were piling up. “It would be unseasonably warm, then super-cold, which made performanc
  
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• ‘It’s a homage to what Mark E Smith taught us’: ex-Fall members House of All deny exploiting band’s legacy

  02-02-2023 17:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Smith’s family have called the new band ‘extremely offensive’. Martin Bramah, a founding former member of the original Fall lineup, defends his new outfitLast week, it was announced that five former members of revered Manchester post-punk group the Fall would be releasing an album under the name House of All – without the original band’s late frontman and only constant member Mark E Smith, who died in January 2018 aged 60. Almost immediately, they incurred the wrath
  
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• Bank of England raises UK interest rates to 4%

  02-02-2023 17:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Hike of 0.5 percentage points lifts rates to 14-year high, but BoE says shorter and shallower recession now more likelyInterest rates rise again but Bank of England hints at a brighter futureThe Bank of England raised interest rates for a tenth consecutive time on Thursday from 3.5% to 4%, but said inflation may have peaked and a recession in the UK would be shorter and shallower than previously feared.Piling more pressure on mortgage payers and businesses struggling to pay off their loans, the
  
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• Novelist Tom Bullough on his XR arrest – and what Welsh saints can teach us about the climate crisis

  02-02-2023 17:39 via theguardian.com
  
  The writer is passionate about the environment, and Wales, and has fed that passion into a book that attends to ancient lives alongside our ownIt is a filthy wet day, rivulets of water streaming down necks as well as hills, yet Tom Bullough is striding up the slippery incline of Fan Frynych, completely unpuffed, while speaking urgently about the challenge of the climate emergency – to writing, to Wales and to life itself.“How do you make people care about the climate crisis? You have
  
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• Sunak refuses to even utter the word crisis. But how else to describe his first 100 days? | Polly Toynbee

  02-02-2023 17:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Inertia on the NHS and obstinacy on strikes have left the equivocating PM clinging to a life raftAfter the mayhem, after Liz Truss blew up the economy, the only way was up. Things could only get better – or so you would have thought. But Rishi Sunak’s 100 days to steady the ship have left him and his party clinging to a life raft.Yesterday the half a million public servants out on strike were largely backed by voters unwilling to see the pay of nurses, teachers and the rest fall behi
  
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• Bank chief Andrew Bailey: 'We think inflation will fall rapidly'

  02-02-2023 17:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey says lower energy prices should help lower inflation.
  
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• Zach Braff: ‘I used to think everyone must be this anxious’

  02-02-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  For years, the Scrubs star was a poster-boy for neurotic boys-next-door, but he’s reaching maturity with A Good Person, the new film in which he directed his former partner Florence PughFor a while, Zach Braff was embraced as an everyman – even by himself. His breakthrough role as quirky doctor John “JD” Dorian in 00s medical sitcom Scrubs marked the emergence of a new, accessible sort of star: a pinup, but the sort who resembled your college roommate, rather than the eni
  
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• Pioneering NHS trial targets brain tumours before surgery

  02-02-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Radiotherapy prior to operation could be key to reducing likelihood of tumours regrowing quickly, researchers sayThe NHS has begun a world-first clinical trial of a pioneering treatment technique aimed at extending the lives of people with brain tumours.A team of radiologists, neurosurgeons, oncologists, nurses, physicists and pathologists are using detailed MRI scans and highly targeted radiotherapy before surgery with the aim of reducing the likelihood of tumours growing back quickl
  
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• 'Hogwarts Legacy' Is The Best-Selling Game On PS5, Xbox Series X And PC Pre-Launch - Forbes

  02-02-2023 15:59 via news.google.com
  'Hogwarts Legacy' Is The Best-Selling Game On PS5, Xbox Series X And PC Pre-Launch  ForbesHogwarts Legacy Release Date, Release Times & Preload Details On Xbox  Pure XboxHogwarts Legacy: release date, price, Harry Potter characters and more  Metro.co.ukHogwarts Legacy Will Never Be As Good As PS1's Sorcerer's Stone  Screen RantView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Unopened first-generation iPhone set to sell for $50,000 at US auction - The Guardian

  02-02-2023 15:15 via news.google.com
  Unopened first-generation iPhone set to sell for $50,000 at US auction  The GuardianOld iPhone set to sell for eye-watering price at auction – could you be sitting on a small fortune?...  The SunUnopened original iPhone is set to ring up £41,000 at auction  Daily MailFirst generation unopened iPhone set to fetch more than $50000 at auction  Evening StandardAn original sealed iPhone is expected to sell for as much as 50 iPhone 14 Pros  
  
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• Calls for bigger windfall tax after Shell makes ‘obscene’ $40bn profit

  02-02-2023 15:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Sunak government under pressure after gas prices fuel ‘outrageous’ doubling of profits at Anglo-Dutch groupShell’s spending on renewables ‘a fraction of what it claims’Nearly 14,000 Nigerians sue over pollution impactThe government is under pressure to rethink its windfall tax on energy companies after Shell reported one of the largest profits in UK corporate history, with the surge in energy prices sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushing the oil compa
  
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• My husband and I run errands for a family dealing with a serious illness. Why do we feel used? | Leading questions

  02-02-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Your kindness has been a wonderful gift, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Recognise this is not an ordinary friendship and they will show their gratitude in timeThe daughter of our friends has leukaemia. It was initially diagnosed 18 months ago but she recently had a relapse. When she was first diagnosed my husband and I did everything we could to help where we could – by cooking mealsand running errands, because naturally they were afraid of catching Covid while shopping.When
  
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• ‘I knew I wanted to stay here for the rest of my life’: how London got its first LGBTQ+ retirement community

  02-02-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The idea is nothing new in other countries, but the UK has been slow to develop housing schemes for older LGBTQ+ people. Now it’s becoming apparent how many people want or need itWhen the clocks struck midnight on new year’s eve and rang in 2023, Steve Busby was on the rooftop of a fancy apartment block in central London watching fireworks light up the Thames. The weeks leading up to Christmas had been a heady mix of meals, drinks, celebrations and friends, most of whom live in the s
  
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• Dining across the divide: ‘I don’t think we fully agreed on a definition of woke’

  02-02-2023 13:30 via theguardian.com
  
  One is from a leftwing family but moved right; the other from a conservative background and moved left. Did that help them understand the other’s perspective?John, 57, BirminghamOccupation Contract manager for a national charity Continue reading...
  
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• Green comet captured from back garden

  02-02-2023 13:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Stargazer George Chan photographed comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) from his home in Bramcote, Nottinghamshire.
  
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• Google warning as millions of Android users urged to immediately delete 12 popular apps - Liverpool Echo

  02-02-2023 13:08 via news.google.com
  Google warning as millions of Android users urged to immediately delete 12 popular apps  Liverpool EchoGoogle are banning 12 dangerous Android apps as millions urged to delete them immediately  Daily RecordAndroid users warned to delete 12 apps immediately due to malware and viruses  Derbyshire LiveMillions urged to delete 12 popular Android apps after Google ban  Leicestershire LiveAndroid users urged to delete these 12 apps as Google bans them from Play
  
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• New Covid variant: Symptoms, cases, and how the 'Kraken' subvariant is sweeping the UK - iNews

  02-02-2023 13:06 via news.google.com
  
  New Covid variant: Symptoms, cases, and how the 'Kraken' subvariant is sweeping the UK  iNewsThe most common Covid symptoms right now - and the one that means it's 'much more likely' to be flu  Manchester Evening NewsCOVID infection cases increase in children despite levels at lowest for four months  Sky NewsCovid cases up 50% in 10 days as Kraken variant spreads through UK  Coventry LiveTotal Covid infections lowest in four months, though levels rise in c
  
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• Donkey joins peloton and a swan in a police car: Thursday’s best photos

  02-02-2023 13:06 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Help world’s poor as well as Ukraine, say faith charities as pope visits South Sudan - The Guardian

  02-02-2023 12:23 via news.google.com
  Help world’s poor as well as Ukraine, say faith charities as pope visits South Sudan  The GuardianPope visits South Sudan on historic peace mission - BBC News  BBC NewsWatch live: Pope Francis arrives in South Sudan with Archbishop of Canterbury and Church of Scotland Moderator  The IndependentExplainer: Why has peace eluded South Sudan?  ReutersSouth Sudan violence kills 27 on eve of pope’s visit  Al Jazeera EnglishView Full coverage
  
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• The Sims 4: Life simulation video game adds top surgery scars, hearing aids and binders to character choices - Sky News

  02-02-2023 12:08 via news.google.com
  The Sims 4: Life simulation video game adds top surgery scars, hearing aids and binders to character choices  Sky NewsThe Sims 4 Releases Inclusive Update  On Demand NewsSims 4 expands gender options with new top surgery scars and transgender customization  Daily MailView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Six Nations 2023 predictions: our writers on who will win and why

  02-02-2023 12:02 via theguardian.com
  
  France and Ireland are the teams to beat, but a Gatland-inspired Wales could spring a surpriseWho will win? France have one eye on this year’s World Cup and have some injuries. Which gives Ireland the chance to underline their world No 1 ranking with a first title since 2018. If that implies a smooth, stress-free procession, it won’t be. Continue reading...
  
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• Nell’s king, dragon flags, and a cute film groundhog’s name – take the Thursday quiz

  02-02-2023 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes every Thursday. How will you fare?It is Thursday once more, and so there are 15 vaguely topical or general knowledge questions for you to tackle. You will find them liberally sprinkled with a few poor dad jokes plus the inevitable appearance of some of our regular cast of characters – look out for Ron from Sparks, Kate Bush, Willow the official dog of the Guardian’s Thursday quiz, and hidden references to Doc
  
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• ‘Strikes are all we have’: workers united in a winter of discontent – video

  02-02-2023 11:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Britain has been hit by a wave of stoppages this winter, as nurses, teachers and other public sector workers have gone on strike over pay and conditions. This has put them on a direct collision course with the government, which has introduced legislation to parliament to make it harder for workers to strike. Adam Sich and Maeve Shearlaw spent a month talking to workers on the picket lines and at protests to find out how the cost of living crisis is hitting them at home – and in their
  
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