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• "Resident Evil 4" Remake Has Huge Launch - Dark Horizons

  25-03-2023 22:34 via news.google.com
  
  "Resident Evil 4" Remake Has Huge Launch  Dark HorizonsResident Evil 4 remake: every console version tested  Eurogamer.netPoll: What Do You Think Of The Resident Evil 4 Remake So Far?  Pure XboxResident Evil 4: Things That Are Harder in the Remake  GameRantSeeing Flickering Lights in Resident Evil 4 Remake on PS5? Capcom Promises to Fix It  Push SquareView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• UK economy: When are you going to feel better off?

  25-03-2023 17:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How politicians answer that will set the terms for the next election, writes Laura Kuenssberg.
  
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• Tornado in Mississippi kills at least 23, with dozens more injured

  25-03-2023 13:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Four people still missing after buildings wrecked and power lines downed by ‘supercell’ storm systemAt least 23 people were killed and dozens injured as a tornado and strong thunderstorms swept across Mississippion Friday, the state’s emergency management agency said after the twister left a trail of damage for more than 100 miles (160 km).Four people were missing as search and rescue teams combed through the destruction looking for survivors after the storm struck Silver City
  
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• King Charles France visit could have had echoes of 1789, says ex-ambassador

  25-03-2023 13:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Grandeur of royal couple’s state visit amid protests would have been ‘bad idea’ and it was right to postpone it, Lord Ricketts saysKing Charles’ state visit to France and a banquet at the Palace of Versailles could have had “echoes” of the French Revolution, according to former British ambassador to France.Lord Ricketts, who was Britain’s man in France from 2012 to 2016, said that the dinner would have been poorly timed during widespread protests against
  
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• Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for quick puy lentil, celery and herb salad | The new vegan

  25-03-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Earthy lentils welcome spring with the addition of sweet herbs, bright pickles and fresh, green crunch “Do one thing well” is the mantra of my favourite denim company, Hiut Denim; it’s also what I need to be doing more of at the moment. As such, I’m taking a short break from this column to finish a much overdue book. Until I’m back, towards the end of the summer, here’s a little something for you. If I’ve timed it right and spring sunshine is in the air
  
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• Manchester City’s Lauren Hemp: ‘I know on my day I can be unstoppable’

  25-03-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Forward focused on becoming more consistent and believes club’s progressive form this season can trouble opponents Chelsea Lauren Hemp believes Manchester City have transformed since the turn of the year and Sunday’s visit of Chelsea to the Academy Stadium offers the chance to show the progress made since back-to-back defeats at the start of the season which have seen City fly under the radar in the Women’s Super League title race.“You’ve seen a different side to Ma
  
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• Jay Blades looks back: ‘The boy in that photo would be amazed if he knew what my life was like today’

  25-03-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Repair Shop presenter reflects on growing up poor, discovering fashion, and why fame will never go to his headBorn in London in 1970, Jay Blades is the furniture restorer and TV presenter best known for The Repair Shop. His childhood in Hackney was blighted by racism and fighting, until a career in community and social work changed the course of his life. It wasn’t until Blades was 40 and working for a charity which encouraged young people to repair furniture that he discovered he had
  
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• How Manchester United youngsters learn the ‘realities of senior football’ | Will Unwin

  25-03-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Clubs including Stockport and Altrincham give Mancheter United’s academy players a taste of life beyond CarringtonNinety-seven percent of Premier League academy players never make a single top-flight appearance. Those who drop out of elite environments can struggle to adapt to the different demands of the lower leagues. Manchester United’s professional development phase players, however, are finding out about life away from Carrington. Youngsters have been sent to train for up to a m
  
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• ‘There were fist-fights down at CD:UK’ – 90s pop remembered by those who lived through it

  25-03-2023 12:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Conflict between bands, conflict within bands, booze, breakdowns and awards-show agony: in these extracts from oral history Reach for the Stars, Five, Steps, Pete Waterman and more spill about the dark side of the decadeFormed in May 1997, Five, AKA Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson, J Brown, Sean Conlon and Abz Love, released their debut single Slam Dunk (Da Funk) just six months later and found themselves living in a house together as teenagers. The band’s 11 UK Top 10 singles, three Top 5
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: tensions between Wagner and Russian army blamed for ‘stalling’ Bakhmut offensive

  25-03-2023 12:08 via theguardian.com
  
  UK says ‘extreme attrition’ and tensions between Russia’s military and Wagner mercenaries probably behind failure of offensiveWhat we know on day 395 of the invasionNew Zealand’s foreign minister, Nanaia Mahuta, has expressed concern to China over any provision of lethal aid to support Russia in its war against Ukraine during a meeting with her Chinese counterpart, Qin Gang.Mahuta’s press office on Saturday detailed her cautionary remarks in Beijing, days after the
  
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• India’s Rahul Gandhi vows to ‘defend democracy’ after being stripped of seat

  25-03-2023 12:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Top opposition figure expelled from parliament after being convicted of defamation over Modi remarkThe top Indian opposition figure Rahul Gandhi has said he will keep fighting for democracy after blaming his expulsion from parliament on his demands for an investigation into a key business ally of the prime minister, Narendra Modi.Gandhi was stripped of his parliamentary seat on Friday, a day after he was convicted of defamation in Modi’s home state of Gujarat for a 2019 campaign-trail rema
  
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• Anti-trans activist Posie Parker ends New Zealand tour after chaotic protests at event

  25-03-2023 12:06 via theguardian.com
  
  The controversial UK gender activist was booed, heckled and doused with tomato juice in a heated confrontation between groups in AucklandThe anti-trans activist known as Posie Parker has cancelled further events and reportedly left New Zealand after chaotic and at times violent protests ended her planned appearance in Auckland.Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who also goes by the name Posie Parker, was due to speak in Auckland on Saturday morning. The controversial UK gender activist was met by crowds
  
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• Young country diary: Not just one newborn lamb, but two! | Levi

  25-03-2023 12:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Glossop, Derbyshire: We were watching the farmer feeding the younger sheep outside, when suddenly her alarm went offAs the mid-afternoon mist came down upon us, we drove over the picturesque rolling hills. The car jolted from side to side on the craggy, treacherous ground. We came to a stop at a farm and a farmer greeted us with a warm welcome. She led us into an old, creaking barn with friendly cows and a small flock of sheep laying beside their wobbly little lambs. We went outside and across t
  
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• Young country diary: Being dragged away from my computer was worth it | Stanley

  25-03-2023 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Carmarthenshire, Wales: I was swept away by the red kite, the golden glow of gorse, and the maze of cave systemsJust half an hour after I was persuaded to tear my eyes away from the hypnotising computer screen and join my parents on a walk, I was already enjoying it. The path parallel to the River Cennen was fringed with the golden glow of gorse flowers bathing in the sunlight. The newborn lambs’ fragile bleats resounded throughout the valley, and the last of the snowdrops’ milky-whi
  
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• ‘You walked in and your heart sank’: the shocking inside story of Manston detention centre

  25-03-2023 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Last year, the short-term facility in Kent ballooned into a vast, unsafe camp holding thousands of people, including children. How did our asylum system get so broken – and what does it reveal about Rishi Sunak’s promise to stop the small boats?In late September last year, a Home Office employee walked into a newly opened section of the Manston short-term holding facility in Kent and realised that conditions there were spiralling out of control: “It had got way beyond what was
  
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• Resistance fighter, novelist - and Sartre’s favourite agony aunt: rediscovering Alba Céspedes

  25-03-2023 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Championed by Elena Ferrante, Céspedes’s neo-realist classic The Forbidden Notebook is being reissued 70 years after it was first published. It still speaks to women’s lives todayPostwar Italian neorealism was one of the most exciting literary movements of the 20th century, but it’s only recently that the female neorealists have had the attention they deserve. In 2018, the publisher Daunt began its vital championing of Natalia Ginzburg, and now Pushkin brings us Alba de
  
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• Berlin welcomes topless female swimmers in victory for activists

  25-03-2023 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Gender equality campaigners celebrate rule change, which affects indoor and outdoor poolsWhen a lifeguard asked police to remove Lotte Mies for bathing topless at her local indoor swimming pool in Berlin it was a move that would inadvertently trigger a rule change allowing all women, including visiting female tourists, the freedom to go topless while swimming in the city.The decision to change clothing rules around swimming in the German capital was made after two women, including Mies, filed co
  
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• Sheikh Jassim submits second bid to buy Manchester United

  25-03-2023 11:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Qatar Islamic Bank chair placed offer late on Friday nightBid comes after week when sale had been thrown into doubtSheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani has made a second bid to buy Manchester United, it is understood. The Qatar Islamic Bank chair – who is also the son of a former Qatari prime minister – placed his second-round offer late on Friday night.A source close to the bid says the Qataris remain confident of completing a takeover at Old Trafford despite rival interest from Sir Jim
  
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• TikTok banned on London City Hall devices over security concerns

  25-03-2023 11:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Move by Greater London authority comes after Chinese-owned app was blocked on UK parliamentary devicesLondon City Hall staff will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban imposed on the Chinese-owned social media app over security concerns.The Greater London authority (GLA) said the rule was implemented as it takes information security “extremely seriously”. Continue reading...
  
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• Pope Francis returns three fragments of Parthenon to Greece

  25-03-2023 11:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Carved heads of a boy, a horse and a bearded man, formerly in Vatican Museums, unveiled in AthensThe desire of Pope Francis to right a wrong has led to the official return to Greece from the Vatican of three ornately carved fragments that once adorned the Parthenon.As the sun set over Athens on Friday, the sculptures were unveiled on the upper floor of the Acropolis Museum, purpose-built within view of the fifth-century monument to house the marbles. Continue reading...
  
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• Nelson Piquet fined £780k for racist and homophobic comments about Lewis Hamilton

  25-03-2023 11:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Brazilian fined for language used in two interviewsJudge awards damages so ‘society can be free’ from prejudiceThe Brazilian three-times Formula One champion Nelson Piquet must pay 5m reals (£780k) in moral damages for racist and homophobic comments about Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, a Brazilian court ruled on Friday.In an interview in November 2021, Piquet used a Portuguese racial slur in reference to the seven-times world champion when commenting on Hamilton’s crash
  
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• TikTok is part of China’s cognitive warfare campaign | Nita Farahany

  25-03-2023 11:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Militaries are racing to develop weapons that could one day directly assault or disable human minds. We ignore this broader context at our perilTranslated Chinese military reports suggest that warfare is shifting from destroying bodies to paralyzing and controlling the opponent’s mind. Making the Biden administration’s call for TikTok’s Chinese owners to sell their stakes in the app or face a US ban just the start of a protracted Whac-a-Mole game in a broader strategy to combat
  
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• Tamal Ray’s recipe for crisp fried tofu and tempura spring onions with spicy barbecue sauce

  25-03-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This vegetarian recipe takes its influence from Korean fried chicken, and the resulting sticky, sweet, crisp dish will more than satisfy any fast-food cravingsThis is a recipe for Saturday nights, when you need something fried, crisp and dripping in delicious, hot, sticky-sweet sauce. The inspiration came from our incredible local Korean fried chicken shop, though I’ve bowed to my boyfriend’s challenge to cut down on meat and produced a recipe that vegetarians can enjoy. The use of v
  
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• Power move: Stacey Abrams’ next act is the electrification of the US

  25-03-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Georgia activist on why she is leaving campaign politics behind to focus on weaning Americans off fossil fuelsStacey Abrams has been hailed as a masterly community organizer, after she helped turn out the voters that secured two Senate seats for Democrats in once solidly red Georgia. She has also run twice – unsuccessfully – for state governor. For her next move, she’s not focusing on electoral power so much as power itself.Recently she left the world of campaign politics a
  
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• Police investigate US woman’s hair salon ruined by racism after Guardian article

  25-03-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sheriff’s office reached out to Angel Pittman in response to story but 21-year-old said she won’t speak until she obtains counselPolice are now re-examining the case of Angel Pittman, whose dreams of opening a mobile hair salon in North Carolina were ruined by racism.In response to the story, published by the Guardian this week, the Rowan county sheriff’s office has reached out to her family “to see if we could further assist them”. Continue reading...
  
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• Is there a serial killer in your home? Or is your cat just an extrovert? | Celia Haddon

  25-03-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  I assumed all cats liked to hunt, but there’s growing evidence of a wide range of feline personalitiesSeeing the happy face of my cat, William, at the catflap used to make my heart sink. Usually, a limp body would be protruding from his mouth. Worse still, sometimes the corpse was struggling, resulting in William chasing the luckless mouse or young rat around my kitchen for half an hour or more. For me, this was the dark side of cat ownership.Yet, apparently it was also a sign that I had a
  
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• ‘I had to be a rebel to play football’: England’s Leah Williamson on sexism, self-doubt and winning the Euros

  25-03-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ever since she battled to get into an all-boys team at age six, the Arsenal star has blazed a trail for women in football. Now she wants to inspire girls to follow in her footsteps. Plus – an extract from her new bookWhen Leah Williamson was seven, her father told her he didn’t want to hear any excuses. If she really wanted to become a professional footballer, and was prepared to put the effort in, there was no reason why she shouldn’t succeed. Today, Williamson is one of the b
  
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• Batmobiles, Bugs Bunny and James Dean’s jeans: a day inside the Warner Bros top-secret archive

  25-03-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  To celebrate 100 years, the studio is letting reporters into a protected vault of movie treasures. Just don’t try and find it on Google mapsThere is an actual Batcave in Los Angeles, where all the old Batmen live. I can’t tell you where: I signed an NDA. But in the most unlikely neighbourhood, in the most obscure location, lies a giant warehouse where Warner Bros keeps a century’s worth of treasures, including the best vehicles from its Batman films going back to 1989.On a tour
  
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• John Lewis must regain its ‘soul’ to survive, says Mary Portas

  25-03-2023 10:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Retail expert urges troubled UK company not to lose sight of its values amid proposal to welcome outside investmentMary Portas, one of Britain’s leading retail consultants, has said the John Lewis group faces a battle to regain its soul, amid its potential move to welcome outside ownership.Portas, who advised David Cameron’s coalition government on the future of high streets, sent an open letter to the group’s chair, Sharon White, and Nish Kankiwala, who joins as the group&rsqu
  
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• Maggie O’Farrell: ‘The worst thing anyone’s said to me? You’ll never walk again’

  25-03-2023 10:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The author on stammering, lying to her hairdresser, and her bad recycling habit Born in Northern Ireland, Maggie O’Farrell, 50, went to Cambridge University and then became a journalist. Her first novel, After You’d Gone, won the 2001 Betty Trask award. Subsequent books include the 2010 Costa book award-winning The Hand That First Held Mine, and the memoir I Am, I Am, I Am. Her latest novel is The Marriage Portrait. The stage adaptation of Hamnet, which won the 2020 Women’s pri
  
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• Tornado in Mississippi kills at least 14, with more trapped under rubble

  25-03-2023 10:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Buildings wrecked and power lines downed by ‘supercell’ storm system as governor says search and rescue efforts continuingA powerful tornado tore through rural Mississippi on Friday night, killing at least 14 people, destroying buildings and knocking out power, as severe weather that produced hail the size of golf balls moved through several southern states.The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado caused damage about 60 miles (96km) north-east of Jackson, Mississippi. The rur
  
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• Sunak expected to move all migrants out of hotels into disused ferries and military bases

  25-03-2023 10:06 via express.co.uk
  
  Rishi Sunak is expected to lay out a migrant housing plan as Prime Minister looks to confront what could be the biggest rebellion of his premiership over a new Illegal Migration Bill.
  
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• Forward thinking: why daylight savings is here to stay in UK

  25-03-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  British summer time starts at 1am on Sunday, when clocks go forward an hourThe ritual of clock-changing is upon us once again as British summer time begins at 1am on Sunday 26 March, when clocks go forward to 2am. Much of the population gets to lose an hour’s sleep – excluding those who work nights, those who are having a big night out, and those with pets and small children that don’t pay any heed to the clock anyway.Sometimes known as “daylight savings time”, the
  
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• Diana Evans: ‘The Tory rhetoric asks us to forget, I’m trying to make sure that we don’t’

  25-03-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Five years on from her acclaimed novel Ordinary People, the writer returns to explore the lives of black British Londoners. She talks about Grenfell, belonging – and how she writes to bear witnessIn 2019, Diana Evans’s third novel Ordinary People met with a rapturous critical response, was shortlisted for the Women’s prize, and earned comparisons to Tolstoy from the New Yorker, due to her gift for intertwining “the public and the private, the momentous and the mundane&rdq
  
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• Ajax armoured vehicle branded 'an obsolete disaster' which has cost taxpayers billions

  25-03-2023 10:00 via express.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Stuart Crawford believes no matter what happens now, the military vehicle will be 'forever tainted'.
  
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• Lidl cashier slammed for 'humiliating' women buying period products

  25-03-2023 09:01 via express.co.uk
  
  A mother and daughter were both left 'totally embarrassed' after shopping at the budget supermarket
  
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• Your garden should be a multilayer food forest, says RHS horticulturist

  25-03-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tom Massey promotes natural ‘forest gardens’ with biodiverse planting to create wildlife havensYour garden should have many layers, like a rainforest, to perform for biodiversity and climate, a leading garden designer has said.Tom Massey, an award-winning horticulturist, said most gardens only have a couple of layers, with a mown lawn, some bushes and perhaps a tree. But adding multiple layers, with intermingled planting, helps to mimic what one may find in a biodiverse forest, with
  
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• Ukrainian top brass stirs the pot with talk of Bakhmut counterattack

  25-03-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As Russian observers hunt for clues of a spring offensive, Ukraine’s land forces chief suggests an unlikely strategySpring has arrived in Ukraine – with late March temperatures an unreasonably high 17C along much of the frontline in the east. It means it is possible to declare, definitively, that the Russian campaign to knock out Ukraine’s power grid has failed, and whatever happens next in the war, its people will not be frozen out of their homes, as was once feared when the c
  
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• Rishi Sunak’s accountants urge retention of non-dom status

  25-03-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Evelyn Partners recently confirmed PM made around £5m in past three years, mostly through investmentsRishi Sunak’s accountancy firm, a wealth management company that argued against removing non-domiciled status, has welcomed the government’s tax breaks for wealthy savers and promises to minimise clients’ capital gains tax.Evelyn Partners signed off on the three-page summary of the prime minister’s tax affairs which Downing Street released this week, showing that Sun
  
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• My family owned 1,000 slaves and profited from the trade: this is how I am trying to make amends | Laura Trevelyan

  25-03-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  I left the BBC to fight for restorative justice. The £100,000 we have so far donated to Grenada should be seen only as a first stepIn 1833, when Britain finally abolished slavery, my ancestors were absentee owners of more than 1,000 enslaved people on the Caribbean island of Grenada. To the best of my knowledge, the Trevelyans never set foot on the island. They enjoyed the profits that came rolling in from sugar harvested by exploited and brutalised enslaved people thousands of miles away
  
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• McDonald’s, milk, Ronaldo: the top 10 football adverts of the 90s

  25-03-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From back garden keepie-uppies to airport flicks and tricks, a countdown of the greatest commercials from the decadeScott Parker before he was Scott Parker, or rather when he was a lad called Jimmy who loved doing keepie-uppies in his back garden, and what impressive keepie-uppies they were. Indeed historians believe this may have been the first sighting of sick tekkers on British television, and it’s what made this ad, used by McDonald’s to promote itself as an official sponsor of t
  
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• Five care chains thought to make £150m a year for low-rated homes in England

  25-03-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Council are paying large sums for elderly care homes that are inadequate, need improving and not safe, finds Guardian researchFive of the largest private care chains are taking £150m a year in taxpayers’ money for places in English elderly care homes rated inadequate or requiring improvement, including some that are “not safe”, the Guardian has estimated.The leading earner from public funds is HC-One, a chain of 285 care homes majority-owned by a US private equity company
  
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• ‘Democracy is broken’: French public divided on pensions and protests

  25-03-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Seven people share their opinions of Emmanuel Macron’s plan to shake up the country’s retirement systemMore than a million protesters took to the streets in France on Thursday after Emmanuel Macron’s decision to force through legislation to raise the minimum pension age last week.The government narrowly survived a no-confidence vote on Monday after invoking article 49.3 of the constitution to bypass parliament for the bill. Continue reading...
  
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• Chicken schnitzel, idli and cookies: Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for cooking with semolina

  25-03-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Chicken schnitzels coated in semolina crumb with a pea salsa, savoury south Indian cakes for dipping in coconut chutney and spicy oil, and irresistible lemony semolina and almond cookiesMany of my favourite comfort foods are connected by one ingredient: semolina. Whether it’s the gnocchi my Italian grandmother made for us or the syrup-drenched cakes, dumplings and couscous of my childhood in Jerusalem, it’s often semolina at work. Its texture is distinct: somehow glutinous and gritty
  
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• Aliaksandr Ivulin: ‘It’s not very safe to be a footballer in Belarus now’

  25-03-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  State opposition leads to prison while the national team plays all games away from home due to the nation’s support of RussiaThere will be no supporters in the stands of Stadion Karadorde, in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, when Belarus begin their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign with a “home” match against Switzerland on Saturday. Nor, in many eyes, will there be much excuse for the fact their meeting is taking place at all. Belarus are the competition’s pariahs: virtually f
  
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• Large asteroid to zoom between Earth and Moon - Al Jazeera English

  25-03-2023 08:40 via news.google.com
  Large asteroid to zoom between Earth and Moon  Al Jazeera EnglishMassive 'city killer' asteroid to make rare pass close to earth and moon today  Yorkshire LiveHuge asteroid is slamming into the Earth’s orbit in ‘once in a decade' event  indy100Asteroid size of Big Ben slams through Earth orbit in hours and will be closer than moon  Daily StarNear-Earth asteroid 2023 DZ2 very close encounter: online observation – 25 Mar. 2023  Th
  
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• Cost of living: Women feel trust was 'violated' on housing app

  25-03-2023 08:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Women feel they are being forced to risk their safety when house hunting due to financial pressures.
  
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• Trump lives rent-free in Americans’ heads amid possible indictment

  25-03-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  While the ex-president left the White House over two years ago, the Trump addiction is hard to beat as his legal perils dominate headlinesWhen Donald Trump took his final walk from the White House, boarded a helicopter and vanished into a cold sky, millions of Americans breathed a sigh of relief. With the former US president retired to his Mar-a-Lago estate, they reasoned, they would no longer live in constant dread of new scandals or impulsive tweets.Two years and two months later, it turns out
  
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• Strawberries instead of bin liners: poll reveals strange supermarket delivery substitutions

  25-03-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Shoppers reported replacement items in 47% of UK deliveries, including 62% from Asda, in Which? surveyDog chews instead of chicken breasts? Strawberries in place of bin liners? These are just some of the strangest supermarket substitutions, according to a poll.Almost half of supermarket deliveries (47%) included a substitute item over the past 12 months, the survey for the consumer group Which? found. Continue reading...
  
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• Rise of slimming jabs could lead to overseas trips to remove excess skin, UK surgeons warn

  25-03-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Surgeons raise concerns that people using jabs are unaware of risks of redundant skinFrom unbearable side-effects to cravings curbed: readers on weight-loss jabsA surge in the number of people using slimming jabs to lose weight could lead to a rise in patients travelling abroad for tummy tucks or other surgery to remove excess skin, surgeons have said.Drugs such as liraglutide and semaglutide, which could help people reduce their weight by more than 10%, have been approved for use on
  
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