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• 'I was in tears seeing the Edinburgh teacher who abused me'

  14-04-2023 23:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Neil Douglas saw retired teacher Iain Wares in court, 50 years after he attended Edinburgh Academy.
  
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• Wardle and O’Neill on target as Wigan end Warrington’s unbeaten record

  14-04-2023 23:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Super League: Warrington 6-13 WiganWigan close Warrington’s lead to two pointsWigan ended Warrington’s winning start in the Betfred Super League as they held on for a hard-fought 13-6 victory at the Halliwell Jones Stadium on Friday.First-half tries from Jake Wardle and Brad O’Neill proved crucial for the Warriors in a tense top-of-the table contest dominated by defence. Continue reading...
  
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• Boulter and Dart beaten as France take Billie Jean King Cup lead against Britain

  14-04-2023 23:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Caroline Garcia beats Boulter 6-7(2), 7-6(4), 7-6(2) in openerAlizé Cornet defeats Dart 7-6(6), 7-6(3) to put France 2-0 upEven with the privilege of choosing both court and location for their Billie Jean King Cup qualifying tie against France in Coventry, Great Britain entered the fray fully aware of their status as heavy underdogs.While the away team boasts one of the best players in the world, Caroline Garcia, and a group of experienced veterans, with the absence of Emma Raducanu, Brit
  
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• Katy Perry and Lionel Richie to perform at Coronation concert

  14-04-2023 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The event, broadcast from Windsor Castle, also includes Take That and opera singer Andrea Bocelli.
  
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• King’s coronation concert: Take That, Lionel Richie and Katy Perry to perform

  14-04-2023 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Opera singers Andrea Bocelli and Sir Bryn Terfel also in lineup for Windsor Castle concert on Sunday 7 MayTake That, Lionel Richie and Katy Perry will be among the artists performing at King Charles’s coronation concert, it has been announced, along with the opera singers Andrea Bocelli and Sir Bryn Terfel.The singer songwriter Freya Ridings and classical-soul composer and producer Alexis Ffrench will also grace the stage in the grounds of Windsor Castle on Sunday 7 May, the BBC has confir
  
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• Ford and Tuilagi help Sale defeat Bristol to close in on home semi-final

  14-04-2023 22:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Premiership: Bristol 20-36 SaleGeorge Ford scores 21 points to consolidate second placeA fine all-round display from George Ford and a powerful contribution from Manu Tuilagi kept Sale firmly on course for a home semi-final in this season’s Gallagher Premiership. The Sharks have now guaranteed their participation in the last four and showed far too much physicality for a Bristol side whose playoff hopes are now effectively over.Both Ford and Tuilagi have endured injury-disrupted seasons bu
  
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• Britain's economy is back, says chancellor

  14-04-2023 22:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jeremy Hunt says his strategy has been welcomed by the IMF after his predecessor faced criticism.
  
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• US supreme court temporarily blocks ruling limiting abortion pill access

  14-04-2023 22:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Samuel Alito imposes five-day stay after rulingby Texas federal judge that would have imposed restrictions on mifepristoneUS supreme court justice Samuel Alito has temporarily blocked lower court rulings which would have imposed temporary restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone that were set to go into effect this weekend.Alito imposed a five-day stay after a ruling by a conservative federal judge in Texas, parts of which were then upheld by a conservative appellate court based in New Orl
  
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• As the climate warms, New Zealand winemakers grapple with a changing landscape

  14-04-2023 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Winemakers worry the heat could make wine too sweet, while others are starting to plant grapes in areas previously considered too coolAt what point is a Marlborough sauvignon blanc so sweet it no longer tastes like a Marlborough sauvignon blanc? That is one of the questions that New Zealand winemakers are grappling with as the country experiences an increasingly warm, dry climate.Winemaker John Hancock says the timing of the grape harvest in New Zealand has shifted as the climate has changed. Co
  
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• Mayor says George Floyd would be alive if Derek Chauvin had been fired in 2017

  14-04-2023 21:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Jacob Frey makes remark during announcement that Minneapolis reached $8.9m settlement in two excessive force lawsuitsThe mayor of Minneapolis said George Floyd would still be alive if the city’s police department had “done the right thing” and fired officer Derek Chauvin in 2017 after complaints he knelt on the necks of two people he arrested.Jacob Frey was speaking at a press conference on Thursday announcing the city had reached a $8.9m settlement in two excessive force lawsu
  
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• Nine out of 10 beauty clinics breaking the law by advertising Botox – study

  14-04-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Promotion of anti-ageing product is illegal because it is a prescription-only medicineNine in 10 beauty clinics are breaking the law by advertising Botox, new research reveals, sparking fresh concern that Britain’s booming £3.6bn cosmetic treatments industry is like the “wild west”.Academics at University College London (UCL) found 88% clinics in London are flouting regulations intended to protect public health banning the advertising of Botox and other forms of botulinum
  
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• French court approves Macron’s unpopular plan to raise pension age

  14-04-2023 20:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Constitutional council’s ruling means government can pass law to increase minimum eligible age as early as next weekFrance’s highest constitutional court has approved Emmanuel Macron’s proposals to raise the minimum pension age from 62 to 64.The ruling means the government can pass the French president’s unpopular plans to increase the minimum eligible pension age as early as next week, to be in force by the end of this year. Continue reading...
  
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• Nurses will strike again in England after voting to reject government pay deal

  14-04-2023 20:49 via theguardian.com
  
  RCN members refuse offer recommended by union leaders by 54% to 46% in ballotNurses are to launch fresh strike action across England later this month after rejecting the government’s pay offer, sparking fears stoppages could go on until Christmas.In a major blow to ministers, union leaders and health service bosses, members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) voted narrowly, by 54% to 46%, on a turnout of 61%, to reject the government’s offer of a 5% pay rise this year and a cash p
  
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• Sarah Beeny receives all-clear after breast cancer treatment

  14-04-2023 20:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Presenter and property expert underwent chemotherapy and double mastectomy following diagnosis in AugustSarah Beeny, the broadcaster and property expert, has announced that she has been given the all-clear after receiving treatment for breast cancer.The 51-year-old revealed the diagnosis last August and has since undergone chemotherapy and a double mastectomy. Continue reading...
  
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• Chelsea hold talks with Sporting’s Rúben Amorim over manager vacancy

  14-04-2023 20:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Nagelsmann and Enrique touted as frontrunners for jobClub need to act quickly as Real and PSG may also be lookingChelsea have held talks with Sporting’s Rúben Amorim as they continue their search for their next permanent manager.Julian Nagelsmann and Luis Enrique have been touted as the early frontrunners for the vacancy at Stamford Bridge, but Chelsea are determined not to act hastily following the abrupt dismissal of Graham Potter. Appointing Frank Lampard as interim head coach un
  
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• Martin Rowson on Steve Barclay and the nurses’ dispute – cartoon

  14-04-2023 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
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• King Charles visits Sandhurst for 200th Sovereign's Parade

  14-04-2023 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The King spoke of his pride in his two sons as he wished the cadets success for the future.
  
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• Mark Sheehan, the Script guitarist, dies aged 46

  14-04-2023 20:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Irish pop group announce death of ‘much loved bandmate’ after a brief illnessMark Sheehan, guitarist with Irish pop band the Script, has died in hospital aged 46 after a brief illness.Sheehan formed the band with frontman Danny O’Donoghue and drummer Glen Power in 2001. Continue reading...
  
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• Murder inquiry launched after shooting death of teenager in north London

  14-04-2023 20:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Police say they want to speak to people among large group present in area of incident, after death of Tyler McDermott, 17A murder investigation has been launched after a teenager died following a shooting in north London. Tyler McDermott, 17, died on Friday afternoon after the incident in the early hours of Thursday.Scotland Yard said it was vital that officers spoke to a “large group of people” who may have heard or seen something suspicious in the area of the shooting in Norman Roa
  
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• ‘We’re always easy to have a go at’: behind the scenes at a PGMOL referee training camp

  14-04-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  St George’s Park visit shows lengths officials go to in pursuit of right decisions and how they deal with things going wrongIt is just past midday on Wednesday and after Mr Blue Sky plays over a montage of talking points from a busy Easter weekend of matches in the Terry Venables Room at St George’s Park, 19 referees and 30 assistant referees are plugged into the words of Kevin Friend, the select group two Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) manager. An hour earlier the
  
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• Tonga volcano explosion equalled most powerful ever US nuclear test

  14-04-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Scientists calculate 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano released 1,000 times more energy than Hiroshima bombA huge underwater volcanic event in Tonga last year was of a magnitude comparable with the most powerful nuclear detonation by the US, researchers have revealed.Scientists have used eye and earwitnesses accounts, along with data from tide gauges, satellites, evidence of broken windows and other sources, to calculate that the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’
  
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• Grand National braced as ‘300-plus’ protesters plan to disrupt big race

  14-04-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Animal Rising aiming to kick off series of actions this year Slow-march tactics expected in bid to prevent showpieceAintree racecourse is preparing to face the most significant and potentially disruptive protests against the Grand National for many years on Saturday, when the campaign group Animal Rising plans to employ tactics used by Just Stop Oil protesters in recent months in an attempt to prevent the world’s most famous steeplechase from going ahead.The group are aiming to have 300 pr
  
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• Met Police officers sacked over Katie Price son messages

  14-04-2023 19:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A senior officer admits the Met is in an "awful position" after the latest police misconduct case.
  
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• Banknote printer De La Rue’s chair quits after turnaround plans criticised

  14-04-2023 19:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Kevin Loosemore had been targeted for months by activist investor Crystal Amber FundThe chair of British banknote printer De La Rue has resigned after months of attempts to oust him and criticism of the company’s leadership by one of its largest shareholders.De Le Rue said on Friday that Kevin Loosemore had resigned as a director, “to draw a line under recent speculation surrounding the leadership of the company”. Continue reading...
  
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• Jack Teixeira, suspect in Pentagon leaks, charged under Espionage Act

  14-04-2023 19:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Government to seek 10 years on each of two charges, says prosecutor in Boston courtJack Teixeira: suspect in Pentagon leaks charged under Espionage Act – follow liveJack Teixeira, the air national guardsman arrested on suspicion of leaking hundreds of secret defence documents, has been charged in a Boston court on two counts under the Espionage Act as Washington reeled from the fallout of the worst leaks of US intelligence in at least a decade.The clean-cut 21-year-old was brought into cou
  
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• The Guardian view on the Pentagon leaks: this system puts lives at risk | Editorial

  14-04-2023 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Publishing internal documents in wartime will always be controversial. But the US secrecy world is not fit for purpose eitherThere must always be a place for necessary whistleblowing from inside governments. This newspaper will always stand, responsibly, for that principle. Yet leaks are also serious matters, which challenge a state. In a particularly serious case, or at a particularly serious time, such as during a war, a leak can help an enemy, dismay allies, weaken morale and, at least potent
  
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• The Guardian view on China and Europe: Macron’s careless words were costly | Editorial

  14-04-2023 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Despite the French president’s post-visit remarks, there is growing concern about Beijing and keenness to act in unityFour years ago, Emmanuel Macron remarked that the era of European naivety on China was over. As Andrew Small establishes in his book The Rupture, the shift was not born primarily of US pressure to pick sides – though that was unquestionably felt – but of Europe’s own dealings with Beijing. Views have hardened further thanks to China’s increasing forc
  
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• Pentagon leaks: how Discord video game chat platform landed in the spotlight

  14-04-2023 19:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Users explain the way top-secret documents were able slowly to spread across the internet unnoticedLive: suspect in Pentagon leaks chargedThe largest leak of classified Pentagon documents since Edward Snowden has placed a popular free chat platform for the video gaming community in the spotlight.Discord began in 2015 as a chat app for gamers to discuss strategy in multi-player video games, but owing to its privacy features, it has morphed into a secure space to have secret discussions. This has
  
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• Tottenham shooting: Teenager dies in hospital

  14-04-2023 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A murder investigation has been launched after the death of 17-year-old Tyler McDermott.
  
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• ‘Never count me out’: O’Sullivan ready and relaxed for Crucible record tilt

  14-04-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ronnie O’Sullivan begins his quest for an eighth world title on Saturday hoping age proves no barrier to successWe have known for quite some time that Ronnie O’Sullivan is not your typical snooker player. At times he has seemed immune to everything thrown in his path. Yet his admission that he has taken to pilates to help prepare him for the chance to break one of the few snooker records left for him to break emphasised two things.First that O’Sullivan does not rehearse quite l
  
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• All bets aren’t off when it comes to football and its obsession with gambling | Barney Ronay

  14-04-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Football has led the charge on the total intrusion of gambling into every aspect of our daily cultural livesChildren don’t like Peter Crouch. Young people do not find Peter Crouch a hopeful or aspirational figure. Peter Crouch’s career ended in underwhelming disappointment, largely because he played for Burnley and Stoke. Not my words. The words of Crouch’s employers, Flutter Entertainment plc, also known as Paddy Power.It is now three months since Paddy Power offered its respo
  
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• The junior doctors' strike is not just about pay – this is a generation that feels betrayed | Gaby Hinsliff

  14-04-2023 18:53 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s not that they are the worst paid in society, but there’s a huge gulf between their expectations and today’s reality After four tense days when you could almost feel the NHS holding its breath, striking junior doctors are preparing to return to the wards.But the relief, such as it is for anyone who cares about the NHS, is only temporary. This week’s planned stoppage may be ending but the strike very much is not. And judging by the increasingly personal nature of polit
  
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• Blackmore backed for glory at Grand National

  14-04-2023 18:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Preview of Saturday's big race at Aintree where Rachael Blackmore's mount Ain't That A Shame is among the favourites - plus pundit predictions.
  
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• PBS quits Twitter after being labeled ‘government-funded media’

  14-04-2023 18:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Broadcaster leaves platform a day after NPR’s exit over concerns labels undermine credibility as independent news outletsThe US’s Public Broadcasting Service, better known as PBS, has quit its use of Twitter after the platform labeled the organization as “government-funded media”.PBS’s announced its Twitter exit on Thursday, one day after National Public Radio also left the platform amid comments by the Twitter owner, Elon Musk, that NPR was “state-affiliated
  
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• Labour’s ad campaign betrays its lack of faith in voters | Letters

  14-04-2023 18:48 via theguardian.com
  
  The new advertisements are as panicky as they are unprincipled, writes David Puttnam. Plus letters from Alexandra Smithies and Alan FairsNesrine Malik is profoundly right (Why Labour’s ‘law and order’ tribute act feels hollow and overblown, 10 April). The direction adopted by these new adverts, and the mentality that inspired them, can only ultimately damage the Labour party.Labour will win the next election as a direct result of successive calamities brought about by a dozen y
  
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• Two Met police officers sacked over messages about Katie Price’s son

  14-04-2023 18:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Officers sent offensive messages about Harvey Price, who is disabled, to colleagues in WhatsApp groupTwo Metropolitan police officers have been dismissed over offensive messages that they shared in a WhatsApp group, including some that made fun of Katie Price’s disabled son.The two serving officers and six former colleagues were found guilty of gross misconduct after sending sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic and ableist comments in a group called Secret Squirrel Shit between 2016 and
  
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• A lesson from the Good Friday agreement to resolve the doctors’ pay dispute | Letters

  14-04-2023 18:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Preconditions set by ministers on talks have obscured the substance of the dispute, writes the Labour peer Peter Hain, while Dr John Doherty suggests a reasonable offer for striking doctorsIn setting preconditions for negotiations with “junior” doctors over their long-running and increasingly acrimonious pay dispute, the government seems to have forgotten one of the primary lessons of the 1998 Good Friday agreement. Namely, if you set preconditions, these become the main point of con
  
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• US charges 28 members of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel including El Chapo’s sons

  14-04-2023 18:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Charges filed against cartel leaders, alleged chemical suppliers, lab managers, traffickers and others in fentanyl investigationThe US justice department has charged 28 members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel, including sons of notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation.The attorney general, Merrick Garland, announced the charges on Friday alongside the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chief, Anne Milg
  
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• Junior doctor says she can't afford to start family

  14-04-2023 18:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dr Salma Khatun says she is paid £29,000 a year and has tuition debts of more than £80,000.
  
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• King's Lynn murder: Life term for woman who stabbed victim 16 times

  14-04-2023 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police say they may never know why Birute Klicneliene attacked a woman she had only just met.
  
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• Pentagon leak was decades in the making

  14-04-2023 18:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Computer network was designed for use by much smaller number of people amid questions over amount of classified material on the systemRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesThe US Department of Defense is moving to tighten rules over who is allowed to access the most sensitive intelligence, amid mounting criticism of the Pentagon’s policies for access to sensitive material in the wake of the leak of hundreds of highly classified documents.The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, who
  
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• Ireland’s stranglehold on the Grand National reaches record heights

  14-04-2023 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Ireland has four straight wins at Aintree, and with a record 27 of the 40-strong field in Saturday’s race, that run should continueThe Irish Grand National was run at Fairyhouse on Monday. The Mostly Irish Grand National, meanwhile, is at Aintree on Saturday, when 27 of the 40 runners facing the starter at 5.15pm will be attempting to extend Ireland’s current stranglehold on Britain’s most famous and popular race.One For Arthur, in 2017, was the last British-trained winner at A
  
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• The world desperately needs a fairer economy – here’s how we can make that happen | Mia Mottley and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  14-04-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Inflation and the climate crisis are hitting developing economies hardest. Trade is the key to helping themMia Mottley is prime minister of Barbados. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is director-general of the World Trade OrganizationThe Covid-19 pandemic derailed economies everywhere, and in most developing countries incomes remain well below pre-pandemic levels. Inflation, made worse by the war in Ukraine, is particularly painful for low-income and vulnerable countries, where essentials like food and energ
  
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• ‘Too big to fail’: why was army’s man inside IRA, Freddie Scappaticci, never prosecuted?

  14-04-2023 17:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Families of victims dismayed at lack of accountability after death of ‘Stakeknife’He was described as being in very poor health and living a lonely existence by magistrate Emma Arbuthnot as she sentenced Freddie Scappaticci, then 72, to a three-month suspended jail term.It was 5 December 2018. Westminster magistrates court had heard that Scappaticci, wearing a grubby blue fleece and green tracksuit bottoms, had used a laptop seized by police earlier in the year to search for informat
  
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• Man who threw eggs at King Charles found guilty of threatening behaviour

  14-04-2023 17:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Patrick Thelwell sentenced to 12-month community order with 100 hours of unpaid work after incident during York walkaboutA man who threw eggs at the king before shouting “friends with Jimmy Savile” has been found guilty of threatening behaviour.Patrick Thelwell shouted: “The king is a paedophile,” after throwing several eggs towards King Charles during a walkabout in York last year. Continue reading...
  
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• Dubravka Ugrešić: a droll genius with an unwavering devotion to literature

  14-04-2023 17:25 via theguardian.com
  
  The writer, who died last month, was a fiercely funny social commentator whose prose always radiated a playful profundityI discovered that Dubravka Ugrešić had died last month, aged 73, in that strange, uniquely modern way one does: by noticing a sudden proliferation of quotes from her works on Twitter. For a moment I could suspend the sadness and scroll through her sharp-witted wisdom. But there was a darker irony to the scene – one that Ugrešić, a writer all too a
  
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• Netherlands to broaden euthanasia rules to cover children of all ages

  14-04-2023 17:20 via theguardian.com
  
  New regulations will apply to those aged one to 12 who suffer unbearably and have no hope of improvementThe Netherlands is to widen its euthanasia regulations to include the possibility of doctors assisting in the death of terminally ill children aged between one and 12.The new rules would apply to between five and 10 children a year who suffer unbearably from their disease, have no hope of improvement and for whom palliative care cannot bring relief, the government said on Friday. Continue read
  
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• Spanish woman emerges after spending 500 days living alone in cave

  14-04-2023 17:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Beatriz Flamini says she endured swarms of flies, read 60 books and never missed the sunlightAfter spending 500 days alone in a dark cave 70 metres below the Earth’s surface, assailed by a plague of flies and the odd tantalising vision of roast chicken, most people would be craving a wash and some company.But after emerging from her subterranean lair in southern Spain a little after 9am on Friday and having a quick checkup with a doctor and a psychologist, Beatriz Flamini was treated inste
  
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• Stormzy’s #Merky Books festival aims to ‘light imaginations’ of young storytellers

  14-04-2023 17:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Speaker Malorie Blackman says two-day event exists to ‘spark the aspirations’ of those who might not have considered a creative careerThe #Merky Books Literature festival, set up by the publishing imprint founded by musician Stormzy, will “hopefully be the spark that lights the imagination, the curiosity and the aspirations” of those who might not previously have considered a career in the creative arts, says author Malorie Blackman.The two-day event, held on 22 and 23 Ap
  
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• Voter ID checks could overwhelm election staff, councils warn

  14-04-2023 17:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For the first time, people will need to show photo ID before voting in England's local elections.
  
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