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• iSpace: First private Moon landing likely to have failed - BBC

  25-04-2023 21:36 via news.google.com
  
  iSpace: First private Moon landing likely to have failed  BBCFirst private moon landing appears to have failed  Sky NewsiSpace: Japanese Moon lander likely to have crashed  BBCJapan: Moment ispace's mission control room loses contact with first private moon lander  The Independent‘High probability’ spacecraft crashed on moon, Tokyo company says  ExpressView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Uefa president Ceferin raises prospect of playing Champions League final in US

  25-04-2023 20:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Ceferin says it is possible from 2026 and talks have startedHe wants salary cap in European football ‘as soon as possible’Aleksander Ceferin has said the possibility of staging the Champions League final in the US has been discussed, with the Uefa president admitting he hopes to cash in on football’s growing popularity in the country.Last September Ceferin, who also wants to introduce a salary cap in European football “as soon as possible”, denied reports that discu
  
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• Leeds United v Leicester City: Premier League – live

  25-04-2023 20:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Premier League updates from the 8pm BST kick-offLive scoreboard | And you can mail Scott your match thoughtsPre-match postbag o’anxiety. “Should I be rooting for a draw?” wonders Brad Wilson. “My best mate is a Leeds supporter. I’d prefer both Everton and Leeds stay up, but if my beloved Toffees have to go down I hope Leeds stays up for my friend. If it’s between Leeds and Everton, well, my friend, sorry.”Sadly for Brad, his fellow Evertonian Matt Burtz
  
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• Biden foregrounds abortion as he announces bid for second term as US president – live

  25-04-2023 20:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Democratic president, 80, confirms intention to run in 2024Sign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailDonald Trump’s legal entanglements are many, but polls have repeatedly shown he remains the most popular candidates among Republicans.A rematch of the 2020 election, where Joe Biden ousted Trump from the White House appears possible, but Jim Clyburn, a Democratic congressman and co-chair of Biden’s campaign, downplayed the two men’s rivalry in an intervie
  
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• ‘Thrown under the bus’: Melanie Sykes says she quit TV after bad treatment by industry

  25-04-2023 20:50 via theguardian.com
  
  In a new book that follows her autism diagnosis, the former presenter of The Big Breakfast describes a career marred by sexism and coercive behaviourFor years, Melanie Sykes was a regular face on TV, in shows such as Today with Des and Mel, The Big Breakfast and The Great Pottery Throw Down.But having been diagnosed as autistic and endured a breakdown, the former model has revealed in her autobiography that she has quit mainstream TV and the “horror story” she encountered as a woman
  
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• Sudan live: first British evacuation flight leaves Khartoum, UK confirms; Sudanese army accused of breaching ceasefire

  25-04-2023 20:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Rishi Sunak says more flights to take off into Wednesday after first UK plane leaves Khartoum; Sudanese army accused of breaching ceasefireAlicia Kearns, the Conservative MP for Rutland and Melton is the chair of the UK parliament’s foreign affairs select committee, and she has been doing the media round in the UK this morning.She told Sky News she felt “enormous relief” at the news that the evacuation process was beginning, but cautioned to hold all those involved “in ou
  
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• Belafonte is gone, Poitier went before him. They were the titans who uplifted our world | Candace Allen

  25-04-2023 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  For us in the African diaspora, they were pioneers who challenged and changed attitudes towards Black men. We were so proud of themThe ping today of a WhatsApp message and my heart wrenching at the news. Harry Belafonte. Gone.Not that he hadn’t earned his rest at 96, but this was an incandescent beacon of most everything that can be good and right in a man – intelligence, closely considered and courageous political activism, guided by an unwavering moral compass that paused for neith
  
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• Civil service boss attempts to delay Sue Gray’s start as Labour chief of staff

  25-04-2023 20:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Simon Case pressuring watchdog to block Gray from taking up job until after next electionThe head of the civil service, Simon Case, has attempted to block former senior official Sue Gray from working with Labour as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff until after the next general election, the Guardian has been told.Whitehall sources said that Case, as Gray’s former civil service boss in the Cabinet Office, had “pushed for” the government’s appointments watchdog
  
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• UK finds itself at back of the queue in Sudan evacuation

  25-04-2023 20:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Britain criticised for prioritising getting embassy staff out of Khartoum first as Germany and France celebrate evacuating hundreds of citizensSudan crisis – latest updatesBy the time Britain’s first civilian evacuation flight had taken off from a rough airfield north of Khartoum on Tuesday afternoon, other European nations were highlighting their successes in evacuating hundreds of their citizens from Sudan.Britain’s military may have been the first to use the Wadi Seidna base
  
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• ‘Values and lifestyles’ of small boat refugees threaten social cohesion, says Jenrick

  25-04-2023 20:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Comments by immigration minister criticised as being ‘straight from the far right’s playbook’The “values and lifestyles” of people crossing the Channel in small boats threaten the UK’s social cohesion, the immigration minister has claimed, in comments that have been described as “dog-whistling to the far right”.Amid predictions that there could be a new surge in crossings by people fleeing the conflict in Sudan, Robert Jenrick said “uncontrol
  
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• Martin Rowson on the UK evacuating people from Sudan – cartoon

  25-04-2023 20:04 via theguardian.com
  
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• At least 150 civilians may have died in attack on Burkina Faso village, says UN

  25-04-2023 19:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Security forces accused of massacre in Karma, which locals say was carried out by men in military dressAt least 150 civilians may have been killed and many more injured in an attack allegedly perpetrated by Burkina Faso’s security forces, the UN high commissioner for human rights has said.In a statement on Tuesday, the commissioner, Ravina Shamdasani, called for a prompt, thorough, independent and impartial investigation into what it called the “horrific killing of civilians” i
  
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• Jury selected as Donald Trump’s civil rape trial begins in New York

  25-04-2023 19:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Columnist E Jean Carroll alleges that the real estate mogul sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store nearly 30 years agoA federal court jury in New York was selected on Tuesday to hear evidence that Donald Trump raped the famed advice columnist E Jean Carroll nearly three decades ago.Jurors were expected to hear opening arguments from both sides in the case on Tuesday afternoon and could possibly begin listening to witness testimony before the end of the day. Continue reading...
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 426 of the invasion

  25-04-2023 19:52 via theguardian.com
  
  One killed and ten injured in strike on museum in Kupyansk; UK’s MoD says daily Russian casualties are falling Continue reading...
  
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• Coffey muddies the waters as Tories wash their hands of sewage scandal | John Crace

  25-04-2023 19:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Environment secretary urges Britons to embrace the filth as Labour seeks to flush out Conservative failuresDay two of the Unicorn Kingdom. A world where fantasy always outdoes reality. That fair and septic isle. Who needs to go for a walk by a canal or river? Why bother to go to the beach? All you need to do is have a dump at home. Where to have an open cesspit is the latest status symbol. The estate agent’s dream. Your very own swimming pool. What more could anyone want?To be fair, Th&eac
  
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• The Guardian view on the electric car revolution: targets are not enough | Editorial

  25-04-2023 19:32 via theguardian.com
  
  The government must do its bit to make new electric vehicles more affordable if mass adoption is to be achieved on the road to net zeroWhen the government controversially scrapped its discount on the purchase of electric cars last summer, the move was justified on the grounds that its work was done. After 11 years of subsidies, said ministers, the electric vehicle revolution had been “kickstarted”. As Britain strives to meet a 2030 target to end the sale of new petrol and diesel vehi
  
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• The Guardian view on hopes for Yemen: a long road to peace | Editorial

  25-04-2023 19:31 via theguardian.com
  
  After years of devastating conflict, the UN sees an opportunity to end the war. But the risks of deterioration remainHope has been hard to find in Yemen. After more than eight years of war, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives, many of them civilians, the situation is desperate. More than two-thirds of the population are dependent on humanitarian aid. Yet, since the agreement of a truce between the Saudi-led military coalition and Iran-backed Houthi rebels last April, the country has se
  
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• Steve McQueen on his hero Harry Belafonte: ‘He had everything – but his service was to his people’

  25-04-2023 19:14 via theguardian.com
  
  The British director recalls how the great US singer, actor and activist became a mentor to him – after giving a speech about Tarzan to celebrate 12 Years a Slave winning an awardHarry Belafonte was a hero of mine. He meant everything to me. I met him around the release of 12 Years a Slave, and he became a mentor. I received a best director award at the New York Film Critics Circle awards and Harry gave an amazing speech: he talked about seeing Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan at the cinema as
  
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• LTNs can only work with decent public transport | Letter

  25-04-2023 19:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Here in Marston, Oxford, buses are scarce and unreliable, and the imposition of low-traffic neighbourhoods feels like a punishment, writes Joanna BagniewskaAs an ecologist and a keen cyclist who has never owned a car, I should, in theory, be overjoyed by the introduction of low-traffic neighbourhoods to my city (What prompted my U-turn on LTNs? I realised I was on the same side as Laurence Fox, 17 April). In practice, my experiences with this innovation have been trying.I live in Marston, a part
  
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• Hurt and disappointed by Diane Abbott’s letter | Letters

  25-04-2023 19:13 via theguardian.com
  
  The Hackney MP has been a symbol of hope and resilience – but to trivialise the struggles of Jewish people in such a way is inexcusable, says one reader. Plus letters from Prof Daniel Altmann, Mike Cowley and Julia EdwardsStoke Newington was the first place I ever called home. My parents were proud constituents of Diane Abbott’s and her election from my community always left me with a sense of pride, and it still does. Reading her comments in a letter in the Observer first sparked an
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon says husband’s arrest was her ‘worst nightmare’

  25-04-2023 19:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Former first minister says she ‘could not have anticipated’ events and they played no part in decision to quitNicola Sturgeon has described her husband’s arrest as her “worst nightmare” and said it played no part in the decision to stand down as Scottish National party leader.The former first minister said the three weeks since Peter Murrell’s arrest at their home in Glasgow had been “traumatic” and “very difficult”, in her first public
  
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• Will Skelton credits Eddie Jones with ‘bringing life back’ to Australian rugby

  25-04-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  La Rochelle lock praises head coach’s impact on WallabiesJones’s success in luring Suaalii into code switch ‘massive’La Rochelle’s second-row Will Skelton believes Eddie Jones has “brought some life back” to Australian rugby since rejoining the Wallabies in January as head coach.Skelton’s most urgent appointment on a rugby field is against Exeter on Sunday, but the 30-year-old also hopes to feature in Australia’s World Cup plans this autumn.
  
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• As Prince Harry battles the press, why have the other royals given up the fight? | Zoe Williams

  25-04-2023 18:54 via theguardian.com
  
  If its true that William took a payoff from Murdoch and the royals struck a peace deal, they seem willing to surrender reputations cheaplyPrince Harry has long alleged that the royal family – “the Institution”, as he calls it – is locked in a trap of appeasement with the tabloid media. In their Netflix documentary, both he and Meghan talked about how they were savaged by the redtops, while the palace made no attempt to curtail their racist insinuations. In his memoir Spar
  
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• ‘Unprepared’ Twitter among tech firms to face tough new EU digital rules

  25-04-2023 18:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Designation as ‘very large online platform’ along with 16 other major names means big penalties for breachesTwitter is among the tech firms that will face the toughest level of scrutiny under a new European Union regulatory regime for monitoring digital platforms, after warnings from Brussels that the Elon Musk-owned platform is unprepared for the new rules.The company, which Musk bought in October 2022, has been designated a “very large online platform” under the bloc&rs
  
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• Jonny Bairstow falls three short of a century on his return from injury

  25-04-2023 18:39 via theguardian.com
  
  England batter makes quickfire 97 for Yorkshire second XIBairstow dropped off the bowling of Olly Stone when on 21Jonny Bairstow fell three short of a dashing century on his first outing in almost eight months, picking up where he left off last summer in a low-key comeback for Yorkshire’s second XI.Coming in at No 4, Bairstow cracked 97 in just 88 deliveries, with 13 boundaries and two sixes, before hammering fellow England international Olly Stone to cover with a hundred in sight. Continu
  
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• 'Potentially hazardous' Eiffel Tower-sized asteroid to scrape by Earth in 'close call' - Daily Record

  25-04-2023 18:35 via news.google.com
  'Potentially hazardous' Eiffel Tower-sized asteroid to scrape by Earth in 'close call'  Daily RecordAsteroid the size of three football pitches to scrape past Earth tomorrow in 'close call'  The MirrorAsteroid the size of Eiffel Tower will soar past Earth in 'close call' this week  ExpressWhat are Potentially Hazardous Asteroids? Know all about the Earth's greatest space threat  HT Tech'Potentially hazardous' asteroid as tall as the Eiffel Tower will zoom
  
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• Roger Waters wins legal battle to gig in Frankfurt amid antisemitism row

  25-04-2023 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Court rules in favour of former Pink Floyd frontman despite ‘tasteless’ use of Nazi-inspired symbolismRoger Waters, the former Pink Floyd frontman, has won his legal battle to perform a concert in Frankfurt after attempts to ban the event amid accusations of antisemitism.Magistrates acting on behalf of the German city had instructed the venue two months ago to cancel the concert on 28 May, accusing Waters of being “one of the most widely known antisemites in the world”. W
  
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• Lucy Letby cried when telling police about deaths of two triplets, court hears

  25-04-2023 18:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Neonatal nurse in tears when being questioned about babies she allegedly murdered on return from holiday, jury toldLucy Letby cried as she described the “devastating” deaths of two babies from a set of triplets she allegedly murdered a day apart before being removed from frontline nursing, a court has heard.The neonatal nurse broke down in tears as she was questioned by police about the babies she allegedly killed immediately after returning from a holiday to Ibiza, Manchester crown
  
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• Thai police investigate 10 deaths as woman accused of poisoning friend

  25-04-2023 18:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Woman had been travelling with friend who was found to have cyanide in her body at autopsy, police sayA woman has been arrested on suspicion of premeditated murder after she was accused of poisoning a friend using cyanide in Ratchaburi, central Thailand, with police saying they are also investigating the circumstances of nine further deaths.The accused, identified in Thai media as Sararath Rangsiwutthiporn, or Am, had travelled with her friend, Siriporn Khanwong, known as Koi, to make merit by r
  
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• Allowing Silicon Valley Bank UK to fail would have caused domino effect, FCA suggests

  25-04-2023 18:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Regulator’s chief executive, Nikhil Rathi, outlines to MPs what led to HSBC’s takeover of the bank for just £1Allowing Silicon Valley Bank UK to fail would have caused a domino effect across the City, putting a number of regulated firms at risk of collapse, the boss of the Financial Conduct Authority has said.The FCA’s chief executive, Nikhil Rathi, outlined the watchdog’s assessments in a letter to MPs on the Treasury committee, as he detailed the hectic weekend of
  
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• The morning routine backlash: you can get up at 5am – but it won’t make you popular

  25-04-2023 18:20 via theguardian.com
  
  The 5-9 trend has been a viral sensation for a while, with its exhausting approach to self-improvement. Now lie-ins are backName: The 5-9 morning routine.Age: New. It is a trend. Continue reading...
  
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• UK government under pressure to formally apologise for forced adoption

  25-04-2023 18:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Spotlight on Westminster after Labour-led Welsh administration says sorry to mothers coerced into giving away children UK ministers are under renewed pressure to formally apologise for the practice of forced adoption after the Labour-led Welsh administration said sorry to mothers coerced into giving away children.Julie Morgan, the deputy minister for social services in Wales, said on Tuesday in the Senedd that the whole of the Welsh government was “truly sorry” for the cruelty of for
  
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• Evacuations from Sudan – in pictures

  25-04-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Under a frail ceasefire, evacuations have been taking place from Sudan for diplomatic staff and citizens from around the world due to the escalating violence. Ten days of heavy fighting between the Sudanese army and paramilitaries, including airstrikes and artillery barrages, have killed hundreds of people, many of them civilians, and left some neighbourhoods of the capital in ruinsSudan crisis – latest updates Continue reading...
  
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• Record UK borrowing puts Jeremy Hunt in dilemma over tax cuts | Larry Elliott

  25-04-2023 17:56 via theguardian.com
  
  The chancellor has to weigh tax giveaways against unprecedented government borrowing ahead of looming electionsUK government borrowed £13bn less than expected last yearIn only three years since modern records began in 1946 has the government borrowed more than was required to balance the books in the latest financial year. Even taking account of inflation, £139bn is a lot of money.Predictably enough, that was the message from Jeremy Hunt after the release of the latest data for the p
  
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• Prisoner is suicide risk after more than two years in solitary, high court hears

  25-04-2023 17:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Kevan Thakrar, who is serving a life sentence, has begun a judicial review, claiming his isolation from other prisoners is unlawfulA prisoner’s detention in solitary confinement in England for more than two years has been “wholly unnecessary” and has made him suicidal, the high court has heard.Kevan Thakrar, 36, who is serving a life sentence for murder and attempted murder after being convicted on a joint enterprise basis in October 2008, is challenging his solitary confinemen
  
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• Record £4.8bn interest added to student debt in Britain last year

  25-04-2023 17:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Figure more than doubled in a year, as interest rate in England and Wales hit 6.3% in line with government capRishi Sunak’s government has more than doubled the amount of money it makes from charging interest on student loans, official figures show, as graduates face borrowing costs of almost twice the rate set by the Bank of England.According to the latest snapshot of the public finances from the Office for National Statistics, accrued interest on student loans swelled to £4.8bn in
  
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• Academics find twist in tale of Rosalind Franklin, DNA and the double helix

  25-04-2023 17:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Authors say scientist’s role was acknowledged at the time of discovery – contrary to popular narrativeIn the story of how Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA, the popular narrative is one of skullduggery and deceit. But now researchers say there is a twist in the tale of the double helix.It has long been held that Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray diffraction image known as Photo 51 was illicitly shown to Watson, revealing to him that DNA has a double helix a
  
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• Florida toddler found in alligator’s jaws was killed by father, police say

  25-04-2023 17:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Autopsy whose results were announced Monday made clear for first time that the boy died before the alligator encountered himA Florida toddler who was found dead in the jaws of an alligator last month was drowned by his father before falling into the animal’s grasp, according to police.The cause of death for two-year-old Taylen Mosley was confirmed by the local coroner’s office, said a statement on Monday from police in St Petersburg. Continue reading...
  
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• Britons ‘need to accept’ they’re poorer, says Bank of England economist

  25-04-2023 17:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Chief economist Huw Pill says workers and firms should stop trying to pass on rising costs by hiking prices or demanding better wagesBritish households and businesses “need to accept” they are poorer and stop seeking pay increases and pushing prices higher, the Bank of England’s chief economist, Huw Pill, has said.Pill said a game of “pass the parcel” is taking place in the economy – as households and companies try to pass on their higher costs. Continue readi
  
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• Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó ejected from Colombia

  25-04-2023 17:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Guaidó lands in Miami after failed bid to attend summit hosted by leftwing president, with return to Venezuela looking unlikelyVenezuela’s best-known opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, has touched down in the United States after being unceremoniously ejected from Colombia while attempting to gatecrash a summit about the political future of his crisis-stricken homeland.Guaidó shot to fame in early 2019 and for a brief moment looked poised to topple Venezuela’s author
  
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• Biden isn’t going into 2024 very strong. But Republicans are very weak | Moira Donegan

  25-04-2023 17:02 via theguardian.com
  
  The Democrats don’t need to be especially good – because the Republicans are cruelly and chaotically worseIt’s not surprising, but now it’s official: Joe Biden is running for re-election. In a video on Tuesday launching his bid for a second term, Biden cast his administration as standing for personal freedom, democracy and pluralism in contrast to what he called “Maga extremists”. The video emphasized abortion rights and contrasted Biden and the Democrats with
  
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• What’s the secret to giving good advice? Wait until you are asked for it

  25-04-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The internet is groaning with tips, hacks and cures but not everyone with a problem actually wants you to solve itWe are living through a golden age of advice. Of budgeting tips and smoky-eye tutorials and from three easy ways to remove stains from a carpet to how to breathe.Influencers take you on a personal journey of advice, from their favourite face serums, to how to eat breakfast, to how to raise your children, to how to avoid being brainwashed by the liberal elite. Theatres are sold out mo
  
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• DfE quietly shelves plans for £100m online adult learning platform

  25-04-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Critics denounce Rishi Sunak’s push to improve adult numeracy as ‘empty rhetoric’ after centrepiece is ditchedMinisters have quietly shelved plans for a £100m online learning platform intended to form the centrepiece of Rishi Sunak’s push to improve adult numeracy.The prime minister has made improving the nation’s maths skills a personal mission. While chancellor in 2021, he announced £560m of funding for Multiply, a numeracy scheme for adults
  
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• Adele joins James Corden for emotional Carpool Karaoke finale

  25-04-2023 16:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Singer breaks down in tears while discussing divorce as she returns for presenter’s last episode of The Late Late ShowAdele broke down in tears while discussing her divorce as she joined James Corden for the final Carpool Karaoke in his last week as host of the The Late Late Show on the US network CBS.Corden took over The Late Late Show in 2015, replacing the Scottish-American comedian Craig Ferguson. He announced last year that he would be leaving the show and returning to the UK, with Co
  
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• ‘I’m doing what may be my last paintings’: Frank Auerbach on his new self-portraits and turning 92

  25-04-2023 16:51 via theguardian.com
  
  He has painted the same people over and over, sometimes for 40 years, dabbing, rubbing out, then starting again. Although the great artist now has to hold on to his easel to work, he still hopes to die with a brush in his handFrank Auerbach once said that London after the second world war was a “marvellous landscape with precipice and mountain and crags, full of drama”. It’s a description that could just as easily apply to his own aged face, judging by the works that have just
  
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• Tory former net zero tsar calls for halt to Rosebank North Sea oil project

  25-04-2023 16:49 via theguardian.com
  
  MP Chris Skidmore says approval would undermine UK’s efforts to tackle climate crisis and its claims to leadership on world stageOpinion: I can’t let ministers trash our net zero pledgeThe government’s former “net zero tsar” has urged ministers to halt the development of the Rosebank oilfield in the North Sea, or risk destroying the UK’s credibility on the climate crisis.Chris Skidmore, the influential Conservative MP who led the review of the UK’s clima
  
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• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret review – Judy Blume adaptation is a winner

  25-04-2023 16:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Abby Ryder Fortson and Rachel McAdams are remarkable in a thoughtful and funny expansion of the 1970s teen novelFor all our snap-bracelet readiness to embrace girl power and its concomitant hashtags (#yougotthis!), depictions of preadolescents that are worthy of their subjects are thin on the ground. Perhaps because most tweens will just “watch up” anyway, big entertainment has slouched into a comfortable stance of pumping out cutesy kids’ content and edgy fare about high schoo
  
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• Wimbledon to pay for Ukrainian players’ accommodation at grass court events

  25-04-2023 16:42 via theguardian.com
  
  AELTC will also donate more than £500,000 to crisis responseDecision follows end to ban on Russian and Belarusian playersThe All England Club has made a number of significant financial gestures towards Ukraine’s crisis response funds and Ukrainian tennis players competing in their tournaments, asserting their support for the country in light of their decision to permit Russian and Belarusian players to return as competitors at Wimbledon this year.The AELTC and the LTA have announced
  
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• Charles undermined late queen’s plan to sue News UK, Prince Harry tells court

  25-04-2023 16:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Harry claims his father intervened because he wanted to ensure the Sun supported his and Camilla’s future reignQueen Elizabeth II personally threatened Rupert Murdoch’s media company with legal proceedings over phone hacking only for her efforts to be undermined by the then Prince Charles, the high court has heard.Prince Harry said his father intervened because he wanted to ensure the Sun supported his ascension to the throne and Camilla’s role as queen consort, and had a &ldqu
  
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• I am finally out of Sudan with my family, and safe – no thanks to the British government | Leila Latif

  25-04-2023 16:36 via theguardian.com
  
  We’ve been living in a warzone. Why have other countries managed to get their citizens out, but not Britain?I am writing this from Egypt, having completed a chaotic, two-day journey from Khartoum with my husband, children, sister, aunt, cousins and dozens of other people from across the world. The sound of gunfire and shelling is gone. We are safe. But this is no thanks to the UK government or British embassy in Sudan, both of which totally failed us. We are safe because we took matters in
  
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