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• Gun-toting, prayer-reciting protesters throng Jerusalem to back judicial overhaul

  27-04-2023 23:50 via theguardian.com
  
  100,000 Israelis march on Knesset in biggest rightwing protest in country in nearly two decadesAbout 100,000 Israelis in favour of the government’s divisive judicial overhaul have taken part in a demonstration outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, in the biggest rightwing protest in the country in nearly two decades.Protesters from all over Israel, as well as settlers who travelled in buses from the occupied West Bank, chanted “the people demand judicial reform” and danced and sang
  
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• Lucy Letby: 'I don’t deserve to live. I killed them on purpose...I am evil'

  27-04-2023 23:34 via express.co.uk
  
  Nurse Lucy Letby is on trial at Manchester Crown Court accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
  
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• Tottenham surge back at Manchester United to stop rot in Mason’s first game

  27-04-2023 23:21 via theguardian.com
  
  There were times during the first half when it felt as if Manchester United were toying with the Tottenham, their 2-0 lead at half-time a poor reflection of a game that felt mainly about how the home team would react to what had happened at Newcastle on Sunday.Spurs looked inhibited, the 6-1 hammering in their minds – along, perhaps, with all of the other craziness that had made them the crisis club of the moment. And yet as they stared into the abyss, they found strength. From somewhere.
  
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• Cross-country runner has leg amputated after contracting horror flesh-eating bug

  27-04-2023 23:09 via express.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Emma Doherty has complained about a lack of rehabilitative care after she survived a bout of necrotising fasciitis, a rare and often deadly disease.
  
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• Wilson’s goals and Isak magic for Newcastle push Everton closer to drop

  27-04-2023 23:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “One very famous football club said to me two or three days ago: ‘Whenever we have a problem we say ‘What would the Everton board do, because they always get it right?’” Bill Kenwright, 2021.Anyone of sound mind would do the exact opposite of what Everton’s delusional chairman and abject board have overseen during the seven years of Farhad Moshiri’s near-ruinous ownership. Continue reading...
  
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• Met police could be failing to identify serial killers, watchdog says

  27-04-2023 23:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Inspector of constabulary warns force is failing to investigate unexpected deaths after Stephen Port reportThe Metropolitan police could be failing to spot serial killers and identify murders because they are not properly investigating unexpected deaths, the inspector of constabulary has warned.Matt Parr’s comments came after a damning report concluded Britain’s largest force had still not learned from its “calamitous litany of failures” in the case of the serial killer S
  
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• Just how cynical can rail unions be? Proof miliants are sabotaging Britain's key events

  27-04-2023 23:01 via express.co.uk
  
  Militant union leaders plan to disrupt nation's best-loved events with latest strikes.
  
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• MP Julian Knight faces fresh misconduct allegations, BBC is told

  27-04-2023 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Julian Knight strongly denies any wrongdoing, after police dropped an investigation into him.
  
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• Ex-TV presenter Floella Benjamin among coronation procession

  27-04-2023 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Other people selected are human rights barrister and former MI5 boss, Buckingham Palace saysDetails of who will carry the priceless regalia and take part in the coronation procession at Westminster Abbey on 6 May has been released by Buckingham Palace.The former TV presenter Floella Benjamin and the human rights barrister Helena Kennedy are among those selected for the historic roles, in which the crown jewels will be processed through the abbey ahead of King Charles and Camilla, the Queen Conso
  
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• ‘Better team lost’: Emma Hayes says Chelsea had Barcelona panicking

  27-04-2023 22:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Manager proud of players following semi-final exit in WCL‘We’ll come again next year,’ promises Niamh Charles Emma Hayes said she was proud of her players following their Champions League semi-final exit after a 1-1 draw with Barcelona at Camp Nou was not enough to overturn the 1-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge.“For us, we’re not going through because of the home tie,” said Hayes. “It’s very difficult to come here. If there was a little bit longer in t
  
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• Lamar Jackson reportedly ends rift with Ravens and agrees to record $260m deal

  27-04-2023 22:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Quarterback had requested trade earlier this year26-year-old is one of NFL’s most dynamic playersDeal reportedly worth $185m in guaranteed moneyLamar Jackson will remain a Baltimore Raven for the foreseeable future after agreeing to a five-year contract extension that will reportedly make him the highest-paid player in the league.The former NFL MVP had requested a trade earlier this year as he struggled to reach agreement on a new deal with the team that drafted him in 2018. At the time he
  
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• Evicted review – no room is worth the extortionate rent these young people are being charged

  27-04-2023 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  As landlords charge up to 66% price increases, young people are being left with no home. This emotive documentary follows the victims of the UK’s broken rental marketIn some ways, you don’t need to know anything more about the current state of the rental property market than the fact that “no fault” evictions exist, whereby a private landlord can boot out a tenant without reason under section 21 of the Housing Act 1988. They can do it within the strict terms of the law or
  
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• Sudan evacuation: 'The kids were clinging to me, but I had to leave'

  27-04-2023 22:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wafaa Salim says it was "horrible" having to leave her nieces and nephews behind in Sudan.
  
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• A look back at the career of TV host Jerry Springer – video obituary

  27-04-2023 22:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Jerry Springer, the captivating TV host famed for his eponymous and provocative talkshow The Jerry Springer Show, has died aged 79. Springer's show entertained but also scandalised audiences with its notorious on-air fights, swearing and infidelity revelations. After almost three decades hosting The Jerry Springer Show, he hosted America's Got Talent and Judge Jerry, a spinoff of the popular Judge Judy show. Jene Galvin, a friend of Springer's and spokesperson for the family, said he was 'irrepl
  
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• Man who earns over £125k and is among UK’s top 2% complains ‘it’s not enough'

  27-04-2023 22:07 via express.co.uk
  
  The 43-year-old man explained how the high tax cuts along with the rising expenses have made a big hole in the pocket of his family.
  
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• BBC backtracks over ‘cruel’ job cuts in face of crippling strikes next week

  27-04-2023 22:01 via express.co.uk
  
  A leaked email, seen by Express.co.uk, shows the BBC will delay notice periods following massive strike pressure.
  
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• Dogwalker ‘killed by schoolgirl and boys in park’ found dead by mum after making it home

  27-04-2023 22:00 via express.co.uk
  
  Police said they were aware that footage of the altercation preceding the dogwalker's death was circulating on social media, and asked people to refrain from sharing it as the investigation continues.
  
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• Police in Marelle Sturrock case find body believed to be her fiance

  27-04-2023 21:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Officers searching for man in connection with death of pregnant teacher in Glasgow find body thought to be that of David YatesPolice have found a body in the search for a man in connection with the murder of a pregnant teacher in Glasgow.The body had yet to be formally identified but was believed to be that of David Yates, 36, the fiance of Marelle Sturrock, 35, who was found dead on Jura Street. Police were searching for Yates in connection with her murder. Police Scotland said on Thursday nigh
  
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• Oral sex fuels 'epidemic' of cancers caused by virus that lingers in the throat - The Mirror

  27-04-2023 21:40 via news.google.com
  Oral sex fuels 'epidemic' of cancers caused by virus that lingers in the throat  The MirrorOral sex stoking throat cancer ‘epidemic’ in UK and US, say experts  The IndependentOral sex leading to throat cancer 'epidemic' warns expert  Metro.co.ukOral sex is now the main cause of throat cancer  Joe UKOral sex 'fuelling epidemic' of throat cancer in UK  Entertainment Daily
  
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• Martin Rowson on plans to overhaul the UK’s gambling laws – cartoon

  27-04-2023 20:58 via theguardian.com
  
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• Judges urged to block Home Office plans to send refugees to Rwanda

  27-04-2023 20:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Court of appeal hears Rwanda plan will expose refugees to ‘serious harm’ and is incompatible with UK’s international obligationsSenior judges have been urged to block government plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.In a four-day hearing at the court of appeal, which concluded on Thursday, the lord chief justice, Lord Burnett, master of the rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, and Lord Justice Underhill, deputy president of the civil division of the appeal court, heard an appeal against a
  
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• Has time run out for Prince Harry’s case against Murdoch press?

  27-04-2023 20:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Duke of Sussex may have missed the deadline to take action relating to allegations of phone hacking at the Sun and News of the WorldPrince Harry’s attempt to arrange a high court showdown with Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper company depends on one thing: did the prince meet a deadline to file his legal paperwork?This week’s legal hearing at the high court in London has been full of fresh revelations about the relationship between royalty and the media. There have been claims that Pr
  
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• Jerry Springer: the man who changed US television for better and worse

  27-04-2023 20:39 via theguardian.com
  
  The host synonymous with hand-to-mouth television was also a progressive political mind and groundbreaking changemakerI’ll never forget the time I went to a taping of The Jerry Springer Show with two of my closest high school pals. This was back in the 1990s, when Chicago was the center of the talkshow universe and Springer and Oprah were the hottest tickets in town. My parents, bless, wouldn’t have batted an eye if I said I was going to see the queen of daytime. But the king of slea
  
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• Hugh Grant claims the Sun burgled his flat to obtain private information

  27-04-2023 20:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Actor also tells high court the paper tapped landline telephones and hacked his voicemails to get stories about his personal lifeHugh Grant has claimed the Sun burgled his flat and placed a tracking device in his car in an attempt to obtain stories about his personal life.The actor appeared at the high court on Thursday for a hearing which set out his allegations that the Sun also tapped landline telephones and hacked his voicemails. Continue reading...
  
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• RMT joins train drivers’ union in announcing further rail strikes

  27-04-2023 19:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Eurovision and FA Cup final to be hit by strikes which are likely to stop all trains running at affected companiesThe long-running standoff on the railway has escalated once again after both major unions called fresh strikes, accusing train operators of “torpedoing negotiations”.The RMT called a 24-hour rail strike for May, just hours after the train drivers’ union Aslef announced three separate days of rail strikes in May and June, dashing hopes that the long-running dispute c
  
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• Betting nearly destroyed me. The industry must not be allowed to water down online gambling reform | Matt Zarb-Cousin

  27-04-2023 19:53 via theguardian.com
  
  This sector makes 86% of its profits from 5% of its customers. It will not change until it is forced toThirteen years ago, I was suicidal. I remember overwhelming feelings of guilt, and a loss of agency. I no longer felt in control of my own life, and while I had racked up significant debts that took many years to repay, it wasn’t just a gradual loss of money that led to a collapse in my mental health. It was what gambling had done to my brain.I had been sucked in to fixed odds betting ter
  
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• Almost one in three doctors investigated by GMC ‘have suicidal thoughts’

  27-04-2023 19:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Medical Protection Society says many feel ‘guilty until proven innocent’ with the regulator Almost one in three UK doctors investigated by the General Medical Council (GMC) think about taking their own life, a survey has found.Many doctors under investigation feel they are treated as “guilty until proven innocent” and face “devastating” consequences, the Medical Protection Society (MPS) said.31% said they had suicidal thoughts.8% had quit medicine a
  
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• Ignore Microsoft’s whines about the Activision Blizzard takeover. The CMA did its job | Nils Pratley

  27-04-2023 19:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Brad Smith’s reaction to Competition and Markets Authority blocking deal is pure Big Tech entitlement The silliest line in Microsoft president Brad Smith’s whine about the UK was his claim that the Competition and Markets Authority is “not only unelected but unaccountable”. That is an absurdly over-the-top reaction to a regulatory thumbs-down in the UK, on entirely coherent grounds, for Microsoft’s planned $68.7bn (£55bn) takeover of the video games firm Activ
  
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• ‘By 7am, I’ve had three sets of guns pointed at me’: a British teacher’s escape from Sudan

  27-04-2023 19:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Zoe Salim says waiting at the border between Sudan and Egypt was the worst part of her family’s journeySudan crisis – latest updatesA British teacher who was forced to flee Sudan amid the outbreak of fighting has told her shock and fear as she made her way to Egypt.Zoe Salim, a former head of languages in a London school, was visiting Khartoum with her husband and two children for Ramadan. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine: breaking with Moscow | Editorial

  27-04-2023 19:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Vladimir Putin’s revanchist ambition to reconstitute ‘Holy Rus’ by force has destroyed ancient ties and religious bondsSpeaking last month at the beginning of Lent, Patriarch Kirill, the primate of the Russian Orthodox church, sermonised on the subject of Russia’s frontline role in fighting for “God’s truth”. The church, he emphasised, must play its part in the battle against the secularising forces of the liberal west in order to preserve “Holy Ru
  
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• The Guardian view on gambling reform: fighting the British disease | Editorial

  27-04-2023 19:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Updated laws for the online era are essential and overdue, but the government’s proposals do not go far enough Over the years, a variety of national troubles have been characterised as the British disease – among them economic stagnation, football hooliganism and nostalgia for empire. But there is a strong case for saying that the real British disease is and always has been gambling. According to the Gambling Commission, 44% of Britons today aged over 16 are gamblers of some kind, wi
  
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• James not so Cleverly plays the hero on Sudan – but at least he’s not in Crete | John Crace

  27-04-2023 19:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Foreign secretary clears low bar set by Raab during Kabul airlift, though his update appeared at odds with realityDon’t panic, don’t panic! Listen to the foreign secretary on the morning media round and you’d imagine that the evacuation of British nationals from Sudan was the most successful military operation of its kind since Dunkirk. Just without the small boats. Thousands of men, women and children rescued from under the noses of warring militias. All thanks to the bravery
  
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• Huw Pill’s claim that we are all worse off is false. The rich have got richer | Letters

  27-04-2023 19:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Public sector workers and food bank users don’t need the Bank’s chief economist to tell them who is worse off and who not, says Janet Dubé. Plus letters from David Redshaw, Mike Alcock, Austen Lynch and Andy Stelman Huw Pill says “in the UK, someone needs to accept that they’re worse off” (Britons ‘need to accept’ they’re poorer, says Bank of England economist, 25 April). If he wants to tell “someone” his private opinion of our e
  
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• Hey, Guardian, leave the monarchy alone | Brief letters

  27-04-2023 19:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Royal coverage | No more winter clothes | Pleated trouser search | A verse on love | Disappearing Tories | School reportsA Guardian reader for many years, I have for a while supplemented my subscription with a monthly direct debit payment. Now I am invited to increase this. I will not do so, entirely because of the unrelenting attacks on the monarchy, especially distasteful in the run-up to the coronation. We are not all republicans, so surely it is time for the balanced view that has kept me re
  
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• I run NHS gambling clinics. The white paper doesn’t go nearly far enough | Dr Matt Gaskell

  27-04-2023 18:48 via theguardian.com
  
  The review fails to address the problem: smartphone games that allow people to carry Las Vegas in their pocket• UK to tighten rules on online gambling after long-awaited review
  When people come to our clinics they’re already on their knees and desperate for help. This gambling white paper will not do enough to stop the flow of patients brought to us because of products deliberately engineered to be highly addictive.The evidence of harm is there and has been submitted, yet so much is a
  
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• ‘It’s not fair’: Simona Halep unhappy over delayed doping hearing

  27-04-2023 18:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Former No 1 has been provisionally suspended since August 2022Halep denies knowingly taking banned substanceSimona Halep has criticised tennis’s anti-doping bodies for repeatedly delaying her independent tribunal hearing and not allowing her the chance to defend herself against a rule violation.Halep, a two-time grand slam champion and former world No 1, has been provisionally suspended since August after testing positive for the drug Roxadustat following her US Open first-round loss. Roxa
  
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• Gambling addicts will die because of delay to reforms, government warned

  27-04-2023 18:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Affordability checks and slot machine stake limits welcomed but experts call proposals a ‘missed opportunity’ ‘There will be more people dying’: mother whose daughter took own life criticises gambling white paperMore gambling addicts will die as a result of a year-long delay to reforms, the government has been warned, as experts called proposals published on Thursday a “missed opportunity”.The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published a 268-page
  
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• Jerry Springer, influential US talkshow host, dies aged 79

  27-04-2023 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Family of famed TV figure and former mayor of Cincinnati announces he died ‘peacefully’ at home in Chicago on ThursdayThe talkshow host Jerry Springer, a former mayor of Cincinnati whose work was vastly influential in daytime TV worldwide, has died. He was 79.Springer’s family said he died “peacefully” on Thursday at home in Chicago. Continue reading...
  
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• Is the UK a bad place for tech firms?

  27-04-2023 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Microsoft's president said a UK watchdog's move to block its Activision deal was "bad for Britain."
  
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• Lewis Hamilton hopes car upgrades will be ‘start of a new path’ for Mercedes

  27-04-2023 18:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Mercedes expected to make first changes at Azerbaijan GP‘It’s probably the most exciting weekend so far’Lewis Hamilton has expressed cautious optimism that his Mercedes team are on the right track in terms of improving their car after a miserable start to the 2023 Formula One season.Mercedes have already admitted they are to abandon their current car concept to adopt a new approach in an attempt to catch the championship leaders Red Bull and Hamilton believed his team were at l
  
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• Climate protesters disrupt BP’s shareholder meeting in London

  27-04-2023 18:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Oil company’s decision to water down climate commitments prompts backlash from investors at AGMClimate protesters have disrupted BP’s annual general meeting where the oil company faced a backlash from some shareholders over its decision to water down its climate commitments.At least four demonstrators were forcibly removed from inside the shareholder meeting within 10 minutes of BP chair, Helge Lund, beginning his opening remarks. Continue reading...
  
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• Speedo Mick: Charity fundraiser hits 'dream' £1m target

  27-04-2023 18:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Michael Cullen, 58, is best known for walking across the UK wearing only a pair of swimming trunks.
  
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• 2023 Whitley awards for conservation – the winners in pictures

  27-04-2023 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  The 30th edition of the ‘Green Oscars’ was held at the Royal Geographical Society in London this week, celebrating seven grassroots conservationists identified after a worldwide search for locally led solutions to the global biodiversity and climate crises Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Endless record heat’ in Asia as highest April temperatures recorded

  27-04-2023 17:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Record figures for month recorded in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, China and South AsiaAsia is experiencing weeks of “endless record heat”, with sweltering temperatures causing school closures and surges in energy use.Record April temperatures have been recorded at monitoring stations across Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, as well as in China and South Asia. Continue reading...
  
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• Exam grades are going ‘back to normal’. But for our stressed-out teenagers, normal is a long way off | Gaby Hinsliff

  27-04-2023 17:44 via theguardian.com
  
  As with Covid-19, so with the cost of living crisis: it’s the most vulnerable children who will pay the highest priceThe countdown clock is ticking, the panicky last-minute revision reaching feverish levels. No parent currently tiptoeing around snappy, stressed teenagers will need reminding that exam season now looms in England and Wales, or that it’s already under way in Scotland. But if nerves are jangling more than usual this year, both in staff rooms and at home, that’s har
  
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• Alfred the Average? Court case coins may alter the view of a king

  27-04-2023 17:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Treasure from Viking hoard shows Alfred the Great in alliance with ruler who later ‘mysteriously’ disappearedHe’s been known as Alfred the Great since the 16th century, celebrated for his wisdom, generosity and mercy.But coins at the heart of a major heritage crime court case suggest we may have to rethink the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon king. “Alfred the Average?” suggested Det Supt Lee Gosling, who led the police operation which resulted in guilty verdicts for two m
  
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• Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black to face trial on charge of assaulting woman

  27-04-2023 17:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Husband of diver Tom Daley is accused of attacking Teddy Edwardes in a London nightclub last yearThe Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will face trial in August accused of assaulting a woman in a London nightclub.The American film-maker, 48, who is married to the Olympic champion diver Tom Daley, appeared at Westminster magistrates court on Thursday, a court official confirmed. Continue reading...
  
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• Did the full spec sheet for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 just drop? - TechRadar

  27-04-2023 17:09 via news.google.com
  
  Did the full spec sheet for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 just drop?  TechRadarSamsung Galaxy Z Flip5 production to double that of the Z Flip4 - GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.comAnother rumor hints at early launch of Samsung's next foldable flagships  SamMobile - Samsung newsLeaked Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 specs prove controversial  Pocket-lintSamsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 full specs revealed ahead of launch  gizmochina
  
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• The REAL health benefits of beans on toast - Daily Mail

  27-04-2023 17:06 via news.google.com
  
  The REAL health benefits of beans on toast  Daily MailBeans on toast are ultra-processed, but they're actually good for you  Metro.co.ukBaked beans and fish fingers are back on the healthy menu  ITV NewsCan You Really Eat Processed Food And Be Healthy? British Health Experts Say Yes  NDTV FoodNow Processed Beans And Fish Fingers Are Back On The Healthy Menu  Extra.ie
  
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• Start with the font: Jay Rayner’s guide to choosing a good restaurant anywhere

  27-04-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Our food critic uses his years of experience dining out to advise you on how to pick the best place to eatAll unfamiliar restaurants are terrible until proven otherwise. I’m not proud of this blunt statement. I have written about restaurants for so long because I love them, often in that heated adult way. Yes, there are the occasional skewerings, of the grossly overpriced and the grimly underperforming. But generally, I regard myself as a cheerleader. I want good places to prosper.First, t
  
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