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• Flood warnings issued for England as parts of the north are deluged

  18-06-2023 23:51 via theguardian.com
  
  As much as 35mm of rain fell in an hour near Sheffield and Met Office says weather could get even worseFlood warnings will be in place across England going into Monday morning after almost half a month’s worth of rain fell in one hour on Sunday.Thunder and lightning swept across the north throughout the evening, as 35.6mm of rain fell in Woodhouse Mill, near Sheffield between 6pm and 7pm. Continue reading...
  
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• Rugby star Rob Burrow does charity run with daughters on Father’s Day

  18-06-2023 23:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Former England rugby league player who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease was pushed by Macy, 11, and Maya, eightRob Burrow, the former England rugby league player, completed the Arena Group Leeds Mini and Junior Run with his daughters on Father’s Day on Sunday.Burrow, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) in late 2019, was pushed by Macy, 11, and Maya, eight, along the course. Continue reading...
  
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• Luke Shaw would want Harry Kane at Manchester United ‘in a heartbeat’

  18-06-2023 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Shaw: ‘I can’t lie, I’d love a few of them to come to United’England face North Macedonia in Euro 2024 qualifierLuke Shaw has admitted he has used England’s end-of-season camp as an opportunity to try to convince some of his international teammates their futures at club level lie with him at Manchester United, saying he would take the likes of Harry Kane and Declan Rice at Old Trafford “in a heartbeat”.Kane and Rice are two of several players in Gareth S
  
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• Keir Starmer to ‘throw everything’ at plan to get UK to net zero

  18-06-2023 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour leader will use speech in Scotland to lay out new green strategy for energy industryKeir Starmer will pledge to “throw everything” at net zero and the overhaul of the UK’s energy system and industries, promising new jobs in “the race of our lifetime” to a low-carbon future.The Labour leader will seek to regain the initiative on his plan for green growth on Monday, having rowed back earlier this month on a pledge to invest £28bn in a green industrial str
  
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• Flamin’ not? Critics say popular snack founding myth is a hoax

  18-06-2023 23:21 via theguardian.com
  
  White House denies cover-up, but critics say Eva Longoria-helmed Cheetos docu-drama distorts the true story of the spicy snackWhen Joe Biden welcomed actor-director Eva Longoria to the White House for a screening of her Flamin’ Hot drama-documentary last week, the president hailed the story of the Mexican-American one-time janitor Richard Montañez as a tale of “courage”.“When I think about tonight’s movie, I think about courage. So many of you, your ancestors
  
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• Church of England vicars demand pay rise to cope with cost of living crisis

  18-06-2023 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  C of E clergy and lay staff represented by Unite ask for 9.5% increase in first ever claim Church of England vicars have become the latest group of workers to demand a pay rise in the face of the cost of living crisis, as Unite’s general secretary, Sharon Graham, claimed they were among the “working poor”.More than 2,000 clergy and lay staff represented by the union have submitted their first ever official pay claim, asking for a 9.5% rise in the annual stipend, which stands at
  
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• Uganda school attack: Families begin burying loved ones after atrocity leaves 42 dead - Sky News

  18-06-2023 22:44 via news.google.com
  
  Uganda school attack: Families begin burying loved ones after atrocity leaves 42 dead  Sky NewsUganda ADF school attack: 'Gospel songs interrupted by screaming'  BBCUganda Sends More Troops to Pursue Attackers Who Killed 37 Students  Voice of America - VOA NewsMassacre of innocents: The Hindu Editorial on the attack on a school on the Uganda-Congo border  The HinduGrieving families bury their dead after Uganda school attack  euronewsView Full cov
  
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• Holly Willoughby shares Father's Day post as Phillip Schofield's daughters remain silent - Daily Record

  18-06-2023 22:10 via news.google.com
  Holly Willoughby shares Father's Day post as Phillip Schofield's daughters remain silent  Daily RecordHolly Willoughby shares Father's Day pic while Phil Schofield's daughters maintain silence  The Mirror'Forever grateful!' Dani Dyer gushes about 'amazing' Jarrod Bowen as she celebrates Father's Day  Daily MailHolly Willoughby shares rare snap of dad Brian on Father’s Day in glimpse at stunning home garden...  The SunSweetest Father's Day tributes: F
  
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• New MacBook Air Leak Reveals Apple’s Disappointing Decision - Forbes

  18-06-2023 21:51 via news.google.com
  New MacBook Air Leak Reveals Apple’s Disappointing Decision  ForbesReview: Apple’s MacBook Air 15-inch is the Mac you’ve been waiting for  Yahoo Finance15-Inch MacBook Air: A Great Laptop for Most People, But Not for Those Who Want to Repair It Themselves  gizmochina15-inch MacBook Air teardown exposes a repairability nightmare  Tom's GuideApple missed its chance to give us the MacBook Air we really needed  TechRadarView Full co
  
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• Graeme Souness: Football legend swims Channel for £1m fundraiser

  18-06-2023 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ex-footballer finishes the challenge in 12 hours and 17 minutes as part of a six-person relay team.
  
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• What we talk about when we talk about cricketing dads isn’t as simple as Bazball | Jonathan Liew

  18-06-2023 21:08 via theguardian.com
  
  As rain scuttled day three memories flooded back of our annual trip to watch England lose at cricket, and the sense of two lives drifting apartThe rain came to Edgbaston early on the third afternoon, with the Australians still batting and a nasty swirling wind that whipped you in the face like a wet towel.Edgbaston, it has to be said, is not the most auspicious place to be when it rains. Most of the seats are entirely open to the elements, and so when the weather hits the only places to take she
  
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• Nicola Jennings on how the Covid inquiry is exposing Tory ministers’ failings – cartoon

  18-06-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
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• Home Office diversity training on rise despite Braverman scepticism

  18-06-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Numbers taking courses have risen under Suella Braverman, who previously said they were a wasteThe number of Home Office staff receiving diversity training has more than doubled under Suella Braverman’s leadership of the department, despite her assertions that such lessons are a waste of taxpayers’ money and should be banned.One month before she was promoted to home secretary in Liz Truss’s cabinet, Braverman, then attorney general, fiercely criticised equality sessi
  
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• Graeme Souness: Football legend swims Channel for charity

  18-06-2023 19:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ex-Liverpool footballer Graeme Souness swam the English Channel for sufferers of rare skin disease.
  
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• The Guardian view on stem cells and embryos: creating life’s likeness in a lab | Editorial

  18-06-2023 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  New technology raises hopes and ethical dilemmas. Society will have to work out what it thinksScience often moves faster than moral thought progresses, leaving the public disoriented and exposing the limits of legislators’ imagination. Many people will be struggling to make sense of the astonishing breakthroughs presented at this week’s International Society for Stem Cell Research’s (ISSCR) annual meeting in Boston. The work by Prof Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz, of Cambridge U
  
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• The Guardian view on nonfiction by women: so much buried treasure | Editorial

  18-06-2023 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Nearly three decades after the founding of the Women’s prize, the fight for space in fiction has largely been won. It’s time to move on to politics, history, science, sport…The award of the Women’s prize for fiction to the American writer Barbara Kingsolver last week is unusual in an awards industry that is always on the lookout for new departures: it is the first time in the prize’s 28-year history that any writer has won it twice. In other regards, however, the W
  
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• Some Republicans denounce Trump over classified documents but question DoJ’s motives

  18-06-2023 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Chris Christie calls ex-president a ‘petulant child’ while Mike Pence vows to ‘clean house’ at the justice departmentSome Republican politicians and officials fanned out Sunday to denounce Donald Trump over his handling of classified documents but also to question the motives of the US justice department in bringing an unprecedented 37-count indictment against the former president.Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who announced a run for the Republic presidential
  
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• How the General Medical Council works to protect patients and support doctors | Letter

  18-06-2023 19:03 via theguardian.com
  
  We will not hesitate to act if we identify patient safety issues involving individual doctors, says the GMC’s Anthony OmoYour contributor’s letter on managing concerns in healthcare (The GMC’s damning silence on medical negligence cases, 15 June) paints an incomplete picture of how regulators work to protect patients and support doctors.Where complex concerns involving doctors are raised, we work with other regulators, the employer and police to establish what action is appropr
  
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• For those who lost loved ones during Covid, Boris Johnson’s deceit is sickening | Letters

  18-06-2023 19:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Esther Stanway-Williams, John Robinson, Stephen Sedley and Dr Anna Conochie on the former prime minister’s contempt for the rules and the people of this countryI know I will not be alone in watching intently how Conservative MPs are responding to the report on Boris Johnson’s misleading of parliament (and the British public) during Covid (Editorial, 15 June). My treasured 30-year-old son Dom lost his battle with depression, dying by suicide in May 2021. While I have learned, for my o
  
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• Katie Boulter fulfils dream by claiming Nottingham title against Jodie Burrage

  18-06-2023 18:42 via theguardian.com
  
  British No 1 beats compatriot Burrage 6-3, 6-3Emma Raducanu reveals struggles since US Open winOn the first day of the grass-court season, Katie Boulter made the decision to post on social media in recognition of becoming the British No 1 for the first time in her career. It was a post, she admitted, that took much deliberation – she was still ranked 126th in the world, after all, still far beneath where she believes her ability should take her. Boulter pledged to continue working towards
  
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• Social media sites failing to curb ‘cottage industry’ of fake reviews, Amazon says

  18-06-2023 18:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Online retailer that blocked 200m reviews last year claims some platforms slow to act even when given evidenceShoppers are being deceived because social media platforms and messaging apps are not doing enough to prevent a “cottage industry of fraudsters” soliciting fake reviews, according to Amazon.Fake reviews have become one of the most persistent scourges of online retailers, and some analysts think that about one in seven reviews in the UK are not the real deal, with blame often
  
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• Ukraine takes village on Zaporizhzhia front, Russia-appointed official says

  18-06-2023 16:42 via theguardian.com
  
  War blogger also reports recapture of Piatykhatky, which if confirmed would be first village taken in nearly a week• Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesUkraine has captured the village of Piatykhatky on the western edge of the Zaporizhzhia front, according to a Russia-appointed official and sources, the first village recaptured by Kyiv’s forces in nearly a week.In a posting on Telegram on Sunday morning, Vladimir Rogov, a Russia-installed official for the region, said Ukrai
  
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• Families in Uganda bury their dead after school massacre

  18-06-2023 16:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Relatives grieve as search for missing continues after raid by militants in which dozens of pupils diedGrieving families prepared to bury their dead in western Uganda while others desperately searched for loved ones still missing after militants killed dozens of pupils in a school attack.Officials say at least 41 people, mostly pupils, were massacred on Friday in the worst attack of its kind in Uganda since 2010. Continue reading...
  
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• Good riddance to Nadine Dorries – but I won’t forget her political twists and turns | Hannah Jane Parkinson

  18-06-2023 16:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Her career has taken in the good, the bad and the frankly unbelievable. Here are a few of my favourite memoriesI am not entirely sure when Nadine Dorries entered my consciousness, but it was a long time before she – and this remains something that strongly resembles a fever dream – became a secretary of state. It might have been back in 2010, when she professed in a New Statesman interview to “totally admire” Sarah Palin. Perhaps it was earlier, in 2008, when she referred
  
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• Fives planets will star in Junes planetary alignment show - The News International

  18-06-2023 15:43 via news.google.com
  Fives planets will star in Junes planetary alignment show  The News InternationalFive planets to line up in night sky and could be visible to human eye  STV NewsHow to see 5 planets line up in the sky on Saturday morning  WUSA9Five planets align UK: How and what time to see Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Uranus - Heart  HeartCatch a glimpse of these five planets Saturday morning in Fort Worth. Here’s when to look  Fort Worth Star-Telegr
  
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• Mermaid pitstop and Paris dive – the weekend’s best photos

  18-06-2023 15:39 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• What would a person be like if nothing bad had ever happened to them?

  18-06-2023 15:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsWhat would a person be like if nothing bad had ever happened to them? Jane Moraes, São PauloPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to [email protected]. A selection will be published next Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon: 'I have done nothing wrong'

  18-06-2023 14:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scotland's former first minister has returned home for the first time since her arrest.
  
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• Final Fantasy 16's PS5 File Size Pegged At 90.1GB - Push Square

  18-06-2023 14:00 via news.google.com
  
  Final Fantasy 16's PS5 File Size Pegged At 90.1GB  Push SquareFF16 Review Embargo Date & Time  Gaming INTELFinal Fantasy 16 Trophy Guide  GameRantSo, Final Fantasy 16 Will Have a Day One Patch on PS5 After All  Push SquareFinal Fantasy 16 Preload & Unlock Times Explained  The Nerd StashView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• What the new Partygate video shows

  18-06-2023 13:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Helen Catt breaks down the video that shows Tory staffers' lockdown party back in 2020.
  
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• The best way to raise cows sustainably? Set them free

  18-06-2023 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  An old farming technique called silvopasture, which allows cows to graze on a variety of plants in forests and tree-filled pastureland, is seeing a resurgence across the worldBrett Chedzoy and his wife, Maria, live on a 300-acre farm in Watkins Glen, a small town along the Finger Lakes in New York, with 100 cows – primarily Black Angus, with a few White Galloways scattered throughout the herd.The farm, Angus Glen, has lush green pastures and wooded areas, where black walnut and black locus
  
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• Edinburgh's female NASA scientists protecting Earth from asteroids and finding habitable planets - STV News

  18-06-2023 09:12 via news.google.com
  
  Edinburgh's female NASA scientists protecting Earth from asteroids and finding habitable planets  STV News
  
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• Scientists hope Euclid telescope will reveal mysteries of dark matter - The Guardian

  18-06-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  Scientists hope Euclid telescope will reveal mysteries of dark matter  The GuardianESA - Euclid: ESA's mission into the unknown  European Space AgencyMysteries of universe to be revealed by Euclid telescope, say scientists  WIONEuclid telescope to explore dark energy and dark matter like never before  Interesting EngineeringView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Glastonbury fashion: Festival fans turn to second-hand outfits

  18-06-2023 08:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why music lovers turn to second-hand clothes sites as they strive to become more sustainable.
  
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• Deepfake porn documentary explores its 'life-shattering' impact

  18-06-2023 03:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The documentary film My Blonde GF explores the trauma and impact of deepfake pornography.
  
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• 'Quordle' today: See each 'Quordle' answer and hints for June 18 - Mashable

  18-06-2023 00:17 via news.google.com
  
  'Quordle' today: See each 'Quordle' answer and hints for June 18  MashableToday’s ‘Quordle’ Answers And Clues For Sunday, June 18  ForbesQuordle 510 answer for June 18: A mixed bag! Check Quordle hints, clues, solutions  HT TechQuordle 509 for June 17, 2023: All the clues and answers to Saturday’s word puzzle  Economic TimesToday’s ‘Quordle’ Answers And Clues For Saturday, June 17  ForbesView Full coverag
  
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