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• 'Get out the way!' - Stream turns to torrent during Storm Babet

  21-10-2023 19:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Video shows a tree toppling and being washed away as the Balruddery Burn is hit by Babet.
  
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• Frankie Dettori: Jockey wins with King Of Steel and Trawlerman on British farewell at Ascot

  21-10-2023 19:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Frankie Dettori claims a fairytale final win on his last British ride as King Of Steel takes the Champion Stakes at Ascot.
  
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• Wibbly wobbly wonder: still life jellies – in pictures

  21-10-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “Food is a constant source of inspiration,” says the London-based artist Florence Houston. “I enjoy painting something seemingly unimportant with a great amount of reverence and drama.” For her latest exhibition, JUICY!, Houston has immortalised a series of still life jellies. “I was looking at the way Victorians used jellies as table decorations,” she says, “but my paintings are perhaps more a reference to the slightly brasher 70s jelly revival.”
  
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• UN finds further evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine

  21-10-2023 17:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Report points to ‘wilful killing, torture, rape and other sexual violence, and the deportation of children to the Russian Federation’Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesA United Nations investigation has found further evidence that Russian forces committed “indiscriminate attacks” and war crimes in Ukraine, including rape and the deportation of children to Russia.“The collected evidence further shows that Russian authorities have committed the war crimes o
  
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• Sir Bobby Charlton: A Manchester United icon and one of sport's greatest figures

  21-10-2023 17:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sir Bobby Charlton was one of England's greatest footballers and symbolised Manchester United both on and off the pitch.
  
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• Pro-Palestine 'terror' attack 'has already hit UK' within two weeks of Israel-Hamas war

  21-10-2023 09:48 via express.co.uk
  
  Despite the incident said to be motivated by the Israel-Hamas war, Britain's terror threat level remains at the third of five tiers of severity.
  
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• Ridiculous reviews of Loch Ness by grumpy tourists complaining they can't see monster

  21-10-2023 09:00 via express.co.uk
  
  Tourists visiting Scotland's famous loch have been left furious after not seeing the monster - despite "assurances" - and struggling to understand the locals.
  
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• 'Our UK town is plagued by boy racers driving at 80mph at 2am - it has to stop'

  21-10-2023 09:00 via express.co.uk
  
  Somercotes residents fed up after town becomes a paradise for mini races, burnouts and doughnuts.
  
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• The London Underground’s ‘most beautiful’ station that looks like it should be in Moscow

  21-10-2023 08:00 via express.co.uk
  
  Gants Hill station which opened in 1947 is one the most fabulous underground station with influences from the Mayakovskaya Moscow Metro station in the 150ft long concourse area.
  
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• Forget bed bugs - these three lesser-known insects are already in your home

  21-10-2023 08:00 via express.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: An expert has outlined three lesser-known bugs that are much more likely to cause infestations in the UK than bed bugs.
  
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• The pretty UK seaside town surrounded by mountains dubbed 'the Garden by the Sea'

  21-10-2023 07:30 via express.co.uk
  
  Penarth has the best of both worlds with the vast open south Wales coast to its south, and the mountainous valleys to its north.
  
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• The UK town with the most bizarre name and why it’s so iconic

  21-10-2023 07:00 via express.co.uk
  
  Although this town has a very long and very strange name, it isn't the only place in the UK with a weird title.
  
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• Love, grieving, intimacy and enduring war: what is the role now for books and writers in Ukraine? | Charlotte Higgins

  21-10-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Lviv BookForum was vibrant this year, but still there is the backdrop of conflict and the need to find a place for storytellingLast year’s Lviv BookForum, a literary festival in the elegant western Ukrainian city, was mostly an online affair, held in a basement lecture theatre that might double up, if needed, as a bomb shelter. By contrast, this year’s edition had about 150 live events, with many available online, too.Some were so popular that audiences, many of them in their 20s
  
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• Hydrogen boiler push to continue despite verdict of UK watchdog

  21-10-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Government and gas-focused industry body resist conclusion that heat pumps are ‘only viable’ option for heating UK homesThe government and sections of UK industry will continue to back the prospect of using hydrogen for home heating, despite a clear verdict against the technology from the UK’s infrastructure watchdog.The National Infrastructure Commission advised this week, after an exhaustive investigation of the technology, that hydrogen was not suitable for heating homes. Th
  
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• Children at ‘existential risk’ from climate crisis, UK’s top paediatrician says

  21-10-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Physical and mental impact on young people needs immediate action, Dr Camilla Kingdon saysThe climate crisis poses an “existential risk” to the health and wellbeing of all children and action to tackle it is needed immediately, Britain’s most senior paediatrician has said.In a major intervention, Dr Camilla Kingdon, the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), said every adolescent was at grave risk from the physical and mental effects
  
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• Weekend podcast: Bella Ramsey, Marina Hyde on Princess Di’s ghost, and the woman crushed by an elephant

  21-10-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Marina Hyde is impressed by Princess Diana, the ‘hardest working spectre in showbiz’ (1m22s); Bella Ramsey talks football, rapping and why fame is ‘silly’ (9m44s); and Elle Hunt meets a woman who was crushed by an elephant (20m32s). Continue reading...
  
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• Weather experts can't figure out why UK is tornado hotspot thanks to 'whirlwind alleys'

  21-10-2023 06:00 via express.co.uk
  
  A leading meteorologist has admitted he isn't certain "exactly why the UK has so many weak tornadoes".
  
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• F1 US Grand Prix: The 16-year-old living her motorsports dream

  21-10-2023 04:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chloe Chong started karting on the same track as Lewis Hamilton - now she's at the same F1 race weekend.
  
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• Man sinks 2,000 pints in 200 days in epic drinking marathon - costing him £18k

  21-10-2023 03:30 via express.co.uk
  
  Jon May embarked on his beer odyssey after watching a TikTok video - describing the feat as "a very British thing to do".
  
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• Councils to get their say on asylum seeker quotas

  21-10-2023 01:01 via express.co.uk
  
  A cap on the number of refugees using safe and legal routes to Britain will be introduced in January 2025, says the Home Office.
  
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