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• Family learnt of mother’s ‘murder’ in Dordogne via Facebook - The Telegraph

  04-05-2025 19:53 via news.google.com
  Family learnt of mother’s ‘murder’ in Dordogne via Facebook  The TelegraphMurdered British mother seen dancing with lover months before killing  The TelegraphWife’s affair a betrayal, says husband of Dordogne murder victim  The TimesWoman killed in France was lovely person, says husband  BBCBritish woman’s murder in Dordogne: ‘personal grudge’ motive investigated  The Connexion
  
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• McFly superfan meets band after chance encounter

  04-05-2025 19:29 via bbc.com
  Joel Oates could not believe his luck when his mum told him she had met McFly at a service station.
  
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• Watch: Crowds gather at pub as Ed Sheeran performs

  04-05-2025 15:27 via bbc.com
  He is watched by fans who got tickets by responding to an Ed Sheeran WhatsApp message.
  
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• Rangers 1-1 Celtic: Scottish Premiership – live reaction

  04-05-2025 15:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Updates from the Old Firm derby; kick-off 12pm BSTLive scoreboard | Sign up for Football DailyGet in touch! Email [email protected] min: Just 55 seconds into the match, Balogan rises completely unmarked from a Rangers corner and pops a bullet header onto the top of the crossbar! He should have done better, there was a key block from Raskin on Scales to create room for chance. Oooooo, that’s a big miss, and right in front of the travelling Celtic fans as well.We are underway i
  
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• Horse racing updates: 1,000 Guineas and more – live

  04-05-2025 15:06 via theguardian.com
  Updates from Newmarket on 1,000 Guineas dayEmail Greg | Today’s racing tipsFalakeyah has been cut to 8-1 (from 16-1) by Paddy Power for the Oaks, and as short at 5-1 favourite (pending the outcome of the 1,000 Guineas) by Coral.The only significant question mark is whether she will be as effective at a mile-and-a-half, as she took quite a pull in the early stages before settling better once she was in front. But the early exuberance did not have any noticeable effect at the business end of
  
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• Brighton v Newcastle, Brentford v Manchester United and more: Premier League – live

  04-05-2025 15:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Updates from Sunday afternoon’s footballEmail Will | Live scores | Sign up for Football DailyI watched Forest v Brentford on Thursday and I felt the Bees put in one of the best away performances I have seen all season. Very few teams make things look easy at the City Ground but they were ruthless in attack and barely gave Forest a sniff all game. Thomas Frank described it as 7/10 performance. United should be worried if they reach an 8/10 performance.“Hello from the skies above Turke
  
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• Partisan and ‘creepy’ interviews are threat to democracy, Nick Robinson says

  04-05-2025 15:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: BBC presenter warns ‘shared space for national debate’ at risk from platforms that fail to challenge leadersFawning and partisan podcasts that give politicians hours of unchallenged airtime pose a danger to democracy, Nick Robinson has said, as he warned that Britain must guard against the polarisation of US media.The BBC presenter said a “nostalgia brigade” pining after confrontational television interviews, in which Brian Walden grilled Margaret Thatcher and
  
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• Zhao Xintong v Mark Williams: World Snooker Championship final – live

  04-05-2025 15:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Updates from the showpiece at the CrucibleMail Daniel with your thoughts | Sign up to The RecapWilliams 0-0 Xintong (0-64) Email! “Battle of the dragons: Chinese v Welsh,” begins Andrew Goudie. “I hope they’ve invited Tony Drago(n) from Malta, also famous for having a dragon on its flag.” And the quickest player ever; him and Jimmy White were quite the doubles partnership. Anyroad, Zhao flukes a red, snuggles up to the brown, and Mark misses his escape … twic
  
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• Do we ever stop feeling anxious, angry or sad about relationships? Not if my older friends are any guide | Emma Beddington

  04-05-2025 15:01 via theguardian.com
  The generations are more segregated than ever. Yet we have so much in commonI’ve always felt a bit pathetic for not having a proper peer group. In dark moments, it feels like a moral failing and an indictment of my social skills. In kinder moments I recognise it’s also partly a product of being sick and sad at university, then successively too pregnant, too preoccupied with babies and too peripatetic to make or maintain ties. In calmer times, I’ve forged slightly more of a soci
  
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• ‘When I discovered alcohol and boys, I was feral’: Vicky Pattison looks back

  04-05-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  The presenter, author and ex-Geordie Shore star on breaking her mum’s heart, her relationship with booze, and wanting to as happy as she was as a little girlBorn in Newcastle in 1987, Vicky Pattison graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with a degree in drama. At 22, she joined the cast of MTV’s reality TV show Geordie Shore, where she starred from 2011 to 2014. In 2015, she won I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! and later
  
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• The big idea: can we stop AI making humans obsolete?

  04-05-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Technology will soon be able to do everything we do – only better. How should we respond?Right now, most big AI labs have a team figuring out ways that rogue AIs might escape supervision, or secretly collude with each other against humans. But there’s a more mundane way we could lose control of civilisation: we might simply become obsolete. This wouldn’t require any hidden plots – if AI and robotics keep improving, it’s what happens by default.How so? Well, AI devel
  
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• The big breath secret: can I improve my lung capacity, efficiency and power?

  04-05-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  My father’s death from cancer showed me you need to look after your lungs. But apart from not smoking, what should you be doing? I headed to a laboratory, strapped on a mask and heart monitor and started pedalling …Lungs are amazing. There they sit, inflating and deflating from dawn to dusk, dusk to dawn, sucking in air, stripping out oxygen and exchanging it for carbon dioxide. They do this 20,000 times a day, 7.5m times a year, 600m times in the average lifetime, keeping our trill
  
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• Readers reply: Will humans ever outgrow the nation state?

  04-05-2025 15:00 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 conceptsWill humans ever outgrow the nation state? Pat Spring, HarrogateSend new questions to [email protected]. Continue reading...
  
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• Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed

  04-05-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  At the heart of all Trump administration policies is ‘soft eugenics’ thinking – the idea that if you take away life-saving services, then only the strong will surviveEnglish polymath Francis Galton formulated the concept of eugenics in 1883. Inspired by animal breeding, Galton encouraged people with “desirable” traits to procreate while discouraging or preventing those with “undesirable” traits from doing the same. As social and intellectual qualities we
  
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• I worked in the Vatican for 18 years – this will be the most unpredictable conclave yet | Ariel Beramendi

  04-05-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Will the cardinals follow Francis’s path or return to a more conservative doctrine? The white smoke will tell us which faction has won Ariel Beramendi worked at the Vatican for 18 years as an official in the Dicastery for CommunicationAs the cardinals ready themselves to select the next pope, one thing is certain: this will be the most unpredictable conclave in the recent history of the Catholic church. I worked in the Vatican for 18 years, and on my return to Rome for the funeral of Pope
  
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• Hampshire v Durham, Yorkshire v Warwickshire and more: county cricket – live

  04-05-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Updates from day three of the latest round of gamesEmail Tanya or comment BTL | Sign up to The SpinAfter pulling a muscle on 99, diving for the line during a quick single, Cox completes his hundred muscling a reverse-sweep before hobbling off to field concerned phonecalls from England. A fabulous hundred. Essex 251-4 and a lead of 312.How is Warwickshire’s chase going? Pretty well, although Hamza Shaikh has just been caught by YJB off new boy Buckingham and Davies lost his off stumps to a
  
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• Kim Jong-un’s tank and Knights Templar: photos of the weekend

  04-05-2025 14:33 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• The English question now isn’t about Reform or party politics: it’s the rage that means we can’t talk to each other any more | John Harris

  04-05-2025 14:26 via theguardian.com
  My time in Lincolnshire highlighted our country’s most serious problem: the disconnection that means solutions can’t be reachedIt was unseasonably hot in Alford, Lincolnshire, and the early evening had brought a contented glow to the main street and residential avenues of this quiet market town. Colin Matthews, a genial former schoolteacher, was putting in another shift trying to convince people to give him another term as a local Conservative councillor and marvelling at the outbrea
  
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• Paris-based thriller offers fresh inside take on French-Tamil community

  04-05-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Writer, actor and director Lawrence Valin says that in Little Jaffna he wanted to ‘show new role models’It has been hailed as one of the most innovative and surprising French gangster films this year: a suspense movie that tears through Paris’s Tamil neighbourhood.The police thriller Little Jaffna, which opened in France this week, is set in the French capital’s Tamil community, which has rarely been represented on screen – and never in an action film by a French ac
  
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• How to make the perfect vegan caesar salad – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect …

  04-05-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A respectful homage to the classic caesar, using plant-based ingredients to hit the same flavour notesIf I’ve learned anything from almost 40 days of plant-based eating, it’s that an homage doesn’t have to be indistinguishable from the original to hit the same spot; it simply needs to sing equivalent notes to much the same tune. Those notes, in this case, are a green salad, a thick, umami-spiked dressing and savoury croutons, all tossed in a pitch-perfect combination of flavour
  
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• Have you followed Trump’s 100-day disaster? Try this quiz!

  04-05-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Chainsaws, lawsuits and thundering silence – but no mention of the words ‘my bad’Note: Your answers to this quiz may be subject to subpoena by the Department of Justice.Lawrence Douglas is a professor of law at Amherst College in Massachusetts Continue reading...
  
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• Donald Trump’s cartoon-like chaos leaves US economy on unstable course | Heather Stewart

  04-05-2025 13:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Uncertainty generated by tariff policy underlines US president seemingly unable to choose a path and stick to itTen days reporting from the US – in Pittsburgh, Washington DC, and just across the Potomac River in Arlington, Virginia – gave me a fascinating snapshot of what feels like the slow-motion unravelling of the world’s largest economy.So many conversations featured uncertainty and wariness; and weariness, too, as businesses and consumers weigh up every decision, against t
  
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• Eight men including seven Iranians arrested in two England anti-terrorism operations

  04-05-2025 13:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Yvette Cooper says raids, in London, Swindon and Greater Manchester, carried out as part of response to ‘national security threats’Eight men, including seven Iranian nationals, have been arrested by police in two separate counter-terrorism operations across England.Five of the suspects were detained in raids on Saturday as part of an alleged plot to target “a specific premises,” the Metropolitan police said. Continue reading...
  
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• French police investigate spate of cryptocurrency millionaire kidnappings

  04-05-2025 13:28 via theguardian.com
  Victims have had fingers chopped off by attackers in crimewave targeting entrepreneurs and their familiesFrench police are investigating a series of kidnappings of investors linked to cryptocurrency after a 60-year-old man had a finger chopped off by attackers who demanded his crypto-millionaire son pay a ransom.In the latest of several kidnappings of cryptocurrency figures in France and western Europe, the man, who owned a cryptocurrency marketing company with his son, was freed from a house so
  
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• Trump accused of ‘mocking’ Catholics after posting image of himself as pope

  04-05-2025 13:25 via theguardian.com
  
  US president displays ‘pathological megalomania’ as cardinals gather to elect new pope after death of FrancisDonald Trump has been accused of mocking the election of a new leader of the Catholic church after posting an artificial intelligence-generated picture of himself as the pope on social media.The image, shared on Friday night on Trump’s Truth Social site and the White House’s official X account, raised eyebrows at the Vatican, which is still in the period of nine da
  
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• Love Groundhog Day and Russian Doll? These are the novels for you

  04-05-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  High-concept fiction is having a moment. Funny, inventive and crackling with big ideas, these ambitious stories will have you instantly hookedFlorence Knapp’s first novel The Names, publishing this month, tells not one story but three. As it opens, a mother is preparing to take her newborn boy to formally register his name. Will it be Bear, as his older sister would like, her own choice of Julian, or Gordon, named after his controlling father? The universe pivots on the decision she m
  
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• Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary

  04-05-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ignorance no barrier as president begins to put out approved version of history that ignores American failuresDonald Trump, it could be said, takes a breezy, Sam Cooke style approach to history.Like the legendary “king of soul” in his 1960 hit Wonderful World, the US president has admitted to not knowing much about historical events or figures of the past – even when faced with authorities on the subject. Continue reading...
  
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• Dining across the divide: ‘I felt like the atmosphere was quite hostile’

  04-05-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  They clashed on net zero, diversity and fashion. Was the chocolate-chip ice-cream the only thing they did agree on?Michael, 43, Isle of ManOccupation Communications director Continue reading...
  
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• BMW ends 180 agency staff contracts at Mini factory in Oxford

  04-05-2025 12:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Move comes as industry grapples with impact of Donald Trump’s steep 25% tariffs on cars imported to USThe Mini owner, BMW, has ended 180 agency staff contracts at its factory in Oxford as the British car industry grapples with global economic uncertainty and steep US tariffs.Donald Trump announced 25% tariffs in March, hitting all cars imported to the US from overseas from 3 April, in the hope of forcing carmakers to invest in production in the US. The tariffs have left British manufacture
  
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• Romeo and Juliet review – star-crossed lovers transported to the wild west

  04-05-2025 12:31 via theguardian.com
  Globe theatre, London
  Director Sean Holmes’s high concept production shows that the frontier works surprisingly well as Shakespeare’s fractious VeronaThe warring Houses of Montague and Capulet are resurrected in the wild west, with the star-crossed lovers in cowboy boots, gingham and Stetsons. Director Sean Holmes’s high concept production might have been preposterous and, initially, the idea speaks louder than the play, but by turns it woos, bewitches and becomes irresistible.
  
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• Take one jar of gherkins, one deep-fat fryer: how to make the very best ‘frickles’

  04-05-2025 12:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Fried pickles, or frickles, have been on US menus for decades. Now they’re having a moment in the UK, in restaurants, chippies and even Aldi. I tested the best brands for home batteringThe fried pickle – or frickle – is an on-trend appetiser with a murky provenance. Allegedly, it dates back to the early 1960s, originating at a drive-in restaurant in Arkansas run by an individual who laboured under the name Bernell “Fatman” Austin. Frickles are generally deep-fried,
  
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• Post your questions for folk music legend Peggy Seeger

  04-05-2025 12:24 via theguardian.com
  
  As she marks her 90th birthday with a UK tour and new album, the singer and activist will answer your questionsAfter a long career which has established her as one of the most significant folk singers on both sides of the Atlantic, Peggy Seeger is about to celebrate her 90th birthday with a final tour and album – and will answer your questions.Born in New York to a musicologist father and a modernist composer, and with siblings including future folk legend Pete Seeger, she started out on p
  
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• Streeting says Reform are real threat and may become Labour’s main rivals

  04-05-2025 12:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Health secretary asks public to give government time as he calls Farage’s party a ‘serious opposition force’Politics live – latest updatesWes Streeting has said Reform is a real threat and could replace the Conservatives as the main opposition party by the next election, as he urged the public to give Labour the “benefit of the doubt”.The health secretary said Nigel Farage’s party was being treated as a “serious opposition force” after Reform
  
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• Trump feels tug of political gravity as economy falters and polls plunge

  04-05-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The president started his second term fast and furious with a flurry of activity – much of it legally dubious – but analysts say the honeymoon is over“Not just courageous” but “actually fearless” said Doug Burgum. The “first 100 days has far exceeded that of any other presidency in this country ever,” said Pam Bondi. “Most” of the presidents whose portraits adorn the Oval Office – which include George Washington, Abraham Lincoln a
  
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• ‘The only thing we can’t do is hear’: the deaf pupil who beat Fife council in court

  04-05-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Niamdh Braid, 16, demanded her right to full education – and now hopes her success will inspire more deaf children to aim highThe slogan on Niamdh Braid’s powder-blue sweatshirt puts it plainly enough: “I define my own deaf identity.”“We’re in a world that’s built for hearing people,” says the 16-year-old from Glenrothes in Fife, “and we have to navigate through it to find what works best for us.” Continue reading...
  
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• How Trump’s love for crypto threatens US residents’ peace: ‘I just want quiet’

  04-05-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Cryptocurrency mining facilities can blanket towns with ‘constant’ noise. They’re likely to get louder under TrumpFirst came the dogs’ balding – leathery pink patches on otherwise glossy fur coats.The veterinarian told Shenice Copenhaver it was genetic. But it wasn’t long before one of the hairless puppies began stealing blankets to burrow beneath furniture and hide for long stretches. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Like a religious thing’: free Lady Gaga concert draws 2.1m to Rio

  04-05-2025 11:34 via theguardian.com
  Fans poured on to Copacabana beach from around Brazil for show that beat Madonna’s record audience sizeMore than 2 million people packed Copacabana beach on Saturday night for a free Lady Gaga concert, breaking a Rio de Janeiro record set last year by Madonna.An estimated 2.1 million “Little Monsters” – as Lady Gaga’s fans are known – turned Rio’s beachside neighbourhood into “Gagacabana” for the largest show of the pop star’s career. T
  
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• Pimpinone review – hot-to-trot comic opera from the underperformed Telemann

  04-05-2025 11:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Linbury theatre, London
  Isabela Díaz has great fun as chambermaid Vespetta and Grisha Martirosyan is laugh-out-loud funny as nice-but-dim Pimpinone in a tale of sexual politics not a million miles from our own timeSpare a thought for Georg Philipp Telemann. Friend to Bach and Handel, and godfather to Bach’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel, he penned more than 3,000 works including 29 extant operas. Yet, for all his fecundity of invention and consistent quality, we hear his sparkling music
  
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• Britons largely unaware of Black and Asian contribution to WW2 effort, research shows

  04-05-2025 11:06 via theguardian.com
  Most people do not know soldiers from countries like Jamaica and Kenya, and Muslims, fought alongside British troopsThe British public is largely unaware of the contribution made by soldiers from Commonwealth countries such as Jamaica and Kenya to the second world war, research has found, as campaigners say greater recognition of the diversity of those who fought against fascism will strengthen national unity.Before the 80th anniversary of VE Day on 8 May, a FocalData poll for the thinktank Brit
  
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• From the mountains to the Med: a self-guided walk in Provence, France

  04-05-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A challenging solo hike through stunning Provençal scenery is eased by lovely inns, dining by the seaside and leaving the planning to the expertsBehind Cassis beach, the castle-topped cliffs glint red-gold in the late afternoon sun. Couples stroll on the sand, kids play on the carousel, pastel-coloured buildings reflect in the still waters of the old harbour. In the main square, lined by plane trees, a group of elderly men concentrate on a game of petanque. It’s a cha
  
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• ‘Everything we built – gone’: how the wildfires decimated LA’s music scene

  04-05-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  January’s blazes in California have devastated the livelihoods of performers, technicians and other music industry pros. They reveal what they lost – and how they’re rebuildingWithin the ashes of what used to be Christopher Fudurich’s home in Los Angeles, some objects from his garage music studio were still identifiable. Microphones charred and blackened, a scorched keyboard and melted cables among the toxic debris. Not just objects; a life’s work, passion and creat
  
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• Thousands taking part in Belfast City Marathon 2025

  04-05-2025 10:51 via bbc.com
  
  Follow the BBC's live coverage as a record-breaking number of people take part on Sunday.
  
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• Eight arrested in two separate anti-terror operations

  04-05-2025 10:48 via bbc.com
  
  Seven of the men arrested at various addresses across England are Iranian nationals, police say.
  
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• Election countdown - should Swinney be optimistic?

  04-05-2025 10:01 via bbc.com
  
  The first minister will set out his programme for government this week, with a focus on steadying the ship.
  
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• ITV and Channel 4 face summer of uncertainty amidst leadership issues and potential mergers

  04-05-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Channel 4’s chief executive, Alex Mahon, is standing down and ITV head Carolyn McCall has been struggling for investorsWith Channel 4 facing months of stopgap interim leadership and ITV in talks over a potential merger of its programme-making operation with a rival belonging to an Abu Dhabi-backed fund, the UK’s biggest free-to-air commercial broadcasters face a destabilising and uncertain summer.Earlier this week, Alex Mahon, Channel 4’s chief executive, announced she is to st
  
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• ‘I was the only person who didn’t know the words to Coldplay’: Anoushka Shankar’s honest playlist

  04-05-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The musician on her love of cheesy R&B, hating karaoke ‘with a fiery passion’, and the people who have sex to her sister Norah Jones’s musicThe first song I fell in love with
  Tana Mana by my dad, Ravi Shankar. In the late 80s he was experimenting with synthesisers and released an album called Tana Mana, an anomaly in his discography. I remember my imagination would light up with the title song – I would picture a village dance, and I’d be acting it out in my liv
  
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• Mirrors, caddies and skinny shelves: 12 space-saving tricks to make small rooms feel bigger

  04-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From storage beds to floating desks, these expert buys will help you decorate small spaces• The best diffusers for your home: 22 genuinely great-smelling diffusersLarge rooms need more – and bigger – furniture, so small rooms just need fewer, smaller pieces, right? Not entirely. In fact, there’s a lot more to creating a successful small space than that.When looking at a room, don’t just think about the floor plan; consider it as a three-dimensional space and ask your
  
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• Baby food pouch hysteria? It’s just another way of making mothers feel guilty | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  04-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We need a society that supports parents and makes good food choices achievable – not more lecturing of exhausted mumsLike many modern mothers, I have on occasion piped cold bolognese directly from a pouch into my small child’s open mouth and, radical though it may seem, I refuse to feel guilty about it. There is a lot of panic about ultra-processed foods (UPFs), and baby food pouches, with their high sugar content and dubious nutritional value, are the latest targets. Researchers at
  
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• This week proves Nigel Farage's PM ambition is not a wild notion

  04-05-2025 08:38 via bbc.com
  
  The next General Election is miles away and parties can surge and sink, but this week's results show Farage has changed the race, writes Laura Kuenssberg.
  
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• Parking chaos and poo: The price of Mam Tor's fame

  04-05-2025 08:09 via bbc.com
  
  Mam Tor in the Peak District has become strangely popular, but what effect is this having?
  
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