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• Co-op cyber attack sends customers into survival mode as stores look like bomb's gone off

  15-05-2025 23:41 via express.co.uk
  Pictures from the supermarket shows barren shelves.
  
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• UK seaside hotspot embroiled in row over controversial 90-room Premier Inn

  15-05-2025 23:34 via express.co.uk
  Furious locals said "democracy had been thrown out of the window" after the fiercely fought decision.
  
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• Trump tariffs set to threaten UK economy despite surprise growth boost - The Sun

  15-05-2025 23:30 via news.google.com
  Trump tariffs set to threaten UK economy despite surprise growth boost  The SunFaisal Islam: The UK's surprisingly strong growth may not be temporary  BBCGDP rise and a less scary outlook offer Rachel Reeves some rare cheer  The GuardianIt’s all downhill from here for British growth  The TelegraphUK economy is growing more than expected - how optimistic should you be?  BBC
  
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• GDP rise and a less scary outlook offer Rachel Reeves some rare cheer - The Guardian

  15-05-2025 23:16 via news.google.com
  GDP rise and a less scary outlook offer Rachel Reeves some rare cheer  The GuardianUK economy is growing more than expected - how optimistic should you be?  BBCIt’s all downhill from here for British growth  The TelegraphUK economy: This surprise resilience may not be temporary  BBCUK businesses gearing up for Trump tariffs boost economy  Sky News
  
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• The UK seaside town where you can get a house for as little as £80k

  15-05-2025 23:05 via express.co.uk
  Some places along Britain's coast have really quite affordable homes.
  
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• Mark Carney reveals what Canadians really think about Donald Trump's UK state visit

  15-05-2025 22:46 via express.co.uk
  The Canadian prime minister revealed what his nation really thinks about King Charles's invitation to Donald Trump.
  
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• ‘Power and simplicity: South African photographer wins Deutsche Börse prize

  15-05-2025 21:10 via theguardian.com
  Lindokuhle Sobekwa praised for work exploring the loss of his half-sister in the wider context of post-apartheid lifeThe South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa, whose experimental work has been praised for its “power and simplicity” and explores family ties, myth and post-apartheid life, has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize 2025.Sobekwa was awarded the £30,000 prize, one of the most prestigious in the industry, at the Photographers’ Gallery
  
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• The Guardian view on green homes: solar panels and heat pumps should be a bare minimum | Editorial

  15-05-2025 19:30 via theguardian.com
  Ministers must resist pressure to relax environmental standards in the rush for new housingAlmost two decades after the last Labour government announced a zero carbon homes standard, and with the breaking of temperature records around the world now so normal as to seem routine, it ought to be uncontroversial that new buildings should be as environmentally friendly as possible. Given everything we know about global heating, and the law obliging the UK to reach net zero by 2050, it is disturbing t
  
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• Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s address to US troops in Doha – cartoon

  15-05-2025 19:30 via theguardian.com
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• The Guardian view on Europe’s growing wealth divide: back to the world of Balzac | Editorial

  15-05-2025 19:25 via theguardian.com
  A new study highlights the dangers of a modern rentier capitalism that perpetuates inequality through the generationsIn a recent study picked up in the French press, the academic Mélanie Plouviez cites one of her country’s best-loved novelists to make a damning point. The power of inherited and unearned wealth in the France of 2025, she argues, replicates the social injustices found in Honoré de Balzac’s 19th-century chronicles of ambition and despair. As in the 1820s,
  
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• Energy bill defaults hit record high, says ONS

  15-05-2025 19:21 via theguardian.com
  Figures show households struggling, with 2.7% of direct debits for gas and electricity failing due to lack of funds Business live – latest updatesA record proportion of British households were unable to pay their energy bills by direct debit last month because there was not enough money in their bank accounts, according to official government data.More than 2.7% of direct debit payments for gas and electricity defaulted in April due to insufficient funds, the latest figures published by th
  
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• The moon's very different sides explained in new NASA study - Sky News

  15-05-2025 19:14 via news.google.com
  The moon's very different sides explained in new NASA study  Sky NewsThermal asymmetry in the Moon’s mantle inferred from monthly tidal response  NatureGravity study shows why the moon's two sides look so different  ReutersNASA Studies Reveal Hidden Secrets About Interiors of Moon, Vesta  NASA (.gov)There Is Something Odd Going On Inside The Moon  IFLScience
  
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• When a university degree won’t get you a decent job or home | Letters

  15-05-2025 18:48 via theguardian.com
  Readers respond to an article by Gaby Hinsliff on declining employment opportunities for young graduatesThe university degree was never a guaranteed ticket to a good career. I graduated from Cambridge about the same time as Gaby Hinsliff (We told young people that degrees were their ticket to a better life. It’s become a great betrayal, 13 May). Without middle-class connections, or “professional” work experience, I returned home after graduation to a neighbourhood counted among
  
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• We are no strangers to highly skilled care staff | Letters

  15-05-2025 18:48 via theguardian.com
  Jane O’Regan writes that the happiest part of her day is when a care visitor arrives to help her husband. Plus, a letter from Jonathan ErskineThank you, Zoe Williams (‘Cheap foreign labour’ – this is how Keir Starmer denigrates the migrant carers looking after your loved ones, 12 May). My husband suffered a severe stroke 14 years ago. Every day since, a care worker has visited us to get him up and wash and dress him. We live in east London and every single care worker we
  
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• Divine intervention against cold callers | Brief letters

  15-05-2025 18:48 via theguardian.com
  Scammers’ souls | Peter Sullivan | ‘The enemy within’ | Strangers to whom? | State ownership of newspapersYears ago I decided to interrupt cold callers (Letters, 11 May) and say: “Just a minute. Let us pray. O heavenly Father, who sees into our hearts. You will know when we are involved in an activity whereby we are trying to dupe an elderly lady out of all of her savings. In the light of this, I know that when I die I will be condemned to hell for an eternity. Amen.
  
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• Britain’s aid cuts will be catastrophic for women and girls | Letters

  15-05-2025 18:48 via theguardian.com
  Dr Helen Pankhurst says the large-scale reduction in international aid will ultimately impact the government’s own agenda for peace and growth. Plus a letter from Trevor Bonner This government is on course to go down in history as one of the worst for women and girls (Labour to defend aid cuts, claiming UK’s days as ‘a global charity’ are over, 13 May). We already know that the aid cuts will be deadly, but wiping out all funding to programmes that support women and girls
  
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• Earth could be hit by extreme geomagnetic storm tomorrow following 600,000 mile-wide solar eruption, scientists warn - LADbible

  15-05-2025 18:33 via news.google.com
  Earth could be hit by extreme geomagnetic storm tomorrow following 600,000 mile-wide solar eruption, scientists warn  LADbibleThe sun just spat out the strongest solar flares of 2025 — and more could be headed toward Earth  Live ScienceStrongest solar flare of 2025 erupts from sun, sparking radio blackouts across Europe, Asia and the Middle East (video)  SpaceSun Wakes Up: Aurora Alert After Biggest Solar Flare Of 2025  ForbesStrong Flare Erupts from
  
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• Eight out of ten ginger cats are male. Now we finally know why - The Times

  15-05-2025 18:25 via news.google.com
  Eight out of ten ginger cats are male. Now we finally know why  The TimesDecades-long mystery of ginger cats revealed  BBCThe reason your ginger cat is likely to be male  The TelegraphWhat makes ginger cats ginger?  BBCMystery of Orange Cats Finally Solved—They're Mutants  Scientific American
  
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• Divine dressing: why the style set have converted to Catholicism

  15-05-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  The election of the new pope has put cassocks back in the spotlight, chiming with fashion’s reverence for all things religiousAll eyes have been on the Vatican; the chimney, the smoke, the men who would be pope, the man who now is pope and, among it all, the clothes. It might seem shallow to focus on the vestments, but then the pomp, spectacle – and the ceremonial outfits – are all part of the momentous event.The election of the new pope also chimes with a mood in fashion, sinc
  
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• Athletes and fitness influencers use creatine, but what is it? And does it work?

  15-05-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  We find out if this fitness supplement can be used to build muscle mass, decrease fatigue and improve mental healthCreatine has long been popular among athletes. Olympians tout it, fitness influencers experiment with it, and Patrick Schwarzenegger’s gym bro character in The White Lotus added it to his famous shake.It’s primarily considered a fitness supplement, but doctors are increasingly curious about its potential longevity and mental health benefits. Continue reading...
  
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• For Dieter: Hommage à Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau album review – a heartfelt tribute to a lieder legend

  15-05-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Benjamin Appl/James Baillieu
  (Alpha)
  The great baritone’s final student emulates his late mentor’s attention to verbal and musical detail in a 32-song centenary homage featuring plenty of SchubertNo lieder singer of the second half of the last century has cast a longer shadow on subsequent generations than Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Even singers who never studied with the great baritone acknowledge his influence, but for Benjamin Appl the link was much more direct: after attending a m
  
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• The 20 best US remakes of foreign language films – ranked!

  15-05-2025 16:55 via theguardian.com
  As Spike Lee’s neo-noir crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest debuts at Cannes film festival, we index the most ravishing Hollywood redos of all timeJeff (Kiefer Sutherland) obsesses over the fate of his missing girlfriend in George Sluizer’s American remake of his own 1988 Franco-Dutch psychochiller. Is it as devastating as the original? Absolutely not! But Jeff Bridges has never been creepier, and at least the dumb Hollywood ending won’t give you nightmares. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘We have to stop what’s going on, it’s insane’: Robert De Niro on battling age, apathy and Trump

  15-05-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  As the actor receives an honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes film festival, he talks about why he couldn’t look at himself if he didn’t speak out about the US president and politicsOn the opening night of the Cannes film festival, Robert De Niro takes the stage to accept an honorary Palme d’Or. He embraces Leonardo DiCaprio, turns to the mic and lets fly: celebrating the event as a haven for art, democratic, inclusive and therefore a threat to autocrats and fascists. His speech
  
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• Scriabin: Vers la Flamme album review – Sudbin masters and humanises fourth and 10th sonatas

  15-05-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Yevgeny Sudbin
  (BIS)
  The pianist showcases Scriabin’s creative journey from Chopinesque preludes to utterly original modernism, shining bright in his exquisite treatment of the early worksOne of Yevgeny Sudbin’s first discs for the BIS label in 2007 was a Scriabin recital. It included three of the piano sonatas alongside a selection of miniatures that ranged right across Scriabin’s composing career, and, for his 25th release on the label, Sudbin has returned to the same compose
  
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• The US buried millions of gallons of wartime nuclear waste – Doge cuts could wreck the cleanup

  15-05-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Hanford made the plutonium for US atomic bombs, and its radioactive waste must be dealt with. Enter Elon MuskIn the bustling rural city of Richland, in south-eastern Washington, the signs of a nuclear past are all around.A small museum explains its role in the Manhattan Project and its “singular mission – [to] develop the world’s first atomic bomb before the enemy might do the same”. The city’s high school sports team is still known as the Bombers, with a logo that
  
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• Here comes summer: reasons to love riesling

  15-05-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  So you think you don’t like riesling? Then perhaps you’ll be pleased to learn they’re not all German and dryI’ve been drinking a lot of riesling lately. There is, naturally, quite a bit of variety in a drinks writer’s liquid diet, so to have the same thing twice in one week is a sure indication of a fascination developing, or of a habit forming. There’s not much psychoanalysis required as to why that might be the case: the sun is out and, by the time this colu
  
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• Shanti Celeste: Romance review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

  15-05-2025 13:01 via theguardian.com
  (Method 808/Peach Discs)
  Six years on from her acclaimed ‘fast house’ debut, the UK singer-producer invites listeners into a sunlit space between night out and morning afterNo one could accuse Shanti Celeste of being a dance producer who indulges in lofty conceptualising about their music. Not for her, the album that represents the soundtrack to a film that hasn’t been made yet, or a sci-fi-influenced cosmic opera, or a globe-spanning travelogue inspired by the peripatetic life
  
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• Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors - Retraction Watch

  15-05-2025 13:00 via news.google.com
  Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors  Retraction WatchJournal Citation Reports 2025: Addressing retractions and strengthening research integrity  ClarivateHow Clarivate is clamping down on bad actors in academic publishing  Chemistry WorldClarivate removes citations to and from retracted articles from JIF  Research InformationImpact factor set to exclude citations of retracted articles  Rese
  
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• The Afterlife of Malcolm X: how the civil rights icon influenced America

  15-05-2025 11:20 via theguardian.com
  In the year in which the groundbreaking activist would have turned 100, a new book looks at the enduring impact of his words and how they resonate todayThe Afterlife of Malcolm X is a new book about the great Black leader who was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, 100 years ago; who in the 1950s converted to Islam and dropped his “slave name”; who rose to fame as the militant voice of the civil rights era; and who was assassinated in New York in 1965, aged just 39.The book is no
  
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• ‘I go there instead of going out’: why a gym is the place to be for UK’s gen Z

  15-05-2025 10:15 via theguardian.com
  Membership of British gyms is at an all-time high as many younger people see exercise as integral to their daily routineA perfect evening out for Louis involves getting hot and sweaty, and the only drink he is downing is water.He is one of a growing number of gen Zers who regard going to the gym as an integral part of their routine and often preferable to sinking pints in the pub. Continue reading...
  
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• You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop using my earphones?

  15-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Lila thinks it’s fine to share as she and Tim are in an intimate relationship. He worries it risks spreading infection. You decide who should face the music
  Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a jurorIt’s gross – I wouldn’t use her toothbrush, so why would I use her earphones?We kiss and do all the normal things couples do – so why are earphones a step too far? Continue reading...
  
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• ‘They erupt from the moor like castles, monsters and giants’: exploring Dartmoor’s tors

  15-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  These ancient rocks have inspired myth and mysticism for millennia, and a new book and festival celebrate their enduring powerThe first bluebells are out along the Dart gorge, creating a faint purple haze under the twisted oak trees. I’m on my way to Luckey Tor, one of Dartmoor’s most hidden rock stacks, which sits by the river, shrouded in vegetation like Sleeping Beauty’s castle. It’s not the easiest of walks. The path peters out as I get deeper into the gorge, and the
  
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• A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi review – a fable about self-mythology

  15-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  This gloriously absurd Prague-set tale, in which one woman is split into seven selves, is a wild rideHow many selves do we house? Thousands, thought Virginia Woolf. Are they one and the same? Not according to the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa, whose alter egos – writers just like him – came with their own distinct names, biographies, mindsets and hot takes on the world. Born of him yet operating independently, he called them “heteronyms”. Are our selves on the sa
  
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• Superfine: Black designers worthy of a place in the Met

  15-05-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Last week’s Met Gala tackled Black style and dandyism, in conjunction with the Superfine exhibition at the museum. To celebrate the theme, here are some of the best independent Black designers working in the UK today• The Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition Superfine: Tailoring Black Style is at the Met New York until 26 October Continue reading...
  
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• Rachel Roddy’s recipe for courgette, onion and chickpea flour bake, or scarpaccia | A kitchen in Rome

  15-05-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Courgette and chickpea flour fritter-pancakes that take inspiration from both the Renaissance and the modern TikTok ageLike millions of people all over the world, ideas are often planted in my head by a couple called Alessandro Vitale and Iasmina P, whose fast-paced videos document recipes they have developed based on the vegetables they grow, with the objective of using absolutely everything. Edited for social media, their videos are designed not just to attract, but to trap attention in a TikT
  
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• MP to launch bill to target superyachts, private jets and fossil fuel producers

  15-05-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Bill would force major polluters to pay into fund for flood defences and home insulation – but has little chance of becoming lawFossil fuel companies and their shareholders and owners of superyachts and private jets should have to pay into a fund for flood defences and home insulation, according to a private member’s bill to be launched on Thursday.The bill is part of a broader movement by campaigners to “make polluters pay”, demanding that oil and gas companies, and thos
  
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• The best men’s walking boots for every type of hiking adventure, tested

  15-05-2025 06:56 via theguardian.com
  Whether you’re heading to the hills on a multi-day trek or need waterproof shoes for countryside walks, these are the best boots for the job – tried and tested by our writer• ‘I’d never head out without one’: 10 hiking essentialsThere are two types of people on any UK hiking trail: those wearing walking boots, and those who have yet to experience the unmistakable sensation of cowpat seeping through their trainers. I belong in the first camp and firmly believe t
  
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• Fake fitness influencers: the secrets and lies behind the world’s most envied physiques

  15-05-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  The Liver King’s raw-meat-to-ripped-abs regime has been exposed – but thousands of other influencers claim their bulging muscles are just the result of hard, honest graft. Should we believe them?Looking back to 2022, it seems impossible that anyone ever believed that Brian “Liver King” Johnson achieved his physique without pharmaceutical assistance. He looks like a hot water bottle stuffed with bowling balls, an 80s action figure with more veins – an improbably musc
  
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• A grim lottery: as Israel bombs hospitals, some Gaza children are granted rare exit permits

  15-05-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  The al Astal brothers are among the unlucky Palestinians who are fighting their own battle against cancer while stuck in a war zoneIt was a short distance but a very long journey from a bombed-out hospital in Gaza to the Jordanian border. Zeinab al Astal arrived with her two sick sons as dusk was falling on Wednesday evening, and she seemed stunned they had made it at all.Twenty-four hours earlier she had been watching chunks of ceiling crash down to the floor around them, after Israel bombed th
  
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