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• Miliband pledges up to £1bn for community green energy schemes - The Guardian

  09-02-2026 23:32 via news.google.com
  Miliband pledges up to £1bn for community green energy schemes  The GuardianUK ministers cut funds for community power projects  Financial TimesBritain to invest up to $1.4 billion in community energy projects  ReutersCommunity energy investment to build community wealth and power  GOV.UKLGA responds to Local Power Plan  Local Government Association
  
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• Small Prophets review – Mackenzie Crook’s magical new comedy is pure, pure pleasure

  09-02-2026 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Wonder lies below the surface of this truly fantastic sitcom from the creator of Detectorists. It’s an impossible marvel of TV makingTry not to be told about the central premise of Small Prophets, the new comedy by Detectorists writer/director Mackenzie Crook, before you dive in. In a show full of gorgeous surprises, the main thing that happens is the most precious gift waiting to be unwrapped. What you should know, though, is that this is everything a Detectorists fan would wish for in it
  
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• £5bn council SEND debts to be paid off by government - BBC

  09-02-2026 23:13 via news.google.com
  £5bn council SEND debts to be paid off by government  BBCEnglish councils to receive at least £5bn to cover overspending on special needs education  Financial TimesGovernment to write off 90% of councils’ SEND deficits  Schools WeekRising Send costs will ‘bankrupt’ four in five English local authorities, leaders say  The GuardianLGA warns more than a third may need EFS  Local Government Chronicle
  
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• £5bn council SEND debts to be paid off by government

  09-02-2026 23:13 via bbc.com
  It comes days after the Local Government Association warned that eight in 10 English councils would face bankruptcy, if they had to honour deficits.
  
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• Instagram and YouTube owners built 'addiction machines', trial hears - BBC

  09-02-2026 23:06 via news.google.com
  Instagram and YouTube owners built 'addiction machines', trial hears  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• 'We are at an hour of desperation' - Savannah Guthrie pleads for help for missing mother - BBC

  09-02-2026 22:48 via news.google.com
  'We are at an hour of desperation' - Savannah Guthrie pleads for help for missing mother  BBCNancy Guthrie’s family pleads for public’s help: ‘We’re at an hour of desperation’  The GuardianRansom deadline for US star's missing mother passes after desperate video appeal  Sky NewsNancy Guthrie was expected at friend’s home, not church on day she vanished: source  foxnews.comFBI says it's not aware of any continued communic
  
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• Scottish Labour leader makes his biggest political gamble - but can it pay off?

  09-02-2026 22:38 via bbc.com
  The call for Sir Keir Starmer to resign is a defining moment in Sarwar's leadership of Scottish Labour.
  
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• Streeting's Mandelson messages reveal election fears and criticism of government

  09-02-2026 22:19 via bbc.com
  The health secretary says he is publishing the messages "after a weekend of smear and innuendo that I have something to hide".
  
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• 'Didn't want the season to end like this' - Grealish has surgery - BBC

  09-02-2026 21:55 via news.google.com
  'Didn't want the season to end like this' - Grealish has surgery  BBCSeason over for 'gutted' Grealish after foot surgery  TNT SportsJack Grealish’s crushing injury update from hospital bed as Erling Haaland reacts  Manchester Evening NewsJack Grealish stuns locals by turning up at a Cheshire pub for a HAIRCUT before classy gesture, the former Man United star in demand for World Cup - and Winter Olympics guilty of press gaffe: INSIDE SPORT  dailymail
  
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• Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax rise - The Guardian

  09-02-2026 21:33 via news.google.com
  Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax rise  The GuardianWorcestershire councillor quits Reform over plans to raise council tax  BBCReform UK warns Worcestershire County Council is facing bankruptcy  BBCReform UK councillor David Taylor quits party during live BBC interview  The IndependentReform councillor quits party on live TV over council tax raid  The Telegraph
  
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• A couple of teas or coffees a day could lower risk of dementia, scientists say - The Guardian

  09-02-2026 21:33 via news.google.com
  A couple of teas or coffees a day could lower risk of dementia, scientists say  The GuardianThree cups of tea or coffee ‘lowers risk of dementia by almost a fifth’  The TimesYour morning coffee might protect your brain as you age – here’s the sweet spot  The ConversationCaffeinated coffee and tea could help protect you against dementia. Even a few daily cups  cnn.com2 to 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It
  
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• Wuthering Heights review – too hot, too greedy adaptation guarantees bad dreams in the night

  09-02-2026 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Emerald Fennell’s take on Emily Brontë is an emotionally hollow, bodice-ripping misfire that misuses Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi but makes the most of Martin Clunes Emerald Fennell cranks up the campery as she reinvents Emily Brontë’s tale of Cathy and Heathcliff on the windswept Yorkshire moor as a 20-page fashion shoot of relentless silliness, with bodices ripped to shreds and a saucy slap of BDSM. Margot Robbie’s Cathy at one stage secretly heads off to the moor
  
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• Violinist sent hundreds of nude images to women

  09-02-2026 19:55 via bbc.com
  Ben Gunnery has been handed a 12-month suspended jail sentence at Bromley Magistrates Court today.
  
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• Qatar Open: Emma Raducanu retires in first round two days after Transylvania Open final defeat - BBC

  09-02-2026 19:26 via news.google.com
  Qatar Open: Emma Raducanu retires in first round two days after Transylvania Open final defeat  BBCEmma Raducanu quits in Doha only two days after losing Transylvania final  The TimesEmma Raducanu retires in Qatar opener after on-court blood pressure test  The GuardianEmma Raducanu: British No 1 retires due to illness from first round of Qatar Open  Sky Sports2026 WTA Doha, Qatar: Raducanu [25th] vs. Osorio Serrano [80th] Prediction, Odds and Match Preview
  
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• Guy Martin transforms 1930s Greater Manchester semi into 'house without energy bills' - Manchester Evening News

  09-02-2026 19:12 via news.google.com
  Guy Martin transforms 1930s Greater Manchester semi into 'house without energy bills'  Manchester Evening NewsDaredevil Guy Martin: ‘My heat pump cost me a bloody fortune’  The TimesPassivhaus retrofit takes centre stage in Channel 4 programme  Scottish Construction NowNorthumberland eco-home to feature in new Guy Martin documentary  Hexham Courant🏡 Guy Martin transforms 1930s Greater Manchester semi into 'house without energy bills'&nb
  
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• Twenty years is 'a death sentence', son of British media tycoon jailed by China says

  09-02-2026 18:28 via bbc.com
  A Hong Kong court sentences the 78-year-old British citizen Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison after he was found guilty of national security offences last December.
  
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• Flights from St Helena island grounded by airport safety concerns

  09-02-2026 18:25 via bbc.com
  Residents on the remote British overseas territory have been left stranded after fire safety concerns grounded flights.
  
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• T20 World Cup: India-Pakistan fixture to go ahead after government ends boycott call - BBC

  09-02-2026 18:04 via news.google.com
  T20 World Cup: India-Pakistan fixture to go ahead after government ends boycott call  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Man reportedly raped on university campus - The Argus

  09-02-2026 17:59 via news.google.com
  Man reportedly raped on university campus  The ArgusIdentity appeal after man raped on Bognor Regis university campus  Sussex PolicePolice launch probe after 'rape on university campus' as CCTV appeal released  The SunMan reportedly raped at university campus in Bognor Regis | News - Greatest Hits Radio (Sussex)  RayoMan in 20s raped on University of Chichester campus as police release CCTV  The Mirror
  
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• Greystar nears £500mn London build-to-rent deal - Financial Times

  09-02-2026 17:35 via news.google.com
  Greystar nears £500mn London build-to-rent deal  Financial Times
  
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• ‘A statement about power shifting’: why Bad Bunny wore Zara for his Super Bowl show

  09-02-2026 17:16 via theguardian.com
  Puerto Rican musician transformed high street fashion into a symbol of cultural power and accessibilityBad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time show review – a thrilling ode to Boricua joyOf the many cultural flashpoints in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time performance on Sunday, one that few observers saw coming was his decision to wear two outfits by the Spanish high street brand Zara.As the most-watched event on US television, the Super Bowl half-time show is a marketing moment as mu
  
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• Scientists Just Discovered What Created This Massive, Mysterious Ocean Canyon Bigger Than the Grand Canyon! - The Daily Galaxy

  09-02-2026 17:15 via news.google.com
  Scientists Just Discovered What Created This Massive, Mysterious Ocean Canyon Bigger Than the Grand Canyon!  The Daily GalaxyScientists Uncover Unusual Origins of Mysterious Ocean Trench Bigger Than the Grand Canyon  SciTechDaily
  
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• Driver killed young couple in horror crash - Wales Online

  09-02-2026 16:28 via news.google.com
  Driver killed young couple in horror crash  Wales OnlineDriver killed young couple in their 20s in horror crash after driving down the wrong side of the road  The SunPembroke Dock man admits causing death of young couple in A477 crash  Tenby ObserverDriver admits killing 'loving' Pembrokeshire couple in A477 crash  The Western TelegraphMan pleads guilty to causing death of young couple who loved each other 'beyond words' in tragic crash  Daily St
  
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• ‘We recorded it in a kitchen!’ How China Crisis made Black Man Ray

  09-02-2026 16:16 via theguardian.com
  ‘Our producer was toasting sesame seeds in a pan. Coming from a working-class family, I’d never seen such a thing’Ed and I had just come off a long tour of Europe and North America supporting Simple Minds and needed a break. I immersed myself in music-making with a synth, drum machine and a four-track Tascam Portastudio. I was very inspired by Brian Eno. I’d seen the words “found sounds” on his album credits. The notion that any sound could be included in a re
  
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• Why we all need a bit of Valentine’s spirit – and the gifts worth giving

  09-02-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  We’ve picked the best non-naff pressies for partners and friends. Plus, the best boots and soup makers, tested• Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereYou can be a Grinch about it or, as Jess Cartner-Morley wrote in her latest Filter edit, you can embrace it for the “daft festival of joy in the bleakest moment of the calendar” that it is. Valentine’s Day, if nothing else, is a reminder in the depths of unromantic February to cherish those you
  
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• From nightmarish noir to Bolero on trampolines: the audacious Holland Dance festival hits dizzy heights

  09-02-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Shadowy urban terror gives way to airborne exuberance as the festival celebrates its 20th edition with a programme that disturbs and delightsSuited dancers swing around a streetlight in Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau’s Horses but it’s not exactly Singin’ in the Rain. The mood is more like a stray dog has sidled up to that lamp-post and cocked its leg. The lamps multiply on these squalid, mean streets: uprooted, they become giant props for performers to illuminate and edit t
  
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• Revealed: The new Defiler stomps onto the battlefield - Warhammer Community

  09-02-2026 15:57 via news.google.com
  Revealed: The new Defiler stomps onto the battlefield  Warhammer CommunityWarhammer 40K: What Is GW Doing With Chaos Mutilators?  Bell of Lost SoulsWarhammer 40K Reveals New Deadly Chaos Unit: What Are Chaos Mutilators?  FandomWireGames Workshop Unveils Striking New Chaos Defiler  Evrim AğacıWarhammer 40k unveils a new Chaos Defiler after 23 years, and it's hideous-er than ever  wargamer.com
  
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• How a decades-old video game has helped me defeat the doomscroll

  09-02-2026 15:29 via theguardian.com
  Trading social media for Pokémon battles and evolutions in Kanto on a Game Boy Advance has been surprisingly sereneCutting back on doomscrolling must be one of the hardest new year resolutions to keep. Instinctively tapping on the usual suspects on your phone’s home screen becomes a reflex, and vast quantities of money and user data have been specifically employed to keep you reaching for the phone, ingraining it into our work, leisure and social lives. You’ll get no shame fro
  
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• Discover a new love for objective-based piracy with the Red Corsairs Raiders datasheets - Warhammer Community

  09-02-2026 14:57 via news.google.com
  Discover a new love for objective-based piracy with the Red Corsairs Raiders datasheets  Warhammer Community
  
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• Nursery worker guilty of raping children

  09-02-2026 14:52 via bbc.com
  Nathan Bennett's abuse of two and three-year-old boys was as "every parent's nightmare".
  
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• Why this new 'spiny dragon' dinosaur found in China is such a huge deal - BBC Wildlife Magazine

  09-02-2026 14:32 via news.google.com
  Why this new 'spiny dragon' dinosaur found in China is such a huge deal  BBC Wildlife MagazineA dinosaur with spikes exhibiting unprecedented properties discovered in China  Phys.orgCellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur  NatureArchaeology breakthrough: Scientists unearth remarkably well-preserved fossil with dinosaur skin still attached  GB NewsPaleontologists Unearth New Dinosaur Species with Never-B
  
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• Night sky tonight: Spot the 'Heavenly G’ brightening the winter sky after sunset on Feb. 9 - Space

  09-02-2026 14:27 via news.google.com
  Night sky tonight: Spot the 'Heavenly G’ brightening the winter sky after sunset on Feb. 9  SpaceThis Week's Sky at a Glance, February 6 – 15  Sky & TelescopeHow to view the brightest star in the night sky this week  South Wales ArgusUnder the Night Sky 6/02-12/02  thelachatupdate.comWhat are the notable celestial events this week? Details explored  primetimer.com
  
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• New Milton Keynes data hall will boost UK's AI power, says firm - BBC

  09-02-2026 14:22 via news.google.com
  New Milton Keynes data hall will boost UK's AI power, says firm  BBCPulsant offers high-density UK data centre for AI services  IT EuropaPulsant launches £10m expansion of Milton Keynes data center  Data Center DynamicsPulsant unveils high-density data center in Milton Keynes  IT ProAI capacity is moving to the edge (well, Milton Keynes)  fibre-systems.com
  
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• Anas Sarwar calls for Keir Starmer to stand down as Prime Minister - The Herald

  09-02-2026 14:11 via news.google.com
  Anas Sarwar calls for Keir Starmer to stand down as Prime Minister  The HeraldAnas Sarwar makes his biggest political gamble - but can it pay off?  BBCStarmer says he's going nowhere - after arriving at crunch meeting with 'face like thunder'  Sky NewsFutile resignations and blatant revisionism to the fore as Starmer staggers on | John Crace  The GuardianStarmer defies call to quit as UK prime minister  Financial Times
  
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• Ipbes report: Nature loss could spell extinction for businesses - BBC

  09-02-2026 14:00 via news.google.com
  Ipbes report: Nature loss could spell extinction for businesses  BBCObsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn  politico.euCompanies told to protect nature now or face extinction themselves  ReutersMore than 150 Countries Agree That Focus on GDP Harms Nature  bloomberg.com150 countries approve a new blueprint for business action on nature  GOV.UK
  
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• Georgina Hayden’s quick and easy recipe for creamy chicken and mustard fricassee | Quick and easy

  09-02-2026 14:00 via theguardian.com
  A versatile, one-pan dish to which you can add pretty much whatever seasonal vegetables you like and whatever side suits, and all ready in about half an hourThis is a one-pan dinner at its finest: elegant and full of flavour, something that feels as if it has taken more effort and time than it actually has, and versatile in its finish – serve with creamy mash, fluffy rice, boiled potatoes; even hunks of fresh baguette would be wonderful for mopping up the creamy mustard sauce. I use whatev
  
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• Make-up brand Barry M bought by rival Warpaint - BBC

  09-02-2026 12:46 via news.google.com
  Make-up brand Barry M bought by rival Warpaint  BBCIconic cult make-up brand is SAVED from collapse – but 100 jobs at risk  The Sun£17.4m-turnover cosmetics brand acquired out of administration for £1.4m  Business Sale ReportWarpaint closes in on UK acquisition, estimates higher sales in 2025  marketscreener.comMake up brand Barry M bought out of administration by rival for £1.4m  This is Money
  
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• Ultrarunners in secondhand trainers: the rickshaw drivers taking on the world’s toughest races – photo essay

  09-02-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Members of an athletics club in Madagascar formed by rickshaw drivers are now beating elite athletes in international endurance eventsIt is a fiercely competitive market, and one of the toughest physical jobs in Madagascar’s Antsirabe, but over the past five years cycle rickshaw driver Haja Nirina has honed his athletic prowess alongside his business.In this city, about 100 miles (160km) south of the capital, Antananarivo, there are more than 4,000 rickshaws for a population of 265,000, th
  
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• The pet I’ll never forget: Mishka, the surly but beloved raccoon

  09-02-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  She hated water, attacked our Christmas tree, destroyed our wallpaper – but everyone who met her was won overMishka was about eight weeks old when we got her. It was 2004, we were living in Dibden, New Forest, and I was looking to buy some guinea pigs. I saw an ad for a raccoon on the secondhand site Preloved. My husband, Graham, and I lived in Florida in the 90s and had a raccoon that would come into the yard. It had a bad leg, and we nurtured it, so I was very interested in raccoons.I me
  
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• Epstein pressed billionaire media mogul to influence coverage, files reveal - Al Jazeera

  09-02-2026 11:07 via news.google.com
  Epstein pressed billionaire media mogul to influence coverage, files reveal  Al JazeeraExclusive / New emails show how Epstein used the media to rehab his reputation  SemaforJeffrey Epstein Secretly Hired a Philippine Team to Erase His Crimes From Google—Why Were They Never Named?  International Business Times UK🇺🇸 An email in the Epstein files claims his team hacked Wikipedia to remove his mugshot and scrub the “sex offender” label
  
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• Synthetic opioids may have caused hundreds more UK deaths than thought - The Guardian

  09-02-2026 09:10 via news.google.com
  Synthetic opioids may have caused hundreds more UK deaths than thought  The GuardianDeaths from ‘Britain’s fentanyl’ may be a third higher than thought  The TelegraphI took the deadly £3 drug that’s 500 times stronger than heroin  The TimesUK deaths from ‘super strength’ Frankenstein drug 500 times stronger than heroin underestimated by a THIRD  The SunSuper-strength synthetic opioid likely to have killed many more
  
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• Is it true that … hair grows faster when you cut it?

  09-02-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Does a good trim really make your locks longer and thicker – or is it more complicated than that?‘That’s not true,” says Desmond Tobin, professor of dermatological science at University College Dublin. Hair grows from follicles – tiny structures in the scalp sitting 2-4mm beneath the skin. Inside each follicle, the hair fibre is formed long before it becomes visible at the surface of the scalp. By the time it emerges, the hair that you’re c
  
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• Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out?

  09-02-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?During Cop30 negotiations in Brazil last year, delegates heard a familiar argument: rising emissions are unavoidable for countries pursuing growth.Since the first Cop in the 1990s, developing nations have had looser reduction targets to reflect the economic gap between them and richer countries, which emitted millions of tonnes of CO2 as they pulled ahead. The concession comes from the ide
  
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• Two women, no boundaries and no rules: best podcasts of the week

  09-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Alison Spittle and Fern Brady’s hugely entertaining new show sees them tackle any topic they like. Plus, an amusingly personal take on how generative AI will affect the future of employment“It’s clear that the theme of this podcast is us trying to talk about a topic and getting immediately sidetracked.” So say comedians Alison Spittle and Fern Brady about their new show. It’s a hugely entertaining ramble through subjects including Lily Allen’s “breakup a
  
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• Southern Water admits 18-year meter mix-up – but insists we owe it more

  09-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  It kept on billing us for a neighbouring house’s supply although I live alone at my grandmother’s homeI’m currently renting my grandmother’s house while she is in a care home with dementia.Soon after I moved in, I was hit with a £614 quarterly water bill from Southern Water. I was already paying £62 a month in direct debits but was apparently falling short. Continue reading...
  
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• Logitech MX Master 4 review: the best work mouse you can buy

  09-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Ergonomic shape, quality materials and satisfying clicks, now with novel haptic feedback and repairable designLogitech’s latest productivity power-house updates one of the greatest mice of all time with smoother materials, a repair-friendly design and a haptic motor for phone-like vibrations on your desktop.The MX Master 4 is the latest evolution in a line of pioneering mice that dates back more than 20 years and has long been the mouse to beat for everything but hardcore PC gaming. Having
  
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• Gordon Brown by James Macintyre review – a very different kind of politician

  09-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  A new biography reveals Brown to be a man of exceptional vision and probity – what a contrast with today’s politicsFor a while, during the 13 years when Gordon Brown was at the apex of British politics, it became fashionable, and then a cliche, to depict him as a Shakespearean protagonist. He was the Scot who would be king, consumed by vaulting ambition for the throne, or else the powerful man of action, devoured by envy of his onetime friend. But in an illuminating new biography by
  
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• Cool design and wild art on a city break in Metz, north-east France

  09-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The small city in the Lorraine region has been put on the map with the aid of two Parisian heavyweights – a loan from the Pompidou Centre and designer Philippe Starck’s quirky new hotelAs I stand and look at a six-metre skeleton of a domestic cat named Felix, the words of Alice in Wonderland spring to mind: “Curiouser and curiouser.” The sculpture is part of a thought-provoking and enchanting exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, and this isn’t the first time
  
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• A new start after 60: I became a wrestler, 50 years after falling in love with the sport

  09-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  After a career in accountancy, Sally Goldner decided to get in the ring – as Zali Gold – and live out her childhood dreamsOn the night of her 60th birthday, Sally Goldner climbed on to the top rope of the wrestling ring, to the roars of the crowd, and launched herself on to her competitors with a missile dropkick. The crowd roared. For a second, she was completely airborne, before landing on her opponents.“‘Wow, I’m doing this,’” she thought. “Exhi
  
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• The truth about statins and memory and dementia - The Telegraph

  09-02-2026 07:00 via news.google.com
  The truth about statins and memory and dementia  The TelegraphThere’s good news for those on statins, but two things concern me  The TimesStatin pills much safer than advertised, major review finds  BBCMost statin side-effects not caused by the drugs, study finds  The GuardianStatins do not cause the majority of side effects listed in package leaflets  University of Oxford
  
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