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• Hundreds of UK teenagers to pilot social media bans and restrictions

  01-03-2026 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Trials to form part of three-month consultation on Keir Starmer’s plans to tackle negative effects of smartphone useHundreds of teenagers will be enlisted to trial social media bans in the coming months with overnight digital curfews and daily screen time limits also tested as part of Keir Starmer’s plan to crack down on the negative effects of smartphone use.The trials will be part of a three-month consultation launched this week that could lead to an outright ban on social media fo
  
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• ‘That resentment is real’: Mahmood’s Denmark visit aims to hammer home tough line on immigration

  01-03-2026 23:00 via theguardian.com
  On tour of returns centre, home secretary says ‘legitimate grievances’ have to be acknowledged as part of ‘responsible’ politicsRefugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylumThe UK home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, and Danish immigration officials strode through the bleak and chilly Sjælsmark returns centre, a former military barracks used to house men and women who have no right to remain in the country. Followed by photographers, repor
  
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• Starmer faces greater quandary over ‘special relationship’ after Iran attack

  01-03-2026 23:00 via theguardian.com
  PM is in diplomatically precarious position of declining to endorse US strikes while also refusing to condemn themUS-Israel war on Iran – latest updates It was perhaps naive of No 10 ever to position Keir Starmer as a “Donald Trump whisperer” capable of persuading the unpredictable US president to step back from reckless decisions.The “special relationship” has been under severe strain in recent months over the UK’s decision to give up sovereignty of the Chago
  
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• Refugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylum

  01-03-2026 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Home secretary announces 30-month protection limit, with refugees required to leave if their home countries are later judged safe‘That resentment is real’: Mahmood’s Denmark visit aims to hammer home tough line on immigrationShabana Mahmood has ripped up the government’s asylum rules so that from Monday every refugee will be told that their status is temporary and will last just 30 months.In a move that has concerned a refugee charity, the home secretary said that claiman
  
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• Delroy Lindo thankful for ‘love and support’ after N-word incident at Baftas

  01-03-2026 22:43 via theguardian.com
  Lindo speaks out after man with Tourette syndrome shouted slur while actor was on stage with Michael B JordanBritish-American actor Delroy Lindo expressed gratitude for “the support and love” he and Michael B Jordan have received after a man with Tourette syndrome (TS) shouted the N-word as the two men presented a Bafta award.“We appreciate all the support and love that we have been shown,” Lindo – who, like Jordan, is Black – said on stage at the annual NAACP
  
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• Is this really the beautiful game? Well yes, and no … but the panic is fun to watch | Barney Ronay

  01-03-2026 22:30 via theguardian.com
  If every win is going to be painful from here, you may as well just take the painful wins – welcome to Arsenal’s late title staggerOn Thursday night at a swanky London hotel so luxuriously risk‑averse the toilets are equipped with wireless thermostats to control to within half a degree the heat of the seat, the Premier League chief executive, Richard Masters, spoke in detail for the first time about the prospect of “Premflix”, the direct‑to‑consumer
  
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• Infantino suggests players covering mouths when addressing opponents could be sent off

  01-03-2026 22:25 via theguardian.com
  Fifa president wants more intervention in battle against racismMouth covering in focus after Vinícius Júnior’s allegation of abuseThe Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, has suggested players who cover their mouths while addressing opponents could be sent off as part of the governing body’s battle against racism.The practice, which has long been deployed to prevent cameras picking up conversations between teammates and opposition, has been put in focus after Viníci
  
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• Portable Sonos Play speaker leaks on Canadian Best Buy - The Verge

  01-03-2026 21:10 via news.google.com
  Portable Sonos Play speaker leaks on Canadian Best Buy  The VergeLooks like a new portable Sonos speaker is coming this month  What Hi-Fi?Sonos’s Next Major Hardware Release Just Leaked, and It’s Arriving as Soon as This Month  Gear PatrolSonos Play portable Bluetooth and AirPlay 2 speaker leaks early  9to5mac.comOops, Best Buy just leaked a new Sonos speaker we haven’t seen before  Trusted Reviews
  
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• OBR a backseat driver with out-of-date maps, thinktanks tell Rachel Reeves

  01-03-2026 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Chancellor urged to reform Office for Budget Responsibility to open way to more public investmentRachel Reeves must reform the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to open the way to more public investment, an alliance of thinktanks has argued ahead of the chancellor’s spring forecast on Tuesday.With Keir Starmer’s government under intense pressure after Labour’s defeat by the Greens in Thursday’s Gorton and Denton byelection, the thinktanks called on Reeves to review t
  
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• Iranian football association unsure if national team will play at World Cup in US

  01-03-2026 20:59 via theguardian.com
  ‘We cannot look forward with hope,’ says FFIRI presidentEngland Lions match in Abu Dhabi cancelled due to warThe president of Iran’s football federation says he does not know if the national team can play World Cup matches in the US after the US and Israeli bombardment of the country.“What is certain is that after this attack, we cannot be expected to look forward to the World Cup with hope,” Mehdi Taj said to the sports portal Varzesh3 as Iran traded strikes with I
  
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• Iran’s military options limited as it tries to hit back at US-Israeli attack

  01-03-2026 20:31 via theguardian.com
  Retaliatory strikes have so far been high in volume but mostly not very effective and are likely to become less soUS-Israel war on Iran – latest updatesIn the grim calculus of war, Iran now has to hope it gets lucky. The first hours of the joint US-Israeli assault were catastrophic for the regime: the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, killed alongside, it is believed, the minister of defence, the head of the armed forces and the head of the powerful Revolutionary Guards.Iran knew its security
  
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• ‘Sixty seconds, that’s all it took’: the clinical Israeli-US operation to kill Ali Khamenei

  01-03-2026 20:27 via theguardian.com
  Mission that took just one minute to carry out was decades in making, but experts say it could be major strategic error US-Israel war on Iran – live updatesThe assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was the culmination of decades of painstaking intelligence gathering by Israeli secret services, with crucial technological resources and manpower provided over the last six months by the CIA and other US intelligence services, which culminated in a single concent
  
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• US allies and foes left scrambling as Trump catches them off-guard on Iran

  01-03-2026 20:10 via theguardian.com
  War highlights strained alliances, unfettered militaries and a Washington with renewed appetite for regime changeUS-Israel war on Iran – latest updates A joint US-Israeli operation that appeared to use nuclear negotiations as cover. Gulf leaders courting Donald Trump as he decided to launch a major Middle Eastern intervention. Europe boxed out and a G7 defence minister caught so off-guard that he was grounded in Dubai as the bombs fell. And from Moscow, a strongly worded condemnation of th
  
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• At least 22 people dead after pro-Iran protests in Pakistan and Iraq

  01-03-2026 20:05 via theguardian.com
  US government buildings in Karachi and Baghdad targeted by crowds after killing of Ayatollah Ali KhameneiUS-Israel war on Iran – latest updatesAt least 22 people are dead following pro-Iran demonstrations in Pakistan in which hundreds of people marched on the US consulate in Karachi. Security forces in Iraq have also fired teargas at protesters who tried to storm the US embassy in Baghdad.As anger boiled over after US-Israeli strikes killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamen
  
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• Amazon Fire TV rolls out big free upgrade to users in the UK to boost experience - Oxford Mail

  01-03-2026 19:51 via news.google.com
  Amazon Fire TV rolls out big free upgrade to users in the UK to boost experience  Oxford MailThis free upgrade makes the Fire TV app worth downloading  Pocket-lintYour phone is now the best remote for your Amazon Fire TV thanks to the new free 'second screen' app upgrade  TechRadarThe Fire TV Mobile App Just Got A Big Upgrade In the UK  Cord BustersUK Fire TV Stick owners are getting a huge free upgrade this month  The Mirror
  
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• Tottenham lacking in attack, midfield, defence and ‘brain’, says Igor Tudor

  01-03-2026 19:43 via theguardian.com
  2-1 defeat at Fulham was Spurs’ fourth league loss in a row‘We are always late on everything. That’s the problem’Igor Tudor described the situation Tottenham find themselves in as “amazing” and suggested they have just three major problems as they fight relegation: the attack, the midfield and the defence. Spurs’ 2-1 defeat at Fulham was their fourth in a row in the league and leaves them four points above the relegation zone.“I cannot tell you any
  
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• The Guardian view on Trump’s Iranian campaign: an illegal war that risks becoming the new normal | Editorial

  01-03-2026 19:17 via theguardian.com
  The US-Israeli military action will test the fragile rules governing the use of forceThe killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by a US-Israeli strike is a targeted assassination of a head of state. It also marks a grave escalation in a region already burdened with smouldering wars and fragile states. The consequences of the deliberate strike will reverberate across a Middle East marked by the aftershocks of foreign intervention. Revulsion against the hardline
  
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• The Guardian view on an explosion of solo exhibitions by women: move over old masters | Editorial

  01-03-2026 19:16 via theguardian.com
  From a landmark Tracey Emin show at Tate Modern to the first female painter in the Royal Academy’s main space, the art world is finally catching up“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?” the feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls asked in their famous 1989 poster. It pointed out that fewer than 5% of the artists in the modern art sections were women, but 85% of the nudes were female. They could have asked the same question of any major art gallery in the world.
  
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• Delta Goodrem to represent Australia at Eurovision 2026

  01-03-2026 19:00 via theguardian.com
  One of the country’s bestselling singers is heading to a contest mired in geopolitical controversy – but, she says, ‘I believe in the healing powers and hope of music’Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailDelta Goodrem will represent Australia at Eurovision in May, the 70th anniversary of the annual song contest.The 41-year-old singer – one of the country’s best-loved and bestselling pop stars – heralds a shift in Australia’s Eurovision select
  
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• Jason White on US-Israeli strikes on Iran – cartoon

  01-03-2026 18:06 via theguardian.com
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• University courses should be about acquiring skills, not just a job | Letters

  01-03-2026 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Pete Dorey and Pat Stevenson respond to a letter that made the argument for employers funding universities What a depressingly narrow, economistic view of university education your correspondent advances (Employers should contribute to universities, Letters, 22 February). He complains that “the courses that universities offer … aren’t what the economy needs and so aren’t maximising returns”, but instead, are “the courses students want to study, not what socie
  
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• Byelection trouncing has lessons for Labour | Letters

  01-03-2026 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Readers respond to the Green party’s victory in Gorton and Denton Gorton is the place where my great-grandmother was born into a railway family in 1875. At that time, it was world-famous for making locomotives, and was one of the most industrialised and polluted places in the country. When I first knew it in the 1960s, the great engineering works were closing, putting thousands of skilled men on the dole. The close-knit terraced streets were being torn down, leaving just abandoned pubs on
  
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• The decline in healthy life expectancy in Britain should shock us all | Letters

  01-03-2026 17:59 via theguardian.com
  Alan Walker and Ian Garner respond to the news that healthy life expectancy of both women and men has fallenThe decline in healthy life expectancy (HLE) is so momentous it should have ejected the former prince from the front page (Female healthy life expectancy falls three years, print edition, 20 February). The shocking fall of three years for women and two years for men, in just three years, reveals the cumulative impact of the Tory/Liberal Democrat austerity programme and the gross mismanagem
  
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• Spotting a peacenik by the newspaper they read | Brief letters

  01-03-2026 17:59 via theguardian.com
  Guardian policing | Going commando | Underwear shrinkage | Talking to strangers | Leg stoma bagsSome years ago, my sons travelled with Aston Villa supporters going to Wolves. A young policeman picked them out at the railway station along with others to be shepherded to the ground. But an older sergeant advised the constable: “Not those two – that one’s got a Guardian under his arm.” How’s that for peacenik recognition? Non-bearded, they weren’t even wearing sa
  
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• Neil Sedaka obituary

  01-03-2026 17:47 via theguardian.com
  Singer and songwriter of such pop canon hits as Oh! Carol, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do and (Is This the Way to) Amarillo“Prolific” hardly does justice to Neil Sedaka’s songwriting output, which ran to more than 1,000 compositions over seven decades.If he had been willing to stay behind the scenes, turning out tunes for other singers, he would have still merited a place in pop history thanks to the number of those songs that became part of the pop canon, including Where the Boys A
  
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• I am petrified after missile strikes, NI woman in Dubai says

  01-03-2026 17:19 via bbc.com
  Iran has launched fresh strikes across the Middle East in response to ongoing attacks by the US and Israel.
  
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• Suspected Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker seized in North Sea

  01-03-2026 17:02 via theguardian.com
  Belgian special forces boarded the Ethera, which was sailing under the flag of Guinea, on Saturday nightBelgium has seized an oil tanker believed to form part of the so-called “shadow fleet” used by Russia to circumvent western sanctions over the war in Ukraine.Special forces assisted by French helicopters boarded the ship in a clandestine operation in the North Sea on Saturday night, Belgium’s defence minister, Theo Francken, said on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump appears to link Iran attack to his 2020 election loss

  01-03-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  President says in social media post that Iran tried to ‘stop Trump’ and now ‘faces renewed war with United States’US-Israel war on Iran – latest updatesSign up for the Breaking News US emailDonald Trump on Saturday appeared to link the massive attack he ordered against Iran to his persistent claims about his 2020 election loss to former president Joe Biden, in a social media post about allegations that Tehran’s government interfered in the US president electio
  
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• How Courtney Barnett made her new album by retreating to the desert: ‘It nearly drove me mad’

  01-03-2026 16:52 via theguardian.com
  After closing her scene-making record label and moving to the US, Barnett decamped to Joshua Tree – where she learned to slow down and make noise againIn the early months of 2024, Courtney Barnett was living in the kind of limbo that usually precedes a major psychic shift. The Grammy-nominated Australian musician was bouncing between sublets as a transplant to Los Angeles – a city she still navigates via a mental map of Melbourne, the place that made her: “Silver Lake is kind o
  
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• Flights cancelled and new travel warnings issued after Iran strikes

  01-03-2026 16:22 via bbc.com
  BA and Virgin Atlantic are among major airlines to ground services to the Middle East in light of the attacks.
  
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• Scot in Dubai says children 'heard bangs' of anti-missile defences

  01-03-2026 16:10 via bbc.com
  Gary Goldie said life was "continuing as normal" in the UAE despite Iranian missile strikes.
  
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• Trump and Netanyahu’s attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression | Kenneth Roth

  01-03-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Their actions are no different from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s invasion of the Democratic Republic of CongoWe shouldn’t beat around the bush: Donald Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s military attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression. There is no lawful justification for it. It is no different from Russian president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s invasion of the Democratic R
  
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• US-Israel war on Iran live: Israel launches wave of attacks ‘in the heart of Tehran’ as interim successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei named - The Guardian

  01-03-2026 15:55 via news.google.com
  US-Israel war on Iran live: Israel launches wave of attacks ‘in the heart of Tehran’ as interim successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei named  The GuardianDeath toll in Beit Shemesh missile impact rises to 9  The Times of IsraelIran names interim leaders as Israeli rescuers say nine killed in missile attack  BBCIsrael says its air force strikes Tehran again after killing Khamenei but many targets remain  ReutersAt least nine killed after Iranian st
  
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• Morrissey review – classic Smiths songs meet GB News-style talking points

  01-03-2026 15:49 via theguardian.com
  O2 Arena, London
  Morrissey is in impressive voice and the old songs still retain their power, but the conspiracy theorising and nationalist rhetoric are miserable in all the worst waysIt could almost be the 90s: at a sold out O2 Arena, a pink-shirted Morrissey and his five-piece band rally the crowd with Suedehead, each oscillating “why” roared en masse. It is as if his past two decades of inflammatory political activism hasn’t hurt his reputation. What’s more, things wil
  
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• Sinfonia Cymru / Laura van de Heijden review – quiet authority and effortless grace inspire

  01-03-2026 15:47 via theguardian.com
  Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff
  The cellist moved up a gear during Tabakova’s concerto, as the fiery writing showed her at her virtuosic bestCellist Laura van der Heijden was last year’s recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society instrumentalist award, consolidating in style her BBC Young Musician win in 2012, when she was just 16. As a shining role model to musicians of her generation, her collaboration with the young professional talent of Sinfonia Cymru – he
  
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• The kindness of strangers: at San José airport, I couldn’t pay my departure tax – then a woman handed me the cash

  01-03-2026 15:00 via theguardian.com
  There was no ATM at the airport and banks were closed. If I missed this flight, all my subsequent flights would have been cancelled Read more in the kindness of strangers seriesI was 19 and travelling by myself for the first time. It was 1994 and departure tax wasn’t always part of a plane ticket, so it sometimes had to be paid before flying out of a country. And if you didn’t have it, you didn’t leave – something I was about to learn the hard way.I was on a five-week tri
  
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• Rufus Hound looks back: ‘By the time I started to do standup, I realised I’d been training for it my entire life’

  01-03-2026 15:00 via theguardian.com
  The actor and comedian on using humour as his cheat code, his internal monologue and the teacher to whom he owes everythingBorn in Essex in 1979, Rufus Hound is a comedian, actor and broadcaster. He left his job in PR in 2000 to work full-time as a comedian, first in standup and then on TV. A panel show regular, including Mock the Week and Celebrity Juice, he has also built a substantial stage career, with roles in West End productions such as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Wind in
  
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• F1 LIVE: Mercedes ban update as Lewis Hamilton statement causes a stir - Daily Express

  01-03-2026 15:00 via news.google.com
  F1 LIVE: Mercedes ban update as Lewis Hamilton statement causes a stir  Daily ExpressF1 to revise engine rule at centre of row  BBCFormula One to revise controversial rule at centre of Mercedes engine row  The GuardianF1 engine dispute: FIA confirms mid-season rule change to power-unit regulations and tweak to qualifying format  Sky SportsFIA's engine compromise: A fair solution for Mercedes and its F1 rivals?  Autosport
  
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• 16 Postcodes review – one-woman patchwork psychogeography of London

  01-03-2026 14:51 via theguardian.com
  King’s Head theatre, London
  Jessica Regan creates a collaborative collage of the capital and its romantic encounters, eccentric flatmates and eye-watering rentsJessica Regan’s promising one-woman show tells a story of city life in a different order each night. It is a collaborative collage of London, created with audience input as she travels through some of the 16 postcodes she has lived in. It is lovely storytelling, although the patchwork of its psychogeography never quite becomes
  
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• Murder arrest after security guard dies in stabbing

  01-03-2026 14:37 via bbc.com
  Tributes to "gentle giant" Gary Stanley flood in from family and friends.
  
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• Brave, visionary and queer: the Bohemian brilliance of author George Sand

  01-03-2026 14:08 via theguardian.com
  With her radical politics and flamboyant affairs, Sand was no stranger to controversy, but it’s time to debunk the myths surrounding a writer ahead of her timeIt would be hard to find a more courageous and perverse, iconic yet controversial figure in European literary history than George Sand. One of the great romantics, she helped transform culture, and her writing shifted social attitudes in ways we still benefit from. Victor Hugo called her “an immortal”; Gustave Flaubert, &
  
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• How to make the perfect bara brith – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect …

  01-03-2026 14:00 via theguardian.com
  This Welsh fruit loaf is tricky to get right, and even trickier to perfect, but it’s squidgy heaven if you doBara brith, the traditional Welsh fruit loaf whose name means speckled bread, is, as Ben Mervis notes, not dissimilar to Yorkshire brack, Irish barmbrack and Scottish “kerrie loaf” – the last is a new one on me, though, of course, I’m more than familiar with how well they all pair with strong tea and cold salty butter. According to food writers Laura Mason an
  
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• Honor Magic V6 unboxing and hands-on - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com

  01-03-2026 14:00 via news.google.com
  Honor Magic V6 unboxing and hands-on - GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.comHonor’s Magic V6 is the first foldable with an IP69 rating  The VergeHonor Magic V6’s Power Play: MWC And The Race For Global Momentum  ForbesHonor announces Magic v6, its thinnest foldable yet, and some nice extras at MWC  T3Honor’s Magic V6 doesn’t have a new rabbit to pull out of its hat  Yahoo News UK
  
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• Man who died in skydive was 'highly experienced'

  01-03-2026 13:46 via bbc.com
  An investigation is launched after the incident at Dunkeswell Aerodrome in Devon.
  
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• Man arrested over 2021 bedroom killing of teenager

  01-03-2026 13:38 via bbc.com
  A 26-year-old man is in police custody after Camron Smith,16, was stabbed to death in 2021.
  
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• Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris

  01-03-2026 13:36 via theguardian.com
  In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversationIn the wake of Labour’s third-place showing at last Thursday’s Gorton and Denton byelection, Keir Starmer could have responded with a mixture of magnanimity, grit, and a clear appreciation of what had just happened.He might have congratulated the Green party’s new MP Hannah Spencer, and insisted that the themes of inequal
  
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• Texas mass shooting leaves at least three dead and 17 wounded after gunman opened fire in bar - Daily Mail

  01-03-2026 13:18 via news.google.com
  Texas mass shooting leaves at least three dead and 17 wounded after gunman opened fire in bar  Daily MailAustin: At least three killed and 14 injured in Texas bar shooting  Sky News3 dead, 14 hospitalized in 6th Street mass shooting, Austin EMS chief says  KSAT3 Killed in Shooting at Bar in Austin  The New York Times3 dead, 14 injured in mass shooting on 6th Street, suspect fatally shot by officers  KEYE
  
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• Birmingham meant 'everything' to Ozzy Osbourne

  01-03-2026 13:08 via bbc.com
  Ozzy Osbourne was "very proud" to be from Birmingham, Sharon Osbourne tells the BBC.
  
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• Touch, sound and style: how London fashion week is opening up to visually impaired guests – photo essay

  01-03-2026 13:00 via theguardian.com
  From live audio descriptions to fabric swatch booklets, designers including Chet Lo are rethinking the catwalk experience for blind and low-vision clothes-lovers ‘If you put your hands out and run your fingers along this skirt, you’ll feel that there are soft feathers appliquéd on to it,” says the fashion designer Chet Lo. “The skirt is emerald green in colour with black panels on the side and it is designed to be very fitted on the body.” Lo is speaking to a
  
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• Should you overshare more?

  01-03-2026 13:00 via theguardian.com
  We may cringe at influencers and friends who let it all hang out, but research shows that keeping quiet might be worseDo you recoil at oversharers on social media, or joke among your friends about “TMI”? I know I do. But while mocking public confession comes easy, it’s harder to appreciate the risks of normalising silence: withheld anxieties, unspoken family histories, and the little omissions that make workplaces and relationships brittle. The instinct to pour scorn on “
  
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