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• Michael Carrick refuses to rule out Manchester United title tilt despite 13-point gap

  03-03-2026 23:30 via theguardian.com
  United manager admits a lot of wins would be neededCarrick: ‘You can’t rule anything out in football’Michael Carrick has refused to rule out Manchester United catching Arsenal and challenging for the title, though the interim manager admitted a lot of wins would be needed.United recorded a sixth victory under Carrick when defeating Crystal Palace 2-1 at Old Trafford on Sunday, making it 19 points from 21 since he took over. Their form is the best in the Premier League over that
  
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• New Zealand coalition votes to make English an official language as critics decry ‘cynical’ bill

  03-03-2026 23:29 via theguardian.com
  Push to give English same status as Māori and NZ sign languages triggers backlash from opposition parties and linguistic expertsA bill to recognise English as an official language of New Zealand has cleared its first hurdle in parliament amid ridicule from opposition parties and linguists who say it is “unnecessary” and “cynical”.The bill seeks to give English, which is spoken by 95% of the country, the same official status as te reo Māori (Māori language)
  
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• What was really behind Jack Dorsey laying off nearly half of Block’s staff?

  03-03-2026 23:06 via theguardian.com
  CEO cited AI advances in cutting 4,000 workers, but a weak crypto market and declining stock price may also be at playJack Dorsey cited AI as the driving force behind cutting 40% of his company’s employees, but other factors such as a weak crypto market, overstaffing and a declining stock price may also have motivated the move.Last week, the financial technology company Block announced that it would lay off 4,000 of its 10,000 workers. Dorsey, Block’s CEO, said in a letter to shareho
  
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• Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds

  03-03-2026 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Nigel Farage’s recent efforts to woo centre-ground voters may cause tension in party’s right flank, says Hope Not HateMore than half of Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens born abroad should be deported or encouraged to leave, according to the first publicly available poll of those in Nigel Farage’s party.The findings come as the Reform leader attempts to court centre-ground voters while facing pressure from his right flank, including a hardline new party launc
  
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• US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges

  03-03-2026 22:21 via theguardian.com
  Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify warUS military commanders have been invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical “end times” to justify involvement in the Iran war to troops, according to complaints made to a watchdog group.The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) says it has received more than 200 complaints from service members across all branches of the armed forces, including the ma
  
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• Howard Lutnick agrees to appear before US House panel on Epstein network

  03-03-2026 21:46 via theguardian.com
  Donald Trump’s commerce secretary has acknowledged visiting convicted sex offender on private island in 2012Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxHoward Lutnick, Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, has agreed to appear voluntarily before the House committee on oversight and government reform as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal network, the committee’s chair announced on Tuesday.James Comer, the Kentucky Republ
  
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• Trump rebukes Starmer again for not letting US attack Iran from UK bases

  03-03-2026 21:17 via theguardian.com
  US president criticises prime minister for third time 24 hours, describing him as ‘not Churchill’ over initial refusalMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump has launched a deeply personal attack on Keir Starmer over his refusal to let the US launch initial strikes on Iran from British bases, telling reporters: “This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with.”In his latest extraordinary salvo, the US president said he was not happy with the UK eve
  
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• Trump administration has still not settled on reasons for going to war with Iran

  03-03-2026 20:54 via theguardian.com
  The rationale keeps changing – from Iran planning a preemptive strike to lobbying by IsraelUS-Israel war on Iran – live updatesIt took months for the Bush administration’s falsehoods about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to come to light, after an invasion, regime change, an investigation, and then, finally, the truth. For the Trump administration’s warnings of an imminent threat from Iran, it took an afternoon.On Capitol Hill on Monday, the US secretary of state, Mar
  
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• Banijay Group to form £3.8bn television super-indie with The Traitors producers

  03-03-2026 20:52 via theguardian.com
  Chair of merged production company says move creates a ‘world-class’ offering across live events and programmingThe European maker of television shows ranging from Peaky Blinders to Big Brother is to merge with the UK super-indie behind hits including The Traitors to create a €4.4bn (£3.8bn) global TV production giant.Paris-headquartered Banijay Group, which last year considered making a takeover offer for ITV’s studio operation, has struck a deal to merge with All3M
  
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• Dubai influencers’ lives of luxury interrupted by Iran strikes: ‘The image of safety has been shattered’

  03-03-2026 20:51 via theguardian.com
  Contradicting images of parties and war-flooded feeds after Iran targeted Gulf states in retaliation for US-Israeli attacksMike Babayan was in a hookah lounge when he heard the explosion on Saturday night. Dubai – a gilded playground for the ultra-rich and oligarch class, billed as one of the safest places on Earth – had been attacked by Iranian missiles. Phones lit up with emergency messages urging residents to take shelter. But Dubai is resilient, at least when it comes to partying
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Trump: Starmer is no Churchill - The Telegraph

  03-03-2026 20:44 via news.google.com
  Iran-US war latest: Trump: Starmer is no Churchill  The TelegraphTrump rebukes Starmer over UK refusal to back strikes on Iran  The GuardianTrump on Starmer: 'Not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with'  BBCSummary of the UK Government legal position: The legality of defensive action in respect of Iranian regional attacks  GOV.UKKeir Starmer has his ‘Love Actually’ moment and stands up to Donald Trump  Financial Times
  
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• Liverpool XI vs Wolves: Starting lineup and confirmed team news - London Evening Standard

  03-03-2026 20:38 via news.google.com
  Liverpool XI vs Wolves: Starting lineup and confirmed team news  London Evening StandardWolverhampton Wanderers vs Liverpool: Premier League preview, team news, stats & head-to-head  BBCWolves v Liverpool, Leeds v Sunderland, and more: Premier League – live  The GuardianPremier League predictions and best bets: Listen to Arne Slot and back Liverpool to struggle against Wolves low block  Sky SportsEdwards | 'It's great for the feel around the plac
  
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• Alessia Russo double for England sparks Women’s World Cup qualifying win against Ukraine

  03-03-2026 20:38 via theguardian.com
  Ukraine 1-6 EnglandGeorgia Stanway and Jess Park also score twiceStressed, anxious or doubtful after a goalless first half? Not these England players, who remained fully confident in their ability and found a flurry of second-half goals to begin their Women’s World Cup qualifying campaign with a 6-1 win against Ukraine.It helps when you have players with the firepower of Alessia Russo, Georgia Stanway and Jess Park all thriving and scoring twice. The European champions may feel they should
  
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• Trump says he fears Iran’s next leader could be ‘as bad as the previous person’

  03-03-2026 20:32 via theguardian.com
  US president suggests worst-case result of assassination would be regime change that fails to relieve repressionUS-Israel war on Iran – live updatesDonald Trump said his biggest fear in the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran would be regime change that brought in leadership “as bad as the previous person”.At an Oval Office news conference with the visiting German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, the US president was asked by a reporter about the “worst-case scenario&rdq
  
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• Chaos signals Iran struggling to function as war turns into fight for survival

  03-03-2026 20:32 via theguardian.com
  Strikes on Iranian leadership are putting Tehran under unprecedented military and diplomatic pressureMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe war in the Middle East in maps, video and photosIran endured a day of unprecedented military and diplomatic pressure on Tuesday as US airstrikes pushed the death toll in the country close to 800 and the offices of the assembly of experts – the body due to select a replacement for the assassinated supreme leader, Ali Khamenei – were bombed.It
  
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• The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves’s spring statement: stability cannot mean sacrificing living standards | Editorial

  03-03-2026 20:22 via theguardian.com
  An energy shock from war in the Gulf will expose the limits of rigid fiscal rules. The real question is who absorbs the loss: the state, firms or households?The war in the Middle East has sent oil and gas prices soaring – and Britain remains deeply exposed to global energy markets. If the shocks persist they will feed directly into household bills, business costs and inflation. On Tuesday, the Office for Budget Responsibility released projections that were finalised before the US
  
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• The Guardian view on Labour’s migration gamble: Denmark is no template | Editorial

  03-03-2026 20:22 via theguardian.com
  Extending settlement waits risks deepening labour shortages while misreading public concern about migration’s economic and demographic realitiesThe home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is expected this week to press ahead with plans to make it harder for migrants to gain settled status, extending the wait from five to 10 years. She will not change tack despite Labour’s crushing byelection defeat to the Greens. This is a mistake.Ms Mahmood argues that Denmark’s Social Democrats
  
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• Starmer deploys warship to Cyprus as Trump warns Iran it’s ‘too late’ for talks - The Independent

  03-03-2026 20:15 via news.google.com
  Starmer deploys warship to Cyprus as Trump warns Iran it’s ‘too late’ for talks  The IndependentMiddle East in flames – where is the Royal Navy?  Navy LookoutThe Royal Navy has six ships that can shoot down missiles - all are in UK waters  The i PaperDefiant Rachel Reeves accused of 'gaslighting' public amid Iran 'tinderbox'  portsmouth.co.ukUS-Iran war live updates: Israeli troops enter Lebanon, Britain is deploying HMS Dragon to C
  
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• ‘It’s no news just when we wanted some’: bosses react to spring statement

  03-03-2026 19:52 via theguardian.com
  Amid global volatility, Rachel Reeves tried to project calm with a low-key forecast. But business owners have their doubtsRachel Reeves gave a deliberately low-key spring forecast on Tuesday, in an attempt to project calm amid volatility abroad and after repeated tax rising budgets.But for some business owners struggling with rising costs, a lack of policy announcements this time around was a disappointment. Continue reading...
  
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• Nottingham killer sought arrest at MI5 HQ before 2023 attack, inquiry told

  03-03-2026 19:39 via theguardian.com
  Valdo Calocane approached security at Thames House in 2021 but did not meet threshold for further assessment, public inquiry toldA man who killed three people during a 2023 knife attack in Nottingham had attempted to hand himself into MI5 for arrest two years earlier, an inquiry has heard.Valdo Calocane, 34, fatally stabbed Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, during a stabbing spree in the city on 13 June 2023. Continue reading...
  
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• Post your questions for Martin Clunes

  03-03-2026 19:12 via theguardian.com
  His credits range from Men Behaving Badly to Wuthering Heights, and now he’s playing Huw Edwards. What would you dearly love to know about the actor and documentary presenter?It’s delightful that Martin Clunes has won so many plaudits for his performance in this year’s Wuthering Heights, alongside Margot Robbie’s Cathy and Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff. He plays Cathy’s drunk but generous, cruel yet humorous father in a part that could easily have drifted into the
  
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• Parliament should leave the London bubble – and the Palace of Westminster be repurposed | Letters

  03-03-2026 19:03 via theguardian.com
  Readers respond to an editorial, and an article by Rupa Huq, on plans for MPs to depart while repairs are carried outYou are right that parliament should move from London (Editorial, 25 February), but surely the move should be permanent, not temporary? A permanent move to, say, Derby, would make parliament more accessible for MPs, organisations and voters from large areas of the UK. A new parliament building could be big enough for all MPs and have a more appropriate circular main debating chamb
  
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• Iran war: What has been hit so far - and the military assets in play - Sky News

  03-03-2026 19:01 via news.google.com
  Iran war: What has been hit so far - and the military assets in play  Sky NewsIran’s ferocious retaliation for US-Israeli strikes has rattled its neighbors  CNNIran’s Strategy: Expand the War, Increase the Cost, Outlast Trump  The New York TimesIran's Gulf Strikes Forge the Alliance It Feared Most  QuilletteIran executes Khamenei’s plan to spread regional war  Financial Times
  
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• Dirty Business and the failure of privatised water | Letters

  03-03-2026 19:01 via theguardian.com
  Removing the profit motive is the only answer, writes Georgina Ferry. Plus letters from Lyn Howard, Tony Chanter and Elizabeth HughesSince the 1989 privatisation of water in England and Wales we have treated water companies as cash machines, our rivers as sewers and our beaches as middens (Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal, 28 February). Water is a monopoly on an essential resource and it once generated all the income necessary to maintain and update the
  
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• Recruiting nurses overseas must work for all | Letter

  03-03-2026 18:59 via theguardian.com
  Howard Catton of the International Council of Nurses calls for a co-investment mechanism in global nursing educationYour report on the 93% fall in overseas nurses (Drop in overseas workers is ‘car crash’ for UK hospitals and care homes, say experts, 26 February) lays bare how dependent the UK has become on international recruitment. When visa policy shifts can trigger warnings of an “impending car crash”, it shows a workforce model built on fragility, not resili
  
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• Ocean heating and overfishing need to be tackled together | Letter

  03-03-2026 18:58 via theguardian.com
  Fish populations are tied directly to food security, coastal livelihoods and ecosystem stability, writes Saad Kassis-Mohamed of the WeCare FoundationThe most troubling aspect of your report (Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds, 25 February) is not only the scale of marine decline, but how easily it can be misunderstood. If short-term marine heatwaves create temporary gains in colder areas, institutions may mistake local improvement for broader re
  
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• UK woman was diagnosed with rabies after psychiatrist raised fears, inquest told - The Guardian

  03-03-2026 18:49 via news.google.com
  UK woman was diagnosed with rabies after psychiatrist raised fears, inquest told  The GuardianBarnsley rabies victim "suspected to have Lyme disease" - inquest  BBCDoctors thought rabies-infected grandmother needed mental health support  The TelegraphYvonne Ford rabies inquest adjourned as witness stuck in Bali  BBCInquest told grandmother only diagnosed with rabies after psychiatrist visit | ITV News  ITVX
  
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• Briton diagnosed with rabies after psychiatrist raised fears, inquest told - The Guardian

  03-03-2026 18:49 via news.google.com
  Briton diagnosed with rabies after psychiatrist raised fears, inquest told  The GuardianYvonne Ford rabies inquest adjourned as witness stuck in Bali  BBCDoctors thought rabies-infected grandmother needed mental health support  The TelegraphInquest told grandmother only diagnosed with rabies after psychiatrist visit | ITV News  ITVXBarnsley rabies victim "suspected to have Lyme disease" - inquest  BBC
  
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• Kenith Trodd obituary

  03-03-2026 18:47 via theguardian.com
  Television producer whose long-running partnership with Dennis Potter resulted in landmark drama serials including Pennies from Heaven and The Singing DetectiveKenith Trodd, who has died aged 90, was one of Britain’s most successful television drama producers, commissioning contemporary, cutting-edge plays from writers such as Colin Welland, Jim Allen, GF Newman, Stephen Poliakoff and Simon Gray. However, he will be best remembered for his long-running partnership with the writer Dennis Po
  
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• Ben Jennings on Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and the war in Iran – cartoon

  03-03-2026 18:44 via theguardian.com
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• ‘We back ourselves in one-offs’: Black Caps plan revenge against South Africa

  03-03-2026 18:40 via theguardian.com
  Mitchell Santner’s New Zealand side face their T20 World Cup group-stage conquerers in an intriguing semi-finalIn Colombo on Saturday New Zealand’s players and staff gathered in small groups at various locations around the city. One assembled in a beachside bar overlooking the Laccadive Sea, where they shared snacks, nursed drinks and tried their best to engage in conversation while making furtive glances towards the big screen. There was another in the team hotel, crammed into the r
  
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• KSI: YouTuber becomes minority shareholder in non-league Dagenham & Redbridge - BBC

  03-03-2026 18:37 via news.google.com
  KSI: YouTuber becomes minority shareholder in non-league Dagenham & Redbridge  BBCKSI buys Dagenham and Redbridge stake: Influencer vows to take Daggers to the Premier League after investment  Sky SportsKSI announces he's bought English football team as Arsenal fan drops bombshell  The MirrorKSI buys former EFL club as YouTube boxer promises 'exhilarating adventure'  The SunGLOBAL SUPERSTAR KSI JOINS DAGENHAM & REDBRIDGE FC AS SHAREHOLDER AND STRAT
  
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• Stock markets crash over Iran conflict – latest updates - The Telegraph

  03-03-2026 18:26 via news.google.com
  Stock markets crash over Iran conflict – latest updates  The TelegraphStock markets slump amid Iran war as gas prices jump 30% to three-year high  The GuardianStocks and bonds tumble as widening Middle East war rattles markets  Financial TimesStock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures plunge as fresh strikes intensify Iran conflict  Yahoo Finance UKBiggest FTSE 100 fallers this week  Interactive Investor
  
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• Domestic abuser convicted of killing wife who jumped from bridge in Scotland - The Guardian

  03-03-2026 18:19 via news.google.com
  Domestic abuser convicted of killing wife who jumped from bridge in Scotland  The GuardianKimberly Milne: Domestic abuser convicted of killing wife who jumped from bridge  BBCEXCLUSIVE: Dundee wife-killer is ‘scary’ sex offender children were warned away from  The CourierAbuser convicted of killing wife who jumped to her death in first of its kind case  STV NewsWoman 'cowered' before man accused of killing her, trial hears  BBC
  
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• Middle East crisis: Will Iran play at World Cup co-hosted by USA? How conflict affects sport - Sky Sports

  03-03-2026 18:13 via news.google.com
  Middle East crisis: Will Iran play at World Cup co-hosted by USA? How conflict affects sport  Sky SportsIraq or UAE could take Iran’s World Cup finals spot due to Middle East crisis  The GuardianWorld Cup 2026: What does the Middle East conflict mean for the tournament?  BBCIran's situation at the 2026 World Cup: Will they play? What happens if they don't?  ESPNUS World Cup co-hosts 'very supportive' of Iran playing in tournament  Sky News
  
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• British rapper Ghetts jailed for 12 years for causing death of student in hit and run

  03-03-2026 18:12 via theguardian.com
  Grime artist was speeding and over drink-drive limit when he hit 20-year-old Yubin Tamang in LondonThe rapper Ghetts has been jailed for 12 years for killing a student in a hit and run while speeding and over the drink-drive limit.The grime artist, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, failed to stop after his BMW hit the Nepalese national Yubin Tamang, 20, in north-east London. He admitted dangerous driving and causing death by dangerous driving. Continue reading...
  
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• Reeves’s spring statement? The economy is great, don’t worry about the Middle East

  03-03-2026 18:09 via theguardian.com
  With no spending or fiscal commitments to offer, the chancellor kept it short, sweet and just a little tin-earedWhen your luck is out, your luck is out. Time to accept what the fates have to throw at you. It was always going to be a bit of a stretch for Rachel Reeves to maintain she had a brilliant plan and the economy had never been in better health when the figures show a fall in growth and a rise in unemployment. Unless you happen to think those things aren’t so bad after all.To do so t
  
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• Benign transition or bloody civil war: what next for Iran after the bombing?

  03-03-2026 18:05 via theguardian.com
  Experts describe four broad outcomes of attacks by US and Israel, which seem to have no postwar plan for the countryMiddle East crisis – live updatesPiecing together what the US and Israeli officials have said about the attack on Iran, its objectives appear to be to inflict maximum damage on the pillars of the country’s power, specifically its nuclear and missile programmes and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).The ultimate objective however, as repeatedly expressed by Don
  
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• Unemployment is back with a vengeance. Nobody knows how bad it will get - The Telegraph

  03-03-2026 18:03 via news.google.com
  Unemployment is back with a vengeance. Nobody knows how bad it will get  The TelegraphOBR raises UK unemployment estimates amid ‘worrying’ increase in young people out of work  The GuardianWhat a cooling labour market means for supply chains  Metro GlobalGood intentions don’t create jobs – businesses do, by Charlie Mullins  Real BusinessUK's OBR: We expect weak labour market demand to continue in the near term  marketscree
  
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• There Are Few Things Harry Styles Has to Himself. Running Is One of Them. - Runner's World

  03-03-2026 18:00 via news.google.com
  There Are Few Things Harry Styles Has to Himself. Running Is One of Them.  Runner's WorldHarry Styles Gets Honest About His Struggles With Fame, and Making Electronic Music for New Album: ‘I Wanted It to Feel Like We’re in This Music Together’  VarietyHarry Styles Stars on the Cover of ‘Runner’s World,’ In Conversation With Haruki Murakami  Rolling StoneHarry Styles says he sometimes felt ‘existential’ while touring&nb
  
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• Alison Hammond slips curves into mini skirt and stilettos after losing 11 stone - Daily Star

  03-03-2026 17:59 via news.google.com
  Alison Hammond slips curves into mini skirt and stilettos after losing 11 stone  Daily Star‘Great British Bake Off’ Host Alison Hammond Shows off 150-Pound Natural Weight Loss on the Red Carpet  YahooHow Alison Hammond built her upper body through 11-stone weight loss – her exact 30-minute workout  Women's HealthAlison Hammond flashes slim legs as she kicks back after 11st weight loss  The Mirror
  
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• Briton diagnosed with rabies after psychiatrist raised fears, inquest told

  03-03-2026 17:55 via theguardian.com
  Yvonne Ford, who died after scratch from dog in Morocco, was referred to mental health expert by perplexed medicsA woman who died in the UK after contracting rabies while on holiday in Morocco was diagnosed with the disease after a psychiatrist was called in to assess her symptoms, an inquest has heard.Yvonne Ford, 59, died in Barnsley hospital on 11 June, four months after she was scratched by a puppy in February while on a beach in the north African country. Continue reading...
  
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• Every Apple March Event announcement LIVE (Day 2) - Creative Bloq

  03-03-2026 17:53 via news.google.com
  Every Apple March Event announcement LIVE (Day 2)  Creative BloqApple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5  AppleApple launches M5 Pro and M5 Max chips  The VergeAmazon Takes Up to $150 Off Apple's 14-Inch M5 MacBook Pro  MacRumorsApple launches new generation of MacBook laptops starting at $1,099  Reuters
  
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• ‘Like turning your soul inside out’: Barbara Hannigan and Laura Bowler on their devastating composition The White Book

  03-03-2026 17:52 via theguardian.com
  These breathtaking songs of loss left the soprano and the composer feeling shellshocked after the world premiere in Gothenburg. We meet them backstage as they prepare for the British debutIt’s the morning after the night before when I meet Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan and British composer and vocalist Laura Bowler. We’re in Gothenburg, backstage at the Swedish city’s sleek Konserthus. The previous evening, Hannigan sang the world premiere of Bowler’s ne
  
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• England Six Nations team announcement: Fin Smith starts in new England backline - BBC

  03-03-2026 17:39 via news.google.com
  England Six Nations team announcement: Fin Smith starts in new England backline  BBCSix Nations: Fin Smith comes into revamped England team to face Italy  BBC'Fin stole my fly-half spot!' – Atkinson on England's new 10-12 combo  BBCThe Breakdown | Again we dare to wonder if this is Italy’s time – because England’s confidence looks shot  The GuardianIs Steve Borthwick panicking? A shake-up this radical is fraught with risk  
  
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• Domestic abuser convicted of killing wife who jumped from bridge in Scotland

  03-03-2026 17:39 via theguardian.com
  Glasgow high court found Lee Milne, from Dundee, guilty of the culpable homicide of Kimberly Milne, 28 A man has been convicted of killing his wife after she took her own life following a campaign of domestic abuse, in what is the first prosecution of its kind in Scotland.Kimberly Milne, 28, died after jumping from a motorway bridge in July 2023. Her husband Lee Milne, 39, from Dundee, had denied culpable homicide and a separate charge of domestic abuse, but was found guilty following a trial.In
  
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• Ukraine Unbroken review – five searing dramas about the history and horror of Russia’s invasion

  03-03-2026 17:37 via theguardian.com
  Arcola theatre, LondonNicolas Kent directs a set of short plays by British and Ukrainian writers giving devastating vignettes from the conflictNicolas Kent’s concept for a series of short plays on the war in Ukraine is based on his 2009 cycle of dramas about the colonial history of Afghanistan, similarly staged while war raged. A smaller enterprise, with five rather than 12 plays, Ukraine Unbroken packs a punch, rising in both power and horror over the course of the evening.The opening two
  
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• Guilty verdict for US father of teenage school shooter - BBC

  03-03-2026 17:30 via news.google.com
  Guilty verdict for US father of teenage school shooter  BBCFather of Georgia school shooting suspect found guilty of murder and manslaughter  The GuardianColin Gray, father of accused Georgia school shooter, found guilty of murder  The Washington PostColin Gray trial: In closing arguments, prosecutors say school shooter’s father is responsible for the attack  CNNMan Who Gave His Teen a Rifle Is Guilty of Murder After School Shooting  The Ne
  
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• Cheltenham Festival countdown: latest news, views, market moves and much more with the big event just a week away - Racing Post

  03-03-2026 17:30 via news.google.com
  Cheltenham Festival countdown: latest news, views, market moves and much more with the big event just a week away  Racing Post'If he avoids bad luck, I can't see him being beaten - he's now my festival banker'  Racing PostWatch: Paddy Power's Ultimate Cheltenham Festival preview!  Racing TVCheltenham hopeful of ticket-sale turnaround for festival after three years of decline  The GuardianCheltenham Festival 2026: Full race schedule, TV channel and FREE liv
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Trump says it’s too late for talks - The Telegraph

  03-03-2026 17:29 via news.google.com
  Iran-US war latest: Trump says it’s too late for talks  The TelegraphTrump insists Israel did not force US hand on Iran attack as he meets German chancellor – live  The GuardianToo early to tell 'scope' of Iran strikes, Trump tells Congress  BBCDonald Trump struggles to explain why he launched another Middle Eastern war  Financial Times‘Off-ramps available’: Oman pushes peace talks as nearly 800 killed in Iran  Al Jazeera
  
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