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• Firefighters and public 'knowingly put at risk' during summer wildfires

  21-10-2026 23:59 via BBC News
  
  Crews and control centre staff say the fires were relentless with many firefighters still off work injured.
  
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• Ellie & Natasia review – please give us more of this irresistibly weird comedy

  21-10-2026 23:30 via The Guardian
  The hilarious duo are back with deeply silly sketches about an evil trad-wife, Lime bike addicts and Dubai chocolate. There are only three episodes, but each one is gloriously unsettling – and packed with ridiculously good guest stars In 2022, comics and actors Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou starred in six bite-size episodes of their self-titled sketch show. Among the highlights: a woman who makes wild swimming her whole personality before realising she hates freezing water; a pair of overb
  
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• ‘Angry’ Carrick on the brink as Fernandes hits out at Manchester United tactics

  21-10-2026 23:15 via The Guardian
  Manager apologises to fans after 4-1 defeat in ComoCaptain criticises ‘decision from the staff’ not to pressMichael Carrick’s future as Manchester United manager is in the balance after a humiliating 4-1 Champions League defeat by Como on Wednesday night.Before Bournemouth’s visit to Old Trafford on Sunday his future may be discussed by Jason Wilcox, the director of football, Omar Berrada, the chief executive, and Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the co-owner who controls sporting policy. Continue rea
  
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• Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world - The Guardian

  21-10-2026 23:11 via news.google.com
  Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world  The GuardianWebsites taken down worldwide as critical cyber-security update issued  BBCPHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk  The RegisterPatch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover critical vulnerabilities  OpenAICritical security issue affecting PHP  National Cyber Security Centre
  
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• Orangutans prefer food associated with sounds of laughter, study suggests - The Guardian

  21-10-2026 23:00 via news.google.com
  
  Orangutans prefer food associated with sounds of laughter, study suggests  The GuardianHearing laughter may cause orangutans to value rewards more  Phys.orgOrangutans chose bowls with material associated with laughter — The Guardian  UA.NEWS
  
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• Orangutans prefer food associated with sounds of laughter, study suggests

  21-10-2026 23:00 via The Guardian
  Apes in study more likely to choose treats linked to sound of peers having fun, suggesting emotions influence learningOrangutans base their food choices on whether others appear to be having a good time, research suggests.Scientists studying captive orangutans have found that when the great apes heard the sound of their peers laughing before they searched a bowl for a tasty treat, they valued the reward more highly. Continue reading...
  
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• Attempted murder arrests after boy, 16, attacked

  21-10-2026 22:54 via BBC News
  
  Two boys aged 15 and 16 were being questioned after the teenager was found injured in Everton, Liverpool.
  
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• Serial killer-obsessed teen stabs 15-year-old girl in back in senseless attack

  21-10-2026 22:38 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  The teenager was fascinated by the fictional serial killer Paul Spector from the BBC television series The Fall.
  
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• Lotto results RECAP: Winning National Lottery with Thunderball on October 21

  21-10-2026 22:37 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  Someone could become an instant millionaire this evening.
  
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• Murder probe after death of man found seriously injured in bin - The Telegraph

  21-10-2026 22:33 via news.google.com
  Murder probe after death of man found seriously injured in bin  The TelegraphMurder investigation after 'suspicious' death in Plymouth  BBCMan found dead as Plymouth murder probe launched  Cornish timesSeriously injured man 'found in bin' dies with murder probe underway  The SunWheelie bins 'shielded' in Plymouth emergency incident  The Herald
  
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• Vital clues could help predict prostate cancer years in advance, study suggests - Sky News

  21-10-2026 22:14 via news.google.com
  Vital clues could help predict prostate cancer years in advance, study suggests  Sky NewsBlood test spots prostate cancer 15 years before symptoms  The TelegraphScientists find way to help predict prostate cancer a decade in advance  The IndependentBlood Proteins May Reveal Prostate Cancer Risk Years Early  Mirage NewsProstate cancer could be detected via blood tests 15 years before symptoms emerge  LBC
  
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• Pope does not need further treatment after lung cancer surgery - BBC

  21-10-2026 22:09 via news.google.com
  
  Pope does not need further treatment after lung cancer surgery  BBCSee more headlines and perspectives on Google News
  
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• Teenagers, 16 and 15, arrested for attempted murder after boy stabbed in Everton street - Liverpool Echo

  21-10-2026 22:06 via news.google.com
  Teenagers, 16 and 15, arrested for attempted murder after boy stabbed in Everton street  Liverpool EchoAttempted murder arrests after boy, 16, attacked  BBCAppeal for information following serious assault in Everton  Merseyside PoliceBreck Road assault RECAP as teenagers, 15 and 16, arrested for attempted murder  Liverpool EchoTeens, 16 and 15, arrested for attempted murder after Liverpool stabbing  Manchester Evening News
  
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• UK supermarket becomes first to offer families £18 boost ahead of Christmas

  21-10-2026 22:00 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  The money can be spent in store or online on fruit, vegetables, beans and pulses, fresh, frozen, tinned and dried products.
  
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• Brits issued horror bedbug alert as infestations break out in three key locations

  21-10-2026 21:43 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  Cases are reportedly rising by around 20% a year in London and other major European cities, according to a bedbug monitoring company.
  
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• Major update to free bus pass age rule

  21-10-2026 21:22 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  People who would have got a free pass straight after turning 66 previously will have to wait longer to get one due to the phased increase of the State Pension age.
  
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• A single antimatter particle in a cage opens door to ‘revolutionary’ physics - Nature

  21-10-2026 21:03 via news.google.com
  
  A single antimatter particle in a cage opens door to ‘revolutionary’ physics  NaturePhysicists trap and tame single particle of antimatter for months  Phys.orgA single antimatter particle was held in a trap for months  New ScientistPhysicists Trapped a Particle of Antimatter And Kept It Caged For Months  ScienceAlertA Quantum Cyclotron for Antimatter  American Physical Society
  
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• Ilford Boy review – Barbra Streisand teaches teen to smile about the way we are

  21-10-2026 21:00 via The Guardian
  Donmar Warehouse, London
  In Danny Lee Wynter’s drama, a quiet boy struggles amid the swirl of his family until a mercurial friend offers him another futureBroad Essex accents fill the stage in Danny Lee Wynter’s sprawling family drama. The busy script from the Black Superhero playwright is crammed with a fractious extended family treading heavily over old arguments, but the production sings when an old friend swans back into town. Set across the 80s and 90s in the shadow of the Aids crisis,
  
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• Exclusive: Putin sends fishing trawlers to spy on Britain - The Telegraph

  21-10-2026 21:00 via news.google.com
  Exclusive: Putin sends fishing trawlers to spy on Britain  The Telegraph
  
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• Clayface review – flesh-stretching DC body horror is very gory but not very good

  21-10-2026 21:00 via The Guardian
  Liverpool makes for an unconvincing Gotham City in this effectively gross but otherwise middling attempt to milk money from a lesser-known Batman villainA sense of desperation is understandably in the air over at DC, the company, like Marvel, slowly realising that the mass superhero fever has finally broken. There’s still interest there, of course (this summer’s Spider-Man is now the biggest film of all time in the US after all), but it’s no longer good enough to leave a high-speed conveyo
  
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• Aston Villa v Viking - UEFA Champions League result as Ross Barkley and Emi Buendia help Unai Emery's side record third successive win - TNT Sports

  21-10-2026 21:00 via news.google.com
  Aston Villa v Viking - UEFA Champions League result as Ross Barkley and Emi Buendia help Unai Emery's side record third successive win  TNT SportsVilla maintain perfect Champions League start by beating Viking  BBCAston Villa 3-1 Viking: Alysson stars as Unai Emery’s side make it three wins from three in the Champions League  Sky SportsBarkley and Buendía on target as Aston Villa maintain perfect start against Viking  The GuardianVilla's Wan-Bissaka sidelined for weeks, Manzambi out w
  
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• Arsenal’s Declan Rice strikes late to deny Bayern Munich after Harry Kane penalty - The Guardian

  21-10-2026 21:00 via news.google.com
  Arsenal’s Declan Rice strikes late to deny Bayern Munich after Harry Kane penalty  The GuardianEvery word of Mikel Arteta's pre-Bayern presser  Arsenal.comBayern 2-2 Arsenal (21 Oct, 2026) Game Analysis  ESPNRice rescues Arsenal but Kane shows why he must win Ballon d’Or  The TelegraphThe major flaw in Arsenal’s Champions League blueprint and how Bayern can expose it  The Independent
  
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• MP harassed for 'being English' by man who took axe to pub

  21-10-2026 20:46 via BBC News
  
  Michael Glover left a note on MP Henry Tufnell's office door and claimed he knew where he lived.
  
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• EA Shuts Down BioWare, Cancels ‘Mass Effect 5’ And Ends An Era - Forbes

  21-10-2026 20:43 via news.google.com
  EA Shuts Down BioWare, Cancels ‘Mass Effect 5’ And Ends An Era  ForbesElectronic Arts to Shed 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare to Cut Costs  Bloomberg.comBioWare Update  BioWare BlogBioWare closed by EA after 30 years of influential, genre-defining games  The Washington PostPrime Video Is Moving Forward With Its Mass Effect TV Series Even After EA Shut Down Legendary Developer BioWare  IGN
  
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• ‘It feels quite frightening’: readers rush to snap up Sally Rooney books as stocks dwindle amid Palestine Action ban

  21-10-2026 20:26 via The Guardian
  Booksellers have reported selling out of the Irish novelist’s works after it was announced that her books would be withdrawn from sale in the UKBooksellers have reported selling out of copies of Sally Rooney’s novels, following the news that her books would be withdrawn from sale in the UK, given her support for the banned group Palestine Action. Sales shot up nearly 300% in a week, as a host of high profile writers signed letters in support of the Irish author, including Zadie Smith, Annie
  
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• Student jailed for life for 'cold-blooded execution' of housemate

  21-10-2026 20:21 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  A post-mortem examination found Mr Collins, from Swansea, South Wales, had suffered more than 30 stab wounds to his front, back and neck.
  
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• ‘It should never be forgotten’: families recount care home victims’ experiences in wake of Covid findings

  21-10-2026 20:11 via The Guardian
  Relatives recount distress and loneliness their loved ones went through in pandemic as a result of isolation policy“At the time it felt like a devil’s bargain – it was horrible, but it was what [we thought] we had to do to keep people safe,” says Amy of the “devastating” and “terrifying” restrictions that led to her maternal grandparents being locked down in separate care homes during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.Eva and Eric had been married for more than 60 years whe
  
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• ‘You are a humanitarian also, sir’: the US feeds Putin with lies as Ukraine’s children take cover and die | Andrew Roth

  21-10-2026 19:57 via The Guardian
  Steve Witkoff’s flattery of the Russian leader could be just the start of a mendacious stratagem from a US president who says Moscow ‘has been fine on Ukraine’They say the first casualty of war is truth. For the Trump administration, the road to peace with Russia now encompasses some extraordinary lies.Steve Witkoff delivered one as he sat down with Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg on Wednesday, aiming to close the deal on Russia’s land grab in Ukraine with the White House’s strategy of
  
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• The Guardian view on the Republicans’ midterms struggle: Trump has circuses, but voters also want bread | Editorial

  21-10-2026 19:54 via The Guardian
  As prices keep rising, more of the president’s supporters are asking what happened to the economic good times he promised It is no great revelation that Donald Trump is enriching himself as president. He raked in $2.2bn in 2025, with his position and his personal interests frequently overlapping. Yet this week’s poll finding that 34% of Republicans (and 66% of all American voters) think that he is using his position to make himself rich merits attention. Separately, voters in a Fox News pol
  
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• The Guardian view on drilling in Jackdaw: a truly pragmatic approach would focus on Britain’s green transition | Editorial

  21-10-2026 19:54 via The Guardian
  Opening the North Sea gasfield will deliver minimal benefits for households, while sending a dismal signal before next month’s Cop summitThis week a report from the UN Environment Programme concluded that holding global temperatures to a 1.5C warming limit – the centrepiece commitment of the Paris climate agreement – is no longer achievable. If the disastrous consequences of a significant overshoot are to be mitigated, it argued, governments must start delivering the short-term actions to
  
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• UK alcohol supplier plunges into administration after 27 years - over 25 jobs lost

  21-10-2026 19:52 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  The company distributed wine and spirit brands to stores including Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Waitrose,and Co-op.
  
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• Major update on RAF Fairford 'terror plot' after two men re-arrested

  21-10-2026 19:39 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  The men who were re-arrested on Tuesday.
  
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• Bank of England chief warns over AI borrowing binge - The Telegraph

  21-10-2026 19:30 via news.google.com
  Bank of England chief warns over AI borrowing binge  The TelegraphAndrew Bailey warns of threat from AI agents  The TimesBank of England Considers Stress Testing AI’s Effect on the Financial Sector  Bloomberg.comAI Cybersecurity in Banking: Risks, Controls and Market Impact  EBC Financial Group'A team sport:' Responding to cyber threats in the age of AI  American Banker
  
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• Career criminal must pay compensation to 9-year-old girl shot in the head

  21-10-2026 19:23 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  Javon Riley plotted for a gunman to open fire inside the restaurant in a bid to kill rival gang members linked to an organised crime network.
  
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• Controversial US-backed vaccine trial in African newborns halted - The Guardian

  21-10-2026 19:18 via news.google.com
  
  Controversial US-backed vaccine trial in African newborns halted  The GuardianCops raid office of RFK Jr. allies planning “unethical” vaccine trial on babies  Ars TechnicaOPINION | RFK Jr.’s push for anti-vaccine experiment on African babies was never a good idea  MS NOWHep B Vax Doses Seized; RFK Jr.'s Brazil Photos; MAHA Advisor's COI Waiver  MedPage TodayGuinea Bissau seizes doses of baby vaccines linked to controversial US study  TRT Afrika
  
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• Louise Redknapp announces devastating death - 'Our hearts are broken' - AOL.co.uk

  21-10-2026 19:16 via news.google.com
  
  Louise Redknapp announces devastating death - 'Our hearts are broken'  AOL.co.ukLouise Redknapp 'heartbroken' as her 'most gentle and loving' pet dies  AOL.co.ukLouise Redknapp reveals sad news: 'Our hearts are broken'  HELLO! MagazineLouise Redknapp left devastated as she announces 'heart breaking' family loss  Daily Star
  
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• Energy secretary leaning towards rejecting Rosebank oilfield

  21-10-2026 19:15 via The Guardian
  
  Exclusive: Officials say Miatta Fahnbulleh minded not to give approval in victory for climate campaignersMiatta Fahnbulleh is minded to reject the giant Rosebank oilfield, sources have told the Guardian, in what would be a blow for the North Sea energy industry and a major victory for climate campaigners.After approving the smaller Jackdaw gasfield on Wednesday, officials say the energy secretary is leaning towards refusing approval for what would be one of the biggest oilfields in the North Sea
  
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• Burnham approves Jackdaw – and Labour’s unity on climate action is imperilled with the stroke of a pen | Zoe Williams

  21-10-2026 19:14 via The Guardian
  This foolish decision undermines hopes that this government will take the necessary steps the climate crisis demandsWhen the news broke that the UK government had approved the Jackdaw gasfield, I was at a Guardian climate event at the Royal Geographical Society. Appropriately, the theme suggested by readers was what can the public actually do in the face of what feels like paralysing climate doom?There is so much going on that is hopeful: biodiversity tracking, river protection, rewilding. Shrut
  
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• Burnham proposes plan to cut standing charges from gas bills

  21-10-2026 19:06 via BBC News
  
  The prime minister provided little detail, and there are questions over shifting the fees onto unit costs.
  
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• 'Mindset shift' needed within government on No10 North, says deputy

  21-10-2026 19:05 via BBC News
  
  Number 10 North deputy director Duncan Parish has told a conference he is still facing "institutional barriers".
  
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• Tributes paid to 'bravest' woman who died of 'stab wounds' after crash

  21-10-2026 19:04 via BBC News
  
  It is understood Eleanor Barnfield, from Bridgend, had been stabbed before the crash.
  
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• Just Eat apologises for AI food mistakes after social media ridicule

  21-10-2026 19:04 via BBC News
  
  A spokesperson said it was removing inaccurate AI images and pausing the rollout of the tool.
  
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• Warhammer Tone Pro: One paint, many techniques - Warhammer Community

  21-10-2026 19:03 via news.google.com
  Warhammer Tone Pro: One paint, many techniques  Warhammer Community
  
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• Maro Itoje seals England future by agreeing new deal with Saracens

  21-10-2026 19:00 via The Guardian
  Captain will resist lure of big-money move to France‘Maro is everything we want at the club – a brilliant leader’Maro Itoje has reaffirmed his long‑term commitment to England, rejecting interest from France by agreeing a new deal with Saracens.Itoje’s existing deal, signed in 2024, was due to expire after the World Cup next year but he has agreed terms with his club despite interest from Top 14 sides. A move to either Perpignan or Bordeaux had been mooted but the 31-year-old is to comm
  
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• Ben Jennings on Andy Burnham’s decision to approve the Jackdaw North Sea gasfield – cartoon

  21-10-2026 18:50 via The Guardian
  
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• Tributes paid to 'bravest' woman who died of 'stab wounds' after crash - BBC

  21-10-2026 18:44 via news.google.com
  
  Tributes paid to 'bravest' woman who died of 'stab wounds' after crash  BBCStabbed mother dies in crash while driving herself to hospital  The TelegraphCare worker stabbed at retirement village died driving to hospital  The TimesMan, 61, arrested after mother dies following Wales car crash  The IndependentArmed police swoop as man, 61, arrested for murder and woman in car crash dies  BBC
  
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• In the age of AI, learning maths is even more vital | Letters

  21-10-2026 18:33 via The Guardian
  Readers react to Simon Jenkins’ article that said it’s more important for children to learn how to speak fluently than study mathematics Simon Jenkins must have had a deeply unpleasant experience of learning maths at school because he seems to have a pathological antipathy towards it (We are teaching children maths they will never use. Isn’t it better to help them speak fluently?, 16 October). I have no qualms with his insistence on the importance of oracy. But his argument breaks down wit
  
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• The Green party hasn’t lost its way, it’s just broadening its appeal | Letters

  21-10-2026 18:32 via The Guardian
  Marianne Gemmeke and John Ashby respond to criticism of the party and its leader, Zack PolanskiThe two eloquent letters on the super-rich (The problem with living in a rich man’s world, 14 October) explain perfectly why I, as a longstanding Green party member, could not agree less with the letter writers who claim that the party has lost its way (Has Zack Polanski forgotten what the Green party is for?, 14 October).Social justice has always been at the heart of the Greens’ policy, which also
  
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• A plan to ensure energy is affordable for all | Letters

  21-10-2026 18:32 via The Guardian
  Dr Alex Chapman calls for a government-funded price cap on an essential block of electricity and gas, in response to an article by Nils Pratley Nils Pratley thinks that the secretary of state, Miatta Fahnbulleh, should “keep things simple” and develop a targeted social tariff to protect vulnerable households from surging energy bills (The UK energy secretary is flirting with a bad idea for bills – the ‘rising block tariff, 14 October). Unfortunately, there is nothing simple about such a
  
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• Getting into the swing of playing golf | Letters

  21-10-2026 18:31 via The Guardian
  Readers respond to Adrian Chiles’s article on his antipathy to the gameI have some sympathies with Adrian Chiles’s war of attrition with golf (I hate golf, 14 October). I too have suffered with shots to the right followed by shots to the left, and have had rounds with many bad shots, only to then have a perfect drive down the middle, or by sinking a 20-yard putt on the last green that inevitably brought me back the next week thinking that I had finally cracked it.Over the 60 years that I hav
  
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