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• 'Fireball' engulfed commuters when Parsons Green bomb exploded

  08-03-2018 20:14
  Victims of the Parsons Green bombing have described the moment a "fireball" burst through their Tube carriage, causing severe burns and sparking panic.The Old Bailey trial heard Ahmed Hassan had left the bomb containing 400g of explosives and shrapnel on the floor - and had got off the train at the previous stop.
  
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• Iraola returns to Bournemouth, Premier League buildup and Townsend’s bizarre accident – matchday live

  20-09-2026 12:34 via theguardian.com
  News, discussion and updates before Sunday’s gamesThis weekend’s fixtures | Mail us your thoughtsHow things stand in the Premier League…At Hill Dickinson Stadium, Thierno Barry fired Everton to a 1-0 win against 10-man Ipswich Town. Continue reading...
  
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• Celtic v Rangers: Scottish Premiership – live

  20-09-2026 12:32 via theguardian.com
  Updates from Old Firm derby, midday kickoff (BST)Get in touch: email John about the gameIs it actually three at the back? Martin O’Neill, as ever, keeps it mercurial. “We’ve got the options for both - but I’m not sure we’re going to play three or five [at the back]. You’ll find out in about an hour’s time. For years I played three at the back with two wide players. But this is not exactly that system today.”Derek McInnes also spoke to Sky: “J
  
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• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time review – a fun and inventive sensory assault

  20-09-2026 12:25 via theguardian.com
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  Alex Keenan perfectly captures protagonist Chris’s bewilderment and cheeriness in Ned Bennett’s ambitious new staging The most alarming moment in Mark Haddon’s young adult novel is when Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old on the autism spectrum, flees his Swindon home for London. After a perilous train journey, he arrives at Paddington station and is overwhelmed. The book’s text becomes a barrage of fonts and type sizes to express the information overload: ann
  
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• Luke Littler threatens to boycott Netherlands darts events after booing

  20-09-2026 12:25 via theguardian.com
  ‘If the Dutch stay like this I’m not going,’ says teenagerLittler hoping to win all 10 major TV events in a yearLuke Littler has threatened to boycott tournaments in the Netherlands after being booed and whistled during the World Series of Darts Finals in Amsterdam.The back-to-back world champion faced a hostile environment during Friday’s win over home favourite Danny Noppert and it escalated on Saturday night as referee Charlie Costorphine had to intervene in the last-1
  
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• This is how we do it: ‘As a Catholic monk, I was celibate. But sex with Orla feels so natural’

  20-09-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Rory left the monastery after feeling lonely; with Orla, herself a Catholic, he’s been making up for lost time• How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslyWe had sex after a week. I remember thinking afterwards wow, everything has changed Continue reading...
  
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• Tell us: what’s in your packed lunch?

  20-09-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  If you take lunch into work, is a sandwich, salad, soup or something else? We’re looking for the healthiest, best-value ideasMore people are bringing packed lunches to work as they try to save money and eat healthily.According to a poll by Ocado, nearly half of UK professionals bring a packed lunch more frequently than they did a year ago, with 69% saying that buying lunch near their office was now too expensive. Continue reading...
  
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• Leftists make waves and Trump flexes muscles: US primary season takeaways

  20-09-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Candidates have been selected for November’s midterms – have Republicans and Democrats made the right choices?Primary season has official concluded in the United States, with Democrats leading the polls among voters amid widespread economic anxieties, a war with Iran and Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda continuing into the end of the year.Democratic and Republican voters have selected contenders for key races in the 3 November midterms that will decide the balance of powe
  
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• Kimchi tuna and beetroot halloumi: 10 easy, delicious lunch bowls to make for work – as suggested by chefs

  20-09-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  A ‘packed lunch revival’ is under way among office workers who want to eat more healthily. From bread salads to rice bowls, food experts offer their ideasNearly half of office workers are making packed lunches more regularly than they were a year ago, thanks to the rising cost of buying food on the go, according to new research. Does this mean employees will be lunching on soggy sandwiches and ultra-processed snacks? Apparently not.The survey, by online supermarket Ocado, found the &
  
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• Dominic West backs ‘top shagger’ Byron in poetry battle with Bob Geldof

  20-09-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Actor hails ‘proto-rock star’ as best poet, while musician argues for ‘Ireland’s Shakespeare’ WB Yeats at Somerset festivalDominic West has said Lord Byron is his favourite poet because he was a “top shagger” and said he was not concerned the rise of AI might snuff out poetry.The actor was taking part in a “poetry battle” at the Big Brue festival in Somerset, against rock star Bob Geldof, who said he preferred the Irish poet WB Yeats to the e
  
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• As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails

  20-09-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mountsDonald Trump’s sons, through a series of AI-linked defense and technology ventures, have picked up a $620m Pentagon loan, a Marine Corps robotics contract and an undisclosed air force drone deal in the past year. His longtime friend Michael Dell won a Pentagon contract worth nearly $9bn. And this week, as public support for artificial intelligence sinks to some of th
  
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• UK minister warns of impact of Trump’s Iran war on next month’s budget

  20-09-2026 11:15 via theguardian.com
  Bridget Phillipson says Burnham’s past criticisms of US president not an issue as PM prepares to meet Trump at UNNext month’s budget will be made more difficult by Donald Trump’s war with Iran, one of Andy Burnham’s cabinet ministers has said, while adding she did not expect the prime minister’s previous disparaging comments about the US president to be an issue.Burnham is expected to meet Trump early next week at the UN general assembly summit in New York, the pair
  
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• ‘We broke the rules:’ why chef Ferran Adriá is the subject of new TV drama

  20-09-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Six-part drama Gènesi tells the story of Adriá’s Catalan restaurant El Bulli from the day he arrived as a kitchen handRevered and reviled, during the 28 years he presided over El Bulli, a small restaurant in a remote corner of Catalonia, Ferran Adrià changed cooking for ever.Now he is the subject of Gènesi (Genesis), a six-part TV drama screening on Catalan television with a worldwide release later in the year that recounts the story of El Bulli from the day he
  
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• Taryn Simon on her most ambitious exhibition yet: ‘It’s built almost like a novel’

  20-09-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The multidisciplinary artist delves into pockets of history, including within her family, for the largest ever debut of new work staged at the GuggenheimTaryn Simon is seated in a conference room at the Guggenheim, looking dazed. Her new show, Father Country I Do Love You, opens in under three weeks. It’s a big deal, the first monographic exhibition by a photography-based artist in the iconic spiral rotunda, and the largest debut of new work ever staged at the museum. There’s still a
  
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• ‘Resident Evil movies? I’ve never seen one’: Weapons director Zach Cregger on resurrecting the beloved zombie franchise

  20-09-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Raised on punk, alt-comedy and the church, Cregger’s Lynchian approach to horror is anything but typical. After two wildly original hits, his pivot to a 30-year-old video game has caused a storm among protective fansWhen Barbarian, Zach Cregger’s debut film as a solo writer-director, came out in 2022, it was a big success, creating a buzz among horror connoisseurs, garnering good reviews, and grossing $46m. Then his second film, Weapons, came out in 2025 and did even better. Mounting
  
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• From Lizzie Borden to Myra Hindley, why are we still so fascinated with female killers? | Rebecca Rideal

  20-09-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Another true-crime drama about a woman accused of murder is hitting our screens, feeding into our culture’s unhelpful obsession with ‘female rage’On 20 June 1893, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a packed courtroom waited with bated breath for the jury to return its verdict following a gruelling double-murder trial. Against a backdrop of intense media interest, they had heard the prosecution argue that the accused had hacked to death their own parents with a hatchet, had burned t
  
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• Ed Sheeran says situation in Gaza ‘unjustifiable’ in first show since tour plunged into turmoil

  20-09-2026 10:12 via theguardian.com
  Pop star has faced boycott calls after rapper Macklemore was removed from tour after shouting ‘free Palestine’ at concertEd Sheeran has opened a solo concert in Philadelphia with comments about Gaza, saying what is happening is “catastrophic and unjustifiable”, in his first show since his tour was plunged into turmoil.“My heart has been broken by the scale of devastation and loss of civilians’ lives, of children’s lives,” Sheeran said on Saturday,
  
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• Victims say Home Office attempt to curtail spycops inquiry will result in a ‘cover-up’

  20-09-2026 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Shabana Mahmood is concerned about length and £144m cost of inquiry into intrusive police surveillanceVictims of intrusive police surveillance have accused the government of seeking to cut short the spycops public inquiry that has been examining widespread misconduct committed by undercover officers.The independent judge-led inquiry is scrutinising how officers, who spied on tens of thousands of political activists over more than four decades, carried out abuses such as deceiving women int
  
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• Earl Spencer says media treatment of Harry and Meghan ‘echoes’ Diana’s experience

  20-09-2026 09:55 via theguardian.com
  Comments come after he accused King Charles of gaslighting him in response to claims made in new memoirEarl Spencer has said the relationship between the press and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex “echoes” the way the media treated his sister Diana, Princess of Wales.In an interview with the BBC to be aired on Sunday evening, Spencer described the press’s coverage of Harry and Meghan as having a “cancerous influence”, adding it would be “beholden on people to le
  
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• Pizza dough and TV prison dramas: how Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe survived jail in Iran

  20-09-2026 09:44 via theguardian.com
  Former charity worker tells Big Brue festival in Somerset of the strange comforts that helped her during imprisonmentIt is a TV show about women confined to prison in the US, but Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe found watching Orange is the New Black with her fellow inmates a strange comfort after smuggling episodes into her Iranian jail cell, downloaded on to an illegal USB stick.The British-Iranian former charity worker was detained in 2016 for more than five years and kept in the notorious Evin pris
  
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• ‘We miss her the same every day’: Olivia Cusack on her late footballer sister Maddy

  20-09-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Family is determined to ensure her ‘legacy lives on’ three years after the Sheffield United player’s deathOlivia Cusack says her sister, the late Maddy Cusack, is on her mind every single day and she is determined to ensure her “legacy lives on” three years after the former England youth international midfielder’s death.Olivia, together with family and friends of Maddy, walked 29 miles from Bramall Lane, Sheffield United’s home, to their family’s h
  
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• ‘I can’t wait for the Ashes’: new Test coach Fleming wants England to be No 1

  20-09-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  New Zealander hopes to add ‘a bit of cricket sense in the key moments’ to Bazball template“Flemball? That’s a medical condition.” Stephen Fleming’s first press conference as England Test coach was exactly what you would expect from a man appointed to bring calm to a team that had started to career off course.While the Manchester rain did its worst outside, Fleming was the handsome sea captain on top of his ship, even if that ship had to float without him durin
  
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• Don’t discount Reform because it's had a bad year. In our angry, fragile democracy, anything can happen | John Harris

  20-09-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Nigel Farage’s tactics are to play up the anxiety and resentment that people feel. Labour’s job is simple: to offer hope and changeDespite the energised start Andy Burnham has made as prime minister, plenty of his party’s MPs and hardcore activists are still haunted by a familiar sense of insecurity. Underpinned by a political version of impostor syndrome, it runs deep – and, bar the odd spell of Labour optimism, it always has. So it is with the battle between Labour and
  
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• Thousands of pregnant women in England are reporting domestic abuse. Midwives are struggling to cope

  20-09-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Analysis ‘lays bare’ something midwives already know from their day-to-day workAbout 20,000 disclosures of domestic abuse are estimated to be made to maternity services in England every year, analysis has found.The figures are likely to be an underestimate of the true scale of disclosures, according to experts, highlighting the role maternity professionals play in identifying abuse. Continue reading...
  
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• Reαd carefully: how to spot – and avoid – a homoglyph attack

  20-09-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Scam emails are increasingly using psychological tricks, such as using near-identical URLs like miсrosoft.comYou’ve read the email carefully and it looks legitimate. The link it asks you to click on has none of the usual red flags: there are no weird numbers or extra parts to the URL. You feel safe to proceed.But if you had looked slightly closer you may have noticed something slightly wrong with one of the characters. Just as in the headline of this piece where instead of “a&r
  
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• ‘Flip the table and rise up’: Lib Dems’ president in combative mood as party gathers in Brighton

  20-09-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Josh Babarinde wants to target big tech and crypto billionaires while giving power and cash back to the publicStanding outside Toynbee Hall in the East End of London, Josh Babarinde doesn’t exactly look like a rabble-rouser. But despite the well-cut suit and disarmingly large smile, the president of the Liberal Democrats is, apparently, up for a fight.“There are big modern giants that are getting in the way of people’s ability to thrive, and it is the job of Liberal Democrats t
  
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• Farage says he wants to ‘hijack’ Trump’s ICE czar to help secure UK border

  20-09-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Reform leader also tells US event Europe should have ‘more sensible view’ of president’s administrationNigel Farage has said he wants to “hijack” Donald Trump’s hardline ICE adviser and bring him to the UK “to secure our borders”.Speaking at an event in the US, the Reform UK leader also called for Europe to take a “more sensible view” of the US president’s administration rather than seeing it as “villainous”. Continue
  
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• Chiltern Railways enters public ownership in Labour nationalisation push

  20-09-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Operator that runs services between London Marylebone and Birmingham is sixth to be nationalised since 2025Chiltern Railways has become the latest train operator to enter public ownership as the government closes in on its ambition to renationalise all major passenger rail services.The operator, which runs commuter rail services on the Chiltern mainline between London Marylebone and Birmingham, on Sunday became the sixth to be nationalised under Labour, with the remaining four to follow by the e
  
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• 10 of the best mountain huts in Europe: bunkrooms, bothies and bonhomie

  20-09-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Beautifully situated refuges with superlative views offering sanctuary to intrepid hikers and climbersA good mountain hut, I reckon, should be small and only accessible on foot after considerable effort. Throw in a bit of historical interest and I’m bound to be happy. In which case, Cabaña Verónica in the Picos de Europa is a fine start to this list. It sleeps six, and at 2,325 metres requires a two-hour trek from the nearest cable car station, never mind road. It has incredi
  
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• TV tonight: a spin-off from Abi Morgan’s soapy, glossy, entertaining divorce drama

  20-09-2026 07:15 via theguardian.com
  Lawyers juggle private chaos with professional brilliance in this new series. Plus: Michelle Keegan’s DI tackles a murder case and a corrupt police force. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC OneA spin-off from Abi Morgan’s The Split, this is another glossy divorce drama with the same soapy beats – and more lawyers who have a better handle on their clients’ relationships than their own. Aria is expecting to inherit her family’s Manchester firm from her be
  
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