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• Bristol burglar carves hole in door in £7,000 theft

  14-05-2022 15:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aaron Barnes says sentimental items were also stolen including his son's first tooth.
  
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• TV tonight: Katherine Parkinson wants commitment-free sex in new dating drama

  18-05-2022 07:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Spreadsheet is the new Channel 4 comedy that follows a divorced mother of two in Australia. Plus, a gripping Inside No 9. Here’s what to watch tonight Continue reading...
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war latest news: first war crimes trial to begin in Kyiv amid fears for Azovstal soldiers – live

  18-05-2022 07:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Concerns grow for welfare of 250 Ukrainian fighters who surrendered to Russian forces in Mariupol after weeks of resistance; US to create new unit to research alleged war crimes by RussiaFate of hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers unclear as Azovstal resistance endsDefenders of Mariupol: battle that gripped the worldLosses in Ukraine test Russians’ faithFinnish parliament approves plan to join NatoRussia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 84 of the invasionEvacuation of soldiers from the Azovstal
  
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• Tedcore: the self-help books that have changed the way we live, speak and think

  18-05-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Bestsellers like Atlas of the Heart and Atomic Habits use feel-good philosophy to turn our anxieties into our identityYou are a victim. A person of anxious experience, navigating a minefield of shame triggers. Research suggests that people with your attachment style are predisposed to dissociating. Some experts believe this very sentence could re-traumatize you. It’s not your fault, of course. You just need to reframe your narrative.This is the language of a coalescing sub-genre of self-he
  
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• Plantwatch: the plants that kill their insect pollinators

  18-05-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Jack-in-the-pulpit plants lure in gnats, cover them in pollen and trap them. As they struggle to escape they pollenate female flowers
  There are two plant species with the most brutal flowers in the world, which deliberately kill their insect pollinators. The flowers of jack-in the pulpit, Arisaema angustatum, and its close relative Arisaema peninsulae are hidden inside a bowl-shaped wrapper with a narrow entrance, with a tall hood standing above. The floral dungeon lures in male fungus gnats, po
  
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• French film royalty Louis Garrel: ‘Right now, I’ve got the jitters’

  18-05-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  He made his film debut aged five and went on to star in one of the sexiest movies ever made. Now the actor and director is refining his “banter à la française” in a scramble to get his new film finished for CannesFor Louis Garrel, the centre of the universe is located at the Cannes film festival. “It’s like a particle accelerator, like that place in Switzerland,” he says. “Your disappointments there are bigger, and your joy is bigger.” He i
  
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• Finland and Sweden may join Nato – but even they can’t guarantee that will make them safer | Thomas Meaney

  18-05-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Finns have long relied on realpolitik and the Swedes on neutrality. Joining the historic military alliance could change everythingTo an unusual degree, the national identities of Sweden and Finland are bound up with their foreign policy: Swedes identify with a centuries-old tradition of neutrality, whereas Finns point to their talent for realpolitik, making the best of their volatile geography, which includes an 830-mile border with Russia. As both countries now formally submit their applica
  
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• ‘Every guy was hitting on me’: actor Rosie Perez on Botox, boxing – and the casting couch

  18-05-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Spike Lee championed her, but she still had to battle misogyny and racism to make it to the top. Now, more in demand than ever, she talks about her trailblazing career
  Rosie Perez apologises for sounding a little hoarse – it’s partly because of a cold, but mainly because she spent Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, screaming for Amanda Serrano during her historic bout against Katie Taylor. “I shouldn’a went to the fights, but I went to the fights,” she mutters
  
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• Accidental discovery that scallops love ‘disco’ lights leads to new fishing technique

  18-05-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Scientists hail breakthrough that could maximise catches while reducing damage caused by fishingAn unusual technique for catching scallops that was stumbled upon accidentally by scientists could potentially reduce some of the damage caused to our seabeds by fishing.The marine scientist Dr Rob Enever and his team at Fishtek Marine, a fisheries consultancy based in Devon, designed small underwater “potlights” to help protect fish stocks by replacing the need to use fish to bait crab an
  
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• Gambler blows town’s whole Covid relief fund that appeared in his account

  18-05-2022 06:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Money should have gone to 463 low-income households but Japanese man received it all and commenced online casino spreeA Japanese man who was mistakenly sent ¥46.3m (£287,000/US$358,000) in Covid-19 relief funds has admitted he gambled away the entire amount in the space of a fortnight.The 24-year-old, who has not been named, was sent the sum in April as part of a local government programme to help residents who were struggling financially as a result of the pandemic. Continue reading..
  
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• Pret death teenager Natasha Ednan-Laperouse's parents launch allergy trial

  18-05-2022 06:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The study will look at whether commonly available peanut and milk products can treat food allergies.
  
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• Facebook fails to stop Spanish language anti-abortion disinformation, study says

  18-05-2022 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A group examined nine profiles reaching more than 2.79 million people peddling inaccurate information without consequenceAnti-abortion Facebook pages with millions of followers are spreading disinformation about abortion to Spanish speakers with little to no intervention from the social media platform, according to a new report from Naral Pro-Choice America.The abortion rights group examined nine Facebook pages that reach more than 2.79 million people for the first-of-its-kind report, part of it
  
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• EU to step up Indo-Pacific defence presence over China fears and Ukraine example

  18-05-2022 05:03 via theguardian.com
  
  European Union’s special envoy cites concerns ‘multilateral rules-based order will not be fully respected’ in regionThe European Union has resolved to step up its defence strategy in the Indo-Pacific region in light of fears about China’s growing presence and concerns for the international order sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.“Our motto is always to cooperate whenever possible, but to defend whenever necessary as well,” said Gabriele Visentin, t
  
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• Drawing monsters in the basement: last child in Ukrainian village in ruin

  18-05-2022 05:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Fewer than 50 residents have stayed in Kutuzivka since Russian forces invaded. But even when Ukrainian soldiers took it back, some in the village had nowhere to go but undergroundTymofiy Seidov is the only child left in his village near the city of Kharkiv, in north east Ukraine.The eight-year-old spends much of his time drawing at a little table, dimly illuminated from above by a tiny LED light, in the corner of the otherwise almost completely dark 40-by-five-metre basement that he shares with
  
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• Half of new nurses and midwives come from abroad

  18-05-2022 04:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  International recruitment hits record high with nurse leaders warning about sustainability of trend.
  
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• The ‘carbon bombs’ set to blow up the world’s climate pledges

  18-05-2022 04:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A Guardian investigation has revealed 195 oil and gas projects known as ‘carbon bombs’ that could trigger catastrophic climate breakdown if allowed to continue. Damian Carrington reportsRevealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdownDuring emotional scenes in Glasgow last year, world leaders came together to agree to “phase down” the use of coal. But absent from the UN climate summit was any similar pledge about oil and gas, the foss
  
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• Corflutes, ukeleles and loose units: what is going on in the Australian election?

  18-05-2022 02:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Australia has been through a lot since Scott Morrison pulled off a ‘miracle’ election win in 2019. Can he do it again? And what is a democracy sausage?Election 2022 seat explorer; Pork-o-meter election promises trackerGuardian Australia’s full federal election coverageGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAustralians go to the polls on Saturday, with the Labor party under Anthony Albanese hoping to oust Scott Morrison’s Coalition government and end nine yea
  
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• Billy Sharp: Sheffield United captain assaulted after play-off defeat by Nottingham Forest

  18-05-2022 01:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police are investigating after Sheffield United captain Billy Sharp was assaulted by a fan at the end of their Championship play-off final second leg at Nottingham Forest.
  
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• Newspaper headlines: Tory MP rape arrest and Wagatha Christie husbands 'at war'

  18-05-2022 01:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Queen's surprise appearance at London Paddington station also make Wednesday's front pages.
  
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• Broken Oasis guitar behind band break-up auctioned for £325,000

  18-05-2022 01:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Noel Gallagher’s red Gibson, damaged in backstage row with brother Liam, sold at Paris auctionNoel Gallagher’s guitar that was damaged backstage at an Oasis concert and culminated in the band breaking up has sold for €385,500 (£325,000) at an auction in Paris.The red Gibson was broken at the French capital’s Rock en Seine festival in 2009 towards the end of the band’s year-long Dig Out Your Soul global tour. Continue reading...
  
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• Police hunt fan who head-butted Billy Sharp on pitch after Forest playoff win

  18-05-2022 01:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Sheffield United striker attacked during pitch invasionPaul Heckingbottom: ‘There’s a prison sentence there for sure’Nottinghamshire police have launched an investigation after Sheffield United’s Billy Sharp appeared to be head-butted by a fan at the end of the Championship playoff semi-final.Video emerged online of the celebrations following Nottingham Forest’s 3-2 penalty shootout win apparently showing a fan running at Sharp, who was on loan at Forest during the
  
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• Younger children most affected by Covid lockdowns, new research finds

  18-05-2022 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Educational progress and social development of four- and five-year-olds suffered severely The youngest children have been most affected by lockdowns and closures during the Covid pandemic, with new research finding that the educational progress and social development of four- and five-year-olds suffered severely during their first year at school.Aggressive behaviour such as biting and hitting, feelings of struggling in class or being overwhelmed around large groups of children were among the dif
  
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• Tesco shopper's plea to bring back till staff

  18-05-2022 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pat McCarthy says there are not enough staffed tills for those who struggle with self-service machines.
  
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• Numbers of nurses and midwives leaving NHS highest for four years

  18-05-2022 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  More nurses leave NHS than at any time since Covid struck, many reporting stress as their main reasonMore than 27,000 nurses and midwives quit the NHS last year, with many blaming job pressures, the Covid pandemic and poor patient care for their decision.The rise in staff leaving their posts across the UK – the first in four years – has prompted concern that frontline workers are under too much strain, especially with the NHS-wide shortage of nurses. Continue reading...
  
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• Covid support schemes left ‘open goal’ to fraudsters, says watchdog

  18-05-2022 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Public Accounts Committee report says business department efforts to identify fraud came after trails had ‘long ago gone cold’The business department’s handling of Covid support schemes left an “open goal” to fraudsters and embezzlers that has added “billions to taxpayer woes”, parliament’s spending watchdog has found.In its review of the annual report of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Public Accounts Commit
  
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• Big carmakers stuck in slow lane over switch to zero emissions, study shows

  18-05-2022 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Only Tesla and Mercedes are due to meet climate goals with Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai and General Motors laggingThe world’s largest carmakers are lagging behind on the switch to electric vehicles with only two on the trajectory required to hit the international target of limiting global heating to 1.5C, according to an analysis.Tesla and Mercedes-Benz are the only firms out of 12 big manufacturers who are on course to shift to zero-emissions vehicles at a rate in line with climate goal
  
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• Wagatha Christie trial: Vardys leave court with swipe at Wayne Rooney - The Times

  18-05-2022 01:00 via news.google.com
  
  Wagatha Christie trial: Vardys leave court with swipe at Wayne Rooney  The TimesColeen and Wayne Rooney smile as they leave court after Jamie and Rebekah Vardy stormed out EARLY  Daily MailTrue to form, at the Wagatha Christie trial Wayne Rooney may have just decided the game  The IndependentAmused Brits all make the same joke about Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy's court case  Entertainment DailyPeter Andre cuts a casual figure as he leaves latest Grease
  
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• Tory MP arrested on suspicion of rape | News - The Times

  18-05-2022 01:00 via news.google.com
  
  Tory MP arrested on suspicion of rape | News  The TimesTory MP arrested on suspicion of rape and banned from Commons  The GuardianConservative MP arrested over rape and sexual assault allegations spanning seven-year period  Sky NewsNewspaper headlines: Tory MP rape arrest and Wagatha Christie husbands 'at war'  BBCTory MP arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assault  The TelegraphView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• EU raises spectre of trade war if UK rewrites Northern Ireland protocol - The Guardian

  18-05-2022 00:57 via news.google.com
  
  EU raises spectre of trade war if UK rewrites Northern Ireland protocol  The GuardianUK wants to fix Northern Ireland trade treaty, says Johnson  Guardian NewsEU signals it could trigger trade war and legal challenge if UK rips up Northern Ireland Protocol  The TelegraphJohnson must embrace the Brexit he made  Financial TimesPM’s article and his TUV snub are a troubling harbinger  Belfast News Letter View Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Kim Jong-un calls North Korea’s response to Covid outbreak ‘inadequate’

  18-05-2022 00:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Leader accuses officials of inertia as total number of people with reported fever symptoms reaches 1.72 millionNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has criticised his country’s response to its first officially confirmed Covid-19 outbreak as “immature”, accusing government officials of inadequacies and inertia as fever cases swept the country.On Wednesday, North Korea reported 232,880 more people with fever symptoms, and six more deaths, a week after the country’s first admissi
  
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