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• Care sector faces 'devastating' back-pay crisis

  25-10-2017 15:52
  The UK residential care sector faces a "devastating" crisis over a six-year back pay bill for overnight shifts, providers have warned.The Government has delayed enforcing the back pay requirement until the end of October, and said it is working to "establish how providers will affect vulnerable people's care".
  
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• Australian Open 2026: Ben Shelton v Jannik Sinner – live

  28-01-2026 11:43 via theguardian.com
  Quarter-finals updates from day 11 at Melbourne Park
  Djokovic through to semi-finals | Email Daniel here*Shelton 1-1 Sinner A big serve makes 15-0, but a decent return on to the line incites a netted forehand. No matter, Shelton shows good variety in the next rally, an inside-out backhand clipping the sideline for a winner, before an ace makes 4-15. But caught at the net having not done enough with the volley, he’s passed, then a netted slice takes us to deuce, and pressure. Shelton canno
  
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• Approving super-embassy before China trip makes Starmer look weak, says Badenoch, as PM arrives in Beijing – UK politics live

  28-01-2026 11:42 via theguardian.com
  Tory leader says Starmer ‘gives way every time things get difficult’, and should focus on countries aligned with UK interestsBadenoch is now taking questions.Asked if she agreed with Reform UK that Britain is broken, Badneoch said she believed that it can be fixed.I was not elected to reheat the party with 1990s policies, and I was not elected to dismantle the party so that Nigel Farage can finally have a go.I was elected by Conservative party members to renew and rebuild. That is ex
  
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• Copyrighted art, mobile phones, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft | Jonathan Liew

  28-01-2026 11:38 via theguardian.com
  The human impulse to steal has been accelerated by AI, inequality and our political leaders – with profound consequences Continue reading...
  
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• ‘In our DNA’: Celtic deepen London ties with girls’ football initiative

  28-01-2026 11:30 via theguardian.com
  On a soaked Brixton pitch, the club launch their latest programme as part of a widening mission that now stretches from Glasgow’s soup kitchens to Gaza reliefYou would not expect to find coaches from the Celtic FC Foundation in Brixton. But even the torrential rain in south London has not stopped them and four local teams from turning out to help launch a programme that will provide girls and young women from underprivileged backgrounds in the local area with a chance to play football.It i
  
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• French former senator found guilty of drugging MP with intent to sexually assault her

  28-01-2026 11:30 via theguardian.com
  Joël Guerriau sentenced to four years in prison after spiking lawmaker’s champagne with ecstasyA former French senator has been found guilty of drugging a fellow politician in order to sexually assault her, in a case that has shaken French politics.Joël Guerriau, 68, was sentenced on Tuesday evening to four years in prison of which 18 months must be behind bars. He has appealed against the verdict, which means he will not immediately serve his sentence and instead will face a fre
  
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• Russia does not want peace with Europe, says Danish prime minister – Europe live

  28-01-2026 11:25 via theguardian.com
  Mette Frederiksen says ‘world order as we know it is over’ as she prepares for talks with Emmanuel Macron and Greenland’s PM in ParisMeanwhile, the Kremlin has dismissed a report by a Washington-based thinktank that Russia had suffered nearly 1.2 million casualties since it began its war in Ukraine in February 2022, saying that such reports should not be seen as reliable, Reuters reported.The report, by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, estimated that at curre
  
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• US dollar sinks to its lowest level in four years

  28-01-2026 11:23 via theguardian.com
  Dollar drops against basket of currencies after Donald Trump brushed off concerns over slideBusiness live – latest updatesThe US dollar has fallen to its lowest level in four years after Donald Trump brushed off concerns over the currency’s fall, sending investors fleeing to traditional havens including gold and the Swiss franc.The dollar dropped by 1.3% against a basket of currencies after the president’s comments on Tuesday, marking its fourth day of declines, then slipped by
  
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• Nouvelle Vague review – Richard Linklater bends the knee to Breathless and Jean-Luc Godard

  28-01-2026 11:21 via theguardian.com
  Linklater recreates the making of the landmark French New Wave classic with an awestruck tastefulness that smooths over any disruptivenessBreathless, deathless … and pointless? Here is Richard Linklater’s impeccably submissive, tastefully cinephile period drama about the making of Godard’s debut 1960 classic À Bout de Souffle, that starred Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo as the star-crossed lovers in Paris. Linklater’s homage has credits in French and is beauti
  
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• SpaceX mulls $1.5tn IPO timed to ‘align with Musk’s birthday and the planets’

  28-01-2026 11:18 via theguardian.com
  World’s richest person targeting symbolic date in June for flotation of rocket companyElon Musk’s SpaceX is considering a flotation valuing the rocket company at $1.5tn (£1.1tn) that will reportedly be timed for early summer to coincide with a planetary alignment and the multibillionaire’s birthday.The world’s richest person is targeting a symbolic date of mid-June for the initial public offering, according to the Financial Times. This would be around the same time
  
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• ‘It turned out I had a brain tumour …’ Six standup comics on what spurred them to get on stage

  28-01-2026 11:10 via theguardian.com
  When it comes to origin stories, comedians have some of the strangest – from performing for a £5 bet to getting back at their boss to making an unlikely pact with a friendNot all standup comedians wake up one day and decide to be funny for a living. That wasn’t the case for John Bishop, anyway. He took up comedy to avoid paying a bar’s cover charge and to escape his failing marriage – a story that inspired Bradley Cooper’s new film, Is This Thing On? And Bisho
  
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• Hudson River turns to ice after heavy snow in New York City – video

  28-01-2026 11:07 via theguardian.com
  Video shows the Hudson frozen partially frozen near the George Washington Bridge in New York City after a heavy winter snowstorm. Eight people were found dead outside over the frigid weekend in the city, officials said, as New York experienced its snowiest day in years, recording 20-38cm (8-15in) of snow. At least 30 deaths were linked to a winter storm that hit North America's north-east. Some regions may not see temperatures rise above freezing until early February with the midwest, in particu
  
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• ‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10

  28-01-2026 11:02 via theguardian.com
  Newton Aycliffe was meant to be a model town for a fairer postwar Britain. But unaffordable rents on a high street amounting to 0.12% of its property tycoon owner’s holdings have made it a symbol of decline – and a warning for LabourHow has your local high street changed since 2019? Check your postcodeLabour risks election wipeout unless it improves Britain’s high streetsUnder blue skies and bunting, the whole of County Durham seemed to turn out for the young Queen Elizabeth II
  
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• Labour risks election wipeout unless it improves Britain’s high streets, study finds

  28-01-2026 11:01 via theguardian.com
  Decay of town centres a top issue among voters especially Reform UK supporters and is fuelling resentment against WestminsterHow has your local high street changed since 2019? Check your postcodeThe struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10Labour will be “washed away in a tide of discontent” at the next general election unless it tackles the decline of Britain’s high streets, a study has warned, as Guardian analysis lays bare the changing
  
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• Sali Hughes: forget smooth and glassy – glam beauty is back

  28-01-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Makeup textures embrace the flash and clash of formulas that you can ‘smoosh on carelessly’I’ve always judged the Pantone colour of the year to be way less interesting to readers than to journalists. But the 2026 winner (an unremarkable off-white called Cloud Dancer) struck me as even less relevant when trends are finally looking interesting again.Around the time of that news, Mac named glam pop queen Chappell Roan as its new global ambassador. The appointment of Roan – a
  
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• My husband was murdered on holiday – and my whole world collapsed

  28-01-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Each year, about 80 British people are victims of a homicide overseas, and grieving loved ones have to navigate the aftermath. Eve Henderson describes losing her husband, and her fight to help othersOn a Sunday in October 1997, Eve Henderson looked down at her husband, Roderick, as he lay in a hospital bed, unable to make sense of what she saw. She was, she says, “a block of stone”. They were in the neurological ward of a huge hospital on the outskirts of Paris. Travelling on the M&e
  
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• Gonna be golden? Who will – and should – win the big awards at the 2026 Grammys

  28-01-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  The top categories are stacked with quality, from Bad Bunny to Kendrick Lamar, Chappell Roan and K-pop hits – but here are the artists who most deserve to triumphBad Bunny – DTMFSabrina Carpenter – ManchildDoechii – AnxietyBillie Eilish – WildflowerKendrick Lamar & SZA – LutherLady Gaga – AbracadabraChappell Roan – The SubwayRosé & Bruno Mars – APT. Continue reading...
  
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• Football transfer rumours: Jérémy Jacquet to Liverpool or Chelsea?

  28-01-2026 10:30 via theguardian.com
  Today’s fluff is matching its ambitionsOnly five days remain of what has felt like a mercifully underheated winter window, but Manchester United could be about to fire it up a bit with an audacious bid for Cole Palmer. Teamtalk claims that a move for the Chelsea and England star is “building up a serious head of steam”. The departure from Stamford Bridge of Enzo Maresca, with whom Palmer was close, has apparently made Palmer susceptible to the idea of returning to his home city
  
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• Amazon reveals fresh round of global job cuts in email sent in error to workers

  28-01-2026 10:22 via theguardian.com
  Message erroneously said affected employees in the US, Canada and Costa Rica had already been informedBusiness live – latest updatesAmazon has told workers of a fresh round of global job cuts in an email that appears to have been sent in error.Workers at Amazon Web Services (AWS) received a meeting invitation from a top executive on Tuesday for the following day – subsequently cancelled – that also contained a draft email. Continue reading...
  
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• The Puma by Daniel Wiles review – a visceral tale of cyclical violence

  28-01-2026 10:00 via theguardian.com
  A father and son move to the Patagonian woods – but intensity wanes when a search for home becomes an obsessive quest for revengeWhen the protagonist of Daniel Wiles’s debut novel Mercia’s Take, set in a mining community during the industrial revolution, left a bag of gold downstairs unprotected and then went to bed, I actually closed the book, in an attempt to stop the unfolding disaster. After finding this seam of gold, miner Michael dreams that his son will be able to g
  
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• Rabbit Trap review – feral child lends eerie magic to Dev Patel fairy folk rock horror

  28-01-2026 10:00 via theguardian.com
  The 70s musicians who choose to lay down some tracks in remote Welsh countryside may not really surprise, but one young local is startlingly memorableThere’s an oscillation of weirdness in this feature debut from Bryn Chainey, who takes us deep into the traditional folk-horror thicket with a fervently atmospheric and intriguingly acted, if finally directionless drama set in 1970s Wales. Like Daniel Kokotajlo’s recent Starve Acre or Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men, Rabbit Trap swathes yo
  
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• Chelsea urge fans to take ‘extreme caution’ in Naples after two taken to hospital

  28-01-2026 09:35 via theguardian.com
  Treatment needed for ‘non-life-threatening injuries’Chelsea fans report having knives pulled on themChelsea have told fans to take “extreme caution” in Naples after two supporters were treated in hospital there before their Champions League tie in the Italian city.Napoli and Chelsea meet at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on Wednesday night in the competition’s final round of group games. Continue reading...
  
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• Hitchcock’s The Lodger has been turned into a vertical microdrama. What’s next – Psycho on Snapchat?

  28-01-2026 09:13 via theguardian.com
  A silent-era classic has been reframed for the vertical scroll of phone screens. Is this innovation, sacrilege, or just another way to repackage cinema history?‘Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake,” said Alfred Hitchcock. Who knew that anyone would take the knife to one of his most beloved silent films, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), and turn it into a vertical microdrama?The Tattle TV app has announced that it will be streaming serial killer drama T
  
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• Shrinking season three review – Harrison Ford is the best thing about this unapologetically soapy show

  28-01-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  This warm, inoffensive but undeniably mawkish comedy about a therapist is cosy but preposterous. Sometimes it’s like the excellent Ford is in a totally different programmeSuch is the surfeit of TV offered up to us in the streaming age that there are whole shows featuring A-list actors that only two of your friends have heard of and even fewer are watching. A case in point: Apple’s Shrinking, a dramedy from the creator of Scrubs and Ted Lasso about a grieving therapist who, rather tha
  
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• From scrums to the slopes: how rugby’s life lessons have helped hone Team GB’s Winter Olympians

  28-01-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Former Wasps forward Kearnan Myall is now performance director of GB Snowsport and using F1 tech and brain science to prepare for Milano Cortina 2026It is not every day that a former rugby player is pivotal to Great Britain’s Winter Olympic prospects. Until recently Kearnan Myall, who spent 15 seasons playing professionally for Leeds, Sale and Wasps, had never skied so it has been a steep learning curve. “The most humbling thing is being at the top of the run with the Paralympic team
  
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• Even British teenagers want tighter laws around social media – but let’s make it part of a broader vision for children | Gaby Hinsliff

  28-01-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  We need an honest reckoning with other factors that threaten young people’s wellbeing, from poverty to academic stressOur children’s feelings are not for sale, and nor are they to be manipulated.So said Emmanuel Macron this week, after French lawmakers voted to ban under-15s from social media. Admittedly, he then repeated these sentiments in a post on X, in the time-honoured manner of parents solemnly lecturing children to do as we say, not as we do.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian column
  
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• A strict and successful disciplinarian – Liverpool face the ‘Azeri Sir Alex Ferguson’

  28-01-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Gurban Gurbanov has been in charge of Qarabag since 2008 and continues to prioritise a squad mentality ahead of star signingsRemember the summer of 2008? That was when Pep Guardiola was appointed as first-team coach at Barcelona, Jürgen Klopp arrived at Borussia Dortmund and Chelsea gambled on a certain Luiz Felipe Scolari. Since then the west London club have had 12 different permanent managers. Qarabag, who Liverpool play in the Champions League on Wednesday, have had one: Gurban Gurbanov
  
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• ‘Animals in the zoo’: Iga Swiatek backs Coco Gauff over Australian Open privacy concerns

  28-01-2026 08:44 via theguardian.com
  American was caught on camera smashing racket following defeat‘It would be nice to have some privacy,’ says Polish second seedIga Swiatek backed up Coco Gauff’s complaints about a lack of privacy at the Australian Open by claiming tennis players are treated like zoo animals.Gauff sought a spot away from public view to let her frustration out by smashing a racket following her quarter-final loss to Elina Svitolina on Tuesday, only to find out she was on camera after all. Continu
  
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• Novak Djokovic survives at Australian Open as Lorenzo Musetti retires hurt while two sets up

  28-01-2026 08:10 via theguardian.com
  No 4 seed moves into semi-final despite struggles against ItalianDjokovic to meet Ben Shelton or Jannik Sinner for place in finalNovak Djokovic said he will double his prayers on Wednesday night after receiving a massive slice of luck in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open as the Serb was thoroughly outplayed for two sets by an inspired Lorenzo Musetti before the Italian was forced to retire due to injury while leading 6-4, 6-3, 1-3.Musetti had been working towards one of the best victorie
  
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• Starmer says Reform pursuing politics of ‘toxic division’ after Matt Goodwin unveiled as byelection candidate

  28-01-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Prime minister says Reform seeking to ‘tear people apart’ after Gorton and Denton candidate questions whether all UK-born people are BritishKeir Starmer has accused the Reform UK candidate in the Greater Manchester byelection of pursuing the politics of “toxic division” after he refused to disown his claim that UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds are not necessarily British.The prime minister suggested that Matthew Goodwin, a hard-right activist, would try to
  
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