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• Hotel, soup kitchen or rebuild: could Melbourne’s illegally demolished Corkman pub rise again?

  21-10-2023 21:00
  
  Developers have plans for a new building, but the old facade may return amid pressure to ‘rectify the community loss’ Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIt’s been more than seven years after the popular pub in inner Melbourne was illegally demolished by developers. But could the Corkman Hotel rise again?There is an ongoing battle over what will happen at the site of the beloved and historic Carlton pub, which was illegally demolished in 201
  
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• Shock, rage, increasing unease: UK’s Jewish community wrestles with response to war

  21-10-2023 13:46
  
  British Jews came together to condemn Hamas, but concerns over Israel’s actions are being voicedTwo days after Hamas unleashed a terrorist attack on Israeli civilians in southern Israel, hundreds of British Jews waved Israeli flags and sang the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah, at a vigil outside Downing Street.The event, organised by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council, and attended by the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, was a powerful show of communal so
  
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• Woman raped by ex-partner left traumatised by English family courts

  21-10-2023 13:27
  
  Complainant forced to give evidence for second time as case reheardA woman who was raped by her former partner has told how her fight for justice in the family courts left her traumatised. The woman, who has a son with her ex-partner, first put the allegation of rape to the court in 2021 after the father, who she also accused of coercive and controlling behaviour, made an application to spend more time with his child.The allegations were dismissed by Judge Christopher Dodd but the woman later wo
  
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