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• From fishing to Erasmus: what the UK’s deal with the EU will mean

  19-05-2025 15:50 via theguardian.com
  Keir Starmer has billed the agreement as a hat-trick after his India and US deals – here’s how things are likely to pan outEU reset deal puts Britain back on the world stage, says Keir StarmerMonday’s deal between the UK and the EU has been almost a year in the making but it is long on hope and short on concrete changes that will happen immediately.It is being billed by Keir Starmer as a hat-trick after his India and US deals, and a “new chapter” in the relations be
  
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• ‘I was watching osprey for five hours a day’: how the world fell in love with nature live streams

  19-05-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  More and more people are hooked on watching animals in real time. Now researchers say it could even improve your mood, help you relax and give you better sleepIn 2012 Dianne Hoffman, a retired consultant, became a peeping Tom. For five hours a day she watched the antics of a couple, Harriet and Ozzie, who lived on Dunrovin ranch in Montana.The pair were nesting ospreys, being streamed live as they incubated their clutch of eggs. The eggs never hatched, but the ospreys sat on them for months befo
  
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• UK and EU reach deal over Brexit reset after fishing rights breakthrough

  19-05-2025 10:58 via theguardian.com
  Brussels understood to have dropped demands to link deal duration for food checks with fishing rights in run-up to summitUK politics live – latest updatesThe UK and EU have reached a last-minute deal over a significant reset to relations after a breakthrough on fishing rights and checks on food and other agricultural products.Under the agreement, finalised just a few hours before a crunch summit in London, Brussels is has dropped demands to link the duration of an agreement over food and a
  
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