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• Mills shocked to miss dance off

  09-10-2014 10:16
  
  Scott Mills has revealed he will be dancing as a crab for Strictly Come Dancing's Movie Week and that celebrity fans such as One Direction are backing him to stay in the show.
  
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• Trump confirms detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil: ‘the first arrest of many to come’ – live

  10-03-2025 18:42 via theguardian.com
  Trump says Ice took the Palestinian student protester into custody after his executive order‘Reeks of McCarthyism’: outrage after Ice detains Palestinian student activistSecretary of state Marco Rubio has announced that USAid will cancel the majority of its programs, while the rest will be folded into the state department.Writing on X, Rubio said:After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of bil
  
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• Giving senior staff a desk linked with junior role is breach of UK workplace laws, tribunal rules

  10-03-2025 18:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Estate agent manager, who had quit after being denied a ‘symbolically significant’ seat, was right to view it as demotion, panel saysAllocating a senior employee a desk that they believe to be associated with a junior position amounts to a breach of workplace laws, an employment tribunal has ruled.The panel said being made to sit somewhere in the office where junior staff work could “logically” lead a senior employee to conclude they have been demoted. Continue reading...
  
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• Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s treatment of Ukraine – cartoon

  10-03-2025 18:36 via theguardian.com
  
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• Zelenskyy arrives in Saudi as Ukraine expected to push for air and sea ceasefire during US talks – Europe live

  10-03-2025 18:34 via theguardian.com
  Ukrainian president will be holding talks with Mohammed bin SalmanThe UK rejected Russian allegations that two British diplomats were suspected of carrying out espionage activities (9:04) as “malicious and baseless,” saying it is not the first time Russia made similar accusations.Visitors from around the world have been flocking to the Pompidou Centre in Paris this weekend, seizing the last opportunity to enjoy Europe’s largest temple of modern and contemporary art before it cl
  
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• There is a shameful British tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan

  10-03-2025 18:30 via theguardian.com
  Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system in the name of growth. They have made that choice and it’s immoral Whether it’s the front pages or your Uncle Frank’s Facebook posts, you’ll have done well lately to avoid news about upcoming disability benefits cuts. After months of speculation, the government is reportedly set to pull £6bn from the “welfare budget” ahead of its spring statement, with some Labour MPs alread
  
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• Mike Amesbury resigns as MP, triggering byelection

  10-03-2025 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Amesbury, 55, resigns two weeks after receiving a suspended prison sentence for punching a constituentUK politics live – latest updatesMike Amesbury has resigned as an MP after being given a prison sentence for punching a constituent.The 55-year-old was suspended by Labour and lost the party whip on 27 October after a clip was published by MailOnline. Continue reading...
  
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• Manchester City Women sack head coach Gareth Taylor as Cushing returns

  10-03-2025 18:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Team are fourth in WSL but in Champions League semisFormer manager Nick Cushing named interim managerManchester City Women have sacked their head coach, Gareth Taylor, just five days before the club’s appearance in the League Cup final. Former manager Nick Cushing, whom Taylor succeeded in 2020, will return as interim manager for the remainder of the season.The news comes with City fourth in the Women’s Super League, 12 points behind the leaders Chelsea, and was announced 24 hours af
  
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• ‘Dog-whistle v fog horn’: why Rupert Lowe’s reach on X may not cut through

  10-03-2025 18:14 via theguardian.com
  Lowe’s online presence, helped by Elon Musk, dwarfs that of Nigel Farage, but may not bring him new Reform votersIf you were to looking for answers as to why Rupert Lowe, a relatively little-known Reform UK MP, thinks he can lecture Nigel Farage about running a party and winning an election, there is one place you should probably start: X.For all that in person Lowe can sometimes resemble a slightly embarrassing uncle at a wedding, on the social media site formerly known as Twitter, the Gr
  
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• Canada’s lonely battle in the face of Trump threats | Letters

  10-03-2025 18:08 via theguardian.com
  Readers respond to an editorial on the US president’s malign strategy against its neighbour Donald Trump has consistently threatened to forcibly annex Canada (as well as Greenland), and has goaded and insulted Justin Trudeau and Canadians more generally(The Guardian view on why Canada matters: a nation in the global frontline, 6 March) . Trump and his far-right coterie of plutocrats and supine Republicans want freedom for themselves to accumulate even more wealth and capital, to accelerate
  
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• Credit where it’s due for cleaner air in London | Letters

  10-03-2025 18:07 via theguardian.com
  Sadiq Khan should be congratulated for expanding the Ulez scheme despite criticism from Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner, says Peter Walker. Plus a letter from Dr Robin Russell-JonesYour report highlighting how the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) has improved London’s air quality gives reassurance to those who believe that air pollution is a hidden killer (Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion, 7 March). People in public life who take action in light
  
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• Fashion, floods and lava fireworks: photo of the day – Monday

  10-03-2025 18:04 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Reeks of McCarthyism’: outrage after Ice detains Palestinian student activist

  10-03-2025 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil a ‘targeted, retaliatory’ attack on his first amendment rights, say civil rights groupsFree speech organizations and advocates are expressing outrage after a prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protests last year, was arrested and detained over the weekend.Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent US resident with a green card, was taken into custody by federal immigration authorities on Saturday night, who reportedly
  
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• EFL chair urges Badenoch to take ‘more balanced view’ on football regulator

  10-03-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Rick Parry writes to Badenoch to request meetingConservative leader thinks regulator a ‘waste of money’Rick Parry, the chair of the English Football League, has expressed disappointment with Kemi Badenoch for not speaking to the league before coming out against an independent football regulator, and has asked the leader of the Conservative party to consider taking “a more balanced view”.In February, Badenoch declared her personal opposition to a policy launched by the las
  
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• ‘Strong eruption’ of volcano in Guatemala forces evacuations

  10-03-2025 17:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Residents sought safety in temporary shelter after Fuego volcano spewed lava, ash and rocksGuatemalan authorities have evacuated about a thousand people after Central America’s most active volcano erupted, spewing lava, ash and rocks.Residents with traumatic memories of a deadly eruption in 2018 sought safety in a temporary shelter after the Fuego volcano – located 35km (22 miles) from the capital, Guatemala City – showed escalating activity on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• North Sea collision: oil tanker and cargo ship crews ‘safe and accounted for’

  10-03-2025 17:51 via theguardian.com
  ‘Multiple explosions’ rupture cargo tank of MV Stena Immaculate, with jet fuel reportedly releasedCollision between oil tanker and cargo vessel in North Sea – live updatesThe crews of an oil tanker and a cargo ship are “safe and accounted for” with one person taken to hospital after the vessels collided in the North Sea, with jet fuel reported to have been released, a maritime company has said.Crowley, the shipping company that manages the MV Stena Immaculate, said
  
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• Romania’s pro-Russia presidential candidate to fight election ban

  10-03-2025 17:47 via theguardian.com
  Cǎlin Georgescu to contest decision to bar him from election rerun in Mayafter claims of Russian meddlingRomania’s far-right presidential frontrunner, Cǎlin Georgescu, has said he will appeal against a decision to bar him from standing in a rerun of the presidential election, calling it “a direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide”.Georgescu, a Moscow-friendly populist, surged from almost nowhere to win the first round of the country’s presidential electio
  
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• The Darkness review – retro rockers are still in acrobatically high spirits

  10-03-2025 17:44 via theguardian.com
  
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  Fresh from Taylor Swift’s endorsement, Justin Hawkins and his hard-riffing band can still strut and peacock with the best – so it’s a shame about the bad sound mixMidway through the deliriously profane Get Your Hands Off My Woman, Justin Hawkins demands that the crowd claps along. Before you know it, the frontman is standing on his head and joining in by slapping together the heels of his pointy white shoes. There has already been bountiful sweari
  
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• ‘He said I sounded hysterical’: Celia Paul on lover Lucian Freud, his cold friends and the ‘devastating’ YBAs

  10-03-2025 17:29 via theguardian.com
  
  In prose and in paint, the great artist Celia Paul is exorcising the ghosts of her past – from the cruelties of her lover Freud, to his offhand cohorts, and the YBA revolution that declared painting deadPainter Celia Paul has lived in the same flat in Bloomsbury – bought for her by her then lover Lucian Freud – for 40 years. To ascend to it, up the 80 steps to bring you level with the pediment of the British Museum opposite, is to enter a different world. The main room contains
  
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• Ham, mozzarella and … orange?! Australia invents a new topping to enrage the pizza purists

  10-03-2025 17:28 via theguardian.com
  Remember when a few chunks of pineapple were enough to cause outrage? This latest offering puts even chicken tikka masala or pumpkin and hummus pizza in the shadeName: Orange pizza.Age: First mentions come in 314BC and AD997 respectively. The combination, however, is a product of our own dark age. Continue reading...
  
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• Fed up with cryptic crossword hecklers? Try the Dave Gorman method

  10-03-2025 17:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Gorman – AKA this paper’s setter Fed – responded playfully to his naysayers on Modern Life Is Goodish, inspiring a whole new audience to take up their pensEach institution has its own way of dealing with complainants, particularly those whose protests are perhaps not entirely valid. Traditionally, a comedian deftly – sometimes remorselessly – responds to uncivil hecklers. By contrast, a news organisation falls over itself to confess blame: witness a crossword editor
  
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• How did Reform end up in such a mess? Is that a serious question?

  10-03-2025 17:26 via theguardian.com
  Nigel Farage’s team is down to four MPs, with the suspended Rupert Lowe denouncing it as a “protest party led by the messiah”. Let’s not waste time wondering who’s wrong and who’s rightI have one primitive but foolproof tool of political analysis. Trying to balance competing claims in any matter of party discipline – unless it’s a party of which I am a member, in which case, of course, I have already picked a side – I think: “Does it so
  
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• There’s only one thing in Mark Carney’s in-tray: Trump

  10-03-2025 17:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Canada’s incoming prime minister warns the US president’s tariffs threaten the ‘greatest crisis of our generation’When Mark Carney becomes Canada’s prime minister later this week, a list of simmering crises across the country will demand his attention: housing is unaffordable, healthcare is breaking, living costs keep rising and the climate crisis is ransacking livelihoods.But most – if not all – of those concerns will be pushed aside, supplanted by a fa
  
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• British tourist detained by US authorities for 10 days over visa issue

  10-03-2025 17:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Backpacker Rebecca Burke was handcuffed and taken to a detention facility in Washington stateA British tourist on a four-month backpacking trip around North America has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the US for 10 days after trying to enter the country via the Canadian border.Rebecca Burke, 28, a graphic artist from Monmouthshire, was trying to cross into the state of Washington when she was refused entry. Continue reading...
  
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• What the world needs now is more fossil fuels, says Trump’s energy secretary

  10-03-2025 17:17 via theguardian.com
  Chris Wright signals abandonment of Biden’s ‘irrational, quasi-religious’ climate policies at industry conference The world needs more planet-heating fossil fuel, not less, Donald Trump’s newly appointed energy secretary, Chris Wright, told oil and gas bigwigs on Monday.“We are unabashedly pursuing a policy of more American energy production and infrastructure, not less,” he said in the opening plenary talk of CERAWeek, a swanky annual conference in Houston, T
  
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• US will be ‘central’ to climate fight even without Trump, says Cop30 president

  10-03-2025 17:11 via theguardian.com
  
  André Corrêa do Lago suggests US organisations can play a constructive role even if government limits participationThe US will be “central” to solving the climate crisis despite Donald Trump’s withdrawal of government support and cash, the president of the next UN climate summit has said.André Corrêa do Lago, president-designate of the Cop30 summit for the host country, Brazil, hinted that businesses and other organisations in the US could play a const
  
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• Skin in the game: mink coat at ethical fashion show fuels sustainability debate

  10-03-2025 17:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Eco-concerns upturn moral battle over fur as quiet luxury gives way to ‘boom boom’ looks at Paris fashion weekEllie Violet Bramley: Are you fur real?Gabriela Hearst is an ethical fashion designer, with sustainability at the heart of her brand. And she wants to sell you a mink coat.Hearst’s Paris fashion week show included a coat, jacket and stole made from vintage real fur. “We bought all these old mink coats in Italy, and pieced them together,” she said after her s
  
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• What is bird flu, and should you be worried about it?

  10-03-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Here’s how you can catch bird flu, what the symptoms are and how you can stay safeBird flu has been spreading in North America since late 2021, but recently the situation has taken some concerning turns.In January, the first person in the US died from bird flu. In February, two more people were hospitalized, and officials detected two new spillovers into cows, indicating the virus is here to stay among livestock and farm workers. The price of eggs has also skyrocketed as bird flu moves thr
  
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• Ronaldo and Real Valladolid: with the magic gone, all that’s left is a crisis | Sid Lowe

  10-03-2025 16:52 via theguardian.com
  
  After his takeover in 2018, the early enthusiasm has long gone, and so mostly has he. Now he wants to get on his bikeAt the end of training on Friday, as Real Valladolid’s players left the annex next to the José Zorrilla stadium and headed off under grey skies, rain preparing to roll in, a surprise waited for them. It was the final session before the weekend their coach said would show what hopes they had, an opportunity not so much to save their season as still have one, and there
  
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• Cheltenham festival day one tips: Brighterdaysahead can upset Constitution Hill in Champion Hurdle

  10-03-2025 16:48 via theguardian.com
  
  The favourite has seen off every challenge in all his races, but could be facing his sternest opponent so farConstitution Hill has seen off every challenge with ease in winning all 10 of his races to date, but he could be facing his sternest opponent so far in Tuesday’s Champion Hurdle and Brighterdaysahead (4.00) can also boast the strongest recent piece of form in the field.The Neville Hotels Hurdle at Leopardstown’s Christmas meeting was set up for Brighterdaysahead by a front-run
  
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