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• Burglar stabbed in Chelmsford prison kitchen awarded more than £5m - BBC

  20-09-2024 18:20 via news.google.com
  Burglar stabbed in Chelmsford prison kitchen awarded more than £5m  BBCBurglar wins £5.5m payout over prison stabbing that left him with fear of kitchens  The Telegraph'Wouldn't give him a single penny!' Commentator FUMES at inmate 'demanding' money after being attacked  GB NewsConvicted burglar handed £5.5m payout after being stabbed 16 times in prison canteen and left with kitchen phobia  LBCPrison convict from Clacton awarded £5.
  
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• Scotland 15-32 South Africa: Autumn Nations Series rugby union – live

  10-11-2024 19:30 via theguardian.com
  Updates from the 4.10pm GMT start at MurrayfieldGet in touch! Share your thoughts with DanielWhat are your thoughts on the 7-1 bench split? Does anyone out there feel that it’s against the spirit of rugby?Rassie Erasmus, full of smiles, admits that his rotated side is a consequence of the short six-day turnaround before the England match. Continue reading...
  
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• Chelsea 1-1 Arsenal: Premier League – live reaction

  10-11-2024 19:30 via theguardian.com
  Premier League updates from the 4.30pm GMT kick-offLive scoreboard | Live clockwatch | And email DominicThe two managers have been speaking ahead of kick-off and you can watch their musings here:Will Chelsea and Arsenal be among the inevitably long list of suitors for Viktor Gyökeres in the summer? With Ruben Amorim, United will consider themselves favourites but the two London clubs may be after a prolific No.9. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on the rise of eco-poetry: writing cannot ignore global heating | Editorial

  10-11-2024 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Verse’s connection to nature can inspire awareness and hope amid the climate crisis, offering clarity beyond dataPoetry has a big debt to nature, its muse and source of metaphor for centuries. As the UN climate conference begins, it is time to pay it back. Poetry must give nature a voice to express its dire predicament. “I will rise,” declares the furious river in the Scottish makar Kathleen Jamie’s poem What the Clyde Said, After Cop26 – just as the River
  
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• Conservative Rick Scott becomes front-runner for Senate leader role; Republicans move closer to US House control – live

  10-11-2024 19:03 via theguardian.com
  Multiple conservatives, including Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck and Robert Kennedy Jr have endorsed the Florida senator as the next leaderRepublicans on the verge of clinching control of the US HouseHere is a video report on the protests against Donald Trump in New York and Washington DC mentioned earlier:Protests against Donald Trump erupted in the US on Saturday as people on both coasts took to the streets in frustration about his re-election. Continue reading...
  
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• Rúben Amorim yet to be granted visa despite starting Manchester United job on Monday

  10-11-2024 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Coach will not be able to take opening training sessionUnited expect Portuguese to be granted a visa soonRúben Amorim is yet to be granted a visa despite starting his first official day as Manchester United’s head coach on Monday and will not be able to take an opening training session.The 39-year-old Portuguese will travel to the club on Monday to begin his tenure but, while United expect the visa to be granted soon, it is unclear what duties Amorim can undertake until this occurs.
  
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• How a second Trump term could further enrich Elon Musk: ‘There will be some quid pro quo’

  10-11-2024 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Experts say new government could blunt regulation and appoint officials sympathetic to Musk’s brood of companiesDonald Trump owes his decisive 2024 presidential victory in no small part to the enthusiastic support of the world’s richest man. In the months leading up to the election, Elon Musk put his full weight behind the Maga movement, advocated for Trump on major podcasts and used his influence over X to shape political discourse. Musk’s America Pac injected nearly $120m int
  
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• Government expected to help UK hospices hit by national insurance rise

  10-11-2024 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Financial lifeline could alleviate fears end-of-life services are at risk of closure from tax hike and higher wage billsThe government is likely to offer a financial lifeline to the hospice sector amid fears end-of-life care providers are at risk of closure due to the double blow of the employers’ national insurance rise and higher wage bills, the Guardian understands.Officials have been looking at the options for providing more funding to hospices and other end-of-life care through the NH
  
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• European football: Roma sack coach Ivan Juric after just 12 games in charge

  10-11-2024 18:59 via theguardian.com
  Croatian’s final match was 3-2 home loss to BolognaJulián Alvarez scores winner for Atlético Madrid Roma have sacked Ivan Juric after only 12 matches in charge. The Croatian became the second Roma head coach to be fired this season after the side’s 3-2 home defeat by Bologna on Sunday, their fourth loss in the last five league games which left them 12th in the Serie A table.“We would like to thank Ivan Juric for his hard work these past weeks,” Roma said in
  
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• Amsterdam police charge four after attack on Israeli football fans

  10-11-2024 18:58 via theguardian.com
  
  City’s police chief says ‘incidents on both sides’ led to violent unrest as ‘around 40’ fined and releasedAuthorities have released details of the 62 people arrested after violent attacks took place around the football match between Amsterdam’s Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday night.Violence after the game – described by the Amsterdam mayor, Femke Halsema, as “hit and run attacks” on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters by “boys on scooters
  
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• Dozens killed as Israeli strikes destroy home, Gaza officials say

  10-11-2024 18:48 via theguardian.com
  Gaza’s civil defence agency says 25 people killed, including 13 children, as Israel continues attacks in north of territoryIsraeli warplanes carried out more strikes in northern Gaza on Sunday, reportedly destroying a home in the Jabaliya area that had been under siege for weeks, killing and wounding dozens, including many women and children.The death toll is one of the biggest in a single strike so far in Jabaliya, where hundreds of people have died since a major Israeli operation in the
  
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• Celtic return to top of Premiership but supporters disrupt minute’s silence

  10-11-2024 18:47 via theguardian.com
  McGregor and Kühn score in 2-0 win at KilmarnockReferee Nick Walsh cuts short minute’s silenceCallum McGregor and Nicolas Kühn continued their goalscoring form to ensure Celtic emerged from a difficult test at Kilmarnock with three points and top spot in the Scottish Premiership.McGregor’s cross drifted into the net in first-half stoppage-time and Kühn sealed a 2-0 victory at Rugby Park when he finished from a tight angle in the 71st minute. It was the Celtic captain&r
  
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• Trevor Sorbie obituary

  10-11-2024 18:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Celebrity hairdresser known for his pioneering 1970s styles the Wedge and the ScrunchAfter Vidal Sassoon changed the look of women’s hair with his radical geometric cuts in the early 1960s, variants of his original shapes prevailed. Short cuts kept close to a head’s profile, longer bobs swung in movement but dropped straight as a curtain at rest.Then in 1974, Sassoon’s young artistic director, Trevor Sorbie, saw how a model’s locks fell full and chunky as he pulled a brus
  
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• From Thatcher to Trump and Brexit: my seven lessons learned after 28 years as Guardian economics editor

  10-11-2024 18:26 via theguardian.com
  
  The free market experiment has failed, free trade is out, and populism is rife but it can be defeated if the left can galvanise ideas into a credible planMargaret Thatcher was prime minister and Nigel Lawson her chancellor of the exchequer. Neil Kinnock was leader of the Labour party. The iron curtain separated Europe.Across the Atlantic, Ronald Reagan’s second term in the White House was drawing to a close. Donald Trump floated the idea that George Bush might want him as his running mate
  
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• Moscow targeted as Ukraine and Russia trade large drone attacks

  10-11-2024 18:23 via theguardian.com
  Ukrainian strike on Moscow is biggest since full-scale invasion while Russia sends wave of record 145 dronesUkraine has carried out its biggest drone strike on Moscow since Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Russian media said on Sunday, as the Kremlin launched its own record air attack over Ukraine.Three airports in the Russian capital were temporarily closed and flights were diverted. At least one person was injured. Russia said its air defences shot down 70 drones, nearly hal
  
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• Nine boats carrying 572 people intercepted while crossing Channel

  10-11-2024 18:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Total number of arrivals by small boats reaches 32,691 this year, up 22% on same time last year but fewer than in 2022Nine boats carrying 572 people have been intercepted while attempting to cross the Channel, according to the Home Office.The latest crossings come after Keir Starmer announced plans to tackle what he described as the “national security threat” of people smugglers, pledging an extra £75m and a new team of detectives. Continue reading...
  
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• England has 10th of expected sunshine amid ‘anticyclonic gloom’, Met Office says

  10-11-2024 18:19 via theguardian.com
  Grey and misty weather has been a mainstay this month – but brighter skies should arrive soonIf things have felt especially gloomy this week, it is not just the politics.The grey mist that seems to have descended is down to an outlier weather event that has been under way since the start of November, with some regions of England recording just a few minutes of sunshine this month. Continue reading...
  
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• Paul Bailey obituary

  10-11-2024 18:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Writer best known for the novel Gabriel’s Lament and a sympathetic biography of the brothel madam Cynthia PayneThe writer Paul Bailey, who has died aged 87, believed in ignoring surfaces or trying to see past them – to identify what was special about the ordinary and overlooked, and what was recognisable and understandable in the unfamiliar. His first career was in acting, and he always aimed to escape narrow egoism. Like the hero of his wonderfully entertaining novel Peter Smart&rsq
  
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• Labour advisers want lessons learned from Harris defeat: voters set the agenda

  10-11-2024 18:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Focusing on joy over voters’ concerns about economy was Harris campaign’s downfall, some Labour insiders sayThere is a tough lesson that senior Labour advisers want some of their internal party critics to learn from the Democrats’ disastrous defeat. Optimism is not the answer they think it is.When Kamala Harris’s campaign had the most momentum, the core of it was joy. And although the final weeks were dominated by darker warnings of fascism under Donald Trump, Harris retu
  
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• ‘I relate to Erin Brockovich’: postman who took on car finance world – and won

  10-11-2024 18:01 via theguardian.com
  Andrew Wrench’s case over ‘secret’ dealership commission could help UK consumers win billions in compensation Self-styled as the Erin Brockovich of the Potteries, and described by the court of appeal as “a postman with a penchant for fast cars”, Andrew Wrench is a force to be reckoned with.And while he may not be a household name yet, those who work in the multimillion-pound car-leasing industry will be all too aware of his campaigning zeal. Continue reading...
  
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• Two men killed in separate shooting and stabbing incidents in south London

  10-11-2024 17:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Two people also injured in shooting in Sydenham, while a man and a woman were injured in Walworth stabbingA man has died and two people were injured after a shooting in a residential area of south-east London, while another man died in a separate knife attack a few miles away.Police appealed for witnesses to come forward after what was described as a “senseless act of violence” in the area of Wells Park Road, Sydenham. Continue reading...
  
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• End pointless hearings in magistrates courts | Letter

  10-11-2024 17:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Janet Carter says defendants charged with ‘indictable offences’ should appear directly in crown court to avoid delays and duplication of resourcesI agree with Anthony Rogers, the chief inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service, that one answer to dealing with the crown court backlog is to consider whether more cases can be dealt with in the magistrates court (Crown court backlog in England and Wales ‘could hit 100,000 without radical overhaul’, 1 November). On the o
  
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• Leaf feud is mulch ado about nothing | Brief letters

  10-11-2024 17:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Fallen leaves | Hot-water bottles | Male incontinence | Crocodile infestationsJenny and Ed (You be the judge: should my son apologise to our neighbour for piling leaves in front of her house?, 8 November) would not have had a problem with their neighbour if they had decided to use their piles of leaves to make leaf mulch instead of leaving them piled up outside her house. You gather them in a container like a sack or wire frame, and a year later you have the most fabulous, nutritious mulch for t
  
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• Her Lotus Year by Paul French review – Wallis Simpson’s Shanghai story

  10-11-2024 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  A new account of the months Simpson spent in China debunks the well-worn gossip about sexual adventures and opium addiction and even invites admiration for a ‘buccaneering’ womanThe seemingly never-ending obsession with Wallis Simpson on the part of writers, publishers and (presumably) readers is at this point beginning to seem quite crazed. What more can there be left to say? But always, another book; and always, the Daily Mail will make the most of the scraps it dishes up. Paul Fre
  
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• Nicola Jennings on the prospects for Ukraine after Trump’s victory – cartoon

  10-11-2024 17:25 via theguardian.com
  
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• Szmodics and Delap stun Spurs as Ipswich end long wait for first win

  10-11-2024 17:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Ipswich had waited 22 and a half years for this, and how their vibrant support celebrated after nine seemingly interminable minutes of added time. It said plenty that their first Premier League win since April 2002 was entirely deserved, a clever first-half performance seeing them pull clear through goals from Sammie Szmodics and Liam Delap before they passed a test of resilience in the second.Rodrigo Bentancur’s header was all that Tottenham, disjointed throughout and never quite managing
  
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• Harvey Barnes wraps up Newcastle’s comeback win at Nottingham Forest

  10-11-2024 17:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Nottingham Forest are fishing in the waters Newcastle aspire to swim in. Two years ago, it was Eddie Howe’s team breaking up the metropolitan elite. This season, Nuno Espírito Santo’s team have been the provincial outfit punching above their weight. Newcastle, now just a point behind Forest, showed they have the capability to join the throng with a second-half comeback, courtesy of three lovely finishes.The first was a piece of striking opportunism from Alexander Isak, the sec
  
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• Remembrance and an Indonesian eruption: photos of the weekend

  10-11-2024 17:04 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Cop29: what are carbon credits and why are they so controversial?

  10-11-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Once heavily scorned because of fraud and poor outcomes, carbon trading is likely to be high on the agenda in BakuFor the next two weeks, countries will gather on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Baku, Azerbaijan, to discuss how to increase finance for climate crisis adaptation and mitigation. A global agreement on carbon markets will be high on the agenda as countries try to find ways of generating the trillions they need to decarbonise in order to limit heating to below 2C above preindustrial
  
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• Fiji surge to first victory in Cardiff as Wales’s losing run stretches to 10 Tests

  10-11-2024 16:48 via theguardian.com
  Wales 19-24 FijiCaleb Muntz stars as Fijians avenge loss at World CupAs the full-time whistle blew in Cardiff the entire Fiji team sunk onto the turf at a stadium where they had just claimed victory for the first time. They had come close in 2010 in a 16-16 draw against Wales but on a cold and cloudy day in the Welsh capital the Flying Fijians wrote another chapter in the history books. This Fijian team is one getting used to claiming records.At last year’s Rugby World Cup they reached the
  
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