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Heckling: How to deal with it during a comedy show
Comedian Ian Smith offers advice on how to handle a heckler during a gig.
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What are your rights on university initiation ceremonies
The dad of a student who died after a uni initiation is calling for expulsions, but what are the rules?
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Hugh Jackman to tour with songs from The Greatest Showman
The Wolverine star will also perform songs from Les Miserables and other Broadway shows.
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Brexit Barometer: How are small businesses feeling?
5 Live is getting the views of people across the UK.
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Southwest Airlines apologises for mocking girl's name
Southwest Airlines has offered its "sincere apology" after staff mocked five-year-old Abcde Redford.
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Why maternity leave can be harder and lonelier than you imagine
Maternity leave is often seen as an idyllic time but the reality is much harder, says BBC presenter Emma Barnett.
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The French village that fears for its British community
Alet-les-Bains has benefited from a British influx and many there fear the aftermath of Brexit.
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British Teenager Charged Over Assault of 15-Year-Old Syrian Refugee
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Syria state TV says air defenses repelled missile attack
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's air defenses confronted an aerial "aggression" over the country's south late Thursday, shooting down several targets and preventing them from carrying out their mission in the first such attack since Syria received a Russian air defense system last month, state TV said.
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Town threatens to shut down man's Christmas lights
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Tour Brian Atwood and Dr. Jake Deutsch's Striking NYC Apartment
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Twitter Users Hurl The Holly After Trump Is Hailed For Bringing ‘Christmas Back’
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Ivanka Trump Says 'Lock Her Up' Doesn't Apply To Her
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'Unruly' young boy upstages Pope Francis
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What the Movies Taught Me About Being a Woman
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Australian Students Stage School Strikes Over Climate Change Inaction
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Oklahoma Quarterback Kyler Murray Nears the End of a Two-Sport Career
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Word + Quiz: subterfuge
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The Beauty of Brazil’s Rain Forest, in Jewelry
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Emerald and Gold Jewelry Pushes Up Quality at the Met Shop
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She Calls Her Stock ‘Jewelry, Made by Artists’
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The Secret History of Women, Told in Earrings
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Will Blockchain Be a Boon to the Jewelry Industry?
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The Canadian Jeweler Who Caught Meghan Markle’s Eye
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Auction Houses Grow a Different Kind of Jewelry Sale
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Grindr President Defends Same-Sex Marriage Comments
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Theresa May rules out Norway-style Brexit compromise with Labour
En route to the G20, PM rejects plan B and accuses Labour of wanting to leave country with no deal
Theresa May has ruled out any plan B involving a Norway-style compromise deal with the Labour party in order to deliver a parliamentary consensus on Brexit, saying the opposition party’s refusal to accept the backstop arrangement put the UK on a course for no deal.
Influential backbenchers, including former Tory minister Nick Boles and Labour’s Stephen Kinnock, have been developing a compromise proposal based on membership of the European Economic Area plus a negotiated customs union, believing it is the only version of Brexit that could attract enough Labour and Tory votes to deliver a parliamentary majority.
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Friday briefing: Who's not meeting who at the G20
PM plunges into fraught summit featuring Trump, Putin and Salman … US president lashes out as Cohen makes plea deal … and a new house for £65,000
Hello on a Friday. It’s Warren Murray hitting the tarmac with a packed agenda.
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G20 summit: can world leaders find unity – or is it simply showboating?
Now in its 10th year, a forum intended to secure global governance has become a stage for increasingly populist leaders
The leaders from the world’s 20 biggest economies converge on Buenos Aires on Friday looking for consensus on the global flows of trade and investment – at a time when such consensus has been increasingly difficult to come by.
Ten years on from the first G20 summit – convened in an effort to alleviate the global financial crisis – the Argentinian hosts are struggling to find common ground among the heads of state and government representing 19 of the biggest national economies and the EU – 85% of global economic output.
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UK rail fares to rise 3.1% in new year
Campaigners call for price freeze after year of disruption, with worst punctuality figures in a decade
UK rail fares will rise by 3.1% in January, the industry body the Rail Delivery Group has said.
New fares for all tickets to take effect from 2 January 2019, published on Friday, show an average rise that will add more than £100 to many commuters’ annual season tickets.
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Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress over Trump project in Russia
Former legal fixer said Trump continued trying to develop tower in Moscow months into presidential campaign
One of Donald Trump’s closest advisers spoke with a Kremlin official about securing Russian government support for a planned Trump Tower in Moscow during the 2016 presidential election campaign, he said on Thursday.
Michael Cohen, who served as Trump’s legal fixer for more than a decade, said in an explosive testimony that Trump continued trying to develop a tower in Russia’s capital months into his campaign for the presidency – contradicting Trump’s account.
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GPs to prescribe very low calorie diets in hope of reversing diabetes
NHS prevention programme in England to invite 5,000 people with type 2 to take part in trial
Thousands of people are to be offered a very low calorie diet (VLCD) by their GPs in the hope of reversing their type 2 diabetes, NHS England has announced.
The 800-calories-a-day regimen, made up of soups and shakes, has been shown to help people lose excess weight that has caused fat to build up around their internal organs including the pancreas, leading to type 2 diabetes. About 10% of the NHS budget is spent on treating diabetes, which can have serious complications including blindness and the need for amputation.
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Sadiq Khan under pressure to stop Met police's gun patrols plan
The proposal, in response to violent crime, is supposed to increase public confidence but has been criticised
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has come under pressure to order Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, to stop plans for officers to patrol residential areas of the city with their guns on show.
The plans being considered by the Met are supposed to boost community confidence and public safety, but triggered swinging criticism on Thursday night.
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Female genital mutilation cases more than double in a year in UK
Social work assessments show ‘alarming rise’ to 1,960 cases reported in 2017-18
The number of girls in England who have experienced or are believed to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) has more than doubled in a year, according to assessments by council social workers.
Analysis of government figures shows that FGM featured in 1,960 social work assessments in 2017-18 – more than twice the 970 cases reported in the previous year.
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Tory-run Northamptonshire county council bailed out by government
Permission granted to spend £60m cash received from sale of HQ
The government has in effect bailed out Tory-run Northamptonshire county council after giving it unprecedented permission to spend up to £60m of cash received from the sale of its HQ on funding day-to-day services.
The highly unusual move – accounting rules normally prevent councils using capital receipts in this way – means the crisis-hit authority is likely to escape falling into insolvency for the third time in less than a year.
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Study suggests rate of foetal alcohol syndrome disorder higher than thought
Up to 17% of children could have symptoms of FASD through mothers drinking during pregnancy, says new report
Up to 17% of children could have the symptoms of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) because their mothers drank during pregnancy, according to a new study, whose findings were criticised for potentially causing pregnant women to panic and seek an abortion.
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder is diagnosed from a collection of mental and physical problems in a child, including some distinctive facial features, such as a small head, small eyes and a thin upper lip. It can be associated with learning difficulties and mood problems.
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'UK housebuilding revolution': £65,000 prefab homes go into production
Two Yorkshire factories try to tackle housing crisis with modular two and three-bedroom homes
The UK is entering a new era of prefab homes with the opening of a Yorkshire factory that will build fully-fitted three-bedroom homes with a price tag as low as £65,000.
Eight houses fitted with kitchens and bathrooms will roll off the production line every day in Knaresborough, to be loaded on to lorries for delivery across the country. Experts have hailed it a revolution in British housebuilding that would slash the 40 weeks it could take to build a traditional home to just 10 days.
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The G20: Donald Trump and the rise of the strongmen
How did a forum for global cooperation become a stage for authoritarians? The Guardian world affairs editor, Julian Borger, analyses the G20 ahead of the summit in Buenos Aires with the help of the Guardian’s foreign correspondents. Plus William Davies on why we stopped trusting elites
When the G20 first met in 2008, it was in the heat of a global economic meltdown as world leaders worked together to help stabilise the plunging financial markets. But for the G20’s 10th birthday summit, the mood around the table has changed. Some of the biggest countries including the US, China, Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are run by populist autocrats and authoritarians.
Joining Anushka Asthana is the Guardian’s world affairs editor, Julian Borger, who is in Buenos Aires for the summit. He says the focus will be on a series of bilateral relationships, particularly between Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. We hear from the Guardian’s foreign correspondents Tania Branigan, Andrew Roth and Martin Chulov.
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North Sentinel Island and the strange death of John Allen Chau – podcast
The death of an American missionary on a remote Indian island has sparked a backlash in India. The Guardian’s Michael Safi describes how John Allen Chau was killed after trying to preach Christianity to one of the world’s last remaining indigenous societies who live in total isolation. Plus John Harris on the trouble with Airbnb
John Allen Chau was last seen alive on the morning of 16 November. He had paid a group of fishermen to take him to the remote Indian island of North Sentinel, where a tribe is thought to have lived for more than 30,000 years with barely any outside contact.
The Guardian’s Michael Safi has been following the case, which has drawn interest from across the globe and caused uproar in India. He traces the story of the Sentinelese and their contact with colonialists and anthropologists, which foreshadowed the events of this month.
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Has France fallen out of love with Emmanuel Macron?
France has been gripped by protests sparked by anger over fuel tax rises, which have mushroomed into demonstrations against the ruling class. The Guardian’s Angelique Chrisafis has been covering what were supposed to be peaceful protests. Plus: Owen Jones argues that if a ‘Brexit betrayal’ narrative takes hold, Britain’s far right is poised to capitalise
When French voters elected Emmanuel Macron in May 2017, there was hope that a populist trend in Europe had been bucked and a youthful reformist president became a shining example of what was still possible in centrist politics.
But things have soured. Now France has been gripped by protests sparked by anger over fuel tax rises, which have mushroomed into demonstrations against the ruling class. The Guardian’s Paris correspondent, Angelique Chrisafis, has been following the Macron presidency and watching as his approval ratings have plummeted.
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Matthew McConaughey: ‘I’ve never done a film that’s lived up to what I imagined’
The actor’s McConaissance, his rebirth as a grizzled character actor, has won him widespread acclaim. He talks about career wobbles, his work with young offenders – and why he’s never truly satisfied with his work
At this point, the sight of Matthew McConaughey scuffed up and scuzzy, without a tan but with a shirt, is no longer a shock. It has been seven years since the McConaissance that saw the actor stop (or, at least, curb) toplessness to be conciously reborn as a grizzled character actor.
But what remains surprising is just how low – or rather high – he is now willing to go. Previous roles of the McConaissance (“I don’t mind the word,” he grins. “It’s got a good metre”) have seen him embrace fried-chicken greased vileness (trailer-trash thriller Killer Joe), pot-bellied greed (mining saga Gold) and life as an emaciated rodeo redneck (Aids drama Dallas Buyers Club). But they have still always been heroes on some level, even if there are a lot of caveats. Underneath it all, they are winners.
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Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo
Are you sitting comfortably? Many people are not – and they insist that the way we’ve been going to the toilet is all wrong. By Alex Blasdel
For their 27th wedding anniversary, the Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston gave his wife, Robin, a gift that promises “to give you the best poop of your life, guaranteed”. The Squatty Potty is a wildly popular seven-inch-high plastic stool, designed by a devout Mormon and her son, which curves around the base of your loo. By propping your feet on it while you crap, you raise your knees above your hips. From this semi-squat position, the centuries-old seated toilet is transformed into something more primordial, like a hole in the ground. The family that makes the Squatty Potty says this posture unfurls your colon and gives your faecal matter a clear run from your gut to the bowl, reducing bloating, constipation and the straining that causes haemorrhoids. Musing about the gift on one of America’s daytime talk shows in 2016, Cranston said: “Elimination is love.”
More than 5m Squatty Potties have been sold since they first crept on to the market in 2011. Celebrities such as Sally Field and Jimmy Kimmel have raved about them, and the basketball sensation Stephen Curry put one in every bathroom of his house. “I had, like, a full elimination,” Howard Stern, the celebrity shock jock, said after he first used one, in 2013. “It was unbelievable. I felt empty. I was like, ‘Holy shit.’” The Squatty Potty has been the subject of jokes on Saturday Night Live, and of adulation by the queen of drag queens, RuPaul. This January, after Squatty Potty LLC hit $33m in annual revenues, the business channel CNBC, which helped bring the footstool to fame through its US version of Dragon’s Den, hailed the device as a “cult juggernaut”.
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A cure for HIV is in sight as science chases the holy grail
Medical research enters a new era to find ways to eradicate HIV from infected populations
More than 50 years after it jumped the species barrier and became one of the most devastating viruses to affect mankind, HIV remains a stubborn adversary. Treatment has improved dramatically over the past 20 years, but people who are infected will remain so for the rest of their lives, and must take one pill daily – at one time it was a cocktail of 30.
But now, as another World Aids Day pulls into view, scientists are beginning to ask if the biggest breakthrough – an out-and-out cure for the tens of millions who have contracted the virus – could be in sight.
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Christopher Wylie: 'The fashion industry was crucial to the election of Donald Trump'
The Cambridge Analytica whistleblower reveals how certain brands were weaponised during the US election campaign
Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who exposed the widespread misuse of data by his former employer, Cambridge Analytica, has revealed how the company “weaponised” the fashion industry in the run up to the 2016 US election, which he claims helped Donald Trump get elected.
Speaking at the annual BoF Voices festival in Oxfordshire, Wylie revealed for the first time a matrix based on data collected by the firm which he claims can show how users’ preferences for particular brands on social media platforms – Facebook, in particular – were then used to help target these same users with pro-Trump messaging. He compared the misuse of fashion-based data as one of the campaign’s lesser reported “weapons of mass destruction”.
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'It’s the only way forward': Madrid bans polluting vehicles from city centre
From Friday, only vehicles producing zero emissions will be allowed to drive freely in downtown Madrid – making it a pollution pioneer in Europe
By 10.15 on Wednesday morning, Enrique Pelagio had parked his lorry in the chic Madrid neighbourhood of Chueca and was stacking the trolley that would bring the local cafes, bars and restaurants their daily bread and pastries.
Across the road was the van from the fruit and veg shop, while near the craft beer place sat a red delivery truck from the ubiquitous Mahou brewery.
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Battle for Merkel's throne intensifies as candidates pitch to party faithful
Historic CDU vote on successor could help determine the future of Germany – and Europe
It has been described as the cliffhanger of the year, a battle that has left Germany – and Europe – on the edge of its seat. At stake, say some, is nothing less than the future direction of both country and continent.
On Saturday 8 December, Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) will vote on a successor to Angela Merkel, one of the world’s most formidable leaders, who is stepping down after 18 years in charge of the party and 13 as chancellor.
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The man on a mission to get New Zealand's Māori out of prison
Kelvin Davis is from the Ngāpuhi tribe, who make up about half of the nation’s Māori prison population. He is also the corrections minister
Kelvin Davis describes himself as a member of “the most incarcerated tribe in the world”. The former teacher grew up in New Zealand’s deprived Northland region and has seen childhood friends, schoolmates and relatives locked away.
Appointed the country’s corrections minister in 2017, he is now on a mission to empty the nation’s prisons of Māori inmates. And after just eight months with Davis in the job, the overall prison population has dropped by 8%.
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Doll's house by architect of MI6 HQ up for auction
Sir Terry Farrell’s son, who inspired design when he was eight, says he may bid for item
A doll’s house designed in 1981 by Sir Terry Farrell, the architect of the MI6 headquarters, partly to send up the hi-tech architectural style employed by his rivals Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, is to be auctioned.
The 176cm-tall structure is made up of angular platforms, escape hatches and landing pads and features space toys and figures. It was inspired by a sketch by Farrell’s son Max, then eight, who suggested a “space city”.
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Britain is divided by more than Brexit and won’t back Theresa May’s deal | Deborah Mattinson
There are four Brexit tribes, not two – any poll focusing on a binary choice ignores the pain austerity has inflicted
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“The polls called the referendum wrong” is a common misapprehension. In fact, while they were clearly wrong in the past two general elections, opinion polls were mostly right – at least within a margin of error – all the way through the 2016 referendum campaign. Although most commentators chose to interpret the polls through the prism of their own confirmation bias (what their friends thought would happen), and therefore assumed remain would walk it, the eventual close-run win for leave was fairly well predicted.
Latest polling suggests that remain has improved its showing a little – although the net result is still “neck and neck”, too close to call. The problem with most polls, however, is not that they might be wrong but that they mask how polarised British voters’ views have become.
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UK aid to Yemen is eclipsed by weapons sales to the Saudi coalition
UK aid to Yemen is eclipsed by the billions brought in through the bungling, deceitful sale of British weapons to Saudi Arabia
The war in Yemen has killed as many as 57,000 people since March 2015, left 8.4 million people surviving on food aid and created a cholera epidemic. The British government claims to have been at the forefront of international humanitarian assistance, giving more than £570m to Yemen in bilateral aid since the war began.
Yet the financial value of aid is a drop in the ocean compared with the value of weapons sold to the Saudi-led coalition – licences worth at least £4.7bn of arms exports to Saudi Arabia and £860m to its coalition partners since the start of the war. Relatively speaking, aid has been little more than a sticking plaster on the death, injury, destruction, displacement, famine and disease inflicted on Yemen by an entirely manmade disaster.
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If a house price crash sounds like good news, you should think again | Gaby Hinsliff
Dire warnings of a no-deal Brexit could be seen as helpful to first-time buyers. But a downturn would hurt those who can least afford it the most
House prices are falling. Those words feel like the first fat drops of rain, falling after a long summer drought, bringing not so much sadness as sweet relief. The housing market has been running far too hot for too long. Lives and prospects are parched. A change in the weather is surely just what everyone needed.
Besides, the 1.7% fall in average house prices recorded by property website Rightmove this month sounds like more of a light shower than a monsoon, especially as it mainly affected London and the commuter hotspots of the south-east. If nervousness about what’s going to happen after Brexit is forcing greedy homeowners to be a bit more realistic, or developers to think twice about converting city landmarks into obscenely expensive flats for the super-rich, then arguably that’s all to the good.
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Brace yourself, Britain. Brexit is about to teach you what a crisis actually is | David Bennun
Seven decades of prosperity have lulled the UK into thinking we’re special – that disasters only happen to other people
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Most British people don’t have the first inkling of what a crisis is. They think it’s a political thing. “Government in crisis”, and so on. Whatever happens at the top, life will go on as ever. There will be food in the shops, medical supplies in the hospitals, water in the taps and order on the streets (as much as there usually is). Anyone who warns you otherwise is a catastrophist, a drama queen, a scaremonger, a Cassandra.
That’s what a seven-decade period of general peace and collective prosperity does for you. It makes you think it’s normal, rather than a hard-won, fragile rarity in history. It makes most people complacent, and turns a small but unfortunately influential number into the kind of adolescent romantics who think you can smash up everything in the house and stick two fingers up to Mummy and Daddy because, no matter what you do, they will always be there to make it right in the end. Mummy and Daddy won’t let anything too bad happen to us.
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A zip wire for the Lake District is nothing short of vandalism | Simon Jenkins
The proposal for the Honister Pass has been approved by the park authorities. But profit cannot triumph over beauty
The Honister Pass, from Borrowdale to Buttermere, links the two loveliest places in England. It is a ravine of exquisite ruggedness, a retreat from the crowds of Windermere and Keswick. In the national gallery of scenery, Honister is the Mona Lisa. To whom does this beauty belong? The answer is supposedly to us all, guarded by the Lake District national park. But it is claimed by a company that, it appears, wishes to exploit the existing slate mine at the pass’s summit with a kilometre-long zip wire down one side of it. The structure would be on the slopes of Fleetwith Pike, in the heart of wildest Cumbria, backing on to Pillar and Scafell and looking across to Dale Head and the Cat Bells ridge.
The mine’s present owners run it as a successful tourist business, which I admire. Their plan to increase their appeal with a zip wire has been twice rejected by the park authority as harming “the remoteness, tranquillity and wildness” of the pass. The owners, it seems, refused to accept this, and the authority has now caved in and let them go ahead. The only hope lies with the planning minister, James Brokenshire, calling in the decision.
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The joy of not finishing books: if you don't like it, don't read it
You simply will not read every book in your lifetime
Not enjoying that book you’re reading?
Quit. It’s okay. You’re allowed to do it.
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Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend
Liverpool’s problems could worsen in the derby, Ranieri returns to the Bridge and Newcastle fans plan a walk-in protest
Maybe the table never lies but it sure can mislead. Perhaps Liverpool are the second-best team in the Premier League at the moment but that does not mean they are very good. So far in the league they have been unbeaten and unconvincing. The main problem is their midfield, which lacks ingenuity and suffers from waning dynamism. Jürgen Klopp has not overhauled it swiftly enough, though at least he has started Xherdan Shaqiri in the last two leagues games to bring more inventiveness. But he deployed Jordan Henderson, James Milner and Gigi Wijnaldum for Wednesday’s lame Champions League defeat in Paris. Henderson is suspended for Sunday’s Merseyside derby so there’s no need for him to be dropped. But there’s a good case for sidelining Wijnaldum and even Milner to go with a midfield trio of Shaqiri, Naby Keïta and Fabinho. That would partly be an expression of faith in the ability of the last two to produce their best form, which has so far eluded them in the early, stop-start days of their careers at Liverpool. Everton, meanwhile, are looking increasingly formidable. If Idrissa Gueye and André Gomes run midfield, as they may well do, then Everton could win at Anfield for the first time this century. PD
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PFA received complaint claiming Gordon Taylor referred to black footballers as ‘coloured’
• PFA chief denies he said it or would use such language
• Outdated language claim brings leadership back into spotlight
• No suggestion union leader is racist
Gordon Taylor’s leadership of the Professional Footballers’ Association is back in the spotlight after it emerged a complaint was made that he referred to black players as “coloured” at an event arranged to promote diversity and racial equality.
Taylor has told the PFA he cannot recall using the alleged term when giving a talk almost a year ago. A spokesperson for the players’ union said: “Gordon firmly believes he didn’t say it and it is not language he would ever use. He has led in this area for 40 years and understands fully the sensitivities.”
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Syria did not shoot down Israeli war plane: RIA cites source
Syrian air defenses shot down several targets but did not shoot down an Israeli war plane on Thursday, Russia's RIA news agency cited an unnamed Syrian security source as saying on Friday.
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Sri Lanka parliament halts ministers' salaries to hinder disputed PM
Sri Lanka's parliament on Friday voted to halt payment of ministers' salaries and travel expenses, but it remained unclear how the move would impact the disputed government of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa whose ministers boycotted the vote.
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Merkel protege and old rival battle to lead Germany's ruling party
The race to succeed Angela Merkel as leader of Germany's ruling conservatives, and take pole position to succeed her as chancellor, is going down to the wire.
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Australian kids walk out of school to protest climate inaction
Thousands of children walked out of school across Australia on Friday in protest against government inaction on climate change, prompting a rebuke from a minister who said they were setting themselves up for "failure".
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Angry Indian farmers march on parliament to denounce their plight
Tens of thousands of Indian farmers and rural workers marched to the Indian parliament in the capital, New Delhi, on Friday in a protest against soaring operating costs and plunging produce prices that have brought misery to many.
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Germany checking if Merkel's plane woes had 'criminal' cause: paper
German investigators are checking whether there was any criminal cause behind the malfunction of a plane carrying Chancellor Angela Merkel to the G20 summit in Argentina, German newspaper Rheinische Post reported on Friday, citing security sources.
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