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Water firms prepare emergency plans in case of severe 2026 drought
Water companies and the government are drawing up emergency plans for a drought next year more extreme than any experienced in decades.
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November 08, 2025
The Guardian
Ex-footballer Barton guilty over abusive posts on social media
The former footballer Joey Barton has been found guilty of six counts of sending a grossly offensive electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety.
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November 08, 2025
The Guardian
Man jailed for giving fake Russian spies information about Shapps
A man found guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service after handing over personal details of the then defence secretary, Grant Shapps, to undercover officers he believed to be Russian agents has been jailed for seven years.
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November 08, 2025
The Guardian
Another 2,000 Italians make 100 not out as centenarian numbers surge
The number of people in Italy living to the age of 100 has continued to grow sharply, with more than 2,000 reaching the milestone age in 2025, the vast majority of them women.
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November 08, 2025
The Guardian
China set to lift ban on chip exports to EU carmakers after US deal
The vital flow of chips from China to the car industry in Europe looks poised to resume as part of the deal struck last week between Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
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November 08, 2025
The Guardian
ITV has long been ripe for an offer - but ComCast’s £1.6bn may not be the right one
Do a sum-of-the-parts analysis on ITV, City analysts have been saying for years, and you can come up with valuations way above the depressed share price. It’s just a question of someone making a decent offer for one of the two halves of the corporate entity - either ITV Studios, the production side that makes programmes such as Coronation Street, or the division that actually broadcasts the content and sells the advertising slots.
3 min |
November 08, 2025
The Guardian
SNP Sturgeon 'had no idea' about alleged wrongdoing within party
Nicola Sturgeon has said she fully understands why many people find it hard to believe she had no idea about alleged embezzlement within the Scottish National party given the close links to her domestic life, but has insisted this is the case.
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November 08, 2025
The Guardian
Reeves warned cutting funds for home insulation would hit the poor
Rachel Reeves has been warned that cutting funding for home insulation at the budget would put Britain's climate goals at risk and hit low-income households in a joint intervention by energy firms, fuel poverty charities and environmental groups.
3 min |
November 08, 2025
The Guardian
Police rearrest sex offender released from prison in error
A convicted sex offender who was released from prison by mistake a week ago is back in custody.
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November 08, 2025
The Guardian
Mediterranean rescue NGOs cut links to Libya coastguard
More than a dozen NGO rescue vessels operating in the Mediterranean have suspended communication with the Libyan coastguard, citing escalating incidents of asylum seekers being violently intercepted at sea and taken to camps rife with torture, rape and forced labour.
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November 08, 2025
The Guardian
AI-powered nimbyism could make planning system 'grind to a halt'
Official plans to use artificial intelligence to speed up planning for new homes may be about to run into an unexpected roadblock: AI-powered nimbyism.
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November 08, 2025
The Guardian
Toby Carvery urged to fund 'life support' for felled oak
The restaurant chain Toby Carvery is being urged to pay for “life support” for an ancient oak tree that it chainsawed last spring, to widespread public dismay.
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November 08, 2025
The Guardian
Ex-soldier in extradition case over woman killed in Kenya
A man appeared in court yesterday for extradition proceedings in the case of a Kenyan woman killed near a British army base in 2012.
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November 08, 2025
The Guardian
Cocktail fashion to a T
Casual top has a glow-up for the party season
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November 08, 2025
The Guardian
Who wants what? Delegates likely to clash over targets and costs
Deciding to host a conference for 50,000 people in a small city in the Amazon rainforest was always going to be a controversial decision but Brazil is determined to carry it off.
4 min |
November 07, 2025
The Guardian
Walsh lives up to star billing and emerges toast of Ashes series
Likened to LeBron James, Australia’s talisman has left alasting legacy in England amid gloom of sport's future
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November 07, 2025
The Guardian
Gold fonts cause offence
Oval Office gets new cursive sign
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November 07, 2025
The Guardian
ICC prosecutor's alleged victim 'was spied on'
The woman who has accused the prosecutor of the international criminal court of sexual abuse has been targeted by private intelligence firms as part of a covert operation said to have taken place on behalf of Qatar.
4 min |
November 07, 2025
The Guardian
Taking the peace The football we love is about Van de Ven magic not Infantino's bizarre next prize
A perfectly friendly-looking American guy, sharp suit, early 50s is wandering around Miami.
4 min |
November 07, 2025
The Guardian
Maatsen and Malen help Villa avoid more controversy with goals in comfortable win
The prevailing sense was of relief that, after all the breathless conjecture and discussion that had dominated the nation's news cycle at times, an event with no real winners passed safely.
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November 07, 2025
The Guardian
Big police presence at demo Six arrested in protests outside Villa Park after away fans ban
Six people were arrested during protests outside Villa Park last night after Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were banned on safety grounds from attending the Europa League match, sparking intense controversy.
2 min |
November 07, 2025
The Guardian
Powell in challenge to Reeves over tax plans
Labour should stand by its manifesto commitment not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT, the party's deputy leader, Lucy Powell, has said, in a challenge that will put pressure on Rachel Reeves.
4 min |
November 07, 2025
The Guardian
Despairing and unforgettable: the bleak vision of a genius
In 1971, at the age of 48, the American photographer Diane Arbus killed herself.
2 min |
November 07, 2025
The Guardian
Belgian security council meets to discuss airport drone chaos
Belgium's national security council held an emergency meeting yesterday after drone sightings at airports caused chaos for travellers and raised security concerns.
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November 07, 2025
The Guardian
Missing 1.5C climate target a 'moral failure'
The failure to limit global heating to 1.5C is a “moral failure and deadly negligence”, the UN secretary general has said at the opening session of the Cop30 summit in Belém, Brazil.
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November 07, 2025
The Guardian
Ukraine faces 'forever war' if Europe does not pile pressure on Russia - ex-Nato chief
Ukraine is facing a \"forever war\" and a slow erosion of territory unless Europe dramatically increases pressure on Russia, including by deploying troops and establishing a missile and drone shield on Nato territory to protect Ukraine from attacks on its infrastructure, a former Nato secretary general has said.
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November 07, 2025
The Guardian
Tributes to Pelosi after veteran politician says she will retire from Congress
Nancy Pelosi, a California Democratic representative and the first woman to serve as speaker, announced yesterday she would retire from Congress, two years after stepping down from House leadership.
5 min |
November 07, 2025
The Guardian
Interest rates held at 4% as Bank paves way for cut in December
The Bank of England has opened the door to a December interest rate cut after signalling inflation had peaked as it kept borrowing costs unchanged before Rachel Reeves's make-orbreak budget.
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November 07, 2025
The Guardian
Bulldozing the past The Mumbai slum dwellers who fear extinction in a city of luxury high-rises
For months, the threatening phone calls kept coming. First, allegedly from an ex-police officer and a retired army general, and then from the police themselves.
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November 07, 2025
The Guardian
Philippines declares 'state of national calamity' after deadly typhoon
The Philippine president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, declared a state of emergency yesterday after Typhoon Kalmaegi left at least 114 people dead and many missing in central provinces in the deadliest natural disaster to hit the country this year.
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