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Bereaved daughter joins call to ban production of outlawed toxic weedkiller
As a child, Julie Plumley remembers seeing her father spraying weedkiller at his farm in Dorset, with his arms bare and no mask on his face.
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May 04, 2025
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Vampire bat
My week
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May 04, 2025
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Wizz Jones
Folk musician, beatnik and guitar teacher to Keith Richards
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May 04, 2025
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Flushing out refund for broken loo seat
On 1 April, I ordered a replacement toilet seat from Wise Bathrooms online.
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May 04, 2025
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Police Federation under fire for backing 'unsackable' rogue cops
Met chief enraged as staff association fights efforts to kick out officers accused of serious sexual assaults
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May 04, 2025
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Let's end this sorry tale of state neglect and make childhood magical again
Will Hutton
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May 04, 2025
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More cash added for girls' advanced maths
Girls are being held back by impostor syndrome from studying maths and science subjects that would help them get lucrative tech careers, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, has warned.
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May 04, 2025
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Irreconcilable? A father and son who might never meet again
A weary monarch and an angry prince may have boxed themselves into a position that will prove impossible to change, reports
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May 04, 2025
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How Canada rediscovered patriotism, thanks to Trump Margaret MacMillan
Donald Trump is taking credit for the Liberal victory in Canada. Mark Carney, he purrs, is “a nice gentleman” who called and, in words that sound suspiciously like the president’s own, said: “Let’s make a deal.”
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May 04, 2025
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Labour plots immigration blitz after Reform success at polls
No 10 and Home Office expected to ramp up curbs on foreign university students
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May 04, 2025
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Labour and Tories could be swept away by a turquoise wave
A turquoise tidal wave broke across England this week.
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May 04, 2025
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A hospice? I'd rather chase my dreams and sail solo around the British Isles
This 26-year-old has months to live. And she will face that challenge, she tells Alastair Hignell, by climbing into a boat named Fear, sailing into the English Channel - then 'turning right'
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May 04, 2025
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The Ambassador – the ultimate reality show for top Trumps
It's the sort of series finale that Mark Burnett would have tried to script for The Apprentice: two heavyweight candidates with very different styles, vying for a role as Donald Trump's top man in London.
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May 04, 2025
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Anna Wintour
The most influential figure in fashion has no plans to give up her front-row spot.
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May 04, 2025
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Russia sabotage squads ramp up attacks to spook the west
Experts say government needs to prepare for possible attacks on infrastructure after a string of operations in Europe linked to Russia
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May 04, 2025
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The fight for the right to have rights
What happened? Why did it happen? How could it have happened?” asked Hannah Arendt in a preface to The Origins of Totalitarianism. These were “questions with which my generation had been forced to live for the better part of its adult life”.
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May 04, 2025
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Adiós to the siesta as new Latino wave transforms life in the Spanish capital
Fleeing turmoil or lured by the economy, more than a million South Americans call the city home,
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May 04, 2025
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State-funded care found to be putting poor patients at risk
The first time Martina Hanouskova heard about her mother Anna's pressure sore was when she dropped by to see her in Dane View nursing home in Leicester. She had visited her in the previous two days, but staff at the private home had not mentioned the ulcer, which had become so severe that Anna couldn't leave her bed.
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May 04, 2025
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Wounded Harry's appeal to his family deserves a magnanimous response
COMMENTARY
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May 04, 2025
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America's 'Grinch' tariffs threaten Christmas
\"Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,\" was Donald Trump's grim prediction for how the tariff war he has started may hit American kids. But it's not just Barbies and Kens. Toys of every kind, and even the orgy of consumption that is the traditional American Christmas, are at risk.
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May 04, 2025
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Note to party leaders: let Farage get in your heads and you are doomed
What is Nigel Farage’s superpower? It is not a talent for government, because the old blowhard has never been so much as the parliamentary undersecretary for paper clips.
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May 04, 2025
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You and I are gonna live for ever ... as avatars, at least
For $199, you can live for ever. At least that’s the promise of an app called HereAfter AI, which might let you haunt your family for generations.
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May 04, 2025
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Neom's advisers worry as future under review
Is an emergency review of project costs the beginning of the end for the $500bn boondoggle in the Saudi Arabian desert, asks
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May 04, 2025
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Hackers boast of ransom attacks on high street chains
A computer hacking “cartel” has claimed credit for attacks on Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods.
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May 04, 2025
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Trump's first 100 days
At a rally to mark the first three months of the second coming of Donald Trump, the US president claimed that it had been “the most successful first 100 days of any administration in the history of our country”.
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May 04, 2025
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British businesses fear US-style wave of crypto 'debanking'
A senior employee of a publicly listed, UK-registered crypto company struggles to get a mortgage because his salary is paid by a crypto business.
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May 04, 2025
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Robots at No 10: Starmer forges ahead with Al to 'rewire' the state
A data science unit of 'disruptors and innovators' starts work in Downing Street this week. Its Cummings-esque mission? Reinvent how government operates
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April 27, 2025
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'Heartbreaking': Columbia tears itself apart in a futile struggle to make nice with Maga
Confronted with a hostile government, the liberal bastion at first capitulated then seemed to backtrack.
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April 27, 2025
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A hip op ruined my trip but the insurer won't pay
I have been waiting four months for a payout on my travel policy after I had to cancel my holiday to have a hip replacement.
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April 27, 2025
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BP back in deep water as hedge fund demands spending cuts
BP’s boss, Murray Auchincloss, may be forced to scrap the oil firm’s share buyback programme over the next year unless oil prices recover, analysts say. Results for the Q1 are due on Tuesday and the picture isn’t pretty.
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