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Parks and gardens hold key to cooling overheated cities
Nature in urban settings can have huge impact on temperature and human behaviour, study showsParks, trees, green roofs and gardens are what scientists call nature-based solutions to cooling overheated cities. Then there are the technical solutions, solar panels, heat pumps and other ways of cutting... #press
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The dirty secret behind Tory ‘crime week’: their policies ruined policing | Gaby Hinsliff
Ministers now say the police will pursue leads on all crimes, but why wasn’t this happening already? Budget cutsThe glass was smashed, the kitchen door swinging ominously ajar. Pushing nervously through it, I already knew what I was going to find: we’d been burgled. What... #press
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Russia-Ukraine war live: Moscow stages ‘sham’ elections in illegally occupied areas of Ukraine
Russian-installed authorities held ‘illegal elections’, Ukrainian officials say, using candidates handpicked by Moscow Continue reading... #press
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Whistleblowers sacked by NHS fear no change after Lucy Letby case
Two consultants and a junior doctor expect case will make no difference to their separate claims for unfair dismissalNHS clinicians who were sacked after blowing the whistle about avoidable patient deaths say they fear lessons from the Lucy Letby murder trial have not been learned and... #press
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Tennessee woman wins record for world’s longest female mullet
Tami Manis wins Guinness world record for her 5ft 8in mullet after going 33 years without a haircutWhat does one get by going 33 years without a haircut? Tennessee’s Tami Manis knows – the world record for longest mullet on a female.Manis, 58, spoke on Thursday about her path to clinching what is arguably one of the... #press
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All of Us Strangers review – tremendous performances in a beautiful, mysterious fantasy-romance
Telluride film festival: A screenwriter whose parents were killed in a car crash in the 80s visits his childhood home to find his parents still living there, nonplussed to see him as an adultAndrew Haigh’s mysterious, beautiful and sentimental film is a fantasy-supernatural romance about... #press
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Man with Traveller heritage compensated after Conservative club refused to host christening party
Man brought discrimination claim after Park Conservative club in Cardiff said Irish Travellers were bannedA man barred from booking a christening party for his baby daughter at a Conservative club because of his Irish... #press
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Museum of London identifies man who raised alarm over Great Fire
Exhibition at museum’s new site will focus on Thomas Dagger and other ordinary Londoners caught up in 1666 infernoThe Great Fire of London, as so many schoolchildren learn, began in a bakery in Pudding Lane and prompted Samuel Pepys to bury his cheese in the garden.Less is known,... #press
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UK to pilot electronic tagging for domestic abusers leaving prison
Scheme launching in east and West Midlands is expected to be rolled out across England and Wales next yearDomestic abusers leaving prison will have to wear electronic monitoring tags in a move that the government says will offer better protection to victims.Under a pilot scheme... #press
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Beware September: five cautionary tales from economic history
From the South Sea Bubble to the undoing of Trussonomics, this month of the year keeps providing lessonsBe afraid. That’s the message from history to policymakers returning from holiday this week as they contemplate negotiating the trickiest few weeks of them all.For while TS... #press
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Singapore to choose new president amid rare political scandals
Election comes as minister faces a corruption investigation and voters express frustration with the electoral processSingaporeans will select a new president on Friday, a vote that will measure public mood at a time when the ruling party, which has been in power for more than six decades, is... #press
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Vanishing act: what happens when stars don’t show up for the red carpet?
As the Sag-Aftra strikes roll on, film schedules are being torn up and A-listers are ditching promotional duties. But what’s a film festival without the talent?Picture the scene. A journalist flying to the Venice film festival earlier this week is wheeling her luggage through... #press
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Unions urge ‘final push’ to save England’s rail ticket offices
Public consultation on cost-cutting plans ends on Friday, as drivers strike again over jobs and payUnions have urged one “final push” to save railway ticket offices from closure before the public consultation ends on Friday, when train drivers strike again.Around half a million responses have been... #press
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Will the real Vivek Ramaswamy please stand up? – podcast
He’s an entrepreneur, a former libertarian, a lover of rap, and has been labelled ‘Trump 2.0’ by some. He’s also campaigning to be the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election. So why is he polling well despite angering many?Jonathan Freedland speaks to Charlie Sykes of The Bulwark... #press
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Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI – podcast
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans Continue reading... #press
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From Fun House to Mr Majeika: the best shows CITV ever made – before closing forever
Magic hair! Dungeon masters! Melanie and Martina! ITV’s home of children’s programming made some amazing shows before shutting down. Here are the finestCITV is dead. As of today, it has been collapsed into a streaming submenu and renamed ITVX... #press
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More than a dozen people charged by US unit for threatening election workers
Justice department taskforce seeks to protect government employees, many of whom are deciding it’s ‘not worth it to stay’More than a dozen people nationally have been charged with threatening election workers by a justice department unit trying to stem the tide of violent and graphic... #press
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The curious world of the Guardian’s Experience column – podcast
Rebecca Liu discusses her role as a commissioning editor at the Guardian’s Experience column and we hear three stories from those who have been featured in the columnWhat makes a great story for the Guardian’s Experience column?“It’s sort of like what the supreme court justice said about... #press
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JPMorgan allegedly processed more than $1bn for Epstein over 16 years
Lawyers for US Virgin Islands claimed the bank reported the transactions as suspicious to the treasury following his deathA lawyer for the US Virgin Islands said on Thursday that JPMorgan Chase told US authorities it processed more than $1bn for Jeffrey Epstein over 16 years.JPMorgan reported... #press
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‘A first in Paris’: city fumigates for tiger mosquitoes as tropical pests spread, bringing disease
Parisian health authorities treat French capital for the first time as Zika and dengue-carrying tiger mosquitoes advance through northeastern EuropeHealth authorities in Paris fumigated have areas of the French capital for the first time to kill... #press
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