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Post Office workers wrongly accused of stealing still awaiting payouts

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Post Office workers wrongly accused of stealing have highlighted that many of them are still waiting...
Post Office workers wrongly accused of stealing have highlighted that many of them are still waiting for compensation four years after winning a landmark court case proving their innocence.Between 1999 and 2015 the Post Office relentlessly pursued branch owner-operators across the UK for alleged theft, fraud and fal...
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Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund Hyperverse does not appear to exist

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A chief executive officer whose claimed qualifications appear to have no basis in fact was used...
A chief executive officer whose claimed qualifications appear to have no basis in fact was used to promote the HyperVerse crypto fund, alongside celebrity messages of support, as part of a push to recruit new investors into the scheme.A Guardian Australia investigation last month revealed thousands of people have lo...
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Doctors report 'nightmare' surge in scabies across UK

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Doctors are reporting a surge in scabies cases across the UK amid an acute shortage of...
Doctors are reporting a surge in scabies cases across the UK amid an acute shortage of treatments, and say the “nightmare” situation poses a major public health threat.Scabies is a highly contagious condition caused by mites, that results in an itchy rash. It is spread through close skin contact, anyone can get it, ...
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Farnborough airport's biggest critic silenced as expansion plans continue

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For four years, Colin Shearn, a 62-year-old retired corporate executive, led the Farnborough Noise Group, a...
For four years, Colin Shearn, a 62-year-old retired corporate executive, led the Farnborough Noise Group, a watchdog for locals worried about the operations of Farnborough airport, the UK’s busiest private jet airfield.Then, one day in August, police came knocking at his door.Shearn, they claimed in a 92-page docume...
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Revealed: Almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media, study says

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Almost half of British teenagers say they feel addicted to social media, according to findings that...
Almost half of British teenagers say they feel addicted to social media, according to findings that come amid mounting pressure for big tech companies to be held accountable for the impact of their platforms on users.The finding, from the Millennium Cohort study, adds to evidence that many people feel they have lost...

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Andrew Scott halted Hamlet soliloquy after theatregoer used laptop to email

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To bcc or not to bcc – that was the question facing a theatregoer watching Andrew...
To bcc or not to bcc – that was the question facing a theatregoer watching Andrew Scott’s performance of Hamlet.The actor, best known as Fleabag’s “hot priest”, has revealed he halted the renowned soliloquy in Shakespeare’s play when an audience member took out a laptop to send emails.The actor decided not to suffer...
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Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter

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The social media platform X has lost 71% of its value since it was bought by...
The social media platform X has lost 71% of its value since it was bought by Elon Musk, according to the mutual fund Fidelity.Fidelity, which owns a stake in X Holdings, said in a disclosure obtained by Axios that it had marked down the value of its shares by 71.5% since Musk’s purchase.Musk acquired Twitter for $44...
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Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say

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Increasing numbers of people are turning to a growing black market for food to supplement their...
Increasing numbers of people are turning to a growing black market for food to supplement their diets as prices rocket, experts have said.Meat, cheese and confectionery are among the items being stolen in large quantities from shops and lorries in order to be sold to people hit by the cost of living crisis.With food...
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Japan's deadly earthquakes spark fires and destroy buildings – in pictures

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Queensland woman use electric car to run her son's dialysis machine in power cut

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An electric vehicle owner has used her car’s emergency power system to run her 11-year-old son’s...
An electric vehicle owner has used her car’s emergency power system to run her 11-year-old son’s life-saving dialysis machine and another has ridden to the rescue of his neighbours after devastating storms cut power in south-east Queensland.When the power went down after storms and flash flooding on Christmas Day, m...
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Predictions for 2024

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by Ellie BramleyFashion and lifestyle have a knack for the surprise. The out-of-the-blue rise of butter...
by Ellie BramleyFashion and lifestyle have a knack for the surprise. The out-of-the-blue rise of butter moulding, say, or the sudden coolness of a shoe with a cloven toe.Fashion followers will find inspiration from the athletes at the The Paris Olympics. Photograph: Sarah Meyssonnier/ReutersDivergence and disparaten...
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100 tiny changes to transform your life

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1. Not setting a morning alarm. During the pandemic, I found I didn’t need to set...
1. Not setting a morning alarm. During the pandemic, I found I didn’t need to set one. Now, I very rarely do. It means I don’t start the day with the hideous stress of the alarm going off – I wake up naturally, when I’ve had enough sleep. Dr Neil Stanley, sleep expert2. Listening to classical music on the radio. I u...
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Reclaim Your Brain

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undefinedA few months ago, we asked our readers a simple question: are you happy with how...
undefinedA few months ago, we asked our readers a simple question: are you happy with how much time you’re spending on your phone?We received hundreds of responses, and they made one thing clear: many of us are deeply unhappy with how much time we spend on our phones, but find it hard to pull away.Newsletter signup“...
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Social media's biggest user protest rocked Reddit

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In June, thousands of Reddit communities plunged into darkness – making their pages inaccessible to the...
In June, thousands of Reddit communities plunged into darkness – making their pages inaccessible to the public in a mass protest of corporate policy changes. Users of a social network lambasting it is nothing new; but Reddit’s moderators rebelled on a scale never seen before. Six months later, users and researchers ...
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One was a tech VC, the other was unhoused. They forged an unlikely friendship in

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Bruce Armstrong thought it was going to be an awkward call.It was the summer of 2020,...
Bruce Armstrong thought it was going to be an awkward call.It was the summer of 2020, and the San Francisco venture capitalist had responded to a newspaper ad placed by Miracle Messages, a Bay Area non-profit seeking volunteers to alleviate the social isolation of people experiencing homelessness.The ask seemed simp...
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Reams of secret poetry by pioneering British scientist come to light

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He is famous for discovering elements of the periodic table, for inventing a lamp in 1815...
He is famous for discovering elements of the periodic table, for inventing a lamp in 1815 that would save the lives of hundreds of thousands of miners and as an electrochemical pioneer.But it is the unpublished poetry of the British chemist Sir Humphry Davy – and the intriguing connections between his poems and scie...
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Brexit has failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll

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A clear majority of the British public now believes Brexit has been bad for the UK...
A clear majority of the British public now believes Brexit has been bad for the UK economy, has driven up prices in shops, and has hampered government attempts to control immigration, according to a poll by Opinium to mark the third anniversary of the UK leaving the EU single market and customs union.The survey of m...
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Google agrees to settle $5B lawsuit claiming it tracked users

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Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions...
Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who thought they were doing their browsing privately.US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, put a scheduled trial in the proposed class action, which was due to begin in February, on ho...
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World will look back at 2023 as year humanity exposed its inability to

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The hottest year in recorded history casts doubts on humanity’s ability to deal with a climate...
The hottest year in recorded history casts doubts on humanity’s ability to deal with a climate crisis of its own making, senior scientists have said.As historically high temperatures continued to be registered in many parts of the world in late December, the former Nasa scientist James Hansen told the Guardian that ...
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Academic paper based on Uyghur genetic data retracted over ethical concerns

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Concerns have been raised that academic publishers may not be doing enough to vet the ethical...
Concerns have been raised that academic publishers may not be doing enough to vet the ethical standards of research they publish, after a paper based on genetic data from China’s Uyghur population was retracted and questions were raised about several others including one that is currently published by Oxford Univers...
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"I'm a world champion pea thrower"

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I’m the eldest of four kids from Portsmouth, and, growing up, we’d all fight for our...
I’m the eldest of four kids from Portsmouth, and, growing up, we’d all fight for our father’s attention by trying to impress him in our endeavours, whether that was playing sports or singing. That competitive nature stayed with me – I’ve always enjoyed boxing and rugby, and when I joined the Royal Naval Reserve, I t...

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