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1 hour ago Menopause: Signs and symptoms to look out for, how to know if you're in the menopause and what is HRT?

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1 hour ago Weight loss jabs not ‘quick fix’ for UK worklessness, health experts warn

Scientists say using the drugs to get people back into work could carry logistical and ethical problemsWeight loss jabs are not a “quick fix” and the health secretary’s plan to use them to help people get back to work could backfire, experts have warned.Wes Streeting announced a real-world trial of the medication’s impact on worklessness this week, saying that “widening waistbands” were placing a burden on the NHS. He suggested that as well as bringing benefits to the health service, the jabs could help people get back into employment. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago African football’s governing body found to have $16m in expenses missing from accounts

Auditors’ review said to have shown missing expensesIt would put losses for year to 30 June 2023 at $25.4mThe Confederation of African Football’s audit and compliance committee has claimed that more than $16m of “unrecognised expenses” were not included in official accounts, meaning it should have posted losses of more than $25m.A letter sent to members of Caf’s executive committee last Saturday and seen by the Guardian alleges that its review of a report compiled by the external auditors EY had revealed the apparent discrepancy in the accounts for the year ending 30 June 2023. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Fury as schools are told transgender women teachers should be allowed to use female toilets and showers

The National Governance Association - which runs training for school governors and trustees - has made the suggestion in its equality and diversity course.

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4 hours ago Starmer arrives in Germany for talks on Ukraine and Middle East – UK politics live

PM meets Biden, Macron and Scholz at pivotal moment for both conflictsRachel Reeves is considering raising the tax on vaping products in her budget this month as figures show that a quarter of 11 to 15-year-olds in England have used e-cigarettes.The chancellor is looking at increasing the tax after a consultation carried out by the last Conservative government.I myself am supporting Robert Jenrick because I think he’s brought more energy and commitment to the campaign, and being leader of the opposition is a really demanding job.Much as I like Kemi, I think she’s preoccupied with her own children, quite understandably. I think Robert’s children are a bit older, and I think that it’s important that whoever leads the opposition has got an immense amount of time and energy.” Continue readi...

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4 hours ago What Real Madrid dressing room reaction to Zinedine Zidane decision tells Man Utd chiefs

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag remains under the spotlight at Old Trafford and the reaction to Zinedine Zidane's departure from Real Madrid could hint he's the right man to take over

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4 hours ago Robbie Williams shares final exchange with Liam Payne after ‘very similar’ experience under spotlight

‘I still had my demons at 31,’ wrote Take That singer

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5 hours ago Pylons rule and rural beauty is up for sale. Why do those in power so hate the countryside? | Simon Jenkins

Ed Miliband seems happy to see the landscape blighted. We value townscape – everywhere else has to fend for itselfDoes Labour believe in beauty? The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, celebrated his arrival in office this summer by permitting three of the largest solar panel arrays in Britain. One, a Suffolk array covering nearly 2,800 acres, was described by a county councillor as “the poorest infrastructure application that I have ever dealt with”.Now Miliband is demanding a procession of pylons filling the glorious Amber Valley in the Derbyshire uplands. Another parade of 420 pylons, each nearly as tall as Nelson’s column, will run down the east of England from Grimsby to Walpole, near King’s Lynn in Norfolk. The government also wants to allow the return of onshore wind turbines, overrid...

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