83 minutes ago Dying teacher sends heartwrenching letter urging MPs to vote for assisted dying

Nathaniel Dye, 38, whose stage 4 incurable bowel cancer has spread to his brain, said it would break his heart if assisted dying laws didn’t pass on the grounds of costs

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97 minutes ago Prime Finds: Top Black Friday deals on Amazon that rival other retailers, from Ninja to Kodak

Amazon has launched its Black Friday week sale, and as part of her Prime Finds series, Shopping Writer Meghan has scoured the deals to find you the best of the best to rival other sellers

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2 hours ago Prime Finds: Black Friday deals from the likes of Kodak and Logitech that beat other retailers

In this week's installment of her Prime Finds series, Shopping Writer Meghan has found some of the best Black Friday deals on Amazon that rival other retailers

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3 hours ago ‘The air is killing us’: why Delhi’s pollution problem runs deeper than smog season

Leaders of Indian capital must tackle transport and heavy industry rather than seek quick fixes, say campaignersAs winter sets in across north India – usually around the time of the country’s biggest festival, Diwali – the air in Delhi becomes thick and brown with visible pollutants. To breathe in is to taste toxic fumes. The visibility is often so bad that famous monuments are reduced to smoky blurs on the horizon. It is, as one writer once put it, as if a burial shroud has cloaked the city.For a decade, Delhi has regularly held the dishonourable title of being the world’s most polluted city, with other Indian cities close behind. A recent study calculated that the 30 million people living in and around the capital could have almost 12 years taken off their lives due to its catastrophi...

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4 hours ago Return To Paradise's new Detective Inspector star Anna Samson revealed vicious trolling in open letter to fans

Return to Paradise's new Detective Inspector Anna Samson has revealed the 'dangerous' trolling she's received online - and issued an unflinching open letter to fans in response

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4 hours ago Full list of new PIP monthly payments as DWP confirms weekly rates starting in April

Find your new PIP monthly payment rate before the DWP uprating letter arrives next year.

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5 hours ago You are a complete genius if you can crack this word brainteaser in under 12 seconds

Word puzzles can be extremely confusing and require you to examine each letter thoroughly - below we have shared a rebus puzzle so you can test how smart you are

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6 hours ago Tracy Chevalier: ‘Woolf’s The Waves will be like medicine – I won’t like it, but it will do me good’

The novelist on the comfort of Dodie Smith, how Anne Tyler made her want to be a writer – and why she doesn’t reread booksMy earliest reading memoryMy parents read me most of the Dr Seuss books. My favourite was Ten Apples Up on Top, about a lion, a tiger and a dog counting apples. I can still conjure up the illustrations, including the last one where there’s an explosion of apples all over the page.My favourite book growing upThe Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I was riveted by her descriptions of pioneer life and all the how-to information: how to build a log cabin, plough a field, make a ball out of a pig’s bladder. I suspect those books affected my approach to my own writing of historical fiction. Also I related to Laura’s bad-tempered rebelliousness compared with her p...

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8 hours ago Sport may be a blunt tool of social change, but it’s time to take a stand against Israel | Jonathan Liew

As the bombing continues in Gaza, the inaction of bodies such as Fifa and the IOC becomes a glaring, conscious choice Probably you already know what this is. Probably before you read a word of it, you decided what it was, where you stand on it, how you’re going to feel about it. The headline, there’s your first clue. Maybe you recognised the name of the writer and drew your own conclusions. And of course there’s the Guardian masthead at the top, the world’s leading bat‑signal for wet liberals, so already there’s a self‑selecting audience there.Or maybe you came via a social media link that already told you what to expect. Necessary, vital, powerful. Great piece by so-and-so. A shocking antisemitic screed by an unashamed Jew-hater. Sides are taken. Feelings are felt. Minds are not c...

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9 hours ago Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley review – folk horror spans the centuries

The chill of the supernatural pervades these unsettling tales, following a settlement’s history from the deep past to the near futureThe quintessential “bad place” is one of the staples of horror fiction. For Stephen King, the bad place – think the peculiar little town of Castle Rock or the Overlook Hotel in The Shining – most usually acts as a repository for a long-forgotten evil or injustice to resurface (often literally, like the dead cat from the desecrated Native American burial ground in Pet Sematary). For writers such as Robert Aickman, the nature of the bad place is more elusive, so deeply immured in time that its effects are felt more often than seen: a prickling at the back of the neck, a chilly intimation of doom that, when spoken aloud, is ignored or ridiculed...

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