73 minutes ago New plans for City's tallest skyscraper create 'environment of surveillance'

Britain’s biggest private pension fund objected to a seven-metre-high screen at the base of the planned tower

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74 minutes ago Egypt tourist boat latest: Britons unaccounted for on third search day as expert doubts official ‘wave’ theory

Two Britons are still unaccounted for after a tourist yacht sank in the Red Sea

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74 minutes ago Lotto warns to check your EuroMillions numbers again after wrong ones sent out

One lucky UK ticket-holder has won £177 million in the EuroMillions draw, making them the third biggest National Lottery winner of all time - but the wrong winning numbers were accidentally sent out

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77 minutes ago Dorothea Rockburne – New York great’s first big UK show all comes down to one long, mesmerising line

Bernheim Gallery, LondonNow aged 95, the great polymath had trouble finding the right chipboard in Britain – but this is still a show of disarming simplicity with one stunning standout workSometimes a work gets to you and blows everything else away. It begins with a narrow black line, about the breadth of a pencil, running at waist-height around the walls of the ground floor gallery. The line negotiates the mouldings, runs under a mantelpiece, takes the corners and recesses, makes a turn, gets interrupted by a set of French doors and disappears from view. The line leads us from room to room. Regular, unvarying and relentless, it sometimes leaves a breathy residue on the wall or a build-up of fine graphite dust in the corners and crevices of a window-frame as it passes.Drawn using fine c...

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90 minutes ago Can Gwyneth Paltrow save Goop with a bold new vaginal product? | Arwa Mahdawi

Rumours the company is in its death throes underestimate the actor’s talent for business – and the public’s insatiable appetite for kooky wellness gimmicks“VAGINA! VAGINA! VAGINA!” That, in a nutshell (possibly the wrong metaphor), was the key to success for Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand, Goop, for many years: headline-grabbing wacky health advice and weird products that were often vagina-adjacent.Paltrow once spelled out this strategy in a lecture to a Harvard Business School (HBS) class. It was great publicity, she explained, when people mocked Goop for doing things such as urging women to steam their vaginas to balance their hormones; the free PR caused “cultural firestorms” and she could “monetise those eyeballs”. According to a 2018 New York Times profile, Paltrow followed thes...

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93 minutes ago Susanna Reid left in stitches on GMB as Ed Balls reveals the reason his wife Yvette Cooper immediately returned a Christmas present he bought her

Ed Balls, 57, left co-presenter Susanna Reid speechless on Good Morning Britain after he revealed he bought he slender wife, 55, a size 16 gown after he guessed her dress size.

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1 hour ago Woman finds Zara Home store in Tenerife – and is amazed by what's inside

Chloe was left so excited that she wanted to take everything home. It was her first time in a Zara Home store and it's safe to say the experience left her amazed

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2 hours ago Brits urged to look out for rare £2 coin in their change that could be worth hundreds

One coin collector has urged Brits to take note of their spare change in case they have a rare £2 piece that is being listed for over £1,000 on eBay.

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2 hours ago David Coote: FA investigating claims referee discussed giving yellow card

FA says ‘very serious’ allegations being looked at urgentlyCoote denies wrongdoing, says his integrity not in doubtThe Football Association is investigating allegations that the referee David Coote discussed giving a yellow card before a game.The allegations centre on an exchange of messages before and after Coote refereed the Championship game between Leeds and West Brom in October 2019, in which he booked the Leeds defender Ezgjan Alioski. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Brit faces 25 years in 'hell hole' Dubai prison after 'accepting £3,000 cash to go shopping': Crypto investor says police 'laughed that I was going to get the DEATH PENALTY'

A British man faces 25 years in a Dubai prison after he accepted money 'to go shopping' from an alleged drug dealer

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