22 m. ago Manchester experts warn everyone with a driveway as 'complaints rise'

Waste experts based in the area say people need to be on their guard this autumn

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64 m. ago M&C Saatchi slashes guidance and cuts jobs amid ad industry woes

M&C Saatchi warned it expects revenues to fall this year as it became the latest London-listed advertising group to highlight the downturn facing the industry.

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96 m. ago The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland review – a propulsive story of German resistance

A thriller-like account of the influential men and women who opposed Hitler and paid a terrible priceOn 10 September 1943, a loose group of well-connected friends met in a small apartment in the Charlottenberg area of Berlin. The host was Elisabeth von Thadden and the nominal reason for the get-together was her younger sister’s 50th birthday. Really, though, this was a cover story for nine influential people meeting to discuss what should happen now that it was clear that Hitler was losing the war.Otto Kiep, a former diplomat, talked hopefully about how Mussolini’s recent toppling meant that Italy was ready to make peace with the allies, while political hostess Hanna Solf gleefully anticipated the moment when Hitler fell: “We’ll put him against a wall.” Meanwhile, Von Thadden herself, a devout Protestant and former headteacher of an elite girls’ school, warned of the humanitarian crisis that would follow the end of hostilities. For those who gathered on that late summer’s day f...

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2 h. ago Genius way Victorians kept their draughty homes warm before central heating

As energy costs continue to rise, households nationwide are seeking ways to keep their homes cosy without cranking up the heating and inflating their energy bills

Society

2 h. ago Rochelle Humes' 'stylish' padded coat is 'shower resistant' and slashed to £32

The stylish and practical coat from the presenter's own collection has been praised by shoppers

Economics

2 h. ago Next delivers profit boost, but cautions over ‘anaemic’ UK economic growth

The fashion and homewares group reported a 13.8% rise in pre-tax profits to £515 million for the six months to the end of July.

Economics

3 h. ago Man on cruise to Alaska dies after mountainside fall during hike

One man is dead and another in seriously injured

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4 h. ago Touch grass: How Gen Z stopped going outside and why it matters

As a new study reveals that most British young people stay indoors for days at a time, it starts to make sense of why we’re witnessing the mass decline of mental health – and the continuing rise of the age of rage, writes Helen Coffey

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4 h. ago Jeffrey Archer: ‘Nigel Farage is the best mob orator I’ve heard in my lifetime – I could never vote for him’

As he publishes his 30th novel, the former deputy chair of the Conservative Party is showing no signs of slowing down. In his riverside penthouse in London, he talks to Chris Harvey about the rise of Reform, Peter Mandelson’s sacking over his friendship with Epstein, and his big life regret

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5 h. ago ‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader

In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were characterised by vanity and incompetenceIn the summer of 1970, a group of aspirant revolutionaries arrived in Jordan from West Germany. They sought military training though they had barely handled weapons before. They sought a guerrilla war in the streets of Europe, but had never done anything more than light a fire in a deserted department store. They sought the spurious glamour that spending time with a Palestinian armed group could confer. Above all, they sought a safe place where they could hide and plan.Some of the group had flown to Beirut on a direct flight from communist-run East Berlin. The better known members – Ulrike Meinhof, a prominent leftwing journalist, and two convicted arsonists called Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader – had faced a more complicated journey. First, they’d had to cross into East Germany, then they took ...

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5 h. ago France should have recognised Palestinian statehood years ago. The cynic in me asks: why now? | Rokhaya Diallo

Weakened domestically, Emmanuel Macron wants an international legacy. Yet still, he does nothing to sanction IsraelWhen Emmanuel Macron announced that France intended to recognise Palestinian statehood, he drew a furious rebuke from Israel – and caused a diplomatic storm with the US. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote a letter accusing the French government of failing to “confront the alarming rise of antisemitism” in France, adding the harsh and unequivocal assessment: “Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on this antisemitic fire.”In the same letter, he praised Donald Trump’s action to “protect the civil rights of American Jews”.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Are the stars finally aligning for the ‘new golden age’ of nuclear? | Nils Pratley

Let’s not be too cynical about the US-UK agreement to build new power plants – but costs must fall if nuclear is to make headwayPresidential visits, like investment summits, involve a blizzard of claims about companies set to spend squillions in the UK. Some “commitments” are merely extrapolations of current trends. Some can be filed under “believe it when you see it”. Some involve throwing everything into the mix and producing an implausibly precise number for the “economic value” to the UK. A few pledges are genuinely new, but scepticism should be the default setting.How to view this week’s “landmark commitments” by UK and US firms to build new nuclear power plants in the UK? Actually, this may be one of those rare occasions when one shouldn’t be too cynical. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago State Pension alert – Millions face paying income tax for first time

The state pension is set to rise by 4.7% in April, but the increase will push millions of pensioners into paying income tax for the first time

Economics

10 h. ago MPs call for stop to soaring special needs referrals in 'broken' system amid ADHD rise

The Commons Education Select Committee called for reform of the 'broken' special needs system, which is causing long waiting lists and financially crippling councils.

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10 h. ago GPs reveal patients now ask about Mounjaro at one in 25 appointments

Doctors are experiencing a huge rise in their workload due to the interest in the drug

Science

14 h. ago House prices in London commuter areas rise AGAIN as valuations in areas like Bromley and Surrey rocket by £40,000 in just a year

Homeowners in the London town of Bromley and the Surrey district of Waverly have seen more than £40,000 added to the value of their properties since last July.

Economics

15 h. ago Stray Kids tease Yungblud collab hopes as they celebrate new milestone

The K-pop superstars have reflected on their rapid rise, teasing there’s much more to come

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16 h. ago State Pension to rise by inflation busting 4.7% but taxes may soon follow

A 4.7% increase in the state pension is on its way soon because of a rise in wages, according to financial experts. A hike of this size would lead to an increase of £561.60 a year

Economics

17 h. ago One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter

Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reactionOne of the great creative bromances has flowered again: Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon. Having adapted Pynchon’s Inherent Vice for the screen in 2015, Anderson has now taken a freer rein with his 1990 novel Vineland, creating a bizarre action thriller driven by pulpy comic-book energy and transformed political indignation, keeping his pedal at all times welded to the metal.It’s a riff on the now recognisable Anderson-Pynchonian idea of counterculture and counter-revolution, absorbing the paranoid style of American politics into a screwball farcical resistance, with a jolting, jangling, nerve-shredding score by Jonny Greenwood. It’s partly a freaky-Freudian diagnosis of father-daughter dysfunction – juxtaposed with the separation of migrant children and parents at the US-Mexico border – and a very serious, relevant response to the U...

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17 h. ago R.F. Kuang's extraordinary rise: 4 more books are on the way

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