4 h. ago Will Reichard’s agent says someone at league office told him London kick hit wire

Will Reichard’s agent says someone at league office told him London kick hit wire  NBC Sports

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11 h. ago London struggling amid challenges with policing, transport and housing, assembly told

London struggling amid challenges with policing, transport and housing, assembly told  Waltham Forest Echo

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12 h. ago Twisting tale of ‘Henry VIII’s lost dagger’ to be told in London exhibition

Twisting tale of ‘Henry VIII’s lost dagger’ to be told in London exhibition  The Art Newspaper

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58 h. ago Bag of wires sparked bomb alert at US Embassy in London, court told

Bag of wires sparked bomb alert at US Embassy in London, court told  Slough Observer

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58 h. ago Turkish football federation finds hundreds of referees have betting accounts

371 of 571 referees in pro leagues found to have accounts152 officials found to be actively placing betsTurkey’s football federation (TFF) will launch disciplinary action against referees found to have bet on football matches after discovering that hundreds of them had betting accounts, its president said on Monday.The TFF president, Ibrahim Haciosmanoglu, said a federation investigation — based on data from state institutions — revealed that 371 of 571 active referees in Turkey’s professional leagues had betting accounts, and 152 of them were actively gambling. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Man Utd chief confronts Premier League as Old Trafford concern laid out

Manchester United are preparing for the chaotic festive schedule, but one of their chiefs has raised one issue to officials at the Premier League

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5 d. ago British IT consultant who 'couldn't bear to live with non Muslims' so flew business class to Syria to fight for Islamist terrorists is jailed for nine years

Isa Giga (pictured), 32 from Hounslow in west London , devastated his family when he told them he was going to Birmingham but instead quit his job and travelled to Syria via Turkey in 2015.

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6 d. ago Kangaroos bring box office gold to London as rebel league looms

Kangaroos bring box office gold to London as rebel league looms  AFR

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7 d. ago A film about an audacious art heist? Inside The Mastermind, the timeliest movie ever

Just days after the Louvre theft comes this drolly unconventional gallery robbery drama. Director Kelly Reichardt talks about solving crimes as a kid – and casting Josh O’Connor as a crook in autumnal knitwearThe term “cosy crime” describes the reassuring, cardigan-swaddled whodunnits that currently dominate both page and screen, but it carries different connotations for Kelly Reichardt, director of the new heist movie The Mastermind, as it surely must for anyone from a law enforcement family. Reichardt’s mother was an undercover narcotics agent, her father a crime scene detective. When the couple split up, she also gained an FBI agent as a stepfather. During weekends with her dad, who moved into a house with four other recently divorced colleagues, she would sometimes be given mysteries to solve, like some kind of junior Thursday Murder Club.“It sounds really cute,” says the 5ft-tall, 61-year-old director, whose film could not feel more timely, given the Louvre heist. “But I was on...

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8 d. ago Bournemouth told they could be fined for what they did vs Palace – ‘It’s against protocol’

A former Premier League official has raised concerns about Bournemouth's behaviour towards referee Jarred Gillett during their dramatic draw with Crystal Palace

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8 d. ago Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says

Exclusive: Special rapporteur for poverty cites mainstream parties’ ‘extremely dangerous’ them-or-us dialogue Decades of efforts by mainstream politicians to roll back welfare programmes have given rise to an “extremely dangerous” discourse that has helped fuel the rise of the far right and rightwing populists in countries around the world, a top UN expert has told the Guardian.From London to Lisbon, politicians from centre-right and centre-left parties alike have steadily eroded social programmes, fostering a sense of scarcity and creating fertile ground for the stirring up of anti-migrant sentiment, said Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago British families accuse Swiss euthanasia clinic Pegasos of killing their loved ones 'without medical justification'

Judith Hamilton, from London told how her son Alastair claimed to have been going on holiday to Paris before it was revealed he had actually flown to Switzerland to die, with the help of Pegasos.

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1 week ago Spirituality isn’t rigid dogma. It’s a living, breathing practice that helps make sense of an incomprehensible world | Shadi Khan Saif

I grew up in Kabul and Karachi. In both, I learned the value of the quiet rituals observed while no one is watchingWhen I was leaving London for Melbourne, my eldest sister-in-law told her kids not to forget the “tradition” – to throw a bowl of water behind me as I stepped out the door. Just a small splash on the ground, a gesture older than borders. “La har azaab po aman se,” she whispered in Pashto under her breath – may all hardship stay away from you. The little ones giggled and waved their goodbyes as they spilled the water, somewhere between shy and amused.My mother used to do this too, back in Afghanistan. Every time I left for a journey, especially international ones, she’d quietly follow me to the gate with a bowl of water, whispering prayers I couldn’t always hear. But this moment, between two western cities, with children growing up in a world so far from where that habit began, felt different. It was softer. Bittersweet. Like watching an old song being hummed in a new la...

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1 week ago Cost of living: Families are priced out of London, Assembly told

Cost of living: Families are priced out of London, Assembly told  BBC

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1 week ago Over 65 London employers including a council fined £1.6m after 7,400 workers paid less than minimum wage

London firms have been fined £1.6million and told to backpay thousands of workers after failing to pay the National Minimum Wage

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1 week ago More than 65 London employers including a council fined £1.6m after 7,400 workers paid less than minimum wage

London firms have been fined £1.6million and told to backpay thousands of workers after failing to pay the National Minimum Wage

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1 week ago London developers told: Affordable homes target cut won't last forever

Percentage of new homes in capital required to be affordable will be cut from 35% to 20% - but only for a limited period

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1 week ago Londoners forced to move out of capital to have children, experts warn

Experts have told the London Assembly that the capital risks becoming a child-free city

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2 w. ago ‘She does terrible things’: what can a Marvel director do with Ibsen’s ruthless heroine Hedda Gabler?

She made her name with a horror reboot and a mega-budget Marvel. So what drew Nia DaCosta to the dour Norwegian’s work? We meet the film-maker and Tessa Thompson, who plays Hedda as a sexy, sultry, machiavellian messNia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson are reminiscing about the first time they met, at Sundance film labs where DaCosta was workshopping her debut feature, Little Woods. “Honestly, Tessa had a great vibe,” says DaCosta. “She was super open, super generous and very intelligent.” A smile creeps on to her face. “Like – that was a fucking relief.”Thompson gives a look of mock offence. “I really just like working with smart actors,” adds DaCosta, filling the silence. “Why did you assume that we’re dumdums?” asks Thompson, turning to look directly at her director, as they sit in a Soho hotel in London. “I didn’t,” she is told. “I was just like, ‘What a pleasant surprise.’ Who would have thought it? Not me.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Dalbeattie Star boss feels refereeing display marred defeat to Stranraer

David Taylor described the match as a '"great advert" for the South of Scotland League but was left frustrated by the officials.

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