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‘Nervous giddy excitement’: relieved Melbourne residents enjoy weekend out of lockdown
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From St Kilda to Coburg the traffic is heavy in Melbourne for the first time in months. The bars are filling up and friends are having long hugs as the world’s lockdown capital sheds its Covid restrictions and opens u...
India floods: at least 25 dead after heavy rains spark landslides in Kerala
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At least 25 people have died in landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains in south-western India, officials said on Sunday, as rescuers scoured muddy debris for survivors and the military flew in emergency suppli...
David Amess killing shocks and upsets Leigh-on-Sea residents
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Children were among those laying flowers on Friday night at the church where David Amess had been holding a constituency surgery, as residents and colleagues in Leigh-on-Sea struggled to come to terms with the killing...
Worst care homes more likely to have poorest residents, official data shows
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The worst care homes are more likely to house the poorest residents, according to official data released for the first time revealing the impact of England’s two-tier social care system. Sixty-nine per cent of people ...
‘Heavy casualties’ as explosion hits Shia mosque in Afghanistan
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A large explosion tore through a Shia mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers, causing heavy casualties, a spokesperson for the Taliban government’s interior ministry said. Qari Saeed Khos...
‘It is with a heavy heart that I leave’ – why the unrelieved pressure is pushing GPs to quit
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Concern has been growing for years that GPs are burning out, and sometimes dropping out, in the face of increasingly heavy and complex workloads that many have described as being already unsustainable, if not impossib...
Sydney storm: BoM warns of potential ‘tornado activity’ before thunderstorms and giant hail hit
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Residents in greater Sydney bunkered down after being warned of potential “tornado activity” on Thursday afternoon and while the worst fears didn’t eventuate the city was hit by a series of thunderstorms that caused f...
Rishi Sunak urged to cut business rates to unlock billions in investment
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Employers’ groups representing more than a quarter of jobs in Britain have called on Rishi Sunak to cut business rates in the budget later this month to unlock billions of pounds of investment in the economy. In a joi...