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Seabirds nest in new spots on Farne Islands as Covid keeps people away
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It is not just humans who have changed their habits as a result of the pandemic. On the Farne Islands in north-east England, seabirds have used Covid as an opportunity to try out new nesting spots while rangers and to...
A lucrative border-industrial complex keeps the US border in constant ‘crisis’
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I’ll never forget Giovanni’s blistered feet as an EMT attended to him on the Mexico side of the US-Mexican border in Sasabe, a remote desert town. On the back of one foot, his skin had been rubbed away and the tender,...
‘The weather keeps playing tricks’: living on the frontline of global heating
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Throughout the 2021 United Nations climate change conference, the Guardian will be publishing the stories of the people whose lives have been upended – sometimes devastated – by the climate breakdown. I knew farming ...
Morgan keeps England cards close to his chest for New Zealand reshuffle
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Like the main characters in Four Weddings and a Funeral, the cricket teams of England and New Zealand don’t seem to be able to go to a party without running into each other. There have been five meetings at major inte...
My partner keeps telling me I’m fat. Is it really for my own sake?
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I am a 30-year-old woman and for the past 10 years I’ve been in a relationship with a man 30 years older. I was much thinner when we first met and have since gained a little weight. My partner has started calling me f...
Bruised review – Halle Berry’s MMA fighter keeps her eye on the prize
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Halle Berry leaves it pretty late to turn on the energy for her directing debut – until the final round, in fact. But this fight movie, in which Berry herself plays a burned-out MMA fighter struggling to make a comeba...
Married to the job: how a long-hours working culture keeps people single and lonely
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Laura Hancock started practising yoga when she worked for a charity. It was a job that involved long hours and caused a lot of anxiety. Yoga was her counterbalance. “It saved my life, in a way,” she says. Yoga brought...
Waghorn hits spot as draw keeps Derby up but relegates Sheffield Wednesday
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Who would be a manager, eh? Wayne Rooney stewed powerless in the technical area as his Derby County side crumbled before his eyes in an absurd, see-sawing second half but then came a moment that transformed their fort...
Rory Burns happy with ‘quite good day’ after his century keeps England in Test
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Rory Burns dragged England to a respectable first-innings total of 275 before becoming the last man to fall for 132 in an intriguing fourth day at Lord’s. The day started in the worst manner possible for the hosts, Ky...
Bournemouth’s Solanke keeps rivals and marathon man on their toes
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‘I think I’ve found my feet this season,” says Dominic Solanke, discussing his emergence at Bournemouth, and he could not pick a more apt turn of phrase given also on the video call is a season-ticket holder who is ru...
Oisin Murphy keeps championship lead but evening marred by fatality
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Oisin Murphy maintained his two-win lead over William Buick in the race for the Flat jockeys’ championship after a seven-race card at Chelmsford City on Thursday, although the evening was marred by a fall for the reig...
Chelsea stay top after Ben Chilwell’s superb strike keeps Brentford at bay
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It was no exaggeration to describe it as a siege. Chelsea had led through Ben Chilwell’s lovely finish on the stroke of half-time but it was Brentford who asked all the questions – with increasing urgency – as a pulsa...
Santander profits soar as UK mortgage lending keeps growing
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Profits at Santander UK more than quadrupled in the three months to the end of September, as the bank benefited from further growth in mortgages and improving economic conditions. The bank, which is the country’s thir...
Pedri keeps rolling with game 66 of his season in Spain’s Olympics opener
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When Pedri stumbled through a challenge and swept inside to tee up Dani Ceballos, who crashed a long-range effort off the crossbar, we were given the first taste of the 18-year-old’s talent in Tokyo against Egypt. Onl...
Chet Hanks keeps calling for a white boy summer – and he really needs to stop
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First there was hot girl summer, then there was Christian girl autumn, now we’ve been cursed with white boy summer. If you found that sentence completely incomprehensible then allow me to congratulate you on being a m...
Life keeps getting in the way of my quest to turn my family into robots
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There is a protocol at New York City public schools that allows for early entrance in the morning if you sign your kids up for breakfast. Customarily, the school gates open at 8.30am (and shut, as we know too well, at...