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A bucketload of whitewash: Sue Gray’s report shows consequences are for the little people
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Actions have consequences, goes the cliche, but in England this maxim applies to the powerless, not the powerful. The nurse who helped bear the horror of the pandemic and was fined £10,000 for a socially distanced pro...
Challenge Anneka’s lasting legacy in Leeds points way for show’s reboot
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At Leeds Mencap, the positive legacy of Challenge Anneka still reverberates powerfully. Back in 1993 the TV programme helped turn a dilapidated, burnt-out school into a nursery run by the charity for children with lea...
Dugongs and sea turtles at risk after Queensland floods wipe out seagrass, study shows
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Catastrophic floods earlier this year wiped out one of the largest and most important seagrass meadows in eastern Australia, increasing the risk that dugongs and sea turtles will become stranded, according to research...
United Australia Party may have more backing than polls suggest, with voters too embarrassed to voice support, analysis shows
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Clive Palmer’s United Australia party is burning through its projected $70m election advertising spend, including hour-long television commercials, as a data analyst warns the fringe party could have more backing than...
NBA owners have combined $10bn invested in China, study shows
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Forty principal owners in the NBA have more than a combined $10bn tied up in China, investments that have significant impact on the valuation of the teams, according to an ESPN report published Thursday. Between the p...
Big carmakers stuck in slow lane over switch to zero emissions, study shows
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The world’s largest carmakers are lagging behind on the switch to electric vehicles with only two on the trajectory required to hit the international target of limiting global heating to 1.5C, according to an analysis...
Scott Morrison’s Aukus middleman has not lobbied US officials since landmark deal announced, document shows
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Scott Morrison’s Aukus middleman has not lobbied any US officials since the landmark security deal was announced, despite a previous agreement with the prime minister “to engage with US personnel to facilitate Austral...
Ukraine says footage shows soldiers in Kharkiv region at Russian border – video
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Ukraine has released footage that it says shows its troops in Kharkiv region reaching the border with Russia. The video released on Sunday shows men in military uniform gathered near a blue and yellow boundary post an...
Chinese-speaking voters critical of Coalition’s ‘militaristic’ stance on China in lead-up to 2022 election, WeChat study shows
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The Coalition’s muscular position toward China is not going down well with Chinese-speaking voters, while Labor is facing criticism over its more generous approach to humanitarian immigration, an analysis of WeChat au...
Black man killed by Houston officer was shot in back of neck, autopsy shows
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An attorney for the family of a 29-year-old Black man who was fatally shot last month by a Houston police officer said an independent autopsy shows he was shot in the back of his neck. Jalen Randle was shot on 27 Apri...
Soy Cromwell! James Cromwell’s Starbucks plant milk protest shows why he’s movies’ top revolutionary
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It’s probably time that we face facts and declare James Cromwell to be our greatest living actor. When James Cromwell turns up in something, ropey Jurassic Park sequels notwithstanding, the audience automatically know...
Footage shows moment historic Pakistan bridge collapses after flooding – video
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The Hassanabad bridge in northern Pakistan collapsed on Saturday after a heatwave melted a glacier, releasing huge amounts of floodwater into surrounding areas. Local media quoted experts as saying the water volume at...
Migrating turtles don’t really know where they’re going, study shows
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How migrating animals like sea turtles navigate hundreds to thousands of kilometres across the open ocean has intrigued biologists since Charles Darwin. But some sea turtles might not really know where they’re going, ...
Queen’s speech shows Boris Johnson is out of ideas, says Labour
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Keir Starmer said Boris Johnson’s government was “bereft of ideas or purpose” after a Queen’s speech that included bills to overhaul the planning system and rewrite human rights law, but few new measures to tackle the...
Council-run schools outperform academies in England, analysis shows
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Council-maintained schools in England outperform academies in Ofsted rankings, according to analysis published on the day the government’s ambitions for all schools to join multi-academy trusts (Mats) are expected to ...
Car T-cell therapy shows early promise in treating gastric cancers
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An experimental cancer therapy that infuses designer immune cells into patients has shown early promise in a clinical trial by shrinking tumours in the digestive system. Interim results from the first phase of the cli...