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So now we know: Dina Asher‑Smith is human after all. As usual Britain’s brightest track star gave her all at the Birmingham Grand Prix but the effects of her sensational treble at last week’s European Championships ultimately told as she finished second in a stacked 200m. There was no disgrace in defeat, especially given that …
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The Qualifiers are a fortnight old but it is becoming increasingly clear that Widnes Vikings’ seven-year sojourn in Super League may well be coming to an end. Granted, there are still five games left before the final four places in next season’s top flight are determined, but now on a run of 15 consecutive defeats …
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Learning European languages may no longer have much cachet among schoolchildren, but for millennials eyeing the job market, German appears to be more attractive than ever. Growing numbers of young adults aged between 18 and 30 in Britain are learning the language of Friedrich Schiller, Christa Wolf and Thomas Mann, according to the Goethe-Institut, with …
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Campaigners demanding a public vote on the final Brexit deal rallied in Edinburgh on Saturday to ramp up pressure on the UK government. Backers of the so-called People’s Vote gathered in Festival Square to call for Theresa May’s deal on leaving the EU to be put to the electorate. According to the People’s Vote campaign …
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Harry Kane broke his August duck in the Premier League and there were echoes of England’s World Cup summer as Tottenham overcame a committed effort from new boys Fulham to win 3-1 at their second home of Wembley stadium. A goal late in the first half from Lucas Moura, his first in the league for …
Kweku Adoboli, the former UBS trader who caused a $2.3bn (£1.8bn) financial loss – the biggest in UK history – has vowed to fight attempts by the Home Office to deport him from the UK to Ghana, his country of birth. Adoboli, 38, has not lived in Ghana since he was four years old and …
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This week thousands of young people will learn how they performed in their GCSEs. One thing we already know is that the number of GCSE music entries is down over the last five years by 8%. Worse, performing and expressive arts entries have slumped by 26% over the period, while the number sitting exams in …
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The New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who many believe is eyeing a White House run in 2020, has continued his attempt to walk back a controversial statement: that America “was never that great”. “I want to be very clear,” Cuomo said on Friday in a call with reporters. “Of course America is great and of …
French artist Andria Darius Pancrazi takes photographs of pink buildings – a common sight in his home town of Bastia, a city on the island of Corsica. “Bastia is a very pink city,” he says. “From pale pinks to deep corals, from the 18th-century to the modern buildings, pink is a very popular choice there.” …
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While Westminster attempts to deliver Brexit within months, the UK’s energy system is set to become dramatically more dependent on the EU just as Britain leaves. Today, four cables – known as interconnectors – between the UK and Ireland, France and the Netherlands have a capacity of 4GW, providing around 6% of Britain’s power supplies. …
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