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Business owners say they are already struggling and furnace closures would make trading worse, but some residents say it’s time to move on“Everyone is despondent,” said Roj Rahman when trying to sum up the mood of a town where thousands of people could be out of work and ...
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For many the perilous journey to Spain seems the only future. Can the country’s new government create enough jobs and prospects to make them stay?The view from the plastic chair in which Fatou Samba sits, looking out to sea, takes in many of the element...
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Victoria Rance says the ‘1970s technology’ will cause pollution that will damage health for decades, but London mayor and TfL claim it will reduce congestionA multibillion-pound road tunnel under the River Thames will be out of date the moment it opens, according to campa...
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She is one of the heirs to the Walt Disney fortune – and has long argued for rich people like her to pay more tax. Now she is working out how best to meet the challenge of Trump, Musk and the politics of chaosMy conversation with Abigail Disney opens with the kind of bog-...
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It’s got sex jokes, Hitler gags and endless gallows humour. The comedian once famed for being ‘ignorant-arrogant’ reveals why she’s written a show about the deaths of her stepmother and the father who taught her to swear‘There was one night,” says Sarah Silverman, describ...
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Amid awkward kisses and fears of fainting, winners at the Royal Albert Hall thanked their collaborators, spouses … and chartered accountants• ...
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By learning to live with its ursine neighbours, mountainous Pettorano sul Gizio has drawn tourists and new residents, bucking a trend of rural declinePettorano sul Gizio is a medieval mountain town full of alleys, watchful cats and wooden doors locked sometime in the last...
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Rather than running away from disappointment, we need to face it and learn from it. Otherwise we will never try anything newI don’t remember the context in which my psychoanalyst first brought to my attention how much I hate to feel disappointed. I do remember that I laug...
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I was always up for a fierce dinner-table debate – but if differences are aired without ever reaching a resolution, what’s the point?I hate confrontation. Even a whiff of beef can keep me up at night. As a journalist, I’ve learned to listen and to probe only gently, never...
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The next entry in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort watches is a look back to the 1961 Tony Hancock comedyFor me, memorable and/or uplifting film experiences tend to be around individual moments – the ...