The Guardian - November 18, 2024

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November 18, 2024

Thames Water repairs crisis leaves supply 'on knife-edge'

Thames Water has £23bn of assets in urgent need of repair and the supply of water to its 16 million customers is \"on a knife-edge\", a Guardian investigation can reveal.

5 mins

Biden lifts ban on use of US arms in Russia

Joe Biden has lifted the ban on Ukraine using long-range missiles to strike deep into Russian territory by permitting their use against Russian and North Korean forces in the Kursk region.

3 mins

PM aims to reset ties with Xi at G20 summit

Keir Starmer will today become the first UK prime minister in six years to meet the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, as he promises to turn the page on UK-China relations and build \"a pragmatic and serious relationship\".

3 mins

Overhaul of children's social care will crack down on profiteering

Excessive profiteering by unscrupulous private companies charging sky-high fees for sub-standard placements for vulnerable children will face a clampdown as part of a major overhaul of children's social care in England.

3 mins

Analysis Labour seems ready to show it is serious

Two years ago a government-commissioned report laid bare the crisis affecting children's social care in England and called for an urgent multibillion-pound overhaul to reform a system that it said was spiralling out of control.

2 mins

'Black Fraud Day' warning as victims lose £700 each to online scams

Black Friday is fast becoming Black Fraud Day with the annual discount frenzy now \"prime time\" for scammers, according to the UK's cybersecurity chief, who said criminals are now using artificial intelligence to trick shoppers.

1 min

'It's overpriced tat': why Christmas markets have divided opinion

The Halloween cobwebs had barely been brushed off the shop windows of Birmingham city centre when the German-style Christmas market opened on 1 November.

3 mins

Climate Crisis To Blame For Formerly 'Impossible' Heat, Studies Reveal

At least 24 previously impossible heatwaves have struck communities across the planet, a new assessment has shown, providing stark evidence of how severely human-caused global heating is supercharging extreme weather.

5 mins

Surge in agricultural land being bought by non-farmers - data

Non-farmers were responsible for more than half of farmland purchases last year, new analysis has suggested as Keir Starmer defended imposing inheritance tax on farms.

2 mins

Far-right groups seeking to hijack inheritance tax protests

Far-right groups are seeking to exploit the farmers' protest against tax changes introduced by Rachel Reeves.

2 mins

Global hunt for husband of woman found dead in car

An international manhunt is under way for the husband of a woman who police believe was murdered and whose body was found in the boot of a car in east London.

1 min

PM says police should focus on 'what matters most' amid Pearson tweet investigation

Responding to tweets should not be the police's first priority and forces should \"concentrate on what matters most to their communities\", the prime minister has suggested.

3 mins

Call to improve care for stroke patients as cases rise in people in their 50s

Ministers are being urged to improve declining care for stroke patients to lower the risk of death and disability as new figures show cases rising, especially among people in their 50s.

1 min

'Massive' winter crisis looming, doctors on A&E frontline warn

Emergency doctors have sounded the alarm over an approaching winter crisis that they say is already putting patients in overstretched A&E departments at risk.

1 min

Wise wanted to split from Morecambe in 1950, letter shows

They became arguably the greatest comedy duo Britain has ever produced, but if Eric Morecambe had listened to a young and despondent Ernie Wise, they would have split up before ever getting properly started.

2 mins

Glastonbury festival tickets for 2025 sell out in 35 minutes

Tickets for the 2025 Glastonbury festival have sold out in 35 minutes, with disappointed fans left staring at their screens while queuing online until being told they had missed out.

1 min

Members of Women's Equality party vote to close organisation

Members of the Women's Equality party (WEP) have voted to dissolve the organisation, with its leaders blaming challenging finances and a more polarised political landscape.

1 min

Muslims in UK facing 'dystopian' climate, says head of trust

Islamophobia has become \"brutally divisive\" in the UK and failure to challenge its root causes will lead to more racist riots, the head of the UK's leading race equality thinktank has said.

2 mins

Hunt for the cancer 'super-survivors' who beat the odds

Doctors have launched a major study to understand why a small proportion of cancer patients beat the odds and survive long after being diagnosed with some of the most aggressive forms of the disease.

2 mins

Guard sues Science Museum over lack of suitable chair

A cancer survivor with chronic health problems is suing one of the UK's most prestigious museums for discrimination for allegedly denying her a suitable chair to sit on at work.

1 min

In the pipeline Floods, explosions and asbestos among risks from crumbling assets

When Sarah Bentley and Sarah Albon met at Beckton sewage treatment works in east London, the choice of location was designed to underline Thames Water's predicament.

6 mins

Poison pen letters reignite bitter feud at actors' charity

A bitter feud that tore apart an illustrious actors' charity has been reignited by the emergence of poison pen letters threatening former trustees.

2 mins

Snow and ice warnings issued for Arctic blast

It could be time to get out the woolly jumpers, the Met Office has warned, as an Arctic blast brings the threat of plummeting temperatures, sleet, snow and ice.

1 min

'Shocking levels of collusion' Finucane family finally hope to find truth behind murder

It was news to her 44-year-old son. Geraldine Finucane recalled that John had struggled as an eight-year-old with her decision for them to stay put in the family home after the murder of his father in the kitchen.

5 mins

Higher risk of social rupture as dispute over AI 'feelings' intensifies

Significant \"social ruptures\" are looming between people who think artificial intelligence systems are conscious and those who believe the technology feels nothing, a leading philosopher has said.

2 mins

Israel kills Hezbollah media chief in Beirut as strikes intensify

Hezbollah's chief spokesman has been killed by an Israeli airstrike on Beirut, as Israel intensifies its air offensive in Lebanon despite indirect negotiations for a ceasefire.

4 mins

Putin's war aims Scale of attack on utilities shows peace is still a long way off

Millions of Ukrainians woke up early yesterday morning to a huge Russian missile and drone attack on their country's infrastructure - the biggest assault from Moscow since the end of August.

2 mins

Free Democrats in Germany 'planned coalition exit for weeks'

Germany's pro-business Free Democratic party (FDP), who collapsed Olaf Scholz's governing coalition earlier this month in a dispute over the budget, reportedly plotted their exit weeks before the final split, referring to their plans internally as \"D-day\".

1 min

We want justice' How a bear attack led an Italian region to oppose rewilding

Franca Gherardini used to cherish the sublime views from her home in Caldes, a village on the slopes of the Brenta Dolomites in northern Italy's Trentino province. But now she rolls down the window canopy in the morning to avoid looking towards the area where her son, Andrea Papi, 26, was killed by a bear.

3 mins

Musk intervenes as Trump faces dilemma over key treasury role

Elon Musk has weighed in on Donald Trump's choice for US treasury secretary, one of the remaining key cabinet nominations the president-elect will make in the coming days.

2 mins

Springfield In shadow of mass deportation threat, Haitians begin to flee

From a tiny office behind a Haitian grocery store on Springfield's South Limestone Street, Margery Koveleski has spent years helping local Haitians overcome red tape to make their lives in the Ohio city a little easier. But Koveleski, whose family is Haitian, has noticed a change: Haitians are now coming to her to figure out how to leave.

2 mins

Modi to make 'historic' Guyana Visit for oil talks

India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, will make a \"historic\" state visit to the oil-rich Caribbean nation of Guyana this week when the two countries are expected to sign energy and defence agreements.

1 min

De Gaulle's coded letters to mother go to auction

A stash of previously unseen correspondence and artefacts belonging to the former French president Charles de Gaulle, including coded letters to his mother while he was a German prisoner in the first world war and messages from the singer Josephine Baker, is to go on sale after its discovery earlier this year.

2 mins

Hargreaves Lansdown sued by 5,000 investors

More than 5,000 people who invested in Neil Woodford's collapsed equity fund are suing Hargreaves Lansdown, claiming that the investment platform was still promoting the fund even when it was aware of its problems.

1 min

Don't waver on electric car targets, energy firms urge

Major UK businesses including Ovo, SSE and BT Openreach are urging the government to stick to current electric car targets, as struggling carmakers pile pressure on ministers to relax the rules before industry talks.

2 mins

Companies to be forced to end subscription traps - minister

Companies are to be forced to make it \"simple and straightforward\" for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions or get their money back under new rules to stamp out the so-called subscription traps that are costing Britons £1.6bn a year.

1 min

UK territories must back plans to stop 'dirty money', say politicians

The UK's offshore financial centres must fall in behind plans to stop \"dirty money\" by publishing registers of corporate ownership, political campaigners have said, as Labour vowed not to cave in to lobbying designed to weaken the proposals.

2 mins

Class divide Taylor shows the grace and ringcraft blatantly lacking in Paul-Tyson charade

Jake Paul and Katie Taylor provide a study in contrast that would be amusing if it did not contain such stark truths about the different strands of boxing they represent.

4 mins

McIlroy wins in Dubai to end year on a high

World No 3 tops European order of merit and equals Ballesteros's achievement

2 mins

Boulter and Raducanu stun Canada to seal last-four spot

Katie Boulter strode to the baseline last night for one of the most important matches of her career with a considerable amount of pressure on her shoulders.

3 mins

Sinner caps golden year with glory on home turf

Jannik Sinner added another big title to his tremendous year, beating the US Open runner-up Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-4 for the ATP Finals trophy in front of his home fans in Turin—and before a final verdict is reached in his doping case.

2 mins

Codes unite to honour trio and raise funds for MND

Organisers hope hybrid match of league and union will become an annual event

2 mins

Three horses die in sad day at Cheltenham

Abuffalosoldier among those lost after winning Holland Cooper Chase live on ITV

3 mins

Wright treble condemns Wales to record 11th straight defeat

Never go back. Warren Gatland must wonder if he should have heeded that apparently universal truth. After this defeat the New Zealander has overseen the longest ever run of Wales losses: 11 and counting.

3 mins

Beaten, bruised England are not in crisis mode yet

Defeat by South Africa was to be expected but the Six Nations looms as kill or cure for Borthwick's project

3 mins

Beard vents over penalty error as Everton edge derby

An exasperated Matt Beard claimed the match officials had cost his Liverpool team the Merseyside derby, after a controversial penalty enabled Everton to claim their first win of the Women's Super League season and move off the bottom of the table.

3 mins

Clever Slegers impresses but Arsenal cannot rush appointment

Watching Arsenal coast to victory at Tottenham on Saturday, you could have been forgiven for forgetting that they are without a permanent manager.

3 mins

'I saw my name on the Euros list. There was shock then happiness'

Ayoze Pérez hopes to make history for Spain in Tenerife tonight after goal rush since leaving England for La Liga

4 mins

Direct Doak convinces Clarke he is the present and future

Scotland's teenage forward set to keep his spot against Poland after terrorising Gvardiol in win over Croatia

3 mins

Harwood-Bellis starts party as Carsley signs off with promotion

It was an England salvo of devastating power, three goals in five minutes early in the second half and it did more than reframe an occasion that had been flat and forgettable until then.

3 mins

Kane has been the defining player of a successful era, but this thing has run its course

Below the hum of the crowd every time Kane took the ball, he was rearranging his legs like a pantomime horse

3 mins

Exciting times ahead' Carsley hails new generation as he hands over to Tuchel

Lee Carsley predicted that competition for places in Thomas Tuchel's first squad will be fiercer than ever, after his stint as England's interim head coach ended with a 5-0 thrashing of the Republic of Ireland in the Nations League.

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