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“Try them in different places' How and where to hang your art
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“Try them in different places' How and where to hang your art

Wherever you get your pictures, in your mind's eye you want them to be as expertly hung as the Royal Academy of Arts' Summer Exhibition. But poorly spaced frames and wonky canvases can spoil the final effect.

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October 12, 2024
Picture perfect How you can buy art at affordable prices
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Picture perfect How you can buy art at affordable prices

Thanks to online galleries and affordable fairs, collecting art is no longer an exclusive club for the well-off. Zoe Wood reports

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October 12, 2024
First 100 days: Reeves had to walk tightrope between pain and promise
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First 100 days: Reeves had to walk tightrope between pain and promise

The good news is that the economy is in reasonably good shape. The bad is that the recovery appears to be losing momentum

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October 12, 2024
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UK economy returns to growth in boost for chancellor before budget

The UK economy returned to growth in August after flatlining for two months, in a boost for the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, before the autumn budget.

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October 12, 2024
Growth of micro-gyms fills gaps in high street
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Growth of micro-gyms fills gaps in high street

More than 1,000 independent health clubs have opened on high streets and in shopping centres since 2019

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October 12, 2024
Turning the tables Ex-poker professional takes on bookies with push to raise duties
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Turning the tables Ex-poker professional takes on bookies with push to raise duties

As a former professional poker player, Derek Webb is used to rising from the table holding more chips than he started with. Vanquished opponents are left wondering how they have been bested by a bespectacled septuagenarian with a Derby accent.

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October 12, 2024
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Labour considers £3bn gambling tax under 'polluter pays' proposals

Ministers are considering a tax raid of up to £3bn on the gambling sector as Rachel Reeves casts around for funds to shore up the public finances.

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October 12, 2024
Killer cars March of the monster trucks into Europe due to loophole
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Killer cars March of the monster trucks into Europe due to loophole

The engines rev, the guitars thrum and a gruff narrator explains why the vehicle occupying the driveway is more than just a machine. “A truck is a tool,” he says, “but a Ram - a Ram is life.” So begins an advert for the Ram 1500, a pickup truck that is slightly bigger than the Panzer I tanks of Nazi Germany and almost as heavy. It is growing in popularity in Europe, with the number of Rams arriving from the US up 20% in 2023 compared with 2022, according to registration data from the European Environment Agency.

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October 12, 2024
Finland's forest crisis
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Finland's forest crisis

What happens when they stop absorbing carbon?

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October 12, 2024
Bella Ciao Anthem MEPs sang to deride Orbán has a rich history
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Bella Ciao Anthem MEPs sang to deride Orbán has a rich history

“This isn't Eurovision,” said the speaker of the European parliament, Roberta Metsola, as she tried to silence leftwing MEPs greeting the visiting Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, with a rowdy rendition of the classic anti-fascist anthem Bella Ciao.

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October 12, 2024
Italy opens migration centres in Albania under controversial deal
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Italy opens migration centres in Albania under controversial deal

Italy has formally opened two centres in Albania where it plans to process men who are intercepted in international waters while trying to cross from Africa to Europe.

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October 12, 2024
Alma Mahler Turning spotlight on operatic life of a Vienna legend
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Alma Mahler Turning spotlight on operatic life of a Vienna legend

There are big, messy lives that can be called operatic and then there was Alma Mahler's. After her first kiss with the artist Gustav Klimt as a teenager and her dreams of a career in composing, passionate love affairs with an array of early 20th-century artists came in quick succession.

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October 12, 2024
Cameroon bans media debate about health of the president
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Cameroon bans media debate about health of the president

Cameroonian authorities have banned discussions about the health of the president, Paul Biya, after the latest round of speculation about his prolonged failure to appear in public.

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October 12, 2024
Haitian gangs recruit children to fight security forces - report
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Haitian gangs recruit children to fight security forces - report

Armed gangs are recruiting starving Haitian children to swell their ranks ahead of an anticipated battle with international security forces, according to a report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).

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October 12, 2024
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New French government faces test over budget of cuts and tax rises

The new French government is facing its first significant test in a hostile parliament as it tries to push through a budget of spending cuts and tax increases aimed at saving €60bn (£50bn) and reining in a ballooning fiscal deficit.

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October 12, 2024
Up close and personal With Harris, the mood is convivial and the charisma factor is high
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Up close and personal With Harris, the mood is convivial and the charisma factor is high

The View, America's most popular daytime talkshow, was on commercial break. Kamala Harris sat writing absence notes for students who were missing class to attend the live broadcast. \"Is it just today, right?\" the vice president laughed.

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October 12, 2024
Lebanon UN reports blasts at HQ for second day running
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Lebanon UN reports blasts at HQ for second day running

The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon reported new blasts at its headquarters yesterday that injured two Sri Lankan members of the force a day after the same base came under Israeli tank fire.

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October 12, 2024
The stakes What election in US will mean for the war
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The stakes What election in US will mean for the war

The year since the 7 October attack has demonstrated just how densely intertwined US presidential politics is with the trajectory of events in the Middle East. Each exerts a gravitational pull on the other, often in ways that are damaging for both.

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October 12, 2024
Revealed: US-made munition used in Israeli strike on Beirut
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Revealed: US-made munition used in Israeli strike on Beirut

A US-made munition was used in a strike on central Beirut on Thursday night that killed 22 people and wounded 117, according to an analysis of shrapnel found by the Guardian at the scene of the attack.

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October 12, 2024
My day is like a workshop on the consequences of poor decision-making
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My day is like a workshop on the consequences of poor decision-making

Along with death and divorce, moving makes up the trinity of what are supposed to be life's most stressful experiences (assuming you don't live on the Florida coast).

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October 12, 2024
Northern sights: aurora borealis lights up the skies
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Northern sights: aurora borealis lights up the skies

The northern lights lit up the skies this week with stunning bright pink hues as the sun approaches the peak of its 11-year solar cycle.

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October 12, 2024
Concerns raised as 'extremely thin' models return to fashion catwalks
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Concerns raised as 'extremely thin' models return to fashion catwalks

Fashion insiders have expressed concerns that progress made towards size inclusivity in the industry is being curtailed.

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October 12, 2024
Turn over a new leaf? Six ways to help us read more books - and boost attention span
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Turn over a new leaf? Six ways to help us read more books - and boost attention span

This week, Sir Jonathan Bate, a professor of English literature at the University of Oxford, voiced his concern at the \"attrition of attention span\", as witnessed through his undergraduates' inability to keep up with reading lists. \"Now, instead of three novels in a week, many students will struggle to get through one novel in three weeks,” he told the BBC's Today programme.

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October 12, 2024
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Faith schools seek exemption from VAT if fees are low

Private faith schools have held talks with ministers over a proposal to exempt small establishments from VAT if their fees are far below those charged by elite schools such as Eton.

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October 12, 2024
Laid to rest? Columbus's remains confirmed in Seville
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Laid to rest? Columbus's remains confirmed in Seville

Scientists in Spain claim to have solved the two lingering mysteries that cling to Christopher Columbus more than five centuries after the explorer died: are the much-travelled remains buried in a magnificent tomb in Seville Cathedral really his? And was the navigator who changed the course of world history really from Genoa - as history has long claimed - or was he actually Basque, Catalan, Galician, Greek, Jewish or Portuguese?

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October 12, 2024
Review Captivating cast - but how Bernstein's score meanders
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Review Captivating cast - but how Bernstein's score meanders

There's not much to look at in Oliver Mears' new production of Leonard Bernstein's 1952 one-acter, Trouble in Tahiti.

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October 12, 2024
Thames flood scheme could force swimming lake in Surrey to close
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Thames flood scheme could force swimming lake in Surrey to close

A freshwater lake that attracts more than 30,000 swimmers a year is under threat of closure from an Environment Agency plan to reduce flooding that will channel in polluted river water, according to campaigners.

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October 12, 2024
Frock'n'roll Rivals may be problematic, but it is also gloriously fun
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Frock'n'roll Rivals may be problematic, but it is also gloriously fun

It begins, of course, with bonking. A close-up on a bare male bottom, thrusting energetically in a Concorde loo. Cries of ecstasy float over a soundtrack of Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love, as the plane hits supersonic and the flight attendant pops the champagne. It can only be Jilly Cooper, and that bottom can only be Rupert Campbell-Black - champion showjumper, international heart-throb, Tory sports minister, braying toff, absolute shit.

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October 12, 2024
Woman who killed parents is jailed for 36 years
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Woman who killed parents is jailed for 36 years

A woman who murdered her parents and lived with their bodies for four years has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 36 years.

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October 12, 2024
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Man in 60s missing after boat capsizes on Thames in Surrey

A man in his 60s is missing and three others have been taken to hospital after a boat capsized on the Thames in Surrey yesterday morning.

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October 12, 2024