The Guardian - January 10, 2025

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January 10, 2025

Reeves considers deeper cuts in spending

Rachel Reeves is considering imposing steeper cuts to public services to repair the government's finances after a bruising week in which investors drove up the cost of UK borrowing and pushed the pound to a 14-month low.

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World Temperatures Overshoot 1.5C Paris Deal Limit for First Time

Data shows 2024 was hottest year on record as climate crisis worsens

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Trump is not going to invade Greenland, says Lammy

The foreign secretary, David Lammy, said yesterday that a US military seizure of Greenland was not going to happen, as he played down Donald Trump's threats to take the territory from Denmark.

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Laverne to swap breakfast show at 6 Music for mid-morning slot

The BBC presenter Lauren Laverne has announced she will be stepping down as host of Radio 6 Music's breakfast show.

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'Big, bold, ambitious': Sheen seeks to bring Welsh stories to life at new national theatre

Michael Sheen, a global star of screen and stage, is spearheading a new national theatre for Wales, promising to create big, bold plays that bring vital stories about his homeland to life.

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Jimmy Carter: Washington bids farewell to a decent man and ponders a new political age

Character. Character. Character.\" Speaking from the pulpit of a hushed Washington National Cathedral yesterday, Joe Biden seemed to be eulogising something bigger than the late US president who lay in a Stars and Stripes-draped casket before him. \"Jimmy Carter's friendship taught me, and through his life, taught me, that strength of character is more than title or the power we hold,\" Biden said. \"It's the strength to understand that everyone should be treated with dignity, respect, that everyone, and I mean everyone, deserves an even shot.\"

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PM dismays asylum rights activists with boast on record deportations

Keir Starmer has boasted of deporting a record number of rejected asylum seekers and overseas criminals since scrapping the Rwanda scheme, using language that has dismayed human rights campaigners.

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Streeting defends 'pragmatic' use of private firms to aid NHS

Wes Streeting has defended the growing use of the private sector to help tackle long waiting lists for treatment but insisted they must \"pull their weight\" rather than taking resources away from the NHS.

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Troubling, but not Truss-like Chancellor must be careful to avoid risk of a doom loop

Borrowing costs at the highest level since 1998, the pound at a 14-month low and some major UK company shares dropping like a stone.

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Liz Truss 'Stop saying I crashed the economy'

Liz Truss has sent a legal letter to Keir Starmer demanding he stops making \"false and defamatory\" claims that she crashed the economy.

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Intervention or inaction The options on the table for economy

There are a range of measures, of varying severity, the Treasury and the Bank of England could still take, depending on how market conditions unfold.

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Mick Lynch to retire as RMT boss after 30 years with union

Mick Lynch has said he will retire as general secretary of the RMT union, after four years during which he became perhaps the most recognisable presence on picket lines amid the biggest rail and tube worker strikes for decades.

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Meta has 'heard Trump's message', says whistleblower

Mark Zuckerberg has \"heard the message\" from Donald Trump on restricting online content, and his Meta platforms will intervene \"less and less\" on users during the president-elect's administration, according to the whistleblower Frances Haugen.

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Legal defeat for man who lost bitcoin fortune in council tip

A computer expert's decade-long battle to recover a £600m bitcoin fortune he says has been lost in a council dump has been halted by a judge.

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Hunt: We Took Too Long To Start Reviews Of NHS Patient Deaths

Jeremy Hunt has said ministers took \"too long\" to introduce medical examiners to investigate deaths in the NHS, as he apologised to the families of Lucy Letby's victims.

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For real life? Children's TV hit Bluey to feature in Lego sets

The global hit children's TV show Bluey is to make its Lego debut with the first sets due to hit shelves later this year.

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Official Taken Off Asylum Seekers' Site Over 'Support For EDL'

The head of security at accommodation for vulnerable disabled asylum seekers has been removed from his duties over concerns about his alleged support for the far-right English Defence League and Tommy Robinson, the Guardian has learned.

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Cancer staffing freezes are 'short-sighted', doctors warn

Dozens of NHS hospitals have banned their cancer or diagnostic units from hiring new staff, despite GPs referring growing numbers of people who they fear may have the disease.

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'Blowing my mind': Bradford to take a bow as new city of culture

Temperatures below zero are forecast at City Park this evening but the warmth radiating from Bradford's mighty UK city of culture opening will undoubtedly put everyone in the mood to celebrate.

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Half of England's county councils could ask for delay to May's polls

Half of the county councils due to have elections in England this spring could ask to have them postponed.

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Los Angeles continues to burn as blazes claim five lives and destroy 2,000 homes

New fires broke out overnight in Los Angeles yesterday, including in central urban areas, causing further panic in a city whose residents have been forced to flee in the thousands.

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It's just dust' Angelenos tell of frantic evacuations and homes destroyed

The sun glared red as it sank into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, casting an orange hue over the carnage smouldering on the southern Californian coast.

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'How tipping points happen' A compound climate disaster

An exceptional mix of environmental conditions has created a firestorm without known precedent across southern California this week.

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Muskmania couldn't save hapless Steve Reed from angry farmers - or from himself

His entire speech was punctuated by blasts on tractor horns. But he had no choice. Just get the thing done and get out of there alive

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Labour's agriculture plans 'will fill rivers with chicken faeces'

Labour's proposal to loosen planning regulations for farmers will deluge rivers with chicken faeces, environmental campaigners have warned.

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Former captain of Scotland rugby team sentenced for domestic abuse

The former Scotland rugby union captain Stuart Hogg will be supervised for a year as an alternative to jail after he admitted abusing his estranged wife over the course of five years.

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Van Gogh show to open all night on its final weekend

Some of the country's greatest artists, including Lucian Freud, David Hockney and Francis Bacon, used to visit the National Gallery in the early hours for inspiration.

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Tower Hamlets council aims to give families £150 for school uniforms

A London council is likely to become the first in England to offer a \"universal\" payment towards school uniform costs to households with incomes of less than £50,000.

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'All eyes are on us': Britain's first legal drugs 'safe room' to open in Glasgow after 10-year battle

The UK's first legal drug consumption room will open its doors in Glasgow next week after a 10-year battle to realise the pioneering facility.

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Spectacular collection of style muse Iris Apfel's glasses and clothes is up for sale

Iris Apfel, arguably the world's first centenarian style icon, died last year at the age of 102. Now her clothes, art and furniture are set to be sold at Christie's this month in an online auction titled Unapologetically Iris.

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Two lynx captured in humane traps after illegal release in the Scottish Highlands

Two lynx that were illegally released into the Scottish Highlands have been captured overnight and are said to be in good health.

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Wildlife groups call for UK ban on sale of lead ammunition

Wildlife charities have called on the government to ban the sale and use of lead in ammunition used for outdoor shooting.

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Stage review A dazzling queer cabaret retells story of Titanic

Imagine James Cameron's 1997 disaster film romance Titanic as a camp musical spoof narrated by Celine Dion, who famously sang its signature number.

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Music industry hails proposal to crack down on ticket touts

The price at which tickets for live events can be resold is to be capped under \"game-changing\" proposals put forward by the government to crack down on touting.

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Murder inquiry in Spain after missing Belfast man found dead

A murder investigation is under way in Spain after the body of a 37-year-old man from Northern Ireland was found three weeks after he went missing, leaving his family heartbroken.

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National Trust will mark its 130th anniversary with 'moonshot' plans on nature and climate

In past decades the focus has been on protecting beautiful landscapes such as the Lake District, trying to save the crumbling coast or breathing life into historic country houses.

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Tulip Siddiq Why MP's links to deposed Bangladesh regime are under scrutiny

Tulip Siddiq reacted with anger when she was confronted in 2017 by reporters from Channel 4 asking her to intervene in the case of Ahmad bin Quasem, a British-educated lawyer allegedly abducted in Bangladesh by the regime of her aunt, Sheikh Hasina.

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Don't stop military support, Zelenskyy tells allies, ahead of Trump's return to power

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Ukraine's western allies \"not to drop the ball\" and to continue to provide long-term military support to his embattled country once Donald Trump returns to the White House.

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Greenland PM urges citizens not to panic after US takeover talk

Greenland's prime minister has called for unity, urging citizens not to panic, after being thrown into a geopolitical battle between the US and Denmark by Donald Trump's interest in taking control of the territory.

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Blow to president-elect over hush money trial sentencing

New York's highest court declined yesterday to block Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush-money case, leaving the US supreme court as the president-elect's likely last option to prevent the hearing from taking place today.

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Musk heaps praise on AfD co-leader during talk on X

Elon Musk has praised the co-leader of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party, as he repeated his claim that \"only the AfD can save Germany\" during a controversial live talk on his social media platform X.

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Leave US forces in north-east Syria, leader of Kurdish troops urges Trump

The leader of the Kurdish forces that control north-eastern Syria has called on Donald Trump to maintain a US military presence in the region, warning a retreat would risk a resurgence of Islamic State in the country.

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Lebanon elects army head president after two-year vacancy

Lebanon's parliament yesterday elected the army commander Joseph Aoun as the country's new president, ending a more than two-year vacancy and increasing confidence that a ceasefire with Israel will hold.

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Founder of website that Pelicot used to recruit rapists is charged

French prosecutors have charged the founder of an adult website that was used to commit sexual offences, including by Dominique Pelicot, who recruited dozens of strangers to rape his wife.

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Mayor leads fight to save island paradise near Naples from being sold to investors

An Italian mayor has pledged to do everything in his power to stop Punta Pennata - a slice of island paradise close to the heart of Naples, from where a fleet departed to rescue survivors of the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius - from being sold to a wealthy speculator.

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Birkenstock Asks for Ruling It Has Sole Right to 'Work of Art'

Once sneered at as the preserve of muesli-loving, Guardian-reading hippies, Birkenstocks have more recently been promoted to the status of a fashion item, not least since they took a starring role in the Barbie movie.

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Powder sent to Belgian PM's office identified as strychnine

A white powder in a letter that hospitalized an aide to Belgium's prime minister, Alexander De Croo, has been identified as strychnine, a poison that can be fatal.

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Owner hopes to sell Breaking Bad home for $4m and escape years of pizzas on the roof

The modest suburban home used as Walter White's family abode in Breaking Bad is officially on the market for $4m (£3.2m) - almost 10 times the median sale price in its neighbourhood.

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Harsh new phase for Venezuela as Maduro starts his third term

Venezuela's tumble into authoritarianism is poised to enter an even harsher new phase this week with Nicolás Maduro due to extend his 12-year rule despite widespread suspicions that he stole last year's presidential election.

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Musk says firms have exhausted all knowledge to train AI models

Artificial intelligence companies have run out of data for training their models and have \"exhausted\" the sum of human knowledge, Elon Musk has said.

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Tesco and M&S Plan Sweeping Cuts in Response to Reeves Tax Increases

Tesco and Marks & Spencer plan to slash costs to cushion the blow from Rachel Reeves's tax increases, the retailers said, as they posted strong Christmas trading.

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Greggs responds to anger over sausage roll price rise

The boss of Greggs has blamed wage, tax and food cost rises for a 5p increase in the price of its sausage rolls, after it faced criticism over the decision.

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The big retailers will cope fine - but the NICs raid is too much, too soon for small businesses

If one looked solely at this week's trading reports from the world of big retail - the likes of Marks & Spencer, Next and Tesco - you might wonder why Rachel Reeves's increase in employers' national insurance contributions (NICs) has caused such a fuss.

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Sale talks boost shares in banknote printing firm De La Rue

Shares in De La Rue, the 200-year-old British firm that prints banknotes for the Bank of England, have surged after it confirmed it was in talks about a possible takeover offer from a City financier.

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Reeves in China Geopolitics may make return to 'golden era' of relations impossible

Rachel Reeves will fly with a delegation of City grandees to China this week as Labour seeks closer economic links with Beijing as part of its quest for growth.

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The wrong trousers How restrictive sporting dress codes can create a public image problem

Wallace and Gromit is a festive TV staple in many a household - but it wasn't their wrong trousers that scooped the post-Christmas headlines. That honour belonged to Magnus Carlsen, disqualified from a chess tournament in New York for wearing jeans.

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'I've been hooked': how shady line calls cloud practice games

Raducanu, Stephens and others on the perils of trusting rivals to make fair calls in umpire-free sessions

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Aldcroft to captain Red Roses at home World Cup

Zoe Aldcroft has been installed as England women's captain for 2025, taking over from Marlie Packer, and is set to lead John Mitchell's side into the World Cup this year.

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Murray ready for outbursts on court from Djokovic

Andy Murray says he would be absolutely fine with receiving any angry outbursts of emotion or venting on-court from Novak Djokovic, his new coaching charge, as the two former longtime rivals prepare for their first tournament together on the same team at the Australian Open.

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Potter Calls For Unity To Revive West Ham In 'Ruthless' Top Flight

Graham Potter has checked in at a troubled West Ham with the message that only a united approach will keep them afloat in a \"ruthless\" Premier League.

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Regular guy can put the heart back in gormless machine

After Hollywood farce at Chelsea and two years out of game, rags-to-riches manager has seized chance to join 'family club' that he can improve immediately

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'A massive draw': Salford ready for their biggest game

Karl Robinson's side travel less than five miles to face Manchester City with chance to make name for themselves

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Dyche dismissal a risk that puts team's need to stay up in sharp focus

Sacking is no shock given manager's dour football but successor has a perilous task. Could Moyes be the right fit?

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Beto and Ndiaye lift Everton as caretakers sweep up after turmoil

Another new era for Everton, this one promising stability, and another managerial search is under way after the sacking of Sean Dyche.

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The Chosen One? Everton Turn to Moyes After Sacking Dyche Before Cup Tie

Everton's new owners are expected to offer David Moyes the chance to return to Goodison Park after sacking Sean Dyche hours before the FA Cup tie against Peterborough United.

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RFU rebels vow to fight on as bid to oust Sweeney stalls

A grassroots rebellion has accused the Rugby Football Union of \"postponing the inevitable,\" after the governing body rejected an attempt to force the removal of the chief executive, Bill Sweeney, amid the pay and bonuses scandal.

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