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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories
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A look back at Bill Turnbull's career and life – video obituary
The former BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull died peacefully at his home in Suffolk surrounded by his family on Wednesday. The 66-year-old passed away after battling prostate cancer. Turnbull presented BBC Breakfast for 15 years and hosted a radio show on Classic FMFormer BBC Breakfast host Bill Turnbull dies aged 66 Continue reading...
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Alexis Petridis)
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The secret recordings of genius producer Charles Stepney
The soul music visionary died in 1976 at the peak of his career. But his legacy endures – thanks to sampling, fans such as Elton John and Chaka Khan, and the efforts of his three daughtersIn the mid-60s, a struggling vibraphone player named Charles Stepney and his wife, Rubie, visited their pastor looking for career advice. Stepney’s work as a jazz musician in Chicago was intermittent at best: when he did get work, Rubie was unhappy about spending nights at home alone. “So the pastor prayed,” sa
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Sofia Quaglia)
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Crab and lobster shells could be used to make renewable batteries
Prototype designed using chemical in crustacean shells remains 99.7% efficient after about 400 hoursScientists want to use a chemical found in crab and lobster shells to make batteries more sustainable, according to research.“We think both biodegradability of material, or environmental impact, and the performance of the batteries are important for a product, which has the potential to be commercialised,” said Liangbing Hu, the director of the University of Maryland’s Center for Materials Innovat
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Angelique Chrisafis in Paris)
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France cracks down on junk mail with trial opt-in system
Scheme will be tried in certain areas for three years, and environmental groups hope it will be rolled out across countryFrance is cracking down on the tonnes of unsolicited junk mail and advertising brochures put through letterboxes each year, warning of unnecessary waste and damage to the environment.For more than a decade, households in France that do not want to receive piles of unaddressed advertising leaflets have been able to put a sticker on their letterbox saying “no to advertising”. Bu
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (James McMurray)
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The UN’s report on the Uyghurs nearly didn’t see the light of day, thanks to China | James McMurray
Michelle Bachelet’s report on human rights abuses in Xinjiang is sobering – as are Beijing’s attempts to stop it being publishedOn Wednesday, minutes before the midnight end of her four-year appointment as UN high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet’s office at last published her long-delayed report into the continuing human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region of China. That it would do so remained uncertain to the last. Just the day before, it was being reported that her term woul
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Ed Pilkington in New York)
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Wind in Democrats’ sails as Sarah Palin humbled in Alaska special election
Mary Peltola’s victory delivers blow to Palin’s hopes of political comeback and prompts concern for Republicans in midtermsA special election for Alaska’s only seat in the US House was won by the Democrat Mary Peltola, delivering a blow to the former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s hopes of a political comeback and putting wind in the sails of the Democratic party as it heads for November’s midterm elections.Peltola’s victory, by 51.5% to 48.5%, marks a stunning turnaround in a state kno
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Andrew Roth in Moscow)
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Putin to snub Gorbachev funeral due to work schedule
Russian president lays wreath at hospital where Soviet leader died but will not attend service, Kremlin saysVladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin has said, in what will be seen as an extraordinary snub by the Russian president.Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday aged 91, would also not receive an official state funeral, a Kremlin spokesperson indicated, making him the first leader since Nikita Khrushchev not to be given that
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Agence France-Presse)
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South African court bans offshore oil and gas exploration by Shell
Judgment is huge victory for campaigners concerned about effect of seismic waves on marine lifeA South African court has upheld a ban imposed on the energy giant Shell from using seismic waves to explore for oil and gas off the Indian Ocean coast.The judgment delivered in Makhanda on Thursday marks a monumental victory for environmentalists concerned about the impact the exploration would have on whales and other marine life. Continue reading...
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Gaby Hinsliff)
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Children thrive in a loving family, no matter how unconventional | Gaby Hinsliff
A pro-family government would need to embrace a sometimes messy, blurry but realistic concept of what it seeks to supportIt was love, rather than duty, that took a good friend of mine to a funeral last week. But it was the kind of love that can be hard to explain.She hadn’t lost a blood relative, or a friend. Instead, the funeral was for the first wife of my friend’s much-married father, a woman for whom – unlike a cousin or a sibling or even a step-parent – there isn’t an official word. But sti
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Denis Campbell Health policy editor)
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NHS vacancies in England at ‘staggering’ new high as almost 10% of posts empty
Quarterly figures show 132,139 roles were vacant at end of June, including more than 46,000 nurse postsThe number of posts lying vacant across the NHS in England has reached a “staggering” record high of 132,139 – almost 10% of its planned workforce.The number at the end of June was up sharply from three months earlier when there were 105,855 vacancies, quarterly personnel figures show. Continue reading...