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Sep 07, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Verna Yu)
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China reports ‘most severe’ heatwave and third driest summer on record
Average temperature in August was 1.2C higher than norm, which caused widespread droughtChina recorded its highest temperatures and one of its lowest levels of rainfall in 61 years during a two-month summer heatwave that caused forest fires, damaged crops and hit power supplies, the national meteorological agency said.The average national temperature in August, 22.4C, was 1.2C higher than the seasonal norm, while average rainfall fell 23% to 82mm, the third lowest since records began in 1961, ac
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Sep 07, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Rowena Mason and Emine Sinmaz)
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Jacob Rees-Mogg: the fossil fuel fan in charge of cutting UK carbon emissions
Liz Truss has retained Rees-Mogg in cabinet but how did the MP go from anachronistic caricature to business secretary?All the day’s politics news – as it happensFor all the furore over Jacob Rees-Mogg’s “Sorry you were out” notes, used to shame civil servants who were working at home, he only printed and left three on unoccupied desks.“It was a PR stunt, pure and simple, and that’s Jacob all over,” says one Whitehall source with knowledge of the episode. Continue reading...
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Sep 07, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Kalyeena Makortoff)
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Kwasi Kwarteng assures City of support for Bank of England independence
New chancellor promises City bosses ‘radical’ plan for economic growth and smooths over Truss’s threat to review Bank’s remitThe new chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, has used his first meeting with bank bosses to reiterate his support for the Bank of England’s independence, and promise that the new government was poised to unveil a “radical” plan for economic growth.Kwarteng, who previously led the business department, told 14 executives from City firms, including HSBC, NatWest and Barclays, that the
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Sep 07, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Damien Gayle)
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Tyre Extinguishers claim more than 600 SUVs ‘disarmed’ in one night
Group says ‘climate disaster’ vehicles targeted in nine countries including the UK, France and CanadaThe climate activist group the Tyre Extinguishers has claimed its largest night of action yet against SUVs, with more than 600 vehicles “disarmed” across nine countries.Over the night marking six months since the launch of the campaign, which encourages people to covertly deflate the tyres of SUVs, activists took action in the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, th
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Sep 07, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Peter Walker Political correspondent)
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Keir Starmer challenges Liz Truss on energy bill plans in her first PMQs
Labour leader attacks new PM’s refusal to back windfall tax as Truss accuses him of advocating ‘same old tax and spend’Politics latest – liveKeir Starmer has accused Liz Truss of relying on “the Tory fantasy of trickle-down economics” as he used her first outing at prime minister’s questions to set out clear policy dividing lines on a windfall tax on energy firms and cuts to corporation tax.Truss, who was cheered into a packed chamber by Conservative MPs, responded by repeatedly stressing her fo
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Sep 07, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Andrew Pollard)
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It’s not just Covid: the triple threat that could overwhelm the NHS this winter | Andrew Pollard
A severe flu outbreak or new coronavirus variant could prove catastrophic for a health service already on its kneesIn the past two and half years our health service has endured a global pandemic, staff shortages, terrible ambulance queues, long-waiting lists and a social care crisis; and we are now again seeing warnings of severe pressures in the NHS in the coming winter season. But the truth is that we are confronted by even more uncertainty than usual about the scale of “winter pressures” that
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Sep 07, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (PA Media)
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Man pleads guilty to murder of Canadian teenager in Essex
Jack Sepple admits killing 19-year-old Ashley Wadsworth, whom he met via a dating appA man has admitted killing a Canadian teenager he had met on a dating app. Jack Sepple, 23, pleaded guilty at Chelmsford crown court to the murder of 19-year-old Ashley Wadsworth. Continue reading...
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Sep 07, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Pamela Duncan , Carmen Aguilar García, Michael Goodier and Seán Clarke)
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How representative is Liz Truss’s cabinet of the UK population?
New PM has appointed a team that is historically inclusive in some regards. But how well does it represent the population it will govern?Not since the 1970s has energy poverty been so high on the agenda of an incoming cabinet. The cost of living crisis is the single biggest concern of the electorate at present.However, according to the latest figures on fuel poverty (published in 2022 but which date to 2020), the constituencies represented by the MPs around the cabinet table are less vulnerable
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Sep 07, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent)
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Community groups will close without energy bill help, Liz Truss warned
Many charities, often housed in draughty old buildings, say they will have to cut services or close in face of spiralling costs Community organisations in draughty old civic buildings have said they will have to close or reduce services unless the new prime minister, Liz Truss, includes them in Thursday’s expected energy bills bailout.Charities and community trusts, many occupying leaky Victorian, Georgian and 20th-century structures, are facing some of the sharpest rises in utility bills. More
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Sep 07, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Patrick Butler Social policy editor)
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1 million more people in UK face poverty this winter, analysis shows
Thinktank urges government to blunt impact of rising energy prices, as deprivation levels hit 20-year highMore than 1 million more people will be forced into poverty this winter, pushing UK deprivation levels to their highest for two decades – even if the government freezes energy prices at current levels, according to a conservative thinktank.The Legatum Institute, led by the Conservative peer and former government adviser Philippa Stroud, estimated that even if the energy price cap was held at