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Aug242020 by adminNo Comments

Children raised in greener areas have higher IQ, study finds

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Children raised in greener areas have higher IQ, study finds Research also found lower levels of difficult behaviour in rich and poor neighbourhoodsChildren growing up in greener urban areas have increased intelligence and lower levels of difficult behaviour, a study has found.The analysis of more than 600 children aged 10-15 showed a 3% increase in the greenness of their neighbourhood raised their IQ score by an average of 2.6 points. The effect was seen in both richer and poorer areas. Continue reading... Go to Source

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Protests in Wisconsin after video appears to show police shooting black man in the back

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Protests in Wisconsin after video appears to show police shooting black man in the back Video on social media appears to show officers shoot at man seven times as he leaned into vehicleResidents have confronted law enforcement officers at the scene of a police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that drew a harsh rebuke from the state’s governor and prompted crowds to take to the streets after a video posted on social media appeared to show officers shoot at a man’s back seven times as he leaned into a vehicle.Kenosha police said one person was left in a serious condition in hospital after a shooting by officers about 5pm on Sunday, as police were responding to a “domestic incident”. Continue reading... Go to Source

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Kellyanne Conway to leave Trump White House at end of month

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Kellyanne Conway to leave Trump White House at end of month President’s adviser cites the need to focus on her family as her husband George also steps back from his role at the Lincoln ProjectThe White House adviser Kellyanne Conway has announced she will be leaving Donald Trump’s administration at the end of August, citing the need to focus on her family.Conway, Trump’s campaign manager during the 2016 presidential race, was the first woman to successfully steer a White House bid, then became a senior counsellor to the US president. She informed Trump of her decision in the Oval Office on Sunday. Continue reading... Go to Source

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Boris Johnson moves to seize control of schools agenda after exams chaos

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Boris Johnson moves to seize control of schools agenda after exams chaos PM’s decision to front return-to-school drive is bid to win back the public, top Tory suggests Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Boris Johnson attempted to reassert his grip over education after days of chaos by making a personal plea to parents to send their children back to the classroom in England in September.The prime minister, who was criticised for going on holiday to Scotland during the A-level debacle, has spoken out to say the risk of contracting coronavirus in school is low and that it is damaging for children to be out of education for any longer. Continue reading... Go to Source

Aug232020 by adminNo Comments

Revealed: London councils take funds from developers to pay for planning guidelines

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Revealed: London councils take funds from developers to pay for planning guidelines Critics say ‘poachers have become gamekeepers’ as a result, but councils deny conflict of interestThe final straw? Tory heartlands in revolt over planning reforms Councils have accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from property developers to fund planning guidelines designed to help govern their own schemes, a Guardian analysis has found.In deals that have been criticised for allowing unfair influence and marginalising local residents, bodies including housing developers, landowners and urban regeneration companies paid large sums to draft supplementary planning documents (SPDs), which councillors must then consider when determining planning applications. Continue reading... Go to Sour...

Aug232020 by adminNo Comments

Coronavirus live news: calls for party ban in Germany to curb cases; ex-Ukraine PM ‘seriously ill with Covid’

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Coronavirus live news: calls for party ban in Germany to curb cases; ex-Ukraine PM 'seriously ill with Covid' Call for temporary ban as infections reach four-month high; Yulia Tymoshenko has high fever; Italy ‘won’t lock down’ again to curb infections Outbreak in English schools ‘uncommon’, says PHEEngland to fine organisers of illegal raves up to £10,000Analysis: the UK’s gathering Covid autumn stormIndia passes 3m cases as South Korea sees biggest surge since MarchChildren over 12 should wear face masks to combat Covid, says WHO 6.45pm BST The Greek island of Lesbos was on Sunday added to a list of areas under “heightened” Covid-19 vigilance, officials said.The move came as health authorities announced a new daily infection high of...

Aug232020 by adminNo Comments

Exam results row deepens as Ofqual hits back at statistics body

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Exam results row deepens as Ofqual hits back at statistics body Chair of exams regulator in England says RSS’s comments caused misunderstanding and suspicion about its algorithmThe row over A-level and GCSE results has intensified after the chair of the exams regulator in England accused the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) of making comments that led to “widespread misunderstanding and suspicion” about Ofqual’s work.Ofqual has been under scrutiny for its role in the debacle, which left pupils devastated and university admissions in chaos. In the increasingly acrimonious aftermath, Roger Taylor, the chair of Ofqual, called on the RSS to set the record straight after it raised concerns about the now discredited algorithm and offered help. Continue reading... Go ...

Aug232020 by adminNo Comments

Lost medieval sacristy uncovered at Westminster Abbey

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Lost medieval sacristy uncovered at Westminster Abbey Remains of hundreds of bodies also discovered at site used as burial ground for monksA lost medieval sacristy used by 13th century monks has been uncovered in the grounds of Westminster Abbey along with the bones of hundreds, if not thousands, of buried bodies.“You do have to be careful where you’re walking,” said archaeologist Chris Mayo, pointing to a fragment of skull poking out of the sandy soil. “You can see from the ground there are burials everywhere.” Continue reading... Go to Source

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Belarus: defiant protesters flood Minsk demanding Lukashenko’s removal

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Belarus: defiant protesters flood Minsk demanding Lukashenko's removal Defence minister’s threat to call in army fails to quell protests sparked by disputed electionDefiant protesters have flooded central Minsk again in a sign that even a threat to use the army was not enough to quell the uprising against Belarus’s authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko.The vast square outside the parliament was turned into a sea of red and white by protesters waving the traditional Belarusian flag adopted by the protest movement, and chanting “Resign!” and “Put Lukashenko in a police van!”. Unofficial estimates put the crowd at 150,000 people or more. Continue reading... Go to Source

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Calls to mental health helplines double in Manchester under Covid restrictions

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Calls to mental health helplines double in Manchester under Covid restrictions Increase reported by police and specialist services prompts council leader to call for more nuanced approach Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCalls to police and specialist services about mental health have almost doubled in Manchester while people have been isolated at home, prompting the leader of the city council to call for a more balanced and proportionate approach to lockdown.Sir Richard Leese, who heads Manchester city council and is also deputy mayor of Greater Manchester, said the government needed a new strategy to tackle outbreaks which “brings into play mental health and other health risks including those caused by poverty and economic inactivity, and one tha...

Aug232020 by adminNo Comments

Police sources say Alexei Navalny was under surveillance in Siberia

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Police sources say Alexei Navalny was under surveillance in Siberia Leak to newspaper is apparently intended to show Navalny was not poisoned in city of TomskA Russian newspaper has alleged there was extensive government surveillance of the Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny during a trip to Siberia before he collapsed from a suspected poisoning on Thursday.Navalny’s press secretary, Kira Yarmysh, had complained of being followed during the trip, calling the police surveillance “absolutely obvious” during a stopover in the city of Novosibirsk. The next leg in the city of Tomsk was “relatively calm”, she said, until Navalny fell ill during a return flight to Moscow on Thursday. He was transferred to Berlin’s Charite hospital on Saturday for treatment. Conti...

Aug232020 by adminNo Comments

UK to drop ‘Facebook tax’ in favour of post-Brexit trade deal

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UK to drop 'Facebook tax' in favour of post-Brexit trade deal Recently introduced tax would have raised £500m, helping to reduce Britain’s huge Covid billCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK government is preparing to drop a recently introduced tax on global technology companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon, due to fears that the so-called “Facebook tax” could jeopardise a post-Brexit trade deal.Rishi Sunak is reportedly planning to ditch the digital services tax which was expected to generate about £500m to help pay towards the huge cost of the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading... Go to Source

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Cheshire police examine serial killer theory in five couples’ deaths

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Cheshire police examine serial killer theory in five couples' deaths Five apparent murder-suicides in north-west may have been murders, coroner’s officer saysPolice in the north-west of England are reviewing claims that a serial killer may have been behind five apparent murder-suicides of elderly couples over the past 24 years.Stephanie Davies, Cheshire police’s senior coroner’s officer, has produced a 197-page report raising concerns that the deaths of Harold and Bea Ainsworth in April 1996 and Donald and Auriel Ward in November 1999, all in the wealthy town of Wilmslow, were double murders by a third party who is still at large, the Sunday Times reported. Continue reading... Go to Source

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California wildfires: weather turns as Bay Area burns and Trump declares disaster

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California wildfires: weather turns as Bay Area burns and Trump declares disaster Fears of new fires overnight as residents prepare to fleeWildfires explained: how did they start – and is this normal?An unwelcome change in the weather, with higher winds, temperatures and lightning that threatens to spark new wildfires was coming on Sunday to parched northern California, where firefighters have for nearly a week battled three huge “complexes” of fires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced tens of thousands to flee. Related: The Californians with nowhere to go as wildfires rage – photo essay Continue reading... Go to Source

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Keir Starmer tells Boris Johnson: your ‘chaos’ puts schools return at risk

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Keir Starmer tells Boris Johnson: your 'chaos' puts schools return at risk Labour leader attacks ‘confusion and incompetence’ from governmentCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePlans to get all children back to school in early September are now at “serious risk” because of government incompetence and the chaos caused by the exams fiasco, the Labour leader Keir Starmer has warned.In one of his strongest interventions to date, which is bound to draw a furious response from Downing Street, Starmer told the Observer that two crucial weeks, which should have been spent preparing for schools to reopen, have been wasted dealing with a self-inflicted “mess” that has destroyed public confidence in government. Continue reading... ...

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Coronavirus pandemic halts life-saving UK cancer and heart disease research

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Coronavirus pandemic halts life-saving UK cancer and heart disease research Thousands of clinical trials have closed permanently or been suspended – and may never have the cash to restartCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than 1,500 clinical trials of new drugs and treatments for cancers, heart disease and other serious illnesses have been permanently closed down in Britain in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, a further 9,000 have been suspended and most will need major cash injections if they are to be reactivated.The figures highlight the catastrophic effect that Covid-19 has had on UK medical research, which has suffered a devastating blow to development of new life-saving treatments. Improvements in disease-survival rates are l...

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Coronavirus live news: India nears 3m cases as Australian state of Queensland to announce two new cases

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Coronavirus live news: India nears 3m cases as Australian state of Queensland to announce two new cases India passes 1m daily test milestone; Mexico nears 60,000 deaths; Italy records worst infections since lockdown. Follow the latestChildren over 12 should wear face masks to combat Covid, says WHOAustralia: State closure rules border on the ridiculous for farmers and familiesSee all our coronavirus coverageWHO says world could rein in pandemic in less than two yearsSouth Korea tightens social distancing rules as Covid cases rise 12.51am BST Health authorities in the Australian state of Queensland have confirmed two new cases of coronavirus on Sunday morning. A woman in her 30s and an infant, both from the same family in the West Moreton area near Ipswich, had returned positive tests fo...

Aug222020 by adminNo Comments

Tenants urgently need greater legal protection, warn campaigners

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Tenants urgently need greater legal protection, warn campaigners Fears that Covid eviction ban, though welcome, is allowing rent arrears in England and Wales to snowballAn extended ban on evictions will fail to prevent a damaging increase in homelessness without urgent emergency measures to protect renters, according to a coalition of church leaders, councils and charities.Renters in England and Wales were given a reprieve last week when the ban, initially due to come to an end this weekend, was extended for a month. However, there are already warnings that the ban is masking a snowballing problem of rent arrears among those hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading... Go to Source

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Harry Maguire set to fly back from Greece after assault charge

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Harry Maguire set to fly back from Greece after assault charge Man Utd footballer charged with attacking police officer on Mykonos after late-night brawlHarry Maguire was set to fly back to England on Saturday night, cutting short a holiday on the Greek island of Mykonos that ended with the Manchester United and England defender accused of attacking a police officer after a late-night brawl.Maguire was released on Saturday morning after spending two nights in police cells, but will be tried in a Greek court on Tuesday on two charges of “serial bodily harm” and “serial insult”. After the hearing, Maguire was asked by reporters outside the courthouse if he was still at liberty. “Right now, yes,” the 27-year-old’s lawyer said, according to Sky News...

Aug222020 by adminNo Comments

Coronavirus live news: Croatia criticises UK quarantine decision as Russia reports 4,921 new cases

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Coronavirus live news: Croatia criticises UK quarantine decision as Russia reports 4,921 new cases South Korea records most cases since March; New Zealand records six new cases; WHO hopes pandemic will finish in less than two years. Follow latest updatesDozens of schools report infections in BerlinHorror at neglect of woman from Melbourne care homePNG bans Chinese workers ‘given experimental vaccine’Tour de France: teams to be expelled if two test positive See all our coronavirus coverage 12.25pm BST The French government has delayed by a week the implementation of a €100bn coronavirus recovery package, AFP reports. Businesses had eagerly awaited details of the new shot in the arm for the eurozone’s second-largest economy, trailed for 25 August, and government spo...

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Alexei Navalny arrives in Germany for suspected poisoning treatment

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Alexei Navalny arrives in Germany for suspected poisoning treatment Russian opposition leader flown to Berlin after doctors allow discharge from Siberian hospitalAn air ambulance carrying the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny has landed at Berlin’s Tegel airport, according to flight tracking data.German doctors had flown to the Siberian city of Omsk on Friday to evacuate Navalny, a long-time opponent of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, at the request of his wife and allies so he could receive treatment for a suspected poisoning that has left him in a coma for 36 hours. Continue reading... Go to Source

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Harry Maguire walks free – for now – after Syros court appearance

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Harry Maguire walks free – for now – after Syros court appearance Manchester United defender’s trial for alleged assault on Mykonos postponed till TuesdayHarry Maguire has walked free after a court appearance in Syros following the Manchester United and England defender’s arrest for involvement in an alleged altercation on Mykonos.The Greek daily newspaper Proto Thema said while the centre back was allowed to walk free – and return to the UK if he wanted – his trial had been postponed until Tuesday and will take place before a three-member panel of judges in Syros’s criminal court. Continue reading... Go to Source

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California wildfires: states send help as wine country and Bay Area burn

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California wildfires: states send help as wine country and Bay Area burn Area bigger than Rhode Island burns as resources stretchedFarmworkers pick pay over health despite smoke-filled airFirefighters and aircraft from 10 states began arriving in California on Friday to help weary crews battling some of the largest blazes in state history, as weekend weather threatened to renew the advance of flames that have killed six and incinerated hundreds of homes. Related: California's wildfires explained: how did they start – and is this normal? Continue reading... Go to Source

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Belarus protests: Minsk still in revolt after week of fear, pride and hope

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Belarus protests: Minsk still in revolt after week of fear, pride and hope Protesters remain defiant but there is a sense of foreboding as embattled Lukashenko digs in“During this week, we have lived many lives,” Maria Kolesnikova, one of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition, said in a video address to supporters on Friday. “For a week, Belarusians have been on an emotional seesaw: pain, fear, rising spirits, apathy, pride, helplessness, hope and happiness.”Life in Belarus has indeed been an emotionally exhausting experience in recent days, as rapid swings in momentum seemingly change the atmosphere overnight. Peaks of adrenaline, when the 26-year regime of Alexander Lukashenko seems to be tottering on the edge of the precipice, quickly give way to troughs of...

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Back Ofqual or I quit, chair of regulator told Gavin Williamson

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Back Ofqual or I quit, chair of regulator told Gavin Williamson Exclusive: Roger Taylor demanded education secretary admit Ofqual was behind exams U-turnThe chair of Ofqual threatened to quit this week unless Gavin Williamson publicly backed the exams regulator and admitted it was behind the U-turn that salvaged millions of student grades, the Guardian has learned.Roger Taylor’s ultimatum came after the education secretary tried to lay the blame for the exams fiasco at the door of Ofqual following a humiliating climbdown that scrapped A-levels and GCSEs awarded by algorithm. Continue reading... Go to Source

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Outsourcing firms miss 46% of Covid contacts in England’s worst-hit areas

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Outsourcing firms miss 46% of Covid contacts in England's worst-hit areas Serco and Sitel paid £200m to test and trace, but reach just over half of infected people’s contacts in some regionsContact tracer: ‘I haven’t made a call in 12 weeks’ Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOutsourcing companies running the government’s flagship test-and-trace system have failed to reach nearly half of potentially exposed people in areas with the highest Covid infection rates in England, official figures show.In the country’s 20 worst-hit areas, Serco and Sitel – paid £200m between them – reached only 54% of people who had been in close proximity to an infected person, meaning more than 21,000 exposed people wer...

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UK’s cheap food could fuel Covid-19 spread, says WHO envoy

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UK's cheap food could fuel Covid-19 spread, says WHO envoy Exclusive: Cramped work and home conditions may be behind infections in factories, says expertCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBritain’s demand for cheap food could be fuelling the spread of the coronavirus in factories, a leading health expert has warned, as analysis shows nearly 1,500 cases across the UK.Cramped conditions in some factories and in low-paid workers’ homes, spurred by the UK’s desire for cheaply produced food, may have driven infection rates in the sector, according to David Nabarro, a World Health Organization special envoy on Covid-19. Continue reading... Go to Source

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Alexei Navalny’s wife asks Putin to let him be treated in Germany

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Alexei Navalny's wife asks Putin to let him be treated in Germany Letter appeals to Russian leader after doctors refuse to allow Kremlin critic to leave countryThe wife of the Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has appealed directly to Vladimir Putin to allow her husband to be evacuated to a clinic in Germany to receive treatment for a suspected poisoning.Doctors treating Navalny in the Siberian city of Omsk have refused to release him for evacuation to a clinic abroad, sparking a standoff with his family and aides who say his life is in danger in Russia. Continue reading... Go to Source

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Hope for renters in England facing eviction due to Covid arrears

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Hope for renters in England facing eviction due to Covid arrears Announcement imminent on protections for tenants who fall behind with paymentsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageRenters facing eviction after falling behind on rent during the coronavirus pandemic are awaiting an imminent government announcement that could provide some with a reprieve.The housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, is poised to announce new details about the scheduled lifting of the ban on evictions this weekend after councils, charities and doctors warned it could spark a wave of homelessness. Continue reading... Go to Source

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Time-wasting UK makes post-Brexit deal unlikely, says Barnier

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Time-wasting UK makes post-Brexit deal unlikely, says Barnier Brussels’ chief negotiator says talks often go backwards as UK fails to grasp EU red linesMichel Barnier has accused the British government of “wasting valuable time” and making “unlikely” a post-Brexit deal between the EU and the UK.With barely two months to go until the EU-imposed deadline of late October for a deal, the EU’s chief negotiator said: “Frankly I am disappointed and I am worried.” Barnier added he was “a little surprised” because Boris Johnson had told EU leaders earlier this summer he wanted progress by July. Continue reading... Go to Source