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Trump backs Sunak on net zero
Donald Trump has backed Rishi Sunak over his decision to scale back net zero commitments, congratulating the Prime Minister for being “smart” in taking on “climate alarmists”.
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Letters: There are better ways to level-up Britain than wasting billions on HS2
SIR – Those who think that HS2 was about levelling-up are sadly deluded (“Axe looms over HS2 as costs set to soar by £8bn”, report, September 24). If this were the case, why were all the lines going to London? Most major cities already have a reasonable connection to the capital but appalling connections to each other. Consider Northallerton to London: 233 miles in two hours and 19 minutes. But Hull to Liverpool – only 144 miles – takes two hours and 36 minutes. Were passengers from Leeds to Man
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NHS strikes cancelled more than one million appointments, figures expected to show
NHS strikes have led to the cancellation of more than one million hospital appointments, figures are expected to show on Monday.
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New Scottish Galleries: a redevelopment that puts aesthetics ahead of socio-political matters
Inside a double-height gallery newly excavated beneath Edinburgh’s Mound, a Dandie Dinmont terrier, depicted, with an upright tail, in a late-19th-century oil painting, is facing down The Monarch of the Glen (c. 1851), Edwin Landseer’s famous (and famously ripped-off) canvas of a stag stalking the Scottish Highlands. You’d never call it a fair fight, in part because the former is such a hideous picture, at least according to John Leighton, the outgoing director-general of the National Galleries
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Eddie Jones threatens to storm out of press conference after record Wales defeat
Eddie Jones’ future as Australia head coach is in serious doubt with his side on the brink of a first-ever exit from the pool stages of the Rugby World Cup after a record defeat to Wales and explosive revelations linking Jones with becoming Japan’s next coach.
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Missing children found as mother is arrested over suspected abduction
A woman has been arrested after two children reported missing in north-west London were found in Essex.
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Rugby World Cup 2023: Today’s matches, full schedule and group standings
Wales became the first Rugby World Cup team to qualify for the quarter-finals on Sunday while virtually shutting the door on Australia’s hopes.
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Wales into World Cup quarter-finals with Eddie Jones' Australia on brink of exit
Warren Gatland had promised his side were capable of “something special” at this World Cup and once against Wales’ Great Redeemer has delivered.
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Former ministers paid half a million in severance over past year
Ex-ministers have received more than half a million pounds in severance pay over the past year, new research has revealed.
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Rodri suspension hands Kalvin Phillips a rare audition to fight for his Man City future
Kalvin Phillips strode out of the Etihad on Saturday evening, a smile on his face and hopeful that he is finally on the verge of starting his Manchester City career in earnest.
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Luke Donald interview: I had dinner with Michael Jordan – he tipped Europe to win the Ryder Cup
Whatever positives Luke Donald gets to take from this week’s Ryder Cup, the very least the unassuming Englishman can claim is that his captaincy has inspired America’s best-known cheerleader - and perhaps that nation’s most competitive sporting icon - to back the home side for the victory.
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Labour hires civil servants as it prepares for power
Labour has hired more than a dozen civil servants in the past 18 months as it continues to step up its preparations for government.
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Marcus Smith's synergy with Owen Farrell and George Ford started at school
Marcus Smith’s relationship with Owen Farrell and George Ford began at Brighton College when, as a teenager, he bolted out of a Maths exam to join an England training session.
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England players given five days off but must stay in France – unlike their coaches
Several England coaches will return home during their rest week at the World Cup even though the players have been told to remain in France.
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Faces of Karabakh refugees bear scars of conflict
At the Hakari river checkpoint, crowds began forming as they watched the road that cuts through the mountains, the Lachin Corridor.
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Army called in as Met firearms officers put down their guns
Soldiers will be drafted in to replace armed police officers following a mass walkout by firearms teams to protest against the decision to charge one of their colleagues with murder.
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Scotland keep World Cup dream alive with Tonga win as Gregor Townsend hits out at officiating
By David Barnes in Nice
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Sunak urged to limit legal migration as winning policy for election campaign
Rishi Sunak has been urged to make a crackdown on legal migration a key plank of his plans to shake up policy.
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Grant Shapps: Inheritance tax is ‘punitive and unfair’
Inheritance tax is “punitive and unfair”, a Cabinet minister has said, amid reports Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, is considering cutting the levy.
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Complaints about Russell Brand at BBC ‘never went beyond Radio 2’
Complaints about Russell Brand prior to his dismissal over “Sachsgate” were never reported to a more senior executive than the head of Radio 2, insiders have told The Telegraph.
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£400 single-use Adidas super shoe helps Tigist Assefa obliterate women’s marathon world record
The battle for supremacy among running’s biggest brands intensified on Sunday when the women’s marathon world record was obliterated in a pair of new ultra-light £400 Adidas super shoes that are supposedly designed to last for just one race.
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Director of police watchdog at centre of Chris Kaba scandal charged with child sex offences
The police watchdog that investigated the firearms officer charged with Chris Kaba’s murder is itself in turmoil after its boss was forced to quit over child sex allegations.
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Nanny ‘was not fired for having a glass of wine with Boris Johnson’
Boris and Carrie Johnson have denied claims made by their former nanny that she was fired after having a glass of wine with the ex-prime minister.
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Canadian women accused of pretending to be Inuit to receive benefits
Three Canadian women have been charged after allegedly pretending to be Inuit to receive benefits, in a “first of its kind” case.
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Jorginho's derby day howler proves how much Arsenal already rely on Declan Rice
There have been more than 550 matches in the professional career of Jorginho, a footballer who has spent the majority of his life receiving the ball under pressure and popping it past an opponent. Thousands of passes and thousands of identical moments, all baked into his subconscious, but none of them provide a guarantee that disaster will not one day strike.
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Philippines condemns Chinese ‘floating barrier’ stopping its fishing boats
The Philippines has accused China’s coast guard of installing a “floating barrier” in a disputed area of the South China Sea, saying it prevented Filipinos from entering and fishing in the area.