Image caption Joan Girling – fighting for her “beloved coast” Joan Girling has been fighting the nuclear industry most of her adult life. She was at school when the new Magnox reactor was begun on the Suffolk coast at Sizewell in the 1960s. Her father told her it was a “necessary evil”. But when she […]
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Toronto said farewell to Kawhi Leonard. Miami said hello to Jimmy Butler. The Lakers finally have Anthony Davis. Free agency became real Saturday. The four-team trade that sent Butler to the Heat — with a new $142 million, four-year contract — was one of the first big moves to get done once the league’s offseason
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption “We’re prepared to make tough cutbacks,” said CEO Christian Sewing earlier this year Up to 20,000 jobs could be axed at Deutsche Bank as the company is set to announce plans for a global restructuring. The majority of cuts are expected in the City of London and Wall Street. The
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Jon Lester pitched into the seventh inning, and the Chicago Cubs beat All-Star Lucas Giolito and the crosstown White Sox 6-3 at Guaranteed Rate Field on Saturday night. The two-game series figured to be a charged one with the Cubs in a funk for weeks and the White Sox looking like a team that’s breaking
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Image copyright Getty Images The Department of Health and Social Care plans to spend £3m on no-deal Brexit measures to transport medication. It wants to hire an “express freight service” to transport medicines, blood and transplant tissue. But experts have warned that the deadline of 1 September set for the deal is a “tight” timeframe.
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The UFC’s biggest show of the summer is underway at T-Mobile Arena. Jon Jones will defend his light heavyweight title against Brazil’s Thiago Santos in the main event of UFC 239 immediately after Brazilian two-belt champion Amanda Nunes defends her bantamweight title against ex-champion Holly Holm. Jones and Nunes are widely considered the top two
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Image caption A consolidated audience of more than 12 million watched the recent Line of Duty finale We all love hearing a good story. But knowing how to tell a good story is another matter entirely. That’s one of the reasons that good screenwriters are in such high demand from an increasing number of TV
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Travis d’Arnaud hit a two-out homer off Chad Green in the bottom of the ninth inning, lifting the Tampa Bay Rays past the New York Yankees 4-3 on Saturday. Aaron Hicks had tied it at 3 in the top of the ninth for the Yankees, homering on a 2-2, two-out pitch from Colin Poche (2-1).
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In mid-century America, no publication had more influence than Life magazine. It brought the world to the living rooms of the nation, largely through its famous photo essays. And in an industry dominated by men, a small group of female photojournalists created some of the magazine’s most enduring images, including the very first cover in
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Remember the U.S. men’s soccer team? It’s also playing for a trophy on Sunday, taking on Mexico at Soldier Field in the final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the championship of North and Central America and the Caribbean. Gone from the national sports consciousness since its October 2017 loss at Trinidad and Tobago ended a
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