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Retail sales in Great Britain weaker than expected despite early Black Friday deals
Retail sales in Great Britain were weaker than expected in November despite stores starting to cut prices early as part of Black Friday discounting in the run-up to the key Christmas shopping season.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said sales volumes rose 0.2% month on month in November, falling …
Friday briefing: Will the Gisèle Pelicot case finally change how we view violence against women?
Mother of murdered Bristol teenager calls for better knife crime education
Inquiry to look at ‘huge task’ of special educational needs reform in England
Parents frustrated by the multiple failings of England’s special educational needs and disabilities (Send) system have been warned it is not realistic to expect reform to happen quickly, as MPs announced another inquiry into the crisis.
MPs on the cross-party education committee in Westminster say the latest inquiry will seek …
Watchdog intervenes in Yorkshire farmer’s £3.7m sprout dispute with Aldi
The grocery industry watchdog is to make a rare intervention in a Yorkshire sprout grower’s £3.7m legal case against Aldi over the discount chain’s decision to terminate a long-term supply deal.
In papers filed at the high court, W Clappison Ltd, which produced sprouts for Aldi’s UK arm for 13 …
Black anti-racism coordinator excluded from European Commission reshuffle
A group of left-leaning MEPs have warned of “systemic inequities” after it emerged that the EU executive’s lead official in combating racism, who is a black European woman, was excluded from a reshuffle that left her in a “lower position” than her white peers.
The European Commission announced earlier this …
Inside Aleppo, the city Assad left to rot as a lesson in the price of rising up
Bashar al-Assad’s face has been ripped away from posters at the abandoned checkpoint that separates Sheikh Maqsoud, a neighbourhood in the north of Aleppo, from the rest of the city. No cars dare use the wide boulevard any more because the road is still watched by Kurdish snipers allied to …
Esports are booming in Africa – but can its infrastructure keep pace?
On a recent Sunday afternoon in an upmarket neighbourhood of Nairobi, Daniel Badu was rapidly pressing the screen of his mobile phone, headphones wrapped around his head, his elbows resting on a pillow.
Badu and his four teammates in the Aura 233 team, all decked in black-and-yellow kits and …
Cricket Australia braces for extreme weather with 40C heat forecast on Boxing Day
Cricket Australia is advising fans to prepare themselves for hot weather at the MCG on Boxing Day, as the Bureau of Meteorology forecasts the temperature reaching 40C in Melbourne on the first day of the fourth Border-Gavaskar Test.
CA’s chief of cricket James Allsopp said the forecasts had been changing, …
That ‘70s Show star Danny Masterson appeals against rape conviction
Danny Masterson has filed an appeal against his 2023 rape conviction, questioning the plaintiffs’ credibility and claiming he didn’t receive a fair trial.
In a 244-page brief submitted to the California state court of appeal on Wednesday, Masterson’s lawyers Cliff Gardner and Lazuli Whitt said: “It is true, of course, …