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Exclusive: Napo declares no confidence in probation service managers and threatens industrial actionThe public is “at direct risk” from unsupervised ex-offenders because probation officers in England and Wales are being asked to cope with excessive workloads, a union has said.As ministers prepare to release and monitor tens of thousands more prisoners this autumn, Napo’s executive has declared for the first time that it has no confidence in managers at the probation service. Continue reading...
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From Disclosure Day to Backrooms, a new wave of films promote stories of paranoia, alienation and mistrust. What are they trying to tell us?Thank heavens for cinema, that light in the darkness and the source of all shocking scoops. It tells us to wake up and take action before it’s too late. That we live in the Matrix. That the CIA killed JFK. That our spouse is a robot and our boss an Andromedan. Also that there is an Escher-style staircase beneath the Tokyo subway and a disembodied zombie leg
NY Times Business
What do a Jalen Brunson look-alike contest, a buzzy catchphrase and a dancing robot outside Madison Square Garden have in common?
The Guardian Politics
From a hopeless candidate to botched strategy, this latest byelection defeat is telling. But for Labour, there is still a long and arduous journey aheadThe day before the voters of Makerfield chose their new MP, I stood with my camera-wielding colleague John Domokos on the main road through the post-industrial town of Hindley. Every two or three minutes, a van or small truck drew level with us, and there it was again: a honked horn, and a full-throated shout of “Reform!”But on our side of the st
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A London clinic owner has claimed he is treating people with stage 4 cancer by sealing them into a plastic bag while they're naked from the waist down and gassing them with chlorine dioxide.
Hollywood Reporter
Director Efthimis Kosemund-Sanidis’ debut feature, about a man arriving on a remote Greek island to claim his late father’s inheritance, world premieres in the Karlovy Vary film festival’s Proxima competition.
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Tanker owner trade body says centre of strait will remain closed for ‘some time’, with vessels risking running aground by taking Omani routeThe centre of the strait of Hormuz is blocked with about 80 mines that will need clearing for normal shipping to resume, the independent tanker owner trade body has said.Several vessels began to exit the Gulf through the key maritime chokepoint on Thursday, after the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran. Continue reading...
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Agriculture minister says no evidence of mass mortality or infection in poultry after migratory wild bird tested The suspected first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu on the Australian mainland is being investigated, after a migratory wild bird was found sick in southern Western Australia.Initial testing at a WA laboratory returned a “suspected positive result for avian influenza”, the agriculture minister, Julie Collins, said. Continue reading...
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The announcement raised immediate questions over the fate of the agreement President Trump signed this week, with key details left to be worked out.
BBC Politics
Andy Burnham delivers his victory speech after Makerfiled by-election.