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Leg 3 of 6: So many potholes on the course but New Zealand are still maintaining that they want to stay on the left side. Their top speed is 40km/hr and they have a healthy lead. The Brits finish 24sec behind and you can sense their frustration in their communication.
Leg 2 of 6: This New Zealand team are so good. They have seemingly learned their lesson from the last two races and they team are constantly communicating on board and emphasising that they do not want to play catch up. They once again lead after the second leg and their opponents 13secs behind.
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Republican nominee insults vice-president at New York event where she appeared remotely; Trump campaign reportedly weighs event with former rival
Donald Trump’s campaign is pondering arranging a town hall with Nikki Haley, his former UN ambassador turned rival for the Republican nomination, who has since endorsed his candidacy, the Bulwark reports.
The joint appearance, which could be held with conservative commentator Sean Hannity on Fox News, is a bid to shore up his standing with women voters, who polls indicate are less enthusiastic about returning Trump to the White House than are men. Haley and Trump were at-times bitter rivals in the GOP primaries earlier this year, but she later endorsed him during a speech at the Republican national convention in July.
Since then, however, Haley and Trump have not appeared together. And she hinted that tensions still linger on her new SiriusXM satellite radio show last month.
“I don’t agree with Trump 100 percent of the time,” Haley said.
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Force says unmarked vehicle collided with car driven by 38-year-old woman in Eltham, south-east London
The Independent Office for Police Conduct has launched an investigation after a heavily pregnant woman and her unborn child were killed in a collision with an unmarked police car in London.
The Metropolitan police said an unmarked vehicle collided with a car on the A20 in Eltham, south-east London, at about 6.15pm on Thursday near the junction with Kidbrooke Park Road.
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Danielle Collins says she’s changed her mind about retiring from the WTA Tour at the end of this year and will be back in 2025.
The 30-year-old American said on her Instagram account Thursday that after dealing with hurricanes in her home state of Florida and seeing specialist doctors about her health issues, she’s been “a little MIA (missing in action) the last few weeks”.
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The country boy from Lacken who is now a world-class No8 on enjoying captaincy, a fascination with psychology and his penchant for hot yoga
It will be another six months before Andy Farrell finally has to choose his British & Irish Lions captain for the 2025 expedition to Australia. Plenty of time for the landscape to change and, theoretically, for one or two surprise contenders to emerge from the shrubbery. Until, that is, you sit down with the staggeringly impressive Caelan Doris and realise there is little need for Farrell to look anywhere else.
A bold prediction? Hardly. It is not rocket science that a world-class player with the universal respect of his peers, a university degree in psychology and a warm smile might just fit the bill. Ireland have produced some illustrious Lions captains in the pro era, from Brian O’Driscoll to Paul O’Connell and Peter O’Mahony, and another top-drawer candidate lurks quietly in the wings.
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Matt Garman, head of AWS unit, says ‘there are other companies around’, according to transcript
A senior Amazon executive has suggested that staff who do not like the company’s new five-days-a-week office-working policy should quit.
The head of the tech company’s cloud computing business told an internal meeting that if employees did not support the change they could look for a job elsewhere, according to a transcript reviewed by Reuters.
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Pop legend calls for more kindness and empathy from public, and discusses his history of addiction
Robbie Williams has shared an impassioned tribute to the One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died this week after falling from a balcony in a Buenos Aires hotel.
Williams acted as a mentor to One Direction when the band competed on The X Factor in 2010, and continued a friendship with Payne and the group.
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Activists in swing Michigan county are alarmed by Hispanic voters backing Trump despite his anti-immigrant rhetoric
Dan Soza has seen the harsh realities of Donald Trump’s immigration policies up close and so he is alarmed that many Latino voters in Saginaw, Michigan, do not take seriously the former US president’s threats of mass deportations.
As a child welfare officer in Saginaw, Soza places young unaccompanied refugees in foster families and watched the Trump administration’s separation of children from their parents at the Mexican border in 2018 with alarm. He said the cruelty of that policy, and the former president’s threats against refugees legally in the US, should serve as a warning that Trump might do what he says.
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Ed Miliband seems happy to see the landscape blighted. We value townscape – everywhere else has to fend for itself
Does Labour believe in beauty? The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, celebrated his arrival in office this summer by permitting three of the largest solar panel arrays in Britain. One, a Suffolk array covering nearly 2,800 acres, was described by a county councillor as “the poorest infrastructure application that I have ever dealt with”.
Now Miliband is demanding a procession of pylons filling the glorious Amber Valley in the Derbyshire uplands. Another parade of 420 pylons, each nearly as tall as Nelson’s column, will run down the east of England from Grimsby to Walpole, near King’s Lynn in Norfolk. The government also wants to allow the return of onshore wind turbines, overriding local objections.
Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist
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Delia Balmer spent four days as the hostage of her murderer boyfriend, only to survive his axe attack – and get him put away. The team behind a challenging drama about her horrific experience tell all
Nick Stevens is remembering the first time he met Delia Balmer, the only known survivor of serial killer John Sweeney, whose story he wanted to dramatise. The meeting went very badly. “She was half an hour late,” recalls the screenwriter. “She wouldn’t look me in the eye. She was very agitated and angry.”
Even though Stevens was familiar with the sensitivities of true-crime stories from his previous dramas In Plain Sight and The Pembrokeshire Murders, this was extreme. But he soon realised that the behaviour of Balmer – played by Anna Maxwell Martin in new drama Until I Kill You – reflected the PTSD she suffers due to Sweeney. In 1994, after she ended their three-year relationship, he held her hostage tied to a bed for four days and later attacked her with an axe, as recounted in her memoir Living With a Serial Killer, on which the show is based.
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