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Curling: The comeback is on at the ice centre! After six ends, Britain have pulled the deficit down to just one point, the Italian leading 5-4.
Snowboarding: Britain’s Charlotte Bankes has made it safely through the first seeding run in the snowboard cross under the most perfect azure skies. It’s a decent time, 1:14:21, and should sneak her into the top 20.
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Slot is asked where the FA Cup sits among his priorities for the season – he puts it on an equal footing with competing in this year’s Champions League, and ensuring qualification for next season.
He also praises Brighton, who knocked Manchester United out in the third round but are in a bad run of form – “we have a lot in common; they are so much better than their league position suggests.”
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Case brought by the group’s co-founder is challenging the organisation’s ban under the Terrorism Act
The High Court is set to rule on whether the Home Office’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group was lawful.
Huda Ammori, the co-founder of Palestine Action, took legal action against the government to challenge the decision by then-home secretary Yvette Cooper to ban the group under the Terrorism Act 2000.
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Paul Thwaite is now the highest earning CEO at NatWest Group since his disgraced predecessor Fred Goodwin was handed £7.7m in the lead-up to the financial crisis (and, let’s not forget, its £45bn bailout) in 2006.
I asked during the earnings media call this morning whether Thwaite was comfortable with his new £6.6m pay package for 2025, and whether it was an appropriate moment to be returning to pre-financial crisis pay levels.
This was Thwaite’s response:
The first thing I’d say is that I recognise that senior roles in financial services, in banking and actually in wider professional services, are very well paid. I appreciate that. I know that, I believe I’m very fortunate, and it would be churlish for me to suggest otherwise.
The exec pay policy is set by the board, It’s voted on by shareholders. There’s obviously a very close link between reward and performance. And it goes up and down depending upon performance. So that’s all I’ll say on that, really.
I’ve been here a long time and very proud of what we’ve achieved over the last couple of years as the bank. We have a fantastic team and we’re trying to make sure we support the UK economy, and that’s where all my time and energy goes.”
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All stones in Cortina are made from granite found on tiny island in Firth of Clyde and crafted in East Ayrshire
“It takes 60m years and about six hours to make a curling stone,” shouts Ricky English above the whine of the lathes. The operations manager at Kays Scotland is surrounded by wheels of ancient granite in varying states of refinement.
It is a small business with a big responsibility: the only factory in the world to supply the Winter Olympics with curling stones. Competitors don’t travel with their own stones, which weigh about 18kg each, and with 16 required for a game. Instead, this year, 132 stones were crafted in the East Ayrshire town of Mauchline and shipped to northern Italy.
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© Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
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Even after 35 years, the intricacies and emotional pangs of these masters of technicality remain undimmed, drawing from a seemingly bottomless well of inspiration
Metalcore has become a diluted premise, associated more with bands that write processed, sing-along choruses than the mix of metal technicality and punk-rock fury it started as. Converge’s 2001 breakthrough Jane Doe remains the masterpiece of the genre’s pre-bastardisation days: vicious as a pit bull, yet played by men unafraid to test the limits, as evidenced by the tormented, 11-minute title track. The New Englanders have never rested on their laurels, either, with subsequent releases emphasising different shades of their trademark anarchy.
The band’s 10th album and first in nine years (Chelsea Wolfe collaboration Bloodmoon: I not included), Love Is Not Enough condenses their carnage, intricacies and emotional pangs into their shortest-ever run time. Distract and Divide and To Feel Something are incensed and tightly arranged, as if Napalm Death and Slayer had joined forces to strangle you through the speakers.
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© Photograph: Jason Zucco
© Photograph: Jason Zucco
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