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Fair Isle practitioners say Channel 4’s knitting show is littered with errors about their historic craft and demand an apologyThe group chat for Shetland knitters was popping off, says one member, as they settled down to watch the first episode of Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter.But their enthusiasm for the Channel 4 elimination show hosted by the former Olympian and crafts enthusiast Tom Daley quickly unravelled. Continue reading...Source: www.theguardian.comRead […]

Decision reflects wider regional doubts about terms of US-drafted plan to disarm HamasPlans for a UN-mandated international stabilisation force charged with disarming Hamas inside Gaza face growing opposition after the United Arab Emirates said it would not participate because it did not yet see a clear legal framework for the force.Israel has already ruled out Turkey joining the force, and King Abdullah of Jordan has said Jordanian troops will not […]

Marcus Decker was served with deportation order while in prison for unveiling Just Stop Oil banner over Dartford CrossingA climate activist who served one of the longest prison sentences in modern British history for peaceful protest has won his appeal against deportation.Marcus Decker was jailed for two years and seven months for a protest in which he climbed the Queen Elizabeth Bridge over the Dartford Crossing and unveiled a Just […]

City heavyweight has cheered the markets by taking helm at Guinness owner, but there may be forces he cannot overcomeDiageo names former Tesco boss to lead turnaround pushOn landing a new job, nothing puts a spring in the step like knowing that news of your appointment has inflated the stock market value of your employer by more than £2bn.Dave Lewis could be forgiven for keeping that confidence-boosting figure front of […]

Chancellor understood to be preparing to fully reverse the measure, which could lift 350,000 children out of povertyRachel Reeves is planning to remove the two-child benefit cap in full in the November budget, in a move that could cost more than £3bn but lift 350,000 children out of poverty.The chancellor is understood to be preparing to reverse the Conservative measure entirely, having originally looked at ways to taper it either […]

Chancellor interviewed on Radio 5 Live and says it’s unfair to penalise children in bigger families. This live blog is closedReeves signals plan to remove two-child benefit cap in budgetFarage said the problems facing small businesses were not a failure of capitalism.Some will tell you, well, the economy is failing because capitalism is failing.No, we’re not living in capitalism. We’re living in an age of global corporatism.The other great betrayal […]

Former French president, who said his three weeks in jail had been a ‘nightmare’, will serve rest of sentence outside jail pending appealNicolas Sarkozy has said he wants to “prove his innocence” after being released from prison while he appeals against his conviction for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from Libya.After 20 days in jail that he had earlier described as “gruelling” and a “nightmare”, […]

Bureau alleges kickbacks in transactions involving the state nuclear power operator, EnergoatomUkraine’s anti-corruption bureau said on Monday that it was conducting a large-scale investigation into the country’s energy sector, alleging kickbacks in transactions involving the state nuclear power operator, Energoatom.The bureau, which operates independently of the government, alleged that several senior figures were involved. Ukrainian media identified one of them as Timur Mindich, a businessman and associate of Ukraine’s president, […]