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“It’s almost like you’re a giant looking down on something,” says the artist Keith Crawley, describing the tiny tributes he has made to some of Edinburgh’s best-loved pubs. Crawley, 55, has recreated 12 pubs in miniature – including Barony Bar, the Cask & Barrel and the Conan Doyle, with each creation, depending on the complexity, taking up to a month to finish.
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theguardian.com | Chris Osuh
A destitute asylum seeker who was billed more than £10,000 for having a baby could afford to pay just a penny a month, leading to calls for an urgent review of NHS maternity charging for migrants. Kim, 34, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, was invoiced and then contacted by a debt collection agency after having an emergency caesarean section.
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A man has died after an explosion at a house in Nottinghamshire, police have said. Emergency services were called to John Street, Worksop at 7.39pm on Saturday evening. A major incident was declared and homes were evacuated after the blast, in which a terraced property was destroyed and significant damage caused to neighbouring properties. The body of a man in his 50s was later discovered in the wreckage.
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theguardian.com | Chris Osuh
They represent a “beautiful friendship” that defies preconceptions, spanning 9,000 miles with a complicated, 70-year history. The 12 dadikwakwa-kwa shell dolls, traditionally used to teach kinship, literacy, numeracy and about women’s health – have been given by the Indigenous Australian Anindilyakwa community to a UK museum on one condition – that children play with them once a year.
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A leading Muslim peer has called for an inquiry into the Islamophobia monitoring group Tell Mama over concerns about a “lack of transparency” on how it is spending public money. Shaista Gohir, the chief executive of the Muslim Women’s Network UK, has also accused Tell Mama of failing to provide detailed data on anti-Muslim hate crimes, being “silent” when politicians have targeted Muslims, and questioned whether the Tories used it as a vehicle to monitor extremism.
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The women kept their doors open through the night, providing refuge and transportation to the hospital to the frightened and injured young people. It was July 1981, and years of frustration had boiled over into uprisings across England. By the third night, police moved into the neighbourhood with a display of force unprecedented in England. The city was the moth-eaten Manchester of the 80s, with the cotton industry that shaped it long in decline.
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Windrush scandal victims who have been denied compensation could see their cases reconsidered after a landmark ruling against the Home Office. Raymond Lee, 67, was returning from a trip to Jamaica in 1999 when he was denied re-entry to the UK, detained and removed, separating him from his family and putting him out of work. He applied to the Windrush compensation scheme in 2019, but his claim was rejected 19 months later – a decision that was upheld in two subsequent internal reviews.
