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Feb 8, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Ben Spencer |Matthew Cornick
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Jan 25, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Dipesh Gadher |Harry Yorke |Matthew Cornick |Heather Elliott
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Roya Nikkhah |Matthew Cornick
There will be no more state visits held at Buckingham Palace for the next three years, as it undergoes one of the biggest upheavals in its history. After next month’s visit by the Emir of Qatar has taken place, all state visits will take place at Windsor Castle until 2027, due to Buckingham Palace’s ongoing ten-year, £369 million refurbishment, which means most of its grandest rooms will be closed.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com | Roya Nikkhah |Matthew Cornick
There will be no more state visits held at Buckingham Palace for the next three years, as it undergoes one of the biggest upheavals in its history. After next month’s visit by the Emir of Qatar has taken place, all state visits will take place at Windsor Castle until 2027, due to Buckingham Palace’s ongoing ten-year, £369 million refurbishment, which means most of its grandest rooms will be closed.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Richard Assheton |Matthew Cornick
Compared with the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the rat-catchers of Marseilles are an unassuming pair, neither dressed in colourful clothing nor bearing a magic pipe. Yet this father-and-son team eschew machine-age techniques and are resurrecting an ancient art that requires no musical knowledge. Alexandre Raynal and his father, Gilles, have set about ridding French cities of their most reviled rodent the old-fashioned way: with ferrets.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Nicholas Hellen |Matthew Cornick
Doctors liken a blocked artery to a tunnel clogged with traffic. Each day, 150,000 drivers approach the Dartford crossing, spanning the Thames between Essex and Kent, with a similar sense of foreboding. For the past 60 years, it has been the only route across the Thames to the east of London, linking the Channel ports with the Midlands and the North. Despite the addition of a second tunnel and then a the Queen Elizabeth II bridge, it cannot cope.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Hugo Daniel |Matthew Cornick
Not many people walk past Vantage House. It sits on the edge of an industrial estate in the middle of a car park for the discount chain Home Bargains. On one side are the smart £1 million-plus Victorian terraces of Wimbledon, on the other, traffic-congested Tooting, in southwest London. It is home to Artur, his partner Tsvetelina and their three children, as well as 78 other households, dumped in converted flats by councils that have run out of alternative housing.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Phoebe Luckhurst |Matthew Cornick
On Thursday evening, Simone Biles took a deep breath and showed the world what she was made of. Sprinting down a 25-metre runway, she landed a fiendish Yurchenko double pike and finished with a mega-watt smile. Biles is all about forward momentum. On Wednesday, the Team USA gymnastics team won gold — Biles’s eighth Olympic medal. The next day, she won her ninth gold in the women’s all-round final.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Harry Yorke |Matthew Cornick
Volodymyr Pikuzo does not look like someone immersed in the shadowy arms trade, scouring the globe in search of weapons capable of sending Russian troops to an early grave. Yet that is precisely what the 38-year-old lawyer has been doing for two years, having founded Ukraine’s Defence Procurement Agency shortly after President Putin invaded his country. “In Ukraine we have a saying that not everyone can become a lawyer, but a lawyer can become anyone,” he says.
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May 11, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Megan Agnew |Matthew Cornick
There is a patch of land in Louisiana, in a bend of the Mississippi, where the borders have been divided and redrawn for centuries. It has been governed by three empires, two republics and the Confederacy; new laws written, new flags planted. Today the land, just south of state capital Baton Rouge, has been turfed, tarmacked with tennis courts and conquered by sprawling bungalows and vast, white-pillared country houses with fountains and electric gates.
