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‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard

The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked together

The Guardian - UK

Sir Tom Stoppard obituary

One of Britain’s most outstanding playwrights famed for the ‘hypnotised brilliance’ of his prose and dialogue

The Guardian - UK

With his restless imagination, Tom Stoppard showed us a mind on the move

The questing Czech-born playwright gave us plays that looked at an implausible arcadia, an impossible utopia and affecting notions of home

The Guardian - UK

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‘Most precious thing in the desert’: the fight to protect sacred sites against the NT’s largest water licence

Traditional owners have lost repeated legal challenges over the 40-gigalitre-per year water licence at Singleton Station – and now they’re taking it to the high court

The Guardian - AU

Export of endangered eels to Russia ends after UK government ban

British eel trader says move will destroy traditional elvering but campaigners welcome decision

The Guardian - UK

Boss of takeover target Direct Line wants time to turn around insurer

New management at struggling firm, which rejected £3.3bn bid from Aviva, ‘making excellent progress’, says CEO

The Guardian - UK

UK export of millions of endangered eels to Russia attacked as ‘bonkers’

Critics say eels could be smuggled eastwards towards Asia but exporter says they are for ‘restocking’ project

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An e-biking tour of England’s newest forest

Over nine million trees have been planted in the east Midlands’ National Forest, where mines once churned up the land, offering great cycling routes that explore villages and industrial heritage

The Guardian - UK

The best rebrands of the '70s, from Sega to Apple and Kodak

Our experts pick the best rebrands of the 1970s, and explain why they worked so well.

Creative Bloq

Who are the big Conservative and Labour donors?

Bankrolling Britain’s July election are names from finance, retail and the arts – plus the unions

The Guardian - UK

Bill Wood, MLA in ACT's first Assembly, dies at 88

A state funeral will be held next week.

The Canberra Times

$Gran spends dream holiday in bed after fracturing SPINE - as insurance wouldn't cover it$

Gran spends dream holiday in bed after fracturing SPINE - as insurance wouldn't cover it

Grandmother Maggie Ricketts spent £2,000 on a dream trip to Jamaica with her family but it was ruined on the third day when she seriously injured herself jumping into a lagoon

Daily Mirror

$Gran who jumped into Jamaican lagoon from 35ft fractured spine$

Gran who jumped into Jamaican lagoon from 35ft fractured spine

Maggie Ricketts, 63, said that when she hit the water it was like smashing into a ‘brick wall’

Wales Online

Singleton Station's horticultural plan to be assessed at 'highest level' by Environment Protection Authority

For the first time in the NT's history, a horticultural project will be subject to the highest level of environmental assessment before it can proceed.

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Fortune Agribusiness' plans for massive water licence a risk to cultural sites, report finds

Opponents say the public deserves as much input possible into a nationally significant proposal drawing from Singleton Station's record-breaking 40,000 megalitre water licence, after a report found cultural and ceremonial sites will be diminished by its impact on groundwater.

The Guardian - UK

Dignity funeral services firm targeted in first UK takeover bid of the year

Consortium spearheaded by Direct Line founder, Sir Peter Wood, have swooped for company

ABC News

Minister's decision to re-grant a water licence on Singleton Station was 'rational', court told

A Northern Territory minister showed "intelligible justification" when she re-granted a record-breaking water licence in 2021 amid local opposition, the Supreme Court is told.

Daily Record

Toddler walked out Scots nursery and almost hit by bus as parents slam 'negligent' facility

Kayleigh has now pulled her son out of the nursery and fears things could have been much worse for River who was found crying on the street.

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IAF to participate in multilateral exercise ‘Pitch Black’ in Australia

he participants this year are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, India, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, UAE, the U.K. and the U.S

Manchester Evening News

Mystery feud sparked terrifying street confrontation with meat cleaver and crowbar in broad daylight

Scared neighbours looked on as Steve Gunson, 30, and dad-of-two Peter Wood, 27, shouted threats at each other in the Salford street

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