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That’s the fireworks over for another another year. Phew! | Zoe Williams theguardian.com/commentisfre…

That’s the fireworks over for another another year. Phew! | Zoe Williams

Every Guy Fawkes Night excited man-children light up much of Britain with their Intergalactic Megaboxes. And we just trust them not to make a hash of it, writes Zoe Williams

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Here is what our final polling data says about the US presidential election | John Zogby theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Here is what my final polling data says about the US presidential election | John Zogby

The race is still on the tightest of margins, yet our data also shows some odd and surprising demographic trends

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‘It’s a big lever for change’: the radical contract protecting Hamburg’s green space theguardian.com/environment/…

‘It’s a big lever for change’: the radical contract protecting Hamburg’s green space

Citizen power forced Germany’s greenest city-state into a binding agreement balancing housing and nature

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Urban green spaces have vital role in cutting heat-related deaths, study finds theguardian.com/environment/…

Urban green spaces have vital role in cutting heat-related deaths, study finds

Comprehensive review suggests that adding more parks, trees and greenery could improve public health

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‘Bodies were dropped down quarry shafts’: secrets of millions buried in Paris catacombs come to light theguardian.com/world/2024/o…

‘Bodies were dropped down quarry shafts’: secrets of millions buried in Paris catacombs come to...

Researchers hope to uncover how people died and how diseases have developed over 1,000 years

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Leeds sculpture celebrates 400 women, from suffragists to boxers theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…

Leeds sculpture celebrates 400 women, from suffragists to boxers

Ribbons, by Pippa Hale and initiated by Labour’s Rachel Reeves, bears names of Leeds women past and present

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Where will the Oxford Street buses go? | Letters theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…

Where will the Oxford Street buses go? | Letters

Letters: Pedestrianising London’s busiest shopping street will make it better for visitors, but what will happen to all the buses that currently use it, ask John Cartledge and Martin and Barbara...

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Can a traffic-free Oxford Street match its global rivals? theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…

Can a traffic-free Oxford Street match its global rivals?

The London mayor has big plans for the famous shopping street. We look at how similar schemes in Paris, New York and Barcelona have fared

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How a digital detox day could help people take control of downtime theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

How a digital detox day could help people take control of downtime

Offline Club’s first global event on Sunday will begin with tips on how to be phone-free for 24 hours every week

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How mudlarking on the Thames unlocks London’s secret riches theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…

How mudlarking on the Thames unlocks London’s secret riches

As the London Museum announces a mudlarking exhibition, mudlarker Lara Maiklem says combing the foreshore can transport you back in time

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‘It’s positive’: shoppers react to Oxford Street pedestrianisation proposal theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…

‘It’s positive’: shoppers react to Oxford Street pedestrianisation proposal

Businesses back London mayor’s £150m plan but taxi drivers said they think it will be ‘disastrous’

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Rat winter: why vermin are crawling up our sewage pipes theguardian.com/world/2024/s…

Rat winter: why vermin are crawling up our sewage pipes

As temperatures drop, rats search for shelter and food to survive the harsh temperatures. Expect to find them lurking in your garden, your home and emerging from your toilet ...

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Europe beats the US for walkable, livable cities, study shows theguardian.com/environment/…

Europe beats the US for walkable, livable cities, study shows

Cities such as Zurich and Dublin found to have key services accessible within 15 minutes for more than 95% of residents

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Big ideas: a celebration of French artist JR’s installations – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Big ideas: a celebration of French artist JR’s installations – in pictures

A new book collects images from photographic projects that have adorned cities around the world

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Architects Caruso St John: ‘Developers are too powerful in this country. Everything is upped in terms of crudity and brashness’ theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Architects Caruso St John: ‘Developers are too powerful in this country. Everything is upped in...

The Stirling prize-winning duo’s new St Pancras Campus of homes and offices in London is a triumph of attention to detail. It could also be their last new-build, they tell us, as they focus on...

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Warning: countryside at risk. Ministers are pulling a fast one over the threat to pristine green-belt land | Geoffrey Lean theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Warning: countryside at risk. Ministers are pulling a fast one over the threat to pristine green-...

Proposals for potential development go much further than anyone first thought. A revolt may follow, says environment writer Geoffrey Lean

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Out of the ruins: film inspired by slum clearance in Nigeria opens in Toronto theguardian.com/global-devel…

Out of the ruins: film inspired by slum clearance in Nigeria opens in Toronto

Made by the city’s Agbajowo Collective, The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos is a cry of protest at evictions

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An epidemic of falls on the ‘mean streets’ of Athens theguardian.com/world/articl…

An epidemic of falls on the ‘mean streets’ of Athens

Locals and tourists alike complain that navigating the Greek capital’s sidewalks by foot can be fraught with peril

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Antony Gormley joins fight against ‘destruction’ of historic King’s Cross site theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Antony Gormley joins fight against ‘destruction’ of historic King’s Cross site

Angel of the North artist is among residents objecting to development plans for Coal Drops Yard in London

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