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  • LifestyleReading Chronicle

    Nine-year-old girl donates almost £7000 through selling her paintings

    At just 9 years old, Amelie Turnbull has now donated nearly £7000 by selling her paintings as greeting cards in local shops. At just 7 years old she started painting with watercolours and was given an order of 150 cards by Nood Stores in Caversham in September 2021, which became the start of Little Amelie Art.

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  • OpinionThe Telegraph

    The BBC is hiding the toxic truth about anti-Israel protests

    For the latest evidence of the BBC’s failure to take anti-Semitism seriously, look no further than the corporation’s reporting of the campus protests at Columbia and other American universities. It goes without saying that we all have the right to protest. But it is abundantly clear that what is taking place on these campuses is a great deal more toxic, ugly and racist. Violence, intimidation and threats against Jewish students and teachers have been a daily occurrence.

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  • NewsThe Northern Echo

    Legal challenge lodged against £1.5bn road scheme over noise and environment concerns

    The Transport Action Network (TAN) has launched a legal bid against work on 18 miles of the A66 between the M6 (J40) at Penrith and the A1(M) at Scotch Corner.

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  • NewsThe Northern Echo

    Man caused 'blunt force trauma' injuries to two dogs in two separate acts

    A Billingham man has been given a suspended jail sentence for causing unnecessary suffering to two cockapoo dogs.

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  • NewsThe Northern Echo

    School branded one of the best in the UK after 'Oscars of education' nomination

    Yarm Prep School has been shortlisted in the category of Independent Prep School of the Year in the 2023 TES Schools Awards.

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  • PoliticsThe Independent

    Biden warns of ‘ferocious surge in antisemitism’ amid continued campus protests over Israel-Hamas war

    President says ‘despicable’ downplaying of 7 October attacks ‘must stop’

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Watch again: Grant Shapps updates MPs after Ministry of Defence cyberattack

    Mr Shapps speec came after reports revealed that the Ministry of Defence was targeted in a cyberattack on a third party payroll system including the details of tens of thousands of British armed forces and veterans. Senior Tory Tobias Ellwood said the targeting of a payroll system “points to China” and could be part of “strategy to see who might be coerced”.

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