PM promises to mount ‘Covid-style campaign’ to get homeless people off streets in winter

More than 40 of the UK’s leading charities have warned ministers against imposing tougher benefit sanctions or cuts on disabled young people, as the government considers how to encourage more young people into work.

The charities raised concerns that an imminent review of young people and work by Alan Milburn could bring in stricter eligibility rules for keeping disability benefits – or remove them altogether – as part of a wider plan to boost flagging youth job rates.

He’s building a straw man, because what we’ve actually done is made things stronger and clearer throughout the rules around unauthorised development, making it harder, making it really clear that people who try and do this unauthorised development are stopped from doing it.

We explicitly tackle any potential environmental damage and transport impacts, and we’re making it harder for people to get retrospective permission for development which was built intentionally without approval, which the previous government did nothing about.

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Klaire Rhodes was attacked by a brown bear in state park but spray helped her escape with ‘relatively minor injuries’

An Alaska marathon athlete used a repellant spray to fend off an attacking bear that officials say injured her while she ran on a popular trail recently – an encounter that she has since described as “a nightmare come to life”.

The particularly harrowing episode unfolded on 13 August, when a woman who later identified herself online as marathon winner Klaire Rhodes, 28, was running alone on the Wolverine Bowl trail in Chugach state park, officials with Alaska’s fish and game department said. A brown bear on the trail attacked and injured her, according to the agency.

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Mohamed Salah’s arrival made a splash, but the Turkish Super Lig will probably become the latest league to end up as a bailout fund for Europe’s powerhouses

Mohamed Salah plays in Turkey now. So do Romelu Lukaku and Leandro Trossard and Leroy Sané and Nathan Aké. Mason Greenwood and N’Golo Kanté and Dusan Vlahovic, too.

Bruno Fernandes and Gabriel Martinelli may yet follow them there, depending on negotiations and moods and whatever else compels a footballer to leave one club for another.

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Healthy women under 50 are now more at risk of the condition. What I didn’t know is that intense exercise could be to blame and the condition could cost me hundreds of dollars

If you’re in your 40s, I have a great trick for getting people to spontaneously tell you how young you are: develop shingles. Friends, acquaintances and medical professionals will rapidly inform you that the painful rash is an older person’s disease and, “You’re a bit young to get that, aren’t you?”

I say this because at the tender age of 43, I have come down with a horrible case of ocular shingles. When I first went to urgent care about a weird red spot on my nose, a swollen eye and a terrible headache, the nurse looked dubious when he told me it might be shingles. “You’re a bit young,” he said. When I then went to the ER as instructed – shingles near the eye is a medical emergency that can blind you – the ophthalmologist said the same thing. According to conventional medical wisdom, shingles is a disease you get if you’re elderly or immunocompromised.

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Many of my clients expected to find fulfillment from their career, marriage and home. Instead, they feel grief

“I have the career I wanted, but at this point I just don’t care.”

“I don’t know why I’m so angry.”

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Yana Lantratova, Russia’s human rights chief, said she met with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Lubinets during the prisoner swap.

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BRUSSEL (ANP) - De NAVO is voorbereid op aanvallen met Iraanse raketten, zegt de alliantie. Zij heeft projectielen die Iran op Turkije afvuurde ook steeds uit de lucht gehaald, brengt een NAVO-functionaris in herinnering. Of de luchtverdediging versterkt moet worden, laat de bron in het midden. Daar wordt voortdurend aan gewerkt, zegt het bondgenootschap steevast.

Iran denkt erover om het niet meer te laten bij vergeldingsaanvallen op bondgenoten van de VS in het Midden-Oosten, zeggen Iraanse bronnen tegen de Financial Times. Tot dusver moesten vooral Golfstaten als de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten, Koeweit, Qatar en Saudi-Arabië het ontgelden, maar Iran zou overwegen ook doelen in Bulgarije en Cyprus te gaan aanvallen.

"De NAVO staat klaar om elke dreiging aan te pakken en zal altijd doen wat nodig is om de NAVO-landen te verdedigen", zegt de NAVO-bron, die zoals gebruikelijk zijn naam niet vermeld wil zien. "Onze afschrikkings- en verdedigingsopstelling is sterk en effectief."

​Het einde van de zomervakantie is in zicht en dus zijn overal in Nederland de spandoeken weer opgehangen: de boerenprotesten zijn weer begonnen. Goed opletten dus!

“Na maanden van rust op de weg is het nu weer oppassen geblazen voor plots overstekende boze boeren”, zegt een woordvoerder van Veilig Verkeer Nederland. Hij geeft een aantal tips: “Rij voorzichtig, pas je snelheid aan naar nul, let op omgekeerde vlaggen en aangepaste Jodensterren en zeg vooral niet hardop dat je voor de waterschappen werkt. Dan moet het goedkomen.”

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