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Het gaat niet goed met Piet Stevens. Zo slecht zelfs dat de bekende Feyenoord-supporter is gestopt met roken. Een verhaal over zomaar een bezoekje bij Piet thuis.
Het gaat niet goed met Piet Stevens. Zo slecht zelfs dat de bekende Feyenoord-supporter is gestopt met roken. Een verhaal over zomaar een bezoekje bij Piet thuis.
De politie heeft drie mannen aangehouden wegens een brand in Eindhoven. Eén van die mannen is een 20-jarige Rotterdammer.
Aan de Parkweg in Papendrecht is in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag rond 01:30 uur een auto in brand gevlogen. Hoe dat kon gebeuren is niet bekend.
In his first visit to an EU country outside Italy, pope urges world leaders to stop dividing electorates and to respect ‘every human being’
More than a million people have filled the streets near one of Madrid’s main squares to join Pope Leo for an outdoor Mass, likely to be the largest event of his week-long visit to Spain.
Throngs of people pressed along barriers near the landmark Cibeles Square, waving flags and shouting “Long live the pope”, as Leo arrived in his white popemobile for the event. Some tossed flower petals as he arrived in the square.
Continue reading...UK lagging behind rivals on tourism growth because of travel costs and lack of joined-up planning, says CEO Sean Doyle
The cost of travel to and around the UK is keeping millions of tourists away and slowing economic growth, the boss of British Airways said, as he urged a rethink of aviation taxes.
The airline’s chief executive, Sean Doyle, said the UK had some of the highest aviation taxes in the world and was falling behind countries such as Japan, France and Germany in boosting its inbound tourism.
Continue reading...Museum hosts the collection of Steve Goldman, who buys records based on the sheer awfulness of the sleeve
“It is like the invasion of the bunny body snatchers,” says JT Thompson, the former lead singer of the 1970s US rock band Peter Rabbitt, as he looks at what is regarded as one of the world’s worst record covers.
The 1979 album Roadstar shows all five members of the California rock band with their faces morphed on to rabbit bodies, with Thompson emerging, like a terrible dream, smiling from a top hat.
Continue reading...With this summer’s tournament nearly upon us, Guardian readers share their mixed emotions - unease and apathy, but also excitement and optimism
The 2026 World Cup is nearly upon us. Across 39 days beginning Thursday, 104 matches will be played throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada until a champion is crowned 19 July in New Jersey.
Amid the quadrennial excitement around the world’s biggest sporting event, there has also been intense controversy and scrutiny. Ticket prices, transport costs, climate threats and security concerns have left fans with mixed emotions.
Continue reading...Nicky and Dan share an outlook on life shaped by their experiences of loss – and it has ignited their sex lives
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Dat het de vijftigste editie van de EO-jongerendag is weten de meeste jongeren niet. Zij komen om te ‘worshippen’, voor de Amerikaanse artiesten en God.
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Lieden die je in de hoek rommelen van ‘tegen de bio-industrie’ eten meestal zelf nog wel dieren of drinken hun moedermelk. Ze doen alsof je dat kunt wegpoetsen door keurmerken te kopen. „Ja, de bio-industrie, die is slecht, maar als ik mijn stuk vlees bij de ambachtelijke, peperdure slager haal, kan niemand daarop tegen zijn.”
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The UK's long-running asylum IT overhaul may finally have put the 25-year-old Case Information Database (CID) out to pasture, but Parliament says that officials are still relying on spreadsheets and disconnected systems to keep track of asylum cases. A new report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) found asylum data remains scattered across multiple systems, making it difficult for officials to track cases, spot emerging backlogs, or understand where pressure is building across the wider system. As of December last year, the Home Office was still heavily dependent on CID, a decommissioned platform dating back to the turn of the century, while attempting to move asylum operations onto Atlas. The PAC's findings suggest the migration has not solved a more familiar government IT problem: getting different systems to share information. The committee said that there is still "no single, reliable view of cases across the asylum system." While the Home Office told MPs it has now fully moved to Atlas for asylum case management, officials noted that the transition has been complex, involving legacy data migration, functional improvements, and staff training. MPs also heard that some Home Office staff continue to maintain their own spreadsheets alongside official systems. The committee warned this can leave multiple versions of the same information in circulation and contribute to ongoing data quality problems. One of the bigger gaps sits between the Home Office and HM Courts & Tribunals Service. The two are working to link their case management systems, but MPs said current data-sharing arrangements still make it impossible to follow an individual case through the entire asylum process. The report also echoes earlier National Audit Office findings that a reliable single record for each asylum seeker is still unavailable. Information on issues such as repeat appeals and absconders remains incomplete, inconsistent, or unavailable, while MPs said officials struggled to provide some key figures with confidence. The committee concluded that departments still lack the integrated data needed to understand how people move through the asylum system or whether attempts to fix one bottleneck are simply creating another elsewhere. What’s more, without reliable data, MPs said that they cannot properly assess whether the asylum system is improving or whether taxpayers are getting value for money. “Departments still lack integrated, system-wide data and agreed performance measures needed to manage the asylum system effectively,” the PAC report states. “Until these gaps are addressed, senior leaders cannot fully understand where pressures are building or assess whether interventions are working as intended, and Parliament cannot obtain robust assurance on progress or value for money.” The old database may be on the way out, but MPs are not convinced the underlying data problems went with it. ®
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Elke donderdagavond gaan de kleinkinderen van Geertje bij hun lieftallige oma op bezoek om daar te avondeten. Oma Geertje kijkt altijd erg uit naar de komst van haar kleinkinderen en daarom staat ze vaak ‘s middags al in de keuken. Ze geeft aan een paar gerechten te hebben waar ze tussen rouleert en weigert iets te veranderen aan haar recepten. “Mijn kleinkinderen weten ondertussen ook wel dat ik een beetje koppig kan zijn, maar ik weet met zoveel ervaring immers het beste hoe ik deze gerechten het lekkerst op tafel kan zetten. En vanavond wordt het broccoli.”
“Als we bij oma binnenkomen en deze geur ruiken, weten we alweer hoe laat het is.” Zegt een van de andere kleinkinderen vanuit de woonkamer. “De eerste keer dat we broccoli gingen eten bij oma, herkenden we de broccoli niet. We dachten dat het een exotische soort was of zo.”
Wanneer een van de kleinkinderen de kookwekker een aantal minuten probeert terug te draaien, grijpt oma Geertje in: “27 minuten en geen seconde korter! Broccoli hoort bruin te zijn.” Geertje zegt dat zij het op die manier van háár oma heeft geleerd. "Broccoli hoort simpelweg bruin te zijn”, zegt Geertje. “Je moet het als soep naar binnen kunnen slobberen. Een beetje als appelmoes eigenlijk, hoewel daar soms nog best wel harde stukjes in zitten.”
Geertjes kleinkinderen hebben inmiddels de strijd opgegeven. “Lekker oma”, zeggen ze. "Broccoli. Ruikt ook lekker in huis nu.”
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