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An entirely new set of UK coins will start to enter circulation at the end of the year to mark the new monarch and his love of the natural world.

The original article isbehind a paywall (higher than 12ft): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/judges-told-not-to-jail-rapists-as-prisons-are-full-2tfgb2czs

https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1712047387902898301

In the 115-page report, “‘Join Us or Die’: Rwanda’s Extraterritorial Repression,” Human Rights Watch documents a wide array of tactics that, when used together, form a global ecosystem of repression aimed at muzzling dissenting voices and intimidating actual, perceived, or potential critics, including Rwandans who have sought international protection.

The combination of physical violence, including killings and enforced disappearances, surveillance, misuse of law enforcement – both domestic and international – abuses against relatives in Rwanda, and damaging people’s reputation through online harassment constitute clear efforts to isolate potential critics.

The report is here (pdf, 115 pages): https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media_2023/10/rwanda1023_web_2.pdf

Living in a privately rented home is linked to more rapid biological ageing, according to researchers who tested DNA and found the tenure is associated with twice the ageing effect of obesity and half that of smoking.

The peer-reviewed study of 1,420 UK householders found housing circumstances can “get under the skin” with significant consequences for health, said academics at the University of Essex and the University of Adelaide . Their findings were published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

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“TEES VALLEY regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen's South Tees Development Corporation (STDC), responsible for Europe's largest brownfield regeneration project, is using Enron-style accounting to mask the remarkable deals it has struck with local businessmen and their effects on the body's finances, an examination of its latest accounts shows.

Epitomising the smoke-and-mirrors is the single most expensive project at the heart of Rishi Sunak's flagship freeport: the construction of a £113m quay on the south bank of the Tees, planned to serve green industrial companies such as the Korean wind turbine monopile manufacturer SeAH, which is building a plant next to it.”