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Undercover Officer Who Posed as Helen Steel's Boyfriend Was Living Nearby in New Zealand All Along

Helen Steel's search for her former partner, an undercover officer, reveals a complex web of deception and state surveillance, highlighting the lengths taken to protect covert operations.

International Business Times UK

French people drinking more beer than wine for first time as cost of living soars

Wine consumption has slipped to its lowest level since 1957

The Independent UK

The Strange Case of Jane O by Karen Thompson Walker review – an impossible tale

A New York librarian is discovered unconscious in a park with no memory, in a mystery that challenges consensual reality

The Guardian - UK

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‘They used us for cover and for sex’: How undercover officers deceived women for decades in chilling Spycops scandal

Five women have told their stories on cameras for the first time, after being deceived into long-term relationships designed to spy on their activism

The Independent UK

Unmasking the spy cops: how women found the truth about men who tricked them into relationships

Credit cards, passports and ingenuity led to the identities of undercover police who were loved under false pretences

The Guardian - UK

'Extreme' Climate Blamed For World's Worst Wine Harvest In 62 Years

World wine production dropped 10 percent last year, the biggest fall in more than six decades, because of "extreme" climate changes, the body that monitors the trade said Thursday.

International Business Times

Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Specsavers and Princes: The 31 latest North West hires and promotions

BusinessLive rounds up the latest hires and promotions across the North West

Birmingham Post

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Incredible story of woman given away as a baby from Galloway stately home captured in new book

Stanella Clenaghan, of Terregles House, was born illegitimate – so described then – at a Carlisle nursing home on November 29, 1932

Daily Record

‘It was as if he set out to destroy my sanity’: how the spy cops lied their way into women’s hearts – and beds

For years, undercover officers from the Metropolitan police deceived and manipulated female activists such as McDonald’s campaigner Helen Steel. Her new book reveals their callous tricks

The Guardian - UK

The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight review – astonishing adventures in precognition

How the Aberfan disaster prompted one psychiatrist to launch a nationwide search for ‘seers’ who could predict the future

The Guardian - UK

The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight review – the press, psychiatry and the paranormal

The prizewinning New Yorker journalist provides more questions than answers in a tantalising tale of a psychiatrist fascinated by predicting disasters

The Guardian - UK

I’m a rational person. Of course I don’t believe in the psychic world. And yet …

Indoctrinated by my mother, I find myself speculating to my own children about ‘energies’, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

The Guardian - UK

‘We need to keep up the pressure on water companies’: the farmer fighting to save Britain’s waterways

Environmentalist John Barker doesn’t just whinge about how utilities firms are ruining our rivers. He campaigns to stop them, protecting precious chalk streams and fish in the process

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