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Safer surgeries, less waiting: Inside Canberra's new hybrid operating theatres

Surgeon says patients will receive 'much more efficient care'.

The Canberra Times

‘It’ll be a shortlist of one!’ Villagers in England fear nuclear dump proposal

Plans for a new wave of atomic power have not factored in local concerns over the safety of the waste sites the schemes entail

The Guardian - UK

Cancer derailed Luke Smith’s baseball career. He’s refusing to let it derail his life.

PHILADELPHIA — Another baseball season — perhaps the one that would end with a chance to sign a professional contract — was weeks away when Luke Smith left his friend’s house a few days after Christmas.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Freezing customers wait over an hour to speak to energy suppliers at up to 65p a minute

The Sunday Mirror made evening calls to several big firms including Eon, British Gas, EDF, Scottish Power and SSE to see how long you'd have to wait to get through - here are the results

Daily Mirror

TV tonight: Prue Leith joins Grayson Perry’s platinum jubilee art club

Artist Perry uses the monarch as inspiration. Plus: a beautiful film explores a hermit reconsidering his lifestyle. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a bribe’: the coastal areas that could become the UK’s nuclear dump

Promises of jobs and investment are doing little to convince a remote Lincolnshire community to agree to hosting the country’s nuclear waste

The Guardian - UK

Questions raised after Brisbane aged care development approved, despite known flood risk

A retirement village and aged care centre was inundated when Brisbane flooded in February, requiring a military response. The 2011 flood commission of inquiry had years earlier raised concerns about building on the land.

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The Hermit of Treig – splendid isolation in the wilds of Scotland

Lizzie MacKenzie’s documentary portrait of Ken Smith, who has spent the last 40 years alone in the Highlands, is compassionate and life-affirming

The Guardian - UK

The Hermit of Treig review – a tender portrayal of a gentle Highlands recluse

As much about Ken Smith’s connection to his natural surroundings as the man himself, this documentary will have its audience falling in love with both

The Guardian - UK

Highland Hermit ventures out for first time in 30 years for premier of his own film

Ken decided to venture out of the Highlands to Glasgow to attend the premiere of the film about his life.

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