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Hundreds of young climate activists marched through Turin yesterday, after a week of discussions on the future of the increasingly global school strike

When a group of friends from university get together after years of being apart, their reunion swiftly descends into a dinner from hell. They’ve grown up, some quicker than others, and now all have real jobs and responsibilities.

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The season is the first for new artistic director Phil Bartlett

ANTI-HS2 activists who dug tunnels under a small park by London’s Euston station have staved off eviction attempts for a second day after spending the night underground.  Bailiffs moved in during the early hours of Wednesday to evict the activists from Euston Square Gardens, where they set up a protest camp last August to prevent the next stage of the high-speed railway’s construction from going ahead.  But HS2 Rebellion activists were still clinging onto the site today, with at least fo...

In a decade’s time, passengers on the new high-speed trains hurtling out of London will get just a burst of daylight and a glimpse of the Colne Valley landscape before disappearing back underground through the Chiltern Hills. Today, in that three-mile stretch between future tunnel openings to the north-west of the capital, the £98bn HS2 project’s scale, engineering might and cost are all evident: both at the vast work site scooped out beside the...