A dolphin protest and a lightning strike: Wednesdays best photos | News

A dolphin protest and a lightning strike: Wednesday’s best photos Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Selected by Natasha Rees-Bloor Main image: A Xironda, Spain: locals dress up to celebrate Entroido, an ancient rural carnival celebrated in the run up to Ash Wednesday. Wed 22 Feb 2023 14. [Read More]

Eileen Grays E1027: a lost legend of 20th-century architecture is resurrected

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Judge orders far-right Republican to pay legal costs in Arizona election lawsuit | Republicans

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Porn made for women, by women

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St Petersburg's oldest nudist beach faces closure | Russia

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The fight for abortion rights: what to know going into 2024

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A letter to my cheating, lying husband

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Magic Slim obituary | Blues

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Notts County 0 - 2 Wrexham | Football

Notts County 0 - 2 Wrexham

Notts County

Home team scorers

Wrexham

Away team scorers Elliot Lee 73 Ollie Palmer 76

Match stats

Possession

WRENTC
3862

Goal attempts

9 Notts County Off target 7 Wrexham 6 Notts County On target 8 Wrexham Corners 10 7 Fouls 6 15

Lineups

Notts County

  • 1 Slocombe
  • 28 Macari
  • 15 Baldwin
  • 4 Cameron
  • 11 Nemane
  • 6 O'Brien
  • 18 Palmer
  • 10 Jones
  • 7 Crowley
  • 17 McGoldrick
  • 9 Langstaff

Substitutes

  • 5 Rawlinson
  • 8 Austin (s 67')
  • 14 Randall (s 77')
  • 21 Adebayo-Rowling
  • 25 Mahovo
  • 26 Stone
  • 33 Tipton

Wrexham

  • 33 Okonkwo
  • 19 Mendy
  • 12 Evans
  • 4 Tozer
  • 22 O'Connor
  • 23 McClean
  • 30 Jones
  • 20 Cannon
  • 38 Lee
  • 10 Mullin
  • 18 Dalby

Substitutes

  • 7 Davies
  • 8 Young (s 87')
  • 9 Palmer (s 70')
  • 14 Forde
  • 21 Howard
  • 25 Boyle
  • 26 Fletcher (s 90')

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Pdraig Duggan obituary | Folk music

Clannad in 1982. Pádraig Duggan is second from right. Photograph: McCarthy/Getty ImagesClannad in 1982. Pádraig Duggan is second from right. Photograph: McCarthy/Getty ImagesFolk musicObituaryPádraig Duggan obituaryMusician who was a founder member of Clannad and helped to bring Irish folk music to a wider audience Pádraig Duggan, who has died aged 67 after suffering from a recurring illness, was a founder member of the Irish folk band Clannad, whose ethereal singing in Gaelic was brought to a wider audience when they sang the theme music for the Yorkshire Television series Harry’s Game in 1982. [Read More]