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Abbianca Makoni
Abbianca Makoni is a news reporter for the Evening standard. She specialises in writing about community affairs, gangs and social mobility and was nominated for a Baton award in 2018 for her work on how period poverty affects homeless children in Zimbabwe.
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UK sees hottest day of the year with high of 28.6C at Heathrow
The hot, dry weather is set to break from Wednesday, with a thunderstorm warning in place for the eastern half of Wales and much of England
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BBC review finds no evidence Martin Bashir was rehired in ‘cover-up’
The probe sought to establish the facts around the decision to allow Bashir to return to the BBC in 2016, and his subsequent move to become religion editor in 2018
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Prince Harry shares ‘big’ news about Invictus Games in Germany
The Duke of Sussex announced Dusseldorf will host the event in September, 2023.
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Fleeting view of partial solar eclipse this morning amid cloudy skies
The Royal Observatory Greenwich is also live-streaming the eclipse on its website and YouTube channel
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Portugal questions amber list decision amid concerns over new mutation
A Portuguese ministerial social media account said that they ‘cannot understand’ the ‘logic’ of the decision.