🗣️ Der Fall oder Das Comeback? Is German making a return in the #UK?

🇬🇧 Fewer school kids are learning #German
🇩🇪 But businesses still need it and the #government is trying to bring it back.

Read about German’s battle for survival in UK #schools … swlondoner.shorthandstories.com/the-fall-of-...

Police have uncovered illegal streaming websites and subscriptions serving 22 million users worldwide as they shut down an £8,000,000,000 streaming ring…

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“Shoplifters now think they can get away with everything because the law is not punishing them.”

Shoplifting in Southwark more than triples to decade-high levels

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Civil servants and MPs have clogged up more than 7000 toilets in the last two years

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Visitors to Frankfurt’s iconic Christmas Market have been warned about a danger to public health and safety at this year’s event.

Please give this story a read as I work Metro’s news desk today

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Meet Michael, a musician with cerebral palsy who is paralysed from the neck down, and who composes using his nose.

Alongside upcoming singer Kah’Nya, they are hoping to perform his song live and raise awareness of barriers faced by disabled musicians in the industry.

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I have found myself in the East German state of Thüringen, just as voters there look set to award the far-right AfD party first place in the election on Sunday.

It is a story of furious xenophobia, unlike anything in U.K. political debate, and furious efforts to stop it. (1/4)

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