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Getting the shingles vaccine could lower your risk of a heart attack or stroke by as much as 20%, according to the first study of its kind.

Shingles is a common condition affecting millions worldwide that causes a painful rash and can lead to serious problems such as deafness, long-lasting pain and blindness. It is more likely to cause serious problems in older age groups.

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Fifty-five years have passed since James Brown, singer, songwriter and minister of new super-heavy funk, released a song about people who “like a dull knife [that] just ain’t cutting”, were “talking loud and saying nothing”. Manchester United would probably have preferred to prompt thoughts of Brown’s I Feel Good but they are where they are – and if they ever do shake their money-makers they could probably then benefit from dropping a few of them. Sometimes we don’t get to choose which 70s deep funk classic we unwittingly call to mind, and Ruben Amorim left no doubt when after Wednesday night’s ineffably miserable defeat by Grimsby he opined about feeling “my players spoke really loud today … At half-time I told them that they were speaking really loud to me. I understand what you are doing, what I am seeing.” Like a dull knife, they just weren’t cutting.

Physically, because they’re small, they look like wee boys. They’re clearly not wee boys, and they won’t thank me for saying that, they’ll hate me saying it, but they look like wee boys. There’s no men, you need men. And your men don’t need to be 6ft 5ins, 6ft 6ins. They just need to have heart, head and a bit of organisation and desire” – Not-tall Ally McCoist on a theory as to how Club Brugge, currently fourth in the Belgian Pro League with six goals from four games, found a way past Russell Martin’s rattled Rangers 6-0 (9-1 agg) in Bigger Cup playoffs.

Grimsby Town supporters had a grand old celebration last night. How long will it take for the FA to spoil the fun by putting the club on the naughty step for the pitch invasion?” – JJ Zucal.

If Ruben Amorim was pleased at how a lack of European football would benefit his Man Utd squad, he must be delighted now that they will no longer be troubled with contesting the Carabao Cup either. They’ll be unstoppable at this rate” – Tom Dowler

It is no longer funny. Making a joke out of yet another Man U debacle appears indecent. You can’t beat a dead horse. Let them rest in peace” – Krishna Moorthy

Lukas Kwasniok’s get-up from the weekend makes it look like the actual manager has got injured and a call has gone out in the stadium for a qualified fan to replace him on the touchline” – Jim Hearson

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Struggling brand sold by Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos, which is to take ‘strategic investment’ in Castore’s holding company

Belstaff, the struggling British fashion brand known for its heritage motorcycle gear, has been bought by the sportswear group Castore from the billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos.

Under the deal, the terms of which have not been disclosed, Ineos will make a “significant strategic investment” in Castore’s holding company.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Feargal Sharkey back campaign to save the animal, which once inspired placenames, songs and stories

When the Somerset Levels flood in winter, their reed-fringed waterways swell into a glinting inland sea – haunting and half forgotten.

Generations ago, these wetlands pulsed with the seasonal arrival of eels: twisting through rhynes – human-made water channels – and ditches in their thousands, caught in baskets, sung about in pubs and paid as rent to Glastonbury Abbey. Today those same waters flow more slowly, more sparsely: once-teeming channels now show only the barest traces of what was here.

Overnight attacks kill 18 and severely damage buildings including those housing EU delegation and British Council

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The UK and European Union have summoned their Russian envoys after overnight missile strikes on Kyiv killed at least 18 people and damaged the city’s British Council and EU offices in the most deadly aerial assault on the Ukrainian capital since the Alaska summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

Four children are among the 17 reported dead after a residential building was struck in the middle of the night within the eastern Darnytskyi district, according to Ukraine’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko.

Exclusive: Richard Dannatt, who claimed assistance was ‘in the UK national interest’, may have broken lobbying rules

A member of the House of Lords asked a senior British diplomat to help a Ghanaian goldmining venture in which he held shares, claiming it was “in the UK national interest”, the Guardian can disclose.

The revelation will add to concerns about apparent breaches of parliamentary lobbying rules by Richard Dannatt, a former head of the British army. The peer is already under scrutiny over his lobbying for several companies, leading in two cases to investigations by the Lords’ standards body.