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Retired UK civil servant ordered to pay back £25,000 after pension scheme error

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 December 2025

Eleven years of overpayments leave 63-year-old facing hardship and return to full-time work

A retired civil servant faces being forced back into full-time work after being ordered to return £25,000 in overpaid pension benefits.

Derek Ritchie, 63, was informed in March by scheme administrators that his payments had been miscalculated since 2014.

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UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 December 2025

British fertility clinics raise scientific and ethical objections over patients sending embryos’ genetic data abroad for analysis

What is polygenic embryo screening in IVF and does it work?

Couples undergoing IVF in the UK are exploiting an apparent legal loophole to rank their embryos based on genetic predictions of IQ, height and health, the Guardian has learned.

The controversial screening technique, which scores embryos based on their DNA, is not permitted at UK fertility clinics and critics have raised scientific and ethical objections, saying the method is unproven. But under data protection laws, patients can – and in some cases have – demanded their embryos’ raw genetic data and sent it abroad for analysis in an effort to have smarter, healthier children.

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From Eternity to Jamiroquai: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 December 2025 • 1 minute

Elizabeth Olsen examines her life choices in metaphysical romcom and the flamboyantly behatted sometime Space Cowboy returns

Eternity
Out now
Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olsen star, along with Callum Turner, in a quirky metaphysical romantic drama from A24, in which, upon arriving in the afterlife, everyone must decide where, and with whom, they would like to spend eternity. Should Olsen’s character pick the man she settled down with (Teller) or her first love (Turner)?

It Was Just an Accident
Out now
This Palme d’Or-winning feature from Iranian director Jafar Panahi blends social realism with political commentary, as a man (Ebrahim Azizi) and his pregnant wife (Afsaneh Najmabadi), travelling with their young daughter (Delmaz Najafi), are involved in a minor car crash.

Folktales
Out now
Documentary-makers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp) follow a group of teens as they take a gap year at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway, where the emphasis is less on a traditional curriculum and more on dog sledding and survival skills.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
Out now
Based on the second video game in the popular series, this sequel sees Josh Hutcherson reprising his role as night guard Mike Schmidt, and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop back on puppet duty, for this horror about animatronic critters possessed from within by unquiet souls. Catherine Bray

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Blind date: ‘The waiters wanted an on-the-spot review of what we thought of each other’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 December 2025

Amanda, 56, a performance assessor, meets Paul, 53, a networks manager

What were you hoping for?
An adventure, engaging company, good food.

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What will be No 1 on the Christmas cliche charts 2025? The Becky Barnicoat cartoon

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 December 2025

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What will be No 1 on the Christmas cliche charts 2025? The Becky Barnicoat cartoon

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 December 2025

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Blind date: ‘The waiters wanted an on-the-spot review of what we thought of each other’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 December 2025

Amanda, 56, a performance assessor, meets Paul, 53, a networks manager

What were you hoping for?
An adventure, engaging company, good food.

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What will be No 1 on the Christmas cliche charts 2025? The Becky Barnicoat cartoon

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 December 2025

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Blind date: ‘The waiters wanted an on-the-spot review of what we thought of each other’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 December 2025

Amanda, 56, a performance assessor, meets Paul, 53, a networks manager

What were you hoping for?
An adventure, engaging company, good food.