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It was probably a “pro-Ukrainian group” which sabotaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines last September, US spooks have told The New York Times. Though there’s no evidence that President Volodymyr Zelensky or his “top lieutenants” ordered the operation, it could have been “conducted off the books by a proxy force”. Gary Lineker is to be rebuked by BBC bosses for comparing the government’s proposed asylum laws to Nazi Germany. The highly paid pundit wrote on Twitter that politicians are using language “not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s”. Asda’s baked beans are tastier than Heinz’s, according to a blind test by the consumer magazine Which? A can of the own-brand pulses costs 50p, compared to £1.39 for its more famous rival. “Beans doesn’t have to mean Heinz.”