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Noise, pollution, danger: how Amazon warehouses upended a sleepy New York neighborhood | Pollution

A community farm next to an Amazon last-mile facility in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Photograph: Amir Hamja/The GuardianResidents hope traffic, emissions and noise data they are analyzing with the Guardian will help rein in the spread of e-commerce facilities by Kaveh Waddell from Consumer Reports, Aliya Uteuova and Andrew WitherspoonOn a drizzly Friday night, Rosana Zapata was mapping out a changing neighborhood. Using Sharpie and pencil, the 18-year-old sketched her world on printer paper: a street intersection, a small parking lot, a lit-up sign for fried chicken.

Terminal 5 chief to quit | Airline industry

Airline industryTerminal 5 chief to quitMike Roberts, BAA's technical director responsible for development of Heathrow's terminal 5, is to leave the industry for personal reasons, the company said yesterday. He will retire early at the end of the year. His place will be taken by Tony Douglas, but in a shake-up of responsibility, Mike Hodgkinson, BAA's chief executive, will take direct control of the project, which will receive government approval this month.

US guard tells how Nazi girlfriend duped him into helping Goering evade hangman | World news

World newsUS guard tells how Nazi girlfriend duped him into helping Goering evade hangmanAn enduring mystery of the 1946 Nuremberg trials was apparently solved yesterday when an American former prison guard claimed it was he who, as an unwitting accomplice, passed to Hermann Goering the cyanide capsule with which the Nazi number two cheated the noose. Herbert Lee Stivers told the Los Angeles Times that a German girl called Mona had fooled him into smuggling a vial of liquid to Goering's cell hidden in a fountain pen, telling him it was medicine.

Willie Payne obituary | Television & radio

Other livesTelevision & radioObituaryWillie Payne obituaryMy friend Willie Payne, who has died aged 94, was a Nigerian actor and dancer from the generation of West Africans who arrived in the UK as seamen during the second world war. He was born William Ishola Payne in Lagos, the son of Ishmael, a civil servant of Ijebu descent, and his wife, Angelina (nee Johnson). His paternal great-grandfather, John Augustus Ontonba Payne, served in the British administration of Nigeria in the 1860s and published diaries and almanacs that are a key source for modern historians.

World's Busiest Hotel TV review

TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewWhat happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas – it entertains Sam WollastonMore people visit the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas, according to World's Busiest Hotel (Channel 5), than visit Venice itself. Whoa! That's extraordinary, isn't it? (After speaking to various tourist boards, I'm still not sure if it's true – it seems to depend on whether you count the cruise ships in Venice.) And more than a bit depressing.