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In pictures: Hit-filled day two at Victorious Festival Thousands packed Southsea Common for another day of music at Victorious Festival. The summer sunshine gave way to showers on Saturday, prompting festival goers to pull on ponchos and jackets. The Black Keys topped the bill with The Happy Mondays, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Bastille and Dizzee Rascal among the other performers on Saturday. The festival draws to a close on Sunday with headliners Kasabian, who are joined on the bill by The Streets and Reef.

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Reverend aims to strike a chord with congregation A rock 'n' roll loving Reverend is hoping to hit the right note with his new congregation in his seaside parish. Known as the Rockin' Rev, the Reverend David Croucher moved to Felixstowe, Suffolk with his wife, Chris, in July and was recently announced as the new deacon of St Felix Catholic Church. Croucher said people often question how well the dog collar and guitar go together, however he has played at care homes, monthly folk masses and had a regular slot at a local pub. He said: "It's quite funny because people are often shocked when I tell them I am an ordained deacon in the Catholic Church." Croucher, who was born in South Wales, first picked up a guitar in the 1960s after being inspired by his "favourite band ever", The Shadows. As a teenager he built his own guitar out of pieces of wood. It was not until he had finished his O-Levels that his Dad took him to Cardiff to get a proper guitar for £35, which took two years to pay off.

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It’s always Shark Week in Putin’s world. That doesn’t bode well for Trump’s Ukraine peace hopes “I would say that the orca is, without doubt, a formidable predator, yet it is also a highly intelligent creature, a cunning one,” he said. “The collective West, for its part, was assigned a specific definition in the Soviet era, which remains current to this day – the sharks of imperialism.” Sharks and orcas may not quite be the same class of animal, but Putin continued with his analogy. “The thrust of my remarks was that if anyone attempts to drag us down the food chain and devour us, to consume us, they would be well advised to expect their teeth to be broken,” he said. “And Russia stands ready to do precisely that, despite the insatiable appetites and ever-sharpening teeth of these sharks.”

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How the psychedelic is regulated Ibogaine and some other psychedelics are classified as Schedule I substances by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, a designation the federal government uses for substances it considers to have no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. In rare cases, it can also disturb the heart’s electrical rhythms, leading to cardiac arrest and sudden death. But “the FDA has a system with the DEA by which, when a drug becomes FDA-approved and the FDA sets clear criteria, then it can be given with a transient de-scheduling that is exempt from those enforcement rules, because it’s given in a hospital setting or in a clinic setting under clinical supervision,” Makary said earlier this year. “If they do get approved, these are not the medications you’ll just pick up at a pharmacy. These are given in a controlled, supervised setting in a hospital.”

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