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Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty announce the best picture Oscar, to La La Land by mistake. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Monday briefing: And the Oscar goes to ... the wrong film

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Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty announce the best picture Oscar, to La La Land by mistake. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Oscars mix-up creates a scene ... NHS investigates huge patient data loss … woman deported, leaving behind children and husband of 27 years

Top story: La La Land given best picture Oscar by mistake

Hello, this is Graham Russell bringing you the pick of the news this morning.

The Oscars ended on a note of suitably high drama, with the award for best picture mistakenly going to the wrong film. Faye Dunaway read out La La Land as the victor – and the speeches were well underway before Moonlight was revealed as the true winner. Confused and crestfallen looks all around as Moonlight producer Adele Romanski tells the audience: “I’m still not sure this is real.”

La La Land ended up taking six awards (see the full winners list here). Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim actor to win, with his best supporting actor award for Moonlight. Meanwhile first-time host Jimmy Kimmel enjoyed himself, skewering Donald Trump from the start. See here for the red carpet looks and all the best images.


NHS data crisis: Thousands of patients are feared to have been harmed after the NHS lost more than half a million pieces of confidential medical correspondence, including test results and treatment plans. More than 500,000 pieces of patient data sent between GPs and hospitals went undelivered between 2011 to 2016 because the delivery company mistakenly stored them in a warehouse.

NHS England has quietly launched an inquiry and so far 2,500 cases of potential harm have been identified. The correspondence included the results of blood and urine tests, and of biopsies and screening tests for diseases including cancer.


Forced out of UK – A woman who has been married to a British man for 27 years and has two children and a grandchild in the UK has been deported to Singapore. Irene Clennell first arrived in London in 1988 and settled in County Durham. Her sister-in-law Angela said she had been subject to “insensitive and unfair government rules” and that Clennell’s husband was seriously ill. Both Clennell’s parents in Singapore have died.


Gerald Kaufman dies – The oldest serving MP, Sir Gerald Kaufman, has died aged 86. The Father of the House of Commons died on Sunday evening after suffering a long-term illness, his family said. The Labour politician was first elected as Manchester Ardwick MP in 1970 before becoming Manchester Gorton MP after constituency boundary changes in 1983 until his death. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn paid tribute to the “iconic and irascible figure”.


Pornography class – Teaching children about pornography and sexting should be part of sex education, a survey of British adults has found. Seventy-five per cent of respondents believe teachers should address the harmful impact of easily accessible pornography and the trend for texting indecent images. Sex education is compulsory in local authority-maintained schools, but not in academies and free schools, which make up 65% of secondaries.

The new old Nokia 3310. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian

Nokia returns – The much-loved and indestructible Nokia 3310 mobile phone of yesterdecade has at last been unveiled. It has no 3G but it does have the primitive yet addictive game Snake. The screen of the £42 revamped device is slightly bigger and in colour and there is a camera on the back. There’s even a headphones socket in the bottom.

Lunchtime read: Bradshaw on Bill Paxton

Bill Paxton held excellent roles in successes such as Apollo 13, Titanic and Twister but it’s a 1992 thriller called One False Move that is Peter Bradshaw’s pick of the bunch. Co-written by its star Billy Bob Thornton, Paxton plays the good-ol’-boy Arkansas police chief, Dale Dixon, who is madly overexcited at the prospect of real detective work when three very dangerous runaway criminals come his way. But Dale turns out to have a tragic connection with the whole situation.

Sport

Zlatan Ibrahimovic had the final say in the EFL Cup final, scoring the winner in Manchester United’s 3-2 win over Southampton, while Leicester now covet Guus Hiddink as replacement for their sacked manager Claudio Ranieri. In rugby, England defeated Italy 36-15, but George Ford has called on World Rugby to change its laws, claiming the Azzurri’s no-ruck tactic could “kill the game”, while England coach Eddie Jones likened it to the underarm controversy. Andy Bull also weighs in on this creative exploitation of a loophole.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic lifts the English Football League Cup after Manchester United beat Southampton at Wembley. Photograph: Will Oliver/EPA

Business

Late night news has emerged that the London Stock Exchange’s merger with the Deutsch Boerse may be in doubt. Meanwhile the Asian markets have started the week off down as the global “Trump rally” shows signs of petering out.

The pound was buying US$1.24 overnight and €1.18.

The papers

The last editions will all be about the Oscars, but the first editions took a different tack.

Front page of Monday’s Daily Telegraph.

The Telegraph splashes on Theresa May’s plan to end free movement for new EU migrants on the same day she triggers article 50. The Times also leads with Brexit, reporting that May expects Scotland to call a referendum to coincide with the start of negotiations with the EU next month.

The Mail exposes what it claims are the the BBC’s “TV licence bullies” who are under orders to catch 28 licence evaders each week. The Sun, meanwhile, reports on the case of Dempsey Hawkins, a London-born man who killed a teenager in the US and will be deported back to Britain. The Mirror leads with a report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies warning that the Tories will preside over the worst education funding cuts for 20 years.

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