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• Police Worker Prosecutes Himself By Accident, Say Mocking Colleagues

  20-03-2018 23:48
  A police worker has been ridiculed by colleagues after accidentally
  
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• Jennie Formby Named As New Labour Party General Secretary

  20-03-2018 23:48
  A union official has been appointed Labour's new general secretary, becoming
  
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• Troubled Carpetright scrambles to secure emergency funds

  20-03-2018 23:44
  Carpetright is racing to secure emergency funding to pave the way for a longer-term restructuring plan in the latest sign of the crisis engulfing Britain's high streets.Sky News has learnt that the flooring chain, which trades from more than 400 shops across the country, was working on Tuesday night to secure more than £10m from prospective lenders.Carpetright's hunt for financing comes less than three weeks after it said it was likely to report a loss for the year ending April 28.
  
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• Ariel Exoplanet Mission Given The Go-Ahead

  20-03-2018 23:34
  British scientists are to play a leading role in a new European Space Agency
  
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• Britain Holds Back From Escalating Reprisals On Russia After Salisbury Poisoning

  20-03-2018 23:21
  Britain has held back from an immediate escalation of the round of tit-for-tat
  
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• Racist messages shared by law students investigated by Exeter University

  20-03-2018 23:17
  Claims that racist messages have been posted by law students from the University of Exeter are being formally investigated.The university and the students' union are looking into a number of messages which attack ethnic minorities.The police are in contact with the university on the matter.
  
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• I’M Five – Think Of My Reputation!

  20-03-2018 23:10
  Children start to worry about their reputations from the age of five, say
  
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• Former Eurovision Host Katie Boyle, Lady Saunders Dies Aged 91

  20-03-2018 23:06
  Former Eurovision Song Contest host and actress Katie Boyle, Lady Saunders
  
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• EU 27 Could Reject Brexit Transition Deal, Warns Donald Tusk

  20-03-2018 23:03
  European Council president Donald Tusk has warned there is no guarantee EU
  
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• Children's Book About Mike Pence's Gay Bunny Jumps to No. 1 - New York Times

  20-03-2018 22:26 via nytimes.com
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  Children's Book About Mike Pence's Gay Bunny Jumps to No. 1
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  This is the story of a little gay bunny. A little gay bunny who belongs to Vice President Mike Pence. A little fictional gay bunny whose book is beating the memoir of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, on the Amazon best-seller list. This is ...
  John Oliver's Gay-Bunny Book Is Outselling the Mike Pence Book It's TrollingVanity Fair
  Remarks by Vice President Pence on National Agriculture DayWhiteho
  
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• Morning mail: murder charge over Justine Damond shooting - The Guardian

  20-03-2018 21:15 via theguardian.com
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  Morning mail: murder charge over Justine Damond shooting
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  Wednesday: Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor charged. Plus: legal concerns over plan to roll over forestry agreements. by Eleanor Ainge Roy. Wednesday: Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor charged. Plus: legal concerns over plan to roll over ...
  Minnesota officer charged with murder in Australian's deathReuters
  Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor turns himself in on murder, manslaughter charges in Ju
  
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• Facebook row tech firm Cambridge Analytica suspends CEO Alexander Nix

  20-03-2018 20:22
  Facebook row tech firm Cambridge Analytica has suspended its CEO Alexander Nix in the wake of a series of allegations.Facebook is currently facing investigations by authorities in the UK, EU, and the US, over a reported data incident between itself and consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica.The board of Cambridge Analytica says it has suspended Mr Nix pending a full independent investigation of his actions.
  
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• UK says RAF engineer dies in jet crash in Wales

  20-03-2018 20:18
  (Reuters) - Britain's Ministry of Defence said an engineer from the Royal Air Force's Red Arrows Aerobatics Team died when a Hawk jet crashed at RAF Valley in Anglesey, north Wales, on Tuesday.
  
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• Cambridge Analytica Chief Executive Alexander Nix Suspended Following Undercover Investigation

  20-03-2018 20:16
  The board of Cambridge Analytica has announced it has suspended chief
  
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• Polar Bear Cub Takes Its First Steps Outside

  20-03-2018 20:15
  The UK's only polar bear cub born in 25 years has taken its first steps
  
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• Sir Patrick Stewart Urges Cannabis Treatment For Boy With Epilepsy

  20-03-2018 20:14
  Sir Patrick Stewart has given his support to the campaign for a young boy to
  
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• RAF engineer has died after Red Arrows crash

  20-03-2018 20:12
  An RAF engineer has died after a Red Arrows jet crashed at RAF Valley in Anglesey.The pilot of the Hawk aircraft survived and is receiving medical treatment.Group captain Nick Tucker-Lowe said in a statement: "It's with great sadness that the RAF can confirm the death of an engineer from the RAF aerobatics team The Red Arrows in a tragic accident today.
  
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• In Pictures: Looks Familiar… Queen Shown Works Contained In Royal Collection

  20-03-2018 20:11
  The Queen laughed as Royal Academy of Arts president Christopher Le Brun said
  
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• Jeremy Hunt Sets Out Blueprint For Social Care Reform

  20-03-2018 20:10
  Health and social care workers are faced with "fragmented services" and
  
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• Cambridge Analytica suspends CEO Alexander Nix

  20-03-2018 20:10
  Alexander Nix leaves the Cambridge Analytica offices in central London. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
  
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• Spy poisoning: police say investigation could last until summer

  20-03-2018 20:01
  Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism chief, Neil Basu, said the inquiry would take weeks or months.Police have moved steel barriers into place at one of the crime scenes in Salisbury as they said the investigation into the nerve agent attack could last until the summer.Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism chief, Neil Basu, said he was confident that the culprits who left the Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, critically ill would be found but that the inquiry would
  
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• Red Arrows Jet Crashes After Incident At RAF Valley

  20-03-2018 20:01
  A Red Arrows jet has crashed after an incident at RAF Valley in north Wales,
  
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• Labour’S Brexit Stance ‘Reinforced’ By Talks With Whisky Industry Bosses

  20-03-2018 20:01
  Talks with whisky bosses have "reinforced" Labour's belief that the UK must
  
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• Cambridge Analytica execs boast of role in getting Trump elected

  20-03-2018 20:00
  Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, said he had met Donald Trump ‘many times’.Senior executives from the firm at the heart of Facebook’s data breach boasted of playing a key role in bringing Donald Trump to power and said they used “unattributable and untrackable” advertising to support their clients in elections, according to an undercover expose.In secretly recorded conversations, Cambridge Analytica’s CEO, Alexander Nix, claimed he ha
  
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• Girl, 2, who died after car went into a river in Wales was 'incredible... happy... fun'

  20-03-2018 19:56
  A toddler who died after being rescued from a car in a river has been called an "incredible happy young girl" who lived "a great adventurous fun life".
  
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• Man dies after 'getting head stuck under electronic cinema seat' in Birmingham

  20-03-2018 19:55
  A man has died after reportedly getting his head stuck under a cinema seat.The victim is said to have become trapped after bending down to retrieve his mobile phone at the end of a movie screening at Vue in Birmingham's Star City complex.West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called to reports of a patient in cardiac arrest.
  
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• Breakthrough Brexit transition deal revealed

  20-03-2018 19:55
  A "significant step" has been made in Brexit negotiations after a breakthrough deal was reached on the transition period.
  
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• Gove ‘Disappointed’ With Brexit Fishing Deal As Tories Voice Frustration

  20-03-2018 19:54
  Michael Gove said he was disappointed with the European Union over its stance
  
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• Making trade unions relevant to the next generation

  20-03-2018 19:47
  While I agree with much of John Harris’s article (Adapt or die: a new breed of union can save the fossils of old, 19 March), I want to add that over the past 20 or so years at Unite there has been a growing concern that young people simply don’t know what trade unions are.At Unite, we are well aware that we need to change and that many of these astute young people are very capable of running more flexible and representative trade unions for the future.
  
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• Michael Gove admits Brexit transition deal 'sub-optimal' for UK fishing industry

  20-03-2018 19:46
  Michael Gove has admitted the Government accepted a "sub-optimal outcome" for the UK's fishing industry in negotiations over a Brexit transition period.The Environment Secretary faced anger from MPs after the Government was accused of a "betrayal" of coastal communities.It follows the Prime Minister's decision to allow the EU to maintain control of fisheries policy until the end of 2020 - more than 21 months after the UK formally leaves the bloc.
  
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• Ringo Starr Finally Receives ‘Most Overdue’ Knighthood

  20-03-2018 19:45
  The Beatles' Ringo Starr has told of his "shock" at receiving a knighthood at
  
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• What Is Cambridge Analytica? The Company Linked To Trump And Brexit Explained

  20-03-2018 19:39
  A data analytics firm which worked on President Donald Trump's election
  
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• David Carroll, the US professor taking on Cambridge Analytica in the UK courts - The Guardian

  20-03-2018 18:35 via theguardian.com
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  David Carroll, the US professor taking on Cambridge Analytica in the UK courts
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  David Carroll: 'The escalation and weaponization of data is really concerning and we have to make sure we understand the effects before we allow this to just run its course.' Photograph: Christopher Lane for the Observer. An American professor who is ...
  Cambridge Analytica CEO suspended, and that's not even the worst news for them todayThe Register
  Where is Mark Zuckerberg?BBC News
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• How long until we live online?

  20-03-2018 18:15
  Is the technology depicted in new film Ready Player One – where people live, work and play in a parallel digital world – science fiction, or a taste of what’s to come?In Ernest Cline’s book, Ready Player One, it’s 2045 and “missing millions” have retreated into a virtual world called OASIS to escape from a reality consumed by climate change, economic depression and an energy crisis. And you thought Brexit was bad. But, in real life, how far away are we f
  
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• 'My 3,000 calorie-a-day addiction to energy drinks rules my life'

  20-03-2018 17:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Emma Forrest gets up five times a night to satisfy her cravings and stockpiles cans of the drinks.
  
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• An LGBT+ parody of Mike Pence’s children’s book is outselling the original

  20-03-2018 17:09
  Television host John Oliver created an LGBT+ version of the vice president’s book and it’s already a bestseller.
  
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• Two-Year-Old Girl Dies In Apparent Accident After Car Plunges Into River

  20-03-2018 17:07
  A two-year-old girl has died in what appears to be a tragic accident after a
  
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• Merkel pleased about Brexit transition deal but says many problems remain

  20-03-2018 17:07
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she was pleased that the European Union and Britain had agreed on a Brexit transition deal but added that there were still many challenges to overcome in negotiating Britain's departure from the bloc.On Monday Britain and the European Union agreed to a transition period to avoid a "cliff edge" Brexit next year, albeit only after London accepted a potential solution for Northern Ireland's land border that may face stiff opposition at home.
  
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• EU boss Jean-Claude Juncker criticised for congratulatory letter to Vladimir Putin

  20-03-2018 17:04
  European Union boss Jean-Claude Juncker has been criticised after his "nauseating" letter of congratulations to Russia's Vladimir Putin failed to mention the Salisbury nerve agent attack.The European Commission President wrote to Mr Putin on Tuesday to congratulate the Russian leader on his recent re-election.Mr Juncker was also criticised for ignoring accusations of ballot box rigging over Mr Putin's victory in Russia's presidential election.
  
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• Government cuts to blame for rise in missing registered sex offenders, Sara Payne says

  20-03-2018 17:03
  The mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne has blamed Government cuts for the sharp rise in registered sex offenders going missing across Britain.Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter was killed in 2000 by a convicted paedophile, said the country has become "a sex offender's playground" following years of austerity measures.Dr Payne, who works with The Phoenix Post campaign group for victims of paedophiles, told Sky News: "The Government have used the austerity argument to virtually decon
  
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• Man Charged With Shooting Murders Of Mother And Daughter Appears In Court

  20-03-2018 17:00
  A man has appeared in court accused of stealing a gun and shooting dead a
  
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• Brexit Challenge To Proceed To Full Hearing In Scottish Courts

  20-03-2018 16:52
  A legal challenge to the UK Government on Brexit can proceed to a full hearing
  
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• Red Arrows jet has crashed at Wales RAF base, MoD confirms

  20-03-2018 16:48
  A Red Arrows jet has crashed in Wales at an RAF base, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.The Welsh Ambulance Service said it was called shortly before 1.30pm on Tuesday to reports an aircraft had crashed at RAF Valley in Holyhead.
  
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• Police Shooting Leaves Man In Critical Condition

  20-03-2018 16:48
  A man is in a critical condition after he was shot by a police officer in
  
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• MPs formally request Zuckerberg answer questions

  20-03-2018 16:48
  Mark Zuckerberg has been sent a formal request to appear before MPs and answer questions regarding a growing scandal about user data.Facebook is currently facing investigations by authorities in the UK, EU, and the US, over a reported data incident between itself and consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica.The company's founder and chief executive has not commented on reports or made any public appearances following their publication.
  
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• Corbyn Would Deal With Putin ‘Despite Fingers Pointing To Russia On Salisbury’

  20-03-2018 16:48
  Jeremy Corbyn has said he would still do business with Vladimir Putin despite
  
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• Liz Hurley Shares Horror Picture Of Nephew’S Wound After Road Rage Stabbing

  20-03-2018 16:46
  Actress Liz Hurley has tweeted a graphic picture of a knife wound suffered by
  
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• Inflation Falls To Seven-Month Low As Pressure From Sterling’S Slump Eases

  20-03-2018 16:43
  Inflation has fallen to its lowest level since July last year, handing some
  
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• Putin denies spy attack as he wins landslide election

  20-03-2018 16:35
  In his first public comments on the nerve agent attack, the Russian president says Moscow is ready to work with the UK government.
  
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• NHS England: All Patients Will Have Access To Hospitals With Shortest Wait Lists

  20-03-2018 16:31
  All patients in England will soon be able to be referred to hospitals with the
  
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