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• How to burst the Westminster bubble: Simple steps MPs could make to connect us all

  16-05-2015 23:58
  
  Our elected MPs are more unpopular than ever, but the following step-by-step guide could help connect the public with the way the country is run and regain some faith in politics.
  
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• Prince Harry calls to bring back National Service

  16-05-2015 23:55 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  As he prepares to leave his military career next month, Prince Harry has called to bring back National Service after revealing how his experience helped him
  
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• VIDEO: The man buying back Myanmar's migrants

  16-05-2015 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Human traffickers ferrying thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar are refusing to let some of those on board return home unless ransoms are paid.
  
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• Hospital chiefs at UK's biggest mental health trust under fire after refusing to reveal findings into fraud investigation

  16-05-2015 23:48
  Hospital chiefs at the UK’s biggest mental health trust have been criticised for refusing to reveal if it will publish its findings into a year-long fraud investigation triggered by the discovery of a £4m black hole that led to the scrapping of several clinical projects.
  
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• We are Many: The new movie teaching us lessons to learn from the 2003 Iraq war protests

  16-05-2015 23:48
  
  The protests are coming. Polish your placard, stitch up your banner, wash the tear gas out of that old bandana. Get ready to rally over the coming weeks, months and years, because what else is there to do?
  
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• Lib Dems may look at axing party colour and 'liberty bird' logo

  16-05-2015 23:47
  
  The Liberal Democrats could look at changing their party colour and “liberty bird” logo as part of a review planned by Tim Farron, if he wins the party’s leadership contest.
  
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• Education Secretary unveils plans to extend the number of academies and free schools

  16-05-2015 23:47
  
  Superheads will be sent to turn around failing and “coasting” schools under powers to be introduced in the Queen’s Speech on 27 May, the Education Secretary Nicky Morgan will announce.
  
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• Sadiq Khan wins Blairite Baroness Oona King's support in race to be London mayor

  16-05-2015 23:47
  
  Left-leaning London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan is understood to have gained the support of a leading Blairite, as he builds a “big tent” of support to win the Labour nomination.
  
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• Medical union to seek legal advice on treatment of young doctors amid fear NHS is breaching Human Rights Act

  16-05-2015 23:47
  The country’s leading medical union is to seek legal advice on the treatment of young doctors by their NHS employers, amid concerns that it may be in breach of the Human Rights Act.
  
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• Campaigners lose battle to release cable detailing historic UK relations with Bahrain

  16-05-2015 23:47
  
  Human rights activists have lost their court battle to force the Government to release a 38-year-old diplomatic cable that could shed light on Britain’s relationship with the authoritarian regime in Bahrain. The ruling came as the king of the Gulf state came to Britain this weekend to attend the prestigious Royal Windsor Horse Show, a sign of continuing warm relations between the UK and Bahrain, where the Royal Navy is building a major new military base.
  
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• The time-pressed urbanites swapping suits for masonry and learning dry-stone walling

  16-05-2015 23:47
  
  In the shadow of London’s Shard, City consultants Daniel Hawkyard and Daniel Sammler are getting to grips with the latest must-have skill for time‑pressed urbanites – dry‑stone walling.
  
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• From roses to pretty sweet peas, growers join forces to bring native flora to UK florists

  16-05-2015 23:46
  
  British flowers are blooming. Demand for home-grown favourites such as peonies, stocks and hyacinths is soaring thanks to consumers’ desire for locally sourced goods and a trend towards less formal wedding arrangements.
  
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• Women in prison equals children without mothers, say justice groups

  16-05-2015 23:46
  
  Sam Green’s first thought when she got arrested for fraud was whether she would be home in time to greet her children from school.
  
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• A third of all paralysed Britons receive no help to get into work, says new research

  16-05-2015 23:46
  
  A third of all people in the UK who are permanently paralysed receive no help to get into work, according to new research. The revelation comes as the Government considers further cuts to its scheme designed to bring more disabled people into jobs.
  
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• Tens of thousands who work and look after relatives could be forced into unemployment under further cuts to care, campaigners warn

  16-05-2015 23:46
  Tens of thousands of people who juggle work with looking after ageing relatives could be forced into unemployment if care for the elderly is subjected to further cuts by the Government, campaigners have warned.
  
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• Dartmouth Park residents demand night-sky darkness be protected in the neighbourhood

  16-05-2015 23:46
  
  House-hunters scouting north London’s most rarefied streets once had a simple wish list for their perfect home: a south-facing garden, parking space for a 4x4, room to expand into the loft. Throw in a good school and a walk to Hampstead Heath.
  
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• Plans to elect mayors in cities such as Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle meets opposition by backbench Tories

  16-05-2015 23:46
  
  The Government could face its first significant rebellion of the new Parliament over plans to elect mayors in large English cities such as Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle.
  
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• Man given HIV and hepatitis from blood transfusion finally wins apology - but still fighting for compensation

  16-05-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mark Ward was being treated for haemophilia as a teenager in the 1980s when he became one of thousands made ill from infected blood supplies
  
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• Election results: Labour battle lines are drawn as members battle over party's ideology in leadership hustings

  16-05-2015 23:36
  Simmering resentment and recrimination over Labour’s worst election defeat in nearly 30 years burst into the open as the contenders vying to succeed Ed Miliband turned on each other at the first hustings of the contest.
  
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• Labour MP Jamie Reed: Party needs equivalent of 'Bruce Springsteen' to win back support

  16-05-2015 23:35
  
  A Labour MP considering standing as leader says the party needs the equivalent of “Bruce Springsteen or Bob Dylan” to win back support in the country.
  
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• Chuka Umunna was in third place in survey of defeated Labour parliamentary candidates, poll reveals

  16-05-2015 23:34
  
  Chuka Umunna was trailing in third place in a survey of defeated Labour parliamentary candidates when he quit from the leadership race, a poll for The Independent on Sunday reveals today.
  
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• How Unite's Len McCluskey became Labour Party puppet master

  16-05-2015 23:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The destruction of Jim Murphy as Scottish Labour leader is the latest triumph for Len McCluskey, head of the Unite union, but he cannot seriously be held responsible for Labour's apocalypse in Scotland
  
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• Irish authorities 'knew IRA terrorists who murdered Mountbatten'

  16-05-2015 23:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  On eve of Prince of Wales's visit to scene of his uncle's murder, questions raised over alleged deals with terror suspects
  
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• Mum who sleeps with sons aged nine and ten insists it helps them grow up healthy and happy

  16-05-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Julie Darby shares a bed every night with her boys Brayden and Kai while husband Gary spends the night alone in a room down the hall
  
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• Blind pole vaulter wins bronze medal

  16-05-2015 23:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Charlotte Brown, a blind pole vaulter, wins a bronze medal in the Texas state high school championships.
  
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• Mexico custody battle teen back home

  16-05-2015 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Teenager Alondra Diaz Garcia is reunited with her mother and returns to the United States eight years after being taken to Mexico by her father.
  
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• Unions' favourite Andy Burnham warns Labour 'ground zero' may lie ahead

  16-05-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Andy Burnham, the Labour leadership frontrunner praised by Len McCluskey, warns the party there may be worse times to come
  
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• Labour in civil war: Jim Murphy quits as Scottish party leader, blaming union boss Len McCluskey

  16-05-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Now Scottish leader quits, leaving party in chaos, and key union boss accused of being 'destructive' force
  
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• Jockey fined over food tweet

  16-05-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jockey Cathy Gannon fined £290 over tweeted picture of the standard of food at Newbury
  
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• Snooker legend Willie Thorne going bankrupt after £1m gambling addiction sparked suicide attempt

  16-05-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  BBC commentator saved from killing himself by wife Jill after he fled home with a knife
  
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• Sally Bercow to divorce 'devastated' Commons Speaker husband John within days

  16-05-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Move comes after her year-long fling with Mr Bercow's cousin was exposed
  
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• VIDEO: A sneaky crow, a fake game, and other trends of the week

  16-05-2015 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  And other things that trended this week
  
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• 'Devastated' Rio Ferdinand thought wife Rebecca had five more years to live before sudden death

  16-05-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rebecca died just five weeks after being diagnosed even though medics believed she had between two and five years left
  
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• 'Devastated' Rio Ferdinand thought wife Rebecca Ellison had five more years to live before sudden death

  16-05-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rebecca died just five weeks after being diagnosed even though medics believed she had between two and five years left
  
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• Virus outbreak on Royal Navy base: SEVENTY struck down with vomiting bug

  16-05-2015 22:53
  
  AS MANY as 70 people at a Royal Navy training base have been struck down with norovirus.
  
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• Footballer's Papiss Cisse has his Bentley Continental GT TOWED by police

  16-05-2015 22:48 via
  
  Newcastle striker Papiss Cisse, 29, was stopped on suspicions of road traffic offences by police officers who confiscated his £150,000 Bentley Continental GT.
  
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• Amy Winehouse documentary: A film steeped in regret, but never losing a sense of awe over the singer's achievements

  16-05-2015 22:48
  There is an unutterable sadness at the heart of Asif Kapadia’s brilliant new film about Amy Winehouse, the singer who died from alcohol poisoning in 2011 aged only 27.
  
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• British Soap Awards: Stars bring traffic to standstill as police close roads so actors can get to event

  16-05-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks stars were part of the throng making their way across a busy junction in their finest threads
  
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• Stella Creasy confirms she's running for Labour deputy leader: 'Party must return to fighting poverty, inequality and injustice'

  16-05-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ms Creasy, Labour Co-operative MP for Walthamstow, east London, and shadow minister for consumer affairs, is seen as one of the party’s rising stars
  
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• Hundreds of payday loan shops closing down after ban on rip-off interest rates

  16-05-2015 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Second largest British lender The Money Shop will shut 240 branches by the end of June
  
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• Amazing 9/11 time-lapse video shows TEN YEAR building project to create ground zero memorial

  16-05-2015 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The EarthCam footage shows the area change form a dusty building site to a beautiful memorial to those killed in the tragedy
  
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• Chuka Ummuna withdrew from Labour leadership race 'to start a family'

  16-05-2015 22:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Shadow Business Secretary is the second leadership favourite to decide not to run after Dan Jarvis declined to stand for election this time
  
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• Labour leadership race: The party's very survival is at stake

  16-05-2015 22:00
  
  If the shock of the crushing defeat is beginning to fade, the scale of the challenge facing the Labour Party is only just beginning to dawn. We now face a fight for the very survival of the Labour Party. I wish to play a part, so I am standing to be Labour’s next deputy leader.
  
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• Is he missing Ben Needham? Mum's hope as police examine grainy black and white photo

  16-05-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The fuzzy photograph was emailed to British detectives after they arrived in Greece with Ben’s mother Kerry to appear on a popular missing persons’ television programme
  
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• Home is where the aspiration is: Labour's tax on people's dreams

  16-05-2015 22:00
  
  During the election campaign, I asked every senior Labour figure I came across – from Ed Miliband through Chuka Umunna and Tristram Hunt to candidates in marginal seats – how Labour could be the party of aspiration if its flagship policy was a mansion tax. The answer was always roughly the same, which is that hardly anyone owns a £2m house, so it was only the mega-rich in central London who would be taxed.
  
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• Transgender trucker wins over his pals as he steers long-haul course from Ian to Roxy

  16-05-2015 21:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Roxy Cuthbertson – known to fellow truckers for 40 years as Ian – was left shedding tears of joy when they gave her their total support
  
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• Spectator critical after high-speed road race crash in Northern Ireland

  16-05-2015 21:55
  
  A WOMAN is fighting for her life after she was hit following a crash involving three riders at a motorcycling road race in Northern Ireland.
  
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• High heel school: See moment student tumbles for 12 seconds during her graduation

  16-05-2015 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mansfield High School in Texas student was filmed struggling to keep upright as she walked to the stage
  
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• Thomas Cook boss at time of Corfu child deaths gets new job - protecting hotels from negligence claims

  16-05-2015 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Peter Constanti rose to role of a chief executive at the tour operator and has defended the company over the deaths of Bobby and Christi Shepherd
  
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• Chuka Umunna dismisses scandal rumours after shock exit from Labour leadership race

  16-05-2015 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Shadow Business Secretary said he has 'nothing to hide', having emerged as a front-runner to replace Ed Miliband
  
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