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• Bill Gates: The UK should be proud of its foreign aid and what it achieves

  20-06-2015 23:56 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  British taxpayers are getting excellent value for their money, and making a transformational difference in the lives of the world's poorest, writes Bill Gates
  
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• Energy firms give their staff stab vests to protect them from attack by customers who refuse to pay their bills

  20-06-2015 23:55 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Two of Britain's biggest energy firms have issued staff with stab vests to protect them from attack by customers who refuse to pay their bills
  
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• Energy companies issue staff with stab vests

  20-06-2015 23:55 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Two of Britain's biggest energy firms have issued staff with stab vests to protect them from attack by customers who refuse to pay their bills
  
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• Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and Fleetwood Mac fans left out of pocket by ticket agency

  20-06-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Circle Tickets advertised tickets to popular music concerts - often priced upwards of £100 - but never sent them
  
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• Mali's Tuareg rebels sign peace deal

  20-06-2015 23:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rebels in Mali sign a peace deal with the government that will give partial autonomy to the north of the country.
  
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• Alton Towers slammed for selling provocative girls' shirts with ''Ride Me'' on the front

  20-06-2015 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A campaign has been set-up online to get the T-shirts - some of which could fit a girl aged 13 - off the shelves
  
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• Paedophile Stuart Hall slashes asking price for luxury mansion by £200,000

  20-06-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The disgraced former BBC broadcaster from the £1.2million price tag after it remained unsold for a year
  
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• ISIS: Sisters feared to have joined Islamic State with nine children are still in Turkey, lawyer claims

  20-06-2015 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Khadija, Sugra and Zohra Dawood and their nine children were headed for war-torn Syria
  
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• ISIS mothers are still in Turkey as the hunt continues

  20-06-2015 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Khadija, Sugra and Zohra Dawood and their nine children were headed for war-torn Syria
  
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• Soldier who took part in Queen's birthday celebration killed in hit-and-run tragedy

  20-06-2015 23:38
  
  A VICTIM of a hit-and-run this morning has been revealed as a soldier who was part of the Queen's birthday celebrations just last week.
  
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• Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne's revenge porn 'threat' to beauty queen ex-girlfriend

  20-06-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michelle Evans, 37, claims the 66-year-old businessman threatened to share intimate pictures of her when she asked him to help with a £1,200 childcare bill folliowing their split
  
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• Shadowlands: readers' photos on the theme of shade

  20-06-2015 23:35
  
  For last week’s photography assignment in the Observer New Review we asked you to share your photos on the theme of shade via GuardianWitness. Here’s a selection of our favouritesShare your photos on this week’s theme ‘blush’ Continue reading...
  
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• Battle of Waterloo: How I played a part in Napoleon's downfall

  20-06-2015 23:32
  
  So, here I sit, on my grey horse overlooking the battlefield at Waterloo. My mount, Champagne, is full of fizz and won’t stand still. This Lipizzaner from Hungary is gouging at the ground with one hoof, apparently keen to join the fray that is slowly unfolding below. She looks every inch the war horse. I probably also look the part in the red jacket and tall bearskin cap of the Scots Greys, except for one detail; my sword fell off on the way to the battlefield.
  
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• Britain to sign up to 1954 Hague Convention on protecting world's ancient cultural sites

  20-06-2015 23:32
  
  The Government is to sign up to the 1954 Hague Convention on protecting the world’s ancient cultural sites and create a fund to help with the recovery of monuments at risk from destruction and looting by Islamic State.
  
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• Children are the 'forgotten victims' of violence, says leading charity Refuge

  20-06-2015 23:31
  
  It is a “disgrace” that children are the “forgotten victims of domestic violence”, says leading charity Refuge, as new figures reveal that one-third of mothers are injured by the time they seek help, with much of the violence witnessed by their children.
  
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• How a new generation of sleeping sensors is getting wearable technology investors excited

  20-06-2015 23:31
  
  There’s nothing quite like a good night’s sleep. Doctors have always known it – and now big business is waking up to the fact.
  
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• Test-case wind turbine will ruin cathedral view, say Lincoln locals

  20-06-2015 23:31
  
  Lincoln Cathedral, an imposing building set on a hill in a county renowned for its lack of gradients, has defined the local landscape for hundreds of years. But plans for a wind farm on the nearby estate of vacuum-cleaner tycoon Sir James Dyson, with turbines twice as high as the cathedral, have raised fears that the area’s unique character could be destroyed.
  
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• Lib Dem leadership candidate Norman Lamb removes two campaign team members over 'push polling' claims

  20-06-2015 23:31
  
  The Liberal Democrats are engulfed by scandal after the leadership contender Norman Lamb was forced to remove two high-profile volunteers from his campaign team over potential breaches of the Data Protection Act.
  
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• Childcare Bill contains threat of two years in jail for parents, critics warn

  20-06-2015 23:30
  
  David Cameron’s flagship election pledge to extend free childcare to 30 hours a week has run into trouble on its first airing in Parliament, amid concern that parents and nursery staff could face “draconian” criminal penalties, including a two-year prison term, if they fail fully to disclose details of working arrangements.
  
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• We don't have enough MPs to shadow the government, senior Lib Dems admit

  20-06-2015 23:30
  
  Liberal Democrat leadership contenders Tim Farron and Norman Lamb have conceded that the post-election party has too few MPs to shadow the government.
  
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• US Open 2015: third round – live!

  20-06-2015 23:26
  
  Hole-by-hole updates from day three’s play at Chambers BayOfficial US Open leaderboard: there if you really fancy itEwan Murray: Chambers Bay greens cause red faces but finest will prevailAnd feel free to send an email [email protected]’s way 10.26pm BST So Oosthuizen’s on the McIlroy trail. Having missed a load of birdie chances, he’s now started dropping shots. He sheds one at 11, and he’s back to +1. What a shame. The going was so good back there. A fast start for Kevin K
  
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• John Prescott: World leaders should listen to the Pope on the climate

  20-06-2015 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former deputy prime minister John Prescott says the pontiff is putting David Cameron to shame as he tells it like it is
  
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• Ben Regan: Soldier and talented rugby player killed in hit-and-run crash

  20-06-2015 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dorking rugby club said Ben Regan played for their under-21s team, and his death will "touch" everyone at the club.
  
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• Germany arrests al-Jazeera reporter

  20-06-2015 23:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Qatar-owned TV news network al-Jazeera says one of its journalists has been arrested in Germany at the request of Egypt.
  
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• Midwives furious after Jeremy Hunt highlights 'shocking' number of babies who die at birth - when there's shortage of 3,000 midwives

  20-06-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nursing chiefs say there is a shortage of 3,000 midwives and extra staff are needed
  
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• Midwives furious after Jeremy Hunt highlights 'shocking' number of babies who die at birth

  20-06-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nursing chiefs say there is a shortage of 3,000 midwives and extra staff are needed
  
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• Veterans are getting a raw deal, majority of the public believes

  20-06-2015 23:16 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Britain is failing to support men and women who have fought in the Armed Forces, according to the public in a poll conducted by a national military charity.
  
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• Three teenagers charged with murder of 14-year-old schoolboy found dead in cemetery

  20-06-2015 23:15 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  George Thomson, 18, Brahnn Finley, 19, and Daniel Johnston, also 19, all of Carlisle, were charged with 14-year-old Jordan Watson's murder
  
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• Comedian Mel Moon: How the decision not to end my own life became an Edinburgh show

  20-06-2015 23:02
  
  It is less than two months until the Edinburgh Festival begins. A time when those previously mentally stable lose control as they chase elusive 5-star reviews. I am a comedian and for years I lived the experience of Edinburgh vicariously through colleagues who went. I celebrated their success and cried with them over their loss. Ok that’s a lie, In the main I read with bitterness their success and smugness their failures, but whilst doing so I made myself a promise, I would only ever go when
  
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• Ryanair plane unfair as charity lotto winner must pick €1m prize from 125 envelopes

  20-06-2015 23:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ryanair charity scratchcards offer a €1m prize but then the winner must correctly pick the envelope their prize is in
  
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• Spend more on weapons research or face 'disastrous' consequences, experts warn MoD

  20-06-2015 23:00
  
  Britain must heavily increase spending on defence research otherwise national security will be breached and troops killed by technologically advanced opponents, former ministers, soldiers and contractors have told The Independent on Sunday.
  
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• Jihadi John SPOTTED: Terrorist flees to Libya after he is unmasked as British teen

  20-06-2015 23:00
  
  JIHADI JOHN has slipped into Libya after being dropped from Islamic State’s grisly beheading videos when his cover was blown, intelligence chiefs believe.
  
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• Jihadi John SPOTTED: Terrorist flees to Libya after he is unmasked

  20-06-2015 23:00
  
  JIHADI JOHN has slipped into Libya after being dropped from Islamic State’s grisly beheading videos when his cover was blown, intelligence chiefs believe.
  
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• Anti-austerity protest: This is just the start of our campaign, say marchers

  20-06-2015 22:59
  
  Cries to end austerity echoed through the streets of central London as a reported 250,000 people campaigned against a new wave of government spending cuts.
  
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• Michael Gove instructing his civil servants on grammar

  20-06-2015 22:56
  
  Lord Chancellor Michael Gove has been accused of “patronising” his civil servants with an eccentric set of grammar rules and pet peeves designed to shape departmental correspondence.
  
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• Bronte theft sparks new police team

  20-06-2015 22:56
  
  EVERY police force is to have heritage crime officers dedicated to tackling thieves who plunder churches, graveyards and conservation sites for priceless stones.
  
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• Jordan Watson murder: three charged over Cumbria cemetery killing

  20-06-2015 22:52
  
  Three men aged 18 to 19 set to appear at Carlisle magistrates’ court on Monday following the death of 14-year-old Jordan Watson earlier this week
  Three teenagers have been charged with the murder of a schoolboy who was found dead in a cemetery. Jordan Watson, 14, was discovered in a secluded part of St John the Baptist Church cemetery in Carlisle, Cumbria, by a member of the public on Tuesday morning. Continue reading...
  
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• Liam Gallagher's Pretty Green fashion label goes supersonic - making millions after years of struggle

  20-06-2015 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Oasis front man has turned the business around and it's now going from strength to strength
  
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• Girl stabbed 20 times begs David Cameron to get tough on rising knife crime

  20-06-2015 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jessica Knight was left physically and mentally scarred when randomly attacked by a stranger when she was 14 - but knife crime is increasing while sentences get softer
  
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• Desperate plea by woman stabbed 20 times in frenzied attack - you must get tough on knife crime

  20-06-2015 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jessica Knight was left physically and mentally scarred when randomly attacked by a stranger when she was 14 - but knife crime is increasing while sentences get softer
  
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• Greek prime minister prepares last-ditch offer to avoid default on debts

  20-06-2015 22:30
  
  Flurry of behind-the-scenes negotiations before European Union summit on Monday that could decide Greece’s fateThe race to save Greece from economic collapse intensified on Saturday night as its beleaguered leader conducted a flurry of behind-the-scenes negotiations before an EU summit on Monday that is expected to decide the country’s fate.Alexis Tsipras, the prime minister, met senior officials in an attempt to devise a package of reforms that would secure emergency funds and avoid the nat
  
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• Revealed: The Herefordshire hotel used for 'diabolical' experiments on US military students

  20-06-2015 22:25
  
  Behind the façade of a peaceful Georgian country manor hotel, nestling in 18 acres of rolling Herefordshire grassland, lay a dark secret involving a former medical director of the FBI which last week came to light at a medical board hearing in the US state of Virginia.
  
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• Fracking poses 'significant' risk to humans and should be temporarily banned across EU, says new report

  20-06-2015 22:23
  
  A major new scientific study has concluded that the controversial gas extraction technique known as fracking poses a “significant” risk to human health and British wildlife, and that an EU-wide moratorium should be implemented until widespread regulatory reform is undertaken.
  
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• England becomes first country worldwide to offer meningitis jabs to all babies

  20-06-2015 22:23
  
  England will become the first country in the world to protect babies against meningitis and septicaemia caused by the meningococcal B (MenB) bacteria from September, the Department of Health has confirmed.
  
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• Mo Farah looks like the victim of a witch-hunt, says Steve Cram

  20-06-2015 22:23
  
  • ‘We have gone off on a couple of tangents from the original allegations’
  • ‘I can understand why Mo is annoyed,’ former world champion saysSteve Cram believes Mo Farah is the victim of a witch-hunt after the double Olympic champion was forced to deny ever using performance-enhancing drugs. Farah issued a statement on Friday defending his reputation in the wake of a BBC investigation that alleged his coach, Alberto Salazar, had practised doping techniques with the American athl
  
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• MPs set to debate BBC licence as campaign launches to protect its funding

  20-06-2015 22:22
  
  Conservative MPs are growing increasingly confident of reforming the BBC ahead of negotiations over the renewal of its Royal Charter next year – prompting a campaign to protect its licence fee funding.
  
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• Vicar slammed for comparing homosexuality to paedophilia after criticising senior clergyman who blessed Pride march

  20-06-2015 22:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rev Melvin Tinker lambasted a senior clergyman for blessing a Pride march in Hull
  
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• Church sells cancer and autism ‘cures’ that can kill

  20-06-2015 22:21
  
  THE net is closing on supporters of a healing “religion” which sells a dangerous bleach liquid “cure” for cancer and autism.
  
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• Kimi Raikkonen fumes at Ferrari team for qualifying blunder at Austrian GP

  20-06-2015 22:20
  
  • Raikkonen set to start in 14th after being knocked out in first session
  • Ferrari driver claims he was given wrong information by his teamKimi Raikkonen blamed a lack of communication for his early exit from qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix. The Ferrari driver was knocked out in the first session at the Red Bull Ring having been caught out in preparing for a final quick lap. He vented his frustration over the radio when he was informed he had dropped out, said: “How the fuck did th
  
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• Labour leadership candidates could really do with a bit of charisma

  20-06-2015 22:18
  
  Wanted: Some political pizzaz
  
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