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• Sixty Britons killed after joining Isil fighters in Syria and Iraq

  14-07-2015 23:39 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Exclusive: Dozens of British jihadis have been killed after travelling to Syria and Iraq to fight with Islamic State
  
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• Wood Green shooting: Police arrest nine people as part of murder investigation

  14-07-2015 23:02
  
  Detectives carrying out a murder investigation have arrested nine people, including two teenage boys, in connection with the shooting of two “innocent bystanders” in Wood Green, north London.
  
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• MH17 crash: MP of British victims raises concerns of relatives still unclear over who 'murdered their loved ones'

  14-07-2015 22:35
  
  Families of Britons killed when their plane was shot down fear the Foreign Office's attention has moved away from the crisis surrounding Ukraine, MPs have heard.
  
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• Almost £2 billion withdrawn in first months of pension freedoms initiative

  14-07-2015 22:27 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Savers withdraw almost £2 billion in first months of retirement freedoms scheme, according to figures from the Association of British Insurers
  
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• SAS inquest: Experts call for military to be stripped of its legal protection for non-combat deaths following damning verdict

  14-07-2015 21:57
  Stripping the military of its legal protection from criminal prosecution for non-combat deaths is the only way to improve its woeful safety record, legal and safety experts have claimed.
  
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• What does this deal mean for British-Iran relations?

  14-07-2015 21:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Diplomats believe the historic nuclear deal could bring Iran and European countries closer together
  
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• Tourist 'murdered' on last day of holiday

  14-07-2015 21:37 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A tourist has been found dead in a picturesque flat just yards from Brighton seafront
  
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• Andy Burnham says Labour would back further airstrikes on Isis in Syria under his leadership

  14-07-2015 21:35
  
  Andy Burnham has signalled that Labour would back the extension of airstrikes against Isis positions in Syria under his leadership.
  
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• What would the Labour party look like with Andy Burnham as leader?

  14-07-2015 21:20
  
  And Burnham the current front-runner in Labour’s leadership race, has laid out what some of the party’s main policy positions would look like under his leadership.
  
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• Eid al-Fitr: When does Ramadan end and what does the occasion mark?

  14-07-2015 21:12
  
  Millions of Muslims across the world will gather with their friends and family this weekend to mark the end of Ramadan - the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.
  
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• Fox hunting Q&A: Why has the vote been scrapped and what is behind the SNP's stance?

  14-07-2015 21:02
  
  Q | Last week the Government said it was going to give MPs a vote on relaxing the fox-hunting ban, but now it has scrapped the plan. Why?
  
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• Fox hunting ban: SNP goes back on pledge not to vote on matters that 'purely affect' England

  14-07-2015 20:48
  
  The Scottish National Party (SNP) has been accused accused of attempting to sabotage government plans to reach a new constitutional settlement for the UK after it ripped up a long-standing convention not to vote on English-only laws  in Westminster.
  
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• First blood to Nicola Sturgeon as she outfoxes David Cameron on hunting

  14-07-2015 20:40
  
  First blood, then, to Nicola Sturgeon in this fascinating new phase of Westminster warfare. Outfoxing one’s opponents is enjoyable at any time: all the more so if an offensive that David Cameron and Co somehow failed to anticipate leaves them spluttering with indignation too.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's sketch: Matinee idol Lord Owen steals the limelight once again

  14-07-2015 20:31
  
  He oozed gravitas. The matinee-idol looks, if a little craggier, seemed surprisingly undiminished by age. He had the effortless authority of a leading ministerial participant in the last referendum on Europe 40 years ago, and his high octane lesson in recent political history would not have been easy listening for the Cabinet Secretary.
  
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• SAS inquest: Deaths of three soldiers down to a catalogue of 'gross failures', court concludes

  14-07-2015 20:23
  
  The three British soldiers who died during a selection test for the SAS were killed as a result of a catalogue of “gross failures” by one of the military’s elite units, their inquest concluded.
  
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• Artist damages threatre with axe amid poor reviews

  14-07-2015 20:20 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Turner Prize artist struck walls with an axe at a new £25 million theatre complex where his latest play had received poor reviews
  
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• Artist damages theatre with axe amid poor reviews

  14-07-2015 20:20 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Turner Prize artist struck walls with an axe at a new £25 million theatre complex where his latest play had received poor reviews
  
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• Large Hadron Collider discovers new particle - the pentaquark

  14-07-2015 20:19 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Physicists had theorised the existence of the pentaquark since the 1960s and now it has been discovered by the Large Hadron Collider
  
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• EDL supporter gets shut down by his 12-year-old niece in a very public Facebook spat

  14-07-2015 20:09
  
  An English Defence League (EDL) supporter got into a bizarre and very public Facebook spat with his 12-year-old niece after she called out his views on Islam, politicians and a local garage.
  
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• Why was Pluto stripped of planet status?

  14-07-2015 20:01 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  After years of arguments astronmers voted to strip Pluto of its planet status in 2006
  
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• Tony Blair holds secret meetings with new Labour MPs

  14-07-2015 20:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Former prime minister invites MPs for 'informal' chats at his private office and tells them to adopt a 'big vision' to reform
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Facing the disciplined might of the Tartan Army

  14-07-2015 19:55
  
  The regimental discipline of the 56 Scottish Nationalist MPs is awesome. There were two examples in one day. On fox hunting, they announced that they would deliver 56 votes against the Government in a free vote on a matter, and the government whips, seeing that this was no idle threat, backed off to escape defeat.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Durham miners tell Yvette Cooper to go jump in the river

  14-07-2015 19:55
  
  Jeremy Corbyn, as we know, was on stage at the Durham Miners’ Gala at the weekend. The other three leadership candidates were also in town, but did not appear on stage. This was not because they were tongue-tied: it is because the organisers did not want to hear them.
  
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• Andy Burnham on collision course with Harriet Harman as Labour divisions deepen over welfare

  14-07-2015 19:46
  
  Andy Burnham has put himself on a collision course with interim Labour leader Harriet Harman over her desire to abstain on the government’s radical reforms to the welfare system next week.
  
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• Clyde Tombaugh ashes will be first to leave solar system

  14-07-2015 19:43 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New Horizons now travels to the mysterious Kuiper Belt or Third Zone before eventually leaving the Solar System altogether and taking Clyde Tombaugh's ashes with it
  
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• 12 facts about Pluto everyone should know

  14-07-2015 19:33 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New Horizons made a close flyby of Pluto today. Here are some facts about the dwarf-planet
  
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• Damaged British Airways plane made emergency landing at Heathrow because tired technicians had worked on the wrong plane

  14-07-2015 19:23
  A British Airways flight had to make an emergency landing at Heathrow because it caught on fire, after exhausted engineers accidentally serviced the wrong aircraft.
  
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• Eton in a mess: private school sends conditional offer to 400 pupils by mistake

  14-07-2015 18:59 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Eton College has apologised after mistakenly emailing hundreds of boys telling them they had won a conditional place at the top private school.
  
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• Iconic view that inspired Virginia Woolf threatened by plan to build flats

  14-07-2015 18:54 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Literary followers around the world unite against plans to build flats that would spoil the view that inspired To The Lighthouse
  
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• Teenagers caught dangling feet over cliff edge

  14-07-2015 18:52 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Group branded 'idiots' as photographer publishes photos to warn people of dangers
  
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• Nine Britons travelling through Inner Mongolia detained on suspicion of links to terrorism

  14-07-2015 18:44 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  They were part of a group of 20 on a month-long tour to explore "ancient China". Eleven of the 20 have been told they are free to leave - but will be held in custody until July 19
  
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• Former Air Force Colonel claims he has new evidence that aliens visited Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk in 1980

  14-07-2015 18:41
  
  A former United States Air Force Colonel claims he has obtained additional evidence that an alien UFO landed near an American air force base in Suffolk in 1980.
  
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• Magdelena Luczak: Mother of murdered Daniel Pelka dies in prison

  14-07-2015 18:32
  
  Magdelena Luczak, who was convicted of murdering her four-year-old son Daniel Pelka, has died in prison.
  
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• Postman wins £2.6MILLION lottery jackpot but will keep his job delivering letters

  14-07-2015 18:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Matt Evans, 35, from Barry in Glamorgan, will take a holiday from the 11-hour shifts and return as the richest postie in the land
  
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• Woman raped by boyfriend as she slept blasts attacker's sentence as 'clear message sex crimes aren't taken seriously'

  14-07-2015 18:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Magnus Meyer Hustveit was given a suspended sentence despite writing to his former partner to admit he had been 'using her body'
  
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• "It's the internet in books" - Teenagers react to printed encyclopedias and it's absolutely priceless

  14-07-2015 18:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  They've never had to leaf through 20 volumes of books to find out the date of a particular battle
  
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• Rare WW2 Enigma machine sold for £149,000 at auction - double its estimated price

  14-07-2015 18:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The machine, which was used by the Nazis to send coded messages, was immortalised in the Benedict Cumberbatch film The Imitation Game
  
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• Fox Hunting: Poll reveals 74 per cent of Brits against legalising hunting with hounds

  14-07-2015 18:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister has scrapped attempts to relax rules on hunting with hounds as it became clear he faced defeat when Scottish nationalists vowed to block the bid
  
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• Gunman Raoul Moat's friends hold overnight vigil to mark anniversary of killer's death

  14-07-2015 18:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pals promise to honour gunman's death every year and have left flowers at the spot where he died in 2010
  
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• British soldier guilty of raping and sexually abusing nine-year-old girl in Austria

  14-07-2015 18:13
  
  A British soldier has been sentenced to nine years in prison for raping and sexually abusing a six-year-old girl.
  
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• Daniel Pelka's mum dies in prison - two years into life sentence for murder of 4-year-old son

  14-07-2015 18:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Magdalena Luczak has died at HMP Foston Hall Prison, the Ministry of Justice has said
  
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• Tunisia attack: Mourners line streets for funeral of the 'best mum in the world'

  14-07-2015 18:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lisa Burbidge, 66, was buried alongside her husband Bill who died exactly 10 years before her, and a memorial fund has been set up in her name
  
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• British soldier jailed for raping girl, aged 6, during Army adventure camp in Austria

  14-07-2015 18:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 30-year-old soldier, named as Craig Stormey, was at a British army adventure camp in the Stubaital Alpine valley when the incident happened
  
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• Owners of Bebo social network have now invested in plenty of fish

  14-07-2015 18:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After selling the Bebo social network for £545million the owners have invested their money in an all together different kettle of fish
  
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• More than 30,000 people with autism and learning disabilities 'under the chemical cosh'

  14-07-2015 18:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Health offiicals have ordered an urgent summit after landmark research found 35,000 people with learning disabilities and autism are being put on antipsychotic medication and anti-depressants
  
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• Mother of murdered four-year-old Daniel Pelka found dead in prison

  14-07-2015 17:59 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Magdelena Luczak, the mother of murdered four-year-old Daniel Pelka, has died at Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire, a Ministry of Justice spokesman has announced
  
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• Fox hunting: Ukip supremo says Nicola Sturgeon should be thrown in front of a horse

  14-07-2015 17:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  MEP Paul Nuttall's joke in the wake of the fox hunting debacle hasn't gone down well on Twitter - where users have called him 'disgusting'
  
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• Pakistan opens terrorism case against London-based politician Altaf Hussain

  14-07-2015 17:58 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Self-exiled leader of MQM, party at centre of probe over 2010 Edgware murder, infuriated authorities with comments criticising the military establishment
  
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• Iran curbs nuclear ambitions in historic deal following 10 years of negotiations

  14-07-2015 17:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The landmark agreement will lead to the lifting of international sanctions on oil, gas, shipping and aviation - but Israel has warned it is a 'historic surrender'
  
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• Sketch: 'This is Team Fox!' Masked protesters celebrate their victory... for now

  14-07-2015 17:49 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Brian May from Queen leads an animal rights protest outside Parliament, as the Tories postpone a vote on repealing the fox hunting ban
  
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