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• Autumn Statement: So what difference will it make to your finances?

  03-12-2014 23:54
  
  There was good news for all workers in one sense in today’s Autumn Statement in that the £100 increase in the personal tax allowance was also extended to higher-rate taxpayers. But otherwise various groups will have less to cheer, as our round-up reveals.
  
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• The Wreck Detectives

  03-12-2014 23:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Vietnam's rocky coast sank 1,000 ships - filled with cargoes of ceramics, their stories are contained in shipwrecks that have yet to be excavated.
  
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• Buerk evicted from celebrity jungle

  03-12-2014 23:47
  
  Broadcaster Michael Buerk became the third person to be evicted from I'm A Celebrity... Get Met Out of Here! after 19 days on the show.
  
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• Vicar held in baby 'murder' probe

  03-12-2014 23:46
  
  A vicar, his wife and his daughter are being questioned over the suspicious death of a baby boy.
  
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• Turner painting sells for £30.3m

  03-12-2014 23:46
  
  One of the last great Turner masterpieces remaining in private hands set a world auction record for the artist tonight, Sotheby's said.
  
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• Autumn Statement: Borrowing better than expected but the squeeze goes on

  03-12-2014 23:45
  
  What is the big economic picture from the Autumn Statement?
  
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• Robertson stunned by Dott in UK

  03-12-2014 23:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Graeme Dott stuns defending champion Neil Robertson with a superb 6-5 victory in the last-16 of the UK Championship in York.
  
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• David Blanchflower: George Osborne claims we’re all in this together. But we’re not

  03-12-2014 23:42
  
  The UK economy was growing rapidly in 2010 when the Coalition inherited it from Labour; the fastest growing quarter since 2008 was Q2 2010. Growth collapsed immediately after the Coalition implemented its economic “plan”. Only when austerity was loosened did the economy start to grow again.
  
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• Margareta Pagano: The Chancellor needs to stand up and deliver, or find himself on the end of a punchline

  03-12-2014 23:40
  With his new Caesar-crop and trimmer figure, George Osborne could easily find himself stand-up work as a spitting image for either Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev or Rowan Atkinson if he ever found himself out of a job. He’s a dead-ringer for both.
  
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• Chris Blackhurst: George Osborne's Autumn Statement gave cleverly with one hand and removed cunningly with the other

  03-12-2014 23:39
  Overall, not bad. Better than expected. In two regards, a pleasant surprise.
  
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• Project to solve Stegosaurus mystery

  03-12-2014 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists at London's Natural History Museum have begun the most detailed analysis ever carried out on a Stegosaurus skeleton.
  
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• Drones are set to take off this Christmas - but there are unexpected dangers in the skies

  03-12-2014 23:25
  
  I'm dreaming of a drone Christmas. Tiny drones tucked into stockings. Bigger drones beneath the tree. A drone for Dad, another for Junior, a third for your cool tween niece.
  
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• War medals arrive late for ceremony

  03-12-2014 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  World War Two veterans invited to a special ceremony in Cardiff by the Russian government wait two hours after the wrong medals were sent.
  
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• Vicar held over newborn baby murder

  03-12-2014 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A vicar, his wife and their daughter are arrested over the death of a newborn baby whose body was found at a house in Lancashire.
  
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• Chelsea 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur

  03-12-2014 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Didier Drogba scores one and sets up another as Chelsea ease to victory over Tottenham, maintaining the Blues' six-point lead.
  
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• VIDEO: How to build a stegosaurus skeleton

  03-12-2014 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists have begun the most detailed analysis ever carried out on a stegosaurus skeleton.
  
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• Stegosaurus skeleton finds new home

  03-12-2014 23:00
  
  More than 100 million years ago she lumbered around an ancient subtropical forest in Wyoming, ceaselessly chewing plants while keeping her terrifying spiked tail at the ready to swat any predator that dared try its luck.
  
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• Tracey Emin's redesign of the Brit Awards statuette won't be winning any trophies itself

  03-12-2014 23:00
  
  Redesigning the statuette for the Brit Awards, as has happened every year since 2011, is a challenge worth sinking to. Why change it at all? Why bother? Fundamentally, the design is of the utmost banality, and to titivate it, as Damien Hirst, Peter Blake, Vivienne Westwood and others have done in the past, is to add a stardust sprinkle of nonentity to nothing much worth gawping at in the first place.
  
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• The Apprentice 2014 firing: Felipe Alviar-Baquero rejected for 'trying to be too smart'

  03-12-2014 23:00
  
  Felipe Alviar-Baquero has been fired from The Apprentice for “trying to be too much of a smart person”.
  
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• Expert rejected kidney worm organs

  03-12-2014 22:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Cambridge professor rejected donor kidneys that were later found to be infected with a parasitic worm that killed two transplant patients, an inquest hears.
  
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• Chelsea vs Tottenham match report: Eden Hazard stars as Blues steamroller Spurs

  03-12-2014 22:52
  
  The 25-year anniversary of Tottenham Hotspur’s last victory at Stamford Bridge will pass in February, a run that began as a historical oddity but has become entrenched in the last decade as one has turned into a modern European super-club and the other remained a plain old club.
  
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• Two remanded over 'terror' passport

  03-12-2014 22:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two men, including one from Cardiff, are remanded in custody charged with helping a 17-year-old travel from the city to join the conflict in Syria.
  
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• Troubled-jail inmate 'ninth to die'

  03-12-2014 22:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An inmate is found dead in his cell at a prison in Kent - the third in as many weeks and the ninth in 2014, the Prison Officers' Association says.
  
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• Eric Garner chokehold case: Police officer Daniel Pantaleo not charged

  03-12-2014 22:41
  
  A grand jury has decided not to charge a white New York City police officer who placed an unarmed black man in a chokehold and killed him.
  
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• Vladimir Putin's biggest fan club: Media-savvy youth group Set is churning out propaganda and clothing to promote Russia's leader

  03-12-2014 22:30
  Anastasia Zakharova's desk is a chaotic mess. Several images of Vladimir Putin are scattered across the surface, along with a few pictures of Russian Olympic women champions and old copies of the Soviet Union's Pravda newspaper. This week, the 18-year-old designer is working on a new collection of T-shirts called "For".
  
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• Two men charged with terror offences for helping a 17-year-old boy travel to Syria

  03-12-2014 22:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TWO young men have appeared in court charged with terror offences for helping a 17-year-old boy travel to Syria to join Islamic State militants.
  
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• Two women have given birth using wombs transplanted from their mothers - but are the risks involved too great?

  03-12-2014 22:00
  By any measure, the news that three women have now successfully given birth to healthy babies in Sweden following womb transplants (two of them with wombs from their own mothers) is another medical miracle story.
  
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• England win a small step - Hughes

  03-12-2014 21:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England made some progress with victory over Sri Lanka in the third one-dayer, but they still have plenty of work to do says Simon Hughes.
  
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• Report burn councillors suspended

  03-12-2014 21:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A group of SNP councillors involved in burning a copy of the report on strengthening the Scottish Parliament's powers are suspended from the party.
  
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• Police launch appeal after autistic boy, Eamonn Finn, 16, slashed in neck by three teenagers

  03-12-2014 21:42
  
  A mother has made an emotional appeal to the public to help police find three teenagers who attacked her autistic son, whom she says is “lucky to be alive”.
  
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• Police launch appeal after autistic boy, Eamonn Finn, 16, slashed across neck by three teenagers

  03-12-2014 21:42
  
  A mother has made an emotional appeal to the public to help police find three teenagers who attacked her autistic son, whom she says is “lucky to be alive”.
  
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• Phillip Hughes funeral: Michael Clarke struggled to speak but what he said was beautiful and brilliant

  03-12-2014 21:36
  
  No captain of any cricket team anywhere should have had to do what Michael Clarke has done in the past week. No captain of any cricket team anywhere could have done it as well, or as movingly, or as dutifully.
  
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• 100 brains 'go missing' at Texas university - BBC News

  03-12-2014 21:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  100 brains 'go missing' at Texas university
  BBC News
  One hundred brains have gone missing from a collection stored at a Texas university, curators say. The specimens, housed at the University of Texas, Austin, included that of mass murderer Charles Whitman, who killed 16 people in a 1966 shooting spree.
  Texas University Missing Brains From Medical CollectionNew York Times
  It's a no-brainer: Texas 100 missing brains mystery solvedRT
  Univ. of Texas Can't Figure Out Where
  
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• American teacher stabbed to death in Abu Dhabi - USA TODAY

  03-12-2014 21:24 via usatoday.com
  
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  American teacher stabbed to death in Abu Dhabi
  USA TODAY
  An American kindergarten teacher was fatally stabbed in a public restroom at a shopping mall in Abu Dhabi by a suspect wearing a black robe and full-face veil, police said. CNN and NBC News identified the victim as Ibolya Ryan, 47, citing police and family ...
  US teacher stabbed to death in Abu Dhabi mall restroom: policeCTV News
  Police investigate the mysterious stabbing death of an American teacher in an ...Washington
  
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• Prince Harry does a good deal for charity - Western Daily Press

  03-12-2014 21:24 via westerndailypress.co.uk
  
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  Prince Harry does a good deal for charity
  Western Daily Press
  Prince Harry takes calls on the trading floor at the annual ICAP Charity Day in London yesterday. All the global revenues from trading during the ICAP event – also supported by actress Helen Mirren – will go to a number of causes around the world, including ...
  Find Out What Prince Harry Had To Say About Those Naked Las Vegas PicsMTV UK
  Prince Harry turns trading floor blue at A-list charity event in the
  
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• 2014 set to be world's hottest year ever - The Guardian

  03-12-2014 21:23 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian
  2014 set to be world's hottest year ever
  The Guardian
  Vehicles drive by a 134ft-high thermometer in Baker, California. Average land and sea surface temperatures have reached record levels in 2014. Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty Images. Suzanne Goldenberg. Wednesday 3 December 2014 10.03 EST.
  Climate changes: World has seen 'warmest year'BBC News
  2014 set to be world's hottest yearBelfast Telegraph
  Met Office: This year likely to be hottest on recordWestern Daily Pre
  
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• Autumn Statement: Households to take on more debt than before financial crisis, says Osborne's forecaster

  03-12-2014 21:21
  
  British households are set to become even more indebted than they were on the eve of the global financial crisis, according to the latest forecasts from the Government’s official forecaster.
  
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• From London to Birmingham, what do local people really think of the proposed HS2 project?

  03-12-2014 21:20
  
  "Look at Lord Patten. Now there's the face of a true Anglo-Saxon. Lord Risby, on the other hand: that's a very Norman-looking face." Sitting outside a pub in north Buckinghamshire, waiting in the rain for it to open, I've got chatting to a man called Neil and his wife Claire. Inside we drink sugary coffee while discussing medieval physiognomy and the etymology of English place names. "You can go right back to Alfred's battles against the Danes," says Neil. "It's all still there in people's face
  
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• Okri bags Bad Sex In Fiction gong

  03-12-2014 21:14
  
  Former Booker Prize winner Ben Okri has picked up one of literature's less popular prizes - winning the Bad Sex In Fiction Award.
  
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• In quotes: Autumn Statement reaction

  03-12-2014 21:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Politicians, campaigners and commentators give their verdict on George Osborne's statement on the economic outlook
  
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• US believes Iran launched air raids on Islamic State in Iraq - Reuters

  03-12-2014 21:13 via reuters.com
  
  Reuters
  US believes Iran launched air raids on Islamic State in Iraq
  Reuters
  Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (L) speaks to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prior to a round table meeting of the global coalition to counter the Islamic State militant group at NATO headquarters in Brussels December 3, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Eric ...
  Iran carries out air strikes on Islamic StateSydney Morning Herald
  Why would Iran bomb Islamic State in Iraq?BBC News
  Islamic State: John Kerry says US-led
  
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• Donkey to miss annual nativity show after being stabbed 12 TIMES by cruel thug

  03-12-2014 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A LOVEABLE donkey will miss her annual nativity show after being viciously STABBED a dozen times by a cruel animal-hater.
  
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• Autumn Statement 2014: George Osborne produces a rabbit and shoots a fox - Telegraph.co.uk

  03-12-2014 21:04 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  Autumn Statement 2014: George Osborne produces a rabbit and shoots a fox
  Telegraph.co.uk
  What do you do if you want to curry favour but you don't have much money? Worse than that, what do you do if your current partners won't even agree to you promising for the future some of your favourite goodies, such as reductions in inheritance tax?
  Autumn Statement 2014: Osborne's £18bn questionFinancial Times
  Ed Balls sets out the flaws among Osborne's big giveawaysThe Gu
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Anyone would think an election was imminent

  03-12-2014 21:00
  
  Nick Clegg probably doesn’t suffer from the disorder of “maso-sadism”, the term David Cameron startlingly coined while taunting Ed Balls, before confessing that he had meant “masochism”. If it was Clegg’s thing, he would have positively enjoyed squirming at the acute embarrassment of nodding robotically during a speech by a Chancellor he will soon be doing everything he can to disown come the election. Instead he was as far away as it’s possible to be without actually leaving the c
  
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• Bad Sex in Fiction Awards 2014: Ben Okri takes the gong for The Age of Magic

  03-12-2014 21:00
  
  Man Booker prize-winner Ben Okri has another gong to add to his collection: the Bad Sex in Fiction award.
  
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• Ben Morgan makes charge to be England’s No 8

  03-12-2014 20:56
  
  England’s horrifyingly lengthy injury list meant this would always be an autumn of opportunities as far as staking claims for the Six Nations and next year’s World Cup went. But taking those chances, especially in the face of the world’s toughest opponents, is another matter.
  
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• 'RAF veteran' faces terror charge

  03-12-2014 20:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two men from Manchester, one of whom says he served in the RAF, appear in court in London charged with terror offences.
  
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• How do countries rank on corruption? - Los Angeles Times

  03-12-2014 20:44 via latimes.com
  
  Daily Times
  How do countries rank on corruption?
  Los Angeles Times
  From war-ravaged backwaters to the world's economic powerhouses, little progress was recorded over the last year in the fight against bribe-takers and backroom dealers, Transparency International reported in its annual corruption survey. More than ...
  Turkey and China fall in Transparency International corruption indexeuronews
  Corruption index: Despite anti-graft campaign, China's ranking suffersChristian Science Mo
  
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• Andy Roddick: Former world No 1 is happy as a 32-year-old retiree

  03-12-2014 20:29
  
  Considering he is one year younger than Roger Federer, who has just finished the season as world No 2, it hardly seems right that Andy Roddick is competing at this week’s Statoil Masters Tennis. The likes of Pat Cash, Andrew Castle and Mansour Bahrami are the names you more readily associate with the annual nostalgia fest at the Royal Albert Hall rather than a 32-year-old American who was playing in the Wimbledon final as recently as 2009.
  
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• Autumn Statement: Income tax changes ‘won’t help working poor’

  03-12-2014 20:28
  
  There was an income tax boost for workers, although pressure groups warn that it will do little for the hard-up.
  
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