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• Frank Warren column: Chris Eubank Jnr still has a bright future – if he gets rid of dad

  04-12-2014 23:30
  
  Billy Joe Saunders has fulfilled what I have believed since I first signed him after the Beijing Olympics as one of the most talented young prospects in the land – that he would make history by becoming the first Romany to win a prized Lonsdale Belt outright. Now, after retaining his European and Commonwealth middleweight titles in that humdinger of a scrap with Chris Eubank Jnr, he can go on to complete a remarkable ring double by being the first from Britain’s fight-loving Travelling comm
  
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• Police Identify Mum Of Baby Found In Bin

  04-12-2014 23:17
  
  Police believe they have identified the mother of a newborn baby found dead in a wheelie bin.
  
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• Tory peer Lord Hodgson blames Muslims for decline of pub industry

  04-12-2014 23:04
  
  A former brewery director and Conservative peer has been labelled as "ridiculous" after he blamed the British Muslim community for the decline of pub industry.
  
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• Jeremy Thorpe: MP who revived Liberal Party fortunes but whose career was ended by his trial for attempted murder

  04-12-2014 23:03
  Jeremy Thorpe lived much by anecdote. Almost any conversation with him was garnished by tales of the absurdities of public, and especially electoral, life.
  
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• How did 'hipster sans serif' become the defining font of 2014?

  04-12-2014 22:50
  
  If you haven't spotted it on a film poster you've probably seen it on a magazine cover, or a book jacket, a bottle of nail polish, a canvas tote, a bag of organic salad, a café menu, a Spotify playlist, or some lame motivational quote on Instagram. It is the font of 2014, or a family of typefaces that have been embraced to death by marketing folk to appeal to Young People. If these fonts had a collective name it would probably be HIPSTER (sans serif).
  
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• VIDEO: Watch O'Sullivan's stunning 147

  04-12-2014 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch the whole of Ronnie O'Sullivan's break of 147 as he beats Matthew Selt convincingly 6-0 to progress to the quarter-finals of the UK Championship in York.
  
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• Penguin has embarked on a four-year project to chronicle the lives of all 45 of our monarchs

  04-12-2014 22:30
  
  Do you know your Plantagenets from your Lancasters? Or the youngest ever ruler to take the throne? Which King played at Wimbledon?
  
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• £100k reward offered in murder case

  04-12-2014 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A £100,000 reward is offered in the investigation of the murder of a 14-year-old girl, who went missing in Blackpool over a decade ago.
  
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• Edmondsham teenager Rebecca Berry found dead with burn wounds

  04-12-2014 22:18
  
  Police have launched an investigation after a teenage girl was found dead with burn injuries in a village near the New Forest.
  
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• O'Sullivan wraps up win with 147

  04-12-2014 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ronnie O'Sullivan makes a maximum 147 break to enjoy a comfortable 6-0 win over Matthew Selt in the UK Championship.
  
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• A voyage through hell: One asylum seeker's epic journey from Eritrea to a new life in Europe

  04-12-2014 22:00
  
  After illegally crossing the border to Sudan, Zekarias Kebraeb stayed in Khartoum for six months. He then crossed the Sahara Desert to Libya, a two-week journey, without food, on which he nearly died of thirst. Finally reaching Tripoli, he and two friends he had made on the journey – Awed and Aki – found a people smuggler to help them to cross the Mediterranean during the night. In the passage below, he relives the desperate crossing, day by day...
  
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• No criticism over transplant deaths

  04-12-2014 21:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The surgeon who gave two transplant patients kidneys later found to be infected with parasitic worms, cannot be criticised for accepting the organs, a coroner says.
  
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• PC Pod: Technology should be every police officer’s best friend

  04-12-2014 21:37
  
  As we have seen in recent years, Britain’s police forces have their faults. Not the least of these is their failure to embrace new technologies. This is, of course, nothing new in a traditionally conservative public service. They were too slow to embrace IT, a notable failure in the Yorkshire Ripper and Soham murder investigations, and the whole criminal justice system remains archaically paper-based.
  
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• UK rail stations 'getting busier'

  04-12-2014 21:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK's most-used train stations got busier still last year, according to the Office of Rail Regulation.
  
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• Spectre: 007 things we learned from the James Bond film announcement

  04-12-2014 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE 24th James Bond film is to be called Spectre, it was announced today.
  
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• VIDEO: The moment Vestas crew crashed

  04-12-2014 21:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch the moment a crew crash on a remote coral reef in shark-inhabited waters during the round-the-world Volvo Ocean Race.
  
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• English FA releases DNA blueprint for future success

  04-12-2014 21:24
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - The English Football Association (FA) has released a DNA report aimed at creating a blueprint for a "world-class" method of achieving long-term "winning England teams", the governing body said on Thursday. "The England DNA is the start point for the creation of a world-class approach to elite player development leading to winning England teams," the FA said in a statement on its website (www.thefa.com). "The framework consists of five element
  
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• Man killed in collision with car

  04-12-2014 21:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man in his 70s dies after being struck by a car in County Tyrone.
  
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• Bodies of mother and baby found

  04-12-2014 21:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The body of a baby girl is recovered close to where her mother Charlotte Bevan was found dead after they went missing from a hospital.
  
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• Brits spoil pets with over £47millon worth of presents at Christmas

  04-12-2014 21:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ANTLERS for cats, jumpers for dogs, and a reindeer bed for your hamster are among Christmas presents being bought for the nation’s pets.
  
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• FA plans to change England's DNA

  04-12-2014 21:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Football Association has unveiled new proposals aimed at improving England's prospects at major tournaments.
  
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• Yemen hostage: US reveals bid to rescue Luke Somers - BBC News

  04-12-2014 21:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  The US has revealed it tried to rescue UK-born American hostage Luke Somers, who is being held by al-Qaeda in Yemen. President Barack Obama authorised the mission last month, it said. "Regrettably, Luke was not present, though hostages of other ...
  Al-Qaeda threatens to kill British-born American photographerTelegraph.co.uk
  Yemen's Qaeda threatens in video to kill US hostageDaily Mail
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• Leader brought down by court case - Belfast Telegraph

  04-12-2014 21:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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  Former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was a man whose political achievements were eclipsed and a potentially brilliant career utterly destroyed by his lurid and sometimes squalid personal life.
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• Daniel Craig and Spectre cast discuss the 24th James Bond film - Telegraph.co.uk

  04-12-2014 21:02 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  Daniel Craig and Spectre cast discuss the 24th James Bond film
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  The cast and crew - and Bond's latest car - gathered in front of the world's media at Pinewood Studios, the traditional production base for the movies and currently being used for rehearsals ahead of filming starting next week on the latest James Bond film, ...
  Andrew Scott wins role in new James Bond film SpectreIrish Times
  James Bond cast cagey on Spectre detailsBBC News
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• Plans for a more high-tech police force come under fire over funding

  04-12-2014 21:02
  
  Forget the classic cars and the cigars associated with the detectives of yesteryear. Forces of the future will be armed with video technology streaming pictures of crime scenes to a hi-tech court system administering cheaper and swifter justice, according to documents released by the Cabinet Office. 
  
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• Homeless Veterans appeal: Help the ex-service personnel to whom we all owe so much

  04-12-2014 20:59
  
  “So what made you join the Navy?” I ask.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: A bad way to stamp your mark, Mr Gauke

  04-12-2014 20:53
  
  Outside Westminster it was all happening. “George’s stamp duty bonanza” was electrifying the housing market. Hedge fund managers were bleary eyed after an evening panic-buying their country mansions in time to avoid a surcharge of a million or two. The press was squared, the middle classes quite prepared. What could be a greater privilege for a young up-and-coming Treasury minister than the task of introducing to a Commons on tenterhooks the legislation for the historic change?
  
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• BMW tries to succeed where Daimler failed with London car-share scheme

  04-12-2014 20:47
  LONDON (Reuters) - BMW launched its car-sharing service in London on Thursday, barely six months after fellow German carmaker Daimler said it was shutting its equivalent initiative in Britain.
  
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• Theatre stars Rufus Hound, Michael Ball and Amanda Holden join appeal to find costume expert's sick dog

  04-12-2014 20:45
  
  Theatre and TV actors have rallied together to help a veteran West End costume expert find his terminally ill dog.
  
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• Putin vows that West will never destroy resurgent Russia - Irish Times

  04-12-2014 20:44 via irishtimes.com
  
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  Putin vows that West will never destroy resurgent Russia
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  Russian president Vladamir Putin has promised an amnesty for capital repatriated to the country, saying Russians who choose to bring money back will face no questions over how they earned it. Photograph: Alexey Druginyn/Ria Novosti/EPA.
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• Friedel angered by Howard comments

  04-12-2014 20:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Brad Friedel denies claims by Tim Howard that he tried to block the current Everton keeper's move to Manchester United in 2003.
  
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• Ex-party leader Jeremy Thorpe dies

  04-12-2014 20:41
  
  Former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe, who once stood trial at the Old Bailey for conspiracy to murder, has died.
  
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• Alleged abuse survivors threaten to derail inquiry by quitting

  04-12-2014 20:41
  
  Alleged victims of child sexual abuse have warned Theresa May they will withdraw from the Government’s controversial official inquiry unless major changes are made.
  
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• George Osborne's deficit reduction plan requires unprecedented binge in ... - The Independent

  04-12-2014 20:41 via independent.co.uk
  
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  The public will have to go on a £360bn borrowing binge to make George Osborne's deficit reduction plans add up, an analysis by The Independent has found. According to the small print in the latest report from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the ...
  George Osborne's review of business rates may not be what it seemsTelegraph.co.uk
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• George Osborne’s deficit reduction plan requires unprecedented binge in personal borrowing

  04-12-2014 20:40
  
  The public will have to go on a £360bn borrowing binge to make George Osborne’s deficit reduction plans add up, an analysis by The Independent has found.
  
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• Boy, 8, killed in road accident

  04-12-2014 20:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An eight-year-old boy has died after being hit by van in the Aberdeenshire village of Portsoy, police confirm.
  
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• 'England DNA' central to Football Association's plan for development of young ... - Telegraph.co.uk

  04-12-2014 20:39 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  All players entering the England system from 15 up to the senior team will now undergo an “induction process” into “the England way”. The coaching staff released its “England DNA” manifesto aimed at developing a new breed of “socially-responsible, ...
  England DNA performance plan revealed as FA's director of elite development ...Daily Mail
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• Mother and baby: Police 'not treating deaths as suspicious' - BBC News

  04-12-2014 20:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Mother and baby: Police 'not treating deaths as suspicious'
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  Police searching for a mother and her newborn daughter who disappeared from a hospital in Bristol say they have now found the body of a baby at Avon Gorge. A woman's body found there on Wednesday evening has been identified as that of Charlotte ...
  Bodies of Charlotte Bevan and baby daughter foundIrish Times
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• Eric Garner 'chokehold' death: History repeats itself as another grand jury decides not to indict police officer involved in killing of unarmed black man

  04-12-2014 20:29
  It is an indictment of modern America. Again. A black man is killed by a white police officer and a grand jury, meeting in secret, chooses not to indict.
  
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• Autumn Statement: George Osborne is counting on a rise in family debt

  04-12-2014 20:27
  
  How much cash does George Osborne need the public to start borrowing again to reduce the deficit and keep the economy growing?
  
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• Despite Vince Cable's warning, Lib Dems will vote for Tory deficit plans

  04-12-2014 20:26
  
  The Liberal Democrats will vote with the Conservatives on plans to balance the nation’s books by 2017-18 despite a warning by Vince Cable that his party must not sign up to massive spending cuts.
  
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• Show fined £100k over child's death

  04-12-2014 20:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The society that runs the Royal Highland Show is fined £100,000 over the death of a three-year-old boy who was struck by a falling concrete bollard.
  
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• Western leaders reassure Afghanistan of continued funding after withdrawal of coalition forces

  04-12-2014 20:22
  
  The new President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, has received assurances of continuing international support at a conference in London.
  
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• Northern Ireland risks ‘double whammy’ over corporation tax

  04-12-2014 20:21
  
  Northern Ireland stands to lose hundreds of millions of pounds of core funding from the Government if it uses powers to cut corporation tax outlined in George Osborne’s Autumn Statement.
  
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• General Sir Walter Congreve’s letter confirms Christmas Day truce of 1914

  04-12-2014 20:20
  
  The Christmas Day truce is remembered as a flowering of humanity during the carnage of the First World War. But while comradeship briefly flourished between British and German troops in 1914, such feelings did little to warm General Sir Walter Congreve’s heart.
  
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• Al-Jazeera journalists imprisoned by Egypt to ‘teach Qatar a lesson’ for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood

  04-12-2014 20:19
  
  Mohamed Fahmy is an angry man. And so he should be. He says that he and his two colleagues from the Qatari-based al-Jazeera channel – Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed – were imprisoned by the Egyptians to “teach Qatar a lesson” because the emirate supported the banned Muslim Brotherhood. And, in messages passed to The Independent by his family, Mohamed Fahmy lists his grievances against his employers – al-Jazeera, through its own negligence, unwittingly endangered him and his colleagues
  
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• Jeremy Thorpe death: A charismatic leader brought low by a scandal that ... - The Independent

  04-12-2014 20:18 via independent.co.uk
  
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  One of the most brilliant men of his generation has died aged 85, a sad and forgotten figure brought down by the biggest political scandal of the 1970s. During the early part of Jeremy Thorpe's political life, homosexual acts between men were illegal, and even ...
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• Jeremy Thorpe death: A charismatic leader brought low by a scandal that titillated the nation

  04-12-2014 20:18
  
  One of the most brilliant men of his generation has died aged 85, a sad and forgotten figure brought down by the biggest political scandal of the 1970s.
  
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• Male smokers at risk of losing their Y chromosome

  04-12-2014 20:14
  
  Men who smoke are more likely than non-smokers to lose the male sex chromosome - which could explain why male smokers are more prone to certain cancers than women who smoke, scientists have said.
  
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• Tooth delay: Year-long waits in the Hebrides after last full-time dentist retires

  04-12-2014 20:11
  
  In need of a root canal? Then it may be wise to avoid travelling to Islay or Jura. The two Scottish islands might have some of the UK’s finest scenery, not to mention some of the best single malts, but residents who want to see a dentist are reportedly facing waits of up to a year to have their teeth checked.
  
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