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• Pregnant mother expecting 7lb baby shocked by newborn daughter weighing 14lb

  05-12-2014 23:58
  
  An expectant mother in Colorado who was told she would give birth to a small, seven pound baby, was shocked when her newborn daughter instead weighed 14 pounds.
  
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• Ruthless Uber should be driven out of every town

  05-12-2014 23:33
  
  It looks like anyone who put money into the taxi app Uber back in June, when the company already had a whopping $17bn (£11bn) valuation, got a bargain.
  
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• Budge up, Sir Humphrey, your boss needs to shed some more buildings

  05-12-2014 23:31
  
  George Osborne might not like the BBC’s suggestion that his cuts risk taking Britain back to the Depression era depicted in George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier, but not all members of the Government object to the idea of being taken back in another tilt at saving money.
  
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• Jungle Sykes 'had fill of Currie'

  05-12-2014 23:30
  
  Melanie Sykes has said she has had too much Currie and is ready to leave the jungle because the former MP is picking on her in I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!
  
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• Promoted trio face a dogfight to avoid the swift drop back

  05-12-2014 23:30
  
  It seems more like a war of attrition than ever, surviving in football’s promised land once you have made it there. The three promoted sides find themselves in the relegation zone heading into a weekend which – with two of them fighting it out against each other – may tell us a little more about who has the steel to survive.
  
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• Mario Balotelli: Liverpool stand by Italy striker despite FA charge

  05-12-2014 23:30
  
  Liverpool will not sell Mario Balotelli next month, despite the player compounding a poor start to his Anfield career by sending the social media message, containing an anti-Semitic stereotype, which saw him handed a Football Association misconduct charge tonight.
  
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• Will Atom split the banking industry?

  05-12-2014 23:29
  
  Will the new internet bank Atom be a nuclear-powered competitor that shakes up the established banking order, or will it end up as little more than a pint-sized irritant?
  
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• Market Report: City attempts to play match maker for Vodafone

  05-12-2014 23:28
  
  The City continues to play match maker for a reluctant Vodafone, wondering out loud about potential deals that the telecoms giant could do.
  
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• The best kind of awards ceremony is full of mutual admiration

  05-12-2014 23:27
  
  Of all the awards ceremonies I go to during the year, one I always enjoy is the Management Today Most Admired Companies.
  
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• Premier is shot down for 'pointing gun' at suppliers

  05-12-2014 23:25
  
  Shares in Premier Foods plunged 7 per cent yesterday amid a severe backlash against its demands to force suppliers to pay it if they want to continue doing business with Britain’s biggest food company.
  
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• US jobs growth fuels expectations of rate rise

  05-12-2014 23:24
  
  Markets placed a bet on a July 2015 rate rise from the Federal Reserve after official figures showed the US economy creating jobs at its fastest rate in three years in November.
  
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• Chancellor's business rate cap unravels in small print

  05-12-2014 23:23
  
  Businesses will only save enough money to buy an extra pint of milk each week as a result of the Chancellor’s decision to cap business rate rises at 2 per cent next year, according to experts.
  
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• Israel oil spill: Damage to nature reserve 'could take years' to fix

  05-12-2014 23:19
  
  Millions of litres of crude oil have oozed from a pipeline and flooded 200 acres of a desert nature reserve in southern Israel, causing one of the country’s worst environmental disasters, officials said on Thursday.
  
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• Key fixer at Michael Howard oil firm 'investigated over Libya deal'

  05-12-2014 23:17
  
  A key director at the controversial oil company chaired by the former Conservative party leader Lord Howard is being investigated for corruption, reports claimed yesterday.
  
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• The legacy of Sinclair's Spectrum

  05-12-2014 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The changes which the Spectrum's creator caused
  
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• VIDEO: Sir Clive Sinclair's life in computing

  05-12-2014 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sir Clive Sinclair discusses the long-term impact of his Spectrum computers, which introduced a generation of people to hands-on computing and programming.
  
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• Turning your hobby into a business

  05-12-2014 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How do you turn your hobby into a business?
  
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• Kinga Legg murder: Ian Griffin guilty of beating millionaire girlfriend to death

  05-12-2014 22:55
  
  A businessman who punched and beat his wealthy girlfriend to death with a hat stand in their £1,000-a-night hotel room in Paris has been jailed for 20 years.
  
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• Pair jailed for joining Syria group

  05-12-2014 22:42
  
  Two British men who travelled to Syria to join an al Qaida-linked terrorist group have been jailed for nearly 13 years.
  
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• Briton Jailed For Killing Fiancee In Paris Hotel

  05-12-2014 22:17
  
  Briton Ian Griffin has been jailed for 20 years for murdering his fiancee in a Paris hotel room.
  
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• British man jailed for Paris murder

  05-12-2014 22:01
  
  British businessman Ian Griffin has been jailed for 20 years for murdering his millionairess girlfriend in a five-star Paris hotel suite.
  
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• Top Gear wanted to set fire to Porsche to make escape from Argentina more ‘dramatic’

  05-12-2014 22:00
  
  Jeremy Clarkson’s Top Gear team wanted to set fire to their sports cars after a mob of protesters forced the crew to abandon filming in Argentina, the official police report into the incident claims.
  
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• More results axed over 'cheating'

  05-12-2014 21:17
  
  The number of primary schools having their exam results scrapped because of maladministration has increased six fold in 12 months amid fears rules are being flouted to boost marks.
  
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• Prince William to meet Obama in the Oval Office on American trip with Duchess of Cambridge

  05-12-2014 20:52
  
  Prince William has been invited to the Oval Office for a meeting with Barack Obama that has been described by the White House as underscoring the importance of the ‘special relationship’.
  
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• Prince William to meet Obama in the Oval Office on American trip

  05-12-2014 20:52
  
  Prince William has been invited to the Oval Office for a meeting with Barack Obama that has been described by the White House as underscoring the importance of the ‘special relationship’.
  
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• Obama to meet with Prince William at White House

  05-12-2014 20:47
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William will meet with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on Monday, part of a visit to Washington to a conference on illegal trafficking of ivory and other wildlife, the White House said. The visit is part of a trip next week to New York City by William and his wife, Kate, known officially since their 2011 wedding as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. ...
  
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• Abuse Victims To Give Inquiry More Time

  05-12-2014 20:31
  
  Victims of alleged historical sex abuse say they are willing to give the Government more time to establish an inquiry amid fresh hopes they will get to choose who will head up the process.
  
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• Fears for children as Google targets under-13s

  05-12-2014 20:21
  
  Internet privacy and child safety campaigners have called for dramatically improved parental controls in cyberspace after Google revealed it is developing products aimed at the under-13s.
  
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• Shackled skeletons discovered in ancient Roman burial ground in France

  05-12-2014 20:13
  
  Archaeologist have discovered a group of skeletons bound by shackles at the site of a large ancient Gallo-Roman burial ground in southwest France.
  
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• Legal challenge to Government's £2.5bn subsidy scheme for fossil fuel industry

  05-12-2014 20:06
  
  The Government may be forced to suspend a £2.5bn annual subsidy scheme designed to keep the lights on as cheaply and as greenly as possible following a legal challenge in the European Court of Justice, which claims it amounts to an “unlawful subsidy” for the fossil fuel industry.
  
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• Missing: Endangered chameleon species not seen for 16 years in Malawi

  05-12-2014 20:04
  
  Chameleons, renowned for being able to change colour, are difficult to spot at the best of times. Trying to find a tiny one that might not exist anymore, and hasn’t been seen in 16 years, poses a special kind of challenge.
  
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• Missing: Endangered chameleon species not seen for 16 years

  05-12-2014 20:04
  
  Chameleons, renowned for being able to change colour, are difficult to spot at the best of times. Trying to find a tiny one that might not exist anymore, and hasn’t been seen in 16 years, poses a special kind of challenge.
  
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• Thieving carer could face jail - but only after she returns from holiday to New Zealand

  05-12-2014 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A CARER found guilty of stealing money from a vulnerable 93-year-old widow could face jail - but only after she returns from a family holiday in New Zealand.
  
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• Aviation officials warn children's toy drones could face £5,000 fine this Christmas

  05-12-2014 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AS toy drones fly off the shelves this Christmas - aviation safety chiefs are warning parents of the sky-high fines they could face.
  
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• The whiplash backlash: it’s not as if we’re hurting anyone (else)

  05-12-2014 19:56
  
  From her secluded studio in Hampshire, Nikki has been running her online business for 15 years. A successful local businesswoman, until this week she would give work to up to 30 different models, actors and actresses.
  
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• Mistress Whiplash: 'The new pornography rules are a real pain'

  05-12-2014 19:56
  
  From her secluded studio in Hampshire, Nikki has been running her online business for 15 years. A successful local businesswoman, until this week she would give work to up to 30 different models, actors and actresses.
  
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• Osborne will miss target of doubling exports

  05-12-2014 19:48
  
  George Osborne is set to miss his target of doubling the UK’s exports by 2020 by a vast margin, according to an analysis of data from the Government’s own official forecaster by The Independent.
  
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• George Osborne will miss target of doubling exports

  05-12-2014 19:48
  
  George Osborne is set to miss his target of doubling the UK’s exports by 2020 by a vast margin, according to an analysis of data from the Government’s own official forecaster by The Independent.
  
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• William to meet Obama in Washington

  05-12-2014 19:44
  
  The Duke of Cambridge will call on President Barack Obama during his visit to America with the Duchess.
  
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• Michelle waves goodbye to jungle

  05-12-2014 19:44
  
  Former 'Allo 'Allo actress Vicki Michelle said goodbye goodbye to her time in the jungle when she became the latest star to be booted out of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
  
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• Hector Badillo: Politician who became the first Puerto Rican-born US congressman and ran for mayor of New York City

  05-12-2014 19:36
  
  Herman Badillo was a New York City politician who became the first person born in Puerto Rico to become a US congressman. Puerto Rico has been a US territory for 115 years, and its people have been American citizens since 1917.
  
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• Ian McLagan: Keyboard player with the Small Faces and the Faces, two of the most influential bands in British pop music

  05-12-2014 19:35
  Ian McLagan was a member of two of the UK’s most influential rock bands, the Small Faces, the Mod outfit fronted by Steve Marriott who cast a long shadow over punk, power pop and Britpop, and the Faces, the good time group par excellence who provided the springboard for the solo career of Rod Stewart.
  
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• Dame Mary Glen Haig: Fencer and health administrator who competed at four Olympic Games and went on to be a member of the IOC

  05-12-2014 19:33
  Mary Glen Haig, who has died at the age of 96, was a leading light in the world of British fencing.
  
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• 'Textbook' flight for Orion mission

  05-12-2014 19:30
  
  A first step in the human journey to Mars has been taken with the Orion spacecraft completing a "textbook" maiden flight.
  
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• Doctor killed himself after mother asked him to seek ‘gay cure’

  05-12-2014 19:30
  
  A Harley Street doctor killed himself by jumping  from his luxury penthouse apartment after his Muslim mother asked him to seek “a cure” for being gay, an inquest heard.
  
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• James Watson profile: A human riddle wrapped in a DNA double helix

  05-12-2014 19:29
  
  Where does one begin with Dr James Dewey Watson, the brilliant co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, best-selling author, Nobel laureate, iconoclast and scientific racist?
  
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• Ed Sheeran: Boy next door who made it very big

  05-12-2014 19:28
  
  At the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in London 2012, the climactic song was Pink Floyd’s elegiac “Wish You Were Here”.
  
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• British jihadists who travelled to Syria jailed for 13 years

  05-12-2014 19:27
  
  Two British jihadists have been jailed for nearly 13 years after their claims to be travelling to Syria for humanitarian work were exposed by thousands of war-zone images found on their digital camera.
  
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• China's former security chief arrested

  05-12-2014 19:23
  
  Chinese authorities have arrested former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang and expelled him from the ruling Communist Party, accusing him of crimes ranging from accepting bribes to leaking state secrets.
  
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• Journal's staff resign en masse as owner reveals plans to go digital

  05-12-2014 19:21
  
  Staff at US politics and culture magazine The New Republic staged a mass walk-out yesterday after its owner, Facebook billionaire Chris Hughes and newly appointed chief executive Guy Vidra announced plans to transform the publication into a digital platform.
  
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