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• Lunch with the fearless Anna Soubry

  08-12-2014 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Becky Milligan has lunch with Anna Soubry
  
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• Scientists zero in on obesity pill 'that could replace the treadmill'

  08-12-2014 23:44
  
  A pill for obesity is a step closer, with two separate studies showing that it may be possible to influence the body’s tendency to build up damaging fat deposits beneath the skin.
  
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• Disgraced ex-Tory MP Neil Hamilton in line to make stunning Commons comeback for Ukip

  08-12-2014 23:31
  
  Neil Hamilton, the disgraced former Conservative MP, could be on the verge of a parliamentary comeback at the age of 65 - for Ukip.
  
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• Builders accused amid Qatar 2022 boom

  08-12-2014 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Builders accused amid Qatar 2022 World Cup boom
  
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• Liverpool vs Basel: Victory at Anfield and Liverpool can reach the Champions League final, claims Brendan Rodgers

  08-12-2014 23:30
  Brendan Rodgers believes that if Liverpool get through tonight’s must-win Champions League fixture, they could end up actually winning the competition.
  
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• #GamerGate: Men acknowledge their privileges in '25 Invisible Benefits of Gaming while Male' video

  08-12-2014 23:24
  
  As the #GamerGate controversy continues to divide its community, a group of men has rallied together in solidarity with female gamers, in a thoughtful video explaining the privileges afforded by their gender.
  
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• Southampton 1-2 Manchester United

  08-12-2014 23:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester United climb to third in the Premier League as a Robin van Persie brace gives them victory over Southampton.
  
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• Southampton vs Manchester United match report: Slick Robin van Persie has cohesive Saints on back foot

  08-12-2014 23:17
  
  Louis van Gaal will take his wins however he can get them. Two goals from Robin van Persie and a string of fine saves from David de Gea took Manchester United to the dizzy heights of third for the first time since they won the title.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: A dog’s breakfast of food banks and porridge oats

  08-12-2014 23:17
  
  Good news! “I rather agree with the Archbishop of Canterbury,” Iain Duncan Smith announced a little languidly today in the Commons as hostilities broke out over the new report on food banks backed by the Archbishop. But on what?
  
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• Sugar cravings driven by enzyme

  08-12-2014 23:00
  
  A protein responsible for the brain's sweet tooth could point the way to new drugs that prevent obesity.
  
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• Tory attitudes to poverty under fire over benefit sanctions and Baroness Jenkin comment that poor 'don’t know how to cook'

  08-12-2014 22:52
  Tory attitudes towards the poor came under intense scrutiny yesterday as new government figures showed record numbers of people having their benefits docked, and a Conservative peer suggested those on low incomes should eat porridge to save money. Nearly a million people lost at least a month’s worth of benefits for failing to do enough to find work in the year to April, according to figures from the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP).
  
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• Tory attitudes to poverty under fire amid benefit sanctions and Baroness Jenkin comment that poor 'don’t know how to cook'

  08-12-2014 22:52
  Tory attitudes towards the poor came under intense scrutiny yesterday as new government figures showed record numbers of people having their benefits docked, and a Conservative peer suggested those on low incomes should eat porridge to save money. Nearly a million people lost at least a month’s worth of benefits for failing to do enough to find work in the year to April, according to figures from the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP).
  
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• Obama, Prince William talk royal babies in White House visit

  08-12-2014 22:40
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William found a willing audience at the White House on Monday, covering topics with President Barack Obama from the illegal wildlife trade to the birth of a baby named Prince George. The Duke of Cambridge, breaking away from his pregnant wife Kate briefly after they arrived in New York on Sunday for a three-day visit, was spirited into a side entrance of the West Wing for talks with Obama and Vice President Joe Biden and for a tour of the White House.
  
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• VIDEO: Downing Street is lit up for Christmas

  08-12-2014 22:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Christmas tree outside 10 Downing Street was lit up on Monday as a band played traditional Christmas music.
  
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• MLA's 'gay cake' conscience clause

  08-12-2014 21:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A DUP assembly member begins an attempt to introduce a "conscience clause" into equality law in Northern Ireland, following legal action taken against a Christian-owned bakery.
  
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• Procedure to restore sight in dogs gives hope for future blindness cure

  08-12-2014 21:55
  
  Scientists have partially restored the sight of animals suffering from a form of inherited blindness using a gene therapy technique to replace the lost light-sensitive cells of the eye.
  
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• Sam Kass: Obamas’ chef leaves White House to be with his wife

  08-12-2014 21:52
  
  Food is a touchy business for America’s first family. In Idaho they might profess a love of potatoes, in Texas their favourite food would, of course, be beef. And in Iowa, where corn is king, most politicians will say they adore it.
  
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• DJ Neil Fox held over sex assaults

  08-12-2014 21:50
  
  DJ Neil Fox has been arrested on suspicion of a further three sexual assaults.
  
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• Harlem cheers 'Kate, Kate!' as British duchess visits child centre

  08-12-2014 21:50
  
  By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cheering crowds jammed the sidewalks of Manhattan's Harlem neighbourhood on Monday for a peek at Britain's Duchess of Cambridge as she shook hands with black and Hispanic children outside a development centre. Chants of "Kate, Kate, Kate!" met the duchess on a frigid morning on her first trip to New York with her husband, Prince William, as she emerged from the Northside Center for Child Development. ...
  
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• Blindfold sex knife attack ex jailed

  08-12-2014 21:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A woman who lured her ex-husband to her home for sex before blindfolding and stabbing him is jailed for attempted murder.
  
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• Family: Four Years Of Hell And Still No Answers

  08-12-2014 21:11
  
  Moments after Shrien Dewani was ruled not guilty of murder, his wife Anni's family told Sky News: "The justice system has failed us."
  
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• Southampton v Manchester United: Premier League – live!

  08-12-2014 21:07
  
  Premier League updates from 8pm GMT kick-off at St Mary’s
  Live scoreboard! All the goals from the UK and abroadSend thoughts to [email protected] 8.07pm GMT 7 mins: It hasn’t been an enormously encouraging opening for the neutrals and purists among us. Carrick and then Valencia boot the ball miles up into the air – the Englishman’s hoof barely goes anywhere except up and down, but Valencia gets some proper distance on it. 8.04pm GMT 4 mins: Another raking long ball from Sout
  
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• Duke tells of delivery room 'chaos'

  08-12-2014 21:06
  
  The Duke of Cambridge has confessed to US president Barack Obama that in the "chaos" of the maternity delivery room he forgot to ask if Prince George was a boy or a girl.
  
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• Gene therapy offers blindness hope

  08-12-2014 21:00
  
  A radical form of gene therapy that remodels eye cells into light receptors holds out the promise of restoring sight to people who are completely blind.
  
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• Tax avoidance 'on industrial scale'

  08-12-2014 20:59
  
  One of the UK's biggest accountancy firms has been accused by a senior MP of selling tax avoidance for clients on an "industrial scale" through deals set up in Luxembourg.
  
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• Greece gets bailout extension, and brings forward presidential poll - live reaction

  08-12-2014 20:59
  
  Drama in Greece tonight as government accelerates the process to elect the next president, minutes after eurogroup ministers agree to give it more times to meet bailout terms.Latest: Greece gets bailout extension <- new readers start hereAthens ‘gambles’ with early presidential voteEarly reaction 7.59pm GMT Megan Greene, chief economist at Manulife Asset Management, has just discussed the Greek developments on Al Jazeera (you can hear it here).She explains that a bailout extension was “
  
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• Ukip general secretary Roger Bird suspended over allegations of impropriety

  08-12-2014 20:56
  
  Ukip has suspended its general secretary over allegations of impropriety.
  
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• CIA torture report: spy agency braces for global impact of inquiry as release date nears

  08-12-2014 20:56
  
  Public airing of post-9/11 practices, coming after months of negotiation, is likely to attract attention worldwide and could come as early as TuesdayYemeni man hopes for apology after report’s publicationThe CIA is bracing for what could be one of the most damaging moments in its history: a public airing of its post-9/11 embrace of torture.The Senate intelligence committee is poised to release a landmark inquiry into torture as early as Tuesday, after the Obama administration made a last-ditch
  
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• Manchester police involved in Taser death seek anonymity at inquest

  08-12-2014 20:55
  
  Five officers have claimed their lives will be in danger if they are identified at inquest of Jordan Lee BegleyFive police officers involved in the fatal Tasering of a young man in Manchester have asked to remain anonymous at his inquest, claiming their lives would be in danger were they identified.One of them, a uniformed beat officer, fired a stun gun at Jordan Lee Begley after being called to his house in Gorton, east Manchester, on 10 July 2013. Jordan’s mother, Dorothy Begley, had rung th
  
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• Gang Kidnapped Man And Cut Off Little Finger

  08-12-2014 20:52
  
  Three men have been found guilty of kidnapping a man and cutting off his little finger as they demanded a ransom of £60,000.
  
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• Shrien Dewani goes free after a trial doomed from day one

  08-12-2014 20:49
  
  Collapse of trial over the murder of Dewani’s new wife, Anni, sparks criticism of prosecutors who had four years to prepareA star witness whose evidence was “riddled with contradictions”, a murder investigation botched by police and a premier league defence lawyer who outmanoeuvred the prosecution at every turn. These were the key reasons why the case against Shrien Dewani was thrown out on Monday.The British businessman walked free from the high court in Cape Town without having to testif
  
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• Shrien Dewani acquitted: Anni Dewani’s family vow to fight on as South African court throws out murder case against Shrien

  08-12-2014 20:49
  
  Four years after his wife was murdered on an extravagant South African honeymoon in a crime that plunged him into mental illness, Shrien Dewani walked free after a judge ruled that prosecutors had failed to build a case that he was behind the killing.
  
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• Shrien Dewani acquitted: Anni Dewani’s family vow to fight on as murder case against Shrien is thrown out of court

  08-12-2014 20:49
  
  Four years after his wife was murdered on an extravagant South African honeymoon in a crime that plunged him into mental illness, Shrien Dewani walked free after a judge ruled that prosecutors had failed to build a case that he was behind the killing.
  
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• Student killed himself after £100 payday loan debt soared to £800

  08-12-2014 20:46
  
  A struggling student overdosed on slimming pills after taking out a payday loan which saw a £100 debt soar to £800 in just three months, an inquest has heard.
  
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• James Moore: Despite partial climbdown by Gavin Darby suppliers will still get to ‘invest’ in Premier Foods’ future

  08-12-2014 20:46
  Premier Foods is apparently in the midst of an ignominious climbdown in the wake of revelations about the so-called “pay to stay” payments it has been stinging suppliers for.
  
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• Sierra Leone slams Britain over management of Ebola centre

  08-12-2014 20:45
  FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone on Monday accused the British government of handing over a new Ebola treatment centre to a charity with too little experience to run it, with the result that most of its beds are still empty.
  
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• Bavarian party backtracks over call for immigrants to speak German at home

  08-12-2014 20:42
  
  Germany’s coalition split over Christian Social Union linking residency to speaking German in privateOne of Germany’s governing parties backpedalled from a call for immigrants to speak German even at home, giving way in the face of a storm of criticism and mockery even from allies.The conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) was on the defensive on Monday over a draft motion drawn up by senior officials for a party conference this week, stating that people wanting permanent residency “sho
  
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• FA Cup: third-round draw – as it happened

  08-12-2014 20:40
  
  Hull City drew Arsenal in a repeat of last season’s FA Cup Final, while non-league Dover will go to Crystal Palace and Everton face West Ham
  7.37pm GMT That’s it from me. Thanks for reading and enjoy the FA Cup third round, which is only four weeks away! Bye. 7.35pm GMT “Would your use of ‘queue’ be in the imperative (i.e. ordering excited cheers to get in line),” sarcies Stephen Wingrove, “or were you attempting to observe an orderly concatenation of screams of delight?” The fi
  
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• James Moore: How lopsided can comparison sites get before the watchdogs wake up?

  08-12-2014 20:38
  
  If you’ve never seen those ads with that annoying bloke pretending to be an opera singer repeating the name of GoCompare.com ad infinitum you must have been living under a rock. Be thankful for that.
  
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• Market Report: Marks and Spencer tumbles after online orders face major delays - The Independent

  08-12-2014 20:37 via independent.co.uk
  
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  Market Report: Marks and Spencer tumbles after online orders face major delays
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  Christmas shopping can be a nightmare at the best of times but at least you'd think the shops would have a handle on it all – not so Marks & Spencer, apparently. The retailer went tumbling on Monday after it emerged at the weekend that online orders are ...
  Gloucestershire firms reassure customers after 'manic Monday' scare over ...Gloucester Citizen
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• Nicole Kidman on Paddington: 'The idea of tolerance is a beautiful thing to put out' – video

  08-12-2014 20:37
  
  To mark the release of her new film, Paddington, Nicole Kidman talks to the Guardian about dressing up Bond-style, treating her films as learning experiences and why director Paul King wanted to take a gentle approach to encouraging compassion in his film adaptation of Michael Bond's classic children's book. Already showing in Britain and the US, Paddington opens in Australia on 11 December.
  
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• Hannah Rothschild to become first woman to chair National Gallery

  08-12-2014 20:37
  
  Documentary maker and writer vows to ensure the National Gallery remains internationally respected and challengingThe documentary maker and writer Hannah Rothschild is to become the first woman chair of the National Gallery, it was announced on Monday. She will head the board of trustees when the businessman Mark Getty – grandson of the oil tycoon J Paul Getty and son of the philanthropist Paul Getty – steps down at the end of his term on 10 August 2015.Rothschild, a trustee since 2009, said
  
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• Food banks: What has happened to this country that we have come to this?

  08-12-2014 20:36
  
  Without wishing to sound bourgeois, I was in Waitrose on Saturday and, past the checkout, I noticed a large cardboard box about a yard high. It was labelled “Lewisham food bank”, and the prosperous customers of the Beckenham, Kent, branch of Waitrose were being asked to donate to the poor in a less well-heeled district. The last time I had seen something like that was for people to put pet food in a collecting bin for the cats’ and dogs’ homes.
  
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• Jose E. Reyes trial: Teen accused of sexually assaulting and murdering Corriann Cervantes, 15, as part of Satanic ritual

  08-12-2014 20:35
  A teenager accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl during a satanic ritual, before disfiguring her body and killing her, is on trial in the US state of Texas.
  
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• Market Report: Marks and Spencer tumbles after online orders face major delays

  08-12-2014 20:34
  
  Christmas shopping can be a nightmare at the best of times but at least you’d think the shops would have a handle on it all – not so Marks & Spencer, apparently.
  
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• Gambian diplomats found guilty of using London embassy for tobacco fraud

  08-12-2014 20:34
  
  Seven Gambian diplomats who used their London embassy as a front for selling more than half a million pouches of tax-free tobacco have been found guilty of cheating the UK taxpayer out of almost £4.8m.
  
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• Paul 'Gobby' Lambert: Ukip's latest recruit is from the BBC

  08-12-2014 20:32
  
  Most defectors to Ukip get the full flashbulb treatment, wheeled out to wild applause at a party conference or before a gathering of excitable reporters. But the Farage army's latest recruit, a man known inside Westminster as the legend that is "Gobby", will manage his move from press pack to party HQ in the manner to which he is accustomed – cloaked behind the scenes in his trademark mac, fag in hand.
  
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• Google in court again over ‘right to be above British law’ on alleged secret monitoring

  08-12-2014 20:32
  
  A battle by Google to establish that it is above British law resumed today in a landmark trial that will decide whether or not it can be held accountable by its users in this country.
  
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• Google challenges High Court decision on alleged secret monitoring

  08-12-2014 20:32
  
  Google is embroiled in allegations that it has spied on Britons, in a complex legal fight over whether the internet giant should face justice in the British courts.
  
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• The longer we argue, the longer the queues at the food banks get

  08-12-2014 20:32
  
  Important points contained in the Feeding Britain report are ignored as everyone focuses instead on Tory peer’s soundbite‘‘Poor people don’t know how to cook,” Anne Jenkin said at the launch of the Feeding Britain report on Monday, and suddenly it was as though 10 months of evidence gathering, and 160 pages of written report, hadn’t happened, cast aside to be summed up in seven words.Welcome to the new politics, where every character counts, and every statement is met with an equal a
  
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