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• Everton 3-1 QPR PLAYER RATINGS: Ross Barkley impress in deeper role but ... - Daily Mail

  15-12-2014 23:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  Everton 3-1 QPR PLAYER RATINGS: Ross Barkley impress in deeper role but ...
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  Everton ended a run of four games without a win as QPR endured another miserable away day. Rangers have yet to pick up a single point away from home this season and never looked likely to end that sequence at Goodison Park once Ross Barkley put ...
  Everton v QPR: Premier League – as it happenedThe Guardian
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• Pennsylvania shooting: Gunman Bradley William Stone who killed ex-wife and ... - The Independent

  15-12-2014 23:53 via independent.co.uk
  
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  Pennsylvania shooting: Gunman Bradley William Stone who killed ex-wife and ...
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  A gunman, who is suspected to have shot six people with whom he had “a familial relationship” in a pre-dawn rampage just outside the US city of Philadelphia on Monday, is still at large according to officials. Suspected gunman Bradley William Stone, 35, ...
  Police hunt for man suspected in six Pennsylvania killingsReuters
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• Nick Clegg: Tony Blair should face charges if he collaborated in CIA torture - Mirror.co.uk

  15-12-2014 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
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  Nick Clegg: Tony Blair should face charges if he collaborated in CIA torture
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  Tony Blair and Jack Straw should face charges if they are found to have been complicit in torture, Nick Clegg said today. The Deputy PM said the “politicians in charge” at Westminster during the CIA's brutal torture programme must be hauled before MPs for ...
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• Moscow lifts interest rate to 17% - Financial Times

  15-12-2014 23:36 via ft.com
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  Moscow lifts interest rate to 17%
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  Russia's Central Bank has raised its main interest rate from 10.5 per cent to 17 per cent in the middle of the Moscow night, just five days after the last rate rise and hours after the rouble suffered its worst drop since 1998. “The decision was driven by the need to ...
  Russia's central bank hikes rate in dramatic move to halt rouble 'free fall'The Australian
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• Everton 3-1 Queens Park Rangers

  15-12-2014 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ross Barkley's strike helps Everton move into the top half of the Premier League with victory over Queens Park Rangers.
  
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• VIDEO: City job ban for fare-dodging banker

  15-12-2014 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A city fund manager who lost his job after being caught fare-dodging has now been banned from working in the financial services industry, as Gareth Furby reports
  
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• Steph and Dom meet Nigel Farage: 14 things we learned about Gogglebox's ... - Mirror.co.uk

  15-12-2014 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
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  Steph and Dom meet Nigel Farage: 14 things we learned about Gogglebox's ...
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  Steph and Dom have broken out of the Gogglebox mould and they've ran straight into UKIP leader Nigel Farage. Dropping pink champagne, Nigel Farage taking his trousers off, a small dog doing missing, it was all happening in Channel 4's quasi ...
  Steph and Dom meet Nigel Farage, review: 'tedious'Telegraph.co.uk
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• Man Utd can win title - Phil Neville

  15-12-2014 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former player and assistant coach Phil Neville says Manchester United are now genuine title contenders.
  
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• MPs back firefighter pension changes

  15-12-2014 23:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Government plans to make firefighters in England work until they are 60 and to increase their pension contributions are backed by MPs.
  
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• Four boys bailed over man's murder

  15-12-2014 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four boys aged between 13 and 14 held on suspicion of murdering a man are released on bail as a fifth teenager remains in custody.
  
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• Two thirds of Britons do not support George Osborne's £30bn additional cuts - The Independent

  15-12-2014 23:25 via independent.co.uk
  
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  Two thirds of Britons do not support George Osborne's £30bn additional cuts
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  A majority of people do not support George Osborne's plan to carry on cutting after he has balanced the nation's books, according to a new poll for The Independent. Some 30 per cent of people agree with the Chancellor's strategy to reduce Government ...
  Cameron: Labour's policy will leave 'black ominous cloud'BBC News
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• Two thirds of Britons do not support George Osborne's £30bn additional cuts

  15-12-2014 23:25
  
  A majority of people do not support George Osborne’s plan to carry on cutting after he has balanced the nation’s books, according to a new poll for The Independent.
  
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• Homeless Veterans campaign: Expert calls for military mental health 'quality mark'

  15-12-2014 23:00
  
  The UK should introduce a “quality mark” for services offering mental health support for veterans, one of the country’s leading experts on military health has said.
  
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• VIDEO: Father Christmas 'lives in Derby'

  15-12-2014 22:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A holographic projection of Father Christmas has been drawing crowds to a Derby home
  
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• Sydney siege: ‘Lone wolf’ attackers like Man Haron Monis will always remain a security nightmare

  15-12-2014 22:45
  
  The siege in Sydney has once again raised the spectre of attacks by “lone wolves” – extremely difficult for the security agencies to stop and relatively easy to instigate and carry out.
  
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• Sydney Lindt cafe siege: ‘Lone wolf’ attackers like Man Haron Monis will stay a security nightmare - and not just in Australia

  15-12-2014 22:45
  The siege in Sydney has once again raised the spectre of attacks by “lone wolves” – extremely difficult for the security agencies to stop and relatively easy to instigate and carry out.
  
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• Sydney siege: Hostages escaped when gunman Man Haron Monis 'let his guard down'

  15-12-2014 22:44
  
  A group of hostages held by a self-styled Islamic preacher in a 16-hour siege in Sydney, were able to escape when Man Haron Monis' back was turned, it has been revealed.
  
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• Sex Attacker 'Could Be As Young As 12'

  15-12-2014 22:31
  
  Police are searching for a suspected sex attacker, believed to be aged between 12 and 16, who has indecently assaulted five people in 10 days.
  
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• Sydney Lindt cafe siege: Three dead including gunman Man Haron Monis and two hostages after Australian commandos storm building

  15-12-2014 22:30
  Until 2am local time, Australian police – and everyone else – had hoped the hostage crisis inside Lindt Chocolat Cafe in Sydney might end without bloodshed. Because until then, none of the luckless souls being held by Man Haron Monis, an Iranian self-styled cleric, had been harmed. Then gunshots rang out from inside the cafe. After 16 hours, the worst had come to pass.
  
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• BT in £12.5bn talks to buy EE - Belfast Telegraph

  15-12-2014 22:27 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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  BT in £12.5bn talks to buy EE
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  BT has entered exclusive talks over a £12.5 billion deal to buy Britain's biggest mobile phone operator EE. Also in this Section. [TICON-A VIDEO] Aussies back #IllRideWithYou tweets · Fare-dodging City executive banned · May: I did not request redactions ...
  BT lines up EE in shift to mobile in £12.5bn deal with Orange and Deutsche ...This is Money
  Orange, Deutsche Telekom put £12.5BN price tag on sale
  
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• Eddie Redmayne marries Hannah Bagshawe in Winter Wonderland wedding - Daily Mail

  15-12-2014 22:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  Eddie Redmayne marries Hannah Bagshawe in Winter Wonderland wedding
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  The screen star, 32, and his long-term partner enjoyed a Winter Wonderland-themed ceremony at private members' club Babington House in a secret service. According to a statement given to MailOnline, the duo enjoyed a candlelit ceremony at 5:30 pm local ...
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• Sydney siege exposes real danger of 'small scale' attacks by lone fanatics warn experts

  15-12-2014 22:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TERROR experts warned last night that the Sydney cafe siege exposed the danger of “small- scale” attacks by lone fanatics.
  
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• UKIP secures control of £1.5m EU cash

  15-12-2014 22:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UKIP has secured a share of more than £1.5m in EU funding normally set aside for parties promoting integration, Newsnight learns.
  
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• VIDEO: Items priced at 1p after online glitch

  15-12-2014 22:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With more and more people turning to the internet to do their Christmas shopping, there is huge pressure on retailers to ensure gifts are delivered in time.
  
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• Young at heart 'have longer lives'

  15-12-2014 22:00
  
  Feeling young at heart can help you live longer, a study suggests.
  
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• 'Early Mona Lisa': Unveiling the one-in-a-million identical twin to Leonardo da Vinci painting

  15-12-2014 21:17
  
  A second painting of the Mona Lisa thought to be produced a decade earlier than the one on display in the Paris Louvre has been unveiled in Singapore.
  
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• May wants more powerful abuse inquiry

  15-12-2014 21:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An inquiry into historical child sex abuse should be able to compel witnesses to give evidence and have statutory powers, Home Secretary Theresa May has said.
  
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• BT opts for EE over O2 for 12.5 billion-pound UK mobile deal

  15-12-2014 20:55
  
  By Kate Holton and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - BT has entered exclusive talks with the owners of EE for a potential 12.5 billion-pound ($19.6 billion) acquisition deal to give the former UK state telecoms firm the top position in mobile as well as fixed line broadband services. BT had been in competing talks with both the Spanish group Telefonica's rival mobile firm O2 and EE's owners, Orange and Deutsche Telekom , putting the 168-year-old fixed line firm in a strong position in neg
  
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• Joint Enterprise: The legal doctrine which critics say has caused hundreds of miscarriages of justice

  15-12-2014 20:50
  
  One autumn evening, a little over a year ago, 15-year-old Keyfer Dykstra was hanging around with a friend near his home in Anfield. He spotted a couple of local boys getting into an altercation with another teenager, so pedalled over on his friend's bike to see what was going on. A couple more boys followed and soon 19-year-old Sean McHugh was being pursued. The boys chased him down the notorious Cinder Path, a narrow shortcut that joins Anfield to Tuebrook, more than a mile away. No one noticed
  
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• Five boys aged 13 and 14 held after man is stabbed to death

  15-12-2014 20:46
  
  Five boys aged 13 and 14 were being questioned by police tonight after a construction worker was killed after a minor row outside his home.
  
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• Greens, SNP and Plaid Cymru ‘may back Labour’ - if they scrap Trident

  15-12-2014 20:44
  
  The Scottish National Party (SNP), Plaid Cymru and the Greens would demand for Labour to scrap Britain’s nuclear weapons programme as their price for supporting the party in a hung parliament.
  
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• Garden Bridge: St Paul’s adds to £175m project’s troubled waters

  15-12-2014 20:41
  
  When the designer of London 2012’s Olympic Cauldron laid out plans for a unique pedestrian bridge across the Thames, thickly adorned with trees and plants, he might have thought it would be a walk in the park.
  
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• Former British boxing champ faces terror‑related charges

  15-12-2014 20:40
  
  A former British boxing champion has appeared in court accused of helping two other men to travel to Syria to fight for the terrorist group Isis.
  
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• Child abuse inquiry: Theresa May will grant investigators major new powers

  15-12-2014 20:39
  
  The troubled inquiry into child sexual abuse will gain the authority to compel witnesses to give evidence in a major strengthening of its powers, Theresa May has said.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Ukip’s string of casualties points to a brutal civil war within the party

  15-12-2014 20:38
  
  When something goes wrong inside Ukip, commentators reach for the word “gaffe”. But the extraordinary story of the five-day candidature of Kerry Smith is not a gaffe – it is a sign of a party at war with itself.
  
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• Sydney siege: Eyewitnesses speak of Man Haron Monis' 'crazy eyes' and 'Do you want me to shoot you too?' threat

  15-12-2014 20:33
  
  Elly Chen was still wearing her barista’s apron when she sprinted down the Sydney street, one of five hostages to escape the chocolate shop where a gunman had taken dozens of hostages.
  
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• Sydney hostages: Eyewitnesses speak of Man Haron Monis' 'crazy eyes'

  15-12-2014 20:33
  
  Elly Chen was still wearing her barista’s apron when she sprinted down the Sydney street, one of five hostages to escape the chocolate shop where a gunman had taken dozens of hostages.
  
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• Man Haron Monis profile: Iranian-born ‘spiritual healer’ wrote letters of protest to Australian troops

  15-12-2014 20:28
  
  Man Haron Monis, or Sheikh Haron, was killed early yesterday morning in Sydney. His was a man of grand ambition, limited means and less talent.
  
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• Racton Man: Analysis shows famous skeleton was a 6ft Bronze Age superman

  15-12-2014 20:18
  
  A quarter of a century after his skeleton was unearthed in a Sussex field, “Racton Man” has finally revealed his secrets. And it turns out he was quite the Bronze Age hero.
  
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• Jewish comics blacklisted over support for ‘racist’ charity

  15-12-2014 20:12
  
  A bitter row has broken out in the close-knit world of Jewish stand-up after the owner of a leading comedy club refused to book anyone who plays benefit gigs for a pro-Israeli organisation he claims is “racist”.
  
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• Israel tries to head off UN resolution calling for West Bank withdrawal in two years

  15-12-2014 20:07
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today mounted a last-ditch effort to thwart a Palestinian and Arab bid to pass a UN Security Council resolution calling for Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank within two years.
  
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• Miliband: We're serious on immigration

  15-12-2014 20:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ed Miliband says there can be no doubting how important an issue immigration is for Labour - as he dismisses leaked guidance advising its campaigners to talk about other policies.
  
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• BT Set To Buy EE Mobile Phone Network

  15-12-2014 20:00
  
  BT has announced that it wants to buy phone firm EE as it makes a play to re-enter the mobile market.
  
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• ‘Kafkaesque’ ban on man entering street decried by judge

  15-12-2014 19:56
  
  A father-of-six got home from work to discover he had been barred from even entering the street where he had lived with his family for a decade – in a case described as “Kafkaesque” by a High Court judge.
  
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• Murphy Plans 'Clause Four' Moment In Scotland

  15-12-2014 19:48
  
  The new Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy has said he will herald a "refounding and rebirth" of his party in Scotland.
  
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• Italian police seize Mafia boss's assets worth millions of euros: Is this the end of the line for Matteo Messina Denaro?

  15-12-2014 19:44
  The noose tightens around the last great Cosa Nostra kingpin to evade justice. Yesterday, after investigators seized prized olive groves in Sicily worth €20m (£15.9m), it was hoped the “Boss of Bosses” could finally be brought to book.
  
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• Alternative season's greetings rise

  15-12-2014 19:41
  
  Are you considering sending a text message to loved ones rather than a card this Christmas? You're not alone, as research suggests that almost half of us will text our festive greetings this year instead of sending a card.
  
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• 11 dogs rescued from isolated gorge

  15-12-2014 19:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Eleven dogs from a hunt pack are rescued after becoming trapped in a gorge near Aberystwyth.
  
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• Britain to set up inquiry into air traffic failure

  15-12-2014 19:35
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will set up an inquiry into a technical failure at an air traffic control centre that caused widespread disruption to London flights last week, an investigation that the transport minister said should be completed by March. Hundreds of flights to and from London were disrupted on Friday, causing knock-on effects to air travel across Europe, in an incident which British Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin called "simply unacceptable". ...
  
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• Christmas getaway 2014: Bigger, earlier and longer than ever before

  15-12-2014 19:35
  
  The Christmas getaway is bigger, starting earlier and set to last longer than ever before. Research by The Independent reveals that the biggest crowds of travellers at some gateways will be seen as early as Thursday - a full week before Christmas Day.
  
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