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• Ebola in the UK: Britain likely to face more cases of deadly virus but is 'well prepared', says Chief Medical Officer

  29-12-2014 23:57
  The UK is likely to be faced with a handful of Ebola cases in the coming months, but the country is “well prepared”, the chief medical officer has urged.
  
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• Frozen Britain – in pictures

  29-12-2014 23:40
  
  Temperatures dipped to -8.7C in Northern Ireland and weather warnings for ice were put in place in the east Midlands, as widespread frost greeted many areas of the UK this morning Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: Ebola case in Glasgow hospital

  29-12-2014 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The first case of Ebola diagnosed within the UK has been confirmed in Scotland.
  
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• Mapp and Lucia, BBC1 - TV review: Memo to the male TV executive, middle-aged women can be interesting

  29-12-2014 23:30
  
  Miranda Richardson wears a big set of false teeth in Mapp and Lucia (BBC1), all the better for gritting and smiling through. She plays Miss Elizabeth Mapp opposite Anna Chancellor as Mrs Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas, two small-town snobs locked in a never-ending battle of one-upmanship in this jolly 1930s-set comedy of manners.
  
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• Liverpool 4-1 Swansea City

  29-12-2014 23:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Liverpool move to within five points of the top four with an emphatic victory over Swansea at Anfield.
  
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• UK Ebola woman worked with charity

  29-12-2014 23:28
  
  An NHS worker who has been diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Glasgow from Sierra Leone had been working in the country with Save the Children.
  
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• Fabricio Coloccini set for Newcastle United job

  29-12-2014 23:15
  
  Fabricio Coloccini is in line to be the next manager of Newcastle United after Alan Pardew’s move to Crystal Palace neared completion.
  
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• Liverpool vs Swansea match report: Adam Lallana sweeps aside the anxiety as Reds cut loose

  29-12-2014 23:14
  
  Before the light goes out on an extraordinary year for Liverpool – of which it would be an understatement to say there have been highs and lows – a reminder that all is not necessarily lost.
  
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• Pardew allowed to talk to Palace

  29-12-2014 23:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Crystal Palace have been given permission to talk to Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew after compensation was agreed.
  
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• Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow

  29-12-2014 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A healthcare worker who has just returned from West Africa is diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in hospital in Glasgow.
  
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• David Cameron will trigger Tory civil war with a General Election win, senior party figures warn

  29-12-2014 23:00
  
  The Conservative Party faces more than two years of civil war over Europe if David Cameron wins next year’s general election, senior party figures are warning.
  
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• Dog rescued using inflatable walkway

  29-12-2014 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Firefighters use an inflatable walkway to rescue a dog after it fell through ice on a pond.
  
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• New Year 2015: £100 pound coin featuring Big Ben released to celebrate the holiday season

  29-12-2014 22:34
  
  The Royal Mint has celebrated Big Ben’s distinctive sound which brings in the New Year, by creating a new £100 coin featuring the iconic clock tower.
  
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• Shoplifter spared jail for stealing clothes as a Christmas present to herself

  29-12-2014 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A WOMAN was spared prison for shoplifting a tracksuit after she claimed it was a Christmas present for herself.
  
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• How Will Britain Stop Ebola From Spreading?

  29-12-2014 22:30
  
  The Ebola case in Glasgow will create considerable concerns among people about its potential spread, but effective containment could make the health worker who recently returned from Sierra Leone an isolated case.
  
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• Love is all around as Andy Murray's dad gets engaged

  29-12-2014 22:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ANDY Murray’s father has followed in his tennis ace son’s footsteps by getting engaged.
  
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• Outraged vicar finds Easter chocolates on sale just TWO DAYS after Christmas

  29-12-2014 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A VICAR was outraged after finding Easter chocolates on sale just two days after Christmas.
  
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• Virgin jet makes emergency landing

  29-12-2014 21:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 with more than 450 people onboard lands safely at London Gatwick after a "technical issue" with its landing gear.
  
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• New generation of budget-flight criminals roving Europe on ‘burglary blitzes’

  29-12-2014 21:35
  
  A new breed of travelling criminal gang is exploiting cheap flights and visa-free travel to launch “burglary blitzes” on countries including the UK, according to senior law enforcement officials.
  
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• Director of Europol: ‘Top computer graduates are being lured into cybercrime’

  29-12-2014 21:32
  
  Rob Wainwright has a fine view from his office in the forbidding HQ of the European police agency Europol – but his attention is fixed far beyond the The Hague.
  
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• Ebola sufferer in British hospital

  29-12-2014 21:19
  
  A female healthcare worker who has been diagnosed with Ebola after returning from Sierra Leone is in a stable condition in hospital in Glasgow.
  
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• Boots merger with Walgreens approved despite calls for remedies from Wall Street

  29-12-2014 21:11
  
  The £16bn mega-merger between Walgreens and Alliance Boots was given the green light by shareholders last night, leaving the two pharmacy giants on the brink of completing the deal almost three months ahead of schedule.
  
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• Healthcare worker in Scotland diagnosed with Ebola

  29-12-2014 21:10
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - A healthcare worker has been diagnosed with Ebola a day after flying home to Glasgow from Sierra Leone, the Scottish government said on Monday. The patient is being treated in isolation at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital, having flown back to Scotland's largest city late on Sunday on a British Airways flight via Casablanca in Morocco and London's Heathrow. "All possible contacts with the patient are now being investigated and anyone deemed to be at risk will b
  
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• No charges after woman, 46, died

  29-12-2014 21:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The death of a 46-year-old Cynon Valley woman in Cardiff is 'not suspicious' say police, as they release a man without charge.
  
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• Ten dead in passenger ferry blaze

  29-12-2014 21:00
  
  Ten people died after a passenger ferry caught fire in the Adriatic and more may be missing.
  
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• Abolish GCSEs or face talent crisis, warns head of CBI

  29-12-2014 20:55
  
  GCSEs should be scrapped if the UK is going to properly nurture the business leaders of tomorrow, and an overhaul to the EU is needed for companies to thrive, according to an influential business leader.
  
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• Network Rail boss 'may take bonus'

  29-12-2014 20:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Network Rail chief Mark Carne tells the BBC an internal committee will decide on what bonus he should have, following recent major rail disruption.
  
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• John Caudwell lost £3m in City Link failure

  29-12-2014 20:53
  
  John Caudwell, the founder of the collapsed Phones4U mobiles retailer, lost about £3m from the collapse of the City Link courier business over Christmas, The Independent has learnt.
  
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• Derek Hogg: Nimble, tricky winger for Leicester City, West Bromwich Albion and Cardiff City

  29-12-2014 20:52
  
  An appealing cocktail of dribble and dash carried Leicester City winger Derek Hogg agonisingly close to an England cap in the mid-1950s. That he never made it beyond a solitary outing for the Football League and one for an FA XI was due, perhaps, to a tendency to overdo the intricacy, interrupting the impetus of a flowing team attack in the process.
  
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• David Ryall: Celebrated stage actor who later gained wider recognition in the Harry Potter franchise and the sitcom 'Outnumbered'

  29-12-2014 20:50
  Twinkle-eyed and brimming with mischief, the tireless character actor David Ryall played everything from classical buffoons (his Polonius for the RSC in 1997) to a jovial old God (The Mysteries at the Pit in 1998). His sweet-facedness could shade into menace quite alarmingly, and he was also a fine conveyor of honour and optimism. But it was as a comic actor that he scored his highest marks, most memorably playing provincial little men flailing in indignation.
  
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• Buddy DeFranco: Jazz clarinetist who adventured into bebop and worked with Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa and Count Basie

  29-12-2014 20:49
  
  When Buddy DeFranco became interested in popular music as a child, the clarinet was the sexiest instrument around. Virtuosos like Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw were just beginning to make an impact, which would bring them huge stardom before the end of the 1930s. Although he started out in the then current swing style, DeFranco ultimately chose to be influenced by the rhythmic and melodic complexities of the 1940s development known as bebop.
  
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• Italy ferry fire: Ten bodies recovered as Italian MP blames disaster on ‘shameful’ shipping firms

  29-12-2014 20:49
  
  The bodies of 10 people who were travelling on board the ferry which caught fire off the island of Corfu have been recovered, coast guards said yesterday, as Italian prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into the causes of the disaster.
  
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• Diplomatic Channels: Gaza is in ruins – but having negotiated with weapons, Hamas may now do so with words

  29-12-2014 20:46
  
  Four months after last summer’s bloody war Gaza remains in ruins, with little or no reconstruction, a continuing blockade, unemployment rising towards 70 per cent and a desperate and angry population.
  
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• Right-to-die campaigner Purdy dies

  29-12-2014 20:40
  
  Tributes have been paid to right-to-die campaigner Debbie Purdy, who has died after suffering from primary progressive multiple sclerosis for almost 20 years.
  
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• Chris Rock divorce: Life is imitating Rock's act

  29-12-2014 20:35
  
  To some, the sad news that comedian Chris Rock and his wife, Malaak Compton-Rock, are to split after almost 20 years will come as a shock. But to those who have followed the star’s comedy career closely, it is not entirely surprising.
  
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• The Little Prince: The new film of the boy who fell to earth

  29-12-2014 20:32
  
  It all began with the child of a Polish migrant labourer expelled from France. In 1935,  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was already a cult bestseller who had transformed his exploits as a pioneer pilot on air mail routes into books that mixed daredevil adventure with philosophical reflection. He took a trip to the Soviet Union for a newspaper assignment.
  
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• Rickshaw drivers learn to respect women in India's 'rape capital'

  29-12-2014 20:32
  
  Thousands of male rickshaw drivers in Delhi are going on courses to learn how to respect their female passengers, after the city was dubbed “India’s rape capital”.
  
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• Early fraud verdict for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny

  29-12-2014 20:30
  
  A Moscow court has moved up the date of its verdict in a criminal case against Alexei Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s top foes, to tomorrow, in an apparent bid to derail a planned protest. Earlier this month, prosecutors asked the court to convict Mr Navalny of defrauding a cosmetics company.
  
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• Murphy apologises for posting image

  29-12-2014 20:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Blackpool's Jacob Murphy apologises for posting an image on social media that appears to mock the team's on-field woes.
  
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• Dozens of Boko Haram militants killed in raids into Cameroon

  29-12-2014 20:20
  
  The army killed at least 41 Islamist militants as Cameroon fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend.
  
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• Secret Nazi nuclear bunker discovered in Austria

  29-12-2014 20:19
  
  A network of underground tunnels and bunkers used by the Nazis to develop an atomic bomb has been discovered in Austria by a filmmaker.
  
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• BBC pulls film on royal 'spin' after legal complaints

  29-12-2014 20:11
  
  A BBC documentary claiming that the Royal Family used media “spin” to massage its public image has been pulled from the schedules following the intervention of its lawyers.
  
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• City Link collapse: Owner recoups £20m as taxpayers foot bill for redundancies

  29-12-2014 20:03
  
  The private equity firm behind City Link expects to recoup about £20m from the collapse of the parcel delivery giant – as taxpayers are left to foot the bill for nearly 3,000 workers’ redundancy payments.
  
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• VIDEO: Boxer Khan visits Pakistan school

  29-12-2014 20:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The boxer Amir Khan has visited a school in Pakistan where Taliban militants massacred 152 people earlier this month.
  
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• Healthcare worker in UK has Ebola

  29-12-2014 19:56
  
  A healthcare worker who returned from Sierra Leone last night has been diagnosed with Ebola and is receiving treatment in Glasgow.
  
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• Family wants justice after attack

  29-12-2014 19:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The family of a 27-year-old assault victim who has to use a wheelchair as the result of an attack in County Londonderry five months ago calls for justice.
  
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• Glasgow healthcare worker diagnosed with Ebola after returning from Sierra Leone

  29-12-2014 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ONE CASE of Ebola was confirmed in Glasgow today.
  
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• Network Rail boss fends off bonus issue after travel chaos prompts investigation

  29-12-2014 19:51
  
  Network Rail chief executive Mark Carne repeatedly refused to reveal whether he will take his bonus yesterday, as pressure mounts over the major disruption suffered by passengers as a result of over-running engineering work.
  
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• Glasgow Healthcare Worker Diagnosed With Ebola

  29-12-2014 19:49
  
  A healthcare worker who returned to Glasgow from Sierra Leone last night has been confirmed as having Ebola.
  
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• Ebola: One case of virus confirmed in Glasgow hospital

  29-12-2014 19:48
  
  A healthcare worker who returned from West Africa last night has been diagnosed with Ebola, the Scottish government has confirmed.
  
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