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• UN rejects Palestinian resolution to end Israel's occupation within three years

  30-12-2014 23:42
  
  The dreams of Palestinians to secure statehood and end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory have been delivered a resounding blow after the UN rejected a resolution that sought to achieve such goals within three years.
  
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• UN rejects Palestinian resolution to end Israel's occupation

  30-12-2014 23:42
  
  The United Nations Security Council has rejected a Palestinian resolution demanding an end to Israeli occupation within three years.
  
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• New Year Honours: It's a poor moment to award Fiona Woolf a damehood

  30-12-2014 23:32
  
  As with comedy, so with the honours system: timing is all. Fiona Woolf may well deserve her damehood – inasmuch as anyone “deserves” an award in such a flawed, opaque system – but this year was probably not the best one to give it to her. The soon-to-be Dame Fiona Woolf tarnished her reputation by being naïve about her acquaintance with Leon Brittan when she was being considered for the chairmanship of the panel on historical child abuse: Mr, now Lord, Brittan was the Home Secretary  p
  
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• Hillsborough Campaigner's Honour 'An Apology'

  30-12-2014 23:31
  
  A Hillsborough campaigner honoured in the New Year's Day list has told Sky News she believes the award is part of an apology from the establishment.
  
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• New Year Honours: Twelve famous faces

  30-12-2014 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Twelve of the big-name recipients on the 2015 list
  
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• Tower poppies creators honoured

  30-12-2014 23:30
  
  The creators of the spectacular sea of poppies that engulfed the Tower of London and touched the hearts of millions this year receive awards in the New Year Honours.
  
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• Probe into leaking of honours list

  30-12-2014 23:30
  
  An inquiry is to be carried out into the leaking of a string of high-profile honours from the the New Year list before they were officially announced.
  
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• More than 80 New Year Honours for NI

  30-12-2014 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than 80 people in Northern Ireland receive awards in the Queen's New Year Honours list 2015, with the highest honour given to Olympian Dame Mary Peters.
  
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• Ashdown recognised in honours list

  30-12-2014 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ex-Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown and Tory peer Lord Young are among politicians recognised in the New Year Honours List.
  
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• VIDEO: Hillsborough dad 'pleased' with CBE

  30-12-2014 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Trevor Hicks, who lost two of his daughters in the Hillsborough disaster, has become a CBE for his services to other families bereaved by the tragedy.
  
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• New Year honours 2015 - in charts

  30-12-2014 23:30
  
  From Carol Ann Duffy to John Hurt, see who has been recognised in the New Year honours list. Find out how they breaks down by type of award, sector and gender Continue reading...
  
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• Sheridan Smith and James Corden ‘thrilled and humbled’ by OBEs

  30-12-2014 23:30
  
  Actors who first appeared together in BBC’s Gavin and Stacey recognised for services to entertainment in New Year honoursTheir paths to showbiz acclaim have been intricately linked, from their on-screen depiction of the loudmouthed rapping brother-sister duo Smithy and Rudi in Gavin and Stacey to their subsequent two-year relationship off-screen.Now actors Sheridan Smith and James Corden are to be reunited in a much more formal setting, with both among those honoured with OBEs in the New Year
  
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• New year honours 2015: the full list

  30-12-2014 23:30
  
  The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas, plus military and police honours Continue reading...
  
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• New Year honours 2015: damehoods for Joan Collins and Esther Rantzen

  30-12-2014 23:30
  
  Dynasty actor and ChildLine founder among recipients of top honours as list splits awards equally between women and men
  
  New Year honours 2015: the full list
  How the list breaks down by type of award, sector and genderActor Kristin Scott Thomas and the first female poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, are made dames in the New Year honours, as is Fiona Woolf, who resigned from the government’s child abuse inquiry.
  On a list said to focus on those who help vulnerable children, there are damehoods
  
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• VIDEO: Rantzen 'can't adjust' to being a Dame

  30-12-2014 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Esther Rantzen, the former television presenter and founder of ChildLine, has been made a Dame in the New Year's Honours list.
  
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• Poppy Display Creators Named On Honours List

  30-12-2014 23:30
  
  The artists who created a breathtaking installation of poppies at the Tower of London have been awarded MBEs in the New Year Honours.
  
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• New Year Honours: Recognised at last - the unsung heroes

  30-12-2014 23:30
  
  Britain’s leading arrowsmith, the owner of a hedgehog sanctuary and a mother and daughter are among those from the more unsung walks of life to be named in the new year honours list.
  
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• New Year Honours: Leaks of Sheridan Smith and John Hurt honours to be investigated in Whitehall inquiry

  30-12-2014 23:30
  
  The leaking of the names of a string of high-profile recipients of awards in the new year honours list is to be the subject of a Whitehall inquiry.
  
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• New Year Honours: Leaks of Sheridan Smith and John Hurt honours to be investigated in Whitehall

  30-12-2014 23:30
  
  The leaking of the names of a string of high-profile recipients of awards in the new year honours list is to be the subject of a Whitehall inquiry.
  
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• New Year Honours: Kristin Scott Thomas, Esther Rantzen and Joan Collins made dames

  30-12-2014 23:30
  
  Kristin Scott Thomas, the doyenne of on-screen haughtiness and froideur, and Sheridan Smith, a self-proclaimed “complete chav” lauded by the acting great and good, are among the list of figures from the creative arts in the new year honours list.
  
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• New Year Honours: Gay rights and Hillsborough campaigners receive awards

  30-12-2014 23:30
  
  Campaigners for justice for the victims of the Hillsborough disaster and gay rights lead those in the sphere of public life and politics who are honoured.
  
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• New Year Honours: Charlie Mullins awarded OBE for services to plumbing

  30-12-2014 23:30
  
  Charlie Mullins, the founder of Pimlico Plumbers, rarely rushes to open letters marked with the royal crest on the basis that they generally contain a demand for payment.
  
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• New Year Honours: 103-year-old marathon runner joins sporting greats on list

  30-12-2014 23:30
  
  Luminaries of professional sport including Steve Cram and Dame Mary Peters are joined by a centenarian marathon runner in receiving awards in the new year honours.
  
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• Is there still a case against Serial's Adnan Syed after Jay Wilds' interview?

  30-12-2014 23:20
  
  When I went to Sarah Koenig, I thought her reporting would uncover the deep inconsistencies in ‘Jay’s’ story. But this has been more than I imaginedSerial: The Syed family on their pain and the ‘five million detectives’Jay from Serial: ‘I was convinced that I would be going to jail for a long time’Serial final episode review: ‘An odd, inconclusive curveball’Jay Wilds was the key eyewitness in the murder case against Adnan Syed, which Sarah Koenig explored in the course of her p
  
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• Tommy Smith and Daryl Murphy strike again to fire Ipswich past Charlton

  30-12-2014 23:12
  
  In-form Ipswich crushed Charlton Athletic 3-0 in front of their biggest crowd of the season to maintain the pressure on the Championship leaders Bournemouth.Tommy Smith and Daryl Murphy continued their fine form in front of goal with a goal in each half before David McGoldrick netted a deserved third in injury time. The win moved second-placed Town a point behind the Cherries. Continue reading...
  
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• US General 'Concerned' Over UK Military Spending

  30-12-2014 23:05
  
  A senior US military commander has said he is concerned Britain's military spending could fall below a NATO target.
  
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• Labour shuns black and Asian candidates in winnable seats

  30-12-2014 23:05
  
  Ed Miliband is facing calls from within his own party to take action to secure the election of more black and Asian Labour MPs, amid signs that key constituencies are shunning candidates from ethnic minorities.
  
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• Derby ease past Leeds as Steve McClaren shrugs off Newcastle talk

  30-12-2014 23:02
  
  Steve McClaren played down speculation linking him with Newcastle United after his Derby County team stayed well placed for a Premier League return with a victory that leaves Leeds United in relegation trouble.Derby’s head coach saw his side move up to third in the table after an Alex Mowatt own goal and a Jake Buxton header had secured an eighth home victory in nine games over Leeds. Continue reading...
  
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• Idaho toddler shoots and kills his mother inside Walmart

  30-12-2014 23:00
  
  County sheriff said the 29-year-old woman, named as Veronica Rutledge, had a concealed weapons permitPolice in Idaho say a two-year-old boy shot and killed his 29-year-old mother in a Walmart store after finding the weapon in her purse. The Kootenai county sheriff’s office said Veronica Rutledge was shopping with her son and three other children in the small town of Hayden when the boy, sitting in the front of the shopping cart, found the gun and shot her at about 10.20am local time. Continue
  
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• Plane drama pilot 'just doing job'

  30-12-2014 22:52
  
  The pilot who dramatically landed a Virgin Atlantic jet after a major landing-gear fault forced it to turn back has said he was just doing his job.
  
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• Transgender teenager Leelah Alcorn took her life because ‘parents would not allow her to transition’

  30-12-2014 22:39
  
  A transgender teenager used her suicide note to claim she ended her life because her hardline Christian parents would not allow her to transition medically, and urged society to treat transgender people “like humans”.
  
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• Ebola in Britain: The first case diagnosed here will cause alarm - but we should keep our exposure in perspective

  30-12-2014 22:30
  Days after the Queen praised the bravery and dedication of medical staff volunteering to work with Ebola patients in West Africa comes the grim confirmation of the risks they are taking.
  
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• Elderly couple snowed in home ‘since Christmas’ because council didn't grit the road

  30-12-2014 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AN elderly couple are complaining they are marooned in a snow-go zone because the council will not grit the road.
  
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• Inmates 'drunk on hooch' in disorder

  30-12-2014 22:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prisoners believed to have been drunk on home-made alcohol were at the centre of disorder at a prison in Lancashire, an internal prison report finds.
  
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• Best films of 2014: From Boyhood to The Grand Budapest Hotel

  30-12-2014 22:00
  
  The Grand Budapest Hotel
  
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• Politics student aims to become Britain's youngest MP

  30-12-2014 21:59
  
  A politics student could become the country’s youngest MP after being selected to contest a seat for Labour in next year’s general election.
  
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• Tony Blair doubts Ed Miliband can win 2015 general election

  30-12-2014 21:58
  
  Former Labour PM claims public opinion has not shifted left and ‘a traditional leftwing party’ always loses to rightwing party Tony Blair has cast doubt on the likelihood of Labour leader Ed Miliband winning the next election, saying it could well be a contest that repeats previous Conservative victories against a traditional leftwing party. Continue reading...
  
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• Pilot praised for safe landing of Virgin Atlantic flight insists 'I was just doing my job'

  30-12-2014 21:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE PILOT of a Virgin Atlantic plane hailed as a "hero" after he was forced to make an emergency landing yesterday insisted "I was just doing my job".
  
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• Virgin Atlantic Flight VS43 Q&A: How close did the aircraft come to disaster?

  30-12-2014 21:51
  
  More than 400 Virgin Atlantic passengers were arriving at Las Vegas tonight almost 24 hours late. They will have been glad to have arrived at all, however, after an emergency landing back at Gatwick due to faulty landing gear.
  
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• Charities suffer as banks seek to avoid funding terrorists

  30-12-2014 21:43
  
  Charities have seen millions of pounds intended for refugees and overseas projects blocked under anti-terrorism measures designed to prevent aid cash falling into the hands of Isis and other extremist groups, a report has warned.
  
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• Toddler accidentally shoots woman dead in Idaho Wal-Mart

  30-12-2014 21:20
  
  A woman has been shot dead by a 2-year-old in a Wal-Mart store in Idaho.
  
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• Toddler accidentally shoots mother dead in Idaho Wal-Mart

  30-12-2014 21:20
  
  A woman has been shot dead by her 2-year-old son in a Wal-Mart store in Idaho.
  
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• Two men arrested for terrorism offences in police dawn raids

  30-12-2014 21:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  POLICE have carried out dawn raids to arrest two men on suspicion of terrorism-related offences.
  
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• Man in hospital after escalator fall

  30-12-2014 21:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man is injured falling from an escalator in a department store in south-west London.
  
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• Bank 'sorry' for £59k overcharge

  30-12-2014 21:03
  
  A father-of-two who was overcharged by more than £59,000 while using a debit card to buy wrapping paper has received an apology from his bank.
  
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• Award-winning gardener threatened with jail after tormenting neighbours for five years

  30-12-2014 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AN AWARD-WINNING village gardener has been threatened with jail for tormenting neighbours she claims are jealous of her green fingers.
  
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• Ebola in UK: Infected nurse's diary reveals sadness and stress of treating sick patients

  30-12-2014 20:53
  
  Before she left for Sierra Leone to work on the front line of the fight against Ebola, Pauline Cafferkey admitted to having “a certain element of fear” about the task. But the dangerous nature of her job did not deter her from her work, which she said later became “all-consuming” and even haunted her dreams.
  
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• Congressman Steve Scalise says he 'regrets' addressing white supremacist group

  30-12-2014 20:53
  
  The Republican Party is trying to refuse a racially-charged controversy after a senior congressman admitted addressing a meeting of white supremacists more than a decade ago
  
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• Ebola Nurse Could Be Given Blood From Survivor

  30-12-2014 20:52
  
  A nurse being treated for Ebola at a London hospital could be given blood donations from survivor Will Pooley to overcome the deadly virus.
  
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• Maritime murders? Justice for the 2,000 sailors who go missing each year

  30-12-2014 20:49
  
  Harshaka Fernando was last seen alive when he reported late for duty (following a 21-hour shift) on the Taiwanese fishing boat he had been working on for nine months.
  
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