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• Sky Sources: Steven Gerrard To Quit Liverpool

  01-01-2015 23:54
  
  Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard is to leave the club at the end of the season for a move to the US, according to Sky sources.
  
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• Ebola outbreak: New Year holiday brings respite for Liberia in fight against disease

  01-01-2015 23:18
  
  Men, women and children walked slowly through the narrow alleys of Monrovia’s largest slum on Wednesday night, holding candles and chanting slogans in defiance of Ebola as they headed home from late-night church services ushering in the New Year.
  
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• Two children accused of committing rape in Greater Manchester last year, among 1000 child crime suspects

  01-01-2015 23:05
  
  Nearly 1000 children were suspected of committing crimes in Greater Manchester last year, including two children as young as seven and eight who were accused of committing rape.
  
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• Steven Gerrard to leave Liverpool: Reds captain announces he will leave club in the summer

  01-01-2015 22:57
  
  Steven Gerrard will announce tomorrow that he will leave Liverpool for a new team at the end of the season, bringing to an end a 25-year association with the Merseyside club and most likely preface a move to the MLS in America.
  
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• Steven Gerrard to leave Liverpool: Anfield captain announces he will leave club in the summer

  01-01-2015 22:57
  
  Steven Gerrard will announce tomorrow that he will leave Liverpool for a new team at the end of the season, bringing to an end a 25-year association with the Merseyside club and most likely preface a move to the MLS in America.
  
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• Steven Gerrard to leave Liverpool: Anfield captain announces decision to leave club in the summer

  01-01-2015 22:57
  
  Steven Gerrard will announce tomorrow that he will leave Liverpool for a new team at the end of the season, bringing to an end a 25-year association with the Merseyside club and most likely preface a move to the MLS in America.
  
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• Man killed in axe and knife attack

  01-01-2015 22:21
  
  A man was killed and several people were injured in an alleged knife and axe attack at a village pub.
  
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• Man arrested after grenades were thrown and weapons fired at Turkish President Erdogan's office in Istanbul

  01-01-2015 22:14
  
  A man has been arrested after a weapon was fired and grenades were thrown at the Turkish  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office in Istanbul.
  
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• Miranda finale, TV review: Perfect, heart-warming conclusion to this sitcom

  01-01-2015 22:11
  
  Tonight Miranda draws to a close with a sweet and heart-warming ending.
  
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• Miranda finale, TV review: A perfect, heart-warming conclusion to this sitcom

  01-01-2015 22:11
  
  Tonight Miranda draws to a close with a sweet and heart-warming ending.
  
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• Save on schooling: Tatler advises readers to put away wallets

  01-01-2015 21:49
  
  Spare a thought for hard-pressed Tatler readers. Among the elite canape party photos and etiquette guide reviews, the latest edition of the posh people’s periodical contains a depressing sign of the times - a list of acceptable state schools.
  
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• Key Government strategy in decline as apprenticeships fall

  01-01-2015 21:44
  
  The number of people starting Government-backed apprenticeship schemes fell by almost 70,000 last year to the lowest number since the initiative was launched.
  
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• GCHQ's 'spook first' programme to train Britain's most talented tech entrepreneurs

  01-01-2015 21:37
  
  Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ could become an incubator lab for the country’s most talented tech entrepreneurs under a government plan for a new “spook first” training programme for graduates.
  
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• Cuts threaten schemes keeping disadvantaged children out of trouble

  01-01-2015 21:23
  
  Long-term programmes to stop children from disadvantaged backgrounds falling into cycles of crime, violence and poverty are at risk from the Government’s latest swingeing austerity cuts, a leading social policy expert has warned.
  
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• Man killed and others stabbed in new year celebrations

  01-01-2015 21:12
  
  Six people were stabbed at the Belfry golf resort after new year celebrations turned violent.
  
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• High Wycombe Muslims defend town in face of terror arrests

  01-01-2015 21:06
  
  “Welcome, come in”, said Ashfaq Ahmad as two uninvited journalists suddenly appear in front of him. “Come downstairs and join us for something to eat.”
  
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• Arthur Montford: Scottish sports broadcaster

  01-01-2015 21:03
  
  South of the border, before the advent of John Motson, Barry Davies et al, the definitive voices of television football commentary were those of David Coleman and Kenneth Wolstenholme. In Scotland they belonged to Archie Macpherson, still broadcasting at 77, and Arthur Montford. From 1957 until his retirement in 1989, Montford presented more than 2,000 editions of STV’s Scotsport – invariably sporting his trademark houndstooth-check jackets – as well as contributing around 400 match comme
  
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• Luise Rainer: Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age

  01-01-2015 21:02
  
  The German actress Luise Rainer, who has died just two weeks short of her 105th birthday, was the first movie star to win the Academy Award two years running, for her performances in The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937). She later stated, “Nothing worse could have happened to me”, and her film career was virtually over two years later, the public tiring of her teary winsomeness – she was dubbed “The Viennese Teardrop” – while her fiery personality and strong views led
  
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• Leo Tindemans: former Belgian Prime Minister

  01-01-2015 21:02
  
  Former Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tindemans was a fixture in his home country’s politics from the 1960s onwards, but his influence extended far further as one of Europe’s grandees whose ideas and application gave the emerging European Union direction and unity.
  
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• Esio Trot, BBC1 - TV review: A gloopy Dahl for grown-ups

  01-01-2015 21:00
  
  January’s meagre rations can come as a relief after a fortnight of eating advent calendar chocolate for breakfast, and similarly we’ll be glad to get back to the normal TV scheduling after all the saccharine telly treats of New Year. Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot (BBC1) was an adaptation of his tortoise tale that never quite emerged from its shell.
  
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• Cancer causes: Bad luck – not lifestyle or genes – to blame

  01-01-2015 21:00
  
  Most cases of cancer are the result of sheer bad luck – not unhealthy lifestyles, diet or even inherited genes, new research suggests today.
  
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• Tottenham vs Chelsea match report: Harry Kane double helps Tottenham put five past Jose Mourinho's Chelsea

  01-01-2015 20:38
  If the afternoon had started badly for Chelsea with Frank Lampard’s second match-winning goal of the season for their title rivals Manchester City, then it was safe to say that it was about to get a lot worse. Jose Mourinho has never before lost a game to Tottenham Hotspur and this was some way to have his record broken.
  
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• Leading French economist Thomas Piketty turns down Légion d’Honneur

  01-01-2015 20:29
  
  The high-profile economist, Thomas Piketty, has joined a select band of French men and women who have refused to accept their country’s highest civilian honour.
  
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• How the Rich Kids of Instagram spent the holiday season

  01-01-2015 20:29
  
  While you may have splashed out on some cut-price champagne to celebrate the holiday season and ring in the New Year, the children of the super-rich were sipping from magnums of champagne on yachts – and aren’t afraid to flaunt their wealth on social media.
  
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• Retrial for Al Jazeera journalists: The 'gates of hope' may have opened, but the media is still shut out of Egypt

  01-01-2015 20:26
  
  Yes, but. That’s the only way to react to the news from Cairo. Yes, it’s good news there’s to be a retrial of the three Al Jazeera journos fraudulently banged up in Cairo’s Tora prison for more than a year.
  
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• State cannot handle ‘thousands’ of child abuse cases, MP warns

  01-01-2015 20:21
  
  The state will be unable to deal with tens of thousands of people who are likely to come forward to complain of historic child abuse, an MP claims.
  
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• Don't forget suffering - Archbishop

  01-01-2015 20:16
  
  The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged people not to let the Ebola crisis or war in areas such as South Sudan "slip from our minds" as he issued a new year message.
  
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• Kathy Taylor: Mother who declined cancer treatment to try and save baby dies on New Year's Eve

  01-01-2015 20:14
  
  A woman who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer when she was pregnant and declined treatment in an attempt to try and save the child, died on New Year’s Eve.
  
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• Nightclub nightmare as SIX are STABBED during Belfry New Year celebrations

  01-01-2015 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  POLICE have made three arrests after SIX people were viciously stabbed during a New Year celebration at the famous Belfry resort, in Warwickshire.
  
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• Archbishop Justin Welby invokes generosity of Britons helping in Ebola zone

  01-01-2015 20:13
  
  The Archbishop of Canterbury invoked the British spirit of generosity as he urged the nation to ensure that people suffering in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa are remembered and cared for in the coming year.
  
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• China New Year's Eve crush: Police seek to identify victims of stampede

  01-01-2015 20:11
  
  Worried relatives streamed into hospitals today, desperate for information about missing loved ones after a stampede during New Year celebrations in Shanghai’s historic waterfront area killed at least 36 people and injured scores of others.
  
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• Most cancer cases 'due to bad luck'

  01-01-2015 20:00
  
  Most cases of cancer are the result of sheer bad luck rather than unhealthy lifestyles, diet or even inherited genes, new research suggests.
  
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• Culture snub: Regions at risk as London enjoys funding

  01-01-2015 19:57
  
  Lottery funding for the arts in London should be frozen for five years and used to prevent “cultural devastation” in the regions, according to one arts grandee who added that England was a “divided country”.
  
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• David Attenborough: Leaders are in denial about climate change

  01-01-2015 19:45
  
  Sir David Attenborough is calling on global leaders to step-up their actions to curb climate change, saying that they are in denial about the dangers it poses despite the overwhelming evidence about its risks.
  
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• Police urge people to come forward as deadly ecstasy batch kills THREE in Suffolk

  01-01-2015 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  POLICE have appealed for members of the public to come forward after confirming the deaths of THREE men could be linked to a fatal Superman 'batch of ecstasy'.
  
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• Ecstasy warning after three deaths

  01-01-2015 19:32
  
  Police believe the deaths of three men could be linked to a dangerous batch of drugs.
  
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• Report pours cold water on ‘ice bucket’ charity funding

  01-01-2015 19:32
  
  It was the hit charity campaign of last year: pour a bucket of ice-cold water over your head, film it, then nominate friends to do the same – all in the name of giving.
  
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• 'Stampy Cat' - cartoon that's bigger than Bieber earns new stamping ground

  01-01-2015 19:30
  
  Working from his bedroom in his parents’ house in Hampshire, 23-year-old Joseph Garrett may appear, on the face of it, not that different from any other computer-mad wannabe animator.
  
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• Three Dead Amid Fears Of Bad Ecstasy Batch

  01-01-2015 19:09
  
  Three people have died and one person is in hospital as police warn of a "dangerous batch of drugs" - believed to be ecstasy.
  
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• Coleraine firm creates 17 new jobs

  01-01-2015 19:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An insurance company has announced it is creating 17 new jobs in Coleraine, County Londonderry.
  
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• Homeless Veterans Appeal: A vital stepping stone to get veterans back on their feet

  01-01-2015 19:01
  
  Louis Boyle has experienced first-hand the pain of homelessness. The 47-year-old, who joined the Army in 1986 at the age of 18 and served for five years, including in Northern Ireland, was brought up in care in Middlesbrough and began drinking heavily from a young age, continuing to do so during his military career. With no family to turn to when he left the services, he ended up on the streets.
  
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• Sea absorbs more radiation as Arctic ice fades

  01-01-2015 19:01
  
  The dangers of melting Arctic sea ice have been laid bare after new research suggests that the loss of huge areas of the ocean’s snow cover have made a significant contribution to global warming in the past 15 years.
  
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• Leelah Alcorn suicide: petition calls for transgender teenager's chosen name to be used on her tombstone

  01-01-2015 18:41
  
  A petition calling for the family of Leelah Alcorn to use her chosen name on her headstone has attracted more than 50,000 supporters.
  
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• 'Tens Of Thousands' Historical Child Abuse Cases

  01-01-2015 18:40
  
  The number of historic claims of sexual abuse against children is likely to reach "tens of thousands", an MP has warned.
  
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• Kate Gross: Adviser to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown who became a dynamic leader of the Africa Governance Initiative

  01-01-2015 18:37
  Kate Gross was a former private secretary to Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, before leaving to become the founding chief executive of the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), a charity set up by Blair which works to “provide practical advice and support” to rebuild structures of Government in post-conflict African states.
  
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• Tastiest food trends for 2015

  01-01-2015 18:29
  
  Back in the Eighties, every household had a bottle of Cinzano Bianco stashed in the drinks cabinet. But vermouth fell out of fashion, demoted to little more than a cocktail ingredient. Now, it’s making a comeback.
  
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• The mystery of Marsha Mehran - the best-selling young novelist who died a recluse in a rubbish-strewn cottage on Ireland’s windswept west coast

  01-01-2015 18:10
  From the moment of her arrival in Lecanvey, Marsha Mehran cut a solitary figure.
  
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• EU could launch European TV channel to combat 'aggressive' Russian propaganda

  01-01-2015 18:05
  
  The UK is among European Union (EU) member states to have informally backed a Russian-language TV station run by the bloc, to combat “very aggressive” propaganda in Russian media, according a senior Latvian politician.
  
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• Nigel Farage says he will do dry January for his 'unpredictable' New Year's resolution

  01-01-2015 18:00
  
  While David Cameron promised more austerity and Ed Miliband said he would bring the economic recovery to people’s tables, Nigel Farage has revealed his own New Year’s resolution – to do dry January.
  
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• Manchester City 3-2 Sunderland

  01-01-2015 17:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Substitute Frank Lampard heads a dramatic winner as Manchester City beat Sunderland to go level on points with leaders Chelsea.
  
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