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• Manchester City won’t let Chelsea get away again, says James Milner

  05-01-2015 23:43
  
  • City are level with Chelsea at top of Premier League
  • Sergio Agüero returns to training after injury absence
  • Milner’s double sinks brave Sheffield WednesdayJames Milner believes Manchester City can open up a lead on Chelsea in the Premier League title race before the showdown at Stamford Bridge on 31 January.Milner scored twice in Sunday’s 2-1 FA Cup home win over Sheffield Wednesday – an 11th win in 12 outings in all competitions for the champions. Continue reading...
  
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• Surge in Cuban migrants heading to US by sea since diplomatic breakthrough

  05-01-2015 23:40
  
  Coast guard attributes spike to unfounded fear of an end to ‘wet-foot-dry foot policy’, which often shields Cubans from deportation if they reach US shoresCuban dissidents arrested before free-speech demonstration in Havana
  Detente with US has Cubans worried about special immigration privilegesThe number of Cuban migrants attempting to reach the US in rafts has surged since the two countries announced they would restore diplomatic relations after 50 years, coast guard officials said on Monda
  
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• Commons rising

  05-01-2015 23:33
  
  The House of Commons rose today at 10.30pm.
  
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• AFC Wimbledon vs Liverpool FA Cup third round match report: Steven Gerrard’s touches of enduring class tame The Beast

  05-01-2015 23:32
  When Steven Gerrard arrives in the US, and is asked who else might be worth luring Stateside, he just might volunteer the name Adebayo Akinfenwa. “The Beast” may look more like a linebacker than a footballer but the Wimbledon No.10 is a cult hero wherever he goes who can play a bit too.
  
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• Wreck of Cemfjord cargo ship found

  05-01-2015 23:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The wreck of the cargo ship Cemfjord, which sank in the Pentland Firth with eight men on board, is located on the seabed.
  
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• Broadchurch series 2 episode 1 TV review: David Tennant and Olivia Colman return to the town that lost its innocence

  05-01-2015 23:25
  Why is Joe Miller pleading not guilty? Is he guilty? Is Lee Ashworth guilty in the Sandbrook murders? What did happen in Sandbrook? These are the questions newly tormenting a nation after the second series of Broadchurch began on ITV. In charge of answering at least some of them were the reunited detectives DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) and DI Alec Hardy (David Tennant), still a double act to be reckoned with, even after all this time.
  
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• May launches Serious Crime Bill

  05-01-2015 23:25
  
  Serious and organised crime in Britain must be fought on many fronts, Theresa May has told MPs as she launched new legislation to crack down on offenders in the Commons.
  
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• Kilmarnock 0-2 Celtic

  05-01-2015 23:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Celtic move to within a point of leaders Aberdeen as Emilo Izaguirre and Stefan Scepovic secure victory at Kilmarnock.
  
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• Nick Clegg threatens government with defeat on counter-terrorism bill

  05-01-2015 23:14
  
  Lib Dem leader says that the support Theresa May needs will not be there unless judicial oversight is written inA fresh coalition row has broken out after Nick Clegg told the home secretary, Theresa May, that she will face a parliamentary defeat on the government’s counter-terrorism bill unless judges are given oversight of plans to impose temporary exclusion orders on some terrorist suspects returning to Britain.As MPs prepare to debate the counter-terrorism and security bill at its penultima
  
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• Police pull man over for drunkenly riding space hopper down dual carriageway in Dundee

  05-01-2015 23:09
  
  Police have pulled over a man for drunkenly riding a space hopper down a dual carriageway in Dundee.
  
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• Clegg challenge over NHS funding

  05-01-2015 23:03
  
  Nick Clegg threw down a pre-election gauntlet to the other parties on the NHS by committing the Liberal Democrats to plugging a £30 billion NHS funding black hole.
  
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• Liverpool indebted to ageless Steven Gerrard to see off AFC Wimbledon

  05-01-2015 23:03
  
  • How it happened: read Jacob Steinberg’s minute-by-minute report
  • In pictures: AFC Wimbledon v Liverpool
  They did everything except muzzle Steven Gerrard. AFC Wimbledon brought us a nice line in nostalgia in the way they set about trying to dismantle their opponents. They had posters outside advertising tickets against Carlisle, Accrington Stanley and Newport County, yet Liverpool were given a genuine fright by a club with a player in attack known as “Beast” and a queue of offici
  
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• AFC Wimbledon 1-2 Liverpool

  05-01-2015 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Steven Gerrard scores twice as Liverpool avoid an FA Cup third-round scare at League Two side AFC Wimbledon.
  
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• Burnley’s Sam Vokes returns in time to earn FA Cup replay with Tottenham

  05-01-2015 22:55
  
  It was a contest only Sam Vokes will remember with any fondness. There was nothing to separate Burnley and Tottenham Hotspur at Turf Moor and even less to savour yet it produced a milestone in the career of a striker sidelined for the past nine months by a cruciate injury. His instinctive finish denied Spurs a place in round four and brought further congestion to Mauricio Pochettino’s already cluttered calendar.Vokes came off the bench for only the second time since rupturing his cruciate agai
  
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• Broadchurch series two: what did you think of the opening episode?

  05-01-2015 22:55
  
  David Tennant and Olivia Colman returned in the new series of Broadchurch on ITV. Tell us whether the opening episode of season two lived up to your expectations Continue reading...
  
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• AFC Wimbledon v Liverpool: FA Cup – as it happened

  05-01-2015 22:53
  
  Steven Gerrard’s brace settled a thoroughly enjoyable tie in Liverpool’s favour and sent them into the fourth round of the FA Cup at the expense of AFC Wimbledon, who performed commendably Continue reading...
  
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• Burnley vs Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup third round match report: Magic of the Cup finally shines through as Sam Vokes secures replay

  05-01-2015 22:46
  
  If you wanted any further evidence that the FA Cup is dying, it came not with the sight of the competition being spread out over four days or the constant, desperate harking back to the golden age of It’s A Cup Final Knockout but the sight of the Jimmy McIlroy Stand, forlornly empty.
  
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• Barack Obama faces 'elitism' criticism over $1,000-for-two Hawaiian dinner

  05-01-2015 22:44
  
  Can you still aspire to be a man of the people if you sit down to a $1,000 per couple dinner?
  
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• We love the NHS! Well, we love the economy! Repeat, ad nauseam, for the next four months

  05-01-2015 22:40
  
  That was the election campaign right there. That is about all we are going to get. Repeat for four months. Labour says: “We love the NHS”. Conservatives say: “We can run the economy”. And the other parties do their funny little sideshows. Ed Miliband says he wants to talk to millions of people on the doorstep. Millions of people pretend they’re not in.
  
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• Germany anti-Islam protests: Biggest Pegida march ever in Dresden as rest of Germany shows disgust

  05-01-2015 22:40
  
  Anti-Islam demonstrators were outnumbered by 10 to one in Cologne tonight as the city’s famous cathedral turned out its lights in a symbolic protest against the Pegida movement.
  
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• VIDEO: Plane crash boy is now 'conscious'

  05-01-2015 22:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A six-year-old boy regains consciousness after surviving a plane crash in which his parents died.
  
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• Labour refuses to commit to ending squeeze on public sector pay

  05-01-2015 22:30
  
  Ed Balls says his plan to stick to coalition spending pledges may hit public sector workers and local council servicesEd Balls fought to counter the Conservatives’ “smear analysis” about Labour’s economic credibility by stressing he cannot commit his party to reversing the public sector pay freeze or scrapping council cuts in the first year after the election.The shadow chancellor spelled out the potentially unpopular consequences of his pledge not to spend more than the coalition h
  
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• European commission set to reject David Cameron’s migration demands

  05-01-2015 22:28
  
  Brussels to advise that demanding citizens have job offer before travelling to UK risks infringing one of EU’s founding principlesDavid Cameron is to be warned by the European commission that a central demand in his renegotiation of Britain’s EU membership terms is likely to be rejected as unacceptable on the grounds that it risks infringing the founding principle of the EU on the free movement of people.As the prime minister prepares to explain his plans to curb EU migration to the German c
  
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• Broadchurch series 2 plot finally revealed: Detective drama to focus on the trial of Joe Miller

  05-01-2015 22:21
  
  The new series of Broadchurch will focus on the trial of Joe Miller and proving that he killed Danny Latimer, even after his lengthy confession at the end of the first series.
  
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• Broadchurch series 2 plot finally revealed: Detective drama to focus on...

  05-01-2015 22:21
  
  The new series of Broadchurch will focus on the trial of Joe Miller and proving that he killed Danny Latimer, even after his lengthy confession at the end of the first series.
  
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• FA Cup third round: AFC Wimbledon v Liverpool – in pictures

  05-01-2015 22:21
  
  The best images from the match at the Cherry Red Records Stadium where the hosts are hoping for an upset to equal Wimbledon’s FA Cup final victory over Liverpool in 1988.Main photography by Tom Jenkins Continue reading...
  
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• Lawyer for Prince Andrew’s friend criticises ‘rehashed’ claims

  05-01-2015 22:18
  
  Buckingham Palace has issued vehement denials that the duke had ‘any form of sexual contact’ with Virginia Roberts A lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender at the centre of allegations Prince Andrew had sexual relations with an underage girl, dismissed her claims as “stale” and “rehashed”. Continue reading...
  
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• Connecticut brewery apologises for 'offensive' Gandhi beer

  05-01-2015 21:59
  
  New England Brewing Co sells an IPA called Gandhi-Bot, whose label features a cartoon of a robot version of the late Indian leader, who favored prohibitionA Connecticut brewery apologized to Indians offended that the company is using Mahatma Gandhi’s name and likeness on one of its beers.New England Brewing Co sells an India pale ale it calls Gandhi-Bot. The label features a cartoon image depicting a robot version of the late Indian leader, who favored prohibition. Continue reading...
  
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• Ed Miliband puts faith in doorstep campaign to provide keys to No 10

  05-01-2015 21:58
  
  Labour leader plans to hold challenging ‘question times’ for swing voters and Ukip supporters rather than party membersLabour may be making a political virtue out of economic necessity, but Ed Miliband began his election campaign vowing to cut through the anti-politics mood with an open, doorstep-based campaign designed to contrast with a traditional poster campaign orchestrated from Westminster by the Tories.Visibly relieved that 2015 is finally here after waiting so long for the electionee
  
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• Woman's body found at junior school

  05-01-2015 21:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three people are arrested after the body of a woman in her 20s is found in the grounds of a school in Shrewsbury.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Don’t vote Labour, they’ll put street lights back on!

  05-01-2015 21:53
  
  It all felt so exciting. The so-called electoral “air war” had begun. So much so that we were about as high as you can be in SW1 without actually flying – in a 29th-floor “dramatic space for any special event with stunning views across the capital” aptly called Altitude, where according to its owners, “incredible experiences await you”.
  
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• Chinese tightrope walker spends 72 hours on wire - video

  05-01-2015 21:52
  
  A Chinese stuntman spends 72 hours on a high-wire rope 50 metres above the ground - all without a harness. Saimaiti Aishan, who started the challenge on Thursday in Changsha, the capital of central China's Hunan Province, performs headstands, walks backwards and balances on a chair during his three-day feat. At night he hangs from a sleeping bag suspended from the wire. Aishan is a seventh generation 'Darwaz' (or tightrope) walker Continue reading...
  
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• Gay and Lesbian couples in Florida celebrate as judge says they can marry

  05-01-2015 21:30
  
  Lesbian and gay couples were married in Miami on Monday by the same judge who said she saw no reason why they could not immediately get their licenses ahead of Florida's coming-out party as the 36th US state where same-sex marriages are legal statewide.
  
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• Miliband hits back at spending claim

  05-01-2015 21:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ed Miliband says Conservative claims of unfunded spending pledges by Labour are "completely false", as he seeks to rally party supporters.
  
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• Solent rescue: More than £100 million of luxury cars could be lost on stricken cargo ship

  05-01-2015 20:55
  
  More than £100 million worth of cars including Jaguars, Minis, Land Rovers and a Rolls-Royce could be lost on a cargo ship that ran aground off the Isle of Wight.
  
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• Labour dismisses ‘dodgy Tory dossier’ on spending plans

  05-01-2015 20:53
  
  Labour leaders claimed the Conservatives’ opening shot in the general election campaign had backfired as they dismissed George Osborne’s assertion that they have run up £20.7bn of unfunded spending pledges.
  
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• FA Cup Fourth Round Draw: Who faces who in next stage of the competition

  05-01-2015 20:52
  
  The draw for the fourth round of the FA Cup is as follows:
  
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• FA Cup fourth round draw: as it happened - Telegraph.co.uk

  05-01-2015 20:49 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  FA Cup fourth round draw: as it happened
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  ... - 55 injuries to strike Manchester United - AFC Wimbledon vs Liverpool: live - Burnley vs Tottenham: live. Latest. What would be your dream FA Cup fourth round tie? Email [email protected] with all of your FA Cup thoughts. 19.43 Man City v Boro ...
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• VIDEO: 'Full review' into Ebola nurse case

  05-01-2015 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The charity Save the Children has said "no stone will be left unturned" in its investigation into how a British nurse working at an Ebola treatment centre contracted the disease.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Pity the pauper George Galloway locking horns with Graham Norton

  05-01-2015 20:48
  
  George Galloway, the ever-angry Respect MP for Bradford West, is not one to let an insult go by without retaliating.
  
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• Salvage team boards listing ship

  05-01-2015 20:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Investigators seek the reason why a car transporter ship had to be deliberately grounded in the Solent.
  
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• English teacher is Costa's top poet

  05-01-2015 20:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An English teacher from south Wales wins the Costa poetry prize for his first book, while Ali Smith's How To Be Both wins the best novel award.
  
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• Labour attacks Tory claims of £21bn spending hole as 'made up' - Financial Times

  05-01-2015 20:41 via ft.com
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  Labour attacks Tory claims of £21bn spending hole as 'made up'
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  Ed Balls has denounced the Conservative party's claim that a future Labour government would begin its first year in office with a £20.7bn funding hole, with the shadow chancellor dismissing a Tory dossier as “entirely made up”. He produced a 36-page ...
  Does Ed Miliband's election promise of four million conversations add up?The Guardian
  Labour challenged to come clean over �
  
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• Costa Book Awards: Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey wins coveted first ... - The Independent

  05-01-2015 20:35 via independent.co.uk
  
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  Costa Book Awards: Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey wins coveted first ...
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  Emma Healey's debut book about an octogenarian sleuth with dementia, which sparked a frenzied bidding war among publishers, has been named best first novel at the Costa Book Awards. Elizabeth is Missing, which was inspired by the author's ...
  Life becomes even more peachy for debut novelist with Costa prize winThe Guardian
  Ali Smith's "How to be both" takes Co
  
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• Prince Andrew sex allegations: Documents about prince’s support for Jeffrey Epstein ‘concealed’

  05-01-2015 20:34
  
  Documents that could reveal the extent of any lobbying by Prince Andrew on behalf of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are being kept out of the public eye after the millionaire financier obtained a court order declaring any such material confidential.
  
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• Most court cases in US are resolved quickly and cheaply – but not always fairly

  05-01-2015 20:33
  
  When Jeffrey Epstein first faced claims that he had abused multiple underage girls and hosted illicit sex parties for powerful men at his lavish home in Florida, onlookers might reasonably have expected him to face prison time of 10 or more years.
  
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• Russell Crowe’s answer to Hollywood sexism: act your age

  05-01-2015 20:30
  
  Hollywood’s female stars who complain they are overlooked for parts as they get older should stop expecting to play 21-year-olds and instead accept roles more suited to their age, the actor Russell Crowe has said.
  
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• Duchess of York pays glowing tribute to Prince Andrew and gives her 'full support' - Telegraph.co.uk

  05-01-2015 20:30 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  Duchess of York pays glowing tribute to Prince Andrew and gives her 'full support'
  Telegraph.co.uk
  The Duchess of York has paid a glowing tribute to her ex-husband Prince Andrew as he shut up shop over questions about claims that he “sexually abused” a 17-year-old. Speaking for the first time since the allegations agaisnt the Duke surfaced, the Duchess ...
  Prince Andrew to 'move on' after US underage sex claimsBBC News
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• Two young American ski racers die in Austrian avalanche: USSA - Reuters

  05-01-2015 20:20 via reuters.com
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  Two young American ski racers die in Austrian avalanche: USSA
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  VIENNA (Reuters) - Two young ski racers training with the U.S. development-level ski team were killed in an avalanche in the Austrian Alps on Monday, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) said on its website. Ronnie Berlack, 20, and Bryce Astle, ...
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• Taliban turns from political violence to crime as Western forces leave Afghanistan

  05-01-2015 20:15
  
  As expected, the end of combat operations by Western forces in Afghanistan has led to an upsurge in Taliban activity. But not all the fighters have been focusing on bringing back Mullah Omar and his Islamic state. Instead many are increasingly engaged in non-political criminality.
  
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