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• Can rescue act Pulis save West Brom from drop?

  09-01-2015 23:49
  
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• A testing week for the NHS

  09-01-2015 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hugh Pym reviews the latest woes besetting the NHS
  
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• 'Evil' Cleric Abu Hamza Sentenced To Life

  09-01-2015 23:30
  
  A New York judge has told radical preacher Abu Hamza he is "evil" as she sentenced him to life in prison for supporting terrorist organisations.
  
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• Tories vow to toughen strike laws

  09-01-2015 23:15
  
  Conservatives will legislate to make it more difficult for unions to call strikes in key public services if they win this year's election.
  
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• BBC under fire for banning depictions of the Prophet Mohammed

  09-01-2015 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BROADCASTER David Dimbleby’s claim that the BBC banned depictions of the Prophet Mohammed led to criticism of the corporation yesterday.
  
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• Theresa May pleased Abu Hamza 'where he belongs' after being sentenced to ... - Western Morning News

  09-01-2015 22:21 via westernmorningnews.co.uk
  
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  Home Secretary Theresa May has welcomed the news that Abu Hamza is "finally where he belongs" after the radical cleric was jailed for life by a US court. Mrs May said tonight: "I am pleased that Abu Hamza has finally faced justice. He used every ...
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• Charlie Hebdo: Al-Qaeda in Yemen claims it ordered attack in line with Osama bin Laden's 'warnings'

  09-01-2015 22:14
  
  Al-Qaeda in Yemen has claimed it directed attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in line with "warnings" made by Osama bin Laden before his death.
  
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• Martin Rowson on Charlie Hebdo – cartoon

  09-01-2015 22:08
  
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• David Moyes exclusive: Mingling with Moyes after Real Sociedad beat Barcelona

  09-01-2015 22:00
  
  The Estadion de Anoeta looms out of the San Sebastian twilight like a rusting blue-and-white battleship. Around it, a throng of football supporters in the thickly barred home kit of Real Sociedad mills and weaves through frustrated car drivers.
  
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• France on alert as sieges end

  09-01-2015 21:54
  
  French President Francois Hollande has called on the country to "remain vigilant" as the hostage crisis which started at the Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre came to a bloody end with the loss of at least 20 lives.
  
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• Kenya plan to ban or jail coaches and agents of doping athletes

  09-01-2015 21:37
  
  • Isaiah Kiplagat, president of Athletics Kenya: agents can go to jail
  • Spate of country’s athletes caught doping includes Rita JeptooKenya’s athletics chief Isaiah Kiplagat has revealed agents or coaches could be banned for life and even face prison sentences if their athletes are found guilty of doping.Kiplagat, the president of governing body Athletics Kenya, announced new measures in an effort to combat the use of banned substances. Continue reading...
  
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• Did the Golden Globes website just spoil the show?

  09-01-2015 21:33
  
  Official website appears to announce civil rights drama as winner of outstanding motion picture more than two days before ceremonyEvery awards show includes that little part where some man in a suit from an accounting agency comes out to tell everyone that the votes and results have not been tampered with. But did the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the cabal of foreign entertainment journalists that runs the Golden Globes, already give the team that designs their website the winners of Sun
  
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• After Charlie Hebdo attack, do spy agencies need more powers?

  09-01-2015 21:09
  
  And if it is the case that more surveillance powers are required, what should Whitehall demand in terms of extra oversight?The timing of the speech by the head of MI5, Andrew Parker may have looked cynical: a call for more surveillance powers for the intelligence agencies on Thursday, the day after the attack on Charlie Hebdo’s office. In fact, Parker had long planned this speech and almost all of it had been written, other than a few paragraphs, before the gruesome events unfurled in ParisBut
  
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• Andraé Crouch: Oscar-nominated gospel performer who worked with Michael Jackson, Diana Ross and Madonna

  09-01-2015 21:07
  
  Andraé Crouch was a gospel singer, songwriter and choir director whose work graced songs by Michael Jackson and Madonna and films such as The Lion King.
  
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• Rod Taylor: Actor with suave yet rugged good looks best known for his lead roles in 'The Birds' and 'The Time Machine'

  09-01-2015 21:06
  Though he never had the starry cachet of Cary Grant, Rock Hudson or James Garner, the good looks of Rod Taylor, at once suave and rugged, made him an ideal leading man both for romantic comedies and action films.
  
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• Tackling terror 'national priority'

  09-01-2015 21:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tackling terrorism is the UK's "national priority" and security services will get all the resources they need to keep the country safe, Chancellor George Osborne says.
  
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• Gunman holding hostages at jewellery shop in French city of Montpellier

  09-01-2015 21:05
  
  A third hostage crisis is underway in France this evening after a gunman locked himself inside a jewellery shop he had tried to rob with two members of staff.
  
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• Circle pulls plug on hospital deal and sparks storm over private firms in NHS

  09-01-2015 21:01
  
  Company blames cuts and surge in A&E patients, as ministers face pressure after report attacks poor care at HinchingbrookeThe company behind Britain’s first privately run hospital has announced that it plans to pull out of its contract to run the Cambridgeshire facility, triggering a political row about the role of private companies in the NHS.Circle Holdings issued a statement to the London Stock Exchange blaming its decision to pull out of running Hinchingbrooke on funding cuts of 10% th
  
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• Ray McFall: Accountant who took over the Cavern club and gave the Beatles the break that set them on course to rule the world

  09-01-2015 20:55
  We only have to write the words “the Cavern”, and everybody reading this newspaper will know what is meant.
  
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• Neil MacGregor: The director of the British Museum is acclaimed and coveted the world over. How long can we hang on to him?

  09-01-2015 20:53
  The overshadowing of Angela Merkel’s visit to the British Museum on Wednesday was inescapable.
  
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• Killer patient will never go free

  09-01-2015 20:50
  
  A paranoid schizophrenic double-murderer who brutally killed a healthcare assistant to avoid being sent to a tougher no-smoking mental care unit with no wi-fi will never be released, a judge ruled today.
  
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• Aer Lingus rejects takeover bid

  09-01-2015 20:49
  
  A fresh attempt by the owner of British Airways to buy Aer Lingus has been rejected by the board of the Dublin-based carrier, it emerged tonight.
  
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• How satellite imagery may finally uncover the tomb of Genghis Khan

  09-01-2015 20:48
  
  When Genghis Khan died, he didn’t want to be found.
  
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• Muslims in Europe fear anti-Islamic mood will intensify after Paris attacks

  09-01-2015 20:45
  
  Anti-immigrant politicians from Germany to Sweden citing Charlie Hebdo killings as support for their positionIn mosques across Germany on Friday prayers were dedicated to the victims of the Paris terror attacks. And next week members from Germany’s 900 mosque communities will be invited to take part in candlelit vigils in their memory.“We will ask God to give his rich blessing to all victims of terror and violence,” Bekir Alboga, head of inter-religious dialogue for the Turkish-Islamic Uni
  
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• Abu Hamza sentenced to life in prison on US terrorism conviction

  09-01-2015 20:45
  
  Radical cleric given two consecutive life sentences with no possibility of release after conviction on charges related to kidnapping of 16 tourist in YemenRadical cleric Abu Hamza was sentenced to life imprisonment with no possibility of release by a US federal court on Friday. He was given two consecutive life sentences and five to 15 years on nine other counts.
  Hamza was convicted in May 2014 of 11 terrorism-related charges, including his involvement in the 1998 kidnapping of 16 tourists in
  
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• Paris shootings: what we know so far

  09-01-2015 20:42
  
  French police are closing in on the suspected gunmen involved in the shootings at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris
  
  • Charlie Hebdo shooting: Friday’s developments• Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, who had been on the run since the shooting at the Charlie Hebdo offices on Wednesday which claimed 12 lives, were killed when armed special forces stormed the building where they had held a hostage since early on Friday.• The three-day terror incident came to a dramatic end just before 4
  
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• VIDEO: Scotland hit by winds over 100mph

  09-01-2015 20:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hurricane-force gusts have caused travel disruption and left tens of thousands of homes without power across Scotland.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo attack: Hollande confirms four killed in Paris – live updates

  09-01-2015 20:37
  
  Gunmen besieged outside city and in Paris are killed
  Police storm buildings in raids to free hostages
  French president: ‘unity is our best weapon’France hostage situations: what we know so far
  7.37pm GMT Hollande’s predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy, has said in a press release: War has been declared on France, on her institutions, on the Republic, by savages who negate the very existence of civilization and the universal values of humanism.This tragic situation has called upon each of us to res
  
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• Charlie Hebdo attacks: A network of dissidents stretches from Algeria to Finsbury Park

  09-01-2015 20:37
  
  Links have begun to emerge between the Islamists involved in France’s two deadly sieges, pointing towards the chilling scenario of a well-planned jihad in the heart of Europe.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo attacks: A complex network of dissidents stretches from Algeria to Finsbury Park

  09-01-2015 20:37
  
  Links have begun to emerge between the Islamists involved in France’s two deadly sieges, pointing towards the chilling scenario of a well-planned jihad in the heart of Europe.
  
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• Witnesses claim 2,000 people were killed in a Boko Haram assault that destroyed a town

  09-01-2015 20:37
  
  Two thousand men, women and children may have died in Boko Haram’s latest blood-letting in Nigeria’s north-east. Those, at least, are the claims.
  
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• London men’s fashion week kicks off with news of John Galliano’s return

  09-01-2015 20:36
  
  London Collections: Men includes Topman and McQueen – but Galliano’s womenswear show for Margiela is key talking pointLondon’s men’s fashion week began on Friday, but unusually for the four-day event, one of the key talking points is an off-schedule womenswear show: John Galliano’s first collection for Maison Martin Margiela, which is being shown on Monday.There is no official word from Margiela on why the designer is staging such a high profile presentation during the London Collectio
  
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• How much damage has Evans saga done?

  09-01-2015 20:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How much damage has the Ched Evans saga done?
  
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• Cyprus Airways shuts down after order to repay state aid leaves it bankrupt

  09-01-2015 20:35
  
  At 9pm local time on Friday, Cyprus Airways flight 337 from Athens touched down at Larnaca airport - the final landing for an airline established 68 years ago.
  
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• Cyprus Airways closes down

  09-01-2015 20:35
  
  The national airline of Cyprus has shut down, jeopardising the plans of thousands of British travellers. Cyprus Airways had been ordered to repay €100m in state aid by the European Commission, which ruled the subsidy broke competition rules.
  
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• London cleric Abu Hamza sentenced to life in U.S. prison

  09-01-2015 20:34
  
  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - The radical London cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was sentenced to life in a U.S. prison on Friday for his conviction on terrorism-related charges, including his role in the 1998 kidnapping of Western tourists in Yemen that left four hostages dead. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan imposed the sentence on the one-eyed, handless Abu Hamza, whom jurors found guilty last May of providing a satellite phone and advice to the kidnappers. ...
  
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• Charlie Hebdo attacks: Cornered and then killed, the last stand of the fugitive brothers

  09-01-2015 20:34
  
  The attack on France and its values that began in the blood-splattered offices of a satirical magazine played out part of its final act in a printworks tonight as the two brothers sought for the Charlie Hebdo shooting were cornered and shot dead. They had told police: “We want to die as martyrs.”
  
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• Charlie Hebdo suspects and third gunman killed in twin police raids

  09-01-2015 20:33
  
  Four hostages dead after French Swat teams storm printing firm in Dammartin-en-Goële and supermarket in Paris
  
  Police raids – latest updates and reactionHeavily armed French Swat teams killed all three gunmen behind Wednesday’s massacre at the magazine Charlie Hebdo and Thursday’s murder of a young policewoman in two near-simultaneous assaults as dusk fell on Friday.The safe release of some of the hostages in “difficult and oppressive circumstances” was praised by the interior min
  
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• Storm disrupts power and travel

  09-01-2015 20:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hurricane-force gusts cause widespread travel disruption and leave tens of thousands of homes without power in Scotland.
  
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• Tree falls on bus carrying children

  09-01-2015 20:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Strong winds brings tree crashing down on bus carrying schoolchildren as the weather causes travel disruption on the roads across Wales and force some ferries to be cancelled.
  
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• George Osborne gives extra £100m to security services to monitor returned jihadists

  09-01-2015 20:27
  
  The security services have been given an extra £100m to monitor potential jihadists returning from Syria and Iraq, George Osborne disclosed today.
  
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• Four hostages and gunman killed as police act swiftly to end store siege in central Paris

  09-01-2015 20:25
  
  An elite police unit has stormed a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris and killed a gunman who was holding several hostages, including several women and children.
  
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• NHS staff ‘unsocial hours’ payments under threat

  09-01-2015 20:23
  
  Department of Health proposes radical cost-cutting changes to shift-patterns of staff in EnglandNHS staff in England could lose their extra “unsocial hours” payments for working Saturdays and Sundays, under radical changes to shift-patterns aimed at keeping down the costs of running 24/7 health services.The move is among options being considered to bring about a big reduction in night and weekend pay made under “archaic and out-of-line” contracts. A Department of Health submission to the
  
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• Vince Cable apologises for not declaring £6,000 donation in the form of polling

  09-01-2015 20:21
  
  Business secretary breached rules by failing to declare donation-in-kind from former Liberal Democrat peer Lord OakeshottVince Cable, the business secretary, has been forced to apologise for failing to declare a donation-in-kind of private polling worth £6,000 commissioned by former Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott into Cable’s popularity in his constituency of Twickenham.The polling first came to light in May 2014 when it was leaked to the Guardian alongside other polls commissioned
  
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• The Guardian view on Circle and Hinchingbrooke: a failure that casts a shadow over the whole Tory agenda

  09-01-2015 20:18
  
  Withdrawal from the contract coincides with the worst recorded figures for accident and emergencyThe first thing to say about the collapse of Circle’s pioneering contract to manage Hinchingbrooke district hospital in Cambridgeshire is that it must be desperately worrying for patients and staff alike. Even though the Care Quality Commission found that the hospital was “inadequate” across the board, including care and safety – which probably precipitated Circle’s decision to pull ou
  
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• Charlie Hebdo: Paris attack brothers' campaign of terror can be traced back to Algeria in 1954

  09-01-2015 20:17
  
  Algeria. Long before the identity of the murder suspects was revealed by the French police – even before I heard the names of Cherif and Said Kouachi – I muttered the word “Algeria” to myself. As soon as I heard the names and saw the faces, I said the word “Algeria” again. And then the French police said the two men were of “Algerian origin”.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo: Even before I knew their names, I had a feeling the murderers might be Algerian

  09-01-2015 20:17
  
  Algeria. Long before the identity of the murder suspects was revealed by the French police – even before I heard the names of Cherif and Said Kouachi – I muttered the word “Algeria” to myself. As soon as I heard the names and saw the faces, I said the word “Algeria” again. And then the French police said the two men were of “Algerian origin”.
  
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• ‘Inadequate’ Hinchingbrooke hospital to be put in special measures

  09-01-2015 20:16
  
  Care Quality Commission publishes scathing report revealing catalogue of serious failings at privately run hospitalHinchingbrooke hospital will be placed into special measures after a report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) revealed a catalogue of serious failings at the privately run hospital, including in its A&E unit, which put patients in danger and delayed their pain relief.Circle, the private company in charge of Hinchingbrooke, told the stock exchange earlier that the CQC’s repo
  
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• Abu Hamza gets life in prison on U.S. terrorism conviction

  09-01-2015 20:15
  
  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Radical imam Abu Hamza al-Masri was sentenced to life in prison on Friday, eight months after he was convicted of federal terrorism charges in New York. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan imposed the sentence on the one-eyed, handless Abu Hamza, whom jurors had found guilty of providing a satellite phone and advice to Yemeni militants who kidnapped Western tourists in 1998, leading to the deaths of four hostages. ...
  
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• The Guardian view on surveillance after Paris

  09-01-2015 20:13
  
  This week has not reset the basic arguments about security and privacy. Britain still needs the debate that the agencies would rather not haveWith two hostage crises playing out in parallel, one given an especially sinister dimension by the targeting of a kosher supermarket, today’s pictures from Paris underlined a jihadi threat that is ugly and real. Before the standoffs reached their bloody climax, it was reported that one of the Charlie Hebdo gunmen had trained with militants in Yemen. A li
  
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