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• Top Gear 'not trusted by BBC' says show's executive producer Andy Wilman

  16-01-2015 23:59
  
  Top Gear’s executive producer has said the BBC “does not trust” the show’s staff, after it was embroiled in controversy last year.
  
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• Swansea City vs Chelsea: 'Chelsea face FA double standards,' says Jose Mourinho

  16-01-2015 23:30
  
  Jose Mourinho has renewed his attack on what he regards as the double standards in the Football Association’s disciplinary system, claiming that he and Chelsea are treated differently and that if he were to push a fellow manager on the touchline he would be subject to a stadium ban.
  
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• Manchester City vs Arsenal preview: Can Alexis Sanchez turn the tide that has flowed against Arsenal for so long?

  16-01-2015 23:30
  At last, a player who escaped Manchester City’s clutches and only had eyes for Arsenal. Arsène Wenger has seen Emmanuel Adebayor, Kolo Touré, Samir Nasri, Gaël Clichy and Bacary Sagna – collective cost £72m – lured away from the Emirates to the Etihad on the promise of Abu Dhabi gold in the last five years, but Alexis Sanchez is the one whom City missed out on twice before he said yes to the Gunners.
  
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• Louis van Gaal raps Radamel Falcao agent Jorge Mendes for 'unhelpful' comments

  16-01-2015 23:30
  
  Louis van Gaal, the Manchester United manager, has said that remarks by Radamel Falcao’s agent Jorge Mendes, questioning the game-time his client has been given, are unhelpful and that “if a player cost £95m or £5,000” he must still prove himself.
  
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• Cameron's Anti-Terror Plan Rings Alarm Bells

  16-01-2015 23:29
  
  David Cameron's had a rough ride on both sides of the Atlantic with his plans to ban encrypted communications. Reactions included "colossally stupid", "idiotic" and "technologically illiterate" from former White House cyber officials to people in the digital technology industry.
  
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• Will the UK and Pakistan co-operate on security interests?

  16-01-2015 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The divisions facing Pakistan and the UK on security issues
  
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• Rangers fans protest against board

  16-01-2015 23:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of Rangers fans gather outside the main door of Ibrox Stadium to protest against the club's board.
  
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• US Supreme Court to hear cases on same-sex marriage

  16-01-2015 23:16
  
  In what could provide the final inflection point in what has become the civil rights struggle of the age for America, the US Supreme Court announced tonight that it will take up a case about same-sex marriage rights this spring with the promise to deliver a ruling before its current session ends in June.
  
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• Heavy snowfall causes transport woes

  16-01-2015 23:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Heavy snowfall across southern and central Scotland on Friday evening leads to long delays on major transport networks.
  
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• VIDEO: Submachine gun plot trio convicted

  16-01-2015 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three people have been told they face long jail terms after being found guilty of involvement in a plot to import submachine guns.
  
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• Pearce not a great coach - Mills

  16-01-2015 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nottingham Forest boss Stuart Pearce is "not a great coach, tactician or motivator", says ex-England defender Danny Mills.
  
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• NI Water warns of more disruption

  16-01-2015 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland Water has said disruption to supplies over the weekend is likely as a result of ongoing industrial action by trade unions.
  
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• UK weather: Swathes of the nation hit by sub-zero temperatures

  16-01-2015 22:38
  
  Swathes of the UK will be plunged into sub-zero temperatures tonight, with officials warning that the severe cold weather could put vulnerable people at risk.
  
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• Leicester 40-23 Scarlets

  16-01-2015 22:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Leicester keep alive their slim hopes of reaching the Champions Cup knockout stages with a bonus-point win over Scarlets.
  
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• Man wanted over attack on woman, 83

  16-01-2015 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police release a photograph of a man they are searching for after an 83-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in Manchester.
  
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• Man Charged Over South Oxfordshire Fires

  16-01-2015 22:28
  
  A 47-year-old man has been charged in connection with a series of alleged arson attacks in south Oxfordshire. A council office, a funeral parlour and a thatched cottage were all set on fire.
  
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• Arson spree suspect charged by police

  16-01-2015 22:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man is charged with arson after a spate of fires in Oxfordshire, including one that caused major damage to a council headquarters.
  
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• Man charged over arson attacks

  16-01-2015 22:10
  
  A man has been charged in connection with a spate of arson attacks.
  
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• Oxfordshire fires: Andrew Main charged with arson over three blazes

  16-01-2015 21:55
  
  A man has been charged with arson, after a council office, a funeral parlour and a thatched cottage were set on fire in rural south Oxfordshire.
  
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• Danny Higginbotham analysis: Zonal marking offers Arsenal chance to make excuses

  16-01-2015 21:46
  
  It's Manchester City v Arsenal on Sunday – the Etihad fixture that delivered nine goals last season and which raises issues about defending and calls into question the zonal marking principles Arsenal are sticking to.
  
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• Video shows John Kerry and James Taylor's awkward 'tribute' to France

  16-01-2015 21:41
  
  In the aftermath of last Sunday’s Charlie Hebdo rally in Paris, the White House admitted that the US should have been represented by someone more senior than its Ambassador to France. The Secretary of State John Kerry said he would travel to France later in the week and show solidarity with the French people.
  
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• Libel bill may cost blogger her home

  16-01-2015 21:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A blogger is facing the prospect of having to sell her home after the deadline to pay libel damages to the chief executive of Carmarthenshire council passed.
  
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• Belgium’s young Muslims are 'easy targets' for radicalisation

  16-01-2015 21:21
  
  Since the Syrian conflict descended into a fractured civil war and breeding ground for extremist groups, concerned Belgian authorities and distraught relatives have watched hundreds of young people disappear from their communities and take up arms for a faraway cause.
  
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• Cameron and Obama vow joint measures to tackle 'poisonous and fanatical' Islamists

  16-01-2015 21:15
  
  David Cameron and Barack Obama today detailed fresh measures to combat Islamist extremism at home and abroad as they declared their joint determination to confront violent extremism.
  
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• Paris attacks leave Europe on high alert

  16-01-2015 21:06
  
  Anxiety about possible new jihadist attacks deepened across Europe, as police in Belgium, France and Germany arrested more than 20 terrorist suspects.
  
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• UK And US Announce Joint Anti-Terror Plans

  16-01-2015 21:00
  
  Britain and the US are to establish a new joint group to counter violent extremism, Barack Obama and David Cameron have announced. Speaking after two-day talks at the White House, the Prime Minister said the US and UK are united in their drive to fight "poisonous and fanatical ideology". The announcement came amid heightened fears of fresh terror threats in the wake of the Paris attacks which left 17 people dead and the arrest of over two dozen people in anti-terror raids in Belgium,
  
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• Woman, 18, arrested at Stansted Airport on suspicion of terror offences

  16-01-2015 21:00
  
  An 18-year-old woman has been arrested at Stansted airport on suspicion of terror offences.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo: Hundreds of Londoners queue to buy satirical magazine following Paris attacks

  16-01-2015 20:57
  
  Ducking out of The French Bookshop in Kensington, some tugged at hats and scarves to cover their faces from the media huddle before scuttling off. Others posed proudly for the assembled photographers, holding their bounty aloft.
  
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• PJ Harvey’s recording at Somerset House: The viewers are bathed in an eerie half-light

  16-01-2015 20:53
  
  PJ Harvey wowed audiences at London’s Somerset House, and yet she hardly opened her mouth.
  
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• Don't rush to curb liberties: Obama

  16-01-2015 20:53
  
  Barack Obama has warned against rushing to curb civil liberties after talks with David Cameron on how to tackle the terrorist threat.
  
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• Two cleared over 'cash-for-stories'

  16-01-2015 20:49
  
  Two members of staff at the Sun newspaper have been acquitted of corrupting public officials.
  
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• Trial against head of Greater Manchester Police accused of fatal shooting collapses

  16-01-2015 20:47
  
  The trial of a chief constable over the fatal shooting of an unarmed suspect has collapsed after "secret" police evidence was barred from being heard in public.
  
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• The Beagle had landed: UK Space Agency confirms British space probe arrived intact on Mars

  16-01-2015 20:42
  
  The Beagle had landed safely after all, but it didn’t have the energy to bark.
  
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• Sun newspaper staff acquitted on charges they paid officials 'backhanders'

  16-01-2015 20:38
  
  Four former and current Sun newspaper staff have been acquitted of charges of corrupting public officials.
  
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• New York Post Twitter feed hacked. Posted 'news' of Chinese attack on US ship

  16-01-2015 20:35
  
  The New York Post said some of its Twitter accounts were hacked on Friday, in the wake of a series of inaccurate posts on the social network relating to the Federal Reserve, Bank of America and U.S. military engagement with China.
  
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• Ched Evans: Website in contempt of court investigation for 'identifying rape victim'

  16-01-2015 20:34
  
  The Attorney General has ordered an investigation into whether a website set up to support shamed footballer Ched Evans has identified his rape victim.
  
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• Cameron and Obama vow action against Isis in Iraq following Paris attacks

  16-01-2015 20:31
  
  The Jewish community in the UK and serving police officers are to get more protection against terrorist attacks, as David Cameron detailed fresh measures to combat Islamist extremism at home and abroad.
  
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• UK 'failing on immigration basics'

  16-01-2015 20:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former chief inspector of borders and immigration says the UK is failing to "get the basics right" and questions whether a net migration target can work.
  
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• David Cameron says oil companies should give profits to staff as pay rises

  16-01-2015 20:24
  
  Companies should pass some of their windfall from plummeting oil costs back to staff in the form of pay rises, David Cameron has said.
  
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• Body found in murder probe search

  16-01-2015 20:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Detectives investigating the suspected murder of a Cardiff woman find a body on an allotment.
  
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• World Economic Forum 2015: Prince Andrew expected to attend networking event in Davos

  16-01-2015 20:19
  
  It is the annual networking shindig for the political and corporate elite where the high altitude is matched only by the high-level networking. It might be the only conference in the world where rapper and music producer Will.i.am waxing lyrical about wearable technology creates a diary clash with Tony Blair debating whether religion is a pretext for conflict.
  
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• Emma Thompson: Stop Tesco setting up shop in 'villagey' Belsize

  16-01-2015 20:13
  
  Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson has called for Tesco to be stopped from opening a new store in her part of north London because the “meanly paid” staff would harm the local community spirit.
  
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• Snoop Dogg: Rapper described as a 'misogynist wretch' by Northern Ireland Judge

  16-01-2015 20:08
  
  Snoop Dogg has been described as a “misogynist wretch” by a judge in Northern Ireland, during the trial of a woman who punched a police officer after attending one of the US rapper’s gigs.
  
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• Teenager in terror arrest at airport

  16-01-2015 20:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A teenager is arrested by counter-terrorism officers as she arrives on a flight at Stansted Airport.
  
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• Man jailed for killing friend who was testing ‘bullet-proof’ vest in Cambridgeshire

  16-01-2015 20:06
  
  A man who shot and killed a friend who was wearing what he thought was a bullet-proof vest has been sentenced to seven years in jail.
  
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• Bakery sent religious discrimination complaint for refusing to ice cake with anti-gay slogans

  16-01-2015 19:57
  
  An anti-gay activist filed a religious discrimination complaint, after a bakery refused to bake a Bible-shaped cake emblazoned with a message describing homosexuals as “detestable”.
  
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• Monarchs of the Glens: SNP's cuts on tax breaks threaten owners of Scotland's estates

  16-01-2015 19:54
  
  January is a difficult period for Highland estates even at the best of times. Landowners have to contend with driving snow, high winds, road closures, dying animals and tourists staying away.
  
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• Terror Police Arrest Teen At Stansted Airport

  16-01-2015 19:54
  
  An 18-year-old woman has been arrested at Stansted Airport on suspicion of terrorism offences. Scotland Yard said she has been taken to a central London police station for questioning. She was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts and membership of a banned organisation. As part of the investigation a 21-year-old man was arrested in Hackney on 29 October on suspicion of assisting another to commit acts of terrorism.
  
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• Eaten Alive: Can the Discovery Channel recover from a series of fear-mongering shows?

  16-01-2015 19:53
  
  As a boy, Jonathan Davis always looked forward to Shark Week on Discovery Channel. So when, as a shark biologist at the University of New Orleans, he was approached in 2013 to take part in a Shark Week documentary, he naturally accepted.
  
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• Homeless Veterans appeal: 'I’d sleep in car parks, under war memorials, and in-between times I'd spend time in prison'

  16-01-2015 19:46
  What does it feel like to be homeless? That’s something that readers of The Pavement, a magazine for homeless people, are unfortunately experts on.
  
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