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• Joanna Rowsell: Unsung cycling hero is now a British banker

  17-02-2015 23:59
  
  While fanfares have greeted a conveyor belt of British household names on the banked velodrome in Manchester in recent years – Sir Bradley Wiggins, Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton – Joanna Rowsell has garnered barely a ripple of attention in comparison.
  
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• Man Charged With Mugging 93-Year-Old For £5

  17-02-2015 23:52
  
  Stanley Evans was dragged to the ground by a mugger who followed him home before lunging for his wallet. Suspect Solomon Bygraves, who is 29 and has no fixed address, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday. Mr Evans, who was 92 when the attack happened last month, remained on the ground for five minutes before managing to get to his feet.
  
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• EastEnders Live, BBC1 - TV review: Fluffed line a mystery as Walford comes alive

  17-02-2015 23:42
  
  This week marks 30 years since Dirty Den kicked down the door of No 23, Reg Cox’s flat, remarked “Cor, it stinks in ‘ere”, and began the very first scene of the very first episode of EastEnders.
  
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• Alessandro Volta’s 270th Birthday: Google honors Italian physicist who invented the battery

  17-02-2015 23:42
  
  Google has celebrated the 270th birthday of the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta with a doodle on its homepage.
  
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• Tesco Appoints New Chairman 'At Critical Moment'

  17-02-2015 23:37
  
  Troubled supermarket Tesco has appointed John Allan as its new chairman, replacing Sir Richard Broadbent. Mr Allan, who takes up his role on 1 March, is currently on the boards of electrical retailer Dixons Carphone and Royal Mail but will step down from those posts. Mr Allan will be paid £650,000 a year as part of a three-year contract with Britain's biggest supermarket chain. He is also chairman of property company Barratt Developments and payment processing firm Worldpay, but is expecte
  
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• Paris Saint Germain 1-1 Chelsea

  17-02-2015 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chelsea withstand waves of Paris St-Germain attacks to claim a 1-1 draw in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie.
  
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• Harriet Yeo quits Labour to support Ukip at general election

  17-02-2015 23:21
  A senior member of the Labour party has resigned in order to support Ukip in the general election, Nigel Farage has announced.
  
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• Man allegedly stabs two people at Detroit bus stop after asking if they were Muslims

  17-02-2015 23:20
  
  A man allegedly asked two people if they were Muslims before allegedly stabbing them at a suburban Detroit bus stop on Saturday, according to a report from the Detroit Free Press.
  
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• Energy Regulator Faces Blow From CMA Report

  17-02-2015 23:19
  
  Britain's energy sector may be beset by excessive regulation which acts as a barrier to new market entrants, competition watchdogs will say on Wednesday. Sky News has learnt that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is likely to label the energy industry's regulatory framework as an ongoing "theory of harm" that requires further investigation. The development, which will be included in an issues statement published by the CMA, will represent a blow to Ofgem, the energy
  
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• PSG 1 Chelsea 1 player ratings: Edinson Cavani? David Luiz? Branislav Ivanovic? Eden Hazard? Who was the star man?

  17-02-2015 23:11
  Paris St Germain sustained their hopes of reaching the Champions League quarter-finals when Edinson Cavani's powerful second-half header salvaged a 1-1 home draw against Chelsea in their last-16 first leg on Tuesday.
  
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• Boost in bile duct cancer battle

  17-02-2015 23:00
  
  People suffering from bile duct cancer could be helped by a new drug class of experimental drug, a study has shown.
  
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• Lorena Rojas dead: Mexican actress dies of cancer aged 44

  17-02-2015 22:37
  
  Mexican soap opera and movie actress Lorena Rojas has died of cancer. She was 44.
  
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• PSG vs Chelsea match report: Edinson Cavani cancels out Branislav Ivanovic opener to leave Champions League tie delicately poised

  17-02-2015 22:36
  This was the way Jose Mourinho likes his team to play away in Europe: unyielding, disciplined and gradually introducing in opposition minds a looming sense of despair about their prospects in the London when the final business of this tie will be conducted.
  
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• Tories Hit Back At 'Left-Wing' Bishops' Letter

  17-02-2015 22:34
  
  Church of England bishops have been attacked by Conservative MPs after publishing a letter claiming people feel detached from politics and calling for a "fresh moral vision of the kind of country we want to be". David Cameron said he welcomed the Church entering the political debate, but said the Government was helping people by creating jobs, cutting taxes and developing the economy.
  
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• Royalty at Marigold Hotel premiere

  17-02-2015 22:30
  
  Two of cinema's great dames have rubbed shoulders with royalty at the world premiere of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
  
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• Queen marks 80 years of Diabetes UK

  17-02-2015 22:30
  
  The Queen has attended a reception to mark the 80th anniversary of Diabetes UK.
  
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• Queen marks Diabetes UK anniversary

  17-02-2015 22:30
  
  The Queen will attend a reception today to mark the 80th anniversary of Diabetes UK.
  
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• Derek Brockwell: Police launch Dublin manhunt for convicted robber after officers are stabbed

  17-02-2015 22:24
  
  A manhunt is underway tonight after a prisoner allegedly stabbed two prison officers and fled from a hospital in Ireland.
  
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• Kincora scandal: Sex abuse victim wins right to pursue claims of MI5 collusion

  17-02-2015 22:23
  
  A victim of child sex abuse at the notorious Kincora boys’ home in Belfast has been granted permission to launch a legal challenge over the Government’s refusal to carry out a fully inquiry, amid allegations of collusion by MI5.
  
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• Report: US to allow widespread export of armed drones

  17-02-2015 22:23
  
  The US is for the first time to allow the widespread export of armed drones – a move that underscores the increasing role the aircraft have in security operations around the world.
  
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• Gennady Golovkin vs Martin Murray: Fearless Murray has weathered a few storms and is ready to fight Golovkin

  17-02-2015 22:17
  In 1969, Johnny Pritchett lost for the first time when an accidental clash of heads in his messy scrap with Juan Carlos Duran was ruled a deliberate butt. His European title fight in Milan ended in disqualification in round 13.
  
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• Washington Monument did not shrink but is 10 inches shorter

  17-02-2015 22:10
  
  When completed in 1884, the Washington Monument stood at 555 feet and 5 and 1/8 inches, the tallest obelisk in the world. But a measurement this week docked about 10 inches off the height of the monument, even if it did remain the tallest structure of its kind.
  
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• Dementia research: Drug firms despair of finding cure and withdraw funding after catalogue of failures

  17-02-2015 21:43
  Drug companies are retreating from the search for a dementia cure after “repeated and costly failures” to develop a breakthrough drug, a major report has warned.
  
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• NY And Manchester 'Bomb Plotter' On Trial

  17-02-2015 21:17
  
  A man who allegedly plotted to blow up the Arndale shopping centre in Manchester has gone on trial in New York. Abid Naseer, 28, has been accused of playing a major part in a 2009 al Qaeda plan to cause mass casualties in New York, Manchester and Copenhagen. In court the prosecution said this co-ordinated plot aimed to "repeat the devastation of 9/11", and that it came from the very top of the al Qaeda terror group. The prosecution told the court that Abid Naseer "was the leader o
  
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• American Sniper Chris Kyle trial: Judge refuses to order a mistrial

  17-02-2015 21:13
  
  The judge in the case of the man charged with the murder of ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle has refused a request from defence lawyers to order a mistrial.
  
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• Abid Naseer Denies NY And Manchester Bomb Plot

  17-02-2015 21:11
  
  A man who allegedly plotted to blow up the Arndale shopping centre in Manchester has gone on trial in New York. Abid Naseer, 28, has been accused of playing a major part in a 2009 al Qaeda plan to cause mass casualties in New York, Manchester and Copenhagen. In court the prosecution said this co-ordinated plot aimed to "repeat the devastation of 9/11", and that it came from the very top of the al Qaeda terror group. The prosecution told the court that Abid Naseer "was the leader o
  
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• Tower blocks: do we love them or hate them?

  17-02-2015 21:05
  
  Rodney and Del Boy's flat in the fictional Peckham tower block Nelson Mandela House was the butt of jokes in the 1980s. But if the Only Fools and Horses pair had bought and stayed put, their dream of becoming millionaires next year might have come true. Because today, tower blocks are desirable again – as a new project to celebrate them is rolled out.
  
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• Immigration in the US: President Obama’s immigration order blocked by Texas judge

  17-02-2015 21:04
  
  A Texas judge has blocked US President Barack Obama’s executive order that would shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, instigating a legal fight likely to hit a federal appeals court in New Orleans.
  
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• Exploding Kittens: a "highly strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian roulette"

  17-02-2015 21:02
  
  The internet loves cats. Games with explosions, too. And everyone loves a good card game. So what happens when you combine the three? Crowdfunding mania.
  
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• Why is the BBC so bad at TV news?

  17-02-2015 20:55
  
  On 8 February, a riot erupted in Cairo in which 40 football fans were killed after a clash with police. At 9pm that evening I turned on Al Jazeera, to see what they were making of it. The answer was a lot, and they cleared their schedule to tell it. Having carried a major – and in retrospect, prophetic – documentary about the simmering anger among excluded Zamalek fans just two days previously, they were well placed to tell us what this event might portend.
  
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• Greece bailout: The shadow of US economic supremacy looms over negotiations

  17-02-2015 20:43
  
  This is not really about Greece, or even about the euro. It is really about Europe – what it wants to be, or rather what its people want it to be, and how it might reform to meet those aspirations.
  
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• More UK students could head to Europe’s universities

  17-02-2015 20:39
  
  More British students could head out to Munich, Montpellier or Milan after the university admissions service changed the rules about applications to European Universities.
  
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• Omagh bombing trial will go ahead - Farming Life

  17-02-2015 20:36 via farminglife.com
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  The trial of a man accused of murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing will go ahead, a prosecutor said. Seamus Daly is charged with the 1998 Real IRA car bomb attack. The case will focus on mobile phone evidence, barrister Michael Chambers told a ...
  
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• Six more UK food products recalled as nuts-for-spices crisis spreads across Europe

  17-02-2015 20:33
  
  The crisis involving the potentially deadly substitution of nuts for spices escalated yesterday as six more food products were recalled in the UK – with dozens more withdrawn in Europe.
  
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• If you're a writer these days our culture seems to say: 'Please challenge and provoke me while I scream whenever I hear something I don't like'

  17-02-2015 20:32
  I was asked to speak on a panel about offence and free speech post Charlie Hebdo. I always quite like the idea of speaking at some serious discussion, but in practice I just make everybody uncomfortable and they all smile at me uneasily in the way a posh café owner does when builders come in to buy rolls.
  
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• Charlotte Leslie: Tory MP’s sudden change of heart over tax-avoidance donor

  17-02-2015 20:30
  
  A Tory MP has reversed her pledge to hand back £5,000 from a wealthy donor who tried to avoid paying income tax on his multi-million pound bonus payments – because the scale of what he’d done wasn’t bad enough.
  
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• David Cameron’s ‘free Libya’ is no-go area, Foreign Office says

  17-02-2015 20:26
  
  Wearing ties, they both looked a little stuffy as they visited injured rebel soldiers in Tripoli, but the message was simple: we have saved you.
  
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• Isis: Paranoid but determined, Islamic State is ready for a fight to the death in Mosul

  17-02-2015 20:25
  
  “I fled Mosul when Isis threatened to conscript my brother as one of its fighters, though he is under 18 years of age,” says Ali Hussein Mustafa, a student who left the city a week ago. The self-styled “Islamic State” is seeking to bolster its military forces as it wages war on many fronts and it has introduced a new rule under which men under the age of 18 are no longer exempt from conscription.
  
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• It is time for industry and state to pool resources on dementia treatment research

  17-02-2015 20:23
  
  The revelation that drug companies are giving up research on treatments for Alzheimer’s disease appears to be nothing less than shameful. Alzheimer’s is a hideous condition that exacts a brutal toll on both sufferers and their families. It is already one of the developed world’s most pressing health problems. Demographics may soon make it the most pressing.
  
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• The 10 best iPhone 6 cases

  17-02-2015 20:20
  
  Your iPhone is a beautiful piece of industrial design – but only until you drop it, dent it or smash it. A nice case can keep it safe and looking beautiful.
  
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• National Pub of the Year 2015: These are the UK's best watering holes

  17-02-2015 20:18
  
  A rural drinking hole in the sleepy village of Ham, Gloucestershire, has been named National Pub of the Year – less than two years after its landlord pulled his first pint
  
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• National Pub of the Year 2015: The Salutation Inn wins prestigious award

  17-02-2015 20:18
  
  A rural drinking hole in the sleepy village of Ham, Gloucestershire, has been named National Pub of the Year – less than two years after its landlord pulled his first pint
  
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• French government faces confidence vote after forcing through economic reform bill

  17-02-2015 20:14
  
  The French government faces a potentially explosive confidence vote in parliament on Thursday night after using emergency powers to push through an emblematic economic reform bill aimed at liberalising markets.
  
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• Rewilding barren lands is now a real possibility, say campaigners

  17-02-2015 20:13
  
  “Many people look at these expansive views and call them beautiful,” says Alan Watson Featherstone, looking out over the remote hillsides north of Loch Ness. “But what we’ve really got is a barren landscape that is almost entirely devoid of native woodlands and predators. It is frozen in time.”
  
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• Grammar schools: David Cameron gives support to new expansion plan

  17-02-2015 20:10
  
  The creation of the first British grammar school for more than 50 years looks increasingly likely to go ahead after David Cameron voiced his “strong support” for the expansion of those that performed well.
  
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• Joe Biden caught in awkward photo at swearing-in of Defence Secretary Ashton Carter

  17-02-2015 20:10
  
  Joe Biden must not be a huge fan of personal space. It seemed that way in a photo taken of the vice president during Tuesday’s swearing-in ceremony for new Defence Secretary Ashton Carter.
  
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• Labour's Harriet Yeo leaves party to support Ukip in general election

  17-02-2015 20:10
  
  A former chair of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee has left the party in order to support Ukip in the coming general election, Nigel Farage has announced.
  
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• Seamus Daly: Omagh bombing murder trial to be biggest in British history - The Independent

  17-02-2015 20:09 via independent.co.uk
  
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  A man accused of the murders of 29 people in the Omagh bombing is to face prosecution in what a defence lawyer described as “the biggest murder trial in British criminal history”. Seamus Daly will go to trial over the crime following a decision by prosecuting ...
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• Seamus Daly: Omagh bombing murder trial to be biggest in British history

  17-02-2015 20:07
  
  A man accused of the murders of 29 people in the Omagh bombing is to face prosecution in what a defence lawyer described as “the biggest murder trial in British criminal history”.
  
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• Ukraine crisis: Pro-Russian rebels ambush and seize Kiev troops during continued fighting in the strategic town of Debaltseve despite ceasefire deal

  17-02-2015 20:03
  The senior Ukrainian rebel commander Eduard Basurin has said that pro-Russian separatists have gained control of more than 80 per cent of the eastern Ukrainian transport hub of Debaltseve, which has been gripped by fighting despite a ceasefire deal coming into effect on Sunday.
  
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