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• MP urges early diagnosis for cancer of the oesophagus

  22-02-2015 23:29
  
  An MP who says he is only alive thanks to a “toss of a coin”, after suffering advanced cancer of oesophagus, is appealing for a government-backed drive to increase early diagnosis of the often terminal disease.
  
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• Ukraine crisis: Fears grow that vital port of Mariupol is Moscow's next target following Kharkiv blast

  22-02-2015 23:25
  
  Violence in Ukraine spread today as the country’s second biggest city, Kharkiv, was struck by a bomb attack that killed at least two people.
  
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• Westwood goes green and puts politics back into fashion

  22-02-2015 23:24
  
  With only 72 days until the general election, the outcome of which will have a considerable impact on the creative businesses that cash in on fashion, it’s a surprise that London Fashion Week has been so distinctly lacking in satirical bite thus far. Perhaps it’s a further sign that the renegades and rebels of yore have struggled to find counterparts in the modern day.
  
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• Cops Appeal For Man In Erith Fire Inquiry

  22-02-2015 23:21
  
  The fire destroyed a large part of an industrial estate in Yarnton Way and police say the man was at the scene of the fire shortly before it began at around 2am. They said the man was in his early 20s and wearing camouflage clothing and a camouflage hat. Detective Chief Inspector Gary Holmes, who is leading the investigation for Bexley Police, said: "I am sure that someone will know who he is. "I would also ask: does anyone know or remember anyone of this description - wearing camoufl
  
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• Chelsea fan sorry over Paris incident

  22-02-2015 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An ex-police officer and Chelsea fan apologises for his part in an alleged racist incident on the Paris Metro - but denies he is a racist.
  
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• Ex-Cop Says Sorry Over Chelsea Racism Incident

  22-02-2015 23:13
  
  A former policeman accused of being involved in an alleged racist incident with Chelsea football fans on the Paris Metro has apologised. Richard Barklie, who was one of three men police sought after a black man was allegedly pushed off the train by chanting football supporters, has insisted he is not a racist. Video posted online showed commuter Souleymane S being pushed back onto the platform as some of those on the train chanted "we're racist, we're racist and that's the wa
  
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• Man bailed in Danczuk abuse inquiry

  22-02-2015 23:12
  
  A 36-year-old man arrested in connection with sex abuse allegations made by MP's wife Karen Danczuk has been released on bail.
  
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• Battle of the skies: London and New York compete for starchitects

  22-02-2015 23:07
  
  When Sheikh Hamed paid £100m for the best residence at London’s One Hyde Park apartment building in 2007, it confirmed the city as the world’s premier deluxe property investment honeypot.
  
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• Man arrested over Karen Danczuk abuse claim

  22-02-2015 23:03
  
  A 36-year-old man has been arrested in connection with sex abuse allegations made by Karen Danczuk.
  
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• Indian Summers TV review: The intrigue deepens as we delve further but don't expect any answers just yet

  22-02-2015 23:00
  Did Ralph (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) know his would-be assassin? What was the real reason Alice (Jemima West) left England? Why does the mixed race boy Adam keep running off? And will we ever see Ian’s uncle sober for more than five minutes?
  
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• Icy Blast Hits UK - And More Snow On The Way

  22-02-2015 22:52
  
  Weather forecasters are warning of blizzard conditions for the first few days of the week, with snow, sleet and hail, as winter unleashes another sting in its icy tail. During the weekend, the country saw a mixture of snow, ice, wind and rain, with Scotland and parts of northern England worst-affected.
  
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• 'Al-Shabab video' calls on Muslims to attack London shopping attractions including Oxford Street and Westfield Stratford City

  22-02-2015 22:37
  A video claiming to be by Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked rebels has urged Muslims to attack London shopping sites including Oxford Street and Westfield Stratford City.
  
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• Oscars 2015: The Imitation Game director Morten Tyldum defends lack of gay storyline in Alan Turing biopic

  22-02-2015 22:08
  The director of the Oscar-nominated The Imitation Game has defended the lack of gay storyline in the Alan Turing biopic, saying that it would not have enriched the film.
  
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• Brain area 'linked to exploration'

  22-02-2015 22:00
  
  Pre-teenage girls who like to explore and show interest in new things have brains wired differently from those who do not, scientists have found.
  
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• The Korean Republic of New Malden: How Surrey became home to the 70 year-old conflict

  22-02-2015 21:48
  
  “I came here because Britain is the greatest democracy in the world.” Choi Joong-hwa’s voice briefly crackles on the phone. Choi, 49, is from North Korea and escaped in 2007, risking his life. He now lives in New Malden, a south-west London suburb, alongside 700 other North Koreans (the largest population anywhere outside Korea) and several thousand Southerners. I am interviewing him as part of a quest to understand why, of all the possible spots on the planet, this quiet suburb would att
  
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• Paris incident fan issues apology

  22-02-2015 21:39
  
  A former policeman who is one of three men sought in connection with an alleged racist incident involving Chelsea football fans on a Paris Metro train has apologised for his involvement.
  
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• West Ham supporters filmed singing anti-semitic song on the train on the way to Tottenham game

  22-02-2015 21:35
  
  On the same day that their good-natured parody video of Chelsea was released by West Ham supporters, a more sinister one has emerged on Twitter tonight featuring a group of Hammers' fans.
  
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• HSBC accused of 'engaging a systematic and profitable collusion in serious criminal activity'

  22-02-2015 21:07
  
  The banking giant HSBC is today accused by a former Director of Public Prosecutions of engaging in “a systematic and profitable collusion in serious criminal activity”.
  
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• Brit Awards boss: The middle classes dominate the music world

  22-02-2015 20:56
  
  So Noel Gallagher was right after all. There is a shortage of working-class bands in an increasingly middle-class music world, the executive in charge of the Brit Awards has admitted.
  
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• Wolf Hall outstanding novel of our time, say Bath Festival judges

  22-02-2015 20:53
  
  From the winners of the biggest literary prizes to acclaimed books that somehow missed out altogether, a panel of literary experts has compiled what it believes should be the definitive list of the best books of the past two decades – topped by Wolf Hall, a book that “transformed the literary landscape”.
  
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• Broadcasters to hold an FA Cup-style draw to decide order of proposed television debates

  22-02-2015 20:52
  
  Broadcasters are to hold an FA Cup-style draw to decide the order of the proposed television debates between party leaders during the general-election campaign.
  
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• The Media Column: The Brit awards reflect the state of a music industry in flux

  22-02-2015 20:49
  
  If there is a “conspiracy” to keep rock music out of this week’s Brit awards – a theory advanced by the overlooked band Kasabian – then it has certainly bypassed the executive charged with overseeing this year’s UK record industry showcase event.
  
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• Oscars 2015: Protest planned against this year's all-white nominations

  22-02-2015 20:39
  
  Civil rights groups are planning to stage a protest outside the Oscars ceremony tonight at the lack of diversity among this year’s nominees. Out of a total of 20 acting nominees, all of them are white.
  
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• Isis in Iraq: Assyrian Christian militia keep well-armed militants at bay - but they are running out of ammunition

  22-02-2015 20:25
  “We have only 90 rounds for each of our Kalashnikovs and we haven’t the money to buy more ammunition,” says Sergon, commander of a band of two dozen ill-armed Christian militiamen living in the deserted village of Bakufa, close to the Isis frontline. The 1,500 Assyrian Christians who once lived in Bakufa fled when Isis fighters from Mosul 18 miles to the south captured and later lost the village during their offensive last August.
  
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• Goulding No 1 sets streaming record

  22-02-2015 20:19
  
  Ellie Goulding's Love Me Like You Do has notched up a third week at number one in the singles chart and broken the all-time streaming record.
  
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• Families in plea to Syria three

  22-02-2015 20:13
  
  Relatives of three missing schoolgirls who are believed to have fled to Syria to join Islamic State wept today as they issued heartfelt pleas for the youngsters to come home.
  
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• Concern over fundraising tactics

  22-02-2015 20:05
  
  Police at the sharp end of the Government's counter-radicalisation strategy believe Muslim communities are vulnerable to intimidating fundraising which may be supporting criminal or terrorist activity, according to a new report.
  
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• Toxic fumes in plane cabins pose health risks to frequent flyers, says coroner

  22-02-2015 19:59
  
  A coroner has warned that toxic fumes in cabin air could pose a health risk to frequent fliers and aircrew.
  
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• Ethel Raine: The untold story of a woman who spied for Britain during the Great War

  22-02-2015 19:50
  
  David Gosling was for four years principal of Edwardes College in Peshawar, trying to keep the Taliban from his academy in the old British North-West Frontier Province of what is now Pakistan. But he could scarcely imagine receiving a letter from MI5 confirming that his own grandmother, Ethel Raine, had served the British empire in its heyday as “a member of the Security Service between 1915 and 1920”. But then came the rebuff: “Unfortunately we are unable to provide any further details o
  
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• Chantal Joffe’s intimate self-portraits can be unflattering, but that is why they work

  22-02-2015 19:42
  
  The Jerwood Gallery continues to focus on its Hastings location with a powerful new show from the English painter Chantal Joffe. Although she is now based in east London, Joffe lived in Hastings as a teenager and her mother and two sisters still live there. Billed as an intimate portrait of her family, the exhibition features many of them – her sisters, nieces, husband, mother and her daughter – often  pictured on a bleak seafront, bundled up against the searing wind, with assorted dogs in
  
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• Man arrested in Danczuk abuse probe

  22-02-2015 19:29
  
  A 36-year-old man has been arrested in connection with sex abuse allegations made by Karen Danczuk.
  
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• Saudi Arabia morality police arrest men for dancing at Saudi birthday party complete with cake and candles

  22-02-2015 19:24
  
  Saudi Arabia’s morality police have arrested men at a birthday party for “loud music and inappropriate dancing,” according to state-linked media reports.
  
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• VIDEO: 'Syria' girl's sister: She's our baby

  22-02-2015 19:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Renu Begum, the sister of one of the three girls who are believed to have fled to Syria to join Islamic State,, urges her to come home, saying she is "our baby".
  
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• Chinese police to film interrogations as government promises end to torture following miscarriages of justice

  22-02-2015 19:16
  
  The announcement of major new reforms of the police force in China has sparked hopes that police torture and corruption are to be curbed and further miscarriages of justice avoided.
  
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• New terror video calls for deadly attack on London's iconic Oxford Street

  22-02-2015 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ISLAMIST terrorists have called on militants stationed within the UK to launch a devastating attack on Oxford Street and other major shopping centres.
  
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• British Ebola Nurse Placed Under Investigation

  22-02-2015 19:00
  
  Pauline Cafferkey, the British nurse who became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the UK, is facing potential disciplinary action from the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The 39-year-old, along with two colleagues, is being investigated over the screening process she participated in at Heathrow Airport after flying from Sierra Leone. Ms Cafferkey has not been suspended from her duties, but she faces an interim hearing where restrictions could be placed on her ability to practise. A s
  
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• Lib Dem general election candidate Josh Mason posts crematorium furnace selfie on Tinder

  22-02-2015 19:00
  
  A Lib Dem candidate in the general election has been called “tasteless” and immature after he took a selfie in front of a crematorium furnace and used the image on the dating app Tinder.
  
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• Families Unite In Plea For Missing Schoolgirls

  22-02-2015 18:45
  
  The father of Amira Abase, one of three British teenagers thought to have run away to Syria, has said his family "cannot stop crying" and appealed for her to return home. Clutching a teddy bear in a Chelsea Football Club jersey, Abase Hussen, 47, said his family was "completely different now" since Amira, 15, had disappeared along with Shamima Begum, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16. The three girls were last seen on Tuesday morning as they left their homes in East London, telling
  
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• Ex-President of the Maldives arrested for alleged illegal detention of criminal court chief judge

  22-02-2015 18:28
  
  Ex-President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed has been arrested under an anti-terror law for the alleged illegal detention of the then criminal court chief judge, Abdullah Mohamed, while in office in January 2012.
  
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• Half of Ukip voters say they are prejudiced against people of other races

  22-02-2015 18:25
  
  Around half of Ukip voters say they are prejudiced against people of other races, new opinion research has found.
  
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• Outgoing Labour MP dismisses claims party could field ‘paedophile’ and still win Grimsby seat

  22-02-2015 18:21
  
  One of Parliament’s longest serving MPs has dismissed reports that Labour could win his seat even if its candidate was an “alcoholic sex paedophile”.
  
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• Police Assessing Al Shabaab UK Mall Threats

  22-02-2015 18:19
  
  Islamist militants have released a video in which they appear to call for terrorist attacks on some of the busiest shopping areas in the UK and US. In the footage, fighters from the al Shabaab group specifically mention Oxford Street, and give GPS coordinates for the Westfield shopping centres in Stratford and Shepherd's Bush. US authorities have said they are taking the threats seriously, while the Metropolitan Police told Sky News its Counter Terrorism Command is aware of the video and is
  
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• Clark Terry dead: Grammy-winning trumpet player dies aged 94

  22-02-2015 18:07
  
  The Grammy Award-winning trumpet maestro Clark Terry has died at the age of 94.
  
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• Labour MP dismisses Grimsby comments

  22-02-2015 18:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour's Great Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell dismisses claims he said an "alcoholic" or "paedophile" could win the seat so long as they were Labour.
  
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• Marie-José Villiers: Belgian Resistance agent who escaped the close attentions of the Gestapo and transmitted valuable information to Britain

  22-02-2015 18:00
  The young Belgian countess who shepherded shot-down airmen to safety under German occupation in the Second World War was well known to the Gestapo, but never caught.
  
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• Mediterranean diet could help beat dementia finds UCL study

  22-02-2015 17:57
  
  People who have diabetes and psychiatric symptoms in addition to mild cognitive impairment are significantly more likely to develop dementia, new research shows.
  
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• Ken Hale: Tireless forward signed by Coventry City manager Jimmy Hill in 1961 as part of his Sky Blue revolution

  22-02-2015 17:53
  
  Ken Hale was a key component of Jimmy Hill’s 1960s Sky Blue revolution at Coventry City which transformed the Midlanders from lower-division plodders into a vibrant force which reached the top flight of English football.
  
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• Boko Haram suspected after girl 'no older than 8' kills five in Nigerian bomb attack

  22-02-2015 17:48
  
  A girl as young as 8 is believed to be responsible for a bomb attack on a Nigerian market in which five were killed and dozens injured as defeated Boko Haram militants flee the region.
  
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• Alan Turing's family take pardons for 49,000 gay men petition to Downing Street

  22-02-2015 17:43
  
  It remains to be seen whether Benedict Cumberbatch will bag an Academy Award for his turn as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game tonight. But tomorrow the family of the Enigma codebreaker will visit Downing Street to demand the government pardons 49,000 other men who, like Turing, were prosecuted for being homosexual.
  
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• Andrew Thomson: Economist and author who published definitive works on management practice and history

  22-02-2015 17:33
  
  Andrew Thomson was a pioneer in British management education whose aim was to open up educational opportunities to a wide range of junior and middle managers. He believed that management was the central driver of economic activity, and argued that while corporate management structures had developed impressively in the US, Germany and Japan, little progress had been made in this respect in the UK. He sought to create institutions and structures to facilitate the development of British management
  
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