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• Chelsea vs Tottenham - Capital One Cup final: John Terry believes Wembley win can be another springboard

  27-02-2015 23:30
  For John Terry, it wasn’t quite about the medal. It was about the “ripple” through the squad, and the bigger medals that consequently followed.
  
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• Boris Nemtsov shot dead: Outspoken Putin critic who had expressed fears for his life is shot dead

  27-02-2015 23:23
  
  Boris Nemtsov, one of Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critics, has been shot dead on a street in Moscow, according to Russian media.
  
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• Boris Nemsov shot dead: Outspoken Putin critic who had expressed fears for his life is shot dead

  27-02-2015 23:23
  
  Boris Nemsov, one of Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critics, has been shot dead on a street in Moscow, according to Russian media.
  
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• CPAC 2015: 19 images that show the craziness of the right-wing conference

  27-02-2015 23:23
  
  The Conservative Political Action Conference is unlike any other political convention in the US.
  
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• Leonard Nimoy dead: Star Trek's actor's inspiring last words to the public

  27-02-2015 23:20
  
  Acting legend Leonard Nimoy has passed away aged 83.
  
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• MI5 'quizzes Jihadi John teachers'

  27-02-2015 23:15
  
  MI5 officers have reportedly questioned former teachers of Briton Mohammed Emwazi after he was this week unmasked as the Islamic State terrorist known as Jihadi John.
  
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• Video: Prince Harry to leave the military this year - Belfast Telegraph

  27-02-2015 22:52 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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  Prince Harry is expected to leave the army this year - a surprising decision as he is a passionate member of the armed forces who appeared to be focused on a long career serving as a British Army officer.
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• Forget The Dress, there's another optical illusion blowing our minds

  27-02-2015 22:13
  
  Unless you have spent the day under a rock or are somehow currently on Mars, you will have been asked to consider whether a dress is blue and black or gold and white.
  
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• British Airways spying scandal: New logo, new routes, new bosses – but the stench remains

  27-02-2015 22:09
  
  The use of computer information to gain an upper hand and a commercial advantage is not new to British Airways (BA). And even when it has been caught engaging in  what the rest of industry calls “dirty tricks”, the world’s favourite airline has preferred to describe its discovered errors as “disreputable business practices”.
  
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• British Airways spying scandal: How the world's most famous airline spied on its own staff

  27-02-2015 22:06
  
  British Airways paid £1m to hush up the details of a spying operation in which the phones and emails of its own cabin staff were allegedly improperly accessed during a bitter dispute with Britain’s largest union.
  
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• Russian banker Sergei Pugachev suffers setbacks in London legal battle

  27-02-2015 22:03
  
  Sergei Pugachev, the billionaire Russian businessman who lives in one of London’s grandest homes with his partner, the socialite Alexandra Tolstoy, has suffered a series of setbacks in his attempts to stave off a civil legal action alleging fraud and embezzlement.
  
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• CPAC 2015: We asked 13 Republicans to tell us the biggest political issue facing the US

  27-02-2015 22:00
  
  The Conservative Political Action Conference is an annual gathering of citizens, activists and politicians representing the right wing of American politics, and the event kicked off on Thursday.
  
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• Chelsea v Tottenham: the stats

  27-02-2015 21:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Costa v Kane, Mourinho v Pochettino, Spurs' late strength v Chelsea's susceptibility: what stats tell us about Sunday's League Cup final.
  
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• 'Jihadi John': Spotlight on control orders as more details emerge of killer’s life

  27-02-2015 21:41
  
  A picture of Mohammed Emwazi as a student and devout teenage Muslim was emerging last night as more details came to light of the 26-year-old Londoner unmasked as Jihadi John.
  
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• 'Jihadi John': Security services defend their record over failure to stop Isis ‘executioner’

  27-02-2015 21:36
  
  More than half of MI5’s effort is now focused on countering terrorism and the overwhelming majority of plots facing the UK are from Islamist extremists, according to Andrew Parker, the director-general of the service.
  
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• VIDEO: Meet the men who went part-time

  27-02-2015 21:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Close to one million men are now choosing to reduce their hours and take part-time employment. Emma Simpson reports.
  
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• Dozens of jihadis in fighting in Syria using the name ‘al-Britani’

  27-02-2015 21:25
  
  There are several dozen “al-Britanis” fighting in Syria and Iraq, all members of the jihadist “family” from the UK, a country that has become a net exporter of Islamist terrorism.
  
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• Jihadi John: Parents of James Foley say Mohammed Emwazi - suspected of killing their son - is a sick man who needs forgiveness

  27-02-2015 21:20
  The parents of an American journalist beheaded by Isis militants have spoken of their surprise at the man unmasked as the suspected killer of their son.
  
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• Scrap foreign aid to rebuild Britain's Armed Forces, urges Ukip peer

  27-02-2015 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FOREIGN aid should be scrapped so the cash can be spent on rebuilding the Armed Forces, a UK Independence Party peer said tonight.
  
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• Professor Oliver Rackham: Botanist and expert on historic trees and ancient woodland whose work inspired a generation of conservationists

  27-02-2015 20:53
  Oliver Rackham was our foremost scholar of historic trees and ancient woodlands, widely known from a succession of brilliantly readable books.
  
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• Farage hits back at health smears - shropshirestar.com

  27-02-2015 20:51 via shropshirestar.com
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  Farage hits back at health smears
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  Nigel Farage has lashed out at "vicious" smears about his health as he rallied Ukip activists for the election battle. Ukip leader Nigel Farage delivers a speech during the UKIP spring conference held at the Winter Gardens in Margate ...
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• Alastair Campbell: Fighting his demons every book of the way

  27-02-2015 20:49
  
  In one of the main streets in the beautiful city of Bath last week, within sight of its 500‑year old cathedral, a large poster hung from a lamppost, bearing a picture, blown up to at least twice life size, of the face of Alastair Campbell.
  
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• Sarah Champion: On becoming Rotherham’s first female MP and working 'like a dog'

  27-02-2015 20:46
  
  “I’ve been here [Westminster] two years, and I’ve not had anyone offer me a bribe,” says Sarah Champion with mock indignation. “Maybe they have, and I’ve just not recognised it. Maybe there’s an agency you sign up to.”
  
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• Leonard Nimoy: Actor and director whose career was dominated by his role as the Vulcan science officer Spock in the 'Star Trek' franchise

  27-02-2015 20:44
  “Some day,” Gene Roddenberry said decades ago, “I’m going to make a science-fiction series and put pointed ears on that guy.”
  
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• Leonard Nimoy dead: Spock's best quotes from Star Trek

  27-02-2015 20:37
  
  Leonard Nimoy, the legendary actor best-known for playing Spock in Star Trek, has passed away. He was 83.
  
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• Killer convicted in absentia for murder of Congolese political exiles

  27-02-2015 20:32
  
  Fourteen years after the bullet-riddled bodies of two Congolese political exiles were discovered near Lyon, one of three men suspected of ordering their murder was last night found guilty.
  
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• Pompidou Centre hails recovery of £1.5m Picasso missing since 2001

  27-02-2015 20:27
  
  The Pompidou Centre in Paris hopes to put a lost Picasso masterpiece back on public display by the end of May – after a US attorney revealed it had been found in New York.
  
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• 'Why are you still driving? One day they will kill you': Afghanistan's first female taxi driver

  27-02-2015 20:24
  
  At first glance, the Toyota Corolla looked like any other taxi bumping along the craggy street. In the back seat, three women wore blue burkas that covered their faces and bodies. In the front passenger seat, a bearded man sat stone-faced. The radio piped out a soulful Afghan song.
  
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• Clegg makes NHS funding pledge

  27-02-2015 20:23
  
  The NHS would receive billions of extra funding if the Liberal Democrats have a hand in the next UK government, Nick Clegg has told his party faithful.
  
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• Sir Cliff Richard's legal team complain of causing the singer 'extremely damaging' media coverage of sex abuse allegations

  27-02-2015 20:13
  
  Sir Cliff Richard’s legal team have accused the Home Affairs Committee and its chairman Keith Vaz of unfairly causing the singer “extremely damaging” media coverage.
  
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• Sir Cliff Richard's legal team complain of causing the singer 'extremely damaging' media coverage

  27-02-2015 20:13
  
  Sir Cliff Richard’s legal team have accused the Home Affairs Committee and its chairman Keith Vaz of unfairly causing the singer “extremely damaging” media coverage.
  
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• Jeb Bush says he's not a 'squishy' moderate as conservative rival for nomination stakes claim

  27-02-2015 20:12
  
  With an early, possibly ephemeral front-runner status  as the Republican nomination for president, Jeb Bush, a brother and son of former presidents, moved yesterday to quiet cries from some on the right wing of the party that he lacks the conservative credentials to lead them.
  
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• Mexico captures leader of ruthless Knights Templar drugs cartel

  27-02-2015 20:03
  
  Authorities in Mexico said they had scored a major victory in their long war against the drug cartels with the arrest of Servando “La Tuta” Gomez, the leader of the feared Knights Templar syndicate in the western state of Michoacan and one of the most wanted men in the country.
  
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• Scientists claim to have 'robust' evidence that chronic fatigue syndrome has biological cause

  27-02-2015 20:00
  Scientists say they have struck upon the first “robust evidence” that the debilitating condition known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) has a biological cause.
  
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• Crufts 2015: The truth about hairspray and the dirty foreign tricks

  27-02-2015 19:59
  
  In 1891 at the first Crufts dog show, Queen Victoria entered her beloved pet, Gina the Pomeranian. Possibly because Victorian show judges knew when polite deference was needed, Gina was placed equal first in group. No one cared that the British queen’s dog was originally from Italy.
  
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• Robbie Savage avoids driving ban - because he would get 'accosted' too much if he had to use public transport

  27-02-2015 19:57
  Robbie Savage has avoided a driving ban for speeding - because his lawyer argued he would get "accosted" too much is he had to use public transport.
  
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• Ukraine crisis: Poroshenko sees lasting 'threat from the east'

  27-02-2015 19:56
  
  Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has said a “military threat from the east” would remain even if a peace deal holds between government forces and pro-Russian separatists.
  
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• Leonard Nimoy dead: William Shatner and others pay tribute to Spock 'Star Trek' actor who has died aged 83

  27-02-2015 19:53
  
  Tributes have poured in for the legendary Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy who has passed away. He was 83.
  
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• Leonard Nimoy dead: Tributes pour in for Spock 'Star Trek' actor who has died aged 83

  27-02-2015 19:53
  
  Tributes have poured in for the legendary Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy who has passed away. He was 83.
  
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• Bangladeshis protest after blogger is hacked to death in the street

  27-02-2015 19:52
  
  Students and teachers protested in central Dhaka yesterday, demanding swift action by police after the author and blogger Avijit Roy, an outspoken secularist who frequently criticised Islamist tendencies in his native land, was hacked to death on a city street.
  
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• China's year-long ban on ivory imports 'only window dressing'

  27-02-2015 19:49
  
  A year-long ban on ivory imports has been introduced by Beijing to reduce demand for the tusks and help protect elephants.
  
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• German MPs back Greek loan extension

  27-02-2015 19:47
  
  Despite furious debate and public opposition, the German parliament reluctantly voted yesterday to extend Athens’ controversial bailout extension for an extra four months.
  
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• Ukip would cut billions from Scottish budget to fund English tax cuts

  27-02-2015 19:43
  
  Ukip is preparing a manifesto pledge to slash billions of pounds from Scotland’s budget to help to pay for tax cuts for English voters.
  
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• Ebola outbreak: Disease ebbs in West Africa as aid agencies warn against complacency

  27-02-2015 19:35
  
  International aid agencies have warned that the response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa risks being wound down too quickly and fear that it could become endemic if efforts to stem the spread of the disease are not maintained.
  
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• Anti-Islamic group Pegida not welcome in Newcastle, say campaigners

  27-02-2015 19:24
  
  The anti-Islamic group Pegida has been warned it is “not welcome” in Newcastle ahead of its inaugural UK protest this weekend.
  
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• Sir Cliff Lawyers Hit Out Over Police Letter

  27-02-2015 19:21
  
  Sir Cliff Richard's lawyers have criticised the Home Affairs Committee over the release of a letter about the police investigation into sex abuse claims against the singer. Sir Cliff's representatives said the disclosure was "unfair" and caused him "a further round of unnecessary and extremely damaging media coverage with no due process". New developments in the case were revealed earlier this week in the letter, which was from South Yorkshire Police to committee ch
  
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• Padge-Victoria Windslowe: Black Madam rapper who considered herself 'Michelangelo of buttock implants' haunted by UK client's death

  27-02-2015 19:09
  A transgender hip hop performer who rapped under the name Black Madam and who considered herself the “Michelangelo of buttocks injections” has told a court she has been haunted by the death of a British client who was given low-grade implants.
  
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• Fears that a seabed mining 'marine industrial revolution' could wipe out habitats worldwide

  27-02-2015 19:00
  
  The world’s oceans are poised for a seabed mining frenzy amid a “marine industrial revolution” that threatens to destroy habitats and wipe out species, an expert has warned.
  
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• Sir Cliff Lawyers Attack Committee Over Letter

  27-02-2015 18:59
  
  Sir Cliff Richard's lawyers have criticised the Home Affairs Committee over the release of a letter about the police investigation into sex abuse claims against the singer. Sir Cliff's representatives said the disclosure was "unfair" and caused him "a further round of unnecessary and extremely damaging media coverage with no due process". The letter revealed the police investigation into Sir Cliff has "increased significantly in size" and involves "mo
  
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• Sir Cliff lawyers attack committee

  27-02-2015 18:46
  
  Sir Cliff Richard's lawyers have criticised a House of Commons committee for publishing a letter about the police investigation into sex abuse allegations against the veteran singer.
  
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