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• The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 12, 'Remember', review: 'The discovery of a new community leads Rick to a dark decision'

  02-03-2015 23:50
  For an episode that is light on blood and violence (by Walking Dead standards), ‘Remember’ manages to be one of the more unsettling of the season. Upon arriving at the gated (and somewhat utopian) community of Alexandria, Rick and his friends are instantly on guard, unaware that the greatest threat to their safety might just be the emotional baggage they’re carrying in with them.
  
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• England Footballer Arrested Over Sex Claim

  02-03-2015 23:38
  
  England and Sunderland player Adam Johnson has been released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of sexual activity with a girl under 16. He has been suspended by the Premier League club, pending the outcome of the police investigation. The 27-year-old winger was detained at his home earlier on Monday and questioned at Peterlee police station in County Durham. Durham Constabulary said he was later bailed to return to the same police station at a future date.
  
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• Monica Lewinksky’s blue dress can be seen in portrait of Bill Clinton

  02-03-2015 23:33
  
  Another week, another dress controversy on the internet.
  
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• 'No hiding' from abuse failures

  02-03-2015 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There is "no hiding" from the failures of authorities in Oxfordshire where young girls were groomed, a retired detective tells Newsnight.
  
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• FA wants Team GB sides at Rio 2016

  02-03-2015 23:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Football Association is planning to enter men's and women's Great Britain teams at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
  
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• Kelly in Crimewatch medals appeal

  02-03-2015 23:14
  
  A Commonwealth Games gold medal winner has made an appeal on BBC1's Crimewatch after her medals were stolen from her home.
  
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• Walworth police stabbing: Man remanded in custody over attempted murder of two Metropolitan police officers

  02-03-2015 23:12
  
  A 20-year-old man has been remanded in custody after appearing in court charged with the attempted murder of two police officers.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: MPs who talk fearful drivel and fight pointless battles

  02-03-2015 22:56
  
  There is a Conservative quartet of Peter Bone, Christopher Chope, Philip Davies and Philip Hollobone who cannot be faulted for the amount of time they spend on their feet in the Commons, arguing. Chope spoke in 75 Commons debates last year, well above the average for an MP, but he was eclipsed by Bone, who spoke in 95, Davies 136 and Hollobone 185. Given that the Commons sat for only 162 days in the 2013-14 session, there was hardly a day when they did not hear from one or more of the quartet.
  
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• Parliament may be abandoned - Bercow

  02-03-2015 22:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Houses of Parliament could have to be "abandoned" within 20 years without extensive repair work, Commons Speaker John Bercow says.
  
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• IRA play park name debate rejected

  02-03-2015 22:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sinn Féin councillors in Newry reject unionist efforts to reconsider naming a play park after an IRA man.
  
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• Tories blast Labour 'wrecking ball'

  02-03-2015 22:26
  
  A new Conservative poster is go ing up on billboards across the country tonight and tomorrow morning which shows a wrecking ball with "Don't Let Labour Wreck It" slamming into the slogan "A Recovering Economy".
  
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• Immigration centre probe ordered

  02-03-2015 22:26
  
  Service company Serco has suspended one member of staff and been asked to carry out an immediate investigation after a TV programme went undercover at the Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre.
  
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• Arrest after stabbing near school

  02-03-2015 22:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A teenager is arrested in connection with an alleged serious assault outside a school in the southside of Glasgow.
  
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• Johnson bailed in child sex probe

  02-03-2015 22:16
  
  England footballer Adam Johnson has been released on bail after he was arrested on suspicion of sexual activity with a girl under 16.
  
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• Attack on Tikrit: Iraqi forces move against Isis to retake Saddam's city and province of Salahuddin

  02-03-2015 22:04
  
  Iraqi forces launched a ferocious assault to drive Isis from the city of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, today as they began an offensive aimed at retaking the province of Salahuddin from the jihadist group.
  
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• British plane spotters in UAE arrest

  02-03-2015 21:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three British men are arrested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over allegations of suspicious behaviour while plane spotting.
  
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• England footballer in sex arrest

  02-03-2015 21:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England and Sunderland footballer Adam Johnson is arrested on suspicion of sex with a 15-year-old girl, and later released on bail.
  
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• Lacey Spears: Mother sentenced to prison for poisoning son to death with salt

  02-03-2015 21:52
  
  Lacey Spears, a mother who blogged about her son’s health woes, was sentenced to prison on Monday for killing her son by force-feeding him salt.
  
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• Emwazi Was 'Vulnerable' At School: Ex-Teacher

  02-03-2015 21:48
  
  Mohammed Emwazi, the Kuwaiti-born Londoner unveiled as Islamic State fighter 'Jihadi John', has been described as a vulnerable pupil who needed the approval of others. A teacher, who was close to Emwazi from the age of 14 until he left Quintin Kyanston school in west London aged 18, said he was in other respects an ordinary pupil.
  
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• David Cameron talks big but is waving a small stick at the Russian bear

  02-03-2015 21:34
  
  David Cameron, according to his critics among senior diplomats and military commanders, seems to have turned Teddy Roosevelt’s advice on foreign policy – “speak softly and carry a big stick” – on its head.
  
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• PM: Walliams is Sam Cam's favourite

  02-03-2015 21:25
  
  David Cameron joked that his wife's favourite David is one of the stars of Little Britain as he hosted a Downing Street reception to celebrate Wales's national day.
  
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• Premier League star Adam Johnson arrested on suspicion of having sex with 15-year-old girl

  02-03-2015 21:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ENGLAND and Sunderland footballer Adam Johnson has been arrested on suspicion of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl.
  
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• Emwazi Involved In Bullying Claims: Ex-Teacher

  02-03-2015 21:16
  
  A former teacher of Mohammed Emwazi who became 'Jihadi John' has told Sky News he was involved in bullying allegations when he was a student. But she said there were no signs at school he would become the Islamic State militant who is believed to have murdered at least five Western hostages.
  
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• 'Jihadi John': Why do we give criminals nicknames?

  02-03-2015 21:15
  
  Assuming that he has web access, Mohammed Emwazi, the British Islamic State militant revealed last week to have featured in several terrorist videos, would be able scan headlines last summer to learn what his nickname could have been. On 21 August, the day after the film circulated showing the killing of James Foley, the journalist's masked murderer was called variously "The Beatle", "The Ali G Jihadi", "John the Executioner" and "Jailer John". But only one name would stick.
  
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• My life as a Jew in wartime Berlin: How I outwitted the Gestapo

  02-03-2015 21:11
  
  But Marie Jalowicz was still there – among the 1,700 of her people who were able to go to ground, remain in the heart of the Reich and survive the war. She was one of the Untergetaucht – the submerged, also known as 'U-boats'. In this extract from Marie's remarkable memoir, she describes the morning that she managed to outwit the Gestapo.
  
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• Getting young people to vote: From #VOTESELFISH to Bite the Ballot

  02-03-2015 21:10
  
  Personal attacks, mud-slinging, celebrity endorsement, scare tactics, brightly coloured buses and getting creative with the facts have long been an essential part of any political party's election campaign toolkit. Who can forget the Tories' "New Labour, New Danger" poster featuring a demon-eyed Tony Blair? But rarely do such techniques stir much interest among the under-25s – a problem a number of new initiatives are trying to address.
  
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• 'More TB-resistant' cattle created

  02-03-2015 21:00
  
  Scientists say they have created genetically engineered cattle which are more resistant to tuberculosis.
  
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• Drought linked to Syria civil war

  02-03-2015 21:00
  
  A record breaking drought may have helped push Syria into all-out civil war, according to new research.
  
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• Discovery offers antibiotics hope

  02-03-2015 21:00
  
  A mechanism by which bacteria cells became resistant to antibiotics has been identified for the first time by scientists.
  
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• Emwazi Faced Bullying Allegations, Says Teacher

  02-03-2015 20:59
  
  A former teacher of Mohammed Emwazi who became 'Jihadi John' has told Sky News there were allegations of bullying against him when he was a student. But she said there were no signs at school he would become the Islamic State militant who is believed to have murdered at least five Western hostages.
  
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• 'Bomber Plotted To Target Easter Shoppers'

  02-03-2015 20:57
  
  Lawyers prosecuting a man accused of plotting to blow up Manchester's Arndale shopping centre have told a court he "was giving life to al Qaeda's words with blood". Abid Naseer is on trial in New York accused of playing a major part in a global terror plot to launch coordinated attacks in Manhattan, Manchester and Copenhagen in 2009. In her closing arguments, lead prosecutor Zainab Ahmad said that the 28-year-old was going to use a car bomb or bombs in Manchester "and wa
  
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• Adam Johnson arrested: England player questioned over allegations of sex with girl, 15

  02-03-2015 20:52
  
  England footballer Adam Johnson was tonight being questioned over allegations of under-age sex with a 15-year-old girl.
  
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• LAPD launches inquiry after police shoot homeless man on Skid Row in incident captured on video

  02-03-2015 20:42
  
  Investigators in Los Angeles were tonight trying to get to the bottom of a confrontation over the weekend between five police officers and a homeless man on a downtown street in the city’s Skid Row neighbourhood, which ended in his death.
  
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• LAPD chief defends police who shot homeless man on Skid Row in incident captured on video, saying they acted in 'self-defence'

  02-03-2015 20:42
  
  The authorities in Los Angeles tonight defended three police officers involved in the killing of a homeless man on Skid Row on Sunday.
  
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• Historian: ‘Disney was right to show King John as a villain'

  02-03-2015 20:41
  
  Historians have long argued over whether King John was a villain or simply misunderstood. Now one believes that attempts by scholars to rehabilitate the monarch’s reputation for over half a century are “nonsense” – and a more accurate portrayal of “England’s worst king” can be found in a Walt Disney cartoon.
  
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• Chapel Hill shootings: Prosecutors to seek death penalty against Craig Hicks if convicted of murder, say reports

  02-03-2015 20:40
  Prosecutors in North Carolina will seek the death penalty against a man charged with the shooting deaths of three Muslim students, it has been reported.
  
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• Should England expect to win Slams?

  02-03-2015 20:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After hopes of a Six Nations clean sweep slip by for another year, Tom Fordyce asks whether English rugby fans should expect more.
  
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• Wu-Tang Clan has a secret album that could be released – in 88 years

  02-03-2015 20:37
  
  Wu-Tang Clan, the legendary rap group that launched several solo rap careers, has a secret album called The Wu: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, but it could be a long, long time before fans can get a hold of the album.
  
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• Boris Nemtsov shot dead: Kremlin security cameras failed to pick up killing of Putin opponent

  02-03-2015 20:33
  
  Dozens of security cameras monitor the streets that surround the Kremlin. None, it emerged today, were looking in the right place when four bullets were fired at Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. And the only witness to the murder, his Ukrainian girlfriend Anna Duritskaya, saw nothing.
  
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• Ex-banker awarded £70,000 after police wrongly released his picture as ‘most-wanted’ rapist

  02-03-2015 20:32
  
  A former City banker has won nearly £70,000 in damages from Essex Police after he was named on a “most wanted list” as a suspected rapist on the run – despite phoning the force on his own initiative and offering to fly from Dubai to explain his innocence.
  
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• Isis and al-Qaeda sending coded messages through eBay, pornography and Reddit

  02-03-2015 20:29
  
  Isis and al-Qaeda members are communicating with each other via coded messages hidden on websites including eBay, Reddit, and inside pornographic photos, according to a new book.
  
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• Mohammed Emwazi: Mother of Jihadi John might have known his identity seven months ago

  02-03-2015 20:28
  
  The mother of Mohammed Emwazi realised seven months ago that her son was the masked killer known as Jihadi John, it was claimed tonight.
  
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• Ex-Banker Wins £67k Over False Rape Link

  02-03-2015 20:27
  
  A former banker has been awarded £67,750 after police named him among their "most wanted" over an alleged rape. Anthony Crook's photo was on the front page of a local newspaper after being made public by Essex Police - but no charges were ever brought against him. Judge Deborah Taylor ruled that police breached both data protection rules and Mr Crook's right to privacy. The High Court heard how Mr Crook had offered to help police with their inquiries before the appeal was la
  
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• Climate change key in Syrian conflict – and it will trigger more war in future

  02-03-2015 20:26
  
  Climate change was a key driver of the Syrian uprising, according to research which warns that global warming is likely to unleash more wars in the coming decades, with Eastern Mediterranean countries such as Jordan and Lebanon particularly at risk.
  
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• Foreign Office accused of cover-up about trade mission to Sisi’s Egypt

  02-03-2015 20:21
  
  The Foreign Office has been accused of turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in Egypt in a concerted drive to secure lucrative trade deals.
  
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• Emwazi Needed Reassurance As Child, Says Teacher

  02-03-2015 20:18
  
  A former teacher of Mohammed Emwazi who became 'Jihadi John' tells Sky News he had low self-esteem and needed reassurance. But she said there were no signs at school he would become the Islamic State militant who is believed to have murdered at least five Western hostages. The killings, including of Britons Alan Henning and David Haines, were shown in videos released by the extremist group.
  
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• Headliners named for V Festival

  02-03-2015 20:15
  
  Kasabian and Calvin Harris are sharing headlining honours at this year's V Festival.
  
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• Isis in Iraq: Even if Iraqi troops take back Saddam’s city of Tikrit they will face bombs and booby traps

  02-03-2015 20:15
  
  It is important for the Iraqi army to win the struggle for the city of Tikrit because this would be its first successful counteroffensive since the beginning of last year. It has hitherto failed to recapture any city or town taken by Isis since the fall of Fallujah in January 2014.
  
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• Half of parents in some areas denied first choice of school

  02-03-2015 20:13
  
  Nearly half of parents in some parts of the country have had their first choice of secondary school rejected, with families in inner cities faring the worst.
  
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• We may abandon Parliament - Bercow

  02-03-2015 20:11
  
  The Palace of Westminster may have to be abandoned within 20 years unless an extensive programme of repairs and modernisation is agreed, John Bercow has warned.
  
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