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• Voters Confused By Parties' Warning Messages

  04-03-2015 23:54
  
  It is not unusual for these tactics to be used by political parties during general elections, but with the rise of UKIP, the SNP and the Green Party, this election is full of contradictory messages. Vote SNP, get the Tories, say Labour in Scotland. In some parts of the country, Labour leaflets tell people if they vote Liberal Democrat they will get the Tories. In other areas, UKIP supporters say vote Tories, get Labour.
  
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• PM in single debate 'final offer'

  04-03-2015 23:54
  
  David Cameron has agreed to take part in just one televised leaders' debate ahead of the general election in a "final offer" to broadcasters.
  
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• Ukraine mine explosion: At least 24 dead and nine missing following methane blast

  04-03-2015 23:29
  
  A rebel-held city scarred by months of conflict in eastern Ukraine suffered more tragedy Wednesday when a methane gas explosion in a coal mine killed at least 24 workers and left nine missing.
  
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• LGBT History Month: Pupils discuss topics from Sappho to same-sex marriage

  04-03-2015 23:20
  
  Last weekend saw the end of the 11th annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History Month, led by the LGBT equality group Schools Out. Across the country, we've seen exciting work done in schools to celebrate the achievements and contributions of LGBT people, as well as open discussions about social history and how the past provides important lessons for the way we live today.
  
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• Cricket World Cup 2015: Tournament runs riot to make the event more hit than miss...

  04-03-2015 23:13
  
  Q. Is this World Cup  any good?
  
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• Cameron Issues Ultimatum Over TV Debates

  04-03-2015 23:12
  
  David Cameron has said he will only take part in one TV election debate, ruling out a head-to-head contest with Ed Miliband. In a "final offer" to broadcasters, Downing Street says the Prime Minister is only prepared to participate in a 90-minute debate with at least seven party leaders. The newspaper cites a letter sent to Sue Inglish, the chair of the broadcasters' leaders' debates committee, by Mr Cameron's communications director Craig Oliver. "The broadcasters
  
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• Ullman back on BBC after 30 years

  04-03-2015 23:06
  
  Comic Tracey Ullman is heading home for a new series on BBC One almost 30 years after she moved to the United States.
  
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• Tony Blair gives £106,000 to Labour’s election campaign

  04-03-2015 23:04
  
  Tony Blair has donated £106,000 to the Labour Party by giving £1,000 each to the local campaigns in its 106 target seats.
  
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• Med diet 'cuts heart disease risk'

  04-03-2015 23:00
  
  A Mediterranean diet rich in fresh fruit, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, beans, fish and olive oil can cut the long-term risk of heart disease by half, research has shown.
  
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• DCI Banks, Series 4, TV review: Stephen Tompkinson's glum Yorkshire detective is a far cry from Broadchurch

  04-03-2015 23:00
  Perhaps now is the time, in the light of the subplot snarl that was the second series of Broadchurch, to re-evaluate shows like DCI Banks.
  
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• Newcastle vs Manchester United match report: Ashley Young scores late winner as Angel Di Maria fails to shine yet again

  04-03-2015 22:56
  Ashley Young fired Manchester United to a last-minute victory at Newcastle to maintain their charge for a top-four finish.
  
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• PM issues 'final offer' on debates

  04-03-2015 22:56
  
  David Cameron has issued a "final offer" to broadcasters over televised leaders debates, agreeing to take part in just one discussion, it has emerged.
  
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• A class apart: Politics has become a closed world

  04-03-2015 22:55
  
  “There are unfortunately too many people in politics who just don’t get it; who just don’t understand what life on benefits would be like,” Lord O’Donnell, the former head of the Civil Service, has warned. The factual assumption behind this lament cannot be denied. The biographical backgrounds of today’s professional politicians are not representative of the public at large, and the number who have had any direct experience of life at the bottom of the social pile is indeed very smal
  
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• Mayor accused of misleading Londoners

  04-03-2015 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson is accused of misleading Londoners over how much it could cost to fund a new garden bridge over the River Thames.
  
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• Isis: Virginia teen arrested for allegedly helping man join militant group

  04-03-2015 22:46
  
  The FBI has arrested a 17-year-old Virginia teenager for his alleged role in helping a man get to Syria to join Isis, according to a report from the Washington Post.
  
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• The Internet of Things: Meet the British salesman who gave real-world items a virtual life

  04-03-2015 22:45
  
  The Internet of Things started in the mid-1990s, when a quirky young brand manager in the UK puzzled over why a shade of brown lipstick kept disappearing from shop shelves.
  
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• Tracey Ullman returns in BBC comedy

  04-03-2015 22:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tracey Ullman is to return to the BBC with her own comedy series, some 30 years after she was a regular face on British TV.
  
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• BBC to host Ronnie Barker lecture

  04-03-2015 22:06
  
  The BBC has unveiled plans for an annual lecture about comedy named in honour of the late Ronnie Barker.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: If the Mail man won't admit to drug use, should Nick Clegg?

  04-03-2015 22:04
  
  At his drugs policy launch with Sir Richard Branson, Nick Clegg complained that he had had several private expressions of support for decriminalisation from senior figures in what he called “the mainstream parties”.
  
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• Tracey Ullman returns to BBC with new show

  04-03-2015 22:02
  
  Tracey Ullman, the comedian who blazed a trail for a generation of female stars in the 80s, is to return to BBC1.
  
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• Election 2015: Latest polling reveals Tories and Labour on course to win the same number of seats - with the SNP holding the balance of power

  04-03-2015 22:01
  The Tories and Labour are on course to win the same number of seats in  Westminster after the election on 7 May with the SNP emerging as the third largest party holding the balance of power, a new poll suggests.
  
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• The Great Comic Relief Bake Off, review: Alexa Chung's secret skills impress but Chris Moyles makes Paul Hollywood gag

  04-03-2015 22:00
  Tonight four more famous faces enter the Bake Off tent in an attempt to be crowned Star Baker by Mary Berry and silver fox Paul Hollywood.
  
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• Audiences queue up for 'true stories told live' as cult competition The Moth goes global

  04-03-2015 22:00
  
  The truth isn't always stranger than fiction, but what I've heard at The Moth would suggest otherwise. Founded in 1997 by the novelist George Dawes Green, The Moth was an attempt to recreate in New York the sultry summer evenings of his native Georgia, when moths were attracted to the light on the porch where he and his friends spun spellbinding tales.
  
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• VIDEO: 'Nothing suspicious about my son'

  04-03-2015 21:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The father of a Pakistani man who has been convicted in the US for plotting attacks in several countries says that there was "nothing suspicious" about his son.
  
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• India to investigate TV crew's interview with rapist who claimed victim was responsible for what happened to her

  04-03-2015 21:46
  India’s Minister of Home Affairs has said that he will investigate how a film crew was able to interview a death-row convict who expressed no remorse for his part in the fatal gang rape of a woman in New Delhi in 2012, an attack that sparked outrage.
  
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• Boston Marathon bombing trial: Court shown distressing video footage of the immediate aftermath of the blasts

  04-03-2015 21:36
  
  A Boston courtroom saw graphic and frequently distressing video footage of the immediate carnage caused by one of the devices detonated at the finish line of the city’s marathon nearly two years ago as prosecutors opened their case against the single surviving defendant, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
  
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• NFL concussions: Two more NFL champions pledge their brains to science

  04-03-2015 21:26
  
  Two NFL champions have joined the list of current and former players that have pledged to donate their brains to scientific research when they die.
  
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• SNP 'poised to take Brown's seat'

  04-03-2015 21:26
  
  Gordon Brown's parliamentary seat is set to be claimed by the SNP at the general election, according to polling by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft.
  
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• VIDEO: Farage denies U-turn over migration

  04-03-2015 21:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UKIP leader Nigel Farage has denied that he has made a U-turn on the party's key policy on immigration.
  
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• Living with Alzheimer's: What is it really like to be diagnosed with early-onset dementia?

  04-03-2015 21:20
  
  There's a wealth of memorable lines in Still Alice, the Julianne Moore vehicle about early-onset Alzheimer's that opens in Britain tomorrow. Such as this one: "'Live in the moment,' I tell myself. 'It's really all I can do'." So says Alice, the esteemed 50-year-old linguistics professor played by Moore, in one of the most poignant scenes in a highly emotional film that follows Alice and her family's journey through diagnosis and beyond. "And that's absolutely how it is," says Joy Watson, who wa
  
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• Striker Collapses During Premier League Game

  04-03-2015 21:08
  
  Swansea striker Bafetimbi Gomis has collapsed during the game against Tottenhan and has been carried off in a stretcher.
  
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• War with Isis: Iraq's government fights to win back Tikrit from militants - but then what?

  04-03-2015 21:04
  
  Some 60 miles from his office in the capital of Iraq’s oil-rich province of Kirkuk, a battle is raging for control of Tikrit. It might seem a hopeful sign that Baghdad is finally attempting to win back a key city from the control of Isis, the jihadist group that swept into a great swathe of Iraq last year. But Kirkuk’s governor, Najmaldin Karim, is not optimistic about the long-term outcome.
  
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• Shortage of chick sexers in the UK, despite £40,000 salary

  04-03-2015 20:58
  
  Despite an above average £40,000 annual pay-packet, the UK’s poultry industry has a shortage of “chick-sexers”.
  
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• Abid Naseer terror trial: Pakistani found guilty of al-Qaeda plot to blow up New York subway

  04-03-2015 20:43
  
  A Pakistani man has been found guilty of taking part in a failed al-Qaeda plot to blow up the New York subway.
  
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• Out-of-touch MPs ‘don’t get it’, says ex-Civil Service chief

  04-03-2015 20:32
  
  Too few politicians in Britain have any idea what life is like for people living on benefits, the former head of the Civil Service has warned, criticising ministers who send their children to public schools and have private health care rather than use the NHS. In an outspoken attack Lord (Gus) O’Donnell said there were still “too many people in politics who just don’t get it” and called for political parties to select candidates using open primaries to broaden representation in Parliamen
  
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• Pakistani women come out fighting: A hard-hitting play focuses on female Muslim boxers

  04-03-2015 20:30
  
  It is a rainy Sunday afternoon in Bradford and three teenage girls are pummelling heavy punchbags that hang from the ceiling of Huggy's Boxing Gym. "Your punches are fine but I want to see a bit of aggression," says their coach. "Don't be afraid to grunt." The girls continue to land uppercuts and right hooks. While there's nothing incongruous about the gender of the boxers in these days of Olympic medal-winning female fighters, these young women are also British Pakistani Muslims. The girls in
  
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• Mohammed Emwazi: Relatives go into hiding under increased scrutiny

  04-03-2015 20:28
  
  Relatives of Mohammed Emwazi have gone into hiding in Kuwait and Britain, amid mounting scrutiny after the 26-year-old Briton was named as "Jihadi John" last week.
  
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• Katarina Johnson-Thompson: Heptathlete ready to jump at first major title

  04-03-2015 20:24
  
  Such is the positivity that oozes from Katarina Johnson-Thompson, she can even make an injury sound like a plus.
  
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• George Clooney and Amal fail to get special treatment at New York restaurant

  04-03-2015 20:23
  
  It’s one thing that a restaurant is so good that it the likes of Amal Clooney and her husband George want to eat there.
  
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• New York And Manchester Bomb Plotter Guilty

  04-03-2015 20:22
  
  A Pakistani man has been found guilty in US federal court of plotting al Qaeda attacks in New York and the UK. Abid Naseer, 28, was convicted on charges of providing material support to al Qaeda, conspiracy to provide material support and conspiracy to use destructive device. The charges were dropped after a British court found there was not enough evidence, but US prosecutors later charged him in a broader conspiracy that included a failed plot to bomb the New York subway.
  
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• Man guilty of Manchester bomb plot

  04-03-2015 20:17
  
  A man accused of plotting to bomb a shopping centre in Manchester and the subway in New York City has been found guilty by a US jury.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Want to be a non-dom for tax? Just ask your dad

  04-03-2015 20:13
  
  One of the more extraordinary revelations thrown up by the HSBC scandal is that a rich man who counts as non-domiciled under our tax system, and is therefore exempt from paying tax on money earned outside the UK, can hand this status down to his British-born children.
  
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• Occupy Rupert Murdoch: Protesters aim to hold ‘people’s trial’

  04-03-2015 20:06
  
  An “Occupy Rupert Murdoch” protest week is to be held outside News UK’s offices in London, culminating in a “people’s trial” of the media tycoon
  
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• Marijuana could be to blame for rise in New York City murders, says NYPD commissioner

  04-03-2015 20:05
  
  Murders are up by 20 per cent in New York City in the first two months of the year, compared to last year, and New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said the spike in murders could be due to marijuana.
  
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• Col Bob Stewart: Defence chiefs ‘should resign over Army cuts’

  04-03-2015 20:00
  
  Britain’s military chiefs were urged by a senior Conservative MP yesterday to resign in protest over cuts to the defence budget.
  
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• Mukhtar Ablyazov: French court orders wanted former Kazakh minister to be extradited to Russia or Ukraine

  04-03-2015 20:00
  
  Former billionaire Mukhtar Ablyazov, who fled what was the biggest ever fraud case to be heard in the UK, has been ordered by a French court to be extradited.
  
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• Mukhtar Ablyazov: French court orders wanted former Kazakh minister to be extradited to Britain

  04-03-2015 20:00
  
  Former billionaire Mukhtar Ablyazov, who fled what was the biggest ever fraud case to be heard in the UK, has been ordered by a French court to be extradited.
  
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• New hope for heart failure patients

  04-03-2015 20:00
  
  Heart failure can effectively be reversed by a commonly-prescribed antidepressant, scientists have claimed.
  
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• Harmondsworth immigrants kept in cells for two hours longer, secret filming reveals

  04-03-2015 19:59
  
  Immigrants are being locked away in cells for an extra two hours a day in Britain’s largest detention centre as part of a cost-cutting exercise, undercover footage reveals.
  
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• Ayesha Ali death: Mother and her lover convicted of torturing and killing daughter

  04-03-2015 19:56
  
  A woman and her lesbian lover are facing years behind bars for torturing, abusing and killing her eight-year-old daughter while in the grip of a “sophisticated web of lies and deceit”.
  
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