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• Supermoon solar eclipse: Sky-gazers to be treated to two celestial events before Spring equinox

  06-03-2015 23:59
  
  Sky-gazers will be in for a celestial treat before the Spring Equinox, as the deepest solar eclipse since 1999 and a Supermoon will fall on two consecutive days - a phenomenon known as a Supermoon eclipse
  
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• Two charities cease funding Cage

  06-03-2015 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Advocacy group Cage is no longer being funded by two charities, according to the Charity Commission.
  
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• Fulham 1-5 Bournemouth

  06-03-2015 23:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bournemouth return to the top of the Championship on goal difference with an emphatic win over 10-man Fulham.
  
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• Tory Opportunity As Lib Dem Stalwart Retires

  06-03-2015 23:12
  
  The Liberal Democrats are battling to hold off the Conservatives in Berwick-upon-Tweed, a seat that has been in Lib Dem hands since 1973. The main problem for the party is that for those 42 years one man has run the show - the MP Alan Beith - and he is retiring. The Conservatives, who missed out on victory by some 2,500 votes in 2010, know that the veteran and respected departure can only help their prospects. Jeremy Browne is also standing down from his seat in Taunton Deane.
  
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• New laser beam capable of burning hole in car from one mile away unveiled

  06-03-2015 23:09
  
  A photo of a car on fire which, wouldn’t look out of place in a Hollywood action movie, has displayed the startling power of a new laser weapon which can disable a running car from over a mile away.
  
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• Laser beam capable of burning hole in car from one mile away unveiled by Lockheed Martin

  06-03-2015 23:09
  
  A photo of a car on fire which, wouldn’t look out of place in a Hollywood action movie, has displayed the startling power of a new laser weapon which can disable a running car from over a mile away.
  
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• 'My number plate could have cost £1m'

  06-03-2015 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The most expensive number plate sold at a DVLA auction
  
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• The porn industry has been pounded by the rise of internet tube sites - has it now gone limp?

  06-03-2015 23:00
  The red carpet that leads into the AVN Awards, commonly referred to as "The Oscars of Porn", is a narrow sliver of scuffed felt, snaking away from the theatre entrance across the floor of the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas. Among the craps tables and the blinking slot machines, the world's most successful adult entertainment professionals edge forward patiently in single-file.
  
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• Customer service in the social media age: How companies deal with the daily Twitter storm

  06-03-2015 23:00
  
  Twitter, as a wise friend of mine once said, is no place for a human being. A swirling vortex of caustic jibes, it unwittingly incubates the kind of viciousness that can cause people real distress.
  
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• Ford plane hit tree before landing

  06-03-2015 22:54
  
  Hollywood actor Harrison Ford clipped a tree as he chose the "best spot" to crash-land his vintage plane on a golf course, air crash investigators said.
  
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• Bradford vs Reading FA Cup preview: Thirty years on from the Valley Parade fire, Bradford’s story starts to be told

  06-03-2015 22:42
  
  If you are looking for a team whose fortunes to follow in this FA Cup weekend of the largely usual quarter-final suspects then bear witness to Martin Preston’s story about the silence and it will be  Bradford City.
  
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• Flight MH370: Could it have been suicide?

  06-03-2015 22:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A year after the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines plane with 239 on board, it's still unknown what happened. Could pilot suicide have been the cause?
  
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• Syria crisis: EU slaps sanctions on several people and organisations propping up Assad regime

  06-03-2015 22:16
  
  Sanctions were imposed by the EU today on seven people and six organisations identified as propping up Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
  
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• Turn on, tune in, drop off: The Slow TV movement arrives here

  06-03-2015 22:09
  
  Surely 1.6 million Norwegians can’t be wrong? Three long hours into Salmon River – Minute by Minute, one of broadcaster NRK’s astonishingly popular “slow television” programmes, I decided that the nearly a third of the population who tuned in to the 18-hour marathon must have had a screw loose – or the boredom threshold of a Norwegian fisherman.
  
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• Sinn Féin 'could be biggest party'

  06-03-2015 21:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The deputy first minister tells the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis that he wants his party to be the biggest in Ireland, north and south of the border.
  
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• Ebola outbreak: British nurse who contracted the illness to appear before regulator

  06-03-2015 21:44
  
  The British nurse who risked her life treating Ebola victims and came close to death when she contracted the disease herself has been summoned for a hearing by the nursing regulator over whether her symptoms were concealed when she arrived back in the UK.
  
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• Green shoots: Bennett’s radio disaster fails to damp devotion of the party faithful

  06-03-2015 21:38
  
  As political speeches just weeks before elections go, the anxiety to get it right can be particularly acute. But for Natalie Bennett, the added pressure to deliver was clearly audible in her breathless delivery at her party’s annual conference today. 
  
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• Assyrians call on world leaders to prevent Isis from 'destroying our civilisation'

  06-03-2015 21:34
  
  Assyrian leaders in Iraq have lambasted Isis militants who bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud, accusing them of trying to “uproot” their beleaguered community.
  
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• Globalisation of Boko Haram: Nigerian minister warns the West faces a new terror threat

  06-03-2015 21:31
  
  Boko Haram is likely to plot attacks on the West, including Britain, according to a Nigerian government minister who warned that the Islamist group terrorising his country may compete with its global jihadi counterparts to commit atrocities abroad.
  
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• Mirror hacking trial: It was a horrific invasion of my life, BBC’s creative director tells court

  06-03-2015 21:29
  
  The BBC’s internal opinions on the Iraq War and the Hutton Inquiry were potential targets for Mirror Group journalists who hacked the phones of a high-profile executive, the High Court heard today.
  
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• International Women's Day: Gender pay gap will not close for 70 years if trends continue, UN says

  06-03-2015 21:20
  
  Women will continue to be paid less than men for the next 70 years if the gender pay gap continues to reduce at the present rate, according to a report by a UN agency released ahead of International Women’s Day.
  
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• 'No restrictions' on Ebola nurse

  06-03-2015 21:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone is free to continue working while under investigation, regulators rule.
  
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• VIDEO: New mental health rights proposed

  06-03-2015 21:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A consultation has been launched by the government to end what it calls "the horror of families feeling they aren't listened to", as Nikki Fox reports.
  
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• Man charged with cyclist murder

  06-03-2015 20:59
  
  A man has been charged with the murder of teenager Alan Cartwright who was stabbed to death while riding a bicycle with friends.
  
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• General Election 2015: What a future coalition could look like

  06-03-2015 20:53
  
  Scenario one: An SNP-Labour Coalition
  
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• John Fairchild: Journalist who transformed 'Women's Wear Daily' while skewering the great and good of the fashion world

  06-03-2015 20:49
  John Fairchild took Women’s Wear Daily from a dry fashion trade publication to an international industry force. Fairchild headed his family’s publishing business, Fairchild Publications, for more than 30 years, including a long stint as the tyrannical editor-in-chief of WWD and founding chief of W magazine.
  
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• Professor Anthony Birch: Political scientist and noted authority on the workings of government, democracy and Britain’s constitution

  06-03-2015 20:46
  The political scientist Anthony Birch held chairs at the universities of Hull and Exeter and top positions in the professional bodies, the Political Studies Association (PSA) and International Political Science Association (IPSA). It was therefore unexpected when he moved to Canada in 1977 and remained there until his death.
  
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• Teenager Charged With Murder Of Young Cyclist

  06-03-2015 20:39
  
  A teenager has been charged with the murder of 15-year-old Alan Cartwright as he was cycling in Camden, North London.
  
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• Mocked Dancing Man Set For 'Epic' LA Party

  06-03-2015 20:33
  
  A man mocked for his dance moves is set for a "party of a lifetime" with hundreds of women - and potentially Hollywood stars - after an online campaign tracked him down. Cassandra Fairbanks, who spearheaded the #finddancingman campaign , told Sky News the original taunts were "disgusting bullying", but that Sean was now basking in internet love. She explained "a whole bunch of women from LA from various fields" had got behind the campaign after being outraged by t
  
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• Jonny Evans denies FA charge for spitting at Papiss Cisse with Manchester United defender to learn his fate on Saturday

  06-03-2015 20:30
  Manchester United defender Jonny Evans has pleaded not guilty to spitting at Newcastle striker Papiss Cisse and will have his case heard on Friday night.
  
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• Man charged with wedding murder

  06-03-2015 20:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police investigating the killing of a man who was shot at a wedding in County Fermanagh last month charge a second man with murder.
  
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• Liverpool vs Blackburn preview: Kolo Toure happy to be the ultimate team player

  06-03-2015 20:21
  
  It is one of those mad days at Melwood, littered with appearance obligations for some of the Liverpool squad, fresh off an afternoon training session. Such "chores" are often unwelcome, especially sandwiched in a flooded fixture schedule, so the players trudge through reception to their respective commitments. Bucking the trend, an effervescent Kolo Touré walks in, passing the glass-encased European Cup replica, sporting a black club tracksuit instead of designer threads, and trainers at odds
  
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• Professor David Nutt: Why I think the terminally ill should take LSD

  06-03-2015 20:18
  
  Professor David Nutt has been no stranger to controversy over the years. So the psychiatrist and former Government drugs tsar, will not have been fazed when he raised eyebrows recently by drawing a parallel between the repression of research into the effects of psychedelic drugs like LSD with the censorship of Galileo and the banning of the telescope.
  
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• Ross Hawkins: What the Greens want

  06-03-2015 20:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Greens want to tax and spend more and get Labour to do it too
  
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• VIDEO: Farage family 'teased mercilessly'

  06-03-2015 20:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nigel Farage has told the BBC that his children have paid a high price for his frontline role in politics.
  
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• Natalia Revuelta Clews: Socialite in pre-revolutionary Cuba who became Fidel Castro's lover and bore a daughter who defected to US

  06-03-2015 20:03
  Natalia Revuelta was a Cuban socialite who became a paramour of the young revolutionary Fidel Castro, a liaison that produced a daughter who decades later defected to the US and denounced her father as a tyrant. For decades she was the subject of fascination at home and beyond.
  
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• Body 'probably missing Briton'

  06-03-2015 20:03
  
  It is "highly probable" that a body found in Monaco is that of a missing British man.
  
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• VIDEO: Drivers to receive parking grace period

  06-03-2015 20:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  From later this month, motorists in England will be given a 10-minute grace period before traffic wardens can issue a ticket, as Danny Savage reports.
  
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• Simon Rattle: Maestro with the magic touch

  06-03-2015 19:55
  
  It has been the worst kept secret in the arts world. The London Symphony Orchestra has long been the most likely destination for Britain’s most illustrious conductor when his contract with the Berlin Philharmonic runs out. Yet the announcement kept being delayed.
  
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• Mark Harold: The Johnny Rotten of beatboxing who has made it big in Lithuanian politics

  06-03-2015 19:47
  
  As a beatboxer and self-confessed English eccentric, Mark Harold cuts an unlikely political figure. And, given the city he is to help govern is over 1,000 miles away in another country and some of its residents charged him with being a spy, his story becomes more extraordinary.
  
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• Harrison Ford plane crash: Surgeon describes moment WW2 plane crashed onto a golf course

  06-03-2015 19:38
  
  If you are a well-off 72-year-old man, it is perhaps to be expected that you might occasionally drop by the golf club.
  
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• Who can the Saudis trust when they find themselves on Netanyahu's side?

  06-03-2015 19:34
  
  In their golden palaces, the Saudis fear.
  
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• Head covered up child abuse at exclusive Australian school

  06-03-2015 19:31
  
  For nearly 30 years, Ian Paterson was the public face of one of Australia’s most exclusive schools: Knox Grammar, in Sydney’s leafy northern suburbs. And for nearly 30 years, the autocratic headmaster covered up the abuse of boys who were preyed on by up to eight teachers, it is alleged.
  
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• Banker sues Goldman Sachs claiming she was ‘victimised for getting pregnant’

  06-03-2015 19:31
  
  A top Goldman Sachs banker is suing the firm and three of her bosses, claiming that she was denied millions of pounds in bonuses after she became pregnant.
  
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• China's ivory ban branded 'a flimsy measure that won't work'

  06-03-2015 19:29
  
  Campaigners have accused China of being insincere in its efforts to combat illegal ivory trade, dismissing its recent import ban as a “flimsy measure” that won’t work – and even suggesting it may have been introduced to undermine the case for a broader ban.
  
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• Britons' inflation expectations slide to lowest level in more than 13 years - Bank of England

  06-03-2015 19:22
  The British public's expectations for inflation over the next 12 months fell to its lowest level in more than 13 years last month, according to a survey on Friday from the Bank of England.
  
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• Alps Massacre: Mystery of missing motorcyclist solved, three years later

  06-03-2015 19:19
  
  A motorcyclist sought in connection with the murders of three members of a British family in the French Alps has been ruled out of the inquiry, leaving police no closer to a breakthrough more than two years after the killings.
  
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• Boris Nemtsov's final message: 'Putin has programmed Russians to hate strangers'

  06-03-2015 19:16
  
  Q. The opposition takes to the streets, but the regime holds on tight as ever. Is Russia going to change?
  
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• Vodaphone to offer four months' maternity leave regardless of local laws

  06-03-2015 19:13
  
  Vodafone has became one of the first companies in the world to offer all female staff at least four months’ maternity leave, whatever the local legal requirements.
  
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• Natalie Bennett LBC interview: Green Party leader has received media training after 'excruciating' encounter with Nick Ferrari

  06-03-2015 19:03
  Green Party leader Natalie Bennett is receiving media training, following a car-crash interview with a London radio station which she has since admitted was “absolutely excruciating”.
  
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