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• UK 'reticent to tackle Russia'

  09-03-2015 23:52
  
  Defence cuts have left Britain reticent to tackle Russia's interference in UK airspace and offshore waters, according to the former head of the Army.
  
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• O'Brien named as new UN aid chief

  09-03-2015 23:52
  
  Former international development minister Stephen O'Brien has been appointed as the new aid chief at the United Nations.
  
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• 'No tolerance' vow after dog dies

  09-03-2015 23:52
  
  Crufts have said speculation about "other incidents involving other dogs" are at this stage "just rumours" - but said sabotage will not be tolerated and anyone who puts a dog's welfare at risk could face prosecution.
  
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• Robinson discharged after tumour op

  09-03-2015 23:49
  
  BBC political editor Nick Robinson was discharged from hospital today after a successful operation to remove a lung tumour.
  
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• Ambassador: UK Must Do More On Radicalisation

  09-03-2015 23:33
  
  The Kuwaiti Ambassador to the UK has told Sky News Britain needs to do more to tackle extremist preaching. Ambassador Khaled Al-Duwaisan said some Muslims in the UK have "hijacked Islam in their own way". The focus of change should start at British mosques, he says: "There are wonderful imams in the UK and they're doing their best. The ambassador added that Kuwait does not have a problem with extremism as they have taken proactive measures to remove radical elements from the
  
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• Downed WW2 Airman's Ring Returned To Sister

  09-03-2015 23:32
  
  A gold ring has been returned to the sister of the World War Two airman who died when his plane came down in Albania in 1944. Dorothy Webster was handed the wedding band at a special ceremony that was the culmination of an extraordinary series of events. Her brother flight Sergeant John Thompson was given the ring when he married Joyce Mozeley in June 1944. The ring was found by Albanian Jaho Cala in 1960 while he was collecting metal and wood in the mountains of the then Stalinist state.
  
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• Missing Syria schoolgirls: Parents discover checklist for journey in girl's bedroom

  09-03-2015 23:22
  
  The parents of one of the three London schoolgirls feared to have fled the country in order to join Isis in Syria have discovered a handwritten list detailing the items the girls needed in order to make their trip.
  
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• EU exit would leave UK out in cold

  09-03-2015 23:18
  
  Britain would become the North Korea of Europe if it severed ties with Brussels, Gordon Brown has suggested.
  
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• Manchester United vs Arsenal match report: Danny Welbeck comes back to haunt old club as Angel Di Maria season hits new low

  09-03-2015 23:02
  The brutal assessment Louis van Gaal offered of Danny Welbeck last September was that he lacked the requisite talent.
  
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• Crufts Poison Claims: 'Sabotage Not Tolerated'

  09-03-2015 23:01
  
  Crufts' organisers have said sabotage will not be tolerated amid claims a dog was fatally poisoned at the world-famous show. West Midlands Police was liaising with Crufts officials and the NEC to secure potential evidence. She also said no vets have raised concerns about poisoning and there have been no official complaints from any owners at Crufts 2015. The woman also said anyone who puts a dog's welfare at risk could face prosecution.
  
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• Fighting Isis in Iraq: How British soldiers and other European troops are helping train the Peshmerga

  09-03-2015 22:59
  
  Wearing khaki uniforms and with Kalashnikovs in their hands, Kurdish fighters broke down the door of a half-built luxury villa not far from Irbil and braced themselves, guns raised, for hostile fire from the tiled entrance hall within. To shouts of encouragement from the German soldiers outside, they poured into the house, moving from room to room until they were confident they had it secured.
  
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• Appeal For Beaten Football Fan Tops £15,000

  09-03-2015 22:51
  
  An appeal to raise money for a father of two beaten up by football hooligans has raised more than £15,000. Nick Cruwys, a Watford supporter, was set upon by a gang following a Championship clash between between Watford and Wolves on Saturday. Mr Cruwys, 44, had been with friends walking from Wolverhampton's Molineux Stadium to the city's train station when he was attacked around 5pm. Police say that Mr Cruwys, a milkman from Hemel Hempstead, and his friends were outnumbered and he su
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Nadine Dorries throws the book at Barclay brothers over HMRC case

  09-03-2015 22:40
  
  Nadine Dorries, one of the more unpredictable characters in Parliament, has delivered a ringing attack on Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, one of whose companies, Shop Direct, is suing HM Revenue and Customs for compound interest for overpayment of tax. She described the twins as “avariciously greedy... notoriously reclusive… notoriously aggressive… deeply hypocritical” and “bullies”.
  
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• Sketch: Margaret Hodge gets her teeth into former HSBC executives in train wreck Public Accounts Committee hearing

  09-03-2015 22:36
  Having seen captains of industry reduced to gibbering imbecility by Margaret Hodge, Rona Fairhead must have been apprehensive about appearing before the Public Accounts Committee today. But this was a train wreck beyond her worst expectations.
  
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• Sketch: Margaret Hodge gets her teeth into former HSBC executives in Public Accounts Committee hearing

  09-03-2015 22:36
  Having seen captains of industry reduced to gibbering imbecility by Margaret Hodge, Rona Fairhead must have been apprehensive about appearing before the Public Accounts Committee today. But this was a train wreck beyond her worst expectations.
  
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• David Cameron 'could remain in office' after election if we get hung parliament, admits policy adviser Sir Jeremy Heywood

  09-03-2015 22:33
  Ministers who lose their seats at the next election could carry on in their posts for weeks if it results in a finely-balanced hung parliament, the Cabinet Secretary disclosed to night.
  
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• Why was Angel Di Maria sent off? Manchester United winger gets two bookings within seconds

  09-03-2015 22:33
  
  Angel Di Maria was sent off in the FA Cup quarter-final tie between Manchester United and Arsenal in strange circumstances.
  
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• Apple Watch Edition: £12,000 smartwatch is likely to be obsolete in a year

  09-03-2015 22:32
  
  For a watch, £12,000 sounds like an awful lot. For a watch that will obsolete in a year, it could prove fatal.
  
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• Charles and Camilla meet US stars

  09-03-2015 21:35
  
  The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have met with top American stars.
  
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• Apple Watch review: New gadget isn't just ahead of the times… it's the future

  09-03-2015 21:13
  
  The Apple Watch, revealed six months ago by Apple’s CEO Tim Cook as Apple’s most personal gadget, could also be its most eye-wateringly expensive. At least, that’s if you go for the 18-carat gold version, which starts – starts – at £8,000.
  
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• Harmondsworth hunger strike: Migrants at removal centre protest against human rights deprivations

  09-03-2015 21:02
  
  Detainees at Harmondsworth detention centre started refusing food on Sunday and said they planned to continue their protest until the “indefinite deprivation of liberty and human rights” there was brought to an end. Aerial cameras filmed around 100 people protesting in the exercise yard.
  
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• Weasel riding woodpecker sign: Council hits out at ad agency for trying to get 'free ride' off Hornchurch Country photo phenomenon

  09-03-2015 20:55
  The lure of fame will always bring hangers-on - and after it took Twitter by storm and even appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show, the woodpecker-riding weasel seems to be no different.
  
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• Mirror hacking trial: Son of Coronation Street's Shobna Gulati 'was bullied' and ran away from home as a result of stories

  09-03-2015 20:50
  A former Coronation Street actress broke down as she told a court how Mirror Group journalists listened to “very deeply personal” voicemails which resulted in the publication of stories that caused her son to be bullied and to run away from home.
  
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• The cost of NHS health care: Deciding who lives and who dies

  09-03-2015 20:42
  
  You may not be familiar with the name, but there is a strong likelihood you soon will be, in the coming election battle over the NHS. It is that of Simon Hawkins, a 59-year-old cancer survivor from Winchester whose encounter with David Cameron a little over a year ago could come back to haunt the Prime Minister.
  
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• Apple Watch specs, features, apps, release date and price: everything we learnt about Apple’s new wearable as Tim Cook unveils new device

  09-03-2015 20:40
  The Apple Watch launched tonight at a characteristically bombastic event in California. That event answered most of the big questions that remained about Apple’s foray into wearables — like how much it will cost, and when it will come out.
  
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• Apple Watch specs, features, apps, release date and price: everything we learnt about Apple’s new wearable

  09-03-2015 20:40
  The Apple Watch launched tonight at a characteristically bombastic event in California. That event answered most of the big questions that remained about Apple’s foray into wearables — like how much it will cost, and when it will come out.
  
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• Why do so many murders of young black men in the US go unsolved?

  09-03-2015 20:27
  
  Last year, protests erupted across the US following the deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri: two black men, both killed by police officers. Those fatal incidents, it was said, epitomised the over-policing of African-American communities.
  
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• British chicken sexing in crisis: experts needed to spot a 'very, very small' difference

  09-03-2015 20:17
  
  The British chicken sexing industry is in crisis.  In hatcheries up and down the country, golden day-old chicks cascade down conveyor belts waiting to have their gender established, so they can be assigned to lives as roosters or egg-layers.
  
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• Apple watch 'most advanced ever'

  09-03-2015 20:07
  
  Apple bosses unveiled its hotly anticipated watch today - and revealed that it will hit UK shops next month.
  
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• Sam Simon dead: 'The Simpsons' co-creator dies aged 59

  09-03-2015 20:05
  
  Sam Simon, the man who co-developed The Simpsons and wrote episodes of Cheers and Taxi, died on Sunday aged 59.
  
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• Sam Simon dead: Simpson's co-creator dies aged 59

  09-03-2015 20:05
  
  Sam Simon, the man who co-developed The Simpsons and wrote episodes of Cheers and Taxi, died on Sunday aged 59.
  
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• Apple Watch battery life: wearable will go 18 hours between charges

  09-03-2015 20:04
  
  The Apple Watch will go 18 hours of normal use before it needs charging, Tim Cook said at an event launching it today.
  
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• Padge-Victoria Windslowe: Black Madam rapper who considered herself 'Michelangelo of buttock implants' found guilty of murder

  09-03-2015 20:01
  A transgender hip hop performer who rapped under the name Black Madam and who considered herself the “Michelangelo of buttocks injections” has been found guilty of the murder of a British dancer who received low-grade implants.
  
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• BBC Trust chair urged to resign

  09-03-2015 19:48
  
  The head of an influential committee of MPs has called for the chair of the BBC Trust to resign or be sacked from her role overseeing the corporation over her role as an independent director at scandal-hit bank HSBC.
  
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• Sir Norman Foster warned by human rights campaigners after he wins bid to design Qatar World Cup stadium

  09-03-2015 19:45
  The architect Sir Norman Foster must ensure his firm is not “complicit” in human rights abuses in Qatar, campaigners have said. The warning came after it was announced that his firm will design the 80,000-seat Lusail Stadium near Doha that will host the final of the controversial 2022 World Cup.
  
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• Apple Watch release date and price UK: Solid gold $17,000 watch and its cheaper variants coming in April

  09-03-2015 19:41
  Apple has revealed a heap more details on the Apple Watch at a launch in San Francisco, with the customisable timepiece set to arrive on 24 April, 2015.
  
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• Square Kilometre Array: Jodrell Bank no match for Padua, say Italians in fight over mega-telescope HQ

  09-03-2015 19:39
  
  British and Italian scientists are at loggerheads over who gets to host the headquarters of the world’s biggest radio telescope – an instrument so powerful it will allow scientists to look all the way back to the aftermath of the Big Bang.
  
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• The 'best marriage proposal of 2015' has divided the internet

  09-03-2015 19:39
  
  Dean Smith is a dedicated man. He recently revealed to his now fiancé that he had been proposing to her every day for 365 days in the form of a video documenting his quest for her hand in marriage, and in the process, managed to make a lot of internet viewers “cry like a baby”.
  
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• Tories’ Alex Salmond billboard gets Nigel Farage spoof treatment

  09-03-2015 19:36
  
  Ever since Margaret Thatcher entered Downing Street in 1979 on the back of the Conservatives’ famous “Labour Isn’t working” poster, billboard advertising has occupied a unique place in Britain’s election landscape.
  
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• Woman Guilty Of Buttocks Injection Death

  09-03-2015 19:36
  
  A woman dubbed "the Michelangelo of buttocks injections" has been convicted in US court of killing a British dancer.
  
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• Ed Balls: 'Police and the Army will bear brunt of £70bn Tory cash cuts'

  09-03-2015 19:34
  
  Chancellor George Osborne’s spending plans for the next Parliament would force the Tories to reduce the Army to its smallest size since Oliver Cromwell and the police service to its smallest since comparable records began, Ed Balls claimed.
  
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• Hillsborough sergeant John Morgan denies giving order to open Gate C

  09-03-2015 19:31
  
  A former police sergeant repeatedly denied that he had taken the fateful decision in 1989 to open Hillsborough Gate C through which hundreds of Liverpool fans funnelled into the Leppings Lane turnstiles, where 96 people died in a crush.
  
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• Three charged over FA Cup disorder

  09-03-2015 19:26
  
  Three men have been charged by police investigating disorder which marred Aston Villa's FA Cup quarter-final victory over West Bromwich Albion.
  
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• Ten soldiers killed in Boko Haram battle for northern Nigerian towns

  09-03-2015 19:25
  
  Ten Chadian soldiers died during fighting to free two towns in northern Nigeria from the grip of Boko Haram, the first gains against the extreme jihadist group since a joint offensive was launched with Niger at the weekend.
  
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• Crash payout ruling 'disappointing'

  09-03-2015 19:21
  
  The Supreme Court could be asked to decide whether a "drug dealer" badly hurt in a crash when travelling in a car driven by an uninsured driver and being used "for the purpose of drug dealing" should get compensation.
  
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• Tokyo fire bombing 70th anniversary: Survivors beg Japan to remember the forgotten 100,000

  09-03-2015 19:16
  
  It was just after midnight when the rumble of B-29 bombers was heard, jolting Tokyo awake. The incendiaries that fell from their bellies, full of jelly petroleum, were like nothing anyone had ever seen.
  
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• Albert Maysles: Pioneer of cinéma vérité who with his brother David was best-known for 'Grey Gardens' and 'Gimme Shelter'

  09-03-2015 19:11
  With his brother David, Albert Maysles helped redefine documentary film-making with such stark slices of life as Gimme Shelter, about the Rolling Stones and Altamont, and Grey Gardens, about an eccentric mother and daughter. Masters of the cinema verité style, the brothers formed a partnership in the 1960s and produced dozens of films that were rigorous in their emotional detachment yet powerful in depicting real-life drama.
  
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• Crufts dog death: At least four other competitors may have been poisoned this year

  09-03-2015 19:10
  
  The owners of at least four other dogs competing at Crufts fear their animals may have been poisoned around the same time a prize-winning Irish Setter was allegedly fed a lethal cocktail of poisons thought to include slug pellets, it has been claimed.
  
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• James Molyneaux: Ulster Unionist leader for 16 years who fought an ultimately losing battle to maintain the status quo

  09-03-2015 19:08
  James Molyneaux was so self-effacing that, although he led Northern Ireland's largest political party for much of the Troubles, he remained virtually unknown to the wider British public. As leader of the Ulster Unionist party between 1979 and 1995 he might have been expected to be in the limelight. Instead he shunned publicity and prominence, preferring to operate in the shadows and mostly avoiding TV appearances.
  
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• French campaigners up in arms over plan to chop down Napoleon's roadside trees

  09-03-2015 19:07
  
  Tree-lined roads stretching into the distance are one of the best-loved features of the French landscape. Not for much longer. After several threats and reprieves France’s roadside trees, popularised by the Emperor Napoleon, are facing their Waterloo.
  
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