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• VIDEO: Getting UK productivity back on track

  13-03-2015 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Robert Peston has been finding out why productivity in the UK has fallen since 2008 - and what can be done to improve it.
  
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• A man and his wallet, reunited after 65 years

  13-03-2015 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The man reunited with wallet lost behind a bookcase for 65 years
  
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• Clarkson Hints At Possible Top Gear Exit

  13-03-2015 23:26
  
  Jeremy Clarkson has hinted he may be ready to leave Top Gear after being suspended over a bust-up with a producer.
  
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• Elephants can smell land mines, scientists find

  13-03-2015 23:22
  
  Elephants have become the latest creatures to join humans in the battle to detect explosives and potentially save lives.
  
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• Councils using video inspired by 'Game of Thrones' to highlight unfair treatment of poorest regions

  13-03-2015 23:17
  
  It’s so grim up north – and in the Midlands and much of the South – that councils have resorted to a rip-off of Game of Thrones to get the wicked London elite to listen to their complaints.
  
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• Councils using video inspired by 'Game of Thrones' to highlight unfair treatment

  13-03-2015 23:17
  
  It’s so grim up north – and in the Midlands and much of the South – that councils have resorted to a rip-off of Game of Thrones to get the wicked London elite to listen to their complaints.
  
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• Councils using 'Game of Thrones' spoof to highlight treatment of poorest regions

  13-03-2015 23:17
  
  It’s so grim up north – and in the Midlands and much of the South – that councils have resorted to a rip-off of Game of Thrones to get the wicked London elite to listen to their complaints.
  
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• Body found after empty kayak spotted

  13-03-2015 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man's body is found after an empty kayak was spotted floating in the Firth of Forth.
  
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• Will peer-to-peer Isas get the go-ahead?

  13-03-2015 22:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Will peer-to-peer Isas get the go-ahead?
  
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• Exclusive: Michael Gove still driving education policy despite being out of the job, says Lib Dem

  13-03-2015 22:07
  
  Michael Gove, the former Education Secretary is still driving the Conservatives’ education policy rather than his successor Nicky Morgan, according her Liberal Democrat deputy.
  
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• Firm ends Spurs stadium challenge

  13-03-2015 21:57
  
  Tottenham Hotspur FC are free to go ahead with proposals to build their new stadium after a family business dropped its legal challenge to the plans.
  
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• Lib Dem spring conference: Paddy Ashdown rallies the party amid bleak election prospects

  13-03-2015 21:22
  
  Lord Paddy Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader and Special Boat Service captain, tried to inspire the party's troops at its spring conference this evening ahead of what looks to be a bleak general election for them.
  
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• Slender Man trial: Two young girls accused of stabbing classmates to be tried as adults

  13-03-2015 21:18
  
  Two young girls in Wisconsin who allegedly stabbed a classmate repeatedly to please a fictional internet character will be tried as adults, the Associated Press reported.
  
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• Lib Dems promise homes for young renters

  13-03-2015 21:16
  
  Young people would be able to buy their own home without a deposit under a scheme the Liberal Democrats would propose if they remain in power after the May election.
  
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• Leeds bus stop sexual assault: Police release shocking CCTV footage in public appeal

  13-03-2015 21:07
  
  Police investigating the attempted murder and sexual assault of a woman in Leeds have released a CCTV video of the incident as part of a public appeal.
  
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• Oligarchs at war: Claims of murder among Ukrainian billionaires in High Court case

  13-03-2015 21:03
  
  Some of the most extraordinary allegations of violence, murder and corruption ever seen in a London commercial legal dispute have emerged in High Court documents.
  
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• VIDEO: How will you spend pension cash?

  13-03-2015 20:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz has been finding out how some people intend to spend their pension pots.
  
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• Margaret Hodge MP: The pocket-sized folk hero for recession-hit Britain

  13-03-2015 20:49
  
  Did Margaret Hodge go too far on Monday? The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has been a pocket-sized folk hero for recession-hit Britain, battling against the arcane tax arrangements of some of the biggest companies operating in this country.
  
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• At Waterloo, a tale of two hats

  13-03-2015 20:41
  
  By Miranda Alexander-Webber WATERLOO, Belgium (Reuters) - Battle-worn old enemies sat side by side at Waterloo in a display of historic British-French reconciliation 200 years after their epic showdown -- or at least their hats did. Napoleon's instantly recognisable black felt bicorn has returned on a bicentennial loan to a museum near the battlefield outside Brussels, where it was presented on Friday alongside the Duke of Wellington's equally memorable version -- its points at front a
  
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• US military helicopter being pulled from Florida waters

  13-03-2015 20:38
  
  Crews are working on Friday to remove the wreckage of a US military helicopter from the shallow waters off the Florida coast, after the aircraft crashed earlier this week and took with it the lives of 11 members of the US military.
  
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• Exclusive: American scientists are trying to genetically modify human eggs

  13-03-2015 20:38
  
  American scientists have attempted to modify the DNA of human egg cells using a new gene-editing technique that could eliminate inherited diseases from subsequent generations of affected families, The Independent can reveal.
  
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• American scientists are trying to genetically modify human eggs

  13-03-2015 20:38
  
  American scientists have attempted to modify the DNA of human egg cells using a new gene-editing technique that could eliminate inherited diseases from subsequent generations of affected families, The Independent can reveal.
  
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• Battersea Arts Centre Fire: People In Tears

  13-03-2015 20:35
  
  Around 80 firefighters have been tackling a major blaze that ripped through an arts centre in south London. The fire service said it was trying to save as much of the grade two-listed building as possible. But devastated locals could be seen in the street crying as firefighters fought to control the flames at Battersea Arts Centre. Over a dozen fire engines were at the scene as thick clouds of black smoke were sent billowing into the sky.
  
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• Eugenie Clark: Ichthyologist who overcame gender barriers to become one of the world’s leading authorities on sharks

  13-03-2015 20:33
  Eugenie Clark defied society’s expectations about women in science to become one of the world’s leading authorities on sharks. An unabashed adventurer and prolific researcher, Clark travelled the world to study reef fish, sharks and mollusks.
  
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• Soap bosses plan Kirkbride farewell

  13-03-2015 20:32
  
  ITV soap Coronation Street is to bid a fond farewell to Anne Kirkbride.
  
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• Professor Donald Bradley: One of Britain's foremost inorganic chemists whose work was key to the growth of modern electronics

  13-03-2015 20:31
  Don Bradley was one of Britain’s foremost inorganic chemists, a Royal Medallist of the Royal Society and Mond Prize Lecturer of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
  
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• ‘Belle de Jour’ sues ex-boyfriend for saying she wasn’t a prostitute

  13-03-2015 20:19
  
  Being called a prostitute might, for most people, be considered just cause for a libel action. When a large part of your reputation hinges on your past life as a call girl, however, it seems that things work very differently.
  
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• 'Have his family SHOT' Top Gear producer at centre of Clarkson 'fracas' TROLLED on Twitter

  13-03-2015 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE Top Gear producer at the centre of the Jeremy Clarkson "fracas" has been TROLLED on Twitter with people claiming they want his "entire family shot".
  
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• Daevid Allen: Musician who became a founder member of Soft Machine and the visionary leader of influential space rockers Gong

  13-03-2015 20:15
  In the 1960s, the Melbourne-born singer, guitarist and poet Daevid Allen travelled to Europe in search of “the hot spots of culture” and became a hugely influential figure of the rock underground in the UK, France and beyond.
  
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• Andy Warhol's family members crowdfunding to make feature-length film about him

  13-03-2015 20:05
  
  “In the future,” Andy Warhol said, “Everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Including, if they have their way, his own relatives.
  
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• Man arrested outside Stansted Airport after car was driven into security barrier

  13-03-2015 20:05
  
  Police have arrested a 21-year-old man after a car was driven into a security barrier outside a London airport.
  
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• Horror blaze: Children evacuated as firefighters battle primary school explosion

  13-03-2015 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CHILDREN were today evacuated from their classrooms after an explosion and blaze at a primary school in Weybridge.
  
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• Worker not showing Ebola symptoms

  13-03-2015 20:01
  
  A sixth person brought back to the UK after being potentially exposed to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone is not showing any symptoms of the deadly disease, which has struck a British military healthcare worker.
  
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• Who is the mystery member of the public who gave David Cameron a £150 pair of cufflinks?

  13-03-2015 19:59
  
  David Cameron received a pair of £150 cufflinks from a mystery member of the public last year, the latest transparency documents have revealed.
  
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• Justine Thornton: No ordinary political spouse

  13-03-2015 19:59
  
  Justine Miliband must have known that her husband’s enemies would take revenge in some form or other after she had given a BBC interview in which she defended her husband, Ed, as someone who stands for “the principle of decency in public life”.
  
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• Justine Thornton: Mrs Ed Miliband is no ordinary political spouse

  13-03-2015 19:59
  
  Justine Miliband must have known that her husband’s enemies would take revenge in some form or other after she had given a BBC interview in which she defended her husband, Ed, as someone who stands for “the principle of decency in public life”.
  
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• Big moral questions are never far away when you live with young boys who support Chelsea

  13-03-2015 19:51
  
  I expect that he still has a loyal fanbase among us middle-aged women who continue to swoon over the salt and pepper hair, the piercing eyes, the manner of furiously striding around the technical area, a man whom a tabloid newspaper once described as “a naked sexual challenge on the touchline”.
  
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• Pound dips further against dollar

  13-03-2015 19:48
  The pound fell to a near-five year low against the US dollar today after official figures showed a dismal start to the year for the UK's construction industry - even as sterling remained close to seven-year highs against the euro.
  
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• Israel election: How Isaac Herzog now holds the key to the country's future

  13-03-2015 19:45
  
  His manner is lacklustre, almost bureaucratic at times.
  
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• Mirror hacking trial: Newspaper group could face criminal prosecution over phone hacking

  13-03-2015 19:41
  
  Trinity Mirror is being investigated by Scotland Yard over its potential corporate involvement in phone hacking with three of its national titles “vulnerable to criminal prosecution”, the High Court has heard.
  
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• Major fire damages arts centre

  13-03-2015 19:38
  
  A major fire tore through an arts centre - sending thick clouds of black smoke billowing into the sky.
  
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• Surgeon's career advice: accept sexual advances

  13-03-2015 19:37
  
  An Australian surgeon has caused a national uproar by revealing that she advises her female trainees to comply if their male superiors make sexual advances – or risk ruining their careers.
  
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• 'Indonesia's Alcatraz': An island of doom for two young men...and a diplomatic relationship

  13-03-2015 19:34
  
  At first sight, the small Indonesian island looks like many of the archipelago’s paradisiacal sites. Surrounded by pristine water, its dense tropical forest is home to many rare species, its shore covered in white sand.
  
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• Sadie Frost: Mirror Hacking 'Destroyed My Life'

  13-03-2015 19:30
  
  Actress Sadie Frost has told a court that phone hacking carried out by Mirror Group newspapers had "completely destroyed" her life. Frost described various relationships that were affected by stories which appeared in the press  - which she later understood to be a product of phone hacking. Her mother and sister were among five family members she asked to sign a confidentiality agreement. Messages the 49-year-old left on the answer machine of her friend Kate Moss were also hacked.
  
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• Destination Blackpool: Promenade vies to become 'Brighton of the North' following major investment

  13-03-2015 19:26
  
  Low grey clouds bleed into the Irish Sea from Blackpool promenade as the fells of the Lake District loom on the distant horizon.
  
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• Linus Norgren: Man jailed over naked 'Sasquatch' attack against hunter

  13-03-2015 19:25
  
  A man who ambushed a hunter in a naked attack as he yelled about the Sasquatch, has been jailed for 10 years.
  
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• Indian independence leader Gandhi gets London statue near nemesis Churchill

  13-03-2015 19:24
  
  By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will unveil a statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi on Saturday in London's prestigious Parliament Square, a space packed with monuments to men who defended the British Empire which Gandhi helped destroy. In an ironic twist, Gandhi's likeness will sit close to that of Britain's former wartime leader Winston Churchill, a man who strained to thwart Indian independence and who despised Gandhi and everything he stood for. Churc
  
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• London is home to the greatest number of super-rich individuals

  13-03-2015 19:24
  
  If the recent boom in London property prices wasn’t indication enough, the data is now in. London has the greatest number of super-rich residents in the world. To be exact: 4363 that live in the UK capital own over £20 million ($30 million), taking them into the ranks of the world’s ultra-high net-worth individuals – or the super-rich.
  
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• Houthis come down from mountains to fill Yemen's power vacuum

  13-03-2015 19:20
  
  In the cave, bodies of three men are buried under rubble, their graves marked by photographs and flowers.
  
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• Queen leads royals AND Tony Blair at St Pauls memorial in honour of Afghanistan war heroes

  13-03-2015 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE Queen and senior royals led the nation in paying tribute today to the service and sacrifice of British forces during 13 years of conflict in Afghanistan.
  
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