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• Halifax selection row: Leaked emails reveal Labour’s war with Unite over choice of candidate

  16-03-2015 23:57
  
  An extraordinary row broke out at the top of the Labour Party tonight after it emerged that a sitting Labour MP accused senior figures in her own party of an “underhand and anti-democratic manipulation” of a controversial candidate selection race.
  
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• Tory chairman Grant Shapps branded a liar and bully for threats over his second ... - mirror.co.uk

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  Tory chairman Grant Shapps has been branded a “liar and a bully” for threatening a constituent with legal action for highlighting the fact he had a second job. David Cameron's election chief faced fresh calls to quit yesterday as he was forced to admit he had ...
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• Child sex abuse allegations: Scotland Yard faces new claims that 1980s undercover investigation was scrapped

  16-03-2015 23:41
  
  Scotland Yard is facing new allegations of a cover up relating to child sex allegations after it was reported that an undercover police investigation that had gathered compelling evidence of child abuse in the 1980s was scrapped shortly after detectives moved in to make arrests.
  
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• Glastonbury 2015: Kanye West announcement divides festival-goers

  16-03-2015 23:35
  
  Because it wouldn’t be Glastonbury without people kicking off about the headline acts, a petition has already been launched to stop Kanye West performing on the Saturday night.
  
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• Swansea City vs Liverpool match report: Jordan Henderson's freak goal keeps Reds flying high for top four finish

  16-03-2015 23:03
  If Liverpool end up playing Champions League football next season they may look upon Jordan Henderson’s fortunate winner on Monday night as the key moment in the remarkable recovery they have forged over the second half of the season.
  
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• 14 Muslim Brotherhood members sentenced to death in Egypt

  16-03-2015 23:02
  
  Fourteen senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including its leader Mohammed Badie, have been sentenced to death in Egypt by a criminal court.
  
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• FA Cup match report: Reading vs Bradford City - Reading make history by ending Bradford’s Wembley dream

  16-03-2015 23:00
  It did not matter to anyone present that this was a routine win against League One opposition, over within nine minutes of kick-off.
  
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• Four milk floats stolen from dairy

  16-03-2015 22:42
  
  Burglars have stolen four milk floats from a dairy after using one of the vehicles to smash their way through security gates.
  
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• Youngsters deeply misguided says PM

  16-03-2015 22:37
  
  Prime Minister David Cameron said young people travelling to join Islamic State are "deeply misguided" after a fresh wave of arrests over Syria-related terror offences.
  
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• One-year-old dies from injuries after truck collision in Birmingham

  16-03-2015 22:19
  
  A one-year old boy has been killed in Birmingham after a truck reportedly hit a wall, which then fell on the child.
  
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• Kanye West To Headline Glastonbury Festival

  16-03-2015 22:19
  
  Kanye West has been confirmed as one of this year's headline acts at the Glastonbury Festival. West will top the bill on the Saturday night, performing on the main Pyramid Stage. The news was revealed on Twitter by organiser Emily Eavis, daughter of festival founder Michael Eavis. West, in the UK charts with his track FourFive Seconds, which includes Rihanna and Sir Paul McCartney, is the latest big name to be confirmed.
  
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• Christian Benteke is David Cameron's favourite footballer and nine other things we learnt from his Buzzfeed interview

  16-03-2015 22:11
  
  David Cameron was interviewed by Buzzfeed as the first international edition of its Brews series.
  
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• 10 things we learnt from David Cameron's live interview with Buzzfeed tonight

  16-03-2015 22:11
  
  David Cameron was interviewed by Buzzfeed as the first international edition of its Brews series.
  
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• 10 things we learnt from David Cameron's live interview with Buzzfeed

  16-03-2015 22:11
  
  David Cameron was interviewed by Buzzfeed as the first international edition of its Brews series.
  
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• Chechen mother kidnaps Dutch children and flees to Syria to join Isis

  16-03-2015 21:56
  
  A Chechen mother has taken her two young children to Syria to join Isis, Dutch prosecutors have said. 
  
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• Cameron 'up for online debate'

  16-03-2015 21:45
  
  David Cameron has said that he is ready to take part in an online debate with the other party leaders before the general election campaign gets under way at the end of the month.
  
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• From the Bar to a seat on the Renault board: how Cherie Booth’s earnings have accelerated

  16-03-2015 21:32
  
  Cherie Booth’s probable appointment as a director on the board of Renault, the French motor company, tells the world that she is not to be overshadowed by her jet-setting, high-earning husband.
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson ruling: Travellers group objects as BBC Trust says Top Gear presenter's use of 'pikey' was not racist

  16-03-2015 21:29
  The BBC is facing a fresh dispute over the behaviour of its Top Gear presenters after an internal investigation concluded that the programme’s use of the word “pikey” was not racially offensive. The ruling by the BBC Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee, due to be published tomorrow, was condemned by Gypsy and Traveller organisations, which accused the Corporation of “legitimising the use of a racist word”.
  
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• Kanye West Among Headliners For Glastonbury

  16-03-2015 21:21
  
  Kanye West has been confirmed as one of this year's headline acts at the Glastonbury Festival. He will top the bill on the Saturday night where he will perform on the Pyramid Stage. The news was revealed on Twitter by Emily Eavis, daughter of the festival's founder Michael. West, in the UK charts with his track FourFive Seconds which includes Rihanna and Sir Paul McCartney, is the latest act confirmed for the June 24-28 festival.
  
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• David Levithan interview: The US author on leading the way in LGBT fiction for young adults

  16-03-2015 21:15
  
  In the dozen years that US author David Levithan has been writing young adult (YA) novels that focus either on or around LGBT issues, teen-marketed books with gay narratives have come out of the closet, and into the mainstream. When his 2003 debut, Boy Meets Boy, became a runaway bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic, it also courted – as runaway bestsellers often do – an attendant controversy, not merely because his lead characters were gay, but because they weren’t persecuted or in p
  
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• Kanye West tops Glastonbury bill

  16-03-2015 21:08
  
  Kanye West has been confirmed as one of this year's headline acts at the Glastonbury Festival.
  
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• Cameron defends under-fire Shapps

  16-03-2015 21:08
  
  David Cameron has defended Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps in the face of Labour demands for an i nvestigation in to claims he breached the codes of conduct for ministers and MPs.
  
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• Is Tony Blair retiring to spend even more time with his dictators?

  16-03-2015 21:01
  
  Tony Blair’s world is one that looks increasingly divorced from the world most of us occupy. One pinches oneself to believe he was once a Labour Prime Minister whom people voted for in droves. Yet Mr Blair is increasingly history as he disappears off the world stage to pursue private interests. The suggestion that he is quitting as the representative of the Middle East Quartet signals a loss of confidence in Washington and in Brussels in his role and performance.
  
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• Labour rules out coalition with Scottish nationalists

  16-03-2015 20:58
  
  By Andrew Osborn and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - The Labour Party ruled out forming a coalition government with the Scottish National Party (SNP) after a May 7 national election, a tactical move it hopes will resurrect its flagging fortunes in Scotland and calm nervous English voters. Since Scots voted by 55-45 percent to preserve the United Kingdom in a referendum last year, support for the SNP has surged, largely at the expense of Labour, on a perception that Britain's rulers are
  
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• Kanye West to headline Glastonbury Festival 2015, organisers confirm

  16-03-2015 20:54
  
  Kanye West has been announced as a headliner at Glastonbury festival for the Saturday night.
  
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• 'Bring Back Clarkson': Shouldn't the BBC give the public what they want?

  16-03-2015 20:53
  
  We have not heard what James Purnell thinks about the matter that is exercising the nation. By the time you read this, heaven knows how many millions will have signed the petition demanding Jeremy Clarkson’s reinstatement by the BBC, but Purnell, a ubiquitous and voluble character when serving as Tony Blair’s Culture Secretary, has been strangely mute on the subject.
  
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• Grant Shapps under pressure over ‘code breach’ claim

  16-03-2015 20:43
  
  Pressure is growing on the Conservative chairman, Grant Shapps, over allegations that he breached the codes of conduct for ministers and MPs.
  
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• Cameron: I've got two kitchens too

  16-03-2015 20:42
  
  David Cameron has disclosed that - like Ed Miliband - he has two kitchens in his London home.
  
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• Britons freed after arrests for Syria travel plan

  16-03-2015 20:38
  
  Three British teenagers arrested after being stopped in Turkey and returned to the UK were released on bail today as it emerged that their interception was triggered by a desperate call to police from parents of two of the suspects.
  
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• Muslim Brotherhood report: Favourable review is shelved

  16-03-2015 20:35
  
  Setting out the Government’s attitude towards a powerful and influential Islamist movement, but which is shunned by much of the Arab world, was always going to be one of the trickiest challenges facing David Cameron in the Coalition’s final days.
  
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• Cyclone Pam: Vanuatu islanders face starvation 'within days' following destruction of all their crops, warns Unicef

  16-03-2015 20:34
  The entire population of one of Vanuatu’s biggest islands faces starvation within days, with all crops destroyed by Cyclone Pam, Unicef officials warned tonight.
  
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• Cyclone Pam: Vanatu islanders face starvation 'within days' following destruction of all their crops, warns Unicef

  16-03-2015 20:34
  The entire population of one of Vanuatu’s biggest islands faces starvation within days, with all crops destroyed by Cyclone Pam, Unicef officials warned tonight.
  
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• Crime warning for ‘alienated’ British Muslims

  16-03-2015 20:33
  
  A generation of British Muslims are being cut adrift from mainstream society, seeing a gulf in prospects which is alienating some and turning them to crime, experts warn.
  
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• Exotic England: A celebration of the nation's boundless curiosity with life beyond its shores

  16-03-2015 20:32
  
  In April 2010, I had coffee, at his request, with an English Defence League (EDL) sympathiser. He wore a good suit and shades, and wouldn’t tell me what his job was. After the first sips of cappuccino, he went off like a Roman candle. He tried to torch me, and I felt the burn. In sum, his beloved country has been a whore, open to “coloureds” and Europeans. Time passed very slowly. As I got up to leave, he grabbed my hand and admired my gold Indian bangles. He admired my Indian bangles. Ev
  
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• Ferguson shooting suspect appears in court for the first time

  16-03-2015 20:32
  
  The man accused of shooting two police officers last week in Ferguson, Missouri made his first appearance in court on Monday, though it was brief and the man did not enter a plea, Reuters reported.
  
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• Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff pledges corruption reforms in wake of mass protests

  16-03-2015 20:26
  
  Brazil’s beleaguered President Dilma Rousseff promised to roll out sweeping anti-corruption measures today in an attempt to defuse nationwide protests demanding her impeachment.
  
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• Trial begins of officers over teenagers' deaths that sparked Paris riots

  16-03-2015 20:12
  
  Two police officers went on trial today for allegedly failing in their legal responsibility to help “people in danger” – notably two ethnic minority teenagers whose deaths by electrocution in 2005 set off a three-week wave of rioting across France.
  
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• One-Year-Old Boy Killed After Truck Hits Wall

  16-03-2015 20:11
  
  A one-year-old boy has been killed after a recovery truck crashed into a wall in Birmingham, West Midlands Police say. Officers were called to Queens Road in the Stechford area of the city at around 5pm on Monday following a report a recovery truck had hit a wall which then fell on to the child. Inspector Paul Bennett said: "This is a very tragic set of circumstances - words cannot describe what his family are going through and our thoughts are with them at this time.
  
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• Battersea Arts Centre: Spirit burns bright as staff breathe new life into groundbreaking theatre

  16-03-2015 20:11
  
  Freshly chalked in block capitals on the blackboard outside, a small but proud symbol of defiance, were the words “WE ARE OPEN”.
  
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• UK cigarette packet branding ban passes final legislative hurdle

  16-03-2015 20:08
  LONDON (Reuters) - Plans to ban branding on cigarette packaging in England passed their final legislative hurdle on Monday after House of Lords approved them, meaning firms will be forced to adopt plain, standardised packets.
  
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• Isis schoolgirls: Aqsa Mahmood's parents say she denies recruiting teenagers to Syria

  16-03-2015 20:05
  
  The parents of Aqsa Mahmood have said their daughter denies recruiting three schoolgirls to join Isis in Syria.
  
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• Margot Wallström: Can Sweden’s feminist foreign minister be both radical and influential - and make the country a 'moral great power'?

  16-03-2015 19:59
  Margot Wallström’s steadfast joint pursuit of human rights and feminism has antagonised the Arab world and started a debate on the issue of morality in nuanced national foreign policy.
  
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• A woman who handed back her adopted three-year-old son says: 'I didn't abandon him'

  16-03-2015 19:50
  
  Nobody thinks, when they adopt a child, that it will last just two years. But that’s exactly what happened to Claire Patterson, who brought an 18-month-old boy home to live with her on Valentine’s Day 2011 – and then made the agonising decision to hand him back in April 2013.
  
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• A woman who handed back her adopted disabled three-year-old son says: 'I didn't abandon him'

  16-03-2015 19:50
  
  Nobody thinks, when they adopt a child, that it will last just two years. But that’s exactly what happened to Claire Patterson, who brought an 18-month-old boy home to live with her on Valentine’s Day 2011 – and then made the agonising decision to hand him back in April 2013.
  
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• Eton headmaster: Children need 'pretty graphic' sex education

  16-03-2015 19:46
  
  Children are in need of “pretty graphic” sex education from the age of nine to combat the growing pressures of the modern world, Eton headmaster Tony Little has said.
  
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• Juncker says EU needs Britain, but can't change basic treaty

  16-03-2015 19:42
  
  European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Monday the EU and Britain needed each other and he would do all he could to keep the "down to earth" British in the bloc -- but not at the expense of changing fundamental treaties. Fighting for re-election in May, British Prime Minister David Cameron is calling for amendments to rules barring limits on migration within the EU ahead of a referendum on membership which he has proposed to British voters by 2017. "I'm in f
  
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• Plain tobacco packs get go-ahead

  16-03-2015 19:42
  
  Controversial regulations enforcing standardised tobacco packaging will come into effect next year after they were approved by the House of Lords.
  
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• Israel election: Chuck Norris rides to the rescue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

  16-03-2015 19:36
  
  When the chips are down and when the odds looked stacked against you, who would you want to come to your help – Chuck Norris, right?
  
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• Isis in Libya: Muammar Gaddafi's soldiers are back in the country and fighting under the black flag of the 'Islamic State'

  16-03-2015 19:36
  “This is the time for assault,” chants a deep male voice on the radio. “All the unbelievers are hurting.”
  
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• Israel elections: Benjamin Netanyahu says there will be no Palestinian state if voters back him

  16-03-2015 19:33
  
  Benjamin Netanyahu declared there would be no Palestinian state if he prevails in tomorrow’s closely-fought Israeli election, the first time that the country’s prime minister has explicitly rejected such an outcome.
  
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