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• Coalition, Channel 4, TV review: An absorbing dress rehearsal for the back room deals ahead

  17-03-2015 23:59
  
  While the political anoraks will be checking it for historical accuracy, anyone else settling down to watch Coalition, Channel 4’s dramatisation of the frantic days after the 2010 election, will want to know if it is watchable. It is. It is a very well-spun yarn, told at a rapid pace, with no pointless monologues or didactic pointers that direct you to the author’s message.
  
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• Independent Question Time live: Homes 'must be built on green belt' to help solve housing crisis, claims Labour MP

  17-03-2015 23:38
  Britain must build on the green belt if it is to have any hope of solving the current housing crisis, a senior Labour MP has said.
  
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• UKIP's Farage warns Britain: Brace for a second election in 2015

  17-03-2015 23:24
  
  By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron is likely to win a May 7 national election and form a minority government, but his grip on power could be so tenuous that Britain will hold a second ballot this year, the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) warned. Opinion polls indicate neither Cameron's Conservatives nor the opposition Labour Party will win an overall majority in the 650-seat parliament as millions of voters turn to Farage's anti-EU UKIP party an
  
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• Labour supporter Jack Monroe switches allegiance to Green Party

  17-03-2015 23:10
  
  Food blogger and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe has defected to the Green Party in protest against Labour’s stance on immigration.
  
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• Monaco 0 Arsenal 2 (agg 3-3): Five things we learnt as the Gunners crashed out of the Champions League

  17-03-2015 23:06
  
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• Monaco vs Arsenal match report: Olivier Giroud and Aaron Ramsey goals not enough as Gunners crash out of the Champions League

  17-03-2015 22:52
  
  No team does heroic failure in the Champions League quite like Arsenal, although even after all the despair and hope and ultimate despair of a quite brilliant cup tie tonight, they cannot get away from the reality that their peculiar brand of thwarted glory is wearing a little thin.
  
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• Star's doubts about soap comeback

  17-03-2015 22:40
  
  Neighbours star Anne Charleston has admitted she was "dubious" about returning to the soap, because of the elaborate way her character had been written back in.
  
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• Israel election: Benjamin Netanyahu fights for survival as ugly racism row overshadows final acts of a bitter campaign

  17-03-2015 22:16
  The final hours of Israel’s close-fought election campaign were overshadowed by an ugly row over racism as the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned that his party was at risk of losing power because the country’s Arab citizens were voting in “droves”.
  
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• Israel election: Benjamin Netanyahu claims shock victory despite ugly racism row overshadowing final acts of a bitter campaign

  17-03-2015 22:16
  Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed victory in the Israeli election after a last-minute push to shore up his party’s vote enabled him to close the gap with the opposition Zionist Union and put him on track to be re-elected Prime Minister.
  
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• Facebook Messenger introduces new feature to allow users to send money to friends

  17-03-2015 22:15
  
  Facebook is introducing a new feature that promises to give people a more convenient and secure way to send or receive money to friends.
  
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• Eleanor de Freitas inquest: Family's anger at suicide verdict in case of woman who killed herself before trial for 'false rape claim'

  17-03-2015 22:08
  The family of a young woman who killed herself days before she was due to stand trial for making false rape allegations have attacked the inquest into her death, saying they may launch legal proceedings over alleged failings by the CPS for allowing her case to go to court.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Yet another unstoppable committee victory for Theresa the Magnificent

  17-03-2015 22:03
  
  When you’ve appeared 16 times before the Home Affairs Committee during your 1,770 days as Home Secretary (figures courtesy of statistics-crazed Labour committee chairman Keith Vaz) there’s not much you can’t handle. But there are irritations, most of them male.
  
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• VIDEO: Mass rally highlights housing fears

  17-03-2015 21:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Campaigners have taken to the streets in London calling for more homes to be built to address the UK's housing shortage.
  
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• George Galloway: skip Prince Charles and hand the Crown straight to William

  17-03-2015 21:52
  
  George Galloway has predicted a “swift rise” in republicanism across Britain when Prince Charles becomes King and said we would be better off handing the Crown straight to his son, Prince William.
  
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• Child abuse whistleblowers should have immunity from arrest, says Theresa May

  17-03-2015 21:51
  
  Police and intelligence officers with information about paedophile rings should be protected from prosecution if they appear before the official inquiry into historic sex abuse, Theresa May has said.
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo to join MLS in summer 2018, report says

  17-03-2015 21:50
  
  Cristiano Ronaldo, the current holder of the Fifa Ballon d'Or, given to the world's best football player, is set to join Major League Soccer in the summer of 2018, Sports Illustrated reported.
  
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• Mitt Romney vs Evander Holyfield: One-time Republican presidential hopeful to take on former heavyweight champion in charity boxing match

  17-03-2015 21:48
  Mitt Romney recently decided against a third run at the biggest prize in politics, but it seems he’s still a glutton for punishment. The two-time Republican presidential contender announced on Monday that he will face former heavyweight world champion Evander Holyfield in an exhibition boxing match.
  
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• Nigel Farage book 'The Purple Revolution' has mixed reviews on Amazon

  17-03-2015 21:44
  
  It was only published on Amazon today, yet Nigel Farage's book, The Purple Revolution: The Year That Changed Everything has already had over 100 reviews.
  
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• Israel election: The secrets of the Netanyahu campaign – and how he could win even if he loses

  17-03-2015 21:41
  
  Aron Shaviv had handled elections in some tough places at tough times – Kosovo, Ukraine, Serbia. He was at the office of the Thai prime minister when the army staged a coup. But when the Israeli political strategist was asked to help get Benjamin Netanyahu back into office he knew it would be one of his more difficult assignments.
  
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• Israel election: Secrets of the Netanyahu campaign - how he turned the election on its head

  17-03-2015 21:41
  
  Aron Shaviv had handled elections in some tough places at tough times – Kosovo, Ukraine, Serbia. He was at the office of the Thai prime minister when the army staged a coup. But when the Israeli political strategist was asked to help get Benjamin Netanyahu back into office he knew it would be one of his more difficult assignments.
  
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• Penn State shuts down fraternity over Facebook images of unconscious women, drug deals and hazing rituals

  17-03-2015 21:23
  
  Pennsylvania State University has shuttered one of its fraternities accused of creating private Facebook pages to share pictures of sleeping or otherwise incapacitated barely-clothed women.
  
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• Israel election results: Likud and Zionist Union tie with 27 seats in exit polls

  17-03-2015 21:18
  
  The Israeli polls have closed with a neck-and-neck result for Likud and the Zionist Union.
  
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• Winkleman laughs off RTS chances

  17-03-2015 21:16
  
  Strictly Come Dancing host Claudia Winkleman has laughed off her chances of winning a Royal Television Society (RTS) award for her presenting duties on the hit BBC1 show.
  
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• PM agrees to one TV election debate

  17-03-2015 21:04
  
  Plans for televised election debates have descended into chaos after David Cameron declared he had struck a deal to appear in a single face-off.
  
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• Video: Mario Balotelli tells his critics to 'shut up' in extraordinary Instagram rant

  17-03-2015 21:00
  
  Mario Balotelli has hit out at his critics in an angry video posted on his Instagram page tonight, telling them to "shut up".
  
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• Morgan State University stabbing: Three football players stabbed on Maryland campus

  17-03-2015 21:00
  
  Three university football players were stabbed on Tuesday on the campus of Morgan State University in Maryland in which at least one person is reported to be seriously injured, according to the Baltimore Sun.
  
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• Apology over killers' parole move

  17-03-2015 20:53
  
  The Parole Board has apologised after a murder victim's parents were among the last to learn the killers could be moved to open prisons, MPs have heard.
  
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• Russian oligarch close to bowing to UK pressure to sell North Sea fields - FT

  17-03-2015 20:51
  LONDON (Reuters) - Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman is preparing to sell North Sea gasfields at the heart of its fierce battle in Britain, bowing to government pressure and choosing to avoid a legal battle he previously threatened, the Financial Times reported.
  
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• Rising numbers of suicides in jails linked to spending cuts

  17-03-2015 20:49
  
  Growing levels of suicide, self-harm and violence behind bars are linked to deep spending cuts to the prison system, a damning parliamentary report concludes today.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Chris Grayling the worst Lord Chancellor for 342 years? No, worse

  17-03-2015 20:34
  
  “Most judges, lawyers, probation staff, prison officers, victims, court staff and people denied access to justice believe that you have been the worst Lord Chancellor since Lord Shaftesbury in 1673,” Chris Grayling was told by his Labour shadow Sadiq Khan, as they faced each other in the Commons for the last time before the election.
  
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• Greek bailout crisis: We should pay reparations for Nazi war crimes, say top German politicians

  17-03-2015 20:30
  
  Senior German politicians have broken ranks with Angela Merkel’s government to demand that Germany pay reparations to Greece for Nazi crimes committed during the Second World War.
  
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• British MPs urge U.S. to free last UK resident held in Guantanamo

  17-03-2015 20:27
  LONDON (Reuters) - British MPs called on the U.S. government on Tuesday to release the last British resident being held at Guantanamo Bay, describing his treatment as "inhuman".
  
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• Texas Senate close to passing bill allowing people in the state to openly carry handguns

  17-03-2015 20:24
  
  The Texas Senate is on the verge of passing a bill that would allow people in the state to openly carry handguns and could pass the bill as early as Tuesday, USA Today reported.
  
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• Vloggers increasingly target children with ‘covert advertising’

  17-03-2015 20:17
  Video bloggers are increasingly guilty of subjecting the millions of children who follow them online to covert advertising, the Government’s childhood tsar has warned.
  
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• Leeds bus stop rape: Police release new footage showing suspect with 'distinctive walk' on way to crime scene

  17-03-2015 20:05
  
  Police investigating the attempted murder and serious sexual assault of a young woman in Leeds have released new CCTV footage of a suspect walking to the crime scene.
  
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• Turkey holds 'Syria-bound' UK woman

  17-03-2015 20:05
  
  Another Briton headed for Syria has been detained in Turkey, it emerged today.
  
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• Osborne could unveil spending boost

  17-03-2015 20:05
  
  Chancellor George Osborne has been putting the final touches to the last Budget of this Parliament, amid speculation that he will use it to blunt Labour's lines of attack in the upcoming general election battle.
  
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• Northern Powerhouse scheme: Does England really need a second London?

  17-03-2015 20:04
  
  The little train clickety-clacks from Manchester to Sheffield at a leisurely pace, stopping at Chinley - nestled beneath the mighty outcrop of Ringing Roger - and at Edale, from where you can follow the path of the mass trespass on Kinder Scout. It crosses the Derwent near Hope, pauses at Grindleford, with its quirky greasy-spoon café beloved of rock climbers, and at Hathersage, whose outdoor swimming pool lures Sheffielders in summer.
  
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• Aaron Schock: Downton Abbey office makeover triggers Congressman's resignation

  17-03-2015 20:04
  
  A US politician accused of using taxpayer money to furnish his office in the style of Downton Abbey has announced that is he resigning.
  
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• Hillsborough inquiry: Chief police officer David Duckenfield admits he caused disaster

  17-03-2015 20:03
  
  For more than a quarter of a century, the senior police officer in charge during Britain’s worst stadium disaster has never admitted direct responsibility for the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.
  
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• ONS now using e-cig refills and craft beers to calculate the rate of inflation

  17-03-2015 20:01
  
  The “hipster” lifestyle of young British consumers has gained official status with craft beers, e-cigarette refills, music streaming and headphones in the list of products monitored by Whitehall to calculate the rate of inflation.
  
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• Independent Question Time live: General Election 2015 debate with George Galloway, David Lammy and Janet Street-Porter

  17-03-2015 19:51
  A panel of outspoken politicians and commentators take part in what will be a heated debate tonight chaired by Amol Rajan, editor of The Independent newspaper. • George Galloway, the controversial Respect MP for Bradford West, who was last month heckled on Question Time for his anti-Israel stance • Maajid Nawaz, who is hoping to become a Lib Dem MP for Hampstead and Kilburn. Nawaz is the co-founder and chairman of the counter-extremist organisation Quilliam• Janet Street-Porter, Independe
  
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• Barts NHS Trust in special measures after deaths of newborn and mother

  17-03-2015 19:51
  
  The country’s biggest NHS Trust has been placed in special measures, in the wake of a damning inspection report that catalogued unsafe care caused by staff shortages and a bullying culture at one of its main hospitals. 
  
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• British naval base in Bahrain faces legal challenge over human rights abuses

  17-03-2015 19:46
  
  The Government is set to face a major legal challenge over a controversial new Royal Navy base in Bahrain, amid accusations that Britain has “sacrificed” human rights at the “altar” of trade and military deals.
  
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• Organ transplant child barred from Ryanair flight for arriving late

  17-03-2015 19:44
  
  Ryanair refused to fly a sick child to an organ transplant operation because the boy’s family arrived at their departure airport “too close to the departure time,” it has been revealed.
  
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• Egyptian policeman charged over fatal shooting of peaceful protester Shaimaa Sabbagh

  17-03-2015 19:43
  
  Egypt’s public prosecutor has charged a policeman over the shooting of a peaceful protester. 
  
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• Life under Isis: How the jihadis 'poke their noses into everything' and govern all aspects of life in the territory they have taken

  17-03-2015 19:39
  It was on 4 October last year that Isis captured the small city of Hit, seizing complete control in the space of just a few hours. For the city’s 100,000 mostly Sunni residents the takeover by the self-proclaimed Islamic State has brought changes that some support, but others deeply resent.
  
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• 'No way out' for rape claim woman

  17-03-2015 19:27
  
  A "vivacious, straight-A student" taken to court for allegedly making a false rape claim killed herself three days before her trial over fears she would not be believed, her inquest has heard.
  
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• Rachel Reeves says Labour does not want to represent people out of work

  17-03-2015 19:27
  
  Rachel Reeves has received a fierce backlash after stating that Labour does not want to be seen as the party of the welfare state.
  
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• Chris Borland: Young American football player retires over concerns of brain injuries

  17-03-2015 19:24
  
  San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland shocked the football world on Monday when he announced his retirement at the age of 24 over concerns about long-term brain injuries.
  
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