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• Mel Brooks live in London, Prince of Wales Theatre, review: A blazing show from Brooks as comedy great gets back in the saddle

  22-03-2015 23:49
  Mel Brooks did not have to say a word to get the crowd on its feet. The applause as he walked on went on for minutes; there was an ovation in the stalls before the visiting American comedian – in London’s West End for one night only – had even cleared his throat.
  
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• Barcelona vs Real Madrid match report: Luis Suarez shines brightest in El Clasico to send Barca clear at the top of La Liga

  22-03-2015 23:39
  In the end it wasn’t decided by Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo; it was settled by Luis Suarez.
  
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• Spanish anti-austerity party to play kingmaker role after vote

  22-03-2015 23:22
  
  The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) was on course to capture the most votes in Andalucia’s regional elections yesterday but the new anti-austerity party, Podemos, was poised for a possible role as kingmaker in the first of four significant electoral tests in Spain this year.
  
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• Government bans company from allowing charity to visit private prisons

  22-03-2015 22:45
  
  A company running two private prisons was banned by the Government from inviting a penal reform charity to see the work they are doing to improve conditions behind bars.
  
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• Ed Miliband donor’s firm makes cash from NHS

  22-03-2015 22:36
  
  A hedge fund that employs Labour’s fourth largest individual donor has invested almost £10m in a private healthcare firm that makes money out of the NHS, it has emerged.
  
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• Yemen set for civil war as Houthi rebels close in on Aden

  22-03-2015 22:28
  
  Perched on an extinct volcano protruding into the Arabian Sea, Aden is perhaps the last refuge of Yemen’s embattled President, as the Houthi and al-Qaeda seize more power.
  
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• Celebrities race to beat trolls to internet domains

  22-03-2015 22:23
  
  Taylor Swift knew they were trouble. So too did Microsoft. And the pop phenomenon and the software giant both had the means and motive to do something about it.
  
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• Sarkozy staves off the French far right

  22-03-2015 22:22
  
  The far-right Front National (FN) party made sweeping gains in the French local elections last night but was beaten into third place nationwide by the centre-right and ruling centre-left.
  
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• The Media Column: The Conversation is capitalising on ‘explanatory journalism’

  22-03-2015 22:06
  
  Is the BBC’s dashing Ross Poldark a radical redistributionist or merely David Cameron in disguise? It’s a question currently being debated in a digital publication written entirely by the world’s leading academics that is now viewed by 20 million people a month.
  
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• Thousands watch Richard III cortege

  22-03-2015 21:55
  
  Thousands have lined the route of Richard III's cortege as he journeyed to his final resting place 530 years after his death in battle.
  
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• GM crops: Vital for food security? Or overestimated potential?

  22-03-2015 21:52
  
  This week, The Independent explores the debate that still rages over genetically modified food nearly 20 years after the first commercial crops were developed.
  
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• Lee Kuan Yew dead: Founder of modern Singapore dies, age 91

  22-03-2015 21:48
  
  The government says Lee Kuan Yew, who as the founder of modern Singapore helped transform the sleepy port into one of the world's richest nations, has died. He was 91.
  
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• The GM crops debate moves to Africa – and it’s just as noisy

  22-03-2015 21:48
  
  It is strange to see an apparently ordinary field surrounded by a seven-foot steel fence topped with barbed wire. The banana trees being grown inside don’t look any different from those that are ubiquitous in the surrounding African countryside. The only thing that marks them apart is the fence, two security guards in smart green-and-black uniforms, and little white markers at the foot of each plant, each with a unique but unintelligible code.
  
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• ActionAid: The charity spreading ‘groundless’ fears over GM

  22-03-2015 21:42
  
  Donors to one of Britain’s largest humanitarian aid charities have been unwittingly funding an aggressive anti-GM food campaign in Africa that misleadingly warns farmers that eating the crops could give them cancer.
  
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• Reborn – the giant tree felled as a result of a bar-room wager

  22-03-2015 21:37
  
  It would have been the biggest tree alive today had it not been so ignominiously felled in 1890 – reputedly to satisfy a drunken bet about making a table big enough to seat 40 guests from a single slice of tree-trunk.
  
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• Caroline Flint: ‘We are in touching distance of winning because of Ed, not in spite of Ed’

  22-03-2015 21:32
  
  The thing about being one of the original “Blair Babes” is that it dates you.
  
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• New Charles Bukowski anthology to reveal his love of practical cats

  22-03-2015 21:17
  
  For many he was the “laureate of American low life” known for his writing on poverty, alcohol, terrible jobs and even worse relationships.
  
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• Richard III: Once vilified as a tryant, the former king is given a royal send-off

  22-03-2015 21:02
  
  The last time Richard III visited Bosworth Field, on 22 August 1485, he was hacked to death. This time his mortal remains, discovered to worldwide astonishment beneath a Leicester car park in 2012, got a much friendlier reception.
  
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• Six Arrested Over London Synagogue Attack

  22-03-2015 21:01
  
  Six people have been arrested on suspicion of attempting to break into a synagogue in what police are calling an "anti-Semitic incident". The suspects, four men and two women, are being held at a north London police station for public order offences and assault. Scotland Yard said officers were called to a disturbance in Craven Park Road, Stamford Hill, north London at around 1.15am on Sunday. A police spokesman said: "The incident is being treated as an anti-Semitic incident, due
  
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• Man charged after woman dies as result of dog attack in Cardiff

  22-03-2015 21:01
  
  A man has been charged under the Dangerous Dogs Act after a woman died as the result of a dog attack.
  
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• Convicted killer on 'most wanted' list arrested in the Canary Islands

  22-03-2015 20:59
  
  A convicted killer on the run after breaching his probation has been arrested in the Canary Islands by Spanish police.
  
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• 'No deal with SNP' says chair of Scottish Labour MPs, Michael McCann

  22-03-2015 20:57
  
  The chair of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party has gone further than Ed Miliband and dismissed the possibility of any form of post-election deal with the SNP.
  
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• Government pupil premium policy sees schools report dramatic changes

  22-03-2015 20:55
  
  Thinking outside the box can do wonders for disadvantaged pupils, according to evidence from schools about how they are using the Government’s pupil premium to improve performance.
  
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• 'Completely unexpected': Former University Challenge host inherits stately home worth millions

  22-03-2015 20:50
  
  For once, the long-time host of University Challenge has been left stumped after he “accidentally” inheriting a stately home worth millions of pounds. But now Bamber Gascoigne has vowed to restore the country pile which dates back to the 11th century.
  
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• Election 2015: SNP will ‘hold the balance, so have the power’ says Alex Salmond

  22-03-2015 20:46
  
  The Scottish National Party would use its “power” over a minority Labour government to amend budgets in Scotland’s favour, Alex Salmond has warned.
  
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• Vote Ukip, say far-right group Britain First

  22-03-2015 20:30
  
  Britain First, the far-right political party responsible for vigilante “invasions” of mosques and a campaign against the “Islamification” of Britain, has told its supporters to help deliver “major Ukip gains” at the general election.
  
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• VIDEO: Historical journey for King's remains

  22-03-2015 20:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  King Richard III's remains have arrived at Leicester Cathedral ahead of his reburial.
  
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• Protesters 'chase Farage out of pub'

  22-03-2015 20:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Anti-UKIP protesters invade a pub in south London where the party leader is having lunch with his family.
  
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• Timothy Robenhorst: Dad who forces son to make humbling apology after discovering he is a bully says 'swastika is symbol of his beliefs'

  22-03-2015 20:09
  It’s a punishment that has drawn praise and criticism in equal measure – but the father who forced his son to issue a humiliating apology for bullying children at school is known as ‘SS Cowboy” who has posted pictures of himself on Facebook wearing a T-shirt with a swastika on it.
  
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• Smith and Legend hold top chart spot

  22-03-2015 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sam Smith and John Legend top the UK singles chart for a second week with duet Lay Me Down, this year's official Comic Relief song.
  
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• VIDEO: Tory denies 'fake EDL march' claim

  22-03-2015 19:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Conservative election candidate suspended by his party has said he did not seek a 'fake' English Defence League march to win votes.
  
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• Tunisia museum shooting: Third attacker is ‘on the run’

  22-03-2015 19:53
  
  A third attacker in the deadly assault on the Bardo museum was on the run today, Tunisia’s President said, declaring his country was at war with the extremists who killed 21 people at one of North Africa’s most revered cultural institutions.
  
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• Farage brands pub invaders 'scum'

  22-03-2015 19:51
  
  Nigel Farage has branded anti-Ukip protesters "scum" after they invaded a pub where he was having a family lunch.
  
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• Fearful of Russia, Lithuanian volunteers sign up fearing a repeat of Ukraine

  22-03-2015 19:46
  
  Finishing his working week as a lawyer, Robert Juodka puts on his fatigues, loads his assault rifles into the car and heads off to the woods to take part in training. He and his comrades regard their “war games” as deadly serious; preparations for resisting a Russian invasion.
  
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• 'Big Stick' carrier anchors off bay

  22-03-2015 19:40
  
  Hundreds of people have lined the coast to view a giant US aircraft carrier arriving for a five-day visit.
  
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• Richard III remains return to city

  22-03-2015 19:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  King Richard III's remains at Leicester Cathedral ahead of his reburial.
  
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• Top Gear live shows postponed

  22-03-2015 19:31
  
  Four Top Gear shows that were scheduled to take place in Norway next week have been postponed.
  
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• Tory denies 'fake EDL march' claim

  22-03-2015 19:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Tory election candidate suspended by his party tells the BBC he did not seek a "fake" English Defence League march to help win votes.
  
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• Hull City 2-3 Chelsea

  22-03-2015 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Loic Remy's late winner extends Chelsea's Premier League lead over Manchester City to six points.
  
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• Omar Gabbar: The surgeon fighting to save the shattered Syrian health system

  22-03-2015 19:19
  
  Some of Omar Gabbar’s fondest memories are of taking his children to spend summers near the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, where he grew up. His family would fly from their Midlands home as soon as school broke up, and Gabbar would join them for the final fortnight. “We swam in the pool every day and when the children got a bit older I’d never see them because they’d be out with their local friends every night,” the doctor says at Leicester Royal Infirmary, where he has worked f
  
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• Branagh speaks out over NI arts cuts

  22-03-2015 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Belfast-born actor and director Sir Kenneth Branagh speaks out against cuts to the arts in Northern Ireland.
  
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• Immigration exit checks will 'limit tourism and trade', say transport operators Eurotunnel

  22-03-2015 19:13
  
  The exit checks that come into effect at UK borders next month have been slammed by one of Britain’s largest transport operators. Eurotunnel, which runs car-carrying trains between Folkestone and Calais, has also revealed that most car drivers and passengers will not have their documents checked. The Home Office has agreed to limited screening, to avoid the risks that traffic could tail back onto the M20 motorway and that holidaymakers would have to queue for hours.
  
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• Potter tour owl treatment 'reviewed'

  22-03-2015 19:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The welfare of animals, including owls, at a Warner Bros Harry Potter studio tour is to be reviewed after concerns about their treatment.
  
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• Hull City vs Chelsea match report: Loic Remy strikes winner as Blues extend lead at the top of the Premier League table

  22-03-2015 19:06
  
  Loic Remy came off the bench to score with his first touch and save Chelsea from dropping two crucial points in the title race.
  
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• Fans travel for first Wembley final

  22-03-2015 19:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of Walsall fans travel to Wembley as their team competes for the first time in their 127-year history.
  
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• German man killed by shark on Egypt's Red Sea coast

  22-03-2015 19:02
  
  A German citizen has been killed by a shark off Egypt's Red Sea coast, security officials have said.
  
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• New York fatal fire: City says farewell to seven siblings who perished in blaze

  22-03-2015 18:53
  
  New York is saying goodbye to the seven siblings killed in a fire that tore through the family home.
  
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• Tory Candidate Hits Back Over 'EDL Plot' Claim

  22-03-2015 18:53
  
  A suspended Tory election candidate has hit back at claims he allegedly plotted to win votes by taking credit for stopping an English Defence League (EDL) protest. In a statement on his website, Afzal Amin said the claims, published in The Mail On Sunday, "grossly misrepresented" the truth and presented "an inaccurate picture of what was happening". The would-be candidate for Dudley North is accused of collaborating with the EDL to announce a protest march against the buil
  
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• Six arrested after synagogue attack

  22-03-2015 18:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Six men are arrested after a group forced its way into a synagogue in north London in an attack treated by police as "anti-Semitic".
  
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• Starbucks finally accepts that writing 'Race Together' on customers' cups is not the best way to encourage talks about racism

  22-03-2015 18:36
  Starbucks staff were told today that they will no longer be urged to write “Race Together” on customers’ coffee cups in a bid to engage in chats about US racial relations over steamed milk.
  
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