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• Conservative 'secret plan' for £12bn welfare cuts

  27-03-2015 23:47
  
  Secret plans for swingeing cuts to benefits have been drawn up by civil servants on the orders of senior Conservatives, it emerged last night.
  
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• Meredith mother 'shocked' at ruling

  27-03-2015 23:39
  
  The mother of murdered British student Meredith Kercher said she was "surprised and very shocked" by an Italian court's decision to overturn the convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito.
  
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• Greg Dyke braced for battle with Premier League clubs on ‘home-grown’ quotas

  27-03-2015 23:30
  
  Greg Dyke’s mission to increase the number of players available for the England team is set to face stiff opposition from the Premier League.
  
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• Amanda Knox acquitted: Finally they are free. This was an outrageous miscarriage of justice

  27-03-2015 23:22
  
  The verdict of Italy’s Supreme Court, exonerating Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito of involvement in the murder of the English student Meredith Kercher, leaves Ms Kercher’s family struggling again to understand how and why their daughter met her terrible end.
  
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• Amanda Knox free: Italian court closes the case for embattled American

  27-03-2015 23:20
  
  After almost eight years of legal strife, Italy’s highest court has overturned the murder convictions of American woman Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend in the 2007 killing of Ms Knox’s flat-mate in Perugia.
  
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• Mastermind winner's tour de Sforza

  27-03-2015 23:16
  
  A TV quiz show veteran has been crowned the winner of this year's series of Mastermind.
  
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• Pair cleared of Kercher murder

  27-03-2015 22:57
  
  An Italian court has overturned the conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
  
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• England vs Lithuania match report: Harry Kane fires in first Three Lions goal just 78 seconds into debut to put icing on the cake

  27-03-2015 22:53
  The only surprise was that it was his second touch of the game and not his first, but either way Harry Kane’s first goal for England was perfectly in keeping with the remarkable story of the boy from Chingford who has a habit of confounding expectations.
  
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• Saudi-led military campaign gets bipartisan US support - Al-Arabiya

  27-03-2015 22:51 via english.alarabiya.net
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  Saudi-led military campaign gets bipartisan US support
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  House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks to members of the media during his weekly news Conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 26, 2015. (AP). Text size A A A. Staff writer, Al Arabiya News Saturday, 28 March 2015.and more »
  
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• Silicon Valley: Ellen Pao loses landmark gender-discrimination case

  27-03-2015 22:43
  
  A California Superior Court jury on Friday ruled that Ellen Pao was not discriminated against because of her gender by her former employer, the famous venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
  
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• Amanda Knox murder conviction: Italy overturns verdict for US student and Raffaele Sollecito for killing of Meredith Kercher

  27-03-2015 22:42
  Italy's highest court has overturned the conviction of Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of Meredith Kercher eight years ago.
  
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• Coach passengers tell of crash

  27-03-2015 22:38
  
  Passengers on board a coach which left the road and rolled down an embankment have spoken of how it came to a stop near a loch.
  
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• General Election TV debate: Miliband gets a head start for the seven-way debate

  27-03-2015 22:35
  
  For Labour, Ed Miliband’s debate appearance was the first step in its election drive to boost his dismal ratings among the public and improve his credibility as a prime minister-in-waiting.
  
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• Missing Isis schoolgirls: Grounded pupils are from same school as three runaway girls

  27-03-2015 22:31
  
  Five teenage girls barred from travelling abroad by a judge after showing an interest in going to Syria are pupils at the same London school as three girls already thought to have fled there to join the Islamic State, the High Court has been told.
  
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• Lobbying group for fracking in Lancashire supported by firms mainly outside county

  27-03-2015 22:22
  
  A major lobbying group created to make the business case for fracking in Lancashire is mainly supported by firms outside the county, an investigation has revealed.
  
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• New York City explosion: Gas line may have been ‘inappropriately’ tapped, mayor says

  27-03-2015 22:20
  
  Workers may have “inappropriately” tapped into a gas line hours before an explosion rocked the East Village neighbourhood of New York City on Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday.
  
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• Pro-hunting campaign fronted by Otis Ferry props up Tories in north-west England

  27-03-2015 22:17
  
  A pro-hunting campaign fronted by Otis Ferry is taking its battle to the north of England as its volunteers promote two Conservative candidates in the Blackburn area on the understanding that they will vote to repeal the hunting ban.
  
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• The Phantom of the Opera and a £22m trust fund feud with Norway

  27-03-2015 21:51
  
  The president of Norway’s parliament has spoken out against secrecy and alleged fraud in British offshore finance, as he lifts the lid on his 10-year battle to secure control over a £22m trust fund in Guernsey.
  
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• The secret diary of an MP: Our team seems quite upbeat - haven’t they seen the polls?

  27-03-2015 21:50
  
  So much to do. So little time. I know it’s a clichéd image: the removal vans outside Downing Street being loaded with Ted Heath’s piano, Tony Blair’s guitar and Gordon Brown’s… temper. And to a lesser extent it has been like that for me this week.
  
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• Mother ‘tortured and killed’ her children before ‘forcing sibling to put body in freezer’

  27-03-2015 21:47
  
  A teenager has described to authorities how her mother killed two of her siblings, and forced her to put one of the bodies in the freezer at their Michigan home.
  
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• General Election TV debate: The real winner? Jeremy Paxman

  27-03-2015 21:47
  
  While Tory and Labour spinners wrangled over which leader triumphed in the election debate, there was consensus over who the real winner was – Jeremy Paxman. The former Newsnight presenter returned to political interviewing after a nine month break by wrong-footing Mr Cameron over the economy, immigration and poverty.
  
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• Knifeman jailed for shop raid bid

  27-03-2015 21:45
  
  A man has been jailed for three years after attempting to rob a village shop with a 10-inch kitchen knife.
  
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• General Election TV debate: Two polls show Cameron narrowly beat Miliband

  27-03-2015 21:39
  
  Conservative strategists were relieved by two instant polls suggesting the public believed David Cameron had narrowly got the better of his Labour opponent.
  
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• TV debates: If Miliband can see off Paxman, maybe he can do the same to Cameron

  27-03-2015 21:26
  
  Did David Cameron or Ed Miliband win the battle of the TV interviews? The conflicting answers to the question following the live event on Thursday night prove we all choose to see what we wish to see, or what we think we should be seeing.
  
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• British Museum offers to lend Elgin Marbles back to Greece

  27-03-2015 21:18
  
  The British Museum has offered to discuss lending the so-called Elgin Marbles back to Greece, after the UK rejected a request to take part in a United Nations mediation process about the contentious ownership of the 2,500-year-old sculptures.
  
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• Death of the lad mags? Loaded magazine bids farewell

  27-03-2015 21:13
  
  When Nuts magazine closed its doors and starred out a “barely legal” 19-year-old’s nipples for the last time in 2014, few of us were surprised. The lads’ mag, with its barely literate commentary on fit babes, hadn’t exactly made for inspired reading – and didn’t pretend to be anything more than a glossy masturbatory aid.
  
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• Trio blast off to space station

  27-03-2015 21:08
  
  American astronaut Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko have blasted off on a mission to spend an entire year away from the Earth.
  
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• Germanwings plane crash: The Facebook images that hid the secrets of Andreas Lubitz

  27-03-2015 21:01
  
  Wearing a trendy striped scarf, bronzed and posing nonchalantly in front of the Golden Gate bridge, Andreas Lubitz looks more like a male model in a Lufthansa “Fly with us to San Francisco” advert than the aviation company’s first ever mass-murdering co-pilot.
  
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• Germanwings plane crash: Pilot ‘had a sick note’ for the day he killed 149 people

  27-03-2015 20:55
  
  The co-pilot suspected of the mass murder of the passengers and crew of a Germanwings airbus apparently hid evidence that he was medically unfit to fly, it emerged today.
  
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• NHS 'health tourism' crackdown making destitute migrant mothers pay thousands for care

  27-03-2015 20:44
  
  The NHS crackdown on so-called “health tourism” is having a devastating impact on vulnerable, pregnant migrant women and their babies, The Independent can reveal. A new report compiled by doctors working at a charitable clinic in London has revealed disturbing details of often destitute women charged thousands of pounds by the NHS for essential care during pregnancy.
  
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• Tory 'benefits cuts' plans leaked

  27-03-2015 20:38
  
  The Conservatives are considering plans to scrap or restrict a series of benefits saving billions of pounds from the welfare bill, it has been reported.
  
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• Media studies survives A-level cull

  27-03-2015 20:38
  
  Media studies has survived a cull of A-level subjects, while leisure studies has been axed, England's exam regulator has announced.
  
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• San Francisco prison guards allegedly forced inmates into ‘Game of Thrones’ fight club

  27-03-2015 20:37
  
  Four San Francisco sheriff’s deputies have been suspended after they allegedly forced inmates at the San Francisco County jail to fight each other and allegedly bet on the fights, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
  
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• 'I'm addicted to crisps'... GPs reveal some of the inappropriate – and often weird – requests they receive

  27-03-2015 20:35
  The life of a GP is a varied one. Our friendly local doctors have to be there for us in our hour of greatest need. On a regular basis they make critical interventions that can save lives. They also, occasionally, have to reassure their patients that it is perfectly normal to get sore feet after dancing in high heels.
  
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• 'I’m addicted to crisps'... GPs reveal some of the crazy requests they receive

  27-03-2015 20:35
  
  The life of a GP is a varied one. Our friendly local doctors have to be there for us in our hour of greatest need. On a regular basis they make critical interventions that can save lives. They also, occasionally, have to reassure their patients that it is perfectly normal to get sore feet after dancing in high heels.
  
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• Police officer held over wife death

  27-03-2015 20:26
  
  A police constable with 28 years' service remains in custody after being arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife.
  
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• Yemen crisis: Warships pave the way for a ground invasion

  27-03-2015 20:26
  
  Saudi and Egyptian warships deployed to the Bab al-Mandab strait off Yemen yesterday, aiming to secure a strategic sea passage as the Saudi-led coalition targeting Houthi rebels laid the foundations for possible ground operations.
  
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• The battle for the Middle East's future begins in Yemen as Saudi Arabia jumps into the abyss

  27-03-2015 20:21
  
  Saudi Arabia has jumped into the abyss.
  
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• Andy King: Dynamic defender whose waspish but precisely timed tackles helped Kilmarnock win their only league title

  27-03-2015 20:16
  Andy King was a doughty and dynamic defensive bulwark as Kilmarnock lifted the Scottish League championship in 1964-65 for the only time in their history.
  
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• Martyn Goff: Administrator whose gleeful machinations helped make the Booker Prize one of the leading awards for fiction

  27-03-2015 20:14
  Martyn Goff was the driving force behind the rise in prominence and the international success of the Booker Prize, the UK’s most prestigious book award.
  
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• John Renbourn: Influential guitarist whose work with Pentangle and on his own made him a leading light of the British folk revival

  27-03-2015 20:13
  John Renbourn was a central figure in the British folk revival of the 1960s and throughout his career he remained an abiding and exciting figure in the nation’s acoustic music scene.
  
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• Germanwings plane crash: ‘Murder-suicide’ cannot be explained as depression, say experts

  27-03-2015 20:11
  
  We are unlikely to ever know what was going through the mind of co-pilot Andreas Lubitz on the day he decided to bolt the cockpit door of the Germanwings passenger plane which he then deliberately crashed into a rocky ravine in the Alps, killing all 149 people on board.
  
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• Danny Cohen: Jeremy Clarkson's nemesis

  27-03-2015 20:08
  
  To his tabloid critics, Danny Cohen, the BBC’s director of television, is the ultimate “PC leftie” – an elitist intellectual whose determination to drive Jeremy Clarkson out of the BBC is a mere staging post in his ambitious journey to becoming the youngest ever Director-General.
  
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• Father of Bardo Museum gunman: 'I feel as much sorrow for the tourists as I do for my son'

  27-03-2015 20:02
  
  Almond and pear trees are in blossom on the drive into Ibrahim Zahar, a tiny and picturesque collection of perhaps a few dozen houses in Kasserine, one of the poorest regions of Tunisia.
  
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• General Election 2015: The 60 seats that could decide the outcome

  27-03-2015 19:58
  
  Traditionally, it has been relatively straightforward to identify the constituencies that were likely to determine the outcome of a general election. Everything more or less turned on a collection of marginal seats that were closely fought by Conservative and Labour. Whoever won the bulk of those seats could expect to form the next government, irrespective of what happened elsewhere.
  
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• What happens when a county of 590,000 people loses its only gay bar?

  27-03-2015 19:49
  
  In a quiet function room in Gloucester, a group of friends are drinking tea and enjoying some cake served from a table which is adorned with rainbow flags.
  
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• Labour vs the supermarkets: Plans for new watchdog to stop retailers squeezing suppliers

  27-03-2015 19:45
  
  A powerful “supermarket watchdog” will be established by Labour to prevent big retailers from bullying their suppliers, as the party positions itself as the champion of farmers and consumers.
  
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• Duchy does daffodil deal for quarry

  27-03-2015 19:42
  
  With money far from being a worry, the Prince of Wales asked the new owner of a quarry on his land to pay him something rather more novel than cold, hard cash for rent - a single daffodil.
  
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• Clarkson Top Gear Live tour could run without BBC branding

  27-03-2015 19:40
  
  BBC Worldwide has postponed four shows in Norway but is in talks to ensure rest of live shows continue with former host The BBC’s commercial arm is exploring a range of options to save its Top Gear Live global world tour, including running the events unbranded to allow Jeremy Clarkson to continue to front the shows.BBC Worldwide has already been forced to postpone four shows in Norway scheduled for this weekend, affecting 18,000 people who paid ticket prices ranging from £45 to £10
  
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• Report: Black and Asian civil servants facing discrimination by 'old boys network'

  27-03-2015 19:39
  
  Black and Asian civil servants believe they face routine discrimination by an “old boys network” running Whitehall, a Government report has concluded.
  
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