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• SNP 'will help make Miliband PM'

  07-04-2015 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nicola Sturgeon says the SNP would help make Ed Miliband prime minister if the Conservatives fail to win a majority in the general election.
  
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• VIDEO: Prince Andrew sex claims struck out

  07-04-2015 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A judge in the US has ruled that sexual allegations made against Prince Andrew should be removed from the court records.
  
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• Russian government hacked into the White House computers, report says

  07-04-2015 23:34
  
  The Russian government allegedly has hacked into the White House computer systems, gaining access to sensitive information about President Barack Obama, according to CNN.
  
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• Manchester City on alert as Rafael Benitez mulls move back to England

  07-04-2015 23:30
  Rafa Benitez is considering a return to England next season and another crack at management, a development which would put him in contention to become Manchester City manager if the club decide to replace Manuel Pellegrini this summer.
  
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• General Election 2015: British residents who do not pay tax on overseas earnings will be stripped of 'non-dom' status, says Miliband

  07-04-2015 23:29
  Wealthy British residents who do not pay tax on their overseas earnings would be stripped of their “non-dom” status by Labour, Ed Miliband will announce today.
  
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• Aston Villa vs Queen's Park Rangers: Christian Benteke hat-trick keeps Villains above relegation quicksand

  07-04-2015 23:23
  Tim Sherwood urged his Aston Villa players to show their mettle and they responded, twice coming from behind here to salvage a point when it seemed they would suffer the most damaging of defeats to a key rival in the Premier League relegation battle. All three of their goals came from Christian Benteke, whose form has returned at a timely moment.
  
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• Scottish nationalists raise prospect of another independence vote after 2016

  07-04-2015 23:23
  
  Scottish nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon on Tuesday raised the prospect of another independence referendum that could break apart the United Kingdom following the 2016 Scottish election. Though Scots voted to stay part of the United Kingdom in a Sept. 18 referendum, support for the Scottish National Party (SNP) has surged before a UK-wide election on May 7 and opinion polls indicate nationalists will win 35-50 of the 59 seats in Scotland, up from six in 2010. After losing last year's ref
  
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• Syrian Imam Sheihk Abdul Hadi Arwani ‘shot dead in London’

  07-04-2015 23:22
  
  Police have launched a murder investigation after a man believed to have been a Syrian preacher was found shot dead in a car in north-West London today.
  
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• It's a simple choice, says Farage

  07-04-2015 23:16
  
  Nigel Farage has received a rapturous welcome on the final stop of a West Midlands campaign tour, insisting his General Election platform is "basic common sense".
  
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• Ahead of election, doctors criticise Cameron over healthcare

  07-04-2015 23:15
  
  Over 100 senior British medical professionals criticised Prime Minister David Cameron and his coalition government on Tuesday for their handling of the National Health Service (NHS), a major issue in the upcoming national election. In an open letter to the left-leaning Guardian newspaper, they wrote: "Our verdict, as doctors working in and for the NHS, is that history will judge that this administration's record is characterised by broken promises, reductions in necessary funding, and
  
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• VIDEO: Cameron's 'Game of Nations'

  07-04-2015 23:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Gavin Hewitt who joined David Cameron's four-nation visit on Tuesday reflects at different points on the journey on the PM's message to Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
  
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• General Election 2015: Cameron points finger at Lib Dems over Sturgeon leaked memo row

  07-04-2015 23:07
  
  David Cameron has pointed a finger of suspicion at the Liberal Democrats in the row over who leaked a memo alleging that Nicola Sturgeon wanted to see him remain prime minister.
  
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• The copycat who nearly died air-mailing himself home

  07-04-2015 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The man who hated Australia so much he posted himself home
  
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• David Cameron interview: ‘We protected the poorest, the NHS and pensioners’

  07-04-2015 23:06
  
  Is David Cameron still the “compassionate Conservative” who won the party leadership in 2005 and was derailed by economic crisis, or is he a Thatcherite who reverted to type when he got the chance? It is a question that some Tory modernisers ask themselves as Mr Cameron runs what is widely seen as a safety-first campaign based on the economy and bashing Ed Miliband.
  
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• 'Ordinary Yorkshire Lads' Feared To Be In Syria

  07-04-2015 23:02
  
  The families of two teenage boys believed to have travelled to Syria have said they are "in a state of profound shock" and are exrtremely concerned for their safety. The seventeen-year-olds, named as Hassan Munshi and Talha Asmal, are thought to have fled to the country after travelling to Turkey on 31 March. The pair, from Dewsbury, were last seen by their families on the day they are thought to have flown from Manchester airport to Dalaman. A statement released on behalf of the two
  
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• Aston Villa 3-3 Queens Park Rangers

  07-04-2015 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Christian Benteke's hat-trick rescues a vital point for Aston Villa in a pulsating game against Premier League relegation rivals QPR.
  
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• Ordinary Lies, TV review: Even Robin Thicke wouldn’t be able to untangle the threads of moral ambiguity wrapped around this episode

  07-04-2015 23:00
  After three consistently brilliant stories, tonight falls short of the mark as the gobbiest member of JS Motors finds himself in the midst of a thirty-something life crisis. Unlike previous episodes that have swerved off in exciting new directions, this week feels stunted and underdeveloped in comparison.
  
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• Phelps returns after drink-drive ban

  07-04-2015 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The most decorated Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps, will swim in Arizona in April after a six-month drink-driving ban.
  
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• Judge strikes out Andrew sex claims

  07-04-2015 22:51
  
  Claims the Duke of York had sex with an underage teenager have been struck from US civil court records following a federal judge's ruling.
  
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• Syrian Preacher Found Shot Dead In London

  07-04-2015 22:51
  
  A Syrian preacher from a west London mosque has been found shot dead in a car in Wembley. Abdul Hadi Arwani was found sitting in a dark-coloured Volkswagen Passat with a gunshot wound to his chest on Tuesday morning. Sources confirmed it was believed to be Mr Arwani, a preacher at the An-Noor Mosque in Acton, west London.
  
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• Masters 2015: I'm thinking about me, not Tiger Woods, says Rory McIlroy

  07-04-2015 22:45
  
  It comes to something when the man with the world at his feet is not the main event. Rory McIlroy could speak as he wished, wear brash fluorescent yellow if he pleased – and he did – because the individual who had just vacated his press-room seat was the box-office ticket.
  
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• Masters 2015: Tiger Woods - 'I've worked my ass off... my game is now ready to win'

  07-04-2015 22:43
  
  The frenzy continues. The galleries, the Augusta bush telegraph, the players, no one is immune from the gravitational pull of Tiger Woods.
  
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• General Election 2015: 100 leading doctors sign letter accusing Government of 'withering away' NHS in England

  07-04-2015 22:28
  More than 100 leading doctors have signed a letter accusing the coalition Government of endangering the NHS in England.
  
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• Yorkshire Teenagers Feared To Be In Syria

  07-04-2015 22:23
  
  The families of two teenage boys believed to have travelled to Syria have said they are "in a state of profound shock" and are exrtremely concerned for their safety. The seventeen-year-olds, named as Hassan Munshi and Talha Asmal, are thought to have fled to the country after travelling to Turkey on 31 March. The pair, from Dewsbury, were last seen by their families on the day they are thought to have flown from Manchester airport to Dalaman. A statement released on behalf of the two
  
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• Gang jailed over botched raid

  07-04-2015 22:23
  
  A gang who botched a cash point robbery before being spotted by police cameras hurtling down the motorway at 140mph has been jailed, police said.
  
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• Body of man is recovered from river

  07-04-2015 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The body of a man in his 60s is recovered from a river in Strabane, County Tyrone.
  
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• Tony Blair's endorsement of Ed Miliband should bode well for Labour's election chances

  07-04-2015 22:10
  
  Is it a help or a hindrance to have Tony Blair endorse your election campaign? It seems odd that the question should even have to be put, given that Mr Blair was the most effective vote-winner the Labour Party ever had.
  
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• A quarter of UK's wheat crop could be wiped out by virulent new strain of Himalayan fungus

  07-04-2015 22:08
  
  A virulent new strain of fungus from the Himalayas threatens to wipe out up to a quarter of the wheat crop in some areas of the UK this harvest season, experts have warned.
  
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• If Ryanair can reach out to customers, so can other businesses

  07-04-2015 22:06
  
  Nice guys, they say, come last. Or do they? Certainly not everyone would have agreed that Michael O’Leary, the boss of Ryanair and legendarily successful businessman, was a nice guy. Yet his relatively recent promotion of a kinder, gentler type of budget air travel seems to have been paying some commercial dividends.
  
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• Blair attacks Cameron's EU vote plan

  07-04-2015 21:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ex-Labour PM Tony Blair enters the election fray, warning against an EU referendum - but David Cameron hits back, saying he wants to give people the choice.
  
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• General Election 2015: Failing primary school children face more resits under Tory plans

  07-04-2015 21:55
  
  Any child who fails English and maths tests at 11 will be forced to repeat them in secondary school, under Conservative plans to improve literacy and numeracy.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: The old master’s cadences bless young Miliband

  07-04-2015 21:51
  
  He’s back and he’s angry. And not with Ed Miliband! Though he behaved as if he’d never been away from Sedgefield. The sunny weather was what “you can always expect in the North-east”, he joked, like a man who had come to rest in County Durham instead of criss-crossing the world at dizzying speed for the past seven years.
  
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• Two teenagers 'feared Syria-bound'

  07-04-2015 21:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The two West Yorkshire teenagers who are feared to have travelled to Syria have been named.
  
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• The Devon barman who is poised to break the record for the fastest run around the world

  07-04-2015 21:48
  
  After some 16,000 miles, 16 pairs of running shoes, plus encounters with deserts, blizzards, mountain ranges and angry bears, a British barman is poised to break the record for the fastest ‘run around the world.’
  
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• The Devon barman poised to break the record for the fastest run around the world

  07-04-2015 21:48
  
  After some 16,000 miles, 16 pairs of running shoes, plus encounters with deserts, blizzards, mountain ranges and angry bears, a British barman is poised to break the record for the fastest ‘run around the world.’
  
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• SNP vow to help make Miliband PM

  07-04-2015 21:46
  
  Nicola Sturgeon has pledged that the SNP would help make Labour's Ed Miliband prime minister if the Conservatives fail to win a majority in next month's general election.
  
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• General Election 2015: Osborne will have to abolish child benefit for four million families to meet welfare spending cuts

  07-04-2015 21:45
  George Osborne will have to abolish child benefit for over four million families to meet his commitment to cut welfare spending by £12bn in 2018, his deputy at the Treasury suggested last night.
  
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• Tea party protests Chinese flag in Washington

  07-04-2015 21:37
  
  Over the weekend a group of activists from the tea party – the group that represents the far-right of American politics – protested for the removal of a Chinese flag from the Washington state capitol.
  
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• Ryanair cancels 250 French flights

  07-04-2015 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ryanair says it has been forced to cancel more than 250 flights due to a planned strike by French air traffic controllers.
  
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• Sex Claims Against Prince Andrew Dismissed

  07-04-2015 21:27
  
  Sex abuse claims against Prince Andrew will not be heard in a US civil court case after a judge ruled against their inclusion. District Judge Kenneth Marra struck out the "lurid" allegations in a case involving the Duke of York's former friend Jeffrey Epstein. One of them - Virginia Roberts (Jane Doe 3) - says she was used as a sex slave and forced to have sex with Andrew when she was 17. Federal prosecutors opposed allowing the two women to join the lawsuit, which was filed in 20
  
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• Top Doctors Criticise 'Broken Promises' On NHS

  07-04-2015 21:20
  
  The letter urges voters to use the General Election to pass judgement on the Coalition which is says has "failed to keep its NHS pledges". "As medical and public health professionals our primary concern is for all patients. We invite voters to consider carefully how the NHS has fared over the last five years, and to use their vote to ensure that the NHS in England is reinstated," they wrote. The letter also warned that the growing involvement of commercial companies meant peo
  
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• British expat and partner arrested in Hong Kong after daughter falls to her death

  07-04-2015 21:17
  
  A British expatriate and his partner have been arrested in Hong Kong after their 15-year-old daughter – whose birth was never registered and who never went to school – fell to her death from their multi-million pound flat.
  
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• VIDEO: Reporter paints for Clegg interview

  07-04-2015 21:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Arif Ansari spoke to Nick Clegg at NK Theatre Arts in Romiley. He told the BBC's Arif Ansari had to pick up a paintbrush as well if he wanted to interview him.
  
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• Stick with the plan, says Cameron

  07-04-2015 21:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Cameron visits Cardiff on his whistle-stop four-nation election tour, urging voters to "stick with the Conservative team".
  
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• Families' shock over 'Syria boys'

  07-04-2015 21:08
  
  The families of two teenage boys believed to have travelled to Syria said they are "in a state of profound shock" and are extremely concerned about the safety of their "ordinary Yorkshire lads".
  
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• Safe Deposit Boxes Raided In Jewellery Quarter

  07-04-2015 21:06
  
  Up to 300 safety deposit boxes have been broken into at a central London vault over the Easter weekend. A statement from the Metropolitan Police said heavy cutting equipment had been used to get into a vault at the premises in Hatton Garden. Officers from the Flying Squad are currently at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit as the investigation continues. Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said: "I'm told that there are 600 boxes on the premises, 300 of which have been raided.
  
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• Patient 'injected in head' claim

  07-04-2015 21:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man detained under the mental health act was beaten, left handcuffed on the floor of a hospital ward and injected in the head just days before he died, an inquest hears.
  
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• Isis mass graves: Iraqi forensic teams recover remains of 1,700 military cadets slaughtered by militants near Tikrit

  07-04-2015 20:52
  Mass graves containing the bodies of 1,700 Iraqi military cadets who were slaughtered by Isis fighters last June are being opened by Iraqi forensic teams who have gained access to them since the capture of the nearby city of Tikrit.
  
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• The Welsh Matterhorn: Cnicht offers a true taste of the wilderness

  07-04-2015 20:49
  
  The rock feels cold beneath my fingertips. As I curl my hands around the stone, made smooth by the many others that have gripped it before me, I can smell the damp and earthy scent of wet grass. I take a deep breath and heave myself upwards… the summit is within my grasp.
  
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• Russia considers cut-price gas deal with Greece, sparking EU fears that any agreement could undermine its sanctions against Moscow

  07-04-2015 20:40
  Russia is preparing to offer Greece a cut-price gas deal as part of a package that European Union officials fear is aimed at undermining the sanctions regime against Moscow.
  
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