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• Rayo Vallecano v Real Madrid: La Liga – as it happened

  08-04-2015 23:51
  
  Real Madrid remain four points behind Barcelona thanks to goals in the second half from Cristiano Ronaldo and James Rodriguez 10.51pm BST It’s all over and Real Madrid remain four points behind Barcelona thanks to goals in the second half from Cristiano Ronaldo and James Rodriguez. We’ll leave the final word to Eliot Crowe, who has predicted what I’m going to be like tomorrow morning. “Apropos of your earlier video clip at 79 mins,” he says. 10.49pm BST 90 min+1: Isco’s corner comes
  
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• SNP Demands Control Over Tax And Spending

  08-04-2015 23:50
  
  Nicola Sturgeon was involved in another TV bust-up with opponents as she demanded control for Scotland over tax and spending powers. In the second TV election debate in 24 hours, she faced claims from Labour and the Conservatives that the move would leave Scotland billions of pounds worse off. The First Minister also clashed with her opponents as she said the SNP would never vote in the Commons to renew Trident nuclear weapons. On tax and spending powers for Scotland, Ms Sturgeon said in the deb
  
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• Stolen Yorkshire Terrier Flags Down RSPCA Van

  08-04-2015 23:42
  
  A dog stolen from its owner, then abandoned more than 100 miles from its home, has been rescued after stopping a passing RSPCA van. Alfie ran into the middle of a country road in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, and barked at inspector Stephanie Law's van to get her to pull over. Ms Law stopped and the Yorkshire terrier jumped in as soon as she opened the door. The RSPCA officer scanned the dog's microchip to find out its owner's address and discovered the seven-year-old dog had
  
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• Scottish leaders debate: SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon seeks new power grab in return for supporting Ed Miliband

  08-04-2015 23:41
  Nicola Sturgeon would demand that Scotland be given full fiscal autonomy, leaving only defence and foreign affairs powers at Westminster, if the SNP helped deliver a Labour government.
  
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• Oil boss Helge Lund to get £25 million for two months' work - Metro

  08-04-2015 23:38 via metro.co.uk
  
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  Oil boss Helge Lund to get £25 million for two months' work
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  While people working on minimum wage would be lucky to bring in more than £2,000 in two months, one man might soon be standing on £25 million for just two month's work. Helge Lund, who has been in charge of a British company for just two months could ...
  Global stocks gain on Royal Dutch Shell bid; oil slumpsReuters UK
  At £47bn, is BG Group being sold on the cheap?Yahoo Finance UK
  Shell-BG deal could face b
  
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• Brazil to decide on whether to approve world's first GM eucalyptus trees

  08-04-2015 23:35
  
  The world’s first commercially planted genetically-modified trees may be approved in Brazil, when officials rule on the safety of a newly engineered variety of eucalyptus.
  
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• Antibody Suppresses HIV For 28 Days - A Breakthrough In Treatment? - Tech Times

  08-04-2015 23:32 via techtimes.com
  
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  Antibody Suppresses HIV For 28 Days - A Breakthrough In Treatment?
  Tech Times
  The HIV virus can be suppressed for weeks after a single dose of the newly developed 3BNC117 antibody. Could this lead to a new treatment for HIV? (Photo : NIAID | Flickr). An antibody is able to suppress actions of HIV, promising a potential new treatment ...and more »
  
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• Suge Knight granted time to find new lawyer in pending robbery case

  08-04-2015 23:21
  
  Former rap mogul formally fired attorney he first fired in March for robbery case, separate to the murder charge he face over January hit-and-runFormer rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight will have time to hire a new attorney in the robbery case pending against him, a Los Angeles judge ruled on Wednesday, after Knight formally fired the attorney he first dismissed in March.
  The 49-year-old is the founder of Death Row Records, a label that helped establish the gangsta rap canon in the 1990s, with
  
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• IPL 2015: Kolkata Knight Riders and Suryakumar Yadav sink Mumbai Indians

  08-04-2015 23:20
  
  • Mumbai Indians 168-3; Kolkata Knight Riders 170-3 (18.3 ov)
  • Kolkata win by 7 wickets with nine balls remaining
  • As it happened: Daniel Harris’s over-by-over reportSuryakumar Yadav hit the winning runs to complete a swashbuckling 46 from 20 balls as Kolkata Knight Riders beat Mumbai Indians by seven wickets to open the 2015 edition of the Indian Premier League.Kolkata were chasing Mumbai’s target of 168 which, despite Rohit Sharma’s 98 not out, was under par. The Australian opene
  
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• Kiruna: The Swedish town which must move or disappear into the ground

  08-04-2015 23:12
  
  A mining town in Sweden has been forced to make a tough and unusual choice: move two miles or be destroyed.
  
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• Rory McIlroy must curb his enthusiasm to prosper in the Masters frenzy

  08-04-2015 23:11
  
  The world No1 enlisted One Direction’s Niall Horan as his pre-Masters caddie but knows success at Augusta will depend on accepting birdie rather than forcing for eagle and making sure occasional dramas do not turn into crisesIf part of Rory McIlroy’s low-key preparation plan included the par-three-competition invite to the One Direction singer Niall Horan, it represented a smart move by the world No1.Horan, Twitter following of 22 million, will divert attention even from sports stars within
  
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• Footballers May Be Among Jewel Heist Victims

  08-04-2015 23:10
  
  Some of the UK's top footballers could be among the victims of the Hatton Garden safe deposit raid. Jewellers who store gems at the diamond centre in Holborn, central London, do commission work for a number of Premier League stars, a source told Sky News. The players affected are likely to play for the top London clubs, but it is thought stars of other clubs visit the dozens of jewellers in Hatton Garden when they are playing or partying in London. Flying squad detectives said up to 70 safe
  
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• Short people at greater risk of heart attack, says study

  08-04-2015 23:07
  
  Short people are at a greater risk of heart attack – and there's little they can do about it because the link is genetic.
  
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• Shorter people at greater risk of heart disease, new research finds

  08-04-2015 23:05
  
  University of Leicester study finds that someone who is 5ft tall faces a 32% greater risk than someone who is 5ft 6in
  Shorter people may have an increased risk of heart disease, according to a new study that says not just lifestyle but the genes determining our size play a part.In the past, it was thought that shorter people might be more vulnerable because they had been brought up in poorer socio-economic circumstances or were less well-nourished than many of their peers who grew taller. Contin
  
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• Psychologist Gary Klein has helped the US President make critical decisions and analysed the 'pathways' to Eureka moments

  08-04-2015 23:00
  Scientists call it the Eureka moment, that flash of insight leading to a profound discovery. Some describe it as instinctive intuition, perhaps built on years of experience. Others put insightful brilliance down to pure chance – or perhaps the hand of God.
  
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• Liverpool finally see off Blackburn Rovers thanks to Philippe Coutinho

  08-04-2015 22:57
  
  Liverpool have worn the look of the condemned since their Champions League dream faltered at Arsenal but the last rites for their season were unnecessary at Ewood Park.Philippe Coutinho’s 70th-minute strike in the FA Cup quarter-final replay with Blackburn Rovers finally cast off their shadow and gave Brendan Rodgers a timely respite. Aston Villa and a semi‑final at Wembley beckons. Continue reading...
  
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• Masters 2015: 'We were proud that a black man had won. Very, very happy...'

  08-04-2015 22:56
  
  “We were on there illegally, but boys will be boys!” says Carl Jackson, beaming at the memory. He is talking about the days of his childhood, raised with eight siblings in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood, when the temptation to tread the hallowed grass of the Augusta National golf course which bordered the local Rae’s Creek was just too much to resist. They’d catch bream and fry it on a little stove, almost on the banks of the 12th down there, and then step out on to the green.
  
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• Yemen crisis: Shortage of water and medical supplies threatens civilians caught up in devastating civil war

  08-04-2015 22:51
  Millions of Yemeni families attempting to survive the bloody civil war that has drawn in larger Middle Eastern powers face danger from another worsening threat: disruption to the water supply in one of the world’s driest countries.
  
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• GoFundMe removes campaign supporting South Carolina police officer charged with murdering unarmed black man

  08-04-2015 22:46
  
  The popular crowd-funding service GoFundMe removed a page Wednesday seeking to raise money for a white South Carolina police officer charged with fatally shooting an unarmed black man.
  
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• GoFundMe Removes Campaign Supporting South Carolina Officer Charged with Murdering Unarmed Black Man

  08-04-2015 22:46
  
  The popular crowd-funding service GoFundMe removed a page Wednesday seeking to raise money for a white South Carolina police officer charged with fatally shooting an unarmed black man.
  
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• Blackburn Rovers v Liverpool: FA Cup quarter-final replay – live!

  08-04-2015 22:44
  
  Coutinho sends Liverpool into the semi-final with fine goal 9.40pm BST The final whistle sounds, and Liverpool’s celebrations show how badly they wanted this victory. And they deserved it. Blackburn put up excellent resistance and occasionally frightened the visitors, but Liverpool were in charge of most of the game and won it with the only moment of real ingenuity. And they also kept a clean sheet, which was not foreseen by everyone before the game. So it’s Liverpool v Aston Villa in the se
  
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• Texas five-year-old finds dinosaur: 'My dad told me it was a turtle'

  08-04-2015 22:34
  
  Zookeeper Tim Brys and his son Wylie excavate dinosaur fossil that could be a nodosaur, found behind a grocery storeScientists from Southern Methodist University have helped a Dallas zookeeper and his five-year-old son excavate a dinosaur fossil they found behind a grocery store in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.The Dallas Morning News reports that Tim Brys and his son Wylie worked at the excavation site on Tuesday to dig up what paleontology professor Dale Winkler believes could be a nodosaur, a po
  
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• Barcelona thump Almería with Luis Suárez and Lionel Messi firing

  08-04-2015 22:25
  
  • Barcelona 4-0 Almería
  • Messi 33, Suárez 55 90, Bartra 75Luis Suárez struck twice to help Barcelona to a 4-0 home victory over struggling Almería on Wednesday that stretched the leaders’ advantage over second-placed Real Madrid to seven points.Barça seized control at the Camp Nou before Lionel Messi, who had not scored in three matches since his double against Eibar three weeks ago, skipped in from the right wing in the 33rd minute and whipped a left-foot effort in
  
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• Scottish leaders’ debate: Sturgeon accused of financial ‘black hole’

  08-04-2015 22:22
  
  Labour’s Jim Murphy warns over ‘rerun of referendum’ after SNP leader confirms she would introduce fiscal autonomy within a year if given chanceNicola Sturgeon and Jim Murphy have clashed over the economy in the second Scottish leaders’ debate this week. Continue reading...
  
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• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of Boston bombing and may face death penalty

  08-04-2015 22:19
  
  Tsarnaev convicted on all 30 counts related to attack on Boston in April 2013Same jury to decide whether to sentence Tsarnaev to death or life in prisonAfter two months of jury selection and 17 days of moving and often disturbing testimony from 95 witnesses, it took a Boston jury just over 11 hours to convict Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on all charges relating to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.Tsarnaev, 21, was found guilty of all 30 counts against him, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destr
  
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• Annie the Owl organiser's life 'made hell' by misconstrued event

  08-04-2015 22:16
  
  The founder of a pop-up owl event that has attracted over 29,000 signatures in a protest petition says his life has been hell after his event was misconstrued by the press and animal rights activists
  
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• Scottish leaders debate: What they said in Aberdeen clash

  08-04-2015 22:14
  
  ON SCOTLAND’S ECONOMIC POWERS
  
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• Scottish leaders debate: What they said

  08-04-2015 22:14
  
  ON SCOTLAND’S ECONOMIC POWERS
  
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• My secret war against apartheid: Mary Chamberlain risked everything to help break the regime in South Africa

  08-04-2015 22:13
  
  Table Mountain was shrouded in fog when my then husband, Carey Harrison, and I sailed into Cape Town on the SS Vaal in March 1972. As we disembarked we watched with dismay as our household belongings, packed in 20 or so wooden tea-chests, were unloaded on to the quay. We had been assured that the cargo would not be discharged until the ship's return from Durban and Port Elizabeth. This would give us several days to secure somewhere to live and reduce the time that our cases would spend in the b
  
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• Steve Bell on non-dom tax status – cartoon

  08-04-2015 22:04
  
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• Shortness 'linked to heart disease'

  08-04-2015 22:00
  
  As if being short was not already enough of a disadvantage, scientists have now confirmed it increases the risk of heart disease.
  
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• Sarah Thomas: NFL appoints its first woman official

  08-04-2015 21:59
  
  When Sarah Thomas began officiating 19 years ago, she had no idea there were no women referees in the National Football League.
  
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• The medieval kings to remember - and what they tell us about Michael Gove

  08-04-2015 21:45
  
  Of all the personal jibes flying around in the run up to election day, Nick Clegg's attack on Michael Gove's record on education was among the most detailed – and historic. Speaking on the Lib Dem campaign bus on Tuesday, the embattled party leader recalled the methods used by his coalition colleague – and former education secretary – to inspire his vision of a not-so-modern history curriculum.
  
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• Boston Marathon bombing trial: Who is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?

  08-04-2015 21:37
  
  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan had been in the US for a decade before setting on the path that would see them carry out what many have described the deadliest act of terrorism on American soil since the attacks of September 11 2001.
  
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• Walter Scott shooting: Shocking footage – of grimly familiar racism

  08-04-2015 21:37
  
  The shocking video depicting the death of Walter Scott, shot in the back by a South Carolina police officer, will seem grimly familiar to many. It recalls the grainy CCTV footage of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, gunned down in a Cleveland park in November 2014. It echoes the mobile phone video of 25-year-old Kajieme Powell, killed outside a newsagent’s in St Louis last August.
  
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• Isis releases over 200 Iraqi Yazidis after eight months in captivity

  08-04-2015 21:22
  
  No reason given for mass release of prisoners, mostly elderly people and children, many of whom were in poor health and bore signs of abuse and neglectThe Islamic State group released more than 200 Yazidis on Wednesday after holding them for eight months, the latest mass release of captives by the extremists targeted by US-led air strikes and an Iraqi ground offensive.General Hiwa Abdullah, a peshmerga commander in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, said most of the freed 216 prisoners were in p
  
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• Miliband's abolition: Many have tried to close non-dom loophole – all have failed

  08-04-2015 21:15
  
  Non-dom tax rule discriminates against ordinary citizens in Britain and abroad, yet through history the rich and their lawyers have scuppered attempts to scrap it When John Major was contemplating scrapping the tax advantages of non-dom status some decades ago, legend has it he changed his mind after a delegation of Greek shipping merchants descended on Downing Street, threatening to move the Baltic Exchange shipping market from London to Hamburg.Successive generations of ministers across the po
  
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• The Guardian view on the Garissa assault: it will take time to contain al-Shabaab

  08-04-2015 21:09
  
  Kenya has shown impressive resilience in the face of the an attack in which 148 died. It must deploy shrewd judgment in tackling this deadly opponentAs Kenyans mourn the scores of young lives cut short so brutally at Garissa last week, their horror is compounded by their belief that much of the carnage was preventable. Many are asking why security at the university was so light, given the established threat from Somalia-based al-Shabaab; others complain that authorities were too slow to end the
  
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• The Guardian view on Neil MacGregor: a giant of Britain’s cultural life

  08-04-2015 21:08
  
  At 68, the outgoing director of the British Museum may not be the person to define Civilisation for a new eraNeil MacGregor is stepping down after 13 years at the British Museum. It is not unexpected. There had been hints recently about the future of the man who transformed the profile of the once cobwebby institution, doubled visitor numbers, and turned himself into a national treasure. For visitors to the museum and listeners to his BBC Radio 4 series alike, he has not so much pushed back the
  
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• Syrian Imam Sheihk Abdul Hadi Arwani: Claims murdered London imam was victim of pro-Assad 'assassination squad'

  08-04-2015 21:06
  
  Officers from Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism unit are leading the hunt for the killer of an Islamic religious leader shot dead in a London street, following claims he may have been the target of a Syrian “assassination squad” that is silencing critics of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
  
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• Hatton Garden jewellery raid ‘like a Hollywood movie’ - video

  08-04-2015 21:01
  
  The audacious raid on the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company, in the heart of London's jewellery trade, was like something from a Hollywood movie, says a representative from Britain's gem industry. It is understood heavy equipment was used to break through 18-inch metal doors to access the vault over the Easter weekend. James Riley, of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain (Gem-A), says the raid was carried out with military precision Continue reading...
  
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• The US isn’t winding down its wars – it’s just running them at arm’s length

  08-04-2015 21:00
  
  Barack Obama is playing all sides against each other, but support for the Saudi war in Yemen will only spread conflagration in the Middle EastSo relentless has the violence convulsing the Middle East become that an attack on yet another Arab country and its descent into full-scale war barely registers in the rest of the world. That’s how it has been with the onslaught on impoverished Yemen by western-backed Saudi Arabia and a string of other Gulf dictatorships.Barely two weeks into their bomba
  
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• England’s arrogant nationalism has been a gift to the SNP

  08-04-2015 21:00
  
  The Westminster set has failed to understand the Scottish nationalist movement and focused irrationally on Ukip insteadBefuddlement is the English virtue – or is it the English vice? It belies real anger, real outrage, and it is everywhere right now in the coverage of the election. It is a sentiment often voiced with amazement that what happens in Scotland will be a determining factor in what happens in our election. How dare the Scots be so damn influential?This, after all, is
  
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• Chalk Talk: Be careful what you say at teacher union conferences

  08-04-2015 21:00
  
  You have to be so careful what you say at teacher union conferences these days. Mark Baker, the president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, exhorted a colleague to "come closer" after he complained that he could not read the wording of an amendment on the screen in the conference hall.
  
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• Spanish couple viciously attacked in York... ‘for being foreigners’

  08-04-2015 20:50
  
  Police are hunting a group of men who viciously attacked a Spanish couple in one of Britain’s most historic tourist cities – simply because they were foreign. 
  
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• Spanish couple viciously attacked in York... because they were foreign

  08-04-2015 20:50
  
  Police are hunting a group of men who viciously attacked a Spanish couple in one of Britain’s most historic tourist cities – simply because they were foreign. 
  
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• General Election 2015: Tories accused of opposing to abolish non-dom tax statuses because of donors who gain from system

  08-04-2015 20:41
  The Conservatives have been accused of opposing moves to abolish non-dom tax status because of their heavy reliance on wealthy donors who gain from the system.
  
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• Athens insists 'open wound' of German war reparations must be closed

  08-04-2015 20:31
  
  Greek minister sees signs that Berlin acknowledges that compensation should be paid for Nazi wartime atrocities ‘despite disagreeing with the figure’The row between Germany and Greece over war reparations has intensified after Athens hit back at Berlin’s description of its demand for a staggering €278.7bn (£202bn) in compensation as “stupid”.Insisting that Greece’s leftist-led administration had “a historical duty” to seek compensation for atrocities committed by Nazi for
  
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• VIDEO: 'Why I gave up my non-dom status'

  08-04-2015 20:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Robert Peston speaks to Labour peer Lord Noon about his decision to give up his non-dom status - which allows some wealthy UK residents to limit the tax paid on earnings outside the country.
  
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• Air pollution warning issued as Greater Manchester sizzles in temperatures ... - Manchester Evening News

  08-04-2015 20:25 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
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  Air pollution warning issued as Greater Manchester sizzles in temperatures ...
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  But although the welcome weather is expected to continue well into next week, forecasters have issued a warning over dangerously high levels of air pollution. Temperatures across Greater Manchester are expected to remain at around 17C throughout ...
  UK weather to be the hottest of 2015 on Friday with highs of 22CDaily Mail
  South east faces soaring air pollution lev
  
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