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• Market Report: Ladbrokes' new chief executive fails to win over investors

  22-04-2015 23:57
  
  A pledge from Ladbrokes’ new chief executive to speed up a strategic review of the business has failed to win over investors.
  
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• Shareholder spring: where are we now?

  22-04-2015 23:56
  
  A wave of revolutionary demonstrations spread across Tunisia in December 2010 after a 26-year-old street vendor called Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest at his treatment by police. Within weeks, the turmoil spread to other Middle East countries and months later, rulers in countries including Egypt and Libya had been overthrown.
  
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• Peter Kay's Car Share: BBC show is the comedian's first TV sitcom in a decade

  22-04-2015 23:30
  
  Having the initial idea for a sitcom is only a tiny percentage of the work that is needed to get it on television. In my day job as a partner at an insight, innovation and brand agency, I help big companies come up with new ideas for anything from reinventing washing powder to developing new snack foods, and I know all too well that ideas need a mix of great insight, luck and someone to get behind it.
  
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• Woman released over preacher murder

  22-04-2015 23:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A woman arrested under the Terrorism Act by detectives investigating the murder of a Syrian-born preacher in north-west London is released, police say.
  
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• Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid match report: Chicharito scores late winner after Arda Turn red card in Champions League

  22-04-2015 23:11
  Manchester United’s Javier Hernandez put Real Madrid into the Champions League semi-finals last night with a scrambled winner two minutes from time.
  
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• VIDEO: Tesco reports record £6.4bn loss

  22-04-2015 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tesco has reported the worst results in its 96 year history with a record statutory pre-tax loss of £6.4bn for the year to the end of February.
  
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• Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid player ratings: Chicharito scores the winner - but was he better than Cristiano Ronaldo?

  22-04-2015 23:04
  No Gareth Bale and no Karim Benzema saw Javier Hernandez - the on-loan Manchester United striker - given a chance in this Champions League quarter-final second-leg.
  
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• Farage: I prefer Indians to Poles, they abide by the law - The Times (subscription)

  22-04-2015 23:01 via thetimes.co.uk
  
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  Nigel Farage has said that he prefers migrants from India and Australia to those from eastern Europe, despite pledging to ditch “negative arguments” about immigration. In a controversial admission, the Ukip leader conceded that he had a preference over the ...and more »
  
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• Pioneering programme teaches pupils about the dangers of female genital mutilation

  22-04-2015 23:00
  
  Mohammed, aged nine, has cut out a line of paper dolls and pinned them to a colourful poster adorned with the abbreviation FGM and the word "Help". His friend David, also nine, has written the supportive message "You Are Not Alone" inside a big red heart, while across the room their classmates Sara and Sia are making up a rap song from the slogan "My Body, My Rules". After whispering and giggling at the start of the 90-minute workshop, the children are beginning to enjoy getting creative with p
  
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• General Election 2015: Immigration - how the parties are playing the numbers game

  22-04-2015 22:59
  
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• General Election 2015: Ed Miliband's wife Justine Thornton says she is 'slightly ... - WalesOnline

  22-04-2015 22:51 via walesonline.co.uk
  
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• Celebrity nude photo hacking scandal: Kate Upton hits out at 'illegal' invasion of her privacy

  22-04-2015 22:49
  
  Model and actress Kate Upton has spoken out about being one of over 100 female stars to fall victim to a hacking scandal last year, which saw intimate photos of her spread across the internet overnight.
  
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• Gordon Brown attacks Cameron and SNP

  22-04-2015 22:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Gordon Brown accuses David Cameron of stirring up English nationalism, and the SNP of misleading people over its offer to back a Labour-led administration.
  
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• Top judge tells parents to be strict on teens

  22-04-2015 22:44
  
  The country’s top family judge has urged parents to do more to ensure that fractious and rebellious teenagers do what they “ought” to be doing.
  
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• Woman freed by murder probe police

  22-04-2015 22:42
  
  A woman arrested under the terrorism act by detectives investigating the murder of a Syrian-born preacher has been released, police said.
  
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• Lollipop man 'halted fire engine'

  22-04-2015 22:42
  
  A lollipop man has been suspended after claims he stopped a fire engine on its way to a 999 call so children could continue crossing the road.
  
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• Aerobatics pilot dies in plane crash

  22-04-2015 22:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An aerobatics pilot dies in a plane crash at an airfield in Norfolk.
  
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• Yarl's Wood: Hunger strike at immigration removal centre for release of widow

  22-04-2015 22:34
  
  Dozens of detainees have gone on hunger strike at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre to call for the release of the wife of a man who died of there on Monday.
  
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• Meteor Shower: Up To 20 Shooting Stars An Hour

  22-04-2015 22:30
  
  Stargazers are set for a shooting star spectacle as the annual Lyrid meteor shower lights up the night sky. Although the shower started on 16 April and goes on to 25 April, the best times to view it are tonight and tomorrow night. People will be able to see an estimated 15 to 20 shooting stars every hour, although an especially active Lyrid shower produced around 90 an hour in 1982. The meteors, sand-like particles shed by Comet Thatcher, leave luminous streaks across the sky as they burn up in
  
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• Nigerian mother and son unlawfully deported by home office set to return to the UK

  22-04-2015 22:29
  
  A Nigerian mother and her five-year-old son who were unlawfully deported from Britain are to be flown back to the UK today after the Home Secretary Theresa May lost a last-ditch legal bid to prevent their return.
  
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• Radcliffe 'unprepared' for marathon

  22-04-2015 22:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three-time London Marathon winner Paula Radcliffe says she will enter this year's race "unfit", but healthy.
  
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• General Election 2015: Cameron is 'whipping up English nationalism', says Gordon Brown

  22-04-2015 22:25
  
  David Cameron is guilty of “whipping up English nationalism” in an attempt to win the general election for the Conservatives, Gordon Brown has claimed.
  
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• Conservatives prey on the primal fear of those marauding Scots

  22-04-2015 22:21
  
  George Osborne has an election video on his mobile phone. It shows a rabble of misfits in a stationary boat, their oars thrashing purposelessly in the water. Labour spending commitments – and those of other opposition parties – flash up on to the screen, to the jingling sound of a cash register. But all turns out well – at least for the pumped-up team of muscular rowers who, in their sleek racing craft, power through towards the winning line.
  
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• Volvo's new hi-vis paint helps riders and bikes stand out - but not everyone is happy

  22-04-2015 22:20
  
  If it seems strange to consider the benefits of being visible by night, just as lengthening days remind us of the joys of riding home in the light, blame Volvo. The Swedish car company has dipped an unexpected tyre in the increasingly crowded – and safe – waters of hi-tech hi-vis, an ugly word traditionally synonymous with two-wheeled fashion disasters (anyone for a fluorescent yellow tabard?).
  
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• 'Flash crash' trader vows to fight extradition to the US

  22-04-2015 22:16
  
  A British financial trader accused of helping trigger a “flash crash” which caused mayhem on US stockmarkets has vowed to fight a bid to extradite him to the US.
  
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• The 'flash crash' Q&A: What was it, and how could one man cause such mayhem?

  22-04-2015 22:14
  
  Q | What was the Flash Crash?
  
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• General Election 2015: The Green Party has failed to make its mark

  22-04-2015 22:11
  
  Whatever became of the Green Party? There was a time when the “Green surge” promised to be one of the big surprises of 2015. Boosted by the controversy around who would take part in televised debates, the Greens gained 2,000 new members in a single day in January, taking their membership close to 45,000, more than the Liberal Democrats or Ukip. They now claim a membership of 60,000, four times what it was less than a year ago.
  
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• Lollipop man 'stops fire engine'

  22-04-2015 22:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A lollipop man is suspended after claims he stopped a fire engine on its way to a 999 call.
  
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• Coyote running wild in New York City prompts massive police hunt

  22-04-2015 22:07
  
  The New York Police Department launched a massive search in the city’s upscale Upper West Side neighbourhood after a coyote was spotted on the loose in the city, the Associated Press reported.
  
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• Whitehall's secrets to be revealed as ministers ordered to produce diaries to the public

  22-04-2015 22:04
  
  Ministers face having to reveal details of every phone call, internal meeting and official engagement following two landmark legal rulings condemning the “secretive” culture of Whitehall.
  
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• VIDEO: Flames shoot out of exploding manhole

  22-04-2015 22:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A pedestrian has captured an underground explosion in a manhole in Birmingham where flames leaped several feet in the air.
  
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• Man filmed sex abuse of babies

  22-04-2015 22:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 33-year-old man has admitted filming himself abusing two children, including one just five weeks old.
  
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• Turkey-bound girl 'had close shave'

  22-04-2015 21:48
  
  A teenage girl removed from a plane bound for Turkey after being "radicalised" has learned a lesson, a family court has been told.
  
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• General Election 2015: How the Scottish referendum has shaped this year's battle

  22-04-2015 21:45
  
  George Square in Glasgow is not what it once was. Only seven months ago it was the unofficial epicentre of the Yes movement, attracting pro-independence voters from all over Scotland. Barely a day went by without some sort of impromptu political rally breaking out. The morning after the referendum, it was also the place where Yes voters congregated to mourn their defeated dream.
  
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• Twitter's anti-abuse policy seems like a much-needed remedy for the sick world of online trolls

  22-04-2015 21:45
  
  Pity the internet troll, the unhappiest monster known to man. Since the dawn of the digital age he has lumbered tragically through the online world's green pastures, compulsively vomiting bile on message boards and social media, trailing death threats and bomb scares like daggled turds: a sad and lonely figure.
  
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• Betty Willis: Artist who designed 'Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas' sign, dies aged 91

  22-04-2015 21:35
  
  Betty Willis was never entirely satisfied with her most famous creation, but it was known – and loved – around the world.
  
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• Driving examiner denies killing wife

  22-04-2015 21:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A father-of-two accused of murdering his wife by deliberately crashing his car on the M1 tells a court she "meant the world" to him.
  
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• Who are al-Queda's Khorasan fighters, and are they as big a threat as Isis?

  22-04-2015 21:29
  
  Khorasan is a group of senior al-Qaeda operatives, which is based in the Aleppo region in Syria. The core supposedly comes from those who sought refuge in Pakistan following the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. It is also said to have attracted high-calibre foreign jihadists, especially bomb-makers.
  
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• SkyWest flight from Chicago drops nearly 30,000 feet in three minutes, forced to make emergency landing

  22-04-2015 21:21
  
  A SkyWest flight from Chicago to Connecticut had to make an emergency landing in Buffalo, New York after the plane plummeted 28,000 feet in three minutes under dubious circumstances, NBC Connecticut reported.
  
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• General Election 2015: Green Party accused of ignoring climate change during campaign

  22-04-2015 21:21
  
  Scientists and campaigners have rounded on the Green Party by accusing it of turning its back on its main mission by largely ignoring the crucial issue of climate change in the run-up to the general election.
  
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• London Marathon 2015: 'I'm running in memory of my partner who died at 36 last Marathon day'

  22-04-2015 21:15
  This Sunday, along with 30,000 others, I will run 26.2 miles from Greenwich to Buckingham Palace. The majority of my fellow runners will be raising funds for different charities. For me, and, no doubt for many of them, the reasons are special. My partner, Satori Hama, died in hospital on the day of the London Marathon last year. She was 36 and had bowel cancer.
  
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• Paedophile gang committed some of most 'vile and depraved' offences police had seen

  22-04-2015 21:05
  
  A gang of paedophiles who raped and abused babies, toddlers and children under five in attacks that were streamed over the internet have been described by police as committing some of the most “vile and depraved” offences they had ever seen.
  
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• Champion Pilot Killed In Air Display Crash

  22-04-2015 21:00
  
  An award-winning pilot has died after his light aircraft crashed during an aerobatics display in Norfolk. Emergency crews were called to Old Buckenham Airfield near Attleborough at about 2.40pm after a member of the public raised concerns about a plane flying in the area. The pilot, named locally as David Jenkins, was flying an Edge 360 plane, which is understood to have been taking part in a media event to launch the Old Buckenham Airshow. Mr Jenkins, who was in his 50s, was a member of the Wil
  
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• General Election 2015: Is William Cash the man to woo Warwickshire North for Ukip?

  22-04-2015 21:00
  
  William Cash is swearing at his purple campaign Jag. It got dusty on the drive back from the Ukip manifesto launch and now his magnetic livery won't stick. The yellow "Vote for Cash" strips have also become warped after a night in the boot. "I don't always keep them on because above about 60mph, they all fly off," he says, flattening them under his suede shoes. "But there is also a slight diplomatic issue, to put it mildly."
  
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• General Election 2015: Nigel Farage says he's 'back to being like Tigger'

  22-04-2015 20:59
  
  Nigel Farage has declared he is "back to being like Tigger," after admitting he did not feel 100 per cent earlier on in the election campaign.
  
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• Big Six firms use influence to dictate energy policy, claims leading environmentalist

  22-04-2015 20:56
  
  The influence of the Big Six energy companies in Whitehall is so strong that they are dictating policy and preventing the electricity system from getting the radical overhaul it desperately needs, a leading environmentalist, has claimed.
  
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• Turkey-bound girl 'learned lesson'

  22-04-2015 20:53
  
  A teenage girl removed from a plane bound for Turkey by police after being "radicalised" has learned her lesson, a family court judge has been told.
  
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• Why do dogs chase their own tails? Scientists hope to discover the answer

  22-04-2015 20:45
  
  Is your dog the calm, collected type? If so, science may need your help to solve a canine health mystery.
  
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• Family sues funeral parlour for ‘swapping bodies' and 'attempting to convince family people look different in death’

  22-04-2015 20:43
  A distraught family are suing a funeral parlour after staff allegedly placed the wrong body in an open casket at a funeral, and then attempted to convince grieving relatives that “people look different in death”.
  
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• US presidential race: Ultra-rich political activist Koch brothers name the five candidates they plan to support

  22-04-2015 20:41
  
  Though it is still quite early in the 2016 US presidential race, billionaire industrialists – and political donors – the Koch brothers have yet to throw their formidable funds into the fray.
  
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