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• David Blanchflower: The problem for the Tories is that their economic plan has failed

  26-04-2015 23:55
  
  The economy remains weak and continues to slow. The decline in retail sales in March of 0.5 per cent caused an immediate drop in the pound and certainly did not help the absurd Tory claims of competence. On top of that the Institute for Fiscal Studies last week identified Tory plans for £30bn cuts to public services, even if they raise £5bn from a tax avoidance clampdown and £10bn of welfare savings. No wonder the Tories won’t answer questions on any of their dastardly economic schemes to
  
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• Conservative party is losing our support over Scotland, warns DUP

  26-04-2015 23:30
  
  Exclusive: Nigel Dodds says English votes for English laws would abuse Commons, and warns against fuelling ‘nationalist paranoia’David Cameron risks forfeiting the support of the Democratic Unionists in the next parliament after the party warned the Tories are in danger of “abusing” the House of Commons in their handling of Scotland.In a blow to the prime minister, who is hoping to rely on the DUP in a hung parliament to keep him in Downing Street, the party’s leader at Westminster, Ni
  
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• Nepal earthquake (VIDEO): shocking footage shows new aftershock avalanches narrowly missing base camp

  26-04-2015 23:23
  
  Aftershocks hit Mount Everest on Sunday after Saturday’s Nepal Earthquake killed more than 2,500 people and an avalanche killed at least 17 people on the mountain.
  
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• Amy Winehouse's family condemn film

  26-04-2015 23:11
  
  Amy Winehouse's family has criticised a documentary about her life.
  
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• Pakistan storms leave dozens dead in country's north-west

  26-04-2015 23:03
  
  At least 37 people killed in country’s north-west as winds reach 75 mph during sudden blast of extreme weatherAt least 37 people were killed as heavy rains and strong winds tore through north-west Pakistan on Sunday, uprooting trees and collapsing buildings, officials have said.The storm also injured over 200 people, provincial information minister Mushtaq Ghani said. According to Lutfur Rehman, a local disaster management official, winds reached up to 75 mph. Continue reading...
  
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• Poldark episode 8, review: How a costume drama became a Sunday night swoon-fest

  26-04-2015 23:00
  Let’s get some Poldark perspective, shall we? Series one of the hit BBC drama, which ended last night with a cliffhanger – on a cliff! – averaged 8.1 million viewers, had Twitter all a-swoon with shirtless Aidan Turner memes and is even credited by some with engineering a recent turnaround in Ed Miliband’s popularity (see the #Milibfandom Poldark photoshop). But is this serviceable costume drama really a rival to Pride’n’Prej ’95? Or do we just need a quick whiff of the smelling s
  
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• Top one per cent of earners twice as rich as ten years ago

  26-04-2015 21:58
  
  The wealth of Britain’s super-rich has ballooned over the past year, further widening the chasm between the top 1 per cent and the rest.
  
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• Nepal earthquake: Huge operation under way to rescue survivors trapped on Mount Everest

  26-04-2015 21:49
  
  A huge operation is under way to rescue dozens of survivors trapped on Everest following avalanches triggered by the Nepal earthquake. At least 17 people are thought to have been killed.
  
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• Nepal earthquake: Huge operation under way to rescue dozens of survivors trapped on Mount Everest

  26-04-2015 21:49
  
  A huge operation is under way to rescue dozens of survivors trapped on Everest following avalanches triggered by the Nepal earthquake. At least 17 people are thought to have been killed.
  
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• Nepal earthquake: Doctors forced to operate in tents as hospitals are overwhelmed – and shocks keep coming

  26-04-2015 21:49
  
  Hundreds of thousands of people have spent a second night out of doors in Kathmandu as severe aftershocks continued to terrify people in the Nepalese capital and surrounding areas.
  
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• Nepal earthquake: Doctors forced to operate in tents as hospitals are overwhelmed – and aftershocks keep coming

  26-04-2015 21:49
  
  Hundreds of thousands of people have spent a second night out of doors in Kathmandu as severe aftershocks continued to terrify people in the Nepalese capital and surrounding areas.
  
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• Nepal earthquake: Thousands more feared dead as rescuers battle to reach remote villages

  26-04-2015 21:48
  
  After survivors were left to fend for themselves in the first hours, tearing at heaps of rubble with their bare hands, rescue workers began to reveal the full impact of Nepal’s worst earthquake in 80 years, which has claimed more than 2,300 lives.
  
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• Nepal earthquake: Thousands more feared dead as rescuers battle to reach inaccessible villages

  26-04-2015 21:48
  
  After survivors were left to fend for themselves in the first hours, tearing at heaps of rubble with their bare hands, rescue workers began to reveal the full impact of Nepal’s worst earthquake in 80 years, which has claimed more than 2,500 lives.
  
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• Nepal earthquake: We still don't know the fate of two million people near the quake

  26-04-2015 21:41
  
  The Nepal earthquake was expected. For 15 years seismologists warned of growing tension along the Nepal-Bihar faultline, which snaps at least once a century. They feared a repeat of the 1934 disaster that killed 12,000, a sixth of the population, including the daughters of the King and Prime Minister. Now 2.5 million people are crammed into the Valley. Would the honeycomb of fragile, hastily built homes collapse? Would only the solid, historic buildings survive?
  
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• Pablo Torres: Wisconsin residents unsettled by billboard backing police officer at centre of shootings probe

  26-04-2015 21:34
  
  As tempers flare in Baltimore, Maryland following the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, a Wisconsin police department has come under fire for its apparent endorsement of the deadly tactics employed by one of its officers.
  
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• The Media Column: Murdoch may not be happy but unlike 1992, it won’t be ‘The Sun wot won it’

  26-04-2015 21:24
  
  The revelation in this newspaper last week that Rupert Murdoch berated journalists at The Sun during a visit to London for not doing enough to stop Ed Miliband winning the election was seized upon by Labour’s high command. “Won’t people wonder whether it is right that one person (who doesn’t live here) should wield such vindictive power?” asked shadow Culture Secretary Chris Bryant. “You had one job. Those lazy scamps at The Sun are slacking,” tweeted Tom Watson, a long-standing en
  
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• Britons helped after Nepal quake

  26-04-2015 21:24
  
  The Foreign Office has received no reports of Britons being killed or injured in the Nepal earthquake, but said it has helped hundreds of people.
  
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• Ofsted social work inspections ‘outdated’, says report

  26-04-2015 21:16
  
  Government inspections of social workers working with children push failing teams further into decline and placed vulnerable children at risk because they spark a spiral of counterproductive reforms, according to a damning review to be published this week.
  
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• Motorcycle auction raises £2.2m

  26-04-2015 21:16
  
  An annual motorcycle auction, including lots belonging to Top Gear duo James May and Richard Hammond, has achieved record sales of £2.2 million.
  
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• Lord Janner: NSPCC head demands that child abuse case against Labour peer be reopened

  26-04-2015 21:13
  
  Pressure is mounting on the Director of Public Prosecutions to reopen the child abuse case against Lord Janner, after a detective claimed he was ordered to drop his investigation because the accused was an MP.
  
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• General Election 2015: How to form a government from a hung parliament

  26-04-2015 21:07
  
  Duty of the incumbent Prime Minister
  
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• Man Charged Over Woman's Dismembered Body

  26-04-2015 21:04
  
  Police have charged a man after a woman's dismembered body was discovered in a flat in Pontypridd. Christopher May, 50, is due to appear before magistrates in the town on Monday charged in connection with the murder of 47-year-old Tracey Woodford. Ms Woodford, from the Pontypridd, was last seen by her family at about 12.45pm on Tuesday and was reported missing the following day. Her body was discovered by a police officer in Andrews Court, Rickards Street, Graig, just before 3pm on Friday.
  
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• General Election 2015: Cameron defends criticism that Tories still neck and neck with Labour in polls

  26-04-2015 21:03
  David Cameron has told critics who accused him of running a lacklustre election campaign that he is not participating in show business .
  
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• Power of Nepal earthquake was equivalent to 20 atomic bombs

  26-04-2015 20:59
  
  Nepal has been hit by a number of earthquakes over the years, as you might expect given its proximity to Everest and the world’s tallest mountain range created by the collision of two giant tectonic plates.
  
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• Ellen Turner: Co-founder of Knoxville's The Love Kitchen who dedicated herself to feeding the poor, passes away

  26-04-2015 20:54
  
  Ellen Turner’s idea was quite simple.
  
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• Reclining standards? National Trust beanbag plan causes historic hoo-ha

  26-04-2015 20:51
  
  An “experiment” by the National Trust in which it has replaced antique furniture with beanbags at one of its historic homes caused consternation from heritage experts and surprise from visitors. Now it has emerged that further similar experiments will take place at nine other of its venues around the country – threatening to engulf the heritage body in a huge row.
  
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• 37,000 help make marathon history

  26-04-2015 20:50
  
  Over 37,000 fundraisers, amateur runners and elite athletes completed the Virgin Money London Marathon today, making it the biggest in the event's 35-year history.
  
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• Missing schoolgirls: One of the teenagers tweets picture of her Syrian takeaway

  26-04-2015 20:31
  
  One of the schoolgirls who disappeared from her East London home in February to travel to Syria has tweeted a picture that appears to confirm she has joined Isis.
  
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• Binge drinking: What the ancient world can teach us about dealing with drunken revellers

  26-04-2015 20:24
  
  As British police prepare to jet off to some Spanish resorts such as Magaluf in Majorca to help local police deal with drunken Britons, tourism chiefs will hear that there is nothing new about alcohol and drugs after sundown, and modern-day authorities could learn from the ancients about how to manage the resulting bad behaviour.
  
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• Selfie sticks out at Wimbledon

  26-04-2015 20:12
  
  The uprising against selfie sticks continues as Wimbledon has become the latest high profile venue to ban the devices.
  
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• Mum-of-11 who costs taxpayers £39,000 a year demands bigger EIGHT BEDROOM council home

  26-04-2015 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A MUM-OF-11 who claims £39,000-a-year in benefits has reportedly demanded a plush new council home after complaining her current five-bedroom property was too small.
  
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• General Election 2015: Roll up, roll up – it’s the Ed and Boris verbal jousting show

  26-04-2015 20:08
  
  Ed Miliband’s meta-morphosis from geek to smart politician took another step forward when he verbally wrestled Boris Johnson on a sofa on The Andrew Marr Show.
  
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• Man Charged After Woman's Dismembered Body Found

  26-04-2015 20:06
  
  Police have charged a man after a woman's dismembered body was discovered in a flat in Pontypridd. Christopher May, 50, is due to appear before magistrates in the town on Monday charged in connection with the murder of 47-year-old Tracey Woodford. Ms Woodford, from the Pontypridd, was last seen by her family at about 12.45pm on Tuesday and was reported missing the following day. Her body was discovered by a police officer in Andrews Court, Rickards Street, Graig, just before 3pm on Friday.
  
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• 1.5m volunteers discover penguins need to use the faeces in order to breed

  26-04-2015 20:06
  
  A citizen science project has found that penguins use their faeces to melt rocky breeding sites in order to lay their eggs.
  
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• 1.5 million volunteers discover penguins need to use the faeces in order to breed

  26-04-2015 20:06
  
  A citizen science project has found that penguins use their faeces to melt rocky breeding sites in order to lay their eggs.
  
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• General Election 2015 explained: Majorities

  26-04-2015 20:03
  
  Absolute majorities
  
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• Freddie Gray death in custody: Russia Today reporter chased and assaulted while covering Baltimore protests

  26-04-2015 20:02
  
  Two journalists covering protests in Baltimore over the death of black suspect Freddie Gray found themselves at the centre of the news – in a way they would not have wished.
  
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• Labour 'faces fall in union money'

  26-04-2015 20:01
  
  Changes to the historic link between Labour and trade unions will lead to a "substantial" fall in the amount of money given to the party through affiliation fees, a leading union has revealed.
  
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• France detains three new suspects linked to alleged terror plot to attack Paris churches

  26-04-2015 20:01
  
  French police have detained three people in an investigation into an alleged plot to attack a church near Paris, authorities have said.
  
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• Global Hepatitis B epidemic could be treated at an annual cost of £24 per person

  26-04-2015 20:00
  
  A drug for treating hepatitis B patients could be mass produced at a cost of only £24 per person per year according to a new piece of research.
  
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• Walker tribute song holds top spot

  26-04-2015 20:00
  
  American rapper Wiz Khalifa's tribute to Fast And Furious actor Paul Walker has set a new streaming record as it topped the charts for a second week.
  
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• Jacob Rees-Mogg: Joining the ultimate Tory Boy as he knocks on doors in North Somerset

  26-04-2015 19:58
  
  Jacob Rees-Mogg likes to claim the most rebellious thing he has ever done is stand up to an old Etonian teacher who dared to question the infallibility of the papacy, yet here he is, at the end of a Somerset driveway, playing Knock-and-Run with the former Chancellor of the Exchequer.
  
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• British couple with combined age of 195 set to become world's oldest newly-weds

  26-04-2015 19:57
  
  A British couple with a combined age of 195 will become Britain’s oldest newlyweds later this summer.
  
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• Sir Victor Blank: Man who merged Lloyds and HBOS on helping people from poorer backgrounds get City jobs

  26-04-2015 19:49
  
  At dinner with former Marks & Spencer chief Lord Rose, Sir Michael Parkinson and their wives, Sir Victor Blank recalls the conversation taking a Monty Pythonesque turn.
  
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• General Election 2015: Sturgeon dismisses Miliband claim of no Labour-SNP alliance as 'Westminster hitting the panic button'

  26-04-2015 19:36
  Ed Miliband’s promise that there will no deal of “any kind” with the SNP in a minority Labour government, has been dismissed by Nicola Sturgeon as evidence of “Westminster parties hitting the panic button”.
  
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• Syria launches air strikes on town seized by Islamist group Jabhat al-Nusra

  26-04-2015 19:34
  
  Government aircraft bombed the north-western town of Jisr al-Shughour, a day after insurgents seized control of it as part of a broader offensive that has left forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad reeling.
  
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• Suchet's wife loses dementia battle

  26-04-2015 19:32
  
  The wife of f ormer television newsreader John Suchet has died following a decade-long battle with dementia.
  
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• Kazakhstan election: President Nursultan Nazarbayev confident of retaining power in poll

  26-04-2015 19:24
  
  The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, is set to renew his 26-year grip on power, offering some stability in return for what rights groups call systematic suppression of opposition.
  
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• British athletics star Paula Radcliffe in tears as she bows out at London Marathon

  26-04-2015 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AN emotional Paula Radcliffe bowed out of competitive running in style when she competed in her last ever London Marathon today - but couldn't hold back the tears as she crossed the finishing line.
  
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• French centre-right in revolt over Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to rename UMP as Les Republicains

  26-04-2015 19:15
  
  Former president Nicolas Sarkozy faces a new obstacle to his return to power: growing opposition to his attempt to rename his centre-right party “Les Républicains”.
  
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