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• General Election 2015: UK will be 'run for the wealthy and powerful' if Tories retain power, Labour warns

  01-05-2015 23:24
  Ed Miliband will try to turn the tables on David Cameron in the final days of the election campaign by denying the UK would be “run for Scotland” under Labour and claiming it would be “run for the wealthy and powerful” if the Conservatives retain power.
  
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• General Election 2015: UK will be 'run for the wealthy and powerful' if Tories retain power, Ed Miliband says

  01-05-2015 23:24
  Ed Miliband will try to turn the tables on David Cameron in the final days of the election campaign by denying the UK would be “run for Scotland” under Labour and claiming it would be “run for the wealthy and powerful” if the Conservatives retain power.
  
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• 'Futile' bomb blast bid condemned

  01-05-2015 23:22
  
  A large bomb left in north Belfast could have inflicted carnage, police commanders have said.
  
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• Natalie Bennett says Green Party is 'open to discussing' three-way marriages and polygamy

  01-05-2015 23:21
  
  Natalie Bennett has said her party is “open to consultation” on the possibility of legalising polygamy and civil partnerships involving three or more people.
  
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• Warning over anti-Cameron alliance

  01-05-2015 22:55
  
  The SNP and Labour would not be able to "gang up" against David Cameron and form an anti-Tory government if the Conservatives win most seats in next week's election, a former Labour first minister has warned.
  
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• Eye lit up by Facebook for election

  01-05-2015 22:47
  
  The London Eye is to be lit up every night between now and the General Election with data reflecting the conversation taking place on Facebook.
  
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• Salmond standing 'for his own ego'

  01-05-2015 22:24
  
  Alex Salmond is only standing for election at Westminster for his own ego, Nick Clegg's wife, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, has warned.
  
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• General Election 2015: Labour government 'would force SNP to choose whether it backs Labour Queen's Speech or votes with Tories'

  01-05-2015 21:57
  A minority Labour government would force the SNP to choose whether it backs a Labour Queen’s Speech or votes with the Conservatives, the party’s Scottish leader has warned the Nationalists.
  
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• Bread from heaven: Dutch survivors thank RAF for World War II drop that saved millions

  01-05-2015 21:39
  
  On 29 April 1945 a frightened, hungry 11-year-old girl huddled with 12 others in an attic in Sloterdijk, a village just outside Amsterdam.
  
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• Yemen crisis: Terrified citizens caught between Saudi Arabia and Iran as air strikes and blockade threaten humanitarian disaster for millions

  01-05-2015 21:38
  Dozens of Saudi soldiers and Yemeni fighters have been killed in clashes on the border between the countries as five weeks of Saudi air attacks fail to bring the war to an end. Air strikes and heavy artillery fire in the southern port of Aden have left much of the city in ruins and the attempted incursion by Houthi fighters marks an escalation in a conflict seen regionally as part of the growing confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
  
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• The DNA database for canine excrement – in Barking

  01-05-2015 21:31
  
  With her large, dark eyes and soft velvety ears two-year-old Tilly may not look like your average criminal – yet this week she had her cheek swabbed for a new canine DNA database.
  
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• Rolf Harris could face new charges after 'full file' of further evidence handed to prosecutors

  01-05-2015 21:27
  
  A “full file” of evidence against disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris has been presented to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), sources said tonight.
  
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• My life as an Ebola vaccine guinea pig

  01-05-2015 21:26
  
  Watching the Ebola epidemic on our TV screens last summer, it was impossible not to be struck by the horror that was unfolding.
  
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• Hillsborough inquiry: Former chief inspector at time of disaster chokes up as he says he was blamed for a 'cover-up' of a plan to smear fans

  01-05-2015 21:18
  To his critics, Sir Norman Bettison has been unmoveable in defence of his alleged involvement in a smear campaign against Liverpool fans in the wake of the Hillsborough tragedy. But the most senior police officer to give evidence at the inquests so far, appeared soften his stance.
  
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• Man jailed for shooting at men trying to steal plants from his Manchester cannabis farm

  01-05-2015 21:12
  
  Two men who tried to steal cannabis from a farm hidden in Manchester escaped with their lives by “sheer luck” after the owner started shooting at them.
  
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• General Election 2015: No regrets for Harman or her pink bus as she meets Plymouth voters

  01-05-2015 21:02
  
  It has been one of the most controversial features of the Labour campaign, lambasted for being “patronising to women” and for its garish Barbie colour scheme. But Harriet Harman, the mastermind behind the party’s shocking pink bus, is unapologetic. “I don’t regret the colour at all; that’s given it it’s profile,” she says. “There’s no point in it being worthy and under the radar. I think in terms of getting candidates coverage, getting on the agenda the issue of women voting,
  
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• General Election 2015: Is Nigel Farage losing his grip on South Thanet?

  01-05-2015 20:57
  
  Nigel Farage believes that one of his party’s strengths is that it can reach voters who do not care very much for politics and would not be inclined to vote at all were it not for Ukip. And George Keen, who is 22, is just the kind of supporter they could be proud to recruit.
  
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• Over 3,000 police officers being investigated for alleged assault - and almost all of them are still on the beat

  01-05-2015 20:50
  More than 3,000 police officers are being investigated for alleged assault – with black and Asian people significantly more likely than white people to complain of police brutality, according to an Independent investigation.
  
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• Madeleine McCann: Parents speak of continuing heartbreak as eighth anniversary approaches

  01-05-2015 20:50
  
  The parents of Madeleine McCann have spoken of their continuing grief as the eighth anniversary of her disappearance approaches.
  
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• Rolf Harris Could Face New Abuse Charges: Report

  01-05-2015 20:39
  
  A "full file" of further allegations against an 85-year-old man, believed to be Rolf Harris, has been handed to prosecutors. Sources told the Press Association that the file of evidence against the disgraced entertainer was presented to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Harris was interviewed under caution by police as part of Operation Yewtree in February. He was jailed for six years in 2014 at Southwark Crown Court after he was found guilty of 12 indecent assaults on girls.
  
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• Apollinariya Yakubova: The face of the woman Vladimir Lenin loved most is revealed

  01-05-2015 20:33
  
  She was described admiringly by Vladimir Lenin’s wife as the “primeval force of the Black Earth”, a revolutionary firebrand with sparkling brown eyes whose natural aroma was of “fresh meadow grasses”.
  
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• Marilyn Mosby: Who is the prosecutor who brought charges against Baltimore cops involved in Freddie Gray death

  01-05-2015 20:31
  In office only since January and young as the top state prosecutor for Baltimore, Marilyn Mosby might have felt overwhelmed as the crisis of Freddie Gray swelled. The city wondered how she would respond when handed the police report into Mr Gray’s death on Thursday. With speed, we learned yesterday.
  
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• Prosecutors study Rolf Harris file

  01-05-2015 20:31
  
  A "full file" of evidence against disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris has been presented to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), sources said tonight.
  
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• Cameron, Miliband and Clegg could learn a thing or two about talking to the public from three passionate women

  01-05-2015 20:25
  
  They doggedly continue to talk at us, not to us. That was my frustrated conclusion watching Thursday night’s debate.
  
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• Nepal earthquake: Racing against time, government pleads for rescue helicopters to reach remote mountain regions

  01-05-2015 20:24
  
  The Nepalese government has made an urgent request for helicopters to cope with an escalating humanitarian crisis after Saturday’s devastating earthquake.
  
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• Nepal earthquake: RAF helicopters fly out for aid mission as British nationals remain missing

  01-05-2015 20:22
  
  British military helicopters are to fly to Nepal to help reach survivors of the earthquake that killed more than 6,200 people.
  
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• 'Tory Scum' Graffiti On Car Of Candidate's Dad

  01-05-2015 20:21
  
  A Conservative candidate has hit out after vandals daubed abusive graffiti over her family's cars.
  
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• British Film Institute: 'Twenty-three films released in one day? Stop the madness'

  01-05-2015 20:16
  
  Film fans heading to the cinema this weekend may find themselves overwhelmed by the choice.
  
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• Milan Expo 2015: Rioting and tear gas mar the start of a 'brighter tomorrow' for Italy

  01-05-2015 20:10
  
  Half of Italy is closing its eyes and muttering “It’ll be a disaster, a disaster” while peeping through its fingers and desperately hoping it won’t be – rather like Britain before the 2012 Olympics.
  
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• Mae Whitman not hot enough? 'Sexist' Hollywood under fire for recasting 'Independence Day' role in sequel

  01-05-2015 20:08
  
  In recent interviews, Kristen Stewart described the film industry as “disgustingly sexist”, while Carey Mulligan called it “massively sexist”. Now a new row has broken out over Hollywood’s treatment of women, after Fox recast a female role in the forthcoming sequel to Independence Day, replacing original actress Mae Whitman, leading some to speculate it may be because she did not conform to Hollywood’s standards of attractiveness.
  
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• General Election 2015 explained: Polling day

  01-05-2015 20:06
  
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• Desert fear over herbivore decline

  01-05-2015 20:00
  
  Some of the richest ecosystems on Earth, including Africa's savannahs and forests, could become wildlife deserts because of the decline of large herbivores, researchers claim.
  
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• Sean O'Grady: 'Will I join the election party? I wouldn't bet on it'

  01-05-2015 20:00
  
  A few weeks ago, I wondered rather plaintively whether any political party would "do something" about pensions. After all, the most revolutionary reform since the invention of the personal (formerly "portable") pension has just been promulgated, it affects the second-biggest financial asset most people have after their home – and there's a general election on.
  
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• Displaced young adults are living in a graveyard in Liberia's capital Monrovia

  01-05-2015 19:50
  
  Anyone would guess it was a prison. Its four-metre-high walls are topped with coiled barbed wire and punctuated with watchtowers. Its tall metal gates are locked. Yet a glimpse through one door, left slightly ajar, reveals its inmates died years ago. The site in Monrovia, Liberia's capital, is an abandoned cemetery where no one has been buried for decades. The walls aren't there to confine the dead, but to keep out the living – people whom Liberian society has forgotten who inhabit its crumbl
  
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• Nigerian schoolgirls: Military releases photos of women and children rescued from Boko Haram

  01-05-2015 19:46
  
  The military has released the first photos of what it says are some of the hundreds of women and children that troops freed in recent days in the Sambisa Forest amid heavy combat with Boko Haram.
  
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• The secret diary of an MP: A clean-cut lad in my campaign team turns out to be neither

  01-05-2015 19:45
  
  My constituents seem exhausted with this election campaign. So am I. And with less than a week to go now I’m also nervous.
  
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• Freddie Gray death in custody: Watch prosecutor Marilyn Mosby announce charges against six Baltimore police officers

  01-05-2015 19:42
  A state prosecutor stunned many on Friday when she declared that six officers were to be charged over the death of Freddie Gray.
  
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• Broken-down trains and cancelled flights: Bank-holiday starts in traditional fashion

  01-05-2015 19:36
  
  Broken-down trains, delayed and cancelled flights, and massive traffic jams: the bank-holiday weekend started in traditional fashion for travellers.
  
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• Freddie Gray death: What is ‘depraved-heart’ murder?

  01-05-2015 19:33
  
  Six Baltimore police officers have been charged in the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old man who died while in police custody last month.
  
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• Labour would scrap the Bedroom Tax from day one of a Miliband government, party says

  01-05-2015 19:23
  
  Labour would scrap the Tories’ ‘bedroom tax’ on the first day of a Miliband-led government, the party’s leader has said.
  
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• A third of Spaniards don't leave home until their 30s - and the presents they buy their Mums on Mothering Sunday is causing a bit of a problem

  01-05-2015 19:23
  It is an annual dilemma for many: what do you get Mum for Mother’s Day?
  
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• Two-headed calf born in Florida with two mouths that feed separately

  01-05-2015 19:21
  
  A two-headed calf has been born alive on a farm in the US.
  
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• For sale: a little piece of France for £740 - how a mayor's offer put Normandy village Champ du Boult on the map

  01-05-2015 19:15
  Champ du Boult used to be a quiet sort of place. Too quiet, according to the mayor.
  
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• David Dimbleby profile: Britain's TV master of ceremonies on election night

  01-05-2015 19:04
  
  Even if undecided voters were not swayed by the quizzing of the three main party leaders on Thursday night, they were left in no doubt why David Dimbleby remains in power.
  
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• General Election 2015: The campaign for leaders to dodge brickbats and ‘address’ Scotland

  01-05-2015 18:54
  
  Just before his turn in the BBC’s Question Time programme on 30 April, David Cameron requested that a bar stool be put on the stage for him to be able to sit. Ed Miliband opted to stand the whole way through instead, as he did not want the stool there for his turn in case he tripped over it – which was ironic, because he stumbled slightly as he left the stage.
  
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• Freddie Gray death: None of the cops involved is responsible for death, police union says

  01-05-2015 18:49
  
  None of the officers involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray last month are responsible for his death, according to the Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police, who sent an open letter to State Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby.
  
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• Former MP Eric Joyce found guilty of 'unprovoked' assault on two teenagers in a shop

  01-05-2015 18:48
  
  Former MP Eric Joyce has been found guilty of assaulting two teenagers at a shop in Camden, north London.
  
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• Shakespeare's Globe director named

  01-05-2015 18:46
  
  Shakespeare's Globe has announced that Emma Rice will take over as artistic director next year.
  
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• Craig Dillon interview: Youtube vlogger on seeking protection for those accused of sex attacks online after being accused himself

  01-05-2015 18:42
  Six months ago, Craig Dillon was one of YouTube’s rising stars, a fresh-faced vlogger whose pranks and lifestyle clips attracted more than a million views.
  
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