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• Police Appeal Over Teenagers Missing In Essex

  03-05-2015 23:58
  
  Police are searching for two missing teenage girls who met with an older man and have not been seen since. Sammy Clarke, 14, and Siobhan Clarke, 15, who are from the Maldon area and are not related, left school early on Friday, 1 May. Chief Inspector Jonathan Baldwin said: "We are extremely concerned for the welfare of Sammy, Siobhan and Kieran as none of them has been seen for nearly two days or have been in touch with relatives or friends.
  
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• Windies stun England to tie series

  03-05-2015 23:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  West Indies tie the series with England at 1-1 after reaching a target of 192 to win the final Test in Barbados by five wickets.
  
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• Conservatives take one-point lead ahead of vote - YouGov poll

  03-05-2015 23:45
  
  (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party took a one-point lead over the opposition Labour Party, according to a YouGov opinion poll for the Sun newspaper published on Sunday. The poll showed the Conservatives with 34 percent versus Labour tallying 33 percent, polling company YouGov said. The two main parties have been neck-and-neck in most opinion polls since the start of the year, with neither establishing a sustained lead that exceeded the three-point margin o
  
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• Rugby League Player Danny Jones Dies After Game

  03-05-2015 23:30
  
  Welsh international rugby league player Danny Jones, 29, has died after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest during a match. The Keighley Cougars half-back, who was a father of five-month-old twins, was taken off just four minutes into Sunday's League 1 match at London Skolars after reportedly complaining he felt unwell. He collapsed and was treated by the match doctor and paramedics at the ground before being taken by to hospital, the Rugby Football League (RFL) said. Despite extensive e
  
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• Iberian lynx cubs born in the wild bring hope for the world's most endangered feline species

  03-05-2015 23:29
  
  Conservation groups have hailed the birth of two Iberian lynx cubs as a breakthrough in a costly project to save a species that many fear could become the first feline mammal to die out for 2,000 years.
  
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• General Election 2015: David Cameron may attempt to form minority Tory government

  03-05-2015 23:08
  
  David Cameron might attempt to form a minority Conservative government after the election even if he failed to secure a coalition agreement or a majority of MPs in the House of Commons, it has emerged.
  
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• France sells 24 Rafale warplanes to Qatar

  03-05-2015 23:03
  
  President François Hollande will sign a €6.3bn contract today to sell 24 Rafale warplanes to Qatar – continuing a flurry of export triumphs for an aircraft long dismissed as too elaborate and too ambitious.
  
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• Murphy one frame up in final thriller

  03-05-2015 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Shaun Murphy holds a narrow 9-8 lead over Stuart Bingham after a thrilling first day of the World Championship final at the Crucible.
  
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• The Enfield Haunting, TV review: North London meets The Exorcist in an eerie suburban drama

  03-05-2015 23:00
  
  No offence meant to the good people of this north London borough, but I can quite imagine Enfield’s far north-east corner being the site of some creepy happening, as was claimed during the late Seventies. Some places just have an air about them and Sky Living’s nicely atmospheric new three-parter, The Enfield Haunting, has done a fine job of capturing the suffocating eeriness of suburbia.
  
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• Scots leaders clash on spending cuts

  03-05-2015 22:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scotland's political leaders go head-to-head in a live TV debate and clash over public spending cuts in the next UK parliament.
  
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• Bank holiday brings sun and snow

  03-05-2015 22:49
  
  Britain has seen snow, thunderstorms and glorious sunshine this bank holiday weekend - and the topsy-turvy weather is set to continue.
  
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• Rugby league player dies aged 29

  03-05-2015 22:48
  
  A Welsh international rugby league player has died after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest during a match.
  
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• General Election 2015: SNP would vote down a Labour budget, says Nicola Sturgeon

  03-05-2015 22:36
  
  The SNP will vote down a future Labour government’s Budget if it holds the balance of power at Westminster, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
  
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• Two Men Killed In Light Aircraft Crash

  03-05-2015 22:34
  
  Two people have died after a light aircraft crashed near a Scottish village. The plane had been due to land at Dundee airport at around midday on Sunday, but triggered an alert after it failed to arrive. Police said communication had been lost with the plane around four miles west of the airport. An inquiry into the circumstances of the crash has been launched by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch working with police.
  
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• Danny Jones: Keighley Cougars half-back dies during league game after cardiac arrest

  03-05-2015 22:22
  
  A Welsh international rugby league player has died after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest during a match.
  
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• Danny Jones: Keighley Cougars half-back dies after cardiac arrest during league game

  03-05-2015 22:22
  
  A Welsh international rugby league player has died after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest during a match.
  
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• Johansen named player of the year

  03-05-2015 21:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Celtic midfielder Stefan Johansen wins the Scottish Professional Footballers' Association player of the year award.
  
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• Two people die in aircraft crash

  03-05-2015 21:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two people die after a light aircraft crashes near the Perthshire village of Abernyte, Police Scotland say.
  
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• Two men die in light aircraft crash

  03-05-2015 21:46
  
  Two people have died after a light aircraft crashed near a village in Perthshire.
  
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• Police probe man's death at hotel

  03-05-2015 21:40
  
  Police are investigating the "unexplained" death of a man at London's Dorchester Hotel.
  
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• Light aircraft crashes near village

  03-05-2015 21:40
  
  A light aircraft carrying two people has crashed near a village.
  
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• 'Diamond' girl died in boat tragedy

  03-05-2015 21:40
  
  The family of a teenage girl who died after she was trapped under a capsized speedboat have paid tribute to their "diamond".
  
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• General Election 2015: Tory election chief Lynton Crosby's firm planned to expand role of private healthcare in the UK

  03-05-2015 21:35
  A firm run by the Tories’ election chief, Lynton Crosby, devised a plan to lobby David Cameron to expand the role of private healthcare in the UK.
  
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• General Election 2015: Your guide to what will happen after the election

  03-05-2015 21:25
  
  1. Labour “confidence and supply” government
  
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• Rugby player Jones dies after game

  03-05-2015 21:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Keighley Cougars rugby league player Danny Jones dies after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest during a game on Sunday.
  
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• General Election 2015: Fishing is on Nigel Farage's mind as he casts a line to the disaffected

  03-05-2015 21:16
  
  As the venue for Nigel Farage’s big election speech in Grimsby, the Victorian town hall was a good choice. Described in Pevsner’s Buildings of England as “both opulent and restrained”, it dates from the early 1860s when the town was rapidly rising to a dominance as the country’s premier fishing port, which it would sustain for most of the next century.
  
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• Police search for missing Essex schoolgirls Sammy Clarke and Siobhan Clarke

  03-05-2015 21:08
  
  Police have launched an “extensive” search for two schoolgirls who went missing after arranging to meet a man two days ago.
  
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• General Election 2015: Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg to be tackled over Living Wage plans

  03-05-2015 21:07
  
  Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg will be urged by religious and business leaders to ensure every UK worker earns at least the Living Wage.
  
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• Miriam Gonzalez Durantez: Everything’s on the menu, says Nick Clegg's wife – except politics

  03-05-2015 21:02
  
  International trade lawyer, wife of the deputy prime minister, mother to three boys, mentor to a quarter-of-a-million teenage girls, and now cook, food blogger, gardener and chocolate-maker: in the final stages of election campaigning Miriam Gonzalez Durantez has revealed so many strings to her bow that she can be heard from Glasgow down to Mid Wales, supporting the Liberal Democrat candidate for Montgomeryshire, Jane Dodds.
  
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• The Media Column: On election night who will win the battle of the airwaves?

  03-05-2015 20:51
  
  “Did you stay up for Danny Alexander?” The sight of a leading politician being delivered a public P45 by voters is traditionally one of the rewards for bleary-eyed viewers glued to the election night results into the early hours.
  
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• Nepal earthquake: Humanitarian aid is piling up unused at Kathmandu airport because of import restrictions, UN warns

  03-05-2015 20:51
  Nepal’s government has been urged by the United Nations to relax import restrictions that are hampering the delivery of international humanitarian supplies to earthquake victims struggling to find basic food and shelter.
  
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• Probation service 'staffing crisis' leaves public at risk from violent criminals

  03-05-2015 20:45
  
  A “staffing crisis” in the probation service due to cuts and reforms is leaving the public at danger from violent criminals – with women who have suffered from domestic violence among the most vulnerable, unions and campaigners have warned.
  
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• Robert Fisk: Who is bombing whom in the Middle East?

  03-05-2015 20:39
  
  Let me try to get this right. The Saudis are bombing Yemen because they fear the Shia Houthis are working for the Iranians. The Saudis are also bombing Isis in Iraq and the Isis in Syria. So are the United Arab Emirates. The Syrian government is bombing its enemies in Syria and the Iraqi government is also bombing its enemies in Iraq. America, France, Britain, Denmark, Holland, Australia and – believe it or not – Canada are bombing Isis in Syria and Isis in Iraq, partly on behalf of the Ira
  
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• Police search for missing girls

  03-05-2015 20:32
  
  Police have launched an "extensive" search for two schoolgirls who went missing after arranging to meet a man two days ago.
  
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• Pet dogs are much more likely than cats to be insured by their owners

  03-05-2015 20:06
  
  The phrase “man’s best friend” has perhaps a ring of truth, as dogs are much more likely to be insured by British pet-owners than their cat companions, new research has revealed.
  
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• Blur on top with comeback album

  03-05-2015 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Magic Whip, Blur's first studio album in 12 years, lands them at the top of the UK album chart
  
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• Blur storm to top of album charts

  03-05-2015 20:00
  
  Blur have proven their universal appeal by storming straight to the top of the charts with their first album in more than a decade.
  
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• Syria crisis: Government air strike near school outside Aleppo kills seven

  03-05-2015 19:55
  
  A Syrian government air raid that struck near a school in the northern city of Aleppo killed at least seven people including children, activist groups said.
  
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• Baroness Rendell of Babergh: Novelist who under her own name and as Barbara Vine explored with compassion human nature’s dark side

  03-05-2015 19:34
  Baroness Rendell of Babergh in Aldeburgh, Suffolk – better known as the multi-award winning Queen of Crime Fiction, Ruth Rendell – repeatedly stressed her dislike of violence or torture in novels. She also commented that she could not imagine what it would feel like to kill someone – a startling statement from the writer who, in over 60 novels selling over 20 million copies in 26 languages, did more even than Patricia Highsmith to explore the murderous, psychopathic mind in an attempt to
  
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• The deadly blooms of Helmand: The opium crop provides the main income for many Afghan farmers, but the police does what it can to destroy poppies

  03-05-2015 19:23
  Ghulam Hassan is in the mood to celebrate Eid, the biggest religious festival of the Afghan year, three months early. His one-and-a-half-acre farm in a small village in Helmand province has been blooming with white and crimson flowers. Now the petals are just beginning to drop, giving way to round, sticky, pungent green pods. In a few more days the pods will swell to the size of a bulb.
  
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• Britain's new princess meets royal family members

  03-05-2015 19:21
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - The newest member of the royal family, a daughter born to Prince William and his wife Kate, met her grandparents and other family members at the couple's Kensington Palace home in London on Sunday.
  
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• ITN to expand into TV drama with stories 'ripped from the headlines'

  03-05-2015 19:20
  
  ITN, the broadcast news provider, is planning a move into television drama production as part of a major expansion.
  
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• Tottenham vs Manchester City match report: Sergio Aguero inspires City to victory to all but seal Champions League spot

  03-05-2015 19:19
  Manchester City may no longer be able to call themselves Premier League champions but at least the indignity of missing out on the top-four has almost certainly been avoided after Sergio Aguero inspired them to victory at Tottenham.
  
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• The royal birth one day on: how the world has reacted to the news of the new baby princess

  03-05-2015 19:18
  
  Well-wishers rejoiced yesterday, as the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a baby girl, who became the fourth in line to the British throne.
  
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• Three Cunard liners mark 175 years

  03-05-2015 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cunard's three liners gather in Southampton to mark the start of the shipping company's 175th anniversary celebrations.
  
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• ZX Spectrum to return with Vega reboot

  03-05-2015 19:13
  
  With its rubber keys, BASIC code and games that took hours to load, the ZX Spectrum would offer no competition to the multimillion pound titles available at the touch of the button on modern games consoles.
  
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• Robert Gurling: Police manhunt after father abducts three-year-old son from foster parents

  03-05-2015 19:10
  
  A massive manhunt is under way after a father abducted his three-year-old son from foster parents.
  
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• Lord O’Donnell: Former cabinet secretary on the election and life away from the levers of power

  03-05-2015 19:04
  
  It took God six days to create the world, but only five days for GOD to oversee creation of the last government. Now he has retired as Cabinet Secretary, Britain’s top civil servant, how long does Lord [Gus] O’Donnell – known in the corridors of power by his initials and for getting things done under four very different prime ministers – think it will take this time?
  
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• Russian warships accused of 'chasing away' Swedish vessel to prevent Baltic States from achieving energy independence

  03-05-2015 19:01
  
  Russia has been accused of using its warships to deliberately disrupt the construction of undersea power cables that would reduce the energy reliance of Baltic states on Moscow.
  
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• Russian warships accused of 'chasing away' Swedish vessel to prevent Baltic States from achieving energy dependence

  03-05-2015 19:01
  
  Russia has been accused of using its warships to deliberately disrupt the construction of undersea power cables that would reduce the energy reliance of Baltic states on Moscow.
  
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