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• Bus crashes into house in Sunderland - The Independent

  12-05-2015 23:43 via independent.co.uk
  
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  Bus crashes into house in Sunderland
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  Police investigating what caused a bus to crash into a house in Sunderland are urging the driver and passenger of a car to come forward, after they left the scene before officers arrived. The yellow single decker Go North East bus a hit black car just after 5pm ...
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• US military helicopter missing in Nepal with eight on board - Telegraph.co.uk

  12-05-2015 23:43 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  A US military helicopter searching for survivors of the Nepal earthquake is missing with eight people aboard. The Marine aircraft went missing at 10pm local time (2pm BST) in the mountains of Nepal. Six Marines and two Nepalese army soldiers were aboard, ...
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• UKIP Row Unfolds As MP Rejects £650,000 Cash

  12-05-2015 23:42
  
  UKIP's only MP has refused to accept the £650,000 of taxpayers' money his party is entitled to following the General Election - even though senior colleagues want him to take the funding. Douglas Carswell claims he was urged by UKIP officials to hire 15 people using the cash, which is awarded to parties which secure two seats, or one seat with more than 150,000 votes. However, the Clacton MP – who favours smaller, less expensive governments – said he would be unable to "look
  
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• Bus crashes into house in Sunderland

  12-05-2015 23:38
  
  Police investigating what caused a bus to crash into a house in Sunderland are urging the driver and passenger of a car to come forward, after they left the scene before officers arrived.
  
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• Inge Lehmann’s 127th Birthday: Pioneering seismologist celebrated by Google Doodle

  12-05-2015 23:06
  
  Almost eight decades ago, Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann transformed our perception of Earth, by discovering the existence of an inner core.
  
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• Bayern Munich 3 Barcelona 2 player ratings: Ter Stegen? Neymar? Robert Lewandowski? Who was the star man?

  12-05-2015 22:59
  
  Neymar scored twice in the opening 45 minutes to add to his first leg goal to fire Barcelona into the Champions League final, despite a tenacious fight back from Bayern Munich.
  
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• Adopting change: Councils fear the accusation of going too fast in finding a child new parents

  12-05-2015 22:51
  
  It is forgivable that the long election campaign went by without the issue of adoption being raised. It is not a suitable subject for a party political knockabout – but it is, nonetheless, one of the most important functions of a civilised state to remove young children from environments where their health and mental well-being are at risk and place them where they will be safe and well cared for. And it has to be done quickly. It does not take long for a very young child to be permanently dam
  
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• David Cameron's reshuffled Cabinet is like a Richard Curtis film... starring Iain Duncan Smith

  12-05-2015 22:45
  
  This may have a bit to do with wanting to hide away from the post-election realities for as long as humanly possible but, at first sight, David Cameron’s reshuffled team has a potently fictional look. Picture a collage of the PM framed by those entitled to attend his Cabinet, and the cinematic reference point is unmistakable.
  
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• Bayern Munich vs Barcelona match report: Barcelona prevail on aggregate after Neymar double to reach Champions League final

  12-05-2015 22:43
  Neymar scored twice in the opening 45 minutes to add to his first leg goal to fire Barcelona into the Champions League final, despite a tenacious fight back from Bayern Munich.
  
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• Tony Robinson: Prosecutors will not charge police officer over shooting death of black teenager

  12-05-2015 22:37
  
  A Wisconsin prosecutor had said that charges will not be filed against a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed 19-year-old black man in Wisconsin.
  
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• Elgin Marbles: Greece should take UK to court over sculptures, claim human rights lawyers

  12-05-2015 22:34
  
  Greece should take the UK to an international court to win back the so-called Elgin Marbles, according to legal advice prepared by senior human rights lawyers including Amal Clooney and Geoffrey Robertson.
  
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• Prince Charles's 'black spider' letters set for publication after 10-year legal battle

  12-05-2015 22:25
  
  The Royal Family’s reputation for political neutrality faces its most serious challenge in a generation as the “black spider” memos written by Prince Charles to senior ministers are finally set to published after a 10-year legal battle.
  
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• Dawn revival for new Rolls-Royce

  12-05-2015 22:16
  
  Rolls-Royce has announced that its new convertible will be called the Dawn in a revival of a name first used more than 60 years ago.
  
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• Adoption rates in freefall after court ruling leaves children languishing in unsuitable homes

  12-05-2015 22:16
  
  The number of children being put forward for adoption has plummeted over the past year following a series of court rulings that have left local authorities frightened of removing them from birth families.
  
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• David Cameron moves to unite Tory factions by putting his fiercest critics in the Cabinet

  12-05-2015 22:00
  
  David Cameron has acted to unite the Conservative Party’s different factions by handing jobs in his new Government to some of his fiercest critics.
  
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• Kevin Pietersen: Andrew Strauss right to axe KP - now he should consider ditching Alastair Cook

  12-05-2015 21:50
  
  The treatment of Kevin Pietersen has been clumsy at best, unkind at worst. The inducements that brought him back to county cricket at Surrey proved baseless and place incoming ECB chairman Colin Graves in an uncomfortable spot, since his voice was loudest in the advocacy of KP’s return.
  
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• Tesco Axes 450 Jobs As Homeplus Stores Close

  12-05-2015 21:39
  
  Embattled supermarket Tesco is to close its last six Homeplus stores and axe about 450 jobs. The latest move brings the curtain down on Tesco's non-food retail business, which launched in 2005 offering standalone outlets stocking homeware, clothing, electrical goods and stationery products. "We've taken the difficult decision to close our remaining six Homeplus stores," a spokesman said.
  
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• Oscar Holderer: Rocket engineer who left Germany for the US after the war and went on to help put man on the moon

  12-05-2015 21:39
  Oscar Holderer was one of the last-known surviving members of the German engineering team that went to the US after the Second World War and designed the rocket that took astronauts to the moon.
  
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• Philip Levine: US poet laureate who explored with rage and sadness the working lives of the American people

  12-05-2015 21:36
  
  First anger, then irony, then tenderness, and then finally love: those were the successive growths of Philip Levine's poetic emotion – and in the evolution of his one great subject, which was the lives of American working men and women. In a sense, all of these feelings, with the exception of irony, which is a learned literary technique, were in place from the beginning and remained so until the end. Even in his last years, Levine could still express rage at what had happened to his once-vita
  
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• Dick Balharry: Conservationist and gamekeeper who fought to preserve the wilderness and wildlife of the Scottish Highlands

  12-05-2015 21:32
  Dick Balharry was a well-known champion of wild land north of the border and an authority on Highland animals and birds. A strongly-built, red-bearded man, he looked and sounded the very image of a Highlander, although in fact he hailed from lowland Dundee. Though without formal qualifications, he acquired an intimate knowledge of wildlife by hand-rearing abandoned or injured animals and birds.
  
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• Anglesey's wild art: A new outdoor installation on the Welsh island

  12-05-2015 21:27
  
  "Four on Anglesey" sounds suspiciously like an Enid Blyton tale of smuggling, clever-clogs kids and of course ginger beer. On balance, as I stand on a headland near Penmon Priory, I prefer the landscape painter Anthony Garratt's take. His Four on Anglesey comprises four large, open-air canvas portraits of the island that will spend the summer competing with the elements of north Wales.
  
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• Two Held Over Oldham Athletic Death Threat

  12-05-2015 21:24
  
  Two men have been arrested over a death threat sent to the new manager of Oldham Athletic. The club appointed Northern Irishman Darren Kelly as manager last week but the 35-year-old has since had to refute claims he supports the IRA after apparently sending a tweet referring to Martin McGuiness as a legend. Some fans have threatened to boycott Oldham's matches following his appointment. Detective Inspector Jason Byrne, said: "The letter sent to the club made some extremely serious th
  
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• Salmond To Get Leading Role, Says SNP Chief

  12-05-2015 21:15
  
  Alex Salmond is to be handed a "leading" and "very significant" role for the SNP at Westminster after the party's storming success in the General Election. Minutes after being re-elected as the SNP’s Westminster leader, Angus Robertson MP told Sky News the former first minister would be back in the front line. There is speculation that Mr Salmond, who captured the Aberdeenshire seat of Gordon from the Liberal Democrats, could become SNP spokesman on Europe. In his Sky
  
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• Heathrow concessions may win over some protesters - Financial Times

  12-05-2015 21:13 via ft.com
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  Heathrow concessions may win over some protesters
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  The leading protest group against expansion of Heathrow airport has signalled that some local residents could drop their resistance in return for a package of concessions including an end to night flights over west London. Just days after voters returned the ...
  Boris Johnson prepared to lie down 'in front of bulldozers' to stop construction of ...International Business Times UK
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• Yvette Cooper set to announce bid for Labour leadership

  12-05-2015 21:13
  
  Yvette Cooper, the shadow Home Secretary, will announce on Thursday that she will enter the race to succeed Ed Miliband as Labour leader following the party’s crushing election defeat.
  
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• Steve Bunce: Life is set to get exciting for Anthony Joshua as he puts away the sacrificial lambs

  12-05-2015 21:08
  
  Nobody at the London Olympics had to work harder for their boxing gold medal than Anthony Joshua in the super-heavyweight division. Joshua was really little more than a novice when the first bell of the tournament sounded, a raw fighter with heart and size but lacking in the finer skills of the men that traditionally win the Olympic event. He had lost fights, been stopped on his feet during the previous year and he was not considered a genuine gold-medal threat.
  
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• US lawsuit over 'snooping' app raises fears over bosses tracking their employees

  12-05-2015 21:03
  
  Once it was just a dream. In the vision of the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon, a circular prison where just one watchman could scrutinise every inmate from a central “inspection house”, would bring “industry invigorated” and “a mill for grinding rogues honest.”
  
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• Ukip MP 'won't claim £650,000'

  12-05-2015 20:50
  
  Ukip's only MP has insisted he will not claim £650,000 of taxpayers' money despite calls from party officials to use the funds in full.
  
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• The EU will bend towards us in Brexit negotiations

  12-05-2015 20:41
  
  Now the mood shifts to Brexit. Or at least that is the way the next big decision for the British people is being framed: the renegotiation of the UK relationship with the European Union and then the in/out decision before the end of 2017, maybe even next year. As George Osborne has said, the Government does have “a very clear mandate” to renegotiate the deal. So the negotiations will take place and then we will vote. Simple as that.
  
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• Ukraine crisis: Fear of the future leads to calls for 'a wall like Israel's' to protect the porous border with Russia

  12-05-2015 20:36
  On the outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, roadside billboards remind residents of the penalty for espousing “separatism”: prison terms of between five and seven years. A few miles further along the main road north are newly dug trenches, designed to conceal defensive tanks and heavy artillery. Further again are more lines of fortification: the wire fences, trenches, and concrete anti-tank obstacles along the Russian border that are part of Ukraine’s “Project Wall”.
  
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• Russian and Ukrainian experts barred from attending psychotherapy conference in London

  12-05-2015 20:35
  
  Psychotherapy experts from Russia and Ukraine have been barred from attending a global conference in London after the Home Office refused to believe they were delegates.
  
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• Zappos' new 'Holacracy' management system: No managers, no hierarchy - or you can leave

  12-05-2015 20:34
  
  In March, Zappos' CEO Tony Hsieh issued an ultimatum of sorts to his employees. If they didn't feel like they could get behind the US online clothing store's radical new management system – in which there are no traditional managers or job titles – he would give them until 30 April to decide whether they wanted to leave in exchange for at least three months' severance pay.
  
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• Garland shooting: SWAT team shot suspects at Mohamed cartoon event, not lone officer

  12-05-2015 20:30
  
  New information on the planned attack at a Prophet Mohamed cartoon event in Garland, Texas invalidates initial reports that a single police officer shot and killed both suspected gunmen.
  
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• Labour figures admit underestimating Ukip threat cost them seats in the general election

  12-05-2015 20:27
  
  Labour figures have admitted they underestimated the threat from Ukip, after it emerged that Nigel Farage’s party may have deprived Labour of victory in many seats in last week’s election.
  
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• Google's driverless car crashes: Who's to blame?

  12-05-2015 20:25
  
  Did you ever hear the one about the driverless car? It had 11 collisions in four years. And now they've decided to let driverless trucks out on the roads. Boom! Boom! (as your airbags will go).
  
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• Nepal earthquake: US Marine helicopter reported "missing" with eight crew and emergency supplies

  12-05-2015 20:24
  
  A US Marine Corps helicopter carrying out earthquake relief in Nepal was reported missing on Tuesday with eight personnel on board, officials have said.
  
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• Two held over death threat letter

  12-05-2015 20:19
  
  Two men have been arrested after a death threat was sent to the new manager of Oldham Athletic football club.
  
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• Tom Peck's Sketch: Chuka Umunna and the ultimate in selfies

  12-05-2015 20:16
  
  Everything we thought we knew about the general election campaign may of course be wrong, but if it’s true that it was felt to be a rather sterile, stage-managed, inauthentic affair, at least the Labour leadership contest has got off to a more encouraging start, with the leading candidate driving himself up the M4 to hide in the corner of Swindon High Street and point his iPhone at himself.
  
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• Jeffrey Sterling: Former CIA agent jailed for 42 months after being convicted of leaking classified Iran details to newspaper

  12-05-2015 20:09
  Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent who was convicted of sharing classified information with New York Times reporter, has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison -  a significantly shorter term than had been expected.
  
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• Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act slammed as 'appalling' by Scottish Government

  12-05-2015 20:03
  
  The proposed scrapping of the Human Rights Act by the Conservatives has been condemned by the Scottish Government, which said the “appalling” move was likely to harm the country’s most vulnerable people.
  
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• Yemen crisis: Up to a third of soldiers involved in country's civil war are children, claims Human Rights Watch

  12-05-2015 19:59
  As many as a third of soldiers fighting in Yemen’s civil war are children according to international groups, who have accused all sides of intensifying the recruitment of minors in the conflict.
  
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• Demoted Grant Shapps faced awkward first meeting with his new boss, whose Wikipedia page he was accused of editing

  12-05-2015 19:54
  Grant Shapps' first meeting with his new boss Justine Greening must have been awkard.
  
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• Ukraine crisis: Report started by murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov claims Russia has spent £673m to fund the conflict

  12-05-2015 19:50
  At least 220 Russian soldiers have been killed in eastern Ukraine, opposition activists have said in a report offering what they called “ample evidence” to rebut President Vladimir Putin’s denial his troops are fighting there.
  
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• Raul Castro: Cuba's president accuses US of "illegally training" dissidents inside its diplomatic compound in Havana

  12-05-2015 19:49
  Cuba’s leader has voiced concern over what he described as “illegal training” for dissidents inside the US diplomatic compound in Havana.
  
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• Bayern Munich vs Barcelona live: All of the latest from the Champions League semi-final

  12-05-2015 19:39
  
  Tonight in the Champions League, Bayern Munich host Barcelona hoping to somehow overturn a three-goal deficit against the La Liga giants in the semi-final second leg.Last week's first leg at the Nou Camp saw a Lionel Messi masterclass, with the Argentine ace scoring two late goals in the 3-0 triumph.Guardiola loses temper over Man City linkFive reasons Bayern can overturn deficitMuller reveals 'relationship' with Van GaalNeymar and Messi mobbed in MunichRonaldo 'not the same level as Messi' say
  
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• 'Ndrangheta Mafia's 'sacred cattle' under threat as Calabrian authorities order them to be destroyed

  12-05-2015 19:34
  
  Animal rights activists have found themselves in a unlikely alliance with ‘ndrangheta mobsters after authorities in Calabria, southern Italy, ordered the free-roaming, “sacred cattle” of the feared crime syndicate to be rounded up and destroyed.
  
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• 'Vigilante attack' victim jailed

  12-05-2015 19:29
  
  A man attacked and filmed by alleged vigilante paedophile hunters has been jailed for 12 months.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Grant Shapps working under Justine Greening could be interesting

  12-05-2015 19:27
  
  Grant Shapps, the former Conservative party chairman, was moved to a lower-ranking post in the International Development department because he wanted to be involved in international affairs, if you believe the gloss Downing Street put on what others saw as a drastic demotion.
  
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• Three men held over suitcase body

  12-05-2015 19:23
  
  Three men have been arrested by detectives investigating the murder of a woman whose body was recovered in a suitcase from the Grand Union Canal, Scotland Yard said.
  
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• Queen tells guests of baby delight

  12-05-2015 19:23
  
  The Queen told guests of her delight that the royal baby is a girl as she threw open the doors of Buckingham Palace for the first of this summer's garden parties.
  
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