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• 'Predatory' restaurant owner jailed for raping and grooming teenage girls in Peterborough

  15-05-2015 23:48
  
  A married restaurant owner who thought he was “untouchable” has been jailed for 13 years for raping and grooming girls as young as 12 in Peterborough.
  
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• Georgia university suspends advisor after claiming a black student was harassing her while seeking advisement

  15-05-2015 23:31
  
  A Georgia university is conducting an investigation after a black student was accused of harassment by a teacher for allegedly seeking an academic appointment.
  
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• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev execution may take years with appeals process

  15-05-2015 23:20
  
  Although a jury took very little time both to find Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty and to decide he should get the death penalty, it is likely to be many years before he is executed – as lawyers embark on a series of appeals.
  
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• Homeless families forced out of town

  15-05-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Social housing tenants moved as London boroughs struggle with costs
  
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• Meantime has been sold to SABMiller: is it the death of craft beer?

  15-05-2015 23:02
  
  The independent Greenwich-based brewer Meantime has been bought by SABMiller, the drinks giant behind Fosters and Peroni. The deal sparked alarm among some beer lovers on Twitter and comments by Meantime's brewmaster appeared to hail the end of “craft” beer.
  
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• Boston bomber death sentence: Who is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?

  15-05-2015 22:44
  
  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan had been in the US for a decade before setting on the path that would see them carry out what many have described the deadliest act of terrorism on American soil since the attacks of September 11 2001.
  
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• Quake zone Chinooks sent in vain

  15-05-2015 22:37
  
  Three RAF Chinook helicopters deployed to help with the rescue effort in Nepal following last month's devastating earthquake are being returned home without even reaching the Himalayan country.
  
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• U2 gig review: World's biggest rock band back in the game with technically stunning show

  15-05-2015 22:19
  
  When U2 set loose their Songs of Innocence album last September - “released” seems too mild a term for a disc embedded for free onto half a billion devices - it seemed for a while as though the queue to badmouth them stretched around the world. The first night of their ‘iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE’ world tour marked the beginning of what is likely to be a dramatic public moodswing in the other direction. If they keep mounting shows like this one, anyway.
  
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• Family of man who died after being detained under Mental Health Act vow to continue to seek 'justice' following inquest into death

  15-05-2015 22:16
  The family of a man who died after being detained under the Mental Health Act will continue to seek “justice” following an inquest into his death.
  
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• Chancellor George Osborne sets date for summer Budget to keep 'election pledges'

  15-05-2015 22:13
  
  George Osborne will unveil the first Budget of a majority Conservative government on 8 July, the Chancellor will announce.
  
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• Ishmael Bermudez: Miami resident of Native American heritage will not sell his tiny plot for $1.8m because he believes it is sacred ground

  15-05-2015 22:12
  Ishmael Bermudez’s small wooden home in the centre of this frantic, frenetic city is an oasis of peace and restfulness. It even has its own spring.
  
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• Boston bomber trial: US attorney general calls death penalty a 'fitting punishment'

  15-05-2015 22:12
  
  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday was sentenced to death for his role in the deadly bombings at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon.
  
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• VIDEO: Geri Halliwell weds F1 boss

  15-05-2015 21:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has married Red Bull F1 team boss Christian Horner in a wedding attended by a string of celebrities from showbiz and motor racing worlds.
  
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• Isis: 'White Briton' was part of suicide attack on Iraqi city of Ramadi, unconfirmed reports say

  15-05-2015 21:54
  
  A wave of suicide attackers who paved the way for an Isis advance into the Iraqi city of Ramadi included a white Briton, according to unconfirmed reports.
  
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• War with Isis: The brides brainwashed into becoming suicide bombers

  15-05-2015 21:50
  
  It was when Isis issued a fatwa saying a wife should obey her husband in all matters, including becoming a suicide bomber, that Aysha, a 32-year-old mother of two children, decided to flee her home in Mosul. She recalls that her husband did not ask her directly to be a suicide bomber, but gradually started talking about it. “He was coming home once a week,” she told The Independent, “but recently he came home every day, and finally asked me to attend a new course showing how a Muslim woman
  
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• Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death

  15-05-2015 21:36
  
  A Boston jury has sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for his role in setting off bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
  
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• With one billion prescriptions written every year, it’s time to wean ourselves off the drugs

  15-05-2015 21:30
  
  One in four adults takes at least three different prescription drugs a week. That includes me, with five items on repeat prescription for the past three years. Am I contributing to the trend for GPs to overprescribe? Critics claim that this overuse of the prescription pad is crippling the NHS financially and could even be shortening our lives.
  
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• Twitter's #AddAProfessionRuinAMovie trend makes Hollywood films sound far less dramatic

  15-05-2015 21:29
  
  Some of Hollywood’s most iconic films have been given an unexpected twist by a Twitter trend sweeping both sides of the Atlantic.
  
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• Hunting ban ‘set to be repealed within 12 months’ with early Commons vote expected

  15-05-2015 21:19
  
  Supporters of hunting with dogs are confident of overturning the ban imposed 10 years ago, claiming that a majority of MPs in the new House of Commons will vote to lift it.
  
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• Former poet laureate and campaigner Sir Andrew Motion quits Britain for Baltimore

  15-05-2015 21:17
  
  Former poet laureate and environmental campaigner Sir Andrew Motion has announced he is to quit the UK in favour of a new life of “adventure” in the United States.
  
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• Police forces redefining what constitutes a crime as they struggle to cope with budget cuts

  15-05-2015 21:12
  
  A quiet revolution in policing is marking the end of the bobby on the beat, as constabularies find new ways to cope with cuts to funding for their services.
  
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• Grayson Perry: Doors open to Turner Prize-winning artist's House for Essex

  15-05-2015 21:04
  
  Most works of art are to be admired from a safe distance. Thanks to the Turner Prize- winning artist Grayson Perry, there is now one that art lovers can stay in.
  
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• BB King: 'The King of the Blues' who influenced generations of guitarists in a career that spanned more than 60 years

  15-05-2015 20:59
  BB King, the self-styled King of the Blues, was the great international proselytiser of a very specific musical form of which he came to be seen as the personification. For the last 45 years he was at the helm of the worldwide interest in blues, his own work almost a primer to the style.
  
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• Mahdi Hashi: Guilty of supporting al-Shabaab – but was his plea coerced?

  15-05-2015 20:57
  
  On the morning of 12 May, Mahdi Hashi was brought from a high-security cell in New York’s Manhattan Correctional Facility, where he had been held in solitary confinement since 2012, and asked to answer the charge of providing support to the Somalia terrorist group al-Shabaab.
  
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• Tony Ayala Jr: Talented boxer whose promising career was disastrously undermined by his chaotic and destructive life outside it

  15-05-2015 20:54
  There is a story Tony Ayala Jr told about the afternoon in New York in December 1982 when he had just left Madison Square Garden after signing to fight for the world title. He was going to get $700,000 for the fight with Davey Moore, planned for May 1983, at the historic location; he was in great spirits, and as he walked away from the signing, as the snow fell he heard some street musicians playing drums, standing by a barrel of fire and he went over for a look.
  
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• Tim Farron: How liberal is the man tipped to succeed Nick Clegg as leader of the Lib Dems?

  15-05-2015 20:47
  
  Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when Nick Clegg was preparing for last year’s television joust with Nigel Farage. Someone had to pretend to be the Ukip leader, so Clegg could anticipate what his opponent might say, and have his answers ready. The person who took on the role was Tim Farron.
  
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• IRS returns North Carolina man’s life savings after seizing it without charging him with a crime

  15-05-2015 20:39
  
  The Internal Revenue Service – the much-maligned US tax collection agency – fell to new lows in public opinion recently after it was revealed that it had taken the entire life savings of a North Carolina man without charging him with a crime.
  
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• Poppy Seller Felt 'Badgered' By Charities

  15-05-2015 20:37
  
  A 92-year-old poppy seller who was found dead in Avon Gorge felt "badgered" by charities asking her for donations, a friend has told Sky News. The body of Olive Cooke, one of the country's longest serving poppy sellers, was discovered last week . The mother-of-three dedicated 76 years of her life to raising money for the Royal British Legion and began selling the poppies in 1938 when she was 16. Mrs Cooke's friend Michael Earley told Sky News that although she had been unwell
  
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• Nepal aid helicopters not used

  15-05-2015 20:34
  
  Three RAF Chinook helicopters which were flown to Nepal to help with the aid effort after the country was devastated by an earthquake last month are being sent home without being used.
  
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• Jake Livermore tests positive for cocaine with Hull midfielder facing two-year ban - Daily Mail

  15-05-2015 20:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  Jake Livermore tests positive for cocaine with Hull midfielder facing two-year ban
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  Hull City midfielder Jake Livermore could face a two-year ban after testing positive for cocaine. The future of the one-time England international is in serious doubt after he was suspended by the relegation-threatened Tigers. Livermore failed a random drugs ...
  Steve Bruce reveals his shock at Jake Livermore revelationThe Times (subscription)
  Steve Bruce refuses to blame Hull's def
  
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• Woody Allen: New Amazon TV show was a 'catastrophic mistake' and an 'embarrassment'

  15-05-2015 20:28
  
  He produces a film a year without breaking a sweat, so it was reasonable for Woody Allen to assume that a foray into the world of television would be “a cinch”.
  
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• Five London police officers sacked for posting photos of members of the public online

  15-05-2015 20:22
  
  Five London police officers have been sacked for secretly photographing members of the public and sharing the images with “disrespectful” comments on social media.
  
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• Cyprus leaders restart peace talks

  15-05-2015 20:21
  
  Cyprus’s rival leaders have vowed to “work tirelessly” for a swift peace accord, a United Nations envoy said, after relaunching talks aimed at ending the Mediterranean island nation’s four decades of division.
  
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• Contest to succeed ousted mayor

  15-05-2015 20:17
  
  The race to replace a corrupt mayor in London will pit one of the people who brought him down against a former member of the mayor's political party.
  
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• Gatlin equals fourth-fastest 100m

  15-05-2015 20:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  American Justin Gatlin runs the joint-fourth quickest 100m time to dominate the Diamond League opener in Doha.
  
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• Queen meets Bahrain king at show

  15-05-2015 20:15
  
  The Queen has met the King of Bahrain at the Royal Windsor Horse Show - which he chose to go to instead of a summit with US president Barack Obama.
  
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• Apology sought for Libyans' victims

  15-05-2015 20:15
  
  Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has been urged to make a public apology to the victims of Libyan soldiers brought to the UK for training with the British Army, who carried out a string of horrific sex attacks on locals.
  
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• UK academic killed in Kabul attack

  15-05-2015 20:15
  
  An attack by the Taliban on a guest house in Kabul which left a Briton dead also claimed the life of a scientist who lectured at an English university.
  
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• Burundi coup: Confusion reigns as President Pierre Nkurunziza tries to regain control following arrest of generals

  15-05-2015 20:12
  Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza is struggling to shore up his shattered authority in the central African nation after loyalist forces rounded up the renegade generals behind a failed coup to depose him.
  
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• Celebrity tips prison officer jailed

  15-05-2015 20:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A former prison officer is jailed for 10 months for selling "salacious gossip" about celebrity inmates to two tabloid newspapers.
  
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• Libyan cadets jailed for raping man

  15-05-2015 20:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two Libyan cadets are jailed for 12 years each for raping a man in Cambridge.
  
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• CPS grants Lord Janner review

  15-05-2015 20:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A group of people who claim ex-Labour MP Lord Janner sexually abused them have been granted a review of the decision not to prosecute him, the Crown Prosecution Service says.
  
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• VIDEO: Poppy seller 'exhausted by requests

  15-05-2015 20:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A long-serving poppy seller, who was found dead at the bottom of the Avon Gorge near Bristol, felt "under pressure" from charities according to a friend, as John Kay reports.
  
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• Poppy seller 'plagued by requests'

  15-05-2015 19:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 92-year-old woman found dead in the Avon Gorge last week had been plagued by phone calls and requests for donations from charities, her friend says.
  
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• Archbishop Desmond Tutu lays charges of malicious damage against his granddaughter Ziyanda Palesa Tutu

  15-05-2015 19:56
  
  Desmond Tutu, the venerated South African archbishop, and his wife Leah have instigated a criminal prosecution against their granddaughter over what they claim is “malicious damage” to a property.
  
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• Road could cost Newport docks £30m

  15-05-2015 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The controversial M4 relief road could cost Newport docks £30 million in investment, the man in charge claims.
  
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• British Isis fighter Abu Musa al-Britani 'blows himself up in suicide bombing' in Ramadi

  15-05-2015 19:49
  
  A British Isis fighter has reportedly blown himself up in a suicide bombing during the group's offensive on a government stronghold in Iraq.
  
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• Nigel Farage challenges Ukip MP Douglas Carswell: back me as leader or quit the party

  15-05-2015 19:48
  
  Nigel Farage has launched a bitter attack against the party’s only MP, accusing him of anonymously orchestrating a plot to remove him as leader.
  
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• Hull suspend Livermore over cocaine

  15-05-2015 19:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hull midfielder Jake Livermore is suspended by the Football Association and his club after testing positive for cocaine.
  
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• Ghosts of the Paris riots: France waits to see if court clears police officers of failing to help boys whose deaths sparked 2005 unrest

  15-05-2015 19:44
  The French internal security service made an anxious telephone call. “What are the chances of riots in Clichy-sous-Bois next Monday?” Mehdi Bigaderne was asked.
  
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