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• Travellers win damages over pub ban

  18-05-2015 23:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A court awards £24,000 in damages to a group of delegates attending an Irish Travellers conference who were barred from a north London pub.
  
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• Paedophile doctor in sentence appeal

  18-05-2015 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A paedophile doctor who was jailed for 22 years for abusing young cancer patients is appealing against the length of his sentence.
  
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• Disaster PC drove ambulance to A&E

  18-05-2015 23:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A police officer at Hillsborough has told how he drove a 14-year-old boy to hospital in an ambulance because the vehicle's driver was busy with another patient.
  
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• Queen visits Chelsea Flower Show

  18-05-2015 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Queen and several other members of her family visit the gardens on display at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
  
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• Prince Charles to meet Gerry Adams

  18-05-2015 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prince Charles is to meet Gerry Adams in Galway on Tuesday, in what will be a historic meeting for the British Royal Family and Sinn Féin.
  
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• VIDEO: Complex hunt to convict killer nurse

  18-05-2015 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Greater Manchester Police say the investigation which led to Victorino Chua's arrest and conviction was one of the the biggest and most complex it has ever carried out.
  
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• Saudi Arabia hiring eight new executioners as part of 'unprecedented spike' in killings

  18-05-2015 23:23
  
  Saudi Arabia is advertising for eight new executioners, in a recruitment drive which leading human rights charity Amnesty International has warned is symptomatic of an “unprecedented spike” of judicial killings in the country.
  
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• Game of Thrones, season 5 episode 6, Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken, TV review: Revenge is going to be very sweet for one of the Starks

  18-05-2015 23:04
  Well now, Game of Thrones has never pretended to be a video of puppies going down a slide but that was brutal. Of all the despicable things that Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) has done, his rape of new bride Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) is the easily the worst. ‘I am Sansa Stark of Winterfell,’ she had told Ramsay’s bit on the side. ‘This is my home. You do not frighten me.’ How Sansa’s courage will fare now she’s hitched to Westeros’s most boggle-eyed loon will be interesting to see
  
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• Benefits Street, Channel 4 - TV review: Will a bit of old-fashioned regimental discipline put Cameron onto the right path in life?

  18-05-2015 23:00
  Now this is TV that Prince Harry could really get on board with. Among the drug-addled, unemployed, ne’er-do-well men of Kingston Road (this year’s ‘Benefits Street’, in Stockton-on-Tees) we were offered a glimmer of hope in the shape of 12-year-old Cameron and the Sea Cadets (and a baby hedgehog in a broken plant pot, which I assume was supposed to be some kind of visual metaphor for the whole thing). Will a bit of old-fashioned regimental discipline put Cameron onto the right path in
  
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• Briton Killed In Taliban Suicide Attack Named

  18-05-2015 22:41
  
  A British man killed when a car bomb exploded near the main airport in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has been named as Michael Hampshire, from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.
  
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• Stones man takes a different view

  18-05-2015 22:33
  
  Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has described Mick Jagger's backside as "one of the finest views in the country."
  
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• Award-winning Root credits Moores

  18-05-2015 22:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Joe Root credits sacked coach Peter Moores with the form that resulted in him being named England's player of the year.
  
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• Cooper urges Labour business rethink

  18-05-2015 22:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour leadership contender Yvette Cooper says her party alienated business with rhetoric that appeared to "knock down" wealth creators.
  
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• Race crash 'freak accident' says mum

  18-05-2015 22:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The mother of a woman who has been seriously injured while she was watching the North West 200 at the weekend has said it was a 'freak accident'.
  
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• British man killed in Kabul named

  18-05-2015 22:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A British national killed in a car bomb attack in Kabul on Sunday is named as Michael Hampshire from Huddersfield.
  
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• Al Sharpton's daughter hikes up mountain after suing New York City for $5m compensation for 'severely injured' ankle

  18-05-2015 22:08
  Questions are being asked about a $5m lawsuit brought by a daughter of activist Al Sharpton for a damaged ankle after she posted a photograph of herself having hiked to the top of a mountain in Bali.
  
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• EU backs naval plan on migrants

  18-05-2015 21:58
  
  European Union members have agreed to draw up a joint naval force action plan to tackle the Mediterranean refugee crisis.
  
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• British man killed by Taliban in Kabul named as Michael Hampshire

  18-05-2015 21:47
  
  A Briton killed in a terrorist car bomb attack in Afghanistan yesterday has been named as Michael Hampshire, from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.
  
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• Labour Leadership: Dan Jarvis Backs Andy Burnham

  18-05-2015 21:37
  
  Labour MP Dan Jarvis has announced he is backing frontrunner Andy Burnham in his bid for the party's leadership.
  
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• Stage fright for Pacino the singer

  18-05-2015 21:32
  
  Al Pacino has admitted he felt such terrible such stage fright singing in front of thousands in his new film Danny Collins, he forgot the words to the song.
  
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• Queen admires Harry charity garden

  18-05-2015 21:32
  
  The Queen congratulated Prince Harry on his work for an African charity as she toured a garden inspired by the organisation at the Chelsea Flower Show.
  
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• Briton killed in Kabul blast named

  18-05-2015 21:32
  
  A Briton killed in a terrorist car bomb attack in Afghanistan yesterday has been named as Michael Hampshire, from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.
  
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• Mother takes her own life after being branded 'baby killer' over case of her murdered daughter

  18-05-2015 21:25
  
  A young mother who was cleared of being involved in the killing of her 16-week-old daughter took her own life after being hounded by her local community, who would shout insults at her such as “baby killer” in the street, despite her acquittal, an inquest has heard.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Who would dare deprive Dennis Skinner of his seat?

  18-05-2015 21:16
  
  The timeless ceremony of the re-election of the Speaker was nearly disrupted by MPs squabbling over front row seats. Scottish Nationalist MPs were determined that the SNP’s new status as the third-biggest party in the Commons would be recognised in the seating arrangements. Normally, MPs can reserve seats by placing what is known as a “prayer card” in a slot in the bench – but this was the one day in five years when, by a quirk, that rule did not apply. The only way to bag a seat was to
  
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• US military members who report sexual assault often face retaliation, report finds

  18-05-2015 21:13
  
  Members of the US military who report sexual assault often face retaliation that goes unpunished, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
  
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• Prince Charles to attend emotional meeting in Ireland at spot where great-uncle was killed by massive IRA bomb

  18-05-2015 21:07
  
  Earl Mountbatten of Burma, great-grandson of Queen Victoria, enjoyed messing about on boats. On a sunny morning in late August 1979, he and some family members, some old, some young, together with a local boy, were putting out to sea on the 30ft Shadow V.
  
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• British voters should quiz would-be politicians in US-style 'caucuses', says former strategist to David Cameron

  18-05-2015 21:05
  British voters should quiz would-be politicians in American-style “caucuses” before they choose their councillors and MPs, according to Steve Hilton,  the former chief strategist to David Cameron.
  
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• Labour leadership: Ed Miliband allies accuse union of trying to stitch up leader appointment

  18-05-2015 21:05
  
  Allies of Ed Miliband accused Britain’s biggest trade union of trying to keep modernisers off the ballot paper in the Labour leadership election amid fears that it could be limited to a two-horse race between Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper.
  
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• Ukraine crisis: Separatist rebel commander Aleksey Mozgovoi says he is 'ready for more deaths' - and warns ceasefire with Kiev won't hold

  18-05-2015 20:55
  Scarred by decades of political corruption and many months of war, the rebel-held town of Alchevsk in eastern Ukraine has few attractions. Its biggest draw is undoubtedly Commander Aleksey Mozgovoi, the enigmatic leader of the rebel “Ghost” battalion, who has taken up residence in the former security services building on Lenin Street.
  
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• Stepping Hill nurse Victorino Chua guilty: How an ‘evil angel’ avoided suspicions to begin a hospital killing spree

  18-05-2015 20:55
  
  To his patients and colleagues, Victorino Chua might once have seemed the caring figure they all needed: dedicated, enjoying his work, worthy of the “angel” cliché so often attached to nurses.
  
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• Algerian woman banned from university exam over length of skirt supported by people sharing selfies of their legs online

  18-05-2015 20:47
  Women and men in Algeria are sharing photos of their bare legs online, in a show of solidarity with a university student who was banned for an exam for wearing "short skirt".
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: First day in House of Commons marked by a jostle for seats and deference to a Speaker the Tories couldn’t budge

  18-05-2015 20:46
  Outwardly a happy, even euphoric, first day in the House of Commons. Amiable speeches by the great and good from David Cameron down. John Bercow elected unanimously as Speaker amid acclaim. Warm welcome for the new MPs in this transformed new Parliament.
  
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• Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood': The video teaches us that she is not someone who you want to have as an enemy

  18-05-2015 20:43
  Don't mess with Taylor Swift.That's the take-home message from Swift's much-awaited music video for her latest single, "Bad Blood", which aired at the top of the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night. For days, Swift has been tweeting mysterious, scary-looking clues about the video to her 57 million followers, and internet anticipation reached a fever pitch over the weekend.
  
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• Isis seizes Ramadi: After Iraq’s worst defeat in the war with the Islamic militants, battle now is to defend the road to Baghdad

  18-05-2015 20:36
  Shia militiamen will now attempt to block the road to Baghdad after Isis fighters defeated elite units of the Iraqi armed forces and captured the city of Ramadi, 70 miles west of the capital.
  
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• Waco shooting: Which gangs are involved in the deadly Texas shootout?

  18-05-2015 20:30
  
  A gang shootout left nine dead and 18 others rushed to the hospital with gunshot and stab wounds at a restaurant in Waco, Texas on Sunday.
  
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• Girl sold for sex at dogging sites

  18-05-2015 20:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A paedophile who repeatedly raped a girl from the age of 12 and sold her for sex at dogging sites is jailed.
  
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• Google backed over anti-Muslim film

  18-05-2015 20:20
  
  YouTube should not have been forced to take down an anti-Muslim film that sparked violence in the Middle East and death threats to actors, a federal appeals court has ruled.
  
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• Heather Hironimus: Mother fighting to stop child's circumcision appears in court in Florida

  18-05-2015 20:18
  
  The long-running court battle of a Florida woman who went on the run with her son to avoid his circumcision reached court on Monday.
  
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• Aviation boss who started at BOAC and went on to make Emirates one of the world's most successful airlines

  18-05-2015 20:12
  
  Maurice Flanagan was Emirates Airline's founding chief executive who built the company into the world's largest international airline. A veteran British Airways executive, he led a 10-man team that started Emirates in 1985 with $10m and two rented planes. He retired in 2013 as executive vice chairman.
  
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• Claudy Criquielion: Cyclist whose many wins were overshadowed by a race he famously lost and the ensuing legal fall-out

  18-05-2015 20:07
  In the long and distinguished career of cycling great Claudy Criquielion the most memorable image of the Belgian is not one of victory. Rather it is that of "Crique", as he was known, dragging his bike across the finishing line, arm raised in protest, seconds after losing the 1988 World Championships in what remains one of his sport's most enduring controversies.
  
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• Texas biker gangs shooting: Waco Police Department receives death threats after intervening in deadly battle

  18-05-2015 20:07
  
  When the maelstrom of bullets, knife blades and knuckle-duster punches had finally quieted at the Twin Peaks bar in Waco, Texas, the injured were segregated and taken to separate hospitals, “for their own safety”, officials said, lest the violence were to re-erupt on the wards.
  
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• Duke's ex-aide 'abused young girl'

  18-05-2015 20:05
  
  A woman has told a court that when she was a young girl she was sexually abused by a former personal assistant to the Duke of Edinburgh.
  
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• The Dowager Marchioness of Reading: Society beauty who defied convention to fly planes and race cars, and outraged many with her views on hooligans

  18-05-2015 20:03
  Margot Duke, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, was an unconventional and feisty woman who defied the usual customs and habits of the aristocracy. She was among the first women in Britain to obtain a pilot's licence, took to car rallying in the 1950s and delighted in travelling at speed, in the air or on land.
  
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• Stepping Hill nurse Victorino Chua guilty: Worker who poisoned his own patients may have been employed without proper qualifications

  18-05-2015 20:02
  A nurse who described himself as an "angel turned evil" will be sentenced to life imprisonment after he was convicted of a murderous spate of poisonings at a hospital where he may have gained employment without proper qualifications.
  
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• Harman Singh praised for helping treat 6-year-old boy in serious car accident by cradling his head with turban

  18-05-2015 19:53
  A man in New Zealand has been hailed as a hero after he helped to treat an injured 5-year-old by taking off his turban and laying it beneath the child’s bleeding head.
  
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• 'Valdes perfect De Gea replacement'

  18-05-2015 19:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester United understudy Victor Valdes would be the "perfect" replacement for David De Gea, says Raimond van der Gouw.
  
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• Blue singer Lee Ryan becomes final member of boyband to declare themselves bankrupt

  18-05-2015 19:48
  
  “Step in my house, you find that your stuff has gone / But in reality to whom does the stuff belong?” mused the boy band Blue on their most famous song, 2001’s “All Rise”. Fourteen years later, it appears that it belongs to the bailiffs.
  
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• Deepcut family 'close to justice'

  18-05-2015 19:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The father of a soldier found dead at Deepcut Barracks says his family are "close to gaining justice" ahead of a pre-inquest review into her death.
  
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• Child sex ring victim ‘was passed between 60 men’ and believed abuse was 'normal'

  18-05-2015 19:35
  
  Members of an alleged child sex ring abused two schoolgirls, taking advantage of their vulnerability on a “massive scale” to the extent that they believed what was happening to them was “normal”, a court has heard.
  
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• Spanish gang tried to force man to sell his kidney for £4,000

  18-05-2015 19:31
  
  Spanish police say they have arrested five people suspected of trying to force a Moroccan immigrant to sell one of his kidneys for 6,000 euro (£4,300).
  
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