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• Heysel disaster 30th anniversary: Liverpool have seen too much tragedy to forget fateful day in Belgium

  28-05-2015 23:52
  It is 30 years since they reached the Heysel stadium and draped such banners as Mamma sono qui (Mum, I’m here) over a crush barrier in the naive assumption that the build-up to the European Cup final between their team, Juventus, and Liverpool might be something their mothers could watch, proud that their boys had completed the 10-hour road trip north. “Uefa and the Belgian FA wish you a hearty welcome in the Heysel Stadium,” read the message on the primitive electronic stadium screen whe
  
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• Playboy model April Summers speaks out about becoming a victim of a voyeuristic sex crime

  28-05-2015 23:34
  
  A model has bravely spoken out about being secretly filmed taking part in a sex act in an attempt to protect young models from the same fate.
  
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• Man And Woman Arrested Over Terror Claims

  28-05-2015 23:20
  
  A man and a woman from Berkshire have been arrested on suspicion of preparing for acts of terrorism in the UK. His home in Reading and hers in Wokingham are being searched following the arrests by officers from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), assisted by officers from the South East CTU. A statement issued West Midlands Polie said the pair were being taken to a police station in the region for questioning.
  
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• Two held in counter-terror raids

  28-05-2015 23:06
  
  A 24-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of preparing for acts of terrorism in the UK.
  
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• Britain protected 'state-sponsored serial killers' on both sides during Irish Troubles, BBC documentary claims

  28-05-2015 23:04
  
  The security forces protected “state sponsored serial killers” on both sides of Northern Ireland’s paramilitary groups who are responsible for some of the most notorious unsolved murders of The Troubles, according to a BBC Panorama documentary.
  
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• San Andreas 3D, film review: Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's disaster flick has clear fault lines

  28-05-2015 23:00
  
  Hollywood disaster movies have always been exercises in contradiction. They unleash forces of death and destruction that emphasise the utter fragility and powerlessness of their protagonists in the face of the abyss. At the same time, such films also celebrate human resourcefulness. Somehow, in amid the devastation, they find time to sketch in love affairs and stories of family strife.
  
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• No return to Corrie for Jimi Mistry

  28-05-2015 22:51
  
  Coronation Street star Jimi Mistry has revealed it had always been the plan for his character to be killed off.
  
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• Google 'polishes' Android system

  28-05-2015 22:05
  
  Google has unveiled how it plans to introduce virtual reality to the classroom and to YouTube this year, as well as the much rumoured new photo-sharing service Google Photos.
  
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• Fifa corruption: The 161-page dossier that exposes the organisation's dark heart

  28-05-2015 22:03
  
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• Fifa corruption: At last Sepp Blatter spoke - in the slipperiest of dialects

  28-05-2015 21:57
  
  Madonna is playing the Hallenstadion later this year. If she follows the Sepp Blatter formula the crowd will love it. Stick to the greatest hits, and whatever you do, don’t try any new material.
  
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• Fifa corruption: How Sepp Blatter buys support by investing Fifa’s millions in Africa

  28-05-2015 21:37
  
  Fifa’s mission, which it shares with every sports governing body, is to expand the game it administers. That is hard to achieve in a country incapable of watching its own national team on television.
  
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• Mediterranean migrant crisis: Libya 'will repel any military action from the EU' to stop people smugglers, claims Tripoli PM Khalifa al-Ghawi

  28-05-2015 21:35
  Libya is ready to combat and repel any military action the European Union is planning in its attempts to stop the smugglers using the North African state as a base to carry migrants across the Mediterranean, the Prime Minister of the Tripoli government has warned.
  
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• Mediterranean migrant crisis: 'If Europe thinks bombing boats will stop smuggling, it will not. We will defend ourselves,' says Tripoli PM

  28-05-2015 21:34
  The defeat of Muammar Gaddafi and his regime after four decades of often brutal rule could not have been achieved without Western air support largely orchestrated by David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy.
  
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• University of Oxford nominates first female vice-chancellor in its 800-year history

  28-05-2015 21:33
  
  The University of Oxford has nominated its first female vice-chancellor in its 800-year history. Professor Louise Richardson, who is currently principal at St Andrews University, is set to take up the role at the start of next year, subject to the approval of the institution’s legislative body.
  
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• Universities should ‘ditch degree ratings for point scores’, says advisory group

  28-05-2015 21:30
  
  Universities should scrap degree classifications and replace them with a US-style point score, according to a government advisory group.
  
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• Parents of six-year-old who beat leukaemia plan to climb Ben Nevis for cancer charity

  28-05-2015 21:30
  
  The first question a parent asks when told their child has cancer is: "What is the survival rate?" What you really mean, but can't quite bring yourself to say, is: "Is my child going to die?"
  
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• EU referendum: David Cameron receives frosty welcome in Paris amid push for concessions

  28-05-2015 21:22
  
  David Cameron received a politely frosty welcome to Paris as he began his quest for concessions from EU leaders before the in-out referendum on British membership.
  
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• UK: Motorists to be prosecuted for snapping A14 teddy bear lorry crash

  28-05-2015 21:17
  
  A lorry carrying seven-and-a-half tonnes of teddy bears was involved in a major collision with three other HGVs on Thursday (28 May). Cambridgeshire Police said 15 motorists will be prosecuted after they were caught snapping photos of the crash site while driving. "Using a mobile phone while driving is incredibly dangerous.
  
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• Royal Academy of Arts' Tim Marlow: Bronze statue of lovers embracing at St Pancras station a lesson in 'not how to do' public art

  28-05-2015 21:15
  A 30ft bronze statue of lovers embracing at St Pancras International railway station is a lesson in “how not to do” public art, a senior Royal Academy of Arts figure has claimed.
  
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• British Girls In Syria 'No Longer Together'

  28-05-2015 21:07
  
  Three schoolgirls from London who crossed into Syria in February are no longer together, their families' solicitors have revealed. Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana left their east London homes for Syria, two months after a fellow pupil is thought to have left to join IS there. It comes after a senior female commander from Islamic State told Sky News she has no doubt the trio were groomed by a team of social media experts in Raqqa.
  
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• Missing Syria schoolgirls: Families receive phone calls from girls to say they are safe - for now

  28-05-2015 21:05
  
  Three runaway British girls who are feared to have joined Isis in Syria have made contact with their families, according to reports.
  
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• Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles: How the author foretold the Californian water crisis

  28-05-2015 21:00
  
  The wise man, as Biblical lore has it, built his house on the rock, his foolish compatriot on the sand – guidance that mankind has ignored for millennia. In the late 19th century, the pioneers, or developers, or "boosters" who founded and promoted Los Angeles as a new "instant city" were among those to lay substantial foundations in what was essentially sand. Not on a desert, exactly – that myth's been debunked – but perilously close to one, and on the shore of an undrinkable ocean.
  
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• Leaders of ultra-Orthodox Jewish group in London threaten to ban women from driving

  28-05-2015 20:56
  
  Outside the gates of Machzikei Hadass school in Stamford Hill, the heart of London’s orthodox Jewish community, a steady stream of cars arrives as children file out. This could be the school run at any primary in the country but for one difference: all the drivers collecting pupils are men.
  
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• So lots of us change our voices for tradesmen - Wossatallabaht?

  28-05-2015 20:50
  
  Good morning and welcome to Lesson One in the “Middle-class Person’s Guide to Speaking to Proletarian Tradesmen”. Now, class, say after me: “Mate, you must be ’avin’ a faaahhkin’ giraffe. Five grand for them patio doors? Tha’s to-uh-ly unacceptable.”
  
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• I’ve seen the future of the media – it's crass, sexist and bigger than Beckham

  28-05-2015 20:44
  
  Who is the most famous person in the world you’ve never heard of? All right, I suppose a few of you will know who Dan Bilzerian is, but the majority of cultured, sophisticated readers of this newspaper will, I’m sure, be living their lives in blissful ignorance of a young, bearded American who has 9.4 million followers on Instagram.
  
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• Google Cardboard on iPhone: cheap VR headset comes to Apple's and other bigger phones

  28-05-2015 20:35
  
  Google is releasing its Cardboard virtual reality headset for iPhone, as part of its push towards VR.
  
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• Cash-free politics: Parties’ need for money is a constant source of friction and potential corruption - state funding is the answer

  28-05-2015 20:33
  It has been an unwritten rule of British politics that the party in power does not use the levers of government to cripple the Opposition financially. This is not a helpful convention, because it means that the highly unsatisfactory system under which political parties raise money hardly ever changes.
  
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• Woman left housebound after having legs amputated receives compensation following blunder that led to benefit money being withheld

  28-05-2015 20:26
  A woman who was left housebound following the amputation of both legs has received £27,000 in compensation after watchdogs found financial support was withheld due to an administrative battle between a council and the NHS.
  
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• Woman left housebound after having legs amputated receives compensation after blunder led to benefit money being withheld

  28-05-2015 20:26
  A woman who was left housebound following the amputation of both legs has received £27,000 in compensation after watchdogs found financial support was withheld due to an administrative battle between a council and the NHS.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Yvette Cooper puts the boot in with style

  28-05-2015 20:13
  
  You can’t help thinking annual party leadership contests would do wonders for parliamentary debate. Never less than competent, but sometimes less than inspiring, Yvette Cooper was suddenly a woman galvanised.
  
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• EU status quo not good enough: PM

  28-05-2015 20:13
  
  David Cameron has warned the EU must be "flexible and imaginative enough" to respond to demands for reform, as he visited Paris on his whirlwind diplomatic tour.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Ben Harris-Quinney - a voice the Tories would rather not hear

  28-05-2015 20:13
  
  Ben Harris-Quinney, a voice of the young, hard right of the Conservatives, has been recorded in Russia sounding off about gay people. He is heard accusing what he calls the “LGBT lobby” of wanting children as young as seven to be given sex lessons that include the “promotion of a homosexual lifestyle”.
  
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• Hopes raised for treatment of severe amnesia after scientists retrieve lost memory using light

  28-05-2015 20:07
  
  Lost memories have been retrieved with the help of light in a study that could further the understanding and treatment of patients with severe amnesia following injury or disease.
  
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• Hope rises for treatment into severe amnesia after scientists retrieve lost memory using light

  28-05-2015 20:07
  
  Lost memories have been retrieved with the help of light in a study that could further the understanding and treatment of patients with severe amnesia following injury or disease.
  
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• Google unveils 'polished' Android

  28-05-2015 20:05
  
  Google has given the world its first look at the next version of Android, which includes improved mobile payments, but is yet to reveal the name.
  
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• Big Brother contestant Aaron Frew removed from house for 'inappropriate behaviour' after flashing contestants

  28-05-2015 20:01
  
  Big Brother has kicked out contestant Aaron Frew from the house for "inappropriate behaviour", after he flashed fellow contestants.
  
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• Tories banked more donation money than all other political parties combined, new figures say

  28-05-2015 20:00
  
  The Conservatives banked more money from donations than all the other political parties put together, the latest Electoral Commission figures showed as David Cameron was accused of mounting a partisan attack on Labour’s main source of income.
  
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• Sicilian votes worth every penne: Claims that local election support was traded for bags of pasta adds to Italy's political corruption storm

  28-05-2015 19:56
  Claims that votes in Sicily were traded wholesale for bags of pasta, or for €5 (£3.60) each, have added to a building political storm over corruption, as Italians prepare to vote on Sunday in local elections.
  
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• Gina Rinehart: Australian mining magnate loses control of multi-billion-dollar family trust

  28-05-2015 19:48
  
  Mining magnate Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, has lost a long-running court battle for control of a multi-billion-dollar family trust.
  
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• Band Aid studio’s bitter tears over neighbours’ basement plans

  28-05-2015 19:47
  
  The last thing you need when you have a full orchestra trying to lay down the latest Bond theme tune is the sound of builders hammering and drilling next door.
  
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• #AskPotus: President Obama is answering questions on Twitter and the responses are pretty god damn amazing

  28-05-2015 19:44
  
  President Barack Obama is participating in a online Q&A session regarding climate change today.
  
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• #AskPotus: President Obama is answering Climate Change questions on Twitter

  28-05-2015 19:44
  
  President Barack Obama is participating in a online Q&A session regarding climate change today.
  
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• #AskPotus: President Obama answered Climate Change questions on Twitter and the outcome was brilliant

  28-05-2015 19:44
  
  President Barack Obama participated in an online Q&A session regarding climate change today.
  
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• #AskPotus: President Obama answered Climate Change questions on Twitter

  28-05-2015 19:44
  
  President Barack Obama participated in an online Q&A session regarding climate change today.
  
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• Will Nebraska's decision to abolish the death penalty herald a broader movement towards ending executions in America?

  28-05-2015 19:42
  Nebraskans don’t normally see themselves as political outliers. A strongly rural state sat squarely on the Great Plains – the University of Nebraska football squad is called the Cornhuskers for a reason – the last time it voted Democrat in a presidential election was in 1964. Now they have reason to reconsider.
  
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• Death Crash Teen In 142mph Snapchat Boast

  28-05-2015 19:40
  
  Addil Haroon took a photo of his Audi A6's speedometer while racing at double the speed limit on the M62 in November last year. In the early hours of the next day, the 19-year-old drove the hire car through a red light in Bury Road, Rochdale, at more than 80mph. The 25-year-old driver, Joseph Brown-Lartey, died instantly from multiple injuries.
  
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• Fifa corruption arrests: Football teams across Europe may pull out of 2018 World Cup if Sepp Blatter re-elected as president

  28-05-2015 19:37
  International football teams across Europe may pull out of the 2018 World Cup in Russia if Sepp Blatter is re-elected as the president of Fifa, the head of Uefa has warned, after allegations of “rampant” corruption going back decades failed to persuade the sport’s most powerful man to resign.
  
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• Princess shrugs off eye ailment

  28-05-2015 19:33
  
  Princess Michael of Kent attended a Buckingham Palace garden party with her eye protected with a patch - but did not let it spoil her enjoyment of the occasion.
  
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• Brillo: Google announces version of Android to power houses

  28-05-2015 19:29
  
  Google has built a special version of Android that will allow houses to talk to each other.
  
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