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• Sam Wallace: Uefa must tell Blatter – we can boycott the World Cup and we are not afraid to do so

  01-06-2015 23:57
  As a former long-serving detective in his country’s police force, it is tempting to think of Denmark’s representative at Uefa as a man given to wearing knitted sweaters and taking his time over things. This week, however, Allan Hansen is proposing a very radical solution to world football’s Sepp Blatter problem.
  
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• VIDEO: Johnson praises PM's 'schmoozathon'

  01-06-2015 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In his first Commons speech since returning as an MP, Boris Johnson "reminds" David Cameron that he should be prepared to campaign for the UK to leave the European Union, if talks on renegotiating the terms of membership are unsuccessful.
  
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• Boris: UK must be ready to leave EU

  01-06-2015 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK must be ready to walk away from the EU if sufficient reform is not achieved, Boris Johnson warns in his first Commons speech since returning as an MP.
  
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• Man charged with boxer's murder

  01-06-2015 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 32-year-old man has been charged with the murder of professional boxer Eamonn Magee.
  
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• EU leaders stage late-night mini-summit to try to defuse Greek crisis

  01-06-2015 23:32
  
  Outcome unclear after ECB and IMF chiefs join Merkel and Hollande to seek joint position on negotiations over Greece bailoutThe German chancellor, Angela Merkel, moved to try to defuse Greece’s financial and European crisis late on Monday, converting a routine long-scheduled meeting with French and EU leaders into a mini-summit on Greece.Merkel met France’s president, François Hollande, and the president of the European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, for what was billed as a session
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner just broke the Twitter record for the fastest account to reach 1 million followers

  01-06-2015 23:17
  
  Caitlyn Jenner has broken the world record for the fastest growing Twitter account.
  
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• Liverpool close on deal for Milner

  01-06-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Liverpool are set to hold talks with Manchester City's James Milner this week as they close in on the midfielder's signature.
  
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• Gale-force start to British summer

  01-06-2015 23:00
  
  Gales roared across the country from the Atlantic today in a disappointing start to the great British summer.
  
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• Turkish President Erdogan threatens editor over photos 'showing weapons being sent to Syria'

  01-06-2015 22:56
  
  Istanbul's prosecutor's office is investigating a newspaper editor, after the publication he heads published images of truckloads of ammunition being transported from Turkey to Syria.
  
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• Snoopers stumped as Rand Paul makes stand against US government collection of phone 'metadata'

  01-06-2015 22:53
  
  Almost 14 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks that prompted its creation, the US National Security Agency’s controversial phone “metadata” collection programme ground to a halt at 12.01 yesterday morning, after Republican Senator Rand Paul defied colleagues to block a vote on its extension.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Boris Johnson irons out his maiden speech

  01-06-2015 22:48
  
  It had been billed as his “maiden speech”. But since he’s been an MP before and no one, not even Boris, can lose their virginity twice, it could not be so described.
  
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• Millions see explosive Corrie exit

  01-06-2015 22:30
  
  Millions of Coronation Street viewers tuned in to see Amy James-Kelly bow out of the soap as the latest victim of last week's explosion.
  
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• Tracy Morgan: Comedian fights back tears as he gives first interview since accident that killed his friend

  01-06-2015 22:29
  
  The comedian Tracy Morgan struggled to control his emotions as he gave his first interview since he was injured in an accident with a truck one year ago that killed
  
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• Tracy Morgan: Comedian fights back tears as he gives first interview since accident that killed friend

  01-06-2015 22:29
  
  The comedian Tracy Morgan struggled to control his emotions as he gave his first interview since he was injured in an accident with a truck one year ago that killed
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner receives outpouring of support after her Vanity Fair cover is released

  01-06-2015 22:28
  
  Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, made her public debut on the cover of Vanity Fair and is receiving support.
  
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• Dinosaur vertebra discovered in Yorkshire revealed to be 176 million years old

  01-06-2015 22:24
  
  Scientists have revealed that a prehistoric 15kg vertebra has been found to belong to the oldest sauropod [long-necked, long-tailed, tiny-headed] dinosaur ever discovered in the UK.
  
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• Two-year-old boy removed from parents' care after concerns over family's 'smoky house'

  01-06-2015 22:16
  
  A two-year-old boy has been taken from his parents’ care after a health visitor highlighted concerns about the level of cigarette smoke at his home.
  
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• Missouri police stop black drivers 75% more often than white drivers

  01-06-2015 22:12
  
  Police in Missouri are 75 per cent more likely to stop a black driver than they are a white driver, the largest disparity since the state began collecting such data 15 years ago.
  
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• Fifa corruption: World Cup boycott is the only way to reform Fifa, says senior Uefa official

  01-06-2015 22:06
  
  The senior Uefa official behind a European plan to force out Fifa president Sepp Blatter by boycotting the 2018 World Cup finals and setting up a rival tournament says it is the only way to reform football’s scandal-plagued governing body.
  
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• Sepp Blatter 'Must Go': Government Backs FA

  01-06-2015 22:01
  
  Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has said the credibility of FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been "utterly destroyed" by the World Cup bribery scandal. He told the House of Commons that the Government stood behind the Football Association's efforts to end the culture of "kickbacks and corruption" in the game. He said: "FIFA's voting system is designed to support the incumbent and it returned a predictable result, but there is no doubt that what remained of S
  
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• Hammond backs PM over Ukraine talks

  01-06-2015 21:57
  
  David Cameron sat out of talks aimed at resolving the crisis in Ukraine because Russia would have refused to engage if Britain was involved, according to the Foreign Secretary.
  
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• Oliver Letwin tasked with being David Cameron's eyes and ears in Whitehall

  01-06-2015 21:55
  
  The Prime Minister has moved to ensure that Downing Street’s writ runs across Whitehall by appointing a key ally to sit on every Cabinet sub-committee across Government. 
  
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• EU referendum: David Cameron will use vote to 'dock' Britain to Europe, says EC president

  01-06-2015 21:49
  
  David Cameron wants to use the upcoming EU referendum to “dock” Britain permanently to Europe, the EC president Jean-Claude Juncker has claimed, in remarks that will be met with dismay in Downing Street.
  
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• Motor neurone disease charity's poster criticised for its 'threatening tone'

  01-06-2015 21:42
  
  An advertising campaign intended to raise awareness of motor neurone disease appeared to have backfired after drawing a series of angry complaints that it was effectively blaming sufferers for their illness.
  
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• Zip World Caverns: The underground zip lining course boosting tourism in North Wales

  01-06-2015 21:35
  
  On the day I visit, the black slate of the Blaenau Ffestiniog mine contrasts sharply with a cloudless blue sky. It makes for an idyllic rural scene. And then, with a piercing whistle, a flash of red whizzes past overhead – a person suspended from a zipwire. 
  
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• Game of Thrones, season 5, episode 8 - review: Winter arrives with an old-fashioned belter of an episode

  01-06-2015 21:21
  Winter. Has. Come. And it’s every bit as nippy as old Ned Stark said it would be. The iciest of ages was ushered in with a sleeves rolled up, old-fashioned belter of an episode that culminated in a 20 minute Wilding vs White Walker/Zombie Hoard royal rumble which was even more spectacular than series four’s Battle of Castle Black. Daenerys, mate, we’re going to need those dragons.
  
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• Norman Lamb: Lib Dem leadership contender on why the party needs to be reborn as a 'political start-up'

  01-06-2015 21:10
  
  The Liberal Democrat brand is so damaged that the party needs to be reborn as a “political start-up” to reconnect with millions of former voters who share its fundamental values, a contender to succeed Nick Clegg argues.
  
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• Virginia family says pet dog 'baked to death' after being dropped off at Petco for grooming

  01-06-2015 21:05
  
  A Virginia family has blamed a major national pet food and care company for the death of its golden retriever – claiming it was “baked to death” in a drying cage.
  
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• Experts hail oldest dinosaur find

  01-06-2015 21:00
  
  Experts say they have identified Britain's oldest sauropod dinosaur from a fossil bone discovered on the North Yorkshire coast.
  
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• 'Fewer species' under new research

  01-06-2015 21:00
  
  Planet Earth could be home to millions fewer species than previously thought, new research has claimed.
  
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• Oxford Union passes motion calling itself 'institutionally racist'

  01-06-2015 20:59
  
  The Oxford Union has passed a motion stating that it is institutionally racist.
  
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• Mother of police Taser victim describes seeing the 'fear in his face' before officer pulled trigger

  01-06-2015 20:52
  
  The mother of a man who died after being shot with a police Taser saw the “fear in his face” moments before the officer pulled the trigger, an inquest heard.
  
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• Kazzie Portie: A police officer who told a student his parents were killed surprised him at his graduation ceremony

  01-06-2015 20:48
  Kazzie Portie’s parents, Riley and Emily, were killed by a drunk driver on May 24.
  
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• UK must lance EU boil - Hammond

  01-06-2015 20:35
  
  Britain must step up its role in the European Union if it secures a successful renegotiation package and shape the bloc into an "image that we find attractive", Philip Hammond has said.
  
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• O'Dwyer shocked by 'dog double' row

  01-06-2015 20:35
  
  Britain's Got Talent champion Jules O'Dwyer has said she is "shocked and surprised" by the public's reaction to her revelation that she used a stunt double dog for her winning sketch.
  
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• US preparing to face down China in the South China Sea - while locals expect 'bonanza of riches' from return of American sailors

  01-06-2015 20:35
  American flags fly fore and aft on the US missile cruiser Shiloh as it docks at a pier across a narrow waterway from decrepit, decaying buildings of an abandoned US naval base at Subic Bay. The dock was once a bulwark of American power in the South China Sea after US forces seized the base from the Spanish in 1899.
  
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• Student trying to raise money for homeless man so he can undergo open heart surgery

  01-06-2015 20:28
  
  A student is attempting to help a homeless man raise enough money to secure a home so he can undergo major heart surgery.
  
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• TSA failed 95% of tests attempting to smuggle mock explosives and banned weapons in airports

  01-06-2015 20:22
  
  The Transportation Security Administration failed to discover mock explosives and banned weapons with alarming regularity, missing the threats 95 per cent of the time, according to an investigation of US airport security.
  
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• The big NHS question: Why are there so few new GPs when so many of our keenest brains want to study medicine?

  01-06-2015 20:18
  As last week's Queen's Speech made plain, David Cameron has the National Health Service firmly in his sights in the wake of his election victory. He's been busy, since 7 May, wandering round hospitals with his tie tucked into his shirt, talking up his plans for a seven-day-a-week NHS, with consultants on hand at weekends for routine appointments, and the promise of 5,000 new GPs to be recruited.
  
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• Fifa corruption: Executive Committee's longest serving member says he will quit Fifa 'if this atmosphere prevails'

  01-06-2015 20:14
  
  The longest serving member of Fifa’s Executive Committee has said he will quit unless the organisation shows itself capable of substantial reform.
  
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• England can chase 455 to win - Root

  01-06-2015 20:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Batsman Joe Root says England can do "something special" by chasing 455 to beat New Zealand in the second Test at Headingley.
  
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• 'Tax free childcare': Families with an income of up to £300,000 to benefit from tax relief scheme

  01-06-2015 20:12
  
  Two-earner families with a joint income of up to £300,000 a year will benefit from a government plan to offer tax relief on childcare worth up to £2,000 a year.
  
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• Government will push benefits of staying in EU if happy with reform - Hammond

  01-06-2015 20:04
  
  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - The British government will be "selling hard" the advantages of staying in the European Union in a national referendum if it can secure a good enough package of reforms, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday. Prime Minister David Cameron, who won a second term in office last month, has promised to reform Britain's EU ties ahead of a referendum on continuing membership by the end of 2017.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Liz Kendall set to enter race after winning the backing of 35 MPs

  01-06-2015 19:55
  
  Liz Kendall can enter the Labour leadership race after winning the required backing of 35 MPs, her campaign team has said.
  
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• Trader accused of rigging Libor had agreed to plead guilty, court hears

  01-06-2015 19:52
  
  By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Hayes, an ex-trader on trial in London for allegedly conspiring to rig benchmark interest rates, at first agreed to plead guilty but later changed his mind, a prosecutor told the court on Monday. From his office in Tokyo, he repeatedly urged a more junior colleague in London to speak to one of the submitters, Burak Celtic.
  
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• British victim of clerical sex abuse chosen to help root out paedophilia in the Catholic Church may face legal action from Vatican adviser

  01-06-2015 19:52
  A British clerical sex abuse victim chosen by Pope Francis to help root out paedophilia in the Catholic Church has been threatened with legal action by one of the pontiff’s closest advisers for suggesting he helped conceal child sex abuse in his native Australia.
  
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• PM sets up policy task forces

  01-06-2015 19:51
  
  David Cameron is setting up 10 cross-government "implementation task forces" in a bid to push through key policies.
  
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• Call for action over hate crime

  01-06-2015 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Polish ambassador calls for action to be taken on hate crime in Northern Ireland, following an upsurge in racially motivated attacks.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: From Russia, with no love for Nick Clegg

  01-06-2015 19:47
  
  Russia’s decision to ban Nick Clegg has set the Daily Mail speculating that the cause might be that, 97 years ago, a woman fired a shot at Lenin that was intended to kill him.
  
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• 'No options ruled out' over Fifa

  01-06-2015 19:43
  
  The Government and the Football Association (FA) have agreed not to rule out any options in the battle against alleged corruption in Fifa, the Culture Secretary has said.
  
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