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• O'Neill and Keane involved in crash

  09-06-2015 23:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Republic of Ireland management team, including manager Martin O'Neill and his assistant Roy Keane, have been involved in a car crash in Dublin.
  
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• One Direction to meet Alton Towers amputee Leah Washington

  09-06-2015 23:43
  
  One Direction have offered to meet a teenager whose leg was amputated due to injuries she suffered during a crash on a rollercoaster at Alton Towers.
  
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• England 'close to perfect' in NZ win

  09-06-2015 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Captain Eoin Morgan says England were "close to perfect" in their 210-run win over New Zealand at Edgbaston.
  
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• Kanye West: 11 most memorable moments during the rapper's surprise party

  09-06-2015 23:25
  
  Famed rapper and producer Kanye West turned 38 on Monday and his wife Kim Kardashian-West threw a surprise party for him at Staples Center.
  
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• England offer glimpse of new dawn

  09-06-2015 23:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England's stunning win over New Zealand was the perfect response to put their World Cup nightmare behind them, says Jonathan Agnew.
  
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• Vincent Musetto: Man who wrote 'Headless Body in Topless Bar' headline has died

  09-06-2015 23:12
  
  Vincent Musetto wrote many articles and headlines during his career at the roaring, soaring New York Post.
  
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• Birthday, Sky Arts - TV review: Stephen Mangan is tremendous but it all feels a tiny bit flimsy

  09-06-2015 23:10
  
  You have to admire writer Joe Penhall’s chutzpah. ‘What if…’ he probably thought, ‘What if I take the plot of the underrated Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy Junior – in which the Austrian protein supplement becomes pregnant – and present it like it was an episode of the BBC’s underrated NHS comedy Getting On?’ The result is an often hilarious hour of killer one liners, featuring tremendous performances (particularly from the knocked-up Stephen Mangan), that explores far more than
  
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• MPs support EU referendum plan

  09-06-2015 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MPs overwhelmingly back a bill requiring a referendum is held on the UK's membership of the EU by 544 votes to 53.
  
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• SAS training deaths inquest: Lance Corporal Edward Maher 'found dead holding water bottle'

  09-06-2015 22:57
  
  An Army reservist who took part in an SAS test march during a heatwave was found dead while clutching a bottle of water and a chocolate bar, an inquest has heard.
  
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• British GSK investigator freed from Chinese jail

  09-06-2015 22:36
  
  A British corporate investigator who was working for the drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline in China has been released from jail in Shanghai.
  
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• Dannemore prison break: Female employee may have helped inmate escape because he is ‘very well-endowed'

  09-06-2015 22:18
  
  Joyce Mitchell has been identified as the female employee who may have helped two convicted killers escape from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York.
  
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• Dannemora prison break: Female employee may have helped inmate escape because he is ‘very well-endowed'

  09-06-2015 22:18
  
  Joyce Mitchell has been identified as the female employee who may have helped two convicted killers escape from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York.
  
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• Missing Mother And Son Are 'On The Run'

  09-06-2015 22:11
  
  Rebecca Minnock, 35, left her home in Highbridge, Somerset, with her only child, three-year-old Ethan, two weeks ago. In a highly unusual step, Judge Stephen Wildblood QC has relaxed the reporting restrictions in the case to help reunite Ethan with his father, Roger Williams. And Miss Minnock's brother Marvin Shaw, sister Limmie Shaw and mother Louise Minnock have all appeared before the judge at Bristol Crown Court to answer questions about their whereabouts.
  
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• Judge says 'cultural context' should be considered when investigating allegations of parental child abuse

  09-06-2015 22:07
  
  A High Court judge has enraged child protection experts after saying that “cultural context” should be taken into account when investigating allegations of parental child abuse.
  
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• England v New Zealand: first ODI – as it happened

  09-06-2015 22:06
  
  England recorded 408, their highest ever one-day score, to achieve their biggest ever winning margin, 210 runs, to begin their new era with an epochal performance 9.03pm BST Anyway, that’s about us. Thanks all for your company and comments, thanks England and New Zealand for yet another memorable match, and thanks in advance for the several more memorable matches to come over the next few weeks. What a day! Enjoy your grinning!8.59pm BST Jos Buttler is man of the match, obviously, the absurd d
  
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• Nadine Dorries faces challenge after general election smear campaign allegations

  09-06-2015 22:00
  
  Nadine Dorries is facing an extraordinary challenge to her parliamentary future after a rival candidate lodged an election petition claiming she had accused him of being a stalker and a “dangerous criminal”.
  
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• Bare-faced cheek: Naked rambler makes legal history with nude court appearance

  09-06-2015 21:59
  
  Naked rambler Stephen Gough has made legal history after appearing in court nude via video link from Winchester Prison. Gough, 56, refused to wear clothes when he left Winchester Prison upon his release for a previous breach of an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo), which bans him from appearing nude in public. The appeal against his conviction was thrown out by Lady Justice Rafferty and two other judges.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Andy Burnham jeered by union members at hustings

  09-06-2015 21:31
  
  Andy Burnham’s position as the union choice to be the next Labour leader has taken a knock after he was jeered and booed by delegates from the third biggest union.
  
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• PM faces Brexit campaign pressure

  09-06-2015 21:27
  
  David Cameron is facing growing demands to allow ministers to campaign for an EU exit as legislation for an historic referendum cleared its first parliamentary hurdle.
  
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• Tamir Rice: Activists ask judge to order arrest of officers who shot and killed 12-year-old boy

  09-06-2015 21:25
  
  Activists in Cleveland have  tried a rarely used legal manoeuvre to force the arrest of two police officers involved in the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
  
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• What is TTIP? Everything you need to know about the 'super sexy' trade acronym - video

  09-06-2015 21:25
  
  TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: ever heard of it? Do you know what it means? If the answer is no, don't worry. TTIP (not to be confused with TPP) is a series of trade negotiations being carried out between the EU and US. The bilateral trade agreement deals with reducing regulatory barriers to big business trade: food safety law, environmental legislation, banking regulations and the sovereign powers of individual nations ... told you it was sexy Continue reading...
  
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• The Fappening: Feds raid Chicago man’s house for allegedly leaking massive celebrity photo archive

  09-06-2015 21:24
  
  Recently unsealed documents reveal that FBI agents have raided a Chicago man’s apartment in conjunction with last summer’s “The Fappening” mass leak of nude celebrity photos, Gawker reported.
  
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• The Fappening: Feds raid Chicago man’s apartment for allegedly leaking massive celebrity photo archive

  09-06-2015 21:24
  
  Recently unsealed documents reveal that FBI agents have raided a Chicago man’s apartment in conjunction with last summer’s “The Fappening” mass leak of nude celebrity photos, Gawker reported.
  
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• EU referendum: Eurosceptic Tories accuse David Cameron of loading the rules to stay in union

  09-06-2015 21:22
  
  David Cameron has been accused by his own MPs of trying to load the rules of the European Union referendum to produce a vote in favour of staying in.
  
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• VIDEO: Rise in building on greenbelt land

  09-06-2015 21:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The number of new homes being approved on greenbelt land in England has increased five-fold in the last five years, according to figures obtained by the BBC.
  
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• White House press room evacuated following bomb threat

  09-06-2015 21:15
  
  A secret service agent dramatically interrupted press conference after threat was called in to Washington DC police, and all-clear was sounded half an hour laterThe White House press room was evacuated midway through a daily briefing for reporters on Tuesday after secret service agents took the unusual step of interrupting the press secretary, Josh Earnest, to warn of a bomb threat.
  “We’ll come back,” said Earnest after an agent dramatically announced on live television: “We need to evac
  
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• MPs back Cameron's EU referendum plans but debate highlights risks

  09-06-2015 21:14
  
  By Kylie MacLellan and William James LONDON (Reuters) - Members of Parliament on Tuesday backed Prime Minister David Cameron's plan for a referendum on Britain's EU membership, but a heated debate highlighted passions that could split his Conservative Party and re-open Scotland's bid for independence. Cameron, seeking to put an end to a decades-old rift within his party over Britain's place in Europe, has promised to negotiate a new settlement with Brussels and hold a referen
  
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• France 1-0 England | Women’s World Cup Group F match report

  09-06-2015 21:14
  
  • France 1-0 England
  • Relive the action with Nick Ames’ MBM reportFamiliarity can be wonderfully reassuring but it can also provoke disappointment. On a day when the wet, windy weather proved rather too quintessentially English for the liking of Mark Sampson’s players, France, too, proved all too typical.England have not beaten their neighbours from across the Channel since 1974 and the slenderness of the scoreline disguises the superiority of a French side now clear favourites to top G
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: House of Commons experiences a flashback to the Nineties

  09-06-2015 21:13
  
  Retro day in the Commons! Suddenly, we were back in the era of Oasis, grunge, Ab Fab, Trainspotting – and John Major’s prolonged torment by the Europhobes. We had some of the original cast, too: John Redwood, William Cash, Peter Lilley, one of the three Cabinet ministers Major called “bastards”, were all present and correct. Well, present anyway.
  
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• RAF shadows Russian Baltic planes

  09-06-2015 21:09
  
  RAF Typhoons have intercepted and shadowed two Russian military aircraft over the Baltic Sea, it has been disclosed.
  
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• Drug mother jailed over baby death

  09-06-2015 21:09
  
  A drug-addict mother whose baby drowned in the bath while she was out buying crack cocaine just hours after being visited by social services has been jailed for six years, a court has heard.
  
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• Anthrax sent from US to UK lab

  09-06-2015 21:09
  
  The United States military sent a sample of potentially live anthrax to a lab in the UK.
  
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• 1D Send Alton Towers Victim Video Message

  09-06-2015 21:09
  
  One Direction have sent a video message to a teenage victim of the Alton Towers crash who had a leg amputated. It comes after fans started an online campaign to get the band to visit Leah Washington, who  lost her leg  above the knee after her carriage on The Smiler ride smashed into an empty stationary one. "The band have filmed a video message for Leah that she has received," a spokesman for One Direction told Sky News.
  
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• Teen 'was being blackmailed online'

  09-06-2015 21:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police are investigating whether a schoolboy believed to have taken his own life after being tricked into posting pictures online was being blackmailed.
  
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• Steve Bell on Boris Johnson and the TTIP – cartoon

  09-06-2015 20:59
  
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• England v France: Women's World Cup 2015 – live!

  09-06-2015 20:58
  
  A first-half goal from Eugénie Le Sommer means England lost their opening Women’s World Cup match in a tough, tight match played in uncompromising conditions 7.58pm BST That’s right, isn’t it? Labatts? Anyway, thanks for your company and your emails – always highly valued. See you next time and do keep tuning in for our Women’s World Cup coverage. Goodnight! 7.57pm BST By the way, I’ve received far more rants about Toronto – and links to rants about Toronto – than I know what to
  
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• UK lab among recipients of live anthrax shipment from US defence department

  09-06-2015 20:57
  
  Health and Safety Executive refuses to name the laboratory, which destroyed the deadly pathogens soon after they arrived from the US in 2007A laboratory in the UK is among a growing list of those accidentally sent samples of live anthrax by the US department of defence in 2007, officials have confirmed.The UK lab that received the anthrax is run by a private company, which destroyed the deadly pathogens soon after they arrived from the US without ever realising they were live rather than inactiv
  
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• Fifa reform: a manifesto to drag football out of the Sepp Blatter era | Owen Gibson

  09-06-2015 20:54
  
  Amid a turbulent time for football’s governing body, meaningful change is essential to create a global organisation with a true love for the game at its heartIt is since Sepp Blatter shocked the world by promising to step down and a fortnight since the crisis gripping world football was precipitated by the arrest of seven Fifa executives in dawn raids on the Baur au Lac hotel on the shores of Lake Zurich. As the shockwaves continue to reverberate, football’s biggest beasts have gone to groun
  
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• Migrants travelling illegally to the UK were treated like 'freight' by smugglers, court hears

  09-06-2015 20:51
  
  An international smuggling syndicate that treated human beings like “freight” masterminded the illegal transportation of 35 Afghan Sikhs into UK that led to one of them dying in a shipping container, a court has heard.
  
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• Wikipedia: account at centre of row 'not linked' to Grant Shapps

  09-06-2015 20:48
  
  Online encyclopedia’s arbitration committee says site administrator had ‘no significant evidence’ to link account under name Contribsx to Tory MPA Wikipedia account that was suspended on suspicions that it was being used by the former Conservative party co-chairman Grant Shapps or “someone acting on his behalf” was unblocked following a vote by members of the site’s “high court”.The online encyclopedia’s arbitration committee, comprised of volunteers elected to consider controv
  
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• White House press room evacuated by Secret Service on same day the Capitol received a bomb threat

  09-06-2015 20:47
  
  Secret Service agents cleared the White House press room in the middle of the afternoon press briefing shortly after police at the US Capitol received a bomb threat and evacuated two buildings at the Capitol.
  
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• Chris Evans returns: Uncontrollable impulse versus indestructible talent

  09-06-2015 20:47
  
  Since his days as a "Tarzanogram" in his native Warrington, Chris Evans – "Christoff" to his friends – has been brilliant at what he does, and even better at messing up whatever he's achieved. But now, at the age of 49, he's quietly one of Britain's most talented broadcasters, when once he was obnoxiously so.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: 1987 was a 'gorgeous' year for politics – and tabloid gossip

  09-06-2015 20:44
  
  George Galloway was asked on LBC about his nickname ‘Gorgeous George’. He claimed that it attached itself to him because he was “quite handsome then: it was 40 years ago.”
  
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• European Union Referendum Bill passes first hurdle in the Commons

  09-06-2015 20:44
  
  Flagship legislation for a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU has cleared its first Commons hurdle amid rows over campaign spending and what reforms will be pursued.
  
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• Safety posters from the golden age of accident prevention: Have we lost the art of communication at a cost of countless lives?

  09-06-2015 20:44
  For Paul Rennie it was, as he puts it, his "Tutankhamun moment". A lifelong passion for posters had produced a growing personal collection, a shop in Folkestone and – eventually – a career as a graphic design academic at Central St Martins College of Art & Design. Soon, perhaps inspired by a family tragedy, he embarked on a research project that focused on accident-prevention posters, particularly those dating to the Second World War.
  
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• Sisters fight to save ancient African language from extinction

  09-06-2015 20:39
  
  Hanna Koper, 95, and her two siblings thought to be last remaining speakers of N|uu and are working with linguists to preserve oldest surviving San language A 95-year-old woman is helping a last ditch effort to preserve an ancient African language before it goes extinct.Hanna Koper and her two sisters are thought to be the last remaining speakers of the San language N|uu, rated as critically endangered by Unesco. The San, also known as “bushmen”, were the first hunter-gatherers in southern A
  
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• At least ten women a day travel from Ireland to the UK to have an abortion

  09-06-2015 20:39
  
  At least ten women and girls travel to Britain from Ireland every day to terminate pregnancies because of the country’s draconian abortion laws, new figures show.
  
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• BT Sport's European football coverage: key questions answered

  09-06-2015 20:36
  
  Customers will pay £5 per month for full coverage of Champions and Europa League matches unless they sign up for pay-TV bundle. How will it work?Having paid £897m for the rights to all Champions League and Europa League matches over three years, BT will show all 351 games live on a new channel called BT Sport Europe. An interactive service will allow viewers to switch between matches, while a new programme will showcase all the goals.Continue reading...
  
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• Texas pool party video tells African Americans they are intruders in suburbia

  09-06-2015 20:34
  
  As a father tells his children they can’t afford to act like their white friends, black middle class families find that racial profiling follows them out of the inner city Related: Texas pool party incident raises questions about wealth and race For some black middle-class families in America, the video to surface out of McKinney, Texas, over the weekend was confirmation of something they have long been aware of: that regardless of income and postal address, as black bodies moving around in wh
  
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• Queen leads tributes to Gurkhas

  09-06-2015 20:32
  
  The Queen tonight led moving celebrations marking two centuries of Gurkha service with the British Armed Forces, as senior royals and military veterans alike bowed their heads in memory of those who died in the Nepalese earthquake.
  
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