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• Dannemora prison break search extends to Vermont: Escape has become longest prison break in New York history

  10-06-2015 23:59
  
  Five days after they escaped from a maximum security prison in upstate New York, officials have revealed they still have little idea where they may be.
  
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• Dannemora prison break: Escape has become longest prison break in New York history

  10-06-2015 23:59
  
  Five days after they escaped from a maximum security prison in upstate New York, officials have revealed they still have little idea where they may be.
  
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• First forced marriage prosecution: One conviction is good, but there are thousands more cases to work through

  10-06-2015 23:55
  
  This is a huge landmark because we’ve been campaigning for forced marriage to be a criminal offence for almost 10 years. We lost the battle in 2005 when the Labour Party gave us civil legislation. One of the reasons was they didn’t want to offend communities, which we found appalling. I met David Cameron before he became Prime Minister, and the Coalition made forced marriage a crime.
  
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• Naked climber 'scared and upset'

  10-06-2015 23:45
  
  A British woman arrested in Malaysia for allegedly posing naked on top of a sacred mountain is "scared" and "very upset", her father has said.
  
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• Chancellor Ready To Sell Off RBS At Loss

  10-06-2015 23:43
  
  The Government is to sell its majority stake in RBS, which was rescued during the financial meltdown with £45.5bn of public money. Chancellor George Osborne said sales of the taxpayers' 79% stake in the bank will begin in the coming months, and may take "some years" because of the size of the holding. "It's the right thing to do for British businesses and taxpayers," he said at his annual Mansion House speech to business leaders in London.
  
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• Teen Stabbed To Death On London Street

  10-06-2015 23:27
  
  Detectives are investigating the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old boy in north London.
  
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• Market Report: Government wastes no time in banking its Royal Mail profit

  10-06-2015 23:26
  
  The Government wasted no time in banking its Royal Mail profit. Just a few days after unveiling the blueprint for a sale of the country’s 30 per cent stake, George Osborne has chosen to offload half of that now, leaving it with 15 per cent of the company, up 5p to 516.5p.
  
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• Missing mother: I felt trapped

  10-06-2015 23:25
  
  The mother at the centre of a custody battle who is on the run with her three-year-old son has broken her silence to explain why the pair are in hiding.
  
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• Sainsbury’s and Iceland left deflated by supermarket price wars

  10-06-2015 23:21
  
  Two of Britain’s biggest high street grocers have revealed the ravages of food deflation and ongoing price wars with the discounters Aldi and Lidl.
  
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• Amanda Knox to be tried for slander by Italian court

  10-06-2015 23:17
  
  Months after Italy’s highest court acquitted Amanda Knox of the murder of Meredith Kercher, the writer is facing a new trial after being charged with slandering police.
  
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• Andy Burnham: We can't take Scottish voters for granted if Labour are to regain power

  10-06-2015 23:04
  
  Labour can no longer afford to take Scottish voters for granted if it is to regain power in Britain, Andy Burnham will declare.
  
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• Missing Mum: I'm Going To Be In Huge Trouble

  10-06-2015 23:02
  
  The mother at the centre of a child custody battle has broken her silence to explain why she has fled with her three-year-old son. Rebecca Minnock disappeared with her son Ethan more than two weeks ago after a judge ruled that the boy should live with his father. But Miss Minnock says both she and Ethan are safe and well, and "he is very happy".
  
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• Jobs At Risk As Whistl Ends Letter Deliveries

  10-06-2015 22:58
  
  Postal giant Whistl has decided to end its letter delivery service in the UK, in a move which puts at risk up to 1,800 jobs. The firm suspended the deliveries last month after losing funding for the business venture, but has now decided to shut it down altogether.
  
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• Mark Carney tells City of London: 'The age of irresponsibility is over'

  10-06-2015 22:57
  
  Mark Carney warned the City of London that the “age of irresponsibility is over” as he unveiled a host of new sanctions and procedures designed to cleanse financial markets that have been tarnished by a tidal wave of rate rigging scandals.
  
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• Stewart seals friendship with kiss

  10-06-2015 22:57
  
  Long-time friends Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart were reunited at the premiere of Mr Holmes.
  
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• Manmade: The UK's first men-only craft fair opens this week - and it's not just for hipsters

  10-06-2015 22:45
  
  It has all the makings of a classic Portlandia sketch, the television comedy that sends up the twee activities and liberal concerns of urban-dwelling hipsters. This Friday and Saturday will see the inaugural Manmade, billed as an event to "celebrate men who make". It's basically a crafts show but a MANLY crafts show because, well, only men will be exhibiting.
  
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• Carney: 'Age Of Irresponsibility' Is Over

  10-06-2015 22:42
  
  Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is addressing the City, warning the "age of irresponsibility" is over.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Classy Harriet Harman puts David Cameron on back foot

  10-06-2015 22:35
  
  Something odd happened yesterday. The stand-in leader of a comprehensively defeated opposition punctured the euphoria of a Prime Minister who recently led his party to an overall majority for the first time in 23 years.
  
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• Govt Starts Selling 15% Stake In Royal Mail

  10-06-2015 22:34
  
  The Government has started selling half of its remaining 30% stake in Royal Mail. Around 150 million shares - 15% of the privatised company - will be placed with institutional investors. Chancellor George Osborne announced it would give up to a further 1% tranche in the company to employees.
  
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• Osborne seeks safeguards against EU's 'ever closer union' mantra

  10-06-2015 22:31
  
  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Britain wants a guarantee from the European Union that it will not be penalised for remaining outside the euro zone, Chancellor George Osborne said on Wednesday, setting out one key demand in London's renegotiation with the bloc. Britain's membership of the EU will be put to a referendum before the end of 2017 once Prime Minister David Cameron and Osborne, his most senior political ally, have renegotiated the country's ties to the bloc. Osborne
  
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• Britain to start selling shares in RBS as Osborne swallows loss

  10-06-2015 22:29
  
  By Matt Scuffham LONDON, (Reuters) - Britain will start selling its 32 billion-pound stake in Royal Bank of Scotland in the coming months, Chancellor George Osborne said on Wednesday, giving up on his previous intention to only sell the shares for a profit. Osborne said he had received independent advice from the Bank of England and from investment bank Rothschild that it was in the interests of taxpayers to start selling the shares in the bank which was rescued at the height of the financial cr
  
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• Mansion House speech: Government to sell stake in Royal Mail

  10-06-2015 22:24
  
  Chancellor George Osborne tonight announced that the Government had begun the sale of its remaining stake in Royal Mail and that it would give up to a further 1 per cent tranche in the company to employees.
  
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• Man who raped and imprisoned woman to entrap her into marriage becomes first person prosecuted under new forced marriage law

  10-06-2015 22:21
  A businessman who raped and imprisoned a woman to entrap her into marriage has become the first person prosecuted under the new forced marriage law – a year after it was first introduced.
  
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• Mansion House speech: George Osborne suggests RBS will be sold off

  10-06-2015 22:18
  
  Seven years after the global financial crash, the Government is to begin selling off its majority stake in the bailed out Royal Bank of Scotland, Chancellor George Osborne has announced.
  
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• Mansion House speech: George Osborne says RBS will be sold off at a loss to big City investors

  10-06-2015 22:18
  
  George Osborne fired the starting gun on the sale of the government’s stake in RBS to big City investors at a £14bn potential loss to taxpayers.
  
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• Chancellor Announces Plans To Sell RBS

  10-06-2015 22:14
  
  Chancellor George Osborne is tonight outlining plans to sell the taxpayers' stake in RBS. The Government bailed out the bank during the 2008 financial meltdown - propping it up with £45.5bn of public money. During his annual Mansion House speech in the City, Mr Osborne will say the "decision point" has been reached, and sales of the taxpayers' 79% stake in RBS will begin in the coming months.
  
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• Porter honoured at jazz awards

  10-06-2015 22:13
  American singer Gregory Porter has been named international artist of the year at the second annual Jazz FM awards.
  
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• EU referendum: Labour to join forces with rebel Tories to prevent Government campaigning for Yes vote

  10-06-2015 22:07
  
  Labour is preparing to join with Tory Eurosceptic MPs to inflict an embarrassing defeat on the Government over its EU Referendum Bill.
  
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• Jobs At Risk As Whistl Ends Home Deliveries

  10-06-2015 22:06
  
  Postal giant Whistl has decided to end its letter delivery service in the UK, in a move which puts at risk up to 1,800 jobs. The firm suspended the deliveries last month after losing funding for the business venture, but has now decided to shut it down altogether.
  
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• Government to sell further 15 percent of Royal Mail, award staff shares

  10-06-2015 22:05
  
  The British government on Wednesday said it would sell half of its remaining stake in Royal Mail , leaving it with about 15 percent of the postal service that was wholly state owned until 2013. Chancellor George Osborne said last week he would sell the government's holding, which is worth about 1.5 billion pounds, as part of a renewed push in his drive to wipe out the budget deficit. In a speech later on Wednesday, Osborne said the government would also award up to 1 percent more of Royal M
  
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• Blood proteins 'may show dementia'

  10-06-2015 22:00
  
  Proteins in blood may help detect if a person is suffering from dementia a decade before they experience troubling symptoms, scientists have said.
  
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• Government to sell Royal Mail stake

  10-06-2015 22:00
  
  Chancellor George Osborne tonight announced that the Government had begun the sale of its remaining stake in Royal Mail and that it would give up to a further 1% tranche in the company to employees.
  
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• Government to sell off RBS stake

  10-06-2015 22:00
  
  Seven years after the global financial crash, the Government is to begin selling off its majority stake in the bailed out Royal Bank of Scotland, Chancellor George Osborne has announced.
  
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• Giant memorial will honour thousands of workers who perished at Ravenscraig steel mill

  10-06-2015 22:00
  
  As an industrial landscape, it was unparalleled – the biggest hot-strip steel mill in Europe; a living, breathing Dante's Inferno. And for the thousands who lost their lives in the British Steel industry over the last century, it became their Great War.
  
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• Mediterranean migrant crisis: The Libyan human trafficker making $50,000 a week

  10-06-2015 21:50
  
  For a young man of 23 from an impoverished background, Zouhar would seem to have done well. He has bought land, a house for his family, and a new car for himself. This, however, is a rather modest reflection of his earnings, which are no less than $200,000 (£129,000) a month.
  
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• Mediterranean migrant crisis: Meet the Libyan human trafficker making $50,000 a week

  10-06-2015 21:50
  
  For a young man of 23 from an impoverished background, Zouhar would seem to have done well. He has bought land, a house for his family, and a new car for himself. This, however, is a rather modest reflection of his earnings, which are no less than $200,000 (£129,000) a month.
  
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• Scott Walker expected to remove Wisconsin’s 48-hour waiting period for gun purchases

  10-06-2015 21:45
  
  Republicans have passed a bill eliminating Wisconsin's 48-hour waiting period on gun purchases and Governor Scott Walker is expected to sign the bill.
  
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• Vladimir Putin meets Italian Prime Minister amid effort to 'weaken' EU efforts against Russia

  10-06-2015 21:43
  
  The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has met with the Pope and the Italian Prime Minister as part of a diplomatic offensive in the last major Western European country that he can conceivably call an ally.
  
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• De Menezes Family Take Fight To European Court

  10-06-2015 21:33
  
  No one has been held to account over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot by police in London, a European court has been told. The 27-year-old Brazilian was killed by Met Police marksmen on an underground train at Stockwell station after he was mistaken for a suicide bomber almost 10 years ago. Relatives of Mr de Menezes have taken his case to the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that individual police officers should be held responsible for his death.
  
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• It's time for Israel to talk to Hamas, says former Mossad head

  10-06-2015 21:33
  
  The former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, Efraim Halevy, has called for “direct dialogue” with his country’s sworn enemy Hamas, to encourage it to adopt a less hostile and more pragmatic approach toward the Jewish state.
  
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• VIDEO: Back in UK after fighting IS in Syria

  10-06-2015 21:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Harry has been shot and seen friends die, but he says he did the right thing in joining Kurds fighting the jihadist group.
  
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• Torso found in Peterborough: Vytautas Jokubauskas charged with murder of Ramute Butkiene

  10-06-2015 21:28
  
  A man has been charged with the murder of a woman whose headless torso was discovered inside a suitcase in Peterborough.
  
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• Murray boost for cancer campaign

  10-06-2015 21:23
  
  Andy Murray and his wife Kim hope to raise cash for cancer sufferers with the sale of a "priceless" tennis ball.
  
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• Protein supplements are generating huge profits - but do they really help you slim?

  10-06-2015 21:15
  
  Kelly, a 19-year-old trainee nail technician from Kent, started skipping lunch for a vanilla shake about a year ago. She has what's called a Slender Blend from Protein World, the company whose "beach body ready" adverts caused such controversy a few months ago. Sometimes she finds the 150-calorie drink too much so she halves the quantity to just a 200ml cup. Earlier this year she started taking Protein World pills alongside the shake to give her a little caffeine boost in the afternoon. Since s
  
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• Why Uber drivers’ loo breaks are going out the window - literally

  10-06-2015 21:14
  
  The streets of London are no longer paved with gold but littered with bottles of discarded urine – and Uber cab drivers are getting the blame.
  
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• Fourth arrest over missing mother

  10-06-2015 21:11
  
  A fourth person will appear in court in the search for a missing mother and her three-year-old son who are on the run after a judge ruled the boy should live with his father.
  
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• McDonald’s hires Robert Gibbs, former Obama press secretary, as communications chief

  10-06-2015 21:08
  
  As the press secretary for a presidential administration supporting healthy eating and worker rights, Robert Gibbs at first glance appears to be an odd choice for McDonald’s to hire as its new communications chief.
  
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• Chimps 'can smile like humans'

  10-06-2015 21:00
  
  Chimpanzees have the same types of smiles as humans when laughing and do not even need to make a sound to be understood, according to a new study.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Ashcroft makes monumental £100,000 bid for the Edstone

  10-06-2015 20:42
  
  Though the advisers are talking and the hacks are asking no one has yet established who thought up the idea of the Edstone.
  
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• Group of drugs used to treat heartburn and indigestion raise risk of heart attacks, says study

  10-06-2015 20:33
  A group of drugs commonly used to treat heartburn and indigestion can raise the risk of heart attacks, new research has indicated.
  
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