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• VIDEO: Poets' Corner honour for Larkin

  17-06-2015 23:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Philip Larkin is to be honoured with a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
  
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• Terror suspect investigations rising

  17-06-2015 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The number of terror suspects being investigated by prosecutors has increased over the past four years and is still rising, the BBC learns.
  
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• Missing Family Stopped From Leaving UK In March

  17-06-2015 23:35
  
  Three missing sisters feared to have entered Syria with their nine children had attempted the same trip just months ago but were prevented from travelling. Sisters Khadija Dawood, Sugra Dawood and Zohra Dawood booked a trip from Manchester to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on 19 March. The three and their nine children were stopped at the airport at the last minute.
  
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• Duo back Labour leadership changes

  17-06-2015 23:32
  
  Labour leadership contenders Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall have said they will change the party rules in order to make it easer for MPs to get rid of a failing leader.
  
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• Jack Butland confident of successful end to long apprenticeship in England's ranks

  17-06-2015 23:30
  
  When Jack Butland goes over his summers spent with the junior England teams, he realises that it has been eight years – going back to when he was 14 – since he last had a summer like any normal teenager, when the days are long and there is nothing much to do but while away the hours.
  
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• 'Life-Changing Injuries' In Troop Carrier Crash

  17-06-2015 23:01
  
  Up to five people are said to have suffered life-changing injuries in a crash involving as many as 20 military personnel on Salisbury Plain.
  
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• Evans to hold Top Gear auditions

  17-06-2015 23:00
  
  Newly-appointed Top Gear presenter Chris Evans is to hold auditions to be a co-host on the show - including for members of the public.
  
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• Song of the summer: What will be filling the air - and the airwaves - for the next three months?

  17-06-2015 23:00
  Quick, before school's out, raise your hand if you still care about the song of the summer.
  
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• Tribute to boy murdered in cemetery

  17-06-2015 22:57
  
  The family of a 14-year-old who was murdered in a "savage and brutal attack" have paid tribute to their son who lived by the motto "you only live once".
  
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• Up To 20 Injured In Salisbury Plain Crash

  17-06-2015 22:53
  
  Up to five people are said to have suffered life-changing injuries in a crash involving as many as 20 military personnel on Salisbury Plain.
  
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• Labour leadership hustings: Liz Kendall promises 'fresh start' as candidates clash over future of the party in televised debate

  17-06-2015 22:52
  Liz Kendall appealed to Labour members to elect her as leader to give the party a “fresh start” as she declared that her main rivals Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham had “baggage” from serving as Cabinet ministers.
  
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• '20 injured' in troop carrier crash

  17-06-2015 22:42
  
  Up to 20 military personnel have been injured in a crash between three troop carriers on Salisbury Plain, police said.
  
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• Salisbury Plain crash: 21 military personnel injured in collision involving three troop carriers

  17-06-2015 22:36
  
  Up to five soldiers have suffered “life-changing injuries” after three military vehicles collided on Salisbury Plain, a few miles from Stonehenge.
  
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• Salisbury Plain crash: 20 military personnel injured in collision involving three troop carriers

  17-06-2015 22:36
  
  Up to 20 military personnel have been injured in a crash between three troop carriers on Salisbury Plain, police said.
  
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• VIDEO: Labour candidates face off in hustings

  17-06-2015 22:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The four candidates for the Labour leadership face questions from the public in the first televised debate between the would-be leaders of the opposition.
  
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• Ordnance Survey joins the digital age with an app to take walkers from A-Z

  17-06-2015 22:30
  
  It is hardly the remotest corner of the New Forest – we have walked only a mile or so from the car park – but a wicked wind whips across Whitefield Moor, an expanse of green that, Ordnance Survey (OS) map symbols confirm, is a mixture of "scrub" and "bracken, heath or rough grassland". At least the map would confirm that, but in the hands of Nick Giles, the giant sail of paper flaps and flails like a rising spinnaker.
  
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• Taron Egerton: 'I won't sex up Eddie the Eagle'

  17-06-2015 22:15
  
  When a Hollywood actor claims "I'm still so normal, I try to stay as grounded as possible", it's rarely true. Usually they say it as their helicopter waits in the back garden to take them to their personal shaman's vegan baby shower down the road. But with Taron Egerton it is true. Granted, he might not be at the Brad Pitt/George Clooney level just yet but, with one major movie already under his belt (Kingsman: The Secret Service), a starring role as Eddie the Eagle alongside Hugh Jackman and C
  
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• Pregnant 'Vile Attack' Victim's Ambulance Wait

  17-06-2015 22:14
  
  The 21-year-old - who was 32-weeks pregnant - was attacked as she made her way home in Peckham, southeast London, on Monday night. Two men wearing motorcycle helmets approached her, pushed her to the ground and then kicked and stamped on her. The London Ambulance Service has issued an apology after admitting police took the woman to hospital themselves, having waited an hour and 10 minutes for an ambulance.
  
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• New York apartment building roof is home to a country cabin complete with a yard

  17-06-2015 22:12
  
  There are many places in the US where someone could live in a cabin with front yard and a view for miles, but that place is not in New York City.
  
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• Top Gear hosts: Who will be joining Chris Evans on the BBC's flagship motoring show?

  17-06-2015 22:00
  
  So, as widely predicted, Jeremy Clarkson's appearance on last week's TFI Friday turned out to be a case of the producer-bashing Top Gear presenter anointing his successor, Chris Evans. But with James May and Richard Hammond also jamming the brakes on their Top Gear careers, who will help Evans keep the show on the road? Let's run an eye over the favourites (and one outsider).
  
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• Controversial citizenship law that bans Palestinians married to Israelis from living in Israel extended by the Knesset

  17-06-2015 21:57
  Israel's Knesset has extended a law that bans Palestinians married to Israelis from living with their spouses in Israel for another year.
  
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• VIDEO: Evans: 'We will hold Top Gear auditions'

  17-06-2015 21:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans tells the BBC's One Show that auditions will be held to find his co-hosts for Top Gear.
  
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• Burnham: Stick with Blair legacy

  17-06-2015 21:55
  
  Labour should not attempt to move away from the legacy of Tony Blair, the party's leadership frontrunner Andy Burnham has said.
  
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• Arnie takes a spin on a Boris Bike

  17-06-2015 21:55
  
  Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken time out from promoting new movie Terminator Genisys to get in some training on a Boris Bike.
  
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• Clint Dempsey shown red card for ripping up referee's notebook

  17-06-2015 21:48
  
  Clint Dempsey ripped up a referee's notebook and was shown a red card as his team lost on Tuesday night.
  
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• Pregnant victim's ambulance wait

  17-06-2015 21:47
  
  A heavily pregnant woman who lost her baby after she was repeatedly kicked in the stomach in a "sickening" assault in the street was forced to wait more than an hour for an ambulance that never arrived.
  
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• Mark Thomas interview: The comedian has written a book about his year of 100 protests

  17-06-2015 21:37
  
  He tries so hard, does comedian activist Mark Thomas. He really does.
  
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• Nest unveils new smart home alarms

  17-06-2015 21:15
  
  A new line-up of smart alarms will enable users to better control heating and smoke alarms from their mobile phone.
  
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• Met Police officer Carol Howard was bullied by her boss on account of her sex and race - so why did she find it so difficult to win her case?

  17-06-2015 21:01
  As a black – and female – firearms officer, Carol Howard stood out in the Metropolitan Police's Diplomatic Protection Group (DPG), one of only 12 women in a unit of 700. She had wanted to join the police from a young age and was incredibly proud of her job. But instead of being rewarded for her tenacity in such an environment, she was treated with suspicion, passed over for promotion and subjected to intense scrutiny.
  
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• Family hears from British sisters and nine children feared Syria-bound

  17-06-2015 21:00
  
  LONDON/ANKARA (Reuters) - One of three British sisters, thought to have headed with their nine children to join Islamic State militants, has made contact with her family in Britain and given an indication the group may be in Syria, British police said on Wednesday. British Muslims Khadija, Sugra and Zohra Dawood and their children, aged between three and 15, were reported missing six days ago. On Tuesday the husbands of two of the women appealed for their return, fearing they might have gone to
  
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• US Fed leaves interest rates at record low

  17-06-2015 20:58
  
  The Federal Reserve concluded its two-day policy meeting yesterday by resisting the temptation to raise US interest rates, a decision that was no surprise to the markets.
  
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• Man held over pregnant woman attack

  17-06-2015 20:51
  
  A heavily pregnant woman lost her baby after she was repeatedly kicked in the stomach in a "sickening" assault in the street.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: George Osborne suffers attack of the Bennites in PMQs audition

  17-06-2015 20:51
  
  Maybe he was just a little nervous before the big moment. After all, he was auditioning to be not the next Prime Minister but three, like Lord Lundy, but the next Prime Minister but none! So a hand strayed towards his necktie before grasping his glass of water instead.
  
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• New York Times apologises for article about Irish student deaths accused of 'victim-blaming'

  17-06-2015 20:45
  
  A major US newspaper has apologised over what its own ombudsman said was an “insensitive” article about the death of six Irish students in a building collapse amid a flurry of complaints that said the report had blamed the victims.
  
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• Leicester Players Sacked After 'Racist Video'

  17-06-2015 20:43
  
  Leicester City has terminated the contracts of three players who appeared in a video in which a Thai woman allegedly suffered racist abuse. The club has confirmed that the contracts of Tom Hopper, Adam Smith and James Pearson were terminated following an internal investigation. Pearson is the son of team manager Nigel Pearson, while the club is owned by the Thai father and son combination of businessmen Vichai and Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha.
  
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• Yemen crisis: As talks in Geneva remain stalled and with the prospect of peace increasingly remote, time is running out for the war-torn nation

  17-06-2015 20:38
  Abdel-Aziz Jubari’s home was no more. After the exiled Yemeni politician spent an evening in Geneva discussing “rules” for stalled peace talks, the Houthis made their demonstration of intent. The Shia rebels who have thrown Yemen into chaos packed his property with dynamite and reduced it to rubble.
  
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• Uber drivers are employees, not contractors, California agency ruled in possible landmark decision

  17-06-2015 20:34
  
  California has ruled that Uber drivers should be classified as employees instead of independent contractors in what could be a landmark case for the transportation company and other so-called on-demand companies.
  
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• Uber driver is an employee, not a contractor, California agency ruled in possible landmark decision

  17-06-2015 20:34
  
  California has ruled that an Uber driver in the state should be classified as an employee instead of an independent contractor in what could be a landmark case for the transportation company and other so-called on-demand companies.
  
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• Leicester City Sacks Players Over Racist Abuse

  17-06-2015 20:34
  
  Leicester City has terminated the contracts of three players who appeared in a video in which a Thai woman was racially abused. The club has confirmed that the contracts of Tom Hopper, Adam Smith and James Pearson were terminated following an internal investigation. Pearson is the son of team manager Nigel Pearson, while the club is owned by the Thai father and son combination of businessmen Vichai and Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha.
  
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• Souhaur Al-Abbassi arrested: Man suspected of masterminding deadly 1982 attack on Jewish restaurant in Paris is detained in Jordan

  17-06-2015 20:27
  The suspected mastermind behind the murders of six people in a restaurant in Paris’ Jewish quarter more than 30 years ago has been arrested in Jordan, French officials have revealed.
  
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• Sediment from human activity increases disease levels in the Great Barrier Reef's fish, new study finds

  17-06-2015 20:21
  
  Fish in the Great Barrier Reef are suffering from an increased rate of disease due to sediment thrown up by human activity, an Australian university study has found.
  
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• 'We should stop eating Nutella' because of global warming, says French ecology minister Ségolène Royal

  17-06-2015 20:19
  The French ecology minister has made a suggestion which is likely unthinkable for many chocolate lovers – stop eating Nutella to save the planet.
  
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• George Osborne: The amount Britain spends on welfare is 'unsustainable'

  17-06-2015 20:18
  
  George Osborne prepared the ground for £12bn of welfare cuts in his Budget next month by warning that Britain’s spending on it is “unsustainable.”
  
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• Fallon vow in Russia planes alert

  17-06-2015 20:07
  
  Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has insisted that Nato would stand by its eastern European members as RAF jets based in Estonia were scrambled to intercept Russian aircraft on three separate occasions in 24 hours as he visited the region.
  
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• Greece could be forced to lock down savers’ cash as debt crisis worsens

  17-06-2015 20:02
  
  Greece’s central bank has issued the clearest warning yet that the country is on course to default on its sovereign debt at the end of the month and crash out of the single currency, while finance ministers across Europe also confirmed they are making contingency plans for a messy ending to the crisis.
  
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• Killer Mike will run for Georgia State Representative in 2016

  17-06-2015 20:01
  
  Killer Mike plans to run for Georgia State representative in 2016.
  
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• Killer Mike may run for Georgia State Representative in 2016

  17-06-2015 20:01
  
  Killer Mike plans to run for Georgia State representative in 2016.
  
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• Hunt for Viking DNA in Normandy riles anti-racism campaigners who fear the results could contribute to increasing xenophobia in France

  17-06-2015 20:00
  It’s been more than 1,200 years since the Scandinavian longships first invaded Western Europe – but France remains scared of Vikings.
  
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• Trans-fats 'linked to memory loss'

  17-06-2015 20:00
  
  A type of fat found in processed food has been linked to memory loss in working-age men.
  
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• Three sisters who travelled to Syria with their nine children were removed from previous flight out of UK, say police

  17-06-2015 19:48
  The three British Muslim sisters who are believed to have travelled to Syria with their nine children were removed from a previous flight out of Britain for security checks, police have confirmed.
  
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