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• Smiler crash victim's leg amputated

  26-06-2015 23:57
  
  A victim of the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash has had her right leg amputated below the knee, her lawyer said tonight.
  
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• Two boys injured in street stabbing

  26-06-2015 23:47
  
  A boy of 12 was fighting for his life tonight and a 13-year-old boy was seriously injured following a suspected street knife attack.
  
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• Facebook ordered by Dutch court to help revenge porn victim identify video uploader

  26-06-2015 23:32
  
  Facebook has been ordered to help a victim of revenge porn find out who published a video of her on the social network without permission.
  
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• Queen's Guard pulls rifle on tourist - The Times (subscription)

  26-06-2015 23:20 via thetimes.co.uk
  
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  A tourist who pushed his luck with a palace guardsman found himself on the wrong side of the soldier's bayonet-tipped rifle. The visitor was filmed pacing behind a member of the Scots Guards on patrol outside Windsor Castle. One man can be heard saying ...
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• Can the Vulcan bring back the vroom?

  26-06-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Can Aston Martin's £1.5m car rev up its fortunes?
  
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• New York prison escape: Fugitive Richard Mann shot and killed while police continue hunt for David Sweat

  26-06-2015 22:40
  
  The hunt for two escaped prisoners took a new and dramatic twist on Friday night when it was reported that one of the fugitives had been shot and killed by police while the second man was still being pursued.
  
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• New York prison escape: Fugitive Richard Mann shot and injured while police continue hunt for David Sweat

  26-06-2015 22:40
  
  The hunt for two escaped prisoners took a new twist on Friday night when it was reported that one of the fugitives had been shot and seriously injured by police while the second man was still being pursued.
  
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• Knightsbridge car parking space on sale for more than the price of luxury 'supercar'

  26-06-2015 22:19
  
  In the latest in a series of outrageous property prices, it looks like the Knightsbridge parking scene is hotting up- with one spot looking to knock you back nearly £400,000.
  
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• Britain's hostility to lie detector tests 'misguided and irrational', says leading psychologist

  26-06-2015 22:06
  
  Widespread use of polygraph tests should be adopted to better protect children and other victims from sex abusers, a leading forensic psychiatrist claims.
  
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• Pride in London: NHS to come under pressure to provide 'miracle' HIV prevention pill

  26-06-2015 21:53
  
  The NHS will come under renewed pressure to provide what is being described as a “miracle” HIV prevention, as thousands of people gather for one the world’s biggest LGBT Pride festivals.
  
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• Barack Obama leads emotional rendition of Amazing Grace at funeral of slain pastor Clementa Pinckney

  26-06-2015 21:46
  
  Barack Obama led mourners in an emotional rendition of the hymn Amazing Grace as he concluded his eulogy to the slain pastor Clementa Pinckney.
  
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• Tunisia Hotel Attack: Man who "took a bullet" for his fiancee alive in hospital

  26-06-2015 21:44
  
  A Welsh tourist who was shot three times during the Tunisian terrorist attack used his body as a human shield to protect his fiancée, she has said.
  
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• Libertines surprise Glasto fans

  26-06-2015 21:39
  
  The Libertines have made a surprise appearance at Glastonbury Festival, storming the world-famous pyramid stage ahead of headliner Florence and the Machine.
  
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• Irish nurse dies in beach massacre

  26-06-2015 21:39
  An Irish mother-of-two gunned down in the Tunisian beach resort massacre was taking her husband on holiday to help him recover from heart surgery, family friends have said.
  
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• Killer plants: A handy guide to the hidden dangers in your garden

  26-06-2015 21:38
  
  An inquest into whether a deadly plant was responsible for the mysterious death of a gardener has reached an “open verdict”; the coroner said he could not be certain that Nathan Greenway had come into contact with the monkshood flowers on the Hampshire estate where he was working.
  
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• Court of Protection: Press will still need judge's permission to attend hearings

  26-06-2015 21:27
  
  Cases heard at Britain’s most secretive court will remain largely closed to public scrutiny after the Government decided not to change the law which obliges the media to apply in advance if they would like to attend.
  
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• Greece crisis: Alexis Tsipras lashes out as tempers fray ahead of Tuesday deadline

  26-06-2015 21:20
  
  The Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, has lashed out at his country’s creditors, accusing them of blackmail and ultimatums ahead of Saturdays’s last-ditch meeting in Brussels to keep Greece from going bust. The outburst came after an ill-tempered EU summit in Brussels, overshadowed by tensions over Greece’s looming Tuesday night deadline for debt default.
  
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• 7/7 bombings: Peace Journey to see young people retrace 200-mile route taken by bombers

  26-06-2015 21:14
  
  It was a route taken by three young men before one of the worst terrorist attacks Britain had seen for decades.
  
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• Gay marriage: Seven key things to know about Supreme Court ruling

  26-06-2015 21:11
  
  The US’s highest court has ruled that the country’s constitution supporters same sex marriage.
  
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• Foreign Secretary warns more fatalities expected as 'at least five' Brits confirmed dead in Tunisia

  26-06-2015 21:08
  
  British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has warned that more reports of British fatalities should be expected in coming days, as he confirmed that "at least five" Brits had been killed in the shootings in Tunisia.
  
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• Foreign Secretary warns more fatalities expected as 'at least five' Britons confirmed dead in Tunisia

  26-06-2015 21:08
  
  British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has warned that more reports of British fatalities should be expected in coming days, as he confirmed that "at least five" Britons had been killed in the shootings in Tunisia.
  
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• VIDEO: Harry Potter play to open next year

  26-06-2015 21:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  JK Rowling has announced her Harry Potter stage play will open in London's West End next year.
  
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• Islamic scholar tells British Muslims to march for peace to show they don't 'quietly condone' terrorism

  26-06-2015 20:53
  
  The world’s leading Islamic scholar on countering the ideology of Isis today suggest that British Muslims hold a mass march for peace to publicly demonstrate that they do not “quietly condone” terrorism.
  
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• Extremist quizzed over beheading

  26-06-2015 20:48
  
  A suspected Islamic extremist is being questioned by anti-terror police after his boss was found decapitated at a gas factory in France.
  
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• Tour de France 2015: Nairo Quintana shows the quiet confidence of a climber

  26-06-2015 20:42
  
  Back in 2012 in the Critérium du Dauphiné, a crucial warm-up race for the Tour de France, Team Sky and Bradley Wiggins were seemingly unbeatable on all fronts, bar one. On the toughest mountain stage, Colombian Nairo Quintana, racing his first full year in Europe, managed to go clear and win – aged 22.
  
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• Keven Mealamu: New Zealand's hooker is hard as nails - but with an arty side

  26-06-2015 20:38
  
  Keven Mealamu, one of the hardest men to wear the All Blacks jersey, is also an artist. He has illustrated seven books to raise money for Auckland’s Starship Children’s Hospital over the last seven years.
  
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• France attack: Public opinion has been inflamed

  26-06-2015 20:27
  
  The terror attack on a chemical factory near Lyon might have been devised deliberately to inflame France.
  
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• At least 5 Britons dead in Tunisia

  26-06-2015 20:20
  
  At least five Britons have been confirmed dead in the terrorist attack on a Tunisian holiday resort, with the death toll expected to rise.
  
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• Tunisia hotel attack: The country's illusion of a stable future has been shattered

  26-06-2015 20:09
  
  Until earlier this year, Tunisia had been considered a success story in the Arab world – a place that had emerged from the Arab uprisings of 2011 with what appeared to be a stable democracy and a secure future.
  
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• VIDEO: Taking a lap in a £1.5m Aston Martin

  26-06-2015 20:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Emma Simpson is taken for a spin in Aston Martin's new £1.5m supercar, the Vulcan.
  
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• Belsen remembered: Seventy years on, the Queen joins German dignitaries and Holocaust survivors at one of the Nazis' most notorious camps

  26-06-2015 20:03
  It was the BBC journalist Richard Dimbleby who first revealed the sickening horror of Belsen to Britain with his chilling broadcast about the nightmare conditions in the Nazi death camp, broadcast on 19 April 1945 – just two days before Princess Elizabeth’s 19th birthday.
  
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• Tunisia hotel attack: Witnesses describe moment gunman opened fire on tourists at beach resort

  26-06-2015 19:57
  
  Former British tour tennis player, Ellie Makin, 22, has described how she "saw a guy get shot in the stomach and then another in the head", during the shootings at a Tunisian beachside hotel earlier today.
  
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• These false economies in courts are costing us all dear

  26-06-2015 19:56
  
  In a Crown Court in Central London, a trial begins involving allegations of child sexual abuse. The first witness is a seven-year-old girl with learning difficulties. Let’s call her Emily. Everyone is ready to start her evidence at 10:30am as planned. 
  
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• Tunisia hotel attack: British tourists among at least 37 dead after gunman storms beach resort following terror strikes in France and Kuwait

  26-06-2015 19:53
  At least 37 people, including British tourists, have been shot dead after a gunman stormed a beach resort in Tunisia, strafing holidaymakers as they lay on sun loungers and sat beside swimming pools.
  
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• Same-sex marriage ruling proves even America's cultural wars are not eternal

  26-06-2015 19:53
  
  The US Supreme Court’s historic ruling that gay marriage is a right protected by the Constitution is proof that even America’s culture wars are not eternal.
  
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• Donald Trump to sue Spanish-language TV network for dropping coverage of Miss USA pageant over his comments about Mexicans

  26-06-2015 19:40
  Donald Trump is planning to sue American Spanish-language television network Univision for dropping coverage of the Miss USA pageant, which he partly owns, in a row over his recent comments about Mexicans.
  
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• African Union calls on UK to release Rwanda's spy chief

  26-06-2015 19:36
  ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union has called for Britain to release Rwanda's intelligence chief after his arrest on a warrant issued by Spain, which accuses him of killings after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda's foreign minister said on Friday.
  
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• Mediterranean migrant crisis: Furious Italian PM Matteo Renzi forces belated compromise on quotas at EU leaders' summit

  26-06-2015 19:32
  Italy’s Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, has complained angrily at the European Union’s refusal to accept what he said were modest proposals for redistributing refugees around the continent, after a crucial leaders’ summit descended into recrimination and chaos.
  
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• VIDEO: The house where time has stood still

  26-06-2015 19:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Warwickshire house, described as a 'timewarp', is to be sold and its contents auctioned.
  
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• Missing Paige 'may still be alive'

  26-06-2015 19:24
  
  A 15-year-old alleged murder victim could still be alive eight years after her disappearance, a court has heard.
  
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• Lawyers' strike over legal aid cuts boosted by the backing of major firms

  26-06-2015 19:23
  
  The “strike” by lawyers which threatens to bring chaos to the criminal justice system next week has received a substantial boost after the country’s biggest legal aid firms pledged to support the action.
  
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• Confederate flag furore is just part of America's growing Southern discomfort

  26-06-2015 19:23
  
  As current events merely underline, nowhere on earth are flags more potent symbols than in the US. The Stars and Stripes is venerated as emblem of the nation – and occasionally desecrated in protest at that nation’s actions. But such insults are nothing compared to the vilification being heaped on its brief one-time rival, the flag of the Confederacy of slave states that fought and lost the American Civil War. Right now, it is about as well-regarded as the swastika.
  
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• Fire crew rescues trapped hedgehog

  26-06-2015 19:11
  
  Firefighters came to the rescue of a hedgehog which found itself in a tight squeeze after getting stuck between gate railings.
  
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• Dealers splashed £40k on wedding

  26-06-2015 19:11
  
  A couple who were part of a family run multi-million drugs ring blew £40,000 on their wedding while still claiming benefits.
  
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• Tunisia hotel attack: The repercussions of a tragedy that has reverberated around the world

  26-06-2015 19:09
  
  “Your life depended on how quickly you could run” - so said a tourist named Amanda on BBC 5 Live in the immediate aftermath of Friday's massacre.
  
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• Glastonbury drenched by downpours

  26-06-2015 19:07
  
  Glastonbury Festival campers are braving heavy downpours as the first bands take to the main stages.
  
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• Increase in Lib Dem peers risks sparking a 'crisis' in the House of Lords as rivals complain party is already over-represented

  26-06-2015 19:04
  
  The imminent elevation of more former Liberal Democrat MPs to the House of Lords risks sparking a constitutional crisis – as rivals complain that the party is already grossly over-represented in the second chamber.
  
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• Increase in Lib Dem peers risks sparking a 'crisis' in the House of Lords

  26-06-2015 19:04
  
  The imminent elevation of more former Liberal Democrat MPs to the House of Lords risks sparking a constitutional crisis – as rivals complain that the party is already grossly over-represented in the second chamber.
  
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• Republicans voice their dissent as same-sex marriage is legalised across the US

  26-06-2015 19:03
  
  Republicans made their dissent heard after the US Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 in favour of marriage equality for same-sex couples across 50 states.
  
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• The hard stuff: Why concrete is still best for stunning architecture

  26-06-2015 18:57
  
  Water, aggregate, cement. Mix them together, and you produce concrete – usually the most banal of building materials, not even as characterful or satisfying to touch as a well-fired brick. But when concrete is used by brilliant architects and engineers, the results are riveting. Even today, the world’s first iconic concrete structure, the unreinforced 43.4m dome of the Pantheon in Rome, completed in AD128, still seems breathtaking in its daring and beauty.
  
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