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• Whitworth named Museum of the Year

  01-07-2015 23:51
  
  Manchester's Whitworth has been named as Museum of the Year 2015 and won the £100,000 Art Fund Prize - the largest arts award in Britain.
  
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• Calais and Dover services resume

  01-07-2015 23:50
  
  Ferry services have resumed between Calais and Dover after three days of cross-Channel chaos caused by protests.
  
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• Mohamed cartoon exhibition coming to London in September, anti-Sharia group announces

  01-07-2015 23:36
  
  An anti-Sharia group has announced plans to put on an exhibition of cartoons depicting Mohamed in London.
  
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• Prison Officer Critical After Court Assault

  01-07-2015 23:34
  
  A female prison officer assaulted while transferring a prisoner at Blackfriars Crown Court remains in critical condition in hospital, police have said. The woman, who works for security company Serco, was attacked as she escorted the prisoner between the court and a waiting van. She was treated at the scene by London's Air Ambulance service before being transferred to an east London hospital.
  
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• Football Beyond Borders: Even the most distruptive pupils score at homework club

  01-07-2015 23:30
  
  At 3.30pm every Friday, after school has finished for the week and the last bell of the day has rung, a strange thing happens at Archbishop Lanfranc Academy in Croydon. Fifteen 12- and 13-year-olds who were once among the most disruptive, underachieving and worst behaved students in their year group, voluntarily turn up to a homework club.
  
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• Alton Towers: 80 people stuck on broken down Monorail during heatwave

  01-07-2015 23:28
  
  Eighty people were trapped on the Monorail at Alton Towers for an hour during a heatwave, after two trains broke down.
  
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• Eurogroup sees 'little chance' of progress until after the referendum, as Tsipras gets back on a war footing

  01-07-2015 23:24
  
  Eurogroup ministers are adamant that no further discussions with Greece will be held until after Sunday's referendum, with the President of the Eurogroup saying he sees "little chance" of progress.
  
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• Wimbledon Evacuated After Fire Alert

  01-07-2015 23:08
  
  An estimated 3,000 people have been evacuated from Wimbledon's grounds following a fire alert near Centre Court. An announcement was made by the All England Club that anybody inside the premises should leave immediately, and according to eyewitnesses, "fire alarms were blaring". The London Fire Brigade tweeted: "We have been called to a small fire at #Wimbledon2015 a plant room at the stadium is alight and the stadium as been evacuated.
  
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• The Real Stories of Migrant Britain: An Algerian scientist adjusts to life working in a kebab shop

  01-07-2015 23:00
  
  The small classroom in Edinburgh's Southside Community Centre is hushed as lecturer Haidar Mahmoud explains the vagaries of the English language. The pupils sitting inside this converted church are all adults preparing for life in Britain. This is where Hassiba attends classes along with around a dozen others.
  
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• 'Dukes of Hazzard' pulled from screens by CBS as outcry over Confederate flag grows

  01-07-2015 22:53
  
  And so, farewell Boss Hogg. Goodbye Miss Daisy and adieu Bo and Luke Duke. The Dukes of Hazard is no more – apparently the latest victim of moves over the Confederate flag.
  
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• Isis in Egypt: Wave of attacks across the country signals frightening upsurge in militant activity

  01-07-2015 22:39
  
  Jihadists aligned to Isis have carried out a series of devastating assaults in Egypt’s Sinai province, following earlier attacks elsewhere in the country, making it the most serious escalation of anti-government violence for years.
  
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• Women’s World Cup: Four reasons the US will win the World Cup and one reason they won’t

  01-07-2015 22:15
  
  The US Women’s National Team has advanced to its second-straight World Cup final after beating Germany 2-0 on Tuesday night in Montreal.
  
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• UK heatwave: Temperature reaches 39.8 degrees on Central Line - the sweatiest place in London

  01-07-2015 22:15
  
  Epping is basically in Essex. In fact, it is literally in Essex, beyond the M25, 15 miles north-east of Trafalgar Square. As the terminal station on the Central Line, it is also, on the hottest day for about a decade, in the hottest place in the country, the gateway to London's molten core, via the hottest line on the Tube network.
  
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• 100,000 net terror postings deleted

  01-07-2015 21:55
  
  Almost 100,000 pieces of terrorist or extremist content have been removed from the internet since 2010, the Government has disclosed.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Country firmly on course to hold EU referendum as eurozone leaders reject new bailout request

  01-07-2015 21:49
  A roller-coaster day of high political drama across Europe, shading at times into farce, ended with Greece still firmly on course to hold a fateful referendum on 5 July that could end the country’s membership of the eurozone.
  
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• Jessie Cave interview: The Harry Potter star has published a feminist collection of cartoons

  01-07-2015 21:45
  
  Jessie Cave was 19 and had just dropped out of university when she signed up to a children's agency to earn a bit of pocket money. The first job she auditioned for – an advert for Nokia – she got. The second – an advert for Veet hair removal cream – she didn't get. And the third, well, the third audition changed her life.
  
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• Tunisia attack: Parliament may authorise air strikes against Isis targets in Syria in response to massacre

  01-07-2015 21:34
  
  Parliament could be asked to authorise British air strikes against Isis positions in Syria within months, it has emerged, as part of the UK’s response to the attack on holiday-makers in Tunisia. The Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, said MPs would need to think “very carefully” about how to tackle an “evil caliphate” that did not respect national borders.
  
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• John Palmer: 'Goldfinger' of British crime was murdered, say police

  01-07-2015 21:26
  
  John Palmer, one of Britain’s wealthiest and most notorious criminals whose nickname was “Goldfinger”, was murdered, police have said. 
  
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• Prison Officer Dies After Court Assault

  01-07-2015 21:24
  
  A female prison officer has died after an alleged assault at Blackfriars Crown Court, according to Sky Sources.
  
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• Uncertainty over Greece’s future membership of eurozone causes rift in Angela Merkel's party

  01-07-2015 21:23
  
  Rifts are appearing in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition amid mounting uncertainty over Greece’s future membership of the eurozone, and questions over Athens’ intention to go ahead with its weekend referendum.
  
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• Nike chairman Phil Knight to step down from sportswear company he built into a multinational worth $93bn

  01-07-2015 21:18
  
  Perhaps the $1,200 Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman bet on Blue Ribbon Sports back in 1964 is the greatest gamble in sports history. Perhaps in investing history too.
  
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• 29 British massacre dead identified

  01-07-2015 21:18
  
  All but one of the 30 Britons believed killed in the Tunisian beach massacre have been formally identified, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said after the first bodies were repatriated to the UK.
  
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• Patients to be told price of prescribed drugs in bid to save NHS £300m

  01-07-2015 21:14
  
  Patients will be told the price of every drug they are prescribed that costs the NHS more than £20 in a scheme to help reduce waste and encourage patients to complete courses of medicine.
  
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• Kitchens go hi-tech: From robot chefs to recipe-shopping apps, computerised cooking is coming

  01-07-2015 21:10
  
  We've been hearing ad nauseam about driverless cars. Next up will be the cookless kitchen. There's a lot of stuff simmering in that realm. Investors have been pouring money into "food tech" startups the past couple of years. Entrepreneurs are turning spicy phrases such as "the new restaurant is no restaurant". MBA-wielding forward thinkers, applying the kind of spreadsheet thinking that they might use to improve the efficiency of a supply chain, are talking about how they're out to reduce our "
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Minus Boris Johnson, MPs aligned according to flight paths

  01-07-2015 21:05
  
  Forget about Hamlet without the Prince. This was King Kong without the gorilla.
  
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• Charles hails 'very best' Gurkhas

  01-07-2015 21:01
  
  The Prince of Wales hailed Gurkhas as "the very best of soldiers" as he helped mark the 21st anniversary of one of their regiments during a visit to their barracks tonight.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Angry and anxious pensioners flock to take money from banks

  01-07-2015 21:01
  
  Pensioners swarmed outside banks across Athens eary on 1 July, to claim the €120 (£85) of their pensions they are allowed to claim this week. Some 1,000 banks opened across the country as part of an emergency measure to hand out pensions. 
  
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• House prices near fracking sites could fall by up to 7 per cent, government report warns

  01-07-2015 20:57
  
  House prices near fracking sites could fall by up to 7 per cent, insurance premiums may rise and those living nearby could suffer indirect health problems, a government report warns.
  
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• Heathrow airport expansion: Government will decide on plans by end of the year, says Cameron

  01-07-2015 20:52
  
  The Government will decide on airport expansion plans within a year, the Prime Minister has announced following the publication of a long-awaited report.
  
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• Tunisia attack: Armed coastguards who failed to take on killer Seifeddine Rezgui face dismissal

  01-07-2015 20:52
  
  Armed coastguards who failed to intervene during the beach massacre in Sousse have been questioned by the police and face dismissal as the Tunisian government investigates security breaches.
  
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• Britain Basks In Hottest July Day On Record

  01-07-2015 20:51
  
  Britain is experiencing its hottest day of the decade today, with parts of the UK warmer than Barcelona and Athens. Temperatures have hit 36.7C (98.06F) at Heathrow Airport - the hottest recorded for nine years and the highest July temperature ever recorded. Most of Britain is expected to experience temperatures of between 30C (86F) and 33C (91.4F) today - and the beach weather will continue into the weekend, although Thursday will be slightly cooler.
  
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• Tunisian jihadists' hit list of targets over the summer revealed

  01-07-2015 20:48
  
  Tunisian jihadists linked to Isis have drawn up a target list for the coming months that includes alcohol stores, bars, the country’s main airport, the tourist resort island of Djerba and the security forces, The Independent has learned.
  
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• Tunisian jihadists' hit list of targets in the country over the summer revealed

  01-07-2015 20:48
  
  Tunisian jihadists linked to Isis have drawn up a target list for the coming months that includes alcohol stores, bars, the country’s main airport, the tourist resort island of Djerba and the security forces, The Independent has learned.
  
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• Bodyworlds museum: Dr Gunther von Hagens has battled legal threats, Parkinson's disease, and the threat of bankruptcy

  01-07-2015 20:45
  The multimillionaire inventor was smiling as the car in which he was travelling drew up. The trademark black Fedora was still firmly in place on his head and as he got out I advanced to shake his hand.
  
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• Heathrow Airport expansion: How the small village of Harmondsworth could be destroyed to clear space

  01-07-2015 20:36
  
  Those unfamiliar with Harmondsworth – one of three villages that would be destroyed should the Heathrow expansion go ahead – might be forgiven for thinking it is just another commuter village, but an impressive 600-year-old, Grade I listed barn and the 11th-century St Mary’s Church prove otherwise. 
  
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• Heathrow Airport expansion: Price of flight to New York could become sky high

  01-07-2015 20:31
  
  A return flight to New York may have to rise by hundreds of pounds if the UK wants to build a third runway at Heathrow and still meet its environmental commitments, according to an analysis of Sir Howard Davies’s airport report.
  
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• War with Isis: US on high alert as it investigates hundreds of links to terror group across all 50 states

  01-07-2015 20:30
  
  The US is currently investigating hundreds of cases with possible links to Isis across all 50 states in the country, according to a senior official.
  
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• Heathrow Airport expansion: David Cameron at risk of Cabinet revolt over plans for third runway

  01-07-2015 20:27
  
  David Cameron faces the biggest dilemma of his second term over whether to approve plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport in the face of a Cabinet revolt by five ministers who oppose the scheme.
  
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• A chance to vote to get the unelected Supreme Court justices you want

  01-07-2015 20:24
  
  Back in 2012, President Barack Obama warned the “unelected” justices of the US Supreme Court against decreeing the Affordable Care Act, his top domestic achievement, unconstitutional and killing it off two years after its passage through Congress. They didn’t, and the White House gave thanks to the bench of nine, unelected or not.
  
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• Britain swelters in hottest July day for 160 years - Telegraph.co.uk

  01-07-2015 20:20 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  Britain swelters in hottest July day for 160 years
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  Britain sweltered in the hottest July day for 160 years yesterday as temperatures hit 98F (36.7C) surpassing even Mumbai in India. Roads melted and hundreds of trains were cancelled or delayed over fears tracks would buckle in the heat. On the M1 ...
  Britain scorched on hottest July day in historyEconomic Times
  UK has hottest July day on recordChannel 4 News (blog)
  Temperature Reaches 36.7C As Heatwave Hits
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: So that’s how Meg Hillier became Margaret Hodge’s successor

  01-07-2015 20:17
  
  When MPs were electing a successor to the formidable Margaret Hodge to chair Parliament’s most important committee, the Public Accounts Committee, last month, they could have chosen Gisela Stuart, who is known for her contempt for “rudderless leaders who drift with the political wind”, or Helen Goodman, who would have brought specialist knowledge to the post, as a former Treasury civil servant. Instead, they chose Meg Hillier, whose greatest distinction is that Ed Miliband sacked her from
  
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• Legal aid boycott: Court chaos expected as lawyers refuse to take up new cases

  01-07-2015 20:06
  
  It’s hard to tell from the drab waiting area at Camberwell Green magistrates’ court in south London, but the wheels of British justice are starting to turn more slowly than usual.
  
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• Teen in critical condition after store employee 'shoots him for stealing 79 cent pack of cookies'

  01-07-2015 20:05
  
  A teen is in critical condition after he was shot in the leg on Tuesday afternoon in Kansas City, Missouri.
  
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• Black teen in critical condition after store employee 'shoots him for stealing 79-cent pack of cookies'

  01-07-2015 20:05
  
  A teen is in critical condition after he was shot in the leg on Tuesday afternoon in Kansas City, Missouri.
  
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• Australian man fired for drunken abuse at Christmas party was 'unfairly dismissed' because of unlimited quantities of alcohol on offer

  01-07-2015 20:01
  It is seemingly a licence to behave badly at office parties – and keep your job. The bad news for Australians is that such parties are likely to become sober affairs.
  
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• 'No benefit' from B12 supplement

  01-07-2015 20:00
  
  Older people who take a popular vitamin supplement to improve their mobility, muscle strength, co-ordination and mental function may be wasting their time, new research suggests.
  
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• 'Britain's Schindler' dies at 106

  01-07-2015 19:59
  
  Tributes have poured in for Sir Nicholas Winton, who was called "Britain's Schindler" for saving the lives of Jewish children during the Holocaust, after he died aged 106.
  
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• Calais strike: Huge tailbacks on both sides of Channel as French ferry workers block port for third day running

  01-07-2015 19:55
  Lorry drivers sweltered in huge tailbacks on both sides of the Channel as the French ferry workers blocked the port of Calais for the third day running.
  
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• Duke wishes women footballers luck

  01-07-2015 19:49
  
  The Duke of Cambridge made a surprise phone call to the England women's football team to wish them luck ahead of their semi-final match against Japan in the World Cup.
  
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• Alabama federal judge tells 'rebellious' magistrates they cannot ignore Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage

  01-07-2015 19:48
  
  The resistance against the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage has been dealt another blow after a federal judge in Alabama told magistrates there that can no longer refuse to issue licences to gay couples.
  
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