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• VIDEO: Where might cuts to benefits come?

  02-07-2015 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Major cuts to housing and sickness benefits have been considered by the government, the BBC has learned.
  
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• Honour for Ebola treatment nurse

  02-07-2015 23:30
  
  A nurse who ran an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone will be awarded an OBE for her contribution to the fight against the deadly disease.
  
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• Pianist James Rhodes speaks out about the 'shame' he felt after his childhood rape

  02-07-2015 23:12
  
  James Rhodes, the pianist who went through a Supreme Court battle to publish his memoir describing the rape he suffered as a child, has been contacted by thousands of victims who are now willing to speak out after hearing his story.
  
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• 'My best Wimbledon days may be over'

  02-07-2015 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rafael Nadal says he may not be able to rekindle his former Wimbledon glories after his shock 2015 exit to Dustin Brown.
  
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• Artist turns failure into gold

  02-07-2015 23:10
  
  An artist's failure to master a piece of music has helped her win a £20,000 prize.
  
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• Fans held over 'violent disorder'

  02-07-2015 22:29
  
  Everton supporters who were wanted over a violent attack outside a pub have been arrested in a series of dawn raids.
  
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• Householders totting up storm costs

  02-07-2015 22:15
  
  Householders and businesses are counting the cost of the wave of freak weather that followed yesterday's record-breaking temperatures.
  
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• Chris Grayling is an advertising asset for a future Scottish No vote

  02-07-2015 22:15
  
  The SNP’s core message at the general election was that more nationalist MPs would mean a “strong voice” for Scotland at Westminster. Chris Grayling’s planned demotion of all 56 nationalist MPs to second-class citizens in the mother of parliaments, coupled with this week’s overwhelming defeat in the Commons on any move toward full fiscal autonomy, suggests the word “strong” is massively overplaying the reality of Scotland’s influence at Westminster.
  
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• Donald Trump refuses to back down from his comments about Mexican immigrants

  02-07-2015 22:11
  
  Donald Trump insulted many Mexicans when, during his presidential announcement, he implied that Mexican immigrants were rapists and criminals.
  
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• Dustin Brown: Who is the tennis player who knocked Rafael Nadal out of Wimbeldon 2015?

  02-07-2015 22:11
  
  Tennis world number 102 Dustin Brown has shaken Wimbledon by knocking out two-time champion Rafael Nadal.
  
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• The Real Stories of Migrant Britain: Clive fled from Zimbabwe - now it won't have him back

  02-07-2015 22:00
  
  Clive has wanted to go home to Zimbabwe for more than four years now. It's a cold morning in Glasgow and Harare seems a long way away as he tries to stay warm beneath a clattering fan heater in a night shelter kitchen. This is at Anderston Kelvingrove church, the only reliable place for destitute male asylum seekers to sleep indoors in the city.
  
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• Concern raised over Nama NI deal

  02-07-2015 21:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Belfast law firm had £7m in a bank account "reportedly earmarked for a politician" after a major property deal, it has been claimed in the Irish parliament.
  
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• US Presidential campaign 2016: Former Virginia Senator Jim Webb joins race for Democratic nomination

  02-07-2015 21:55
  
  Former Virginia Senator Jim Webb has joined the race for the Democratic party’s 2016 presidential nomination, bringing up the rear of an increasingly crowded race that already has a clear frontrunner.
  
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• Fast-track asylum system suspended

  02-07-2015 21:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A system for detaining asylum seekers while their claims are speedily assessed is suspended after it was ruled unlawful last month, the Home Office says.
  
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• Member of Luton family feared to have travelled to Syria stopped by police at airport and let go

  02-07-2015 21:50
  
  A member of the family of 12 from Luton believed to have travelled to Syria was stopped by police and their home was searched the day before they left the UK.
  
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• Scientists discover why some roses smell sweeter than others - and how to improve the scent

  02-07-2015 21:43
  
  Not all roses smell that sweet but scientists have found out why some smell sweeter than others and in the process have discovered a way of potentially improving the scent of the gardener’s favourite ornamental flower.
  
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• Tunisia attack: Senior government figure pleads 'help us fight the jihadists' as his nation seeks weapons and military hardware to hold the line against Isis threat

  02-07-2015 21:42
  Tunisia needs military and financial support from the West to fight the Isis-affiliated jihadists that killed 30 Britons on Sousse beach, one of the country’s leading politicians says. Otherwise “Europe will have to face them directly”.
  
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• Donna Karan is stepping down after 30 years - so who will fill the DKNY creator's boots?

  02-07-2015 21:30
  
  On Tuesday night, as New York closed and London slept, the American designer Donna Karan announced that after 31 years she would step down from her current role as Chief Designer of the LVMH-operated brand that bears her full name, rather than just her initials. There will be no replacement, and Donna Karan International will suspend its collections and catwalk shows (though not its licences). It seemed fitting that Karan, always the epitome of the working woman, waited until the end of the bus
  
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• Calais crisis: Government holds emergency Cobra meeting over French strikers and migrants

  02-07-2015 21:24
  
  The Government held an emergency Cobra meeting as the Calais ferry strike entered its fourth day, putting a labour dispute by French workers on a par with terrorist attacks and foot-and-mouth disease as threats to the nation.
  
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• More UK Tunisia dead are repatriated

  02-07-2015 21:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The bodies of nine more Britons killed in the Tunisian beach attack arrive back in the UK on an RAF aircraft.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Ed Miliband digs deep for miners - will he be the new Hague?

  02-07-2015 21:11
  You have to hand it to Ed Miliband. Less than two months after suffering a defeat which would have left a lesser man reeling, not to mention hiding away from his parliamentary colleagues, he was on his feet in a sparsely filled Commons chamber fighting for 400 constituents who have just lost their jobs.
  
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• Calais lorry queue 'gone in 48 hours'

  02-07-2015 21:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A huge backlog of lorries on the M20 could be cleared within 48 hours after the port of Calais reopened fully, P&O says.
  
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• John Palmer: Police face inquiry over failure to spot notorious criminal had been shot

  02-07-2015 21:07
  
  A police force has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) over delays in identifying the death of a notorious criminal as a possible murder.
  
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• Tunisia attack: UK death toll from beach massacre confirmed as 30

  02-07-2015 21:03
  
  The bodies of nine victims of the Tunisian beach massacre were returned to the UK yesterday, as the final British death toll was confirmed at 30.
  
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• The science of swearing: What lies behind the use of four-letter words?

  02-07-2015 21:00
  
  It was the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and Britain's female windsurfers had never before won a medal. That year's event was fiercely contested by 27 sailors from 27 nations and there was high drama in the final race. It began with a false start and part of the way around the course one of the medallists was almost knocked into the sea by another competitor. This backdrop of adversity can only have added to the immense joy experienced by Britain's Bryony Shaw when, against all expectations, sh
  
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• War with Isis: If the US wants to destroy the group, it will need to train Syrians and Iraqis

  02-07-2015 20:57
  
  Launching air strikes last August in Iraq to blunt the galloping advance of Isis across the country was one thing, but it was barely a month before the Pentagon alongside Arab allies expanded the campaign into Syria. The reasoning was clear. If Isis was ignoring the border between the countries, then so should we.
  
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• Wimbledon 2015: Dustin Brown knocks Rafael Nadal out of championship

  02-07-2015 20:53
  
  It had started with a bang but ended a whimper drawn out so long it became agonising to watch. For the third time in four years, and this time at the hands of Germany’s Dustin Brown, Rafael Nadal’s Wimbledon is over before it could really begin.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: IMF calls for 20-year grace period before any debt repayments

  02-07-2015 20:51
  
  Just three days ahead of a hastily-called referendum on Greece’s bailout, the International Monetary Fund said in a report Greece needs €50bn in extra funds over the next three years, and should be granted a 20-year grace period before making any debt repayments. The IMF calculations reveal that Greece’s enormous debts are “unsustainable”, and would be all but impossible to pay off.
  
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• Dolphins spotted enjoying the sun off the coast of Blackpool

  02-07-2015 20:50
  
  Blackpool's beachgoers weren't the only ones enjoying the heatwave - a group of bottlenose dolphins were caught on camera swimming just off the coast of the seaside resort.
  
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• Net speed 'anger' in enterprise zone

  02-07-2015 20:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Small firms on one of Europe's biggest industrial parks say poor broadband speeds are damaging them and some could be forced to move out.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: What happened to democracy when it’s a case of 'Vote Yes or else'?

  02-07-2015 20:46
  
  So the Greeks are going to vote Yes on Sunday. Fear. Humiliation. Patriotism (pro-European or pro-euro, we shall see). Or pragmatism, that great industrial powerhouse of European politics.  And so the EU, the IMF, the ECB, the lot – they will have won.  Greece – nil.  Delete the Second World War.
  
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• Ashes 2015: Damien Martyn - 'England are fired up again, just like in 2005...'

  02-07-2015 20:45
  
  For most of the past 18 months, Damien Martyn has been thinking what everybody else has been thinking. This is more or less that Australia would arrive, survey the scene, let loose their thunderbolts, give England a hammering, tuck their bat under their arm and head home with the Ashes secured again, job done until the next time.
  
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• Boko Haram shooting: Gunmen kill at least 97 people praying at mosques in Nigeria

  02-07-2015 20:24
  
  Boko Haram gunmen have killed almost 100 worshippers gathered at mosques in northeast Nigeria during the holy month of Ramadan.
  
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• Boko Haram shooting: Gunmen kill at least 97 people praying at a mosque in Nigeria

  02-07-2015 20:24
  
  A government official and a self-defense fighter say Boko Haram extremists have gunned down nearly 100 Muslims praying in mosques in northeastern Nigeria.
  
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• Murderer on run from women's jail

  02-07-2015 20:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A woman who absconded from prison four days ago is being treated as a wanted person by police.
  
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• VIDEO: Doonican 'brought joy to many people'

  02-07-2015 20:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Daniel O'Donnell says Val Doonican's singing "brought enjoyment to many people around the World".
  
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• Greece crisis: The shameless double standards of the IMF and ECB bully boys

  02-07-2015 20:07
  
  It’s very generous of the International Monetary Fund and the banks to tell the Greeks that the government they elected isn’t allowed to do any of the things they were elected to do.
  
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• Amber Roof: Sister of Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof launches fund-raising appeal for her wedding and honeymoon

  02-07-2015 20:05
  The elder sister of Dylann Roof, the man charged with nine counts of murder over the Charleston church shooting, has apparently been raising money for her wedding costs and asking people to give her a "fresh start".
  
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• Greece needs €50 billion to survive the next three years, IMF warns

  02-07-2015 20:01
  
  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Greece needs €50 billion (£35 billion) and massive debt relief to keep it afloat over the next three years.
  
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• Greece needs 50 billion euros to survive the next three years, IMF warns

  02-07-2015 20:01
  
  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Greece needs 50 billion euros (£35 billion) and massive debt relief to keep it afloat over the next three years.
  
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• Britain First best-funded small party

  02-07-2015 20:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Britain First, an offshoot of the BNP, has topped the Electoral Commission's donations league table for smaller parties.
  
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• VIDEO: Thousands of lightning strikes in 34 hours

  02-07-2015 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After Wednesday's hottest July day on record came thunderstorms, hail and rain which lead the Met Office to estimate 19,525 lightning strikes had occurred in the UK over a 34-hour period.
  
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• Seahorses so square, say scientists

  02-07-2015 20:00
  
  Seahorses have shown scientists that sometimes it is definitely hip to be square.
  
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• 'Clock ticking' for world's oceans

  02-07-2015 20:00
  
  Time is rapidly running out for the world's oceans and the creatures that live in them as the Earth's climate continues to warm, say scientists.
  
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• Experiments with 3D models of seahorse’s tail advances robotic surgery

  02-07-2015 20:00
  
  It is perhaps the most unusual feature of a most unusual animal, but scientist believe they can now explain how the seahorse got its square tail.
  
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• Woman denies 'IS' membership

  02-07-2015 19:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A woman denies being a member of the so-called Islamic State and encouraging terrorism.
  
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• Over one in five secondary school maths lessons taught by teacher without degree in the subject

  02-07-2015 19:56
  
  More than one in five secondary school maths lessons is now taught by a teacher without a degree in the subject, official figures have revealed.
  
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• Bombing Isis in Syria would make 'no practical difference', David Cameron warned

  02-07-2015 19:52
  Sending British warplanes to bomb Isis would make “no practical difference” in efforts to defeat the terrorist group, David Cameron has been warned, as senior MPs lined up to criticise proposals to extend military action into Syria.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Probably the last place you’d expect to mistreat employees

  02-07-2015 19:45
  
  When Britain’s biggest union faced a problem that a member of its staff was being subjected to sexist bullying, they did not protect her, they sacked her, according to the judgement of an employment tribunal.
  
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