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• New 'two strike' knife possession law will land an extra 1,000 offenders in prison a year

  07-07-2015 23:51
  
  The government is set to implement a 'two strike' system in an effort to cut knife crime, which will see repeat offenders being given mandatory six month prison sentences for carrying a knife.
  
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• Osborne pledges to 'secure future'

  07-07-2015 23:08
  
  George Osborne will pledge to "secure Britain's future" tomorrow as he sets out his first Tory-only Budget, including dramatic cuts to welfare.
  
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• Wimbledon 2015: Nick Bollettieri - Vasek Pospisil must ignore tiredness and tell himself: I'm in the quarter-final, baby!

  07-07-2015 23:02
  
  I remember Vasek Pospisil playing on one of the outside courts here a few years ago, No 5 or 6 Court I think, and thinking, “This is going to be a darn fine player”. He would have been around 22 then and it might have been Sam Querry who he gave a tough game to.
  
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• Parkinson's drug found to encourage the risk-taking behaviour of compulsive gamblers

  07-07-2015 23:00
  
  A drug commonly used to treat Parkinson’s disease has been shown in experiments on healthy volunteers to increase the kind of risk taking associated with compulsive gambling.
  
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• Budget 2015: Maintenance grants for poorer students to be scrapped in next round of cuts

  07-07-2015 23:00
  
  Maintenance grants for university students from low-income families will be scrapped and converted into loans in the Government’s next round of spending cuts.
  
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• Budget 2015: Bank fines will pay for annual £10,000 reward for VC and GC winners

  07-07-2015 23:00
  
  Winners of the highest military and civilian honours for bravery will be given a £10,000-a-year reward from the nation, George Osborne has announced.
  
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• Hillary Clinton on 2016 presidential run: 'This is my last rodeo'

  07-07-2015 22:47
  
  Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential front-runner, touched down in Iowa on Tuesday to address the media on what she said is her last run as a politician.
  
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• Isis: Threat posed by extremist group should not be amplified, urges Australian politician Malcolm Turnball

  07-07-2015 22:45
  
  Politicians must be careful not to over-hype the threat that Isis poses, so as not to legitimise the “delusions” held by jihadists, an Australian politician has urged.
  
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• Husband and wife found dead at home

  07-07-2015 22:45
  
  Police investigating the deaths of a husband and wife at their family home believe it was a murder-suicide.
  
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• Nazi flags erected near bonfire site

  07-07-2015 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A number of Nazi flags are put up on lamp posts near a loyalist bonfire in County Antrim.
  
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• Pace of welfare cuts 'to be slowed'

  07-07-2015 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  George Osborne will slow the pace of planned welfare cuts when he presents his Budget, the BBC understands.
  
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• Law Society in Nama evidence call

  07-07-2015 22:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Law Society calls for any evidence about the sale of Nama's Northern Ireland loan portfolio to be given to the police and says it would co-operate with any police inquiry.
  
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• Heroin users jumped by 300,000 in the US over the last decade

  07-07-2015 21:56
  
  The US has about 300,000 more heroin users than it did a decade ago, according to a new government report.
  
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• Baroness Flather accused of 'bigotry' over her views on marriages in Pakistani community

  07-07-2015 21:51
  
  A British-Asian peer has been accused of bigotry after she claimed that marriages between first cousins in Pakistani communities were leading to “absolutely appalling” disabilities among children.
  
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• Tom Hayes Libor trial: City trader tells court his bosses had full knowledge of his actions

  07-07-2015 21:45
  
  A former City trader accused of manipulating the Libor international lending rate has claimed all his actions were carried out openly in the full knowledge of his bosses.
  
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• Migrant dies on Channel Tunnel train

  07-07-2015 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A migrant dies on a freight train heading for Britain, resulting in delays for cross-channel passengers and freight services.
  
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• War with Isis: Tunisian ambassador issues stark call for new approach to combat fundamentalism

  07-07-2015 21:34
  
  Military action will never stop atrocities like the murder of 30 British tourists in Tunisia, the country’s ambassador to Britain has warned as he issued a stark call for a new approach to tackling Islamic fundamentalism.
  
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• Plymouth MP Johnny Mercer revealed as topless model in American shower gel advert

  07-07-2015 21:34
  
  Politics isn't known as the sexiest profession in the world, but that stereotype is being put to the test in a new Dove soap advert.
  
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• Nation remembers 7/7 bombing victims

  07-07-2015 21:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Services are held to remember the "ocean of pain" caused by the London bombings, in which 52 people died and more than 700 were hurt a decade ago.
  
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• Talks to avert Tube strike fail

  07-07-2015 21:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Talks fail to avert a 24-hour Tube strike due to start on Wednesday evening - and no further negotiations are planned.
  
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• Sunday trading laws could be relaxed

  07-07-2015 21:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Shops in England and Wales could be allowed to open for longer on Sundays, under plans to be unveiled by Chancellor George Osborne.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Angela Merkel faces revolt from the right for wanting to keep Athens in euro

  07-07-2015 21:12
  
  Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fraught negotiations over Greece’s eurozone future have been threatened by a growing revolt within her own conservative ranks as dozens of right-wing MPs and politicians queued in opposition to the idea of more aid for Athens.
  
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• Isis in Syria: Influential tribal leaders hold secret talks with Western powers and Gulf states over possibility of mobilising against militants

  07-07-2015 21:07
  They have seen their people slaughtered, their communities terrorised and dispossessed and their ancestral lands laid to waste. Now, some of the most influential tribal leaders in Syria have come together to try to end the savage civil war that has afflicted their country.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Greek future in the euro slips into deeper uncertainty as Alexis Tsipras arrives at emergency talks without written plan

  07-07-2015 21:05
  Greece’s prospects of staying in the eurozone have dwindled further after the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrived at an emergency summit of his fellow eurozone leaders in Brussels without a concrete plan to resolve his country’s debt crisis.
  
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• Dozens of politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen linked to Indian bribery scandal die mysteriously

  07-07-2015 21:00
  
  A string of mysterious deaths linked to a high-profile bribery scandal has prompted outrage in India, as the country struggles to shed its reputation for endemic corruption.
  
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• Budget To Slow Pace Of Welfare Cuts: Sky Sources

  07-07-2015 20:57
  
  The Budget will reveal the timetable for £12bn welfare cuts by 2017/18 has been extended by at least a year, Sky News understands. George Osborne has already said he has found the £12bn, but Sky sources say the full amount will now be delivered over a longer timeframe than announced in the March Budget and envisaged before the election. This is partly because buoyant tax revenues and new Office of Budget Responsibility projections mean the Chancellor can meet his fiscal mandate without making
  
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• George Osborne's family 'struck a £6m property deal' with firm based in tax haven – reports

  07-07-2015 20:52
  
  George Osborne’s family business struck a £6m deal with a property developer based in an offshore tax haven, it has been reported.
  
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• VIDEO: Teen had 'chilling' extremist views

  07-07-2015 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Cardiff teenager with "chilling" extremist views is detained for planning to travel to Syria to fight with so-called Islamic State
  
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• Harry Shearer returns to The Simpsons after contract dispute

  07-07-2015 20:43
  
  Harry Shearer, who voices dozens of Simpsons characters including Mr Burns, has returned to the show following a contract dispute.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: MPs rearrange the constitutional deckchairs

  07-07-2015 20:43
  
  Last week Chris Grayling announced that, in one of the great scientific breakthroughs of modern times, he had discovered the answer to the West Lothian Question. On Tuesday the Commons seemed a lot less sure that he had got it right.
  
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• Scotland Yard could double number of counter-terror police abroad in the wake of the Tunisia attack

  07-07-2015 20:33
  
  The number of overseas counter-terrorism police officers could be doubled, as part of Scotland Yard's plans to protect British tourists from terrorist attacks like those committed in Tunisia in June.
  
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• Paula Deen posted photos of her son in brownface

  07-07-2015 20:33
  
  Former Food Network star Paula Deen has posted an image of her son in brownface on Twitter.
  
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• Paul Deen posted a photo of her son in brownface

  07-07-2015 20:33
  
  Former Food Network star Paula Deen has posted an image of her son in brownface on Twitter.
  
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• Lisa Randolph-Gant: Queen Elsa cake maker says she will carry on baking and will not let people 'break her spirit'

  07-07-2015 20:33
  Lisa Randolph-Gant turned to what she assumed would be the happy world of of cake-making five years ago
  
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• 7/7 bombings anniversary: 'They wanted to divide communities - I’m proud that we stand together against their extremism'

  07-07-2015 20:28
  Some gathered to remember the family members they had lost. Hundreds more came to remember what they had seen and heard, and how they had responded. And as the names of 52 victims echoed under the dome of St Pauls Cathedral, a nation paused to remember an attack on a city that refused to be terrorised.
  
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• Tube strike: What transport is still running in London?

  07-07-2015 20:25
  
  Commuters and tourists are set to face major travel disruptions across the capital on Wednesday and Thursday, as London Underground (LU) workers plan to stage a 24 hour strike.
  
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• Srebrenica 20 years after the genocide: Why the survivors need closure

  07-07-2015 20:20
  
  Srebrenica. A drive through eastern Bosnia seems to be full of sleepy Balkan charm. The landscape is one of wooded hills, small farmsteads, abundant plum orchards. The road winds its way through maize fields beside the quiet river Drina. In the woods, a cuckoo calls on a midsummer’s day. All is peaceful.
  
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• 125 jobs at risk at turbine firm

  07-07-2015 20:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Monmouthshire factory that makes components for wind turbines is set to close, putting 125 jobs at risk.
  
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• VIDEO: Serena brilliance foils drop shot

  07-07-2015 20:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Serena Williams gets our shot of the day for an outstanding piece of athleticism against Victoria Azarenka.
  
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• FTSE takes dive amid Greece crisis

  07-07-2015 20:13
  
  Some £26 billion was wiped off the value of Britain's top companies today as Greece engaged in high-stakes brinkmanship with the other eurozone states.
  
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• Thousands of bales destroyed in recycling plant fire - BBC News

  07-07-2015 20:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News
  Thousands of bales destroyed in recycling plant fire
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  A large fire at a recycling plant in Lincolnshire involving thousands of bales of household waste is expected to keep burning for several days. Fire crews were called to the site in Ancaster, near Sleaford, at 02:00 BST, with reports of thick plumes of ...
  Firefighters tackle huge blaze at recycling plantITV News
  Lincolnshire factory fire could continue for several daysLincolnshire Echo
  4000 bales alight at Mid UK RecyclingR
  
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• Budget 2015: What we know will be announced on Wednesday by George Osborne

  07-07-2015 20:05
  George Osborne has already delivered five Coalition budgets but Wednesday will mark a historic moment for him and his party as he spells out the details of the first Conservative budget in more than 19 years.
  
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• DNA storage concerns for computers

  07-07-2015 20:00
  
  Computers with undreamed of storage capacity will be needed to handle an "explosion" of genetic data in the next decade, experts have warned.
  
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• Bus crash driver 'felt unwell'

  07-07-2015 19:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The driver of a bus that crashed in Brighton, injuring 19 people, told his supervisor hours before he felt unwell, his company confirms.
  
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• Cancer patients sent back to Beatson

  07-07-2015 19:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cancer patients are being moved back to the Beatson unit from the new Glasgow hospital after a problem is discovered with the air quality.
  
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• Williams sets up Sharapova semi-final

  07-07-2015 19:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Serena Williams recovers from a set down to beat Victoria Azarenka and set up a Wimbledon semi-final against Maria Sharapova.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Olive oil supplies threatened as banking system grinds to a halt

  07-07-2015 19:41
  
  It is a vital element of Greece’s agricultural economy, but now the flow of olive oil has begun to slow as farmers are refusing to part with their product unless their distributors pay them in cash.
  
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• Patrick Njoroge: Kenya's new Central Bank governor turns down trappings of luxury for life in an Opus Dei commune and acts of penance

  07-07-2015 19:41
  He was offered a fleet of cars, the latest phone and a mansion in Nairobi’s most exclusive area, but Kenya’s new Central Bank governor, a member of Catholic sect Opus Dei, has turned down every one of them.
  
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• Burt Shavitz: Beekeeper for whom a chance meeting led to the creation of a multi-million dollar cosmetics company

  07-07-2015 19:34
  Burt Shavitz was the reclusive beekeeper who co-founded Burt's Bees and whose face and wild beard appeared on labels for the natural-cosmetics company. The life of the former hippy making a living selling honey was altered by a chance encounter with a hitch-hiking Roxanne Quimby. "Burt was an enigma; my mentor and my muse. I am deeply saddened," she said.
  
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• Former trader Hayes wanted to do a perfect job, Libor trial hears

  07-07-2015 19:31
  
  By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Hayes, the first person to face trial by jury over allegations he conspired to rig global Libor interest rates, told a London court on Tuesday he had not acted dishonestly and just wanted to do his job as "perfectly as he could". Taking the stand for the first time in the high-profile trial at Southwark Crown Court, the 35-year-old former UBS and Citigroup star trader said he had only admitted to wrongdoing in interviews with British officials b
  
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