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• Ashes 2015: England pay for hubris in Cardiff afterglow

  19-07-2015 23:40
  
  What a desperate kind of hubris that Cardiff aftermath looks like now. “When Rooty caught the catch at the end it was like revenge,” Ben Stokes said back then, eight days ago – and yet somehow a lifetime. “When they were eight wickets down I was thinking about how we felt, when we were getting beat every game…” The Englishman had made it sound like the whole Ashes business was done and dusted, just like Jimmy Anderson, complaining about the gracelessness of the Australian team not w
  
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• Palace 'could have released Queen's Nazi salute film'

  19-07-2015 23:37
  
  Footage showing the Queen performing a Nazi salute as a child could have been accidentally leaked by Buckingham Palace, it has been reported.
  
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• Mill Blasts: Body Found In Search For Workers

  19-07-2015 23:20
  
  A body has been found by rescue workers searching for four people missing after an explosion and fire at a mill in Bosley. Emergency services were searching for three men and one woman following the blaze in Bosley, Cheshire, on Friday. Assistant Chief Constable Guy Hindle, from Cheshire Police, said earlier that rescue crews are "still in a search phase" of the operation.
  
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• Man found dead in swimming pool of home owned by Demi Moore

  19-07-2015 23:17
  
  A 21-year-old man has accidentally drowned in a swimming pool of a Los Angeles home owned by Demi Moore, a coroner has ruled.
  
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• Man, 25, dies after 'jumping in reservoir to retrieve ball'

  19-07-2015 23:14
  
  A 25-year-old man has died after jumping in a reservoir reportedly to collect a ball.
  
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• Mama Zimbi: The woman who helps Ghana's widows who are forced to sleep with husbands' corpses as part of humiliating ritual

  19-07-2015 23:12
  In most parts of the world, becoming a widow elicits sympathy. Not so among some communities in Ghana, where women are sometimes blamed for their husbands’ deaths, kicked out of the family homes or forced to undergo humiliating “widowhood” rituals.
  
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• Body found during search at Cheshire blast mill

  19-07-2015 23:12
  
  A body has been found by rescue teams searching for four workers missing after an explosion and fire at a mill.
  
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• England folded miserably - Agnew

  19-07-2015 22:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England folded miserably, writes Jonathan Agnew
  
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• Two in hospital after light aircraft's emergency landing in Brecon Beacons

  19-07-2015 22:27
  
  Two people have been taken to hospital after their light aircraft made an emergency landing in the Brecon Beacons.
  
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• Schools are spending thousands of pounds of public money trying to unfairly boost Ofsted results

  19-07-2015 22:14
  
  The education watchdog Ofsted is to launch a major crackdown on schools that spend thousands of pounds of public money attempting unfairly to boost their inspection results.
  
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• Schools are spending thousands of pounds of public money trying to unfairly boost Ofstead results

  19-07-2015 22:14
  
  The education watchdog Ofsted is to launch a major crackdown on schools that spend thousands of pounds of public money attempting unfairly to boost their inspection results.
  
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• NHS: Junior doctor’s open letter to David Cameron goes viral

  19-07-2015 22:05
  
  A junior doctor’s damning open letter to the Prime Minister highlighting NHS workers’ low pay and long hours has been shared online more than 100,000 times, after the Government announced plans to push for seven-day services.
  
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• Andy Burnham: I’d serve in Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet if he becomes Labour leader

  19-07-2015 21:53
  
  Andy Burnham would be prepared to serve in a Shadow Cabinet led by Jeremy Corbyn if the firebrand left-winger pulled off a surprise Labour leadership election win, the shadow Health Secretary said yesterday.
  
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• Magaluf crackdown: Majorcan resort fails to tell British tourists it has cleaned itself up

  19-07-2015 21:50
  
  This year, it was all meant to be different. The authorities in the Majorcan resort of Magaluf said that wild stag weekends and other group holidays would face a crackdown in 2015 – and that lewd behaviour by Britons and other nationalities would no longer be tolerated. Sadly, it has now emerged that nobody has told the tourists.
  
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• Khirbet Susiya: The Palestinian village backed by Britain that Israel plans to tear down

  19-07-2015 21:42
  
  At first glance, the metal and wooden-framed tents that make up the Palestinian village of Khirbet Susiya in the southern West Bank would seem easy enough for the Israeli army to demolish.
  
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• Cheers as Aldi wine wins top-value award

  19-07-2015 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A WINE from supermarket Aldi has scooped the best-value bottle of the year award.
  
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• Beatrix Potter and Fashion designer Alexander McQueen nominated to appear on new £20 note

  19-07-2015 21:15
  
  Fashion designer Alexander McQueen and author Beatrix Potter are among the names nominated by the public to appear on the new £20 note.
  
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• A Ugandan political journalist's week in Westminster: ‘The British may be cynical about politics, but it’s a strong system’

  19-07-2015 21:08
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• Tunisian politicians to meet UK families of terror victims

  19-07-2015 21:04
  
  Tunisian politicians will visit the UK tomorrow to meet families of Britons killed in the terror attack on a beach resort and to urge the UK to lift official advice against travel to the Mediterranean holiday destination.
  
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• Homeless man due to face trial for the attempted murder of two schoolboys found dead in prison cell

  19-07-2015 20:45
  
  A homeless man who was due to face trial for the attempted murder of two schoolboys has been found dead in his prison cell.
  
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• Karen Bradley: ‘All communities in the UK need to know forced marriages are never acceptable’

  19-07-2015 20:42
  
  More perpetrators of forced marriage must be brought to justice, the Home Office minister in charge of preventing it has demanded.
  
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• Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood has issued an apology after claiming he was being forced to watch the pennies on his £100,000-a-year salary

  19-07-2015 20:31
  A Tory MP has issued a grovelling apology to constituents after claiming he was being forced to watch the pennies on his £100,000-a-year salary.
  
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• National Lottery prize plummets to new lows amid 'dwindling sales and unfair jackpots'

  19-07-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE beleaguered National Lottery plummeted to new lows last week with a meagre jackpot of just £886,754 – a third less than the week before.
  
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• Sussex stabbing: Matthew Daley charged with the murder of Don Lock

  19-07-2015 20:28
  
  A man has been charged with the murder of great-grandfather Donald Lock.
  
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• Cheshire flour mill explosion: Four missing workers named

  19-07-2015 20:24
  
  Police have named four workers feared dead at a Cheshire wood mill which exploded into flames last week.
  
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• Cheshire flour mill explosion: Body recovered as four missing workers are named

  19-07-2015 20:24
  
  A body has been recovered by rescue workers searching for four people who are feared dead at a Cheshire wood mill which was reduced to ruins following an explosion and fire.
  
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• Artists launch campaign to tackle scourge of anti-homeless spikes in London

  19-07-2015 20:17
  
  London artists have launched a fightback against the “homeless spikes” which have been appearing outside shops around the city.
  
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• Ukraine crisis: Shelling resumes in residential districts of Donetsk as rivals blame each other for breaking fragile ceasefire

  19-07-2015 20:15
  An outbreak of shelling in residential districts of Donetsk, the eastern Ukrainian city under pro-Russian separatist control, has led to renewed claims by both sides that the other has violated the gradually disintegrating ceasefire.
  
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• Remains of 86 Jewish Holocaust victims used for human experiments by Nazis found hidden in Strasbourg lab

  19-07-2015 20:13
  
  The remains of 86 Jewish people sent to Nazi gas chambers in 1943 have been discovered at a forensic medicine institute in eastern France.
  
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• A million company directors are over 65: Aging leaders drive booming economy

  19-07-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE silver generation is working for longer than ever, with over a million company directors now aged over 65.
  
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• Primary school pupils to get just four weeks off for their summer holidays – after request by parents

  19-07-2015 19:57
  
  Two Lincolnshire primary schools will become the first in England to abandon the traditional six-week summer school break.
  
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• What a choice for Egypt – a megalomaniac president or the madness of Isis

  19-07-2015 19:56
  
  The images of an Egyptian gunboat exploding off the coast of Sinai last week were a warning to our Western politicians. Yes, we support Egypt. We love Egypt. We continue to send our tourists to Egypt. Because we support President Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi – despite the fact that his government has locked up more than 40,000 mostly political prisoners, more than 20,000 of them supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, hundreds of whom have been sentenced to death. The Egyptian regime cont
  
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• Briton wrongly held in Mongolia criticises authorities for a 'serious error of judgement'

  19-07-2015 19:55
  
  A Briton wrongly detained in Inner Mongolia on suspicion of being a terrorist has criticised authorities for a “serious error of judgement” which saw the veteran backpackers thrown out of the country.
  
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• Italian island turns away migrant boat with hundreds on board – because it has run out of room

  19-07-2015 19:54
  
  Italian authorities have prevented a rescue boat with 700 migrants on board from landing on the island of Sicily because there is not enough room for them.
  
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• There’s only one name on the ballot paper and you’re in trouble if you don’t vote: North Korea holds its latest ‘democratic’ election

  19-07-2015 19:53
  Voting has taken place in North Korea in what is being dubbed the world’s most pointless election.
  
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• Donald Trump: Republicans turn on tycoon as he refuses to apologise for John McCain 'slur'

  19-07-2015 19:44
  
  Donald Trump, the property mogul and reality TV star-turned-poll-busting political candidate, has refused to apologise to US senator John McCain for suggesting the former Republican presidential nominee was only considered a war hero because he was taken prisoner in Vietnam.
  
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• 'Cold callers hassled my cancer-stricken husband to death'

  19-07-2015 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A GRIEVING widow has blamed a constant stream of cold callers for “hastening” her husband’s death from cancer.
  
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• Man Charged Over Road Stabbing Of Pensioner

  19-07-2015 19:39
  
  A man has been charged with the murder of a great-grandfather who was stabbed on a road near Worthing, Sussex Police say. Donald Lock, 79, was attacked on the A24 at Findon on Thursday evening, shortly after he was given the all-clear from cancer. Matthew Daley, 34, from Worthing in West Sussex, has been charged with murder and possession of a knife in a public place in connection with the incident.
  
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• Cyber terrorist returns to the UK after leaving a US prison

  19-07-2015 19:39
  
  A man jailed in the US for cyber terrorism committed in this country is back in the UK.
  
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• Tunisia attacks: Warning off tourists stokes the fires of extremist discontent

  19-07-2015 19:34
  
  A senior Cabinet minister claimed last week that the reason the Government urged British nationals to get out of Tunisia was that another terrorist attack was “imminent”. This contradicts his colleague, the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, who has stated: “We do not have any information suggesting a specific or imminent threat.” The security agencies and the French authorities – who have better intelligence on their former colony than us – also say they have no knowledge of a “sp
  
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• #ImInWorkJeremy: Jeremy Hunt accused of 'breaching patient confidentiality' after Tweeting a photo from a hospital visit

  19-07-2015 19:24
  Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt landed himself in hot water as he was accused of breaching patient confidentiality by tweeting a photo from a hospital visit.
  
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• Seagull poisoned and dumped at police station days after birds mauled family dog to death

  19-07-2015 19:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A SEAGULL has been poisoned and dumped at a police station just days after a group of the birds pecked a family's pet dog to death.
  
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• Iran nuclear deal: Agreement 'will not stop its aggression,' claims Benjamin Netanyahu as he urges US Congress to hold out for better terms

  19-07-2015 19:14
  The US will not be offering Israel new weapons supplies in return for the nuclear deal struck with Iran, Pentagon officials have said, as the US Defence Secretary, Ash Carter, flew to Tel Aviv for talks with the Israeli government. Their comments came as the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, urged the US Congress to hold out for a better Iran deal.
  
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• Britons deported from China for watching video 'advocating terrorism' were watching BBC documentary about Genghis Khan

  19-07-2015 19:13
  Nine Britons deported from China for watching videos ‘advocating terrorism’ have said they were watching a documentary about Genghis Khan.
  
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• Lurgan bomb: Irish republicans 'lured police' with fake bomb – before detonating real device in County Armagh

  19-07-2015 19:11
  
  Irish republicans lured Northern Irish police with a fake bomb in order to try and kill them with a real device when they arrived.
  
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• Parents splash £1,500 as the cost to keep the kids happy over summer

  19-07-2015 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PARENTS will fork out £11billion entertaining the kids with trips away and treats this summer.
  
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• Ed Balls not 'hankering' for return to Parliament

  19-07-2015 19:01
  
  Ed Balls has insisted he is not "hankering" for a return to Parliament, adding: "The right thing to say is never say never."
  
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• Cameron says he wants Britain to do more to fight IS in Syria

  19-07-2015 19:00
  
  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron wants Britain to do more to help the United States destroy Islamic State in Syria, he said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Britain conducts regular strikes against IS militants in Iraq but has so far limited its Syrian involvement to flying surveillance missions to gather intelligence. Cameron failed to get parliamentary approval for military action against the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2013 but has asked
  
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• New Horizons: Scientists admit they were completely wrong about ‘inert’ Pluto

  19-07-2015 18:55
  
  As Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft took its last look at Pluto yesterday from nearly six million kilometres away, scientists were marvelling at how “very active” the dwarf planet is in contrast with previous theories that it was an inert ball of ice and rock.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: François Hollande calls for a 'eurozone government' to further integrate member states - but what will this mean for Britain?

  19-07-2015 18:52
  The French President has lobbed a large boulder into negotiations on the future of Europe by calling for a full “eurozone government” with its own ministers, parliament and budget.
  
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