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• More Human Remains Found At Bosley Blast Scene

  27-07-2015 23:27
  
  Police searching the scene of an huge explosion at a factory in Cheshire have found more human remains. Four employees at Wood Treatment Ltd in Bosley were unaccounted for after a series of blasts destroyed the mill on July 17 and emergency teams have been searching the "extremely complex scene" for the victims. Cheshire Police said: "Officers from Cheshire Constabulary, Cheshire Fire & Rescue and the Urban Search and Rescue team have recovered remains, which were removed and
  
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• Stephen Hawking, Noam Chomsky and thousands of others sign open letter calling for a ban on 'killer robots'

  27-07-2015 23:25
  More than 1,000 robotics experts and artificial intelligence (AI) researchers - including physicist Stephen Hawking, technologist Elon Musk, and philosopher Noam Chomsky - have signed an open letter calling for a ban on "offensive autonomous weapons", or as they are better known, 'killer robots'.
  
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• Labour Party 'frightened of its own shadow', says leadership frontrunner

  27-07-2015 23:05
  
  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - The Labour Party lacks the courage and big ideas to win back lost voters, lawmaker Andy Burnham, a frontrunner to become the party's new leader, will say on Tuesday as Labour battles to define its political identity after a painful election defeat. Labour is searching for a new leader after Ed Miliband resigned in May in the wake of the centre-left party's heaviest election loss since 1987, at the hands of Prime Minister David Cameron's Conserva
  
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• Andy Burnham: Modern Labour could not have created NHS

  27-07-2015 23:00
  
  Today's Labour politicians could not have created the NHS because they do not have the courage for big ideas, leadership hopeful Andy Burnham will say in a campaign speech.
  
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• Judge Gives Litvinenko Suspect Hours To Testify

  27-07-2015 23:00
  
  A British judge investigating the killing of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko has given one of the men suspected of involvement in his death a final chance to testify. Inquiry counsel Robin Tam said Mr Kovtun claimed to be bound by obligations of confidentiality to an ongoing Russian investigation and "is not in a position to give oral evidence now". British authorities believe there is evidence that proves Mr Kovtun, along with another Russian Andrei Lugovoi, laced Litvinenko's
  
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• Los Angeles could host the 2024 Summer Olympics after Boston withdraws bid

  27-07-2015 22:54
  
  Boston has officially withdrawn its bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
  
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• Remains recovered from Bosley mill blast site

  27-07-2015 22:27
  
  Further remains have been recovered from the wreckage of a huge explosion at a wood flour mill.
  
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• Police search Lord Sewel's flat after launching drugs probe

  27-07-2015 22:27
  
  A police probe is under way into allegations a peer took cocaine while cavorting with prostitutes.
  
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• Turkey conflict: Every regional power has betrayed the Kurds so Turkish bombing is no surprise

  27-07-2015 22:05
  
  The Kurds were born to be betrayed. Almost every would-be Middle East statelet was promised freedom after the First World War, and the Kurds even sent a delegation to Versailles to ask for a nation and safe borders.
  
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• America and Turkey to create Syria buffer-zone as tensions rise over strikes against Kurds

  27-07-2015 21:54
  
  The US and Turkey have agreed to carry out a military campaign to create a buffer-zone inside northern Syria – the first move by foreign powers to seize territory in the country since the start of the civil war four years ago.
  
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• David Cameron says UK military could take action in Syria and Libya 'to protect Britons'

  27-07-2015 21:41
  
  David Cameron has warned that Britain could take military action against Isis  in Libya or Syria if there was an imminent threat to British lives, and said the international community is increasing efforts to “put the squeeze” on the terror group.
  
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• George Osborne hopeful of securing 'win-win' deal with France to avoid British exit from EU

  27-07-2015 21:36
  
  France is ready to make a “win-win” deal to avoid a British exit from the European Union but will block any changes which “weaken” the EU, a senior French minister said.
  
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• Crispr: Breakthrough announced in technique of 'editing' DNA to fight off deadly illnesses

  27-07-2015 21:24
  
  A revolutionary technique for “editing” the human genome with extreme precision has been used for the first time to “cut and paste” the genes of a key type of immune cell involved in protecting the body against a wide range of diseases, from diabetes to HIV and cancer.
  
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• Crispr: The science behind a 'game-changing' gene-editing technique

  27-07-2015 21:23
  
  It has been less than five years since it was first discovered yet it is fair to say that the gene-editing technique known as Crispr-Cas9 has in that time become a recognised “game changer” in the field of genetics.
  
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• Building site tragedy boy Conley Thompson 'slipped into plastic pipe'

  27-07-2015 21:07
  
  Seven-year-old Conley Thompson died when he slipped into a plastic pipe on a building site, his grandmother has said.
  
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• Meeting extraterrestrials: Should we contact aliens?

  27-07-2015 20:53
  
  As you read this, the metal dishes of 42 radio telescopes, hidden in a little-visited valley in California's Cascade Mountains, are locked on to a star system hundreds of light years away. Together they will scan 10 billion radio channels, searching for signals deliberately sent by intelligent aliens or accidentally leaked from their planets. Then the dishes will turn to the next star and its satellites.
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe 2015: Organisers fall victim to 'sophisticated £220,000 fraud campaign'

  27-07-2015 20:45
  
  The organisers of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe have fallen victim to an alleged “sophisticated fraud campaign”, saying £220,000 was taken over eight years. The swindle emerged less than two weeks before the world’s largest arts festival is due to start.
  
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• Boris Johnson apologises after giving wife 'backie' on his bike in London

  27-07-2015 20:41
  
  Boris Johnson has apologised for giving his wife a "backie" on a bicycle, claiming he was "unaware" he was breaking the law.
  
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• Six arrested during £4m PAYE tax evasion investigation

  27-07-2015 20:36
  
  A financial adviser and five other people have been arrested and bailed during an inquiry into allegations of a £4 million tax fraud.
  
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• Fourth body recovered from Bosley mill blast site

  27-07-2015 20:36
  
  A fourth body has been recovered from the wreckage of a huge explosion at a wood flour mill.
  
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• Glasgow gambling addicts will be able to 'ban themselves' from bookmakers in new scheme

  27-07-2015 20:35
  
  Gambling addicts in Glasgow  worried that their life-wrecking habit is getting out of control will soon be able to ensure they are banned from entering betting shops.
  
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• UK checking two suspected MERS cases in northern England

  27-07-2015 20:34
  LONDON, July 27 (Reuters) - Health officials were investigating two suspected cases of the Middle Eastern Respiratory Virus Syndrome (MERS) on Monday at a hospital in northern England that briefly closed its emergency department.
  
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• Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn win would effectively 'form new party', says socialist group

  27-07-2015 20:23
  
  A victory for Jeremy Corbyn in Labour’s leadership contest will  effectively be “the formation of a new party” with radical socialist ideals at its core, according to the organisation that evolved from Militant, the Trotskyist faction expelled by Labour in the 1990s.
  
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• North Korea threatens to 'leave no Americans alive' as Kim Jong-un boasts of nuclear arsenal, on Korean War armistice anniversary

  27-07-2015 20:20
  A North Korean army General has said that another war on the Korean peninsula would leave no Americans left to sign a surrender document, in a grandstanding speech that marked the 62nd anniversary of the armistice of the Korean War.
  
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• APJ Abdul Kalam: Physicist known as the father of India's missile programme who also served as the country's President

  27-07-2015 20:17
  APJ Kalam was a former president of India who was known as the father of the country's military missile programme. President from 2002 until 2007, he was a scientist and science administrator for four decades before that, mainly at the state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation and the Indian Space Research Organisation (IRSO). He played a key role in India's nuclear programme.
  
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• Lieutenant Norman Poole: The first Allied soldier to set foot in France on D-Day whose exploits helped seal the reputation of the SAS

  27-07-2015 20:09
  Lieutenant Norman "Puddle" Poole was the first Allied soldier to set foot in Nazi-occupied France on D-Day, 6 June 1944. He led the first of two SAS parties to drop by parachute five miles west of Saint-Lô, and his boots hit the ground at 11 minutes past midnight. This muddy field, at the base of the Cotentin peninsula, was far from where the main invasion thrust would come, on the Normandy beaches farther east.
  
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• Search for Mexico's 43 missing students turns up 129 unrelated bodies and 60 secret graves

  27-07-2015 20:06
  
  The search for 43 missing college students in the southern state of Guerrero has turned up at least 60 clandestine graves and 129 bodies over the last 10 months, Mexico's attorney general's office says.
  
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• Harry Styles spreads One Direction's global education message

  27-07-2015 20:01
  
  One Direction's Harry Styles has made a plea to fans saying he "w ants to live in a world where every child can go to school".
  
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• 'Imperfect' vaccines can spread disease

  27-07-2015 20:00
  
  Imperfect vaccines can promote the evolution of more virulent and dangerous infectious agents that survive and spread disease, a study has shown.
  
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• Woman Set Children Up As 'Sexual Playthings'

  27-07-2015 19:55
  
  A woman from Norwich has been convicted of playing a leading role in raping and sexually abusing pre-teen children and setting them up as "sexual playthings" for other adults. Marie Black, 34, was accused of forcing the children to have sex with one another other and the court also heard adults played card games to decide who would be abused next. Norwich Crown Court heard the sexual assaults sometimes involved children's toys such as Barbie Dolls and that the abuse became so rout
  
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• Paul Massey: Detectives hunt lone gunman who shot dead Salford's 'Mr Big' in 'targeted attack'

  27-07-2015 19:54
  
  Detectives in Manchester are hunting a lone gunman who shot dead an infamous nightclub security boss known as the city’s ‘Mr Big’ while he was getting out of his car.
  
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• Woman at centre of paedophile ring that made children 'sexual play things' guilty of 23 offences

  27-07-2015 19:53
  
  A woman has been found guilty of being at the centre of a paedophile ring which set children up as "sexual play-things" over more than a decade.
  
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• Police probe Lord Sewel drug use allegations

  27-07-2015 19:50
  
  The Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation into allegations of drug use by Lord Sewel and executed a warrant on an address in central London at 6pm.
  
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• Missing Boy Died 'After Slipping Into Pipe'

  27-07-2015 19:45
  
  A seven-year-old boy who was found dead on a building site got trapped after slipping into a pipe, according to his grandmother.
  
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• Vincent Lambert case: France gripped by 'right to die' case of tetraplegic former nurse and an attempt to 'kidnap him from his hospital bed'

  27-07-2015 19:44
  Vincent Lambert is one of the most famous names and faces in France. But his doctors, his wife and six of his eight siblings say that the real Vincent Lambert died seven years ago in a road accident.
  
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• Manchester Royal Infirmary A and E reopens amid Mers tests

  27-07-2015 19:40
  
  The accident and emergency department at Manchester Royal Infirmary which was forced to close because of two suspected cases of Middle Eastern Respiratory Virus Syndrome (Mers) has reopened.
  
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• HuffPost Arabi: Arabic version of site promises to give a voice to bloggers in the Middle East

  27-07-2015 19:40
  
  A new Arabic language edition of the Huffington Post will give a voice to bloggers from across the region - including those who might succumb to the message of Isis -  the platform’s founder Arianna Huffington promised.
  
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• Gun battle between two rival groups leaves 21 dead at wedding party in Afghanistan

  27-07-2015 19:38
  
  A wedding party in northern Afghanistan was devastated yesterday after a gunfight left at least 20 people dead and several wounded, a local official said.
  
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• There are two ways of growing old – and I’m taking Lord Sewel’s

  27-07-2015 19:34
  
  For each person chuntering furiously at footage of 69-year-old Lord Sewel cavorting in an orange bra, seemingly ripped on cocaine, nestling a large vodka, surrounded by jovial ladies of the night – I’ll wager there will be others quietly impressed the old boy still has it in him. Because what are cocaine come-downs even like aged almost 70? They’re bleak enough aged 27, which is why yoga studios are full of cowed, new-leaf-turning thirty-somethings, replacing MDMA and mojito splurges with
  
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• Harry Styles launches One Direction's global education message

  27-07-2015 19:19
  
  One Direction's Harry Styles has made a plea to fans saying he "w ants to live in a world where every child can go to school".
  
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• Mystery over deaths of Napoleonic soldiers in mass grave has been solved

  27-07-2015 19:18
  
  A longstanding mystery surrounding the deaths of 3,000 soldiers from Napoleon’s army found in a mass grave in Lithuania has been solved.
  
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• Lord Sewel to leave parliament until drugs video investigated

  27-07-2015 19:16
  
  A senior British lord embroiled in a scandal over allegations by a tabloid newspaper that he used cocaine and hired prostitutes, said on Monday he would not return to parliament until investigations into his actions had been completed. John Sewel stood down from his post as deputy speaker of unelected House of Lords at the weekend after he was filmed snorting what The Sun on Sunday newspaper said was cocaine with two prostitutes. "I have no intention of returning to the house in any way unt
  
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• Iranian newspapers ordered to be positive about nuclear deal in secret letter

  27-07-2015 19:15
  
  Newspaper editors in Iran have been ordered to be positive about the nuclear deal with major world powers, in a secret directive from Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
  
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• Gardener jailed for killing nine ducklings with lawnmower

  27-07-2015 19:11
  
  A gardener has been jailed after pleading guilty to intentionally running over nine ducklings with a lawnmower.
  
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• UK-France taskforce set to boost digital economy

  27-07-2015 19:03
  
  Tech companies are set to be boosted by a new joint taskforce set up by Britain and France, Chancellor George Osborne has announced.
  
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• Lord Sewel: I'll stay away from Lords until sleaze probe completed

  27-07-2015 18:55
  
  Lord Sewel says he will stay away from Parliament until investigations into allegations he took drugs while cavorting with prostitutes are completed.
  
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• 'Breaking Bad' Gang Led By Cancer Sufferer

  27-07-2015 18:53
  
  A cancer victim who masterminded a Breaking Bad-style drugs plot has been jailed for 18 years.
  
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• Operation Stack: Businesses in Kent count the cost after M20 was turned into giant lorry park

  27-07-2015 18:53
  
  Businesses across Kent are counting the cost of the disruption by Operation Stack - which saw stretches of the M20 turned into a giant lorry park for most of last week - and demanding the Government prevent a repeat of the gridlock.
  
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• Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, 71, still enjoys 'an early morning joint' for breakfast

  27-07-2015 18:50
  
  Keith Richards has proved old habits really do die hard after admitting there has been one vice he hasn’t been able to give up – cannabis.
  
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• Lord Sewel requests 'leave of absence' from the House of Lords

  27-07-2015 18:49
  
  Lord Sewel, the peer facing allegations he snorted cocaine with two prostitutes, has announced he is taking  a “leave of absence” from the House of Lords.
  
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