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• Girl who tragically lost leg in Alton Towers Smiler crash celebrates 18th birthday

  29-07-2015 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE teenage girl who had leg amputated following the Alton Towers horror crash has celebrated her birthday with her boyfriend who was also injured in the rollercoaster tragedy.
  
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• Glasgow bin lorry crash 'could have been prevented' if driver told truth on medical forms

  29-07-2015 23:37
  
  The tragic bin lorry crash in Glasgow that killed six just days before Christmas could have been avoided if the driver told the truth about his previous blackouts in his job application to the city council.
  
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• Let's Race simulator: Ultra-realistic technology recreates thrill of the Formula One circuit

  29-07-2015 23:30
  
  The simulator room, when you enter it, is as cool, hushed and dramatic as a cathedral. Chilled to a constant 16C to keep the expensive electronics from overheating, the view is undeniably impressive – 10 £130,000, full-motion Formula One car simulators, laid out in two imposing rows of five. Exact simulations of the 2014 Marussia F1 MR03 car, this array is more than a £1m worth of racing technology. The simulators sit quietly awaiting their drivers, be they there to take part in corporate b
  
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• Diego Costa biography: Chelsea striker's route to the top - from those who shared his journey

  29-07-2015 23:30
  
  Diego Costa’s journey from the poor city of Lagarto in north-east Brazil to become one of the Premier League’s best strikers stands now as one of modern football’s fairy tales. Just how hard that journey was, and the scrapes he endured along the way, have been vividly brought together by the Spanish journalist Fran Guillen in his new biography of the Chelsea striker, Diego Costa: The Art of War.
  
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• House of Lords: 20 peers claim £1.6m during the past five years – and never speak in debates

  29-07-2015 23:29
  
  Twenty peers who have said almost nothing during debates in the House of Lords have received more than £1.6m in allowances and travel expenses during the past five years.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn backed by Unison and Unite for Labour leader - BBC News

  29-07-2015 23:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Jeremy Corbyn backed by Unison and Unite for Labour leader
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  Left wing MP Jeremy Corbyn has the backing of the UK's two largest trade unions after Unison followed Unite in endorsing him to be Labour's next leader. The public services union said Yvette Cooper was its second choice. Initially seen as an outsider ...
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• Manchester NHS devolution plans fatally flawed as voluntary organisations not involved, say charity leaders

  29-07-2015 23:04
  
  Charity leaders are warning that the Government’s moves to give Greater Manchester power over health and social care spending could be fatally flawed because voluntary organisations appear to have been forgotten in the plans.
  
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• Calais Migrant Crisis: Extra Police Guard Tunnel

  29-07-2015 23:03
  
  French police have beefed up security at the Eurotunnel to avoid migrants forcing their way onto railway platforms for another night. An extra 120 riot police have been drafted into Calais to cope with the crisis, which has seen one Sudanese man die and 3,500 migrants storm the tunnel over the last two nights. Until today, 60 French police covered the site along with 200 Eurotunnel security staff and police union official Gilles Debove said the increase would be a "burst of oxygen" fo
  
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• Teenager drowns in canal while fleeing police

  29-07-2015 23:02
  
  A teenager has drowned after he went into a canal while fleeing police officers who were called to help the youth by his family, police have said.
  
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• New Dr Seuss manuscript discovered: What Pet Should I Get? goes on sale this week

  29-07-2015 23:00
  
  Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman isn't the only rediscovered manuscript getting some buzz recently. Another book, but one geared to a much younger audience, is also highly anticipated. A newly discovered Dr Seuss book goes on sale this week, 25 years after the author's last work, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
  
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• Jane Birkin asks Hermès to rename bag - but what else could the fashion house call it?

  29-07-2015 22:30
  
  It's the ultimate status symbol on two handles. Costing anywhere between £5,000 and £100,000, Victoria Beckham is said to have collected over a hundred, and it has a waiting list to rival that of the NHS. But now Jane Birkin is saying that she no longer wants to be associated with the much sought-after Hermès handbag that bears her name.
  
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• Bramley apple pie filling recognised as historical delicacy - Telegraph.co.uk

  29-07-2015 22:03 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  Bramley apple pie filling recognised as historical delicacy
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  It has its place in the heart of many Britons - and now a European ruling has recognised it as a historical delicacy too. Traditional Bramley apple pie filling will be given "protected status" by the European Commission, and will be placed on ...
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• Twitter accused of 'Facebookisation' over plans to overhaul reverse-chronological timeline

  29-07-2015 22:00
  
  Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, famously once said: "A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa." Twitter, however, is the opposite to this. It brings the world together.
  
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• Margaret Attwood on climate change: 'Time is running out for our fragile, Goldilocks planet'

  29-07-2015 21:30
  
  Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our co-conspirator! Can't live with it, can't  –  right at this moment  –  live without it. But it's on everyone's mind. Back in 2009, as fracking and the mining of the oil/tar sands in Alberta ramped up  –  when people were talking about Peak Oil and the dangers of the supply giving out  –  I wrote a piece called "The Future Without Oil." It went like this...
  
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• US Fed leaves door open to rise in interest rates later this year

  29-07-2015 21:22
  
  The board of the US Federal Reserve has left the door open to a possible interest rate rise in September as it emerged from its latest two-day monetary policy meeting, having voted unanimously to keep the cost of borrowing on hold.
  
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• Anti-corruption campaigners furious as Government considers softening Bribery Act

  29-07-2015 21:15
  
  The Government is reviewing the Bribery Act after business leaders claimed it was making it difficult for British firms to export goods.
  
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• MH370 debris: Timeline of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane disappearance

  29-07-2015 21:07
  
  It is almost a year and a half since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing. Here is a timeline of the main events over the last 17 months.
  
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• Nick Clegg turns down invitation for Lib Dem frontbench position

  29-07-2015 21:07
  
  Nick Clegg turned down an invitation to serve on the Liberal Democrat frontbench team announced by Tim Farron.
  
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• Donovan interview: The singer is releasing a greatest hits album to mark his 50th year in folk

  29-07-2015 21:00
  
  There is a lot of fun to be had in listening to Donovan's latest greatest hits offering, Donovan: Retrospective, released to mark his 50th anniversary in music. Though essentially a facsimile of his many and varied hits collections over the years, his songs remain sublimely evocative of the era from which they sprang. "Epistle to Dippy", for example, could only ever be the product of a man who smoked cannabis in order to throw open the doors of perception, and "The Hurdy Gurdy Man" offers the v
  
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• Calais crisis: Theresa May criticised over pledge to help French deport migrants to Africa

  29-07-2015 20:58
  
  Theresa May has come under fire over a “misguided” pledge to help the French deport more migrants back to Africa in response to the Calais crisis.
  
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• The US must free itself of its 'gun under the mattress' ideology

  29-07-2015 20:52
  
  The young woman helping me with a story about poverty in Oklahoma last year, not a socially unaware or politically conservative person, didn’t blink when I happened to ask if she owned a gun. Where she lives, it might take police 40 minutes to arrive in case of trouble. She had three, including one under the mattress. It helped me grasp America and its relationship to firearms.
  
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• Ants have unique ability to switch between individual and collective action, says study

  29-07-2015 20:48
  
  Ants have an almost unique ability among animals to switch between individual and collective action, according to new research which uncovers the mystery behind their impressive teamwork.
  
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• Oculus Rift and the lonely cartoon hedgehog who could become the first ever virtual reality movie star

  29-07-2015 20:46
  A lonely cartoon hedgehog named Henry could herald the future of storytelling by becoming the first ever virtual reality (VR) movie star, say the creators of a ground-breaking new short film. Henry, the second animated short by VR film-makers Oculus Story Studio, was unveiled on Tuesday at an invitation-only event at a mansion in Beverly Hills.
  
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• Illegal West Bank settlement in Beit El torn down - as Israeli government approves plans for 300-unit neighbourhood in the same area

  29-07-2015 20:35
  Even as authorities tore down two illegal settler buildings on private Palestinian land, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced a significant expansion of Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.
  
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• Bramley apple pie filling gains EU recognition

  29-07-2015 20:31
  
  Traditional Bramley apple pie filling already has its place in the heart of many Britons - and now a European ruling has recognised it as a historical delicacy too.
  
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• Flight MH370 wreckage: The 14 conspiracy theories that could explain where the plane is - and what happened to it

  29-07-2015 20:27
  It is now almost a year and a half since a Boeing 777 carrying 239 people set off from Kuala Lumpur airport for Beijing and disappeared without a trace.
  
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• Cecil the lion death: White men go to Africa to prove their manhood – at a cost

  29-07-2015 20:25
  
  The death of Cecil the Zimbabwean lion has shone the spotlight on the lucrative business of trophy game hunting – but is there any more to this $200m (£156m) industry than the desire of rich white men to demonstrate their machismo?
  
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• War with Isis: US and Turkey yet to determine which Syrian fighters to support in battle against militants

  29-07-2015 20:16
  
  The United States and Turkey have not yet agreed which Syrian opposition fighters they will support in a joint effort to help clear Isis from an area along the Turkish border, American officials have admitted.
  
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• UK and French governments vow to boost Eurotunnel security

  29-07-2015 20:07
  
  The British and French governments have pledged to increase security at the Eurotunnel after one migrant died during an attempt by hundreds to storm the Channel Tunnel.
  
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• Ashes 2015 Third Test Day One report: England skittle Australia for 136, James Anderson takes six wickets, Ian Bell hits half-century

  29-07-2015 20:07
  A classic display of seam-and-swing bowling from James Anderson helped England bowl Australia out inside two sessions at Edgbaston to restate their 2015 Ashes credentials.
  
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• David Cameron flies into storm of allegations of government corruption in Kuala Lumpur

  29-07-2015 20:03
  
  An investigation into alleged corruption worth hundreds of millions of pounds at Malaysia’s national investment company threatened to overshadow David Cameron’s arrival in Kuala Lumpur on 30 July.
  
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• Scientists find link between BPA and prostate cancer in 'organoid' research

  29-07-2015 20:00
  
  A link between a plastics chemical and prostate cancer has been demonstrated in an "organoid" grown from embryonic stem cells.
  
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• Calais crisis: For desperate migrants it's 'England or death' as they brave dogs, riot police and speeding trains

  29-07-2015 19:58
  
  Resting under a tree after another night of gambling with his life on the tracks of the Channel Tunnel, Ismat Amir shrugged his shoulders when asked why he and the dozens of fellow migrants surrounding him were prepared to leap at speeding trains in search of a new life. He said: “It's a game. But one with a high price. It's England or it's death.”
  
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• MH370 search: Boeing 777 wing that could match missing plane found on French island of Reunion

  29-07-2015 19:49
  
  Aeroplane wreckage which could be that of MH370, the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, has washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion.
  
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• Murder Conviction Over Shampoo Bottle Assault

  29-07-2015 19:47
  
  A man has been convicted of murder after a 51-year-old woman was found with a shampoo bottle inside her following a "perverted sexual assault". Daniel McBride was found guilty at Winchester Crown Court of killing Majella Lynch, who was discovered by carers at her Southampton home suffering "severe abdominal pain" in April. She died two days later of septicaemia and 44-year-old McBride was arrested.
  
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• Labour leadership race: I am backing Andy Burnham to unite the party and lead us forward to the next election

  29-07-2015 19:37
  
  Let's be honest; this is a difficult time for the Labour Party.
  
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• Unison backs Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leadership as poll gives him big lead

  29-07-2015 19:33
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has received another boost in his bid to become Labour leader after receiving the backing of one of the country's biggest trade unions.
  
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• Swimming Teachers Association under investigation by charity watchdog amid 'concerns' over expenses

  29-07-2015 19:26
  
  Britain’s charities watchdog is investigating one of the world’s largest swimming teaching organisations after “serious concerns” allegedly linked to its finances and expenses payments were found.
  
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• 'Voice of Racing' Sir Peter O'Sullevan dies aged 97

  29-07-2015 19:25
  
  Veteran racing commentator Sir Peter O'Sullevan has died at the age of 97, BBC Sport has announced.
  
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• Glasgow bin lorry crash 'could have been avoided if driver declared blackout'

  29-07-2015 19:25
  
  The Glasgow bin lorry crash that killed six people days before Christmas could have been avoided if the driver "had told the truth" in his job application to the city council, an inquiry has heard.
  
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• Hilary Benn appeals for members to elect Andy Burnham in Labour leadership race

  29-07-2015 19:18
  
  Hilary Benn, the son of the late Tony Benn, has appealed to Labour members to elect Andy Burnham as party leader rather than Jeremy Corbyn, who was a close ally of his father.
  
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• Ricin Plotter's To-Do List: 'Get Pet To Murder'

  29-07-2015 19:14
  
  A software programmer has been convicted of plotting to buy enough of the deadly toxin ricin to kill 1,400 people. Mohammed Ali, 31, agreed to pay a supplier on the Dark Web £20 for 500mg of ricin earlier this year.
  
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• The Factory project: New £110m arts venue named after Tony Wilson's Factory Records to open in Manchester

  29-07-2015 19:12
  Manchester’s music scene has always rolled with a self-confident swagger. So it’s no surprise that approval for a new £110m arts venue in the city was accompanied by boasts that its arrival would make Manchester the “cultural capital of the world.”
  
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• Priest performs exorcism from a helicopter to banish evil from Italian town where several churches have been robbed and defiled

  29-07-2015 19:06
  A priest has performed an exorcism from a helicopter to banish evil from an Italian seaside town said to be beset with social and moral decay.
  
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• Swedish authorities are offering asylum seekers free bus passes to help them integrate into society

  29-07-2015 19:03
  
  Swedish authorities have started a offering asylum seekers free bus passes, in an effort to help them integrate into society.
  
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• Astronomers find spectacular aurora in failed star outside solar system

  29-07-2015 19:00
  
  A spectacular version of the Northern Lights, but 10,000 times more powerful, lights up the skies of a "failed star", astronomers have discovered.
  
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• Mullah Omar, creator of the Taliban, is dead... for the fourth time

  29-07-2015 18:59
  
  How many times do you have to kill a man before he dies? Not for the first time Mullah Mohammad Omar, Emir of the Faithful, friend and protector of Osama bin Laden, creator of the Taliban, destroyer of graven images, has died.
  
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• How judge who was kicked off British Airways competition case used a hearing to subject airline's legal counsel to barrage of questions

  29-07-2015 18:58
  It was the case that stunned the legal profession: a High Court judge who used a hearing in a £3 billion dispute involving British Airways to repeatedly press the airline on the question of what had happened to his lost luggage.
  
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• How judge who was kicked off British Airways competition case subjected airline's legal counsel to barrage of questions

  29-07-2015 18:58
  It was the case that stunned the legal profession: a High Court judge who used a hearing in a £3 billion dispute involving British Airways to repeatedly press the airline on the question of what had happened to his lost luggage.
  
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• Phone and internet problems for BT broadband customers

  29-07-2015 18:56
  
  BT broadband customers across the UK are reporting problems with both their phone lines and internet connections, as the firm warned the issues could last into next week.
  
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