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• Labour accuses Tories of pushing tax credit cuts through Parliament without proper scrutiny

  30-07-2015 23:58
  
  Labour has accused the Government of railroading its £1,000-a-year cuts to tax credits for three million families through Parliament without proper scrutiny.
  
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• CWU backs Corbyn 'to oust Blairites'

  30-07-2015 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Communication Workers Union backs left-wing MP Jeremy Corbyn in Labour's leadership contest, saying the "grip of the Blairites" on the party must be "loosened once and for all".
  
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• Family agony as ex-Apprentice contestant Stuart Baggs found dead

  30-07-2015 23:53
  
  The sister of former Apprentice contestant Stuart Baggs has said the family's world is "shattered apart" by his sudden death.
  
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• Every club should be like Labour – you can’t join as a new member unless you’re already a member

  30-07-2015 23:49
  
  It’s outsiders that have caused it. The only explanation for the madness that’s taken over the Labour Party, according to MPs such as John Mann, is people from outside are joining Labour, so the leadership election should be cancelled.
  
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• Officers at Sam DuBose scene involved in death of another unarmed black man

  30-07-2015 23:41
  
  Five years before University of Cincinnati officers Eric Weibel and Phillip Kidd corroborated the seemingly false account of an officer now charged with murder, they helped as Kelly Brinson was shocked and shackledTwo police officers who corroborated a seemingly false account of the fatal shooting of Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati were previously implicated in the death of an unarmed, hospitalised and mentally ill black man who died after he was “rushed” by a group of seven University of Cincin
  
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• The Cobbler review – botched Adam Sandler fantasy comedy

  30-07-2015 23:40
  
  This entirely dreadful yarn about a magical cobbler is up to Sandler’s usual standards, but you might have expected more from its directorIt stars Adam Sandler and, yes, cobbler’s in the title. Make your own jokes, because they’re otherwise lacking here: this botched fantasy – in which Sandler’s downtrodden Max discovers a magical stitching machine that allows him to literally walk a mile in his customers’ shoes – collapses amid its attempts to reshape a notionally sincere scr
  
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• Donald Trump thinks he 'would get along very well with Vladimir Putin'

  30-07-2015 23:39
  
  American Presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump has said he thinks he would "get along very well with Vladimir Putin" while speaking to press in Scotland.
  
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• Ferrari rumours disturbing - Bottas

  30-07-2015 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Williams driver Valtteri Bottas describes speculation linking him with a move to Ferrari as "disturbing".
  
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• Plaid leader denies party split

  30-07-2015 23:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood denies reports of a split in the party following concern about its former leader's criticism of leadership and policy.
  
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• West Ham 2-2 Astra Giurgiu | Europa League third qualifying round match report

  30-07-2015 23:11
  
  • West Ham 2-2 Astra Giurgiu
  • Valencia 23, Zárate 51; Boldrin 71, Ogbonna 82 ogAn evening that promised so much for West Ham United ended in disappointment, acrimony and a dash of farce, with Slaven Bilic sent to the stands after contesting one too many of Adrien Jaccottet’s decisions in the closing stages and Astra Giurgi seizing control of this Europa League third-round qualifier thanks to a comical own goal from Angelo Ogbonna. West Ham’s European adventure is in the balance now and
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn wins backing of two more unions in Labour leadership race

  30-07-2015 23:09
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has been given a fresh boost in his bid to become Labour leader after receiving the backing of two more trade unions.
  
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• Southampton 3-0 Vitesse | Europa League third qualifying round match report

  30-07-2015 23:06
  
  • Southampton 3-0 Vitesse• Pellè 36, Tadic 45 pen, Long 84Southampton had waited 12 years for this. During their darker days in League One when they were faced by the threat of liquidation, a return to the European stage could hardly have been imagined. How they enjoyed it and a Sadio Mané-inspired victory has moved them closer to the group phase of the Europa League.They must negotiate the return tie in Arnhem and then a two-leg play-off but this was precisely the sort of stirring,
  
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• Man's body found in city centre

  30-07-2015 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The sudden death of a 59-year-old man in Belfast city centre is being investigated by police.
  
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• Eurotunnel migrants cause fresh problems for French police

  30-07-2015 22:52
  
  Police are facing another night of mayhem at the Eurotunnel after migrants trying to storm in caused fresh disruption in France.
  
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• La Monte Young: 'I'm only interested in putting out masterpieces'

  30-07-2015 22:46
  
  The godfather of minimal music is still performing at 79, and since few recordings exist of his work, his live performances are more essential than everLike many fans of minimalist-music godfather La Monte Young, I have often wished he’d put out more recordings. Long out-of-print CD copies of his multi-hour masterwork The Well-Tuned Piano occasionally fetch over $1,000 on the secondhand marketplace. A pair of other albums released by the now-defunct Gramavision label are occasionally easier to
  
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• Al Murray: Social media 'mob mentality' threatens free speech

  30-07-2015 22:41
  
  Comedian Al Murray has criticised the "mob mentality" on social media for attacking free speech.
  
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• Man With a Movie Camera review – visionary, transformative 1929 experimental film

  30-07-2015 22:40
  
  Dziga Vertov’s experimental silent documentary upends reality in ways that are still dizzying, thrilling and strangely sexyThe spirit of punk throbs in this extraordinary silent classic from 1929, now on cinema rerelease. Dziga Vertov’s experimental documentary essay remains fascinating after all these years, as potent as an exposed fragment of sodium. It shows scenes of city life in Moscow, Odessa and Kiev, and the credits describe it as an “experiment in cinematic communication
  
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• Migrant 'Hotspots' Across Motorway Network

  30-07-2015 22:25
  
  Sky News understands there are "hotspots" of activity along the motorway network in southern England. Cobham Services in Surrey is one of the first major truck stops out of Folkestone and has seen 156 migrants arrested there since April alone. Nine months ago a farmer who owns lands near Cobham services came across a group of five Nepalese men.
  
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• Facebook ready to test giant drone for internet service

  30-07-2015 22:24
  
  Facebook has said it will begin test flights later this year of a solar-powered drone with the wingspan of a Boeing 737, the next stage of its campaign to deliver internet service to remote parts of the world.
  
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• Chinese web dissenters using coded language to dodge censorship filters and vent frustration at government

  30-07-2015 22:20
  Chinese internet users wanting to vent frustration at their government are using a coded language to dodge censorship filters.
  
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• There's a mainstream alternative to George Osborne's economics

  30-07-2015 22:13
  
  The Tories’ killer case at the election was the charge that Labour spent too much, caused the financial crisis, left an economic mess and want to do the same again. This is good politics but lousy economics. It worked a treat for the Tories and it is clear that George Osborne wants to replay the same political theme through to 2020.
  
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• Mullah Omar dead: Afghan Taliban struggles to maintain unity in the wake of leader's death - as exclusively seen letters apparently reveal

  30-07-2015 22:12
  The radio silence gave way to frantic conversations. Local Taliban commanders sought reassurance. Mullah Omar, the mujahedin commander of Kandahar, had finally been declared dead and along the porous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, confusion reigned. Listening to the hurried conversations in Kandahar on Wednesday night were the Afghan border police.
  
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• MH370 search: Relatives of passengers remain sceptical about Reunion Discovery

  30-07-2015 22:04
  
  Jacquita Gomes was torn about whether to believe that aircraft debris found more than 16 months after the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 could be the first concrete evidence that her husband is truly gone.
  
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• British air strikes on Syria: Public back bombing campaign by margin of two to one, says poll

  30-07-2015 21:54
  
  The public supports extending UK air strikes against Isis into Syria by a margin of two to one, according to an opinion poll for The Independent.
  
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• Philae lander data show comets could have brought 'building blocks of life' to Earth

  30-07-2015 21:53
  
  Organic molecules that could have contributed to the chemical building blocks of life have been discovered under the icy surface of a comet, scientists have said.
  
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• Steven Finn fires England to verge of victory with five-wicket haul

  30-07-2015 21:50
  
  • Third Test, day two: Australia 136 & 168-7; England 281
  • Finn takes 5-45 leaving England poised to take 2-1 lead in Ashes series
  • Click here for the full scorecard at EdgbastonSteven Finn, with a five-wicket haul on his return to Test cricket, has bowled England to the verge of taking a 2-1 lead in the series. At one time, a match played at such a dizzying pace it seemed hard to keep up was heading towards a finish inside two days, with Australia’s second innings, midway through
  
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• Labour Demands Inquiry Into Tax Credits Cuts

  30-07-2015 21:43
  
  Harriet Harman has written to the Prime Minister to insist that the Government's cuts to tax credits should be scrutinised by a select committee inquiry. In his Budget earlier this month, the Chancellor announced changes to the thresholds for the receipt of working tax credits which would reduce the amount many workers receive.
  
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• Murder arrest after baby girl dies

  30-07-2015 21:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man is arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a baby girl in Greater Manchester.
  
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• Stuart Baggs dead: It is not fair to brand him as a buffoon

  30-07-2015 21:34
  
  Left untweaked for too long and television formats have a tendency to give up their secrets.
  
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• Kim takes one-shot British Open lead

  30-07-2015 21:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  South Korean Kim Hyo-joo shoots a seven-under-par 65 to lead the Women's British Open at Turnberry after the first round.
  
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• Designer smash-and-grab gang jailed

  30-07-2015 21:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Seven men involved in robberies on high-end shops across London are jailed.
  
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• The Beatles film Help, released 50 years ago, signalled the birth of the 'metrosexual' man

  30-07-2015 21:30
  
  It's 50 years since the release of The Beatles' second feature film, Help! Whatever you may think of the film itself (which got very mixed reviews) this rollicking film of "good, clean insanity" provides a wonderfully unique window on to the social changes that men saw in the 1960s.
  
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• George Osborne under pressure to reveal if meeting with Rupert Murdoch preceded announcement of BBC cuts

  30-07-2015 21:26
  
  George Osborne is under pressure to reveal if he held a private meeting with Rupert Murdoch days before the Treasury imposed a £650m budget cut on the BBC.
  
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• Why you won’t catch a British politician at the opera | Martin Kettle

  30-07-2015 21:19
  
  Unlike Angela Merkel, our leaders rarely flaunt their cultural tastes. It’s to the detriment of national lifeLast Saturday I sat in something very close to rapture just a few feet away from Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel. But Merkel wasn’t making a speech. She wasn’t giving a press conference. And, although I live in hope, she wasn’t giving me an exclusive interview for the Guardian about Britain and the EU either.Merkel was doing the same thing I was doing. She was at the opera h
  
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• Moeen Ali and Stuart Broad douse Mitchell Johnson fire to spark England

  30-07-2015 21:15
  
  England’s ninth-wicket pair put on 87 runs to return Australia’s strike bowler to the role of pantomime villain and change the direction of the third TestAs the Australia wickets tumbled in the afternoon and a roaring Edgbaston begged the question as to why all home Ashes series do not begin in Birmingham, it was easy to forget that either side of the lunch interval the second day had hung in the balance.Mitchell Johnson grasped the overnight momentum by the throat first thing, bursting thro
  
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• From Putin to Mullah Omar, traces of cold war paranoia still shape our world | Anne McElvoy

  30-07-2015 21:09
  
  East Germany’s Stasi chief Markus Wolf said that in the intelligence world ‘nothing ever goes away’ – he was rightIn an interview on Desert Island Discs in 2006, David Cameron told an amusing anecdote about a jaunt to Yalta when he was 19: over lunch in the resort city on the Black Sea, the KGB had “interviewed” the young prime minister-in-waiting with view to future employment. Now Russia’s secret services have taken umbrage at the story: Moscow is as shocked at the allegation as
  
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• English schools see first rise in exclusions in eight years

  30-07-2015 21:05
  
  Teaching unions concerned by increase in young pupils expelled for assaulting adults A rise in pupils excluded by primary schools has caused the first increase in exclusions from English state schools for eight years, with teaching unions concerned by an increase in young pupils expelled for assaulting adults.Figures published by the Department for Education showed that 11,400 primary-age pupils received temporary suspensions and 240 received permanent exclusions for physically assaulting adults
  
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• Cecil the lion death: US opens investigation into killing as hunter Walter Palmer faces calls to return to Africa and 'face justice'

  30-07-2015 21:04
  US authorities have opened an investigation into the death of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe, as the Minnesota dentist accused of illegally hunting and killing it faced calls to return to Africa and “face justice”.
  
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• Calais migrant crisis: Defending borders and saving lives is a military matter

  30-07-2015 21:04
  
  There can hardly be a crueller contrast than the one on display at the Calais end of the Channel Tunnel. On the one hand, the queues of cars laden with British families on their way to or from a continental holiday, all sunhats, tanning cream, and smiles. On the other, groups of mostly young men scaling metal fences, clambering aboard lorries and jumping onto trains in the desperate hope of reaching the land of their dreams.
  
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• Mullah Akhtar Mansoor: Taliban's new leader has a reputation for moderation

  30-07-2015 21:04
  
  Mullah Omar’s reported successor joined the group at its founding and is known to be in favour of peace talks with the Afghan government Mullah Akhtar Mansoor – believed to be the Taliban’s new leader – has an unexpected reputation as a relative moderate and vigorous proponent of peace talks, raising hopes that his leadership could pave the way for an end to years of fighting.
  He was a founding member of the group, who knew Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden personally, but kept a relativel
  
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• Finn puts England on brink of win

  30-07-2015 21:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Steven Finn takes 5-45 to reduce Australia to 168-7 in their second innings on the second day of the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston.
  
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• Litvinenko inquiry: Russian state involved 'in one way or another', inquiry hears

  30-07-2015 21:00
  
  The Russian state was involved in the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko "in one way or another", an inquiry into the death of the former Russian security service officer has heard.
  
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• Hollywood's new diet: Has LA stolen New York's crown as the ultimate foodie trend-setter?

  30-07-2015 21:00
  
  A light wind is blowing through the Doric columns on the roof of the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, ruffling the jasmine that twists around them. Clouds the colour of dreadnoughts begin to muscle in on the blue. The man who looks after the pool worries. “Rain’s coming,” he says from behind his reflective ¬sunglasses, as if announcing the imminent arrival of the Four Horsemen.
  
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• VIDEO: RAF 'intercepts Russian aircraft'

  30-07-2015 20:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Ministry of Defence has released footage which it said shows RAF Typhoons intercepting 10 Russian aircraft.
  
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• Kids Company charity faces police investigation

  30-07-2015 20:48
  
  Children's charity Kids Company is being investigated by police officers specialising in sexual offences, exploitation and child abuse.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras tries to calm his increasingly fractured Syriza party with internal vote on bailout plans

  30-07-2015 20:43
  Greece’s Prime Minister has made a last-minute bid to secure unity in his increasingly fractured Syriza party, with the offer of an internal referendum this Sunday.
  
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• Jungle life tough for migrants from devastated nations

  30-07-2015 20:42
  
  Life in the sprawling migrant shanty town known as the Jungle is hectic.
  
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• MH370 debris: A breakthrough, but only when the fuselage is found will the relatives find closure

  30-07-2015 20:41
  
  The loss of MH370 is the greatest mystery in aviation history. The disappearance of the Boeing 777 on the night of 8 March 2014 has transfixed the world and triggered a spectrum of speculation.
  
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• Kids Company Children's Charity In Police Probe

  30-07-2015 20:39
  
  Kids Company, a charity that supports vulnerable children, is being investigated over "allegations of crime", police say. A statement said: "The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has today, Thursday, 30 July, commenced an investigation into a number of allegations of crime involving a children's charity. The charity, founded in 1996, says it provides "practical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city children, young people and families".
  
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• Families travelling to join Isis should be allowed to keep custody of their children, says judge

  30-07-2015 20:35
  
  Families suspected of attempting to travel overseas to join Isis should be allowed to keep custody of their children – as long as the parents wear electronic tags, a High Court judge has ruled.
  
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