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• Ashes 2015: With an audacious flourish, home hero Ian Bell ends all debate

  31-07-2015 23:57
  
  Be a hero, Ian Bell. The urging of the audience was palpable, the whole of Edgbaston on tiptoe urging their boy forward as he walked to the crease with just 11 on the board and the skipper in the unsaddling enclosure. Only 110 needed for victory, sun out and a third-day pitch offering the kind of dreamscape that filled many a schoolboy imagining.
  
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• Secret of living to 108: I've been too busy to be bored, says Annie

  31-07-2015 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ONE of Britain’s oldest women celebrated her 108th birthday and said the key to her long life is simply that she’s always been "too busy to be bored".
  
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• Sex abuse victims see payouts cut if they go on to commit a crime themselves

  31-07-2015 23:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HUNDREDS of sex abuse victims have had compensation payments reduced after committing crime themselves, an investigation found.
  
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• Jamie Oliver asked to help tackle childhood obesity

  31-07-2015 23:44
  
  Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and health experts have been asked to help the Government in tackling the problem of obesity in primary school children.
  
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• David Cameron hails Tory 'teamwork' and happy to see back of coalition

  31-07-2015 23:44
  
  Running a majority Tory government means ministers are "pulling in the same direction" rather setting up "fiefdoms" as happened under the coalition, David Cameron said.
  
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• Bare-knuckle boxing champ's belt celebrating 39-round bout sells for £32k

  31-07-2015 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A BOXING belt awarded to a 19th century bare-knuckle fighter who went 39 rounds in epic David v Goliath bout has sold for more than £30,000.
  
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• Bin lorry driver passed out at wheel of beer truck... 25 years earlier

  31-07-2015 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE driver of the bin lorry that killed six people after he collapsed at the wheel had blacked out while driving a beer lorry 25 years before the tragedy, a Fatal Accident Inquiry has heard.
  
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• David Cameron discusses Calais crisis with French president

  31-07-2015 23:01
  
  David Cameron has called the President of France to discuss the crisis at the port of Calais, which he has warned he expects to last all summer.
  
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• Hillary Clinton urges congress to lift the Cuba embargo

  31-07-2015 23:00
  
  Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said on Friday that the Cuban embargo “needs to go once and for all.”
  
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• Lib Dems prepare to release an avalanche of memoirs of the Coalitions history

  31-07-2015 22:59
  
  The chauffeured cars and cabinet pow-wows may already seem like ancient history to the Liberal Democrats turfed out of Parliament at the election. Now the party’s former MPs are fuelling a cottage industry in memoirs aimed at political obsessives whose idea of a light read is picking over every spit and cough of the Coalition.
  
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• The treasures of unclaimed estates

  31-07-2015 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  'If this art isn't yours, it's ours'
  
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• Weekend opt-out is stumbling block as BMA and NHS negotiate new consultant and junior doctor contracts

  31-07-2015 22:54
  
  The BMA and NHS have been negotiating the new consultant and junior doctor contracts for two years.
  
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• Cobbler is crowned the world's best shoe repairer

  31-07-2015 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A YOUNG Briton has just said cobblers to the competition by being crowned the world's best shoe mender.
  
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• Calais crisis: Sniffer dogs? We’re doomed if that’s our best, says UK haulier facing ruin

  31-07-2015 22:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A HAULIER whose business is on the brink of collapse due to the Calais migrant crisis has blasted David Cameron’s plans for more sniffer dogs, saying they are virtually useless.
  
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• HMS Victory: The mystery of Britain's worst naval disaster is finally solved - 271 years later

  31-07-2015 22:41
  
  One of Britain’s greatest maritime mysteries has finally been solved.
  
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• Policeman's widow: I'll never forgive thugs who killed my husband with a single punch

  31-07-2015 22:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A WIDOW says she will never forgive two thugs who killed her off-duty policeman husband in a street brawl.
  
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• Rupert Murdoch's private meeting with George Osborne: The mogul always likes to back a winner

  31-07-2015 22:28
  
  Rupert Murdoch’s support was critical to the rise of David Cameron. But it is simplistic to see George Osborne as just the next-in-line: the Chancellor has been in the Murdoch crosshairs for just as long as the Prime Minister.
  
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• Calais crisis: French media start war of words with UK and rejects our calls for help

  31-07-2015 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  OUTRAGED media commentators in France have stoked cross-Channel fury with a glut of Brit-bashing pieces about the crisis in Calais.
  
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• Doctors declare war on Jeremy Hunt over weekend working 'myths' amid plan for seven day NHS

  31-07-2015 22:10
  
  Jeremy Hunt has “peddled myths” about doctors’ workloads and demoralised the NHS workforce over plans for more seven-day services, the leader of Britain’s doctors has claimed, as a survey reveals nine out of 10 consultants are already on evening and weekend rotas. 
  
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• Hillary Clinton is declared 'fit to serve' by her personal doctor

  31-07-2015 22:05
  
  The Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has been given a clean bill of health and is “fit to serve”, her personal doctor has announced.
  
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• Woody Allen admits he is too lazy to make great films

  31-07-2015 21:55
  
  Film-maker Woody Allen has said great films are beyond him because he is middle class and too lazy, preferring to go home for dinner than face the challenge of a difficult scene.
  
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• Survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bomb attack: Japan must not abandon its post-war pacifism

  31-07-2015 21:43
  
  Luck and geography decided life or death in Nagasaki. Hirotami Yamada survived because he was at school, a little over a mile from the hypocentre of the plutonium bomb which was dropped on the city almost 70 years ago.
  
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• Mullah Omar dead: Taliban rift as ex-leader's son refuses to back successor

  31-07-2015 21:24
  
  Signs of the deep fractures within the Afghan Taliban have surfaced as the son of Mullah Omar rejected the choice of his successor, just hours after the group issued a statement praising their new leader as one of the late chief’s most “trusted” associates.
  
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• Turkey-Kurdish conflict: Meeting the victims of a new bombing campaign over Iraq

  31-07-2015 21:18
  
  Ahmed was watering his crop of cucumbers and tomatoes in the mountain village of Bolla when he heard the distant rumble of warplanes.
  
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• VIDEO: Cyclist who dragged toddler pleads guilty

  31-07-2015 21:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A cyclist who knocked down a toddler and dragged her along a pavement has pleaded guilty to dangerous cycling.
  
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• Jerusalem Pride stabbings: Girl, 16, critical as suspect appears in court over attack

  31-07-2015 21:09
  
  An ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremist suspected of stabbing revellers at Jerusalem’s Gay Pride parade appeared in court and was remanded in custody on 31 July. The accused, Yishai Schlissel, was arrested on 30 July after he allegedly brandished a knife and stabbed six people.
  
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• Eight areas to decide the Ashes

  31-07-2015 21:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Eight areas to decide the Ashes
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader of Labour party could scupper plans for third runway at Heathrow

  31-07-2015 21:03
  
  The election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party could scupper plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport after he came out against the project.
  
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• Alexis Tsipras on Yanis Varoufakis: You can question his taste in shirts, but not his honesty

  31-07-2015 20:58
  
  The Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, leapt to the defence of his embattled former Finance Minister, admitting that Yanis Varoukakis may have “made mistakes” on austerity reforms, planning a Greek exit from the euro – and even his taste in shirts.
  
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• Who are the radical rabbis inspiring Israel’s most violent Jewish settlers?

  31-07-2015 20:52
  
  While Israeli politicians have roundly condemned the deadly arson attack on a West Bank Palestinian home, no conciliatory words are to be expected from the extremist rabbis who have spent years inciting such violence.
  
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• How the killing of an 18-month-old boy in the West Bank exposed the Israeli authorities failure to stem tide of Jewish extremists

  31-07-2015 20:48
  Hours after Jewish extremist settlers burned alive Ali Dawabsha, an 18-month-old Palestinian, some in the poor West Bank village of Duma, where some Arabs make a living by working on nearby Israeli settlements, took refuge in their religion.
  
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• MH370: Why investigators are so confident that the debris is that of the missing plane

  31-07-2015 20:42
  
  The first crash-landed at Heathrow in 2008 with no loss of life; the second hit a sea wall at San Francisco during a botched landing in 2013, killing three passengers; and all 298 died when the third was shot down over eastern Ukraine a year ago. Those are the only three confirmed cases of Boeing 777s that have been destroyed. In each case the flaperons - key parts of the wings - were accounted for.
  
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• Satya Nadella: As Windows 10 is launched can he return Microsoft to its former glory?

  31-07-2015 20:38
  
  There was a time when the launch of a new version of Windows, Microsoft’s ubiquitous PC operating system, was a matter of great anticipation. People queued up outside shops, just as they now queue up for the latest iPhone. So low has Microsoft’s light dimmed in recent years that last week’s launch of Windows 10 came with a whimper, not a bang – even if it was relatively well received by software critics.
  
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• Woman speaks of 'living hell' after ex-husband jailed for gunning down her mother in revenge

  31-07-2015 20:10
  
  A young woman spoke of her “living hell” as her abusive ex-husband was jailed for life with a minimum of 28 years for gunning down her mother in an act of revenge.
  
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• Four dead as private jet crashes at Blackbushe Airport

  31-07-2015 20:07
  
  Four people have died after a private jet crash-landed in a car auction site and burst into flames as it approached the runway, police said.
  
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• Alexander Litvinenko murder inquiry: The five unanswered questions at the end of the proceedings

  31-07-2015 20:04
  
  The inquiry into the death of the Russian security officer, Alexander Litvinenko, almost nine years ago concluded in a blizzard of invective from the counsel for his widow, Marina. Ben Emmerson QC, who said the guilt of the two accused, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun, had been proved beyond all doubt, and the chain of command led all the way to President Vladimir Putin.
  
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• Estate agency which posted 140 photos of luxury home online 'not desperate to sell it'

  31-07-2015 19:59
  
  An estate agency which has posted more than 140 photos of a £3 million house online has said it is not “desperate” to sell it.
  
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• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and paediatrician wife Priscilla Chan expecting baby girl after three miscarriages

  31-07-2015 19:49
  
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his paediatrician wife Priscilla Chan have announced they are expecting a baby girl, after the couple dealt with three miscarriages.
  
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• Four feared dead as jet crashes at Blackbushe Airport

  31-07-2015 19:35
  
  Four people are feared dead after a private jet crash-landed in a car auction site and burst into flames as it approached the runway.
  
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• 'Four Dead' After Jet Crashes Into Car Auction

  31-07-2015 19:31
  
  A pilot and three passengers have died, according to Sky sources, after a small private jet crashed into a car auction as it was trying to land. Andrew Thomas, who was paying for a car at the time, told local media he saw the aircraft "nosedive"  into the cars and explode.
  
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• Palestinian artist's work to go on display in London after Channel 4's Jon Snow smuggles it out of Gaza

  31-07-2015 19:30
  Work by a Palestinian artist is to go on display in London after her paintings were smuggled out of Gaza by Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow.
  
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• International aid experts rig £27m UN contract for medicines in Africa to secure money for London property

  31-07-2015 19:23
  
  Two international aid experts rigged a £27m UN contract for medicines to Africa to secure millions of pounds in kickbacks to buy homes in upmarket parts of London.
  
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• 'One Dead' After Jet Crashes Into Car Auction

  31-07-2015 19:09
  
  One person has died, according to Sky sources, after a small jet that crashed into a car auction as it was trying to land. Andrew Thomas, who was paying for a car at the time, told local media he saw the aircraft "nosedive"  into the cars and explode.
  
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• David Cameron admits Calais crisis will last all summer

  31-07-2015 19:02
  
  Prime Minister David Cameron has admitted that the chaos in Calais will last all summer as he launched his latest attempt to control the crisis amid accusations from France that his response has been “racist”.
  
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• Russian pensioner 'may have killed and chopped up 13 people in 20 years'

  31-07-2015 18:59
  
  A Russian pensioner is reportedly being investigated for 13 murders over the last 20 years in which victims were beheaded and dismembered.
  
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• Jet with four people on board crashes at Blackbushe airport in Hampshire

  31-07-2015 18:57
  
  A small jet with four people on board crashed as it attempted to land at Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire this afternoon.
  
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• Jet With Four On Board Crashes Into Car Auction

  31-07-2015 18:55
  
  Four people were on board a small jet that crashed into a car auction at a Hampshire airport shortly after take-off. Andrew Thomas, who was paying for a car at the time, told local media he saw the aircraft "nosedive"  into the cars and explode.
  
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• Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman: Manhunters who caught Pablo Escobar are tasked with tracking down escaped Mexican drug lord

  31-07-2015 18:52
  The Mexican government has turned to Colombia for help in its hunt for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the drugs lord who escaped last month from a high-security prison for the second time.
  
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• John Stewart and The Daily Show: Charting ten years of the host's on-off relationship with US Democrats

  31-07-2015 18:51
  
  With just a week left until Jon Stewart hands in the keys to The Daily Show, every interview slot is precious.
  
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• Jon Stewart: The voice of Democrats who felt Obama had failed to deliver on his 'Yes We Can' slogan, and the voter he tried hardest to keep onside

  31-07-2015 18:45
  With just a week left until Jon Stewart hands in the keys to The Daily Show, every interview slot is precious.
  
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