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• Doping crisis: Russia and Kenya reject drugs claims as a smear campaign

  02-08-2015 23:59
  
  Russia and Kenya, the two nations implicated most seriously in the latest doping allegations to rock the athletics world, have both hit back over the claims.
  
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• Delays after fire at railway station

  02-08-2015 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Trains are disrupted after a fire broke out at a Kent railway station.
  
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• Tory MP Priti Patel said party HQ workers felt 'threatened' by 'thuggish' group of elderly and disabled campaigners

  02-08-2015 23:55
  
  A campaign group working to protect the NHS have hit out at Employment Minister Priti Patel, after she allegedly described members that gathered at her office – some of whom were elderly and or disabled – as a “thuggish gang”.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's economic policy 'will keep Tories in for a decade'

  02-08-2015 23:50
  
  Jeremy Corbyn's "starry-eyed hard-left" economic strategy would push up inflation and interest rates, undermine support for public services and deliver a decade or more of Conservative rule, shadow chancellor Chris Leslie has warned.
  
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• Chaos, war and terror behind the migrant rush to reach UK

  02-08-2015 23:50
  
  Migrants fleeing some of the world's most deadly wars, bloody genocides and brutal dictatorships are attempting to reach the UK from Calais. Here the Press Association takes a look at the nightmares that many of them are desperately trying to escape.
  
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• Energy consumers to be able to switch suppliers in 24 hours

  02-08-2015 23:47
  
  Consumers will be able to switch energy supplier within 24 hours by 2018, under changes being introduced by the Government after a report found power companies were overcharging customers by £1.2 billion a year.
  
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• Donald Trump campaign fires staffer over 'racist Facebook posts'

  02-08-2015 23:39
  The campaign behind Donald Trump’s bid to become the Republican presidential candidate has fired a member of staff who allegedly made racist Facebook posts.
  
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• Man arrested on Isle of Wight after woman's body found

  02-08-2015 23:28
  
  Hampshire police say a 53-year-old man is helping them with their inquiries after they were called to a flat in Newport, where they found a body
  A 53-year-old man has been arrested after a woman’s body was found at a flat on the Isle of Wight.Police were called at 12.40pm on Sunday to a property in Barton Road, Newport, where they found a body. Continue reading...
  
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• Not all discounts are welcome: Beware the myopia of company bosses

  02-08-2015 23:25
  
  It’s an unfortunate fact of economics and finance that many different concepts seem to have been given the same name. “Current account”, for instance, refers both to someone’s regular bank account and also the difference between an entire nation’s income and expenditure. “Capital” can mean an individual’s financial wealth, the money that flows across national borders, and also, just to add to the confusion, a bank’s safety buffer.
  
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• Prudential RideLondon 2015: Cyclist dies while climbing the highest hill in Surrey during sportive

  02-08-2015 23:21
  
  A 55-year-old cyclist collapsed and died while climbing the highest hill in Surrey during the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 event on 2 August.
  
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• Prudential RideLondon 2015: Cyclist dies while climbing the highest hill in Surrey during race

  02-08-2015 23:21
  
  A 55-year-old cyclist collapsed and died while climbing the highest hill in Surrey during the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 event on 2 August.
  
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• Ashes 2015: England can break the sequence despite loss of Jimmy Anderson

  02-08-2015 23:16
  
  In a series of swinging fortunes, England will be wary of an Australia comeback in the fourth Test at Trent Bridge as they close in on regaining the AshesSo in the aftermath of their comprehensive win at Edgbaston, England have that elusive thing called momentum going into the fourth Test at Trent Bridge starting on Thursday. Or do they? They had plenty of momentum after the victory in Cardiff too, and look what happened at Lord’s. Then the momentum was with Australia after that, and much good
  
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• Pizza Express under pressure from waiting staff to drop 8 per cent administration fee they lose on credit card tips

  02-08-2015 23:08
  Pizza Express chief executive Richard Hodgson is under pressure from waiting staff to drop an 8 per cent administration fee that they lose on credit card tips.
  
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• Canada set for longest election as PM Stephen Harper focuses on economy

  02-08-2015 23:05
  
  Prime minister faces career-defining battle after nine years in office
  Opponents say Conservatives caused economic slump they want to fixThe longest Canadian election campaign since the Victorian age began on Sunday morning, when Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the country would go to the polls 78 days from now, on 19 October.Related: Canada's Liberals face bleak future – is it too late for Justin Trudeau to save them?Continue reading...
  
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• Michael Howard: Former Tory leader faces questions by SFO over oil deal corruption claims

  02-08-2015 23:03
  The former leader of the Conservative Party, Lord Howard of Lympne, is to be questioned by the Serious Fraud Office over the coming days in relation to a criminal investigation into an oil explorer where he is chairman.
  
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• Humans recap: season one, episode eight – the big finale

  02-08-2015 23:00
  
  It would be an understatement to say that Humans doesn’t end neatly. There are more questions than answers as the super-synths make their bid for freedomSpoiler alert: this recap covers the eighth episode of Humans showing on Channel 4. For episode seven, click hereIf you’ve grown to love the conscious synths over the past few episodes, look away now. Hobb has all five of them strapped to beds and he’s removing their ability to self-replicate, along with their dignity.Continue reading...
  
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• Chelsea’s Emma Hayes keeps FA Cup final winners focused on more trophies

  02-08-2015 22:59
  
  • Chelsea Ladies still in hunt for three more competitions
  • Manager Emma Hayes says she is relishing the pressureThis was a big occasion for women’s football: the first FA Cup final to take place at Wembley, where a warm afternoon added to the sense that here was a game basking in its moment. Beforehand, players from Chelsea and Notts County had talked about how special it would be to finally walk on to that turf in front of a record crowd to compete for a trophy that neither side had won
  
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• Natasha Parry: Actress hailed for her grace and control who forged a solo career while also working with husband Peter Brook

  02-08-2015 22:55
  The statuesque beauty of the actress Natasha Parry was the perfect vehicle for the grace and control she brought to a wealth of stage triumphs, in an unpredictable career that was never a straight line, but rather was wondrously interwoven with her love for her husband, the great director Peter Brook. Their romance lasted 70 years: it delivered pioneering work from both of them, and one of the most exciting partnerships in theatrical history.
  
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• Cilla Black: Singer who was signed by Brian Epstein and went on to forge a successful career as a much-loved presenter

  02-08-2015 22:48
  The singer and television presenter Cilla Black embodied the Sixties spirit of working-class people with talent suddenly having the opportunity to prove it. In the words of Twiggy, it was “a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things”. Ambitious and tough with it, the proudly Liverpudlian red-head began her career as a cloakroom attendant at The Cavern Club, and became the UK’s best-selling female recording artist of the Sixties.
  
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• 'Gene drive': Scientists sound alarm over supercharged GM organisms which could spread in the wild and cause environmental disasters

  02-08-2015 22:32
  A powerful new technique for generating “supercharged” genetically modified organisms that can spread rapidly in the wild has caused alarm among scientists who fear that it may be misused, accidentally or deliberately, and cause a health emergency or environmental disaster.
  
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• Terrawatch: The lost art of specimen illustration

  02-08-2015 22:30
  
  Today scientists use sophisticated technology to catalogue treasures such as fossils. Items can be laser scanned, enabling us to view the object from any angle, without even touching the specimen. But sometimes you can’t beat an old fashioned illustration. Continue reading...
  
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• German Isis recruit Ebrahim B to reveal full horrors of his 'execution centre' ordeal

  02-08-2015 22:26
  
  Ebrahim B finally woke up to the horrific reality of life in Isis in August last year. Locked in a blood-smeared cell in one the terror organisation’s “execution centres” somewhere in Syria, the 26-year-old German Tunisian from Wolfsburg was forced to listen to the sound of a fellow prisoner being decapitated.
  
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• Tom Cruise: Reporters banned from asking actor about Scientology

  02-08-2015 22:12
  
  It’s one of the risks of being a celebrity: something controversial is going on in your personal life, but it’s right around when your new film premieres. So you are contractually obligated to be interviewed on television.
  
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• Kurdish villagers under fire in PKK-controlled Iraq say Turkey is 'no different from Isis'

  02-08-2015 22:08
  
  For the Turkish Kurds in northern Iraq, the bombing raids, abandoned villages and innocent lives lost are all-too-familiar tragedies.
  
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• Minichiello queries lack of action

  02-08-2015 22:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jessica Ennis-Hill's coach Toni Minichiello asks why the IAAF did not act on data appearing to expose widespread doping in athletics.
  
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• Rio triathlon overshadowed by doping and virus fears

  02-08-2015 22:07
  
  Competitors taking part in Olympic qualifier oblivious to revelations about industrial-scale doping in international sport, and fears over water quality remain
  In the biggest test yet of preparations for the 2016 Games, hundreds of Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls swam, cycled and ran under the limpid blue skies of Copacabana over the weekend, but the glorious scenes were partly overshadowed by fears about water quality and new revelations of industrial-scale doping in international sport.The tri
  
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• Calais migrants: French politicians want the crisis to be dumped on the UK side of the channel

  02-08-2015 21:57
  
  Politicians in Calais have called for the migrant crisis to be dumped on the UK side of the Channel.
  
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• Calais crisis: UK urged to take in more asylum seekers as fears grow that migrants may target Belgian ports

  02-08-2015 21:54
  
  Britain has been urged to take in more asylum seekers as fears spread that heightened security in Calais could result in Belgian ports being targeted next.
  
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• Mexican photojournalist found dead was likely tortured, activists say

  02-08-2015 21:40
  
  Ruben Espinosa murdered with four women in Mexico CityPhotojournalist suffered severe facial injuries, says free press advocateA photojournalist who was found dead in Mexico City after he fled harassment in his home state appears to have been tortured before he was shot dead, the head of a free press advocacy group said on Sunday. Related: Mexican photojournalist Ruben Espinosa among five found dead in capitalContinue reading...
  
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• Cilla Black Dies Aged 72 At Spanish Home

  02-08-2015 21:40
  
  The former singer and TV presenter Cilla Black has died aged 72. Early indications suggest Black, who suffered from hearing problems and arthritis, died of natural causes. In a statement, her publicist Nick Fiveash said: "It is with deep sorrow that I confirm today the passing of singer and TV personality Cilla Black.
  
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• Duchess gets scuba qualification

  02-08-2015 21:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Duchess of Cambridge is now an advanced scuba diver, a Kensington Palace official says.
  
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• Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst dealers investigated as buyers left with nothing

  02-08-2015 21:31
  
  Police are investigating claims of fraud and theft involving a business run by a pair of prominent British art dealers who are believed to have sold up and moved to France.
  
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• Cilla Black dead: A sad farewell to the singer who gave us a 'lorra, lorra laughs'

  02-08-2015 21:20
  
  “Our Cilla” was an affectionate sobriquet that acknowledged, long before the term “national treasure” became  an ironic cliché attached to every clapped-out entertainer, that Cilla Black belonged to the people.
  
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• Zimbabwe claim another lion killed by an American with a bow and arrow

  02-08-2015 21:10
  
  The furore over the death of Cecil the lion has threatened to escalate after Zimbabwe claimed that there had been a second illegal killing of a lion by an American hunter armed with a bow and arrow.
  
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• Arsenal overcame big hurdle - Wenger

  02-08-2015 21:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger believes his players overcame a big psychological hurdle by beating Chelsea in the Community Shield.
  
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• Africa's leaders are taking a major step toward making a difference to the conservation crisis

  02-08-2015 21:08
  
  The plight of African elephants is well documented and there is little doubt that at current rates of decline an animal that has existed for four million years could be gone in the wild in a few decades. I have spent more occasions than I care to remember standing over the putrid remains of a butchered elephant carcass, asking the question: how can this stop?
  
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• Chris Leslie: Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity agenda will harm the poor, says Labour shadow Chancellor

  02-08-2015 21:04
  
  Chris Leslie, the shadow Chancellor, has launched a scathing attack on “Corbynomics”, the anti-austerity agenda of the Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn, warning it would hurt poor people the most.
  
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• Chris Leslie: Labour shadow Chancellor on why they lost the election and his reasons for backing Yvette Cooper

  02-08-2015 21:02
  
  “Why is that bloke on the telly? He does Gordon’s photocopying”. The cry went up among Gordon Brown’s inner circle in the early hours of May 2, 1997, as Labour won its landslide. The 24-year-old on the TV was Chris Leslie, because he had won  the safe Conservative seat of  Shipley, West Yorkshire.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Liz Kendall issues five pledges to show her values in line with party

  02-08-2015 21:01
  
  Liz Kendall has sought to revive her campaign to become Labour leader by issuing five pledges that she says shows that her values are in line with those of the party.
  
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• Some tax credits recipients will keep only 7p of every extra pound earned, says new analysis

  02-08-2015 21:00
  Some people on tax credits will keep only 7p of every extra pound they earn following the cuts announced in last month’s Budget, a new analysis has revealed.
  
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• Giants Club: We must unite to fight the elephant poachers – and we must win

  02-08-2015 20:54
  
  The extraordinary global reaction to the killing of Cecil, the African lion, over the last week reminds me that it is not just the British who love animals. Although a strong sense of solidarity with the continent’s conservationists emerged, the limits as well as the strengths of social media reaction were again on show.
  
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• Five In Hospital After Thames Boat Explosion

  02-08-2015 20:54
  
  A police spokesman said: "A man and a woman aged in their forties and a teenage girl who were on the boat have been taken to St George's Hospital in London for treatment. "A woman in her thirties and a three-year-old boy who were also thought to have been on the boat have been taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital for treatment.
  
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• HS2: Significantly more ancient woodland at risk of being destroyed by rail line than previously thought, says new research

  02-08-2015 20:48
  Significantly more ancient woodland is at risk of being destroyed or damaged by the proposed High Speed Two rail line than previously realised, according to new research.
  
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• Zambian villagers to take on mining firm Vedanta in UK court

  02-08-2015 20:45
  LONDON (Reuters) - British mining company faces legal action in London's High Court after a group of Zambian villagers said their water source and farmland was polluted by the firm's copper mining operations.
  
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• Missing MH370: Wing part washed up on Reunion is from Boeing 777

  02-08-2015 20:31
  
  Part of an aircraft wing that washed up on a beach on the French island of Reunion earlier this week is from the same plane model as the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
  
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• Taxpayers foot hotel bill for asylum seekers

  02-08-2015 20:25
  
  At least 100 asylum seekers - including some who have recently smuggled themselves into the UK from Calais - are being housed in hotels at the taxpayer's expense, it has been confirmed.
  
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• Move to end taxpayer support for failed asylum seekers

  02-08-2015 20:25
  
  Rules could be changed to remove taxpayer support for more than 10,000 failed asylum seekers living in Britain with their families, a Home Office minister has said.
  
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• Bishop of Dover criticises PM Cameron over 'swarm' comment

  02-08-2015 20:25
  
  A Church of England bishop has criticised David Cameron over his controversial description of migrants seeking to come to the UK as a "swarm".
  
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• Prudential RideLondon 2015: A spectacular day out – and this time I managed to not crash

  02-08-2015 19:50
  
  The London Marathon is an indelible feature of life in the capital, a symbol of the city as potent as Big Ben or Buckingham Palace. But with Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 on 2 August, the marathon’s two-wheeled counterpart is well on the way to acquiring comparable status.
  
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• Prudential RideLondon 2015: A spectacular day out – and this time I managed not to crash

  02-08-2015 19:50
  
  The London Marathon is an indelible feature of life in the capital, a symbol of the city as potent as Big Ben or Buckingham Palace. But with the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 on 2 August, the marathon’s two-wheeled counterpart is well on the way to acquiring comparable status.
  
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