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• Jamie Lee Curtis: It hurts to laugh after A Fish Called Wanda

  06-08-2015 23:58
  
  Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed she ruined so many takes by laughing in classic comedy A Fish Called Wanda that she now causes herself pain to keep a straight face in funny scenes.
  
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• F1 star Jenson Button and his wife Jessica burgled at St Tropez holiday home

  06-08-2015 23:58
  
  Formula One driver Jenson Button and his wife Jessica have been burgled on holiday and "most upsettingly" the thieves made off with her engagement ring.
  
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• Bank of England signals early 2016 hike after sterling climb

  06-08-2015 23:55
  
  By William Schomberg and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England pointed to a possible rise in interest rates early next year as just one of its top policymakers backed an immediate move and it said the strength of sterling meant inflation would only pick up slowly. The pound fell sharply and investors briefly pushed back their bets on a first rate hike until June next year, before BoE Governor Mark Carney said the Bank was getting closer to beginning to undo its stimulus for Brita
  
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• Cardboard boxes and benches: List of where homeless people CAN sleep but a tent means JAIL

  06-08-2015 23:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A COUNCIL has kindly written up a list of items - such as cardboard boxes and doorways - which homeless people are ALLOWED to sleep in but said they could face jail if they put up a tent.
  
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• Japanese, Basque, North African and Thai recipes are giving barbecuing a new appeal

  06-08-2015 23:50
  
  It's barbecue season, at least as much of one as we'll ever get. And despite the scarcity of open-air cooking weather on these shores, we're increasingly developing a taste for something more than the usual bangers and burgers. Techniques, ingredients and recipes from all corners of the world are emerging in the UK, spurred on by our fondness for US barbecue.
  
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• Supermarkets stripped of bottled water after deadly PARASITE found in drinking supply

  06-08-2015 23:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PANICKED customers are clearing supermarket shelves tonight after a deadly parasite was found in the water supply.
  
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• Drinking Water Warning Amid Parasite Fears

  06-08-2015 23:46
  
  Thousands of people in northwest England are being advised to boil their drinking water, after traces of parasites were found in the supply.
  
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• Cute and environmental: goats graze Congressional Cemetery – video

  06-08-2015 23:45
  
  For the next two weeks, these goats will graze 24 hours a day at the Congressional Cemetery on Capitol Hill, a national landmark and resting place of more than 70 members of Congress. Cemetery officials have hired the goats to help get rid of vines, poison ivy, ground cover and some invasive speciesContinue reading...
  
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• Martin Rowson on George Osborne’s RBS sell-off – cartoon

  06-08-2015 23:43
  
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• Kids Company trustees accused of ignoring finance warnings

  06-08-2015 23:43
  
  Source tells Guardian that two finance directors quit over failure to build up reserves despite funding rising by 75% in five yearsSenior directors at the charity Kids Company repeatedly warned trustees of the need to build up financial reserves or face going to the wall, the Guardian can reveal, as an analysis of the accounts show that its funding increased by more than 75% in five years.Two finance directors at Kids Company left in less than three years because of their frustrations that no on
  
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• Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn calls for nuclear disarmament at CND event

  06-08-2015 23:38
  
  Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn has called for nuclear disarmament in Britain at an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
  
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• Now stretched British cops are being sent to Spain to deal with our drunk yobs

  06-08-2015 23:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BRITISH police will be sent to Magaluf and Ibiza to help their Spanish counterparts deal with the boozy antics of UK partygoers.
  
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• Cause Of Bin Laden Family Jet Crash Revealed

  06-08-2015 23:27
  
  A plane carrying three members of the bin Laden family crashed after avoiding a microlight and then landing too far down the runway, air accident investigators have found. The three relatives of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and the pilot were all killed when the private jet crash-landed at a car auction site in Hampshire last week. The Saudi-registered Phenom 300, built in 2010, was attempting to land at Blackbushe Airport when it crashed on to dozens of cars and burst into flames.
  
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• Man Arrested After Walking Channel Tunnel

  06-08-2015 23:16
  
  A suspected illegal immigrant is believed to have walked almost the entire length of the Channel Tunnel before being apprehended by British officers. The man is thought to have entered the 31-mile tunnel is Calais, and was found near its exit in Folkestone, Kent on Tuesday. At least nine people have died attempting reach Britain from Calais this year alone.
  
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• Austrian man returns American soldier's wallet lost during the second world war

  06-08-2015 23:04
  
  Josef Ruckhofer discovered the wallet of Eligios Ramos, whose battalion was stationed in Austria in 1945, while renovating his late grandfather’s farmhouseA wallet lost 70 years ago by an American soldier in Austria during the second world war was returned to its rightful owner thanks to a doctor who discovered the item in his late grandfather’s farmhouse.
  Josef Ruckhofer said on Thursday he had been renovating the house near the city of Salzburg when he stumbled across the leather wallet un
  
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• Republican debate: Millions are tuning in for a unique piece of political theater

  06-08-2015 23:03
  
  Jeb Bush got in early enough to take lunch at Subway while Scott Walker stayed home until the last moment to open the annual Wisconsin state fair.
  
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• El Vino wine bar - where Fleet Street's finest got scoops and gossip - is being sold to a chain

  06-08-2015 23:00
  
  There will be no Twitter outpouring of emotion, united by a trite hashtag. And for newer generations of journalists, more used to gossiping over canteen tea or in pubs (briefly, on Fridays, before heading out to poky flats in zone 3 and beyond), barely a flicker of recognition. But for the journalism old school, the sale of El Vino this week signals the end of an era for an increasingly sober trade.
  
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• Hiroshima 70th anniversary: Mayor of city devastated by an atomic bomb leads call for action over nuclear weapons across the world

  06-08-2015 22:57
  The estimated crowd of 50,000 people in Hiroshima represented around a third of those to die when America launched the world’s first nuclear attack on civilians in the city.
  
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• Vitesse Arnhem 0-2 Southampton (0-5 agg) | Europa League match report

  06-08-2015 22:57
  
  • Vitesse Arnhem 0-2 Southampton (0-5 agg)
  • Pellè 4, Mané 89Ronald Koeman’s return to Vitesse Arnhem was a painful one but at least the Southampton manager can take some comfort in his side’s safe passage to the Europa League play-offs.Few expected Saints to stumble in the Netherlands after winning last week’s first leg 3-0, yet the Dutchman still named a strong side such was his desire to overcome the club with whom he began his managerial career. Continue reading...
  
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• Warning to drinkers after 130,000 LITRES of booze found spiked with deadly ANTIFREEZE

  06-08-2015 22:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DEADLY alcohol laced with ANTIFREEZE is being peddled to thousands of unsuspecting drinkers in Britain, police have warned tonight.
  
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• Indian Air Force 'beats RAF 12-0 in training exercise' – using Russian-designed jets

  06-08-2015 22:48
  
  India’s top guns have claimed they humiliated the cream of the RAF during a two-week exercise which offered British pilots a rare chance to go up against some of the latest Russian-designed fighter jets.
  
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• Gagging order for sportsman over affair

  06-08-2015 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A TOP sportsman has won a gagging order over revelations he had an affair with a female celebrity behind the back of the woman who was to become his wife.
  
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• VIDEO: Chairs fly as Southampton and Dutch fans explode into violence before Euro clash

  06-08-2015 22:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  RIOT police were forced to break up warring football fans when violence erupted ahead of Southampton's european clash with Vitesse Arnhem in Holland tonight.
  
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• Former Argentine president on trial over Jewish center terrorist attack

  06-08-2015 22:38
  
  Carlos Menem and several other officials stand accused of an alleged cover-up of the country’s worst terror attack, a 1994 bombing that killed 85 peopleMore than 21 years after a bomb ripped through a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, former president Carlos Menem, a former top judge and several other officials have gone on trial for allegedly derailing the investigation into Argentina’s worst terrorist attack.Menem, president between 1989 and 1999, was not in court to hear the charge
  
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• Astra Giurgiu 2-1 West Ham (4-3 agg) | Europa League match report

  06-08-2015 22:35
  
  • Astra Giurgiu 2-1 West Ham United (4-3 agg)
  • Budescu 32, 36; Lanzini 3Slaven Bilic watched from the stands as his Europa League gamble ended with West Ham United going bust and crashing out to Astra Giurgiu on Thursday night.The manager left a host of first-team players at home before this tie, despite the fact it was hanging in the balance following a 2-2 draw at Upton Park a week ago. Continue reading...
  
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• Stop and search: Can transparency end this abuse of police powers?

  06-08-2015 22:34
  
  The excessive and discriminatory use of stop-and-search powers is among the sorriest episodes in the history of the police over the past 30 years.
  
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• Butterflywatch: Can the blues be in clover once more?

  06-08-2015 22:30
  
  Many butterfly names are inaccurate – the Essex skipper, for instance, is found far beyond that county – and some are becoming more so. The common blue is not common and lepidopterists are keen to identify its surviving colonies.We can help by looking for this blue-with-a-hint-of-mauve butterfly (the female is more brown than blue and harder to identify) during the last weekend of Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count. Everyone is urged to spend 15 minutes recording butterflies, log
  
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• Migrant crisis: Face to face with the disaster in the Mediterranean

  06-08-2015 22:28
  
  Ever since I began working on a search-and-rescue boat in the Mediterranean this May, I’ve been dreading the day that we would respond to a distress call only to arrive and find that it was too late.
  
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• Ashton and Easter on edge over cut to England World Cup squad

  06-08-2015 22:18
  
  • First cull to come ahead of two warm-up matches against France
  • ‘We are a long way from naming the 31,’ says Stuart LancasterStuart Lancaster mused at the start of the week that there was much for the England management to discuss. Friday’s pruning of the 46-strong squad will have taken less time than the debate later this month about who should make the 31 for the World Cup.The first cull will include players who are some way from first choice in their positions: the prop Matt Mull
  
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• Ben Carson: Republican candidate's views on planned parenthood, gun control and abortion

  06-08-2015 22:10
  
  The 63-year-old former doctor is a favourite of American conservatives. Many people also like the fact that he is not a professional politician.
  
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• Black people still far more likely to be stopped and searched by police than other ethnic groups

  06-08-2015 22:10
  
  Black people are still far more likely than other ethnic groups to be stopped and searched in almost every part of England and Wales despite concerted efforts to tackle the problem.
  
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• Murder victim 'stabbed before fire'

  06-08-2015 22:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Belfast murder victim Jennifer Dornan was stabbed before her house was set on fire, detectives say.
  
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• Angela Merkel has inspired a new German word - so which British politicians could lend themselves to our lexicon?

  06-08-2015 22:00
  Compilers of the German dictionary Langenscheidt say that "merkeln" is likely to be named the most popular youth word of the year in its national poll. "Merkeln" – to merkel – is used as a verb meaning to be indecisive or not to have an opinion at all, a criticism of Merkel inspired by her procrastination over issues such as Greece and nuclear power. Which British political figures might yet inspire our use of language?
  
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• Kids Company: The truth behind the collapse of Camila Batmanghelidjh's charity

  06-08-2015 21:58
  
  The sudden closure of the charity Kids Company this week has prompted a war of words between its charismatic boss Camila Batmanghelidjh and the Government, as well as within Whitehall corridors.
  
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• Kids Company: Tory donor involved in campaign to 'persuade ministers to give charity £3m grant'

  06-08-2015 21:57
  
  A multimillionaire Tory donor was involved in the campaign to persuade ministers to give a £3m grant to the troubled charity Kids Company against the advice of civil servants, The Independent has learnt.
  
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• Migrant 'makes it 30 MILES through Channel Tunnel to Kent dodging 100mph trains'

  06-08-2015 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A SUSPECTED illegal immigrant allegedly walked almost the whole way through the Channel Tunnel from France - with British police picking him up HALF A MILE from Kent.
  
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• Republican presidential debate: For the first televised clash, one Fox rules the roost in Cleveland

  06-08-2015 21:43
  
  Republicans are meat eaters, so on the eve of the forst big debate in Cleveland, it made sense to repair to Red, the best steakhouse in town.
  
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• Jeb Bush: Republican candidate's views on immigration, abortion and planned parenthood

  06-08-2015 21:39
  
  The former Florida Governor has been doing the rounds in recent weeks, trying to get over his message on a variety of issues.
  
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• 'Right to Rent' policy for illegal immigrants was approved despite trial showing it was ineffective

  06-08-2015 21:38
  
  A controversial 'right to rent' policy was approved by Government ministers in a new crackdown on immigration despite results from a trial showing it to be ineffective, it has emerged.
  
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• New Suez Canal opens: Egypt's 'modern wonder' is unveiled amid promises it will boost trade – and President Sisi's controversial position

  06-08-2015 21:36
  Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi rode into the new stretch of the Suez Canal on a wave of nationalist pomp, his personality cult on full display, backed by a roster of Egypt’s international friends.
  
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• Samantha Cameron is the world's most stylish woman ... really Vanity Fair?

  06-08-2015 21:30
  
  Is Samantha Cameron the best-dressed woman in the world? Of course not, you scoff contemptuously. Don't be preposterous. Besides, best dressed for what, exactly? And should we be focussing on how someone looks rather than what they do, either to their detriment or falsely to their credit? It's problematic.
  
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• VIDEO: Cruise's plane stunt over RAF base

  06-08-2015 21:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Film star Tom Cruise spends a week at an RAF base secretly filming an airborne stunt for his new movie.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Jeremy Corbyn insists many rich people would be willing to pay more tax

  06-08-2015 21:27
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has rounded on Labour critics of his economic plans by insisting that many wealthy people would be willing to pay more tax in return for better services.
  
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• Calais crisis: Man arrested after walking almost the entire length of the Channel Tunnel

  06-08-2015 21:18
  
  A man who is believed to have walked almost the entire length of the Channel Tunnel from Calais is being held by British police.
  
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• Jennifer Aniston 'weds Justin Theroux in Bel Air'

  06-08-2015 21:15
  
  Hollywood star Jennifer Aniston has reportedly married fellow actor Justin Theroux.
  
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• Ed Sheeran replaces Justin Bieber at Fusion Festival

  06-08-2015 21:15
  
  Chart-topping singer Ed Sheeran is stepping in "last-minute" to replace pop idol Justin Bieber at a music festival after the Canadian star pulled out "due to an unforeseen issue".
  
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• MH370 Q&A: How did the flaperon reach Reunion? When and where will more wreckage show up?

  06-08-2015 21:14
  
  The Malaysian Prime Minister has confirmed that the wreckage found on a beach on the east coast of the Indian Ocean island of Reunion came from MH370. The Boeing 777 disappeared on 8 March last year on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. of France. For 16 months no trace of the plane was found. The flaperon - a component used for turns and for low-speed flying - is being analysed at a French military aeronautical laboratory outside Toulouse. What can be inferred from the find? And wha
  
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• Republican debate: When is it? How do you watch? What channel is it on?

  06-08-2015 21:05
  
  Finally. Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz are going head-to-head alongside seven other Republican party presidential candidates in the first live TV clash on the GOP's road to the White House.
  
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• Drink-driving accidents at record low

  06-08-2015 21:02
  
  The number of drink-drive accidents on Britain's roads has dropped to the lowest level since records began.
  
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• Kids Company financial mismanagement claims complete rubbish, says Alan Yentob

  06-08-2015 20:58
  
  It is "complete rubbish" to claim there was serious financial mismanagement at collapsed charity Kids Company, chairman of trustees Alan Yentob has insisted.
  
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