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• Birmingham street evacuated after man is arrested on suspicion of terror offences

  09-08-2015 23:29
  
  A 27-year-old man is being held on suspicion of terror offences after "suspicious items" were allegedly found at his home in Naseby Road, in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham.
  
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• Police pelted with missiles after blocking republican parade

  09-08-2015 23:13
  
  Police have come under attack after stopping a contentious republican parade entering Belfast city centre.
  
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• Homes evacuated as police hold Birmingham man in counter-terror swoop

  09-08-2015 23:13
  
  A Birmingham man has been arrested in a counter-terror swoop.
  
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• Dancer Jonathan Ollivier killed in motorbike accident before show

  09-08-2015 23:13
  
  A professional dancer was killed in a motorbike accident hours before he was due to perform in the final show of Matthew Bourne's The Car Man at Sadler's Wells Theatre.
  
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• Bristol celebrates 'record-launching' success of balloon festival

  09-08-2015 23:13
  
  Hot air balloons have launched in all seven scheduled ascents at Europe's biggest ballooning fiesta for the first time in its 37-year history.
  
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• David Nobbs dead: 'Reggie Perrin' creator dies, aged 80

  09-08-2015 23:12
  
  David Nobbs, the author and comedy writer who created the classic Seventies TV sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, has died aged 80.
  
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• Dancer Jonathan Ollivier Killed In Crash

  09-08-2015 23:09
  
  Professional dancer Jonathan Ollivier has died in a motorbike accident hours before he was due to perform on stage. The 38-year-old was killed as when his motorbike collided with a car in Clerkenwell in central London just after 11am on Sunday. Paramedics tried to save Ollivier, but he was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before noon.
  
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• Tinder in Pakistan: Lesbian journalist uses app to avoid same-sex relationship ban

  09-08-2015 22:03
  
  In Pakistan, same-sex relationships are outlawed. But a lesbian journalist is using the most modern of dating techniques to circumvent the authorities: the dating app Tinder.
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe 2015: Scooby-Doo star Matthew Lillard struggles to get noticed

  09-08-2015 21:54
  
  Matthew Lillard has been recognised every day since arriving in Scotland earlier this month by fans of his star turn in the horror film Scream and others who recognise him from the movie Scooby-Doo.
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe 2015: Scooby-Doo star Matthew Lillard brings debut shows to 'insane' Edinburgh Fringe

  09-08-2015 21:54
  
  Matthew Lillard has been recognised every day since arriving in Scotland earlier this month by fans of his star turn in the horror film Scream and others who recognise him from the movie Scooby-Doo.
  
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• Panic rush for university places: Grant scrap set for 2016 pushes numbers higher as students try to avoid extra debt

  09-08-2015 21:43
  Universities are bracing themselves for a record-breaking scramble on 13 August as thousands of teenagers seek to find themselves a place through the Clearing system.
  
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• UK accuses Spain of violating its sovereignty over Gibraltar

  09-08-2015 21:30
  
  The British government on Sunday accused Spain of violating its sovereignty over Gibraltar, saying Spanish state vessels had repeatedly and unlawfully entered its territorial waters without notifying it. The row is the latest in a long line of diplomatic spats between Britain and Spain over the territory, which was ceded to Britain about 300 years ago but which Spanish authorities now want to reclaim. "These repeated incursions into British Gibraltar territorial waters are a clear violation
  
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• Spanish state ships accused of 'completely unacceptable' incursion into Gibraltar's waters

  09-08-2015 21:27
  
  Spain has been accused of violating the UK's sovereignty after their boats and helicopters entered British sovereign territory in Gibraltar.
  
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• Spanish anti-drugs ships accused of 'completely unacceptable' incursion into Gibraltar's waters

  09-08-2015 21:27
  
  Spain has been accused of violating the UK's sovereignty after their boats and helicopters entered British sovereign territory in Gibraltar.
  
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• High street retailers face backlash at airport shops after revelations that they pocket VAT discounts for passengers from outside EU

  09-08-2015 21:22
  High street retailers were facing a backlash at their airport shops over the weekend, following revelations in the Independent that they were pocketing the VAT discounts for passengers for outside the EU.
  
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• Sir Nicholas Macpherson: Civil servant implementing public-sector pay freeze wants to end pay restraint in his own department

  09-08-2015 21:16
  The Treasury’s most senior civil servant, charged with implementing Chancellor George Osborne’s public-sector pay freeze, has called for an end to pay restraints within his own department.
  
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• El Salvador: Flight for life from the world's most dangerous country

  09-08-2015 21:13
  
  Josue Salomon looks bewildered. The 18-year-old has been deported back to El Salvador after being caught trying to make his way north to the United States.
  
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• Labour leadership rivals turn on Jeremy Corbyn in row over Clause IV

  09-08-2015 20:51
  
  Jeremy Corbyn was accused by his Labour leadership rivals of wanting to turn back the clock to the failed policies of the 1970s and 1980s as they sought to halt his bandwagon of support.
  
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• Woman has her arm bitten off by an alligator while swimming in Wekiva River in Florida

  09-08-2015 20:44
  
  A woman has had part of her arm bitten off by an alligator while swimming in a river in Florida.
  
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• Adult social care under 'strain' with carers demoralised by low pay, says care commissioner

  09-08-2015 20:40
  
  The chief inspector of adult social care has launched a damning critique of the service in England, arguing that budget cuts had put the system under “stress and strain”, with many carers demoralised by long hours and low pay.
  
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• Lion hunting should be banned due to perilous state of species in southern Africa, says researcher who studied Cecil

  09-08-2015 20:34
  Lion hunting should be banned because of the perilous state of the species in southern Africa, according to a researcher who studied Zimbabwe’s most famous animal before he was killed by an American hunter.
  
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• The Media Column: Camila Batmanghelidjh is shooting the messengers who helped her raise millions

  09-08-2015 20:33
  
  As the roof caved in on Kids Company last week, its flamboyant founder blamed the charity’s demise on “rumour-mongering civil servants,  ill-spirited ministers and the media”. In a round of interviews, Camila Batmanghelidjh said she’d become “a football for the media” and been subjected to “trial by media”.
  
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• Hammond - African migrant surge imperils EU social infrastructure

  09-08-2015 20:25
  
  By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - A surge in migrants from Africa threatens the European Union's living standards and social infrastructure, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday, saying the bloc was unable to take in millions of people seeking a new life. Hammond's comments, some of his most outspoken on the subject yet, underscore how the British government is ramping up its anti-immigration rhetoric in response to a spike in migrant attempts to reach Britain via
  
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• Universities outside London targeting capital's teenagers with prospect of cheaper living in the North and Midlands

  09-08-2015 20:22
  Universities outside London are targeting teenagers in the capital with the prospect of a cheaper cost of living in the North and Midlands.
  
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• Flora MacDonald: Canada’s first female Foreign Minister who played a key role in aiding US embassy staff during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis

  09-08-2015 20:21
  Flora MacDonald was a trailblazer for women in Canadian politics. With her unrelenting work ethic and unwavering support for the Progressive Conservative Party, and her ability to connect with the public, she became Canada’s first female Foreign Minister, later playing a vital role in the 1979 Iranian US Embassy hostage crisis.
  
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• Buddy Emmons: Doyen of the steel guitar who backed the Everly Brothers and the Carpenters

  09-08-2015 20:14
  
  The steel guitar is the most distinguishable feature of country music – and many would regard Buddy Emmons, who played on thousands of records, as its greatest exponent.
  
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• Cumberbatch Appeals To Hamlet Fans At Theatre

  09-08-2015 20:12
  
  Benedict Cumberbatch has been filmed urging fans not to distract him with cameras following an interruption during his eagerly-awaited stage performance of Hamlet. In an impromptu speech outside the stage door of London's Barbican theatre, the actor told fans that spotting cameras in the audience had been "mortifying". He told the crowd it had been so "very, very obvious" he had been forced to restart the play, which opens with the infamous "to be, or not to be&quo
  
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• Woman who nearly lost her leg completes record swim through shark-infested waters

  09-08-2015 20:09
  
  Kimberly Chambers has become the first woman to successfully swim from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge.
  
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• Jhonny Florez: Colombian wingsuit flyer and Hollywood stuntman who achieved a world record by jumping from 37,265ft

  09-08-2015 20:08
  
  At the age of 32, Jhonathan Flórez, widely known as Jhonny, died doing what he loved best: flying like a bird under his own power at speeds of up to 200mph. One of the world’s fastest and longest-distance wingsuit flyers – who skydive and glide using body suits with winged arms – the Colombian daredevil slammed into the side of Mount Titlis in Switzerland while testing a new suit for the upcoming world championships in China. His family said he is believed to have died instantly.
  
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• Action on 'Jewish terrorism': Israel extends detention of two far-right activists following Duma petrol bombing

  09-08-2015 19:57
  
  Israel have extended the detention without charge of two far-right activists for six months, as security forces raided three settlement outposts as part of their crackdown against anti-Arab violence in the West Bank.
  
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• UK slams Spain over 'violation of sovereignty' after Gibraltar incursions

  09-08-2015 19:49
  
  The Government has accused Spain of "a clear violation of UK sovereignty" by sending boats and helicopters into British waters in Gibraltar.
  
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• London Marathon chief Nick Bitel attacks doping failure by world athletics body

  09-08-2015 19:47
  
  The chief executive of the London Marathon has launched a withering attack on the failure of world athletics to address doping in the sport after leaked data suggested his race could have been won seven times in 12 years by drug cheats.
  
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• UK Accuses Spain Of Entering Gibraltar Waters

  09-08-2015 19:35
  
  Britain has accused Spain of unlawfully entering British Gibraltar Territorial Waters "repeatedly" earlier today.
  
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• Le Pen feud: Jean-Marie in outspoken attack on daughter Marine over her 'betrayal'

  09-08-2015 19:35
  
  The battle for the dark soul of the French far right intensified this weekend with an extraordinary personal attack by Jean-Marie Le Pen on his daughter, his successor as leader of the Front National.
  
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• Clause IV: What is it, and why is it so divisive?

  09-08-2015 19:32
  
  Jeremy Corbyn’s suggestion that he may consider reverting back to the old clause IV or rewriting it altogether has sparked fresh debate in the Labour party.
  
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• Alton Towers crash victim Leah Washington: How losing a leg in the accident changed my life

  09-08-2015 19:22
  
  A teenager who lost her leg in the Alton Towers roller-coaster crash in June has spoken for the first time of the devastating impact on her life.
  
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• James Cracknell saves grandfather and grandson from drowning on Devon beach

  09-08-2015 19:19
  
  The Olympic rower James Cracknell and his 11-year-old son have reportedly saved a grandfather and his grandson from drowning at a north Devon beach yesterday evening.
  
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• Experts urge caution over alleged MH370 debris found washed up on the Maldives

  09-08-2015 19:18
  
  Debris that may be from missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has washed up in the Maldives, a string of islands almost 2,000 miles from Reunion where a possible wing part was found.
  
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• Stoke vs Liverpool match report: Coutinho scores brilliant late goal as Liverpool beat Stoke and avenge 6-1 defeat

  09-08-2015 19:17
  It did not require anything particularly exceptional to add a splash of colour to the worst game of the new Premier League season, but something exceptional was exactly what Philippe Coutinho delivered when he struck a winning goal at the Britannia which reminded us why it is we watch football.
  
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• Donald Trump's tilt at White House embroiled in misogyny row over Megyn Kelly 'blood' line

  09-08-2015 19:15
  
  The presidential candidate most prone to cause maximum damage to himself and not worry about it – that would be Donald Trump – was on the defence this weekend. Desperate to correct any impression of misogyny caused by his remarks about Fox News host Megyn Kelly, he insisted that he had great relationships with women, especially women in business, calling them “phenomenal” and “killers”.
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe 2015: Male comedians in short supply this year, says Never Mind the Buzzcocks star Phill Jupitus

  09-08-2015 19:08
  It wasn’t long ago that, with a straight face, comedians discussed whether women were funny, because there were so few female stand-ups.
  
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• Gibraltar fury over Spain's 'violation of sovereignty' after incursions

  09-08-2015 19:04
  
  The Spanish are guilty of an "outrageous" violation of British sovereignty by sending boats and helicopters into UK waters in Gibraltar, it has been claimed.
  
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• NYC fires worker for failing to turn up to work – a year after he died

  09-08-2015 18:55
  
  New York City officials have fired a city worker after he failed to turn up for work for almost two years.
  
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• Kids Company's closure is no cause for celebration

  09-08-2015 18:53
  
  The po’ lost children of Kids Company. What will happen to them? They watched as tanks were sent in by vicious media operators and government. Camila Batmanghelidjh, once adulated as the fairy godmother of the deprived, feral and hopeless, suddenly became the wicked witch running a coven.
  
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• Susan Sheridan dead: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Noddy actress dies aged 68

  09-08-2015 18:40
  
  Susan Sheridan, the actress who starred as Trillian in the original radio production of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, has died aged 68.
  
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• 'Illegal Migrants' M1 Arrest Caught On Camera

  09-08-2015 18:34
  
  Footage has emerged of the moment police discovered 17 suspected illegal immigrants hiding in a lorry on the M1. In an exclusive video obtained by Sky News, police cars are seen surrounding the vehicle moments after it was pulled over following a tip-off from another driver. The vehicle was stopped close to junction 9 on the M1 and all 17 passengers, suspected to have entered the UK illegally, were arrested.
  
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• Leicester City probe 'racist' Jamie Vardy video

  09-08-2015 18:23
  
  Leicester City will investigate a ''regrettable error in judgement'' by forward Jamie Vardy, after the England international was filmed allegedly using racist language in a casino.
  
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• Syrian protest in pro-regime city of Latakia calls for execution of President Assad's cousin

  09-08-2015 18:22
  
  Rare protests in the Syrian government stronghold of Latakia, President Assad’s hometown, have taken place, calling for the execution of the President’s cousin.
  
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• Serena Williams speaks out about the killing of unarmed black teenager Christian Taylor

  09-08-2015 18:21
  
  Tennis champion Serena Williams has spoken out on the death of Christian Taylor, an unarmed black teenager who was killed by a police officer after he allegedly drove an SUV through the doors of a car dealership.
  
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