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• UK To Test Wireless Charging For Electric Cars

  11-08-2015 23:29
  
  New technology is being tested by Highways England that could allow electric car owners to charge as they drive. The trials are the first of their kind and will test how the technology would work on the country's motorways and major A roads, allowing drivers of ultra-low emission vehicles to travel long distances without needing to stop and charge the car's battery. The Government hopes that the new technology could entice more drivers who may be put off by the current distribution of
  
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• Rugby coach Rob Walton dies from whiplash after being hit by a wave in France

  11-08-2015 23:28
  
  British rugby coach Rob Walton died in the south of France after a powerful wave hit him on the spine while he swam on a family holiday.
  
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• Jose Mourinho's treatment of Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro is another truculent assertion of his power

  11-08-2015 23:19
  The message, in the case of Eva Carneiro, seems to be that if you cross Jose Mourinho at Chelsea then, as ever, there can be just one outcome: you are marginalised and, in the long term, out the door. Length of service or reputation does not matter one bit.
  
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• His treatment of Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro is another truculent assertion of Jose Mourinho's power

  11-08-2015 23:19
  The message, in the case of Eva Carneiro, seems to be that if you cross Jose Mourinho at Chelsea then, as ever, there can be just one outcome: you are marginalised and, in the long term, out the door. Length of service or reputation does not matter one bit.
  
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• Airport VAT scam: Treasury ministers demand an end to rip-off charges as grassroots passenger rebellion gathers pace

  11-08-2015 23:00
  Treasury ministers have demanded an end to rip-off VAT charges by some airport stores as the grassroots passenger rebellion against the racket gathers pace.
  
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• Zac Efron sheds the pounds for new film

  11-08-2015 22:33
  
  Hollywood heart-throb Zac Efron has revealed how it was "fun" slimming down and being less buff for his new film, We Are Your Friends.
  
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• Teen Girls Badly Hurt In Crash With Ambulance

  11-08-2015 22:14
  
  Two teenage girls have been seriously injured after the car they were in collided with an ambulance responding to a 999 call. Three other people in the car - two adults and a young boy - were also hurt, as well as a member of ambulance staff. The collision happened in Babs Hill Oak, Sturry, in Kent, shortly before 2pm while the emergency vehicle was on an emergency call-out in the area.
  
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• Long-ball Stoke? Myths explored

  11-08-2015 21:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The accepted wisdoms of football that are not actually true
  
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• Julian Assange: Ecuador agrees to open talks with Sweden on allowing prosecutors to question the Wikileaks founder over sex-crime claims

  11-08-2015 21:49
  A deadlock in the case of Julian Assange has broken after Ecuador agreed to open talks with Sweden on allowing prosecutors to interview the WikiLeaks founder in London about sex-crime claims.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: From tax to taking on Isis, here is where the candidates stand on the major issues

  11-08-2015 21:43
  
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• Tube Attack: Man Held And Scissors Found

  11-08-2015 21:43
  
  Police have arrested a man at a Heathrow Airport Tube station and recovered a pair of scissors after another man was attacked on the London Underground. Officers began a hunt across the Tube service after the victim suffered cuts to his face and body on a platform at Finsbury Park station in north London. Armed officers later boarded a Tube carriage at King's Cross and it was understood many of the passengers were searched.
  
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• Airport VAT scam: Are high airport rents, rather than greedy retailers, to blame?

  11-08-2015 21:33
  
  Why is it that a respected retailer such as Boots would knowingly indulge in the slightly underhand practice of pocketing VAT savings without passing on the benefits to its customers?
  
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• Amnesty International votes to back the worldwide decriminalisation of prostitution

  11-08-2015 21:19
  
  Human rights group Amnesty International has voted to support the decriminalisation of prostitution at their biennial International Council Meeting.
  
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• Labour bars 1,200 supporters of rival parties who tried to vote in leadership race

  11-08-2015 21:08
  
  Labour has barred 1,200 supporters of rival parties who tried to vote in its leadership election but the contest will go ahead despite growing evidence of “entryism” by left-wingers.
  
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• MiHomecare: Accusations the care agency pays below minimum wage are just one among many woes inflicting the company

  11-08-2015 20:59
  
  MiHomecare, the firm at the centre of this case, is Britain’s fourth-largest home care provider, but it has endured a difficult few months.
  
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• MiHomecare: One of UK's biggest care agencies being sued for paying below minimum wage

  11-08-2015 20:51
  
  One of Britain’s biggest care agencies is being sued for allegedly paying below the minimum wage by refusing to reimburse staff for their travel time between home visits.
  
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• British political parties spent more than £100m last year preparing for election, figures show

  11-08-2015 20:31
  
  Britain’s political parties spent more than £100m last year as they prepared for the general election, figures from the Electoral Commission have disclosed.
  
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• Corrupt Mayor Clicker: Corruption is so much a way of life in Spain that it has inspired a computer game

  11-08-2015 20:21
  
  Apps are imitating life in an increasingly politically corrupt Spain. A new computer game has been released, the aim of which is – playing a corrupt mayor – to get as filthy rich as possible. Inspired by a host of real-life graft scandals in recent years, the only rule of Corrupt Mayor Clicker is that everything you do in the game has to be illegal.
  
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• Jewish dating site JDate sues rival JSwipe over use of letter 'J'

  11-08-2015 20:16
  
  Two of the world’s largest Jewish dating websites are at war over the use of the letter “J” in their titles. JSwipe is being sued by the long-established JDate, which claims to have “intellectual property over the letter ‘J’ within the Jewish dating scene”.
  
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• Republican presidential race: Donald Trump hails his family's legacy - despite shifting the business's focus to luxury projects

  11-08-2015 20:12
  As he continues to upend the Republican Party and defy the normal rules of political gravity, Donald Trump has been drawn into a brief reflection on the man who first set him on the road to fame, frivolity and fabulous wealth – his altogether more level-headed father, Fred C Trump.
  
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• Man Held And Scissors Found After Tube Attack

  11-08-2015 20:03
  
  Police have arrested a man at a Heathrow Airport Tube station and recovered a pair of scissors after another man was attacked on the London Underground.
  
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• Flood Warning As Hail and Thunder Forecast

  11-08-2015 19:59
  
  Hail, thunder and heavy rainfall are forecast this week prompting severe weather warnings and fears of flooding. Met Office severe weather warnings have been issued for Wales and all English regions except the North East on Thursday. The warnings have been issued for Wales and all English regions on Friday.
  
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• London Underground blade attack: Man arrested at Heathrow Airport Tube station

  11-08-2015 19:58
  
  Police searching for an underground blade attacker have arrested a man and recovered a pair of scissors at a Heathrow Airport Tube station.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Tax rises leave nation's luxury boat market all at sea

  11-08-2015 19:56
  
  At its height eight years ago, George Kranitis’s family-owned shipyard in Patra, Greece’s third-largest city, employed 35 people and sold around 340 boats annually. But after years of recession, Mr Kranitis has had to sack almost everyone.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Athens likely to vote through bailout deal despite rebellion by Syriza MPs

  11-08-2015 19:52
  
  The protracted negotiations between Greek government officials and the international creditors are finally bearing fruit. Athens announced it has reached an accord on the broad terms of a new three-year bailout package saving it from defaulting on its debts and securing its future in the euro.
  
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• Perseid meteor shower: Where to get the best view

  11-08-2015 19:52
  
  People living in the Midlands and the North will have the best view of the annual Perseid meteor shower which peaks this week, according to the latest predictions by the Met Office.
  
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• Aviya Morris: Israel's new face of Jewish extremism is a 20-year-old mother

  11-08-2015 19:44
  
   
  
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• Teenagers to be tried as adults in ‘Slender Man’ case to provide longer mental health treatment

  11-08-2015 19:43
  
  Two Wisconsin teenage girls will be tried as adults for allegedly attacking their classmate with a knife to please an online character named the “Slender Man.”
  
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• Perseid Meteor Shower: The Best Way To Watch

  11-08-2015 19:41
  
  The annual Perseid shower is nearing its peak with more than 100 meteors set to speed across the sky each hour. The shower is visible from mid July to late August but reaches its most spectacular appearance in the UK late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning (12-13 August). The moonless sky should give particularly dark skies and good viewing conditions.
  
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• Snake On The Loose: 5ft Python Found In Park

  11-08-2015 19:29
  
  A five-foot snake on the loose in a public park has been captured by police. The carpet python - which is usually found in areas such as Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and parts of Australia - was spotted in Wandsworth, south London. Scotland Yard officers were called to King George's Park on Monday night, where the reptile was found slithering along the edge of a fence.
  
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• Luz del Mundo: Half a million members of 'cult-like' Mexican church gather in Guadalajara to mark its founder's birthday

  11-08-2015 19:25
  Out of Guadalajara’s working-class Hermosa Provincia neighbourhood rises the 270ft Hermosa Provincia Temple. It is, for millions of devotees, a stairway to heaven.
  
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• Woman breaks leg after cable snaps in freak funfair accident

  11-08-2015 19:18
  
  A woman has been seriously injured after a cable snapped on a slingshot ride at a funfair.
  
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• US F-16 fighter jet crashes in southern Germany

  11-08-2015 19:17
  
  An American air force jet has crash landed in southern Germany in a training exercise at a US air base.
  
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• Man Arrested At Heathrow After Tube Attack

  11-08-2015 19:17
  
  A man has been arrested at Heathrow Airport after another man suffered cuts to his face and body on a platform at Finsbury Park station. Armed officers later boarded a Victoria line train at King's Cross and it was understood many of the passengers were searched. British Transport Police said a man was arrested at Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3 underground station on suspicion of grievous bodily harm.
  
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• Syrians fear Army Colonel murdered during traffic altercation in Latakia will not get justice as suspect is son of President Assad's first cousin

  11-08-2015 19:15
  In government-controlled Syria, you respect the President. But you do not mess with the Army.
  
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• Sandra Bland: Sheriff at jail where black woman died tells pastor she belongs to 'church of Satan'

  11-08-2015 19:10
  
  The Texas sheriff in charge of the jail where Sandra Bland died told a pastor keeping vigil that she should go back to her “church of Satan”.
  
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• Campaign to end 'sunscreen scam' at airport shops grows as pressure builds on stores to hand tax breaks back to passengers

  11-08-2015 19:09
  The Independent’s campaign to end the “sunscreen scam” at airport shops has gathered support nationwide, with a growing clamour for retailers to return the 20 per cent VAT charged to passengers heading outside the European Union.
  
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• Kevin Hannaway: Gerry Adams' cousin charged with 'IRA connections'

  11-08-2015 19:07
  
  A cousin of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been charged with terrorism offences after allegedly being connected to the IRA.
  
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• Sprigs in space: Exploring how to grow vegetables in zero gravity

  11-08-2015 19:06
  
  Scott Kelly, one of three astronauts who ate space salad on board the International Space Station on Monday, said it “tastes good, kinda like arugula”. It’s not clear whether he knew that arugula, grown in contained root “pillows” of moisture and nutrients, is also known as rocket.
  
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• YouTube couple announce miscarriage days after viral pregnancy reveal video

  11-08-2015 19:06
  
  The YouTube vloggers whose pregnancy announcement video went viral have said they have lost the baby after a miscarriage.
  
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• Bank of England to look more closely at costs of financial regulation

  11-08-2015 19:05
  
  By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England will study the cumulative economic costs of financial regulations introduced since the global financial crisis, it said on Tuesday, after the government told it to help promote competition and investment. Despite continued public anger over the role of the banks in that crisis, however, finance minister George Osborne has signalled the Conservative government wants to move on since winning re-election in May. Osborne has cut a tax targetin
  
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• Six Migrants Found In Refrigerated Lorry

  11-08-2015 18:57
  
  Motorway police have detained six migrants found in the back of a refrigerated lorry in the West Midlands.
  
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• Police on Greek island of Kos use batons and fire extinguishers in fights with migrants

  11-08-2015 18:51
  
  Police on the Greek island of Kos have used fire extinguishers and batons against migrants, as tensions boiled over in a sports stadium where hundreds had gathered to wait for immigration documents.
  
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• Five-foot carpet python in Wandsworth's King George's Park captured by police

  11-08-2015 18:41
  
  Gutsy police officers have captured a five-foot snake on the loose in a public park.
  
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• August Tube strike: When is it – and which lines will be affected?

  11-08-2015 18:39
  
  London Underground staff are set to stage two more 24 hour strikes this month.
  
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• 'Truly evil' Alexander Pacteau admits murder of Karen Buckley

  11-08-2015 18:37
  
  The man who murdered Karen Buckley by hitting her at least 12 times with a spanner before hiding her body in a barrel of chemicals has been branded "truly evil" by the Irish student's father.
  
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• Armed Police Hunt 'Blade Attacker' On Tube

  11-08-2015 18:32
  
  Armed police are hunting for a suspect on the underground after a man suffered cuts to his face and body at Finsbury Park station. Police boarded a tube at the north London station after reports that a man had suffered multiple injuries and was "covered in blood". The Victoria line was suspended in both directions for around 15 minutes.
  
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• Obituary: Michael Masser: US songwriter who penned hits for Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight and Barbra Streisand

  11-08-2015 18:32
   
  
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• Obituary: Bernie Passingham: Union convenor at Ford who played a key role in the 1968 Dagenham strike by women machinists

  11-08-2015 18:30
  On 7 June 1968, the 187 women working as sewing machinists making covers for car seats in Ford’s flagship factory in Dagenham, East London, went out on strike. Bernie Passingham, the Transport and General Workers Union convenor at the factory, who has died aged 90, was to play a crucial role in the strike that was eventually to be instrumental in introducing the Equal Pay Act. It was Passingham who supported the women’s claims – and rang up the management to tell them that they had downed
  
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• BBC accused of 'abandoning' Birmingham after removing almost all TV and radio shows from city's production hub

  11-08-2015 18:29
  
  The BBC has been accused of “abandoning” Birmingham by removing almost all of its television and radio shows from what was once its biggest production hub outside London.
  
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