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• Sir Cliff Richard still worries about ticket sales, ahead of 75th birthday tour

  16-08-2015 22:51
  
  Sir Cliff Richard has admitted he still worries about selling tickets to his shows, as he prepares for his 75th birthday tour.
  
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• BoE's Forbes says waiting too long to raise rates could damage recovery

  16-08-2015 22:39
  
  Waiting too long to raise interest rates could damage Britain's economic recovery and will need to be done "well before" inflation reaches the Bank of England's 2 percent target, Bank of England policymaker Kristin Forbes said on Sunday. Writing in the Telegraph, Forbes said increasing rates too soon might make companies less willing to invest and consumers less willing to spend, but the time lag before a change in monetary policy is felt meant there was a risk of leaving it too late. "Maintaini
  
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• Bird flu restrictions lifted at Lancashire poultry farm

  16-08-2015 22:22
  
  Restrictions have been lifted following a case of bird flu on a Lancashire poultry farm last month.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Party aids fear 'purge' if Jeremy Corbyn is elected

  16-08-2015 21:50
  
  Dozens of Labour staff members and Shadow Cabinet aides could be dismissed within hours of Jeremy Corbyn winning the party’s leadership, it has emerged.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Party aides fear 'purge' if Jeremy Corbyn is elected

  16-08-2015 21:50
  
  Dozens of Labour staff members and Shadow Cabinet aides could be dismissed within hours of Jeremy Corbyn winning the party’s leadership, it has emerged.
  
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• Bridlington bay death: One diver dead and another injured in suspected diving accident

  16-08-2015 21:45
  
  A diver has died and another is being treated in hospital after a suspected diving accident.
  
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• Bridlington bay death: One diver dead and another injured

  16-08-2015 21:45
  
  A diver has died and another is being treated in hospital after a suspected diving accident.
  
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• Yvette Cooper interview: Leadership candidate makes emotional call for Labour to be the party that 'makes a difference'

  16-08-2015 21:43
  It is easy to be cynical about politicians – to think that they are in it for themselves, that they will say anything to get into power, and don’t know anything about the “real” world.
  
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• Morgan Freeman’s step-granddaughter E’Dena Hines stabbed to death on New York street

  16-08-2015 21:37
  
  Morgan Freeman’s step-granddaughter was stabbed to death on a New York street in the early hours of Sunday, police have confirmed.
  
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• Syria conflict: 80 killed in government airstrike near Damascus

  16-08-2015 21:32
  
  A Syrian government air strike on a town near Damascus has killed at least 80 people and wounded 200 others at a marketplace, in one of the deadliest raids of the four-year civil war.
  
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• Syria conflict: 80 killed in government airstrike in Damascus

  16-08-2015 21:32
  
  A Syrian government air strike northeast of Damascus killed at least 80 people in a marketplace on Sunday, rescue workers in the rebel-held area and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
  
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• Labour leadership: Gordon Brown seeks another referendum moment to defeat Jeremy Corbyn

  16-08-2015 21:32
  
  A year ago an impassioned, rabble-rousing speech by Gordon Brown was credited with turning the tide of the Scottish referendum debate and pushing the “no” campaign over the line to victory.
  
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• The humiliation of neo-Nazis in Liverpool makes me proud to be a Scouser

  16-08-2015 21:28
  
  A "White Man March" led by the far-right group National Action was quickly disbanded in Liverpool on Saturday. According to reports, the neo-Nazis were vastly outnumbered by anti-fascists demonstrators. This is great, although when I first heard that the march was happening, I couldn't help but feel sceptical as to why it was being permitted by the city in the first place.
  
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• Star Wars theme park: Disney will bring a galaxy far far away to Florida and California

  16-08-2015 21:20
  
  Disney has no plans actually to repopulate suburban Orlando and southern California with cousins of Wookiee Chewbacca. But it seems that they’ll be investing the equivalent of a small nation’s gross national product in both places to make us think that they have.
  
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• Fling mud if you must, but don’t call Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite

  16-08-2015 21:17
  
  Is Jeremy Corbyn the enemy of Israel and British Jews? That is what the The Jewish Chronicle, some MPs and various sections of the media would have us believe. It is an accusation that is both absurd and menacing. The right, Blairites and hard Zionists have formed the most unholy of alliances to slay the reputation of the next likely leader of the Labour Party. They thought he was a bit-part player, but he has unexpectedly became the front-runner; now every political trick in the book is being u
  
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• Leading model agencies raided over allegations they work as a secret price-fixing cartel

  16-08-2015 21:13
  
  Three of the country’s best known model agencies have been raided following accusations they are working as a secret cartel.
  
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• Lawyer warns of staff violence and inadequate care in private immigrant detention centres

  16-08-2015 20:55
  
  Immigrants held in privately-run detention centres are facing physical violence from staff, gross failures in medical care and at worse preventable death, a leading civil liberties lawyer has warned.
  
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• Isis is using 'dreamology' to justify its nightmarish vision for the world

  16-08-2015 20:50
  
  We have nightmares. They have dreams. Isis provides real or fantasy nightmares almost every day. A Croat is beheaded in Egypt. An Isis suicide bomber kills almost 70 civilians in a Baghdad market. Twitter, Fox, ABC News and the British tabloids bring us an “Isis map” – which may be a load of old baloney for all they know, because Isis has said nothing about it. The map purports to show us just how much of the globe Isis intends to swallow at first gulp: Spain, Greece, the forme
  
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• World Championships 2015: Doping report claims put world athletics body on the back foot

  16-08-2015 20:47
  
  The world governing body of athletics has denied that it suppressed the publication of a report showing that a third of athletes at the 2011 World Championships had confessed to doping, following more alarming claims about drugs abuse in the sport.
  
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• Bob Johnston: Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan's legendary producer dies at the age of 83

  16-08-2015 20:15
  
  The producer Bob Johnston, one of the “quieter legends” of the music business who worked on some of the greatest albums of all time, has died at the age of 83.
  
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• Sir Cliff Richard still worries about selling tickets

  16-08-2015 20:02
  
  Sir Cliff Richard has admitted he still worries about selling tickets to his shows, ahead of his 75th birthday tour.
  
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• Meet Angela Merkel, a migrant baby born in Germany named after the country's chancellor

  16-08-2015 19:58
  
  This Angela Merkel is six months old and lives in a former hospital in Hanover. Her mother, Ophelya Ade, came to Germany as a refugee from Ghana with two children. She decided to name her new daughter, Angela, who was born in February, after the German chancellor to express her admiration and gratitude to the country that gave her a new home.
  
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• McDonald's manager 'sacked for cutting black workers' hours because of their race'

  16-08-2015 19:50
  
  A manager at a McDonald’s branch in Birmingham has reportedly been sacked after he cut workers’ hours because they are black.
  
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• Italy's Palios: Siena's medieval bareback race should be banned, say animal activists

  16-08-2015 19:45
  
  Supporters of Siena’s historic Palio horse race, which is held twice a year in July and August, have hit back at the first large-scale animal rights protest to take place against the event.
  
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• California condor: Shock therapy helping to bring rare vulture back from the brink

  16-08-2015 19:44
  
  Shock therapy may be closely associated with the psychiatric treatment of humans but a version of the technique is being used to help bring the California condor back from intensive care.
  
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• Video games chief: Jonathan Cridland's 'spotty nerds' comments are the words of a 'bully'

  16-08-2015 19:34
  
  When the head of Britain’s biggest business organisation warned that any computer game designed by a “spotty nerd” might not be too successful, he didn’t realise he was going into battle with the gaming industry’s very own jousting knight.
  
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• Syrian defectors reveal horrors of life under Bashar al-Assad's regime in reminder for West to 'not just focus on fighting Isis'

  16-08-2015 19:32
  Experts have warned that the Isis militant group cannot be beaten without regime change in Syria, after a group of defectors revealed the horrors they had witnessed at the hands of Bashar al-Assad’s government.
  
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• Labour cannot win power as a party of protest, says former PM Brown

  16-08-2015 19:31
  
  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Opposition Labour Party must choose a leader who can make it electable and not just a party of protest, former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday, after a poll found voters believe the current frontrunner would worsen its chances of winning an election. Labour, which in May suffered its worst election defeat since 1987, is the process of voting for a new leader. Opinion polls suggest left-winger Jeremy Corbyn is leading the race ahead of the r
  
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• Tom Bradby tells of battle to save elderly driver in Greece

  16-08-2015 19:27
  
  ITV journalist Tom Bradby has described how he tried in vain to save the life of an elderly man who drove his car off a harbour in Greece.
  
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• Amazon: Devastating expose accuses internet retailer of oppressive and callous attitude to staff

  16-08-2015 19:27
  
  Working four days in a row without sleep; a woman with breast cancer being put on “performance-improvement plans” together with another who had just had a stillborn child; staff routinely bursting into tears; continual monitoring; workers encouraged to turn on each other to keep their jobs.
  
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• Songs of Praise episode filmed in Calais migrant camp described as 'inspirational' and 'humane' by viewers

  16-08-2015 19:21
  
  Songs of Praise viewers have hailed an episode filmed at the so-called 'The Jungle' migrant camp in Calais as “inspirational” and “humane”, after the BBC was criticised for featuring the camp at the centre of the on-going border crisis in the French port town.
  
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• Bison in Yellowstone: What can the US do with its surplus animals as herds continue to grow?

  16-08-2015 19:18
  
  Even for a park with a history of unhappy encounters between people and wildlife, 2015 is shaping up as an eventful year for Yellowstone and its bison. Since mid-May, five visitors have been hurt – gored, trampled or tossed into the air – in run-ins with the park’s most famous residents.
  
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• Paris slum the Samaritan has become a battleground for Roma

  16-08-2015 19:10
  
  Nestling behind a motorway that cuts through the Paris suburb La Courneuve, the Roma residents of France’s oldest shantytown, Samaritan, are fighting for their existence. Again.
  
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• Koala chases down quad bike in high speed chase

  16-08-2015 19:08
  
  A South Australian woman found herself in an unusual high speed car chase when a koala bear chased after her as she rode away on a quad bike.
  
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• The Media Column: Freedom of speech is the name everyone gives to their mistakes – especially media groups

  16-08-2015 19:02
  
  The need to understand the intersections of religion and civil freedom has never been greater. Hard-won human rights victories of the past century, for women, gays and free thinkers, are still opposed by zealots across the world, while people of faith are under persecution in many lands.
  
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• Manchester City vs Chelsea match report: Sergio Aguero inspires City to emphatic win as John Terry is hauled off at half-time

  16-08-2015 19:02
  We are only eight days into the new season and already Jose Mourinho is one doctor down, 16th in the table and has a captain wearing the expression of a man watching his home being repossessed. It has certainly been an eventful start to August for Chelsea, but just not how Mourinho planned it.
  
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• Diner Alan Miller finds pub lunch a great yolk

  16-08-2015 18:57
  
  A diner was delighted to find his pub lunch of ham, egg and chips featured both a double yolker and a triple yolker.
  
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• Japanese volcano alert issued just miles from newly reopened nuclear reactor

  16-08-2015 18:44
  
  Japan’s weather agency issued a warning to thousands of residents in Kagoshima that the likelihood of the eruption of a nearby volcano was extremely high.
  
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• Cycling safety protesters in Helsinki knocked over by bus during demonstration

  16-08-2015 18:38
  
  A cycling safety protest involving more than 850 people on bikes in Helsinki was abruptly stopped on Sunday when a bus apparently drove into the crowd, knocking people over in the process.
  
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• Madeline Stuart: Model with Down's Syndrome will walk at New York Fashion Week

  16-08-2015 18:31
  
  An Australian teenager with Down’s Syndrome is continuing to dispel myths about disability after being announced as one of the models due to hit the catwalk during New York Fashion Week.
  
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• Half of all young people in Britain are at least a little bit gay, survey finds

  16-08-2015 18:24
  
  Half of British young people say they are not 100 per cent heterosexual, according to a new survey.
  
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• Doctor Tarek Loubani in Gaza working to produce medical industry's best stethoscope for 30 cents

  16-08-2015 18:23
  
  A doctor working in the Gaza strip has developed a stethoscope to rival the medical industry’s gold-standard instrument, and which costs only 30 cents to make.
  
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• Airbnb safety: Sexual assault allegations against host in Madrid raise questions about website's responsibilities

  16-08-2015 17:59
  The apparent security of Airbnb, the revolutionary website that allows people to rent out properties to travellers online, has been called into question once again after a US teenager was allegedly sexually assaulted in a listed apartment.
  
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• Isis militants crucify headless corpses and burn down hospital as battle for Sirte intensifies

  16-08-2015 17:56
  
  Isis militants are reported to have beheaded 12 people and crucified their bodies during the fight for the Libyan city of Sirte.
  
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• Tom Bradby dives in to sea to save 'suicidal' man who drove car off harbour in Greece from drowning

  16-08-2015 17:49
  
  ITV’s political editor Tom Bradby has described the moment he dived into the sea in a desperate attempt to save a man who drove his car off a harbour wall in Greece, while police allegedly did nothing to rescue him.
  
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• Tom Bradby dives in to sea to save 'suicidal' man who drove car off harbour in Greece

  16-08-2015 17:49
  
  The ITV presenter Tom Bradby has described the moment he dived into the sea in a desperate attempt to save a man who drove his car off a harbour wall in Greece, while police allegedly did nothing to rescue him.
  
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• Gordon Brown warns Labour is in danger of becoming 'party of protest' (but doesn't mention Jeremy Corbyn once)

  16-08-2015 17:33
  
  Gordon Brown has waded into the Labour leadership race, urging the party to become “credible” and “electable” once more.
  
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• Sturgeon's Chandelier May Be Looted Nazi Art

  16-08-2015 17:31
  
  A chandelier in the house used by Scotland's First Minister may have been looted from a Jewish family by the Nazis in the Second World War. The glass light fitting hung from a ceiling in Bute House was originally thought to have been "found" in the street near the Germany town of Cleves. But a report from Holocaust research organisation the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has cast doubt on where it came from.
  
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• Keegan Hirst: Rugby league player becomes first professional in his sport to come out as gay

  16-08-2015 17:20
  
  A British rugby league player who has become the first professional in his sport to come out as gay received an outpouring of support from fans and his fellow sportsmen.
  
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• Man Charged Over Body In Boot Murder

  16-08-2015 17:12
  
  Police got a tip-off shortly after 7.35pm on Thursday that a woman's body was in a blue Nissan NX100 in Heywood. They said a car similar to that described was spotted on Claybank Street at around 3.50pm on Friday and officers followed it to River Street in Heywood, where it was found abandoned. Lee Nolan, a 48-year-old from Heywood, has been charged with murder and will appear before Bury Magistrates' Court on Monday.
  
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