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• Stunned rock band find migrant hiding in GUITAR CASE on tour bus at Calais

  25-08-2015 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A BRITISH rock band has described their shock at finding migrants trying to sneak into their tour bus - including one who hid in their guitar case.
  
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• Extreme flash flooding sees dead RATS wash into the street in posh Kent town

  25-08-2015 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DEAD rats have been flushed into the street in an upmarket town after flash flooding.
  
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• UK Stock Market Fightback But US Suffers Falls

  25-08-2015 23:40
  
  The FTSE 100 index of Britain's leading shares has clawed back many of the big losses it sustained on so-called 'Black Monday' - boosted by a fresh interest rate cut in China. But America's Dow Jones ended down more than 200 points (over 1%), wiping out gains of around 2% earlier in the session after it suffered big losses the previous day . Beijing is to cut core interest rates in a renewed attempt to stimulate its slowing economy and help address a sell-off of Chinese shares.
  
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• Zoo criticised for 'cruel' attraction that lets visitors swim with tiger cubs for £127

  25-08-2015 23:34
  
  An American zoo that is charging visitors £127 to swim with a tiger cub has been targeted by animal rights groups over the "cruel" practice.
  
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• Glenn Murray spares Crystal Palace blushes after Shrewsbury threaten upset

  25-08-2015 23:26
  At first glance this may look simply like the natural order being imposed, a Premier League club easing out a side from two tiers below even if they were forced to endure the irritation of extra-time in the process. Crystal Palace, however, will consider it an exorcism.Confronted by their bogey team from a bygone era, Alan Pardew’s charges only deflated an impressively resolute Shrewsbury Town in that added half-hour as Glenn Murray edged them ahead and, in the time that remained, quality
  
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• Tories challenge SNP to roll out the red carpet for the rich

  25-08-2015 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CUTTING taxes would attract wealth creators and boost the economy, Scots Tory leader Ruth Davidson said last night.
  
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• US markets down at closing bell after midday rally as China woes continue – live updates

  25-08-2015 23:22
  Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq down at closing bellDow Jones jumps 300+ pointsLondon stock market surges 3%People’s Bank of China finally takes action 9.31pm BSTRebound that took the Dow up more than 440 points disappeared http://t.co/C7FLd9Jlqa pic.twitter.com/CX0tHSydqpThe outcome of Tuesday’s abortive US market rebound looked a lot like Monday’s panicky back-and-forth, but with less drama: “Somebody woke up last Thursday and headed for the exit and a stampede was on
  
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• Tensions rise as Spanish customs boat fires shots at pleasure craft in Gibraltar's waters

  25-08-2015 23:13
  
  The government of Gibraltar has reacted furiously to reports of Spanish customs officials firing shots at a pleasure boat within the territorial waters of the British dependency.
  
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• Survivor gives harrowing account of Glasgow bin lorry tragedy

  25-08-2015 23:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A TEENAGE girl hit by the bin lorry which killed six other Christmas shoppers thought: “Please don’t let me die” as she was dragged under the vehicle’s wheels, her father has revealed.
  
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• SNP under fire over ‘health’ of the NHS

  25-08-2015 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PATIENTS are suffering across the NHS, it was claimed yesterday as a string of key targets were missed.
  
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• England World Cup hopefuls braced for last-minute squad announcement

  25-08-2015 23:00
  • Graham Rowntree admits England received ‘stern’ debrief after France loss
  • Nick Easter’s form in Paris adds to competition for placesRarely has quite so much tension, anger and uncertainty swirled around the announcement of England’s World Cup squad. The day of selectorial reckoning will finally dawn on Thursday but coaches and players have clearly been shaken by Saturday’s poor warm-up performance against France in Paris.The forwards coach, Graham Rown
  
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• Alex Hales targets England Test slot after hitting form at right time for Notts

  25-08-2015 23:00
  The Nottinghamshire batsman wants to prove himself as more than a one-day specialist and says his four-day game is in its best ever shapeTiming is everything in cricket. And one batsman with a seemingly impeccable sense of it is Alex Hales, the Nottinghamshire right‑hander who appears the frontrunner to become Alastair Cook’s next opening partner in Test cricket.Going into his side’s Division One fixture with Warwickshire at Trent Bridge last Friday, Hales was all too aware tha
  
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• Jermain Defoe hat-trick helps slack Sunderland beat Exeter City 6-3

  25-08-2015 22:59
  They will not forget this in a hurry on Wearside. On a night when Sunderland’s players seriously threatened to send Dick Advocaat packing, and their season into a sinkhole, there were nine goals and nine minutes of injury-time.Jermain Defoe scored three – an advert if ever there was one – but Exeter City also got three. At half-time the League Two side were drawing three-all having been 2-0 down on 12 minutes against near full-strength Premier League opposition. Jack Rodwell (2
  
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• Celtic crash out to Malmo and miss out on Champions League again

  25-08-2015 22:51
  • Malmo 2-0 Celtic
  • Malmo win 4-3 on aggregateMalmo’s success story continues apace. This small club have no rightful place among football’s aristocracy but will take their place in the Champions League proper for the second time in as many years.Celtic and their manager, Ronny Deila, will care little for the Swedish fairytale. The Glasgow club, with resources to dwarf Malmo, were swatted aside from a position of 3-2 in front before kick-off in this play-off second leg. Co
  
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• Malmo v Celtic: Champions League play-off – live!

  25-08-2015 22:45
  Champions League play-off second leg (first leg 2-3), kick-off 7.45pm BST
  And email [email protected] or tweet @bglendenning 9.41pm BSTFor the second year in a row under Ronny Deila, Celtic come up short in the final qualifying round of the Champions League. Markus Rosenberg and Felipe Carvalho got the goals as their visitors were undone by their own sloppy defending at two corners.They’ll feel aggrieved at the goal they scored which was disallowed, but can have no real gru
  
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• Four Britons killed in Canadian seaplane crash

  25-08-2015 22:34
  
  Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has offered his condolences to the family of four Britons killed when a seaplane crashed during a sightseeing trip in Canada.
  
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• A Street Cat Named Bob film gets go-ahead with Luke Treadaway in lead role

  25-08-2015 22:34
  Bestselling autobiography of homeless busker James Bowen, recounting his recovery from addiction with the help of stray cat, to be adapted for big screenIt was a story with the humblest of beginnings, the tale of one man’s road to recovery from homelessness and addiction with a stray feline friend by his side.
  Now, the bestselling autobiography of James Bowen, detailing his life busking on the streets of Covent Garden with a ginger cat called Bob, is to be realised on the big screen. Conti
  
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• Kids Company: Leaked email warns of 'arson attacks on government buildings' if charity were to close

  25-08-2015 22:25
  
  The controversial charity Kids Company warned ministers that there was a “high risk of arson attacks on government buildings” if the charity were to close, an extraordinary leaked email has revealed.
  
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• Harvey Proctor: Former MP ends anonymity of the rest of alleged nine-strong paedophile gang

  25-08-2015 22:18
  
  Detectives working on Scotland Yard’s Establishment sex abuse inquiry have investigated an alleged nine-strong gang of paedophiles that included former heads of MI5, MI6, and the late ex-Prime Minister Edward Heath, Harvey Proctor claimed.
  
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• Turnaround Tuesday For FTSE After China Rate Cut

  25-08-2015 22:08
  
  The FTSE 100 index of Britain's leading shares has clawed back many of the big losses it sustained on so-called 'Black Monday' - boosted by a fresh interest rate cut in China. But America's Dow Jones ended down more than 200 points wiping out gains of around 2% earlier after it suffered big losses in the previous day . Beijing is to cut core interest rates in a renewed attempt to stimulate its slowing economy and help address a sell-off of Chinese shares.
  
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• Kenyan athletes were warned of doping tests, claims banned runner Kipchoge

  25-08-2015 22:05
  • Officials demanded money to bury positive tests, he claims
  • ‘Testers would reschedule if athletes were not available’Some Kenyan athletes were warned of unannounced doping tests and a banned runner accused athletics officials of demanding money to hide positive tests, according to the German state broadcaster ARD.ARD and the Sunday Times reported recently that the International Association of Athletics Federations had not followed up on hundreds of suspicious doping test
  
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• Guatemala court: former dictator can be tried for genocide – but not sentenced

  25-08-2015 22:02
  Efraín Ríos Montt, 89, is suffering from dementiaEx-dictator accused of killing nearly 2,000 indigenous people in 1982-83A Guatemalan court has said former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt can stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity – but cannot be sentenced because the 89-year-old suffers from dementia. Related: Guatemalan ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt mentally unfit for genocide retrialContinue reading...
  
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• Can computers help us read the mind of nature? | Paul Davies

  25-08-2015 22:01
  For too long, scientists focused on what we can see. Now they are at last starting to decode life’s softwareThis summer marked the centenary of one of Britain’s most famous and controversial scientists – the astronomer Fred Hoyle. Hoyle’s championing of steady-state cosmology was daring enough, and turned out to be ultimately misguided, but his foray into the origin and nature of life in the 1970s prompted fierce criticism. He argued that the odds of life spontaneously sp
  
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• Notting Hill Carnival 2015: Journalists to stage boycott over £100 accreditation fee

  25-08-2015 21:59
  
  Photographers, reporters and camera crews will this weekend stage a de facto boycott of the prime locations at Notting Hill Carnival as news organisations fight back at the “creeping control” of media freedoms at major entertainment and sporting events.
  
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• Hawking: Black Holes May Lead To Other Universes

  25-08-2015 21:52
  
  Professor Stephen Hawking has outlined a new theory about black holes, arguing they could lead to other universes. Speaking at a public lecture in Stockholm, the physicist detailed his thoughts about where lost information ends up after being sucked into black holes. A black hole is a place where gravity compresses matter to a density where the usual laws of physics break down.
  
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• Cyclist 'shove' video: Man hands himself into police

  25-08-2015 21:50
  
  A man has handed himself into police hours after investigators released a video of a cyclist being pushed off her bike.
  
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• Black Monday: Beijing reels as a nation of market speculators counts the cost

  25-08-2015 21:49
  
  Yin He designs and sells gold jewellery. The 26-year-old entrepreneur has been running her Beijing business for a little over a year. May was one of her best months, coinciding with the boom in China’s stock market. But since then, it’s all been downhill.
  
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• National Zoo gives smaller newborn panda twin extra care away from mom

  25-08-2015 21:46
  Mom Mei Xiang stopped letting animal keepers swap the smaller cub in for feedings as she cares for the larger twin, the zoo said TuesdayA tiny newborn panda cub is getting extra care at the National Zoo in Washington DC after mom Mei Xiang stopped letting animal keepers swap the smaller cub in for feedings as she cares for the larger twin, the zoo said Tuesday.Mei Xiang has the larger cub in her possession and appears to be taking very good care of it, the zoo said. Still, the cubs remain in a h
  
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• Man who scaled White House fence shot dead by police in Philadelphia courtroom

  25-08-2015 21:46
  
  Shots rang out in a Philadelphia courthouse on Tuesday as a police officer shot and killed a man who had previously scaled the White House wall and who had charged at an officer with a knife.
  
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• Man who pushed cyclist into path of traffic turns himself in to police

  25-08-2015 21:45
  Woman had used helmet camera to film incident in which man shoved her off her bike in east London
  A man has come forward and identified himself to police as the pedestrian who was filmed pushing a female cyclist into the path of London traffic.Police had been seeking the man following the incident, which was captured by a helmet camera worn by the woman. Continue reading...
  
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• Cyclist Pushed Into Road: Man Hands Himself In

  25-08-2015 21:45
  
  The incident happened on a busy street in Whitechapel, east London, at the beginning of May but video footage has only now been distributed by police. A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "At around 13:30hrs on Tuesday 25 August, a 33-year-old man attended Bethnal Green police station and identified himself as the man shown in a video released by the Met of an attack on a female cyclist in Whitechapel.
  
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• Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams named top seeds for 2015 US Open

  25-08-2015 21:43
  • Roger Federer is the No2 seed with Andy Murray seeded No3
  • Romania’s Simona Halep is No2 seed, Maria Sharapova No3Serena Williams, aiming to complete the first calendar-year grand slam in 27 years, and Novak Djokovic have been named the top seeds for the US Open starting on Monday in New York.The five-times US Open champion Roger Federer is the No2 seed for the men’s event where the top-10 features five US Open champions and six grand slam winners in all. Continue readin
  
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• Black Monday: Shares rally around the world after China's central bank slashes lending rate

  25-08-2015 21:41
  
  The free-falling Chinese stock market and growing fears about the health of the world’s second-largest economy have prompted the “panicking” Beijing authorities to slash interest rates and boost domestic bank lending.
  
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• Social recluse made £300,000 in internet scam run from his bedroom

  25-08-2015 21:33
  Paul Mahoney, 30 and partially blind, put the movie industry at risk of losing £120 million, a court has heardA social recluse who ran an internet piracy scam from his bedroom put the movie industry at risk of losing £120m, a court has heard.Paul Mahoney, 30, made almost £300,000 through advertising revenue generated from illegal sites offering access to the latest films and TV shows – many before general release, a judge at a pre-sentence hearing was told. Continue readi
  
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• Manchester United’s Marouane Fellaini handed striking role by Louis van Gaal

  25-08-2015 21:32
  • United manager backs Belgian to be a goal threat as main forward
  • Club Brugge second leg will not be easy, says Van GaalLouis van Gaal will use Marouane Fellaini as a striker this season and the Manchester United manager believes the erstwhile midfielder can be dangerous as the main forward or in the No10 role.United go into Wednesday’s Champions League play-off second leg at Club Brugge with a 3-1 advantage. Yet the first leg against last season’s Belgian runners-up was
  
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• Government issues damning response to 200,000-signature cannabis legalisation petition

  25-08-2015 21:26
  
  The Government has issued a firm response to a parliamentary petition calling for the legalisation of cannabis, that reached over 200,000 signatures and will be considered for debate in parliament.
  
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• Texas court halts planned execution of Nicaraguan man convicted of murder

  25-08-2015 21:20
  Bernardo Tercero, 39, was expected to undergo lethal injection Wednesday
  Attorneys say prosecution witness at 2000 trial gave false testimony
  Texas’s top criminal court on Tuesday stopped the scheduled execution of a Nicaraguan man convicted of killing a Houston high school teacher during a robbery more than 18 years ago.Bernardo Tercero, 39, had been set for lethal injection Wednesday evening. In a brief order, the Texas court of criminal appeals issued the reprieve after defense attorney
  
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• Bob Dylan's 'Hard Rain' lyrics a-gonna be auctioned in London

  25-08-2015 21:20
  
  (Reuters) - A draft of the lyrics for Bob Dylan's protest song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" is going up for auction in London next month and is expected to fetch up to 200,000 pounds ($314,000), Sotheby's auction house said on Tuesday. The typewritten manuscript, with the date 1962, contains many scribbled revisions and scratchings-out to the song that Dylan recorded in December 1962 and released on the album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" the following year. A 2014 auction of Dylan's 1965 origina
  
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• The EU referendum won’t be decided on the Eurostar but in the pub

  25-08-2015 21:17
  Eurosceptics are quick to articulate their grievances. To win the argument, yes voters must be as fluentLess than a year has passed since Better Together accomplished its mission to keep Scotland in the union, yet the three parties that worked on the project have largely disowned it. Electoral success has rarely been orphaned so quickly. There are defeats with prouder parents. Related: EU referendum: Cameron to hold new round of talks with European leadersContinue reading...
  
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• Dogs and hens killed in 'shocking' stable blocks blaze

  25-08-2015 21:10
  
  Four dogs and other small animals were killed when a suspicious blaze ripped through stable blocks in a rural village.
  
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• 'Proper debate' needed over ownership of Channel 4, says former chairman

  25-08-2015 21:06
  ‘Is it right that in 2015 the taxpayer still owns Channel 4?’ asks Luke Johnson, for Q&A event with culture minister John Whittingdale in Edinburgh on WednesdayA former chairman of Channel 4 has called for a “proper debate” about the future of the broadcaster, questioning whether it should remain in public ownership.
  In a pre-recorded question for culture minister John Whittingdale at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television festival on Wednesday, Luke Johnson,
  
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• Capital One Cup, Champions League qualifying and more: clockwatch – live!

  25-08-2015 21:06
  League Cup second round updates plus Scottish League CupEmail [email protected] or tweet @alansmith90And keep up with all the live scores across Europe 8.06pm BSTAnd scrap that comment about Sunderland – Exeter have pulled one back thanks to Manny Oyeleke. The shock is very much on at Villa Park, where Notts County lead. Villa’s expeienced defender Alan Hutton is robbed of possession and Genaro Snijders scores from long range via a heavy deflection. In the Champions League A
  
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• Safe seats should be abolished to modernise '19th century political system', says think tank

  25-08-2015 21:00
  
  Safe parliamentary seats would be abolished in order to boost voter turnout and modernise Britain’s creaking 19th century political system under a blueprint to be published on Wednesday.
  
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• VIDEO: World Athletics Highlights

  25-08-2015 20:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch BBC Two highlights of the World Athletics Championships.
  
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• New study says black students are more likely to be suspended and expelled in Southern states

  25-08-2015 20:37
  
  A new study has revealed that 55 percent of all black students who faced suspensions attended public schools in 13 Southern states.
  
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• Shoreham plane crash: Heavy rain and flooding hamper investigation process

  25-08-2015 20:36
  
  Heavy rain and flooding have hampered the continuing investigation at the scene of Shoreham air crash, with the coroner warning that identifying the victims “will be a slow a painstaking process”.
  
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• Improbable ships: From hospitals to floating nuclear generators

  25-08-2015 20:27
  
  A ship that was recently summoned to the island of Kos by the Greek government has a back story that you could describe as moderately interesting. Built in a Polish shipyard in 1984, it changed names as it changed hands – from Polonica, to Bonanza, to Kydon II – before adopting the name of the father of modern Greece, the former Liberal Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos.
  
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• Gibraltar government concern over shots fired from Spanish customs boat

  25-08-2015 20:21
  
  Gibraltar's chief minister has raised concerns after two men fishing off the coast of the British overseas territory complained that the crew of a Spanish customs boat had "fired in their direction".
  
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• Cumberbatch braves critics' slings and arrows at Hamlet press night

  25-08-2015 20:21
  
  Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch is hoping to impress the critics as he takes to the stage for the official press night of Hamlet.
  
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• Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn's rivals remain unconvinced over vetting of new voters

  25-08-2015 20:13
  
  Harriet Harman has failed to reassure Jeremy Corbyn’s three opponents in Labour’s leadership contest that adequate checks are being carried out into the flood of 400,000 people who have signed up to vote since the May general election.
  
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