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• Tribute in Lego to a war hero’s best friend

  27-08-2015 23:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A DOG nominated for Pet of the Year has been immortalised in Lego in recognition of his role in helping the family of a soldier who suffered catastrophic injuries while serving in Afghanistan.
  
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• Barack Obama in New Orleans: President praises city's 'extraordinary resilience' 10 years after Hurricane Katrina

  27-08-2015 23:40
  
  President Barack Obama has paid tribute to the "extraordinary resilience" of New Orleans and its residents as he walked the streets of the Louisiana city, a decade after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
  
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• Crooks steal Manchester United ace's £40k car while at Champions League clash

  27-08-2015 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MANCHESTER United ace Sam Johnstone has been targeted by car thieves whilst away at a Champions League game.
  
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• Facebook hits milestone as one billion people use the site in a day, Mark Zuckerberg announces

  27-08-2015 23:28
  
  Mark Zuckerberg has announced that for the first time in the site's history, one billion people used Facebook in a single day.
  
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• Tap Water Partly Restored After Bug Outbreak

  27-08-2015 23:22
  
  Tap water has been declared safe to drink in parts of Lancashire three weeks after a parasitic outbreak. United Utilities said residents in parts of Blackpool, Chorley and Preston no longer needed to boil their water. It comes after tests at a United Utilities treatment plant uncovered traces of the microscopic cryptosporidium bug, which can cause sickness and diarrhoea.
  
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• Girl, 3, escapes DEATH after being SHOT in stomach with air rifle as she plays in the park

  27-08-2015 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A THREE-YEAR-OLD girl has narrowly escaped death after being shot in the stomach in a West London park - and police have no leads to find the gunman.
  
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• FC Midtjylland 1-0 Southampton (agg 2-1)

  27-08-2015 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Southampton lose 1-0 to Midtjylland in their Europa League play-off second leg and miss out on the group stage.
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg hails Facebook's one billion visitors in single day

  27-08-2015 23:10
  
  One billion people have used Facebook in a single day for the first time in the site's 11-year history.
  
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• De Bruyne offered 'astonishing' wage

  27-08-2015 22:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester City make an "astonishing" wage offer to winger Kevin de Bruyne, Wolfsburg's director of sport says.
  
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• Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry condemns online trolls

  27-08-2015 22:56
  
  The lead singer of Chvrches has hit back at online trolls who launched a stream of sexist abuse over the band's latest music video.
  
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• Cecil the Lion's killer dentist is now a Halloween costume

  27-08-2015 22:53
  
  A costume company has sparked outrage after releasing a Cecil the Lion-themed Halloween costume.
  
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• Virginia shooting: Gunman Vester Flanagan handed a wooden cross to news editor and said 'you'll need this'

  27-08-2015 22:27
  
  The man who shot dead two journalists during a live broadcast handed a wooden cross to the television station’s news director when he was fired two years ago and told him “you will need it”.
  
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• UK songwriter society sues SoundCloud over copyright - FT

  27-08-2015 22:24
  (Reuters) - Britain's largest music copyright collective PRS for Music has sued SoundCloud for copyright infringement, saying the online audio-streaming firm did not agree on a licensing deal, the Financial Times reported.
  
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• Four in hospital after house fire

  27-08-2015 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four people are taken to hospital after a house fire in Cardiff.
  
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• International Tap Festival: Forget Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - this dancing is improvised, spontaneous and rhythmic

  27-08-2015 22:15
  Sat upstairs at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho, tucked into a corner, I am leaning as far forward in my seat as I can to catch the detailed footwork happening on stage. Six tap dancers are taking it in turns to mount the large, square-shaped platform made of wood while the drummer-led Michele Drees Trio throws everything from swing to Latin and hip hop beats at the dancers. They in turn are getting up and showing the crowd and musicians everything they've got, earning whoops of pleasure and sh
  
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• David Hasselhoff: I have no idea about Baywatch film role

  27-08-2015 22:05
  
  David Hasselhoff has admitted he has "no idea" if he will be involved in the upcoming Baywatch film.
  
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• Andy Burnham: Councils should control benefits budget

  27-08-2015 22:05
  
  The benefits budget should be under the control of local councils, Andy Burnham has said.
  
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• Poohsticks: Whitehall springs into action to warn of the perils of the much-loved game

  27-08-2015 21:56
  
  First an engineer came up with a formula for the perfect Poohstick. Then Visit England released a list of the best places to play the game, invented by Winnie the fictional bear. There was even a new book, called Poohstickopedia.
  
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• Donald Trump on foreign policy: 'I've got no time to travel abroad – America needs my attention now'

  27-08-2015 21:48
  Donald Trump says he will forgo the overseas visits to allies in Europe, or even closer to home, usually made by leading Republican presidential hopefuls during their campaigns, insisting there is too much to keep him at home in the United States.
  
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• House of Lords: Outcry as donors, fixers and MPs caught up in expenses scandal are handed peerages

  27-08-2015 21:45
  
  Disgraced MPs who cheated on their expenses, a multimillionaire Tory donor, a group of back-room political fixers and an alcohol industry lobbyist have been ennobled by David Cameron, sparking renewed calls for root-and-branch reform of the House of Lords.
  
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• House of Lords: Outcry as donors, fixers and MPs caught up in expenses scandal are ennobled

  27-08-2015 21:45
  
  Disgraced MPs who cheated on their expenses, a multimillionaire Tory donor, a group of back-room political fixers and an alcohol industry lobbyist have been ennobled by David Cameron, sparking renewed calls for root-and-branch reform of the House of Lords.
  
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• Alanis Morissette is back in the spotlight following duet with Taylor Swift on 1989 tour

  27-08-2015 21:45
  
  Of all the slebs that Taylor Swift has so far brought on stage for her 1989 tour – a wildly disparate group of supermodels, athletes and Friends alumni – perhaps one of the more fitting guest stars was Alanis Morissette, who this week joined the 25-year-old pop princess at LA's Staples Centre.
  
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• Clueless Spanish builders destroy heritage-protected Neolithic tomb and replace it with picnic table

  27-08-2015 21:41
  
  It is sometimes difficult enough to get a decent builder who will turn up on time and finish a project somewhere close to the initial quote. It also helps if they do not destroy a 6,000-year-old neolithic tomb.
  
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• Jamie Oliver: Migrant workers are vital for my businesses

  27-08-2015 21:39
  
  Jamie Oliver has waded into the row over immigration - saying if it was not for workers from abroad "every one of my businesses would close tomorrow".
  
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• Hong Kong student pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong decries 'political prosecution'

  27-08-2015 21:39
  
  One of the student leaders of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement has said he was willing to “pay the price” for his actions, after being charged over his role in the storming of government headquarters which helped to spark months of street protests last year.
  
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• Migrant crisis: Refugees found decomposing in lorry in Austria 'may have been dead when vehicle entered the country'

  27-08-2015 21:31
  Up to 50 migrants whose corpses were found in a lorry on an Austrian motorway might have already been dead when the vehicle entered the country from Hungary the previous night, police have said.
  
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• Tap water in parts of Lancashire declared safe following parasitic outbreak

  27-08-2015 21:22
  
  Tap water has been declared safe to drink in parts of Lancashire after a parasitic outbreak forced residents to boil their water for several weeks.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's paper coffee cup sells on eBay for £51

  27-08-2015 21:22
  
  Mothers have hailed him a sex symbol, his £1.50 vests sent the media into a frenzy - and now a paper coffee cup used by Jeremy Corbyn has been sold on ebay for £51.
  
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• The Silk Roads that trace civilisation: Long before the West rose to power, Asian pathways were connecting peoples and places

  27-08-2015 21:15
  As a child, one of my most prized possessions was a large map of the world. It was pinned on the wall by my bed, and I would stare at it every night before I went to sleep. Before long, I had memorised the names and locations of all the countries, noting their capital cities, as well as the oceans and seas, and the rivers that flowed into them; the names of major mountain ranges and deserts, written in urgent italics, thrilled with adventure and danger.
  
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• Burnley sign Barton on one-year deal

  27-08-2015 21:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Burnley sign former Queens Park Rangers and Manchester City midfielder Joey Barton on a one-year deal.
  
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• London has the most expensive public transport in the world, claims research

  27-08-2015 20:49
  
  London mayoral hopeful Tessa Jowell has released research that reveals that London has the highest public transport fares in the world, when compared with other global cities.
  
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• London has the most expensive public transport in the world

  27-08-2015 20:49
  
  London mayoral hopeful Tessa Jowell has released research that reveals that London has the highest public transport fares in the world, when compared with other global cities.
  
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• Donald Trump asks woman to pull his hair to prove it's real

  27-08-2015 20:49
  
  So, it has been settled. Donald Trump’s hair is real.
  
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• Road leading to Sandra Bland's former university to be renamed 'Sandra Bland Parkway'

  27-08-2015 20:40
  
  Prairie View City Council has voted to name a street after Sandra Bland, the black woman who suddenly died in Waller County Jail following her arrest last month.
  
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• Road leading to Sandra Bland's alma mater to be renamed 'Sandra Bland Parkway'

  27-08-2015 20:40
  
  Prairie View City Council has voted to name a street after Sandra Bland, the black woman who suddenly died in Waller County Jail following her arrest last month.
  
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• Cherish the supreme showman Bolt

  27-08-2015 20:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Usain Bolt conjures up another magical moment but how many more times will we witness his brilliance, asks Tom Fordyce.
  
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• Why is it so difficult to reduce immigration?

  27-08-2015 20:36
  
  The Conservative manifesto at this May’s general election reiterated the party’s “ambition” to cut net immigration to under 100,000 a year.
  
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• VIDEO: 'Labour needs to be courageous'

  27-08-2015 20:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In the latest BBC News profile of the Labour leadership candidates, Vicky Young went to meet Andy Burnham.
  
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• VIDEO: 'English people won't work for £6.50 an hour'

  27-08-2015 20:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As net migration to the UK reaches an all-time high, the BBC's Danny Savage reports from Hull on the impact of foreign arrivals in the city.
  
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• Government accused of closing door on Eritrean refugees in attempt to hit immigration target

  27-08-2015 20:25
  
  The Government has been accused of closing the door to thousands of asylum-seekers from Eritrea, where the authorities have been accused of crimes against humanity, in a desperate attempt to hit its discredited immigration target.
  
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• The Girl in the Spider's Web, David Lagercrantz, review: Stieg Larsson's heroes return in a thrilling new intrigue

  27-08-2015 20:13
  James Bond, Sherlock Holmes and even Bertie Wooster have all made dramatic returns to the page with contemporary authors such as William Boyd and Sebastian Faulks resurrecting them for new adventures.
  
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• Quebec seaplane crash: Death of teenagers 'devastating for all who knew them'

  27-08-2015 20:09
  
  The deaths of two teenagers killed with their parents when their seaplane crashed in Canada on the last day of their sightseeing trip is "devastating for all who knew them", their schools have said.
  
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• Inside rebel-held Ukraine, where a small pocket of nationalists hope of a life without Russian interference

  27-08-2015 20:03
  
  Five miles inside rebel-held Ukraine, 40 worshippers are attending mass. At this distance from the front, the rumble of war is barely audible but the scars of recent conflict are all too visible. Stray timber planks hang, partly dislodged, from the chapel and the ground outside it as well as the nearby blocks of flats are pitted with the holes made by mortar shrapnel.
  
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• World polio-free apart from three countries

  27-08-2015 20:00
  
  A British man vaccinated against polio as a child has been shedding the live virus for nearly 30 years because of an immune system disorder, a study has found.
  
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• Vaccinated Briton spread polio for years without realising, scientists reveal

  27-08-2015 20:00
  
  A British man with an immune system disorder has been unwittingly spreading polio for almost 30 years as a result of childhood vaccinations.
  
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• Study reveals that a lot of psychology research really is just 'psycho-babble'

  27-08-2015 20:00
  
  Psychology has long been the butt of jokes about its deep insight into the human mind – especially from the “hard” sciences such as physics – and now a study has revealed that much of its published research really is psycho-babble.
  
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• Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn voters most likely to believe 'the world is controlled by a secretive elite'

  27-08-2015 19:58
  
  You can call someone who voted for Jeremy Corbyn a “dreamer”, but it is no use asking him or her to look under the bonnet of a car to put right a fault, or to do a complicated long-division sum. And don’t get them started about the “secretive elite” who rule the world.
  
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• Airbnb in Paris to collect city taxes as site upsets hotels and residents

  27-08-2015 19:52
  
  The online home-rental site Airbnb has agreed to collect “tourist taxes” for the city of Paris in an apparent attempt to quell growing criticism of its success in the French capital.
  
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• UK jihadist 'killed in drone strike'

  27-08-2015 19:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A British man described as a "top cyber jihadist" has been killed in a military drone strike in Syria, US officials say.
  
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• Footballers unite for Neville funeral

  27-08-2015 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Footballing greats including David Beckham and Ryan Giggs reunite for the funeral of Neville Neville, the father of ex-England and Manchester United footballers Gary and Phil.
  
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