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• Murdoch company executives could face corporate charges over phone hacking

  28-08-2015 23:14
  
  Top executives at Rupert Murdoch's publishing company could face corporate criminal charges over phone hacking, it has emerged.
  
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• HSBC vows 275,000 payments hit by glitch processed by morning

  28-08-2015 23:10
  
  HSBC has said all of the 275,000 payments held up by a glitch today will be processed by tomorrow morning.
  
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• Migrant crisis: Yvette Cooper to put forward 'humane' asylum policy to counter Government's 'dishonest' immigration targets

  28-08-2015 23:00
  Yvette Cooper will next week propose a new “humane” asylum policy as she accuses the Government of turning away refugees from Britain because of its widely-criticised immigration target.
  
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• Tila Tequila removed from Celebrity Big Brother due to 'unacceptable' views

  28-08-2015 22:51
  
  Glamour model Tila Tequila has been removed from the Celebrity Big Brother house after posting "totally unacceptable" views on social media, Channel 5 said.
  
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• Rebekah Brooks returning to News Corp as UK chief - FT

  28-08-2015 22:43
  
  By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks will return to her old job heading Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper division, the Financial Times reported, just over a year after being cleared of criminal charges in a phone-hacking scandal. Reuters reported in March that Brooks, the former editor of the News of the World tabloid and seen as Murdoch's protege, was in talks about returning to News Corp. "As we ‎have said, we have been having discussions with Rebekah Brooks and when we have
  
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• Chelsea Pensioner Jailed For Sex Attack

  28-08-2015 22:36
  
  A Chelsea Pensioner has been jailed for 12 months for sexually abusing a woman in her 20s in his room in the Royal Hospital. Patrick Teegan, 72, assaulted the woman after attending the closing ceremony of the Chelsea Flower Show in May last year, Isleworth Crown Court heard. He was wearing his ceremonial red uniform when she came into the hospital's bar and was persuaded to join Teegan and his friends for drinks.
  
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• Judy Murray reveals Strictly Come Dancing favourites

  28-08-2015 22:09
  
  Former Strictly Come Dancing contestant Judy Murray has revealed who she will be rooting for when the show returns next week.
  
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• Hunted: Channel 4 to test 'surveillance Britain' by taking Big Brother to sinister new lengths

  28-08-2015 22:00
  
  Five years after dropping its hit reality show Big Brother, Channel 4 is to test the strength of "surveillance Britain" in a television experiment where a group of escapees are "hunted" by cyber and security experts using the nation's networks of CCTV cameras and tracking technologies.
  
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• Teresa Gorman dead: Outspoken and colourful Tory MP dies aged 83

  28-08-2015 21:55
  
  Teresa Gorman, a prominent and colourful Eurosceptic Conservative MP who later endorsed Ukip, has died at the age of 83.
  
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• From fixing Jacuzzis to watering plants: Inside the lucrative industry that helps Premier League footballers spend their fortunes

  28-08-2015 21:47
  It is well documented that when the Italian striker Mario Balotelli moved to Manchester City in 2010, the club struggled to control his off-field antics. Desperate for him to settle down, they moved him from his first home in the city’s bustling Deansgate to the tiny Cheshire village of Mottram St Andrew.
  
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• EU migrant crisis: The 71 people found dead in a lorry should have reached sanctuary

  28-08-2015 21:46
  
  The summer dying season is now well under way in the Mediterranean, with news of yet another tragedy at sea as desperate people try to reach Europe still able to shock, if not surprise.
  
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• Migrant crisis: The world looks on as details emerge following the discovery of the bodies of 71 migrants in a lorry in Austria

  28-08-2015 21:42
  They were running from one of the world’s ugliest conflicts hoping to forge a new life in Europe’s most welcoming country – but ended their lives in a heap of decomposing bodies in the back of a Bulgarian-owned refrigerated lorry.
  
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• Chelsea pensioner jailed for twelve months for sexually assaulting young woman

  28-08-2015 21:26
  
  A Chelsea  pensioner has been jailed for 12 months for sexually assaulting a young woman in his room. Patrick Teegan, 72, was convicted at Isleworth Crown Court last month of assaulting the woman, in her 20s, in May last year.
  
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• Italy migrant crisis: Suspected people smugglers 'threatened migrants with knives' as 'they came out of cramped ship's hold to breathe'

  28-08-2015 21:23
  Police in Italy have detained a group of suspected people smugglers after they allegedly used knives to threaten migrants who had come up from the ship's packed hold to breathe.
  
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• Lake District farmers team up with designers to turn Herdwick sheep into a fashion brand

  28-08-2015 21:18
  
  They have been roaming the fells of Lakeland for 1,000 years. But the public image of Cumbria’s humble Herdwick sheep is now getting a makeover in an attempt to transform the breed into a lucrative international brand.
  
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• Migrant crisis: Anger mounts in Libya after migrant boat sinks in the Mediterranean

  28-08-2015 21:10
  
  The Libyan coastguard was searching on Friday for survivors of a boat packed with migrants that sank in the Mediterranean, with up to 180 people feared drowned.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn wants to run Labour – his brother Piers wants the BBC weather contract

  28-08-2015 21:09
  
  Yes, it was fun. We laughed at those “barbecue summer” and “hurricane, what hurricane?” gags. But it was time to seek amusement elsewhere.  And so, after just 93 years together, the BBC has parted ways with the Met Office, rejecting its bid for the next five-year contract to supply TV, radio and website weather bulletins, and started seeing other forecasters.
  
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• Republican presidential candidate contest: Legal rows? They're this tough-talking tycoon's Trump card

  28-08-2015 21:05
  
  If you care to be President, better not to have legal dramas in your life. But to Donald Trump, litigation can seem like cream to a cat. Sometimes people sue him, as in a continuing case about the late, lamented Trump University, but more often he is going after those he thinks have slighted or mistreated him.
  
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• Republican leadership contest: Legal rows? They're this tough-talking tycoon's Trump card

  28-08-2015 21:05
  
  If you care to be President, better not to have legal dramas in your life. But to Donald Trump, litigation can seem like cream to a cat. Sometimes people sue him, as in a continuing case about the late, lamented Trump University, but more often he is going after those he thinks have slighted or mistreated him.
  
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• Rebekah Brooks 'to return to News Corp as head of UK division'

  28-08-2015 21:01
  
  Rebekah Brooks will return to News Corp as chief executive of its UK division a year after she was cleared in the phone hacking trial, it has been reported.
  
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• Phone hacking: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp could face corporate charges as CPS receives evidence

  28-08-2015 20:54
  
  The prospect of Rupert Murdoch and other senior executives facing corporate criminal charges over News Corporation’s role in phone hacking have increased after a “full file of evidence” from a three-year Scotland Yard investigation was passed to prosecutors.
  
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• Donald Trump vs Jeb Bush: Republican rivals square up in the battle of the barbs

  28-08-2015 20:54
  
  Donald Trump more or less questions the manhood of Jeb Bush, while Jeb Bush has taken to calling Donald Trump “un-American” and, worse, a closet Democrat. These are the taunts being traded by two of the runners for the Republican presidential nomination, plumbing new depths of political vitriol.
  
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• Florida declares state of emergency as tropical storm Erika approaches

  28-08-2015 20:51
  
  A state of emergency has been declared in Florida as a tropical storm, which has already killed four people in Dominica, is due to make landfall.
  
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• That's An-udder Fine Mess Moo Got Me Into!

  28-08-2015 20:45
  
  Two fire crews were called to free a cow who got its head stuck in a garden chair. The cow was left looking far more from 'amoosed' when it was spotted with its new plastic headpiece in a field in Boughton, Northamptonshire, on Friday. It is not known how the chair got in the field or why the cow became so attached to it.
  
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• Orange County plane crash: Pilot reportedly dies while practising for New York Air Show

  28-08-2015 20:43
  
  A pilot has reportedly died after his plane crashed while he was practising for the New York Air Show.
  
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• Orange County plane crash: 'Pilot dies' while practicing for New York Air Show

  28-08-2015 20:43
  
  A pilot has reportedly died after his plane crashed while he was practicing for the New York Air Show.
  
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• New York Air Show crash: Pilot dies while practising for this weekend's show

  28-08-2015 20:43
  
  A pilot has reportedly died after his small plane crashed while he was practising for the New York Air Show.
  
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• Nazi 'gold train': Location 'revealed in deathbed confession'

  28-08-2015 20:42
  
  Rumours of the presence of a Nazi train filled with gold and other treasures that vanished at the end of the Second World War have swirled around  the Polish town of Walbrzych for years – but now a government official says a “deathbed confession” has revealed its actual location.
  
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• Judy Murray: Andy faces tough US Open match against Nick Kyrgios

  28-08-2015 20:42
  
  Andy Murray has been dealt a tough opening match as he prepares to take on Australia's Nick Kyrgios in the US Open, his mother Judy said.
  
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• China stock collapse: Why the country's market crash is not what it seems

  28-08-2015 20:37
  
  The eyes of the world swivelled to China this week as the country’s stock market crashed in spectacular fashion, with a number of economic myths about China being trotted out during the past five days of financial drama.
  
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• Climate change: A 'pause' in global warming? Not on this evidence

  28-08-2015 20:35
  
  Some have called it the “pause”, others the “hiatus”. Now it seems neither description is accurate, given that the three hottest years on record have all occurred in the last five years and that nine out of the ten hottest years have all been in this century.
  
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• Tom Watson profile: the man tipped to be Labour's next deputy leader

  28-08-2015 20:30
  
  One joke doing the rounds in Parliament is that when the result of the Labour leadership contest is announced, it will be Trotsky for leader with Stalin as deputy. We know how that working relationship ended the first time – with Trotsky dead, an ice pick in his brain. Tom Watson does not think the joke works; he was at pains to point out in a recent interview that Jeremy Corbyn is no Trotsky. And despite a family link to the old Communist Party of Great Britain, he would demur at being ca
  
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• The family who never knew their father

  28-08-2015 20:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The things I wished I knew about my father
  
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• Heart muscle repair role envisioned for living 'tissue-Velcro'

  28-08-2015 20:00
  
  A biological Velcro has been developed that makes it possible to stack layers of living tissue together and then peel them apart.
  
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• Bollywood film outrages Medecins Sans Frontieres by linking it to terrorism

  28-08-2015 19:49
  
  It is an apparently humdrum thriller based on the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008, though controversial enough in its subject matter to earn a ban in Pakistan before it was  even released.
  
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• Spain accused of 'provocation' after letting Russian submarine refuel off Gibraltar

  28-08-2015 19:43
  
  The Spanish government has been accused of further provocative behaviour over the contested British territory of Gibraltar after it allowed a Russian submarine to refuel at one of its ports just 19 miles from the Rock.
  
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• Spain accused of 'provocation' after letting Russian submarine refuel in Gibraltar

  28-08-2015 19:43
  
  The Spanish government has been accused of further provocative behaviour over the contested British territory of Gibraltar after it allowed a Russian submarine to refuel at one of its ports just 19 miles from the Rock.
  
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• Prosecutors mull corporate charge over phone-hacking at Murdoch papers

  28-08-2015 19:43
  
  Prosecutors said on Friday they had received a file of evidence relating to the police investigation of phone-hacking at Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group and would be considering a possible corporate prosecution. The phone-hacking scandal first began in 2006 when the former royal editor of Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World, Clive Goodman, and his investigator Glenn Mulcaire, admitted they had hacked the phones of royal aides. As the scale of revelations grew, police launched
  
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• Mourners Line Streets For 'Mr Big' Funeral

  28-08-2015 19:38
  
  Paul Massey was killed after being shot four times by a masked gunman outside his Salford home last month, police have said. And police have increased patrols in Salford following the shooting. A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police told Sky News that uniformed officers were not at the funeral.
  
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• Rebekah Brooks 'returning to News Corp' as 'head of UK division'

  28-08-2015 19:30
  
  Rebekah Brooks is reportedly returning to NewsCorp as chief executive of its UK arm. 
  
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• Former Tory MP Teresa Gorman Dies Aged 83

  28-08-2015 19:28
  
  Bold and brassy, colourful and controversial, she made the current Tory extrovert Nadine Dorries look like a shrinking violet. Teresa Gorman, the Eurosceptic firebrand who was Tory MP for Billericay from 1987 to 2001 and a scourge of John Major and his shaky government of the 1990s, has died, aged 83. When she applied to succeed the equally colourful and controversial Harvey Proctor - in the news again earlier this week - as MP for the Essex seat, she lied about her age to boost her prospects.
  
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• Shoreham Airshow Crash: Two More Victims Named

  28-08-2015 19:18
  
  Tony Brightwell, 53, and Daniele Polito are among at least 11 people killed in the disaster - and police have warned there may be more. Marina Polito wrote: "I know many people loved him and will miss him loads, but as long as we keep him in our hearts and memories, he will never really leave us. The family of 53-year-old from Hove have paid tribute to a "kind, loving man".
  
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• Couple have 'weed tent' at wedding and guests say it changed their lives

  28-08-2015 19:15
  
  A couple who installed a weed tent at their wedding have spoken of their delight that guests found it to be "a life-changing event".
  
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• Former Tory rebel Teresa Gorman dies

  28-08-2015 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Teresa Gorman, a leading Conservative rebel over the Maastricht Treaty in the 1990s, dies aged 83.
  
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• Schoolgirl, 12, killed herself after struggling to cope with mother's death

  28-08-2015 19:10
  
  A 12-year-old girl killed herself after struggling to cope with her mother’s death from breast cancer, an inquest has heard.
  
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• Man smuggles crocodile on to flight by hiding it in his shoe

  28-08-2015 19:00
  
  A man has been prosecuted after smuggling a crocodile onto a flight in a shoe.
  
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• Pop-up exhibition shows life of Kray twins in London's East end

  28-08-2015 18:58
  LONDON (Reuters) - Pictures of the notorious Kray twins and their native London East End go on display in a pop-up exhibition in the British capital on Friday, ahead of the release of a film about the gangsters.
  
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• Afghanistan acknowledges struggle to tackle the Taliban after losing key district in Helmand

  28-08-2015 18:56
  
  Afghanistan’s acting Defence Minister, Mohammed Masoom Stanekzai, has acknowledged the “difficulties” his security forces face against the Taliban after they lost control of a key district in Helmand province.
  
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• Tila Tequila: Celebrity Big Brother contestant was 'Nazi sympathiser' who described Hitler as a 'good man'

  28-08-2015 18:45
  
  Channel 5 has been accused of promoting a Nazi sympathiser after it emerged that a contestant on its Celebrity Big Brother show has previously expressed her admiration of Hitler and appeared on her Facebook page posing in front of an image of Auschwitz while wearing a swastika and SS hat.
  
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• Free, but the Al Jazeera three remain at the mercy of Egyptian President Sisi's 'justice'

  28-08-2015 18:45
  
  Baher Mohamed likes to run, even in the clammy Egyptian  heat that can easily exceed 40C in summer. When he and his dog, Gatsby, finally return to his family home in the Cairo suburb of Sheikh Zayed, they collapse, panting, on to the grass outside. “This is my only chance to process what might happen in future,” he explains.
  
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