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• Sudbury fire: People evacuated after major fire breaks out in historic market town

  06-09-2015 23:41
  
  A major fire has broken out in an historic market town forcing police to evacuate the area.
  
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• Pablo Escobar's son: Why I gave up my vow of revenge and work to reform drug policy

  06-09-2015 23:24
  
  In 1994, the most powerful drug traffickers in Colombia gave Sebastian Marroquin, the 17-year-old son of Pablo Escobar, a choice: leave the country forever, or face certain death.
  
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• Huge effort to rescue people from their burning flats under way after 'apocalyptic' blaze

  06-09-2015 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FIREFIGHTERS were scrambling to rescue people from their burning flats tonight after an "apocalyptic" blaze broke out in a busy town centre.
  
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• 20 evacuated as fire tears through flats and shops

  06-09-2015 22:48
  
  Around 20 people were evacuated from their homes after an "apocalyptic" fire broke out in a market town.
  
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• Official guide to help parents decipher language used by children on social media launched by the Government

  06-09-2015 22:11
  An official guide to help parents decipher the language used by their children on social media has been launched by the Government.
  
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• Dr Wyn Ellis: British academic detained in Thailand after exposing official as plagiarist

  06-09-2015 22:01
  
  A British academic, who exposed a Thai official who had plagiarised his work, is being held at a detention centre in Bangkok over allegations he is a threat to national security.
  
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• Give parents automatic right to send summer-born children to school a year later to prevent 'post code lottery', says Tory MP

  06-09-2015 21:52
  Parents should be given the automatic right to send summer-born children to school a year later to prevent a “post-code lottery” from harming their development, a Conservative MP will tell the Government.
  
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• Firefighters rescue people trapped in fire at flats

  06-09-2015 21:38
  
  A major fire has broken out in a block of flats in a market town forcing police to evacuate the area.
  
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• Aretha Franklin: Queen of Soul wins right to not have 1972 film Amazing Grace shown

  06-09-2015 21:38
  
  She has demanded respect throughout her career and now legendary singer Aretha Franklin has won it in a court of law – at the expense of a vintage concert film which has had its premiere cancelled.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Europe must act humanely on refugees or face nationalism and closed borders, says continent's top human rights official

  06-09-2015 21:31
  Europe faces the “dangerous scenario” of closed borders and rising nationalist sentiment without a united, and humane, response to the refugee crisis, the continent’s top human rights official has warned.
  
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• The Media Column: Right-wing papers pay for the new press complaints body – but it is not their patsy

  06-09-2015 21:23
  
  The heart-rending images of the body of little Aylan al-Kurdi, face down in the shallows on a Turkish beach, were too strong for some stomachs.
  
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• Striking workers may have to identify themselves to police, carry a letter of authorisation and wear an armband under proposed reforms

  06-09-2015 21:12
  Every worker wanting to join a strike picket could be forced to identify themselves to police, carry a letter of authorisation and wear an armband, under proposed reforms to trade union laws that could be in breach of international agreements, human rights groups have warned.
  
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• Judy Murray: Separate shower cubicles in schools would encourage girls to do sport

  06-09-2015 20:59
  
  Schools could encourage more girls to take up sport by being more sympathetic to the image-conscious world that young women grow up in, Judy Murray has said.
  
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• Tony Blair talks candidly about New Labour, devolution and winning elections

  06-09-2015 20:51
  
  TOBY JAMES: By what criteria do you think we should evaluate party leaders in Britain? Does the need to win elections force leaders into trade-offs between achieving bigger visions and staying in office?
  
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• David Cameron braced for Commons revolt over EU referendum

  06-09-2015 20:44
  
  David Cameron is braced for a damaging Commons revolt over the rules for the Government's planned in/out referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union.
  
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• Politicians Offer To House Syrian Refugees

  06-09-2015 20:39
  
  Labour leadership candidate Yvette Cooper and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon have joined a growing chorus of high-profile figures who say they would invite Syrian refugees to live in their homes. Bob Geldof , the Pope and Finland's Prime Minister, Juha Sipila, have all come out in recent days to offer their homes to Syrians fleeing persecution. Ms Sturgeon, meanwhile, said she would "absolutely be happy" to.
  
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• Shoreham air crash: footballers pay tribute to tragic team-mates

  06-09-2015 20:25
  
  Team-mates of two footballers killed in the Shoreham air disaster fought back tears today as they played their first match since the tragic deaths.
  
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• 10,000 refugees reach Munich and are greeted with food, water and teddy bears

  06-09-2015 20:14
  
  Some recounted their horrors. Others silently clutched their children, deaf to the cheers and applause from German bystanders. The youngest of the refugees to arrive in Munich was a baby girl – part of her umbilical cord still attached – born in a Hungarian railway terminal.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Germany's welcoming approach towards people in need is no surprise

  06-09-2015 20:09
  
  Why are the Germans being so nice? Hardened cynics would claim that, as always, they simply want to make up for what they did during the Second World War.
  
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• 'Dirty Corner': Anish Kapoor 'vagina' sculpture in Versailles attacked by anti-Semitic vandals

  06-09-2015 20:07
  
  Anti-Semitic phrases have been spray-painted onto a provocative sculpture by British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
  
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• Criminal gangs infiltrated postal delivery services to intercept drugs, say officials

  06-09-2015 19:59
  
  Criminal gangs have infiltrated postal delivery services across the country to intercept secretly marked packages of drugs to divert into the £200m-a-year market in bootlegged medicines, according to officials.
  
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• BBC4 stars express horror at claim station could be axed

  06-09-2015 19:48
  
  The actor Sanjeev Bhaskar is at the forefront of a campaign to ensure the high-minded BBC4 is not threatened with closure, as the Corporation prepares to make deep cuts while still pumping millions into new drama.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth II is Britain's greatest monarch, according to poll

  06-09-2015 19:47
  
  The Queen has been voted the UK’s greatest monarch, days before she will secure the title of the country’s longest-reigning head of state.
  
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• China's financial power play: How a £530m dam in Cambodia symbolises the growing, sometimes ruthless, influence of Beijing across Asia

  06-09-2015 19:29
  The thump of jackhammers and the whine of drills pierce the air. Above the river a concrete wall is slowly rising.
  
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• Eurosceptic Tory MPs threaten to join with Labour and SNP to defeat proposed EU referendum rules

  06-09-2015 19:18
  
  David Cameron faces a three-pronged attack from eurosceptic Conservative MPs as they threaten to join forces with Labour and the SNP to force a defeat on the Government over its proposed rules for the EU referendum.
  
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• Refugee crisis survey: Britain should be a place of refuge for those in need, public says

  06-09-2015 19:11
  
  Support for the idea that Britain should be a place of refuge for people fleeing war and persecution has risen dramatically since the start of the summer, a survey has found.
  
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• Brutal Utopias: National Trust launch project celebrating Brutalist post-war architecture

  06-09-2015 19:07
  
  Consider the National Trust, and you might think of stately homes filled with tapestries and leather-bound books.
  
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• Foo Fighters joined by Queen and Led Zeppelin members to form 'supergroup' for UK return

  06-09-2015 19:05
  
  The Foo Fighters have begun the relaunch of their UK stage tour accompanied by members of Queen and Led Zeppelin.
  
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• Jeb Bush comes out swinging at Donald Trump in Republican presidential candidate race but it's a risky business

  06-09-2015 19:03
  Exactly what pushed Jeb Bush over the edge, we don’t know. Maybe he’d spied the devil letters T-R-U-M-P painted on the roof of the spiffy Doral Country Club as his plane approached Miami Airport a week ago – they are hard to miss – and despaired.
  
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• Netflix felt former Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May were 'not worth the money'

  06-09-2015 18:34
  Netflix abandoned bargaining to secure a new car show featuring the former presenters of Top Gear because the trio are “not worth the money”, according to a senior figure at the streaming service.
  
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• All universities should establish compulsory sexual consent workshops, says leading higher education official

  06-09-2015 18:27
  All universities should establish compulsory sexual consent workshops to teach students that “no means no”, according to a leading higher education official.
  
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• Warm weather set to return to UK this week with temperatures of up to 24C

  06-09-2015 18:26
  
  Summer is set to return to the UK this week with sunshine, dry weather and temperatures reaching 24C by Friday.
  
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• Plane with seven people on board disappears west of Senegal during medical evacuation

  06-09-2015 18:25
  
  A plane with seven people, including one French passenger, on board has disappeared west of Senegal during a medical evacuation.
  
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• Shaquan Mario Fearon: Two 15-year-old boys charged with stabbing teenager to death in London

  06-09-2015 18:18
  
  Two 15-year-old boys have been charged with the murder of a 17-year-old boy in south-east London.
  
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• 2,000 Britons offer to house refugees

  06-09-2015 18:16
  
  More than 2,000 Britons have offered to house refugees in their own homes while others have donated food, clothes and shelter to ease the growing humanitarian crisis.
  
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• Syria Condemns Any UK Military 'Interference'

  06-09-2015 18:14
  
  Syria has accused the UK of 'interference' following reports the Government is seeking to persuade Labour MPs to back airstrikes in Syria. The Syrian foreign ministry has sent two letters to United Nations chiefs objecting to "brazen standpoints" taken by British officials and accusing the UK of a "colonialist" agenda, according to state news agency SANA. It comes after Chancellor George Osborne acknowledged that a comprehensive plan is needed to tackle the refugee crisis "at source".
  
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• Netanyahu rejects calls for Israel to take more refugees - and pledges to build a fence instead

  06-09-2015 18:11
  
  Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed an urgent call from his opposition leader to "not be apathetic" in the face of desperate Syrian refugees.
  
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• Benjamin Netanyahu rejects calls for Israel to take more refugees – and pledges to build a fence instead

  06-09-2015 18:11
  
  Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed an urgent call from his opposition leader to "not be apathetic" in the face of desperate Syrian refugees.
  
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• Sarah Palin wants to lead the energy department under a Donald Trump presidency – so she can get rid of it

  06-09-2015 18:07
  
  US politician Sarah Palin has said she would like to be Energy Secretary under Donald Trump – in order to scrap the role.
  
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• From stuffy to selfies - the Queen tries to change with the times

  06-09-2015 17:54
  
  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - When the Queen came to the British throne more than six decades ago, her first prime minister was Winston Churchill, a man who had served in the army of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. By the time the current holder of that job, David Cameron, was born in 1966, she had already been monarch for 14 years. "The first time she saw (Cameron) he was playing a rabbit in a school production in which her son Prince Edward was taking part," royal historian
  
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• Fire at Washington Planned Parenthood clinic was 'arson', rule prosecutors

  06-09-2015 17:52
  
  A blaze which caused serious damage to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington was an arson attack, prosecutors have said.
  
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• Man arrested after two people are stabbed to death at east London sheltered housing

  06-09-2015 17:48
  
  A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an elderly man in his 80s and a woman in her 50s were stabbed to death at a sheltered housing complex.
  
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• Steve Jobs biopic: Michael Fassbender tipped for Best Actor Oscar after film debuts at Telluride Festival

  06-09-2015 17:40
  Michael Fassbender has become a front-runner to win Best Actor and next year’s Oscar ceremony, after an early version of the biopic in which he plays former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was met with rave reviews.
  
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• Austria to close borders to refugees again after 12,000 arrive from Hungary in just 48 hours

  06-09-2015 17:32
  
  The Austrian chancellor has indicated that the country could begin closing its borders again after two days of unprecedented refugee arrivals from eastern Europe.
  
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• BBC faces 'tough choices' over budget cuts

  06-09-2015 17:25
  
  The BBC has admitted it faces "tough choices" but will not announce any television channel closures when the director-general unveils proposals for its future tomorrow.
  
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• Campaign to end tipping and pay waiting staff a living wage gathers pace

  06-09-2015 17:19
  
  There is a deftness about the waiters and waitresses that do their thing at the rather fashionable New York restaurant Dirt Candy.
  
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• Brave New World: Director composing stage version of Aldous Huxley's novel on why notion of a World State is more important than ever

  06-09-2015 17:05
  At first you hear the sound of humming, a warped Gregorian chant, then dancers leap into a circle, dancing frantically round and round, while two large men whip a young, topless man, bowed over in the centre, the sinews of his back exposed, flinching yet defiant. The whips hit flesh in time with the beat of a drum. When the young man falls to the ground in pain the others lift him up in exaltation, celebrating as the drums and strings build to a climax.
  
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• Greek coastguards seize huge shipment of arms and ammo 'bound for Libya'

  06-09-2015 17:01
  
  A huge stash of weapons and ammunition has been found hidden aboard a cargo ship understood to be bound for an area of Libya controlled by Islamic militants.
  
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• French spy who sabotaged the Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior ship apologises

  06-09-2015 17:00
  
  The bomber behind the sinking of a Greenpeace ship off the coast of New Zealand 30 years ago has apologised for his actions for the first time.
  
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• French spy who bombed Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior ship apologises 30 years later

  06-09-2015 17:00
  
  A French secret service agent who took part in the sinking of a Greenpeace ship off the coast of New Zealand 30 years ago has apologised for his actions for the first time.
  
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