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• Taylor ton keeps England in series

  08-09-2015 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  James Taylor's maiden ODI century helps England keep the series alive as they beat Australia by 93 runs at Old Trafford.
  
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• England 2-0 Switzerland

  08-09-2015 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wayne Rooney scores a penalty to become England's all-time record goalscorer in a 2-0 Euro 2016 qualifying match win against Switzerland at Wembley.
  
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• Hillary Clinton apologises for using private email server while US Secretary of State

  08-09-2015 23:43
  
  Hillary Clinton, the presidential candidate and former secretary of state, has apologised for using a private email server at her home while serving as the US’s top diplomat,
  
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• Hillary Clinton apologies for using private email server while serving as US Secretary of State

  08-09-2015 23:43
  
  Hillary Clinton, the presidential candidate and former secretary of state, has apologised for using a private email server at her home while serving as the US’s top diplomat,
  
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• England 2 Switzerland 0 analysis: Four things we learnt as Wayne Rooney breaks goal record

  08-09-2015 23:18
  
  1) Carrick a big miss
  
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• Tory minister expelled from Labour

  08-09-2015 23:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tory minister Baroness Altmann is expelled from the Labour Party after it was found she had been a member for 18 months.
  
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• Former bishop Heather Cook to be jailed for ten years for killing cyclist while driving intoxicated

  08-09-2015 23:09
  
  A former bishop is to jailed for ten years after pleading guilty to manslaughter and drunken driving in an incident in which she killed a cyclist.
  
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• England vs Switzerland match report: Wayne Rooney breaks Sir Bobby Charlton's 45-year goal record as Three Lions ease to victory

  08-09-2015 23:09
  Sir Bobby Charlton’s England goalscoring record stood for 45 years, back to a time when the national team were still champions of the world, and the British record transfer fee was the £200,000 that Tottenham Hotspur paid West Ham for Martin Peters. Records are made to be broken, but the longevity of the one that Wayne Rooney surpassed demonstrates the scale of his achievement.
  
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• Labour will go out of business unless it sheds its 'cloth cap' image, report warns

  08-09-2015 23:00
  
  Labour could go out of business unless it sheds its backward-looking “cloth cap” image as a party which champions a disappearing working class, according to a new report.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Danish yachtswoman smuggles refugee on her boat from Copenhagen to Malmo

  08-09-2015 22:56
  
  Hundreds of people in Sweden and Denmark have stepped forward to help those arriving there, offering beds, food, lifts, train tickets, and in one case smuggling a refugee across the international frontier in a sailing boat.
  
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• Is Rooney England's greatest striker?

  08-09-2015 22:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As Wayne Rooney rewrites England history, BBC Sport's Phil McNulty asks whether he is their greatest striker.
  
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• Radcliffe On Defensive As Integrity Questioned

  08-09-2015 22:52
  
  Paula Radcliffe has been perhaps the most consistent, strident anti-doping campaigner athletics has known. Jesse Norman, chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, did not name her in a Parliamentary session examining blood doping, but he didn't need to. His question to the chairman of UK Anti Doping about British London marathon winners "under suspicion for very high levels of blood doping" left anyone with even a cursory knowledge of athletics to fill the gap.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Angela Merkel's coalition 'sent wrong message to outside world', say critics

  08-09-2015 22:50
  
  The German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition faces the prospect of mounting discord over its open-door policy towards Syrian and other refugees after its deputy leader claimed that the country could absorb half a million migrants a year for the next few years.
  
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• Rooney Breaks England Goal Scoring Record

  08-09-2015 22:37
  
  Wayne Rooney has become England's all-time leading goal scorer breaking Sir Bobby Charlton's record with his 50th strike.
  
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• New study says more teens are using e-cigarettes to smoke weed

  08-09-2015 22:33
  
  A new study published in the Pediatrics Journal finds that teens are increasingly turning to electronic cigarettes to smoke marijuana.
  
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• First Great Western MD reveals how he plans to get the beleaguered train operator back on track

  08-09-2015 22:30
  
  Had Mark Hopwood and the other managers of First Great Western convened to discuss the question “How can we really hack off our passengers?” there could be no better solution than the scenario that greeted London-bound rail travellers from Bath a few days back.
  
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• Donald Trump's outspoken views are 'pushing Republicans to the right on immigration'

  08-09-2015 22:26
  
  Donald Trump's increasing popularity ahead of the upcoming election has sparked a sense of unease among Republicans who fear his controversial views may be harming the Party and influencing other candidates.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's sketch: Angelina Jolie thrives in select committee appearance

  08-09-2015 22:23
  
  George Osborne, knowing the journalists were not there for him but for someone much more famous, told them wryly as he passed: “I know my place.” One of the more improbable double acts in global politics, Angelina Jolie and William Hague were about to do their thing.
  
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• Former bishop admits to sexually abusing 18 young men

  08-09-2015 22:16
  
  A former bishop and friend of the Prince of Wales has admitted sexually abusing 18 young men amid claims that the upper echelons of the Church colluded and conspired with the criminal justice system for decades to cover up his crimes.
  
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• Radcliffe 'Devastated' Over Doping Claims

  08-09-2015 22:05
  
  Marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe has "categorically denied" cheating after a parliamentary committee hearing on doping. Radcliffe issued a strongly worded and lengthy statement after the head of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee appeared to raise suspicions about a prominent British marathon runner during the questioning of David Kenworthy, chairman of UKAD, the UK's national anti-doping agency. Speaking under the protection of Parliamentary privilege, committee
  
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• Syria refugee plan 'not enough'

  08-09-2015 22:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour says Britain should be taking in more than 4,000 Syrian refugees a year, as MPs stage an emergency debate on the government's response to the migrant crisis.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Thousands of Syrians have UK visa requests rejected by Home Office

  08-09-2015 21:42
  
  Thousands of Syrians applying to legally visit the UK are having their applications rejected by the Home Office over fears they may claim asylum, official figures unearthed by The Independent reveal.
  
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• Golfers score double hole-in-one

  08-09-2015 21:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two golfers from Norfolk achieve a 25 million to one double hole-in-one in the same hole.
  
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• Refugee crisis: EU to vote through quota plan despite opposition from Eastern Europe

  08-09-2015 21:35
  
  A fourfold increase in the number of refugees to be distributed around the European Union is likely to win the backing necessary to take effect, despite noisy resistance from Eastern European states.
  
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• Jolie warning of IS rape 'policy'

  08-09-2015 21:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Islamic State fighters are using rape to terrorise and destroy communities, special UN envoy Angelina Jolie tells a UK parliamentary committee.
  
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• Syria airstrikes analysis: Drones are here to stay – because they are just so effective

  08-09-2015 21:27
  
  Britain flew 307 sorties using drones, firing 102 Hellfire missiles, in just the first six months of operations against Isis in Iraq.
  
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• UUP angry over agenda of NI talks

  08-09-2015 21:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Ulster Unionist Party says it will not return to talks on Wednesday unless the Provisional IRA's existence is the first item on the agenda.
  
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• Syria drone strike Q&A: When did David Cameron approve the attack? Was the action legal?

  08-09-2015 21:16
  
  When did David Cameron approve the drone strike?
  
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• Isis in Iraq: Young Kurds flock to PKK to take up arms against militants after becoming disillusioned with their government

  08-09-2015 21:11
  Growing numbers of young Iraqi Kurds are joining the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), despite the breakdown of the rebel group’s ceasefire with the Turkish government, which has unleashed repeated air strikes against its bases in northern Iraq.
  
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• Jeremy Wright QC: The man who advised David Cameron on the legality of Syria drone strikes

  08-09-2015 21:10
  
  When David Cameron announced that he had consulted the Attorney General prior to his decision to authorise the killing of Reyaad Khan, it may have sounded as if he had sought independent legal advice.
  
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• Jeremy Wright QC: The man who advised David Cameron on the legality of Isis drone strikes

  08-09-2015 21:10
  
  When David Cameron announced that he had consulted the Attorney General prior to his decision to authorise the killing of Reyaad Khan, it may have sounded as if he had sought independent legal advice.
  
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• Illegal Immigrant Suspects Found Inside Tanker

  08-09-2015 21:08
  
  A group of illegal immigrants have been arrested after they were found inside a tanker in south London. Police said "approximately 14" people were detained on suspicion of immigration offences after the vehicle was stopped by police in Purley Way, Croydon, at around 12.30pm on Tuesday. The driver of the vehicle was also arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal entry into the UK and was taken in for questioning.
  
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• Jewish centre shootings: White supremacist Frazier Glenn Cross sentenced to death

  08-09-2015 21:07
  
  A white supremacist who shot and killed three people outside two Jewish centres last year should be put to death, a jury in Kansas has concluded.
  
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• Tory MPs join calls for urgent investigation into David Cameron's secret Isis 'hit list'

  08-09-2015 20:59
  
  Pressure is growing on David Cameron to allow independent scrutiny of the intelligence behind a secret Government “hit list” of Isis jihadists to be targeted by British drones in Syria.
  
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• Former Citi trader tells court information-sharing was common practice

  08-09-2015 20:59
  LONDON (Reuters) - A former Citigroup foreign exchange trader claiming unfair dismissal after a currency rigging scandal told a London court on Tuesday that the activities for which he was fired were common practice at the U.S. bank at that time.
  
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• Refugee crisis: How Europe's alarming lack of unity over the issue could bring about the break up of the EU

  08-09-2015 20:56
  
  A three-year-old refugee child drowns while trying to reach the safety of a muddled and largely unwelcoming EU. Syrian refugee families are herded on and off trains in Budapest. Other refugees have their arms marked with identity numbers by Czech police. Razor-wire fences are built in Hungary – and in Calais.
  
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• Criminal courts charge: Mass resignations amid judicial revolt against 'extremely unfair' fees

  08-09-2015 20:47
  
  More than 50 magistrates are understood to have resigned from the bench in recent weeks amid an extraordinary judicial revolt against new court charges which critics claim encourage innocent people to plead guilty.
  
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• Abz left stunned as his Brit Award attracts £1m bid on eBay

  08-09-2015 20:40
  
  A million pound bid has been placed on eBay for former 5ive boyband member Abz's Brit Award, leaving the star wondering if the offer is a hoax.
  
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• Retired bishop admits sex offences

  08-09-2015 20:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A retired bishop pleads guilty at the Old Bailey to sexually assaulting young men in East Sussex in the 1980s and 1990s.
  
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• Stan's no dummy when it comes to teaching scientists of tomorrow

  08-09-2015 20:33
  
  Killed and brought back to life again and again, poisoned, tormented mercilessly by sadistic children, and forced to undergo regular sex changes, poor Stan has a generally hard time of it.
  
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• Who owns outer space? And what happens when corporations want to extract resources from asteroids or planets?

  08-09-2015 20:30
  
  There was never a territory in human history that someone didn't think they could own or make money out of. And that goes for outer space as well – in fact, it has done for the best part of 60 years.
  
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• Arrests after 14 people found in tanker

  08-09-2015 20:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fourteen people are arrested on suspicion of immigration offences after they were found in a tanker in south London, police say.
  
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• Pinterest 'preppers': Why people preparing for the end of the world are sharing their survival skills online

  08-09-2015 20:27
  
  Pinterest has long been loved by homebuyers, wedding-planners, mums, narcissists and people who spend too much time on their hair.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Far-right's rise and dehumanising of conflict victims are greatest barriers to joint European action

  08-09-2015 20:20
  For a taste of what happens when Europe draws up the barricades, you need to travel to the wrong side of the fence on the tiny Spanish enclave of Melilla. Living rough on the Moroccan side are people from both poor African nations and war-ravaged Syria – speaking about the pain of leaving children behind, torment at the hands of Moroccan police, and their hope that Europe will offer them a safe future.
  
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• Safety group disputes Casement report

  08-09-2015 20:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The GAA's Casement Park project looks set for more problems after the Sports Grounds Safety Authority disputes a report by Cabinet Office officials.
  
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• Samuel L Jackson to host GQ Men of the Year Awards

  08-09-2015 20:11
  
  Hollywood actor Samuel L Jackson will be hosting this year's 18th annual GQ Men of the Year Awards.
  
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• Calais mayor 'disgusted' that UK won't take 3,500 refugees from town

  08-09-2015 20:11
  
  The Mayor of Calais has spoken of her "disgust" that Britain has not offered to take migrants from her town after the Government pledged to resettle up to 20,000 refugees.
  
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• Russian 5-year-old boys dig out of nursery to buy luxury car

  08-09-2015 20:09
  
  A pair of 5-year-old boys in Russia dug a tunnel under their pre-school as part of a plot to buy a luxury car.
  
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• Lord Moser: Refugee from the Nazis who went on to become a towering figure in Britain's cultural and public life

  08-09-2015 20:05
  The life of Claus Moser is a reminder of the bounty bestowed upon this country by refugees, for this escapee from Hitler was the Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, Chancellor of Keele University, a Chairman of the Royal Opera House who prevented it losing its standing as a world-class company, and the supreme fund-raiser for the British Museum in its present splendour.
  
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• Woman charged over toddler's murder

  08-09-2015 19:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The guardian of an 18-month-old toddler who was found dead at a house in Birmingham is charged with murder, police say.
  
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