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• Jeremy Corbyn claims RAF drone strike in Syria was 'legally questionable'

  16-09-2015 23:59
  
  The RAF drone strike that killed suspected British jihadis in Syria this month was “legally questionable”, Jeremy Corbyn has claimed.
  
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• Royal Visit For School Where Parents Join Classes

  16-09-2015 23:55
  
  The charity behind a unique new school where parents go to class with their children says it is already having a dramatic impact on improving pupils' mental health. Sky News has been given access to the school, which is run by the Anna Freud Centre in North London, ahead of a visit by the Duchess of Cambridge today. Wayne Llewllyn's son is now ready to go back into mainstream school.
  
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• Barack Obama to bring Whitehall's 'nudge' theory to the White House

  16-09-2015 23:53
  
  It is often said that politics follows the Gulf Stream and that what happens in American political life finds its way across the Atlantic to be adopted in the UK.
  
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• Prisoners Charged Over 'Selfie-Rap' Video

  16-09-2015 23:44
  
  Two prison inmates who allegedly filmed a rap video behind bars have been charged with making an unauthorised recording. Demehl Thomas and Moysha Shepherd are said to have used a mobile phone smuggled into Birmingham Prison to record themselves boasting about drug dealing and assaulting rival gang members. West Midlands Police say the 25-year-olds have been charged with "making a sound recording without authorisation at some stage between 1-16 August this year".
  
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• Refugee crisis: UN secretary urges compassion after Hungary fires tear gas at refugees

  16-09-2015 23:30
  
  The refugees eventually managed to wrench open a gate on the border of Hungary and Serbia, leaving only a thin metal grating standing between ranks of riot police and a mass of asylum-seekers from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond.
  
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• Refugee crisis: UN Secretary General urges compassion after Hungary fires tear gas at refugees

  16-09-2015 23:30
  
  The refugees eventually managed to wrench open a gate on the border of Hungary and Serbia, leaving only a thin metal grating standing between ranks of riot police and a mass of asylum-seekers from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond.
  
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• Goodwood Revival 2015: Vintage motoring fans assemble to drool over old models

  16-09-2015 23:15
  
  It's fair to say that living in the past has always held a certain fascination for the British. OK, we've had our neophiliac moments – White Heat in the 1960s, Cool Britannia in the Nineties – but the British, or leastways the English, have always been innately conservative (small 'c'), on the lookout for a better yesterday. For some, it's getting out of the European Union (or Common Market, as they'd term it); for others it is the socialism of Jeremy Corbyn, the spirit of '45 made f
  
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• Runnymede: Drama returns to Magna Carta site 800 years on as police take on eco-warriors

  16-09-2015 23:13
  
  Exactly 800 years after the signing of the Magna Carta, drama returned to Runnymede.
  
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• Chelsea vs Maccabi Tel Aviv match report: Jose Mourinho's new-look team impresses, but bigger test is to come on Saturday against Arsenal

  16-09-2015 23:02
  Saturday will be the eight-year anniversary of the sacking of Jose Mourinho first time around at Chelsea, a suitably solemn occasion for the Stamford Bridge faithful who gave every indication that they did not wish to see history repeat itself.
  
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• Republican debate live: Donald Trump faces rivals for second time in presidential race

  16-09-2015 22:55
  
  Donald Trump will be taking centre stage as he faces his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination in a live debate tonight. Here are the latest updates:What will the candidates need to do to extinguish Trump's fire?Ben Carson closes in on Donald Trump in pollEverything you need to know about the debate
  
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• Mohammed Allan: Israel rearrests Palestinian hunger striker after his release from hospital

  16-09-2015 22:50
  
  Israeli authorities have rearrested a Palestinian security detainee immediately after his release from the hospital where he had been recovering from a 65-day hunger strike.
  
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• Design Museum exhibition focuses on the latest craze in brand allegiance ... corporate tattoos

  16-09-2015 22:45
  
  At his busy tattoo parlour, Diamond Jacks, in the heart of London's Soho, Darryl Gates recently met with an odd request. A man, decked out head to toe in Nike garb, asked for the sports label's signature tick logo to be tattooed on to his calf. It was to join three existing Nike markings at various points over his body. Gates was unfazed. He had already inked hundreds of people with company logos.
  
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• Soaring civil court fees price small businesses and people on low incomes out of justice

  16-09-2015 22:29
  
  Soaring civil court fees are pricing people on low incomes and small businesses out of justice and letting banks and other big businesses off the hook for bad behaviour, The Independent has learned.
  
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• Sri Lanka shaken: UN reveals 'shocking findings' of crimes committed by military against Tamil Tiger terrorist group during civil war

  16-09-2015 22:06
  The United Nations has said that “shocking findings” of sexual violence and torture committed by the Sri Lankan military during and soon after its three-decade war against the Tamil Tiger terrorist group could amount to war crimes and called for the creation of a “hybrid special court” to handle cases.
  
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• Mat Riley 'will never make a Charlotte Russe again' as he gets Bake Off boot

  16-09-2015 22:05
  
  Mat Riley admitted he was out of his depth in The Great British Bake Off as he became the seventh contestant to leave the tent.
  
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• Drone strike which killed suspected jihadis 'legally questionable' says Corbyn

  16-09-2015 22:05
  
  The RAF drone strike which killed suspected British jihadis in Syria was "legally questionable", Jeremy Corbyn has claimed.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's sketch: Jeremy Corbyn turns PMQs into a radio phone-in

  16-09-2015 22:03
  
  With the Commons packed – they were standing six deep just inside the chamber — Tory MPs were desperate to rise to the momentous occasion.
  
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• Afghan Taliban ends leadership row and agrees to back Mullah Akhtar Mansour

  16-09-2015 22:01
  The family of deceased Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has declared allegiance to the new leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, signalling an end to the internal discord that has divided the movement for months.
  
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• Ghost Twitter accounts see dead celebrities tweeting maniacally - but who is behind them?

  16-09-2015 22:00
  
  The other day, I came across a quote by Albert Einstein. Actually, it was a tweet. Actually, it was not something that Einstein ever actually said. Einstein is dead. He died in 1955, 51 years before Twitter's invention.
  
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• Anglican Church to discuss looser global ties due to internal splits

  16-09-2015 22:00
  
  The Archbishop of Canterbury has called a meeting of leading bishops to discuss loosening the Anglican Church's global structure due to growing differences over homosexuality and female bishops. The Anglican Communion, the world's third largest Christian body with 80 million members, has been split between the more liberal churches of North America and Britain, where women are now allowed to become bishops and same sex couples can marry, and their more conservative counterparts in Africa. In 201
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's first PMQs: Labour leader begins to repair damage after PR gaffes

  16-09-2015 21:36
  
  Jeremy Corbyn’s widely praised debut at Prime Minister’s Question Time has given him vital breathing space among MPs who are already warning that he faces a battle to survive as Labour leader.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn under pressure from within Labour to spell out grammar school plan

  16-09-2015 21:34
  
  Jeremy Corbyn and his new shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell are coming under pressure from within the Labour party to spell out plans to scrap the 11-plus and end grammar school status for the country’s 164 remaining state selective schools.
  
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• 'No prospect' of BBC abolition but it must modernise, says John Whittingdale

  16-09-2015 21:29
  
  Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has said there is "no prospect" of the BBC being abolished but insisted it must modernise - including reviewing the future of the flagship 10 o'clock news bulletin.
  
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• Nick Clegg interview: 'We've been very damaged electorally but at least our soul is intact'

  16-09-2015 21:15
  
  Toby James: To what extent do you think you achieved what you aimed to achieve when you became leader?
  
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• Nick Clegg interview: 'The Liberal Democrats have been damaged but our soul is intact'

  16-09-2015 21:15
  
  Toby James: To what extent do you think you achieved what you aimed to achieve when you became leader?
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn confirms that he will not campaign for Britain to leave the EU

  16-09-2015 21:14
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he will not campaign for the UK to leave the European Union, after speculation that he may oppose staying in the EU in the event of a referendum.
  
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• Syria conflict: Israeli and US alarm as Russia gives Assad regime anti-aircraft missile system

  16-09-2015 20:58
  
  The United States and Israel have voiced concern about Russia’s intentions in Syria amid signs that Moscow and the West are being sucked further into the conflict.
  
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• Elton John's phonecall with 'Vladimir Putin' revealed as the work of Russian pranksters

  16-09-2015 20:55
  
  It seemed like a diplomatic breakthrough of global significance – the pop superstar turned equality campaigner Sir Elton John had managed to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to talk to him about gay rights.
  
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• Republican debate: Where can I watch it, who's taking part and which issues will be tackled in second GOP clash

  16-09-2015 20:46
  Tonight sees the US's top-polling Republican presidential candidates going head-to-head in the second pair of GOP debates, in which all eyes will be on Donald Trump following a so-far gaffe-laden, yet seemingly successful, campaign.
  
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• Fraudsters 'rubbing their hands' at prospect of pensioners seeking early access to pensions

  16-09-2015 20:43
  
  Intelligence gleaned from hundreds of prison interviews has revealed that fraudsters are “literally rubbing their hands” at exploiting pensioners seeking early access to their pension funds.
  
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• Thomas Paine claims: A huge house of an argument built on slender stilts

  16-09-2015 20:07
  
  This is a fascinating and interesting discovery but I think it a misleading take on what is happening.
  
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• Thomas Paine didn't actually write crucial passage of 'Rights of Man', historian claims

  16-09-2015 20:05
  
  One of the founding fathers of the United States, Thomas Paine has also been described as a corsetmaker, a journalist and a propagandist. But the celebrated English political activist and revolutionary may also have been something else: a cunning plagiarist.
  
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• Saturn moon Enceladus may have massive hidden 'habitable ocean'

  16-09-2015 20:04
  
  A potentially habitable ocean surrounds the whole of Saturn's small moon Enceladus beneath an icy surface, new research suggests.
  
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• Pre-bedtime coffee 'sets body clock back an hour'

  16-09-2015 20:00
  
  Coffee drunk late in the evening resets the internal body clock which regulates a host of biological functions and genes according to a natural day/night cycle, research has shown.
  
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• Language used by political supporters in tweets 'closely matched predictions'

  16-09-2015 20:00
  
  If you turn the Twittersphere blue with your opinions and comments, the chances are you have liberal leanings.
  
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• Death row inmate Richard Glossip has death postponed just hours before his planned execution

  16-09-2015 19:56
  
  Richard Glossip has been granted a stay of execution just hours before he was scheduled to be killed for his involvement in the death of his boss in 1997.
  
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• Local newspapers want access to BBC video content to improve regional news coverage

  16-09-2015 19:54
  
  Local newspapers want access to the BBC’s programme library for use on their websites in what would be a historic change in the usage of BBC content.
  
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• BBC Charter: Government announces independent review into governance

  16-09-2015 19:54
  
  The Government has announced an independent review of how the BBC is governed and regulated following a series of "bad mistakes" by the organisation.
  
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• Comedian Steve Rannazzisi admits he lied about being in Twin Towers during 9/11

  16-09-2015 19:51
  
  A comedian who claimed he was in the Twin Towers during the attack on 9/11 has admitted that he lied.
  
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• BBC asks viewers to share their musical memorabilia to tell 'The People's History of Pop'

  16-09-2015 19:50
  
  Do you treasure a ticket stub from David Bowie at Aylesbury Friars? Is there a glow-stick from an illegal rave in your attic? Does your teenage diary list every band you ever saw in painstaking detail?
  
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• Liam Gallagher and ex-wife Nicole Appleton court tussle to continue

  16-09-2015 19:45
  
  A judge is tomorrow due to continue hearing evidence in a family court dispute involving rock star Liam Gallagher and his ex-wife Nicole Appleton.
  
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• Britain faces 'diesel drought' as its reliance on imports grows - study

  16-09-2015 19:37
  Britain is facing a diesel drought that could drive up prices at the pump and leave the country more vulnerable to supply shocks, a transport policy group has warned. The RAC Foundation, a research and policy group, said the rapid demand growth for diesel in Britain and the closure of some of its refineries had created a precarious situation. "We are having to look further and further afield for the fuel we need," said Steve Gooding, director of the foundation, adding Britain was "at the mercy o
  
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• More than three million dying early from air pollution, scientists estimate

  16-09-2015 19:32
  
  More than three million people around the world die prematurely because of air pollution, scientists have estimated.
  
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• The Government has quietly cut money to house and educate orphan child refugees living here

  16-09-2015 19:24
  
  The Government is quietly cutting payments to house, educate, and look after orphaned and separated child refugees living in Britain, it has emerged.
  
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• California Valley wildfire most destructive in state's history

  16-09-2015 19:22
  
  A wildfire blazing through northern California has been declared the most destructive in the state’s history, growing to 104 square miles in size and destroying nearly 600 homes.
  
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• BBC governance review to be led by former Bank of England deputy

  16-09-2015 19:19
  
  A former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England will lead an independent review into the future governance of the BBC.
  
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• Ahmed Mohamed: Barack Obama invites detained Muslim teenager to take his clock to the White House

  16-09-2015 19:18
  
  President Barack Obama has voiced his support for the 14-year-old Muslim teenager arrested by police after taking a homemade clock to school.
  
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• Republican debate: Rivals prepare to extinguish Donald Trump's fiery campaign in second GOP clash

  16-09-2015 19:15
  
  As the GOP presidential field squeezes onstage at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California for their second debate tonight, it is the election-winning vim of the venerated 40th President that they will all be hoping to emulate. Pundits have predicted a more combative exchange than at last month’s first debate in Ohio, when many of the candidates appeared content simply to weather the bluster of Donald Trump, safe in the belief that his fiery campaign would soon flame out.
  
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• PMQs: 12 things you need to know about Jeremy Corbyn's first head-to-head against David Cameron

  16-09-2015 19:01
  
  The chamber was packed, the public gallery was overflowing, stewards were turning journalists away from a jammed press section and MPs were peering in from the corridor as Jeremy Corbyn took on David Cameron in one of the most eagerly awaited Prime Minister's Questions in history.
  
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• 'Revolutionary' protein treatment gives heart attack patients fresh hope

  16-09-2015 19:00
  
  Heart attack damage has been reversed by scientists using a "missing" protein that kick-starts the repair of cardiac muscle.
  
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