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• Russell and Ford fit for Scotland

  09-10-2015 23:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scotland are close to full strength as Finn Russell and Ross Ford are passed fit to face Samoa.
  
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• Dewani Victim Of 'Witch Hunt' Over Wife's Death

  09-10-2015 23:22
  
  Businessman Shrien Dewani says he became the victim of a "witch hunt" after a gang who killed his wife were allowed to "get away with murder". Mr Dewani was cleared last year of orchestrating the honeymoon killing of Anni Dewani in Cape Town in 2010. Mr Dewani was responding to correspondence from a coroner who concluded earlier on Friday that there was not "sufficient cause to resume an inquest" into Mrs Dewani's death.
  
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• New Zealand v Tonga: Rugby World Cup 2015 – live! | Michael Butler

  09-10-2015 23:05
  
  Rugby World Cup updates from the Pool C match at St. James’ ParkEmail [email protected] or tweet @MichaelButler18 9.55pm BSTTonga are out of the World Cup. New Zealand top Pool C.11 - #NZL have won their 11th consecutive @rugbyworldcup game, their best ever run in the competition. Streak. 9.54pm BST80 min: Tonga have the ball as they push for that all-elusive try. It’s not happening.Continue reading...
  
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• Shooting at Texas Southern University leaves one student dead and one injured

  09-10-2015 23:01
  
  Police said two suspects have been detained and third is at largeOne person wounded in overnight shooting near same housing complexA Texas Southern University student was killed and another person injured in a shooting that occurred at a university housing complex in Houston, police said on Friday.The shooting was reported on Friday at around 11.30am local time at the apartment complex and the school was placed on lockdown, according to Houston police and university officials. Continue reading..
  
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• Ross Barkley shines as England beat Estonia in Euro 2016 qualifying

  09-10-2015 22:51
  
  There is one small thing that can be held against Ross Barkley after his contribution to England’s latest win and it is that Estonia were obliging opponents for a man desperate to show that it is time he is turned into a mandatory first-team pick. All the same, Barkley must have done enough here to make it difficult in the extreme for Roy Hodgson to leave him out again and his contribution to Theo Walcott’s opening goal was a piece of vision and high skill to last in the memory.Barkl
  
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• Waterspouts spotted off Chinese coast – video

  09-10-2015 22:46
  
  At least three waterspouts were seen off the coast of Dalian in the north-east province of Liaoning on Friday. Footage shows the funnel cloud of a tornado reaching down to the surface of the sea. Waterspouts are commonly defined as tornadoes over water, caused by a combination of cold and warm temperatures converging over the area, along with a line of storms Continue reading...
  
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• England v Estonia: Euro 2016 qualifier – as it happened

  09-10-2015 22:38
  
  Theo Walcott and Raheem Sterling scored the goals as England took care of business against Estonia at Wembley9.38pm BSTPeep! Peep! Peeeeeeeep! It’s all over. England have won fairly easily against very ordinary opposition that brought little to the party. It wasn’t much of a spectacle, but a win is a win and England’s fiendish plan to go through qualification without dropping a point is still on track. They played well in spots, but a tendency towards the over-elaborate didn&rs
  
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• Justin Bieber's dad is the latest in a history of cringe-inducing parents

  09-10-2015 22:36
  
  Jeremy Bieber tweeted in support of his son’s nude photos, and – unfortunately – he’s not the first celebrity dad to make inappropriate commentsMany thought cringe-inducing behavior from parents on social media had run its course from meme-worthy to hackneyed as a source of humor. But Jeremy Bieber, father of pop star Justin, took a shot at reviving the form on Friday, by tweeting in support of his son’s recently leaked nude vacation photographs, making his pride in
  
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• Stuart Lancaster’s Rugby World Cup pain could eventually be his gain | Graham Henry

  09-10-2015 21:59
  
  England’s beleaguered coach is fighting for his job after elimination but, if he comes through this sorry chapter, he will be all the stronger for itSeven of the quarter-finalists were decided before the final weekend. If one pool looked destined to go down to the wire it was England’s, but they face Uruguay in Manchester in a dead rubber before the real inquest into their early exit begins in earnest.I have been there, back in 2007 when I was the head coach of the All Blacks and we
  
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• New details on West Ham stadium deal

  09-10-2015 21:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  West Ham will not have to pay cleaners and turnstile operators when they move into the Olympic Stadium next year.
  
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• Retired teacher discovers her home was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

  09-10-2015 21:50
  
  The home is the second to be identified in the past four months as part of the architect’s affordable well-designed homes collection – one of 16 ever builtA retired teacher in Madison, Wisconsin, discovered this week that her house, which she bought for $100,000, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
  Wright experts announced on Tuesday that Linda McQuillen’s home is an American System-Built house, built as part of the great American architect’s effort to develop and market
  
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• Hillary Clinton meets with prominent leaders of new civil rights movement

  09-10-2015 21:38
  
  The presidential candidate met with founders of Campaign Zero and other delegates Friday, and discussed issues from mass incarceration to protestsHillary Clinton met with prominent leaders of the new civil rights movement on Friday, including founders of the influential Campaign Zero, telling them she wanted to end the use of private prisons and hinting at the shape her long-awaited policy platform on criminal justice may take. Related: Joe Biden's presidential campaign is missing only one thing
  
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• Martin Rowson on Tories and the centre ground – cartoon

  09-10-2015 21:37
  
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• Cinemas must 'drastically improve' or lose audiences, says Christopher Nolan

  09-10-2015 21:14
  
  Interstellar director tells festival audience about the importance of using real film, as opposed to digital technologyCinema chains need to drastically improve the experience they offer to customers or the next generation of moviegoers will stop going, the film director Christopher Nolan has said.British-born Nolan, one of the most the powerful film-makers in the world, was speaking at the London Film Festival (LFF) on Friday about the importance of using real film, as opposed to digital techno
  
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• PM hosts talks with Angela Merkel

  09-10-2015 21:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Cameron is holding talks at Chequers with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on EU reform, Syria and the migrant crisis.
  
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• Martin O’Neill has his Republic of Ireland moment after Germany glory | Paul Doyle

  09-10-2015 20:39
  
  After Ireland’s famous wins over Holland, Italy and England in years gone by, the manager has written his name into Irish folklore with a 1-0 victory over the world championsA thing of beauty is a joy forever, so Shane Long’s goal on Thursday will be celebrated until the end of time, no matter how Ireland’s Euro 2016 campaign concludes. They could lose in Poland on Sunday and be knocked out in the play-off, but Martin O’Neill’s men will always have beaten Germany in
  
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• Ex-Antiques Roadshow Host Hugh Scully Dies

  09-10-2015 20:39
  
  Former Antiques Roadshow presenter Hugh Scully - who hosted the show for 20 years - has died aged 72 at his home in Cornwall. Scully died while watching television on Thursday afternoon, his son Oliver told the BBC. He left the popular show in 2000 - when Michael Aspel took over - to join an internet auction company where he helped set up its online antiques business.
  
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• Six jailed over £166m cocaine racket

  09-10-2015 20:34
  
  Men were involved in import and onward supply of more than 500kg of drugsSix members of a drug smuggling racket that saw £166m worth of cocaine imported into the UK have been jailed. The men were arrested as part of Operation Bayban, a Metropolitan police inquiry into a criminal network involved in the importation and onward supply of more than 500kg of class A drugs.Besnik Berisha, 57, was sentenced to 14 years and three months imprisonment; Xen Mucaj, 39, was jailed for 15 years and nine
  
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• Solicitor in MP Michelle Thomson property deals reported to Soca in 2011

  09-10-2015 20:31
  
  Thomson resigned from SNP over inquiry into deals made by her then solicitor Christopher Hales, who was subject of a suspicious activity report four years agoThe solicitor whose investigation by Police Scotland prompted the Scottish National party MP Michelle Thomson to resign from the party last week was first reported to the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) four years ago, it has emerged.Opposition parties called for further clarification of the sequence of events regarding who knew o
  
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• Redcar steelworks accountants investigate missing pension payments

  09-10-2015 20:30
  
  Administrators at PwC informed that recent monthly employer/employee contributions failed to reach pension providersThe accountants who have taken control of the shut-down Redcar steel works are investigating claims that the former owner had not been paying pension contributions owed to its 2,200 workers.PwC, the accounting firm acting for the Insolvency Unit, has been told that in recent months both employer and employee contributions failed to find their way to Scottish Widows, which runs the
  
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• Sepp Blatter’s ban shows Fifa’s ethics arm finally flexing its muscles

  09-10-2015 20:29
  
  Recently derided as Blatter’s ‘hitmen’, Fifa’s internal police say this week’s events demonstrate their willingness to act against anyoneThe 90-day suspensions of the Fifa and Uefa presidents Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini for alleged misconduct, which both men are appealing against, have gone some way to contradicting the perception that the Fifa ethics committee lacks independence and was the president’s tool. Just the day before, the Korean former Fifa exe
  
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• Leon Brittan: when did the police go from investigators to judge and jury? | Mary Dejevsky

  09-10-2015 20:29
  
  The treatment of Leon Brittan and his family was a travesty. You don’t serve justice by tainting innocent peopleThere are some news reports that not only tug immediately at the heartstrings but ignite flames of righteous anger. The accounts of what the late Leon Brittan and his family have been through is one of these.Imagine yourself in Diana Brittan’s place. Having fended off slurs and innuendo about your husband for years about allegations you knew were unfounded, you not onl
  
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• Bathroom where Becky Watts was dismembered was clean, trial told

  09-10-2015 20:28
  
  Every room in couple’s home was cluttered except bathroom where 16-year-old was believed to have been dismembered, detectives say
  The home of the couple accused of murdering Becky Watts was piled high with rubbish and clutter and smelled of cat faeces, but the bathroom where the the Bristol teenager is believed to have been dismembered was clean, a court has heard.Two police detectives told how Nathan Matthews looked pale and had dark circles under his eyes when he greeted them at the home
  
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• Humpback whales swim beneath northern lights in Norway – video

  09-10-2015 20:23
  
  Norwegian camera operator Harald Albrigtsen captures the moment when humpback whales swim beneath the northern lights. Also known as the aurora borealis, the phenomenon is caused by electrically charged particles from the sun colliding with the Earth’s atmosphere Continue reading...
  
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• The bombardment of a hospital is a too-frequent 'accident'. It's also a war crime | Bernard Kouchner

  09-10-2015 20:15
  
  The US air bombing on a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan is a violation of basic human rights and against international lawIn the 1980s, as a field French doctor working in Afghanistan, I wrote several articles and open letters to the Soviet Union president to avoid the destruction of the Médecins Sans Frontières Wardak hospital. Of course, the Russian planes bombarded it as an answer.Targeting a red cross drawn on the roof of a hospital is an
  
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• Becky Watts murder trial: Suspect's mother 'joked about hiding from police'

  09-10-2015 20:07
  
  The mother of murder suspect Shauna Hoare joked with her that she was hiding from police because she had kidnapped missing teenager Becky Watts, a court heard.
  
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• Car salesman jailed for eight years over £200,000 lonely hearts fraud

  09-10-2015 20:06
  
  A Bentley-driving lonely hearts fraudster has been jailed for eight years for conning five women, including an elderly widow, out of almost £200,000.
  
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• VIDEO: A future without coal-fired power

  09-10-2015 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Coal was once considered king, but it is now seen as a dirty fuel and the government wants to eliminate coal-fired power stations within the next 15 years.
  
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• More Loot From Hatton Garden Raid Recovered

  09-10-2015 19:51
  
  Detectives have recovered more of the stolen jewellery from the £20m Hatton Garden raid. The development emerged at a bail hearing for plumber Hugh Doyle, one of the 13 defendants charged over the heist at the safe deposit centre in Central London. Prosecutor Philip Evans told Woolwich Crown Court: "Earlier this week officers investigating the crime recovered a significant amount of additional stolen property.
  
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• Watson Defends Actions Over Brittan Rape Claims

  09-10-2015 19:12
  
  Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson has insisted it was his duty to report allegations of child abuse that centred on former home secretary Leon Brittan. Having faced intense criticism this week, Mr Watson wrote in a blog: "My motivation throughout has been to help victims as best as I could. "I had been told of multiple allegations about Leon Brittan and I had met some of the people making those allegations at their request.
  
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• Former ITN broadcaster Gordon Honeycombe dies at 79

  09-10-2015 18:50
  
  Former broadcaster Gordon Honeycombe has died in Australia aged 79.
  
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• Ex-Antiques Roadshow presenter Hugh Scully dies aged 72

  09-10-2015 18:50
  
  Former Antiques Roadshow presenter Hugh Scully has died at the age of 72, according to the BBC.
  
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• VIDEO: How can Ebola survivors get ill again?

  09-10-2015 18:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News looks at how it is possible for Ebola survivors to contract the virus again.
  
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• Eco-tourism's 'taming' effect may 'increase predation risk'

  09-10-2015 18:00
  
  Ecotourists may be putting wildlife at risk by changing the behaviour of the creatures they flock to see, researchers have warned.
  
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• 'Chain Of Failures' Before Mum And Baby Died

  09-10-2015 17:58
  
  A mentally ill mother fell off a cliff and died with her newborn baby after a "chain of failures" by mental health professionals, a coroner has ruled. Ms Bevan, who suffered from schizophrenia and depression, was seen carrying the child out of the hospital in a blanket at 8.36pm. The inquest was told that Ms Bevan had been sectioned four times in the past and had stopped taking anti-psychotic medication over fears about breastfeeding.
  
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• He Must Be Quackers: Dog Takes Out Duck In Bar Brawl

  09-10-2015 17:52
  
  The Indian Runner duck and his sidekick Barrie Hayman, 69, are a familiar sight to drinkers around Chulmleigh, Devon, with some hostelries even offering Star his own stool
  
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• Who are the EU out campaigners?

  09-10-2015 17:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Who are the EU out campaigners?
  
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• Teenager Appears In Court Over PC's Death

  09-10-2015 17:26
  
  Teenager Clayton Williams has appeared in court in connection with the death of PC Dave Phillips. Williams, 18, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court via video link from HMP Altcourse. He is accused of the murder of PC Phillips and of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent to PC Thomas Birkett, who jumped out of the way as the car collided with PC Phillips.
  
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• Government 'committed to building support for Syria air strikes'

  09-10-2015 17:21
  
  The Government remains committed to building parliamentary support for RAF air strikes against Islamic State (IS) in Syria despite Russia's intervention in the conflict, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said.
  
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• Teen Apologises To Hit-And-Run PC's Family

  09-10-2015 16:59
  
  Teenager Clayton Williams accepts that his driving caused the death of PC Dave Phillips, his solicitor has said.
  
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• Teenager 'accepts his driving caused death' of Pc Dave Phillips

  09-10-2015 16:50
  
  A teenager has accepted his driving caused the death of Pc Dave Phillips and has "extended his apologies" to the officer's family, a statement from his solicitor said.
  
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• 'Chain of failings' before death of Charlotte Bevan and newborn baby

  09-10-2015 16:50
  
  A series of failings contributed to the death of a mentally ill woman who jumped off a cliff while holding her newborn baby, a coroner has ruled.
  
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• Big political donors backing EU 'out' campaign bid

  09-10-2015 16:50
  
  A new cross-party group is bidding to become the official "out" campaign in the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union.
  
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• Geology photo contest names winners

  09-10-2015 16:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Geology photo contest names winners
  
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• Watson defends actions in Brittan case

  09-10-2015 16:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour deputy leader Tom Watson insists he had a "duty" to inform police of sex abuse allegations against Leon Brittan, but apologises for causing distress.
  
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• Earth 'would need 40 years to recover from weather system collapse'

  09-10-2015 16:24
  
  A collapse in our weather system as depicted in the movie The Day After Tomorrow would take 40 years to recover from and would halt global warming for 20 years.
  
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• Analysis - Soft UK interest rate take-off could unnerve Britons

  09-10-2015 16:22
  
  By Ana Nicolaci da Costa LONDON (Reuters) - When British interest rates finally go up for the first time in nearly 10 years, the impact risks unsettling consumers who are driving the economy even if the Bank of England tries to make the take-off as gentle as possible. Eight years after the start of the financial crisis, many British consumers remain stretched and household debt is high in a country where many are saddled with heavy property mortgages. With lending rates historically low, househo
  
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• An American hired gun aims to persuade Britons to leave EU

  09-10-2015 16:09
  
  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Most Britons have never heard of Gerry Gunster, yet the 48-year-old American could play a major role in whether they vote to leave the European Union at a membership referendum due by the end of 2017. A referendum veteran, he has been hired by the Leave.EU 'out' group to mastermind its campaign to persuade Britons they are better off without the European Union. The advocacy firm he heads, Goddard Gunster, says it has a 90 percent success rate.
  
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• Becky Murder Trial: Accused Was 'Controlling'

  09-10-2015 15:45
  
  The man accused of murdering teenager Becky Watts was "controlling" and "sexually orientated," according to his girlfriend's mother. Matthews, 28, and Shauna Hoare, 22, are accused of murdering and dismembering Matthew's stepsister, Becky Watts. Ms Donovan said that when the couple contacted her on 23 February she had not seen her daughter or Matthews for between two and four years.
  
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• Becky Watts murder trial: Mother of suspect 'joked about hiding from police'

  09-10-2015 15:16
  
  The mother of murder suspect Shauna Hoare joked with her that she was hiding from police because she had kidnapped missing teenager Becky Watts, a court heard.
  
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