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• Fuel switches clue to Clutha tragedy

  21-10-2015 23:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Relatives of the 10 people who died in the Clutha helicopter tragedy in Glasgow are told fuel switches were in the off position when they should have been on.
  
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• Becky Watts Strangled During 'Kidnap' Attempt

  21-10-2015 23:40
  
  The stepbrother of Bristol schoolgirl Becky Watts told police he strangled her during a failed kidnap attempt "to scare her and teach her a lesson". Nathan Matthews is accused - along with his girlfriend Shauna Hoare - of murdering the 16-year-old on 19 February in what the prosecution claim was a sexually motivated attack. The jury at Bristol Crown Court was read a written statement by Matthews from 2 March were he admitted killing Becky.
  
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• CSKA Moscow 1-1 Manchester United

  21-10-2015 23:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Anthony Martial rescues a point for Manchester United as they draw with CSKA Moscow in the Champions League.
  
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• Compromise reached in Cage funding case

  21-10-2015 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A court case brought against the Charity Commission, after it called for funding to human rights group Cage to stop, ends in a compromise.
  
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• Police to examine Dickens abuse file

  21-10-2015 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police investigating allegations of a Westminster paedophile ring are to be passed a file which made up part of the so-called "Dickens Dossier".
  
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• 'Lazy workers' blamed for 120 job losses

  21-10-2015 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lazy workers are blamed for the collapse of a Torfaen call centre by its boss.
  
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• Manchester City 2-1 Sevilla

  21-10-2015 22:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kevin de Bruyne strikes an injury-time winner as Manchester City beat Sevilla to move second in their Champions League group.
  
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• British lawyer and wife killed on Caribbean island of Tobago

  21-10-2015 22:50
  
  A British man and his wife have been killed at their home on the Caribbean island of Tobago in an apparent robbery, police said.
  
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• Basildon stabbing: Relatives appeal to find 'disgusting' killers

  21-10-2015 22:50
  
  Relatives of a man stabbed to death after a confrontation with a group of youths have said they hope police catch the "disgusting" people responsible.
  
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• Clutha families hear of crash report

  21-10-2015 22:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Relatives of people who died in the Clutha helicopter tragedy in Glasgow hear details of the final report from crash investigators.
  
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• Following a Mediterranean diet 'may prevent brain shrinkage'

  21-10-2015 22:00
  
  Eating a Mediterranean diet rich in vegetables, fruit, fish, and olive oil may help preserve brain cells as we age, according to new research.
  
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• Chloroform killers get 30 years

  21-10-2015 21:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two brothers who used chloroform to murder a cash-and-carry manager from Cardiff are jailed for life and must serve at least 30 years.
  
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• Cameron defends tax credit cuts at PMQs

  21-10-2015 21:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Cameron defends proposed cuts to tax credits during Prime Minister's Questions and warns the House of Lords not to challenge them.
  
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• VIDEO: Football fans throw chairs in fight

  21-10-2015 21:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four Polish fans have been arrested after men threw chairs at each other during a fight in Manchester city centre.
  
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• Football fans arrested over chair fight

  21-10-2015 21:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four Polish football fans are held after a fight in the city centre resulted in one man being injured, police say.
  
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• British lawyer murdered in Tobago

  21-10-2015 21:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A British lawyer and his wife have been murdered at their home on the Caribbean island of Tobago.
  
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• China's Xi seals nuclear power deal as part of $62 billion splurge in Britain

  21-10-2015 21:15
  
  By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has sealed a multi-billion dollar deal to finance nuclear power stations in Britain, crowning a visit that Prime Minister David Cameron hopes will unleash a wave of investment from the world's second largest economy. After a day of pomp, Communist Party General Secretary Xi on Wednesday turned from pageantry to discussion of 40 billion pounds' ($62 billion) worth of deals with Cameron in his Downing Street resid
  
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• Lord Brittan probe: Detective feared 'baseless witch-hunt'

  21-10-2015 21:09
  
  The detective who first investigated a rape claim against Lord Brittan has revealed he feared the probe would turn into a "baseless witch-hunt" more than a year before the peer died without knowing he had been cleared.
  
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• David Tennant goes breaking hearts as Kiki Dee for new Sky 1 show

  21-10-2015 21:03
  
  Former Doctor Who star David Tennant is kicking off Sky 1's latest show in style: dressed as Elton John's other half, Kiki Dee, from the duet Don't Go Breaking My Heart.
  
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• Bank: EU makes economy 'more dynamic'

  21-10-2015 20:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Membership of the EU has made the UK economy more dynamic and able to grow without generating inflation or a financial crisis.
  
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• PM defends China business deals

  21-10-2015 20:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Cameron defends the UK's business links with China as he says deals worth £40bn have been struck during President Xi Jinping's visit.
  
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• Becky Watts 'Strangled In Attempt To Scare Her'

  21-10-2015 20:32
  
  The stepbrother of Bristol schoolgirl Becky Watts told police he strangled her during a failed kidnap attempt "to scare her and teach her a lesson". Nathan Matthews is accused - along with his girlfriend Shauna Hoare - of murdering the 16-year-old on 19 February in what the prosecution claim was a sexually motivated attack. The jury at Bristol Crown Court was read a written statement by Matthews from 2 March were he admitted killing Becky.
  
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• YouTube plans subscription service in US with no adverts

  21-10-2015 20:16
  
  YouTube is launching a subscription plan in the US this month that will give users unlimited advert-free access, as well as the media site's music streaming service.
  
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• Network Rail chief reveals Great Western upgrade costs have soared to £2.8bn

  21-10-2015 19:56
  
  The boss of Network Rail (NR) has admitted the cost of electrifying the Great Western railway line between London and South Wales could reach £2.8 billion.
  
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• US pilot killed in F-18 jet crash

  21-10-2015 19:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A US Marine Corps pilot is killed as an F-18 Hornet jet crashes on farmland near an RAF base near the border between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
  
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• 'Clamp Queen's carriage', peer urges

  21-10-2015 19:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Conservative peer says the Queen's carriage should have been clamped with President Xi inside to "teach him a lesson" over China's unpaid parking fines.
  
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• Carney: EU Has Made UK 'Dynamic And Stronger'

  21-10-2015 19:46
  
  Britain's membership of the European Union has made the country more open, more dynamic and stronger, the Bank of England Governor has said. In a speech likely to be seized upon as ammunition for the "stay" side in the UK's forthcoming referendum on EU membership, Mark Carney said that Britain had benefitted from being a part of the Union. However, he added that there were risks that EU financial regulations could undermine the Bank's ability to manage the banking system in future.
  
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• VIDEO: Migrant boats land at UK base in Cyprus

  21-10-2015 19:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Boats carrying 114 people have landed at the RAF base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, the Ministry of Defence says.
  
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• EU has increased 'openness and dynamism' of British economy, says Mark Carney

  21-10-2015 19:32
  
  Being in the European Union has increased the "openness and dynamism" of the UK economy but has also left it more vulnerable to external financial "shocks", the Governor of the Bank of England has said.
  
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• Horse whisperer Monty Roberts tells of friendship with Queen

  21-10-2015 19:18
  
  Monty Roberts, the famous horse whisperer, has spoken of his friendship with the Queen saying without her support he would still be a cowboy in California.
  
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• Builder safety exams rigged

  21-10-2015 19:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The flagship scheme for certifying construction workers is called into question after a string of test centres were caught rigging health and safety exams.
  
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• Lord Brittan case detective 'feared baseless witch-hunt'

  21-10-2015 19:06
  
  The detective who first investigated a rape claim against Lord Brittan has revealed he feared the probe would turn into a "baseless witch-hunt" more than a year before the peer died without knowing he had been cleared.
  
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• Experiment proves quantum effect dismissed by Einstein as 'spooky action'

  21-10-2015 19:00
  A ground-breaking experiment has provided the clearest proof yet that a quantum effect Albert Einstein famously dismissed as "spooky action at a distance" is real.
  
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• Death Star pulverising planet in far-off solar system

  21-10-2015 19:00
  A real-life Death Star is pulverising a planet in a system far, far away.
  
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• Bacteria 'use electrical signals' to communicate with eachother

  21-10-2015 19:00
  
  Bacteria communicate with one another in a similar way to nerve cells in the brain, scientists have discovered.
  
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• Brittan rape interview 'unlawful'

  21-10-2015 18:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A senior officer says Lord Brittan's police interview over rape allegations was "unlawful" as Labour MP Tom Watson apologises for comments he made about the late peer.
  
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• Tributes to Labour MP Michael Meacher

  21-10-2015 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Current Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn leads tributes to veteran Labour MP and former minister Michael Meacher, who has died after a short illness.
  
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• Tom Watson 'Sincerely Sorry' For Brittan Slur

  21-10-2015 18:17
  
  Campaigning Labour MP Tom Watson has apologised for describing Lord Brittan as "as close to evil as any human being could get". Mr Watson told a Home Affairs Select Committee he was only repeating the words of an alleged sex abuse survivor, but admitted he should not have used the phrase. "I do regret using that emotive language, I shouldn't have done and I'm sincerely sorry for repeating it, it was unnecessary," Mr Watson said.
  
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• Legal battle over Cage charity funding 'wasted money', says top judge

  21-10-2015 18:15
  
  A legal battle over the Charity Commission's decision to urge charities to stop funding the human rights group Cage has ended in a compromise - and one of the country's top judges condemning the waste of taxpayer and charity money spent on the case.
  
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• Bercow calls for school funding reform

  21-10-2015 18:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Speaker John Bercow joins more than 90 Conservative MPs demanding the government urgently rewrites the rules for funding schools in England.
  
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• Agent to be quizzed about 24 murders

  21-10-2015 17:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The army's most high ranking agent within the IRA is to be investigated about the murder of at least 24 people.
  
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• Pilot Killed As US Jet Crashes In Huge Fireball

  21-10-2015 17:55
  
  A US fighter jet has crashed near an RAF base on the Suffolk-Cambridgeshire border, killing the pilot, the US embassy has confirmed. Emergency services are at the scene, some seven miles from RAF Lakenheath, Cambridgeshire Police said. "We can confirm that the aircraft was a military aircraft," a police spokesman said.
  
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• Improvement for Ebola-stricken nurse Pauline Cafferkey in 'unprecedented' case

  21-10-2015 17:51
  
  A nurse who survived Ebola is recovering well after the deadly virus caused her to develop meningitis in what is thought to be the first case of its kind, doctors have said.
  
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• GSK joins China trade push as UK trumpets healthcare deals

  21-10-2015 17:50
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline's chief executive is joining a new panel to promote trade between Britain and China, just over a year after the drugmaker was handed a record fine of nearly $500 million (323 million pounds) for bribing Chinese doctors. The group has since been rebuilding its position in China. The move came as Britain announced the signing of more than 2 billion pounds ($3.1 billion) of healthcare trade deals between Chinese and UK companies, universities and organisations dur
  
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• Briton dead in Turkey 'acted alone'

  21-10-2015 17:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  No other parties were involved in the death of a British woman at an Istanbul airport, her family and employers believe.
  
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• China's CGN signs $9 bln British nuclear deal in return for own project

  21-10-2015 17:35
  
  By Karolin Schaps and Geert De Clercq LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - China has agreed to invest 6 billion pounds ($9 billion) in EDF's Hinkley Point nuclear project, Britain's first new nuclear plant in a generation, in return for help to bring its own nuclear technology to the West in a subsequent project. Chinese nuclear company CGN will finance 33.5 percent of the 18 billion pound project, one of the world's costliest nuclear power stations, which Britain said it needs to replace ageing reactors an
  
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• Brothers Roger and David Cooper given at least 30 years for Sameena Imam murder

  21-10-2015 17:33
  
  Two brothers who murdered a marketing manager on Christmas Eve using chloroform have both been jailed for at least 30 years.
  
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• David Cameron hails Chinese investment in UK nuclear power station

  21-10-2015 17:20
  
  David Cameron has defended his decision to do business with China, as he hailed the completion of a multibillion-pound deal for the far eastern giant to invest in a new nuclear power station in Somerset.
  
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• Credit Suisse to raise $6 billion as new CEO shows his hand

  21-10-2015 17:20
  
  By Joshua Franklin ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse plans to raise 6 billion Swiss francs (4 billion pounds) from investors, slim down its investment bank and cut jobs as new chief Tidjane Thiam embarks on the biggest overhaul of the Swiss bank in almost a decade. Credit Suisse is emphasising wealth management and growing in Asia, echoing moves by rival UBS. It joins rivals including Barclays and Deutsche Bank as well as UBS in scaling back investment banking as tougher regulations squeeze profi
  
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• Great Scott! It's Back to the Future Day

  21-10-2015 17:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It's Back to the Future Day: Your stories
  
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