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• Potty-mouthed prankster uses Jeremy Corbyn account to taunt David Cameron

  10-01-2016 23:10
  Jeremy Corbyn's Twitter account appears to have been hijacked by a hacker who used it to brand the Prime Minister "a pie".
  
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• NFL playoffs: Green Bay Packers v Washington – live!

  10-01-2016 22:56
  
  Green Bay visit Washington with spot in NFC’s last four on lineTweet @HunterFelt or email [email protected] 9.56pm GMTGreen Bay 0-2 Washington, 10:33, 1st quarterRodgers showed incredibly poor awareness there, he had to have gotten rid of the ball quicker than that so close to his own endzone.9.55pm GMTGreen Bay 0-2 Washington, 10:33, 1st quarterSo, Green Bay will be starting their drive at their 8 yard line. Rodgers throws it to James Jones, but it’s a bit too hi
  
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• Woman rescued in two-hour operation after breaking her leg in Peak District

  10-01-2016 22:44
  
  Injured walker fell at Thor’s Cave in Staffordshire, and taken via stretcher and then helicopter to hospitalA woman who broke her leg at a remote beauty spot in the Peak District has been carried, driven and then flown to hospital in a two-hour rescue operation.West Midlands ambulance service drafted in help from the Derby Mountain Rescue team after the woman fell while visiting Thor’s Cave in Staffordshire’s Manifold Valley on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• Labour expecting £6m loss in funding through trade union bill

  10-01-2016 22:00
  
  Conservative party plan described as ‘entirely partisan’ by Labour with one estimate saying annual affiliation fee income could fall to £1m.An expected £6m fall in Labour’s annual income as a result of legal changes being proposed by the Conservatives will make it impossible for the party to maintain its current structure, staffing or offices, a confidential party document released to the Guardian reveals.The document calculates the party is expecting to lose as muc
  
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• Labour divisions reopen over plans to drop support for Trident

  10-01-2016 21:46
  
  Owen Smith and Lord Falconer suggest they could resign if Jeremy Corbyn ends Labour backing for renewing Trident nuclear weaponsLabour divisions have burst into the open once again as two shadow ministers hinted that they would resign if Jeremy Corbyn succeeded in dropping Labour’s support for renewing the Trident nuclear weapons programme.Owen Smith, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said it would be difficult for him to remain in the shadow cabinet if the party supported a policy o
  
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• Missing Football Coach's Body Found In Marina

  10-01-2016 21:44
  
  A body found in Swansea Marina has been formally identified as 21-year-old Jordan Miers, who has been missing since before Christmas. He was last seen in the car park of Toys R Us close to Wind Street at 10.30pm, South Wales Police said. His relative Rhian Miers, who posted numerous appeals on social media, said on Facebook: "Our search is over!
  
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• VIDEO: Man delivered tumour sample by mistake

  10-01-2016 21:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man who ordered a Kindle electronic book reader received a patient's tumour sample instead, in a courier delivery mix-up.
  
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• Martin Rowson on David Cameron's EU deal – cartoon

  10-01-2016 21:39
  
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• Shrewsbury’s Andy Mangan marks return by knocking Cardiff out of Cup

  10-01-2016 21:30
  
  The Shrewsbury Town manager, Micky Mellon, paid tribute to the returning Andy Mangan after the striker’s winner dumped Cardiff City of the Championship out of the FA Cup.Mangan signed for a second spell with Shrewsbury last week and his 62nd-minute header put the League One club into the fourth-round draw. The 29-year-old left Shrewsbury in the summer, with the club unable to afford to keep him, but made the switch back from Tranmere Rovers to link up with Mellon once again. Continue readi
  
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• Lionel Messi set for Ballon d’Or but Neymar threatens the old duopoly | Sid Lowe

  10-01-2016 21:30
  
  The Lionel Messi-Cristiano Ronaldo rivalry has defined the award since 2008 but Neymar’s emergence could mean the days of the same old one-two are numberedWhen Michael Owen won the Ballon d’Or in 2001, becoming the first and still the only Englishman to win European football’s player of the year award since Kevin Keegan, his manager had to take him aside and impress upon him just how important this was. “Gérard Houllier was surprised when he first told me,” O
  
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• £66m Lotto Jackpot: One Player Makes Claim So Far

  10-01-2016 20:38
  
  Camelot, which organises the draw, said one person had made a claim so far. "The ticket-holder can then decide whether to share their news or remain anonymous. No further information will be disclosed unless the ticket-holder chooses to share their news.
  
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• The Guardian view on refugees: our Christmas appeal shows how much people care | Editorial

  10-01-2016 20:28
  
  More than £2m raised, with five days still to go. If only political leadership matched public supportThe Guardian’s Christmas appeal for six refugee charities, which closes at the end of this week, has raised nearly £2.5m. That is twice the amount we’ve ever raised before. Thousands of you have donated to help the charities, chosen for their capacity to make the most immediate difference. They include small, new projects, like the boats operated by the Migrant Offshore Ai
  
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• Britain braced for wintry blast with forecasters predicting 'messy weather'

  10-01-2016 20:26
  
  Britain is bracing itself for an icy blast over the coming week when temperatures will plummet below freezing to bring snow and widespread frosts.
  
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• Jeremy Hunt's 'dangerous' battle with doctors condemned by ex-minister

  10-01-2016 20:18
  
  Norman Lamb hits out at government as BMA’s junior doctors prepare for 24-hour industrial action at English hospitalsThe government is taking a “dangerous step” in confronting junior doctors at a time when the NHS faces “existential challenges” over its funding and the long-term care of elderly people, the former health minister Norman Lamb has said.As the British Medical Association (BMA) hit back at Jeremy Hunt for warning that patients would be put at risk when j
  
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• Police Defend Sian Blake Murder Investigation

  10-01-2016 20:00
  
  Police have defended the investigation into the murder of Sian Blake and her two children following the arrest of her partner, Arthur Simpson-Kent, in Ghana. The Met Police this week referred itself to the Independent Police Complains Commission over its handling of an initial missing person's enquiry, amid claims the probe was blighted by delays. But speaking from Ghana's capital Accra, Detective Chief Inspector Graeme Gwyn said the inquiry was handled as "quickly" as possible.
  
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• Aisling Loftus: 'Tolstoy is quite cruel about women'

  10-01-2016 20:00
  
  As the orphaned and penniless ward Sonya in the BBC’s adaptation of War and Peace, Loftus has captured her character’s journey from little kitten to sterile flower. But has she read the book? Of course she has In a shadowy corner of the restaurant, Aisling Loftus and I are discussing the strange business of interviews. Loftus isn’t a fan. “As soon as you start talking about acting, you sound like a wanker,” she sighs. “Also, there’s this presumption that
  
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• Jeremy Hunt can take on the junior doctors by showing he’s for the NHS | Matthew d’Ancona

  10-01-2016 19:56
  
  As the strike looms, the government will win over the public if it makes the case for a modern, patient-centred health service“I worry about everything,” the prime minister told the BBC’s Andrew Marr yesterday. “That’s my job.” And so it is, I suppose. But there are times when “everything” is less burdensome than it might be; when, for instance, the main party of opposition decides, for no immediately obvious reason, to depart the stage, to take a
  
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• Suspect in murders of ex-EastEnders actress and children 'smoked from thicket'

  10-01-2016 19:51
  
  British police have yet to request the extradition of the suspected killer of ex-EastEnders actress Sian Blake following his capture in Ghana.
  
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• Andy Burnham calls for G4S to be stripped of youth prisons contract

  10-01-2016 19:51
  
  Shadow home secretary says company’s contracts within criminal justice system need to be reviewed after Panorama footage shows children being abusedThe shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, has called for G4S to be stripped of its contract to run children’s prisons after seven members of staff were suspended following abuse claims at a youth offenders institution. Burnham has also called for a wide-ranging review of all the company’s contracts within the criminal justice system
  
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• Media Monkey’s diary: Robert Peston, BBC2’s knickers and Martha Kearney

  10-01-2016 19:49
  
  Eddie Mair’s pie, a mini-quiz to bamboozle you, and what’s in a name for the World at One host• Robert Peston starts work as ITV’s trainee political editor on Monday , after a farewell to the BBC that was not free of farce. As part of Eddie Mair’s long-running Twitter saga involving an out-of-date pork pie left in a fridge and then liberated, the PM host tweeted an image of Peston with the pie – was this @eddiemair’s “leaving present”?, someon
  
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• Labour’s disputes should not always be seen as chaos | Zoe Williams

  10-01-2016 19:45
  
  Jeremy Corbyn was elected with a mandate for debate. But too often his party is reported through the prism of old mediaThose who complain about the power of the media ascribe to it a decisive effect on the way people vote. In fact, political scientists have never been able to find anything but a negative correlation between a newspaper’s proselytising and the voting patterns of its readers.David Runciman memorably recalled the hitherto Labour-supporting Sun swinging behind Thatcher in 1979
  
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• David Cameron: I will stay as PM if I lose EU referendum

  10-01-2016 19:42
  
  Prime minister says his authority rests on holding the vote on British membership, not winning itDavid Cameron has moved to sever any link between the EU referendum and his own political future by stating he will remain prime minister even if he loses the vote on British membership.
  As Cameron confirmed he hoped to hold the in/out referendum in the summer, he said that his authority rested on holding the vote, not the result of it. Continue reading...
  
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• Sian Blake murder accused to appear before Ghanaian judge

  10-01-2016 19:24
  
  Arthur Simpson-Kent was arrested in Ghana following discovery of bodies of former EastEnders actress and their two children in Erith, KentThe man arrested in Ghana on suspicion of murdering his former partner, the ex-EastEnders actor Sian Blake, and their two young sons, is expected to appear before a judge on Monday.British authorities have not yet formally requested the extradition of Arthur Simpson-Kent, who was captured on a beach in the west African country; under Ghanaian law he cannot be
  
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• Catalan independence back on track as new leader is sworn in

  10-01-2016 19:24
  
  Catalan parties agree on new regional head to replace Artur Mas, piling pressure on Spain’s PM Mariano Rajoy to ally with Socialists to block separatists Catalonia’s parliament is due to swear in a new separatist leader, putting the pro-independence movement’s resolve to break with Spain over the next 18 months back on track after months of political deadlock. The 11th-hour decision on Sunday evening played into a fraught national political scene since an inconclusive election
  
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• What makes 'perfect' Ballon d'Or winner?

  10-01-2016 19:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Either Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo or Neymar will be awarded the 60th Ballon d'Or - but who fits the 'winning' profile?
  
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• From Downton to Sherlock: who won the TV battle for Christmas?

  10-01-2016 19:18
  
  Habits are changing, but broadcasters still crave the top spot at ChristmasSherlock, Downton Abbey, EastEnders, Coronation Street, Mrs Brown’s Boys: as is traditional, Christmas and New Year 2015/16 saw the broadcast buffet groan with family-friendly fare. But who won – the BBC or ITV? And how long will the same battle be fought as new technology changes the game?Downton Abbey wins Christmas – but New Year’s Sherlock goes one better Continue reading...
  
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• Toulon’s Frédéric Michalak denies Bath a piece of history in thriller

  10-01-2016 19:12
  
  • Pool 5: Toulon 12-9 Bath
  • Late penalty preserves 100 percent home record in elite European competitionBath came agonisingly close to a little piece of history beside the Mediterranean but, barring something extraordinary, their Champions Cup dreams look sunk. A nerveless 76th-minute penalty from Frédéric Michalak proved just enough to save Toulon from their first home defeat in Europe’s elite competition and leave Mike Ford’s team to lament what might have
  
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• Boy stabbed to death after party praised as 'fun to be around'

  10-01-2016 19:07
  A 16-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in an east London park after leaving a friend's birthday party was described as an "extrovert" who was "fun to be around".
  
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• Tottenham’s Harry Kane spot-on to deny Leicester and Shinji Okazaki

  10-01-2016 19:05
  
  An 89th-minute penalty from the substitute Harry Kane secured an equaliser for an increasingly desperate Tottenham Hotspur and ensured that neither side can head into Wednesday night’s Premier League reunion here with an air of superiority. But having picked the stronger team, taken an early lead and dominated the first half, Spurs cannot have anticipated needing a somewhat generous handball decision – Nathan Dyer seemed to have little idea of where precisely the ball was as it spun
  
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• AOL’s Tim Armstrong: ‘If there’s one law, it’s that nobody owns the future’

  10-01-2016 19:00
  
  Chief executive on creating value, the impact of adblocking, and why HuffPo isn’t chasing profitsWhen he joined AOL as chief executive in 2009, Tim Armstrong had to unravel “the biggest mistake in corporate history”, spinning the company off at a value of $2.5bn, not much more than a 100th of what it was worth when it merged with Time Warner at the height of the dotcom bubble. Last year, he oversaw its sale to mobile network Verizon for $4.4bn.“It’s a climb up,&rdqu
  
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• German minister suggests New Year's Eve assaults nationwide were coordinated

  10-01-2016 18:58
  
  Justice minister Heiko Maas says violent and sexual attacks in Cologne blamed on foreigners could have been coordinated with others in Hamburg and elsewhere German authorities need to find out urgently whether the New Year’s Eve attacks across the country were linked to more than 500 mob assaults in Cologne that have largely been blamed on foreigners, including asylum seekers, the country’s justice minister has said.
  There has been uproar in Germany since news of the attacks and the
  
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• Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City: FA Cup third round – as it happened

  10-01-2016 18:54
  
  A late Harry Kane penalty secured Tottenham a replay after an entertaining match at White Hart Lane that appeared to have been settled by the Leicester striker Shinji Okazaki 5.54pm GMTWell, a cracking second half there and the replay should be a belter, too. Very unlucky for Leicester there; they started the second half like a train, scored through the excellent substitute Okazaki and denied Tottenham any real chances after that. Then, right at the end, Dyer – rush of blood? Harsh decisio
  
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• Suspect in British actress murder to be extradited to Britain

  10-01-2016 18:54
  By Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA (Reuters) - The fugitive partner of slain former EastEnders actress Sian Blake will be extradited to face criminal investigations in the United Kingdom from Ghana, where he was arrested on Saturday, Ghanaian police detectives said on Sunday. Arthur Simpson-Kent, 48, was arrested in connection with the murder of Blake, an actress who once featured in the popular British soap opera EastEnders, and her two sons Zachary and Amon. The bodies of Blake, 43, and her sons were later
  
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• Powerball's $1.3bn prize tempts Britons with lottery fever

  10-01-2016 18:53
  
  US-wide lottery’s jackpot has not been won since 7 November – just the ticket for those still sore from not sharing in UK Lotto’s £66m prizeThousands of Britons who missed out on this weekend’s £66m Lotto jackpot have turned their attention to a draw in the US that is offering an eye-watering $1.3bn (£900m) top prize.The UK jackpot, which accumulated due to 14 successive rollovers, was shared by two winning ticket holders who guessed all six numbers. The
  
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• #eatclean in 2016? No. Let’s eat black pudding

  10-01-2016 18:45
  
  Britain’s delicious blood sausages have at last been recognised by genuine scientists as a superfood. Here’s three recipes to get you startedThe man in hi-vis tucking into a fry-up in my local caff doesn’t seem to have heard that the slab of black pudding half-buried under a loch of beans is now a superfood. The woman behind the deli counter in Waitrose hasn’t either – in fact, she looks at me as if I’m a bit mad when I explain that I’d rushed over, worr
  
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• The world's poor lose out as aid is diverted to the refugee crisis | Larry Elliott

  10-01-2016 18:44
  
  Donor countries are increasingly dipping into their aid budgets to deal with the migration crisisSweden is one of the most generous countries in the world when it comes to international aid. Along with other Scandinavian countries, it has given bounteously to less fortunate nations for many years. With a population of under 10 million, it also takes more than its fair share of asylum seekers - an estimated 190,000 last year, with a further 100,000 to 170,000 expected to arrive in 2016.This is pr
  
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• Boy, 16, Stabbed To Death Outside Birthday Party

  10-01-2016 18:36
  
  A 16-year-old boy has been stabbed to death outside a friend's birthday party in northeast London. The victim, named as Charlie Kutuyampo, had been celebrating a girl's 16th birthday with around 100 other young people at a social club in a Woodford park.
  
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• The secret life of Wetherspoon’s freaky carpets

  10-01-2016 18:30
  
  The budget boozer’s carpets may look as if they are designed to disguise vomit, but in reality, each one is a bespoke work of artLook down in any Wetherspoon’s pub and there, soaking up the beery tears of pensioners, students and stags, you’ll see a minor masterpiece. Every carpet in the chain, which is often alleged to be one of the great homogenising forces of British life, is unique, made from scratch, and ornately patterned.This fact has been documented by London blogg
  
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• ‘Just 1,238 pages to go’: could you read War and Peace in a week?

  10-01-2016 18:30
  
  The BBC is screening a lavish adaptation of Tolstoy’s epic novel over six weeks. So Tim Dowling tried to read it in just one. Could he finish it in time for the next instalment?
  My wife and I are watching the first episode of the BBC adaptation of War and Peace in silence. Fifteen minutes in, I am afraid to say what I am thinking, which is: I am confused. Who are these people? How are they connected? What are they talking about? I am determined not to speak first.“I don’t remem
  
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• Blood, mud and lube: how El Chapo's luck came up short in small town sex motel

  10-01-2016 18:18
  
  Chase for Mexico’s most wanted criminal in Los Mochis is stuff of Hollywood: helicopters, shootouts, sewers, carjacking, handcuffs and satin sheetsA light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
  Hardly anyone saw or heard the small force of police and marines close in on Río Quelite, a narrow, residential street in the affluent neighbourhood of Las Palmas. Continue reading...
  
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• Man sent 'tumour' in courier mix-up

  10-01-2016 18:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man who ordered a Kindle electronic book reader received a patient's tumour sample instead due to a courier delivery error.
  
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• Bournemouth complete £9m record signing of Wolves striker Benik Afobe

  10-01-2016 18:01
  
  • 22-year-old could go into Eddie Howe’s squad to face West Ham on Tuesday• Afobe has scored 10 goals for Wolves this seasonBournemouth have completed the signing of Wolves striker Benik Afobe for a club record fee of £9m.The 22-year-old has signed a four-and-a-half year contract with the Cherries and will go straight into the squad to face West Ham on Tuesday, providing the club receive clearance from the Football Association in time. Continue reading...
  
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• BMA hits back at Jeremy Hunt's claims of political point scoring

  10-01-2016 18:00
  
  Union says junior doctors are being misrepresented after health secretary argues some see dispute as ‘political opportunity to bash Tory government’The British Medical Association has accused the government of misrepresenting junior doctors after Jeremy Hunt turned up the political heat by declaring that “some elements” of the doctors’ union were out to get the Tories.In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, the health secretary attacked what he said were hardline
  
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• Dates of key Mozart symphonies are wrong, claims music scholar

  10-01-2016 17:45
  
  Days of looking at crossed-out dates on original manuscripts with magnifying glass reveals different dates on five works from composer’s early periodMozart symphonies from one of the most important periods of his composing life have been wrongly dated, a British scholar has discovered.John Arthur believes he has made what is arguably the most important Mozart discovery of the last 30 years: that the accepted composition dates are wrong for five symphonies written by a 17- and 18-year-old M
  
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• Teenager stabbed to death in park after birthday party

  10-01-2016 17:44
  A 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death in an east London park after leaving a friend's birthday party.
  
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• Italian police open murder inquiry into death of American woman

  10-01-2016 17:38
  
  Body of Ashley Ann Olsen was found in Florence flat with marks on neck, say investigators piecing together her last movementsPolice in Florence have launched a murder inquiry after an American woman well known in the city’s artistic neighbourhood was found dead in her apartment. Ashley Ann Olsen, 35, was found in her bedroom with marks on her neck that indicated she may have been strangled.Her body was discovered on Saturday after Olsen’s Italian boyfriend asked her landlady to open
  
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• No extradition request yet for suspect in murders of Sian Blake and her children

  10-01-2016 17:34
  
  British police have not formally requested the extradition of the suspected killer of ex-EastEnders actress Sian Blake, according to reports.
  
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• 'There was this lack of interesting, gross-out parts': why women are taking over TV comedy

  10-01-2016 17:27
  
  Fed up with being sidelined, female writers and actors are proving their comedy chops and filling up schedules in 2016Hit HBO comedy Girls is to end after its sixth season, much to the distress of fans, but the era-defining show – created and written by and starring Lena Dunham – is part of a surge of female-driven TV shows on both sides of the Atlantic.Television has long been criticised for its lack of female comedy writers, but that is changing. “There does seem to be this w
  
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• Heathrow stowaway who fell to death identified as Mozambican migrant

  10-01-2016 17:22
  
  Orphanage in Mozambique describes Carlito Vale, who is believed to have hidden in plane’s wheel well for 8,000-mile flight from Johannesburg, as a man who ‘lived for the day’Guardian’s charity appeal is supporting groups that work with refugeesSmiling pleasantly, with an arm around his partner, there’s little sign of yearning on the part of the young man in the picture, save perhaps for the T-shirt emblazoned with the word London.However, for Carlito Vale , a young
  
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• Chelsea see off Scunthorpe United with Ruben Loftus-Cheek’s first goal

  10-01-2016 17:22
  
  Roman Abramovich was all smiles from his lofty perch at Stamford Bridge. The Chelsea owner has long wanted to see some sort of return from the club’s Academy in which he has invested heavily and here, at last, was something to cheer.Chelsea were 1-0 up against a game Scunthorpe United team but they were not safe and the League One minnows had complained bitterly at the non-award of a penalty on 53 minutes for a trip by Ramires on Kevin van Veen. Continue reading...
  
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