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• UK ban risks making Donald Trump a martyr, MPs are warned

  18-01-2016 23:56
  
  Banning Donald Trump from the UK risks martyring him, MPs have heard amid warnings the US presidential hopeful could " fuel the flames of terrorism".
  
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• Two men charged with Syria-related terror offences

  18-01-2016 23:47
  Two men have been charged with Syria-related terrorism offences.
  
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• Swansea City 1-0 Watford

  18-01-2016 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Swansea are out of the Premier League relegation zone after Ashley Williams' header earned a gritty win against Watford.
  
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• Elba: Ford Dagenham More Diverse Than TV

  18-01-2016 21:58
  
  Idris Elba claims there is more opportunity and diversity at the car plant he used to work at in Dagenham than on British TV. On life before acting, Elba added: "My dad worked in a car factory, so before I could get any work as an actor, I ended up doing night shifts at Dagenham.
  
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• Drummer Of Glam Rock Act Mott The Hoople Dies

  18-01-2016 21:45
  
  The drummer and founder member of the band Mott The Hoople, Dale Griffin, has died, aged 67. The band were best known for their song All The Young Dudes, written by David Bowie and performed by them with Bowie on backing vocals. The single reached number three in the singles chart and the glam rock band's later album Mott made it into the top 10.
  
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• Academy chain to scrap governing bodies

  18-01-2016 21:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  School governing bodies, with parents and community representatives, are to be scrapped by an academy chain.
  
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• Investors eye growing number of online UK estate agents

  18-01-2016 21:25
  By Atul Prakash LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's resilient property market is fuelling increasing numbers of online estate agents, and investors are warming to a new business model whose fees often undercut those of traditional estate agents. Research firm Hardman says that online estate agent Purplebricks has become the fourth-biggest UK estate agent by number of property transactions since launching in mid-2014. It charges much cheaper fees than traditional estate agents like Foxtons and Savills,
  
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• VIDEO: What is 113-year-old's secret to happiness?

  18-01-2016 21:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Gladys Hooper, the UK's oldest person, has turned 113.
  
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• Trump ban 'would make him a martyr'

  18-01-2016 21:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Banning Donald Trump from the UK risks giving him the "halo of victimhood", a Labour MP claims as the House of Commons debates the issue.
  
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• MPs debate banning Trump after Muslim comments

  18-01-2016 21:16
  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - MPs on Monday debated a petition to ban U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from Britain over remarks on Muslims, but while describing his comments as "crazy" and "offensive", most said the ban would go against free speech. Members of parliament said Trump should be allowed into Britain where his views could be challenged, that a ban would give him more publicity or that it was not for Britain to get involved in U.S. affairs. Trump caused out
  
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• VIDEO: Elba on diversity and the American Dream

  18-01-2016 21:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Idris Elba calls for greater diversity in the media - both in front of and behind the camera - in an address to MPs in Parliament.
  
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• VIDEO: Muslim views on English lessons plan

  18-01-2016 21:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Muslims in east London give their views on government plans to invest in English lessons for Muslim women in England.
  
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• 1,050 jobs lost at Tata steel plants

  18-01-2016 20:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than 1,000 jobs are to go at Tata steel plants - with the bulk going in Port Talbot - the company confirms.
  
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• VIDEO: 'Port Talbot will start to die'

  18-01-2016 20:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  People living in Port Talbot say the job cuts at Tata Steel will kill the town.
  
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• Twins claim world record 40 years on

  18-01-2016 20:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Twins from Powys are set to win a world record title as the first pair to be born in different countries - nearly 40 years after the event.
  
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• MPs Clash Over Calls To Ban Trump From UK

  18-01-2016 20:30
  
  MPs clashed as they debated calls to ban US presidential hopeful Donald Trump from the UK after his controversial remarks about Muslims. One Labour MP called his comments "poisonous", while an SNP politician accused Mr Trump of "fuelling racial tensions across the world" and added his statements were "dangerous". But a Conservative MP said if the Government banned him it would be "falling into a trap", and he also pointed out that Mr Trump could conceivably become president.
  
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• Gang 'Plotted Drive-By Moped Terror Attacks'

  18-01-2016 19:53
  
  Four British men planned to assassinate soldiers, police officers and civilians in a series of Islamic State-inspired drive-by shootings on a moped, a court has heard. Prosecutor Brian Altman QC said it was no martyrdom mission - they had an escape plan which suggested more than one attack. "The evidence points to this being a plot to kill, a plot to execute a policeman or a soldier or as I say even an ordinary member of the public, in one or more assassinations either involving a drive-by shoot
  
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• Footsie falls amid volatile trading

  18-01-2016 19:49
  The London market closed down as oil prices swung back and forth amid volatile trading.
  
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• Penguin scraps degree requirement

  18-01-2016 19:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Publisher says job applicants will no longer have to be graduates, as it seeks a more diverse range of staff.
  
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• Calais Migrants Want UK To Decide Asylum Case

  18-01-2016 19:35
  
  Four young Syrian refugees living in the "squalid conditions" of the refugee camps in Calais have made a legal attempt to be reunited with their families in Britain. An immigration tribunal in central London has been told the four young men have relatives in the UK and want the British government to take charge of their asylum claims.
  
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• Wilson cited for 'testicle grabbing'

  18-01-2016 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Glasgow flanker Ryan Wilson could face a lengthy ban if found guilty of 'grabbing the testicles' of Northampton's Lee Dickson.
  
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• VIDEO: 'I was duped by an undercover policeman'

  18-01-2016 19:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Newsnight speaks to a woman who spent two years in a relationship with a man she later discovered was an undercover policeman with a double life.
  
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• VIDEO: Inside fire gutted shell of stately home

  18-01-2016 19:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Parts of Clandon Park House, which was reduced to a shell by a fire in April, are to be restored to their "original glory", the National Trust (NT) says.
  
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• Prison officers ill through inhaling inmates' 'legal highs', says union

  18-01-2016 18:28
  Prison officers are falling ill after inhaling "legal highs" used by inmates.
  
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• Friends Reunited To Close After 17 Years

  18-01-2016 18:26
  
  Social network site Friends Reunited is to close, according to the site's original founders. After launching the site in 1999, Steve Pankhurst and business partner Jason Porter sold the site to ITV Plc for roughly £170m in 2005. But the service struggled to compete with other emerging social networks such as Facebook and ITV disposed of the site for £25m in 2009 to online genealogy group Brightsolid.
  
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• Is speaking English a problem for Muslim women?

  18-01-2016 18:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Is speaking English a problem for Muslim women?
  
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• UK ban 'would give Donald Trump the role of martyrdom', warns MP

  18-01-2016 18:16
  Banning Donald Trump from the UK would allow the US presidential hopeful to be portrayed as a martyr, an MP has warned.
  
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• Tata Steel To Axe More Than 1,000 Jobs In UK

  18-01-2016 18:07
  
  Tata has announced it is cutting more than 1,000 jobs, dealing another huge blow to the British steel industry. Most of the jobs are being cut at Britain's biggest steel plant at Port Talbot in South Wales, where 750 positions will go. Prime Minister David Cameron described the announcement as "very sad news".
  
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• New undercover police case exposed

  18-01-2016 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Newsnight has learnt of a new case of an undercover policeman being involved in a relationship with a woman, who has launched legal action against the Metropolitan Police.
  
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• Inquest Opens Into Wedding Fireworks Deaths

  18-01-2016 17:57
  
  An inquest has opened into two deaths during a fireworks explosion at a wedding in the Lake District last August. Organiser Andrew Coates, 41, and his 46-year-old assistant Polly Connor were preparing a display within the grounds of a luxury cottage belonging to Mr Coates’ business partner, John Simpson, who was also the groom. Firefighters found the bodies of Mr Coates and Mrs Connor - both parents and from Kendal - near the entrance of the outbuilding.
  
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• Calais Jungle refugees 'should be reunited with their families in Britain'

  18-01-2016 17:41
  
  Four young Syrian refugees living in "The Jungle" should be reunited with their families in Britain and escape the "living hell" of the Calais refugee camp, a court has heard.
  
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• Mott The Hoople drummer dies aged 67

  18-01-2016 17:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dale Griffin, drummer for rock group Mott The Hoople, dies aged 67
  
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• Row over steel industry crisis as 1,000 more jobs axed

  18-01-2016 17:20
  
  A row over how much support the Government has given the crisis-hit steel industry is raging after another 1,000 jobs were axed in a devastating blow to steel-making communities.
  
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• End-of-life care doctor thanks Bowie

  18-01-2016 17:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A doctor specialising in end-of-life care writes a letter to David Bowie thanking him for helping him talk to people about death.
  
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• Friends Reunited website to close

  18-01-2016 17:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Steve Pankhurst, one of the original founders of early social network Friends Reunited, announces that the platform is to close.
  
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• Should Trump Be Banned? MPs Debate

  18-01-2016 17:02
  
  MPs will debate banning Donald Trump from the UK after 570,000 people signed an online petition calling for him to be refused entry. On Sunday, Jeremy Corbyn said he would like to take Mr Trump on a visit to a North London mosque. The Labour leader said: "I decided to invite Donald Trump on his visit to Britain to come with me to my constituency because he has problems with Mexicans and he has problems with Muslims.
  
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• Natural mathematical model 'could help predict cancer growth'

  18-01-2016 17:00
  Cancer evolution is often governed by the same fundamental natural law that drives processes as wide ranging as river flow, financial markets, and the brightness of stars, say scientists.
  
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• VIDEO: Making a cartoon out of Royalty

  18-01-2016 16:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Oliver Smyth talks about creating a special animation of the Duchess of Cornwall and Chris Evans for a children's writing competition.
  
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• Soldier 'target in IS-inspired plot'

  18-01-2016 16:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four men inspired by the Islamic State group plotted to kill a police officer, soldier or civilian in one or more "drive-by" shootings from a moped, a jury hears.
  
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• New phone-hacking claims to be heard

  18-01-2016 16:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fresh claims of phone hacking by the now defunct News of the World newspaper can be heard in court, a High Court judge rules.
  
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• Social network pioneer Friends Reunited to close down

  18-01-2016 16:24
  Friends Reunited, one of the original social networking sites, is to close.
  
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• RAF Jets Take Out Targets Near IS Stronghold

  18-01-2016 16:23
  
  RAF jets have used Brimstone missiles to attack targets near Islamic State's Syria headquarters and in Iraq. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Tornado GR4s used the missiles to destroy a vehicle near Tabbaqah, west of Raqqa, in Syria and a terrorist supply truck south of Sinjar in Iraq, on Sunday. The missiles, which cost £105,000 each, can hit vehicles moving at 70mph and are only used by the RAF and Saudi air force.
  
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• Breast surgeon faces wounding with intent to cause harm charges

  18-01-2016 16:21
  A breast surgeon suspended over complaints regarding operations he carried out has been charged with 21 counts of wounding with intent to cause harm to patients.
  
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• West Coast main line closed until March

  18-01-2016 16:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The West Coast Main Line is to remain closed until the beginning of March amid further delays to repair a viaduct in South Lanarkshire.
  
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• Tennis match fixing claims explained

  18-01-2016 16:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tennis match-fixing claims explained
  
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• PM's Muslim policy 'lazy and misguided'

  18-01-2016 16:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Cameron is accused of "lazy and misguided" policy-making after saying a poor grasp of English left Muslim women in the UK "more susceptible" to the lure of extremism.
  
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• UK needs 'properly resourced' social care plan by 2018, says NHS chief

  18-01-2016 14:58
  The UK should have a "properly resourced" social care plan in place by 2018 to help ease the burden on the NHS, the head of the health service has said.
  
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• South East train services disrupted ahead of rail bosses grilling

  18-01-2016 14:58
  Train services in the South East have suffered more disruption, hours before rail bosses face a grilling from MPs.
  
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• Government's flagship welfare reform moving at 'snail's pace'

  18-01-2016 14:58
  The Government's flagship welfare reform is moving at a "snail's pace" and its hopes of meeting the scheme's original intentions are "in ruins", the chairman of the Work and Pensions Select Committee said.
  
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• Cameron under fire over English language skills warning for Muslim women

  18-01-2016 14:58
  David Cameron has been accused of a "lazy and misguided" approach after warning that Muslim women who fail to improve their English language skills could be deported as part of a drive to build community integration and counter extremism.
  
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