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• BCC chief resigns amid row over Brexit comments

  06-03-2016 23:53
  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - The British Chambers of Commerce said on Sunday its director general, John Longworth, had resigned after calling for Britain to leave the European Union despite the business lobby group taking a neutral stance on an upcoming referendum. In his speech at the BCC's annual conference on Thursday, Longworth said while the group would not be campaigning on either side ahead of a June 23 vote, it was his personal observation that the EU was incapable of meaningful
  
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• Business Leader In Brexit Controversy Resigns

  06-03-2016 23:24
  
  John Longworth has resigned as director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, leaving him free to campaign for the UK to leave the EU. "This is what Project Fear looks like. A BCC spokesman said Mr Longworth has accepted his sympathy for the Out campaign was "likely to create confusion" over the group's official stance.
  
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• Business group leader John Longworth quits after backing Brexit

  06-03-2016 23:18
  
  The leader of one of the UK's biggest business groups has resigned after expressing his support for a British exit from the European Union.
  
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• Inventor of modern email Ray Tomlinson dies

  06-03-2016 22:42
  
  Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of modern email, has died, according to his employer Raytheon.
  
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• RWE's npower plans to cut 2,500 UK jobs

  06-03-2016 22:06
  By Karolin Schaps and Tom Käckenhoff LONDON/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) - Germany's second-largest utility, RWE, plans to cut about 2,500 jobs at npower, a source close to the matter said, as it confronts customer losses and billing issues at its struggling British subsidiary. RWE is facing the biggest crisis in its 118-year history, faced with ultra-low wholesale power prices, large exposure to coal and gas and only a small presence in renewable energy. Npower now has 5.4 million customers in Br
  
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• Security alert at Heathrow Airport after man charged with 'illegally boarding a plane'

  06-03-2016 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A MAN has been charged with illegally boarding a plane at Heathrow Airport.
  
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• Heathrow Alert As Man 'Locks Himself In Plane'

  06-03-2016 21:35
  
  A man has been charged after he allegedly broke through a security cordon at Heathrow Airport, climbed aboard an empty British Airways plane and locked himself in the cockpit. Louis Pedro Verdasca dos Santos Costa was remanded in custody after being charged with three offences, including unlawfully being on an aircraft. The 38-year-old is accused of breaching security on the Heathrow perimeter before gaining access to the BA engineering base at Hatton Cross on Saturday.
  
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• Fox Backs Boris In Business Leader Row

  06-03-2016 21:33
  
  Boris Johnson has won backing from senior Tories for claims that a business boss was gagged, bullied or even "crushed" by the Government for backing British withdrawal from the EU. Ministers could face questions from MPs in the Commons this week on whether any part of the Government put pressure on the British Chambers of Commerce to suspend its director general, John Longworth. Then, speaking to Sky News, Mr Johnson said: "This is a golden opportunity for us to listen to people like John Longwo
  
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• Woman charged with GBH after double stabbing in Bradford

  06-03-2016 21:13
  
  A woman has been charged with grievous bodily harm after two women were stabbed within minutes of each other in two separate attacks, West Yorkshire Police have confirmed.
  
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• Kim Wilde thought UFO seen in her garden was Michael Jackson coming back to HAUNT her

  06-03-2016 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  POP star Kim Wilde has revealed how she watched a UFO hovering in her back garden for TWO HOURS - convincing her of alien life.
  
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• Schoolboy left scarred for life by POLICE DOG attack

  06-03-2016 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A SCHOOLBOY has been scarred for life after he was mauled by a police dog which was supposed to be chasing a wanted suspect.
  
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• 'Reformed Islamic extremist' is accused of £1m iPhone fraud

  06-03-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A REFORMED extremist who later became a government adviser is being investigated by anti-terror police over an alleged £1.2million internet fraud.
  
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• Search For Missing Hillwalker In Scotland

  06-03-2016 18:38
  
  Rescue teams are searching for a 61-year-old hillwalker in Scotland who has not been seen by his family for almost a week. James Robertson went missing from Glasgow on 29 February and is believed to be in the Cairngorms area. Police Scotland said Mr Robertson is a keen hillwalker, who was due to return to Glasgow on Friday.
  
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• Supermodel Naomi will have children 'when I'm ready'

  06-03-2016 18:26
  
  Naomi Campbell is keen to become a mother but is keeping her options open about when or how she might do it.
  
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• Rescue airlift for British kayak pair trapped by Alaska ice

  06-03-2016 18:26
  
  Two British adventurers had to be rescued after becoming stranded off the coast of Alaska while k ayaking across the Bering Strait.
  
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• How ex-bulimic Geri learned to 'celebrate cake'

  06-03-2016 18:26
  Former Spice Girl Geri Horner has revealed how learning to "celebrate cake" helped liberate her from an unhealthy relationship with food.
  
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• Douglas Carswell dismisses Nigel Farage's claim he is 'irrelevant'

  06-03-2016 18:26
  Ukip's sole MP has dismissed party leader Nigel Farage's description of him as "irrelevant" and said there was "no point in hiding" the pair's differences.
  
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• 'Cultural differences' led to migrant sexually assaulting child at UK train station

  06-03-2016 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A SOMALIAN migrant brought through the courts for molesting a child at a train station doesn't think he did anything wrong due to 'cultural differences', a court heard.
  
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• Npower condemned by unions over plan to axe 2,500 jobs

  06-03-2016 17:43
  Energy giant npower has come under attack for dealing a "devastating blow" to its workers with plans to axe up to 2,500 jobs.
  
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• Weapons Haul Found In Northern Ireland Park

  06-03-2016 17:27
  Explosives and bomb-making equipment have been discovered in Northern Ireland after a member of the public reported finding a suspicious object in a forest park. The weapons haul was uncovered in Carnfunnock Country Park, in County Antrim, after police were alerted on Saturday afternoon. Officers found several small plastic barrels buried in a wooded area of the park.
  
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• Twitter shuts down Anonymous accounts 'for harassing' ISIS jihadis

  06-03-2016 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ONLINE activists taking on Islamic State in a war waged on the web have said Twitter is BANNING them - and not the jihadis - under 'anti-harassment' rules.
  
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• FIRST PICTURE: 'Kind hearted' missing woman, 22, found dead in station car park

  06-03-2016 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TRIBUTES have been paid to a "kind hearted and beautiful" young woman who was found dead in her car at a train station car park.
  
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• Singer Annie Lennox in women's rights plea at Mothering Sunday rally

  06-03-2016 16:06
  Annie Lennox has made an impassioned plea for men, women and children to stamp out gender inequality as she marched for women's rights on Mothering Sunday.
  
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• Energy giant npower 'to cut 2,500 jobs'

  06-03-2016 16:04
  Energy firm npower will announce this week it is to cut around 2,500 jobs, according to reports.
  
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• Labour MP Jess Phillips rules out party's chances of winning 2020 election

  06-03-2016 15:35
  Labour will "absolutely not" win the next general election, a critic of Jeremy Corbyn warned, as the party launched its campaign for the local contests with an attack on the Google tax deal.
  
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• Genes discovery boosts coronary heart disease treatment hopes

  06-03-2016 15:35
  Scientists have identified two new genes that are linked to a person's risk of coronary heart disease (CHD).
  
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• Crackdown in bid to curb compensation payouts for prisoners

  06-03-2016 15:14
  A crackdown on prisoner compensation has been launched after it was revealed the bill to taxpayers jumped to nearly £10 million.
  
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• Bin it! Clean for the Queen campaign appears to have dropped 'racist' clanger...

  06-03-2016 15:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  IT was designed to encourage people to tidy up for Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday - but now the Clean for the Queen campaign has been accused of dropping a racist clanger.
  
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• SAS and FBI prepare for ISIS dirty bomb attack at top British landmarks

  06-03-2016 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE SAS and FBI have joined British security forces to prepare for 'dirty bomb' attacks at famous London landmarks over fears ISIS is developing a new generation of explosives to claim thousands of lives.
  
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• Britain faces 'golden opportunity' outside EU, says London mayor

  06-03-2016 14:58
  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - London's influential mayor on Sunday denied personal ambition was behind his decision to campaign for Britain to leave the European Union and said it was a "golden opportunity" for the country to forge its own trade deals with the world. Boris Johnson, whose backing for a so-called 'Brexit' has angered Prime Minister David Cameron and highlighted the deep splits within his Conservatives over Europe, said he believed the risky option was to remain inside the
  
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• Crackdown On Prisoner Compensation Claims

  06-03-2016 14:46
  
  The Ministry of Justice has launched a crackdown on compensation claims lodged by prisoners across England and Wales. Almost 14,000 individual payments were handed out to inmates in the past year, nearly double the number made the year before. Justice Minister Dominic Raab said: "Of course the Prison Service must be accountable, but taxpayers will be staggered to learn that the costs of litigation against it reached £29m last year.
  
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• Troubled Energy Firm Npower To Axe 2500 Jobs

  06-03-2016 14:34
  
  Npower, one of Britain's biggest energy suppliers, will outline plans this week to axe thousands of jobs ‎as its German owner attempts to revive the company's weak financial performance. Sky News has learnt that Npower will tell staff in the coming days that approximately 2500 roles at the company and its‎ partners are to be axed. Sources said the proposals were still being finalised, with some of Npower’s directly employed workforce of 7500 at risk and the remainder of the cuts ta
  
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• 'Platoons' Of Driverless Lorries For UK Roads

  06-03-2016 14:17
  
  "Platoons" of up to 10 driveless lorries travelling just metres apart could be coming to Britain's motorways. The automated juggernauts are set to take to UK roads for the first time this year in testing backed by the Government. In next week's Budget, Chancellor George Osborne is expected to announce funding for the trial as part of an initiative to improve the fuel efficiency of long-haul journeys.
  
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• Boris Backs Business Leader Ousted Over EU

  06-03-2016 14:07
  
  Boris Johnson has defended the head of the British Chambers of Commerce - who was suspended after suggesting Britain could have a "brighter" future outside the EU. The London Mayor said John Longworth had paid "a heavy price for sharing that optimistic view " on Sky News and had been crushed by "agents of project fear". Mr Johnson said it was for journalists to discover what really happened, but told Sky News: "This is a golden moment for our country to listen to people like John Longworth, who
  
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• Man Charged Over Pregnant Woman Stabbing

  06-03-2016 13:47
  
  A 41-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after a pregnant woman was stabbed in Sutton Coldfield. Babur Karamat Raja faces two counts following Friday's incident which left the 40-year-old victim in a critical condition.
  
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• Seven stabbings in 10 MINUTES as mass brawl rips through sleepy town

  06-03-2016 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A SLEEPY town has been littered with crime scenes after seven stabbings and a mass brawl - in 10 MINUTES.
  
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• The end of truckers? Driverless lorries to hit British motorways for very first time

  06-03-2016 13:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DRIVERLESS lorries in “platoons” will hit British motorway for the very first time, sparking fears of job losses and MORE congestion.
  
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• Mother Missing With Baby Urged to Get In Touch

  06-03-2016 13:23
  
  A man has pleaded with his former partner to contact him after she went missing with their baby daughter. The child's father, translator Adam Warner, has urged Russian-born Kristine Jakovleva to let him know she and baby Elisa are safe. The 26-year-old mother and her daughter were last seen in Dagenham, east London, over two weeks ago.
  
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• World's Largest Aircraft Set For UK Test Flight

  06-03-2016 13:09
  
  The Airlander 10 is a cross between an airship and an aeroplane. Hybrid Air Vehicles, the makers of the Airlander 10 and based in Bedford, anticipate commercial uses such as leisure cruises, persistent, airbone research and for cargo to hard-to-reach places. Hybrid Air Vehicles has plans for a 50-ton version of the Airlander.
  
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• Family thank passers-by for saving pregnant stab victim and unborn baby

  06-03-2016 13:07
  
  The family of a pregnant stabbing victim have praised the "fearlessness" of passers-by who intervened.
  
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• Outrage as IRA bomber is set to be handed state-funded armed services pension

  06-03-2016 12:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A FORMER solider who joined the IRA and bombed a British army barracks is set to receive an armed services pension, it has emerged.
  
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• Eurozone 'something we should all be concerned about', says ex-bank boss

  06-03-2016 12:34
  
  The euro area has been, if not an economic disaster, a "very serious problem" affecting Britain, the f ormer governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King has said.
  
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• Dunblane gunman won't ruin my life, vows survivor 20 years on

  06-03-2016 12:34
  
  A survivor of the Dunblane massacre has recalled her ordeal at the hands of gunman Thomas Hamilton, vowing she will not let him ruin her life.
  
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• 'Unbearably difficult' time for family of cancer-stricken Paul Daniels

  06-03-2016 12:32
  
  Paul Daniels' family do not know how long the magician will live for after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, his son has revealed.
  
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• Boris Johnson claims 'it would be wonderful' after quitting European Union

  06-03-2016 11:28
  
  Leaving the European Union would be like escaping from jail, Boris Johnson claimed as he said a business leader who was suspended over his support for Brexit paid a "heavy price".
  
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• Bankers jostle to be junior as accountability rules kick in

  06-03-2016 10:36
  By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - New rules to hold bosses responsible for wrongdoing at banks is deterring some bankers from taking on senior management roles and even prompting big-hitters to play down their own importance, say legal and compliance experts. The Senior Managers Regime (SMR) from Monday replaces a system that UK lawmakers criticised for giving illusory control over individuals with little prospect of enforcement action. A step change in banking rules, it will allow regulators to p
  
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• Retailers invite rival brands to fill their empty spaces

  06-03-2016 10:32
  By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - As online deliveries surge and shop sales fall, retailers are looking to refit their once bustling superstores with new attractions such as rivals' fashion brands to fill empty spaces and keep shoppers coming through the door. In a shift in strategy aimed at making the space profitable and avoiding store closures, retailers such as Tesco have also started experimenting with gyms and children’s play areas to entertain customers. It's a bit like a shopping m
  
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• 'Platoons' of driverless lorries 'to be tested on M6 motorway'

  06-03-2016 08:37
  Driverless lorries are to be tested in "platoons" on British motorways as part of a government drive to bring major improvements to journeys.
  
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• Dementia Shake-Up: Health Checks For Over-40s

  06-03-2016 07:35
  
  There are a number of care homes in the UK that specialise in dementia care. The Government has invested many millions of pounds in dementia care and research in recent years. Professor Nigel Hooper from Alzheimer’s Research UK said: "We welcomed the previous announcements, particularly the announcement of the Dementia Research Institute, but we still have a long way to go.
  
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• UFC 196: Conor McGregor stunned by Nate Diaz – live!

  06-03-2016 07:06
  
  Holly Holm upset by Miesha Tate in Las VegasTweet Josh @yay_yee with your thoughts on the actionThe fight game reloaded: how UFC conquered the world 6.06am GMTShock inside the arena as people are trying to come to grips with the idea McGregor has lost. A small group of Diaz fans holding black t-shirts march through the stands celebrating his victory but there isn’t any great sense of agitation or anger among the McGregor fans. Mostly people seem stunned. It’s not loud in here, no gre
  
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