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• BBC 'exploring' use of iPlayer for premieres ahead of regular transmission

  07-03-2016 22:14
  The BBC is "exploring" plans to premiere an increasing number of shows on its iPlayer service before they are screened on traditional television channels.
  
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• France's EDF to pursue UK nuclear plan despite CFO's exit

  07-03-2016 22:07
  
  PARIS (Reuters) - French utility EDF said it would push ahead with a plan to build nuclear reactors in Britain, despite its finance director quitting over the risk he sees it poses to the company's future.
  
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• Life expectancy affected by areas prostate cancer spreads to, research suggests

  07-03-2016 22:00
  Where prostate cancer spreads in the body has a direct impact on survival, research has shown.
  
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• Biotech companies get the chance to make their pitch at the palace

  07-03-2016 21:48
  
  Toothbrushes transformed into game controllers and a potential life-saver for babies through breastfeeding are just a few of the biotech businesses showcased at an event led by the Duke of York.
  
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• Vet Locked Dogs In 'Dungeon' At Surgery

  07-03-2016 20:55
  
  A vet has been banned from keeping animals for life after police found dogs in a "pitch black dungeon" at his practice in Leeds. "I've seen a lot of shocking things working for the RSPCA, but I would certainly never have expected to deal with something like this," inspector Nikki Cheetham said. "Dogs and cats were in a back room, the vet's living quarters and a basement, accessed by a trapdoor in the floor that had been hidden by a piece of carpet - that's where most of the dogs were found.
  
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• Woman Kept Grenades And 2,000 Bullets At Home

  07-03-2016 20:21
  
  A woman has been jailed for three years after police discovered 2,000 rounds of ammunition, hand grenades and other explosives in her house. Heather Exley, 44, appeared at Leeds Crown Court, where a judge was told that the hoard of explosives posed a clear danger to a residential area but her motivation for keeping such a collection was unclear. They found hundreds of rounds of ammunition - including cartridges, hollow point bullets and soft nose bullets - improvised hand grenades, partially-con
  
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• Two Rotherham men identified as missing after Didcot power station collapse

  07-03-2016 19:56
  
  Two men from Rotherham have been identified as missing after the collapse of a power station being prepared for demolition.
  
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• Afghan Helicopter Crash Families Want 'Answers'

  07-03-2016 19:47
  
  Relatives of servicemen who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan have said they are still seeking "answers and clarity" about why their loved ones died. The crash in a remote valley in Kandahar Province on 26 April 2014 led to the loss of five British men, with a military inquiry last year suggesting "human factors" were to blame. The flight crew - Captain Thomas Clarke, Warrant Officer Spencer Faulkner and Corporal James Walters of the Army Air Corps - died along with passengers Flight Lie
  
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• Teenager guilty of killing Bailey Gwynne in 'trivial' school dispute

  07-03-2016 19:42
  
  A teenager who stabbed a school boy to death during a "trivial" row has been convicted of culpable homicide.
  
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• Teen Stabbed Pupil To Death After Biscuit Row

  07-03-2016 19:06
  
  A teenager has been found guilty of the culpable homicide of 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne, who was stabbed at an Aberdeen school following a row about a biscuit.
  
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• Turkey names its price for helping the EU deal with flow of refugees

  07-03-2016 18:43
  
  Turkey has demanded Europe's leaders hand over an additional £2.3 billion as the price of helping to stem the flow of refugees heading across the Aegean Sea.
  
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• It's time for Tony Blair's assassin to sharpen his knife - Telegraph.co.uk

  07-03-2016 18:07 via
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• Teenager guilty of killing school pupil Bailey Gwynne, 16, during fight

  07-03-2016 17:12
  
  A teenager has been found guilty of killing a school pupil he stabbed during a fight.
  
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• Study reveals source of violence in the brain

  07-03-2016 17:00
  A new discovery pinpointing the source of pre-meditated violence in the brain could pave the way to controversial treatments that curb aggression, echoing the movie A Clockwork Orange.
  
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• Women earn less than men in department headed by equalities minister

  07-03-2016 16:51
  The Government is being urged to lead by example on equal pay after it was revealed that women are earning less than men in the department headed by the equalities minister.
  
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• Women In Equalities Minister's Dept Earn Less

  07-03-2016 16:41
  
  Women civil servants working for the Equalities Minister are earning £4,000 less each year than their male counterparts. The figures, disclosed by the Labour Party ahead of International Women's Day on Tuesday, showed that women working in the Department for Education (DfE) were paid nearly £2 an hour less than the men. The research also showed that just one in four board members of the department, headed by Nicky Morgan, were women.
  
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• Apple software chief: FBI wants to turn back clock to less secure time

  07-03-2016 16:24
  Apple's head of software has criticised the FBI for trying to "turn back the clock to a less secure time" in the row over iPhone unlocking.
  
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• Islamic State looking for spectacular attacks - UK police

  07-03-2016 16:08
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters want to carry out "enormous and spectacular" attacks against Britain and the Western lifestyle in general, Britain's most senior anti-terrorism officer said on Monday.
  
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• BCC chief quits, accuses Cameron of EU exit 'hyperbole'

  07-03-2016 15:48
  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - The head of a prominent British business lobbying group has quit his post after speaking in favour of Britain's exit from the European Union and has accused Prime Minister David Cameron of trying to scare voters into supporting continued EU membership. British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) director general, John Longworth, resigned late on Sunday after he breached the group's neutral stance on the in-out referendum to be held on June 23 by saying that the EU wa
  
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• Islamic State Targeting 'Western Lifestyles'

  07-03-2016 15:46
  
  The UK is increasingly at risk of mass casualty terror attacks, as the so-called Islamic State switches its intent towards targeting Western lifestyles, according to the country's head of counter-terrorism policing. Scotland Yard's Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said recent terror attacks in Paris, the bombing of a Russia-bound passenger plane over Egypt and the attempt to bring down another airliner in Somalia, demonstrated a broadening of the terror group's ambition. The Assistant Commissi
  
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• EDF's Hinkley Point nuclear plan in spotlight as CFO quits

  07-03-2016 15:38
  By Benjamin Mallet and Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) - French utility EDF's plans to build a nuclear power station in Britain came under renewed pressure on Monday after its finance director quit over the risk he sees to the company's future. Reacting to the shock resignation, EDF reaffirmed its plan to go ahead with the £18 billion Hinkley Point project in southwest England. Developed as a partnership between state-controlled EDF and Chinese group CGN, the plan to build two 1,650-megawa
  
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• Experience Of Criminal Minds Behind Hatton Heist

  07-03-2016 15:32
  
  The Hatton Garden raiders brought with them "a great deal of experience in planning and executing sophisticated and serious acquisitive crime" to pull off the biggest burglary in English history, a court has heard. Brian Reader, 77, dubbed the "Master" by his co-conspirators, had been involved in the 1983 £26m gold bullion Brinks Mat robbery at a Heathrow Airport warehouse, and Terry Perkins, 67, in the £6m Security Express raid in Shoreditch the same year. They are two of seven gang
  
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• Carneiro demands public apology from Mourinho over departure

  07-03-2016 15:16
  (Reuters) - Former Chelsea team doctor Eva Carneiro has called for a public apology from Jose Mourinho as part of her constructive dismissal and sex discrimination claim against the Premier League champions and the club's former manager. Carneiro's barrister also said the club and the Gibraltar-born doctor were nowhere near agreeing compensation over her departure ahead of a hearing at an employment tribunal on Monday.
  
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• Hatton Garden raid judge urged to disregard sentencing guidelines

  07-03-2016 15:11
  The judge in the £14 million Hatton Garden raid case has been urged to cast aside sentencing guidelines as it was the "worst" type of burglary and a crime of the "utmost sophistication".
  
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• New junior doctors contract will not be 'unsafe or dangerous for patients'

  07-03-2016 15:09
  A new contract for junior doctors will not be "unsafe or dangerous for patients", the NHS's national director for patient safety has said.
  
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• Pumpkin seed bought for £1,250 as horticulture firm aims big

  07-03-2016 14:34
  Bosses at a horticulture firm hope to reap a rich harvest after spending £1,250 on a pumpkin seed.
  
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• Murder case defendants walk free following 'joint enterprise' ruling

  07-03-2016 14:34
  The first defendants in a murder trial have walked free from Britain's most famous criminal court following the shock ruling on joint enterprise law.
  
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• London Cycle Superhighway To Open Next Month

  07-03-2016 14:29
  
  A new east-to-west cycle superhighway across London will open next month, Boris Johnson has said. The London Mayor said the route will be the longest substantially segregated bike route in a European city. When it opens on 30 April cyclists will be able to travel from Westminster to Blackfriars, the City, Tower Hill, Canary Wharf and Barking - just under 12 miles - on either tracks separated from vehicles or on low-traffic streets.
  
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• Man In Court Accused Of Stabbing Pregnant Woman

  07-03-2016 14:25
  
  A man has appeared before Birmingham magistrates accused of repeatedly stabbing his heavily pregnant partner in the street. Babur Karamat Raja was arrested on Friday after 40-year-old victim Natalie Queiroz suffered multiple wounds to her abdomen. Passers-by flagged down officers in the Trinity Hill area of Sutton Coldfield after the alleged attack in the busy town centre.
  
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• Drivers Vote In Favour Of Night Tube Pay Deal

  07-03-2016 14:19
  
  London Underground drivers have voted nine to one in favour of accepting a new pay deal allowing the night tube to go ahead. It includes above-inflation pay rises backdated from April last year, and a £500 bonus to drivers and other staff connected with the introduction of the night service. The night tube was due to start running last September, but ground to a halt with a  series of strikes over pay and conditions.
  
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• Threat to Northern Ireland prison officers to be 'speedily' reviewed

  07-03-2016 14:09
  The threat to prison officers in Northern Ireland is to be speedily reviewed after last week's bomb attack, Stormont's Justice Minister said.
  
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• Song lyrics could be having 'detrimental' impact on health of elderly

  07-03-2016 14:07
  References to "losing hair" and "wasting away" in The Beatles' classic When I'm Sixty-four could be having a "detrimental" effect on the health of the elderly, researchers have said.
  
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• Pete Doherty Announces Solo UK Tour

  07-03-2016 13:56
  
  After cancelling shows last year due to a "serious anxiety attack", Pete Doherty has announced he will go on a solo UK tour in May. The Libertines frontman will be performing five dates on his Eudaimonia tour, starting in Bristol on 11 May, then going to Glasgow, Manchester and London's Hackney Empire. He has notably chosen a different London venue from The Libertines' gig in September last year at Camden's Electric Ballroom, which was called off when the singer fled to a hotel near Coventry.
  
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• This Charming Mayor: Morrissey For London?

  07-03-2016 13:55
  
  Singer Morrissey has been asked to run for London Mayor as the candidate for the Animal Welfare Party. The Meat Is Murder rock star is said to be very seriously considering the request to run against Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadiq Khan to take over from Boris Johnson in May.
  
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• IS planning 'enormous and spectacular attacks', UK counter-terrorism chief warns

  07-03-2016 13:36
  The UK is facing the threat of "enormous and spectacular attacks" by Islamic State (IS) as the extremist group aims to wage war on Western lifestyles, the national head of counter-terrorism has warned.
  
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• BCC chief resigns, accuses PM Cameron of EU exit hyperbole

  07-03-2016 13:10
  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - The former head of a prominent British business lobbying group, who quit his post because he supports Britain's exit from the European Union, accused Prime Minister David Cameron of scaremongering in comments published on Monday. British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) director general, John Longworth, resigned late on Sunday after he breached the group's neutral stance on the in-out referendum to be held on June 23 by saying that the EU was incapable of meaningf
  
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• I voluntarily resigned as BCC boss, insists John Longworth amid Brexit row

  07-03-2016 13:08
  
  The senior business leader who stepped down after voicing his support for Brexit has insisted he "voluntarily resigned" and was not pushed.
  
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• No 10 Presses Business Groups, Says Longworth

  07-03-2016 12:59
  
  Number 10 routinely presses business leaders with its "strident views" the former director general of the British Chambers of Commerce has told Sky News. John Longworth's comments suggest he believes Downing Street could have pressured the BCC to suspend him after he made comments in support of the UK leaving the EU during an interview on Sky. Mr Longworth announced he had resigned from his role on Sunday after claims that Number 10 had nobbled the organisation's board to force him out.
  
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• Hatton Garden ringleader 'may have only months to live'

  07-03-2016 12:58
  Hatton Garden mastermind Brian "the guv'nor" Reader suffered a stroke in Belmarsh Prison and "may only have months to live", a court heard.
  
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• Britain will not join common EU asylum system - Cameron

  07-03-2016 12:51
  Britain would not join a possible EU common asylum system, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday, adding that his country would be affected by the migrant crisis even if it votes to leave the European Union in June. Under the EU's current asylum system, known as the Dublin rules and which apply to Britain, individual EU countries must register and process asylum claims on a national basis and that responsibility falls to the first EU state a refugee enters.
  
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• Study Links Football Performance To Air Quality

  07-03-2016 12:45
  
  Is your favourite football team playing badly? It could be due to poor air quality. German scientists have cross-referenced the form of top-flight footballers with air quality from outside each stadium in the country.
  
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• 'No prospect' of Britain joining common EU asylum system, says David Cameron

  07-03-2016 12:43
  
  David Cameron has said there is "no prospect" of Britain joining a common European Union asylum system.
  
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• Women Could Boost UK Economy By £170bn

  07-03-2016 12:28
  
  There is a simple way to boost the UK economy: get more women into work, according to the latest research by ‘big four’ accountancy firm PwC. The economy could benefit to the tune of £170bn - or a 9% increase in gross domestic product - if female employment in the UK rose to match Sweden’s. Sweden is the best performing country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) across a number of factors, according to PwC’s Women in Work Index.
  
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• Dissident Irish nationalist group claims Belfast bomb attack

  07-03-2016 12:12
  
  BELFAST (Reuters) - An Irish militant group opposed to Northern Ireland's 1998 peace deal claimed responsibility for the attempted murder of a prison officer in a bomb attack on Friday, in a statement to the BBC that warned of more attacks.
  
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• Term 'child prostitution' removed from Government publications

  07-03-2016 11:57
  
  The term "child prostitution" is being removed from official statistics over concerns it is an outdated phrase that encourages "victim-blaming".
  
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• Oops moment for Atlantic rower Helen Butters on BBC Breakfast

  07-03-2016 11:57
  
  The all-female Yorkshire Rows team ended up revealing more than expected when they joined BBC Breakfast to talk about their record-breaking trip across the Atlantic.
  
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• Hospital anaesthetist probed over Muslim surgeon headscarf claims

  07-03-2016 11:57
  
  A hospital consultant is being inve stigated over claims he made about a Muslim surgeon wearing a headscarf.
  
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• Ex-Chelsea FC doctor attends constructive dismissal tribunal

  07-03-2016 11:57
  
  Former Chelsea team doctor Eva Carneiro has arrived at a tribunal court for her constructive dismissal case against the Premier League football club.
  
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• Royals Hit Slopes For First Family Holiday

  07-03-2016 11:44
  
  Prince George and Princess Charlotte got to enjoy playing in the snow for the first time when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took them on a short skiing holiday. The trip to the French Alps last week was the first time the family have been on holiday together, and they have released six photographs to mark the event. The images show a relaxed William and Kate holding their two children and engaging in a snowball fight.
  
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• Hinkley Point plan back in spotlight as EDF executive quits

  07-03-2016 11:44
  Tensions over plans to build a new nuclear power station in Britain were exposed on Monday after the finance director of project leader EDF quit his job in protest, sending the French company's shares down over 6 percent. The 18 billion pound project in southwest England was first announced in October 2013 but a final investment decision has been repeatedly delayed. Developed as a partnership between state-controlled EDF and Chinese group CGN, the plan to build two 1,650-megawatt nuclear reactor
  
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