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• London Lit Up As Brussels Victims Remembered

  23-03-2016 23:52
  
  Some of London's most recognisable landmarks have been lit up in the colours of the Belgian flag as a tribute to the victims of the Brussels terrorist attacks. At Trafalgar Square, a 25m-long Belgian flag was unfurled on the central staircase as part of a vigil organised with the Belgian embassy. Two Belgian flags have been projected on to the front of The National Gallery, and the square's fountains have also been lit up.
  
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• Paris bomb maker was one of Brussels airport suicide attackers

  23-03-2016 22:37
  The second Brussels airport suicide bomber, Najim Laachraoui, was a suspected bomb maker for Islamic State's massacre in Paris and was already being hunted by police before the latest attack.
  
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• Labour Frontbencher Attacks Brown's Policies

  23-03-2016 22:10
  
  One of Jeremy Corbyn's front bench team has stunned MPs by launching a savage attack on the economic policies of Gordon Brown, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls. In a Commons speech immediately seized upon by Conservative MPs, Treasury spokesman Rob Marris accused Mr Brown of arrogance in ignoring warnings before the 2008 crash. Claiming he was "angry and sorry", Mr Marris claimed Mr Brown was guilty of "fundamental economic mistakes", some of his policies were a "disaster" and his "boom and bust" slogan
  
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• 'Paris attacks bombmaker' identified as Brussels airport killer

  23-03-2016 21:43
  
  The suspected bombmaker in the Paris terror attacks was one of two suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Brussels airport.
  
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• Brussels killer 'allowed to walk free despite Turkey terrorism warning'

  23-03-2016 20:57
  
  The Belgian authorities were warned one of the Brussels killers was a terrorist - but he was allowed to walk free, Turkish officials have said.
  
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• Taxi drivers face legal duty to carry wheelchair users

  23-03-2016 20:41
  Taxis are to be given a legal duty to carry wheelchair-using passengers - 20 years after the law was first approved by Parliament.
  
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• Pair Face Jail Over Drive-By Terror Plot

  23-03-2016 20:34
  
  Two men are facing lengthy prison terms over a drive-by gun attack plot to target police and soldiers on the streets of London. It can be disclosed that the plan to attack officers and soldiers outside a police station and army barracks was both inspired and funded by Islamic State from Syria. The attack was to be led by Tarik Hassane, a medical student known to his friends as "The Surgeon" and the son of a Saudi diplomat.
  
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• Sky agrees exclusive six-season UK TV deal

  23-03-2016 20:30
  Formula One fans in Britain will be unable to watch live races on terrestrial television from 2019 after Sky agreed an exclusive six-season deal to broadcast the sport in Britain and Ireland. "Sky Sports will be the home of Formula 1 in the UK and Ireland from 2019 to 2024, offering live coverage of every Grand Prix," it said in a statement on Wednesday that gave no financial details.  The agreement means F1 will be taken off non-subscription television in Britain although Sky said it would
  
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• David Cameron admits 'tough week' in end-of-term address to Tory MPs

  23-03-2016 19:53
  David Cameron admitted it had been a "tough week" as he addressed Tory MPs following the Budget U-turns and Iain Duncan Smith's resignation.
  
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• British Surfing Instructor Dies In Bali

  23-03-2016 19:53
  
  A 21-year-old surfing instructor has died while on holiday in Bali. Cameron Munro, originally from Patcham near Brighton in East Sussex, died last Saturday while out surfing. Reports say the exact circumstances of his death are not yet known and a post-mortem examination is to take place.
  
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• Support for EU membership ebbs in Britain as Cameron's party rows

  23-03-2016 19:47
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Support in Britain for membership of the European Union has declined, two polls showed, suggesting a dispute within the ruling Conservative Party may be undermining Prime Minister David Cameron's campaign for the country to stay in.
  
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• Sky says agrees deal to broadcast Formula One racing in Britain from 2019

  23-03-2016 19:36
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Sky said on Wednesday it had an exclusive five-year deal to broadcast Formula One motor racing in Britain and Ireland from 2019.
  
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• Families of Alps crash victims take legal action against US flight school

  23-03-2016 19:19
  Lawyers for the families of British victims killed in the Germanwings air crash have marked its one-year anniversary by announcing plans to take legal action against the flight school where the co-pilot was trained.
  
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• Climate change and farming methods main factors in countryside wildlife decline

  23-03-2016 19:00
  Intensive farming and climate change have together had a devastating impact on British animals and plants since the 1970s, research has shown.
  
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• Arsenal, Chelsea, and now Brexit - British brothers divided over EU

  23-03-2016 18:52
  
  NOTTINGHAM, England (Reuters) - The debate over whether Britain should leave the European Union has divided society and split the government. In the Baxter family, it is pitting brother against brother.
  
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• Dog gets place of honour at courtroom send-off for judge

  23-03-2016 18:42
  
  One of the most famous High Court judges in England and Wales has retired - and her pet dog took pride of place in courtroom tribute.
  
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• Britons guilty of IS-inspired plot to murder police, soldiers

  23-03-2016 18:33
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Two British men, one of whom had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, have been convicted of a terrorism plot inspired by the militant group to kill police officers, soldiers or even members of the public in drive-by shootings.
  
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• Doctors Set To Strike Without Emergency Cover

  23-03-2016 18:29
  
  Junior doctors are to escalate their strike action with a full withdrawal of labour for the first time in the history of the NHS - raising fears that patients will be put in "harm's way". Previous industrial action by junior doctors  has seen emergency cover provided. The British Medical Association (BMA) blamed the move on "the continued refusal by the Government to step back from its decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors from August this year and resolve the dispute by re-en
  
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• Scotland would face bigger hole in finances if independent - IFS

  23-03-2016 18:23
  
  EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland would face a bigger hole in its public finances than previously thought if it split from the United Kingdom, an economic think tank said on Wednesday, dealing a blow to independence campaigners.
  
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• UK court orders jailed Libor trader to pay 878,806 pounds

  23-03-2016 18:19
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Hayes, a former star trader serving an 11-year jail sentence for manipulating Libor interest rates, was on Wednesday ordered to pay 878,806 pounds by a judge or face further time in prison.
  
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• Potential link found between road rage and parasite spread by cats

  23-03-2016 18:00
  Road rage could be linked to a common parasite spread by cats, new research suggests.
  
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• Pair facing jail for IS plot to kill soldiers and police in drive-by shootings

  23-03-2016 17:37
  A pair of home-grown terrorists are facing lengthy jail sentences for plotting to kill soldiers, police officers and civilians in a series of Islamic State-inspired drive-by shootings.
  
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• Patient safety fears raised as junior doctors announce first full walkout

  23-03-2016 17:30
  Health officials have raised concerns over the safety of patients after junior doctors announced plans to carry out the first full walkout of doctors in the history of the NHS.
  
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• Family left 'devastated' by murder of teenager Paige Doherty

  23-03-2016 17:18
  
  The mother of murdered teenager Paige Doherty said she is "absolutely devastated" as she appealed for information that could help track her daughter's killer.
  
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• Rate-Rigger Ordered To Hand Over £878,806

  23-03-2016 16:49
  
  Convicted Libor rate-rigger Tom Hayes has been ordered to hand over almost £880,000 or face another three years in jail. The former Citi and UBS trader, who is currently serving an 11-year sentence , had faced a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) bid to recover up to £2.45m he was paid during the period. Assets include his Mercedes-Benz car, engagement and wedding rings.
  
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• EDF tells MPs nuclear power plant will go ahead

  23-03-2016 16:47
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - The Hinkley Point nuclear power project in Britain will go ahead, EDF Energy CEO Vincent de Rivaz told MPs on Wednesday, though he did not give a definite schedule.
  
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• Harry to stay on in Nepal to help charity rebuild school

  23-03-2016 16:37
  Prince Harry has extended his tour of Nepal to do his "small bit" to help a disaster response charity rebuild an earthquake destroyed school.
  
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• Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley in High Court fight over pub conversation

  23-03-2016 16:35
  Newcastle United owner and sportswear firm boss Mike Ashley is embroiled in a High Court fight relating to an alleged conversation in a pub.
  
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• Boris Johnson eyes Trump-style insurgency to win British EU exit battle

  23-03-2016 16:27
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Once mistaken for fellow blond Donald Trump by a passerby in New York, London Mayor Boris Johnson hopes his own gift for grabbing headlines and charming voters can persuade Britain to vote to leave the European Union at a June 23 referendum.
  
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• Trader can be extradited over Wall Street 'Flash Crash' claims

  23-03-2016 16:22
  A British financial trader accused of helping trigger a multibillion-dollar Wall Street crash from a suburban home in west London can be extradited to the United States to stand trial, a judge has ruled.
  
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• May: Trump's Muslims Comments 'Plain Wrong'

  23-03-2016 16:02
  
  US presidential candidate Donald Trump was "just plain wrong" to say that British Muslims are not reporting suspicious activity by extremists to the authorities, Home Secretary Theresa May has said.
  
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• Labour MPs Anger Over Corbyn Loyalty List

  23-03-2016 15:35
  
  Labour MPs have reacted with anger over a list drawn up by Jeremy Corbyn's allies which ranks them in order of their loyalty to the leader. London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan and the Chief Whip Rosie Winterton have both been marked down among the 36 listed as "hostile". Former Labour leader Ed Miliband, shadow culture secretary Maria Eagle, shadow education secretary Lucy Powell and shadow environment secretary Kerry McCarthy are listed under "core group negative".
  
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• MPs accuse Boris Johnson of exaggerating arguments for Brexit

  23-03-2016 15:29
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - London Mayor Boris Johnson was rebuked by MPs on Wednesday for putting forward what they described as exaggerated and misleading arguments for why Britain should leave the European Union.
  
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• Lead of UK campaign to stay in EU narrowest since last May - ComRes

  23-03-2016 15:26
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Campaigners wanting to keep Britain in the European Union have seen their lead over the rival 'out' campaign shrink to the narrowest since the May 2015 national election, polling firm ComRes said on Wednesday.
  
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• Pubs to stay open late to mark Queen's birthday, PM announces

  23-03-2016 15:14
  Pub opening hours will be extended on June 10 and 11 to mark the Queen's 90th birthday, David Cameron has announced.
  
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• More women delaying motherhood by freezing eggs, figures show

  23-03-2016 15:14
  The number of women choosing to delay motherhood by freezing their eggs has soared, figures show.
  
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• More than a third of married people report 'very high' life satisfaction

  23-03-2016 15:14
  Married people are more likely to be satisfied with their lives, new figures show.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn loyalty list is 'particularly stupid', MPs say

  23-03-2016 15:14
  Labour MPs have branded a list ranking their loyalty to Jeremy Corbyn "particularly stupid".
  
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• Hinkley Point C nuclear power station will be built 'clearly and categorically'

  23-03-2016 15:14
  The delayed multi-billion pound Hinkley Point nuclear power station will definitely go ahead, the head of French giant EDF assured MPs today.
  
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• Lorry Drivers Jailed Over Illegal Migrants

  23-03-2016 14:48
  
  Four Polish lorry drivers have been jailed for five years for trying to smuggle 68 illegal immigrants into the UK. The men were hiding the men, women and children among a shipment of fridges when they were stopped by immigration officials at the Essex port of Harwich in June last year. Dariusz Mokrogulski, 45, Dariusz Drozdz, 40, Grzegoez Czechowski, 39, and Radoslaw Cwikla, 39, who pleaded guilty to facilitating illegal entry of non-EU citizens into the UK on Monday, were caught through X-ray c
  
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• Jail For Rapist Who Threatened To Kill Toddlers

  23-03-2016 14:45
  
  A rapist who attacked two young women has been jailed for life, with the judge saying he has rarely been so shocked by the "depths of depravity and sheer wickedness" involved in the case. Paul Eames, 40, approached the women - then aged 20 and 23 - in Doncaster, South Yorkshire in September last year while they were looking after five young children. Prosecutor Gordon Stables told the court that Eames had threatened to kill the children if the women did not go with him to an isolated part of nea
  
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• TV scientist Brian Cox among guests at lunch with Queen

  23-03-2016 14:40
  Particle physicist Professor Brian Cox has joined the Queen for lunch at Buckingham Palace.
  
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• Boris Ticked Off Over 'Exaggerated' EU Claims

  23-03-2016 14:28
  
  Boris Johnson has been told his claim there was an EU directive that specified the dimensions of coffins was "a figment of your imagination". The London Mayor was accused of pedalling EU myths on Brussels banning balloon blowing for under-eights and the recycling of teabags without qualification. Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee Andrew Tyrie said Mr Johnson was guilty of "exaggeration to the point of misrepresentation" in making his case for the UK to leave the EU.
  
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• Harry moved at plight of Nepalese children with burns injuries

  23-03-2016 14:25
  Prince Harry has made an emotional visit to a Nepalese hospital treating young burns victims, many badly scarred in accidents following the devastating earthquake.
  
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• 'Flash Crash' Trader Can Be Extradited To US

  23-03-2016 14:22
  
  The British trader accused of helping trigger the so-called Wall Street "Flash Crash" can be extradited to the US to stand trial, a judge has ruled. Navinder Singh Sarao is alleged, by US prosecutors, to have made millions of pounds through an "automated trading programme" to manipulate stock prices in a practice known as 'spoofing' - placing orders for shares with the intent of cancelling them later. District Judge Quentin Purdy, sitting at Westminster Magistrates Court, ruled the extradition c
  
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• Trump 'plain wrong' to say Muslims not helping on extremists - Theresa May

  23-03-2016 14:21
  Home Secretary Theresa May said U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was "just plain wrong" to say that Muslims in Britain were failing to report suspicious activity by extremists. Earlier on Wednesday, Trump said in an interview with Britain's ITV television that it was "a disgrace" that one of the suspects behind last November's attacks in Paris had been found in an area of Brussels where he lived.
  
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• Pubs To Open Longer For Queen's Birthday

  23-03-2016 14:19
  
  Pub opening hours will be extended on 10 and 11 June to mark the Queen's 90th birthday, David Cameron has announced. The measure is designed to be part of a weekend of national celebrations to coincide with the monarch's official birthday. There will also be events to mark the day the Queen was born, 21 April, 1926.
  
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• Jailed Libor trader Hayes ordered to hand over 878,806 pounds

  23-03-2016 14:15
  Tom Hayes, a former star trader serving an 11-year jail sentence for manipulating Libor interest rates, was on Wednesday ordered to hand over 878,806 pounds in a London proceeds-of-crime court hearing. Hayes, a 36-year-old former UBS and Citigroup derivatives trader, was held up as an example to errant bankers when he was convicted last August of masterminding a conspiracy to distort Libor, the London interbank offered rate, to suit his trading book. Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) had been
  
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• UKIP Suspends Suzanne Evans For 'Disloyalty'

  23-03-2016 14:14
  
  UKIP’s leader Nigel Farage has confirmed that the party's former welfare spokeswoman Suzanne Evans has been suspended from the party for six months for "disloyalty". "I've watched as she's gone from being a popular figure in UKIP to become a very unpopular figure by constantly criticising, not just the leader, but the party (and) its direction," Mr Farage told Sky News. Until last month she was UKIP's welfare spokeswoman.
  
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• BHS Wins Backing For Rent Cut Survival Plan

  23-03-2016 14:14
  
  Loss-making high street chain BHS has won approval for a store rent reduction plan in a deal that it said "ensures the continuation of the group". The survival plan, aimed at preventing further store closures at the fashion and homewares retailer, was backed at a key meeting by creditors owed money by the business, including store landlords. It comes a year after retail tycoon Sir Philip Green sold BHS to its current owner Retail Acquisitions for £1.
  
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