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• VIDEO: Children 'point' the way to suspects

  01-04-2016 23:48
  
  Surrey Police have released a video of a group of children who formed a human arrow to point a force helicopter in the direction of two suspected burglars on the run.
  
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• Prison death being treated as murder

  01-04-2016 23:31
  
  The death of an inmate at Coldingley prison in Surrey is being treated as murder, police say.
  
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• Dugdale clarifies independence stance

  01-04-2016 23:21
  
  Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale seeks to clarify reports she might back Scottish independence if it could secure Scotland's membership of the EU.
  
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• Sherlock actor Douglas Wilmer dies

  01-04-2016 23:15
  
  Actor Douglas Wilmer, who played Sherlock Holmes in the 1960s, dies aged 96.
  
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• Djokovic faces Nishikori in Miami final

  01-04-2016 21:48
  
  Novak Djokovic will play Kei Nishikori in Sunday's Miami Open final after both won their semi-finals in straight sets.
  
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• Zayn tops UK album chart

  01-04-2016 18:37
  
  Zayn Malik tops the UK album chart with his debut solo album Mind of Mine.
  
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• Rosberg fastest as Ferrari hit trouble

  01-04-2016 18:36
  
  Nico Rosberg out-paces team-mate Lewis Hamilton as Mercedes dominate practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix.
  
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• VIDEO: 'Why I posed for photo with hijacker'

  01-04-2016 18:34
  
  British passenger Ben Innes reveals what happened on board hijacked EgyptAir flight MS181, and why he posed for a photograph with the alleged hijacker.
  
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• British man jailed after keeping wife as a slave in landmark case

  01-04-2016 18:28
  
  LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A British man who treated his Pakistani wife as a slave was sentenced to two years on Friday following what is believed to be the first conviction in the UK for domestic servitude involving a husband and wife.
  
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• Leave campaigns face left-wing rival

  01-04-2016 18:21
  
  The Trade Union and Socialist Coalition launches a surprise bid to be the official EU Leave campaign - and threatens legal action if Vote Leave or Grassroots Out are chosen instead.
  
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• Living Wage 'could boost migration'

  01-04-2016 15:09
  
  Ministers campaigning to leave the EU say the new National Living Wage will increase immigration - a claim rejected by the Treasury.
  
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• Have you been fooled by these April Fools?

  01-04-2016 14:49
  
  Snoopavison and other April Fool's gags going viral
  
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• Man Guilty Of Terror Plot On US Troops In UK

  01-04-2016 14:10
  
  A delivery driver has been found guilty of preparing to carry out a terror attack on an RAF base where US troops are stationed. Police believe 25-year-old Junead Khan planned to stage a car crash, attack US military personnel with a knife and then blow himself up. His trial heard he used his job with a pharmaceutical firm as cover to scout United States Air Force (Usaf) bases in Suffolk.
  
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• British judge says trial of Channel Tunnel refugee will go ahead

  01-04-2016 14:09
  A judge refused on Friday to halt the criminal damage trial of a refugee from Darfur who walked through the Channel Tunnel in one of the most dramatic attempts to reach Britain since Europe's migration crisis began. Abdul Haroun's case has prompted debate in Britain between critics who want him prosecuted to deter others from attempting the 50-km walk through the railway tunnel from France, and supporters who say he should be free to start a new life.
  
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• Parts Of Britain To Bask In Barcelona Heat

  01-04-2016 14:01
  
  Parts of the UK are set to be as hot as Barcelona this weekend with temperatures soaring up to 18C (64.4F). Forecasters have said warm air and sunshine will sweep north from the continent, in marked contrast to the wild weather brought in by Storm Katie over the recent Easter weekend. London is expected to see the highest temperatures on Sunday, peaking at 18C (64F), while it will be only slightly cooler across central and southern England, with highs reaching up to 17C (62F)
  
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• Teen Guilty Of 'Zombie Killer' Knife Death

  01-04-2016 14:00
  
  Jurors at the Old Bailey in central London convicted the youth of manslaughter, but cleared him of murder. Stefan Appleton, from Islington in north London, died in hospital after being attacked in Caldy Walk in June last year. The weapon was never found but police seized three more Zombie Killer knives and an assortment of other blades, including a machete, during their search of the area.
  
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• Emotional This Morning tribute after agony aunt Denise Robertson dies at 83

  01-04-2016 13:58
  This Morning remembered agony aunt Denise Robertson in an emotional tribute show following her death from pancreatic cancer at the age of 83.
  
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• Minister Sajid Javid to face Port Talbot steelworkers amid industry crisis

  01-04-2016 13:54
  The Government has been outlining its response to the crisis gripping the steel industry as workers at the country's biggest steel plant await a visit from the Business Secretary.
  
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• Teenager locked up for nine years for killing school pupil Bailey Gwynne

  01-04-2016 13:40
  A teenager who stabbed a school pupil to death with a knife he bought online has been locked up for nine years.
  
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• Denise Robertson: This Morning Agony Aunt Dies

  01-04-2016 13:30
  
  Denise Robertson, the agony aunt for ITV's This Morning programme, has died after a short battle with cancer. The 83-year-old had been suffering from pancreatic cancer. This Morning presenter Ruth Langsford read a message from her which said: "I'm sorry I've not been around for a couple of weeks but a persistent health issue has turned into something quite a lot bigger.
  
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• Mobile Customers Over-Pay Hundreds Of Pounds

  01-04-2016 12:56
  
  Mobile phone customers are paying hundreds of pounds more than they need to, according to research by Citizens Advice. The organisation sent mystery shoppers seeking deals for any kind of smartphone which met "average" needs: around 250 minutes of calls, 250 texts and 200MB of data per month. Citizens Advice also said many of the deals recommended were unsuitable for customers - with 40% of its mystery shoppers being given tariffs including 1,000 or more minutes of calls - four times what t
  
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• Google removes Gmail feature after April Fool's joke causes outcry

  01-04-2016 12:52
  Google has been forced to remove a feature added to its Gmail service as an April Fool's prank after it sparked a backlash among users who claimed it was costing them potential jobs.
  
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• Teen Gets Nine Years For Boy's Stabbing Death

  01-04-2016 12:42
  
  A 16-year-old boy who stabbed school pupil Bailey Gwynne to death after a "silly, trivial fight" has been locked up for nine years. Bailey, also aged 16, died from a knife wound to the chest in a fight at Cults Academy in Aberdeen last October. The teenager was sentenced to nine years' detention at the High Court in Edinburgh after being convicted last month of culpable homicide.
  
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• 'Knighthood Campaign' For Corbett Before Death

  01-04-2016 12:20
  
  Ronnie Corbett, who was suffering from a form of motor neurone disease when he died, was reportedly being considered for a knighthood. It is understood comedian David Walliams launched a campaign to include the 85-year-old on the Queen's 90th Birthday Honours list as concerns about his health grew. Downton Abbey creator Lord Fellowes, who sits on the arts and media honours committee, told The Daily Telegraph he thought "he [Corbett] should have been awarded a knighthood" - although he refused to
  
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• WWII Rockets Find No April Fool, Say Police

  01-04-2016 12:07
  
  Six Second World War anti-tank rockets have been found behind a bus stop in Essex. The deadly cache of live weapons were made safe by a bomb disposal unit after police officers were called to the stop on the B181 Epping Road in Coopersale. Essex Police have appealed for help in tracing the person who left the rockets..
  
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• Britain's new minimum wage feeds in to 'Brexit' debate

  01-04-2016 12:00
  By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - More than a million British workers were given a pay rise on Friday as a higher minimum wage came into force, an economic experiment that fed in to a tense political debate on whether the country should leave the European Union. Chancellor George Osborne last year announced a series of increases in the wage that will make it 13 percent higher than it would otherwise have been by 2020. A government minister who wants Britain to leave the European Union said on Fr
  
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• UK stronger in EU, says New Zealand PM John Key

  01-04-2016 11:43
  New Zealand's prime minister has insisted Britain is stronger as part of the European Union in an intervention David Cameron labelled "important".
  
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• Live wartime anti-tank rockets found near bus stop

  01-04-2016 11:34
  Six Second World War anti-tank rockets have been found behind a bus stop.
  
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• Britain's 'in' and 'out' EU campaigns level - TNS poll

  01-04-2016 11:20
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - The rival campaigns for Britain to stay in or leave the European Union are tied, an online poll by TNS showed on Friday, less than three months before the country's historic referendum.
  
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• Warm air and sunshine to boost temperatures to 18C

  01-04-2016 11:19
  Parts of Britain could enjoy weather as warm as Barcelona this weekend with temperatures reaching up to 18C (64.4F), forecasters have said.
  
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• Co-operative Bank chairman 'optimistic' amid £610.6m pre-tax losses

  01-04-2016 11:19
  The Co-operative Bank saw its annual pre-tax losses more than double to £610.6 million, but the troubled lender still managed to boost its chief executive's pay by a quarter.
  
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• VIDEO: New campaign to raise autism awareness

  01-04-2016 10:41
  
  Nikki Fox has been to meet the young star of a campaign which is trying to raise awareness of autism
  
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• Car maker Tesla unveils lowest-priced electric vehicle

  01-04-2016 10:36
  Electric car maker Tesla has unveiled its newest model - its lowest-priced vehicle so far.
  
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• Ronnie Corbett 'didn't want friends to see his motor neurone disease battle'

  01-04-2016 10:15
  Ronnie Corbett did not want his friend Jimmy Tarbuck to see him as he suffered from a form of motor neurone disease, the comedian has said.
  
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• Co-op Bank Losses More Than Double To £611m

  01-04-2016 09:48
  
  The Co-operative Bank saw annual losses widen to £611m for 2015, more than double the level of a year before. The lender said its bottom line was weighed down by "issues of the past" as it took an extra charge of £72m for the payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling scandal as well as extra costs of about £99m relating to breaches of consumer credit rules. Part of the lender's business plan has, as earlier revealed by Sky News , been re-submitted to the Bank of
  
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• Government accused over China trade links as minister visits steel crisis plant

  01-04-2016 09:45
  Ministers have been accused of prioritising trade links with China over support for the UK steel industry as Sajid Javid prepares to meet steelworkers in Port Talbot.
  
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• Argos Owner Backs £1.4bn Sainsbury's Takeover

  01-04-2016 09:12
  
  The board of Argos owner Home Retail Group has agreed to support a takeover by Sainsbury's in a £1.4bn deal. It comes after the supermarket won a takeover battle with South Africa's Steinhoff, which withdrew from its attempt to buy the retailer two weeks ago. The tie-up will create a £6bn non-food operation putting the new business in the same league as John Lewis and Marks & Spencer and also taking on online giant Amazon.
  
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• Even royalty want to know if Jon Snow is really dead, says Kit Harington

  01-04-2016 08:48
  
  Even the Duchess of Cornwall is keen to find out whether Kit Harington's Game Of Thrones character Jon Snow is truly dead, the actor has revealed.
  
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• Sainsbury's agrees £1.4bn deal for Home Retail Group

  01-04-2016 08:47
  Supermarket Sainsbury's has won its four-month battle to buy Argos owner Home Retail Group after agreeing a £1.4 billion deal.
  
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• VIDEO: Taking control of health spending

  01-04-2016 08:19
  
  Greater Manchester will become the first English region to gain control of its health spending on Friday.
  
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• Brexit risks taking multi-trillion euro trading from London

  01-04-2016 08:09
  By John O'Donnell, Huw Jones and John Geddie FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - If Britons vote to leave the EU, London's financial centre faces losing one of its top money spinners - the trade in trillions of euros in derivatives - and the European Central Bank will be pushing hard for the business to move onto its patch. According to euro zone central bank officials, the ECB is determined to tackle an anomaly dating from 1999 when Britain opted out of the euro's launch: a dominant share of trading i
  
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• Steel Crisis: Javid To Face Port Talbot Workers

  01-04-2016 08:05
  
  Business Secretary Sajid Javid will meet Port Talbot steelworkers later to insist the Government is working towards a "sustainable future" for the crisis-hit steel industry. The visit comes amid intense criticism of the Cabinet minister's response to a decision by Indian conglomerate Tata Steel to sell its UK assets, putting as many as 40,000 British jobs at risk. Mr Javid has faced calls to step down after it emerged he took his daughter on an official visit to Australia while the crisis was pl
  
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• David Cameron announces hundreds more armed police to combat terror threat

  01-04-2016 05:46
  Hundreds more armed police officers will be stationed across the country poised to deal with a Paris-style terror attack, the Prime Minister has announced.
  
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• Ronnie Corbett 'was being considered for a knighthood'

  01-04-2016 04:13
  Ronnie Corbett died as officials were considering honouring him with a knighthood, according to reports.
  
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• 16-year-old sentenced for killing schoolboy Bailey Gwynne

  01-04-2016 04:11
  A teenager who stabbed to death schoolboy Bailey Gwynne is due to be sentenced.
  
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• National Living Wage Comes Into Force

  01-04-2016 02:44
  
  Millions of workers will be paid more from today as the new national living wage becomes compulsory. The rate that everyone over the age of 25 can expect to receive is £7.20 per hour, an increase of 50p per hour on the previous minimum wage. But Dr Adam Marshall, the acting director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "The Government's new living wage will apply a ratchet effect to all companies' pay bills, and sits alongside a raft of other high employment-related cost
  
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• Notorious Armed Robber May Never Be Released

  01-04-2016 01:31
  
  One of Britain's most wanted criminals who lived a "Premier League criminal lifestyle" after escaping from court during his armed robbery trial has been told he may never be freed from prison. Andrew Moran, 34, was handed an indeterminate sentence and imprisoned for public protection by the same judge he fled from in 2009. He spent four years on the run in Europe, taking pictures of himself posing with luxury cars, motorbikes and machine guns.
  
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• UK Terror Threat: More Armed Police For Regions

  01-04-2016 01:26
  
  Hundreds more armed police are to be recruited by forces outside London in the next two years as the Government steps up moves to prevent Paris-style terror attacks in the UK. Speaking at a security conference in Washington, David Cameron pledged a further 400 armed police in addition to 600 more in London announced in January. The extra armed officers, which will take the number in England and Wales to nearly 7,000, follows a review ordered by the Prime Minister after the Paris attacks.
  
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• Could UK learn from Norway's tax rules?

  01-04-2016 01:22
  
  Could UK learn from Norway's tax rules?
  
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• Stamp duty hike prompts 'bottleneck' of buy-to-let investors rushing sales

  01-04-2016 01:13
  A last-minute "bottleneck" of buy-to-let investors rushed to complete property sales before a stamp duty hike, estate agents said.
  
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