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• VIDEO: Batman: Arkham Knight is top British game

  07-04-2016 23:58
  
  Adam Doherty, Sefton Hill and Nathan Burlow from Rocksteady Studios speak about Batman: Arkham Knight winning best British game at 2016's British Academy Games Award.
  
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• VIDEO: Teenage girls sentenced for brutal murder

  07-04-2016 20:44
  
  Two teenage girls aged 15 have been given life sentences for the murder of Angela Wrightson who was tortured and battered in her Hartlepool home.
  
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• VIDEO: Cameron 'had stake in offshore trust'

  07-04-2016 20:21
  
  David Cameron has said he and his wife used to own shares in an offshore investment fund that were worth more than £30,000 - but sold them in 2010.
  
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• VIDEO: 'I'd think twice': BBC tests new food label

  07-04-2016 19:10
  
  The BBC has been asking shoppers what they think of the idea of being given food labels with exercise advice.
  
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• Should you ever ask for a pay cut?

  07-04-2016 19:08
  
  Does it ever make sense to ask for a pay cut?
  
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• Ex-Barclays trader alleged top bosses knew of Libor requests, London court hears

  07-04-2016 18:42
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - A former trader at Barclays, one of five on trial on charges of conspiracy to manipulate financial benchmark interest rates, alleged that top bosses at the bank approved and condoned the practice, a London court heard on Thursday.
  
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• Parking row after warden moves cone

  07-04-2016 18:21
  
  A motorist has a parking fine cancelled after filming a warden moving a cone next to his car before issuing the penalty.
  
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• EDF engineers say confident Hinkley Point can be built on time

  07-04-2016 18:07
  
  PARIS (Reuters) - A group of some 100 EDF engineers and managers in its nuclear business said they were convinced the French utility could build the British Hinkley Point nuclear project on time.
  
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• PM: £9m EU leaflets 'money well spent'

  07-04-2016 17:56
  
  David Cameron defends a £9m leaflet campaign promoting EU membership after Leave campaigners accuse him of wasting money on biased propaganda.
  
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• VIDEO: BBC fact-checks £9m EU leaflets

  07-04-2016 17:39
  
  Anthony Reuben from the BBC's Reality Check team examines some of the claims made in a government leaflet saying why people should vote to stay in the European Union.
  
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• Living the dream? Three quarters of Brits haven't given up on their childhood ambitions

  07-04-2016 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FORGET the boring nine to five, three quarters of us have not given up on our childhood dreams, a new survey has revealed.
  
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• PM: 'No Apology' For £9.3m Pro-EU Leaflets

  07-04-2016 17:12
  David Cameron has said he makes "no apology" for a £9.3m leaflet campaign as he urged young people to vote to stay in the EU. A petition calling for the leaflet campaign to be halted quickly attracted more than 50,000 signatures - halfway to the threshold for being considered for debate in Parliament. Speaking to an audience of students in Exeter, Devon, Mr Cameron brandished the leaflet and said: "The UK Government, with our experience, our understanding, our knowledge, we think we s
  
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• Sickening CCTV shows brothers 'high-fiving' after acid attack left woman disfigured

  07-04-2016 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HORRIFIC CCTV footage has emerged of two brothers accused of carrying out a disfiguring acid attack ‘high fiving’ after the alleged incident.
  
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• Women judge weight's effect on beauty more harshly than men, study suggests

  07-04-2016 17:08
  
  Women are harsher judges than men on how weight affects other people's beauty, according to a new study.
  
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• Liberty's Gupta says has resources to back UK steel ambitions

  07-04-2016 17:01
  By Promit Mukherjee and Krishna N. Das MUMBAI (Reuters) - Sanjeev Gupta, the boss of metals trader Liberty House Group who wants to buy Tata Steel Ltd's loss-making British operations, says he has the financial resources to match his ambitions. "We like to punch above our weight, we like to take on challenges, but we know how to stay in business so we never over-stretch ourselves." Asked how profitable Liberty House's businesses were, a spokesman for the company said it could not provide details
  
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• Biggest Lotto Jackpot Claimed By Lucky Punter

  07-04-2016 16:48
  One ticketholder has come forward to claim last night's £35,133,888 Lotto jackpot - the biggest prize in the game's history. "We're delighted this ticketholder has come forward to claim their prize so they can now begin to enjoy their life changing win," a National Lottery spokesperson said. David and Carol Martin, as well as an anonymous ticketholder, soared to the top of the Lotto rich list at the start of the year when they banked £33m each.
  
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• Two Girls Get Life For Angela Wrightson Murder

  07-04-2016 16:47
  
  Two teenagers have been given life sentences with a minimum of 15 years for the murder of 39-year-old Angela Wrightson at her home in Hartlepool. The pair, now 15, were aged 13 and 14 when they attacked Miss Wrightson, who was an alcoholic and known to some as "Alco Ange". Jurors heard the pair visited Miss Wrightson on a number of occasions as she would buy them alcohol and cigarettes.
  
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• Cuddly Dog Missing After Trip To Edge Of Space

  07-04-2016 16:47
  
  Primary children at a school in Lancashire have put out an urgent SOS for a soft toy dog who has gone missing at the edge of space. Sam the dog was launched at the beginning of the week by pupils of the Morecambe Bay Primary School as part of a science experiment. A school spokesperson said: "The search for Sam the dog stretches into a third day.
  
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• Girls who subjected victim to 'gratuitous degradation' get minimum 15 years

  07-04-2016 16:35
  
  Two teenage girls subjected a 39-year-old woman to "gratuitous degradation" as they battered her to death in her home, according to a judge who said they must be locked up for a minimum of 15 years.
  
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• VIDEO: Head of Co-operative requests pay cut

  07-04-2016 16:32
  
  The head of the Co-operative Group has asked for a 40% cut to his base salary because the job has become easier.
  
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• Woman murdered by husband repeatedly told police of her concerns about him

  07-04-2016 16:19
  A woman killed by her estranged husband had repeatedly reported concerns about his behaviour to police, an investigation revealed.
  
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• Law firm acting for Iraqi civilians misled court, judge rules

  07-04-2016 16:19
  A law firm acting for Iraqi civilians who allege unlawful killing and ill-treatment by British forces "misled the court" and failed to observe "essential ethical standards" in one specific case, the High Court has ruled.
  
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• Star Wars fans welcome return of Mon Mothma in Rogue One trailer

  07-04-2016 16:17
  
  Star Wars fans have hailed the return of rebel leader Mon Mothma in the trailer for the S tar Wars anthology film Rogue One.
  
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• Four-Year-Old British Boy Drowns In Spain

  07-04-2016 16:16
  
  A four-year-old British boy has drowned in a swimming pool in Spain.
  
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• First female master tailor opens own shop in London's historic Savile Row

  07-04-2016 16:01
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Kathryn Sargent made history on Wednesday by becoming the first female master tailor to open her own shop in London's prestigious Savile Row.
  
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• Sexism row engulfs army after retired colonel says women soldiers would cost British lives

  07-04-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A FORMER army chief has sparked a sexism row after claiming that women fighting on the frontline will cost British troops' lives.
  
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• Banks given April 15 deadline to check links to Panama Papers law firm

  07-04-2016 15:54
  The UK's financial regulator has handed banks and financial firms a deadline of next week to check if they have links to a law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers leak.
  
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• Christian NHS worker who prayed for Muslim colleague loses appeal over bullying ruling

  07-04-2016 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A CHRISTIAN NHS worker suspended for giving a religious book to a Muslim colleague has lost her appeal against a ruling that the decision to punish her was lawful.
  
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• UK Banks Handed Panama Papers Deadline

  07-04-2016 15:36
  
  The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has sent a letter to banks and financial institutions in the UK ordering them to check whether they have done business with the law firm Mossack Fonseca, which is at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal. The leak of financial papers and emails, which were obtained by the German daily newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung and passed on to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, was the biggest in history with more than 11.5 million individual fi
  
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• Bollore's London electric car club scheme faces delay

  07-04-2016 15:15
  By Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - An electric carsharing scheme being rolled out in London by French firm Bollore is taking longer than expected to set up fully because contract talks with the capital's local councils are dragging on. Cedric Bollore, the company's director of development, said he wanted all of London's 33 local authorities to reach the same agreement on charge points with the company, which runs electric carsharing schemes, including in many French cities and the United States.
  
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• Flu behind surge in deaths as life expectancy down

  07-04-2016 15:14
  Deaths in England and Wales hit a 12-year high last year, triggering a drop in life expectancy for men and women.
  
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• WATCH: Clueless youngster goes viral after losing battle trying to turn on a HOOVER

  07-04-2016 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HOW hard could it be to turn on a vacuum cleaner?
  
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• Productivity figures fall by 1.2%

  07-04-2016 14:46
  Productivity fell by 1.2% at the end of last year, figures have shown.
  
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• Christian NHS worker who gave religious book to Muslim loses appeal over ruling

  07-04-2016 14:46
  
  A Christian NHS worker suspended for giving a religious book to a Muslim colleague has lost her appeal against a ruling that the decision to discipline her was lawful.
  
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• NHS eyes GPs from India amid 'unsustainable' rising workloads

  07-04-2016 14:45
  NHS education bosses are considering bringing GPs over from India in a move that could bolster the number of doctors in England.
  
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• Claim staked for record £35 million Lotto jackpot

  07-04-2016 14:45
  A claim has been staked for the £35.1 million Lotto jackpot, the biggest prize ever won in the game, operator Camelot said.
  
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• Labour defends Corbyn over anti-Semitism accusations

  07-04-2016 14:44
  Labour has defended Jeremy Corbyn's approach to complaints of growing anti-Semitism within the party after the Board of Deputies of British Jews launched a fresh accusation of inaction.
  
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• David Brent Is Back As Wannabe Rock Star

  07-04-2016 14:30
  
  The trailer for the new David Brent film has been released, showing the famous TV character attempting to launch a music career. Life On The Road is set 15 years on from the BBC Two series The Office. It follows Brent as he works as a sales rep for a company called Lavichem, while trying to become a music star at the same time.
  
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• Rare Shakespeare First Folio found on Scottish island

  07-04-2016 14:29
  By Russell Cheyne ISLE OF BUTE, Scotland (Reuters) - A nearly 400-year-old copy of a first edition of William Shakespeare's collected plays has been found in a vast aristocratic house on the Isle of Bute, off the western coast of Scotland. Published in 1623, the First Folio contains Shakespeare's 36 plays, including several that had never been published before and might have been lost without it, such as "Macbeth", "The Tempest" and "As You Like It". The discovery at Mount Stuart, grand neo-Goth
  
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• Joggers Ruled Out Of Goldfinger Investigation

  07-04-2016 14:29
  
  John "Goldfinger" Palmer, thought to have been worth £300m, was found shot dead in the garden of his remote home in South Weald, Essex, on 24 June last year. A hitman is believed to have climbed over the fence and shot Palmer with a handgun at close range in one of the few areas of the house and garden not covered by his own CCTV system. Palmer gained his notoriety after he was cleared of handling proceeds from the £26m Brink's-Mat bullion raid at Heathrow in 1983.
  
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• Michael Gove slams decision to spend £9m of taxpayers' money on pro-EU leaflet

  07-04-2016 14:21
  
  Michael Gove has attacked the decision to spend more than £9 million of taxpayers' cash on "one-sided propaganda" rather than the NHS after David Cameron insisted it was "money well spent".
  
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• Hillsborough Inquests Juror Is Discharged

  07-04-2016 14:15
  
  A female juror in the Hillsborough inquests has been discharged on medical grounds - reducing the jury to nine members. Coroner Sir John Goldring took the decision to formally relieve her of further duties after receiving information about her health, a day after the jury retired to consider its verdicts. She is the second juror to be discharged from the inquests on medical grounds since the case began in March 2014 - as a man was also allowed to step down in February 2015.
  
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• Cyclist Fined For Riding To Heathrow On M25

  07-04-2016 14:14
  
  A cyclist who was trying to get to Heathrow airport by riding along the hardshoulder of the M25 has been handed an on-the-spot fine by police. He did not reach his destination, though, he was escorted off the motorway by Surrey Police. The police tweeted: “A cyclist has just received an on-the-spot fine after being caught cycling on the M25 trying to get to Heathrow”, which has since been retweeted and favourited dozens of times.
  
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• Cameron urges young Britons to vote against Brexit

  07-04-2016 13:56
  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron urged young Britons on Thursday to make sure they vote in a June 23 referendum on membership of the European Union, warning that leaving the bloc would hit them the hardest. With public opinion evenly split, youth voters are expected to play an important role in the referendum outcome because polling shows they are generally more pro-European, but less inclined to vote. Cameron, who wants Britain to stay in the 28-country bloc, was
  
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• House prices soar, fuelled by sky-high rises in London flats - but uncertainty lies ahead - Telegraph.co.uk

  07-04-2016 13:22 via
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  House prices soar, fuelled by sky-high rises in London flats - but uncertainty lies ahead
  Telegraph.co.uk
  House prices soared 10.1pc in the year to March, fuelled by a sharp rise in the value of London flats and the tail end of the buy-to-let rush, according to Halifax. But the lender sounded the alarm, warning that this high level of growth could tail off ...
  UK house prices up over 10% year on year, latest index showsProperty Wire
  House Price Growth Back Above 10% - HalifaxSky
  

• UK productivity plummets in fourth quarter at fastest rate since financial crisis

  07-04-2016 13:19
  By Andy Bruce and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - British economic productivity fell late last year at the fastest pace since the depths of the financial crisis, raising fresh doubt about the economy's underlying health after government forecasters cut their long-run outlook last month. Higher productivity -- or output per hour worked -- is the key to rising living standards in advanced economies, but it has increased far more slowly than expected in Britain since the financial crisis, contrib
  
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• EU referendum: PM 'makes no apology' for £9m EU leaflets - BBC News

  07-04-2016 13:16 via
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  EU referendum: PM 'makes no apology' for £9m EU leaflets
  BBC News
  David Cameron has defended a government leaflet promoting EU membership, saying "we are not neutral" in the referendum. The prime minister said the government's view was that the UK was "better off" staying in. His comments come after a row over £9m ...
  EU referendum: Voters urged to send £9million 'biased and hysterical' anti-Brexit letter back to 10 Downing StreetTelegraph.co.uk
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• People who say technology important to finances 'have £3,000 more in savings'

  07-04-2016 13:12
  
  Technology is helping to boost the savings of people in the Generation X age group by more than £3,000 on average, according to a study.
  
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• Where are The Office cast now? Ricky Gervais' David Brent hasn't changed but what about Tim, Gareth and Dawn? - Mirror.co.uk

  07-04-2016 13:09 via
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  Where are The Office cast now? Ricky Gervais' David Brent hasn't changed but what about Tim, Gareth and Dawn?
  Mirror.co.uk
  It's almost impossible to think of Ricky Gervais and not picture The Office and David Brent. After bursting onto our screens in 2001, the likes of Gervais, Martin Freeman (Tim) and Mackenzie Crook (Gareth) have gone on to make some big Hollywood movies.
  Ricky Gervais revives David Brent as a rep launching a music career in new filmBelfast Telegraph
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• Denmark arrests four suspected IS fighters returned from Syria - Reuters Canada

  07-04-2016 13:06 via
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  Denmark arrests four suspected IS fighters returned from Syria
  Reuters Canada
  COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish police said on Thursday they had arrested four people near Copenhagen who they suspect were recruited by the militant group Islamic State (IS) in Syria to commit violence. Ammunitions and weapons were found in a ...
  Guns Found As IS Suspects Held In DenmarkKL.FM 96.7
  BREAKING: Danish terror police smash ISIS sleeper cell amid warning of fresh attacksExpress.co.uk
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