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• PM's Nigeria Corruption Remarks 'Embarrassing'

  10-05-2016 23:59
  
  Nigeria and Afghanistan have criticised comments made by David Cameron as "unfair" and "embarrassing" after the Prime Minister was overheard describing the two countries as "fantastically corrupt". Mr Cameron was caught on microphone ahead of an anti-corruption summit describing Nigeria and Afghanistan as "possibly two of the most corrupt countries in the world" to the Queen . The PM was seemingly unaware his conversation with the Queen - in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury, House
  
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• How to win a referendum

  10-05-2016 23:50
  
  How to secure victory in a referendum
  
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• Players take refuge as Manchester United team bus pelted at West Ham

  10-05-2016 23:37
  Manchester United players including vice-captain Michael Carrick cowered in mock fear as their team bus was pelted with missiles, video footage from inside the coach appears to show.
  
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• David Cameron's 'corrupt' countries remarks to Queen branded 'unfair'

  10-05-2016 23:16
  
  David Cameron's description of Nigeria and Afghanistan as "fantastically corrupt" has been branded "embarrassing" and "unfair" by the two countries on the eve of their leaders' visit to the UK.
  
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• VIDEO: Queen reflects on Chinese state visit

  10-05-2016 23:15
  
  The Queen discusses the Chinese state visit in 2015 with a senior police officer.
  
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• Fugitive Caught After Colleague's Web Search

  10-05-2016 23:00
  
  One-time financial adviser Kole Lulgjuraj, 50, is suspected of swindling almost £1m out of elderly people in Britain. The Montenegro native fled the UK after being bailed following his arrest in 2012. UK officers are heading to Indiana later this month to bring him back to the UK to charge him with six counts of theft and one of fraud.
  
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• Cameron says leaders of 'fantastically corrupt' countries to attend UK anti-graft summit

  10-05-2016 22:53
  By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on camera telling Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday that leaders of some "fantastically corrupt" countries, including Nigeria and Afghanistan, were due to attend his anti-corruption summit. Cameron will host an international anti-corruption summit on Thursday aimed at stepping up global action to combat corruption in all walks of life. In a pooled video feed made available to the ITN broadcaster, Cameron was shown talking w
  
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• VIDEO: Police sorry for 'Muslim terrorist' drill

  10-05-2016 22:14
  
  Police who staged a mock attack featuring a bomber shouting "Allahu Akbar" have been forced to apologise for racial stereotyping.
  
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• UK peer-to-peer lenders talk up regulation after Lending Club ruckus

  10-05-2016 21:51
  By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The online U.S. lender Lending Club would be in breach of financial rules had it knowingly sold on loans in Britain that an investor did not want, industry and legal experts said on Tuesday. The company's founder and chief executive Renaud Laplanche resigned, and three other senior managers were fired or quit as Lending Club shares tumbled. Britain has one of the biggest peer-to-peer or P2P lending sectors in Europe, with online platforms such as Funding Circle an
  
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• Discovery of new planets by Kepler telescope raises hopes of 'another Earth'

  10-05-2016 21:34
  
  Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of 1,284 new planets by the Kepler space telescope, including nine Earth-like worlds that potentially could harbour life.
  
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• Sharon Osbourne 'will follow heart' after acknowledging marriage rift with Ozzy

  10-05-2016 21:19
  Sharon Osbourne has admitted she has "no idea" if she has a future with husband Ozzy after she kicked him out of their home.
  
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• Harry hails 'world class' sprinter Dave Henson after Invictus Games win

  10-05-2016 21:19
  Prince Harry has declared Invictus Games sprinter Dave Henson "world class" after the double-amputee ran the best T42 200-metre time in the world this year.
  
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• Manchester United team bus 'smashed up' ahead of West Ham game

  10-05-2016 20:50
  
  The Manchester United team bus has been pelted with objects as it entered Upton Park in London.
  
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• Man Utd Bus Attacked Outside West Ham Ground

  10-05-2016 20:41
  
  West Ham's final game at the Boleyn Ground has been delayed after Manchester United's team bus was attacked.
  
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• Ex-call girl tells MPs prostitution should be decriminalised

  10-05-2016 20:03
  Prostitution should be fully decriminalised in the UK and on a par with other career choices, a former call girl has told MPs.
  
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• Alan Rickman's last film Alice Through The Looking Glass premieres in London

  10-05-2016 20:03
  
  Johnny Depp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Tim Burton and Mia Wasikowska have a very important date as they hit the red carpet for the European premiere of Alice Through The Looking Glass.
  
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• Yoga and meditation 'better than memory exercises in mental decline fight'

  10-05-2016 20:00
  Yoga and meditation are more effective than memory exercises for combating the mental decline that often precedes Alzheimer's, research has shown.
  
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• UK cost body finally approves limited use of GSK's lupus drug

  10-05-2016 19:39
  Britain's healthcare cost watchdog has finally approved GlaxoSmithKline's lupus drug Benlysta for limited use, after rejecting it since 2011 on the grounds that it failed to offer good value for money. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said on Tuesday that the drug would be made available under a managed access scheme between GSK and the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Benlysta, the first new treatment for lupus in a half-century, was approved in Europe five
  
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• Nissan's electric cars in UK trial to sell surplus power

  10-05-2016 18:58
  By Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - Nissan is to launch a trial this year to allow electric car owners in Britain to sell electricity back to the National Grid and potentially make money in the process. Major car makers are investing heavily in electric cars and in Europe many countries have incentive schemes to get more people to buy them, including Norway, the Netherlands, France and Britain. Around 3 percent of cars sold in Britain last year were alternative fuel models - primarily plug-in hyb
  
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• PM with 'egg on his face' after 'corrupt' countries chat with Queen

  10-05-2016 18:28
  
  Labour accused David Cameron of having "egg on his face" after he was filmed telling the Queen that Nigeria and Afghanistan were "possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world".
  
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• Greater Manchester Police boss apologises for Allahu Akbar shout during exercise

  10-05-2016 18:28
  A police chief has apologised after his force was accused of "stereotyping" Muslims during a staged terrorist attack.
  
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• Bakers were not being forced to do anything against their beliefs, court told

  10-05-2016 18:19
  
  The Christian owners of a bakery who refused to make a cake with a pro-gay marriage message were not being forced to do anything against their beliefs, an Equality Commission lawyer has said.
  
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• PM Caught On Mic Calling Countries 'Corrupt'

  10-05-2016 18:14
  
  David Cameron has been caught on microphone making a diplomatic gaffe during an exchange with the Queen. Speaking ahead of an anti-corruption summit later this week, the Prime Minister calls Afghanistan and Nigeria "fantastically corrupt" as he describes who will be attending. Mr Cameron is seemingly unaware his conversation with the Queen in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury, House of Commons Speaker John Bercow and Leader of the House of Commons is being caught on microphone.
  
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• London mayor urged to honour suffragettes with first female statue on Parliament Square

  10-05-2016 18:14
  New London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Tuesday he would be interested in finding a prominent site for a statue to commemorate the approaching centenary of Britain's suffragette movement which fought to give women the right to vote. The online petition was started by feminist campaigner Caroline Criado–Perez, who led a successful campaign to get British author Jane Austen on the 10-pound banknote from 2017.
  
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• UK's NIESR sees 20 percent slide in sterling if Britain leaves EU

  10-05-2016 18:09
  By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's currency is likely to lose a fifth of its value if the country votes to leave the European Union on June 23, triggering intense inflation pressure and slower economic growth, a leading think-tank said on Tuesday. The report by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research adds to a string of warnings from Britain's finance ministry and international bodies about the costs for Britain of leaving the EU. Inflation in 2017 could be as much as
  
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• Prosecutors handed police file on allegations against Sir Cliff Richard

  10-05-2016 17:38
  Prosecutors are considering whether to bring charges against veteran entertainer Sir Cliff Richard over alleged historical sex abuse.
  
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• Farage slams Ukip move to appoint Neil Hamilton as Welsh Assembly leader

  10-05-2016 17:37
  Ukip leader Nigel Farage has blasted his own party's decision to appoint political veteran Neil Hamilton as its leader in the Welsh Assembly.
  
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• Cliff Richard Abuse Allegations Handed To CPS

  10-05-2016 17:22
  
  A file of evidence relating to allegations of historical sex abuse by Sir Cliff Richard has been passed to prosecutors by police.
  
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• BHS Attracts 'Five Bids' For Bulk Of Business

  10-05-2016 17:22
  
  A spokesman for BHS has told Sky News there have been five bids for the bulk of the business ahead of a 5pm deadline on Tuesday for offers to be submitted to administrators. One is being run by the Insolvency Service while MPs on the business and work and pension committees began hearing evidence on Monday.
  
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• Man Arrested Over 'Babes In The Wood' Murders

  10-05-2016 17:21
  
  A man has been arrested over the killings of two schoolgirls 30 years ago which were known as the 'Babes in the Wood' murders.
  
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• 'Virtual heart' can predict risk of sudden cardiac death, say scientists

  10-05-2016 17:00
  A computer-generated "virtual heart" can accurately predict the risk of sudden cardiac death, say scientists.
  
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• Police Search For Family Missing For A Week

  10-05-2016 17:00
  
  Police are searching for a mother and her two children who vanished the same day her husband was released on bail. Sumon Costa, aged 36, from Forest Gate in east London, was bailed at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 3 May on a charge of wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm on his wife Survoi. Mr Costa has not been reported missing but is wanted for allegedly breaching his bail conditions.
  
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• Sheridan Smith skips another Funny Girl performance due to 'indisposition'

  10-05-2016 16:58
  Sheridan Smith has pulled out of performing in her West End play for the second night in a row due to health concerns.
  
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• Neil Hamilton ousts Nathan Gill to become leader of Ukip in Welsh Assembly

  10-05-2016 16:58
  Neil Hamilton has been elected as Ukip's new leader in the Welsh Assembly.
  
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• London Among Terror Targets Found On Phones

  10-05-2016 16:57
  
  Italian police have arrested two Afghan men after pictures of potential terror targets, including London, were discovered on mobile phones. Three of the suspects are accused of international terrorism and two of aiding illegal immigration. Prosecutor Roberto Rossi, speaking in the port of Bari, said images had been found of the city’s airport, port, and a shopping centre.
  
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• 'Suspicious' Flat Fire Killed Pregnant Woman

  10-05-2016 16:39
  A heavily pregnant woman has died following a suspicious fire in a tower block. Senior investigating officer Al Pitcher said: "This is a very sad and distressing incident in which a young woman and her unborn child have lost their lives in tragic circumstances.
  
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• The Sanders effect: talking about a revolution in Baltimore – video

  10-05-2016 16:37
  
  Bernie Sanders and his supporters have shaken up America with an agenda of addressing inequality, poverty and the deep social problems facing the United States. But what happened when they tried to convince a city defined by those things? John Harris visits Baltimore to sample the aftershocks of 2015’s ‘uprising’ and meets people trying to push politics somewhere new Continue reading...
  
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• Body Found In Thames Search For Missing Swimmer

  10-05-2016 16:32
  
  A body has been found by search teams looking for a 16-year-old boy who went missing after going for a swim with friends in the River Thames. Ellis Downes, from Harwell, had not been seen since around 9pm on Saturday in Culham, near Abingdon in Oxfordshire. Thames Valley Police said divers recovered a body from the river at around 11pm on Monday night, which they believe to be the teenager, although formal identification has not yet taken place.
  
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• Nigeria and Afghanistan possibly two most corrupt countries in the world says PM

  10-05-2016 16:20
  David Cameron has called Nigeria and Afghanistan "possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world".
  
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• PM Caught On Mic Making Gaffe To Queen

  10-05-2016 16:18
  
  David Cameron has been caught on microphone making a diplomatic gaffe in an exchange with the Queen.
  
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• RBS investors want review of EU imposed Williams & Glyn sale

  10-05-2016 15:49
  By Sinead Cruise and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) - Investors in state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland want the British government to intervene in the bank's seven-year struggle to sell a small business lender to meet European Union demands, which they say clash with UK taxpayers' interests. Several top 30 RBS shareholders told Reuters the requirement to sell Williams & Glyn (W&G), an EU condition of a 2008 state bail-out, should be reviewed because RBS has slashed its balance sheet a
  
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• Do Ewe Recognise These Three Stolen Lambs?

  10-05-2016 15:42
  
  Romanian nationals aged 22, 27 and 28 - were spotted by West Midlands Police transporting three lambs through the suburbs of Birmingham in the early hours of the morning. After a chase down Hob Moor Road in Yardley filled with shear determination and where no ewe-turns were performed, the men abandoned their Ford Galaxy when they hit a parked car.
  
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• Pro-Brexit economists say UK's 19th century Corn Laws show history is on their side

  10-05-2016 15:37
  A small group of economists who want Britain to leave the European Union say a historic, 19th-century economic reform showed that Chancellor George Osborne is wrong to warn that a so-called Brexit would hurt Britain. Just as the country's modern-day establishment want Britain to vote to stay in the EU in next month's referendum, its land-owning elite of nearly 200 years ago fought to keep the Corn Laws which imposed import tariffs on food, the group, Economists for Brexit, said.
  
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• What impact would Brexit have on people working in arts and culture?

  10-05-2016 15:30
  
  If you work in arts and culture in the UK, we’d like to hear your thoughts on how leaving the EU might impact your industry
  As campaigners on both sides of the debate step up their pronouncements aiming to persuade the public what impact the EU referendum result could have, we would like to ask you what a possible Brexit means for your industry.Politicians are talking up wider economic implicatons, and we have heard warnings from academics working in universities and opposing views from th
  
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• Corbyn swipes back at Khan's call for inclusive 'big tent politics'

  10-05-2016 15:15
  
  Labour already has an "enormous" political tent, party leader Jeremy Corbyn insisted, in an apparent swipe at London Mayor Sadiq Khan's call for him to put forward a platform of wider appeal.
  
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• Senior police officers used force accommodation as 'love pads', tribunal told

  10-05-2016 15:06
  Senior police officers used force accommodation to carry on "illicit relations" to the point that the flats were jokingly nicknamed "love pads", an employment tribunal has heard.
  
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• Search for mother and children missing since 'violent' husband released on bail

  10-05-2016 15:06
  
  A search is under way for a mother and her two young children who vanished on the day that her husband was released on bail accused of violence.
  
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• One Direction's Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson sign up for Soccer Aid 2016

  10-05-2016 15:06
  One Direction star Niall Horan has signed up for Soccer Aid 2016, when he will go head to head with bandmate Louis Tomlinson.
  
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• Cameron hails 'exciting' political party at Palace for Queen's 90th birthday

  10-05-2016 15:06
  
  Prime Minister David Cameron said it was "very exciting" to mark the Queen's 90th birthday with an "array" of political figures at Buckingham Palace.
  
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• Cameron says leaders of 'fantastically corrupt' countries to attend British anti-graft summit

  10-05-2016 15:00
  By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on camera telling Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday that leaders of some "fantastically corrupt" countries, including Nigeria and Afghanistan, were due to attend his anti-corruption summit. Cameron will host an international anti-corruption summit on Thursday aimed at stepping up global action to combat corruption in all walks of life. In a pooled video feed made available to the ITN broadcaster, Cameron was shown t
  
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