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• Homes Evacuated Over WWII Bomb At Bath School

  12-05-2016 23:58
  
  Up to 1,000 properties are being evacuated in Bath after contractors found what is believed to be a "large" unexploded World War Two bomb.
  
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• Student chased away masked intruder with umbrella

  12-05-2016 23:54
  
  A teenage student chased a burglar down the street with an umbrella after he was tied up and threatened with a knife.
  
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• Nicky Byrne fails to qualify for Eurovision final

  12-05-2016 23:54
  
  Ireland's Nicky Byrne has failed to qualify for the Eurovision Song Contest's grand final.
  
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• Prince Harry hails life-changing Invictus Games as final medals handed out

  12-05-2016 23:32
  
  Prince Harry has brought the Invictus Games to a close, describing the tournament as not about winning medals but about "watching lives change in front of you".
  
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• Bank chief Mark Carney should be fired over Brexit recession warning - Tory MP

  12-05-2016 22:52
  Bank of England chief Mark Carney should be fired for warning that Brexit may trigger recession, a Tory MP has said.
  
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• Stone Roses Release First New Music Since 1995

  12-05-2016 22:34
  
  Indie band The Stone Roses have released their first new music for 21 years - a track called All For One. It premiered on several British radio stations and was announced simultaneously on the band's Twitter feed with a link to iTunes.
  
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• Every Little Helps, Even For The Queen

  12-05-2016 22:04
  
  The Queen has been presented with a grocery card worth £50 after her horse Barber's Shop won first prize at the Royal Windsor Horse Show. The show is a regular favourite with the Queen who attends every year and she is there in an unofficial capacity, rather than as the nation's monarch. Casually dressed and wearing a headscarf and quilted sleeveless gilet, the Queen looked happy and relaxed as she mingled with spectators, laughing and clutching her voucher.
  
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• Brazil's suspended president Dilma Rousseff condemns impeachment 'coup' – live

  12-05-2016 21:48
  
  Vote in favour of suspension passes by 55 votes to 22A warrior to the end: Rousseff as the sinner and saint of Brazil8.48pm BSTA small crowd of protesters have gathered outside the building in Brasilia where Michel Temer will soon host his first press conference as interim president.Size of anti-Temer demo outside Gov building before his first press conference: very small. pic.twitter.com/5gpOevkzUNLots of ppl @ #Temer's first appearance as sitting #Brazil president pic.twitter.com/8ku4DeSlL0 8.
  
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• Stone Roses release first new material since 1995

  12-05-2016 21:43
  
  The Stone Roses have released their first new material in over two decades.
  
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• A kiss from a prince for Ruth, 91, as Harry charms at Invictus Games

  12-05-2016 21:43
  
  Prince Harry has revealed he really is a prince charming by kissing the hand of an elderly admirer.
  
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• Trump and Ryan: meeting was a 'very positive step' toward GOP unity – live

  12-05-2016 21:37
  
  Presumptive nominee and congressional leaders meet on Capitol Hill‘I want to be part of the unifying process,’ House speaker has saidTake it or leave it: Trump’s rise puts GOP moderates in tough cornerSaudi officials were supporting 9/11 hijackers, commission member says 8.37pm BSTHere’s a statement from Lindsey Graham, perhaps Trump’s sharpest critic in the senate, on the “pleasant” chat he had today with the presumptive nominee.Graham’s not endor
  
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• The Tories’ BBC haters have been halted. Next, to Europe | Martin Kettle

  12-05-2016 21:36
  With today’s BBC white paper one national disaster has been narrowly averted. But David Cameron’s weak leadership on the EU could yet unleash anotherBe very clear about the BBC white paper. In almost any other country in the world this would not be happening at all. Beyond Britain the BBC is universally revered. It stands for excellence and independence; and because of that excellence and independence, it stands above all for reliability. There is no other engine of soft power to tou
  
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• Andy Murray beats Jérémy Chardy at Italian Open to set up Davis Cup reunion

  12-05-2016 21:34
  
  • Murray eases past Chardy 6-0, 6-4 in third round
  • Scot now faces Belgium’s David Goffin, who be beat to win Davis CupNothing lasts forever in the Eternal City, they say. Roger Federer is gone. So, too, is his compatriot and the defending French Open champion, Stan Wawrinka, just 10 days before Roland Garros welcomes the clay warriors for the 2016 edition of the year’s second slam. Related: Roger Federer finds time catching up with him as French Open decision awaits | Kev
  
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• Dick Pound promises IOC will not derail Tokyo 2020 corruption inquiry

  12-05-2016 21:17
  
  • French prosecutors investigating payments from Tokyo 2020 bid
  • ‘We would not try to discourage them from where the trail led,’ says PoundDick Pound, the veteran IOC member, has said French prosecutors should follow the trail of corruption “wherever it leads” after they confirmed an investigation into alleged seven-figure payments from the successful Tokyo 2020 Olympic bid to a secret account linked to the son of the disgraced former IAAF president Lamine Diac
  
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• Charles warns on antibiotics as he reveals use of homeopathic treatments on farm

  12-05-2016 21:16
  
  The Prince of Wales has revealed he uses homeopathic treatments for animals on his organic farm at Highgrove to help reduce the reliance on antibiotics.
  
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• Met Office predicts cooler weekend following fine weather

  12-05-2016 21:14
  
  After the hottest day of the year last weekend, 27.1C in parts of London, forecasters are predicting a drop in fortunesLast Sunday might have been the hottest day of the year so far in some parts of the UK – but don’t expect a second weekend of barbecue summer weather. That’s the warning from forecasters following a week of fine and warm conditions for much of the British Isles.The fine spell is set to come to an end as winds turn increasingly northerly and bring much chillier
  
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• US poultry workers wear diapers on job over lack of bathroom breaks – report

  12-05-2016 21:03
  
  Oxfam says many are afraid to ask for permission to go to the bathroom
  One supplier calls allegations ‘troubling’ and refusal of breaks not tolerated
  A report from international advocacy group Oxfam says poultry workers in the United States labor in a “climate of fear”, with some forced to wear diapers on the job.It says many workers are afraid to ask for permission to go to the bathroom. The report says a worker at a Simmons Foods plant in Arkansas told Oxfam that she an
  
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• I, Daniel Blake: Ken Loach's welfare state polemic is blunt, dignified and brutally moving

  12-05-2016 21:03
  
  There are shades of Dickens and Orwell in this emphatic drama about a disabled man strangled by the red tape of the benefits systemWith this movie — maybe his last, and maybe not — Ken Loach establishes himself yet further as the John Bunyan of contemporary British cinema. Based on research and interviews by the screenwriter Paul Laverty, this movie tells the fictional story of Daniel Blake, a middle-aged widower in the North East who can’t work or get benefits after a near-fat
  
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• NHS whistleblower treated unfairly, report finds

  12-05-2016 21:02
  
  An NHS whistleblower who claimed she was badly treated by a hospital trust after alleging it had been fixing its death rates was treated unfairly, a report has found.
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs about power

  12-05-2016 21:00
  
  Share your recommendations in the comments and our reader will pick the best eligible songs in a playlist next week
  This week we want to hear your songs on the theme of power. Interpret and extrapolate how you will – be it the lyrics, the music or song’s title and whether you see brute force or political influence – and post your nomination in the comments. Related: Readers recommend playlist: songs about sinnersContinue reading...
  
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• Paul Ryan and Donald Trump might say they're unified. But there's a bloody civil war on | Richard Wolffe

  12-05-2016 20:47
  
  Don’t be fooled by the diplomatic words, because peace hasn’t broken out. The Republican power-brokers still loathe Trump, and Ryan is their standard bearerWhen Donald Trump met with Paul Ryan in Washington on Thursday, you could say it was a meeting between the current and possibly future nominee of the Republican party. Or you could say it was a battle for the soul of the party, between a conservative reformer and nativist rabble-rouser.
  The latter is how Ryan himself portrayed the
  
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• Super-rich may sell London homes under anti-corruption rules

  12-05-2016 20:46
  
  Estate agent predicts some billionaire clients will sell property if no longer able to keep identity secret via offshore firms
  Super-rich international investors in London property are likely to sell off some of their mansions and penthouses after the introduction of anti-corruption rules cracking down on offshore secrecy, a leading estate agent has said.Privacy-hungry oligarchs, media owners and tech billionaires from around the world could also abandon plans to buy homes in Britain because the
  
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• Prince Charles: I use homeopathy in animals to cut antibiotic use

  12-05-2016 20:46
  
  Homeopathy sceptic Sally Davies among delegates to hear prince say he treats his own cows with the alternative medicinePrince Charles has proposed a solution to the growing crisis of antibiotic over-use in animals and humans, telling an international gathering of scientists and government officials in London that he treats his own cows and sheep with homeopathy.In front of the government’s chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, who once told a parliamentary committee that homeopathy in
  
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• Director general fears ministerial influence over BBC in white paper

  12-05-2016 20:43
  
  Tony Hall expresses ‘honest disagreement’ over plans for government to appoint six members of executive board Concerns that ministers will have too much power over the BBC, because they will be able to appoint six members of its executive board, were raised by the corporation’s director general after the publication of the white paper on its future. Tony Hall called the change in the BBC’s governance the “most significant reform in the BBC’s history” and
  
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• Secret area of Guantánamo could be opened to UN watchdog for first time

  12-05-2016 20:39
  
  Exclusive: Attorneys for alleged 9/11 co-conspirator request UN access to Camp 7 to prevent evidence they say was coerced during torture being used against himThe most secret corner of Guantánamo Bay could be opened up to the UN torture watchdog for the first time, if an audacious legal gambit succeeds.Attorneys for Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the accused 9/11 co-conspirators facing a military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay, will request on Thursday that the judge in the case order access
  
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• Tim Wellens breaks away to win stage six of Giro d’Italia for Lotto-Soudal

  12-05-2016 20:23
  
  • Belgian rider sprints home following initial five-man breakaway
  • Team Giant-Alpecin’s Tom Dumoulin retains Maglia Rosa Related: André Greipel wins Giro d’Italia stage five but Tom Dumoulin maintains lead Belgium’s Tim Wellens broke away alone to win the sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia as the peloton negotiated the first real climbs of the race on Thursday. Continue reading...
  
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• Police watchdog to investigate Hillsborough inquest spin claims

  12-05-2016 20:20
  
  South Yorkshire police communications specialist says she was given ‘unethical’ instructions to try to influence coverageThe Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an investigation into allegations that South Yorkshire police tried to influence daily media coverage of the Hillsborough inquests and spin what the force considered to be evidence favourable to it.Hayley Court, a communications specialist hired by South Yorkshire police in 2014 specifically to work on the i
  
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• CLPE children's poetry award shortlist 2016 announced – in pictures

  12-05-2016 20:15
  
  Conjoined twins, Trinidadian ghouls and cuddles from Michael Rosen, find out more about the books and poets shortlisted for this year’s CLiPPA Continue reading...
  
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• Macklemore and Ryan Lewis: ‘Systemic racism isn’t going to get clicks’

  12-05-2016 20:07
  
  Unrest in Ferguson led the duo to question their role in hip-hop. The result was White Privilege II, an examination of how white people view race. Will the pair’s soul-searching make fans assess their place in society, too?The first sound recorded during this interview with Ben “Macklemore” Haggerty and Ryan Lewis tells you a lot about where their heads are right now. Before a word has been spoken, Haggerty lets out a cavernous yawn, one that threatens never to end. “Tire
  
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• Syrian refugee family's teenage children cannot join them in Sheffield

  12-05-2016 20:06
  A Syrian refugee family living in Britain have spoken of the "heartrending" pain of being separated from their two teenage children who cannot currently claim asylum in the UK.
  
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• 'Really patriotic' former Westlife singer Nicky Byrne reveals Eurovision nerves

  12-05-2016 20:06
  
  Former Westlife singer Nicky Byrne has his fingers crossed for a Eurovision Song Contest win, backing his Irish entry Sunlight as the "perfect track".
  
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• Woman's high-heel petition receives 100,000-plus signatures

  12-05-2016 20:04
  
  Nicola Thorp, who was sent home for not wearing heels at PwC, says response shows importance of reforming dress codes
  A petition started by a woman who was sent home from work for not wearing high heels has been signed by almost 110,000 people in less than 48 hours. Continue reading...
  
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• Egypt's activists turn to social media to call for satirists' release

  12-05-2016 20:03
  
  Clips uploaded to Facebook featured activists demanding the release of members of group Awlad el-ShawareaEgyptian activists are using social media to demand the release of five detained members of a satirical street performance group whose video clips mocked the president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.The activists posted pictures on Facebook of themselves holding mobile phones in front of their faces with the caption: “Does a mobile phone camera rattle you?” Continue reading...
  
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• RAF jets scrambled after 'act of Russian aggression'

  12-05-2016 20:00
  RAF jets were scrambled to intercept a Russian aircraft approaching the Baltic skies, in the first such intervention as part of their latest mission to keep airspace there secure.
  
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• Genes found linking flat-faced dog breeds to brain cancer

  12-05-2016 20:00
  Genes have been identified that predispose bull and boxer dog breeds to brain cancer and at least one may also influence the disease in humans.
  
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• Beer hall where Hitler spoke ordered to host anti-immigrant party event

  12-05-2016 19:58
  
  Owner of hall where Hitler is thought to have made his first political speech had cancelled event over security concernsA Munich court has ordered the owner of a beer hall where Adolf Hitler is thought to have made his first political speech to allow the anti-immigrant party Alternative for Germany (AfD) to hold an event there.Related: German far-right party calls for ban on minarets and burqaContinue reading...
  
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• George Zimmerman's gun used to kill Trayvon Martin taken off auction site

  12-05-2016 19:50
  
  No explanation given for why handgun, which Zimmerman called a ‘piece of American history’ was pulled from GunBroker.com amid widespread criticismA controversial attempt by George Zimmerman to sell the gun with which he killed Trayvon Martin in 2012 ended abruptly on Thursday when a listing billed as “your opportunity to own a piece of American history” was removed from a firearms auction website.
  The former neighbourhood watch volunteer was acquitted three years ago over
  
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• Welcome, Lord Prime Minister: Cambodian media told to use leader's full royal title

  12-05-2016 19:47
  
  Print, radio and TV organisations told to use Hun Sen’s honorary six-word title in opening lines of all stories about him or face legal actionFor years, some Cambodian media have referred to the country’s longtime leader as Prime Minister Hun Sen – but, as of Thursday, authorities have warned that this must stop.
  Starting in August, all media must use his full, honorary, six-word title – “Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen” – in the opening lines
  
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• US and UK urge banks to do business with Iran

  12-05-2016 19:38
  
  Iranian president Hassan Rouhani is under pressure from hardliners as lifting of sanctions fails to live up to expectationsAn attempt by the US and UK governments to persuade European banks to do more business in Iran in the wake of last year’s nuclear deal, appears to have fallen on deaf ears.Senior representatives from nine major banks listened on Thursday to appeals from the US secretary of state, John Kerry, and the British foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, urging them to help finance
  
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• Italian court orders release of man held in Bari terror inquiry

  12-05-2016 19:38
  
  Lawyer for Hakim Nasiri says his client is innocent, while two other men arrested in connection with case remain in custodyAn Italian judge has ordered the release of a terror suspect who was alleged to have scoped targets in the UK and Italy and whose arrest was hailed as a sign of Italy’s effective counter-terrorism programme.The decision to release Hakim Nasiri, a 23-year-old Afghan, was not formally explained by the presiding judge, Francesco Agnino. The court ruled that two other susp
  
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• Antibiotic resistance set to worsen, warns chief medical officer

  12-05-2016 19:33
  The problem of resistance to antibiotics caused by an over-reliance on them in recent decades is only going to get worse, the government's chief medical officer warned.
  
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• South African musicians hail end of 'cultural imperialism' on radio

  12-05-2016 19:29
  
  National broadcaster SABC announces that 90% of music played on its 18 radio stations will be from local artistsSouth African musicians have joyfully welcomed an announcement that their music will dominate the country’s airwaves after years of “cultural imperialism”.
  The national broadcaster, SABC, decided this week that 90% of the music played on its radio stations would be by local artists, a move that one of South Africa’s hip-hop stars compared to Nelson Mandela&rsquo
  
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• BBC, ITV and migration spark shadows of outrage in Westminster

  12-05-2016 19:29
  
  As the big news of the day proves to be not so big after all, MPs find themselves all worked up with nowhere to go
  Maria Eagle was outraged. Outraged that there was almost nothing to be outraged about. After months of the “End of the World as We Know It” doomsday predictions, the culture secretary finally published his white paper on the BBC, and it was, if not quite business as usual, then not nearly so bad as feared. Strictly Come Dancing had been saved for the nation. There could
  
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• Margo Price: ‘Country music is about divorce, drinking and jail’

  12-05-2016 19:13
  
  The outlaw Nashville singer worried she’d be singing to empty bars her whole life until Jack White heard the songs on Midwest Farmer’s DaughterA new sticker has appeared on the back of the Third Man Records minivan, which is blocking the driveway of Margo Price’s home in Inglewood, East Nashville: “You puke, you pay!”“I don’t know if it’s for us or another band,” the 33-year-old singer says, before apologising profusely. She drove back from a
  
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• Egypt 'suppressing truth' over hidden chambers in Tutankhamun’s tomb

  12-05-2016 19:13
  
  Scientists accuse government of failing to release data disproving claims that burial site contains Nefertiti’s remainsThe world of archaeology was electrified last year by the news that Tutankhamun’s tomb could contain hidden chambers possibly containing the remains and riches of Queen Nefertiti. It was a story that seemed to have everything: false walls, buried treasure, at least one mummy – and new hope for Egypt’s ailing tourist industry.Related: Tutankhamun's secret?
  
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• Police lawyer leaked 'affair' details to impress colleagues, tribunal told

  12-05-2016 19:08
  
  Denise Aubrey, who is suing Northumbria force for unfair dismissal, shared information to ‘bolster herself’, senior officer saysA former Northumbria police lawyer has been accused by a senior police officer of deliberately leaking details of another officer’s alleged affair. Denise Aubrey, a former head of legal services for the force, is suing for unfair dismissal after being sacked for gross misconduct in 2014.Continue reading...
  
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• Tommy Cooper's former home honoured with blue plaque

  12-05-2016 19:07
  Entertainer and "comic genius" Tommy Cooper has been honoured with a plaque at his former home, where he entertained fellow comedians Jimmy Tarbuck, Roy Hudd and Eric Sykes.
  
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• Software 'anomaly' led to airline runway error, investigation finds

  12-05-2016 19:07
  A software error resulted in an airliner not having enough runway to abort take off, investigators said.
  
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• Kenny Dalglish knighthood urged for role in aftermath of Hillsborough disaster

  12-05-2016 19:07
  Glasgow City Council has called for Kenny Dalglish to be knighted in recognition of the role he played in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster.
  
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• Libor rigging defendant says he was beaten and humiliated at work

  12-05-2016 19:06
  
  Barclays trader tells trial that he was given no training and was hit with mini baseball bat and often mocked, and didn’t realise rate changes were illegal A Barclays trader accused of conspiring to fix the Libor benchmark lending rate was humiliated and “whacked” across the back of the head with a baseball bat when he made mistakes at work, a court has heard.Jonathan Mathew started working at the bank when he was just 19, not having been to university or having had any formal
  
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