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• Drone guidelines bid to allay privacy fears

  20-05-2016 23:42
  
  A panel of privacy experts and technology companies organised by the Obama administration has issued guidelines for the use of drones.
  
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• Posthumous honour for Pc Dave Phillips who was killed by car thief

  20-05-2016 21:55
  
  A police officer run down by a teenage car thief has been posthumously honoured with a Freedom of the Borough award.
  
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• Missing mother Angela Kelly and her two daughters found 'safe and well'

  20-05-2016 21:55
  
  A mother and two daughters who went missing almost three weeks ago have been found "safe and well".
  
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• Choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne backs staying in EU after Palace honour

  20-05-2016 21:55
  
  Choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne threw his weight behind Britain remaining in the EU as he received his knighthood from the Prince of Wales during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
  
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• Revived Co-op To Rebrand Thousands Of Shops

  20-05-2016 20:53
  
  Sky News has learnt that the Co-operative Group will announce at its annual meeting in Manchester on Saturday that 2,900 food and funeral-care outlets across the UK will begin being converted to the shortened Co-op name from next week. The move, which has been approved by the group's board, is designed to restore the pre-eminence of the Co-op brand, and will be accompanied by a logo similar to the one used during the movement's 1960s heyday. The rebranding will not affect branches of the Co-oper
  
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• Stabbing Suspect Was Just Out Of Custody

  20-05-2016 20:44
  
  A man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a multiple stabbing had been released from custody shortly beforehand.
  
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• Police study links radicalisation to mental health problems

  20-05-2016 20:37
  
  Simon Cole, police lead for Prevent programme, says further research under way to explore how to help potentially vulnerable peopleHalf of all people feared to be at risk of terrorist sympathies may have mental health or psychological problems, a police study has found. The findings may provide additional insight into why a minority of the population is drawn towards taking part in or supporting extremist violence. It is a problem that has been perplexing officials and experts since the modern a
  
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• Come together - Cameron does Beatles' Abbey Road walk in EU bid

  20-05-2016 20:37
  Prime Minister David Cameron sought to recreate the Beatles' "Abbey Road" album cover on Friday, walking across the famous zebra crossing during a visit to the music studios to meet performers supporting the EU referendum's "Remain" campaign. Accompanied on the walk by former Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, Cameron spoke with musicians ahead of the June 23 vote -- when Britons decide whether to remain in the European Union. "... Leading people from our great creative industries (have) put forwar
  
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• Unseen David Bowie photos on display in LA

  20-05-2016 20:31
  
  Previously unseen photographs of David Bowie have gone on display following the musician's death from cancer.
  
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• Drake's sixth week at top makes One Dance longest running number one this year

  20-05-2016 20:26
  
  Drake's One Dance has become the longest running number one of 2016 so far after notching up an impressive sixth week at the summit.
  
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• Donald Trump 'invited to Downing Street for talks'

  20-05-2016 20:26
  
  Donald Trump has said he has been invited to Downing Street for talks with David Cameron.
  
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• Top Gear's big studio audience told to forget how show used to look

  20-05-2016 20:20
  
  BBC tweaks format to create livelier feel with larger audience and Chris Evans and Matt Le Blanc competing for best jokesTop Gear has been revved up under new presenter Chris Evans with the first episode featuring a bigger studio audience who were told to forget about the previous look of the show, but reminded about the catering incident that led to the departure of host Jeremy Clarkson.The first episode, due to be broadcast next Sunday, was filmed on Thursday and the format has been tweaked by
  
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• David Cameron will meet Donald Trump in UK once he becomes nominee

  20-05-2016 20:00
  
  Potential London meeting is a change in tone from December, when the PM said: ‘If he came to visit our country, I think he would unite us all against him’Donald Trump may be heading to London to meet the prime minister, despite David Cameron calling his plan to ban Muslims from entering the US “divisive, stupid and wrong”.“He would like me now to visit 10 Downing Street. They put out that invitation about two days ago,” Trump told MSNBC’s Morning Joe on
  
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• Man arrested after stabbing frenzy had been charged with knife possession

  20-05-2016 19:53
  
  A man arrested after a stabbing frenzy at a London supermarket had been released on bail earlier that morning having been charged with possessing a knife.
  
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• Murderer Who Scaled Palace Wall 'A Nice Man'

  20-05-2016 19:45
  
  A neighbour of a convicted murderer jailed for four months for scaling the perimeter wall of Buckingham Palace has told Sky News she is shocked to hear what he has done. She described Denis Hennessy as "a very nice man, always helpful". The neighbour, who wanted to be known as Rachel, said she had lived near Hennessy for nearly three years.
  
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• File Passed To CPS Over Alleged VIP Abuse

  20-05-2016 18:54
  
  Detectives investigating claims of VIP child abuse in Staffordshire have passed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service. The alleged victim, Esther Baker, waived her right to anonymity last year when she told Sky News how she was abused as a young girl by various men, including, she claimed, a former politician. Staffordshire Police have since been investigating the claims that date from the 1980s and 1990s.
  
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• Amy Rose Spiegel's Action: a candid guide to 21st-century sexual politics

  20-05-2016 18:20
  
  Part self-help book and part memoir, Action: A Book About Sex sees the former Rookie editor break down sexual barriers and do away with outmoded ‘taboos’While she was writing her first book, Amy Rose Spiegel regularly abandoned her apartment to install herself in various hotels and motels around New York City, including a dive in Queens overlooking the site of the 1964 World’s Fair, and a Rockaway Beach locale where she was handed a joint on entry. Action: A Book About Sex, fee
  
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• Kate at the helm as she sails the Solent with Sir Ben Ainslie

  20-05-2016 18:18
  
  The Duchess of Cambridge took the helm of a racing yacht for a thrilling high-speed ride with Olympic legend Sir Ben Ainslie.
  
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• Fracking opponents urge councillors to oppose scheme

  20-05-2016 18:18
  
  A succession of people living near a proposed fracking operation in North Yorkshire have told councillors they do not want to be the first community in the UK to allow the controversial gas extraction technique.
  
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• Convicted murderer admits trespassing into grounds of UK's Buckingham Palace

  20-05-2016 17:55
  A man with a conviction for murder pleaded guilty to trespass on Friday after scaling a perimeter wall of Queen Elizabeth's Buckingham Palace and asking if the monarch was at home, the BBC reported. Dennis Hennessy, 41, climbed over the wall surrounding the queen's home in central London on Wednesday night and walked for about 10 minutes around the grounds of the palace where 90-year-old Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip were staying. Prosecutor Tom Nicholson said when detained by officers
  
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• 'Son of Dippy' set for outdoor exhibition after dino move left fans saur

  20-05-2016 17:50
  Dippy's memory is to live on in the form of a bronze Diplodocus cast from the same moulds that gave birth to the Natural History Museum's iconic dinosaur attraction.
  
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• 'Jihadi Bride' Cabbie Jailed For Terror Offences

  20-05-2016 17:48
  
  A taxi driver who planned to leave his pregnant wife and run away to Syria with a jihadi bride has been jailed for terror offences. Naseer Taj intended to leave his heavily pregnant spouse and young son in Britain while pursuing martyrdom with the so-called Islamic State. The former FedEx worker had a stash of extremist material on his phone, including al Qaida magazines which included an article about parcel bombs, UPS and FedEx.
  
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• Legal Highs Crackdown 'Won't Stop' Users

  20-05-2016 17:28
  
  Legal high users have told Sky News that a crackdown which comes into force this month will not stop them from taking the substances. The Psychoactive Substances Act will become law from Thursday, 26 May, the Government has confirmed. Nitrous Oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, or NOS, is among the substances which will be affected by the crackdown.
  
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• £2.45bn NHS trusts deficit sparks fears over future patient care

  20-05-2016 17:23
  
  NHS trusts have recorded the biggest ever deficit in the history of the health service, prompting fears about the future of patient care.
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: FA Cup final, Euro 2016, Sevilla and a cuddly wolf

  20-05-2016 17:15
  
  This week’s quiz won’t be joining the Honourable Company of Edinburgh GolfersThe first and last goals of the 2015-16 Premier League season were both own goals scored at Old Trafford. Who scored them?Antonio Valencia and Daley BlindKyle Walker and Chris Smalling Kyle Naughton and Ashley YoungJan Vertonghen and Dan GoslingThe Giro d’Italia’s mascot – a big cuddly wolf – has been banned after a complaint from whom?Disney (who thought the wolf looked too
  
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• Iraqi man arrested in migrant smuggling probe

  20-05-2016 17:02
  
  An Iraqi man suspected of heading a criminal network that allegedly smuggled hundreds of migrants into the UK has been arrested in Derby.
  
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• Cumberbatch Does Not Intimidate Me, Says Gove

  20-05-2016 17:02
  Leading Leave campaigner Michael Gove has insisted he is not "intimidated" by Benedict Cumberbatch after the star backed the Remain campaign. Mr Gove urged voters instead to "listen to the realities" amid the show of support by film directors, actors and comedians for the 28-member bloc. However, the Cabinet minister did take the opportunity to name a number of high-profile Leave supporters including Sir Michael Caine and Sir Ian Botham.
  
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• Phone polls skewed towards 'In' ahead of Britain's EU referendum - YouGov

  20-05-2016 16:51
  British pollster YouGov said on Friday that online polls were doing a better job than phone polls of finding representative samples of voters before a referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union. A persistent divergence between telephone polls, which suggest the "In" campaign is ahead by a wide margin, and online polls, which suggest a tight race that "Out" could win, has flummoxed pollsters in the run-up to the June 23 referendum. YouGov, which produces online polls, said it h
  
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• Woman in critical condition after knifeman stabs shoppers in London car park

  20-05-2016 16:46
  
  A woman is fighting for her life after a knifeman ran into a London car park and indiscriminately stabbed shoppers.
  
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• Jail term for convicted killer held after Buckingham Palace intrusion

  20-05-2016 16:26
  
  A trespasser who scaled a perimeter wall at Buckingham Palace and asked whether the Queen was at home is a convicted killer, a court heard.
  
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• Missing EgyptAir flight: what we know so far – video

  20-05-2016 15:52
  
  A summary of what we know about EgyptAir flight MS804, which went missing over the Mediterranean early on Thursday. It was heading to Cairo from Paris with 56 passengers and 10 crew on board, and lost contact with air traffic control about 10 miles inside Egyptian airspace. The search and recovery misison – and the investigation into what happened to the plane – continues
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• 'Body part, seats and suitcases found' in search for missing EgyptAir plane

  20-05-2016 15:31
  
  A body part, seats and suitcases have been found floating in the sea in the search for the missing EgyptAir plane, according to Greek officials.
  
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• Tourism 'booming' after visitors head to UK in record numbers

  20-05-2016 15:27
  
  Visits to the UK by overseas tourists increased by 5.1% last year, according to official figures.
  
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• Labour members on Corbyn: 'Winning in 2020 will be a slog'

  20-05-2016 15:27
  
  Members on the leader’s first eight months – and whether the party can win the next general election
  Labour party members are overwhelmingly happy with Jeremy Corbyn’s first eight months in charge, and are urging the parliamentary party to back the leader.According to those who responded to a Guardian callout, members were encouraged by Labour’s performance in this month’s local and mayoral elections, with the majority hopeful the party can win 2020’s general
  
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• Brexit campaign complains to police over Ryanair offer to fly voters home

  20-05-2016 15:04
  The official campaign for Britain to leave the European Union has complained to police about an advertisement by Ryanair that offers expatriate Britons cheap tickets to come home and vote to stay in the bloc. The Irish airline has been actively campaigning for Britain to stay in the EU, spending 25,000 euros (19,222.84 pounds) on adverts urging customers to vote "In" and warning that it might withdraw some investment from Britain the "Out" votes win. In a "Brexit special" advertisement, Ryanair
  
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• EU Referendum Scorecard - 'In' edges ahead?

  20-05-2016 14:32
  By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Behind the noise of the referendum battle, five out of the seven most recent opinion polls showed the campaign to keep Britain in the European Union was in the lead, betting odds indicated a much higher chance of a vote to remain, and sterling rose. Boris Johnson began the week by saying the European Union was following the path of Adolf Hitler and Napoleon by trying to create a doomed European super state. Michael Heseltine said he feared Johnson's "judge
  
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• EU Chief Juncker Warns UK Over 'Deserters'

  20-05-2016 14:31
  European Commission boss Jean-Claude Juncker has warned the UK that "deserters won’t be welcomed back with open arms".
  
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• Volkswagen gives staff 4.5% pay boost despite emissions scandal costs

  20-05-2016 14:23
  
  Scandal-hit Volkswagen has agreed to give its workers a 4.8% pay rise, despite having to fork out billions in relation to the emissions scandal.
  
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• Convicted murderer who scaled Buckingham Palace wall jailed for four months

  20-05-2016 14:23
  
  A convicted murderer who scaled the perimeter wall of Buckingham Palace before "admiring" the gardens for 10 minutes has been jailed for four months.
  
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• Knifeman who stabbed shoppers in car park 'was targeting women'

  20-05-2016 14:08
  
  A woman is fighting for her life after a knife man ran into a London car park and indiscriminately stabbed shoppers.
  
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• Four Women Stabbed Near Sainsbury's Car Park

  20-05-2016 14:03
  
  A man has been arrested after four women were stabbed at a supermarket car park in Hampton, west London. Police and paramedics were called to a branch of Sainsbury's off The Avenue, Hampton, at 10:35am this morning, following reports of a man in possession of a knife. When officers arrived they found three women at the location with knife wounds while a fourth woman was found nearby with life-threatening injuries.
  
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• Gove warns of 'unsustainable' migrant pressure on NHS if no Brexit

  20-05-2016 14:00
  
  A migrant influx equivalent to the population of Scotland will put "unsustainable" pressure on the NHS by 2030 unless Britain quits the EU, Justice Secretary Michael Gove has warned.
  
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• Man held after four women are stabbed in London car park attack

  20-05-2016 13:58
  A man has been arrested after four women were stabbed in west London, police said.
  
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• Convicted murderer admits trespassing into grounds of Buckingham Palace

  20-05-2016 13:55
  A man with a conviction for murder pleaded guilty to trespass on Friday after scaling a perimeter wall of Queen Elizabeth's Buckingham Palace and then asking if the monarch was at home, the BBC reported. Dennis Hennessy, 41, climbed over the wall surrounding the queen's home in central London on Wednesday night and walked for about 10 minutes around the grounds of the palace where 90-year-old Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip were staying. Prosecutor Tom Nicholson said when detained by off
  
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• NHS Sees Record Overspend Of More Than £2bn

  20-05-2016 13:53
  
  NHS trusts in England have reported a record overspend with figures revealing they are £2.45bn in the red. The Department of Health wants to keep the deficit down to within or near Treasury spending limits.
  
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• Cross-Dressing, Gun-Toting Robber Jailed

  20-05-2016 13:44
  
  Ryan Valentine, 39, was caught on CCTV wearing a long, dark wig, sunglasses and a black skirt as he entered a shop in Leatherhead High Street, Surrey on 19 February. He was seen pulling out an imitation gun from his handbag as crash helmet-wearing accomplice Raymond Price, 45, joined him in the shop. The plot was foiled by two staff members who decided to tackle Valentine as he demanded cash and jewellery, leaving him with his wig askew and his skirt falling down.
  
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• David Cameron walks on Beatles’ Abbey Road crossing – video

  20-05-2016 13:41
  
  The prime minister, David Cameron, and former Labour culture secretary Tessa Jowell recreate the iconic cover shot of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album before visiting Abbey Road studios on Friday. Cameron’s visit comes after 282 figures from the creative industry, including Benedict Cumberbatch and Sir Patrick Stewart, signed a letter backing the Remain campaign EU referendum: Economy increasingly important in decision, poll suggests - Politics liveContinue reading...
  
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• Genitals of beetles 'change shape' after too much sex

  20-05-2016 13:34
  
  Too much sex causes the genitals of beetles to change shape, according to a new study.
  
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• Emotions Running High At Fracking Protest

  20-05-2016 13:34
  
  Hundreds of people have gathered to protest against fracking in North Yorkshire as the council decides whether to allow the controversial method of gas extraction. If the application by UK firm Third Energy is approved, drilling could begin at a site near the village of Kirby Misperton in Ryedale this year. It would be the first fracking to take place in the UK since the drilling was found to be the probable cause of minor earthquakes near Blackpool in 2011.
  
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• TV weatherman scared by spider on camera – video

  20-05-2016 13:33
  
  Bryan Hughes, a weatherman on West Virginia’s WOWK 13 News, is startled by a large projection of a spider during his forecast on Thursday. According to WOWK 13’s Facebook page, Hughes had not noticed the spider as he was caught up discussing about the Texas Tech University Meat Science team. A longer version of the video is available here Continue reading...
  
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