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• Singer Wayne Woodward and sword stuntsman Alexandr Magala reach BGT final

  23-05-2016 23:34
  
  Swing singer Wayne Woodward and sword-swallower Alexandr Magala have each won a place in the Britain's Got Talent final.
  
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• Protesters vow to keep on fight to prevent fracking in North Yorkshire

  23-05-2016 23:16
  
  Protesters have said they will fight a decision to allow a controversial fracking operation in North Yorkshire.
  
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• Government's warning on impact of Brexit a hoax, says Boris Johnson

  23-05-2016 23:16
  
  Boris Johnson says the Government's "doom-laden" predictions over the economic consequences of Brexit are in danger of "becoming self-fulfilling".
  
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• Leaving EU is 'self-destruct option' for economy and jobs, Cameron says

  23-05-2016 23:14
  By William James EASTLEIGH, England (Reuters) - Leaving the European Union would be economic self-destruction for Britain, shattering stability, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday, presenting a finance ministry report warning of recession, a tumble in the pound, and half a million job losses. Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne, who are campaigning for Britain to stay in the EU in the June 23 referendum, have warned that households would be hurt by a fall in the value of their homes a
  
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• Fracking Given Green Light In North Yorkshire

  23-05-2016 22:21
  
  Councillors have approved an application by a UK company to frack for shale gas near the village of Kirby Misperton in North Yorkshire. Third Energy has become the first company to be given the go-ahead for fracking, which has not taken place in England since 2011. The application had caused considerable controversy in North Yorkshire, amid concerns it could contaminate the local water supply and harm the region's tourism industry.
  
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• Man United Confirm Van Gaal's Departure

  23-05-2016 22:20
  
  Louis van Gaal has been sacked as manager of Manchester United, clearing the way for Jose Mourinho to be appointed in his place. In a statement, executive vice chairman Ed Woodward thanked van Gaal for his "excellent work in the past two years, culminating in winning a record-equalling 12th FA Cup for the club". Van Gaal spent the day at United's Carrington training ground little more than 36 hours after watching his side win the FA Cup at Wembley on Saturday.
  
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• Council gives green light for first UK fracking project in five years

  23-05-2016 22:07
  
  Councillors in North Yorkshire have given the green light to the first fracking operation in the UK for five years.
  
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• Pupils escape as coach bursts into flames on motorway

  23-05-2016 21:43
  Fifty-nine schoolchildren and their teachers have escaped from a coach which burst into flames on the side of a busy motorway.
  
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• Goldman Sachs banker flagged BHS suitor had history of bankruptcy

  23-05-2016 21:27
  Retail tycoon Philip Green's Arcadia group was warned by a senior Goldman Sachs banker that a possible suitor of its BHS department store chain had a history of bankruptcy, MPs were told on Monday. The 88-year-old, 164-store, BHS was placed into administration, a form of creditor protection, by owner Retail Acquisitions last month, putting 11,000 jobs at risk. Green owned BHS for 15 years before selling it in March last year for a nominal sum of one pound to Retail Acquisitions, a group of littl
  
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• Gallows humour from the Queen as she is warned of plant's poisonous properties

  23-05-2016 21:11
  
  The Queen has revealed the darker side to her sense of humour by joking about being killed off - by a highly poisonous plant.
  
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• Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group 'was advised' of BHS buyer's bankruptcy issues

  23-05-2016 21:04
  Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group was informed that the man he planned to sell BHS to had a history of bankruptcy and had no retail experience, MPs have been told.
  
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• BGT singing couple Ian and Anne 'a nightmare', says Simon Cowell

  23-05-2016 21:04
  
  Simon Cowell has dealt singing couple Ian and Anne Marshall a blow in the second live Britain's Got Talent semi-final by branding their act "a nightmare".
  
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• BHS Buyer Identified As Bankrupt Before Deal

  23-05-2016 19:52
  
  Arcadia Group was warned three months before the doomed sale of BHS that one of the buyers, Dominic Chappell, had previously been declared bankrupt. A top banker at Goldman Sachs told MPs investigating the chain's subsequent collapse that his firm had made "observations", free of charge, to Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group as early as December 2014. Anthony Gutman, co-head of investment banking services for Europe, said the concerns were related verbally to Arcadia's finance director,
  
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• UK's child mental health provision alarming, says UN committee

  23-05-2016 19:26
  
  The state of mental health services for children in the UK is "alarming", a UN committee has told Government officials.
  
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• Model describes moment millionaire ex died during violent struggle in Spain

  23-05-2016 18:45
  
  A Slovakian model accused of murdering her British millionaire ex-boyfriend at his luxury home in Spain has described in court the moment he died after a violent struggle.
  
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• Angelina Jolie Pitt takes professor role at London School of Economics

  23-05-2016 18:38
  
  She is an Oscar winning actress, a political campaigner and now Angelina Jolie Pitt can add academic to her list of roles.
  
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• EU finance services chief says Britain faces barriers if quits EU

  23-05-2016 18:36
  By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Britain would face trade barriers if it left the European Union and its single market, the EU's financial services commissioner Jonathan Hill said on Monday. Hill, a Briton appointed to the European Commission by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, stepped up warnings on the consequences for the City of London financial district if Britain votes to leave the 28-country bloc in a June 23 referendum. Financial services are Britain's biggest export earner and are flouri
  
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• Angelina Jolie Appointed Visiting LSE Professor

  23-05-2016 18:31
  
  Angelina Jolie will join the London School of Economics (LSE) as a visiting professor, the university has announced. The Hollywood star will be joining former foreign secretary Lord Hague in teaching on a new masters course on women, peace and security. In a statement she said: "It is vital that we broaden the discussion on how to advance women's rights and end impunity for crimes that disproportionately affect women, such as sexual violence in conflict.
  
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• Prison for British Muslim convert who planned to bring up her children under IS

  23-05-2016 18:11
  A British Muslim mother who wanted bring up her children under the Islamic State in Syria has been jailed for two and a half years.
  
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• Britons Who Planned To Join IS In Syria Jailed

  23-05-2016 18:06
  
  A group of Britons who wanted to travel to Syria to bring their children up under the so-called Islamic State have been jailed. The group had either planned on travelling to Syria or assisted others in their efforts to travel to the conflict zone. Ayman Shaukat, 28, was sentenced to 10 years in prison with five on licence for helping to facilitate a network to enable people to travel to Syria and engage in terrorism.
  
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• Massacre Victim 'Hid Under Dead Colleagues'

  23-05-2016 18:02
  
  The sole survivor of a sectarian massacre by the IRA in Northern Ireland has told an inquest he was forced to shelter beneath his dying colleagues after gunmen opened fire. The father-of-three has called for the "unvarnished truth" to emerge from the new coroner's inquest into the massacre, which comes five years after an inquiry found members of the IRA were responsible.
  
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• The time of the tentacled? 'Remarkable' increase in cephalopods

  23-05-2016 18:00
  
  They have waited, largely forgotten, beneath the waves while humans plundered fish populations and caused the oceans to warm.
  
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• High Court judge gravely concerned for 'vulnerable' missing boy Moses, 14

  23-05-2016 17:50
  
  A High Court judge says he is gravely concerned about a "vulnerable" 14-year-old boy who has "significant educational needs" and has been missing for a year.
  
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• Restaurant boss jailed over allergy death 'threw it away in pursuit of profit'

  23-05-2016 17:41
  
  An Indian restaurant owner jailed for six years after being convicted of killing a customer with a nut allergy by supplying him with a takeaway containing peanuts has been told he "threw away" his success.
  
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• Shortest odds on 'In' since EU vote date was announced - bookmaker

  23-05-2016 17:30
  British bookmaker William Hill said on Monday it was offering an "In" vote at the shortest odds since the date of next month's referendum on European Union membership was announced in February. A spokesman for William Hill said 79.2 percent of all the stake money taken was for "In" but 64.4 percent of individual bets struck have been for "Out". As opinion polls have given sharply different pictures of the public mood, many investors are watching betting odds closely.
  
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• Ex accused of murdering millionaire Briton says she 'never wanted to hurt him'

  23-05-2016 17:22
  
  A model accused of shooting dead her British millionaire ex-boyfriend at his home in Spain has told a judge that she "never wanted to hurt him".
  
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• Peanut Death Restaurateur Jailed For Six Years

  23-05-2016 17:11
  
  Mohammed Zaman was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence when a customer with a severe peanut allergy died after eating a takeaway - even though the diner had insisted his meal must be nut-free. Paul Wilson suffered a severe anaphylactic shock after ordering the meal from the Indian Garden restaurant in North Yorkshire. A prosecutor said the owner had a "reckless and cavalier attitude to risk" and had been warned by a trading standards officer to change his business' practic
  
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• Scientists use 'natural killer' cells in fight against cancer

  23-05-2016 17:00
  
  A new front in the war against cancer has been opened by scientists tapping the potential of "natural killer" cells.
  
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• Briton Killed In Spain: Ex-Girlfriend On Trial

  23-05-2016 16:54
  
  The former girlfriend of a British businessman who was found shot dead at his home in Spain has gone on trial accused of his murder. It is alleged Mayka Marica Kukucova shot millionaire Andrew Bush twice - a month after they split up - when he returned to his home in the beach resort of Estepona on 5 April, 2014, with another woman. He and his then Russian girlfriend Maria Korotaeva had been away on holiday.
  
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• Tribute to fallen troops at Chelsea Flower Show

  23-05-2016 16:40
  
  Rupert Murdoch and new wife Jerry Hall paid tribute to soldiers from his native Australia who died during the First World War, as they visited the Chelsea Flower Show.
  
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• Listening devices stitched into girl's clothes, court told

  23-05-2016 16:40
  
  A girl at the centre of a family court dispute between her separated parents had bugs sewn into her clothes so that her father could listen to what she said at meetings with a social worker, a judge heard.
  
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• Kate praises 'amazing and life-changing' work of children's hospices

  23-05-2016 16:40
  
  The Duchess of Cambridge has praised the "amazing and life-changing" work of children's hospices as she highlighted the importance of spending quality time together as a family.
  
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• Dealer who sold PM a £1,500 used car thought Cameron call was 'a wind-up'

  23-05-2016 16:40
  
  A used car dealer who now counts David Cameron as a customer thought he was being set up for a prank when he was told the Prime Minister intended to visit.
  
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• Britons stranded in France as industrial dispute affects fuel supplies

  23-05-2016 16:40
  
  A number of Britons driving in France have been stranded after running out of fuel due to shortages caused by an industrial dispute, a breakdown recovery firm said.
  
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• Cameron's ex-adviser Hilton says Britain should leave EU - Daily Mail

  23-05-2016 16:37
  Prime Minister David Cameron's former director of strategy, Steve Hilton, said Britain should leave the European Union because membership of the block is stifling innovation, competition and democracy. Hilton, who was one of Cameron's closest advisers, said the European Union is run by arrogant and unaccountable elites making Britain "ungovernable" as a democracy while it remains in the bloc it joined in 1973. "It is anti-market, stifling innovation and competition with its statism, corporatism
  
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• Is your family at war over the EU referendum?

  23-05-2016 16:07
  
  If disagreements over Britain’s impending EU vote are souring your family relations, we would like to hear from you
  Polling cards have started to arrive in households across the UK, as the EU referendum heads into view. With a month to go, one criticism of the referendum debate has been that it has been dominated by rowing members of the Conservative party, making the whole thing seem more like an internal family matter rather than a cool-headed assessment of what’s best for the futu
  
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• Ellie Trial: Dad's 'Bark Worse Than His Bite'

  23-05-2016 16:06
  
  The 36-year-old graphic designer also insisted Butler was "completely devoted, completely in love with the fact that he was a dad" and that the family were not living in a "house of horrors" at the time of their little girl's death. Butler, 36, is on trial charged with murdering Ellie Butler at their home in south London on 28 October, 2013, and trying to pass it off as an accident. Asked if Butler had ever been violent, Gray told the trial on Monday: "Never.
  
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• How can we improve the lives of young people in care?

  23-05-2016 15:51
  
  We want to hear from people who have been or are in care about the reforms needed to better help looked-after childrenIn March 2015, 69,540 children in England were in the care of local authorities, up 68,800 from 2014.But questions have been raised about how these young people are looked after – with new research showing that children in care are six times more likely to be cautioned or convicted of a crime than other young people. Continue reading...
  
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• Super-Rich Family Plots BHS Rescue Deal

  23-05-2016 15:50
  
  Sky News has learnt that a new vehicle has been established by the mystery bidder in the hope that a multimillion-pound takeover of the chain can be sealed in the next 48 hours. The source of the interest could not be definitively confirmed on Monday afternoon, although one source suggested it could be an entity affiliated to Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola's president, which has interests in the Portuguese banking and energy sectors. To add to the confusion surrounding BHS's futu
  
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• Man Wanted After Girl Photographed In Toilet

  23-05-2016 15:47
  
  Police have released CCTV images of a man after a 13-year-old girl spotted someone taking a photo of her in a toilet cubicle. The teenager was in the facility at a McDonald's in Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, when she heard the click of a mobile phone camera. Detective Constable Alastair Bagshaw, of Thames Valley Police, said the girl and her family are concerned about where the image may end up.
  
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• Sainsbury's trials camera fridges to help customers cut food waste

  23-05-2016 15:40
  
  Sainsbury's has given some of its customers "smart" fridges equipped with integrated cameras, allowing them to see which food items they already have at home.
  
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• Curry house owner convicted of manslaughter of customer with nut allergy

  23-05-2016 15:18
  
  A "reckless" Indian restaurant owner has been convicted of the manslaughter of a customer with a nut allergy after he supplied him with a curry containing peanuts.
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon 'pleased' after meeting with London Mayor Sadiq Khan

  23-05-2016 15:02
  Nicola Sturgeon has hailed the strengthening of links between Scotland and London after meeting the capital's new mayor Sadiq Khan.
  
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• Ellie Butler murder accused father's 'bark worse than his bite'

  23-05-2016 14:41
  
  The man accused of killing six-year-old Ellie Butler in a violent rage was all bark and no bite, his partner has told jurors.
  
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• Curry House Owner Guilty Of Manslaughter

  23-05-2016 14:29
  
  The owner of a curry house where a customer died eating food containing peanuts has been convicted of causing the man's death. Mohammed Zaman was accused of manslaughter by gross negligence after a customer with a severe peanut allergy died after eating a takeaway - even though the diner had insisted his meal must be nut-free. Paul Wilson suffered a severe anaphylactic shock after ordering the meal from the Indian Garden restaurant in North Yorkshire.
  
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• French gardener brands British woman murder claims 'lies'

  23-05-2016 14:25
  
  A gardener accused of murdering a British expat in rural France after their brief romance broke down has told a court the claims against him are "lies".
  
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• Blackwell Calls Eubank Coma Reaction 'Inhuman'

  23-05-2016 14:15
  
  Nick Blackwell has said that if he had one more punch in him he would land it on Chris Eubank Snr's jaw after a fight that left him in a coma. The ex-boxer is furious that Eubank and his son Chris Jnr held a news conference while he was in the "induced" state. The 25-year-old, who last month tweeted he was "very lucky" to be "on the mend" after collapsing in the ring, said: "If I could have one more knockout shot, I'd love to land it on the law of Chris Eubank.
  
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• 'Vulnerable' Schoolboy Missing For A Year

  23-05-2016 14:13
  
  He and his mother, Pauline Watson, 46, vanished from their home in Northamptonshire and were thought to be in London. Social services staff at Northamptonshire County Council - which has responsibility for Moses' welfare - said Mr Justice Keehan had agreed to take "the exceptional step" of making a public appeal because of the level of concern for the teenager's well-being. Officers say Moses' mother is thought to have links to areas of London including Croydon, Islington, Merton, Sutton, Southw
  
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• Louis Van Gaal Sacked By Man Utd, Reports Say

  23-05-2016 14:02
  
  Manchester United's manager Louis Van Gaal has reportedly been sacked and has left the club along with his staff, reports say. The club will make a statement shortly where they are expected to confirm that the 64-year-old is no longer the team's manager. Van Gaal and his Dutch coaching team have been informed that the club has ended their contracts, according to reports.
  
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• Leaving EU is "self-destruct option" for economy and jobs, British PM says

  23-05-2016 13:43
  By William James EASTLEIGH, England (Reuters) - Leaving the European Union would be economic self-destruction for Britain, shattering stability, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday, presenting a finance ministry report warning of recession, a tumble in the pound, and half a million job losses. Cameron and finance minister George Osborne, who are campaigning for Britain to stay in the EU in the June 23 referendum, have warned that households would be hurt by a fall in the value of their h
  
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