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• Pope scraps abuse tribunal for negligent bishops - Daily Mail

  04-06-2016 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday scrapped his proposed tribunal to prosecute bishops who covered up for pedophile priests and instead laid out legal procedures to remove them if the Vatican finds they were negligent. The new procedures ...
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• Strikes, floods, protests and sense of betrayal pile on misery for France

  04-06-2016 23:44
  
  As the Euro 2016 tournament nears, its host country is struggling with violent strikes, extraordinary weather and a growing air of malaiseLess than a week from the start of Euro 2016 and the French coq – symbol of the national football team – should be crowing to the cries of “Allez les Bleus”.Instead, with days ticking down to the first match in the European championships on Friday, there is a pervasive atmosphere of gloom in France that has little to do with how the nat
  
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• Germany axed tuition fees – but is it working out?

  04-06-2016 23:29
  
  Critics of Britain’s education revolution cite the Berlin model. But it’s not that simpleIn Britain, the universities revolution goes on. The higher education bill going through parliament could allow universities to charge higher fees, another step in marketising the academic world.With growing frustration, some critics point to Germany. How can it be, they ask, that British fees have risen to become the highest in Europe while Germany is able to provide university education for fre
  
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• Your pictures: share your photos on the theme of 'dusk'

  04-06-2016 23:25
  
  Wherever you are in the world, we’d like to see your pictures on the theme ‘dusk.’ Share your best photos via GuardianWitnessWe’re now running a regular weekly photography assignment in the Observer New Review and the next theme is ‘dusk.’ So if it’s an evening on the beach, glass of wine in the garden or a wind-down in the countryside, share your photos of what dusk means to you – and tell us about your image in the description box.The closing dat
  
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• Jewish and Arab pupils talk of unity, but Israel has never been so divided

  04-06-2016 23:20
  
  The voices of nationalism and separation are growing louder as rightwing populism dominates and tensions continue to escalateThe boys file in first: noisy Jewish teenagers in kippahs, students at Jerusalem’s Himmelfarb high school. The girls come next, most wearing headscarves – Israeli Arabs from the Ort school for girls in Lod. Related: Israel coalition deal brings in its most hard-right government everContinue reading...
  
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• Michael Gove and Boris Johnson claim Brexit is only way to realise PM’s dream of one-nation Britain

  04-06-2016 23:17
  
  As Tory divide grows, leave campaigners stake a claim to social justice while Labour says Brexit is a threat to workers’ rightsBoris Johnson and Michael Gove have made an audacious land grab for David Cameron’s “one nation” mantle, arguing that only Brexit can deliver meaningful social justice for the people of Britain.In an escalation of the Tory civil war, Johnson, who has been posing increasingly as a prime minister in waiting, told the Observer that he believed no gen
  
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• Ronald Koeman’s agent says Dutchman has agreed terms with Everton

  04-06-2016 23:15
  
  • ‘We have reached an agreement with Everton. Now it is up to the clubs’
  • Ronald Koeman has one year left on his contract as Southampton managerRonald Koeman has agreed a deal with Everton to become their new manager, his agent has reportedly told Dutch media. The agent Rob Jansen said, according to the popular Voetbal International website, that it was now down to Southampton and Everton to agree a compensation package for the Dutchman, who has a year remaining on his con
  
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• Wicklow: Stephen Hartnett charged over attack on four children - BBC News

  04-06-2016 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  A 35-year-old man has appeared in court in the Republic of Ireland charged with assaulting four children at a house in County Wicklow. The children were taken to hospital after the attack in their home in Blainroe on Friday at 19:30 local time. Two of ...
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• Sexuality today: how we embarked on a new age of freedom and tolerance

  04-06-2016 23:10
  
  From Cara Delevingne to Kristen Stewart, gender-fluid relationships, particularly among women, are on the rise. Have we reached a tipping point?Kristen Stewart, the actor, is photographed at Cannes holding hands with her ex-girlfriend Alicia Cargile. Supermodel Cara Delevingne kisses her girlfriend, the singer St Vincent, on the front row at London fashion week. Seventeen-year-old Hunger Games actor Amandla Stenberg uses the Teen Vogue Snapchat account to describe how “bruising” it h
  
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• Tunnel visions: arts and tourism transform underground spaces

  04-06-2016 23:02
  
  From music and dance to herb farms, Britain’s subterranean spaces are being put to new, creative usesIn the subterranean engine room of the world’s first river tunnel – the Brunel, which runs under the Thames between Rotherhithe and Wapping – Liane Carroll, Sophie Bancroft and Sara Colman are singing swing jazz for an audience seated on fold-up chairs.The notes bounce off brick walls blackened with soot from a century of steam trains. It is a strange new life for a room t
  
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• Referendum polls reveal the widening fault lines in British politics

  04-06-2016 23:00
  
  A cosmopolitan coalition backs remain, while Brexiters are part of an international tide of anti-politics, from left and rightLast May’s polling disaster, and continued discrepancies between online and telephone polls, means that projections of the outcome of the EU referendum are being treated with a good deal more scepticism this time around. It is possible to learn a lot, though, from understanding who the polls tell us is lining up on each side of the debate.With the remain campaign be
  
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• Paul Gascoigne summonsed to appear in court over alleged racist ‘joke’

  04-06-2016 23:00
  
  • Gascoigne accused of racially aggravated abuse
  • Due to appear before Wolverhampton magistrates on 17 JunePaul Gascoigne is to appear in court over an alleged racist “joke”. The former England player has been summonsed to appear before magistrates, accused of racially aggravated abuse after allegedly making the joke about a black bouncer at one of his An Evening With Gazza shows last autumn.Gascoigne, 49, who has battled alcoholism for years, made the alleged remark at th
  
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• Eddie Jones returns for Australia tour with England’s sights raised | Eddie Butler

  04-06-2016 23:00
  
  Eddie Jones has bred a new sense of adventure and ambition in England’s rugby, which promises a Test series against Australia rich in entertainment, on and off the fieldEddie Jones landed in his homeland in positively chatty mood, so enthused by his return that he converted the bag-search he was subjected to at immigration into a sort of welcome-home mat. Prickly, but good for cleaning the dust from his shoes. Australian customs probably did well, given the effervescence of their prodigal,
  
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• 'Remain' camp's lead narrows before EU referendum - Opinium

  04-06-2016 22:20
  The campaign to stop Britain voting to leave the European Union in a June 23 referendum has seen its lead shrink over the past two weeks, an online poll published by market research company Opinium showed on Saturday. The poll conducted between May 31 and June 3 showed 43 percent of people planned to vote to stay in the EU while 41 percent wanted to leave, a narrower lead than the 44-40 split in Opinium's last poll for The Observer newspaper on May 21. Opinium said the swing to "Leave" would hav
  
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• Child deaths in Priory hospitals provoke calls to cancel NHS contract

  04-06-2016 22:12
  
  The death of a 14-year-old girl after failures by staff is the latest in a series at the private mental healthcare companyIt was a heartbreaking moment. Tearful jury members embraced a bereaved mother after hearing how her 14-year- old daughter had died neglected at the Priory Ticehurst House hospital in East Sussex, one of the country’s most expensive private hospitals, which was being paid to care for her by the NHS. It is the latest indictment of the state of child mental health care in
  
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• Trump, Brexit and demand for change: the year of the political outsider

  04-06-2016 20:00
  
  As the US prepares for turbulent party conventions and Britain’s EU referendum approaches, experts question whether backlash against globalisation will lastThe year of the political outsider will reach its zenith next month, at conventions likely to be far removed from the choreographed backslapping more usually enjoyed by presidential nominees.Related: Michelle Obama: 'In America we don't build walls to keep people out'Continue reading...
  
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• Harzand wins Derby after Dermot Weld makes late call to run the colt

  04-06-2016 19:57
  
  • The winning colt had pulled his shoe off on the way to the track
  • Winner had to be given treatment on foot before getting go-aheadA few hours before the Derby here on Saturday, Harzand was standing in a racecourse stable with one of his feet in a bucket of ice after pulling off a shoe on the way to the track. Dermot Weld, his trainer, assessed his chance of lining up in the big race as “60-40”. From the moment he left the stalls, however, Harzand glided around this most
  
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• Gascoigne '100% Not A Racist', Says His Agent

  04-06-2016 18:33
  
  Paul Gascoigne's agent has insisted his client is "100% not a racist" after the ex England star was charged with racially aggravated abuse. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)  confirmed the decision following an investigation into alleged comments made by the former footballer at his show "An Evening With Gazza" which took place at Wolverhampton Civic Hall last November. Sky News understands that the formal complaint to the police was not made by the security guard.
  
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• Underground art: Stockholm's colourful metro stations – in pictures

  04-06-2016 18:00
  
  Beneath the Swedish capital lies an intricate web of underground train lines. More than 90 of the 100 stations in the 110km tunnel system, sometimes referred to as “the world’s longest art gallery”, have been decorated with paintings, installations, mosaics and sculptures by 150 artists since the 1950s. After spending a couple of weeks exploring arctic Norway and Sweden, London-based travel photographer Conor MacNeill headed underground to capture images of the metro stations.
  
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• Sadiq Khan could face Boris Johnson in EU debate

  04-06-2016 17:48
  
  Ex-London mayor tipped to go head to head with successor in front of audience of 6,000 at Wembley Arena two days before referendum Sadiq Khan could go head to head with his predecessor as London mayor, Boris Johnson, at the biggest EU referendum debate, just 48 hours before polling day.Labour remain campaign boss, Alan Johnson, confirmed Khan would be making the case for the UK to stay in the EU, in front of an audience of 6,000 at Wembley Arena on 21 June, broadcast live on the BBC. Continue re
  
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• UK man arrested in Tenerife after girlfriend dies in fall from balcony

  04-06-2016 17:01
  
  Accused detained by police after questioning, as neighbours allegedly describe hearing argument and loud crashA British man has been arrested in Tenerife following the death of his girlfriend, who fell 12 storeys from the balcony of their holiday flat in the Canary Islands.The woman, 25, who is also thought to be British, died instantly after falling from the apartment in Adeje, Tenerife. The couple and their five-year-old daughter, along with the accused’s father and his girlfriend, had b
  
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• The 10 questions Dominic Chappell must answer over the BHS collapse

  04-06-2016 17:00
  
  The investor who brought the retail chain from Sir Philip Green faces MPs this week about its failure. These are the most pressing issues that require answersDominic Chappell, one-time racing driver and the owner of BHS before it collapsed into administration, will be questioned by MPs this week about his role in the demise of the 88-year-old department store chain. Chappell faces a bruising session with MPs, likely to focus on how he came to own BHS and the money his consortium, Retail Acquisit
  
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• Jamie Vardy’s proposed move to Arsenal may not be the fairytale ending | Paul Wilson

  04-06-2016 16:26
  
  The England striker has a difficult decision to make but he will only prosper at Arsenal if they play to his strengthsJamie Vardy the movie is going to end up with more false climaxes than Terminator. Somewhere right now a scriptwriter is probably scratching his head and muttering: “Arsenal? Bloody Arsenal. What sort of an ending is that? If we want to keep the feelgood factor we might have to close with the title party, the footballer of the year award or the bit where he scores the winni
  
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• Fifth 'In Dark' Over Economic Impact Of Brexit

  04-06-2016 16:25
  
  The impact on the economy of leaving the EU remains a cause for confusion among Britons, an exclusive Sky Data poll reveals. The Remain campaign have placed the economy at the centre of their messaging, highlighting the risks of giving up our EU membership. Speaking on Sky News' EU debate this week, the Prime Minister claimed leaving would be an "act of economic self-harm".
  
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• Ben Kingsley: why I now know that women make the best directors of men

  04-06-2016 16:04
  
  The veteran actor’s new film, Learning to Drive, is directed, written and produced by women. He explains why it’s an experience he’s keen to repeatHe has won world renown – and an Oscar – for his roles in films by some of the greatest male directors. Now Sir Ben Kingsley, star of Gandhi and Sexy Beast, says he is determined to produce and star in movies directed by women – because they are better at understanding male vulnerability. Related: Learning To Drive:
  
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• Muhammad Ali: the man behind the towering social and political figure | Thomas Hauser

  04-06-2016 15:43
  
  The late boxer’s biographer recalls getting to know a deeply spiritual and intelligent man with endless tales, no regrets and a passion for life that never diminished, even as his condition didIn 1991, I journeyed to England with Muhammad Ali to promote Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, which had just been published in Great Britain. One afternoon, we were at a book signing in London when a woman in her forties passed through the line. She looked at Muhammad, then at me, and in a thick Iri
  
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• Gascoigne Summoned Over Racial Abuse Charge

  04-06-2016 15:39
  
  Former England star Paul Gascoigne has been summoned to court to be formally charged with racially aggravated abuse.
  
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• BBC defends Top Gear following audience complaints

  04-06-2016 12:26
  
  New format fronted by Chris Evans scores low on corporation’s appreciation index and is criticised over canned laughterThe BBC has defended the new version of Top Gear after leaked audience data suggested 370 people had complained about the programme. Related: Chris Evans says tabloid Top Gear criticism was ‘perfect storm’Continue reading...
  
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• For Hull's young EU vote is about their futures – and it's not rose tinted

  04-06-2016 12:00
  
  The assumption that young people mostly favour remaining in Europe does not always ring true in Britain’s most wage-poor city They are perhaps the most pro-remain demographic in the country, a group that many feel could hold the key to the EU referendum.But although opinion polls suggest young people are generally in favour of EU membership, many maintain strong reservations about the 28-nation bloc and what it is has done for them. Continue reading...
  
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• Missing Pensioners: Murder Probe As Body Found

  04-06-2016 11:49
  
  A murder investigation is under way after a body - thought to be that of missing 75-year-old Peter Stuart - was found in woodland. The body was discovered shortly after 7pm on Friday in woodland in Weybread in Suffolk, close to where he shared a home with his wife Sylvia Stuart, who is also missing. Although formal identification has not taken place, Suffolk Police say they think the body is that of Mr Stuart, who has not been seen since 28 May.
  
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• Zlatan Ibrahimovic agrees personal terms with Manchester United

  04-06-2016 11:00
  
  • Striker now waiting to talk to José Mourinho about his role in the team• Tottenham make concrete offer to Swede but he turns them downZlatan Ibrahimovic’s agent, Mino Raiola, has reached a deal with Manchester United over the Swede’s salary with a move now hinging on talks between the striker and the club’s new manager, José Mourinho. Related: Zlatan Ibrahimovic would be here for a good time not a long time | Barney RonayContinue reading...
  
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• Sam Neill: ‘The worst thing anyone’s said to me? Did we sleep together? Really?’

  04-06-2016 10:30
  
  The actor on his father’s war medals, the Fifa film and a secret about his real nameBorn in Northern Ireland, Sam Neill, 68, grew up in New Zealand. He starred in My Brilliant Career in 1979, Dead Calm (1989), The Piano (1993) and two Jurassic Park movies (1993 and 2001). His TV apperances include Merlin, The Tudors and Peaky Blinders. The Daughter is his latest film. He is married for the second time, has three children and runs a vineyard in New Zealand.What is your earliest memory?Wrack
  
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• Murder in Successville: how the most complicated comedy on TV made it big

  04-06-2016 10:00
  
  It crosses a cop show with reality TV and the lead doesn’t have a clue what’s going on. So why are stars like Paul Whitehouse desperate to get involved?Welcome back to Successville, a Raymond Chandler-ish city of neon signs and perpetual night. The murder rate is astronomical. A lonely detective fights hard against a tide of crime. But all the people he meets are famous: Gordon Ramsay is the police chief, Taylor Swift does forensics, Alan and Jimmy Carr are gangster twins, Ian McKell
  
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• Dear Britain: Elena Ferrante, Slavoj Žižek and other European writers on Brexit

  04-06-2016 09:00
  
  Ahead of the European referendum, we asked leading authors and thinkers from EU countries to write letters to Britain. Do they want us to stay, or are they ready to say goodbye? Continue reading...
  
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• We want to take our children camping, but where do we start?

  04-06-2016 08:00
  
  We’ve never been so don’t know what gear we need or where to go
  Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
  
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• Frozen pension: the RAF veteran facing a chilling choice in Canada

  04-06-2016 08:00
  
  At 90, Joe Lewis could return to the UK for his full state pension – without his sick wife who’s in care. Or he could sell his home to try and make ends meetJoe Lewis faces an agonising decision. The 90-year-old second world war RAF veteran, who moved to Canada when he retired, is being forced to choose between selling his house to make ends meet, or returning to the UK and leaving his seriously ill wife behind.Lewis moved across the Atlantic because his late first wife was Canadian
  
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• Travellers fall victim to fake Airbnb site

  04-06-2016 07:59
  
  A new scam is fooling even regular users, with one losing almost £800When Anne Bradbury, an experienced Airbnb user, found what looked like the perfect flat to rent for a weekend away in Amsterdam last month she emailed her friends, who quickly agreed it looked great.After checking the reviews, and making sure the reviewers were legitimate – as she had done several times before – and then making several further checks that the listing was genuine, she went ahead and made the&nb
  
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• Linwood Barclay: My dad’s trailer park legacy

  04-06-2016 07:14
  
  Crime novelist Linwood Barclay grew up at his parents’ caravan park. At 17, he became the head of his dysfunctional family when his father died and had to run the placeA typical day in 1972 began like this: It’s 6am and someone is banging on the door of the 60-ft mobile home I live in with my mother and 28-year-old brother. I’m 17 and for the last year, since my dad died of cancer at the age of 59, I’ve been more or less running the family business, a cottage resort and c
  
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• Is it worth hiking? Exercise review

  04-06-2016 06:59
  
  The hit of fresh air in your nostrils? The beauty of the countryside? Hiking is amazingWhat is it? Just a nice long walk.How much does it cost? Probably an initial outlay of about £50 for some decent gear, and then free for ever. Continue reading...
  
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• Body found in hunt for missing pensioners as police say death ‘suspicious’

  04-06-2016 05:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A BODY has been found by police investigating the disappearance of an elderly couple.
  
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• Targeted Cancer Care To Spare Patients Chemo

  04-06-2016 05:38
  
  Thousands of cancer patients could be spared chemotherapy every year following significant advances in personalised medicine, experts have said. The "future of cancer treatment" is likely to involve tumour testing which can determine whether gruelling treatments would offer any benefits. An upcoming trial at University College London will see 4,500 women who have been newly diagnosed with breast cancer receive personalised medicine.
  
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• Judge slams nightclub for leaving drunk girl to sex monsters

  04-06-2016 05:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A JUDGE has attacked a nightclub for kicking out a drunk teenager – who was then abducted "like prey" and raped in a brutal sex attack.
  
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• Army Admits Failures Over Deepcut Soldier Death

  04-06-2016 05:17
  
  The head of the Army has vowed that lessons will be learned from the inquest into the death of Private Cheryl James at Deepcut barracks in 1995. General Sir Nick Carter has apologised "unreservedly" to the soldier's parents after a coroner criticised the care offered to recruits at the training camp. It came as Pte James' family said they were "deeply saddened" by the inquest's findings that the 18-year-old died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and was not unlawfully killed.
  
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• ‘Preposterous’ lies of evil carer who stole money from dying war veteran EXPOSED

  04-06-2016 03:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A CALLOUS carer who stole cash from a terminally ill war veteran then lied to cover up her crimes has been branded "evil".
  
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• Immigration U-turn REVEALED: Cameron once CHAMPIONED ‘unworkable’ points policy

  04-06-2016 02:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DAVID Cameron has been accused of a major immigration U-turn – as it is revealed he BACKED an Australian-style points system while in opposition.
  
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• VIDEO: Why is Churchill 'grumpy' on new banknote?

  04-06-2016 02:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why is Churchill 'grumpy' on new banknote?
  
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• Amber Heard suing man who said her Johnny Depp abuse claims are blackmail

  04-06-2016 01:54
  
  In a defamation suit filed against the comedian and Depp’s close friend Doug Stanhope, Heard also makes more allegations against her estranged husbandJohnny Depp’s estranged wife Amber Heard has hit back in a defamation lawsuit against a comedian who accused her of blackmailing her actor husband with false spousal abuse allegations.In the new suit, filed on Friday against Doug Stanhope in Arizona superior court and his team of 20 unnamed defendants, Heard also makes more allegations
  
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• Murder probe as SKELETON of missing baby boy found after 11 years

  04-06-2016 01:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TWO women have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the remains of a baby who vanished 11 years ago were uncovered.
  
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• Single mum who disfigured clubber in horrific glass attack jailed for four years

  04-06-2016 01:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A DRUNKEN mother who left a woman needing 42 stitches after glassing her in a vicious nightclub assault has been jailed for four years.
  
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• Kids in danger of burns and temporary BLINDNESS by mistaking laundry capsules for SWEETS

  04-06-2016 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CHILDREN are mistaking dangerous laundry capsules for sweets at a rate of at least one incident every day, experts have warned.
  
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