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• The Telegraph newspaper backs leaving EU

  20-06-2016 23:51
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper came out in favour of quitting the European Union on Monday, urging voters to tick the "Leave" box in a referendum on Thursday. The Telegraph, which has a daily circulation of nearly 500,000, joins The Sun, The Sunday Times and its own sister Sunday newspaper in the Leave camp. The Telegraph made its declaration in an editorial entitled "Vote leave to benefit from a world of opportunity". [http://bit.ly/28KjjcD] (Reporting by Estelle Shirbon
  
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• Social researcher NatCen sees UK leaning towards EU 'In' vote

  20-06-2016 23:16
  Voters in Britain favour staying in the European Union, according to a poll published by social research organisation NatCen on Monday, although most of the interviews were conducted in May. NatCen said 53 percent of respondents planned to vote to stay in the EU while 47 percent would choose to leave, excluding undecideds, meaning the outcome was "on a knife-edge". The survey, which has a sample size of 1,632 respondents, was conducted between May 16 and June 12, before the murder of pro-"Remain
  
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• Wales Smash Russia To Top Euro 2016 Group

  20-06-2016 23:00
  
  England and Wales are through to the last 16 of Euro 2016, but Wales top group B after beating Russia 3-0.
  
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• Corbyn: EU 'Has Got To Change Dramatically'

  20-06-2016 22:41
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has told Sky News Britain should stay in the European Union - but it has to change "quite dramatically". Speaking to a live Sky News audience made up of young people aged 18-35 - his only live set-piece television appearance of the campaign - the Labour leader said voting to remain in the EU on Thursday was the" rational" choice. Mr Corbyn acknowledged his support for the 28-nation bloc was not "unconditional", but said it was better for Britain to work together with othe
  
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• Russia v Wales: Euro 2016 – live!

  20-06-2016 22:23
  
  Latest updates from the Group B match in ToulouseFollow Slovakia v England – live with Barry GlendenningInteractive wallchart – updated tables, fixtures and more!Email [email protected] | Tweet @John_Ashdown 9.23pm BST67 min: A little hint of frustration has crept into the Russia side now, which is no surprise.9.21pm BST66 min: … which is nodded across goal by Vokes and evades Ledley by a yard or two. Continue reading...
  
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• Slovakia v England: Euro 2016 – live!

  20-06-2016 22:22
  
  Euro 2016 Group B latest from the 20.00 BST kick-off in Saint-ÉtienneFollow Russia v Wales - live with John AshdownInteractive wallchart – updated tables, fixtures and more!Email [email protected] or tweet @bglendenning 9.22pm BST66 min: Slovakia substitution: Viktor Pecovsky off, Norbert Gyomber on. 9.22pm BST63 min: England continue to press, without scoring. Slovakia’s defensive line are providing stout resistance on the edge of their own penalty area.Contin
  
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• Was Candid Corbyn Canny Or A Calamity?

  20-06-2016 22:19
  
  Nine days ago on a TV programme, Jeremy Corbyn said his passion for remaining in the EU was "seven, or seven-and-a-half" out of 10. They might be forgiven for worrying that if the campaign went on much longer, the Labour leader might change his mind altogether and say he's voting Leave! Leading Remainers have long suspected Mr Corbyn's support for Labour's pro-EU stance was lukewarm at best and at worst that he's a Brexit supporter.
  
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• Child Killer Beaten To Death With Fish Tank Rock

  20-06-2016 22:11
  
  A prisoner has been battered to death at one of the UK's maximum security jails. The victim was attacked in one of Long Lartin prison's workshops at about 9am as inmates began their daily routines after breakfast. He is believed to be convicted child killer Sidonio Teixeira, who was jailed for life in 2007 for killing his three-year-old daughter and trying to kill his son, aged nine.
  
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• Economic Myth Vs Reality Ahead Of EU Vote

  20-06-2016 22:00
  
  The oldest but perhaps the most famous economic nursery story of all, and the one with perhaps the biggest dose of straight-up fiction, relates to the amount Britain pays into the EU Budget. In 2014, the UK's total formal contribution to the EU budget was £18.8bn, which equates to £362m a week, or £52m a day. Leave say Britain would be far better off taking this money and spending it on the NHS or other schemes (they have promised to cut VAT on energy, among other things).
  
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• Steve Bell on a difficult day for Nigel Farage – cartoon

  20-06-2016 21:57
  
  The Ukip leader and Leave campaigner has faced a tough time since unveiling his ‘Breaking point’ posterContinue reading...
  
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• Mass elephant relocation could save populations in parts of Africa

  20-06-2016 21:47
  
  Experts in Malawi will move 500 elephants 185 miles across the country to a sanctuary that will act as a ‘reservoir’Wildlife experts in Malawi will next month start moving up to 500 elephants to a sanctuary that they hope could eventually serve as a reservoir to restore some elephant populations in other parts of Africa where the threatened species has been heavily poached.The massive relocation, slated for completion next year, will involve darting the elephants from a helicopter, h
  
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• Tears In The Commons As MPs Honour Jo Cox

  20-06-2016 21:16
  
  MPs have broken down in tears as the House of Commons met in "heartbreaking sadness" to pay tribute to murdered Labour MP Jo Cox. Bernard Kenny, aged 77, who suffered a serious injury to his abdomen as he tried to help the MP, has been discharged from hospital after treatment. Her husband Brendan and two young children were seated in the gallery overlooking the Commons as speaker after speaker, from all sides of the political divide, spoke warmly of her passion, determination, wisdom and love fo
  
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• Fine words from our MPs, but the best tribute to Jo Cox will be actions | Gaby Hinsliff

  20-06-2016 21:15
  
  The spirit of the Labour MP has united rival politicans in parliament but as she knew, it’s not enough to wring your handsTwo roses marked the terrible empty space on the Commons benches where Jo Cox should have been; one white for Yorkshire, one red for Labour. But the hole she leaves in many lives feels so much harder to fill.Today MPs paid tribute to a fallen colleague. People will say what happened was parliament at its best – serious, dignified, passionate yet unpartisan –
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn says EU must change 'dramatically' if UK votes to stay in

  20-06-2016 21:04
  
  Corbyn faced a grilling from Sky News’s Faisal Islam as well as an audience of voters.
  
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• Russia may face Olympic ban in other sports if Sochi allegations are proved

  20-06-2016 20:54
  
  • Blanket ban may be recommended by Wada, depending on report• Sir Craig Reedie says other federations may follow IAAF’s leadA blanket ban on Russian athletes competing at the Rio Olympics could be recommended by the World Anti-Doping Agency if accusations of state-sponsored doping at Sochi 2014 are proved.Russia’s track and field stars have already been excluded from competing in Rio by the IAAF, and the Wada president, Sir Craig Reedie, said he was minded to create a &ldq
  
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• Jeep that killed Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin was recalled for rollaway risk

  20-06-2016 20:45
  
  SUV that rolled down driveway and killed him was recalled because gear shifters confused drivers, causing the vehicles to roll away unexpectedly, records showThe SUV that rolled down a driveway and killed Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin was being recalled because the gear shifters have confused drivers, causing the vehicles to roll away unexpectedly, government records show.Yelchin, 27, a rising actor best known for playing Chekov in the rebooted series, died on Sunday after his 2015 Jeep Grand Ch
  
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• A roll of the dice? Hasbro to create Monopoly the Musical for Broadway

  20-06-2016 20:39
  
  Toy company is aiming to conquer the Great White Way with a show that it says will do for the board game what The Lego Movie did for colored bricksHasbro has proven to be an asset to Hollywood, thanks to the success of the Transformers franchise, which has grossed well over $3bn worldwide. The American toy company now has it sights set on Broadway, with a musical based on the game Monopoly.The stage adaptation of the popular board game is to be the first of many for Hasbro, according to Variety.
  
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• Cruel summer: how you should use today’s extra daylight – if you must

  20-06-2016 20:38
  
  Today is a once in a lifetime event: the longest day of the year, first day of summer and a full ‘strawberry’ moon – which means it’s time to go outsideStrawberry moon solstice: last seen during 1967’s summer of loveAs if today being Monday wasn’t bad enough, it’s also the longest day of the year. Now, if you’ve spent the last nine months shuttling between your office and your apartment glimpsing only a smidgeon of sunshine in between, all this ext
  
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• Britain would not be able to rejoin EU - Hammond

  20-06-2016 20:38
  By Robin Emmott LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Britain could not rejoin the European Union after leaving because membership requirements would be too onerous, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday. Since becoming a member of the bloc in 1973, Britain has negotiated exclusions from EU laws and membership of the single currency, as well as winning a rebate from the EU's annual budget. If we decide to go, we're gone, forever, no second thoughts, no turning back." Hammond, a former businessman who
  
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• Foreign Hooligans 'Want England Scalps'

  20-06-2016 20:37
  
  English fans at Euro 2016 are being targeted by hooligan gangs linked to European club sides who want to "claim a scalp" by attacking the large travelling support. Sky News understands that police believe English fans have been attacked by "ultras" affiliated to at least four different clubs, and Northern Ireland fans have also faced provocation. British police operating in France have gathered evidence of incidents at all three of England's group matches, and believe there is a pattern of "high
  
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• Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy

  20-06-2016 20:35
  
  Swedish authorities request interview in London mission so they can question WikiLeaks founder over rape allegation Ecuador has received a formal request from the Swedish authorities to interview Julian Assange, inside its London embassy, in a potential breakthrough to the long-running saga.The WikiLeaks founder, 44, is wanted for questioning over a 2010 rape allegation in Sweden, which he has always denied. He has been living inside Ecuador’s UK mission for four years in a bid to avoid ex
  
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• British soldiers ran across my back, claims Iraqi man suing MoD

  20-06-2016 20:30
  
  Man detained after 2003 invasion of Iraq tells high court he believes soldiers who beat and humiliated him were British
  An Iraqi man suing the Ministry of Defence for abuse has told the high court in London that British soldiers beat him and walked on his back after detaining him.The man, whose identity cannot currently be revealed for legal reasons, was detained at his family’s home in Basra weeks after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Continue reading...
  
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• It’s time to call LeBron James what he is: the NBA's greatest ever player

  20-06-2016 20:27
  
  The Cleveland Cavaliers superstar is the rare case of someone with wild promise exceeding expectationsThe first time I saw LeBron James play basketball was during his final year at St Vincent-St Mary High School. By then he was already a national sensation – Sports Illustrated had featured him on the cover months earlier under the headline “The Chosen One” – and his senior season was essentially a barnstorming tour that filled arenas around the country and sated the inten
  
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• MPs convene in tribute to Jo Cox

  20-06-2016 20:13
  By Kylie MacLellan and William James LONDON (Reuters) - When slain MP Jo Cox made her first speech in parliament last year, she said that despite diversity in the area of northern England she represented, people had "far more in common with each other than things that divide us". Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and MPs from all parties praised 41-year-old Cox as a woman who fought hard for causes from women's rights to refugees. "Out of the deep darkness of Jo's death m
  
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• North London gang jailed over failed prison break

  20-06-2016 20:02
  
  Attempt to free Izzet Eren on his way to court on firearms charges was foiled by armed policeA gang who launched a failed bid to free a criminal from a prison van, during which one of their members was killed, have been given sentences of between five and seven years for their part in the raid.
  The attempt to break Izzet Eren, who was being held on firearms offences, out of a prison van as he was being moved from Wormwood Scrubs prison to Wood Green crown court on 11 December 2015 was thwarted i
  
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• Jonny Bairstow set to return as England face selection dilemma against Sri Lanka

  20-06-2016 19:54
  
  • England left with conundrum in absence of injured all-rounder Ben Stokes
  • ‘Ben leaves a huge hole and having him is a luxury,’ says Eoin MorganEngland’s limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan, bucking a trend set by his Test equivalent, Alastair Cook, this summer, opted against naming his side 24 hours before Tuesday’s first one-day international with Sri Lanka, with a genuine selection dilemma his reason for dodging the question, as opposed to deliberate obfuscat
  
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• Italian PM Renzi looks to electoral reform to keep populist M5S at bay

  20-06-2016 19:48
  
  Sunday’s mayoral gains by Beppe Grillo’s internet-based Five Star Movement have heaped pressure on Italian prime ministerMatteo Renzi is not the first government leader to hit mid-term doldrums. And it can be argued that, in Rome especially, the populist, internet-based Five Star Movement (M5S) benefited from a localised protest vote against sleaze. But the setback the M5S inflicted on Italy’s chirpy young prime minister on Sunday could scarcely have been more ill-timed for him
  
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• Zane Gbangbola's father tells inquest how toxic fumes left him paralysed

  20-06-2016 19:47
  
  Kye Gbangbola says he still has no use of his legs after breathing in the gas that killed his seven-year-old son in 2014
  The father of a seven-year-old boy believed to have died from inhaling toxic fumes during severe flooding has described how he was left paralysed from the waist down after breathing in the same gas. Continue reading...
  
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• Funding fear of Muslims: $206m went to promoting 'hatred', report finds

  20-06-2016 19:47
  
  Council on American-Islamic Relations and University of California Berkeley report names 74 groups they say contributed to Islamophobia in the USInciting hate toward American Muslims and Islam has become a multimillion-dollar business, according to a report released on Monday.Released by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) and University of California Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender, the report names 74 groups it says contribute in some way to Islamophobia in the US. Of
  
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• Japanese masks that resemble Jacques Chirac to go on display in Paris

  20-06-2016 19:44
  
  Antique theatre masks will be shown at Musée du quai Branly, due to be renamed in honour of former French presidentThree antique Japanese theatre masks bearing a striking resemblance to the former French president Jacques Chirac are to go on display at a museum in Paris that he set up 10 years ago, which will now bear his name.Jean-Jacques Aillagon, who served as France’s culture minister under Chirac, explained that the late 18th-century masks represent a Japanese theatre character
  
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• Theatre built as tribute to Anglo-French friendship vandalised

  20-06-2016 19:42
  
  Far-right critics of new venue in northern France inspired by Shakespeare’s Globe blamed for graffiti daubed days before it was due to openFrance’s first Shakespearean-style theatre, built as a tribute to the entente cordiale, has been vandalised one week before it was due to open.The New Elizabethan theatre, and the walls of the nearby Chateau d’Hardelot at Condette in northern France, were daubed in orange paint with slogans such as: “Irresponsible politicians”, &
  
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• Swastikas drawn in London playground are attempt to instil fear, says rabbi

  20-06-2016 19:41
  
  Herschel Gluck warns of rise in rightwing extremism after appearance of Nazi symbols in Stamford Hill, north LondonA rabbi has warned of a rise in rightwing extremism after drawings of swastikas were left in a children’s playground in what he described as an attempt to “instil fear”.
  The Nazi symbols have appeared four days in a row at Amhurst Park in Stamford Hill, north London, in one instance being stuck to the back of a car. Continue reading...
  
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• Pound posts biggest rise in eight years as FTSE jumps 3%

  20-06-2016 19:39
  
  Sterling bounces back from weeks of heavy selling as traders react to apparent shift in support towards EU remain voteThe pound posted its biggest one-day rise for almost eight years and the FTSE 100 share index jumped 3% on Monday, as traders reacted to an apparent shift in support towards a remain vote in Thursday’s EU referendum.A shift in opinion polls suggesting the remain camp had regained ground was enough to send the pound soaring. After coming under heavy selling pressure in recen
  
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• Britain's pro-EU camp regains momentum, lifting shares and pound

  20-06-2016 19:20
  By Kylie MacLellan and Jemima Kelly LONDON (Reuters) - The campaign to keep Britain in the European Union appeared to regain the upper hand on Monday, putting the pound on track for its biggest one-day gain in more than seven years and buoying the UK stock market. Sterling rose by as much as 2.4 percent against the dollar on Monday, heading for its biggest one-day rise since December 2008, while Britain's FTSE-100 shares index jumped 3 percent - its biggest one-day gain since mid-February. The k
  
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• Germany dismiss criticism from former captain Michael Ballack as ‘comedy’

  20-06-2016 19:02
  
  • Sami Khedira and Thomas Schneider hit back at ‘side lacks leaders’ claims
  • Mats Hummels: we are focused on Northern Ireland match and topping groupGermany have dismissed criticism from their former captain Michael Ballack, who said the side lacked leaders, as “comedy”. Yet so much for efficiency. Just as the machine seemed to splutter a little on the pitch for Joachim Löw’s side in their goalless draw against Poland, so the run-up to their final gr
  
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• England should play associate members more often, says Eoin Morgan

  20-06-2016 19:00
  
  • ODI captain all for growing the game by providing more exposure
  • Morgan does not see need for 13-team one-day league, howeverEoin Morgan, England’s limited overs captain, is lukewarm on the idea of one-day internationals becoming part of an overall league system but says he would welcome the prospect of spreading the game globally by increasing the number of fixtures against associate nations.The International Cricket Council meets for its annual conference in Edinburgh next w
  
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• Amber Arcades: the war crimes expert who funded her album working shop tills

  20-06-2016 19:00
  
  She has two law degrees and works for the international war crimes tribunal. But Annelotte de Graaf’s Fading Lines has seen her compared to Broadcast and Mazzy Star
  The first thing you notice about Annelotte de Graaf as she ambles through the arcades of Brixton market is how white she is. It’s an almost supernatural, luminous whiteness. When you’re used to being the palest person in the room, as I am, it’s almost shocking to meet someone who makes you feel like you have a
  
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• German prosecutors investigate ex-VW chief over emissions scandal

  20-06-2016 18:58
  
  Braunschweig prosecutor’s office looking into Martin Winterkorn and another senior figure over suspected market manipulationGerman prosecutors have opened an investigation into the former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn over allegations of market manipulation in relation to the company’s diesel emissions scandal. According to the state prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig, there was “sufficient concrete evidence” that Volkswagen had deliberately delayed
  
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• EU referendum: issues savers and homeowners need to consider

  20-06-2016 18:56
  
  With economists warning Brexit could cause the pound tumble and interest rates to rise, here are some of things worth considering before you voteA vote to leave the European Union in the referendum on 23 June could cause the pound to plunge and interest rates to rise, according to some economists. Here are some of the issues that savers, homeowners and investors should consider before voting. Continue reading...
  
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• Piers Morgan makes plea for more sponsorship for Mail column

  20-06-2016 18:49
  
  Speaking at a debate in Cannes, the former Mirror editor touched upon issues including Rupert Murdoch and the EU referendumPiers Morgan has called for more sponsorship for his popular, if controversial Mail Online columns as he predicted huge consolidation in the UK newspaper industry.The call came during a wide-ranging interview with WPP boss, Sir Martin Sorrell, at the Cannes advertising festival, in which the former Daily Mirror editor also said that Rupert Murdoch dictated political views to
  
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• Environmental activist murders set record as 2015 became deadliest year

  20-06-2016 18:45
  
  Global Witness says at least 185 activists were killed and anti-mining activities were the most deadly – with 42 deaths related to protestsAt least 185 environmental activists were killed last year, the highest annual death toll on record and close to a 60% increase on the previous year, according to a UK-based watchdog.
  Global Witness documented lethal attacks across 16 countries. Brazil was worst hit with 50 deaths, many of them killings of campaigners who were trying to combat illegal l
  
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• Human testing of experimental Zika vaccine to begin

  20-06-2016 18:42
  
  Inovio Pharmaceuticals receives FDA clearance to start 40-person studyDNA-based vaccine aims to stimulate antibodies by mimicking Zika virusAn experimental vaccine for the Zika virus is due to begin human testing in coming weeks, after getting the green light from US health officials.Inovio Pharmaceuticals said on Monday it received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to begin early-stage safety tests of its DNA-based vaccine against the mosquito-borne virus. That puts the company ah
  
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• Malcolm Gladwell launches a podcast – to 'finally make people cry'

  20-06-2016 18:41
  
  The king of nonfiction’s new venture, Revisionist History, is intimate, gripping – and has shown him the power of podcasts to ‘move people emotionally’
  What do Elizabeth Thompson Butler, an English 19th-century painter, and former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard have in common? Both were token women in a male world – one in the Royal Academy of the 1870s, the other in 21st-century politics. And both were outsiders who were accepted, only to have the door pro
  
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• Summer solstice: share your photos of the strawberry moon

  20-06-2016 18:35
  
  Summer solstice coincides with a full moon this year - and if you’re lucky enough to have clear skies on Monday night, we’d love to see your photos
  Monday marks the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and astronomical beginning of summer. If we’re particularly lucky, we could witness a rare phenomenon: a strawberry moon - a full moon that marks the start of the strawberry season – coinciding with the solstice for the first time in almost 50 years.We’d love
  
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• Laurent Blanc to leave Paris Saint-Germain before the end of the week

  20-06-2016 18:35
  
  •Jean Pierre Bernès confirms departure of coach after three seasons in charge
  • Unai Emery is favourite to succeed Blanc at Parc des PrincesLaurent Blanc’s agent has confirmed the Paris Saint-Germain coach will leave the club by the end of the week. Related: Unai Emery tells Sevilla he wants to leave amid rumours of PSG moveContinue reading...
  
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• 007 Carmaker‎ Says Brexit To Boost Exports

  20-06-2016 18:35
  
  The boss of Aston Martin, manufacturer of 007's favourite cars, has told employees that a decision to leave the European Union (EU) would make British exports "more competitive". Sky News has seen a memo sent to approximately 1,800 UK staff at Aston Martin, which is jointly owned by Italian and Kuwaiti investment firms, which presents a balanced analysis of the potential impact of Brexit. ‎In the note sent on Monday afternoon, Andy Palmer, the company's chief executive, told workers that whi
  
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• Joseph Wright's Derby homecoming: dazzling, daring – and still in danger

  20-06-2016 18:34
  
  Exclusive: In an audacious coup involving a Manhattan auction house, an anonymous agent and a secret bid, Derby has brought home a pair of masterworks by its star son, even as his wider collection faces the cutJoseph Wright of Derby’s 1766 masterpiece, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, is a painting that shoots you into outer space. So intense is the light glowing on its circle of 18th-century faces from an illuminated model of the solar system, it’s as if we are all orbiting th
  
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• Skin deep - the power of tattoos on the female body

  20-06-2016 18:31
  
  Eleni Stefanou’s photographs of women with tattoos disrupt our ideas of gender and beauty – and challenge ideas about the types of bodies that may be displayedI have met more than 50 women who have decorated their skin with ink. Some of them got their first tattoo impulsively, others planned their design for years until they found the right artist. Some women just like the way tattoos look when they see their reflection in the mirror, others feel a deep conne
  
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• Croatia fined and threatened with ticket ban over Euro 2016 crowd trouble

  20-06-2016 18:27
  
  • Croatian FA fined €100,000 after flares, fights and racism
  • Uefa imposes probationary ban on ticket sales to ‘hooligans’The Croatian Football Federation (NHS) has been fined €100,000 (£77,000) for incidents including the use of fireworks and the racist behaviour of supporters, Uefa has announced. Related: Why did Croatia fans disrupt their Euro 2016 match against Czech Republic?Continue reading...
  
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• Man who groomed Kayleigh Haywood denies attempted sexual assault

  20-06-2016 18:26
  
  Luke Harlow tells jury claim is ‘complete lie’ put forward by man who admits schoolgirl’s murder, Stephen Beadman
  One of two men accused of holding 15-year-old schoolgirl Kayleigh Haywood prisoner before she was murdered has denied trying to sexually assault her while she was asleep at his home.Luke Harlow told a jury that the allegation and a claim that the attempted assault prompted Kayleigh to flee partially clothed into the street were “complete lies” put forwar
  
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