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• Poll shows Remain ahead with 54 percent in UK's EU vote - Ipsos MORI boss

  23-06-2016 23:53
  LONDON (Reuters) - The "Remain" camp has an eight-point lead over those who want Britain to leave the European Union, according to a poll by Ipsos MORI, the firm's chief executive said on Thursday, shortly after voting in the country's EU membership referendum ended. "We have carried on polling and have 54 Remain v 46 Leave today/yesterday," Ben Page, CEO of Ipsos MORI said in a message on Twitter. (Reporting by Freya Berry; editing by William Schomberg)
  
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• LeBron James joins Stephen Curry in pulling out of USA team at Olympics

  23-06-2016 23:45
  
  Cavaliers star says he needs a rest after long NBA seasonNBA finals MVP won Cleveland its first sports title in 52 years One of the world’s biggest sports star will not appear at this summer’s Olympics after LeBron James confirmed he will not play for the US basketball team.James is coming off a long season, in which he led the Cleveland Cavaliers to the NBA title, winning the city its first major sports title in 52 years. “I could use the rest,” James told cleveland.com.
  
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• David Cameron faces tense night as polls close in historic EU vote

  23-06-2016 23:42
  
  The Prime Minister’s reign could be ended by a win for the Leave vote.
  
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• With no EU referendum exit poll, when will the result be announced?

  23-06-2016 23:39
  
  With no exit polls, if you are desperate to know whether Britain will leave the EU you’ll need to be up and alert from 2amEuropean Union referendum results – live coverageEU referendum results – live trackerAre you stockpiling gummy sweets and black coffee for the night of the referendum, but concerned you don’t know when to take the breaks for power naps? Here’s how we expect the night to play out, from the leave heartlands of the northern counties and the east coa
  
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• EU Referendum: Sky News On-The-Night Guide

  23-06-2016 23:39
  
  The polls close at 10pm, there is an exit poll (which is normally very reliable), the first results start coming in about an hour or so later (usually Sunderland) and, provided the early incoming results are consistent with the exit poll, you can often get a sense of the likely result pretty soon. The EU referendum will be different. For a start, there is no official broadcasters exit poll – not because we couldn't afford it but because there was no way it could have been a fraction as acc
  
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• Iceland’s Ragnar Sigurdsson warns England: ‘We believe we can beat you’

  23-06-2016 23:30
  
  • Sigurdsson: ‘We do not back down for anyone’
  • Iceland players hailed their England encounter ‘a dream come true’Ragnar Sigurdsson has warned Iceland will not back down when facing England in Monday’s Euro 2016 last-16 tie, despite their excitement causing them to shout “we’re playing England!” following the victory over Austria at the Stade de France.Iceland qualified for the knockout stage as the second place side in Group F following
  
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• YouGov poll puts 'In' camp in lead after Britons vote on EU - Sky

  23-06-2016 23:29
  The campaign to keep Britain in the European Union appears to be ahead in Thursday's EU membership referendum, according to polling firm YouGov which surveyed people about how they voted, Sky News reported. A YouGov online poll of nearly 4,800 people found 52 percent of respondents said they voted to remain in the EU and 48 percent voted to leave, Joe Twyman, YouGov's head of political and social research for Europe, told Sky News.
  
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• Heather Watson needs fresh Wimbledon magic to eclipse glorious failure | Jacob Steinberg

  23-06-2016 23:29
  
  The British No2’s Centre Court defeat to Serena Williams in 2015 remains her most memorable performance – that’s something she hopes to change this yearWhen they pick the names out of the hat on Friday morning, Heather Watson’s mantra can be summed up in three words: Anybody But Serena. She is probably not alone in hoping to avoid the best player in the world when the draw for Wimbledon is made but it is not just a lack of masochism that informs Watson’s line of thi
  
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• Poor Cow review – Ken Loach's debut masterpiece, still so fresh and artful

  23-06-2016 23:15
  
  Loach’s 1967 drama is vividly evocative of its time and place, with superb performances and an effortless scene-by-scene swingKen Loach’s Poor Cow from 1967 – his debut film, in fact – now looks more than ever like his key early masterpiece. It has an extraordinary freshness and openness, and an effortless scene-by-scene swing in the story that hardly seems like a story at all. To see it rereleased on the cinema screen after 50 years is a vividly detailed time-capsule exp
  
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• UKIP's Farage says looks like Remain to win EU vote - Sky News

  23-06-2016 23:11
  LONDON (Reuters) - UKIP leader Nigel Farage, a key figure calling for Britain to leave the European Union, has said it looks like the Remain camp will win Thursday's referendum, the campaigner told Sky News on Thursday. Sterling rose after Farage, who has long campaigned to leave the EU, said it "looks like Remain will edge it". Polls have now closed for the vote. (Reporting By Freya Berry; editing by Mark John)
  
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• Prince Harry hails inspirational young leaders at Buckingham Palace award ceremony

  23-06-2016 23:08
  
  The Queen’s Young Leaders Awards celebrate exceptional young people from the Commonwealth who are using their skills to change lives.
  
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• The referendum campaigns have revealed a fractured country

  23-06-2016 23:00
  
  With more and more Britons seeing themselves as underdogs, unheard by politicians, both parties will have to work hard to reach out to themEuropean Union referendum results – live coverageEU referendum results – live trackerIt was a day of sudden, torrential downpours that felt as if nature was echoing politics. We waded through floods and queued at polling stations and argued on Twitter about whether to use a pen and risk invalidating our vote, or pencil and risk, it was rumoured, M
  
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• Stranded commuters face race to vote in EU referendum as bad weather causes travel chaos

  23-06-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  COMMUTERS in London and the south are facing a race against time to cast their vote in today's historic EU referendum, as heavy rain, thunderstorms and flooding wreaked havoc with public transport.
  
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• Volkswagen to settle emissions cheating scandal for more than $10.2bn

  23-06-2016 22:27
  
  Sources say agreement would compensate 482,000 owners but automaker still has to settle foreign suits as US justice department conducts separate inquiryVolkswagen has agreed to pay US vehicle owners an average of about $5,000 apiece to settle claims from its diesel emissions cheating scandal, two people briefed on the matter said on Thursday. The total price tag for the repayments and other fines is said to exceed $10.2bn.
  The company will still have to settle foreign suits over allegations that
  
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• Alex Dowsett and Hayley Simmonds win titles at British TT championships

  23-06-2016 22:21
  
  • Dowsett’s success was his fifth national TT title since 2011
  • Hayley Simmonds defends her elite women’s crownAlex Dowsett claimed victory in the elite men’s race at the 2016 British time trial national championships in Stockton-on-Tees on Thursday. Related: Mark Cavendish set to be confirmed for controversial Rio Olympics ridesContinue reading...
  
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• Steve Bell on Donald Trump's Scotland visit – cartoon

  23-06-2016 22:09
  
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• Becoming Zlatan review – insightful portrait of a footballing colossus

  23-06-2016 22:00
  
  Far from the kind of hagiography such endeavours often turn out to be, this is a thorough and considered film about the extraordinary playerWith a clothing line in the shops, a transfer to Manchester United in the air, and his retirement from the international stage confirmed, now is a pretty good time to release a documentary about Zlatan Ibrahimović, that contemporary colossus of the modern game. And – rather to Ibrahimovic’s credit, it has to be said – this film, made b
  
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• Tempers flare as torrential rain strands commuters in London

  23-06-2016 21:53
  
  Many voiced concern that they might not make it home in time to vote.
  
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• Rita Ora raid suspect had £3,500 cash at home

  23-06-2016 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A MAN accused of taking part in a £200,000 raid on pop star Rita Ora’s house had £3,500 in cash stashed in a sofa bed when arrested, a court heard today.
  
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• The CGI monsters of Independence Day will never haunt the imagination | Catherine Shoard

  23-06-2016 21:18
  
  The best horror films suggest threat and withhold bogeymen. Give me a card-and-goo Alien, not the virtual-reality beasties of the Independence Day sequelLast Thursday I went to Belfast and Basra. I did this in Kent, at a massive abandoned army camp sold off by the Ministry of Defence and now earmarked for 5,000 new homes. In fact there are already a handful of houses on the site, constructed by the army in the 70s and 80s for bomb disposal and combat reconnaissance training, and now colonised by
  
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• Donald Trump forgives more than $50m in personal loans to campaign

  23-06-2016 21:13
  
  Presumptive Republican nominee’s team says he has ‘fully extinguished’ loans to presidential campaign but FEC records show it’s closer to $45m Donald Trump’s presidential campaign announced on Thursday that the presumptive Republican nominee had “fully extinguished” his loans to his presidential campaign.
  The Trump campaign announced the loans totaled more than $50m, although the Federal Election Commission (FEC) only lists $45,703,185 loaned by the cand
  
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• Woman police boss is jailed for £2.5m scam

  23-06-2016 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A WOMAN police manager who helped a garage owner to win vehicle recovery contracts worth £2.5million has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs about anticipation

  23-06-2016 21:00
  
  Make your nomination in the comments and a reader will pick the best eligible tracks for a playlist next week. You have until Monday 27 JuneDo you have in mind a song that fits the theme? Then what are you waiting for? We anticipate a heap of recommendations, but you’ll have to stick around til next week to see if they make the final rundown.
  You have until 11pm on Monday 27 June to post your nomination and make your justification. Regular RR contributor suzi will then select from your rec
  
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• Labour’s traditional voters no longer share its progressive values | Matthew Goodwin

  23-06-2016 20:59
  
  Today’s working class care more about community, solidarity and belonging. With Ukip in the wings, the party risks becoming unelectable
  • EU referendum polling day – live updates
  • With no exit poll, when is the result announced? Towards the end of the 1990s some Labour insiders began to notice that economically disaffected working-class voters were drifting into political apathy. After the high of Tony Blair’s landslide election in 1997, Labour’s vote dropped b
  
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• If referendums are the answer, we’re asking the wrong question | Martin Kettle

  23-06-2016 20:53
  
  We have tested this kind of politics to destruction. The results have been less clarity and more division
  • EU referendum polling day – live updates
  • With no exit poll, when is the result announced?Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive? I don’t think many will feel the same way that William Wordsworth did about the French revolution when they look back on June 2016 and our referendum on Europe. For this was no springtime of peoples, no logical debate in Plato’s repub
  
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• Buenos Aires zoo to close after 140 years: 'Captivity is degrading'

  23-06-2016 20:51
  
  2,500 animals will be moved to nature reserves in Argentina, mayor saidZoo will become educational ecopark and refuge for trafficked animalsBuenos Aires has announced plans to close down its 140-year-old zoo, arguing that keeping wild animals in captivity and on display is degrading. Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta said that the zoo’s 2,500 animals will be gradually moved to nature reserves in Argentina which can provide a more suitable environment. The 44-acre zoo in the Palermo ne
  
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• A question for Steven Spielberg: is there room for a second Indiana Jones?

  23-06-2016 20:46
  
  Star Wars-style torch-passing won’t work for the adventurer – a successful reboot might require pitching young and old versions of Indy across multiple timelinesAmong all the fuss over Disney’s $4.05bn purchase of Star Wars rights holder Lucasfilm in October 2012 – remember all those terrible shots of George Lucas fighting Mickey Mouse and Darth Pluto with lightsabers? – it was largely overlooked that the studio had also picked up the rights to a certain slightly be
  
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• Bomb fears as town centre evacuated

  23-06-2016 20:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FAMILIES have been evacuated and parts of Dunstable town centre in Bedfordshire closed off by police after a suspicious package was found.
  
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• Husband in fight for life after head-on collision with a car driven by his wife

  23-06-2016 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A MOTORIST was fighting for his life last night after crashing head-on into a car driven by his wife, who was seriously injured.
  
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• Dominic Chappell accused of treating BHS money as his own

  23-06-2016 20:34
  
  Former owner claims CEO Darren Topp is ‘deliberately lying to discredit me’ with allegations made in submission to MPs Dominic Chappell, the former owner of BHS, tried to pay for a family holiday to the Bahamas on company expenses and took a £90,000 loan from the department store chain to pay a personal tax bill, according to evidence submitted to MPs. Related: Why was Dominic Chappell so relaxed about the hole in BHS's pension fund?Continue reading...
  
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• Which football stars are going home after the group stages?

  23-06-2016 20:28
  We make our own starting XI of stars headed home.
  
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• Gran’s death raises fears over hospital’s weekend staff levels

  23-06-2016 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A CORONER has expressed concern about a hospital’s weekend staffing levels after a grandmother died following routine hernia surgery.
  
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• EU referendum voters wade through water as floods hit south-east

  23-06-2016 20:15
  
  Torrential rain causes severe travel delays and floods in south-east England – but balmy conditions prevail in north European Union referendum results – live coverageEU referendum results – live trackerSouth-east England faces further thunderstorms overnight after downpours disrupted voting in the EU referendum, flooded homes and caused severe travel delays.Thousands of commuters were stuck at Waterloo station as trains were either delayed or cancelled because of flooding, with
  
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• Man 'driven mad by mother' jailed for stabbing pregnant partner

  23-06-2016 20:05
  
  Babur Raja attacked Natalie Queiroz in Sutton Coldfield town centre after his mother told him to choose between themA man who repeatedly stabbed his pregnant partner after pressure from his disapproving mother “tipped him over the edge” has been jailed for 18 years.
  Babur Raja, 41, admitted attempted murder, attempted child destruction, possession of a knife in public and the wounding and assault of two passersby after the attack in Sutton Coldfield town centre on 4 March. Continue r
  
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• Parents of 'Jihadi Jack' to stand trial next year accused of funding terrorism

  23-06-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE parents of the Muslim convert known as 'Jihadi Jack' will stand trial in January accused of funding terrorism.
  
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• Will your driverless car be willing to kill you to save the lives of others?

  23-06-2016 20:00
  
  Survey reveals the moral dilemma of programming autonomous vehicles: should they hit pedestrians or avoid and risk the lives of occupants?There’s a chance it could bring the mood down. Having chosen your shiny new driverless car, only one question remains on the order form: whether your spangly, futuristic vehicle be willing to kill you?To buyers more accustomed to talking models and colours, the query might sound untoward. But for manufacturers of autonomous vehicles (AVs), the dilemma it
  
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• 10 things we’ve learned from the EU referendum campaign | Deborah Orr

  23-06-2016 20:00
  
  The past weeks have revealed that the Tories are in a mess and so is Labour, and no one likes the eurozone – but that we plucky Brits are OKEuropean Union referendum results – live coverageEU referendum results – live trackerNot knowing about things is the new knowing about things. Most experts insisted withdrawal from the EU would bring a lot of pain for the UK and very little else. This being an unwelcome downer, a great enthusiasm for the idea that sheer weight of informed i
  
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• Chaos, caution and fairytales – is Euro 2016 about to catch fire?

  23-06-2016 19:59
  
  By fluke rather than a questionable format Uefa has ended up with a mouth-watering knockout stage that could yet paper over the tournament’s cracksFor much of its first fortnight Euro 2016 felt like a party that, for completely understandable reasons, the hosts did not much want to hold.As though hovering behind their guests with a dustpan and brush, repeatedly checking the clock to see when it would be polite to ask them to leave and turning the music down whenever possible, organisers ha
  
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• Voters are being urged not to use pens in case the ink 'smudges'

  23-06-2016 19:55
  
  After one council warned against the use of a pen, witty voters have been sharing alternative ways to mark that cross on a ballot paper.
  
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• Colombia and Farc rebels sign historic ceasefire deal to end 50-year conflict

  23-06-2016 19:54
  
  Final peace deal will require approval in referendum but formal cessation of hostilities and Farc’s acceptance of disarmament are key steps toward resolutionA timeline of the half-century of conflict that led to the peace dealThe Colombian government and Farc guerrillas have declared the final day of one of the world’s oldest wars with the signing of a ceasefire agreement to end more than 50 years of bloodshed.Related: Colombia's half-century of conflict that led to historic peace de
  
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• Billy Bragg leads tributes to MP Jo Cox at Glastonbury festival

  23-06-2016 19:49
  
  Singer leads festivalgoers in rendition of We Shall Overcome, accompanied by women wearing suffragette ribbonsThousands of voices rang out across Glastonbury festival as campers joined in song to pay tribute to MP Jo Cox.The singer Billy Bragg led festivalgoers in a solemn version of We Shall Overcome, as people spilled around the sides of the packed Park stage to celebrate her life. He was joined on stage by Emily Eavis, carrying her newborn baby, and hundreds of women – many wearing the
  
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• Germany shooting: man killed after opening fire at cinema in Viernheim

  23-06-2016 19:47
  
  Police say no one else injured after man reportedly took several people hostage in town near FrankfurtAn armed and masked man has been shot dead by German special police officers after storming a cinema complex in Viernheim, in the Hesse region.The gunman had taken several hostages, all of whom escaped uninjured. A number of people inside the cinema were lightly injured when police deployed CS gas, reports said. Continue reading...
  
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• The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians: ‘When there is violence, you have to make music'

  23-06-2016 19:40
  
  With war ravaging their homeland, the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians has been scattered across the globe. But five years since the violence erupted, the group are reuniting for a cathartic tour – and opening GlastonburyFive years ago, the 90-strong Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music drew stars from Plácido Domingo to Gorillaz to perform with them at their home in Damascus Opera House. Today, with the bitter civil war still raging, its musicians are scattered across the globe.
  
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• Beware a boring Donald Trump. He’s more dangerous than a maverick one | Simon Jenkins

  23-06-2016 19:36
  
  The presidential candidate’s outrageous traits are being toned down. It will damage his authenticity, but he might yet winDonald Trump’s arrival in the UK, at a seminal moment in British history, may seem like Satan gatecrashing the Day of Judgment. But he is just opening a golf course. It’s a free country.More intriguing is the gradual de-monsterising of Trump the phenomenon. The US media have seen him as an outrageous buffoon, a menace, an incipient tyrant, a creation of
  
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• Man jailed over sexual attacks in south London

  23-06-2016 19:34
  
  Mehdi Midani to be deported after serving sentence for attacks on lone women over 10-day period in Clapham and Brixton
  A man who carried out a 10-day campaign of sexual attacks has been jailed for eight years.Mehdi Midani, 28, an Algerian who was in the UK illegally, preyed on eight lone women aged between 20 and 30 in south London, including four who he attacked in the space of four hours in October. Continue reading...
  
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• Led Zeppelin cleared of stealing riff for Stairway to Heaven

  23-06-2016 19:34
  
  Los Angeles jury finds Robert Plant and Jimmy Page did not steal the most famous passage from the 1971 anthem from the band SpiritLed Zeppelin has defeated a lawsuit that accused the band of stealing the opening riff in Stairway to Heaven, and cemented its place in rock’s pantheon.A jury in Los Angeles on Thursday cleared Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of pinching arguably the most famous riff of the most famous anthem in rock. Continue reading...
  
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• Fight against Isis in Iraq could displace millions more people, UN says

  23-06-2016 19:21
  
  Aid organisations call for help in assisting those fleeing combat zones, as slow progress in retaking Falluja underlines difficulty in defeating the militants
  The United Nations has warned that fighting against Islamic State in Iraq could force up to 2.3 million people from their homes this year, as the battle for Falluja grinds on days after Baghdad officially declared victory.Related: The battle for Falluja: 'If they lose it, Isis is finished'Continue reading...
  
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• Man Who Tried To Murder Pregnant Partner Jailed

  23-06-2016 19:20
  
  Babur Raja carried out a "horrific, premeditated, persistent knife attack" on Natalie Querioz, Judge Simon Drew QC said. Raja, 41, claimed that he was "overwhelmed" with stress because his mother disapproved of his relationship with a non-Muslim woman. The judge at Birmingham Crown Court accepted he was under "great stress" and was forced to choose between the two but said the offences were "carefully planned" for at least two days.
  
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• Voices ring out across Glastonbury as festival-goers pay tribute to MP Jo Cox

  23-06-2016 19:15
  
  Singer Billy Bragg led festival goers in a solemn tribute to Jo Cox at Glastonbury. He was joined on stage by Emily Eavis.
  
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• Devon man jailed for life after murdering partner of 40 years

  23-06-2016 19:03
  
  Edgar Fairhurst, 74, to serve at least 20 years in prison after being convicted of murdering Marjorie Elphick, 83A retired scientist who murdered his partner in a row over a duvet has been jailed for life, police said.Edgar Fairhurst, 74, will serve a minimum of 20 years in jail after being convicted of murdering Marjorie Elphick, 83.Continue reading...
  
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