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• British tourists in New York dazed, feeling poorer after Brexit

  24-06-2016 23:58
  By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - British tourists Britain visiting New York awoke Friday to news of their country's vote to leave the European Union and, in daze over the surprise outcome, had to contend immediately with effectively higher costs for everything as the pound plummeted. "Apocalyptic," is how South London resident Greg Rowland, 49, described the referendum results while making his way through the tumult of Times Square. The resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron, effecti
  
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• Euro 2016: Wales and Northern Ireland set for historic last-16 tie in Paris

  24-06-2016 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wales and Northern Ireland bid for their first European Championship quarter-final when they meet in Saturday's last-16 tie.
  
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• Pep Guardiola intervenes to boost Raheem Sterling’s crashing confidence

  24-06-2016 23:30
  
  • New Manchester City manager telephones to say: ‘I’ll fight for you’
  • England forward hurt by criticism of his performances at Euro 2016Pep Guardiola has made a personal intervention to help Raheem Sterling out of the slump that has cost him his place in the England team and left Roy Hodgson feeling reluctant to pick the one attacking player in his Euro 2016 squad who can offer genuine width.Guardiola decided to contact Sterling after hearing that one of the players
  
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• Gareth Bale driven by past and future as Euro 2016 opportunity knocks for Wales

  24-06-2016 23:30
  
  Bale is taking inspiration for last-16 game against Northern Ireland from the exploits of the national team at the 1958 World CupAs Gareth Bale pulls up a chair at the Wales training camp in Brittany and talks about a once-in-a‑lifetime opportunity with his country, the world’s most expensive footballer can also see a bigger picture. For Bale, Euro 2016 is about the future as well as the present, which means creating a legacy that inspires a generation of children back home to put on
  
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• Pacific ocean cool: when American Arts and Crafts met Japanese modernism

  24-06-2016 23:23
  
  The photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto’s images of the pioneering architecture of Greene and Greene have a minimal aesthetic that still looks contemporaryA few months before his death in 2012, photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto requested that his 1974 series on architects Greene and Greene be exhibited in California. The Museum of Art, Kochi, the series’s current home in Japan, is not a lending institution and none of the collection has ever been outside the country until now. At San Marino&
  
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• Barack Obama creates first ever national monument to gay rights

  24-06-2016 23:20
  The US president said the monument would “tell the story of our struggle for LGBT rights”.
  
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• Moody's cuts outlook on UK, maintains on EU after Brexit

  24-06-2016 22:55
  (Reuters) - Ratings agency Moody's on Friday cut its outlook on the United Kingdom's long term debt to 'negative' from 'stable', but maintained its 'stable' outlook on the European Union following the UK's vote to leave the EU. Moody's said the Brexit vote will bring about a period of uncertainty for the UK, with negative implications for the country's medium-term growth outlook.
  
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• Cameron Steps Down As UK Turns Back On EU

  24-06-2016 22:51
  
  David Cameron has resigned as Prime Minister after UK voters made the historic decision to leave the European Union. A tearful Mr Cameron - his wife by his side - said the country needed "fresh leadership" and is understood to have met the Queen this morning at Buckingham Palace. "The British people have voted to leave the European Union and their will must be respected," Mr Cameron said.
  
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• England’s Jason Roy and Alex Hales hammer centuries in rout of Sri Lanka

  24-06-2016 22:23
  
  • Sri Lanka 254-7; England 256-0
  • Both openers make hundreds in 10-wicket ODI victoryThis time there would be no collapse and no last-ball thriller. Instead England served up the most comprehensive 10-wicket win ever witnessed, as Alex Hales and Jason Roy, in plundering unbeaten centuries, knocked off 256 with 95 balls to spare to win the second one-day international with Sri Lanka at a canter.It was simply a brutal exhibition of hitting on an Edgbaston pitch offering far in excess of
  
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• Calais Tells Britain: 'Take Back Your Border'

  24-06-2016 22:09
  
  French politicians are demanding that Britain takes back its border after voting to leave the European Union.
  
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• Turkey warns of rising European xenophobia after Brexit vote

  24-06-2016 22:04
  By Nick Tattersall and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Europe's politicians are failing to combat rising xenophobia and anti-immigrant views, Turkish officials said on Friday, after Britain's vote to exit the European Union deprived Turkey of what had been a major backer in its quest for EU membership. The Brexit campaign and the rise of Europe's populist right have cast further doubt over Turkey's decade-long accession negotiations, a process which was in its early years an anchor for economi
  
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• Lindsay Lohan fumes over #Brexit, Elizabeth Hurley sleeps soundly

  24-06-2016 22:01
  By Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lindsay Lohan went viral on social media in the early hours of Friday. "good luck with the pound.. will take you about 15 years to get it back up #REMAIN instead," Lohan (@LindsayLohan) tweeted to 9.3 million followers as sterling began to plummet and markets came to terms with the fact that British voters had decided they wanted their country to leave the European Union. Lohan wasn't the only celebrity to flaunt economic insights on social media.
  
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• Obama tries to limit fallout from British EU exit vote

  24-06-2016 21:53
  By Roberta Rampton PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday tried to limit the fallout from Britain's vote to leave the European Union, which threatens to harm the U.S. economic recovery, derail his trade agenda and distract U.S. allies from global security issues. Obama said he was sure Britain's exit from the EU would be orderly and vowed that Washington would maintain both its "special relationship" with London and close ties to Brussels.
  
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• British expats on the Costa del Sol concerned by Brexit

  24-06-2016 21:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sarah Rainsford asks British expats on the Costa del Sol what concerns them most about Brexit.
  
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• Senior EU lawmaker urges British EU commissioner to quit

  24-06-2016 21:31
  By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain's European commissioner for financial services, Jonathan Hill, should consider resigning after his country voted to leave the EU, the head of the European Parliament's economic committee said on Friday. Roberto Gualtieri, a centre-left Italian MEP, also said British deputies might need to reconsider senior positions they held in the assembly before Britain formally withdrew from the EU. "I have built a relationship of friendship with Hill but i
  
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• The English have placed a bomb under the Irish peace process | Fintan O’Toole

  24-06-2016 21:25
  
  The vote for Brexit unthinkingly jeopardises the Good Friday Agreement, the greatest modern achievement of British diplomacy. It’s an insult to IrelandThe rather patronising English joke used to be that whenever the Irish question was about to be solved, the Irish would change the question. And now, when the Irish question seemed indeed to have been solved, at least for a generation, it is the English who have changed the question.Recklessly, casually, with barely a thought, English nation
  
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• Sinn Fein calls for Irish unity poll as Brexit fallout begins

  24-06-2016 21:16
  By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's deputy leader Martin McGuinness called on Friday for a vote to unite the two sides of the Irish border as stocks tumbled in the economic and political fallout from Britain's decision to quit the EU. Ireland has the EU's fastest-growing economy but also more to lose from Brexit than any other member state, with far-reaching implications for its trade, economy, security of energy supplies and peace in British-ruled Northern Ireland. After 56
  
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• As a lifelong English European, this is the biggest defeat of my political life | Timothy Garton Ash

  24-06-2016 21:06
  
  The fallout from the referendum vote will pit the two souls in my breast against each other. How did it come to this? Related: Brexit vote sparks scramble for European passports Britain cannot leave Europe any more than Piccadilly Circus can leave London. Europe is where we are, and where we will remain. Britain has always been a European country, its fate inextricably intertwined with that of the continent, and it always will be. But it is leaving the European Union. Why? Continue reading...
  
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• Fight Against Terrorism 'More Difficult' Now

  24-06-2016 21:01
  
  A police and crime commissioner (PCC) for one of the UK's biggest forces claims protecting the public from terrorists will be "more difficult" after the vote to leave the EU. David Jamieson, the Labour PCC for the West Midlands, said in an era of "highly-mobile, tech-savvy" criminals it was essential police and security forces co-operated across national frontiers. Mr Jamieson said the days when criminals operate in a single area or country are long gone.
  
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• British EU exit a model for Trump's campaign, he says

  24-06-2016 21:01
  By Steve Holland TURNBERRY, Scotland (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump thrust himself into the heart of Britain's vote to leave the European Union on Friday, calling it a "great" development and drawing parallels to his own insurgent campaign. In Scotland to reopen a golf resort he owns, the wealthy New York businessman wasted no time interpreting the outcome of the "Brexit" vote as an example of a global uprising against the established order. You see it with Europe, all over
  
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• Martin Rowson on the Brexit vote – cartoon

  24-06-2016 20:52
  
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• Amid 'Brexit' selloff, some fund managers are bargain shopping

  24-06-2016 20:51
  By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) - Britain's unexpected decision to leave the European Union spurred a global stock market selloff that has inspired some opportunistic U.S. investors to move in the opposite direction. Operating on the belief that the initial rout might be an over reaction, even in some European stocks, several fund managers said on Friday they were buying up shares of big blue chips, domestic companies that are insulated from a lot of European activity and even European compa
  
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• This Welsh flag maker has seen a surprising rise in sales after Brexit news

  24-06-2016 20:49
  
  He sold all his EU flags in stock just hours after Britain voted to Leave.
  
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• EU's Juncker says wants to begin negotiating British departure now

  24-06-2016 20:48
  European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he wanted to begin negotiating Britain's departure from the European Union, and there was no reason to wait until October, when Prime Minister David Cameron has said he will resign. "Britons decided yesterday that they want to leave the European Union, so it doesn't make any sense to wait until October to try to negotiate the terms of their departure," Juncker said in an interview with Germany's ARD television station. "I would like to get s
  
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• Labour cannot descend into infighting at this critical moment | John McDonnell

  24-06-2016 20:47
  
  A Brexit vote is a disaster for the economy. My party needs to rally now in defence of working people and their familiesThe Brexit vote has delivered the most enormous shock across the political system. And as the resulting market turmoil demonstrates, it is creating an enormous economic shock too. The greatest danger we face is that this event, under this Conservative government, will be felt across the whole of society and fall most heavily on the most vulnerable. Related: The dispossessed vot
  
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• Man who claimed to have escaped Auschwitz admits he lied for years

  24-06-2016 20:45
  
  Joseph Hirt said he fabricated story of being sent to camp and meeting Nazi doctor Josef Mengele to ‘keep memories alive’ about history of the HolocaustA Pennsylvania man who claimed for years to have escaped from Auschwitz, met track and field star Jesse Owens and Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, confessed on Friday that he had fabricated the entire story.“I am writing today to apologize publicly for harm caused to anyone because of my inserting myself into the descriptions of life
  
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• We need to build a new left. Labour means nothing today

  24-06-2016 20:36
  
  Labour was the right party and the right word for the 20th century – or at least part of it. But now it truly seems a spent force. We need an invigorated left alliance‘7am and woken up to UKIP England. Never cried for my country before. But it isn’t my country anymore. Now we have to build a new Left’This is what I tweeted this morning. And in someone’s reply were the words “nothing left”, which is where we are. The left has nothing and is nothing. Corby
  
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• Ireland says well-placed to lure firms from London post-Brexit

  24-06-2016 19:57
  By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish state agency in charge of attracting foreign investment has been in touch with firms considering relocating from London for months and could now reap the benefits post-Brexit, its chief executive said on Friday. While Ireland is considered to have more to lose than fellow European Union member states by Britain's decision to quit the bloc, the possibility that firms keen to stay in the EU could choose Dublin as their new home offers some potential u
  
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• The leavers really have taken control. That why things are unravelling | Marina Hyde

  24-06-2016 19:53
  
  In the moment of triumph the victors began walking away from their promises – and further disappointments await their disciplesWanting your country back turns out to have been a zero-sum game. Waking up this morning, about 52% of voters felt they’d got it back, and about 48% felt they’d lost it. Yet perhaps in the long reckoning both sides will find they had, in the unspeakably tragic phrase of the hour, more in common than that which divides us. Maybe it’ll be like Clint
  
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• Johanna Konta laughs off Wimbledon injury scare after Eastbourne defeat

  24-06-2016 19:52
  
  • British No1 lost 6-7, 6-3, 6-3 in semi-final to Karolina Pliskova
  • Konta fell in second set but said: ‘I’m fine – it was just a bit of a shock’First she was in tears, then she was smiling and laughing and in the end she was clutching a trophy after being made a lifetime member of Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club. Welcome to the rollercoaster world of Johanna Konta, whose remarkable story took a most unwelcome twist when the British No1 suffered an injury scar
  
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• France says new Europe needed after Brexit 'explosive shock'

  24-06-2016 19:42
  By Ingrid Melander and Richard Lough PARIS (Reuters) - The European Union has suffered an "explosive shock" and must reinvent itself to prevent its break-up and restore the confidence of voters, French leaders said on Friday after Britain voted to quit the bloc. President Francois Hollande must navigate a fine line between tackling French voters' increasing disillusionment with the EU and France's ambition to be in the driving seat alongside the bloc's powerhouse Germany. "Europe must be underst
  
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• Brexit won’t shield Britain from the horror of a disintegrating EU | Yanis Varoufakis

  24-06-2016 19:38
  
  Bringing democrats together across borders is needed now to prevent a slide into a xenophobic, 1930s-like abyssLeave won because too many British voters identified the EU with authoritarianism, irrationality and contempt for parliamentary democracy while too few believed those of us who claimed that another EU was possible. Related: EU referendum live: Britain counts cost of Brexit voteContinue reading...
  
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• Now is the time to reject austerity | Frances Ryan

  24-06-2016 19:34
  
  In pushing for Brexit, the powerful have exploited marginalised people’s fears and needs. The left must help them to take back controlDavid Cameron may soon be unemployed but, as the fallout of Britain’s EU exit begins, we can be assured it will not be the Eton class who will feel the burden.Last month, tax and spending thinktank the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that leaving the European Union would force ministers to extend austerity measures by up to two years. It was clear:
  
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• Has Brexit put a downer on Glastonbury? Reaction from festival-goers – video

  24-06-2016 19:33
  
  Reactions range from ‘it’s fucked my life’ to ‘fantastic – I woke up English’. John Harris talks to Glastonbury revellers waking up to a damp day on Friday and the news that Britain had voted for Brexit. The age gap is apparent: many youngsters say they feel they feel disconnected to half the UK population who voted Leave, while some older Welsh steel workers break into a celebratory song. But one thing they agree on, Coldplay’s performance is unlikely t
  
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• David Cameron resigns: How will the Conservative Party elect its new leader?

  24-06-2016 19:30
  
  There will be a new leader in place by October 2 when the party begins its autumn conference.
  
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• Obama says UK relationship endures despite Brexit

  24-06-2016 19:26
  President Barack Obama said on Friday that strong U.S. ties to Britain and the European Union would endure after British voters chose to leave the EU in a referendum that sent U.S. officials scrambling to contain political and economic fallout. "The people of the United Kingdom have spoken, and we respect their decision," said Obama, who had argued passionately for close NATO ally Britain to stay in the group. "The United Kingdom and the European Union will remain indispensable partners of the U
  
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• 'I hope I don’t live to regret this': Brexit doubts linger at the centre of England

  24-06-2016 19:26
  
  Meriden, West Midlands, has woken up to the EU referendum result – leaving some leave voters overjoyed but others enduring terrors of self-doubt• EU referendum outcome - liveDaybreak in middle England on Friday was warm and cloudless and full of possibilities.Related: Brexit, the fallout and the UK's future: what we know so farContinue reading...
  
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• Generation gap

  24-06-2016 19:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Many young Remain supporters blame older voters for Brexit. Is there really a generational divide?
  
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• A pyrrhic victory? Boris Johnson wakes up to the costs of Brexit

  24-06-2016 19:24
  
  Vote Leave’s poster boy should have been crowing, so why was his post-referendum press conference so subdued?“If we are victorious in one more battle … we shall be utterly ruined.”Like the good intellectual that he’s vigorously pretended not to be of late, Boris Johnson will probably know that line. It’s from the Greek historian Plutarch’s account of the battle that gave us the phrase “pyrrhic victory”, the kind of victory won at such cost t
  
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• Google reveals top UK questions searched since the EU referendum results, and some may surprise you

  24-06-2016 19:15
  
  While many curious nationals were eager to learn what Brexit meant for the country’s future, others had more simple questions to ask.
  
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• 5 young voters who are angry at the decision of older generations to quit the EU

  24-06-2016 19:10
  75% of young people voted to remain, and they’re not happy about the vote.
  
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• Tory leadership tips

  24-06-2016 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Who are the main contenders to succeed David Cameron as Conservative Party leader and prime minister.
  
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• Osborne: I'll 'Do All I Can' To Make Brexit Work

  24-06-2016 19:02
  
  George Osborne has pledged to do all he can to make the outcome of the EU referendum work after briefing G7 finance ministers on the result.
  
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• 'If you've got money, you vote in ... if you haven't got money, you vote out'

  24-06-2016 19:01
  
  Brexit is about more than the EU: it’s about class, inequality, and voters feeling excluded from politics. So how do we even begin to put Britain the right way up?“If you’ve got money, you vote in,” she said, with a bracing certainty. “If you haven’t got money, you vote out.” We were in Collyhurst, the hard-pressed neighbourhood on the northern edge of Manchester city centre last Wednesday, and I had yet to find a remain voter. The woman I was talking to
  
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• 'Independence Day'

  24-06-2016 18:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What Brexit looked like on social media - a round-up of best content
  
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• England Rugby Star Convicted Of Drink-Driving

  24-06-2016 18:37
  
  An England rugby union star has been convicted of drink-driving after a night out in London that ended with him crashing his Mercedes car into a taxi. Danny Cipriani was so drunk his eyes were "glazed", he slurred his words and could not stand straight, Westminster magistrates heard. The Wasps fly-half, then with Sale Sharks, was breathalysed after the crash in Imperial Road, Fulham, and found to have 67 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of breath - twice the drink-drive limit.
  
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• 'Now we can look forward to a good good Great Britain' – video

  24-06-2016 18:36
  
  Mat Heywood travelled to Ramsgate in Kent, to take reactions from people in the town centre. Ramsgate is in the parliamentary constituency of South Thanet where Ukip leader Nigel Farage came in a close second to the conservatives at the last election, and is seen as one of Ukip’s strongest areas Continue reading...
  
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• Divided Britons in shock after EU vote

  24-06-2016 18:19
  By Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Elisabeth O'Leary LONDON/EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Britons reacted with shock on Friday to their country's decision to leave the European Union, whether they welcomed "independence" day or were horrified by the outcome. The vote, after a bitter campaign, split the country along several faultlines, old vs young, England and Wales vs Scotland and Northern Ireland and people in northern England suffering economic hardship vs richer city dwellers in the south. It went down
  
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• Did you vote leave in the UK's EU referendum? Tell us why

  24-06-2016 18:15
  
  Britain has voted to leave the EU. Tell us why you voted leave, and how you feel about the resultBritain has voted to leave the European Union in a historic vote which saw more than 30 million people turn out to vote - the highest turnout at a UK-wide vote since 1992.Despite last minute opinion polling showing a swing to remain just 16,141,241 people to remain a member of the EU, compared to 17,410,742 who voted to leave.Continue reading...
  
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• Man Held On Suspicion Of Melanie Hall Murder

  24-06-2016 18:14
  
  A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Melanie Hall, who went missing after a night out with friends in Bath in 1996. Ms Hall, 25, was last seen sitting on a stool at the edge of a dance floor at Cadillacs nightclub in Walcot Street in the early hours of 9 June, 1996. Earlier this month Ms Hall's parents offered a £50,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person or people responsible for her murder.
  
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