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• UK parties head for leadership battles amid Brexit fallout

  29-06-2016 23:48
  By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - The Labour Party headed for a leadership battle, mirroring a fight for control of the ruling Conservative Party, as the decision by voters to leave the European Union spread turmoil in Westminster. Angela Eagle, a senior Labour MP, will announce on Thursday that she will challenge leader Jeremy Corbyn who has been facing a growing revolt within the party, media reports said on Wednesday. Eagle, a former pensions minister, quit as Labour's top business offi
  
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• Ab Fab Movie Beyond Saunders' 'Wildest Dreams'

  29-06-2016 23:37
  
  Comedian Jennifer Saunders has described an Absolutely Fabulous movie premiere in London's Leicester Square as being beyond her "wildest dreams".
  
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• Michael Gove's wife wants him to make a deal with Boris Johnson before promising any leadership support

  29-06-2016 23:27
  
  Newspaper columnist Sarah Vine accidentally sent an email with her concerns about Boris’ leadership bid to a member of the public.
  
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• Where does Jeremy Corbyn stand after another difficult day for the Labour leader?

  29-06-2016 23:08
  
  Things aren’t getting any easier for Corbyn and his supporters.
  
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• BNP Denies Making Leaflets Criticising Jo Cox

  29-06-2016 22:03
  
  The British National Party (BNP) has denied producing a leaflet encouraging hate crime against Muslims, as a report shows such crimes are on the rise. The political party was accused of posting leaflets near the West Yorkshire town where Labour MP Jo Cox was killed, accusing her of taking "misguided action" by "helping Muslims". Labour MP Paula Sherriff told the Commons that the leaflets said Mrs Cox, who was shot and stabbed in Birstall on 16 June, had been "helping Muslims in the country
  
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• Ex-BHS Owner In 'Nicking Money' Claim Row

  29-06-2016 22:00
  
  Sir Philip Green has demanded an apology after an MP leading a probe into the collapse of BHS accused his Arcadia empire of "nicking money". Frank Field, chairman of the Work and Pensions committee, called for a "very large cheque" from the Green family to fill the pensions black hole left by the retailer's collapse this year and said the City was furious with Arcadia's behaviour. But Sir Philip said it was an "outrageous outburst" and that "accusing me and my family of theft is totally false an
  
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• MP Eagle to challenge Corbyn for Labour leadership - media

  29-06-2016 21:26
  An MP from the Labour Party, Angela Eagle, will announce on Thursday that she will bid for the leadership of the party amid a broad revolt against current leader Jeremy Corbyn, media reports said. Eagle, a former pensions minister, quit as Labour's top business official on Tuesday, one of more than 20 people to resign from Corbyn's opposition policy team. Many Labour MPs are angry at Corbyn for what they see as his lacklustre performance in the campaign to keep Britain in the EU.
  
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• EU tells UK single market access requires full free movement

  29-06-2016 21:09
  By William James and Paul Taylor LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders met for the first time without Britain on Wednesday less than a week after it voted to leave, delivering a tough message that London can access the bloc's lucrative single market only if it agrees to allow free movement for EU workers. Last week's shock referendum vote to leave the EU has caused global financial market turmoil, sent the pound sterling tumbling and wiped billions off the value of British shares. B
  
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• Angela Eagle to challenge Labour leader Corbyn, BBC says

  29-06-2016 20:55
  LONDON (Reuters) - An MP from the Labour Party, Angela Eagle, will announce on Thursday that she plans to make a bid for the leadership of the party, amid a broad revolt against Jeremy Corbyn, its current leader, BBC television reported on Wednesday. Eagle quit as Labour's top business official on Tuesday, one of more than 20 people to resign from Corbyn's policy team. Many Labour MPs are angry at Corbyn for what they see as his lacklustre performance in Britain's European Union referendum campa
  
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• 'Exponential Growth' In Anti-Muslim Hate Crime

  29-06-2016 20:40
  
  The British National Party (BNP) has denied producing a leaflet encouraging hate crime against Muslims, as a report shows such crimes are on the rise. The political party was accused of posting leaflets near the West Yorkshire town where Labour MP Jo Cox was killed, accusing her of taking "misguided action" by "helping Muslims". Labour MP Paula Sherriff told the Commons that the leaflets said Mrs Cox, who was shot and stabbed in Birstall on 16 June, had been "helping Muslims in the country
  
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• Syrian refugee hands in €150,000 he found in donated wardrobe

  29-06-2016 20:38
  
  Police said that he deserves “great respect”.
  
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• Brexit campaigner Grayling says not in EU interest to give UK a bad deal

  29-06-2016 20:37
  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will clinch a deal to allow it wide access to European Union markets after Brexit because Germany and France do not want to impose limits that could hurt their biggest industries, leading Brexit campaigner Chris Grayling told Reuters. Grayling, a member of Prime Minister David Cameron's top team, said he expected Britain to have informal talks with the EU about its future relationship before triggering Article 50, which he said should only be done on
  
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• 'For heaven's sake man, go!' Cameron tells Labour leader Corbyn

  29-06-2016 20:35
  Prime Minister David Cameron, who promised to resign after Britain voted to leave the European Union, had some advice for his opposite number in the Labour Party on Wednesday: "For heaven's sake man, go!" An overwhelming majority of Labour MPs passed a no confidence motion in Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday and almost all his senior policy team have withdrawn their support in protest at his leadership, but Corbyn has refused to step down. Cameron, speaking in parliament, said it was not in the national
  
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• Conservative MP Liam Fox to announce leadership bid on Thursday

  29-06-2016 20:35
  LONDON (Reuters) - Former Defence Secretary Liam Fox will formally announce his bid to succeed Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday, he told radio station LBC on Wednesday. Asked whether he would be launching his bid on Thursday, he said: "I will." Fox will become the second candidate to run for the leadership of the ruling Conservative Party after Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb announced his candidacy earlier on Wednesday. Cameron announced last Friday that he would
  
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• That MEP who facepalmed during Nigel Farage's European Parliament speech has explained his reaction

  29-06-2016 20:11
  
  The man behind the hand speaks out.
  
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• Scottish leader's plea to stay in Europe rebuffed in Brussels

  29-06-2016 19:28
  By Alastair Macdonald and Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon got a "sympathetic" hearing in Brussels on Wednesday as she pleaded her case for Scots to stay in the EU, showing how Britain's vote to leave the bloc could splinter the United Kingdom. Outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron flew home after briefing his 27 peers on Tuesday evening on last week's referendum defeat. Pro-independence leader Sturgeon has said that Scotland, where voters backed staying in the E
  
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• How does a Labour leadership contest work?

  29-06-2016 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A short animation explaining the process to elect a new Labour Party leader.
  
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• Brexit: EU says no compromise on freedom of movement

  29-06-2016 19:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There can be no pick and choose in the single market, EU leaders meeting in Brussels say, after discussing the UK vote to leave.
  
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• Brexit makes government fix to Tata steel pension plan elusive

  29-06-2016 19:15
  By Maytaal Angel and Barbara Lewis LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A government overhaul of the British Steel Pension Scheme - crucial to convincing anyone to buy Tata's British assets – is in jeopardy after Britons' vote to leave the European Union deepened the fund's debts and depleted its assets, analysts and industry sources said. Pension trustees said they were in talks to assess the impact of last week's decision, which sources said already raised the risk Tata Steel's giant Port Talbot
  
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• Tom Watson 'won't contest Labour leadership'

  29-06-2016 19:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson says Jeremy Corbyn's position is untenable and he is trying to persuade him to quit - but won't be challenging him.
  
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• All of the 26 children lost in the Brecon Beacons have been found

  29-06-2016 19:06
  
  A major search operation was sparked when 26 Duke of Edinburgh students disappeared in low cloud and torrential rain.
  
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• Brexit campaigner says not in EU interest to give UK a bad Brexit deal

  29-06-2016 18:51
  It is not in the European Union's interests to give Britain a bad deal in its Brexit negotiations because it is an essential market for many EU states' key industries, leading Brexit campaigner Chris Grayling told Reuters. "At the end of the day, money and jobs talk," Grayling, a Conservative lawmaker and a member of Prime Minister David Cameron's top team, told Reuters in an interview. "This is not about the United Kingdom knocking on the door and saying 'please what about us?' - this is a real
  
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• Conservative lawmaker Liam Fox to announce leadership bid on Thursday

  29-06-2016 18:46
  LONDON (Reuters) - Former British Defence Secretary Liam Fox will formally announce his bid to succeed Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday, he told radio station LBC on Wednesday. Asked whether he would be launching his bid on Thursday, he said: "I will." Fox will become the second candidate to run for the leadership of the ruling Conservative Party after Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb announced his candidacy earlier on Wednesday. Cameron announced last Friday that h
  
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• 'For heaven's sake man, go!' PM Cameron tells Labour leader Corbyn

  29-06-2016 18:39
  Prime Minister David Cameron, who promised to resign after Britain voted to leave the European Union, had some advice for his opposite number in the Labour Party on Wednesday: "For heaven's sake man, go!" An overwhelming majority of Labour lawmakers passed a no confidence motion in Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday and almost all his senior policy team have withdrawn their support in protest at his leadership, but Corbyn has refused to step down. Cameron, speaking in parliament, said it was not in the na
  
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• Brexit: Martin McGuinness 'to press case' for NI's EU status

  29-06-2016 18:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Martin McGuinness says he does not accept Northern Ireland cannot maintain any kind of special status within the EU after the UK withdraws from it.
  
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• Chagos islanders cannot return home, says Supreme Court

  29-06-2016 18:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former residents of the Chagos Islands who were forcibly removed from their homeland lose their appeal to the UK's Supreme Court to return home.
  
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• FTSE 100 closes above pre-Brexit level

  29-06-2016 18:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The FTSE 100 has surged through the level it closed at last Thursday recovering all of the ground it had lost in the wake of the Brexit vote.
  
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• Children Missing In Brecon Beacons Are Found

  29-06-2016 18:24
  
  A group of schoolchildren who went missing in the Brecon Beacons in atrocious weather conditions have been found and taken to hospital for a check-up. Landlord Andy Maglaras said the youngsters, believed to be on a school trip, have been located and rescuers were bringing them to safety. Mr Maglaras said: "We are just waiting for them to come down, they are up on a trail.
  
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• All missing children found after Brecon Beacons search

  29-06-2016 18:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mountain rescue teams find all of the 26 children who got lost in the Brecon Beacons.
  
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• 'Praised to grave,' loser Cameron slides out of Brussels

  29-06-2016 17:53
  By Elizabeth Piper and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - It had been billed as David Cameron's most awkward summit, a time when he would be forced to rake over the mistakes which led to Britain voting to leave the European Union. "Don't blame other people for your own failures," one senior EU official said of Cameron's complaints over migration policy, noting that Britain had long wanted cheap east European labour.
  
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• Ex-Defence Secretary Fox says he will stand to replace UK PM Cameron - BBC

  29-06-2016 17:48
  LONDON (Reuters) - Former British Defence Secretary Liam Fox will stand as a candidate to succeed outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron, the BBC reported on Wednesday. Fox would become the second candidate to run for the leadership of the ruling Conservative Party after Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb announced his candidacy earlier on Wednesday. Fox's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Cameron announced last Friday that he would step down as leader following
  
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• Sturgeon's plea to stay in Europe rebuffed in Brussels

  29-06-2016 17:35
  By Paul Taylor and Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon pleaded her case in Brussels on Wednesday for Scots to stay in the EU, showing how Britain's vote to leave the bloc could splinter the United Kingdom. Outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron flew home after briefing his 27 peers on Tuesday evening on last week's referendum defeat. Sturgeon has said that Scotland, where voters backed staying in the EU by a near 2-1 majority, must not be dragged out of the EU agains
  
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• Follow the rules on banks, EU tells Italy, Brexit no excuse

  29-06-2016 17:35
  By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany and the European Commission told Italy on Wednesday to follow the rules after Italy made preliminary plans to prop up its banks in the wake of volatility caused by Britain's vote to leave the European Union. Rome says it is concerned that Italian banks, which hold 360 billion euros (295.82 billion pound) of bad loans, a third of the euro zone's total, risk attack by hedge funds betting that market turmoil could tip them into full-blown crisis.
  
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• Nearly one in four deaths 'avoidable'

  29-06-2016 17:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Almost a quarter of all deaths in England and Wales were potentially avoidable, figures for 2014, published by the Office for National Statistics, suggest.
  
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• Police 'cannot confirm' all of the schoolchildren missing in Brecon Beacons are accounted for

  29-06-2016 17:31
  
  Around 20 children were lost on Wednesday afternoon as south-west Wales was hit by heavy rainfall.
  
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• Max Clifford trial: Alleged victim 'told husband of assault'

  29-06-2016 17:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A woman who claims celebrity publicist Max Clifford forced her to perform a sex act on him first told her husband about the alleged incident in 2010, a court hears.
  
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• Soggy start

  29-06-2016 17:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Umbrellas and Wellington boots may be order of the day as five-day rowing spectacular kicks off, but the wet weather hasn't dampened spirits.
  
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• Lloyds Takes Axe To 640 Jobs And 23 Branches

  29-06-2016 16:59
  
  State-backed Lloyds Banking Group is axing 640 jobs and shutting 23 branches in the latest tranche of a three-year programme of cuts. It is also closing 200 branches as part of the three-year plan as customers switch to online banking and some job functions become automated. Lloyds said the net job losses resulting from the latest announcement totalled 525, with 115 jobs being created.
  
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• Lauri Love: Hacker claims extradition would 'result in a tragedy'

  29-06-2016 16:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An autistic computer hacker tells a court extraditing him to America would "result in a tragedy".
  
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• British expats flock to Brussels city halls to become Belgian

  29-06-2016 16:45
  By Ines Kagubare BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium is receiving hundreds of requests from British nationals keen to get Belgian citizenship following the decision of British voters in last Thursday's referendum to back leaving the European Union, officials said. Nearly 24,000 British citizens live in Belgium, about a third of them in the capital Brussels, where many work for the EU institutions and for NATO which are based in the city. Dominique Dufourny, the mayor of the Ixelles borough of Brussels,
  
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• 20 Children Missing In Brecon Beacons Found

  29-06-2016 16:40
  
  A group of schoolchildren who went missing in the Brecon Beacons in atrocious weather conditions have been found. The children, who are said to be in four groups, were last seen near the Tafarn Y Garreg pub, Abercraf, Powys. Landlord Andy Maglaras said the youngsters, believed to be on a school trip, have been located and rescuers were bringing them to safety.
  
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• M&D's rollercoaster crash: Two boys remain in serious condition

  29-06-2016 16:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three boys remain in hospital - two of them in a serious condition - following a rollercoaster crash at a theme park in North Lanarkshire at the weekend.
  
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• Sir Alan Duncan referred to Boris Johnson as 'Silvio Borisconi' and people loved it

  29-06-2016 16:31
  
  The Tory MP made it clear he would not be supporting Johnson as the next Prime Minister.
  
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• How Labour stronghold of Middleton sees Corbyn

  29-06-2016 16:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As Labour MPs challenge Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, what do traditional strongholds think about the party?
  
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• Stephen Crabb has controversial views on homosexuality, and Twitter isn't happy

  29-06-2016 16:09
  
  He voted against same-sex marriage in 2013.
  
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• Alleged Hacker Lauri Love's Suicide Fears

  29-06-2016 16:02
  
  Lauri Love is accused of being involved in a hack called #OpLastResort, which targeted parts of the US Army, the US Federal Reserve and NASA, as part of Anonymous in early 2013. Before the hearing, Love told Sky News: "It's been difficult … Luckily I've got a great support network of friends and family, and the Courage Foundation, and lots of people on the internet who have got my back and are in my corner, which helps, but I wouldn't wish this on anyone.
  
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• PM candidate Crabb says immigration is red line in Brexit talks

  29-06-2016 16:00
  By Kylie MacLellan and William James LONDON (Reuters) - Britain must secure control over immigration in divorce negotiations with the European Union, Stephen Crabb, the first candidate to put himself forward to succeed David Cameron as British prime minister, said on Wednesday. Work and pensions minister Crabb, who supported Britain staying in the EU at last week's vote, ruled out holding another referendum and said his Conservative Party and the country must now unite in focusing on negotiating
  
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• Britain's future at stake in opposition turmoil over Brexit

  29-06-2016 15:52
  Jeremy Corbyn, the 67-year old activist behind a grassroots left-wing rebranding of Britain's main opposition, is clinging on as party leader in the face of an attempt to oust him by his more centrist fellow Labour lawmakers. Three quarters of them backed a motion of no confidence on Tuesday, arguing that Corbyn's lukewarm endorsement of the EU contributed to a vote to leave that has plunged the country into its worst crisis since World War Two. With Britain now poised to negotiate an exit far m
  
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• 'For heaven's sake man, go!' David Cameron calls on Jeremy Corbyn to resign

  29-06-2016 15:20
  
  During Prime Minister’s Questions, Cameron waded into Labour’s misery, criticising Corbyn’s role in the EU referendum campaign.
  
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• Europe 'not convinced' by Italy's plan to buoy banks after Brexit - EU source

  29-06-2016 15:12
  The European Commission stands ready to support the banking sector in Italy but has not given its backing to Rome's plan to prop up Italian banks after the turmoil caused by the Brexit referendum, an EU official told Reuters on Wednesday. On Tuesday in Brussels, Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi met Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and vice president Valdis Dombrovskis, who takes control of EU financial services in July after British commissioner Jonathan Hill quit last week.
  
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