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• Good news for Larry fans! Cabinet Office has confirmed Downing Street cat will NOT be evicted

  11-07-2016 23:50
  
  Chief mouser will continue to reside in his famous abode.
  
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• Facebook is being sued for $1bn over allegedly violating US anti-terrorism laws

  11-07-2016 23:15
  
  A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of five families in New York federal court.
  
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• Leave voters 'disappointed with Remain PM'

  11-07-2016 22:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Leave voters of Gosport are disappointed to have won the referendum but to have gained a Remain Prime Minister.
  
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• Slough cemetery mourner's rapist jailed for life

  11-07-2016 22:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man who brutally raped a mourner as she paid her respects to a relative at a cemetery is given a life sentence.
  
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• Southern Rail protest: Commuters vent anger at 'Southern Fail' after 341 trains are cut

  11-07-2016 21:43
  
  Crowds of angry passengers gathered at Victoria Station to protest after months of chaos caused by frequent cancellations.
  
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• Austrian Finance Minister: Great Britain 'will become little Britain'

  11-07-2016 21:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Austrian Finance Minister Hans Schelling predicts that Northern Ireland and Scotland will not fully leave the European Union and that "Great Britain will become little Britain".
  
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• The Theresa May story

  11-07-2016 21:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A profile of Theresa May, who has become the next Conservative leader and will be formally sworn in as prime minister on Wednesday.
  
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• PM-in-waiting Theresa May promises 'a better Britain'

  11-07-2016 20:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Theresa May promises to build a "better Britain" and to make Brexit a "success" as she prepares to succeed David Cameron as UK prime minister.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn supporters hijacked Angela Eagle's Labour leadership bid Facebook post

  11-07-2016 20:25
  
  Eagle’s attempt to round up her supporters seemed to backfire pretty painfully.
  
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• Hundreds of trains axed from timetable

  11-07-2016 20:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of Southern rail services are temporarily axed under an amended timetable brought in from midnight in response to months of disruption.
  
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• May as PM: How the day unfolded

  11-07-2016 20:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The next prime minister will be Theresa May after her rival for the Tory party leadership Andrea Leadsom quit unexpectedly on Monday.
  
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• May wins battle to be PM but faces tussle over Brexit

  11-07-2016 20:01
  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Theresa May has won the battle to be Britain's prime minister but will face a much tougher struggle once in power -- overseeing her country's divorce from the European Union. May backed the "Remain" camp during the campaign for Britain's referendum on EU membership on June 23 but has made clear since then that it must now go ahead, saying: "Brexit means Brexit." But she has also said Britain should not trigger the exit proceedings until London is ready to st
  
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• David Cameron caught on mic humming to himself after PM handover statement

  11-07-2016 19:51
  
  Maybe the incumbent PM has a new musical career waiting for him?
  
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• Helen Bailey disappearance: Man arrested by murder police

  11-07-2016 19:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police searching for missing children's author Helen Bailey arrest a man on suspicion of her murder.
  
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• Theresa May is 'honoured and humbled' to be our next PM

  11-07-2016 19:23
  
  Theresa May made her greatly anticipated statement outside the Commons as dozens of MPs clapped in the background.
  
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• May wins PM race after pro-Brexit rival quits

  11-07-2016 19:11
  By Elizabeth Piper and Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) - Home Secretary Theresa May will become Britain's prime minister on Wednesday, with the task of steering its withdrawal from the European Union, after rival Andrea Leadsom abruptly terminated her short-lived and disastrous leadership campaign. May, 59, will succeed David Cameron, who announced he was stepping down after Britons unexpectedly voted last month to quit the EU. Britain's planned withdrawal has weakened the 28-nation bloc, create
  
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• Theresa May: 'Together we will build a better Britain'

  11-07-2016 18:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Theresa May says she is honoured and humbled to have been chosen as the new leader of the Conservative Party.
  
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• May says to negotiate a successful Brexit as PM

  11-07-2016 18:46
  Next prime minister, Theresa May, called on Monday for the country to unite under her leadership, promising to make a success of negotiating the country's divorce from the European Union. After receiving official confirmation she had won a leadership contest of the ruling Conservative Party following the exit of the only other candidate, May told reporters: "Brexit means Brexit and we are going to make a success of it ... we need to unite our country." May is due to be installed as prime ministe
  
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• Here's everything you need to know about Theresa May

  11-07-2016 18:19
  
  David Cameron has said that May will take over from him as Prime Minister on Wednesday.
  
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• May confirmed as leadership winner, Britain's new PM - committee

  11-07-2016 18:14
  Britain's Theresa May has been confirmed as the winner of the ruling Conservatives' leadership contest and will be installed as prime minister shortly, the chairman of a party committee running the contest said on Monday. "I have received confirmation from the board of the party and can now declare that Mrs May has been elected as the new leader of the Conservative Party with immediate effect," Graham Brady told party lawmakers.
  
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• May to replace Cameron on Wednesday as Leadsom quits PM race

  11-07-2016 18:08
  By Elizabeth Piper and Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) - Home Secretary Theresa May is set to become prime minister on Wednesday with the task of steering its withdrawal from the European Union after her only rival abruptly pulled out. May, 59, will succeed David Cameron, who announced he was stepping down after Britons unexpectedly voted last month to quit the EU. Britain's planned withdrawal has weakened the 28-nation bloc, created huge uncertainty over trade and investment, and shaken financi
  
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• 8 people who should probably learn how to spell Theresa May's name right now she's going to be prime minister

  11-07-2016 18:03
  
  It’s about time some people brush up on their spelling of her name because, you know, she’s kinda important now.
  
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• UK-Iranian charity worker faces trial in Iran

  11-07-2016 17:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A British-Iranian charity worker is among three dual nationals who will go on trial in Iran, a prosecutor there says.
  
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• Two Turks found guilty of smuggling £512m of cocaine

  11-07-2016 17:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two men in charge of a boat carrying cocaine worth £512m are convicted of an international drug-smuggling operation.
  
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• Theresa May will become Prime Minister on Wednesday

  11-07-2016 17:35
  
  David Cameron said he’s “delighted”.
  
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• Labour leadership: Angela Eagle says she can unite the party

  11-07-2016 17:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Angela Eagle says she can provide the leadership in "dark times for Labour" that Jeremy Corbyn cannot, as she launches her challenge against him.
  
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• David Cameron 'delighted Theresa May will be next PM'

  11-07-2016 17:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Cameron says he is delighted that Theresa May will be the next prime minister.
  
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• Cameron says will step down as prime minister on Wednesday

  11-07-2016 17:13
  LONDON (Reuters) - David Cameron said he would resign as prime minister on Wednesday, paving the way for home secretary Theresa May to take over the job the same day. Cameron said he expected to chair his last cabinet meeting on Tuesday and then take questions in parliament for around 30 minutes from 1100 GMT on Wednesday. "After that I expect to go to (Buckingham Palace) and offer my resignation," he told reporters outside his office in Downing Street. "So we will have a new prime minister in t
  
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• Here's how Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May compare

  11-07-2016 17:07
  
  We have taken a look back at the careers of May and the “Iron Lady”.
  
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• Top performers

  11-07-2016 17:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A French core, a heavy Wales presence and Ronaldo up front - your Euro 2016 team of the tournament.
  
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• Osborne welcomes prospect of May becoming prime minister

  11-07-2016 16:30
  Chancellor of Exchequer George Osborne said it was good news that home secretary Theresa May was now the sole candidate to become the country's next prime minister after her remaining rival Andrea Leadsom dropped out of the race on Monday. "Welcome news we have 1 candidate with overwhelming support to be next PM," Osborne said on Twitter. "Theresa May has strength, integrity and determination to do the job." Separately, Osborne told BBC television it was important that the British economy had mo
  
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• Fort Augustus woman who used electric collar on boy jailed

  11-07-2016 16:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A former soldier who gave a toddler electric shocks using a dog training collar is jailed for three years and four months.
  
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• Musical celebration marks a decade since Kelvingrove Museum reopened

  11-07-2016 15:57
  
  Popular music was played on the museum’s famous organ to mark the event.
  
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• Eagle challenges Corbyn for leadership of Labour Party

  11-07-2016 15:52
  By William James and Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Labour MP Angela Eagle launched her bid to take over the leadership of the party on Monday, saying current leader Jeremy Corbyn was not up to the task of defeating the ruling Conservatives. The challenge marks the latest in a struggle for control of Britain's second-largest political party triggered by the June 23 vote to leave the European Union - which many in Labour have blamed on Corbyn, saying he didn't campaign hard enough. The outcom
  
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• Britain's next PM May stakes claim to centre ground

  11-07-2016 15:51
  By Kylie MacLellan BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Britain's next prime minister, Theresa May, pledged on Monday to put government at the service of "ordinary working people", laying claim to the centre ground in an effort to heal rifts exposed by a referendum vote to leave the European Union. May, 59, who could be appointed prime minister within hours after her rival Andrea Leadsom quit the Conservative party leadership race, moved quickly to ease concerns that she would not deliver on Brexit a
  
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• Ronald King admits manslaughter of wife Rita in care home shooting

  11-07-2016 15:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An 87-year-old man who shot his wife at a care home is cleared of murder after the trial judge directed the jury to accept a plea of manslaughter.
  
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• Brexit vote was not binding so parliament must decide, lawyers tell PM

  11-07-2016 15:34
  
  By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Lawmakers in parliament should decide whether Britain leaves the European Union because the Brexit vote was not binding, more than 1,000 prominent British lawyers said in a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron. The signatories, which include senior lawyers, said that lawmakers should have a free vote in parliament before any British leader takes the decision to trigger the formal EU divorce procedure by invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty. A separat
  
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• William Lound killing: Man admits 'transphobic' student murder

  11-07-2016 15:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man admits stabbing a student to death in what police are treating as a transphobic hate crime.
  
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• Commuter hell

  11-07-2016 15:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Customers of the UK's biggest rail operator have endured weeks of disruption, with managers blaming high levels of staff sickness. Operators of Southern rail services have now introduced a new timetable, cutting 341 daily journeys. What's going on?
  
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• Theresa May set to replace Cameron as rival quits UK PM race

  11-07-2016 15:04
  By Elizabeth Piper and Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) - Home Secretary Theresa May is set to become Britain's first woman prime minister since Margaret Thatcher after her only rival abruptly quit the race on Monday, removing the need for a drawn-out leadership contest. May, 59, was left as the only candidate to succeed David Cameron, who announced he was stepping down after Britons voted last month to leave the European Union. Britain's planned withdrawal has weakened the 28-nation bloc and cre
  
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• 'Herd of Sheffield' elephant statues stampede into city

  11-07-2016 14:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A herd of 58 elephant sculptures have gone on show across Sheffield in support of the city's Children's Hospital.
  
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• Labour Party says leadership contest triggered

  11-07-2016 14:36
  Opposition Labour Party said on Monday a leadership contest had been officially triggered following the receipt of sufficient nominations for a rival candidate to left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn. "I have now received sufficient nominations to trigger a contest for the position of Leader of the Labour Party," party General Secretary Iain McNicol said in a statement. Earlier, Labour lawmaker Angela Eagle launched her bid to take over the leadership of the party, saying Corbyn was unable to defeat t
  
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• May to make statement after Leadsom pulls out

  11-07-2016 14:00
  Theresa May, who will become Britain's next prime minister after her only rival in the Conservative Party leadership contest pulled out, will make a statement later on Monday, one of her key backers said. "Theresa is currently on her way back to London from Birmingham and she will be making a statement later today, but on her behalf I would just like to say that she is enormously honoured to have been entrusted with this task by so many of her parliamentary colleagues," Chris Grayling told repor
  
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• Church of England plans more schools

  11-07-2016 13:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Church of England is planning a major expansion of its schools over the next five years.
  
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• Leadsom quits race for British PM, leaving May unopposed

  11-07-2016 13:55
  By Elizabeth Piper and Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) - Energy minister Andrea Leadsom abruptly withdrew from the contest to succeed David Cameron as prime minister on Monday, leaving her rival Theresa May as the only candidate. The two women had been due to contest a ballot of around 150,000 Conservative party members, with the result to be declared by Sept. 9, but the shock announcement opens the way for May to take over much sooner. Leadsom was barely known to the British public until she em
  
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• Angela Eagle's Labour leadership bid embarrassingly overshadowed as Andrea Leadsom drops out

  11-07-2016 13:50
  
  Not the best start to a leadership campaign.
  
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• Britain's Leadsom pulls out of contest for PM

  11-07-2016 13:31
  Junior minister Andrea Leadsom said on Monday she was pulling out of the race against interior minister Theresa May to become Britain's next prime minister because she did not have "sufficient support" to form a strong government. "There is no greater privilege than to lead the Conservative Party in government and I would have been deeply honoured to do it," she told journalists.
  
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• Here are the 5 things Theresa May talked about in her launch speech

  11-07-2016 13:24
  
  She was speaking just before Andrea Leadsom pulled out of the Tory leadership contest.
  
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• Andrea Leadsom has dropped out of the Conservative Party leadership contest

  11-07-2016 13:22
  
  She wants Theresa May to be Prime Minister as soon as possible.
  
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• UK lawmaker Eagle launches challenge to Corbyn to lead Labour Party

  11-07-2016 13:18
  Opposition Labour MP Angela Eagle launched her bid to take over the leadership of the party on Monday, saying its current leader Jeremy Corbyn was unable to defeat the ruling Conservative Party. "Today I am announcing my decision to stand for the leadership of the Labour Party," Eagle said in a speech to kick off her campaign. "Jeremy Corbyn is unable to provide the leadership that this party needs – I believe I can.
  
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