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• Hundreds of police officers are suffering from mental health problems, officers' groups warn

  26-07-2016 23:34
  
  In April, research by the charity Mind suggested that one in four emergency services workers had thought about taking their own life.
  
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• Fireman Sam episode pulled amid Koran row

  26-07-2016 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An episode of Fireman Sam, in which one character appears to tread on a page from the Koran, is withdrawn from Channel 5's streaming site.
  
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• Unmarked police car crashes into London diners

  26-07-2016 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An unmarked police car on an emergency call has crashed into customers sitting outside a restaurant in London.
  
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• Man accused of murdering Mr Scotland bodybuilder two weeks before victim's wedding

  26-07-2016 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A MAN has appeared in court charged with murdering a bodybuilder who was due to be married in just two weeks' time.
  
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• A puzzle that's really bugging the experts: where have all the midges gone?

  26-07-2016 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  EXPERTS are puzzled by a mysterious - if welcome - decline in the number of midges in Scotland.
  
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• REVEALED: Has Brexit made your shopping basket CHEAPER?

  26-07-2016 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE prospect of Britain leaving the European Union appears to have made the average British shopping basket cheaper, according to new research.
  
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• English churches given £2.4million to protect themselves from attack

  26-07-2016 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CHURCHES in England and Wales have been given £2.4million from the Home Office to protect themselves, just hours after the Normandy terror attack.
  
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• Londoners' missing cat found after eight-and-a-half years ... in Paris

  26-07-2016 21:13
  The pair have since set up a crowdfunding page to thank the French shelter which rescued their pet. Awww.
  
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• Put Britain before Brussels! Sturgeon told forget EU dream amid plummeting European deals

  26-07-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NICOLA Sturgeon was today challenged to stop putting Brussels before Britain as figures laid bare plummeting exports to the EU.
  
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• Gas leak in City of London causes hundreds to be evacuated

  26-07-2016 19:43
  
  Police said there were no fatalities or injuries.
  
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• Buy a caravan

  26-07-2016 19:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The shooting this week at a house in Surrey took place at a house hired out for a pool party. But what is the law surrounding party houses?
  
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• Oh bother! Can YOU guess which famous bear this cloud looks like?

  26-07-2016 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DRIFTING across the landscape, this cloud-form is the spitting image of children’s favourite Winnie the Pooh.
  
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• British Scout aged 12 collapses and dies during Finnish summer camp trip

  26-07-2016 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A BRITISH Scout aged twelve-years-old has collapsed and died at a summer camp in Finland.
  
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• How to shear a sheep in 44 seconds

  26-07-2016 18:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A farmer has broken a world record by shearing 731 sheep in nine hours - that's one sheep every 44 seconds.
  
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• Narrowboat 'probably sank within two minutes', trapping and killing its owner

  26-07-2016 17:57
  
  Canal and River Rescue crews have been called to about six incidents at locks in the past year but fatalities are said to be extremely rare.
  
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• Terrified father: 'Rhinos charged at my family's car'

  26-07-2016 17:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A family from Birmingham was "terrified" when the car they were in got caught between two fighting rhinos.
  
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• Pokemon Go players advised not to go into Fukushima disaster zone

  26-07-2016 17:16
  
  Niantic said it would modify the game if the company discovered problems.
  
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• Britain should deliver 'full Brexit' soon, MP says

  26-07-2016 17:12
  By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should leave the European Union quickly and not be drawn into a discussion about watering down the voters' clearly expressed wish for limits on immigration, senior Conservative lawmaker John Redwood said. Redwood, an intellectual leader of the Brexiteers in Prime Minister Theresa May's ruling Conservative party, said a swift exit that ensured tariff-free trade with the rest of the EU was achievable. Mapping out options for Brexit, Redwood said parl
  
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• Here's everything we know about the church siege in Normandy

  26-07-2016 16:23
  
  ISIS have claimed responsibility for the attack.
  
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• May says strong will on both sides to preserve free movement with Ireland

  26-07-2016 16:07
  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Strong will exists in both Britain and Ireland to preserve free movement between the countries following Britain's vote to leave the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday after meeting her Irish counterpart. May, who visited the province of Northern Ireland on Monday, has said she does not want to see a return to past border controls with the Irish Republic, which will be Britain's only land frontier with the EU. "We benefitted from a co
  
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• Meet the woman who's just joined the race for Ukip leadership

  26-07-2016 15:35
  
  We get to know a little more about Lisa Duffy, the candidate Suzanne Evans is backing for the next Ukip head.
  
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• Early 2017 could be best time to trigger Article 50 - Liam Fox

  26-07-2016 15:19
  Early next year could be the best time for Britain to trigger formal divorce talks with the European Union so a deal can be reached before the next national election in 2020, international trade minister Liam Fox was reported as saying. The Wall Street Journal reported Fox also said London would likely seek to enter a free-trade agreement with the EU rather than a closer customs union, which he said could restrict its ability to negotiate lower tariffs with other trading partners. New Prime Mini
  
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• Morrisons promises to stop selling eggs from caged hens after teen's petition

  26-07-2016 14:01
  
  Morrisons has become the latest supermarket giant to say they will stop stocking caged hens’ eggs after a petition called the practise inhumane.
  
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• UK producers guilty over Harrison Ford's broken leg on Star Wars set

  26-07-2016 13:55
  A production company involved in making "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has pleaded guilty in a British court to failing to protect actors and workers after an incident in which Harrison Ford's leg was broken, officials said on Tuesday. The star, who plays the much-loved character Han Solo, was injured after he became trapped under a rapidly closing metal-framed door during filming in June 2014 at Pinewood Studios, near London. The power of the door's drive system was comparable to the weight of
  
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• London mayor seeks more powers to protect post-Brexit city

  26-07-2016 13:43
  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - London Mayor Sadiq Khan, seeking more powers for the British capital to protect the city after Britons voted to leave the European Union, commissioned a study on Tuesday to draw up a list of devolution demands. The June 23 vote to leave the EU is threatening to send Britain's $2.4 trillion economy into a recession that would cast a long shadow over London, the centre of the country's prosperity and home to its world-leading financial services industry. "London
  
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• Dutch men are world's tallest and Latvia's women are loftiest, study finds

  26-07-2016 12:25
  
  People of both sexes in the UK are a long way down the international height league table.
  
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• Postal workers threaten strikes in row over job cuts, closures and pensions

  26-07-2016 12:15
  
  At least 3,500 postal workers will be balloted for strike action to fight “wholesale privatisation” of the Post Office.
  
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• 'At least one hostage killed' and knifemen 'shot dead' in siege at French church

  26-07-2016 11:55
  
  Officers from the elite anti-terrorist Raid squad were called in to assist local police.
  
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• Early 2017 could be best time to trigger Article 50 - UK trade minister

  26-07-2016 11:49
  Early next year could be the best time for Britain to trigger formal divorce talks with the European Union so a deal can be reached before the next national election in 2020, international trade minister Liam Fox was reported as saying. The Wall Street Journal reported Fox also said London would likely seek to enter a free-trade agreement with the EU rather than a closer customs union, which he said could restrict its ability to negotiate lower tariffs with other trading partners. New Prime Mini
  
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• BT's Openreach network should become a 'distinct company' - Ofcom

  26-07-2016 10:57
  
  Ofcom has proposed major reform of the division that develops and maintains the UK’s main telecoms network.
  
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• UK mortgage approvals fall to 15-month low in June - BBA

  26-07-2016 10:50
  British banks approved the fewest mortgages for house purchase since March 2015 last month and also cut lending to businesses, as nerves weighed in the run-up to June 23's referendum on European Union membership. The British Bankers' Association said it was too early to tell how demand for finance would hold up after the vote. "Business borrowing in June dropped for the first time in 2016, signalling that investment decisions were being delayed until after the vote," BBA chief economist Rebecca
  
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• Post-Brexit vote rise in hate crimes prompts Britain to review policing

  26-07-2016 10:12
  Britain will order a review of how police deal with hate crimes after a sharp rise in offences reported following last month's vote to leave the European Union. Almost 6,200 hate crimes have been reported in Britain over the month since the June 23 referendum, which saw immigration become a key issue during a bitter and deeply divisive campaign. The most common crimes were harassment, assault and other violence such as verbal abuse or spitting, with Muslims and Eastern Europeans saying they had
  
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• Let my son come home, pleads mother of Briton held for 'trying to shoot Trump'

  26-07-2016 09:55
  
  Lynne Sandford said she would not abandon her son Michael.
  
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• Solar flight completes first round-the-world journey

  26-07-2016 09:53
  
  Pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg took more than a year to complete their record-breaking journey.
  
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• Owen Smith says patriotism isn't part of Jeremy Corbyn's make-up

  26-07-2016 09:48
  
  This isn’t the first time Corbyn’s patriotism has been questioned.
  
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• Michelle Obama steals limelight as Democrats call for unity behind Hillary Clinton

  26-07-2016 09:16
  
  Bernie Sanders also made an impassioned plea for Democrats to get behind Clinton after his supporters voiced their disapproval at the former secretary of state.
  
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• Brexit rewrites UK budget rules as borrowing set for first big rise since 2010

  26-07-2016 08:19
  By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Britain could borrow nearly 65 billion pounds more than planned in the next couple of years as new Chancellor Philip Hammond seeks to 'reset' government budget policy to ease the shock of last month's vote to leave the European Union. Ratings agencies and economists widely expect borrowing to rise materially next year for the first time since 2010, as Hammond has to call time - temporarily - on the austerity which dominated his predecessor George Osborne's si
  
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• 19 people killed in knife attack in Japan

  26-07-2016 08:05
  
  It’s the worst mass killing in Japan in generations.
  
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• MPs call for regulatory rejig after HBOS collapse

  26-07-2016 04:26
  The Treasury Select Committee was formally responding to the publication last November, seven years after the bank's failure during the credit crunch, of two reviews, one by regulators, the other by independent counsel. The counsel's report said the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Bank of England should review a decision by regulators not to act against some 10 executives of HBOS, despite the failure of the lender, which traded under the brands Bank of Scotland and Halifax. Andrew Tyrie, w
  
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• Amazon gets permission from UK to explore drone deliveries

  26-07-2016 03:15
  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it has entered into a partnership with the British government to speed up the process for allowing small drones to makes deliveries. The world's biggest online retailer, which has laid out plans to start using drones for deliveries by 2017, said a cross-government team supported by the UK Civil Aviation Authority had provided it with the permissions necessary to explore the process. Amazon unveiled a video last year showcasing how an unmanned drone could
  
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• Sturgeon preparing for independence to keep post-Brexit options open

  26-07-2016 02:59
  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon said on Monday she would start preparatory work on splitting Scotland from the rest of Britain in order to keep the option of independence available following the June 23 vote to leave the European Union. Although Britain voted to end its EU membership at the referendum, Scottish voters overwhelmingly backed remaining inside the bloc, reigniting the debate over Scotland's future as a constituent nation of the United Kingdom. Stu
  
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• Corporate clone

  26-07-2016 01:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Could sticking to the traditional suit at work hamper your career?
  
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• Flying to you

  26-07-2016 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK government's getting together with the retail giant Amazon, to start testing flying drones that can deliver parcels to your door.
  
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• Postal deliveries: A drone's eye view

  26-07-2016 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Drones delivering our shopping could become a reality across Britain, says the BBC's Transport correspondent Richard Westcott.
  
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• Paid to yawn

  26-07-2016 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Frenchman is suing his former employer for "bore out" - being "killed professionally" through boredom - but is there any such thing?
  
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• Ministers told to 'GET A GRIP' on hospital bed-blocking

  26-07-2016 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MINISTERS were told today to "get a grip" on Scotland's health service after a surge in hospital bed-blocking.
  
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• 'Abolish IMMEDIATELY' Calls for inheritance tax to be SCRAPPED intensify

  26-07-2016 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CAMPAIGNERS last night renewed calls for inheritance tax to be scrapped after it emerged nearly 30,000 families face huge bills because of simple "bad luck".
  
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