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• Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn releases list of MPs who have abused him - Daily Mail

  14-09-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn releases list of MPs who have abused him
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  With barely a week left in the Labour leadership contest, the veteran left-winger's office blamed challenger Owen Smith for the abuse and accused him of running a negative campaign, branding him the 'real disunity candidate'. In a remarkable move that ...
  Jeremy Corbyn v Owen Smith in Sky's Labour leadership debate - Politics liveThe Guardian (blog)
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• Our new Charter will make sure the BBC thrives for years to come - Telegraph.co.uk

  14-09-2016 23:01 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  Our new Charter will make sure the BBC thrives for years to come
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  The BBC is a cherished British institution. Its programmes, whether on TV or radio, are part of daily life for millions of people. We all have our favourites – from The Archers to Countryfile, Poldark to Match of the Day, or simply tuning in to its ...
  BBC chair Rona Fairhead to stand down after four monthsThe Guardian
  BBC to get new boss as PM May reverses Cameron decisionReuters UK
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• Polish police officers on the streets of Harlow after fatal attack on man

  14-09-2016 22:33
  
  The two officers are thought to have been given a community-support role.
  
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• Owen Smith and Jeremy Corbyn clash over Labour's future

  14-09-2016 22:32
  The leadership rivals have clashed over what is needed to get the Labour Party back into power during the last TV hustings at Sky.
  
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• Flights cancelled as French air traffic controllers strike

  14-09-2016 21:37
  Ryanair and easyJet have cancelled dozens of flights as French air traffic controllers start their 14th strike this year. Ryanair said it was "forced" to cancel 22 flights on Wednesday night and 72 which were set to go ahead on Thursday. According to the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, the USAC-CGT union strike is set to end at 4am on Friday.
  
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• Mum thanks Everton for son’s cancer treatment donation

  14-09-2016 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mum of five year-old Bradley explains how they've raised £700,000 for cancer treatment.
  
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• Sadiq Khan is heading to North America to show 'London is open for business'

  14-09-2016 20:18
  
  The London mayor will be visiting Montreal, Chicago and New York during his five-day trip.
  
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• David Cameron accepted £20k payout when he left Downing Street - The Independent

  14-09-2016 18:59 via independent.co.uk
  
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  David Cameron accepted £20k payout when he left Downing Street
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  david-cameron-17.jpg A friend of Mr Cameron has defended his decision to take the payment, saying: 'He is not a money-grubbing man. He passed a law which stopped him getting a huge pension from the day he left office'. David Cameron choose to accept ...
  The Guardian view on Libya: a mess not just of David Cameron's makingThe Guardian
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• Corbyn upends May on grammar schools and for once comes out the winner at PMQs - Herald Scotland

  14-09-2016 18:36 via heraldscotland.com
  
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  Corbyn upends May on grammar schools and for once comes out the winner at PMQs
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  Sketch: he shoots, he scores. Even Corbyn could not miss the net when he tackled May over her grammar schools plan. / MICHAEL SETTLE. 3 comments. IT had to happen at some stage, I suppose; Corbyn getting the better of the Tory leader at PMQs.and more »
  
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• Why UK has been criticised over Libya

  14-09-2016 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK government - and especially David Cameron - has been heavily criticised for its role in Libya's "collapse". The BBC's Paul Adams explains why.
  
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• Lawyers replaced by robots? UK start-up aims to cut out 'grunt work'

  14-09-2016 18:15
  The entrepreneur behind British software company Autonomy has invested in a start-up called Luminance that uses artificial intelligence to read documents and speed up the legal process around deals, potentially cutting out some lawyers. Mike Lynch, who founded technology investment fund Invoke Capital after leaving Autonomy, said on Wednesday he saw great potential in Luminance, which was set up by Cambridge University students and has worked with lawyers at Slaughter and May to develop software
  
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• First Direct's voice biometrics security is letting people bank without passwords

  14-09-2016 17:57
  
  The system can identify you just from hearing you speak on the phone.
  
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• Dame Sarah Storey wins her 13th gold, as ParalympicsGB beat London haul

  14-09-2016 17:42
  Dame Sarah Storey has won her 13th Paralympic gold medal by winning the c5 road time-trial in Rio. It means that ParalympicsGB has surpassed its London 2012 gold medal haul - with Storey delivering the 35th with Wednesday's victory. The 38-year-old has won two of those golds - the first in the individual pursuit on Tuesday was her 12th Paralympic gold, making her Britain's most successful female Paralympian.
  
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• Bank of England names Brexit coordinator

  14-09-2016 17:16
  The Bank of England has named one of its top executives to coordinate the central bank's preparations for Brexit and the impact it will have on the country's massive financial services sector. Phil Evans was named director for financial policy within the BoE's Prudential Policy Directorate (PPD) and he will be responsible for co-ordinating work across the bank relating to withdrawal from the European Union, the BoE said. Evans previously served as the Bank's international director and spent a pe
  
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• Ebola nurse 'never knowingly' put lives in danger

  14-09-2016 16:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pauline Cafferkey's lawyer reads a statement saying the Ebola nurse would "never knowingly" put anyone's life in danger as she is cleared of misconduct.
  
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• UK, Argentina agree joint steps on Falklands in win for diplomacy

  14-09-2016 16:29
  By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and Argentina have agreed to work together towards removing measures restricting the oil and gas, shipping and fishing industries around the disputed Falkland Islands, both countries said on Wednesday. Argentina claims sovereignty over the British-run islands it calls Las Malvinas, and the issue has strained relations for decades, culminating in a war in 1982. Tensions flared last year, but Britain has been keen to improve relations since pro-busines
  
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• Police hunt mysterious driver behind paintball shooting spree in London

  14-09-2016 16:07
  
  Descriptions of the perpetrator so far suggest that he is a white male in his 40s.
  
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• As decision time approaches, PM May mulls Hinkley options

  14-09-2016 16:04
  By William James and Geert De Clercq LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - Theresa May could announce as soon as Thursday whether Britain will go ahead with a $24 billion (18 billion pounds) nuclear power project, laying down a marker on energy policy and her approach to investment from China. Hours before a deal was due to be signed in July, the new prime minister stunned investors by putting it on hold. May said she needed time to assess the terms of a project that would see French utility EDF build Britai
  
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• Christopher Halliwell blames drug dealers for Becky Godden death

  14-09-2016 16:00
  Convicted killer Christopher Halliwell, who is representing himself at Bristol Crown Court, said he did not know victim Becky Godden. Halliwell, 52, is serving a life sentence for the murder of Sian O'Callaghan in 2011, but denies killing the sex worker between 2003 and 2005. Halliwell, who gave evidence from the witness box flanked by two custody officers and with police at the exit, said: "I want to start by saying I am telling the truth.
  
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• Scottish nurse who had Ebola cleared of hiding symptom

  14-09-2016 15:45
  A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for patients in Sierra Leone was cleared on Wednesday of allegations that she had put the public at risk by hiding the fact that she had a raised temperature when she returned to Britain. Pauline Cafferkey, 40, was infected in 2014, during an outbreak of the highly contagious disease that killed more than 11,300 people in three West African countries. The Nursing and Midwifery Council, which regulates the professions in Britain, held a two-day h
  
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• The Hajj: A guide to Islam's biggest pilgrimage

  14-09-2016 15:31
  
  The ancient ritual of the Hajj must be performed by all able-bodied Muslims at least once in their lifetimes.
  
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• Vietnamese students hospitalised after using plastic bag as a condom

  14-09-2016 15:24
  
  The students were “too embarrassed” to buy protection.
  
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• Theresa May takes battering from Jeremy Corbyn on grammar schools

  14-09-2016 15:19
  
  Jeremy Corbyn used Prime Minister's Questions to attack the Prime Minister over her plans to bring back grammar schools. For the first time in months Mr Corbyn enjoyed the support of his backbenchers as they rallied in their opposition to Theresa May's surprise plans to lift the ban on grammar school expansion. Mr Corbyn used all six of his questions to press home an advantage on the issue, with Mrs May failing to answer queries on feeder primary schools and whether she had support from experts.
  
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• Ebola-infected nurse Pauline Cafferkey cleared of misconduct

  14-09-2016 15:07
  The nurse who contracted Ebola after working in Sierra Leone, Pauline Cafferkey, has been cleared of professional misconduct. A disciplinary hearing had heard she potentially put the public at risk as she returned to the UK in December 2014, by failing to declare her true temperature at a "busy, disorganised and even chaotic" screening area at Heathrow airport. The hearing, held by the Nursing and Midwifery Council in Edinburgh, was told that a doctor had recorded Ms Cafferkey's t
  
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• May takes Corbyn battering on grammar schools

  14-09-2016 15:00
  
  Jeremy Corbyn used Prime Minister's Questions to attack the Prime Minister over her plans to bring back grammar schools. For the first time in months Mr Corbyn enjoyed the support of his backbenchers as they rallied in their opposition to Theresa May's surprise plans to lift the ban on grammar school expansion. Mr Corbyn used all six of his questions to press home an advantage on the issue, with Mrs May failing to answer queries on feeder primary schools and whether she had support from experts.
  
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• People are wondering if Jeremy Corbyn has been replaced with a robot designed to rock PMQs

  14-09-2016 14:59
  
  Turns out grammar schools set Jezza on fire.
  
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• PMQs: Last time for Theresa May to face Jeremy Corbyn?

  14-09-2016 14:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Theresa May teases the Labour leader that their third meeting at PMQs may be their last.
  
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• Celebrity bodyguard Ricky Hayden killed as he confronted moped thieves

  14-09-2016 14:11
  Council worker Ricky Hayden, 27, who had also worked as a celebrity bodyguard and whose clients included Peter Crouch and Abbey Clancy, died in the attack in Chadwell Heath, east London. Ricky Hayden was pronounced dead soon after.
  
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• Former Murdoch executives misled parliament over phone-hacking, MPs say

  14-09-2016 14:10
  Two former executives from Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm should be formally admonished after misleading a parliamentary committee investigating claims of phone-hacking, MPs said on Wednesday. Colin Myler, the former editor of the defunct News of the World newspaper, and Tom Crone, the tabloid's top lawyer, were found in contempt of the House of Commons over evidence they gave to its Culture, Media and Sport Committee in 2009, a report by parliament's Privileges Committee found. Myler an
  
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• Man arrested over 'racist' attack in which woman lost her baby

  14-09-2016 13:40
  A man has been arrested over a "racist" attack in which a pregnant woman was kicked in the torso, causing her to lose her baby. Both victims were taken to Milton Keynes General Hospital for treatment and have since been discharged.
  
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• David Cameron criticised over Libya's economic collapse and the rise of Isis

  14-09-2016 13:32
  
  In a report David Cameron was criticised for turning a limited intervention intended to protect civilians into an “opportunist policy of regime change”.
  
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• The new Mel and Sue?

  14-09-2016 13:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins are leaving The Great British Bake Off - so who is in the frame to replace them as hosts?
  
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• Theresa May expected to give Hinkley nuclear deal go-ahead

  14-09-2016 13:08
  Theresa May slammed the brakes on the £18bn deal agreed by her predecessor two months ago, amid claims she was anxious about the security implications. The Hinkley C plant in Somerset would be built by French-owned EDF, but a third of the cost will be put up by Chinese state companies. There had been concerns about the high cost Britain had agreed to pay to EDF for the electricity generated, and the design of the reactor - which has been plagued by delays in other countries.
  
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• British tourists among 24 hurt in coach crash near Barcelona Airport

  14-09-2016 13:00
  Seven British and two Irish tourists were among 24 people injured when a coach crashed on its way to the airport in Barcelona. Also among those hurt were tourists from Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Spain.
  
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• GCHQ looks at creating nationwide internet firewall

  14-09-2016 12:58
  Britain's GCHQ security agency is considering developing a nationwide internet firewall to block malicious content and protect government networks from rocketing numbers of attacks, the incoming head of its new cyber security arm says. Ciaran Martin, the chief executive of the eavesdropping agency's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said the measure was among a number of more ambitious, active approaches Britain was taking in the face of an upsurge in attacks.
  
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• Hot weather alert in East Midlands and East of England at Level 3

  14-09-2016 12:10
  
  People in parts of the UK have been urged to take care after the Met Office raised its hot weather alert level. High overnight temperatures and hotter weather than usual for September has prompted Public Health England (PHE) to step up heat warnings for people in the East Midlands and the East of England. The Met Office put both regions on Level 2 alert on Monday and today that level has been increased to Level 3 (amber).
  
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• Unemployment falls in three months to July, ONS says

  14-09-2016 11:59
  
  Unemployment fell by 39,000 in the three months to July, according to official figures giving the latest snapshot of how the Brexit vote has affected the economy. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.9%. Single month data for July showed a slight slip in the number in work, though the ONS warned this was "not regarded as a reliable indicator" and pointed to the improving trend over the three-month period.
  
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• BBC to get new boss as PM May reverses Cameron decision

  14-09-2016 11:56
  By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - The BBC is to get a new boss after Prime Minister Theresa May chose not to make her predecessor David Cameron's nominee an automatic pick for the role, the latest of several breaks with his legacy. The public broadcaster is about to undergo an overhaul of its governance structure that will involve scrapping the BBC Trust, which currently regulates the broadcaster and which critics including senior ruling Conservative Party figures say is ineffective. Cameron
  
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• UK labour market withstands Brexit shock, but wage growth slows

  14-09-2016 10:33
  Britain's labour market showed little sign of taking a hit after the country's Brexit vote as official data showed the unemployment rate held steady and job creation rose in the three months to July. The jobless rate was 4.9 percent, unchanged from the three months to June and in line with a median forecast of 4.9 percent in a Reuters poll of economists. The number of people in work rose by 174,000, taking the employment rate to a new record high of 74.5 percent, the Office for National Statisti
  
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• Convicted murderer Darren Jackson absconds from Sudbury Prison

  14-09-2016 10:33
  A man serving a life sentence for murdering a woman by stamping on her stomach is on the run after absconding from prison. Darren Jackson was convicted and jailed following a trial at Manchester Crown Court in March 1986. Derbyshire Police said his last known address is in Oldham.
  
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• Appeal over driver shooting paintballs at people in north London

  14-09-2016 10:21
  A man who fired a paintball gun at pedestrians while driving down streets in north London is being sought by police. The man, described as white and in his 40s, was seen driving a white Mercedes 350GLE on false number plates, the Metropolitan Police said. The Mercedes has since been seen parked in the N1 and EC1 areas of Islington.
  
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• Guards watched as prisoner blinded himself at NI jail

  14-09-2016 09:59
  Prison officers in Northern Ireland watched - but did not intervene - as a mentally ill prisoner blinded himself in his cell. Sean Lynch self-harmed on 20 occasions at Maghaberry Prison in Co Antrim on 5 June, 2014 - in an ordeal which lasted over an hour. Four wardens watched for more than 15 minutes as Mr Lynch attacked himself, claiming they did not realise the seriousness of his injuries, according to a damning report by Prisoner Ombudsman Tom McGonigle.
  
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• HS2 rail link is £7bn over budget and facing delay say MPs

  14-09-2016 08:51
  
  Members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said they were "not convinced" by the current schedule, describing it as "overly ambitious". The first phase of HS2, between London and the West Midlands, is due to open in December 2026. The committee found there had been "considerable progress" on HS2 since 2013.
  
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• Trade unions urge Theresa May to kick off those kitten heels

  14-09-2016 08:19
  Theresa May has been urged to kick off her kitten heels and wear flat shoes instead to support a campaign against women being forced to wear high heels at work. The call came during a debate at the TUC conference in Brighton in which delegates backed a demand for a new law to ban workers being compelled to wear stilettos. The unions' campaign was prompted by a 27-year-old actress, Nicola Thorp, being sent home without pay for turning up for work as a temporary receptionist wearing black flat sho
  
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• British Muslim's hijab 'set on fire' on New York's Fifth Avenue

  14-09-2016 06:52
  Police in New York are searching for a man who set a British Muslim's hijab on fire outside a boutique store on bustling Fifth Avenue. CCTV footage has been released in an attempt to find the man involved, who was brandishing a lighter before he fled the scene. Last month, an imam and his assistant were shot dead near their mosque in the New York borough of Queens, but an investigation has not determined whether it was an Islamophobic attack.
  
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• School quiz

  14-09-2016 04:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  State, grammar or private - where did these people go to school?
  
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• Battle for Labour: Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith in Sky debate

  14-09-2016 04:21
  Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith will face each other in the final Labour leadership hustings live on Sky News tonight. The 200-strong audience in London will be balanced equally between Corbyn supporters, Smith supporters and undecided Labour supporters, with just one week to go until the ballot closes. It was a contest triggered by a revolt of Labour MPs against the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn in the aftermath of the vote to leave the European Union.
  
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• Britain's Libya intervention flawed, Cameron to blame - MPs

  14-09-2016 03:59
  Britain's 2011 military intervention in Libya, ordered by former prime minister David Cameron, relied on flawed intelligence and hastened the North African country's political and economic collapse, MPs said on Wednesday in a damning report. Britain and France led international efforts to help oust Libya's then-leader Muammar Gaddafi in early 2011, using fighter jets to beat back Gaddafi's armies and allow rebels to topple the longtime dictator. Islamic State has gained a foothold, former rebels
  
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• One in seven species faces extinction from Great Britain

  14-09-2016 03:53
  Around 15% of Britain's species are at risk of extinction on our shores, according to a new report. An assessment of 8,000 species showed that 1,199 are at risk of disappearing from Great Britain. The research also suggests that 56% of almost 4,000 studied land and freshwater species suffered declines in numbers or the areas where they are found between 1970 and 2013.
  
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• Medals galore for Paralympics GB on day six of Rio 2016

  14-09-2016 02:04
  Paralympics GB won three more gold medals on Tuesday evening - stunning their competition in the swimming and the athletics. There was gold for Matthew Wylie in the 50m S9 freestyle, and another for Stephanie Millward in the women's 100m S8 backstroke. Libby Clegg and her guide Chris Clarke have also won their second gold medal of the Rio Games - coming first in the 200m T11 sprint following their victory in the 100m race.
  
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