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• Bank of England Governor Carney ready to serve full term - FT

  30-10-2016 22:53
  (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is ready to serve a full eight-year term, despite critics campaigning for him to resign ahead of time, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Carney, who accepted the post in 2012, is said to be leaning towards staying on and helping to steer the UK economy after the government triggers Article 50 of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty in March 2017, the FT said. Prime Minister Theresa May and Chancellor Philip Hammond were confident until recentl
  
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• You won't be surprised at all when you find out why this car was pulled over by the police

  30-10-2016 22:50
  An officer found the makeshift installation in the vehicle an “interesting concept”.
  
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• Sarah Olney to take on Zac Goldsmith in Richmond Park by-election

  30-10-2016 18:10
  The Liberal Democrats have confirmed Sarah Olney is the party's candidate to face former Tory MP Zac Goldsmith in the forthcoming by-election. Ms Olney has said she is confident she can unseat Mr Goldsmith, a popular MP who gained the biggest majority increase of any MP in last year's General Election. There had been some suggestions the party might parachute in former Business Secretary Vince Cable, who lost his seat in neighbouring Twickenham in 2015.
  
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• Orgreave: families demand full investigation into 1984 clash

  30-10-2016 16:47
  Families of those caught up in a 1984 miners' strike clash with police are demanding a full investigation into allegations of brutality. Home Secretary Amber Rudd has given herself until Monday to decide whether to launch a public inquiry into the so-called Battle of Orgreave. Demands for a wide-ranging investigation have grown since officers in the same South Yorkshire force of the 1980s were left discredited earlier this year by the new inquests into the Hillsborough disaster.
  
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• Chaos at Asda stores after card machine glitch leads to long queues at checkouts

  30-10-2016 16:25
  
  The supermarket chain has apologised to customers as angry shoppers took to Twitter to complain.
  
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• Asda customers unable to pay as card 'fiasco' hits all stores

  30-10-2016 15:14
  Long queues have formed at Asda check-outs after customers across the UK were unable to pay with their cards. Shoppers described the technical issue as a "fiasco", and said it had led to "chaos" at supermarkets. The company said all of its 626 UK stores were affected "at one point or another" during the day by the problem with its card payment system.
  
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• WATCH: Here's how Farage reacted to the idea of joining the House of Lords

  30-10-2016 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NIGEL FARAGE has laughed off reports he will be soon entering the House of Lords.
  
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• UK to STAY in single market? Business sec lets slip PM's Brexit negotiating strategy

  30-10-2016 14:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BUSINESS Secretary Greg Clark appears to have let slip Theresa May's Brexit negotiating strategy on the Andrew Marr show.
  
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• Royal Clarence fire: Engineers assess fire-ravaged hotel

  30-10-2016 14:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Structural engineers inspect a hotel that has been devastated by a fire to see if any of it can be saved.
  
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• Asda card machine fault leads to queues at checkouts

  30-10-2016 14:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Asda stores are hit by a card machine fault, leaving queues of shoppers waiting to pay.
  
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• Boy in the B&B

  30-10-2016 13:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Tory MP has aroused debate after leaving his 11-year-old son alone in a bed and breakfast as he went dancing with his wife
  
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• Tragic boxer Mike Towell's family files NHS complaint

  30-10-2016 13:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The family of boxer Mike Towell makes an official complaint about medical treatment he received for headaches before his death.
  
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• Sandbach house fire: Boy dead and woman injured

  30-10-2016 13:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An eight-year-old boy dies after a house fire which also left a woman - believed to be his mother - with serious burns.
  
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• Nissan deal followed UK's vow to fight for tariff-free EU trade

  30-10-2016 13:48
  
  Nissan confirmed a major investment in its Sunderland site after assurances the Government was committed to securing continued tariff-free access to EU markets, the Business Secretary has said. Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn sparked speculation earlier this week after he said the company's decision was driven by Government "support and assurances". It was the word "support" that had proved controversial, as the carmaker had threatened to put the brakes on new UK-built models following t
  
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• UK told Nissan it wants tariff-free trading for motor industry, Clark says

  30-10-2016 13:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK wants tariff-free access to EU markets for the motor industry, Business Secretary Greg Clark says.
  
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• Killed MP Jo Cox's children 'surrounded by love'

  30-10-2016 13:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The children of the killed Labour MP Jo Cox "talk about mum every day", her husband says.
  
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• Bangladesh claim first Test win over England on day three in Dhaka

  30-10-2016 13:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England collapse after tea on day three of the second Test as they lose to Bangladesh for the first time in a Test match.
  
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• 'Westminster establishment is ganging up' Farage warns of great Brexit BETRAYAL

  30-10-2016 13:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NIGEL FARAGE has warned that Britain is on "the edge of a great betrayal" as MPs ramp up efforts to prevent a 'hard' Brexit
  
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• BA probe claims pervert pilot masturbated as he flew passengers to holiday destinations

  30-10-2016 12:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A PILOT is being investigated over claims he stripped off, put on stockings and masturbated in the cockpit at 38,000 feet.
  
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• Carney 'tremendous' as BoE chief, says business secretary

  30-10-2016 12:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Business Secretary Greg Clark says Bank of England governor Mark Carney has done a 'tremendous job'.
  
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• Royal Clarence fire: Engineers to assess fire-ravaged hotel

  30-10-2016 12:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Structural engineers are to inspect a hotel later that has been devastated by a fire.
  
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• England v Bangladesh: Tourists collapse to 108-run defeat

  30-10-2016 12:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England collapse after tea on day three of the second Test as they lost to Bangladesh for the first time in a Test match.
  
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• Harry Potter writer JK reveals vile anti-English racist tweets from Scot nationalists

  30-10-2016 12:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HARRY Potter author JK Rowling has unveiled a loathsome raft of threatening anti-English tweets from Scottish nationalists calling for everything from an England flu-epidemic to the murder of the royal family.
  
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• Human ashes may have been sprinkled into orchestra pit at New York opera

  30-10-2016 11:59
  
  An audience member sprinkled the powdery substance during the second intermission, forcing the rest of the performance to be cancelled.
  
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• Eurostar passenger's WW2 shell delays trains

  30-10-2016 11:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two Eurostar trains are delayed as a passenger tries to take a World War Two shell on board.
  
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• Women at risk of Northamptonshire gang culture grooming

  30-10-2016 11:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Reformed gang members are working with police to help teenage girls at risk of being groomed into Northamptonshire's gang culture.
  
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• BIG FREEZE starts this week says weekly weather forecast

  30-10-2016 11:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  GRAB the winter coats - autumn is about to turn chilly with thermometers set to hit freezing this week.
  
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• Police name Doncaster shed fire teenager as Jack Sheldon

  30-10-2016 10:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police confirm the 13-year-old boy who died in a fire in a shed in South Yorkshire was Jack Sheldon.
  
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• Calais 'child migrant' who said he was 16 to come to UK claimed he was 22 on dating site

  30-10-2016 10:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A CHILD migrant who was sent to the UK from the Calais Jungle camp in France wrote on a dating site that he was 22-years-old.
  
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• Ireland border controls 'a step backwards'

  30-10-2016 10:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The American senator who brokered the Good Friday Agreement warns that border controls between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland would be a "step backwards" in the peace process.
  
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• Rock legend Graham Nash returns to Salford Lads Club

  30-10-2016 10:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Andy Kershaw takes Hollies legend Graham Nash back to Salford Lads Club for the first time in almost 60 years.
  
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• Farage dismisses peerage claims saying 'It will never happen'

  30-10-2016 10:10
  All three candidates to succeed the 52-year-old as UKIP leader - Paul Nuttall, Raheem Kassam and Suzanne Evans - have said they will seek to get him a seat on the red benches, The Sunday Times writes. Mr Farage announced his resignation as UKIP leader in July having achieved his career goal of securing the UK's exit from the European Union. Despite this, Mr Farage has remained in the limelight, retaking the leadership on a temporary basis following the shock resignation of his successor Diane Ja
  
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• Three held over Mark Roy Mason Rhyl car park stabbing

  30-10-2016 10:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three people are arrested in connection with the alleged murder of a man in a Denbighshire car park.
  
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• Work capability assessment overhaul for disabled

  30-10-2016 09:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Disability benefit assessments are to become more "personalised" to better help claimants find jobs.
  
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• 'I was strip-searched aged 12 by police'

  30-10-2016 09:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A mother and daughter have described how they were strip-searched by police eight years ago, when daughter Georgia was only 12 years old.
  
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• Jo Cox's widower on coping with grief: 'The kids are strong'

  30-10-2016 09:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The husband of Jo Cox speaks to the BBC's Andrew Marr about how he and his family have been coping in the months since the Labour MP's death in June.
  
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• Newspaper review: Clinton probe dominates front pages

  30-10-2016 06:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Reaction to the reopening of the FBI investigation into US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of emails dominates the front pages.
  
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• New wave of prefabs to tackle housing crisis

  30-10-2016 05:34
  Ministers are planning a new wave of prefabricated homes in a drive to solve Britain's housing crisis. Although the housing market has shown signs of cooling since the vote to leave the EU, a chronic shortage of properties continues to keep prices out of reach of many young and low-income people. Earlier this month the Government set out details to tackle the housing shortage by building 25,000 new homes using a £3bn Home Building Fund.
  
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• Brexit has been 'good for business' in Blackpool

  30-10-2016 04:46
  Along the windswept beach in Blackpool business is booming. The attractions are packed with tourists. John Child, the managing director of the Sandcastle Water Park on the South Pier, says he has not seen a year like it.
  
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• WATCH: The moment a coward hit and run driver mows down an entire family then speeds off

  30-10-2016 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  WARNING: VIEWERS MAY FIND FOOTAGE DISTURBING - SHOCKING footage has emerged of a grandmother and her two grandchildren being mowed down by a driver in east London.
  
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• Major push for UK mosques to make loud call to prayer THREE TIMES a day

  30-10-2016 03:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A PETITION to allow loud call for prayer, known as Adhan, in UK mosques has been signed by more than 25 thousand people.
  
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• Nissan deal opens door for Scotland concessions - SNP

  30-10-2016 02:59
  The British government's promises to Japanese carmaker Nissan open the door to a special deal for Scotland if Britain leaves the European Union, Scottish nationalists said on Sunday. Nissan said on Thursday it would build two new models in Britain, after what a source described to Reuters as a promise of aid from Prime Minister Theresa May's government to counter any loss of competitiveness caused by Brexit. On Sunday the Scottish National Party joined them.
  
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• Government to overhaul 'cruel' disability benefits system

  30-10-2016 02:48
  The Government is planning a major overhaul of disability benefits assessment - a system that has been described by critics as "cruel". On Monday, Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green will launch a consultation on how to reform the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), which was overseen by Iain Duncan Smith under the last government and has been attacked by critics as "cruel". Labour's Debbie Abrahams has welcomed the consultation but says: "Theresa May needs to take responsibility for her part
  
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• Ministers to hold post-study visa talks

  30-10-2016 02:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scotland's international development minister is to hold talks with the UK government over reintroducing a work visa system for international students.
  
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• HER ROYAL HOTNESS: Prince Harry secretly dating US TV star Meghan Markle

  30-10-2016 02:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PRINCE HARRY is secretly dating a stunning US actress, model and human rights campaigner.
  
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• Murderous legacy

  30-10-2016 02:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ten years ago, spree killer Steve Wright killed five sex workers in Ipswich. What impact did the murders have on the family and friends of his vulnerable victims?
  
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• The girl who was strip-searched aged 12 by police

  30-10-2016 02:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A young woman recalls the ordeal of being strip-searched when aged 12, as figures show police carried out 113,000 in three years.
  
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• Ipswich killer Steve Wright's father urges him to confess

  30-10-2016 02:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The father of Ipswich killer Steve Wright, who murdered five sex workers 10 years ago, urges him to admit his crimes.
  
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• Ipswich sex worker murders 10 years on

  30-10-2016 02:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News looks back at the case of five murdered sex workers and the conviction of a forklift truck driver for their deaths.
  
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• Fury as cuts in council rubbish collections forces residents to pay for private contractor

  30-10-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FURIOUS householders in Manchester are being forced to spend an extra £300 a year on a private contractor to carry out their rubbish collection.
  
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