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• Hit and run driver may have buried cash-filled briefcase in garden

  03-01-2017 23:54
  A driver who ran from the scene of a hit and run that killed two men may have buried a briefcase full of money in a nearby garden. The incident happened just after 11am on the B1091 between Yaxley and Farcet in Cambridgeshire. The driver left the scene and despite a search by the police helicopter and a dog unit he remains on the run.
  
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• Apple sued for not adding safety fix to prevent use of FaceTime while driving

  03-01-2017 23:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Couple alleges Apple should be held accountable for daughter’s death in car crash with distracted driver, after it patented but never introduced ‘safer’ FaceTimeA couple whose five-year-old daughter was killed after a distracted driver drove into their car is suing Apple for failing to introduce an iPhone safety feature it patented in 2014 to discourage people from using FaceTime while driving.The lawsuit, filed in Santa Clara superior county court, relates to an incident that
  
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• Woody Harrelson in talks to play Han Solo's mentor in Star Wars prequel

  03-01-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The actor is being eyed to join Alden Ehrenreich in the spin-off movie set before Star Wars, from Lego Movie directors Chris Miller and Phil LordWoody Harrelson is in talks to join the Han Solo spinoff movie.According to Variety, the actor is being eyed to play a mentor role in the as-yet-untitled prequel, set before Star Wars: A New Hope. He would join Hail, Caesar! star Alden Ehrenreich, already cast in the lead role. Continue reading...
  
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• Tottenham must put gloss on their finishing against leaders Chelsea

  03-01-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Spurs have found a ruthlessness in front of goal over the festive season but have not always made pressure tell against the team top of the Premier LeagueTottenham Hotspur could hardly look sharper going into Wednesday’s high-stakes duel against Chelsea but they know the match represents a mighty test of their finishing skills and they must pass it if they are to retain hope of ending this season as champions. Related: Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea: match previewContinue reading...
  
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• Top Canada CEOs have already earned more than average worker's 2017 salary

  03-01-2017 23:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Findings expose ‘clubby, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant male world’ of 100 highest paid CEOs whose incomes have soared compared to rest of countryMinutes before lunchtime on the first working day of the year, Canada’s 100 highest paid chief executive officers had already earned more than the average Canadian will earn in all of 2017, according to a new report.
  CEO earnings in Canada – which rank among the highest in the world relative to the average worker – have soar
  
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• Eddie Jones draws up Six Nations plans to cover for injured England stars

  03-01-2017 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  • Joe Launchbury out of Twickenham opener against France• Head coach warns squad against ‘doing a Leicester City’With the Six Nations Championship just a month away England are in danger of kicking off the tournament lacking more than half their starting pack. Eddie Jones, the England head coach, has confirmed Wasps’ Joe Launchbury will miss the start of the championship with the Vunipola brothers, Chris Robshaw and George Kruis also at risk of missing the opening fix
  
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• Is this January one of the coldest the UK has experienced?

  03-01-2017 22:56
  
  Temperatures of minus 6.8C were recorded in Devon, while the capital dropped to 0C.
  
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• Hull City part company with Mike Phelan following West Brom defeat

  03-01-2017 22:56 via theguardian.com
  
  • Gary Rowett is now the early favourite for the job
  • Hull have managed only 13 points from 20 Premier League matches Related: McAuley and Morrison complete West Brom fightback against wilting Hull The former Birmingham City manager Gary Rowett is the early bookmakers’ favourite to take over at Hull City after the Premier League’s bottom club parted company with Mike Phelan. Continue reading...
  
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• Olivier Giroud caps Arsenal’s fightback to earn point in Bournemouth thriller

  03-01-2017 22:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Forget all the talk about Olivier Giroud’s scorpion kick – the real sting in the tail was delivered by the Frenchman 48 hours later as he scored an injury-time header that was nothing like as spectacular as his goal against Crystal Palace but every bit as important as Arsenal staged a remarkable comeback.With little more than 20 minutes remaining Arsenal were staring at the prospect of a chastening defeat after Bournemouth had run the visitors’ defence ragged. Eddie Howe’
  
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• Chelsea fans guilty of racism after blocking man from Paris train

  03-01-2017 22:39
  Four Chelsea fans who stopped a black man from boarding a metro train in Paris in 2015 have been found guilty of racist violence. The supporters were given suspended jail terms of between six months and a year and must pay 10,000 euros (£8,500) in damages to victim Souleymane Sylla. Richard Barklie and William Simpson, who were not in the Paris court, were given 12-month suspended sentences on charges of committing racist violence and making chants of a racist nature.
  
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• Shaker group founded in 1783 has just two members after Maine woman dies

  03-01-2017 22:38 via theguardian.com
  
  One of the last members of a nearly extinct religious society at Sabbathday Lake has died, a loss for a group that’s dwindled because members are celibateSister Frances Carr, one of the last remaining members of the nearly extinct religious society called the Shakers, has died. She was 89.Carr died Monday surrounded by family and friends in the dwelling house at the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake in New Gloucester, Maine after a brief battle with cancer, said Brother Arnold Hadd, one
  
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• Earthquake strikes off Scarborough coast

  03-01-2017 22:25
  An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 has struck off the Scarborough coast, according to the British Geological Survey.
  
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• Cairngorm mountain rescue couple speak about ordeal

  03-01-2017 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A couple rescued from the Cairngorm mountains after being forced to shelter down for the night have spoken about their ordeal.
  
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• US rejects North Korea's claimed ability to 'tip' missile with nuclear warhead

  03-01-2017 22:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Kim Jong-un announced upcoming ICBM test that could reach USState department disagreed with Trump’s tweet about China’s inactionNorth Korea continues to pursue nuclear and ballistic missile technologies, but the US does not believe it is in a position to “tip” one of them with a nuclear warhead, state department spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday. North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, said on Sunday his nuclear-capable country was close to test-launching an intercont
  
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• Someone has opened a Donald Trump-themed fish restaurant in Iraqi Kurdistan

  03-01-2017 22:12
  
  Seriously.
  
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• British Airways crews in fresh plans for 48-hour strike next week

  03-01-2017 22:01
  British Airways cabin crew plan to stage a 48-hour strike after rejecting an offer aimed at resolving a pay dispute. Cabin crew had been due to strike on Christmas Day and Boxing Day but the action was suspended after talks at conciliation service Acas. The dispute centres on so-called "mixed fleet" cabin crew members who joined BA in recent years.
  
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• Murder police search for car after 'despicable' Milngavie house fire attack

  03-01-2017 21:56
  Police investigating a house fire which killed a man and left his girlfriend seriously injured are trying to trace the occupants of a car spotted nearby. The dark-coloured vehicle was seen parked with its engine running and passenger door open at the time of the blaze in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire. Cameron Logan, 23, was killed at his family home in Achray Place in the early hours of New Year's Day.
  
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• Frances Cappuccini inquest told hospital refused Caesarean

  03-01-2017 21:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An inquest is told how Tunbridge Well hospital had refused a Caesarean section for a woman who later died.
  
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• 'Terrified' mother died after C-section advice dismissed, inquest hears

  03-01-2017 21:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Frances Cappuccini, 30, died at Tunbridge Wells hospital in 2012 after losing half her blood following a serious error, inquest toldA mother lost half of her blood and died after midwives disregarded advice that she give birth via a caesarean section, an inquest has heard.Frances Cappuccini was terrified of giving birth to her second child, according to her husband, and went into hospital in labour apparently certain she wanted the C-section recommended by her consultant obstetrician. Continue r
  
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• Brian Adcock on a new nuclear arms race – cartoon

  03-01-2017 21:09 via theguardian.com
  
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• Toddler's buggy toppled in 'horrific' handbag robbery in London

  03-01-2017 21:01
  A toddler has been suffering "terrible nightmares" after her buggy was knocked over while her mother’s handbag was snatched in north London.
  
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• The Guardian view on New Year resolutions: fitter, happier, more productive | Editorial

  03-01-2017 20:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Those annual pledges aren’t just about self-improvement – they’re also a mass economics experimentA very rare thing is happening this week: hundreds of millions of people across the world are undertaking a massive economics experiment. True, hardly any of us think of it as such. Instead, we pledge to lose weight, give up the demon weed or just to get along with our mothers-in-law. But each of these New Year resolutions are exercises in attempting to change what we do – an
  
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• Wales confirms bird flu case, to cull infected poultry

  03-01-2017 20:43
  (Reuters) - Wales will cull a flock of chicken and ducks after it found the H5N8 bird flu strain in the poultry in a village backyard in the south western county of Carmarthenshire, the Welsh chief veterinary officer said on Tuesday. Several European countries and Israel have found cases of the contagious strain in the past few weeks and some have ordered poultry flocks be kept indoors to prevent the disease spreading. The Prevention Zone and temporary suspension on gathering of poultry remain i
  
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• Costa Book Awards: Sebastian Barry wins novel prize for second time

  03-01-2017 20:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Irish writer Sebastian Barry wins the Costa novel prize, for the second time, with his historical work Days Without End.
  
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• Transport providers come under pressure to improve disabled access

  03-01-2017 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Paralympians Anne Wafula Strike and Ade Adepitan back fines for companies that fail to provide facilities for disabled peoplePressure is mounting on transport providers and other companies to improve access for people with disabilities after the Paralympian Anne Wafula Strike revealed in the Guardian that she had been forced to wet herself on a train because the accessible toilet was out of order.Wafula Strike, a British wheelchair racer and a board member of UK Athletics, has called for compani
  
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• Four British authors, one Irish to compete for 2016 Costa prize

  03-01-2017 20:31
  LONDON (Reuters) - Novels by four British authors and one Irish writer will compete for the 2016 Costa Book Awards after winnings their individual categories, the prize committee said on Tuesday. Francis Spufford took the debut novel category for "Golden Hill", Keggie Carew won in biographies for "Dadland", Brian Conaghan in children's books for "The Bombs That Brought Us Together", and Alice Oswald in poetry for "Falling Awake". Irish novelist and twice Man-Booker Prize shortlisted Sebastian Ba
  
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• Costa book awards deliver for baby boomer winners

  03-01-2017 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Sebastian Barry, Keggie Carew, Alice Oswald and first novelist Francis Spufford all take £5,000 category prizes and go into contention for overall awardIt is a list of guaranteed to gladden the hearts of anyone who thinks they have left it too late to write their first book. Baby boomers, including Sebastian Barry, Keggie Carew, Francis Spufford and Alice Oswald have swept the board of category winners for the 2016 Costa book awards.Celebrating books across five categories – novel, f
  
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• British Airways cabin crew to go on strike next week in pay dispute

  03-01-2017 20:25 via theguardian.com
  
  About 2,500 members of BA’s Heathrow-based mixed fleet to walkout for 48 hours from Tuesday after rejecting latest offerBritish Airways cabin crew based at Heathrow are to go on strike next week in a row over “poverty pay” at the airline.About 2,500 members of BA’s mixed fleet – which is predominantly made up of younger and lower-paid cabin crew – will walkout for 48 hours from next Tuesday after the company’s latest offer was rejected. Continue reading.
  
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• Next sounds alarm on 2017 outlook as high street inflation looms

  03-01-2017 20:21
  The high street fashion retailer Next will send a chill through the rest of the British retail sector on Wednesday when it sounds an alert on its outlook for 2017 amid deepening uncertainty over the impact of inflation on fragile consumer confidence. Sky News has learnt that Next's chief executive Lord Wolfson is expected to strike a downbeat note when the chain publishes its fourth-quarter trading update covering the crucial Christmas period. One City source said the trading statement could inc
  
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• Coachella 2017: Beyoncé, Radiohead and Kendrick Lamar to headline festival

  03-01-2017 20:21 via theguardian.com
  
  The 18th annual music festival returns in April with a lineup that also includes Lorde, Bon Iver, Gucci Mane and Hans ZimmerBeyoncé, Radiohead and Kendrick Lamar have been announced as headliners for this year’s Coachella festival. Related: The year in music: how Beyoncé, Kanye and Drake saved the albumContinue reading...
  
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• Firearm found in car of man shot by police on M62 motorway

  03-01-2017 20:16
  A firearm was found in a car carrying the man shot by police during an operation on the M62 in West Yorkshire. Mohammed Yassar Yaqub, a 28-year-old father-of-two, died after being shot at junction 24, just north of Huddersfield, at around 6pm yesterday. The planned operation followed information about criminal possession of a firearm but was not terrorism related, police said.
  
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• IAAF guidelines open way for clean Russian athletes to compete again

  03-01-2017 20:15 via theguardian.com
  
  • Competitors who meet strict criteria can apply• McLaren report uncovered systematic doping in RussiaThe International Association of Athletics Federations has laid out guidelines for Russian athletes who wish to take part in international competition this year.The Russian Athletics Federation remains suspended over state-sponsored doping, with the head of the IAAF taskforce set up to assess Russia’s anti-doping progress, Rune Andersen, reporting last month the country was not r
  
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• Megyn Kelly leaving Fox News to join NBC News in multiple roles

  03-01-2017 20:08 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘I am delighted to be joining the NBC News family and taking on a new challenge,’ Kelly wrote on her Facebook page after weeks of speculationStar US TV news anchor Megyn Kelly will leave Fox News for NBC, spurning the rightwing, Murdoch-owned cable network during a moment of profound instability.“While I will greatly miss my colleagues at Fox, I am delighted to be joining the NBC News family and taking on a new challenge,” Kelly wrote on her Facebook page on Tuesday after
  
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• Trump's cabinet picks: here are all of the appointments so far

  03-01-2017 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  From ExxonMobil chairman Rex Tillerson leading the state department to Steve Bannon as chief strategist, here’s who Trump has appointed so farThe open question of how Donald Trump will govern is being filled in with names of men – and five women, as of early January – floated for inclusion in his cabinet and for cabinet-level posts. Trump’s picks reveal a penchant for military brass, political outsiders, Wall Street titans and ... white men. The picks do not betray a part
  
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• New case of bird flu H5N8 discovered in backyard in Wales

  03-01-2017 20:02
  Bird flu has been confirmed in chickens and ducks in a backyard on a premises in Carmarthenshire in southwest Wales. The health risk to the public from the virus is very low, according to experts. The Food Standards Agency has said bird flu does not pose a food safety risk for UK consumers.
  
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• No evidence sugar-free soft drinks aid weight loss – study

  03-01-2017 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Academics say no evidence to support perception that ‘diet’ drinks are healthier than full-sugar versions
  Soft drinks made with artificial sweeteners, such as diet colas, do not help people lose weight and may be as big a part of the obesity problem as the full-sugar versions, academics have said.
  A paper by researchers at Imperial College London and two universities in Brazil contends that artificially sweetened beverages, often called diet drinks, are just as big a problem as those
  
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• Racing 92 launch legal action against Johan Goosen over Springbok’s departure

  03-01-2017 19:59 via theguardian.com
  
  • Reports in France link Johan Goosen to possible Gloucester move
  • French club claim breach of contract over South Africa centre’s departureRacing 92 are launching civil and criminal actions against the South Africa centre Johan Goosen, claiming breach of contract after the 24-year-old left Paris last month saying he was retiring from the game and returning home to take up a job as a commercial director.The French champions issued a strongly worded statement saying they found it
  
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• Murder police search for car after 'despicable' Milngavie house fire

  03-01-2017 19:55
  Police investigating a house fire which killed a man and left his girlfriend seriously injured are trying to trace the occupants of a car spotted nearby. The dark-coloured vehicle was seen parked with its engine running and passenger door open at the time of the blaze in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire. Cameron Logan, 23, was killed at his family home in Achray Place in the early hours of New Year's Day.
  
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• Andy Murray starts year with a win against Jérémy Chardy in Qatar Open

  03-01-2017 19:54 via theguardian.com
  
  • World No1 eases to 6-0, 7-6 triumph
  • Johanna Konta survives scare in ChinaAndy Murray opened his season with a straight-sets win against Jérémy Chardy in the first round of the Qatar Open. It took the world No1 20 minutes to win the first set 6-0 before he clinched the second 7-6 after a tie break. Related: Novak Djokovic finally clicks into gear after terrible start in the Qatar OpenContinue reading...
  
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• Trump hosted 'small-time mobster' Joey 'No Socks' Cinque at New Year's party

  03-01-2017 19:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Joseph Cinque – reportedly a convicted felon who bestows hospitality awards, often to Trump – was seen at president-elect’s New Year’s bash at Mar-a-LagoDonald Trump rang in 2017 at a New Year’s Eve bash at his Mar-a-Lago estate with Joseph Cinque – reportedly a convicted felon who goes by the nickname “Joey No Socks”.Cinque, a longtime acquaintance of Trump’s, can be seen grinning on stage as the president-elect reads off a list of accomplis
  
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• Manhunt after two killed in Cambridgeshire hit-and-run

  03-01-2017 19:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Victims were on a country road near Yaxley when they were hit by a BMW, after which the driver fled on footTwo pedestrians were killed when a driver crashed into them in Cambridgeshire before fleeing the scene on foot.The men were on a rural road near Yaxley when a BMW car collided with them just after 11am on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Christmas Day TV ratings fall to lowest on record

  03-01-2017 19:47 via theguardian.com
  
  BBC’s Call the Midwife topped ratings but UK audience of 9.2 million was smallest for most watched show since records beganAt the end of Christmas Day it has been a longstanding tradition for families to slump – full, exhausted and surrounded by discarded wrapping paper – in front of the TV’s festive offerings.But it seems the communal custom is dying out, with television ratings on Christmas Day last month falling to their lowest level on record.Continue reading...
  
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• Why a film celebrating McDonald's is the perfect start for Trump cinema

  03-01-2017 19:39 via theguardian.com
  
  The Founder, about the man who built McDonald’s, is a fitting start to the new era. But Hollywood’s love affair with Trump’s kind of anarcho-capitalism began long agoIt is the early 1950s. A travelling salesman named Ray Kroc, played in the forthcoming biopic The Founder by Michael Keaton, sells milkshake machines to restaurants all over the US. Then he discovers an extraordinary little place in California called McDonald’s, run by the McDonald brothers, who have revoluti
  
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• Parekh & Singh, the pop princes at the forefront of India's new wave

  03-01-2017 19:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Nischay Parekh and Jivraj Singh are making a name for themselves – with not a sitar or tabla in sight. We go to Kolkata to meet the pastel-suited neo-psychedelic duoSomething is buzzing, so Jivraj Singh unplugs a wire from one box and plugs it into another. “Try that?” he says. A note plays, but the buzz can still be heard, and so more wires need to be replugged, until all unwanted scratches of sound vanish. “We spend around 95% of our time trying to eliminate noises,&rdq
  
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• Avian flu found in backyard flock in Welsh village

  03-01-2017 19:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Protection zone placed around village of Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire, after H5N8 virus found in chickens and ducksA 3km protection zone has been placed around a Welsh village after a backyard flock of chickens and ducks was found to have avian flu.The birds were infected by avian influenza H5N8, which has previously been discovered on a turkey farm in Lincolnshire and a wild duck in Llanelli, south Wales.Continue reading...
  
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• Everything you need to know about the UK's top diplomat Sir Ivan Rogers and his resignation

  03-01-2017 19:37
  
  Sir Ivan’s resignation comes just months before Britain’s exit from the EU is planned to begin in earnest.
  
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• 'I worry I'll be forgotten on the train': our readers' experiences of accessible facilities

  03-01-2017 19:35 via theguardian.com
  
  After Paralympian Anne Wafula Strike was left humiliated after a long train journey with no accessible toilet, we asked for readers’ experiences of disabled accessAn award-winning Paralympic athlete, Anne Wafula Strike, has spoken out about being forced to wet herself on a train without an accessible toilet. Wafula Strike, a disabilities campaigner, was on a three-hour journey when the accessible toilet was out of order. Related: What are your experiences of disabled facilities?Continue re
  
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• Holding on

  03-01-2017 19:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Analysis: Why most Labour MPs would survive a fall in its general election vote share.
  
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• M62 shooting: man killed by police during planned operation

  03-01-2017 19:32 via theguardian.com
  
  IPCC says ‘what appears to be a non-police issue firearm’ found in car of Mohammed Yassar Yaqub, 28, who was killed on Monday
  The family of a man shot dead by police on the M62 motorway have said they are “shocked and distraught” because detectives believe he may have been carrying an illegal firearm.Mohammed Yassar Yaqub, 28, was shot dead through his windscreen when armed police swooped on his white Audi sports car on a slip road of the busy motorway in Huddersfield on
  
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• Chelsea football fans convicted of racist violence in Paris

  03-01-2017 19:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Four men given suspended prison sentences and ordered to pay €10,000 to black commuter pushed off Métro carriage
  Four Chelsea football fans have been convicted of racist violence and given suspended prison sentences after a black commuter was pushed off a Paris Métro carriage in Paris while fans chanted: “We’re racist, we’re racist, and that’s the way we like it.”The incident in February 2015 before a game between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain w
  
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