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• Trump's first tweet from the POTUS account was an anticlimax

  20-01-2017 23:08
  
  We didn’t deserve this.
  
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• Gambia crisis: Yahya Jammeh 'agrees to go into exile'

  20-01-2017 23:01
  
  Gambia's former leader has agreed to step aside and go into exile, according to an adviser for the country's new president. The move by Yahya Jammeh should allow Adama Barrow, who was elected last month and was inaugurated in neighbouring Senegal on Thursday, to return to the country. Earlier, Mr Barrow told Sky News he will shortly assume power and considers the UK to be his country's number one trading partner.
  
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• Is any of Obama's work 'Trump-proof'? We asked an expert

  20-01-2017 22:28
  
  Barack Obama’s work has ensured some of his policies are protected.
  
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• Looks like a lot more people turned up to Barack Obama's inauguration than Donald Trump's

  20-01-2017 21:17
  
  Well this is awkward.
  
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• Watch Trump channel supervillain Bane from the Dark Knight Rises

  20-01-2017 21:11
  
  Did he plagiarise Bane though?
  
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• Donald Trump's policies just appeared on the White House website. Here's what they say...

  20-01-2017 20:26
  It features some key campaign pledges.
  
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• Here's how the people of Detroit and Nebraska reacted to the shoutout in Trump's inauguration speech

  20-01-2017 19:41
  
  He got all *poetic* on us.
  
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• Republicans in London celebrate Trump's inauguration

  20-01-2017 19:39
  Under the gaze of a life-sized cardboard figure of Donald Trump, some 200 of his supporters gathered at an exclusive club near the Ritz hotel in London to celebrate Friday's inauguration of America's 45th president. Bunches of red, white and blue balloons, some of them star-shaped, adorned the walls of the Royal Over-Seas League where Trump's appearance on the balcony outside the domed U.S. Capitol was greeted with whooping and cheering. Later, Trump's inaugural speech was punctuated with cheers
  
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• What did Joe Biden do next? He caught the train back to Delaware

  20-01-2017 19:35
  
  They don’t call him Amtrak Joe for nothing.
  
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• Donald Trump uses a picture 'from Obama's inauguration' as his presidential Twitter cover photo

  20-01-2017 19:21
  
  Did Donald Trump use a picture from Obama’s inauguration to illustrate his new Twitter account page?
  
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• Fox News signs Brexit leader Nigel Farage as contributor

  20-01-2017 18:59
  Nigel Farage, who led the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, will be a political analyst on Fox News and Fox Business Network, Fox News said on Friday. Farage will appear on both daytime and prime-time programming for the networks, whose parent company is 21st Century Fox Inc. Farage, the former leader of the United Kingdom’s Independence Party, lead the charge for the UK’s “Brexit” vote last year to leave the European Union.
  
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• Scottish comedian Limmy 'reported to FBI' over Trump assassination joke

  20-01-2017 18:52
  
  Absolute state of this.
  
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• Michael and Emily Eavis: ‘The Variety Bazaar won’t be like Glastonbury – it’ll be unique’

  20-01-2017 18:44 via theguardian.com
  
  After a busy week of rumours, the Glastonbury organisers answered Guardian readers’ questions on their new ‘sister festival’, urban myths, ticket costs – and confirming Kris Kristofferson for 2017Can you clarify what is happening going forward over the next three years? Are we looking at the fallow year 2018, the new festival 2019 and Worthy Farm 2020? Or is the whole thing still up in the air?Mufc88Michael: Well, it’s certainly in the air at the moment. We’re
  
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• The Potus Twitter account has already been handed to Donald Trump

  20-01-2017 18:22
  
  Barack Obama is now @potus44.
  
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• Tourists' luxury spending up in December for first time since February -study

  20-01-2017 18:09
  Global spending on luxury goods by tourists was up in December for the first time since February, lifted by strong business in Britain and France, a study by tax-refund services firm Global Blue showed. Tourism spending on luxury goods was up 3 percent year on year in December overall, with a 26 percent increase in Britain and 21 percent in France, which had suffered from a sharp downturn after deadly Islamist attacks in Paris and Nice. The data does not include tourism spending in the United St
  
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• People were impressed by how Hillary Clinton handled Trump's inauguration with such grace

  20-01-2017 18:09
  
  Kudos are in order.
  
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• Bernie Sanders turned up to Donald Trump's inauguration in a practical raincoat and it just looks so comfy

  20-01-2017 17:41
  
  If only his economic plan had been as practical.
  
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• People just can't get over Kellyanne Conway's 'Trump Revolutionary Wear' outfit

  20-01-2017 17:38
  
  It certainly is quite the statement.
  
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• British village gets solar battery boost in green energy trial

  20-01-2017 17:32
  By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Villagers in northern England may soon see their electricity bills slashed by as much as 50 percent in a pilot project allowing them to use solar power around the clock. In a 250,000 pound ($307,000) trial, 40 houses in the village of Oxspring, 12 miles (19 km) north of Sheffield, will be linked in a "virtual power plant" using home batteries to store electricity generated from solar panels. Without batteries, solar power can only be used du
  
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• Obama left a note for Trump in the Oval Office and everyone made the same joke

  20-01-2017 17:15
  
  Obama should have left his birth certificate in an Oval Office drawer.
  
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• Marijuana activists are marking Donald Trump's inauguration by handing out free weed

  20-01-2017 17:13
  
  “When they go low, we get high.”
  
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• Leonne Weeks: 18-year-old man charged with Rotherham murder

  20-01-2017 17:13
  A man has been charged with the murder of 16-year-old Leonne Weeks. Shea Peter Heeley, 18, was arrested after the teenager was found dead on a path near Lordens Hill in the Dinnington area of Rotherham on Monday morning. A post-mortem examination found the teenager died as a result of multiple stab wounds.
  
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• NI child abuse inquiry recommends payoffs for victims

  20-01-2017 17:01
  An inquiry into historical abuse in Northern Ireland has found systematic failings in the care of children in institutions and recommended compensation. The inquiry found evidence of "systematic failings to a greater or lesser degree" in the majority of the children's homes it investigated. It concluded that 39 children had been abused at the notorious Kincora boys' home in east Belfast but rejected long-standing allegations that British intelligence services had covered it up.
  
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• BT announces price hikes for broadband, landline and sport

  20-01-2017 17:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Broadband costs will rise by between 5% and 6% while free BT Sport is to end for TV customers.
  
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• KFC fined £1m over Teesside workers' gravy burns

  20-01-2017 16:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 16-year-old boy and a woman were not wearing gloves when they were hurt in two separate accidents.
  
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• Here are all the things being confiscated by the Secret Service at Trump's inauguration

  20-01-2017 16:49
  
  It’s a bad day for anyone hoping to take whole fruit into the event.
  
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• Taking on Trump

  20-01-2017 16:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of women and men are preparing to march for equality in 14 UK cities and towns. Why?
  
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• Police Taser their own race relations leader in Bristol

  20-01-2017 16:44
  
  Police officers Tasered their own black community relations champion after they mistook him for a wanted man, it has emerged. Two officers were filmed by a passer-by confronting 63-year-old Judah Adunbi, whose job is to create better relations between police and the black community. The officers, who stopped him near his home, in Easton, Bristol, demanded to know his name but he refused, saying: "I'm not telling you my name.
  
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• Friends reunited as Osborne joins top aide in Blackrock role

  20-01-2017 16:37
  Former Chancellor George Osborne is to augment his lucrative private sector income by taking a role with the world's biggest asset manager. Sky News has learnt that Mr Osborne is join‎ing the Blackrock Investment Institute as a senior adviser, his first such role since being sacked by Theresa May last summer. The new‎ role will effectively reunite Mr Osborne with his former top economic adviser, Rupert Harrison, who took on a senior position with Blackrock last year.
  
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• Whale choir and cosmic bubbles on Dare Art Prize shortlist

  20-01-2017 16:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A whale choir, the exploration of cosmic bubbles and a slime study feature on the Dare Art Prize shortlist.
  
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• Kerb appeal

  20-01-2017 16:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police in one London borough say they will not prosecute cyclists who ride on the pavement, but is it a good move?
  
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• This is the moment one of Trump’s security staff immediately regrets all his life decisions

  20-01-2017 16:08
  
  Why does this member of the secret service look how we feel?
  
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• Leonne Weeks: Man charged with murder of 16-year-old

  20-01-2017 16:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Shea Peter Heeley, 18, is charged with the murder of 16-year-old Leonne Weeks near Rotherham.
  
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• Northern Irish children suffered decades of cruel abuse - report

  20-01-2017 15:49
  By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) - Children in Northern Ireland suffered decades of cruel sexual, physical and emotional abuse in institutions run by the state, charities and the Catholic and Protestant churches, an official report said on Friday. Instances of sexual abuse by priests and lay people were detailed in a 2,300 page, 12-volume report that identified widespread systemic failings and extended responsibility to the Northern Irish government and church authorities. "Some institutions
  
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• Is social media bad for young people's mental health?

  20-01-2017 15:46 via theguardian.com
  
  A generation has now grown up with the internet a part of everyday life but, as yet, we still don’t know enough about how platforms such as Facebook and Instagram affect mental health. With cyberbullying on the increase, the need to find out is pressingIn April 2016, after years of relentless bullying in school and on social media, 17-year-old Felix Alexander took his own life. After his death, his mother Lucy wrote that the bullying “began with unkindness and social isolation and ov
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn lambasts SNP as Labour launches fight back in Scotland

  20-01-2017 15:37
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has kickstarted his Scottish fight back with a blistering attack on the SNP. In a speech in Glasgow, Mr Corbyn accused the Scottish Government of "simply passing on Tory austerity" as he tried to turn around his party's fortunes north of the border. "It is not standing up for Scotland failing to tackle the scandalous level of health inequalities here in this great city of Glasgow and across Scotland.
  
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• National Grid warns of costs if Britain exits EU energy market

  20-01-2017 15:30
  By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) - Taking Britain out of Europe's energy market could stymie development of new power links designed to help avert a looming supply crunch and also drive up the cost of imported European electricity, National Grid warned on Friday. Prime Minister Theresa May signalled a so-called hard Brexit on Tuesday, which would involve leaving Europe's single market when Britain quits the European Union (EU). May gave no indication of what this would mean for energy markets
  
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• This guy honoured Barack Obama with a pretty awesome series of photoshopped photos

  20-01-2017 15:26
  
  And we don’t think he’s the only one who’s going to miss the president.
  
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• New Gambian President tells Sky he will assume power in his country shortly

  20-01-2017 15:26
  
  The new Gambian president has told Sky News that he considers the UK to be his country's number one trading partner. In his first interview with a British media outlet, Adama Barrow told Sky News' Alex Crawford: "There is a strong tie with Britain and Gambia if you recall history. "They colonised Gambia and we are part of the Commonwealth and we will return to the Commonwealth again.
  
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• Tony Blair to blame for Brexit, says Philip Hammond

  20-01-2017 15:18
  
  Philip Hammond has blamed Tony Blair for Brexit arguing the former prime minister was responsible for a "deluge" of immigration from the European Union. The Chancellor said that Mr Blair's 2004 decision not to impose transitional limits on workers from new eastern European members of the EU changed the public outlook on freedom of movement. Talking to Sky News on the fringes of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Hammond said: "I'm convinced that the die was cast on British attitudes to EU mig
  
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• Who is Woody Johnson, Donald Trump's nominee for US ambassador to the UK?

  20-01-2017 15:05
  
  It still needs to be confirmed by the senate, but here’s what you need to know.
  
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• Minecraft paedophile Adam Isaac groomed boys online

  20-01-2017 15:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man who groomed young boys through the online game Minecraft has been jailed for two years and eight months.
  
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• Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry: 'Widespread abuse' in children's homes

  20-01-2017 14:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Children's homes run by church and charities in Northern Ireland were the scene of widespread abuse and mistreatment of young residents, a report finds.
  
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• Paedophile Adam Isaac groomed boys on Minecraft

  20-01-2017 14:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man who groomed young boys through the online game Minecraft has been jailed for two years and eight months.
  
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• ScotRail Alliance managing director Phil Verster steps down

  20-01-2017 14:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The managing director of ScotRail Alliance has stepped down, the BBC understands.
  
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• Police taser race group founder in the face

  20-01-2017 14:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Afro-Caribbean community leader was mistaken by officers for a wanted man.
  
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• 'Bridges not walls': People protest over Trump’s inauguration from bridges around the UK

  20-01-2017 14:04
  
  ‘Bridges not walls’ signs have been spotted hanging off bridges across the world.
  
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• Factbox - How Britain's retailers fared over Christmas

  20-01-2017 13:51
  (Reuters) - British retailers are giving updates on Christmas trading, by far their busiest period stretching from "Black Friday" on Nov. 25 to clearance sales in early January. Following are highlights: Reported on Jan. 20: BONMARCHE British women’s clothing retailer Bonmarche said its sales for the 13 weeks to Dec. 24 increased by 3.3 percent. Jan. 19: N BROWN GROUP Plus-size fashion retailer N Brown Group posted a 4.1 percent rise in revenue for the 18 weeks to Dec. 31.
  
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• Barack Obama - as seen through the eyes of his White House photographer

  20-01-2017 13:46
  
  Get your tissues out.
  
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• I've been with my partner for a year, but I've never met his son

  20-01-2017 13:27 via theguardian.com
  
  I’ve never met any of his friends either. And I also recently discovered some texts on his phone from another womanI have been seeing someone for the past 12 months whom I love very much. Parts of our relationship are incredible: we make each other laugh, have similar views on important issues, but we also challenge each other in a good way. He got divorced 10 years ago, and has a 16-year-old son. I have never met the son, nor any of my partner’s friends.He is speaking to a counsello
  
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