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• Jailed Libor trader Hayes launches fresh appeal against conviction

  30-01-2017 23:57
  By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Hayes, the first person worldwide to be jailed for conspiring to manipulate Libor interest rates, on Monday night launched a last-ditch appeal against his conviction and 11-year sentence in Britain, alleging his trial was unfair. Hayes, a gifted mathematician with mild Asperger's syndrome, was initially sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2015 for conspiracy to rig the London interbank offered rate (Libor), a benchmark for rates on around $450 trillion (36
  
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• Tens of thousands protest across UK over Donald Trump's travel ban

  30-01-2017 23:51
  Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets across the UK as outrage over Donald Trump's controversial travel ban continues. Prime Minister Theresa May has come under pressure to toughen her stance towards the US President after he closed the country's borders to people from seven Muslim-majority nations. Chants including "Donald Trump has to go" could be heard rippling throughout the evening.
  
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• Peter Capaldi 'sad' to leave Doctor Who

  30-01-2017 23:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Peter Capaldi reveals to BBC Radio 2's Jo Whiley that the new series of Doctor Who will be his last.
  
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• Boris Johnson says Donald Trump's 'bark is worse than his bite'

  30-01-2017 23:12
  
  Boris Johnson has said Donald Trump's "bark is considerably worse than his bite", as he criticised the US President's controversial travel ban. Answering questions in the Commons, the Foreign Secretary told MPs he shared their "disquiet" over the policy, and stressed it was "not an approach we would take". Mr Johnson acknowledged the measure, which temporarily bans refugees and citizens from seven mainly-Muslim countries coming to the US, was "divisive and wrong", but stressed the "vital importa
  
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• Tens of thousands protest in British cities against Trump's travel ban

  30-01-2017 23:09
  Thousands of people, some holding placards reading "No to Racism, No to Trump", "Dump Trump" and "I stand with Muslims", joined a protest on Monday outside the Downing Street residence of Prime Minister Theresa May, the first leader to visit President Trump. Some chanted "Shame on May" for her offer to Trump of a visit to Britain while 1.5 million people signed a petition calling for Trump's planned trip - which will involve lavish displays of royal pageantry and a banquet hosted by Queen Elizab
  
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• Trump travel ban: Thousands join protests across UK

  30-01-2017 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Demonstrations are held in dozens of cities and towns, including one outside 10 Downing Street.
  
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• Great Scottish Run results quashed because course was 150 metres short

  30-01-2017 22:41
  The results of last year's Great Scottish Run have been quashed because the course fell nearly 150 metres short of the official half-marathon distance. "Human error" has been blamed for the 149.7 metre shortfall, which was discovered after concerned organisers re-measured the intended 13.1-mile route through Glasgow. Additionally, 50 metres of the shortfall has been put down to the route being incorrectly followed in Bellahouston Park.
  
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• All the signs that totally slayed at the UK anti-Trump protests

  30-01-2017 22:28
  
  “Feed him to the corgis.”
  
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• All the amazing Donald Trump graffiti you'll wish you'd created yourself

  30-01-2017 22:25
  
  From London, to Melbourne, to Mexico City…
  
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• Loneliness Commission imagined by murdered MP Jo Cox is to be launched

  30-01-2017 22:22
  A new Commission on Loneliness - the brainchild of murdered MP Jo Cox - is being launched by a group of cross-party MPs. Family members and colleagues of the former MP for Batley and Spen are to work with 13 leading organisations and charities to help people suffering from loneliness, which is being described as "Britain's silent epidemic". The commission's recommendations will be published in December.
  
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• Met Police investigating 255 football child abuse claims

  30-01-2017 21:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The allegations are connected to 77 clubs, including five in the Premier League.
  
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• Boris Johnson says Trump ban won't affect UK nationals

  30-01-2017 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson defends the government's response to the US migration crackdown.
  
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• Loneliness tips from 90-year-old published

  30-01-2017 21:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Derek Taylor, 90, wrote tips on tackling loneliness, which have now been been published.
  
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• Tory MP Soames sorry for 'woofing' at Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

  30-01-2017 21:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sir Nicholas Soames said he gave Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh a 'friendly canine salute'.
  
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• Tens of thousands in British cities protest against Trump's travel ban

  30-01-2017 21:13
  Thousands of people, some holding placards reading "No to Racism, No to Trump", "Dump Trump" and "I stand with Muslims", joined a protest outside the Downing Street residence of Prime Minister Theresa May, who visited Trump in Washington on Friday. Nearly a 1.5 million people have signed a petition calling for Trump's planned British visit - which will involve lavish displays of royal pageantry and a banquet hosted by Queen Elizabeth - to be cancelled.
  
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• Nicholas Soames MP 'woofs' at Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh MP

  30-01-2017 21:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nicholas Soames apologises for the noise directed at the SNP's Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh.
  
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• Taoiseach: Brexit an 'enormous challenge' for Northern Ireland

  30-01-2017 21:08
  Ireland's prime minister, Enda Kenny, has warned that Brexit poses an "enormous challenge" for Northern Ireland. Speaking at a news conference with Theresa May in Dublin, the Taoiseach said there would be "very negative consequences" if a hard-border was re-introduced.
  
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• UK Trump protesters: 'This is not ok'

  30-01-2017 21:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of protesters are gathering across the UK in response to President Trump's executive order on immigration.
  
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• Why Queen will welcome Donald Trump despite protests

  30-01-2017 20:53
  On dozens of occasions the Queen has opened up her home and extended the hand of hospitality to foreign heads of state.
  
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• France to hold London roadshow to lure finance jobs to Paris

  30-01-2017 20:52
  By Maya Nikolaeva, Jean-Baptiste Vey and Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - French authorities will head to London next week for a roadshow to try to lure financial jobs to Paris which will show off the French capital's advantages versus Frankfurt as an alternative to Britain's financial centre. Valerie Pecresse, the head of the wider Paris region and Gerard Mestrallet, president of France's finance industry lobby Europlace, will next Monday meet executives from BlackRock, Bank of America Merrill Lyn
  
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• Football abuse: All top London clubs investigated

  30-01-2017 20:36
  
  All five Premier League clubs in London are now caught up in the football sex abuse scandal, Scotland Yard has said. The Metropolitan Police are investigating 255 separate allegations against individuals at 77 clubs, including Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, West Ham United and Crystal Palace. There are allegations against suspects connected with three London clubs in the Championship and three in Leagues One and Two.
  
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• PM May says U.S. close ally, Trump invitation stands

  30-01-2017 20:09
  Britain takes a different approach to President Donald Trump on immigration restrictions but the United States is a close ally and an invitation for a state visit still stands, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday. Trump's executive order barring refugees and people from seven mainly Muslim countries has caused a global outcry, and in Britain over 1.3 million people have called for his state visit to be cancelled. "The United States is a close ally of the United Kingdom, we work together ac
  
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• The response to Starbucks saying they'll hire 10,000 refugees has shown how divided America is right now

  30-01-2017 19:44
  
  The hashtag #BoycottStarbucks has been taken over by people pledging to #DrinkStarbucks.
  
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• Gin is safe: Juniper added to national seed bank

  30-01-2017 19:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Juniper seeds from across the country have been collected and frozen for future use, experts say.
  
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• Don't let Trump embarrass our queen, say 1.3 million Britons

  30-01-2017 19:29
  By Alistair Smout and Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Well over a million people in Britain have signed a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Trump's planned state visit to be cancelled to avoid embarrassing Queen Elizabeth, in a grassroots backlash against his immigration policies. The invitation to make a state visit, which will involve lavish displays of royal pageantry and a banquet hosted by the monarch, was conveyed by May when she visited Trump in Washington last week. May came
  
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• Boris Johnson says Donald Trump's 'bark worse than his bite'

  30-01-2017 19:29
  
  Boris Johnson has said Donald Trump's "bark is considerably worse than his bite", as he criticised the US President's controversial travel ban. Speaking in the Commons, the Foreign Secretary told MPs he shared their "disquiet" over the policy, and stressed it was "not an approach we would take". Mr Johnson acknowledged the measure, which temporarily bans refugees and citizens from seven mainly-Muslim countries coming to the US, was "highly controversial", but stressed the "vital importance" of t
  
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• Football abuse: All top London clubs investigated - police

  30-01-2017 19:23
  All five London Premier League clubs have been caught up in historical child sex abuse allegations, say police.
  
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• Man rescued after falling into cement mixer in County Durham

  30-01-2017 19:09
  A man who fell into a cement mixer while he was cleaning it has been cut free by firemen. "It appears he slipped inside the mixer when he was cleaning it," said a spokeswoman for the County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service. After two hours the worker was eventually freed and removed from the industrial mixer on a stretcher before being taken by ambulance to the University Hospital of North Durham.
  
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• Third of Britons would back Trump-style ban in UK - Sky poll

  30-01-2017 18:56
  
  More than a third of Britons would support a ban on people travelling from Muslim-majority countries similar to that ordered by US President Donald Trump, a Sky Data poll reveals. When told that Mr Trump had banned citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days, 34% said they would back a similar policy in the UK, while 49% would oppose such a policy. Meanwhile, half of Britons support cancelling President Trump's proposed state visit after a petition to do so garnered more than a milli
  
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• So, is the State Visits Committee an actual thing?

  30-01-2017 18:48
  
  That’s who Downing Street has said are the people behind inviting Donald Trump for a visit to the UK, FYI.
  
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• Financiers convicted over £245m loan scam

  30-01-2017 18:36
  A group of financiers have been found guilty of bribery and corruption as part of a scam worth £245m. Finance consultant David Mills, 59, used designer watches, exotic holidays and sex parties to bribe HBOS manager Lyden Scourfield to approve inappropriate loans for struggling businesses. Mr Mills and his colleagues were then able to charge the business owners significant consultancy fees.
  
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• Britain says U.S. immigration curbs do not apply to UK travellers

  30-01-2017 18:36
  U.S. President Donald Trump's travel restrictions do not apply to people travelling from the United Kingdom regardless of their nationality or place of birth, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Monday. Trump's executive order barring refugees and people from seven mainly Muslim countries has caused a global outcry, and in Britain over 1.3 million people have called for his state visit to the United Kingdom to be cancelled. In a statement to parliament, Johnson said London had received assur
  
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• Here's how Donald Trump's job approval rating in office fares against his predecessors

  30-01-2017 18:21
  
  It’s been over a week since Trump was sworn into office, but is the country behind him?
  
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• Someone keeps throwing vegetables at joggers in Gloucestershire and nobody knows why

  30-01-2017 18:14
  
  A potato, turnip and avocado have been thrown so far.
  
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• Scotland, Wales want action from PM May on Brexit proposals

  30-01-2017 18:02
  Scotland and Wales want the British government to prove it is taking their proposals seriously after Britain's vote to leave the European Union put them at loggerheads with Prime Minister Theresa May. Scotland must have a choice over its future if Brexit does not represent its interests, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said following a meeting between May and the heads of Britain's devolved governments in Cardiff. "The UK government must now show they are prepared to do more than just listen to t
  
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• Mud, toil, chills and sweat as English farm hosts last 'Tough Guy' race

  30-01-2017 17:50
  The aptly named "Tough Guy" race attracts some of the biggest names in world obstacle course racing every year to a farm in the village of Perton, in the English West Midlands. Most, like Joe Hicks, costumed with crutches and bubble wrap marked 'Fragile', were just aiming to complete the course, even more treacherous this year thanks to heavy rain. Others, like 27-year-old Jon Albon, from Essex near London, took it all rather more seriously.
  
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• Johnson defends Trump state visit plan

  30-01-2017 17:48
  LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister Boris Johnson on Monday defended the decision to invite U.S. President Donald Trump to London for a state visit, amid criticism prompted by Trump's immigration policies. "It is totally right that the incoming president of our closest and most important ally should be accorded the honour of a state visit, and that is supported by this government" Johnson told parliament. (Reporting by Kylie Maclellan, writing by William James, editing by Stephen Addison
  
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• Breast flash GMP police chief Rebekah Sutcliffe keeps job

  30-01-2017 17:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Assistant Chief Constable Rebekah Sutcliffe mocked a colleague's "boob job".
  
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• Trump immigration order is 'highly controversial' - Boris Johnson

  30-01-2017 17:35
  The executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump suspending travel from seven Muslim-majority countries is a highly controversial policy, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told parliament on Monday. Johnson said he had received assurances from the U.S. embassy that the order would make no difference to British passport holders, irrespective of their country of birth or whether they held a second passport. "This is, of course, a highly controversial policy, which has caused unease
  
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• Former HBOS manager found guilty of corruption and fraud

  30-01-2017 17:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lynden Scourfield is one of six people found guilty of a scam that exploited small businesses.
  
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• Making a splash: cold water swimming

  30-01-2017 17:09 via theguardian.com
  
  There’s something for everyone at the cold water swimming championships at the lido in Tooting, south London: medals for the fastest, an award for the best hat and a mass jump-in in aid of Crisis, the homelessness charityA day of cold blue therapy. Where volunteer marshals lined up more than 700 competitors for 114 races at intervals timed to the second. “Get in the water, get your shoulders under,” they said briskly and everyone did, briskly.Continue reading...
  
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• PM: I look forward to welcoming Trump to UK

  30-01-2017 16:37
  
  Theresa May has been booed during a visit to Cardiff after a spokesperson insisted she was "very happy" to invite Donald Trump on a state visit amid anger and protests over his travel ban. The Prime Minister's spokesman said she was looking forward to "hosting the President later this year" despite more than one million people signing an online petition calling for the state visit to be scrapped. Amid growing pressure, Downing Street released a statement saying: "To be clear, the Prime Minister
  
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• Boris Johnson under pressure over Donald Trump's US travel ban

  30-01-2017 16:37
  
  Boris Johnson is under pressure to clarify whether dual-nationality Britons can travel to the US during Donald Trump's travel ban.
  
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• High Court grounds Heathrow third runway challenge

  30-01-2017 16:03
  
  Campaigners have failed in a legal bid to block the prospect of a third runway at Heathrow Airport. An alliance of councils and Greenpeace UK was seeking clearance for a judicial review of the Government's support for the expansion - announced in October. It also argued that ministers failed to recognise unlawful air quality impacts.
  
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• Stranded bride and groom given police escort after Burnley crash

  30-01-2017 15:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The newlyweds arrived at their reception in a police car after being involved in a crash en-route.
  
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• The petition to stop Donald Trump's state visit to the UK has reached one million signatures, so what next?

  30-01-2017 14:55
  
  Downing Street doesn’t seem to be too bothered by the petition.
  
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• Mystery dementia man 'dumped in UK'

  30-01-2017 14:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A BBC investigation finds that an elderly man with dementia, found lost in Hereford in November 2015, was abandoned in England by his US family.
  
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• Wakefield wheelchair user refused space on bus

  30-01-2017 14:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  She said the driver refused to take both a pushchair and a wheelchair at once.
  
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• Two charged over items taken from protected WWI wreck

  30-01-2017 14:07
  Two men have been charged in connection with the removal of items from the wreck of a Royal Navy battlecruiser sunk by a German U-boat in World War I. John Blight and Nigel Ingram are accused of failing to declare to authorities objects that were taken from HMS Hermes in the Strait of Dover. The wreck was designated a protected site because of the 44 people who died when it sank, but it is well documented on diving websites.
  
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• Great Scottish Run half-marathon course found to be short

  30-01-2017 14:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Great Scottish Run half-marathon course is found to be about 150m short, invalidating the record time set by the winner.
  
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