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• Donald Trump is donating the first three months of his salary to the National Park Service

  03-04-2017 23:57
  
  But some people have found a bit of a contradiction with that.
  
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• PM to unveil £1bn package for Syrian refugees and countries that host them

  03-04-2017 23:33
  Prime Minister Theresa May will reveal details of a jobs and education package to help the most vulnerable victims of the Syrian conflict.It will be unveiled by the PM during her visit to Jordan, where she will visit a school that is educating refugees alongside Jordanian children.Jordan has more than 650,000 registered Syrian refugees.
  
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• What we know about the St Petersburg subway explosion

  03-04-2017 22:13
  
  Ten people died in the blast and 43 others were taken to hospital.
  
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• IMF releases $1 billion loan for cash-strapped Ukraine

  03-04-2017 22:09
  
  "The IMF board took the decision to grant Ukraine one billion dollars," wrote Petro Poroshenko on his Facebook page
  
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• BP slashes Dudley’s maximum payout by £5m to avert new revolt

  03-04-2017 21:49
  BP has agreed to slash millions of pounds from its chief executive’s maximum pay deal for the next three years in a bid to head off the threat of a fresh shareholder revolt.Sky News has obtained the details of the FTSE-100 oil giant's future pay policy - which will be disclosed in its annual report later this week amid intense political scrutiny of boardroom pay packages.Insiders briefed on the terms of the deal that will be awarded to Bob Dudley, BP's chief executive, said the company had
  
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• UK seeks to cool tensions with EU over Gibraltar

  03-04-2017 21:00
  
  Theresa May and Boris Johnson moved to cool tensions with the European Union over Gibraltar on Monday, dismissing the notion of military escalation and hinting that a conciliatory approach would be matched by British goodwill on security issues.As the Spanish foreign minister suggested that British alarm over Gibraltar showed that “someone in the UK is losing their cool”, May sought to move on from the aggressive rhetoric that followed the publication of the EU council’s draft
  
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• Brexit charm offensive: Royals 'our best ambassadors', says minister

  03-04-2017 20:31
  The Royal Family are Britain's "best ambassadors" to maintain good relations with European countries, foreign minister Sir Alan Duncan has told Sky News.Speaking in Italy while accompanying Prince Charles on what has been touted as a Brexit charm offensive around the continent, Sir Alan said the royals "put us politicians to shame".
  
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• Fox News commentator is latest to accuse Roger Ailes of sexual harassment

  03-04-2017 20:28
  
  Julie Roginsky, left, appears on The Five television program in 2015.A Fox News Channel commentator on Monday filed a lawsuit accusing the network’s former chairman, Roger Ailes, of sexual harassment.The political commentator Julie Roginsky, who currently contributes to Fox News, said Ailes made sexual advances towards her and penalized her for rebuffing his advances, according to the lawsuit.
  
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• Dangerous attitudes on the streets of Croydon | Letters

  03-04-2017 20:22
  
  Anti-racist graffiti on a wall near where a young Kurdish-Iranian was attacked in the Shrublands area of Croydon on 31 March 2017.It’s all too easy to blame Brexit for last week’s horrific assault in Croydon (Report, 3 April) that has left a teenage Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker fighting for his life, but problems in this London borough are more longstanding.In July 1992, Ruhullah Aramesh, an Afghan refugee living in the Thornton Heath area of the borough, was beaten to death in a ra
  
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• The Latest: Trump: subway bombing is 'terrible thing' - Daily Mail

  03-04-2017 20:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) - The Latest on the explosion on a train in the Russian city of St. Petersburg (all times local):. 9:05 p.m.. President Donald Trump calls the deadly bomb blast on a Russian subway train "absolutely a terrible thing." In ...
  Why suspicion over St Petersburg metro attack is likely to fall on Islamist groupsThe Guardian
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• First Lady Melania Trump's official portrait unveiled - BBC News

  03-04-2017 20:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  First Lady Melania Trump's official portrait unveiled
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  The White House has released the first official portrait of First Lady Melania Trump. The 46-year-old former model's photograph was taken at the White House, according to the administration. Details on the photographer or when the portrait was taken ...
  Melania Trump's first official White House portrait photo is outUSA TODAY
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• Croydon attack comes as charities report growing number of hate crimes - The Guardian

  03-04-2017 20:16 via theguardian.com
  
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  Croydon attack comes as charities report growing number of hate crimes
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  Croydon has just over 400 unaccompanied child asylum seekers, a higher number than most local authorities, because it is the location of Lunar House, the government office where people must go to claim asylum. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters.
  Seven charged over asylum teen attack in CroydonBBC News
  Asylum seeker attacked in Croydon is 'lucky to be alive'Daily Mail
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• Croydon attack comes as charities report growing number of hate crimes

  03-04-2017 20:16
  
  Croydon has just over 400 unaccompanied child asylum seekers, a higher number than most local authorities, because it is the location of Lunar House, the government office where people must go to claim asylum.The attack on a teenage asylum seeker in Croydon last Friday comes as reports of abuse directed at refugee children are becoming more frequent, charities and experts have warned.As Reker Ahmed, the 17-year-old Kurdish Iranian who was attacked, recovered in hospital on Monday, those involved
  
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• The Latest: UK Brexit official meets Portuguese minister

  03-04-2017 20:03
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on Britain's impending departure from the European Union (all times local):
  
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• Seven charged over Croydon attack on teenage asylum seeker

  03-04-2017 20:01
  Seven people have been charged in connection with an attack on a teenage asylum seeker who was left unconscious on a street in Croydon, southeast London.
  
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• David Moyes never considered resigning over 'slap' remark to female reporter - Belfast Telegraph

  03-04-2017 19:53 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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  Sunderland boss David Moyes does not fear for his job and never considered resigning over his "slap" remark to a female reporter. As the Football Association confirmed it would ask the club for an explanation of Moyes' comments to BBC Newcastle and ...
  David Moyes threatens female BBC reporter Vicki SparksDaily Mail
  David Moyes slap: Full transcript of Sunderland manager's apolo
  
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• The absurd history of British-Spanish rivalry, from Henry VIII to Gibraltar - The Guardian

  03-04-2017 19:49 via theguardian.com
  
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  The absurd history of British-Spanish rivalry, from Henry VIII to Gibraltar
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  Anglo-Spanish tensions have flared recently over the status of Gibraltar – and not for the first time. Photograph: Jon Nazca/Reuters. EU referendum and Brexit. The absurd history of British-Spanish rivalry, from Henry VIII to Gibraltar. The war of ...
  The Latest: UK Brexit official meets Portuguese ministerDaily Mail
  'Jaw jaw not war war': Theresa May hoses down talk of war with Spain ove
  
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• Imagination plunges as Apple pulls out of chip supply deal - Financial Times

  03-04-2017 19:46 via ft.com
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  Imagination plunges as Apple pulls out of chip supply deal
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  Shares in Imagination Technologies plunged more than 60 per cent on Monday after Apple, its biggest customer, said that it would no longer use the UK chip designer's technology in new products. Sample the FT's top stories for a week. You select the ...
  Shares in chip firm Imagination plunge 60% after 'worst nightmare' Apple blowBelfast Telegraph
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• The fight between this Spanish matador and a bull didn't end well for the guy, at all

  03-04-2017 19:42
  
  The young matador is still in hospital in a serious condition.
  
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• Mobile phone thieves jailed after police pursuit on M11

  03-04-2017 19:29
  
  Dramatic footage showing a mobile phone thief trying to escape police by driving the wrong way on the M11 has been released as the driver and his accomplice were jailed.The footage, taken from a police helicopter, shows Zuriel Hutson, 21, weaving in and out of oncoming traffic on the motorway, as he attempted to evade capture.Hutson and Sharuk Sheraji, 22, had carried out a high-speed spree snatching phones across London in the preceding hours.
  
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• Using condoms in winemaking is actually a thing in Cuba

  03-04-2017 19:23
  
  One winemaker likes to make sure his product is in *safe* hands.
  
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• Trump backs Sisi as he seeks to 'reboot' US-Egypt ties - BBC News

  03-04-2017 18:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Trump backs Sisi as he seeks to 'reboot' US-Egypt ties
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  Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is visiting the White House for the first time since he led the military's overthrow of his predecessor in 2013. US President Donald Trump said he was "very much behind" Mr Sisi, whose deadly crackdown on dissent ...
  Donald Trump welcomes Egypt's president and says he has 'been close to him ever since the first time we met'Telegraph.co.uk
  Egypt's autocrat el-Sisi gets Oval Office han
  
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• Donald Trump's North Korea warning sparks concern in Asia - Financial Times

  03-04-2017 18:37 via ft.com
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  Donald Trump's North Korea warning sparks concern in Asia
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  Donald Trump's warning that he could take unilateral action to eliminate North Korea's nuclear threat has sparked alarm among some analysts in Asia about the implications for South Korea, Japan and China of a military conflict with Pyongyang. Sample ...
  Donald Trump's shock tactics on North Korea may just workThe Guardian
  Theresa May warns Donald Trump against unilateral action on North KoreaTelegraph.co.u
  
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• Activist 'upset' that Trump staff secretly photographed her urinating

  03-04-2017 18:15
  
  Rohan Beyts, an environment activist, has told a court she felt “really upset” after learning that Donald Trump employees had secretly photographed her allegedly urinating on his golf course.Beyts is suing the US president’s golf course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, for breach of privacy after its executives called in the police over the incident in April 2016, accusing her of committing a public nuisance.A longtime campaigner against the resort, she accuses Trump International G
  
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• Activist 'upset' that Trump employees secretly photographed her urinating

  03-04-2017 18:15
  
  Rohan Beyts, an environment activist, has told a court she felt “really upset” after learning that Donald Trump employees had secretly photographed her allegedly urinating on his golf course.Beyts is suing the president’s golf course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, for breach of privacy after its executives called in the police following the incident in April 2016, accusing her of committing a public nuisance.A longtime campaigner against the resort, she accuses Trump International
  
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• Two-child limit on benefits: are you going to be affected?

  03-04-2017 18:11
  
  From Thursday (April 6) child tax credits and universal credit across the UK will be restricted to the first two children in a family.It intends the two-child restriction to influence the behaviour of less well-off families by making them think twice about having a third child.Critics say that at current birth rates, 100,000 third or subsequent children will not qualify for tax credit support over the next 12 months, inflating child poverty figures by 10% by 2020.
  
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• Queen's collection of gifts amassed during reign to go on show

  03-04-2017 18:08
  
  Some of the more unusual gifts presented to the Queen, including a beaded throne, a totem pole and a novelty Buckingham Palace London Underground sign, are to go on show in a special exhibition.Curated from the thousands of gifts she has received during her 65-year reign, the Buckingham Palace exhibition will feature the weird and the wonderful from over 100 countries collected during more than 250 overseas visits.The new exhibition, held during the annual summer opening of the state rooms at Bu
  
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• Gibraltar rock-steady against "Brexit bombshell"

  03-04-2017 17:58
  
  By Jon NazcaGIBRALTAR (Reuters) - "Brexit Bombshell -- but Gibraltar will not surrender" stated the Gibraltar Panorama on Monday as the British enclave's future took centre stage in the wrangling over Britain's break from the European Union.Residents of "the Rock" on the southern tip of Spain said they hoped for London's support as Prime Minister Theresa May's government negotiated the divorce."Spain is going to jump at this opportunity to try and take advantage of the situation but when it come
  
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• Anti-abortion group in tampon tax row removes death penalty comparison

  03-04-2017 17:50
  
  Life was just one of the 70 organisations receiving funding from Osborne’s tampon tax.A charity that has been given £250,000 from the government’s so-called tampon tax fund has scrubbed language describing abortion after rape as a “death penalty” from its website after being challenged on it.The Life charity has now said it will do a full review of its website to remove offensive language, after the Guardian pointed out that the same article referred to abortion in
  
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• Aldi is bringing out a cheap hot tub for summer and people are here for it

  03-04-2017 17:50
  
  *Immediately plans garden party*
  
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• Global stocks ease ahead of Trump-Xi meeting, dollar gains

  03-04-2017 17:45
  
  By Herbert LashNEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets eased on Monday as investors awaited the first meeting later this week between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, as the dollar gained amid a positive U.S. backdrop of rising interest rates.Shares on Wall Street fell in morning trading as investors assessed how Trump's protectionist stance on trade will play out during meetings with Xi slated for Thursday and Friday.Trump held out the possibility, in an intervie
  
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• The lazy person’s guide to getting (a bit) fitter

  03-04-2017 17:15
  
  The trouble with health warnings – the latest of which comes from the British Heart Foundation, suggesting that 20 million couch potatoes are risking an early death – is that they seem so abstract.Especially when you still have flashbacks to school sports day humiliation, or worry that the solitary pair of shorts in your wardrobe may no longer fit.It sounds obvious, but research shows that walking can reduce the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke and more.
  
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• The Green Party is keen on introducing a three-day weekend

  03-04-2017 17:13
  
  Now this is the kind of political proposal we can really get behind.
  
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• PM would win 100-seat majority in snap election, says influential pollster

  03-04-2017 16:50
  Theresa May would be on course for a 100-seat majority if she called a snap general election this year, according to an influential pollster.Elections analyst Robert Hayward told Sky News the Tories would surge to victory if Mrs May went to the country in the coming months, fresh from triggering Article 50.The party could lose up to 15 seats to the Liberal Democrats, his projections suggest, but make major gains from Labour and could take a handful of seats from the Scottish Nationalists.
  
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• Inventor hopes eTrike will succeed where uncle's Sinclair failed

  03-04-2017 16:46
  
  By Jim DruryCHEPSTOW, WALES (Reuters) - More than 30 years after his uncle spectacularly failed to get Britain moving in battery-powered tricycles, inventor Grant Sinclair is optimistic his updated version of the C5 will be a well ridden success.Gone is the low seat, poor protection and white bath-like design that Clive Sinclair, who made his name as a famed innovator in the computer sector, was ridiculed for when he launched it in 1985 as the future of transport.In its place is a three-wheeled
  
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• Five people charged over Croydon asylum seeker attack

  03-04-2017 16:25
  Five people have been charged in connection with an attack on a teenage asylum seeker who was left unconscious on a street in Croydon, southeast London.The teenager, who is Kurdish Iranian, was subjected to a "brutal" attack including "repeated blows to the head", police said, after the group discovered he was an asylum seeker.Five of these - Daryl Davis, 20, Danyelle Davis, 24, Barry Potts, 20, George Walder, 20, and Jack Walder, 24 - all from Croydon - have now been charged with violent disord
  
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• Here is everything you need to know about Gibraltar

  03-04-2017 16:24
  
  It’s more than just monkeys
  
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• Theresa May defends cut in payments for bereaved families

  03-04-2017 16:07
  
  Theresa May said bereavement pay changes were a hangover from Osborne’s 2015 budget.Theresa May has defended cuts to bereaved family payments as “fair to taxpayers” in a week where families with a terminally ill parent could see thousands wiped off their benefits if the parent survives beyond new rules introduced later this week.The change will cost his young family tens of thousands of pounds.
  
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• Falklands analogy sparks Brexit war of words over Gibraltar

  03-04-2017 15:54
  
  Less than a week after asking for a divorce from the European Union, Britain is talking war. The dispute over Gibraltar is a conflict of words, not weapons — a matter of bellicose headlines in Britain ...
  
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• Everything we know so far about the St Petersburg metro explosions

  03-04-2017 15:51
  
  Here’s what we know so far.
  
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• Southern Railway deal rejected by ASLEF union members

  03-04-2017 15:49
  A deal aimed at ending the dispute over driver-only trains on Southern services has been rejected by members of the ASLEF union.
  
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• British babies cry the most, Danish babies the least. Why?

  03-04-2017 15:40
  
  Denmark – as well as being the world’s best country to live in for women with the second-happiest people and one of the best healthcare systems in Europe – has the most contented babies.According to research published in the Journal of Pediatrics, Danish, German and Japanese babies cry the least, while British, Canadian and Italian babies cry the most.“I’m not surprised,” Danish parenting expert and co-author of The Danish Way of Parenting Jessica Joelle Alexa
  
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• Brexit fever? Whiff of jingoism amid talk of blue passports and war

  03-04-2017 15:38
  
  By Guy FaulconbridgeLONDON (Reuters) - Just days after Prime Minister Theresa May formally served the European Union with divorce papers, a powerful affliction appeared to strike some in Britain: Brexit fever.Amid a row with Spain and the EU over the status of Gibraltar, a former leader of May's Conservative party, Michael Howard, even said she would be prepared to go to war to defend the small British territory near Spain's southern tip.Beside headlines about war over "the Rock" in Britain's Eu
  
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• Sovereignty of Gibraltar remains unchanged - Johnson

  03-04-2017 15:31
  There will be no change to Gibraltar's sovereignty without Britain's consent, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Monday, while his Dutch counterpart called for calm after a British politician raised talk of defending the outpost."The sovereignty of Gibraltar is unchanged and is not going to change, and cannot conceivably change without the express support and consent of the people of Gibraltar and the United Kingdom, and that is not is going to change," Johnson said on arrival at a meeting
  
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• Theresa May urges 'jaw-jaw' with Spain over Gibraltar

  03-04-2017 15:24
  The Prime Minister has said she wants "jaw-jaw" with Spain rather than "war-war" after suggestions she would fight for Gibraltar.It comes after former Conservative leader Lord Howard suggested on Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday that Theresa May could be willing to defend the British territory - like Margaret Thatcher had the Falklands.Speaking to reporters on a flight to Jordan, as she began a trade and security visit, the PM laughed when asked to rule out a war with Spain.
  
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• May says 'jaw-jaw' will be UK policy towards Gibraltar

  03-04-2017 15:08
  
  Theresa May has said “jaw-jaw” will be the UK’s policy towards Spain over Gibraltar in an attempt to cool rising temperatures over the status of the territory, during which a former Conservative leader suggested the British government might be prepared to take military action to defend the territory.After 24 hours of increasingly aggressive rhetoric following publication of the EU council’s draft guidelines, which said Spain would be given a veto over any arrangements con
  
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• Driver faces private prosecution over death of cyclist in London

  03-04-2017 15:00
  
  The case at the Old Bailey has been brought by the Cyclists’ Defence Fund.The driver of a car that hit a cyclist who later died has appeared at the Old Bailey in a private case brought by the Cyclists’ Defence Fund.Gail Purcell, 59, from St Albans, is charged with causing death by dangerous or inconsiderate driving, after a collision with cyclist Michael Mason, 70, in central London.
  
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• School funding cuts to hit poorer areas harder, says Labour

  03-04-2017 14:58
  
  Labour says about half of all schools will face a reduction in per-pupil spending of 6-11% by 2019-20.The proposed funding cuts in the government’s new spending formula for schools in England will disproportionately affect more deprived areas, according to a Labour analysis.Labour compared Department for Education (DfE) data on the prevalence of pupils qualifying for free school meals against data from a study on the likely impact of the new funding formula published last month by the Educ
  
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• Sunderland boss David Moyes sorry for 'slap' threat to female reporter

  03-04-2017 14:28
  Sunderland manager David Moyes has said he "deeply regrets" threatening to slap a female reporter.The incident happened in a post-match interview after the Premier League strugglers drew 0-0 with Burnley on 18 March.Reporter Vicki Sparks had asked Moyes if the presence of Sunderland owner Ellis Short at the game had put him under more pressure as the club battled relegation.
  
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• Charles to be joined by UK ministers on 'Brexit charm' tour

  03-04-2017 13:39
  Prince Charles will be joined by UK government ministers later on his royal tour of Italy, a trip some have described as a Brexit charm offensive.The Prince of Wales will be in Florence with his wife the Duchess of Cornwall, attending a series of engagements focusing on food, farming, wool and culture.UK ministers are expected to be part of the royal delegation and travel with them to Rome on Tuesday and Wednesday when the Prince will meet senior Italian political figures.
  
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