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• 'We're trading with the rest of the world!' Optimistic businessmen champion BREXIT BOOST - Express.co.uk

  06-04-2017 23:54 via express.co.uk
  
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  'We're trading with the rest of the world!' Optimistic businessmen champion BREXIT BOOST
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  BREXIT presents the perfect opportunity to trade with the rest of the world, leading businessmen have insisted. By Ajay Nair. PUBLISHED: 22:50, Thu, Apr 6, 2017 | UPDATED: 22:53, Thu, Apr 6, 2017 ...and more »
  
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• Samantha Baldwin and sons hid at Sherwood holiday park - Daily Mail

  06-04-2017 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  Samantha Baldwin and sons hid at Sherwood holiday park
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  A mother and her two sons who sparked a nationwide manhunt last week were yesterday found in a holiday lodge – 15 miles from their home. Samantha Baldwin, 40, was arrested on suspicion of kidnap and her sons Dylan and Louis Madge, aged six and ...and more »
  
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• Trailer for Stephen King's It slammed as 'disgusting' by clowns

  06-04-2017 22:35
  Professional clowns have slammed the movie trailer for Stephen King's It, with one describing it as " sensational rubbish" and "disgusting"."It's a horrible movie and we'd like to distance ourselves from the subject of scary clowns.Celine Harland, who has performed as Tickles for 17 years, said it had come at an unfortunate time, noting that the industry had only just got over a number of clown attacks in the US and UK last year.
  
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• Rape support charities are refusing to sign forms exempting women from third-child tax cut

  06-04-2017 22:32
  
  Rape Crisis Scotland and Scottish Women’s Aid will both refuse to sign form NCC1 4/17.
  
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• The Latest: Another big number (9) for Spieth at the Masters - Daily Mail

  06-04-2017 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  The Latest: Another big number (9) for Spieth at the Masters
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  AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - The Latest on the first round of the Masters on Thursday (all times local):. 3:30 p.m.. For the second straight round at the Masters, Jordan Spieth had a quadruple bogey on the back nine. Jordan Spieth hits a drive on the 14th hole ...
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• Chinese president Xi Jinping arrives for first meeting with Donald Trump - The Guardian

  06-04-2017 21:40 via theguardian.com
  
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  Chinese president Xi Jinping arrives for first meeting with Donald Trump
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  North Korea and US-China trade will be high on the agenda, but can the Mar-a-Lago summit soothe relations after Trump's combative campaign talk? China's Xi Jinping was greeted at Palm Beach airport by secretary of state Rex Tillerson. Photograph: ...
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• Chairman steps down from Russian hacking probe - Radio New Zealand

  06-04-2017 21:16 via radionz.co.nz
  
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  The Republican head of a key US congressional investigation into alleged Russian hacking has temporarily stepped down and an ethics inquiry launched. Devin Nunes. Photo: AFP. House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes is now himself under ...and more »
  
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• Don Rickles dies aged 90 of kidney failure at his LA home - Daily Mail

  06-04-2017 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  Don Rickles dies aged 90 of kidney failure at his LA home
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  ... son Larry passed away suddenly in 2011 from respiratory failure; It was Frank Sinatra who helped Rickles get his big break, with the singer recommending everyone go see the comic after he heckled Ol' Blue Eye; '90 years with Don Rickles weren't enough.
  Don Rickles, Equal Opportunity Offender of Comedy, Dies at 90New York Times
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• Sky Data poll: Majority of Britons back military action in Syria

  06-04-2017 21:05
  The majority of Britons would support military intervention in Syria, a Sky Data poll suggests.Some 51% would support British military involvement alongside other western countries in Syria, while 32% would oppose it.Some 41% would support UK involvement, while 38% would oppose it.
  
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• Why should it cost thousands more to take a child away during school holidays? - Manchester Evening News

  06-04-2017 20:50 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
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  Why should it cost thousands more to take a child away during school holidays?
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  Parents have reacted to a landmark court ruling against a dad who broke the law and took his child out of school during term-time. Many families say they will just not be able to afford a holiday abroad after a new ruling confirmed peak-time holidays ...
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• Putin stands by Assad as firm evidence of chemical attack mounts - The Guardian

  06-04-2017 20:50 via theguardian.com
  
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  Putin stands by Assad as firm evidence of chemical attack mounts
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  Syrians dig a grave to bury the bodies of victims of a chemical attack in Khan Sheikhun, in Idlib. Photograph: Fadi Al-Halabi/AFP/Getty Images. Syria. Putin stands by Assad as firm evidence of chemical attack mounts. Calls on Russia to restrain Syrian ...
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• UK will be missing out on overseas students | Letters

  06-04-2017 20:37
  
  ‘Overseas students not only have an enriching time studying at our world-class universities, but there are enormous long-term benefits to the UK,’ writes Zaki Cooper.You report that the chancellor has, once again, told the Indians that “there is no quota, no limits, no restrictions on Indian students applying to British universities” and that “90% of Indian students who apply for a student visa, get a student visa” (Britain is open to Indians, says Hammond, 5
  
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• In defence of DfID and overseas aid | Letters

  06-04-2017 20:37
  
  ‘Labour should support the excellent work that is being done by DfID to tackle extreme poverty,’ writes Dr Rachel Yates. Photograph: Allison Joyce/Getty
  
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• Trump: Nuclear option won't affect his court picks at all - Daily Mail

  06-04-2017 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  Trump: Nuclear option won't affect his court picks at all
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  President Donald Trump said the Senate's move to deploy the 'nuclear option' on Supreme Court filibusters won't affect his future court picks – which he suggested may be coming in bulk. 'No, it won't at all,' Trump said, asked by reporters aboard Air ...
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• Watch this fame-hungry cat gatecrashing a Lativian mayor's online Q&A

  06-04-2017 20:26
  
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• Jewish Labour members say Livingstone must go | Letters

  06-04-2017 20:18
  
  Ken Livingstone appears at a Labour disciplinary hearing in London on 4 April. ‘We are sick of the complacency shown towards the prejudice we face. Enough is enough,’ write the signatories of a letter to the Guardian. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty
  
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• Ken Livingstone on Hitler: 1,000 Jewish Labour supporters urge expulsion

  06-04-2017 20:17
  
  More than 1,000 Labour supporters have written to the Guardian condemning the decision not to expel Livingstone.More than 1,000 Jewish Labour members and supporters have written to the Guardian condemning the decision not to expel Ken Livingstone over his comments linking Adolf Hitler with Zionism, in a move putting more pressure on the party leadership to take urgent action.The letter, signed by influential party members including Luciana Berger MP, former deputy mayor of London Nicky Gavron, a
  
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• Motorist cleared of death by dangerous driving in crowd-funded case

  06-04-2017 19:55
  A woman who was prosecuted in what is believed to be the first crowd-funded court case has been cleared of causing death by careless driving.Hairdresser Gail Purcell, 59, failed to spot 70-year-old Michael Mason as he rode along central London's Regent Street.The Old Bailey heard that Mr Mason was thrown into the air, landing head first after being hit by Ms Purcell's Nissan.
  
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• Term-time holiday ruling makes family time "a crime" says Worcester dad - Worcester News

  06-04-2017 19:50 via worcesternews.co.uk
  
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  Term-time holiday ruling makes family time "a crime" says Worcester dad
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  A WORCESTER father who was fined for taking his children on a term-time holiday has reacted angrily to a decision by supreme court judges to back the fines in a landmark case. Garry Toulson said it made spending quality time with children "a crime" for ...
  Why should it cost thousands more to take a child away during school holidays?Manchester Evening News
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• UK could allow EU freedom of movement after Brexit, Boris Johnson says

  06-04-2017 19:47
  
  Britain could allow free movement of people from the European Union during an implementation phase after Brexit to allow the economy to attract talented people, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Thursday.When asked by Reuters TV if Britain would accept full free movement of people during an implementation phase, Johnson said this was possible, and could be agreed before Britain left the EU in two years' time.
  
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• South China Sea: Philippines' Duterte sends troops to unoccupied islands - BBC News

  06-04-2017 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  South China Sea: Philippines' Duterte sends troops to unoccupied islands
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  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered troops to occupy uninhabited islands and reefs in the disputed South China Sea. "The unoccupied, which are ours, let's live on it," Mr Duterte told reporters during a visit to a military base in Palawan ...and more »
  
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• Uncertainty over Brexit talks keeps sterling in check - Reuters UK

  06-04-2017 19:02 via uk.reuters.com
  
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  Uncertainty over Brexit talks keeps sterling in check
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  Some British sterling money in coins and bank notes is seen September 2, 2005. BANKG REUTERS/Catherine Benson. By Ritvik Carvalho | LONDON. LONDON Britain's pound fell against the dollar on Thursday in a session that saw it flip direction several ...and more »
  
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• Irish PM says we must not return to hard border with Northern Ireland

  06-04-2017 19:00
  
  Negotiations on Britain's departure from the European Union must not undermine peace in Northern Ireland and there can be no "hard border" between the British province and the Irish Republic, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said on Thursday."Whatever happens in the Brexit negotiations, nothing should undermine the peace and stability ... in Northern Ireland, which has taken so long to achieve and in which the European Union has played such an important part," Kenny said in Berlin.
  
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• Police set up fake courier company to target terrorism suspects

  06-04-2017 18:51
  
  Mohibur Rahman, Khobaib Hussain and Naweed Ali deny preparing terrorist acts.MI5 and West Midlands police set up a fake courier company to employ two men they were targeting in an undercover counter-terrorism operation, a court has heard.An undercover police officer, referred to in court as “Vincent”, confirmed to the Old Bailey that he had posed as the manager of a fake business, Hero Couriers, between July and August 2016 as part of an elaborate operation to gather evidence on a Bi
  
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• Double hand transplant patient able to write letter of thanks to surgeon

  06-04-2017 18:47
  Chris King says he is now able write, hold a mug of tea and clap the achievements of his favourite sports teams - "bigger strides" than he ever believed he would make following the groundbreaking operation nine months ago.The 57-year-old said it feels like he is getting his life back on track, all thanks to consultant plastic surgeon Simon Kay.Mr King, from Doncaster, said the "icing on the cake" would be "when I can do my laces, and I don't think that's far off".
  
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• Theresa May: No change in Gibraltar without people's consent

  06-04-2017 18:29
  There will be no negotiation on Gibraltar's sovereignty without the consent of its people, Theresa May has told Donald Tusk.Draft Brexit negotiating guidelines, sent out on Friday, contained a clause suggesting Spain will be able to veto any future trade deal between the EU and the UK.Following talks between the Prime Minister and the President of the European Council in Downing Street, a Number 10 spokesperson said that on Gibraltar, Mrs May had made it clear that "the UK's position had not cha
  
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• Barack Obama to address business leaders on first visit to Scotland

  06-04-2017 18:16
  Former US President Barack Obama will make his first visit to Scotland next month, addressing an event that will benefit children's charities and his own Obama Foundation.Tickets for a table for 10 at the Edinburgh dinner on 26 May - which is being organised by Sir Tom Hunter's The Hunter Foundation - are expected to sell for about £5,000.Sir Tom, who is also planning to invite some local young people, said he was "really chuffed" that Mr Obama was going to make the trip.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn champions universal benefits with free school meals policy

  06-04-2017 18:10
  
  Jeremy Corbyn makes fairy cakes with in Leyland, Lancashire.Jeremy Corbyn has said he is “strongly wedded to the principle of universalism in benefits” as he launched Labour’s policy of providing every primary school child with free school meals.The party’s plan to impose VAT on private education fees to raise £1bn to pay for the measure was criticised for directing resources to children with wealthy parents who could afford to feed them.
  
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• May and Tusk will seek to reduce tensions in Brexit talks

  06-04-2017 17:59
  
  LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Council President Donald Tusk agreed on Thursday to try to lower tensions in upcoming Brexit talks, especially over issues like Gibraltar.The future of the rocky British enclave on the southern tip of Spain became the first big point of controversy in Brexit negotiations after the EU draft position said the application of any EU-UK trade deal to Gibraltar had be agreed between Spain and Britain.Meeting Tusk for the first
  
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• Mother Samanatha Baldwin arrested after two missing boys found

  06-04-2017 17:56
  A mother who was missing for nine days with her sons has been arrested on suspicion of abduction.Samantha Baldwin, 40, is being questioned by police after she was found with her sons Louis Madge, nine, and Dylan Madge, six, near Ollerton, Nottinghamshire.Nottinghamshire Police said: "Officers were given information as a direct result of a nationwide appeal for the location of the boys.
  
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• Devin Nunes steps aside from House intelligence committee's Russia inquiry - The Guardian

  06-04-2017 17:34 via theguardian.com
  
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  Devin Nunes steps aside from House intelligence committee's Russia inquiry
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  Devin Nunes, Donald Trump's chief ally on the congressional committees investigating the president's connections to Russia, has stepped aside from the inquiry, as he faces his own ethics investigation.
  Nunes steps down from US election Russian hacking probeBBC News
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• Oil prices rise despite bearish inventory figures

  06-04-2017 17:32
  
  By David GaffenNEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices rose nearly 1 percent on Thursday, on track for a fourth straight day of gains, but analysts remained cautious about record-high U.S. crude inventories.Brent crude futuresgained 43 cents, or 0.8 percent, to $54.80 a barrel by 10:57 a.m. EDT (1657 BST).U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futuresrose 0.9 percent, or 47 cents a barrel to $51.60.
  
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• Neil Gorsuch's 'sexist' comments on maternity leave: the full story

  06-04-2017 17:14
  
  Neil Gorsuch told the Senate judiciary committee that an employer asking female, but not male, job applicants about their family plans was ‘highly inappropriate’.Months before Donald Trump even secured the Republican nomination for president, a third-year law student at the University of Colorado Law School met with campus administrators to express her concerns about alleged sexist comments her professor Neil Gorsuch made in class on 19 April 2016.At the time, Gorsuch, a judge on the
  
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• Mark Reckless leaves Ukip in turmoil with defection back to Tories - Belfast Telegraph

  06-04-2017 17:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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  Mark Reckless leaves Ukip in turmoil with defection back to Tories
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  Ukip is facing new turmoil after former MP Mark Reckless said he was quitting the party to join the Conservative group in the Welsh Assembly. Announcing the move, Mr Reckless - who originally defected to Ukip from the Tories in 2014 - praised the ...
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• Donald Tusk says Brexit talks with Theresa May have got off to a good start

  06-04-2017 16:11
  European Council President Donald Tusk says Brexit discussions with Theresa May have got "off to a good start" after a meeting at Downing Street.The meeting to discuss "the way ahead on Brexit" came less than a week after Mr Tusk announced the EU's draft guidelines for EU exit negotiations in response to Theresa May triggering Article 50.Following the meeting Mr Tusk tweeted: "Meeting PM May to make sure Brexit talks get off to good start.
  
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• Ryanair to offer flight transfers in bid for wider appeal

  06-04-2017 16:08
  By Alistair SmoutLONDON (Reuters) - Ryanairwill start offering connecting flights later this month, a senior executive said on Thursday, marking a break from its traditional point-to-point model as it looks to appeal to a broader spread of customers.Chief Executive Michael O'Leary dropped his opposition in 2015 and said the airline would look to trial transfers as part of plans to expand beyond its traditional customer base.Ryanair will roll out connections, initially between its own flights, at
  
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• Here's why everyone is talking about free school meals

  06-04-2017 16:03
  
  Jeremy Corbyn wants to tax private schools and use the money to provide free school meals.
  
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• Sadiq Khan questions George Osborne's ability to be both MP and editor

  06-04-2017 15:39
  
  Sadiq Khan had initially congratulated Osborne on his new job.The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has questioned whether George Osborne will be able to edit London’s Evening Standard newspaper while remaining an MP for his north-west constituency.Khan had initially congratulated the former chancellor when his shock appointment was announced last month, but told the radio station LBC he now had reservations about whether the new role was compatible with Osborne performing his duties as MP for
  
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• Mark Reckless quits Ukip to join Conservative group in Welsh assembly

  06-04-2017 15:24
  
  Mark Reckless, the former Conservative MP who defected to Ukip, has quit the party to support the Conservative group in the Welsh assembly, where he now sits.Reckless’s decision follows the move last month by Douglas Carswell, who defected to Ukip from the Conservatives a month before Reckless and remains an MP, to quit the party and sit in the Commons as an independent.
  
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• Traders clear Europe's tanks by shipping more gasoline to U.S

  06-04-2017 15:04
  
  By Ron Bousso and Libby GeorgeLONDON (Reuters) - Traders are shipping more gasoline from Europe to the U.S. East Coast ahead of the summer driving season as a steady reduction in inventories there props up prices.At least 16 tankers carrying some 600,000 tonnes of gasoline blending components including naphtha have been booked in recent days by traders including Glencore , ExxonMobil , Mercuria, Repsoland Total , shipping data shows.The exports are helping to clear Europe's tanks of oil products
  
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• UKIP's Mark Reckless defects back to Conservative Party

  06-04-2017 14:56
  UKIP's Mark Reckless has quit the party and pledged his support to Theresa May and her Brexit ministers.Mr Reckless, a member of the Welsh Assembly, sensationally left the Conservatives in 2014 for Nigel Farage's party causing David Cameron to apparently brand him a "fat ****".
  
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• Brexit puts Britain in an agriculture quota quandary

  06-04-2017 14:53
  
  By Tom Miles and Philip BlenkinsopGENEVA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Brexit has created an administrative and diplomatic minefield for Britain by triggering a reworking of its relations in the most contentious area of international trade -- agriculture.To stand on its own after it leaves the European Union, Britain needs a document setting out its own commitments at the World Trade Organization, the bedrock of global trade.Britain's membership terms are currently included in EU's, so it needs to disent
  
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• Why BlackRock wants to pay George Osborne £650,000 a year | Nils Pratley

  06-04-2017 14:42
  
  With BlackRock managing $5.1tn in funds there is little to fear from rivals.People such as George Osborne would give it a heads-up.It is easy to understand why George Osborne can find a day a week in his busy schedule to work for BlackRock, the world’s largest fund manager.
  
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• As Brexit bites, Ryanair to pivot growth away from UK for next two years

  06-04-2017 14:42
  
  By Alistair Smout and Kate HoltonLONDON (Reuters) - Ryanair , Europe's largest airline by passenger numbers, plans to pivot its growth away from Britain over the next two years as it fears the lack of clarity over Brexit will cause major travel disruption and hit demand.Airlines such as Ryanair and rival easyJethaveurged the British government to put aviation at the front of the queue when negotiating its EU exit because they need to finalise their 2019 summer schedules in the first half of next
  
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• Remember that Aldi hot tub everyone was excited about? It's sold out online already

  06-04-2017 13:15
  
  It’s actually cheaper than everyone originally thought.
  
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• Liam Fox comes to aid of nine-month-old baby having fit on plane

  06-04-2017 13:01
  
  The incident occurred when Fox was flying out to meet the controversial president.Liam Fox treated a baby having a fit on board a plane as he flew to meet the controversial president of the Philippines, it has emerged.The international trade secretary, who was a GP for 10 years before entering politics, rushed to the aid of the infant after cabin crew asked if there was a doctor on board when a couple from Hong Kong called for help.
  
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• Is Ivanka Trump Donald's wife or daughter? Because The New York Times just got it wrong...

  06-04-2017 12:45
  
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• Father loses Supreme Court case over term-time holidays

  06-04-2017 12:41
  The Supreme Court has ruled that a father who took his daughter out of school for a holiday to Disney World in term-time acted unlawfully.Isle of Wight Council appealed against an earlier court judgment that said Jon Platt had acted lawfully when he took his child to the USA for two weeks.The Supreme Court allowed the Isle of Wight's appeal, meaning Mr Platt will be required to pay a fine or face jail time.
  
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• May says government will act where consumer markets not working

  06-04-2017 12:36
  
  The British government is prepared to intervene in consumer markets to reduce costs for bill payers, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday."We believe in the good that government can do – locally and nationally," May said at the launch of her Conservative Party's local election campaign."So where consumer markets are not working in the best interests of bill payers, we will act to make everyday costs more affordable."May has highlighted energy as one sector that she says is not worki
  
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• Labour 'betraying' Jewish community over Livingstone anti-Semitism row, says PM

  06-04-2017 12:27
  Theresa May has accused Labour of "betraying" the Jewish community by not expelling Ken Livingstone from the party.Mrs May launched a savage attack on Jeremy Corbyn's party as she launched the Conservatives' campaign for next month's local elections.Mrs May added that under Mr Corbyn, Labour had become a party that "indulges its own ideological obsessions".
  
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