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• Breast cancer drug Kadcyla at risk in England is approved in Scotland

  10-04-2017 23:52
  A breast cancer drug which could shortly be withdrawn in England has been approved for use on the NHS in Scotland.Kadcyla can extend the lives of women dying from an aggressive form of breast cancer.Campaigners claim more than a hundred women a year could benefit from the drug in Scotland.
  
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• Mother Samantha Baldwin charged with abduction gave sons drugs

  10-04-2017 23:41
  A mother who is accused of abducting her two children had been giving them drugs and made a false abuse allegation against their father, a judge has revealed.Samantha Baldwin was arrested last week after being found with the boys at a holiday park following a nationwide search.Judge Jeremy Lea issued a statement on Monday saying that he had heard evidence on the allegations against the father by Baldwin and had concluded that they were false.
  
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• Steve Bell on the Trump administration and Syria – cartoon

  10-04-2017 23:17
  
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• England Women stroll past Austria in final home warm-up for Euro campaign

  10-04-2017 23:17
  
  • England Women 3-0 Austria WomenGoals from the Birmingham City striker Ellen White and Manchester City’s Lucy Bronze and Izzy Christiansen gave England a well-earned win in the last of their home fixtures before the European Championship finals in the Netherlands.Only three goals had been scored in England’s six matches this year but against a physical Austria side whose main aim looked to be damage limitation, Mark Sampson’s team regained their shooting touch. They went
  
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• Colson Whitehead wins Pulitzer prize for The Underground Railroad

  10-04-2017 23:07
  
  The acclaimed slavery novel has been rewarded alongside Lynn Nottage’s factory drama Sweat and Matthew Desmond’s nonfiction work EvictedLiterary blockbuster novel The Underground Railroad, which depicts the journey of a young woman escaping from slavery via a fantastical train system, has won the Pulitzer prize for fiction. Related: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead review – luminous, furious and wildly inventiveContinue reading...
  
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• Q&A: 81-year-old audience member calls euthanasia arguments 'bullshit'

  10-04-2017 23:06
  
  Leaning forward in her seat, 81-year-old Patricia Fellows stared down the slippery-slope and public morality arguments standing in the way of her deciding her own mode of death, and declared them bullshit.Ron Fellows had explained that he was 90 and had no intention of going into an aged-care facility.Why would you want to interfere with our wishes to access euthanasia?
  
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• Broadchurch recap: series three, episode seven – whose DNA is on sock No 2?

  10-04-2017 23:00
  
  A masterclass from the Scandi school of drama – superbly plotted and with a fine cliffhanger ahead of the finale. But will it be Twine Boy, Taxi Man – or the Hannibal Lecter-esque vicar? Catch up on the episode six recap hereSo near and yet so far. Whose DNA is on sock number two? Why does Taxi Man have “trophies” from women (including Trish) in his locked drawer? Where was Twine Boy the night of the party? Chris Chibnall, the creator of Broadchurch, loved leaving us on a
  
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• Andros Townsend and Crystal Palace crush Arsenal’s top-four hopes

  10-04-2017 23:00
  
  This was the kind of performance that, at most clubs, might render the manager’s position untenable. It was a display so feeble that the only consolation for Arsène Wenger was that the delirious din whipped up by the majority at the final whistle served to drown out the poison being directed at the visiting players from the away section. Only a handful dared approach that seething mass of frustration in the corner of the Arthur Wait stand. Even those few who did were dismissed as un
  
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• British Vogue: Edward Enninful becomes first male editor of UK fashion magazine

  10-04-2017 22:51
  For the first time in its 101-year history, British Vogue will have a man at the helm.Ghanaian-born Edward Enninful, who is described as "influential in fashion, Hollywood and music", will take over from Alexandra Shulman in August.Mr Enninful, who will be the publication's 11th editor, has been creative and fashion director of US magazine W since 2011.
  
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• University Challenge: Balliol dash hopes of 'Monkmania' finale win

  10-04-2017 22:04
  
  Oxford college victorious in 46th series after beating Cambridge’s Wolfson by 190 points to 140The hearts of “Monkmaniacs” broke during the final of the 46th series of University Challenge as Oxford University’s Balliol College beat Wolfson College, Cambridge, by 190 points to 140. Wolfson’s captain, Eric Monkman, caused a sensation earlier in the competition when his quickfire answers secured 120 out of his team’s winning 170-point score in one round. Continu
  
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• Drink-driver who crashed with son in car jailed

  10-04-2017 21:40
  
  Tania Chikwature was sentenced to 26 weeks and banned from driving for three years at Peterborough magistrates courtA drink-driver who smashed into a concrete roundabout island and launched her car 14ft into the air while her child was in the back has been jailed.
  Tania Chikwature, 32, was more than three times the drink-drive limit when she lost control of her Nissan Qashqai as she drove to a wake, Peterborough magistrates court heard on Monday. Continue reading...
  
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• Murder trial told soldier Trimaan Dhillon slit ex-girlfriend's throat from ear to ear

  10-04-2017 21:33
  A soldier slit his ex-girlfriend's throat from "ear to ear" just days after she had told police she did not want him arrested for harassment, a court heard.Lance Corporal Trimaan "Harry" Dhillon broke into Alice Ruggles' ground-floor flat in Gateshead and severed her neck, Newcastle Crown Court heard.Dhillon denies murdering the 24-year-old former Northumbria University student, who was originally from Leicestershire and worked for Sky in Newcastle.
  
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• Claudio Ranieri hints at plotters behind his sacking at Leicester

  10-04-2017 21:16
  
  • Former manager refuses to blame his Leicester players
  • Ranieri says it was difficult to motivate his championsClaudio Ranieri has offered a passionate defence of his former Leicester City players, denying they forced him out.Ranieri was sacked in February, less than a year after transforming a team of 5,000-1 outsiders into Premier League champions and, following his exit, rumours of a dressing-room mutiny were rife. However, while speaking to Sky Sports during the Monday Night Foot
  
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• Are you a Trump man or a decent man? Time to choose | Laurie Penny

  10-04-2017 21:13
  
  Studies suggest a rise in aggression towards women since the US election. You don’t have to wear an ugly pink hat to protestIf women can’t win, everyone loses. That, at least, is the conclusion of several new studies into how gender attitudes are changing. One team of academics from Wharton, looking into how men and women negotiate, observed that since Donald Trump’s election there had been a marked “increase in men acting more aggressively toward women”. In lab ses
  
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• Everton’s Ross Barkley reports for training despite attack in city-centre bar

  10-04-2017 21:03
  
  • Midfielder was not concussed and is available for Burnley game
  • Merseyside Police investigating video footage which emerged online
  Ross Barkley escaped serious injury and trained as normal with Everton on Monday after being attacked in a Liverpool city centre bar following the team’s 4-2 win over Leicester City on Sunday.Merseyside police are investigating CCTV footage from Santa Chupitos cocktail bar that shows Barkley being punched in the face during the early hours of Monda
  
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• Migrants from west Africa being ‘sold in Libyan slave markets’

  10-04-2017 20:43
  
  UN migration agency says selling of people is rife in African nation that has slid into violent chaos since overthrow of GaddafiWest African migrants are being bought and sold openly in modern-day slave markets in Libya, survivors have told a UN agency helping them return home.Trafficked people passing through Libya have previously reported violence, extortion and slave labour. But the new testimony from the International Organization for Migration suggests that the trade in human beings has bec
  
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• Barclays boss used bank's security team to hunt for whistleblower

  10-04-2017 20:41
  
  Jes Staley’s bonus to be ‘very significantly cut’ after he apologised for breach of rules in what Barclays admits is a serious offenceThe chief executive of Barclays is being investigated by financial regulators and faces a significant cut to his pay after admitting trying to unmask a whistleblower who made allegations about a long-term associate he had brought to the bank.Jes Staley twice attempted to use Barclay’s internal security team to track down the authors of two
  
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• San Bernardino elementary school shooting: child and two adults dead, police say

  10-04-2017 20:37
  
  Another student in stable condition after California attack in which Cedric Anderson allegedly shot his wife, a teacher in a special-needs classroomA gunman at an elementary school classroom in San Bernardino, California, fatally shot his estranged wife, who was a teacher, and an eight-year-old student on Monday, before he killed himself, according to law enforcement.The student, Jonathan Martinez, was airlifted from North Park elementary school to a hospital where he later died, police said. An
  
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• Dan Lawrence’s hard labour sees Essex to a draw with Lancashire

  10-04-2017 20:34
  
  Lancashire 319 & 317-3 dec
  Essex 159 & 316-6Since Dan Lawrence scored 161 in his second Championship match, against Surrey two years ago and aged only 17, he has been identified as a player of rare promise.He has become known for his flair and his rubbery wrist-work when hitting it through midwicket – no matter where the ball pitches – and for the obvious joy with which he bats. Here, playing his first Division One match, against a Lancashire attack led by Jimmy Anderson, he
  
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• Graduate was murdered by soldier after ending their relationship, court hears

  10-04-2017 20:31
  
  Police had given Alice Ruggles the choice over whether to arrest Trimaan ‘Harry’ Dhillon when he was stalking her, jury toldA graduate who was stalked by her soldier ex-boyfriend chose not to have him arrested for harassing her days before he slit her throat “from ear to ear”, a murder trial was told.Alice Ruggles, 24, still cared about Trimaan “Harry” Dhillon, 26, despite his campaign of emotional blackmail after she ended their relationship because of his ch
  
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• PC Keith Palmer: Funeral for officer killed in London attacks

  10-04-2017 20:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police line the streets as the funeral for PC Keith Palmer, who died in the London attacks, takes place.
  
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• Solidarity and sorrow

  10-04-2017 20:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For such a public event, there were also private moments of grief.
  
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• USA, Canada and Mexico launch joint bid to host 2026 World Cup

  10-04-2017 20:19
  
  Bid comes at time of heightened scrutiny of US-Mexico relationship
  US Soccer says Donald Trump is pleased Mexico is part of bidUS will host majority of games – including final – under current proposalsThe United States, Mexico and Canada announced details for a joint bid for the 2026 World Cup at a news conference on Monday on the 102nd floor of One World Trade Center in New York City.If the ambitious three-nation bid, first reported last week by the Guardian, is successful it would
  
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• High court approves £129m fine for Tesco over accounting scandal

  10-04-2017 20:18
  
  Serious Fraud Office prosecution against the supermarket will not now go ahead after it overstated profits by £326m in 2014The high court has approved a settlement between Tesco and the Serious Fraud Office that involves Britain’s biggest retailer paying a £129m fine over an accounting scandal.Sir Brian Leveson approved the so-called deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) at a hearing on Monday.Continue reading...
  
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• Mother jailed after flipping car over roundabout with toddler in the back

  10-04-2017 20:13
  
  A mother has been jailed after smashing her car into a roundabout with her toddler strapped into the back.Tania Chikwature, 32, was found to be three times over the legal drink-driving limit, Peterborough Magistrates' Court heard.Dash-cam footage from the HGV Ms Chikwature was overtaking when she crashed shows her car approaching the roundabout on the A606 in Peterborough on the wrong side of the road, before becoming airborne and landing on its roof.
  
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• The Guardian view on the French election: change is the only certainty | Editorial

  10-04-2017 20:10
  
  What had begun to look like a straight fight between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron is evolving into a four-way contest where Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François Fillon still matter tooIn less than two weeks’ time, France will go to the polls. The first round of voting to choose François Hollande’s successor is on 23 April, followed by the runoff between the top two candidates on 7 May. The outcome will shape France and the EU, and will have an immense bearing on
  
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• Mum flips car with toddler in back

  10-04-2017 20:10
  
  A mother who had been drinking vodka has been jailed after smashing her car into a roundabout with her toddler in the back.
  
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• The Guardian view on Sergio García: no longer the best never to win | Editorial

  10-04-2017 20:09
  
  The Spanish golf star’s victory in the US Masters means he will no longer be remembered for his failuresYou don’t have to like golf – although it obviously helps if you do – to feel that Sergio García’s victory in the US Masters is a prime case of someone winning a glittering prize that they thoroughly deserve. Mr García has been one of the world’s best golfers for 20 years. But his career had reached the point where he was too regularly fig
  
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• The Guardian view on council funding: cheap politics, bad policy | Editorial

  10-04-2017 20:09
  
  The whole philosophy of how to pay for local services is about to change, and it doesn’t look goodThe Guardian’s analysis of who in Britain is housing and educating the refugees and asylum seekers who should be shared across the country shows that the responsibility falls on fewer than a third of councils. That is not only a shaming example of how many prosperous local authorities have found ways to avoid the appeal to help, which is bleakly revealed in the raw numbers showing that L
  
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• The BBC’s duty to followers of all faiths and none | Letters

  10-04-2017 20:08
  
  Thank you for your editorial (Religious literacy helps us to understand our secular selves, 8 April).The secularisation narrative – that humanity is no longer ignorant, fearful and living in an enchanted world, but has now come of age, is rational, scientific and does not need religious faith – seems to have been swallowed whole by those, like the BBC and many political and cultural policymakers, who claim to reflect opinion while actually forming and propagating it.This secularisati
  
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• Undercover police officer in terror swoop planted evidence, jury told

  10-04-2017 20:03
  
  Police mugshots of Khobaib Hussain and Naweed Ali, who were hired as delivery drivers.An undercover police officer was a “criminal operative” who planted evidence including an apparent pipe bomb and handgun in the car of a terrorism suspect, a jury has heard.Naweed Ali, 29, and Khobaib Hussain, 25, neighbours from Sparkhill in Birmingham, are on trial at the Old Bailey alongside Mohibur Rahman, 32 – they described themselves on the messaging app Telegram as the ‘three mus
  
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• Sergio García won back American hearts as well as claiming the Masters

  10-04-2017 20:02
  
  US galleries were willing the Spaniard to victory despite his status as a Ryder Cup rival and his tetchy relationship with Tiger WoodsSergio García’s relationship with American galleries is akin to his rollercoaster journey with golf itself. On Sunday evening both had come full circle. So, too, did a relationship between the latest Masters champion and Augusta National.“Initially I felt like this course was probably going to give me at least one major,” García sai
  
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• PC Keith Palmer funeral: police pay tribute to officer's heroism

  10-04-2017 20:02
  
  Thousands of officers line central London route of cortege for their colleague who was killed in the Westminster attackThousands of police officers paid tribute to the heroism of PC Keith Palmer as they lined the route to his funeral and stood heads bowed for a two-minute silence in his memory.They joined his widow, Michelle, daughter, Amy, and about 50 members of his family to bid farewell to the 48-year-old officer, stabbed to death while on duty outside the Houses of Parliament during the 22
  
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• Trump ‘optimistic’ at Neil Gorsuch's swearing-in after weeks of tumult

  10-04-2017 20:01
  
  Bitter partisanship and potential damage to the Senate were studiously ignored during Monday’s ceremony swearing in Gorsuch to the supreme courtThe absence of three men hovered over the White House rose garden on Monday as Neil Gorsuch was sworn in as the 113th justice of the US supreme court.One was Antonin Scalia, the conservative justice whose death 14 months ago created an abrupt vacancy on the court. Another was Merrick Garland, the judge who stood on the same spot in March last year
  
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• The new age of Ayn Rand: how she won over Trump and Silicon Valley

  10-04-2017 19:49
  
  Her novel The Fountainhead is one of the few works of fiction that Donald Trump likes and she has long been the darling of the US right. But only now do her devotees hold sway around the worldAs they plough through their GCSE revision, UK students planning to take politics A-level in the autumn can comfort themselves with this thought: come September, they will be studying one thinker who does not belong in the dusty archives of ancient political theory but is achingly on trend. For the curricul
  
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• PC Keith Palmer funeral: Thousands of police say farewell to Westminster attack hero

  10-04-2017 19:48
  
  Thousands of police lined the streets of central London as they said farewell to terror attack hero and fellow officer Keith Palmer.PC Palmer's body was taken from a chapel in Westminster, where he laid in rest overnight after the Queen gave special permission, to Southwark Cathedral for his funeral.Around 5,000 officers from the Metropolitan Police and other forces around the country stood along the 2.6-mile route and bowed their heads in silent tribute as the cortege passed.
  
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• Jaeger clothing chain collapses into administration

  10-04-2017 19:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jaeger collapses into administration after failing to find a buyer, putting 700 UK jobs at risk.
  
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• Prince George and Princess Charlotte get starring roles at Pippa's wedding

  10-04-2017 19:30
  Prince George and Princess Charlotte will be page boy and bridesmaid when their aunt Pippa Middleton gets married in May."Miss Pippa Middleton and Mr James Matthews are pleased to confirm their wedding will take place at St Mark's Church, Englefield, on the morning of 20th May," a statement said.It went on to confirm that Pippa's niece and nephew will play key roles in the ceremony.
  
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• Ed Sheeran settles Photograph copyright infringement claim

  10-04-2017 19:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The singer has struck a deal to end a $20m legal claim over his hit song.
  
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• Light at the end of the tunnel: sun shines for Brunel's birthday

  10-04-2017 19:21
  
  Rail staff confirm legend that rising sun shines through Box tunnel in Bath on birthday of Isambard Kingdom BrunelEngineers have tested one of the UK’s most intriguing railway legends: that the rising sun shines through the Box tunnel near Bath on the birthday of the 19th-century genius who created the line.For many years, railway enthusiasts and mathematicians have argued over whether Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the creator of the Great Western mainline, did design the two-mile tunnel with h
  
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• HIV drug has 'taken risk away'

  10-04-2017 19:20
  
  NHS England has been told by the Supreme Court it must pay for a drug to stop people getting HIV.Nick Perry, who is taking the drug as part of a trial, welcomes the move.
  
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• Jaeger collapses into administration putting 680 jobs at risk

  10-04-2017 19:19
  Fashion chain Jaeger has collapsed into administration putting 680 jobs at risk.Directors of the British business - founded in 1884 - have appointed AlixPartners to oversee the process after its private equity owner, Better Capital, was unable to find a buyer.
  
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• Scotland first in UK to offer HIV prevention drug PrEP on NHS

  10-04-2017 19:14
  Scotland has become the first place in the UK where a drug that aims to prevent HIV will be available on the NHS.The drug, PrEP, has been approved by the Scottish Medicine Consortium (SMC) and has been shown to reduce the risk of infection in people who are high risk by more than 90%.Campaigners who had fought for the drug to be made available welcomed the decision, saying Scotland had "made history".
  
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• Further abuse allegations uncovered against leading QC

  10-04-2017 19:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Leading barrister John Smyth is accused of carrying out a series of brutal assaults on pupils at Winchester College.
  
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• County cricket: Essex draw with Lancashire, Surrey beat Warwickshire – as it happened

  10-04-2017 19:05
  
  All the action from the final day of the opening round of the County Championship season, as Essex dug deep for a draw with Lancashire, and Surrey thrashed Warwickshire 6.05pm BSTEssex have made it. The match is drawn. What a wonderful knock from Dan Lawrence, who finishes 141 not out. Just superb. He batted all day, and a fair bit last night, sapping up 333 balls. He leaves the field to a standing ovation. Well done that man.Anyway, here are this round’s results: 6.01pm BSTAnd that’
  
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• Tory election spending: MP admitted to police some claims were wrong

  10-04-2017 19:02
  
  Johnny Mercer, Tory MP for Plymouth Moor View, argued that mistakes in his expense claims were minor.A Conservative MP admitted in a police interview that some of his election expenses were wrong but excused the errors on the grounds that he had no previous political experience, according to a report on how police handled the inquiry.Johnny Mercer, Tory MP for Plymouth Moor View, was investigated by police after the general election in 2015 and a file was handed to the Crown Prosecution Service
  
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• New allegations in football abuse scandal

  10-04-2017 19:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fresh claims are made against Celtic Boys' Club founder Jim Torbett and ex-Hibs and Rangers coach Gordon Neely.
  
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• Born to be wild: the baby pandas destined for freedom

  10-04-2017 18:57
  
  Most pandas born in captivity in China spend their lives there. But a few are being prepared for a move to the mountains. These pictures by Ami Vitale show the work of the keepers looking after those destined for both zoos and the wild. By Kate CarterPandas: cute, but sexually inept and bamboozled by their own food requirements, right? Not so. In fact, it is life in captivity that disrupts the complex rhythm of panda mating behaviour, with its territorial scent marking, mating calls and complex
  
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• Poultry in England allowed outside as anti-bird flu measures relaxed

  10-04-2017 18:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  They had been kept indoors to protect them from an infectious strain of bird flu.
  
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• Prince George and Princess Charlotte in Pippa Middleton wedding roles

  10-04-2017 18:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prince George and Princess Charlotte will be page boy and bridesmaid at Pippa Middleton's wedding in May.
  
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