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• Graphic content: Syrian father mourns his dead baby twins

  14-04-2017 23:20
  
  Graphic content: A Syrian father mourns his dead baby twins
  
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• Boris Johnson: 'No impunity' for those responsible for Syria chemical attack

  14-04-2017 23:13
  Boris Johnson has written a joint article with the French foreign secretary warning that those responsible for the chemical attack in Syria will be held to account.The two foreign secretaries insist there will be "no impunity" for those involved.In the article published in Le Monde and the Guardian newspapers, the Foreign Secretary and his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault say: "It is our responsibility to ensure that those who conducted such chemical attacks are held accountable.
  
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• Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie suspended over offensive Ross Barkley article

  14-04-2017 22:32
  Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie has been suspended from the newspaper after he expressed "wrong" and "unfunny" views about the people of Liverpool, News UK has said.
  
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• Fox News sets Afghanistan bombing to Toby Keith song as other outlets voice doubt

  14-04-2017 21:13
  
  Fox News celebrated the attack with a Toby Keith song.The US dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat on eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least 36 Isis militants and, as local people told the Guardian, sending tremors through the ground “like a boat in a storm” as flames enveloped the sky.Grainy black-and-white footage of a bomb exploding and flattened Afghanistan desert played on the morning show, accompanied with country music, as if it were a music video
  
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• British student stabbed to death in Jerusalem named as Hannah Bladon

  14-04-2017 20:53
  
  The Israeli ambassador to the UK has named a British woman stabbed to death in Jerusalem as Hannah Bladon.The 21-year-old exchange student was stabbed to death by a Palestinian man in Jerusalem.The Foreign Office has said: "We can confirm the tragic death of a British national in Jerusalem.
  
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• Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie suspended over Barkley article

  14-04-2017 20:41
  Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie has been suspended from the newspaper after he expressed "wrong" and "unfunny" views about the people of Liverpool, News UK has said.Earlier, Merseyside Police said it was probing claims that a newspaper column about Everton star Ross Barkley amounts to a "racial hate crime".The England international was punched twice in an "unprovoked" nightclub attack last weekend.
  
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• Palestinian fatally stabs British woman on Jerusalem train

  14-04-2017 20:30
  By Ori LewisJERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian man fatally stabbed a British student on Jerusalem's transit network on Friday, Israeli police said.Israel's ambassador to Britain, Mark Regev, named the victim as Hannah Bladon on his Twitter account, adding that she was "murdered in a senseless act of terror."The incident occurred in a train carriage on the light rail network near the walled Old City.The British Foreign Office in London said in a statement: "We can confirm the tragic death of a B
  
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• Zero-hours contracts: firms could be forced to pay more for short notice

  14-04-2017 20:23
  
  The proposal would give firms an incentive to guarantee more hours in advance.Businesses who employ people on zero-hours contracts could be forced to pay a premium rate for short-notice work, the government’s employment tsar has said, in an effort to stop “lazy” employers exploiting staff.Matthew Taylor was appointed by Theresa May last October to review employment practices in the light of concerns about the precarious nature of work, particularly in the gig economy.
  
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• 'Night cover is almost always short-staffed. It’s terrifying': doctors on rota gaps

  14-04-2017 19:45
  
  ‘We often have to cancel our emergency clinic because of a lack of staff’, a doctor has told the Guardian.The Guardian has discovered that dozens of hospitals are struggling to recruit doctors to fill gaps in their rota.Doctors are being spread too thinly, they say, often having to leave other departments to offer help where its needed.
  
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• Police investigate racial hate complaint over Kelvin MacKenzie Sun column on Ross Barkley

  14-04-2017 19:35
  
  Kelvin MacKenzie said Everton player Ross Barkley deserved to be punched.Merseyside police are investigating a Sun column by Kelvin MacKenzie in which the footballer Ross Barkley, who is of mixed race, is compared to a gorilla.The paper’s former editor, who writes a weekly column, claimed he wasn’t surprised that the Everton player, whose grandfather is Nigerian, was punched in a nightclub because he was similar to an animal in a zoo.
  
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• Private anguish of the public school survivors | Letters

  14-04-2017 19:28
  
  It is interesting that while so much is done to expose and prosecute historical child abuse, the child abuse inflicted on children at public schools is referred to as “beatings” and accepted as normal (Letters, 12 April).
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn wearing a baseball cap in a train toilet has become an amazing meme

  14-04-2017 19:07
  
  Of course it has – and we’ve got more pictures where that came from.
  
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• KitKat Bites recall: Nestle issues allergy WARNING for popular chocolate snack

  14-04-2017 17:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NESTLE has recalled a batch of its KitKat Bites and warned people with nut or peanut allergies to be "especially vigilant" after incorrectly packaging the chocolates.
  
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• Why not introduce a little democracy to an overbooked flight?

  14-04-2017 17:14
  
  A video screengrab shows David Dao being dragged off a United Airlines flight.It took a while for everyone to work out whether the video of David Dao being dragged off a United Airlines flight was real.For United Airlines to then double down by claiming Dao had been “disruptive and belligerent” made the whole thing even more surreal.
  
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• Woman knocked unconscious and sexually assaulted in underground car park

  14-04-2017 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AN 18-year-old woman was locked out and sexually assaulted in an underground car park after a gang of men approached her.
  
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• Children in Isle of Man hospital after swallowing unknown substance

  14-04-2017 16:58
  Three children are in hospital on the Isle of Man after swallowing an unknown substance.Emergency services were called to an area near The Bowl at the National Sports Centre in Douglas on Thursday afternoon.The three children, aged 11 and 12, were admitted to Noble's Hospital where they are in a stable condition.
  
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• University criticised after 'suicide' statue placed on library roof during exam season

  14-04-2017 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A UNIVERSITY has been criticised for positioning a human statue by artist Antony Gormley on the edge of its library roof.
  
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• British student stabbed to death in Jerusalem

  14-04-2017 16:48
  
  A British woman has been stabbed to death by a Palestinian man in Jerusalem, Israeli police said.The 23-year-old student was travelling on the Jerusalem Light Rail near Old City when she was attacked.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Sky News the assailant got on the train at Damascus Gate, before taking a knife out of his bag and stabbing the victim "multiple times in the upper part of the body".
  
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• Police pin down Jerusalem stabbing suspect

  14-04-2017 16:40
  
  Officers tackle a man suspected of stabbing a British student to death on the Jerusalem Light Rail.
  
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• New owners want Milan in Champions League by 2018

  14-04-2017 16:33
  
  MILAN (AP) — AC Milan's new owners are aiming to make the team a force in European soccer once more, and they want to do so with a mix of star signings and talented young players such as teenage goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.
  
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• Theresa May dons hi-vis jacket and takes SELFIES as she volunteers as race marshall

  14-04-2017 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THERESA May took time off from Prime Ministerial duties today as she volunteered as a marshall for a 10 mile running race in her constituency.
  
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• This is what the weather is going to be like this Easter weekend

  14-04-2017 16:16
  
  It’ll be nothing like last weekend.
  
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• 'Ruined how it looks' Council chiefs accused of turning Iron Age hillfort into 'EYESORE'

  14-04-2017 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  COUNCIL chiefs have been accused of turning an archaeologically important Iron Age hillfort into an 'eyesore' by putting fibre-glass steps on it.
  
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• SNP's secret referendum plans for independent Scottish bank that would cost £50m a year

  14-04-2017 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SCOTTISH government ministers secretly drew up plans for a central Scottish bank free of UK control ahead of 2014's independence referendum, it has been revealed.
  
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• Interpol issues red notice in hunt for Briton wanted over Myanmar murder

  14-04-2017 15:25
  Interpol has joined the hunt for a British murder suspect who left Myanmar after the death of his colleague.Gary Ferguson, 47, who was British, was found dead in Yangon in November last year.Police said suspect Harry Binotti has not been seen since the pair were drinking together two days before Mr Ferguson's body was discovered by his wife in the former's apartment.
  
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• Military veterans protest against Troubles legal 'witch hunt'

  14-04-2017 15:17
  Military veterans have taken part in demonstrations in Belfast against the prosecution of former soldiers accused of crimes that took place during the Troubles.Justice for Northern Ireland Veterans (JFNIV) alleges that soldiers are being subjected to a legal "witch hunt" because investigations into the Troubles are "disproportionately" focusing on servicemen.The protest in front of Belfast City Hall was met by a counter-demonstration organised by Saoradh, a hard-line republican group formed with
  
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• DUP expects 'creeping direct rule' if Northern Ireland talks fail

  14-04-2017 15:14
  
  James Brokenshire has given the parties ‘extra time’ to reach an agreement that would lead to the restoration of a cross-community coalition in Belfast.The Democratic Unionists have said they do not expect fresh elections in Northern Ireland if negotiations aimed at restoring power-sharing government fail, as political parties prepare to enter a final round of post-Easter talks.A senior DUP negotiator said they believed the secretary of state James Brokenshire’s preferred optio
  
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• Canada introduces a bill to legalise recreational marijuana nationwide

  14-04-2017 14:38
  
  Officials think it’ll be legal for Canadians to smoke by July 2018.
  
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• British student stabbed to death by Palestinian in Jerusalem

  14-04-2017 14:34
  A British woman has been stabbed to death by a Palestinian man in Jerusalem, Israeli police said.The woman in her early 20s was travelling on the Jerusalem Light Rail near Old City when she was attacked, officials said.Israel's Shin Bet security agency identified the assailant as 57-year-old Jamil Tamimi and said he suffered with mental health problems and was convicted in 2011 for sexually assaulting his daughter.
  
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• Meet the Scottish student going to Cannes

  14-04-2017 14:10
  
  Scottish film student Rory Alexander Stewart will walk the Cannes red carpet this May for his short film Wild Horses.
  
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• Cannes '17: Scottish student film Wild Horses to compete

  14-04-2017 14:07
  
  A Scottish student's short film has been picked to compete for an emerging talent prize at the Cannes International Film Festival.Rory Alexander Stewart, a 27-year-old graduate from the National Film And Television School, told Sky News he was still coming to grips with the "unlikely" news.Wild Horses, a 26 minute film about a teenage girl struggling with a largely unknown disease, has been picked out of 2,600 others for the festival's Cinefondation category.
  
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• Ex-OFT chief Maxwell shortlisted to run competition watchdog

  14-04-2017 13:55
  The former head of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has made it on to a shortlist to become Britain's next competition supremo.Sky News has learnt that Clive Maxwell, who is now a senior official at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), is among a handful of remaining candidates to run the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).Whitehall sources said that Mr Maxwell was competing with Andrea Coscelli, the CMA's acting chief executive since last summer, and at least
  
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• Architects REDESIGN UK: Britain's busiest cities changed by stealth amid terror threat

  14-04-2017 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  IN the wake of the Westminster and Stockholm terrorist attacks, the British Government is ramping up efforts to protect our cities.
  
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• Nottingham police launch murder inquiry after assault victim dies

  14-04-2017 12:31
  
  A murder investigation has been launched after the victim of a serious assault in Nottingham in the early hours of Friday morning died of his injuries.Police found the man, whose name has not been released, badly hurt at an address in Woodborough Road, in the city’s Mapperley Top area, just before 1am.One resident of the area, Amy Breffitt, 22, told the Nottingham Post: “My partner went out to work and saw the tape, then I saw on the Post what had happened.
  
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• The music of Henry VIII's last wife brought to life

  14-04-2017 12:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The music of Henry VIII's sixth wife Catherine Parr is performed for the first time in 470 years.
  
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• 'We're gone': Final words of Irish Coast Guard helicopter crew revealed

  14-04-2017 10:36
  The co-pilot of an Coast Guard helicopter which crashed off the coast of Ireland said "we're gone" seconds before the impact, investigators have revealed.Extracts from the cockpit voice recorder including the minutes immediately before the crash have been released by Ireland's Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) along with a preliminary report into the accident.The helicopter went down off Blackrock island, around eight miles off the coast of Co Mayo, on 14 March with the loss of all four cre
  
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• This is what Donald Trump's 'beautiful chocolate cake' at Mar-A-Lago looks like

  14-04-2017 10:29
  
  It looks pretty tasty.
  
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• Japan March exports seen up for fourth month, imports to jump on oil prices

  14-04-2017 09:22
  
  By Kaori KanekoTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's exports were expected to rise for a fourth straight month in March thanks to solid global demand, while imports were seen likely to gain at their fastest in three years as oil prices rose, a Reuters poll found.Exports were seen likely to grow 6.7 percent in March from a year earlier after they surged 11.3 percent in February, the poll of 18 analysts showed.A recovery in oil prices and a weak yen pushed Japan's imports up 10.4 percent from a year ago, the
  
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• 'Scotland wouldn't qualify for the euro' Sturgeon's Indy bid faces HUGE blow, says MEP

  14-04-2017 09:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A SCOTTISH MEP has savaged Nicola Sturgeon’s independence plans claiming Scotland are in too much debt to be accepted into the Euro.
  
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• 'Get your HEAD CHECKED!' LBC host rails against BREXIT & Leicester football HOOLIGAN LINK

  14-04-2017 08:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  RADIO host Iain Dale slammed criticism of Leicester City football fans in Spain as “Brexit personified”, telling those that made the comments to get their “heads read”.
  
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• Your time is up! Tory MP declares Sturgeon's independence dreams are on 'SHAKY GROUND'

  14-04-2017 08:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NICOLA STURGEON is fighting for her political life as her desperate bid to break up the United Kingdom hits “shaky ground”, according to a Conservative MP.
  
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• 'HUGE potential!' Tory MEP reveals UK is already discussing trade deals with 15 COUNTRIES

  14-04-2017 08:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A CONSERVATIVE MEP has claimed the UK is already talking to 15 countries about future trade deals for when Britain finally leaves the European Union.
  
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• Pupils with mental health problems: Teachers’ concern at lack of help

  14-04-2017 08:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CHILDREN as young as four are suffering from mental health issues such as panic attacks, anxiety and depression, a poll has found.
  
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• Children as young as four have mental health issues

  14-04-2017 06:16
  
  Children as young as four are suffering from mental health issues such as panic attacks, anxiety and depression, a poll has found.A poll of 2,051 teaching staff found nearly all of them (98%) had come into contact with pupils experiencing mental health issues.Of those polled, 91% said they were aware of pupils suffering from panic attacks, 79% depression and 64% knew a student who was self-harming.
  
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• Why aren't you acting? Nicola Sturgeon blasted for COMPLAINING about law she could change

  14-04-2017 05:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  RUTH Davidson claims Nicola Sturgeon could face allegations of “gross hypocrisy” if the SNP does not use new Holyrood powers to scrap the so-called ‘rape clause’ introduced by the British Government’s child tax credit reforms.
  
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• Ruth Davidson blasts Nicola Sturgeon’s ‘GROSS HYPOCRISY’ as ‘rape clause’ row escalates

  14-04-2017 05:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  RUTH Davidson claims Nicola Sturgeon will be guilty of “gross hypocrisy” if the SNP do not use new Holyrood powers to scrap the so-called ‘rape clause’ introduced by the British Government’s child tax credit reforms.
  
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• It's good to talk - celebrities on mental health

  14-04-2017 03:45
  
  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry have stepped up their mental health campaign with a series of emotional videos.
  
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• Why Lib Dems are anything but a 'dead parrot' as by-election looms

  14-04-2017 03:07
  Referring to their bird logo, Margaret Thatcher once described the Lib Dems as "a dead parrot"- referencing the famous Monty Python sketch (she herself had never seen it, thinking Monty Python was a person).After the 23 June both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn embraced leaving the EU pretty much wholesale lest UKIP continue to bite at the main parties' heels, taking votes from leave voters.
  
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• Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin demands EU members STAND UP to Juncker or see bloc COLLAPSE

  14-04-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  WETHERSPOON boss Tim Martin has called for the EU to stand up to Jean-Claude Juncker to prevent the Brussels bloc from breaking up.
  
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• Skegness is 'PERFECTLY HAPPY' with Brexit vote, Ukip councillor says after Remain lampoon

  14-04-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A UKIP councillor insisted Brexit voters are still happy with their decision despite Remain newspaper the New European newspaper publishing an offensive dig at Leavers, particularly from Skegness.
  
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