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• Zlatan Ibrahimovic facing up to a year out with suspected anterior and posterior cruciate ligament ruptures - Mirror.co.uk

  21-04-2017 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
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  Zlatan Ibrahimovic facing up to a year out with suspected anterior and posterior cruciate ligament ruptures
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  Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Marcos Rojo both suffered injuries in Thursday night's Europa League victory against Anderlecht. Marcus Rashford scored in extra-time to send Manchester United through to the semi-finals, but manager Jose Mourinho was downbeat ...
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• Defeated Unite leadership candidate Gerard Coyne mulls legal action - Sky sources

  21-04-2017 23:12
  Len McCluskey's defeated rival in the race to head Britain's largest union is considering a legal challenge to the election result, according to Sky sources.Gerard Coyne is understood to mulling taking action after narrowly losing out to the sitting general secretary in the leadership ballot.Mr McCluskey secured 59,067 votes, while Mr Coyne took 53,544 and Ian Allinson came third with 17,143.
  
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• London nightclub acid attack victim relives horror - Daily Mail

  21-04-2017 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  London nightclub acid attack victim relives horror
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  A man being hunted by police over an acid attack that injured 20 people in a London nightclub is believed to have fled the country. Arthur Collins, the 25-year-old boyfriend of ITV This Morning presenter Ferne McCann, is being sought by detectives ...and more »
  
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• Spotify playlists are the latest way to troll your friends

  21-04-2017 22:59
  
  Who knew this could even be a thing?
  
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• Corbyn: Speculation about my future as Labour leader is 'absurd'

  21-04-2017 22:43
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has said speculation about his future as Labour leader is "absurd" so early in the General Election campaign.Mr Corbyn made the remark after being asked whether he would step down if Labour lost on 8 June.Mr Corbyn told Sky's Rebecca Williams in Bristol: "Listen - we've just started the election campaign.
  
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• Syria war: US ground troops kill 'leading IS member' - BBC News

  21-04-2017 22:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Syria war: US ground troops kill 'leading IS member'
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  US troops have targeted and killed a leading member of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in a commando raid in Syria, military officials say. The attack took place near the town of Mayadin in eastern Syria. Abdurakhmon Uzbeki, who was believed to ...and more »
  
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• NCA: Hacking ensnaring teenagers into crime

  21-04-2017 22:17
  Hacking is ensnaring teenagers who would otherwise be unlikely to be involved in traditional crime, says a National Crime Agency report.It aims to understand how teenagers become hackers and is based on interviews with eight young people cautioned or sentenced for hacking offences.The average age of cybercrime suspects was 17 years old and that the availability of low-level hacking tools "encourages criminal behaviour", it said.
  
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• Voter fatigue: have we ever been polled so often?

  21-04-2017 21:30
  
  Ready, steady, vote … Theresa May calls a snap election.English voters will head to the polls just under a year after the Brexit vote and 25 months after the last election.Northern Ireland had elections in May 2016 and Brexit soon after, but they have also already voted in 2017 for a further assembly election.
  
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• Marine Le Pen gets poll boost after Paris attack as Donald Trump says her chances of victory have improved - Telegraph.co.uk

  21-04-2017 21:30 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  Marine Le Pen gets poll boost after Paris attack as Donald Trump says her chances of victory have improved
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  The US president said the shooting would "probably help" Ms Le Pen in Sunday's election, because she is "strongest on borders, and she's the strongest on what's been going on in France." "Whoever is the toughest on radical Islamic terrorism, and ...
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• Taliban Attack Afghan Army Base, Killing Dozens - New York Times

  21-04-2017 21:20 via nytimes.com
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  KABUL, Afghanistan — Dozens of soldiers were killed on Friday when Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers in military uniforms stormed an Afghan Army base in northern Afghanistan, Afghan and Western officials said. The attack on the 209th Corps in Balkh ...
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• Sixteen-year-old's revolutionary heart surgery idea

  21-04-2017 20:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A teenager on work experience came with a way for surgeons to see who has previously had surgery.
  
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• Philip Hammond signals ditching of Tory 'no tax rise' pledge

  21-04-2017 20:55
  
  Philip Hammond said he wanted more flexibility to put the public finances back into shape.Philip Hammond has given a strong hint that the Conservatives may ditch their pledge not to raise VAT, national insurance or income tax, saying the flagship 2015 policy had constrained his ability to manage the economy.The chancellor, who was recently forced to drop an attempt to raise national insurance for the self-employed, suggested the tax lock had hampered the government’s drive to reduce Britai
  
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• Taxpayers get all money back after Lloyds bank bailout in financial crisis

  21-04-2017 20:34
  The Treasury has recovered all of the money it ploughed into Lloyds Banking Group when it rescued the lender during the financial crisis, it has been announced.Philip Hammond said the Government had now received £20.4bn since it began selling its stake back into the private sector in 2013, having held as much as 43%.Taxpayers now own less than 2% of the group, which includes Lloyds Bank as well as Halifax Bank of Scotland, and the Government hopes to complete the disposal of this in coming
  
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• Election regulator investigates pro-Brexit Leave.EU campaign group

  21-04-2017 20:29
  
  Britain's Electoral Commission said on Friday it was investigating whether the influential pro-Brexit Leave.EU campaign group broke the law over donations it received during last year's European Union referendum.Leave.EU Chairman Arron Banks denied any wrongdoing.The group did not lead the official campaign for Britain to quit the EU, but was credited with mobilising people who do not typically vote and helping influence regular voters.
  
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• Michigan doctor and wife charged over alleged role in performing FGM on girls

  21-04-2017 20:28
  
  FBI agents leave the office of Dr Fakhruddin Attar at the Burhani clinic in Livonia, Michigan, on Friday after completing a search for documents.Federal authorities in Michigan have charged a Detroit-area physician and his wife over alleged involvement in a criminal conspiracy that involved performing female genital mutilation (FGM) on young girls.The arrests were part of what is believed to be the first such prosecution in the US, and followed charges unveiled last week against a Detroit emerge
  
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• As US prioritises Julian Assange arrest, UK hints Sweden comes first - The Guardian

  21-04-2017 20:21 via theguardian.com
  
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  As US prioritises Julian Assange arrest, UK hints Sweden comes first
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  Sweden's existing warrant to extradite Julian Assange over a sexual assault allegation would be the first consideration for the British government if the Australian were to leave the Ecuadorean embassy, Home Office sources have indicated.
  If the US Could Prosecute Assange, It Would Have Already Done SoForeign Policy (blog)
  CIA, FBI launch manhunt for leaker who gave top-secret documents to WikiLeaksCB
  
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• As US prioritises Julian Assange arrest, UK hints Sweden comes first

  21-04-2017 20:21
  
  Sweden’s existing warrant to extradite Julian Assange over a sexual assault allegation would be the first consideration for the British government if the Australian were to leave the Ecuadorean embassy, Home Office sources have indicated.The US attorney general, Jeff Sessions, said on Friday that the arrest of the WikiLeaks founder was now a “priority”.US federal prosecutors were understood to be considering bringing charges against Assange over a number of the website’s
  
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• What does it mean to be rich?

  21-04-2017 20:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News set out to find out.
  
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• Foreign aid 0.7% pledge will remain, says Theresa May

  21-04-2017 20:02
  
  Theresa May has moved to quash speculation that the government could drop its pledge to spend 0.7% of national income a year on foreign aid, saying the commitment “remains and will remain”.After days of speculation that the policy would be watered down, the prime minister said Britain should be proud of meeting the UN-backed target, but stressed the need to spend the money more effectively.“Let’s be clear, the 0.7% commitment remains and will remain,” she said durin
  
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• Give me general election stress over life as a hermit anytime

  21-04-2017 19:59
  
  Stan Vanuytrecht has won the right to live in this place.Prince Harry has managed to do more to raise awareness of mental health issues in one newspaper interview than many psychiatrists achieve in a lifetime.For anyone who has suffered mental health problems, it would have been self-evident that a vulnerable 12-year-old boy who was born into the royal family, whose parents had a very public and spectacularly unpleasant separation and whose mother was killed in a car crash with her new boyfriend
  
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• The residents of this apartment complex had an epic sign war

  21-04-2017 19:53
  
  And it was about Donald Trump, of course.
  
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• Top marks: native German speakers get best German A-level grades

  21-04-2017 19:50
  
  Ofqual has suggested it could increase the number of top grades it hands out.For years the British stereotype of Germans has been that they get the best of everything, from sun-loungers to football trophies – and now it seems they have been achieving the best A-level grades.Research published by the exam regulator Ofqual has found that German-speaking children in the UK have been sitting A-level exams in their native language – and winning a disproportionate amount of A and A* grades
  
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• A-level language grades skewed by results of native speakers – study

  21-04-2017 19:50
  
  Ofqual has suggested it could increase the number of top grades it hands out.For years the British stereotype of Germans has been that they get the best of everything, from sun-loungers to football trophies – and now it seems they have been achieving the best A-level grades.Research published by the exam regulator Ofqual has found that German-speaking children in the UK have been sitting A-level exams in their native language – and winning a disproportionate amount of A and A* grades
  
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• Man forced to wear spit hood has police caution revoked

  21-04-2017 19:47
  
  A young man who was pinned to the ground by police and forced to wear a spit hood has had his caution quashed, his solicitor has said.Ik Aihie, 20, was arrested at London Bridge station in July 2016.The arrest sparked controversy after video shot by a bystander showed Aihie screaming as officers pinned him face down on the ground and put a spit hood over his head.
  
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• Leave.EU investigated over referendum campaign donations

  21-04-2017 19:39
  One of the two high-profile pro-Brexit campaign groups in the EU referendum is being investigated, amid suspicions of "potential offences".The Electoral Commission has said it is looking into whether one or more donations accepted by Leave.EU was "impermissible" and if its spending return was complete.The inquiry by the official elections watchdog comes after it found "reasonable grounds to suspect that potential offences under the law may have occurred".
  
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• London bar mixes whisky cocktail with a virtual twist

  21-04-2017 19:30
  By Matthew LarotondaLONDON (Reuters) - A London bar has devised a cocktail with an unusual twist, it allows the drinker to escape the city for the Scottish hills.The whisky-based "Origin" cocktail comes with a virtual reality headset that transports you to the distillery where the spirit is from.At 18 pounds ($23) a shot, the drink is made with 12-year-old Dalmore whisky, while the accompanying virtual reality experience aims to show guests at the bar in the One Aldwych hotel the origin of its i
  
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• Len McCluskey wins poll to be re-elected as Unite general secretary - Belfast Telegraph

  21-04-2017 19:26 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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  Len McCluskey wins poll to be re-elected as Unite general secretary
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  Len McCluskey has been re-elected as general secretary of Unite after beating his nearest rival by over 5,500 votes. Mr McCluskey polled 59,067 votes against 53,544 for Gerard Coyne and 17,143 for Ian Allinson. The turnout was 12.2%. Unite's acting ...and more »
  
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• Inquiry into prison video of ex-footballer Adam Johnson

  21-04-2017 19:25
  An investigation has been launched after former England footballer Adam Johnson was filmed laughing while discussing his conviction for sexual activity with a 15-year-old fan.The Prison Service inquiry comes after footage emerged of Johnson in what appears to be the laundry room at Moorland Prison, South Yorkshire, where he is serving a six-year sentence.At the start of his trial at Bradford Crown Court, Johnson admitted one charge of sexual activity with a child, relating to kissing her.
  
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• Theresa May used bogus arguments to justify election, says Tim Farron

  21-04-2017 19:23
  
  The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, has accused the Conservatives of calling an election for no other reason than to capitalise on Labour’s weakness under Jeremy Corbyn.Canvassing with party activists in Manchester on Friday, he accused the Conservatives of believing the election result would be a coronation and said Theresa May was using “bogus” arguments about Brexit to justify an early election motivated by party political calculation.
  
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• Britain draws line under Lloyds rescue with $26 billion recovery

  21-04-2017 19:07
  
  Taxpayers have recouped all of the 20.3 billion pounds invested in the bailout of Lloyds Banking Groupduring the 2008 financial crisis, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said on Friday.The government has received 20.4 billion pounds from share sales and dividends since it began selling its stake in 2013, Hammond said in a speech delivered in Washington at the International Monetary Fund spring meeting.Britain, which has been selling chunks of the shares every three or four wee
  
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• Exclusive - BT files criminal complaint over Italy accounting scandal

  21-04-2017 19:05
  
  By Emilio ParodiMILAN (Reuters) - British Telecomhas filed a criminal complaint with Italian prosecutors over an accounting scandal at its Italian unit and has handed them computer records and also dispatched its head of compliance to Milan to give evidence.In the complaint, filed on March 21 and reviewed by Reuters, BT accuses several former Italy executives and other employees of breaking company rules and unlawful conduct.It comes five months after the phone company first revealed financial i
  
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• Queen turns 91: Monarch spends birthday at Newbury Racecourse - BBC News

  21-04-2017 19:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Queen turns 91: Monarch spends birthday at Newbury Racecourse
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  The Queen has celebrated her 91st birthday by taking part in one of her favourite activities - watching the races at Newbury Racecourse. It was a more modest affair than the national festivities for her 90th birthday last year. But military salutes ...and more »
  
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• Len McCluskey re-elected as Unite general secretary

  21-04-2017 18:57
  Len McCluskey has been re-elected as general secretary of Unite, Britain's biggest union.The 66-year-old secured 59,067 votes, while his main rival Gerard Coyne took 53,544 and Ian Allinson came third with 17,143.Voting ended on Wednesday and the ballots were counted on Friday at the Electoral Reform Society.
  
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• Judge rejects request to shelve case against former Monte dei Paschi executives - sources

  21-04-2017 18:51
  
  A Milan judge has rejected a request to shelve a case against former top executives at Monte dei Paschi di Sienaas part of an investigation for alleged market rigging and false accounting, judicial sources said on Friday.Prosecutors in Milan, where the case was transferred in July because of jurisdiction over market manipulation crimes, in September asked for the case against Monte dei Paschi's former Chairman Alessandro Profumo and Chief Executive Fabrizio Viola to be shelved.
  
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• This is the story we imagine Jeremy Corbyn was telling schoolkids today...

  21-04-2017 18:47
  
  A fairytale or a nightmare?
  
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• Letter: Lucky Gordon obituary

  21-04-2017 18:46
  
  Lucky Gordon, right, and Johnny Edgecombe, both witnesses in the Profumo affair, leave the Treasury with a police escort in July 1963.Chris Salewicz’s obituary of Lucky Gordon acknowledged two points on which Gordon’s account differed from those of others involved in the Profumo affair.Stephen Dorril, co-author of the book Honeytrap: The Scandal, interviewed Stephen Ward’s friend the painter Vasco Lazzolo before the latter’s death.
  
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• The pictures and videos you need to see on the Queen's 91st birthday

  21-04-2017 18:28
  
  To celebrate turning 91, she attended the Dubai Duty Free Spring Trials and Beer Festival at Newbury Racecourse.
  
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• May says June election result 'not certain'

  21-04-2017 18:22
  
  By William JamesMAIDENHEAD, England (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday that she was not taking anything for granted as she geared up for a snap election in June, in which polls suggest her Conservative party was heading for a landslide victory.May called the national election in a surprise move on Tuesday, saying it was necessary to boost her majority and provide stability as Britain gears up for two years of negotiations with the European Union about its departure fro
  
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• Prince Harry, mental health and the need for a more caring society | Letters

  21-04-2017 18:13
  
  Prince Philip, Prince William, Earl Spencer, Prince Harry and Prince Charles follow the coffin of Diana, Princess of Wales.In my view, those who try to come up with totalising explanations of mental health are misguided (Letters, 20 April).
  
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• Should link between dementia and artificial sweeteners be taken with a pinch of salt?

  21-04-2017 17:42
  
  The study in the journal Stroke may cause a rethink among those worried about obesity, diabetes or a possible early heart attack from sugar-rich drinks who have been considering making a change.It comes to the alarming conclusion that people polishing off one can a day of artificially sweetened drink are nearly three times as likely to have a stroke or develop dementia.There is little previous evidence with regard to dementia, which is why the researchers were looking at it, but the link between
  
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• Tim Farron's Lib Dem election campaign comes to Manchester - ITV News

  21-04-2017 17:40 via itv.com
  
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  The Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has been in Manchester to launch his party's North West general election campaign. Mr Farron, who's also the MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale in Cumbria, said only HIS party will prevent a so-called hard-Brexit.
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• Len McCluskey re-elected leader of Unite union

  21-04-2017 17:36
  
  Len McCluskey is expected to support rule changes that will ensure a leftwing candidate will be able to stand as Labour leader in future.Len McCluskey has been re-elected leader of the Unite union in a result that will be greeted with relief by supporters of Jeremy Corbyn.The incumbent defeated his opponent, Gerard Coyne, following a bitterly fought campaign.
  
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• Queen celebrates her 91st birthday at Newbury Racecourse - Daily Mail

  21-04-2017 17:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  Queen celebrates her 91st birthday at Newbury Racecourse
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  What better way for Her Majesty to celebrate her birthday than with a trip to the races? The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery fire a royal salute to mark the 91st birthday of. +22. The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery fire a royal salute to mark ...
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• Prince William: 'I text Radio 1 for shoutouts'

  21-04-2017 17:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge surprise Radio 1's Adele Roberts ahead of her marathon run.
  
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• NHS and medical devices regulator tried to limit scandal over vaginal mesh implants

  21-04-2017 17:19
  
  More than 800 women are suing the NHS and the manufacturers of vaginal mesh implants after suffering serious complications.NHS bosses and the watchdog that oversees medical devices tried to limit public exposure of the scandal over vaginal mesh implants that have harmed hundreds of women.Minutes of a meeting held in October 2016 show that NHS England and the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) agreed to “avoid media attention” over the implants, despite the fac
  
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• Corbyn: 'Absurd' to ask if I'll stand down

  21-04-2017 17:10
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has said it is early days for Labour on the campaign trail - telling a journalist it was "absurd" to ask if he would step down if his party loses the General Election.
  
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• Theresa May says 0.7% foreign aid commitment will remain in Tory manifesto

  21-04-2017 17:09
  
  Theresa May has said the commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on foreign aid will remain in the Tory manifesto.The Prime Minister said the pledge "remains and will remain" if the Conservatives win the General Election on 8 June, although she stressed the need to make sure the money is spent "in the most effective way".Mrs May said she was proud of the work the UK is doing overseas, such as helping to tackle the Ebola crisis in Africa and supporting Syrian refugees.
  
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• EU executive to present euro zone budget idea next month

  21-04-2017 17:05
  
  By Jan StrupczewskiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The European Commission is working on an idea of a budget for the 19 countries sharing the euro currency that could support investment and also serve as an unemployment re-insurance plan, Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Friday.The Commission will present various options for further institutional development of the euro zone by the end of May. The euro zone budget is to be called a "fiscal stabilisation function.""We are now working o
  
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• Ugo Ehiogu dies after suffering cardiac arrest, Tottenham Hotspur confirm - The Guardian

  21-04-2017 16:49 via theguardian.com
  
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  Ugo Ehiogu dies after suffering cardiac arrest, Tottenham Hotspur confirm
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  Ugo Ehiogu was taken to hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest and passed away in the early hours of Friday morning. Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images. Tottenham Hotspur. Ugo Ehiogu dies after suffering cardiac arrest, Tottenham Hotspur confirm.
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• 'Hopeless': how senior doctor described NHS maternity unit's testing regime

  21-04-2017 16:44
  
  The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, ordered an investigation into Shrewsbury and Telford hospital NHS trust .A senior figure in an NHS trust’s maternity unit under investigation over avoidable baby deaths has admitted that some practices in the unit were “hopeless”.Andrew Tapp, medical director of women and children’s services at Shrewsbury and Telford hospital NHS trust, said in an email to a GP: “I think there are real problems here.” The GP had raised concer
  
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