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• Jeremy Corbyn vows to 'fight every seat in every corner' of Scotland

  23-04-2017 23:00
  
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will give a speech at the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Aviemore.Jeremy Corbyn will take his upbeat campaign message to Scotland on Monday, promising to “fight for every seat in every corner of these isles”.Labour has just one MP at Westminster representing a Scottish constituency, Edinburgh South, after the party’s vote in the north collapsed in 2015.
  
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• BREXIT: What do Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron mean for Britain?

  23-04-2017 22:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MARINE Le Pen is seen as the best candidate for Britain’s Brexit negotiations, but why? And what would Emmanuel Macron’s French election run-off victory mean?
  
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• Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will go head-to-head in the French elections

  23-04-2017 22:12
  
  It’s a battle between centre and far-right.
  
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• Pam Shriver reveals how Ilie Nastase asked her if she was virgin 30 TIMES

  23-04-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FORMER tennis star Pam Shriver told how Ilie Nastase repeatedly asked her if she was a virgin when she was a teenager starting out in the game.
  
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• Giant 15st family dog is as heavy as a baby elephant

  23-04-2017 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A 7ft DOG stunned his owners when he was weighed for the first time – and was the same as a baby elephant.
  
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• Corbyn hits back at Blair after former PM's call to put party allegiances aside

  23-04-2017 20:54
  
  Tony Blair’s remarks will infuriate those running the Labour election campaign.Jeremy Corbyn hit back at Tony Blair after the former Labour prime minister advised voters to consider backing Conservative or Liberal Democrat candidates in June’s general election, if they promise to have an open mind about the terms of the final Brexit deal.As Labour embarks on a tough election campaign, Blair urged the public to set party allegiance aside, in order to avoid the 8 June poll becoming a &
  
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• Conservatives hold 22-point lead ahead of UK election - ICM poll

  23-04-2017 20:30
  
  (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives have a 22 point lead over Labour, an ICM poll said on Sunday ahead of a general election on June 8. The poll showed the Conservatives at 48 percent, up 2 points from a poll last week, with Labour on 26 percent, the Liberal Democrats on 10 percent and UKIP on 8 percent. (Reporting by Rama Venkat Raman in Bengaluru; editing by Alexander Smith)
  
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• Archaic tax may be answer to Church of England’s repair bill prayers

  23-04-2017 19:44
  
  The growing repair bill faced by the Church of England has an answer when its accountants consider how to keep the rain from damaging ancient parish churches.Extra funds can be found from a charge on local residents known as the chancel repairs liability that affects as many as 40% of England’s homes.This archaic rule, which dates back to Henry VIII’s reign and his dissolution of the monasteries, makes homeowners in about 5,200 parishes liable to pay for repairs to a church’s c
  
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• Britain's property market booming as house prices hit record highs

  23-04-2017 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BRITAIN’S property market is booming with house prices hitting a record high – and sales at their highest level for a decade, figures show today.
  
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• 'Roger Ailes did sexually harass me,' says former Fox journalist Alisyn Camerota

  23-04-2017 19:31
  
  Roger Ailes allegedly told Alisyn Camerota that a discussion about career opportunities ‘might have to happen at a hotel.A CNN journalist who spent more than a decade working at Fox News has said she was sexually harassed by the network’s ousted chairman.“Yes, Roger Ailes did sexually harass me,” Alisyn Camerota said in an interview on CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday.
  
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• British man dies after paragliding accident in Queenstown, NZ

  23-04-2017 19:05
  A British man has died after a paragliding accident in New Zealand's South Island.Ben Letham, 26, was originally from Scotland but had been a full-time pilot with GForce Paragliding in the tourist resort of Queenstown.Witnesses said that Mr Letham, from Lochgilphead, Argyll, went head over heels and fell before landing on his back.
  
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• John Bercow GONE? Speaker's ‘OWN Tory colleagues back Labour MP to oust him'

  23-04-2017 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FLAMBOYANT Commons Speaker John Bercow may be about to be forced out of his role as members of his own party would rather replace him with a Labour MP, insiders say.
  
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• Incredible moment London Marathon hero sacrifices his race to help exhausted runner

  23-04-2017 17:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A LONDON Marathon runner sacrificed his race to carry a fellow exhausted runner over the finishing line in a heroic act.
  
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• Kenny MacAskill faces being quizzed in court over Lockerbie bomber decision

  23-04-2017 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FORMER Scottish justice secretary Kenny MacAskill faces being quizzed in court over his decision to free the Lockerbie bomber from prison.
  
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• Wanjiru holds off Bekele as Keitany breaks record in London

  23-04-2017 17:00
  
  By Matt WestbyLONDON (Reuters) - Kenya's Daniel Wanjiru held off a late charge from Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele to win the London Marathon on Sunday in two hours five minutes 48 seconds.Radcliffe still holds the overall record of 2:15.25, which she set in a mixed gender race at the London Marathon in 2003 when she used male runners to help set the pace.
  
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• London Marathon hero Matthew Rees helps struggling runner over line

  23-04-2017 16:57
  A London Marathon runner has been praised for helping to guide home a fellow athlete who was struggling in the final stages of the race.Matthew Rees put his arm around David Wyeth whose "legs just crumbled" at the last bend - about 200 metres from the finish line.Helped by a marshal, Mr Rees then walked Mr Wyeth up The Mall as they were applauded to the end of 26.2-mile course by the crowd that included Princes William and Harry.
  
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• Burka ban

  23-04-2017 16:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UKIP's manifesto will include plans to ban the burka, sparking strong reactions on both sides of the debate.
  
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• Lib Dems will not enter 'coalition of chaos', Tim Farron says

  23-04-2017 16:41
  
  Tim Farron has insisted that the Liberal Democrats will not enter a coalition government with Labour or the Conservatives after the General Election.The Lib Dem leader said there would be "no circumstances whatsoever" in which the party would prop up a minority government through a confidence and supply deal.On the campaign trail, Theresa May had been warning that the SNP and the Lib Dems could have propped up a Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn - describing such a scenario as a "coalition
  
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• Bomb left at Holy Cross school gates in Belfast 'to murder police'

  23-04-2017 16:39
  Dissident republicans have been blamed for a bomb left at a primary school in Northern Ireland.The bomb, described by police as viable and significant, was an attempt to murder police, according to a senior officer.It was found in an alleyway beside Holy Cross Boys' Primary School in Ardoyne, North Belfast, shortly before midnight on Saturday.
  
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• Holidays, burka bans, Brexit vote - UK parties set out election stalls

  23-04-2017 16:23
  
  By Elizabeth PiperLONDON (Reuters) - More holidays, a burka ban and an end to hard Brexit - just some of the policies Britain's opposition parties hope will prevent an overwhelming election victory by Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May in June.With some polls giving May a more than 20 point lead before the June 8 vote, the main opposition Labour Party pledged on Sunday to introduce four new public holidays to try to unite a country left deeply divided by the Brexit vote.The Liberal Democrat
  
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• Too far Tony! Blair hints at RETURN to politics to stop UK being 'HIJACKED' by Brexiteers

  23-04-2017 16:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TONY BLAIR hinted he could return to politics in a bid to stop Britain being “hijacked” by Brexit supporting MPs.
  
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• Hopefully French voters in London didn't have plans today because they faced long queues at the polls

  23-04-2017 16:07
  
  Voting is stressful enough without having to wait hours to do so.
  
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• Tony Blair: vote Tory or Lib Dem where they are open-minded on Brexit

  23-04-2017 16:04
  
  Tony Blair’s remarks will infuriate those running the Labour election campaign.Tony Blair has advised voters to consider backing Conservative or Liberal Democrat candidates in June’s general election, if they promise to have an open mind on the terms of the final Brexit deal.The former Labour prime minister said the public should set party allegiance aside in a effort to prevent the 8 June poll becoming what he called a “steamroller election”, and maximise the number of M
  
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• General Election 2017: Ridge on the road

  23-04-2017 15:50
  
  General Election 2017: Ridge on the road
  
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• 'NO ONE wants you to lead!' Michael Gove SLAPS DOWN Tim Farron's General Election chances

  23-04-2017 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MICHAEL GOVE ridiculed Tim Farron saying “no one in the country” wants the Liberal Democrat leader to be Prime Minister.
  
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• Zen-like Jeremy Corbyn avoids firm answers but he's not the only one | John Crace

  23-04-2017 15:08
  
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on The Andrew Marr Show. Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA
  
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• Labour repeats backing for Trident after Jeremy Corbyn casts doubt on it

  23-04-2017 14:09
  
  Labour has moved hastily to shut down speculation that it could withdraw support for Britain’s nuclear deterrent, after Jeremy Corbyn appeared to leave open the idea that renewing Trident could be left out of the party’s manifesto.Labour issued a statement on Sunday saying: “The decision to renew Trident has been taken and Labour supports that.It came three hours after the party’s leader had appeared to cast doubt on a future Labour government’s support for the nucl
  
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• UK freezes assets of North Korean company based in south London

  23-04-2017 14:08
  
  The EU has already imposed sanctions, describing KNIC as ‘generating substantial foreign exchange revenue which is used to support the regime in North Korea’.The UK has frozen the assets of a North Korean company based in south-east London after claims it funnelled cash to Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme.The Korea National Insurance Corporation (KNIC) is registered at a property in Blackheath.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn planning to 'dismantle' the UK's defences, Conservatives claim

  23-04-2017 14:05
  
  The Tories have claimed Jeremy Corbyn would "dismantle" Britain's defences and fail to deal with terrorism after the Labour leader refused to say whether he would authorise a drone strike on the leader of Islamic State.Cabinet minister Damian Green told Sophy Ridge on Sunday: "You just have to listen to what Jeremy Corbyn said this morning - he said that he would dismantle Britain's nuclear defences and he would fail to deal effectively with terrorism.
  
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• Would Corbyn order drone strikes on IS leader?

  23-04-2017 13:50
  
  Jeremy Corbyn refused to be drawn on whether he would authorise a drone strike on IS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, prompting the Conservatives to claim the Labour leader is soft on defence and terrorism.
  
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• Everything you need to know about Paul Nuttall's proposed burka ban

  23-04-2017 13:50
  
  It’s a reversal of the party’s 2013 stance.
  
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• Woolworths COMEBACK? Beloved UK store set for sensational RETURN to Britain's high street

  23-04-2017 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ONE of Britain’s most loved high street stores is set for a shocking comeback almost ten years after its collapse.
  
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• Man killed by thieves who stole his car in Manchester

  23-04-2017 13:07
  A man has been killed by thieves who stole his car in Chorlton, Manchester.Police believe Michael Samwell was run over by his own black Audi S3 at about 3am on Sunday.Mr Samwell had gone to confront the thieves after he and his wife heard a loud bang downstairs.
  
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• Prince Harry story is new twist in the saga of the media and the royals

  23-04-2017 13:00
  
  Prince Harry, who decided to talk about his mother’s death and its impact on his mental health.Before 11am last Tuesday, there was one story set to dominate the week’s news agenda: Prince Harry and his decision to talk about his mother’s death and its impact on his mental health.On the day the prime minister rushed on to Downing Street to announce a snap election, every national newspaper featured the scoop by the Telegraph’s Bryony Gordon on their front pages.
  
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• Thieves kill man in Manchester by running him over in his own car

  23-04-2017 12:51
  
  Thieves killed a man by running him over in his own car after he confronted them outside his home in Manchester.Michael Samwell, 35, suffered fatal injuries when he was run over as the thieves sped off in his Audi S3 at around 3am on Sunday, police said.Det Supt Jon Chadwick from Greater Manchester police’s serious crime division said: “My thoughts go out to Michael’s wife and his family.
  
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• UKIP to pledge burka ban in General Election manifesto

  23-04-2017 12:22
  
  UKIP's election manifesto will reportedly include a pledge to ban full-face veils worn by some Muslim women.Party leader Paul Nuttall will launch what he calls an "integration agenda" on Monday.The election manifesto is expected to include banning wearing the burka and niqab in public, which he will argue is a barrier to social harmony, as well as a security risk.
  
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• Official fundraising site for London Marathon crashes on race day

  23-04-2017 12:17
  Thousands of people are running - but the London Marathon's official fundraising page isn't.Virgin Money Giving has crashed on the morning of the race - with last-minute donors who have tried to log on greeted by a message saying the service is "currently unavailable".Thousands of runners have relied on the Virgin Money Giving website to raise cash for their chosen charities, and many would have been hoping to benefit from a race-day surge in pledges.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn casts doubt on Labour support for Trident

  23-04-2017 12:16
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has cast doubt on a future Labour government’s support for the Trident nuclear deterrent and suggested he would think twice about backing a strike to kill the leader of Islamic State.The Labour leader, who has been a longstanding campaigner against nuclear proliferation, would not commit to keeping Trident in the party’s manifesto and said he did not believe it necessarily made the UK safer.“I want us to achieve a nuclear-free world, to adhere to the nuclear non-p
  
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• Conservatives to focus on Brexit, energy in poll- minister

  23-04-2017 11:39
  
  Britain's ruling Conservative Party's election manifesto will focus on Brexit and domestic concerns, such as strengthening the economy and putting a cap on energy prices, Work and Pensions minister Damian Green said on Sunday."The manifesto will deal with two big issues facing the country - one obviously is the Brexit negotiations ... but the other half, which is equally important, is indeed the domestic agenda," he told ITV's Peston on Sunday programme."There will be a lot about energy policy i
  
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• Ukip to campaign to ban burqa and sharia courts, says Paul Nuttall

  23-04-2017 11:37
  
  Paul Nuttall also said sharia courts had no place in a liberal democracy.Ukip will push to ban the burqa and sharia courts, Paul Nuttall has said, although he denied the Eurosceptic party was reinventing itself as an anti-Islam party.Nuttall said the party’s policies were not singling out Muslims.
  
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• Ukip to campaign to ban burka and sharia courts, says Paul Nuttall

  23-04-2017 11:37
  
  Paul Nuttall also said sharia courts had no place in a liberal democracy.Ukip will push to ban the burka and sharia courts, Paul Nuttall has said, though he denied the Eurosceptic party was reinventing itself as an anti-Islam party.Nuttall said the party’s policies were not singling out Muslims.
  
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• Meet Sophie Walker: The Women's Equality Party leader standing against Philip Davies

  23-04-2017 10:55
  
  It’s set to be one of the most exciting clashes in the upcoming general election.
  
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• Nightclub acid attack: Reality TV star's boyfriend Arthur Collins arrested

  23-04-2017 08:56
  Police have arrested a reality TV star's boyfriend who was wanted in connection with an acid attack in a nightclub that left two people partially blinded and others disfigured.Arthur Collins, 25, the boyfriend of Ferne McCann who appeared in The Only Way Is Essex, was arrested at an address in Rushden, Northants, on Saturday night.Collins was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and is to be taken to a London police station.
  
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• O’Reilly’s exit shows the sons are rising in the Murdoch empire

  23-04-2017 07:59
  
  The trouble with rickety global media players (owned by Murdoch Inc) is that botch and blunder know no borders.Now see how the pall of sexual harassment allegations that forced Roger Ailes from the top of Fox News moves on to doom Bill O’Reilly, Fox’s greatest star.
  
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• Three Mobile apologises for network glitch that stopped calls and texts

  23-04-2017 06:52
  Three Mobile has apologised after customers were not able to send texts or make phone calls.The company said it experienced a "temporary works issue" which affected its service during Saturday afternoon and evening.It said that although calls have been restored they are working to restore a full service.
  
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• S.Africa winemakers on quest for quality and prestige

  23-04-2017 06:28
  
  Looking out at his 50-hectare (124-acre) estate in a valley nestled below the Helderberg mountains, winemaker Ken Forrester beams with pride in his achievements over 20 years in the business
  
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• Can we really afford to have more bank holidays?

  23-04-2017 05:43
  The rhythms of our working week are so embroidered in the tapestry of our lives that it's easy to imagine they are immortal.From our earliest school days to when we collect our pension most of us work five days a week for about eight hours a day and have the weekends to ourselves (not journalists - though I doubt many of you will feel sorry for us).From the demand of the Independent Labour Party for a two-day weekend, to Chartist radicals calling for a 10 and then eight-hour working week, statut
  
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• Labour wants to create four patron saints' day bank holidays

  23-04-2017 05:41
  A Labour government will seek to create four new UK-wide bank holidays on the patron saint's day of each of the home nations, Jeremy Corbyn has said.Speaking on St George's day, Jeremy Corbyn said the move would bring together England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, while giving workers a well-deserved break.:: Can we really afford to have more bank holidays?
  
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• EU Brexit negotiator says PM's snap election 'will not strengthen hand' in talks

  23-04-2017 05:17
  The European Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator has dismissed the Prime Minister's claim a snap election will strengthen her position in EU exit negotiations.
  
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• May's Conservatives on course for sweeping election victory

  23-04-2017 04:54
  
  By Kate HoltonLONDON (Reuters) - Theresa May appeared on course to win a crushing election victory in June after opinion polls put support for her ruling Conservative party at around 50 percent, double that of the opposition Labour party.May's decision to call a June 8 election stunned her political rivals this week and a string of polls released late on Saturday suggested the gamble had paid off, with one from ComRes showing the party of Margaret Thatcher enjoying levels of support not seen sin
  
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