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• Antonio Conte takes Chelsea to the top

  12-05-2017 23:45
  
  How did Chelsea's manager secure the Premier League for the club, for only the fifth time in their history?
  
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• From clown prince, Luiz has become Chelsea's defensive rock

  12-05-2017 23:34
  By Martyn HermanLONDON (Reuters) - With his tight-ringed curly mop of hair and propensity for tarnishing displays of rare skill with clown-like mishaps, Chelsea's David Luiz never really looked cut out for a role as a defensive rock in one of England's meanest rearguards.The 30-year-old can still deliver some Samba moments -- like the precocious free kick he planted past befuddled Liverpool keeper Simon Mignolet during a 1-1 draw at Anfield in January.As the most natural ball-player in Antonio C
  
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• Conte's man-management key to Chelsea title - Hollins

  12-05-2017 23:32
  By Martyn HermanLONDON (Reuters) - Antonio Conte's mastery of man-management turned a Chelsea side that was in danger of disintegrating into Premier League champions, according to one of the club's great stalwarts."He got hold of the club, got hold of the team," John Hollins, who made almost 600 appearances for Chelsea from 1963 to 1975 and also had a stint as manager in the 1980s, told Reuters hours before Conte's side clinched the title on Friday."It's a marvellous achievement, especially to c
  
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• Patients and relatives respond to NHS cyberattack

  12-05-2017 23:30
  
  Operations have been postponed at some hospitals after a cyberattack, causinginconvenience and problems for patients and their families.
  
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• Conservatives pledge to give web users power to erase online history

  12-05-2017 23:30
  
  Social media users will be able to demand that internet companies delete everything they posted online before the age of 18 under plans to be set out in the Conservative manifesto.Theresa May is placing the new digital safeguards at the heart of her manifesto in the hope of wooing parents who are worried about the dangers of the internet.Social media companies will have to do more to show they are preventing harmful content reaching children, such as introducing new child-friendly apps, if they
  
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• Everything you need to know about the NHS cyber attack so far

  12-05-2017 23:19
  
  Theresa May said the Government is not aware of any evidence that patient records have been compromised.
  
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• Chelsea win at West Brom to seal title

  12-05-2017 23:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chelsea secure a fifth Premier League title with a dramatic late goal from substitute Michy Batshuayi at West Brom.
  
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• Heart patient recalls moment cyberattack hit

  12-05-2017 22:50
  
  Chris Mills was in a hospital when the computer and phone systems began to fail.
  
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• NHS services in England and Scotland hit by global cyber-attack

  12-05-2017 22:47
  
  The NHS is investigating a cyber-attack on its systems.The NHS has been hit as part of a global cyber-attack that threw hospitals and businesses in the UK and around the world into chaos.The unprecedented attacks appeared to have been carried out by hackers using a tool stolen from the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US.
  
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• Man 'loses arm' in platform train fall at Droitwich

  12-05-2017 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The passenger, who was airlifted to hospital, was injured as a train pulled out of a station.
  
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• FedEx reports malware interference in global cyberattack - statement

  12-05-2017 22:31
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FedEx said on Friday it was experiencing issues with some of its Microsoft Corp Windows systems in relation to a global cyber attack that had disrupted hospitals in England and infected computers in dozens of other countries around the world. "Like many other companies, FedEx is experiencing interference with some of our Windows-based systems caused by malware," a spokeswoman said in a statement. "We are implementing remediation steps as quickly as possible." (Reporti
  
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• NHS hospitals hacked: Operations cancelled after cyberattack

  12-05-2017 22:06
  
  A ransomware cyberattack on the NHS has brought the service into meltdown with operations cancelled and GP surgeries closed.The IT systems of 23 NHS organisations in England and Scotland, including many trusts and hospitals, have been affected by the ransomware attack.Other organisations in up to 74 countries have also fallen victim, including Spanish telecommunications firm Telefonica and Portugal Telecom.
  
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• Microsoft adds detection, protection against global cyberattack - statement

  12-05-2017 21:57
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft said on Friday its engineers had added detection and protection against a ransomware attack that had disrupted hospitals in England and infected computers in dozens of other countries around the world. "Today our engineers added detection and protection against new malicious software known as Ransom:Win32.WannaCrypt," a Microsoft spokesman said in a statement. It said the company was working with its customers to provide additional assistance. (Reporting by Dusti
  
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• Factbox - Don't click: What is the 'ransomware' WannaCry worm?

  12-05-2017 21:57
  By Jamillah KnowlesLONDON (Reuters) - Malicious software called 'ransomware' has forced British hospitals to turn away patients and affected Spanish companies such as Telefonica as part of a global outbreak that has affected tens of thousands of computers.WannaCry is a form of "ransomware" that locks up the files on your computer and encrypts them in a way that you cannot access them anymore.Ransomware is a programme that gets into your computer, either by clicking on the wrong thing or download
  
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• Drayton Manor to reopen but water ride remains shut

  12-05-2017 21:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Splash Canyon water ride will remain closed after the death of 11-year-old Evha Jannath.
  
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• NHS cyber-attack: GPs and hospitals hit by ransomware

  12-05-2017 21:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A major incident is declared at hospitals after NHS services in England and Scotland hit, amid reports of organisations worldwide being hit by IT attacks.
  
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• NHS cyberattack: Full list of organisations affected so far

  12-05-2017 21:36
  A number of NHS organisations say they have been affected by the cyberattack, which has caused major disruption.
  
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• Ransomware explained: Hacking for cash threats on the rise

  12-05-2017 21:34
  Quite simply, ransomware locks or encrypts files or documents and demands payment to regain access.Ransomware normally installs itself on a computer or phone via a Trojan programme disguised as something innocent, such as an email attachment/link, a popular app, or a fake software update.NHS Digital said it had been the victim of software called Wanna Decryptor, which experts have described as the "atom bomb of ransomware".
  
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• Women's Equality party: Labour thinks it has a monopoly on virtue

  12-05-2017 21:24
  
  Labour was the only party to refuse a copy of the Women’s Equality party manifesto, hand-delivered to its headquarters by activists inviting four major parties to steal its ideas.The party’s co-founder, Catherine Mayer, said the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Greens had accepted hard copies of the feminist party’s first ever manifesto, which includes policies such as 40 hours of free childcare per week from the end of parental leave until a child reaches school age.&ldquo
  
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• Hackers' hitlist: Cyber criminals and their targets

  12-05-2017 21:20
  As hackers paralyse the computer systems of NHS organisations as part of an international operation, Sky News looks at some of the most high-profile attacks of recent times.
  
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• Wyvern Media scam: Fraudster ordered to repay £1.2m to victims

  12-05-2017 21:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of customers were conned into buying worthless adverts in a scam led by Jonathan Rivers.
  
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• British hospitals, Spanish firms among targets of global 'ransomware' attack

  12-05-2017 21:01
  
  By Costas Pitas and Carlos RuanoLONDON/MADRID (Reuters) - A huge cyber attack leveraging hacking tools widely believed to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency brought disruption to Britain's health system on Friday and infecteddozens of other countries around the world, security researchers said.Hospitals and doctors' surgeries in parts of England were forced to turn away patients and cancel appointments after they were infected with the "ransomware", which scrambled data on
  
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• NHS services hit in global cyber-attack across 12 countries

  12-05-2017 20:57
  
  The NHS is investigating a cyber-attack on its systems.The NHS has been hit as part of a global cyber-attack that threw hospitals and businesses in the UK and around the world into chaos.The unprecedented attack on Friday affected 12 countries and at least 16 NHS trusts in the UK, compromising IT systems that underpin patient safety.
  
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• May says British hospitals not deliberately targeted in cyber attack

  12-05-2017 20:51
  Prime Minister Theresa May said that British hospitals had not been deliberately targeted in a cyber attack on Friday that had encompassed a number of different countries."This was not targeted at the NHS, it's an international attack and a number of countries and organisations have been affected," May said."We're aware that a number of NHS (National Health Service) organisations have reported that they've suffered from a ransomware attack," May said.
  
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• Corbyn pledges ‘triple commitment’ to ​​defence, development and diplomacy

  12-05-2017 20:49
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has said a Labour government would pursue a “triple commitment” to defence, development and diplomacy, and seek to resolve potential conflicts through political action rather than relying on military force.The Labour leader delivered a speech to the Chatham House thinktank that was designed to hit back at those who describe him as weak on national security by insisting he is “not a pacifist”.Asked whether there were any past armed conflicts he believed had b
  
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• Calls for Ofcom to block Sky takeover until Fox News cases are resolved 21st century fox

  12-05-2017 20:23
  
  Ofcom is reviewing the acquisition bid for Sky from 21st Century Fox.21st Century Fox’s takeover of Sky should be blocked until allegations of sexual and racial harassment at Fox News have been resolved, according to a lawyer representing alleged victims in the US.Doug Wigdor said it was difficult for Ofcom, the UK media regulator, to determine whether Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox was a “fit and proper” owner of Sky without a full set of facts regarding the cases.
  
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• Scottish health boards also affected by cyber attacks

  12-05-2017 20:14
  A number of Scottish health boards have been affected by potential cyber incidents similar to those in England, Scotland's devolved government said on Friday.The government was working to "isolate systems which have been affected by a Ransomware cyber-attack of the kind which has also affected health trusts in NHS England," it said in a statement, adding that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon would chair an emergency meeting shortly.Hospitals and surgeries across England were forced to turn away pa
  
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• British hospital workers were warned of 'ransomware' threat

  12-05-2017 20:14
  LONDON (Reuters) - British hospital workers were warned on Friday that they were at threat from malicious software known as 'ransomware' that locks up computers and demands ransoms to restore access, according to an email seen by Reuters. "The Trust has been advised by I.T. security and NHS-Digital of a serious Ransomware threat currently in circulation throughout the NHS," the email to employees of Britain's National Health Service said. Also on Friday, Spain's government said a large number of
  
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• Time to test the track record of privatisation | Letters

  12-05-2017 20:07
  
  By gradually taking the existing rail franchises back under public control when each runs out (Report, 11 May), we will be able to compare how well public and private management of this key public service perform.As franchises terminate at different dates over the next 10 to 15 years, there will be a period when public and private provision can be impartially compared, both in terms of fare prices and the quality of service provided.Currently we have one of the most expensive rail services in Eu
  
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• Labour policies drowned out by Corbyn memes | Letters

  12-05-2017 20:07
  
  Jeremy Corbyn meets the press after a meeting with senior party figures to agree the Labour manifesto.It is unfortunate that the Guardian’s rejection both of Jeremy Corbyn as a viable leader and the party’s policies as “unlikely to win over Tory-leaning voters” (Editorial, 10 May) was published the day before the leaking of Labour’s draft manifesto.
  
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• Farmers are proud custodians of the countryside | Letters

  12-05-2017 20:06
  
  A Herdwick sheep grazing by Wastwater in the Lake District National Park. ‘We love our landscape and the plants and animals we share it with,’ writes Lakeland sheep farmer Louise MacArthur.British farmers are sadly used to George Monbiot’s one-man campaign against the farming industry, but his latest article is questionable even by his standards (The Lake District as a world heritage site – what a disaster that would be, 10 May).Mr Monbiot appears now to be attacking the
  
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• Churchill not entirely to blame for Bengal famine | Letters

  12-05-2017 20:06
  
  Winston Churchill pictured in 1954. ‘Churchill was a flawed character, but not a genocidal leader,’ writes Charles Sharp.Bruce Ross-Smith (Letters, 11 May) is unfair in blaming Churchill entirely for the Bengal famine.Most historians blame his confidant and adviser, Frederick Lindemann, for advocating the policy of redirecting food ships to the Atlantic from the India-Australia route.
  
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• GP: 'We don't have a contingency'

  12-05-2017 20:00
  
  NHS GP describes how a large-scale cyberattack has affected his surgery.
  
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• A good chat over a cup of tea: the Corbyn approach to conflict resolution | John Crace

  12-05-2017 19:54
  
  Everyone apart from his own shadow defence minister, Nia Griffith, who was left off the invitation list.The fact that she is strongly in favour of Trident renewal while the Labour leader is, at best, equivocal was presumably entirely coincidental.Earlier in the week, Corbyn had tried being Mr Angry during the launch of Labour’s election bus, but now he was back to being Mr Zen.
  
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• Brexit: EU's chief negotiator vows 'always a way' to avoid hard Irish border

  12-05-2017 19:53
  
  The EU’s chief negotiator for Brexit has for the first time promised there will be a way of avoiding a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, saying that if there is a political will, there will be a way.Michel Barnier’s remarks came as Tony Blair told a meeting of Europe’s centre-right political groups in the Irish Republic that a hard border would be a disaster.
  
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• Most Britons 'make mind up to leave Eurovision'

  12-05-2017 19:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Leave voters in the EU referendum are most likely to want to quit singing contest, survey suggests.
  
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• NHS cyber attack: 'My heart surgery was cancelled'

  12-05-2017 19:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Patrick Ward booked hotels for his family so they could be close during his septal myectomy at Barts.
  
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• 'Possible paralysis patient diverted'

  12-05-2017 18:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dr Tarek Seda says he had to divert a serious case because of the "cowards" behind the NHS cyber attack.
  
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• Prince Charles honours Irish dead at Glasnevin cemetery

  12-05-2017 18:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Irishmen who were awarded Victoria Crosses and those killed in the 1916 Easter Rising are honoured.
  
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• London MPs defy Labour Party on Brexit, demand single market membership

  12-05-2017 18:29
  
  A group of 16 opposition Labour Party lawmakers seeking re-election in London said on Friday Britain needed to remain a member of the European single market after Brexit, contradicting the party's official position ahead of a June 8 election.Labour is trailing badly in opinion polls, with leader Jeremy Corbyn criticised by some supporters for not opposing Prime Minister Theresa May's EU exit strategy strongly enough, and by others for not embracing Brexit more enthusiastically."We are not 'Remoa
  
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• Daughter treated for mental health 200 miles from home

  12-05-2017 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chloe Hodge from Cornwall received treatment in Pontypridd, 200 miles away.
  
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• General election 2017: Corbyn says task is to keep Britain safe

  12-05-2017 18:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour leader will have a minister for peace if he wins power but could back force as a "last resort".
  
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• Theresa May will cause more poverty than Thatcher, Gordon Brown warns

  12-05-2017 18:25
  
  Gordon Brown speaks at the engineering department of Coventry University.The former prime minister Gordon Brown has strongly attacked Theresa May’s claim to be the champion of Britain’s struggling families, warning that the Conservative government’s welfare cuts would leave more people in poverty than under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.Writing in the Guardian, Brown highlights recent research from the Institute of Fiscal Studies and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation showing that
  
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• London lawmakers defy Labour Party on Brexit, demand single market membership

  12-05-2017 18:22
  
  A group of 16 opposition Labour Party lawmakers seeking re-election in London said on Friday Britain needed to remain a member of the European single market after Brexit, contradicting the party's official position ahead of a June 8 election.Labour is trailing badly in opinion polls, with leader Jeremy Corbyn criticised by some supporters for not opposing Prime Minister Theresa May's EU exit strategy strongly enough, and by others for not embracing Brexit more enthusiastically."We are not 'Remoa
  
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• Paternity leave

  12-05-2017 18:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With more paternity leave promised by Lib Dems and Labour, Reality Check looks at what the take-up of the existing rights has been.
  
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• Cyberattack causes NHS IT meltdown

  12-05-2017 18:17
  
  Non-emergency operations have been suspended and ambulances are being diverted at NHS organisations across the country.The IT systems of at least 19 organisations across the NHS have been affected by a ransomware attack, in which malicious software encrypts the data on a victim's computer and demands a ransom, usually to be paid in Bitcoin, in order to make the data accessible again.Although the investigation is at an early stage NHS Digital believes it has identified "the malware variant as Wan
  
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• English hospitals divert ambulances after 'ransomware' cyber attack

  12-05-2017 18:09
  
  By Costas Pitas and Alistair SmoutLONDON (Reuters) - Hospitals and doctors' surgeries across England were forced to turn away patients and cancel appointments on Friday after a nationwide 'ransomware' cyber attack crippled some computer systems in the state-run health service.The National Health Service (NHS) said 16 organisations had been affected by the cyber attack but said it had not been specifically targeted.Spain's government said on Friday a large number of companies, including telecommu
  
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• Labour calls on government to explain health service cyber attack

  12-05-2017 18:03
  Britain's main opposition Labour Party called on the government to be clear about how a nationwide 'ransomware' cyber attack hit the state-run National Health Service (NHS) on Friday."This incident highlights the risk to data security within the modern health service and reinforces the need for cyber security to be at the heart of government planning," Labour health spokesman Jonathan Ashworth said.Extra funding for the NHS is a key part of Labour's campaign for next month's national election.
  
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• NHS hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack

  12-05-2017 17:48
  
  The NHS is investigating a cyber-attack on its systems.Hospitals across England have been hit by a large-scale cyber-attack, the NHS has confirmed, which has locked staff out of their computers and forced many trusts to divert emergency patients.NHS Digital said it was aware of the problem and would release more details soon.
  
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• Melissa Pesticcio and Michael Wheeler jailed over deadly Cardiff car chase

  12-05-2017 17:43
  Michael Wheeler, 23, and Melissa Pesticcio, 24, pursued his ex-girlfriend Sophie Taylor, 22, in separate vehicles as she drove through Cardiff.Cardiff Crown Court heard Wheeler had been in a relationship with Pesticcio when he started dating Miss Taylor in June last year.The relationship between Wheeler and Miss Taylor ended weeks later, with Pesticcio and Wheeler becoming "increasingly hostile" towards her.
  
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