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• Vigil one week on from Manchester attack

  30-05-2017 23:50
  
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• House panel has not subpoenaed Trump lawyer Michael Cohen: sources - Reuters

  30-05-2017 23:40 via reuters.com
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  House panel has not subpoenaed Trump lawyer Michael Cohen: sources
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  Michael Cohen, attorney for The Trump Organization, arrives at Trump Tower in New York City, U.S. January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith. WASHINGTON The U.S. House Intelligence Committee has not issued a subpoena to President Donald ...and more »
  
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• 'Let the plans grow': Corbyn talks gardening

  30-05-2017 22:40
  
  After a forensic election grilling from Jeremy Paxman, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn faced a more relaxed affair on the BBC's The One Show.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn goes from tough questions to soft sofa

  30-05-2017 22:32
  Just 24 hours earlier Jeremy Corbyn had faced a sometimes-hostile TV grilling about the IRA, nuclear weapons and terrorism on Sky News.Compared with tough questions from the Sky News-Channel 4 studio audience and some brutal interruptions from Jeremy Paxman, Mr Corbyn faced the softest of soft sofa interviews.Now, when it was Mr Corbyn's turn, he chose not to take his wife, Laura Alvarez, with him.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn presented The One Show with a jar of his homemade jam

  30-05-2017 22:22
  
  The Labour leader said there was “something magic” about owning an allotment and growing your own food.
  
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• Girl steals show with Prince Harry thank you

  30-05-2017 22:20
  
  Maya Turner, 6, took centre stage with a thank you letter for Prince Harry as he unveiled the UK team for the Invictus Games.
  
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• Invictus Games: Girl, 6, thanks Prince Harry for 'helping mummy'

  30-05-2017 22:15
  A six-year-old girl took centre stage with a special thank you letter for Prince Harry as he unveiled the UK team for this year's Invictus Games.Harry was introduced to Maya Turner as he met competitors in London who will be representing Great Britain at September's games in Toronto.Maya penned the letter after watching her mother Michelle, who has been selected to compete in rowing and swimming events, and other competitors train.
  
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• Theresa May gets personal in attack on Jeremy Corbyn as election polls narrow

  30-05-2017 22:02
  
  Theresa May set the tone for the final phase of the general election campaign with her strongest personal attack on Jeremy Corbyn, claiming the Labour leader’s performance in Monday night’s live television debate showed he would be “naked in the negotiating chamber” when Brexit talks start next month.The outspoken remarks represent an attempt by Tory strategists to refocus the prime minister’s message on a direct comparison between herself and the Labour leader as t
  
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• Royal Navy escorts Russian ships through English Channel

  30-05-2017 22:02
  A Royal Navy warship has escorted several Russian ships through the English Channel over the bank holiday weekend.The HMS Mersey was called on to shadow the vessels as they passed through British waters.The Portsmouth-based patrol vessel was tasked to locate, monitor and escort intelligence ship Vasily Tatishchev and the depot ship PM82.
  
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• Husband who slit wife's throat after she 'flipped like The Hulk' cleared of murder

  30-05-2017 20:45
  A 43-year-old carpenter has been cleared of killing his estranged wife after slitting her throat in a row at their family home in Redhill, Surrey.Robert Rhodes told the court he acted in self-defence after Dawn Rhodes "flipped like The Hulk" after she confronted him about his new girlfriend.Mr Rhodes, who was smaller than his 6ft, 14-stone wife, said he lashed out after his wife grabbed a kitchen knife and "came at him at speed" while making a "growling noise".
  
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• Leicester fear Riyad Mahrez transfer request may lead to summer exodus amid growing uncertainty at King Power - Mirror.co.uk

  30-05-2017 20:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
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  Leicester fear Riyad Mahrez transfer request may lead to summer exodus amid growing uncertainty at King Power
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  Leicester face meltdown after Riyad Mahrez demanded to leave and other stars want a move amid growing uncertainty at the club. A year after their fairytale Premier League title triumph Algerian Mahrez wants to quit after staying last summer . Mahrez ...
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• I’ve voted Conservative all my life, but not this time | Letters

  30-05-2017 20:33
  
  Theresa May’s strategy on Brexit is to ‘ignore the 48% who voted to remain, antagonise the other EU leaders [and] take the hardest possible line in negotiations and prefer no deal to a bad deal,’ writes Douglas Lee.First, I have great respect and admiration for my local Labour MP (Siobhain McDonagh), and would like to see her continuing in that role.
  
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• Crossrail 2 is vital for the expanding capital | Letters

  30-05-2017 20:32
  
  National Infrastructure Commission chairman Lord Adonis, left, with Crossrail CEO Andrew Wolstenholme, second left, during a visit to the site of Tottenham Court Road Crossrail station in March 2016.The development of Crossrail 2 in London should be made a priority, according to the NIC.For those living in and around London the omission of Crossrail 2 from the Tory manifesto is distressing.
  
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• Tiger Woods Wasn't Drinking, But That Doesn't Quite Make Him Off the Hook - Daily Beast

  30-05-2017 20:23 via thedailybeast.com
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  Tiger Woods Wasn't Drinking, But That Doesn't Quite Make Him Off the Hook
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  His blood alcohol level was .000, but he was arguably still under the influence of the pills. And reportedly has been to one degree or another since 2007. Matt Lewis. 05.30.17 2:20 PM ET. Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast. Sometimes the troubles of ...
  A look back at Tiger Woods' public stumbles outside golfABC News
  Tiger Woods arrested: Found slumped at wheel unable to touch own noseDaily Star
  
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• Factbox - What do we know about BA's computer meltdown?

  30-05-2017 20:23
  
  A computer system failure at British Airways on Saturday forced the airline to ground hundreds of flights, leaving 75,000 passengers stranded as its flight operations, call centre and website all went down.The British flag carrier has said the problem was caused by a power supply issue at one of its UK data centres.Below is what we know so far about the IT failure:* BA described the problem as a "power supply issue at one of our UK data centres, which led to an exceptional power surge and caused
  
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• Watch live: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily news briefing - Los Angeles Times

  30-05-2017 20:15 via latimes.com
  
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  Watch live: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily news briefing
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  President Trump took aim at German trade practices and defense spending Tuesday following pointed criticism from Chancellor Angela Merkel that Germany may not be able to rely on its allies. "We have a MASSIVE trade deficit with Germany, plus they pay ...
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• Theresa May protest song 'liar liar' hits No 1 on iTunes

  30-05-2017 20:13
  
  A song describing Prime Minister Theresa May as a "liar" and calling the country "broken" has become the most downloaded on iTunes.Liar Liar is set be the highest new entry on the UK Official Singles Chart this week, but impartiality rules during the election period mean it is unlikely to get radio air time, regardless of chart position.The Big Top 40 show on Heart and Capital FM has banned the song from being played.
  
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• Woman shot dead in Kilburn was innocent bystander, witnesses say

  30-05-2017 19:42
  
  Mohanna Abdhou was killed in Kilburn, north-west London.Mohanna Abdhou, 20, was out with friends when two men cycled up to them and opened fire outside Dickens House in Kilburn, north-west London, just before 9pm on Friday night.Abdhou, known as Montana, was pronounced dead at 9.30pm and a postmortem examination on Saturday gave the cause of death as a single gunshot wound.
  
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• Ariana Grande to be joined by stars for Manchester attack benefit gig

  30-05-2017 19:41
  
  Ariana Grande will be joined by Justin Bieber and a host of other stars for a Manchester attack benefit concert on Sunday.Coldplay, Katy Perry, Usher, Take That, Pharrell Williams, Miley Cyrus and Niall Horan will also perform at Old Trafford Cricket Ground to raise money for the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund.The gig comes almost a fortnight after thebombing which killed 22 peopleat Manchester Arena.
  
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• If Germany can't count on old friends, perhaps it's time to make new ones - BBC News

  30-05-2017 19:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  If Germany can't count on old friends, perhaps it's time to make new ones
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  It was no doubt planned many months ago, but the timing of Narendra Modi's short tête-à-tête with Angela Merkel in Berlin on Tuesday will be interpreted as deeply symbolic in Germany and beyond. Could there be something of a pivot to Asia going on in ...
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• Why Liam Gallagher is proud of Manchester

  30-05-2017 19:30
  
  Sky's Tom Parmenter catches up with the former Oasis frontman ahead of his concert to raise funds for victims of the Manchester bombing.
  
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• BA owner IAG claws back early losses after IT glitch wipes £500m off value

  30-05-2017 19:23
  
  It was a day of rocky trading for shares in International Airlines Group, which owns British Airways, with early trading wiping £500m off the company's value.British Airways' chief executive said he was "profusely" sorry for the computer system failure which he revealed had disrupted 75,000 passengers' flights.BA said its IT system was back up and running and that it expected to run a full flight schedule at Heathrow and Gatwick airports on Tuesday, but it conceded there was still work to
  
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• Manchester attack: Abedi 'not known' to Prevent scheme - BBC News

  30-05-2017 19:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Manchester attack: Abedi 'not known' to Prevent scheme
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  Manchester suicide attacker Salman Abedi was not known to the government's Prevent scheme, police have said. Ian Hopkins, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, told BBC Radio Manchester the bomber was arrested for minor offences in 2012.
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• Osborne's Evening Standard savages Theresa May's election campaign

  30-05-2017 19:13
  
  The former chancellor was pointedly not invited to join Theresa May’s cabinet when she took over as prime minister, and is no longer a Conservative MP, giving him freedom to speak his mind on the current election campaign.On Tuesday the London Evening Standard did just that, publishing a bitingly critical editorial that savaged May’s approach to Brexit and her election strategy to date.It said the Tory campaign had “meandered from an abortive attempt to launch a personality cul
  
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• Ashdown 'horrified' by parallels between UK and 1930s Germany

  30-05-2017 19:13
  
  Paddy Ashdown has said he sees horrifying parallels between 1930s Germany and what is happening in the post-referendum UK.The former Liberal Democrats leader told the Hay festival in Wales on Tuesday that he feared for his country, with a huge number of people left “voiceless” as Labour moved further left and the Conservatives further right.“The way that we have retreated from internationalism to ugly nationalism in Britain.
  
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• Woods found asleep at the wheel, no alcohol in his system

  30-05-2017 19:12
  
  Police found Tiger Woods asleep at the wheel on the side of a six-lane Florida road in the dark of morning, the engine running and his right blinker flashing. His speech was slow and slurred, though there ...
  
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• In UK vote, Brexit takes back seat to home issues, terror - Daily Mail

  30-05-2017 19:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  In UK vote, Brexit takes back seat to home issues, terror
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  Britain's vote to leave the European Union made Theresa May the country's prime minister and is the reason the Conservative leader has called a national election after less than a year in office. But the divisive issue hasn't dominated the campaign as ...
  General election 2017 live: Jeremy Corbyn faces BBC One Show interview after live radio gaffe on Woman's HourMirror.co.uk
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• May's election landslide in doubt as poll lead slips

  30-05-2017 19:02
  
  By Costas Pitas and Andy BruceLONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's ability to deliver a landslide majority in the June 8 election was in doubt on Tuesday after two more opinion polls showed the vote could be much tighter than previously thought.A total of seven polls carried out since the May 22 Manchester attack have shown May's lead over the opposition Labour Party narrowing, with some suggesting she might not win the landslide predicted just a month ago.A poll conducted by
  
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• Corbyn would be 'alone and naked' in Brexit talks, May claims

  30-05-2017 18:55
  
  Jeremy Corbyn would find himself "alone and naked" in Brexit negotiations if he becomes Prime Minister, Theresa May has claimed.Mrs May launched a strongly-worded assault on the Labour leader's fitness to run the country, insisting he has no plan for getting Britain out of the European Union.The PM said that Mr Corbyn's performance on the Sky News/Channel 4 programme The Battle For Number 10 showed "I am ready to go.
  
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• Grande, Bieber, Katy Perry to top concert for Manchester victims

  30-05-2017 18:50
  
  Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry will headline a star-studded concert in Manchester, England, on Sunday to benefit victims of the suicide bombing at Grande's May 22 concert there, organizers announced on Tuesday.American artists Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams and Usher will also perform at the June 4 concert, along with Britain's Coldplay, One Direction singer Niall Horan and the Manchester-based band Take That.Proceeds will benefit victims of last week's suicide bombing at Grande's s
  
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• PM: Corbyn not ready to lead, I am

  30-05-2017 18:45
  
  Prime Minister Theresa May says Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is not ready to lead and is not prepared for Brexit negotiations.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn still to decide on TV election debate appearance

  30-05-2017 18:33
  
  Jeremy Corbyn is still to confirm whether he will take part in Wednesday’s BBC TV debate with other political leaders, at which the home secretary, Amber Rudd, will stand in for Theresa May.Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, is believed to have been lined up to represent Labour in the BBC election debate in Cambridge, but it is understood no final decision has been made and the official decision will be announced on Wednesday morning.Corbyn has previously said he would not att
  
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• Brexit weekly briefing: is no deal for Britain really better than a bad deal?

  30-05-2017 18:28
  
  Theresa May during her appearance on May v Corbyn Live on Monday. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AP
  
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• Ariana Grande to play Manchester benefit concert on Sunday - BBC News

  30-05-2017 18:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Ariana Grande to play Manchester benefit concert on Sunday
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  Justin Bieber, Coldplay and Katy Perry are among the stars who will join Ariana Grande at a benefit concert following the Manchester attack. The One Love Manchester show will raise money for those affected by the blast which left 22 dead. Take That ...
  Ariana Grande confirms Manchester concert: When, where and how you can get ticketsCoventry Telegraph
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• 'Tory plots' and 'blowhards' - Paxman quizzes May and Corbyn

  30-05-2017 18:20
  
  The highlights of Jeremy Paxman's interviews with Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn.
  
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• Britain's Interconnector gas pipeline capacity reduction extended

  30-05-2017 18:18
  By Nina ChestneyLONDON (Reuters) - Capacity on the Interconnector pipeline, which transports natural gas between Britain and continental Europe, has been temporarily reduced on Tuesday to allow maintenance and testing at the Bacton gas terminal, operator IUK said.The capacity reduction started at 0900 GMT (1000 BST) and will end at 1700 GMT, IUK said in a market message.The pipeline's technical capacity is around 26 gigawatt hours per hour (GWh/h), but the capacity available will be around 18 GW
  
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• Manchester Arena attack: Bomb squad rushed to Wigan in anti-terror raid - Daily Star

  30-05-2017 18:10 via dailystar.co.uk
  
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  Manchester Arena attack: Bomb squad rushed to Wigan in anti-terror raid
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  BOMB disposal units scrambled to Wigan, Greater Manchester, in a huge anti-terror raid after the Manchester Arena attack. 0. By Tom Evans / Published 30th May 2017. Play Video. Play. Mute. Current Time 0:00. /. Duration Time 0:00. Loaded: 0%. 0:00.
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• Theresa May described Jeremy Corbyn as 'alone and naked' and it has not gone down well

  30-05-2017 18:01
  
  Was the Prime Minister’s comment really necessary?
  
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• UK train line reopens after report of incident - rail operator

  30-05-2017 17:55
  A British train line which had briefly closed as emergency services investigated a reported incident in High Wycombe, 30 miles west of London, has reopened, the local rail operator said on Tuesday."Following the emergency services dealing with an incident both lines have reopened through High Wycombe but some trains may still be delayed," Chiltern Railways said in a tweet.Thames Valley Police said that the station in High Wycombe had reopened after there had been reports of a "suspicious inciden
  
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• "How much will it cost?" Corbyn fumbles childcare policy launch

  30-05-2017 17:47
  
  Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, the man running to oust Theresa May as British prime minister, was unable to say how much his plans to reform childcare would cost as he launched the policy on Tuesday, attracting strong criticism from rivals.Corbyn, leader of the leftist Labour Party who is standing on a platform of higher taxes on the wealthy, higher public spending and higher investment, stumbled over how much money it would take to broaden provision of free child care in a BBC radio interview."I'll gi
  
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• There'll soon be a new satirical election podcast called Strong and Stable

  30-05-2017 17:28
  
  Comedians will give their witty takes on the election campaign trail.
  
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• Ariana Grande joined by Justin Bieber for Manchester benefit gig

  30-05-2017 17:28
  
  Ariana Grande is to perform a benefit concert for victims of the Manchester bombing on Sunday, with a stellar line-up including Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus.The singer will headline the One Love Manchester concert at the Old Trafford cricket ground, with support including Pharrell Williams, Usher, Take That and One Direction’s Niall Horan.
  
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• Nasa's Juno mission to Jupiter reveals 'strikingly complex' planet

  30-05-2017 17:27
  
  Juno arrived in the planet’s atmosphere in July 2016.
  
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• British police search address in Wigan after Manchester attacks

  30-05-2017 17:24
  British police said on Tuesday they were searching an address in Wigan near Manchester in connection with a suicide bomb attack which killed 22 at a pop concert last week.Wigantoday, the website of local newspaper Wigan Post, posted a video of a bomb disposal van arriving at a property in Wigan, which is approximately 17 miles west of Manchester."We are currently searching a property in Springfield Street in Wigan in relation to last Monday's attack on Manchester Arena," Greater Manchester Polic
  
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• Wigan road evacuated for second time in a week after bomb squad called

  30-05-2017 17:20
  People have been told to leave their homes in part of Wigan for the second time in five days after the bomb squad was called out.
  
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• From landslide to upset defeat - scenarios for May's UK election

  30-05-2017 17:17
  
  By William James and Patrick GrahamLONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's narrowing lead in opinion polls ahead of the June 8 election has weakened sterling and raised questions over whether she will win the landslide predicted just a month ago.The vote will decide whether May or her Labour Party rival Jeremy Corbyn takes control of Britain's exit from the European Union - a two-year negotiation which will plot a new course for the $2.6 trillion economy.The prime minister called
  
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• Rail line to Oxford blocked after station evacuated 'by armed police' - Oxford Mail

  30-05-2017 17:15 via oxfordmail.co.uk
  
  Rail line to Oxford blocked after station evacuated 'by armed police'
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  ALL lines are blocked to and from Oxford after High Wycombe railway station has been closed and evacuated due to an 'incident' near the railway. Armed officers are at the scene and six police cars, according to eyewitnesses and a police cordon has been ...and more »
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon proves two can play at being Supreme Leader | John Crace

  30-05-2017 17:09
  
  Nicola left the stage as another power ballad filled the hall.There were no semi-comatose cabinet ministers dressed as Stepford Husbands as there had been at the Tory manifesto, or stiff-jawed shadow ministers pretending they weren’t really there as at Labour’s. This was a full-on rally.“Hello Perth,” said the SNP’s Pete Wishart, apparently under the delusion he was headlining the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury.
  
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• CorbynRun: Someone has made a computer game that allows you to be the Labour leader

  30-05-2017 17:08
  
  You can play Jeremy Corbyn running through the streets in the build-up to the election.
  
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• Rolf Harris case dropped after jury fails to reach verdicts

  30-05-2017 17:06
  
  The jury in the trial of TV star Rolf Harris has been discharged after failing to reach verdicts on four indecent assault charges.The jurors deliberated for just under five hours since Friday afternoon at London's Southwark Crown Court over allegations Harris, 87, molested three teenage girls.Harris described how his wife Alwen, 85, is ill and the couple "simply want to spend our remaining time together in peace".
  
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