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• Queen's Speech will be on 21 June

  19-06-2017 23:50
  
  The Queen's Speech, which outlines the Government's policies for the parliamentary session, will take place on Wednesday 21 June.
  
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• Conservatives shoot for the moon with new laws for Queen's Speech

  19-06-2017 23:48
  The Government wants Brexit to usher in a new era of freedom of movement - as long as you strap into a space rocket.The Queen's Speech on Wednesday will include three bills designed to funnel investment into major transport infrastructure designed to help Britain boom after leaving the European Union.
  
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• Finsbury Park suspect Darren Osborne's family 'in shock'

  19-06-2017 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The family of a man arrested after a van hit Muslims near a London mosque say they are "devastated".
  
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• Brian Cant, Play School presenter, dies at 83

  19-06-2017 22:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Play School star has died at the age of 83 after a battle with Parkinson's disease.
  
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• Everything you need to know about the Finsbury Park attack

  19-06-2017 22:47
  
  Darren Osborne, a father-of-four from Cardiff, has been identified as the suspect held by police after pedestrians were targeted by a man driving a van.
  
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• Finsbury Park attack

  19-06-2017 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One person has died and nine people were taken to hospital after a van was driven into people in north London.
  
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• European Court says Charlie Gard's life support should continue for time being

  19-06-2017 22:00
  
  European Court says Charlie Gard's life support should continue for time being
  
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• Charlie Gard: European Court orders life support to continue

  19-06-2017 21:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The European Court of Human Rights says baby Charlie must be kept alive until a final ruling.
  
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• Four ministers were warned about tower block fire risks

  19-06-2017 21:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  "Today's buildings have a much higher content of combustible material," read one warning.
  
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• Brexit negotiations: Barnier rules out 'concessions'

  19-06-2017 21:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  EU negotiator Michel Barnier says there will be "consequences" from Brexit as negotiations begin.
  
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• ‘Very sorry’ Family of 'privileged' Finsbury Park mosque terror suspect apologise

  19-06-2017 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE sister of a man accused of ploughing into worshippers in front of Finsbury Park mosque has said she is "sorry for what's happened" and insisted he is "not interested in terrorism".
  
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• Grenfell Tower fire survivor reunited with her rescuer

  19-06-2017 21:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One woman feared she would not escape the 10th floor, until a stranger knocked at her door.
  
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• Brexit talks: Davis 'determined optimist' after day one

  19-06-2017 21:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK Brexit Secretary David Davis and EU Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier in Brussels give their thoughts.
  
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• Not doing his homework? David Davis blunders with Churchill quotation

  19-06-2017 20:54
  
  For once Winston Churchill was not the source of a handy quotation.It’s the kind of thing that can happen if you believe what you read on the internet, but it’s perhaps a mistake David Davis would have preferred to avoid.At the close of his joint press conference with the EU’s Michel Barnier following the historic first day of article 50 negotiations in Brussels, the Brexit minister summed up his approach to the talks with a quote from Winston Churchill.
  
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• Grenfell Tower shows that poor tenants cannot rely on armchair auditors to protect them | Letters

  19-06-2017 20:48
  
  Polly Toynbee is right to point to the failures of regulation as a factor behind the Grenfell Tower disaster (A leader too afraid to meet her people is finished, 17 June).Unlike the healthcare, social care and education sectors, social housing in England no longer has an inspection regime that assesses the performance of landlords delivering services to the 4 million households living in housing association or local authority housing.Between 2000 and 2010 the Audit Commission carried out 1,
  
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• London fire: Who are the victims?

  19-06-2017 20:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police say at least 79 people are believed to have died as families seek news of missing loved ones.
  
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• Labour’s detachment from Northern Ireland | Letter

  19-06-2017 20:40
  
  Does Labour really prefer to see Arlene Foster’s Democratic Unionist party win seats than allow party members to stand for election in Northern Ireland, asks Tom Wylie.Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
  
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• UK makes big concession on day one of Brexit talks

  19-06-2017 20:34
  The Brexit timetable and negotiation plan has been announced by the lead negotiators.
  
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• Grenfell Tower fire: Police identify five victims of blaze

  19-06-2017 20:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four more people are named as police reveal 79 people are dead or missing, presumed dead.
  
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• Don’t let the Finsbury Park attack sow division and discord | Letters

  19-06-2017 20:30
  
  Just as a wonderful spirited weekend dedicated to celebrating the life of the late MP Jo Cox drew to a close, a driver ploughed into worshippers in Finsbury Park last Sunday night as they left a mosque.For this to be the fourth terror attack in Britain in four months is shocking, and as a mosque-goer in London it is also extremely unsettling.
  
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• Doctors told to continue Charlie Gard treatment for three weeks

  19-06-2017 20:30
  Doctors have been told to carry on providing treatment to terminally ill baby Charlie Gard for another three weeks so that judges at the European Court of Human Rights have time to analyse his case.
  
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• UK caves in to EU demand to agree divorce bill before trade talks

  19-06-2017 20:23
  
  David Davis (left) and Michel Barnier address a press conference at the end of the first day of Brexit talks.British negotiators have capitulated to key European demands for a phased approach to Brexit talks, agreeing to park discussions on free trade until they have thrashed out the cost of the multibillion-euro UK divorce settlement.Putting a brave face on a concession that may further strengthen the tactical dominance of the EU, the Brexit secretary, David Davis, insisted his initial retreat
  
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• Policeman dances with Pakistan cricket fans after cup win

  19-06-2017 20:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A policeman joined Pakistan cricket fans celebrating a victory in Luton.
  
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• Thief steals zebra crossing from outside Shropshire pub

  19-06-2017 20:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Black panels were removed from the temporary crossing, police say.
  
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• Grenfell Tower blaze: Firefighter reveals horrors of having to choose who to save

  19-06-2017 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A FIREFIGHTER at the Grenfell Tower blaze has revealed the horror of having to choose who to save during London’s worst fire for decades.
  
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• Mosque in East London evacuated after bomb threat

  19-06-2017 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AN EAST London mosque has been evacuated after a bomb threat was called in, just hours after this morning's terror attack in Finsbury Park.
  
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• Brexit talks: how the two teams line up

  19-06-2017 20:03
  
  1 Tim Barrow was named as the UK’s EU ambassador in January, after the sudden departure of Ivan Rogers, who quit after challenging the government’s “ill-founded arguments and muddled thinking” on Brexit.Noted for his Savile Row suits and battered briefcase, Barrow was the bearer of the UK’s article 50 letter to EU leaders.2 David Davis is a lifelong Eurosceptic, who now has to put his ideas into practice as secretary of state for Brexit.
  
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• This defiant sign at Finsbury Park Station has captured the mood in London today

  19-06-2017 19:59
  
  “Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.”
  
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• Oxford student banned over Ku Klux Klan costume

  19-06-2017 19:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Oxford University's Christ Church college took disciplinary action after a 2016-themed party.
  
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• Brexit Secretary: 'We're off to a promising start'

  19-06-2017 19:40
  
  David Davis says that the beginning of talks on Brexit with the EU has been positive.
  
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• Brexit timetable and negotiation plan revealed

  19-06-2017 19:08
  The Brexit timetable and negotiation plan has been agreed by the two lead negotiators.
  
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• Suspect in London van attack identified as Darren Osborne

  19-06-2017 19:03
  
  The man suspected of driving a van into a crowd of worshippers outside a mosque is 47-year-old Darren Osborne, say Sky sources.The vehicle hit pedestrians near Finsbury Park Mosque in north London as they left Ramadan night prayers around midnight.A man died and 10 other people were injured in the incident on Seven Sisters Road, which police are treating as a terror attack.
  
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• I said in 2009 we couldn’t allow more people to die in a tower block fire | Jenny Jones

  19-06-2017 19:00
  
  All this was dealt with by the process of investigation and inquest, but eight years later we have the horror of Grenfell.The government doesn’t have to wait until the outcome of the public inquiry into the Grenfell fire before it acts.
  
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• Leo Varadkar 'reassured' about DUP-Tory deal

  19-06-2017 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Leo Varadkar says he is 'reassured' about a deal between the Conservative Party and the DUP.
  
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• Muslim Welfare House is 'much more' than a mosque

  19-06-2017 18:44
  
  Finsbury Park mosque is only 200 metres away from the Muslim Welfare House, the site of the terrorist attack on Sunday night.The Muslim Welfare House, a clutch of buildings behind tall iron gates on Seven Sisters Road, is the headquarters of a network of community centres serving Muslims in England and Wales.A registered charity, it has 13 employees on its books and had an income in 2016 of £856,000.
  
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• Security at mosques to be reviewed after Finsbury Park attack, says PM

  19-06-2017 18:38
  The Prime Minister has said security at mosques across Britain will be reviewed after a van was driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers in the latest terror attack to hit Britain.Theresa May called the attack "every bit as sickening as those that have come before".
  
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• Finsbury Park terror suspect named as 47-year-old father of four from Wales

  19-06-2017 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE man suspected of carrying out the Finsbury Park terror attack has been named as a 47-year-old Darren Osborne.
  
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• 5 things we learned on the first day of Brexit negotiations

  19-06-2017 18:15
  
  Negotiators enjoyed a very European lunch.
  
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• UK enjoys longest June hot spell for more than 20 years

  19-06-2017 18:05
  Parts of the UK have been basking in June temperatures of over 30C (86F) again, as the heatwave looks set to continue.The Met Office says the hot spell is set to be the first time that an area in the UK has reached over 30C for five consecutive days in June for more than 20 years.
  
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• Finsbury Park imam: 'We pushed people back'

  19-06-2017 18:00
  
  Mohammed Mahmoud, an imam from a mosque in Finsbury Park, describes how he and some associates calmed down an angry crowd after a terror attack.
  
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• Meet the imam being hailed as a hero for protecting Finsbury Park suspect from mob

  19-06-2017 17:45
  
  One man has died after a man driving a van targeted pedestrians near Finsbury Park Mosque, in north London, early on Monday.
  
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• Kensington and Chelsea council has £274m in reserves

  19-06-2017 17:32
  
  The Conservative council responsible for the tower block where at least 79 people died in a fire described by the mayor of London as preventable has stockpiled £274m of reserves and offered rebates to residents paying the top rate of council tax.According to the latest accounts, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea ran a budget surplus, which Labour councillors have claimed was being used a slush fund to bribe voters with a rebate close to elections.A draft statement of Kensington a
  
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• PM calls for unity after Finsbury Park attack

  19-06-2017 17:30
  
  Theresa May has said everything will be done to rid the UK of extremism.
  
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• Police in Wales working with Met officers after Finsbury Park attack

  19-06-2017 17:21
  South Wales Police are working with their counterparts in the Met to investigate the Finsbury Park attack after it emerged the van driven at pedestrians was hired in the village of Pontyclun.
  
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• UK workers are cheated out of at least £1.5bn a year in holiday pay

  19-06-2017 17:07
  
  The study Unpaid Britain found that practice of employers pocketing workers’ wages had continued largely unremarked.Employers are cheating British workers out of at least £1.5bn a year in holiday pay to which they are legally entitled, a study has found.A further £1.2bn of wages owed for hours worked are unpaid each year, according to a research group at Middlesex University business school in a report called Unpaid Britain.
  
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• Man with axe and knives arrested near Kidderminster Army Reserve base

  19-06-2017 16:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police say the arrested man's motives 'are not yet known'.
  
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• Supreme Court ruling due on treatment for sick baby Charlie Gard

  19-06-2017 16:45
  The Supreme Court will rule today or tomorrow on whether doctors can continue to provide life support to 10-month-old Charlie Gard.The British courts have already ruled that doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital should withdraw life support because it is not in Charlie's best interests to be kept alive.Lawyers for his parents have made a submission to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) arguing the ruling breaches the Human Rights act.
  
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• Imam protected Finsbury Park terror attack suspect as angry crowd restrained him

  19-06-2017 16:37
  Imam Mohammed Mahmoud told Sky News how he had just finished prayers when a "panicked" worshipper ran in to say what was happening outside.Imam Mohammed said he was with others trying to stave off violence against the perpetrator and he told police arriving on the scene that a "mob" was attempting to hurt him.
  
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• Ellen Higginbottom murder case: Second man arrested

  19-06-2017 16:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 47-year-old and 51-year-old man are being questioned after her body was found on Saturday.
  
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• 'Hero' imam praises group that saved Finsbury Park suspect from angry crowd

  19-06-2017 16:09
  
  An imam hailed as a hero for preventing bystanders from attacking the suspected Finsbury Park mosque attacker has praised the “calm and collected” group who helped him keep the peace.Mohammed Mahmoud, an imam at the Muslim Welfare House, arrived shortly after the suspect was wrestled to the ground.
  
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