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• Cladding fire tests failed by 34 blocks in 17 areas

  24-06-2017 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  So far, 34 cladding samples from 17 areas have been sent to the government's laboratory - and every one has failed fire safety tests.
  
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• Andrew Rawnsley’s A to Z of Brexit

  24-06-2017 23:15
  
  Theresa May: no longer the new Iron Lady (see under May, Mrs). Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images A IS FOR ASTRONAUTS
  
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• Defiant Camden tower block residents may be forced out

  24-06-2017 23:06
  
  Camden Council has warned it may force residents to leave their tower block if they do not voluntarily evacuate so urgent fire safety work can be carried out.Although thousands of people have temporarily moved out at the urging of the council and the London Fire Brigade, about 20 households across four tower blocks are staying put.Georgina Gould, the leader of Camden Council, is now advising "in the strongest possible terms" that residents who are still inside the 22-storey buildings on the Chal
  
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• PSNI seize drugs and alcohol from teens

  24-06-2017 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police collected about 250 items including 200 prescription tablets and 74 litres of cider.
  
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• Tower block cladding: 34 buildings fail fire safety tests

  24-06-2017 22:51
  
  The number of high-rise residential blocks which have failed fire safety tests because of cladding has risen to 34.Buildings in 17 local authorities are now known to have cladding which is not compliant with current regulations - including towers in Manchester, Camden, Plymouth, Hounslow, Portsmouth, Barnet and Brent.The Government says tests are still being performed "around the clock", with landlords of at-risk buildings informing tenants and implementing interim safety measures.
  
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• Some celebrations and statistics as Lionel Messi turns 30

  24-06-2017 22:48
  
  Happy birthday to the Atomic Flea!
  
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• May on cladding: 'Action is being taken'

  24-06-2017 22:40
  
  Theresa May has been talking about the evacuation of thousands of residents in Camden amid fire safety concerns.
  
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• London tower blocks evacuated as 34 buildings fail fire tests

  24-06-2017 22:36
  
  By Kate Holton and Jamillah KnowlesLONDON (Reuters) - Britain said 34 high-rise apartment blocks had failed fire safety checks carried out after the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze, including several in north London where residents were forced to evacuate amid chaotic scenes.British officials have conducted tests on some 600 high-rise buildings across England after fire ravaged the Grenfell social tower block in west London on June 14, killing at least 79 people in the capital's most deadly blaze si
  
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• ‘Home is where you feel safe. And I don’t feel safe in my flat any more’

  24-06-2017 22:30
  
  The sight of destroyed Grenfell Tower brings back haunting memories for those who live nearby.Thomassina Hessel used to love the view from her studio flat on the Lancaster West estate, of gardens set against the backdrop of Grenfell Tower.Now she sees only a blackened tomb, 24 storeys of burnt-out homes that stir up memories of the terrible fire – and fears for her three-year-old son’s future.
  
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• ‘Back soft Brexit,’ unions urge Labour

  24-06-2017 22:00
  
  The Labour chair of the Brexit select committee, Hilary Benn, wants party leadership to support staying in customs union.Jeremy Corbyn was under pressure from across the labour movement last night to support a softer form of Brexit as the TUC joined senior party figures in calling for Britain to retain the option of staying in the single market.The unions’ intervention followed a call from Hilary Benn, the Labour chair of the Brexit select committee, who wants the party leadership to shift
  
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• BREAKING: Cladding fire tests in Grenfell Tower response failed by 34 tower blocks

  24-06-2017 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AT LEAST 34 high-rise buildings in 17 local authorities across the country have failed fire cladding safety tests following the Grenfell Tower disaster, the Government has said.
  
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• 72-year-old evacuee 'absolutely stressed'

  24-06-2017 21:30
  
  A 72-year-old woman says she was forced to sit in a chair all night after being evacuated from her London tower block over safety fears.
  
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• Parliament hit by 'sustained' cyber-attack

  24-06-2017 21:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MPs are unable to access emails remotely, as Westminster deals with a hacking attempt made on Friday.
  
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• Evacuated resident vows to keep 'close checks' on Camden Council

  24-06-2017 21:18
  It was 5.30am when I arrived at the leisure centre turned emergency hub in north London, and the very first person I saw was Shirley Phillips walking her dog Tilly.Shirley, 72, wears a gold ring on her left hand spelling out "Mum" and is clearly proud of her family.As soon as Camden Council leader Georgina Gould arrived at the centre, she steamed straight in and demanded answers on whether her beloved dog would be housed with her.
  
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• British lawmakers hit by 'sustained' cyber attack

  24-06-2017 20:59
  
  By Kate HoltonLONDON (Reuters) - Britain's parliament was hit by a "sustained and determined" cyber attack on Saturday designed to identify weak email passwords, just over a month after a ransomware worm crippled parts of the country's health service.The House of Commons said it was working with the National Cyber Security Centre to defend parliament's network and was confident it had protected all accounts and systems."Earlier this morning we discovered unusual activity and evidence of an attem
  
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• Andrew Marr admits revealing highest-paid BBC star's salaries will be 'uncomfortable'

  24-06-2017 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PUBLISHING the BBC’s highest-paid stars’ salaries will prove “uncomfortable” for them, Andrew Marr has said.
  
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• Glastonbury: Jeremy Corbyn 'inspired' by young voters

  24-06-2017 20:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader follows Craig David on the Pyramid Stage, for a speech two weeks after the election.
  
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• Scots terrorist Aqsa Mahmood attended religious classes at taxpayer-funded Glasgow centre

  24-06-2017 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SCOTS terrorist Aqsa Mahmood attended religious classes at an Islamic centre responsible for the education of around 600 girls, a new book has revealed.
  
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• 'OUTRAGEOUS!' BBC under fire for Radio 1 tweet 'praising Jeremy Corbyn'

  24-06-2017 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE BBC has been blasted for "promoting" Jeremy Corbyn by tweeting the Labour leader “aced” his speech at Glastonbury.
  
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• Bethnal Green fire: Flats evacuated as flames spread

  24-06-2017 20:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fire breaks out in a flat and spreads to the roof of the four-storey block in east London.
  
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• Corbyn gets rapturous Glastonbury response

  24-06-2017 19:35
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has received a rapturous response as he addressed festival-goers at Glastonbury.
  
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• Firefighters battle blaze at low-rise building in east London

  24-06-2017 19:30
  
  Ten fire engines and 72 firefighters were battling a blaze in east London on Saturday after flames engulfed a third-floor apartment in a low-rise block of buildings, injuring one man who was taken to hospital.Britain has been rocked in recent days by a fire which killed at least 79 people when it engulfed a 24-storey building in west London on June 14, trapping residents in their beds as they slept.The London Fire Brigade, which is also working to evacuate residents from an estate in north Londo
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn gets rapturous reception at Glastonbury

  24-06-2017 19:29
  The General Election campaign showed that "the elites got it wrong," Jeremy Corbyn has told a huge crowd at Glastonbury.After receiving a rapturous reception, the Labour leader told thousands of festival-goers that the "number of young people who got involved for the very first time" was inspiring.Mr Corbyn encouraged his audience to look at the wall that surrounds the festival.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Glastonbury Speech: Labour Leader Mocks Donald Trump

  24-06-2017 19:03
  
  Jeremy Corbyn came out to cheers and crowds normally reserved for headline acts at Glastonbury on Saturday and couldn’t help but take a shot at Donald Trump.
  
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• MPs lose email access as Parliament targeted in 'sustained' cyberattack

  24-06-2017 18:58
  Parliament has been hit by a cyberattack, days after an online group claimed it had hacked ministers' email accounts.An email sent to parliamentarians on Friday and shown to Sky News said: "Earlier this morning we discovered unusual activity and evidence of an attempted cyberattack on our computer network.A House of Commons spokeswoman said: "We are continuing to investigate this incident and take further measures to secure the computer network, liaising with the National Cyber Security Centre.
  
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• British lawmakers hit by cyber security attack

  24-06-2017 18:47
  
  Britain's parliament was hit by a cyber attack on Saturday in which hackers tried to access email accounts, politicians and officials said, just over a month after a ransomware attack crippled parts of the country's health service.Chris Rennard, a member of the Liberal Democrat party in the upper House of Lords, was the first to draw attention to the problem, using Twitter to announce: "Cyber security attack on Westminster, Parliamentary emails may not work remotely, Text urgent messages."A spok
  
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• Cyber-attack on parliament leaves MPs unable to access emails

  24-06-2017 18:43
  
  Parliament has been hit by a “sustained and determined” cyber-attack by hackers attempting to gain access to MPs’ and their staffers’ email accounts.Both houses of parliament were targeted on Friday in an attack that sought to gain access to accounts protected by weak passwords.MPs said they were unable to access their emails after the attack began.
  
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• Camden tower evacuations: Rosie's story

  24-06-2017 18:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why new mum Rosie has decided to stay in her Camden tower block, despite it failing fire safety tests.
  
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• Terry Wogan's statue unveiled in Irish home town

  24-06-2017 18:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Eighteen months after his death, a bronze sculpture of the broadcaster is unveiled in his home city.
  
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• BREAKING: Plumes of smoke billow over east London as flames shoot out of flats

  24-06-2017 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PLUMES of smoke can be seen billowing over east London after a fire broke out in an apartment block.
  
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• Parliament targeted in 'sustained' cyberattack

  24-06-2017 18:12
  Parliament has been hit by a cyberattack, days after an online group claimed it had hacked ministers' email accounts.An email sent to parliamentarians on Friday and shown to Sky News said: "Earlier this morning we discovered unusual activity and evidence of an attempted cyberattack on our computer network.A House of Commons spokeswoman said: "We are continuing to investigate this incident and take further measures to secure the computer network, liaising with the National Cyber Security Centre.
  
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• Missing priest found dead on beach

  24-06-2017 18:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Father Martin Xavier Vazhachira was last seen alive at a church in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
  
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• Parliament Cyber Attack At Houses Of Parliament

  24-06-2017 17:16
  
  Parliament has been hit by a cyber attack with “unauthorised attempts” made to access parliamentary user accounts.
  
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• Corbyn urges May to 'get a grip' of Grenfell Tower aftermath

  24-06-2017 17:11
  
  Jeremy Corbyn said Camden council’s decision to evacuate was difficult but safety ‘must always come first’.Theresa May must “get a grip” of the Grenfell Tower aftermath, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said, as it emerged that 27 high-rise buildings across the country have been deemed unsafe and thousands of people in London were evacuated from their homes.Corbyn called the situation a “nationwide threat” and called on the prime minister to convene a
  
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• Police brace for trouble as far-right and anti-racist groups protest

  24-06-2017 16:51
  
  Hundreds of police officers lined the streets of London and Birmingham on Saturday to prevent far-right demonstrators from clashing with rival anti-fascism groups on a day of protest following deadly attacks in Britain.In the country's second biggest city Birmingham, dozens of members of the far-right group Britain First took to the streets waving national flags and chanting "Britain First, Fighting Back".Britain has been rocked by a string of attacks in recent months, with 35 people killed by I
  
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• Armed Forces Day: Liverpool leads events across country

  24-06-2017 16:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A record 300 events are taking place, including parades, military displays and a Red Arrows flypast.
  
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• Jo Cox MP honoured with Commons plaque

  24-06-2017 16:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The memorial was designed by her children Cuillin, six, and Lejla, four.
  
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• Meet the milkmen of Glastonbury

  24-06-2017 16:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Glastonbury started serving free milk from the farm in 1970. Nearly 50 years on it’s still delivered to tents at £1.20 a pint.
  
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• 'Pay when you leave? That's Crazy' John Redwood rejects EU's 'fanciful' Brexit bill

  24-06-2017 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  IT would be “crazy” for Britain to even consider paying any divorce settlement bill demanded by the European Union, according to senior Conservative MP John Redwood.
  
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• Armed Forces Day celebrations across the world

  24-06-2017 15:52
  The UK's military has been out on parade across the country to mark the ninth annual Armed Forces Day.Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon, who also attended the national event on the city's waterfront, said: "There are some 10,000 servicemen and women who are working for us around the globe on operations or in our bases.Sir Michael went on to praise the reaction of the Army following the terror attack at the Manchester Arena, in which 22 people lost their lives.
  
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• Rivers and streams in parts of UK 'under threat of drying up', says WWF

  24-06-2017 15:14
  Hundreds of rivers and streams are at risk of drying out due to poor water management.A report by the World Wide Fund for Nature warns over half of chalk streams and a quarter of rivers are under threat if action isn't taken.Chairman of the River Chess Association Paul Jennings said: "This would be knee-depth crystal clear water that's come out of the chalk aquifer, with lovely fronds of weed.
  
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• Arconic knowingly supplied flammable panels for use in tower - emails

  24-06-2017 15:11
  
  By Tom BerginLONDON (Reuters) - Six emails sent by and to an Arconic Incsales manager raise questions about why the company supplied combustible cladding to a distributor for use at Grenfell Tower, despite publicly warning such panels were a fire risk for tall buildings.The emails, dating from 2014 and seen by Reuters, were between Deborah French, Arconic's UK sales manager, and executives at the contractors involved in the bidding process for the refurbishment contract at Grenfell Tower in Lond
  
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• Far-Right And Anti-Fascist Demonstration Clampdown Due To 'Current Tensions'

  24-06-2017 15:02
  
  Demonstrations in London by the far-right English Defence League and anti-fascist groups will be limited by police because of “current tensions”.
  
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• Dozens of families in unsafe Camden tower blocks refuse to leave

  24-06-2017 14:48
  
  Authorities in Camden were working to convince dozens of families to leave their homes on Saturday after they refused to evacuate, despite concerns the tower blocks they are living in were at risk of a Grenfell-type blaze.Some had changed their minds by Saturday morning and joined the exodus, but Camden council is now considering what to do with those who refuse to leave.“We are saying now to people that they really do need to leave and, if they do not, then we will have to take advice for
  
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• London tower blocks evacuated as 27 buildings fail fire tests

  24-06-2017 14:38
  
  By Kate Holton and Jamillah KnowlesLONDON (Reuters) - Britain said 27 high-rise apartment blocks had failed fire safety checks carried out after the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze, including several in north London where residents were forced to evacuate amid chaotic scenes late on Friday.British officials have conducted tests on some 600 high-rise buildings across England after fire ravaged the Grenfell social tower block in west London on June 14, killing at least 79 people in the capital's most
  
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• Tower block cladding: 27 buildings fail fire safety tests

  24-06-2017 14:23
  
  Some 27 high-rise residential blocks have failed fire safety tests because of the cladding used on them.The towers in 15 council areas were identified as part of a national operation to identify at-risk buildings in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.The local authority areas with buildings that failed tests include Manchester, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Hounslow, Brent and Camden.
  
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• Marches across London SHUT DOWN streets while EDL clashes break out across UK

  24-06-2017 14:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ENGLISH Defence League marches across UK cities have seen streets closed off and violent scuffles in a day of protests.
  
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• Andrea Leadsom's 'Patriotic' Brexit Broadcasting Call Slammed By Tim Farron As 'Sinister'

  24-06-2017 14:19
  
  Calls by a Cabinet minister for broadcasters to be “patriotic” over Brexit have been branded “sinister” by Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron.
  
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• Moment audience LAUGHS as Diane Abbott claims Labour government is 'sooner than you think'

  24-06-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DIANE ABBOTT’s suggestion a Labour Party government could be in Downing Street “sooner than you think” was laughed off by a hysterical BBC audience.
  
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• Striking out on their own – the challenges facing new students

  24-06-2017 13:30
  
  After the first month, when you should ‘forget about the academic side’, it’s time to knuckle down a bit.Although dropout rates have risen slightly, they’re still only at 6%, according to the Social Market Foundation – most students have a happy, successful time at university.Mental health is high on university radars, with the number of students seeking counselling having doubled at some institutions and a quarter of students saying they’ve experienced depres
  
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