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• Boy with 'awful injuries' dies at Daventry rail depot

  27-06-2017 23:55
  An 11-year-old boy has died after he suffered 'awful' electrical burns at a rail freight depot, police have said.The youngster was found with severe injuries at the scene near Daventry, Northamptonshire, and pronounced dead.Emergency services were called to the town's International Rail Freight Depot at around 5.20pm.
  
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• Corbyn to tempt Tories with emergency service pay amendment

  27-06-2017 23:53
  
  Jeremy Corbyn will challenge the Conservatives to show they are committed to ending "austerity" in the police and fire services by backing a Labour amendment to the Queen's Speech.The Labour leader said the first Commons vote of the new Parliament will be a test case for MPs' approach to austerity, amid signs from senior Tories that the Government will boost public spending.The amendment calls for an end to cuts to police and fire services, commends their response to recent terror attacks and th
  
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• Lone minors remain as refugee cap announced

  27-06-2017 23:30
  
  Campaigners are taking the Government to court over their abandoned plans to bring more child refugees to the UK. Sky's Mark Stone reports from Calais.
  
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• Woman spared jail after helping refugee lover get to the UK

  27-06-2017 23:21
  A former Front National supporter has been spared punishment after helping her lover, an Iranian refugee, cross into Britain.Beatrice Huret, 44, helped Mokhtar and two other men cross the English Channel in a boat she had purchased for €1,000 (£885).Ms Huret, who met the 34-year-old when she was volunteering at the Jungle camp in Calais, told the court she took "full responsibility" for her actions, and that she had been inspired by love.
  
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• MP accused of Grenfell fire 'conspiracy' over death count

  27-06-2017 23:11
  
  A London MP has been accused of "fuelling conspiracy theories" after he said he had "sympathy" with the suggestion the authorities were covering up the true number of dead within Grenfell Tower in order to prevent civil unrest.David Lammy, the MP for Tottenham, admitted he had "no idea" if the number was being covered up but said there was a "gap" between what local people had said to him they had seen and what the official figures had shown.Kevin Hurley, a former senior investigator with City o
  
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• Hipster yurt school with no teachers and no rules aims to take pressure off kids

  27-06-2017 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  IT MIGHT just be every schoolchild’s dream – no rules, no exams and no uniform – just the freedom to climb trees and turn up three days a week.
  
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• BREAKING: Boy, 11, dies from ‘serious electrical burns’ at rail depot in Northamptonshire

  27-06-2017 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A BOY has died after suffering “serious electrical burns” at a rail station near Daventry in Northamptonshire.
  
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• Boy, 11, dies after suffering ‘serious electrical burns’ at rail depot in Northamptonshire

  27-06-2017 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A BOY has died after suffering “serious electrical burns” at a rail station near Daventry in Northamptonshire.
  
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• Sturgeon postpones second independence vote until after Brexit

  27-06-2017 22:14
  
  By Elisabeth O'LearyEDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's secessionist leader on Tuesday postponed plans for a second independence referendum until the terms of Britain's exit from the European Union are clear.First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was putting on hold plans to introduce legislation that would have demanded a second referendum.Sturgeon, whose Scottish National Party wants to break Scotland's 300-year-old union with England, had been seeking a referendum in late 2018 or early 2019, ah
  
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• 'Thou shalt not gamble with the DUP!' Think tank warns Unionists 'just getting started'

  27-06-2017 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE DUP are "just getting started" after thrashing out a deal with Theresa May's Government, a think tank has warned.
  
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• New fire panel chair Sir Ken Knight advised against retrofitting sprinklers

  27-06-2017 21:58
  
  The panel appointed to "make all public and private buildings safe as quickly as possible" following the Grenfell Tower fire is to be chaired by a former chief fire and rescue officer who advised against retrospective fitting of sprinklers.The lack of sprinklers at Grenfell Tower is expected to be addressed by the forthcoming public inquiry.
  
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• The OTHER Peru 2 drug mule: Melissa Reid shuns spotlight on first day at Glasgow charity

  27-06-2017 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MELISSA Reid, who along with Michaella McCollum achieved worldwide infamy as the ‘Peru Two’ drug-smugglers, has started a new life at a Glasgow charity.
  
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• Philip Hammond at odds with David Davis over Brexit transition

  27-06-2017 21:45
  
  Boris Johnson, Philip Hammond and David Davis listen to Theresa May launch the Conservative party election manifesto.There is fresh evidence of tensions between the cabinet colleagues.Philip Hammond took a swipe at Boris Johnson on Tuesday and appeared at odds with David Davis over a post-Brexit transitional deal, in fresh evidence of tensions between cabinet colleagues.
  
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• Safe standing area could be tested at League One club Shrewsbury Town

  27-06-2017 21:16
  Shrewsbury Town are aiming to become the first English football club with an all-seater stadium to bring in safe standing.This would allow fans of the League One club to stand between rows.Standing was banned in England's top two divisions - the Premier League and Championship - following the Taylor Inquiry into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
  
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• Grenfell Tower gas pipes left exposed, despite fire safety expert's orders

  27-06-2017 21:13
  
  Dozens of exposed gas pipes in Grenfell Tower that caused residents to fear for their safety were left bare despite a council safety expert ordering them to be protected by fire-retardant boxing.The National Grid agreed to protect the pipes serving individual flats, which had been installed over the winter, but had only added a third of the boxing by the time the deadly blaze killed at least 79 people.In March, three months before the blaze, residents told the London fire brigade (LFB) that peop
  
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• Furious SNP threaten action against Theresa May over DUP deal

  27-06-2017 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SNP MINISTERS have threatened a formal dispute with the UK Government in a deepening row over the £1 billion Tory deal with the Democratic Unionist Party.
  
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• Irish Language Act hampering Northern Ireland power-sharing

  27-06-2017 21:02
  
  Sinn Féin’s Caral Ni Chuilin (left) and Declan Kearney speak to the media outside Stormont.The prospects for talks aimed at restoring Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government were described as “incredibly bleak” after Sinn Féin claimed the Democratic Unionists have not moved on its demands for an Irish Language Act.Speaking at Stormont on Tuesday evening, Sinn Féin’s national chairman Declan Kearney accused the DUP of being “in default&
  
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• Theresa May’s offer does little to relieve the anxiety of EU citizens in Britain

  27-06-2017 20:55
  
  Your article (Checklist: What does the Home Office offer mean for Europeans in Britain?, 27 June) suggests all that EU nationals will lose is the right to vote and to bring in spouses without meeting the UK’s minimum income threshold requirement.The rights that nationals of the European Union currently have are similar to the rights of British nationals in the UK where families – including parents, dependant adults and children – can move from one country to another, eg from Wa
  
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• Socialism: the trick the Tories have been missing | Brief letters

  27-06-2017 20:54
  
  The Queen has been offered more than Grenfell Tower survivors, writes Glenys Canham.Quoted in your feature (How the Tory election machine fell apart, G2, 27 June) Paul Goodman of the ConservativeHome website thinks young voters were not aware that “socialism is a threat”.• Lynsey Hanley (Review, 24 June) proposes that we should “only permit the right to buy in areas where social housing can be built at the same rate at which it’s sold off”.
  
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• Scottish Independence Referendum 'Reset' Still Means Another Vote 'Likely' By 2021, Nicola Sturgeon Says

  27-06-2017 20:53
  
  Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of trying to fudge her position on independence, as she said her supposed u-turn could mean a second referendum only two years later than she was planning anyway.
  
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• A-level problem was a crime, not a cock-up | Letters

  27-06-2017 20:53
  
  Last minute changes had to be made to some papers by Pearson after questions were leaked.Your report (Exam board makes last minute change to two A-level papers after leak, 26 June) explains the measures we were forced to take this week to ensure that this year’s maths A-level was fair to all students.Contrary to some of the comments in the article, this was not an example of the exam board getting it wrong.
  
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• Sir Vince Cable likely to become Lib Dem leader

  27-06-2017 20:45
  Sir Vince Cable looks likely to become Liberal Democrat leader after all the party's senior MPs ruled themselves out of the race.Nominations for the contest close on 20 July, but after former cabinet minister Sir Ed Davey said he would not run, Sir Vince appears to be on course as the only declared candidate.The contest to succeed Tim Farron is open to all 12 Lib Dem MPs, who must secure the support of two colleagues to stand.
  
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• Theresa May has done another naughty thing with the DUP | Letters

  27-06-2017 20:32
  
  Jerry Lee Lewis got right about the money tree: A Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On.Readers may be surprised at Sinn Féin’s “mixed response” to the DUP arrangement with the government (Report, 27 June).After all, we have been told that if the DUP-Conservative deal went ahead London could not act as honest broker under the Belfast agreement.
  
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• More Camden tower block residents staying put despite evacuation

  27-06-2017 20:12
  
  The number of households defying Camden council’s order to stay out of four high-rise tower blocks over fire safety concerns has almost doubled since Sunday night.Residents of the Bray, Burnham, Taplow and Dorney blocks on the Chalcots estate were ordered to leave on Friday, after the London fire brigade identified significant safety failings, including gas pipes missing vital insulation, blocked stairwells and breaches of internal walls in an emergency inspection commissioned after the Gr
  
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• Uber wins right to contest English tests for London drivers

  27-06-2017 20:10
  
  London's transport regulator will delay the introduction of new English language requirements for private-hire drivers after Uber [UBER.UL] won the right to appeal against the plans, which could cost the ride-hailing service thousands of drivers.The San Francisco-based company, which offers an app thatallows people to book journeys on their smartphones, lost a March court battle against Transport for London (TfL) -- one of a number of setbacks as authorities crack down on the business -- but was
  
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• Scotland threatens formal dispute over DUP deal

  27-06-2017 19:37
  
  The Scottish Government has threatened to invoke formal dispute procedures with the UK Government as the row over the Conservatives' £1.5bn deal with the DUP intensifies.Political leaders in Scotland and Wales have reacted angrily to the agreement, which sees Northern Ireland benefit from additional cash while Theresa May gains the support of DUP MPs in crucial votes at Westminster.
  
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• Charlie Gard: European court rejects plea to intervene in life-support fight

  27-06-2017 19:30
  
  The European court of human rights has rejected an appeal by the parents of a critically ill baby that he should be allowed to undergo experimental treatment in the United States.The decision by the Strasbourg court closes off the last legal avenue of appeal for the family of Charlie Gard and follows a similar ruling by the UK’s supreme court.The judgment also lifts a court order under which doctors at Great Ormond Street hospital had been required to maintain life support treatment for th
  
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• Henry Kissinger says Brexit will bring Britain closer to the US

  27-06-2017 19:28
  
  Henry Kissinger says he was a remainer before the referendum but has since changed his mind.Henry Kissinger believes Brexit is a chance for the UK to renew the transatlantic alliance – but that Britain would be mistaken if it left Europe altogether.The former US national security adviser and secretary of state revealed that when the referendum first came up he was “automatically a supporter of remain” because it was “familiar” to have Britain in the EU.
  
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• Hammond warns "petty politics" threaten good Brexit deal

  27-06-2017 19:13
  
  By Joseph Nasr and Thomas EscrittBERLIN (Reuters) - Petty politics pose the biggest threat to a good divorce deal between Britain and the European Union, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said on Tuesday, warning that a bad Brexit pact could harm the economic interests of both sides."I am confident that with the political will to put jobs and prosperity first we can achieve an early agreement on a transitional period," Hammond said at an economic summit of Chancellor Angela Merkel's con
  
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• Terminally ill baby Charlie Gard's parents 'upset' by European court decision

  27-06-2017 19:09
  The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a plea from the parents of a terminally ill British baby to intervene in the case.Charlie Gard has a severe mitochondrial condition and in January suffered what doctors describe as irreversible brain damage.Specialists at Great Ormond Street Hospital think the 10-month-old has no chance of survival and want to end his life support treatment.
  
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• Family recalls horror as sunbathing couple run over in park ‘lucky to be alive’

  27-06-2017 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A TRUCK caused a scene of horror when it allegedly reversed over a sunbathing couple in Earlham Park in Norwich leaving them with severe injuries.
  
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• Grenfell Tower fire: MP says public must be told to stop using Hotpoint model

  27-06-2017 18:54
  
  The remains of Grenfell Tower in London after the fire in which at least 79 people are feared to have been killed.The government should immediately tell consumers to stop using the Hotpoint fridge-freezer model identified as the initial cause of the Grenfell Tower fire, according to an MP whose west London constituency experienced a serious tower block fire in 2016.In a letter to the business secretary, Greg Clark, the Labour MP Andy Slaughter said the government should update its advice as a ma
  
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• British citizens living in EU fear they will become May's 'sacrificial lambs'

  27-06-2017 18:54
  
  British citizens settled in Europe have expressed concern that Theresa May is willing to sacrifice some of their rights post-Brexit to cement immigration limits on EU citizens coming to the UK.“If she is proposing to limit rights and freedoms in any way, then we deserve to know which of those rights she is prepared to sacrifice,” added Wilson.
  
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• UK to leave single market by March 2019, David Davis suggests

  27-06-2017 18:51
  
  The UK will be out of the customs union and single market after March 2019, David Davis has suggested.Addressing company executives at an event hosted by The Times, the Brexit Secretary said he believed exit talks will be completed within the two-year deadline set out under the Article 50 process.Mr Davis said any transition period was likely to end by 2022 as "the most important thing is it's got to be done before the election".
  
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• The World Must Invest In Pre-Primary Education

  27-06-2017 18:46
  
  By the time a little girl or boy walks across a playground or field and steps into a classroom for the first time - no matter where it is in the world - it may still be too late for them to fulfill their potential.
  
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• Pro-life supporters accuse doctors of 'abortion free-for-all' by de-criminalising it

  27-06-2017 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DOCTORS have voted for an “abortion free-for-all” by de-criminalising the procedure, pro-life campaigners said.
  
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• 'Clearly very wrong' - May on cladding tests

  27-06-2017 18:30
  
  Theresa May says the failed safety tests on high-rise cladding show something is "clearly very wrong".
  
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• Charlie Gard parents lose European court appeal

  27-06-2017 18:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The European Court rejects a plea from the parents of Charlie Gard to intervene in his case
  
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• Scotland's Sturgeon postpones second independence vote until after Brexit

  27-06-2017 18:22
  
  By Elisabeth O'LearyEDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's secessionist leader on Tuesday postponed plans for a second independence referendum until the terms of Britain's exit from the European Union are clear.Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was putting on hold plans to introduce legislation that would have demanded a second referendum.Sturgeon, whose Scottish National Party wants to break Scotland's 300-year-old union with England, had been seeking a referendum in late 2018 or early
  
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• Beach-goer 'unnerved' by Camber Sands sea on day five men died

  27-06-2017 18:21
  A beach-goer has told an inquest there were no warning signs about dangerous sea conditions on the day five young men drowned on a trip to the south coast.Stephen Deacon said the sea seemed to be calm on the surface at Camber Sands, near Rye, East Sussex, but below the water, the strong current pushed him in and out.Mr Deacon, who was in the water with three children and their dinghy at Camber Sands, described the current: "It unnerved me.
  
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• Classic Boris Johnson takedown of Jeremy Corbyn over Labour leader's Glastonbury speech

  27-06-2017 18:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BORIS JOHNSON mocked Jeremy Corbyn’s Glastonbury appearance saying viewers were “genuinely alarmed” at the Labour leader’s presence at the festival.
  
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• Charlie Gard: Parents of baby lose final bid with European judges to get treatment for son

  27-06-2017 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  JUDGES in the European Court of Human Rights have rejected a plea from the parents of terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard to intervene in the case.
  
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• Battle of the bins

  27-06-2017 18:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As some councils sell "nappy bins" to families struggling with smelly waste, what can parents do to avoid a bin pile-up?
  
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• Edir Frederico Da Costa had 'packages in throat'

  27-06-2017 18:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A post mortem into Edir Frederico Da Costa death revealed no signs of neck or spinal injuries, the IPCC said.
  
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• What do EU citizens think of Brexit?

  27-06-2017 18:10
  
  What do EU citizens living in the UK make of Theresa May's Brexit plan?
  
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• 'It's just upsetting' Father mows overgrown council parks so his son can play football

  27-06-2017 18:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A FATHER has started to mow overgrown council parks so his son can play football.
  
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• Glastonbury: BBC notches up record audiences for its Corbyn-loving festival coverage

  27-06-2017 17:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE BBC notched up record audiences for this year's Glastonbury coverage, the corporation has said.
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon puts IndyRef2 on hold until Brexit 'clearer'

  27-06-2017 17:49
  
  Nicola Sturgeon has said there will not be another Scottish independence referendum until "the terms of Brexit are clearer".In March, Ms Sturgeon said she wanted to give Scots a second chance to vote on leaving the UK some time between the autumn of 2018 and the spring 2019."We will not seek to introduce the legislation for an independence referendum immediately," the first minister said.
  
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• I Changed My Name To Mary Poppins

  27-06-2017 17:47
  
  I knew I wanted to be a nanny when I was six-years-old.
  
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• Torture Survivors' Perspective Brings A Unique Expertise

  27-06-2017 17:44
  
  Monday, 26 June, was the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
  
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