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• Sir Jackie Stewart demands Goverment help British Grand Prix

  11-07-2017 23:58
  Formula One legend Sir Jackie Stewart has branded the potential loss of the British Grand Prix an "absolute scandal" and demanded government help.The future of the race was thrown into doubt after Silverstone's owners triggered a break clause in their contract with the sport's bosses.The British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC), which owns the Northamptonshire track, says it has lost £7.6m over the last two years and "run out of road".
  
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• Hi, Eddie here!

  11-07-2017 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 15-year-old work experience student took over troubled Southern Rail's Twitter account, with hilarious results.
  
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• Julian Assange: I urged Trump Jr to publish Russia emails via WikiLeaks

  11-07-2017 23:35
  
  Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, has claimed that he contacted Donald Trump Jr and tried to persuade him to publish emails showing he was eager to accept sensitive information about Hillary Clinton via the anti-secrecy website.Instead, the US president’s eldest son did so via Twitter, igniting a firestorm of criticism around his apparent willingness to work with the Russian government against his father’s Democratic rival.“Contacted Trump Jr this morning on why he should
  
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• Spanish ship 'looking for oil slick' intercepted in Gibraltar waters

  11-07-2017 23:17
  A Spanish ship has made an illegal incursion into British waters off the coast of Gibraltar.Maritime customs officials sped towards the vessel after it was picked up on their radar on Tuesday, barely a minute after their patrol began.The ship was found just 200m away from Gibraltar's eastern coast, well inside the three-mile territorial boundaries.
  
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• Mum admits murdering daughter by smothering her with towel halfway through trial

  11-07-2017 22:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A JILTED mother who killed her two-year-old daughter after sending the girl’s father a final picture of her is facing life in jail.
  
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• PM: Blood scandal victims need urgent answers

  11-07-2017 22:30
  
  Prime Minister Theresa May says victims of the contaminated blood scandal "have waited too long for answers".
  
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• School boy with cheese allergy dies after 'prank' during break

  11-07-2017 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A SCHOOLBOY died after suffering a fatal allergic reaction to cheese after a break-time lark got out of hand, it was alleged today.
  
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• Mum who stole £400,000 from brain-damaged son’s car-crash payout jailed for five years

  11-07-2017 21:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A MOTHER who fleeced £400,000 from her vulnerable disabled son was jailed for five years today.
  
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• White wedding: British Antarctic Territory to host first marriage ceremony

  11-07-2017 21:18
  A British couple will make history this weekend when they become the first to tie the knot in the British Antarctic Territory.Julie Baum and Tom Sylvester will take their vows at the Rothera Research Station, sharing it with 20 fellow 'overwinterers' - the nickname for those who spend the winter in Antarctica."Getting married in Antarctica feels like it was meant to be," said Ms Baum.
  
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• Boris Johnson calls EU's exit bill demand 'extortionate'

  11-07-2017 21:13
  
  Boris Johnson has said the sums of money the EU is proposing to demand from Britain for Brexit "seem to be extortionate".The Foreign Secretary was asked in the Commons whether Brussels should be told to "go whistle" if it asks for a hefty sum from Britain in the form of a so-called "exit bill" for leaving the European Union.Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Mr Johnson of being "arrogant" and said the "silly remarks" were counter-productive.
  
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• Johanna Konta makes Wimbledon history with quarter-final win over Simona Halep

  11-07-2017 21:11
  Johanna Konta has beaten Simona Halep to become the first British woman to reach the Wimbledon singles semi-final in 39 years.The 26-year-old came from behind to claim a hard-earned 6-7 (2-7) 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 victory over the Romanian in front of a jubilant crowd on Centre Court.In doing so she has become the first British woman in the Wimbledon singles semi-finals since Virginia Wade in 1978.
  
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• Donald Trump Calls His Son 'A High-Quality Person' And Social Media Explodes

  11-07-2017 20:55
  
  US President Donald Trump has called his son “a high-quality person” and applauded “his transparency”.
  
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• Donald Trump Calls His Son 'A High-Quality Person' And Applauds 'His Transparency'

  11-07-2017 20:55
  
  US President Donald Trump has called his son “a high-quality person” and applauded “his transparency”.
  
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• Tony Blair: a pretty straight sort of guy on the Iraq war? | Letters

  11-07-2017 20:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Tony Booth on translating ‘mandarin’ into English; Norman Dombey on emotional truth and lies; Roy Boffy on another interpretation of Chilcot’s wordsYour report (Blair was ‘not straight on Iraq war’ – Chilcot, 7 July) adds nothing to what we know about Tony Blair and the Iraq war but says something about the mindset of people like Sir John Chilcot, and should make us doubly wary about the appointment of another senior civil servant to head the Grenfell Tower in
  
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• Stop making poor people mentally ill | Letters

  11-07-2017 20:10
  
  A jobcentre, accused by Paul Nicholson of imposing benefit sanctions which cause mental health problems for the NHS.The minds of ministers seem incapable of grasping that the prevention of ill health by the provision of adequate minimum incomes by the DWP is better than “soaring demand” for mental health services in the NHS, on humanitarian grounds alone, while the NHS would be relieved of £9bn poverty-related extra costs.
  
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• Trump's planned state visit to UK delayed until next year - U.S. official

  11-07-2017 20:05
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom, initially planned for this year, will be delayed until next year, a senior U.S. administration official said on Tuesday. British Prime Minister Theresa May had invited Trump to London when she visited the White House soon after Trump took office on Jan. 20. But the two sides were never able to find dates that worked for both governments. Trump has been to Europe twice this year, is headed to Paris this week a
  
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• Ryanair CEO wants Brexit to end in DISASTER so Britons change their mind over EU divorce

  11-07-2017 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  RYANAIR’S chief executive has claimed he “hopes” Brexit will fail so the United Kingdom will be forced to remain or rejoin the European Union.
  
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• Call that a relaunch? Maybot's broken record still not fixed | John Crace

  11-07-2017 19:41
  
  Imagine you’re heading a government with a clear majority in parliament.“A year ago, I stood outside Downing Street for the first time as prime minister, and I set out the defining characteristics of the government I was determined to lead,” she began her speech at the launch of the Taylor report into modern working practices in central London.“I am convinced that the path that I set out in my first speech outside No 10, and upon which we have set ourselves as a governmen
  
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• Cleaners at London hospitals stage seven-day strike over pay

  11-07-2017 19:36
  
  Domestic staff in London hospitals have begun a week-long strike in a dispute with private contractor Serco over low pay and job cuts, with organisers saying it is the biggest cleaners’ strike in the UK’s history.Hospitals that are part of Barts Health NHS trust were expected to face serious consequences as more than 700 cleaners, security guards, catering staff and porters employed by Serco walked out on Tuesday.
  
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• Sex robot SHOCK: Increasing sophistication of AI will cause massive issues, experts warn

  11-07-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE growing sophistication of sex robots is leading to moral and legal dilemmas, a leading academic has warned.
  
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• Aristocrat who offered £5,000 for someone to run over Gina Miller facing jail

  11-07-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A WEALTHY British aristocrat is facing a prison term after he was found guilty of making menacing threats relating to anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller.
  
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• Journalist Chasing Trump Collusion With Russia Just Can't Believe Trump Jr Got The Scoop

  11-07-2017 19:16
  
  Already hailed the “smoking gun”, Donald Trump Jr has released images of an email exchange showing he knew he was meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer to get intelligence on Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Warning of economic crisis, top Liberal Democrat predicts anti-Brexit backlash

  11-07-2017 18:38
  
  By Kylie MacLellan and William JamesLONDON (Reuters) - Britain is heading towards a new economic crisis which could raise popular support for anti-Brexit parties, the former business minister and likely next leader of the pro-EU Liberal Democrats said on Tuesday.Vince Cable, currently the only candidate in a contest to lead the Liberal Democrats, said that historically low interest rates had left the British economy too reliant on cheap money and many people would be hit by rising rates.Britain'
  
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• Mobile watchdog investigating £4.50 premium rate text service

  11-07-2017 18:34
  
  Some users claimed they had not entered into the service and were unsure how to leave it.
  
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• I'm Not A Rude Bitch Who Blanks You, I'm Face Blind

  11-07-2017 18:33
  
  I was leaving the house one day, aged about 14, when I bumped into my friendly neighbour.
  
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• Without Contraception, Ugandan Girls Are Seen As An Accident Waiting To Happen

  11-07-2017 18:22
  
  Photo credit: Will Boase / Marie Stopes International Traditionally in Africa, boys are preferred to girls as children.
  
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• PM orders inquiry into 'appalling' contaminated blood scandal

  11-07-2017 18:19
  
  The Prime Minister has ordered an inquiry into "appalling tragedy" of the contaminated blood scandal.Theresa May said she was determined the victims and their families "finally get the answers and justice they have spent decades waiting for".The scandal, in which at least 2,400 people died, involved haemophiliacs and other patients being infected with hepatitis C and HIV from blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.
  
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• Libya rendition case is 'Kafkaesque nightmare' for victims, court told

  11-07-2017 18:15
  
  Abdel Hakim Belhaj pictured in 2011 in Tripoli, Libya.A husband and wife who were victims of a joint MI6-CIA “rendition” operation have been plunged into a Kafkaesque nightmare by the attempt to have their claim against the former foreign secretary Jack Straw heard in secret, the high court has been told.Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a Libyan dissident, and his wife, Fatima Bouchar, who were abducted in 2004 and flown against their will to Tripoli, are suing Straw and the former MI6 counter-te
  
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• Store Twenty One chain is closed down with loss of 900 jobs

  11-07-2017 18:12
  Liquidators from corporate recovery firm Quantuma have been appointed to oversee the closure of its 122 stores, which ceased trading last Friday, and the loss of 900 jobs.The chain's owner, Indian manufacturing group Alok, failed to secure fresh investment for the chain after a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) - which gives firms more time to settle debts - that was agreed in 2016.Management filed a notice to appoint administrators in April after Store Twenty One was served with a winding-up
  
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• Dollar hits four-month high vs yen, stocks slide

  11-07-2017 18:08
  
  By Herbert LashNEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar hit a four-month high against the yen but global equity markets turned lower on Tuesday as investors awaited testimony by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen this week and any signs of tighter U.S. monetary policy.U.S. stocks reversed early gains to edge lower after President Donald Trump's eldest son released an e-mail chain related to a meeting with a Russian lawyer linked to the Kremlin during last year election campaign.Europe's main bourses earl
  
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• Donald Trump Jr Releases Emails Proving Russia Was Supporting His Father

  11-07-2017 17:43
  
  President Donald Trump’s son has posted emails proving he was offered documents as “part of Russia and it’s government’s support for Mr Trump″.
  
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• Killer of model James Brindley urged to 'do the decent thing'

  11-07-2017 17:30
  
  Police investigating the killing of an aspiring male model have released CCTV footage of two men they want to question.James Brindley, 26, was stabbed in the heart as he walked home just before midnight on 23 June but nobody has been arrested.The men are seen in the Whetstone Lane and Churn Hill area of the town before and after James was stabbed on Little Aston Road by The Croft.
  
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• Britain planning for 'all eventualities' in Brexit talks - May's spokeswoman

  11-07-2017 17:23
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is planning for all eventualities in Brexit talks with the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokeswoman said on Tuesday when asked whether the government had prepared for leaving the bloc without a deal. May has been under pressure to back away from her stance that "no deal is better than a bad deal" since losing her governing Conservative Party's parliamentary majority in an ill-judged election gamble. "As a responsible government we are planning for all e
  
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• BoE's Broadbent silent on rates, sends pound sliding

  11-07-2017 17:19
  
  By Andy BruceLONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Deputy Governor Ben Broadbent kept mum on his views about interest rates on Tuesday, prompting financial markets to assume he sees no pressing need to change.Broadbent's speech in Aberdeen to the Scottish Council for Development and Industry had been keenly watched as a chance to hear the views of a rate-setter who has not commented publicly since the Monetary Policy Committee came unexpectedly close to raising interest rates for the first time in
  
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• Rage about the machine

  11-07-2017 17:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp has provoked a debate on social media for saying washing machines should not be kept in the kitchen
  
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• Britain to hold inquiry into contaminated blood scandal which killed 2,400

  11-07-2017 17:05
  
  Britain will hold a public inquiry into contaminated blood supplied to patients in the state-run National Health Service which killed at least 2,400 people, the government said on Tuesday.During the 1970s and 1980s, blood products supplied to the NHS was contaminated with viruses such as HIV or hepatitis C and infected thousands of people with haemophilia or other bleeding disorders.Health minister Philip Dunne said many documents were publicly available which gave a comprehensive picture of eve
  
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• Teen Arrested On Suspicion Of Attempted Murder After Boy Dies From 'Allergic Reaction'

  11-07-2017 17:00
  
  A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a “kind and gentle” 13-year-old died from a “severe allergic reaction”.
  
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• British GP in doubt as Silverstone triggers break clause with F1 owners

  11-07-2017 16:58
  The future of the British Grand Prix has been thrown into doubt after Silverstone's owners triggered a break clause in their contract with the sport's bosses.The British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC), which owns the Northamptonshire track, says it has lost £7.6m over the last two years and "run out of road".The BRDC's move means the last contracted race would be in 2019 unless a new deal is agreed.
  
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• Launching gig economy review, Britain's May seeks to regain authority

  11-07-2017 16:53
  
  By Costas Pitas and William JamesLONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May tried to wrest back control of Britain's political agenda on Tuesday by reviving her pledge to introduce sweeping social reforms at the launch of a report on how to better protect workers in the "gig economy".May wants to signal that it is business as usual for her government after an ill-judged election gamble damaged her authority and eliminated her governing Conservatives' majority in parliament, emboldening the ma
  
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• Is enough being done to tackle sexting among young people?

  11-07-2017 16:52
  
  A boy as young as five has been investigated for sexting, according to freedom of information data gathered by the BBC.If you’re a parent, guardian or teacher, we’d like to know if you think enough is being done to tackle sexting among young people.More than 4,000 children have been dealt with by police for sexting since 2013, with the majority involved mainly aged 13 or 14 years old.
  
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• UK report on "gig economy": principles and proposals

  11-07-2017 16:51
  Prime Minister Theresa May tried to wrest back control of Britain's political agenda on Tuesday by reviving her pledge to introduce sweeping social reforms at the launch of a report on how to better protect workers in the "gig economy".The review, compiled by Chief Executive of The Royal Society of Arts Matthew Taylor, proposes an employment category called "dependent contractor" and says those Britons working for companies such as taxi app Uber and takeaway food courier Deliveroo should receive
  
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• 'Brexit is dying' Former Tory MP warns of 'terrible trouble' if MPs oust Theresa May

  11-07-2017 16:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE UNITED KINGDOM could be left in “terrible trouble” if Conservatives MPs attempt to oust Theresa May from Downing Street, according to a former Tory MP.
  
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• Ukraine wants to resume Ryanair talks, PM says

  11-07-2017 16:41
  
  By Natalia Zinets and Pavel PolityukKIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine wants to resume talks with the low-cost Irish airline Ryanair , Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said on Tuesday, after the airline cancelled plans to begin flights to Kiev this year.After lengthy talks with Kiev's Boryspil airport, Ryanair said on Monday it had called off plans to offer flights to Kiev and the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, charging the airport was trying to "protect high-fare airlines".Groysman said he had met with
  
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• CCTV of men sought after model murder

  11-07-2017 16:35
  
  James Brindley, 26, was stabbed in the heart as he walked home just before midnight in the West Midlands.
  
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• Boy dies after allergic reaction to cheese allegedly forced on him

  11-07-2017 16:24
  
  Karanbir Cheema’s father said he was heartbroken.A 13-year-old boy with a dairy allergy died after suffering a severe reaction to a piece of cheese allegedly forced on him, prompting an investigation by the Metropolitan police’s murder team.Karanbir Cheema was taken to a west London hospital on 28 June after becoming unwell during a school break.
  
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• What is the contaminated blood scandal?

  11-07-2017 16:01
  
  In the late 1970s and early 1980s, people with the blood-clotting disorder haemophilia in the UK were given blood donated – or sold – by people who were infected with the HIV virus and hepatitis C.How many people became infected with these viruses as a result?According to Tainted Blood, the group that has been campaigning for decades for recognition of the wrongs done to the haemophiliacs and pressing for compensation, 4,800 of them were infected with hepatitis C, a virus that causes
  
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• Corbynmania sweeps Glasto after rousing speech

  11-07-2017 15:55
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has delivered a rousing speech to festival-goers at Glastonbury, where he called on Theresa May to call another General Election.
  
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• Ofsted in court over 'inadequate' rating for gender-segregated Islamic school

  11-07-2017 15:50
  
  Segregation deprived girls of the ability to feel ‘comfortable and natural’ around boys, Ofsted’s lead barrister Helen Mountfield told court.The schools inspectorate gave Al-Hijrah school, which has pupils aged four to 16, the lowest possible grade after an inspection in June 2016, partly on the grounds that from the age of nine boys and girls are separated for all lessons, breaks, school trips and other activities.The school should enter special measures, Ofsted found.
  
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• Birmingham Islamic school's gender separation unlawful, court told

  11-07-2017 15:50
  
  Segregation deprived girls of the ability to feel ‘comfortable and natural’ around boys, Ofsted’s lead barrister Helen Mountfield told court.The court of appeal case could lead to other schools that practise similar segregation across the country having to make drastic changes to how they operate, or to split into separate single-sex schools.The schools inspectorate, Ofsted, alleged that segregating pupils within a mixed-sex school was unlawful discrimination as it launched an
  
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• Will Brexit Actually Happen? You'd Goddam Better Hope So

  11-07-2017 15:49
  
  "None of us need to know” what Theresa May wants to get out of Brexit, apparently.Whatever Mikey, the Mirror is practically Communist.The one and only Farage, who has never been elected an MP only because he’s not a member of the corrupt liberal elite like those bloody City bankers, is angry.
  
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