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• Acid Attack Victim Jabed Hussain Says He Doesn't Feel Safe In London

  14-07-2017 23:41
  
  One of the victims of the spate of acid attacks has said he does not feel safe in London because of what happened.
  
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• Who's the fairest?

  14-07-2017 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Coventry, Paisley, Sunderland, Swansea and Stoke-on-Trent will compete for the title.
  
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• Scottish town of Paisley wins place on City of Culture 2021 shortlist

  14-07-2017 23:30
  
  Iain Nicolson, the chair of Paisley’s bid, and Jean Cameron, the Paisley 2021 project director, with young people from the Pace theatre company celebrate the town’s place on the UK City of Culture.It was, in the words of its 22-year-old MP Mhairi Black, a “cry for help” to the British government.Although it is not a city, Paisley in Renfrewshire qualifies under rules that include any settlement with a “clear central urban focus”.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn targets 'zombie Government' in marginal seats

  14-07-2017 23:15
  Jeremy Corbyn will tell supporters that Theresa May heads a "zombie Government" and that Labour is a "government in waiting" as he continues to target marginal constituencies.The Labour leader will address a "General Election-style rally" in Southampton Itchen - one of the most marginal seats in the country - with a Tory majority of just 31 votes.Another meeting is planned in Bournemouth West - which has been Conservative since its creation in 1950 but saw a 6.6% swing to Labour cut the Tory maj
  
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• Susan Nicholson was murdered by her partner in 2011

  14-07-2017 23:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Susan Nicholson was murdered by her partner Robert Trigg in 2011
  
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• London acid attacks victim: 'My helmet saved me'

  14-07-2017 22:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Delivery driver Jabed Hussain describes the moment he was attacked with acid in east London.
  
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• What Brexit fears? British expats mock scaremongering over EU exit

  14-07-2017 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BRITISH expats living have shrugged off Brexit fears with the number of Brits living in parts of Spain going up.
  
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• Suspect confesses to murder in Mauritius of Scots businesswoman

  14-07-2017 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ONE of the suspects in the murder of a Scot found suffocated in her home in Mauritius has reportedly admitted the killing.
  
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• Clark: no secret deal to secure car jobs

  14-07-2017 21:50
  
  The Business Secretary, Greg Clarke, says there has been no secret deal to protect car industry jobs from Brexit uncertainty
  
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• Toyota 'received Government assurances' over £240m investment

  14-07-2017 21:30
  The Government helped to secure more than £240m in investment from Toyota with a letter reassuring the carmaker over post-Brexit trade.Toyota announced in March that it would install its new car platform at its plant in Burnaston, Derbyshire.The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (DBEIS) has confirmed to the Reuters news agency that the letter exists, but has refused to release it and comment further.
  
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• Headmaster who took trip to Cuba while 'sick' is banned from teaching

  14-07-2017 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A HEADMASTER who took a trip to Cuba while claiming to be off sick with stress has been banned from teaching.
  
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• It turns out Bill Clinton and George Bush are actually mates

  14-07-2017 21:09
  
  Forget Barack Obama and Joe Biden, this is the best friendship to come out of the White House.
  
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• 'Can you work out Labour's Brexit policy?' Abbott and Corbyn MOCKED in hilarious sketch

  14-07-2017 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DIANE ABBOTT was the focus of a hilarious comedy sketch, which mocked Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party’s lack of Brexit direction.
  
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• What comes next in the case of critically ill baby Charlie Gard?

  14-07-2017 21:02
  Connie Yates and Chris Gard have achieved more for their critically ill son in the past week than they have during the past five months of their legal battle with Great Ormond Street Hospital.A meeting of clinical experts will be held at the hospital early next week, when they will be asked a series of questions about Charlie Gard's condition.The exact wording has not yet been decided, but they will be questions like: does Charlie have brain damage?
  
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• Police make history with Britain's first drone unit

  14-07-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TWO police forces have taken the “historic step” of launching Britain’s first drone unit.
  
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• Michio Hirano: The US doctor parents hope can save Charlie Gard

  14-07-2017 21:01
  The identity of a US doctor who has offered to treat terminally ill Charlie Gard has been revealed.In the High Court on Friday, Mr Justice Francis said Michio Hirano, a professor of neurology at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York, could now be named.Charlie's parents Chris Gard and Connie Yates want the judge to rule that their 11-month-old son, who suffers from a rare genetic condition, should be allowed to undergo a therapy trial overseen by Dr Hirano in New York.
  
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• Charlie Gard: Mum Connie Yates ordered to not interrupt medical conference

  14-07-2017 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BABY Charlie Gard’s desperate mother was warned today that she can only attend a medical conference about him if she vows not to interrupt.
  
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• SHOCK CLAIM: Marina where 17 Albanians landed has not been patrolled for months

  14-07-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A MARINA where 17 Albanians tried to illegally enter the UK has not been patrolled by the Border Force for months, according to locals with other ports left vulnerable for more than a year.
  
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• Prince Harry Wins Privacy Case Against Mail Online Over Long-Range Beach Photos

  14-07-2017 20:13
  
  The press watchdog has upheld Prince Harry’s complaint that Mail Online invaded his privacy when it ran long-range photos of him on a private Jamaican beach.The website ran the photos in March of Harry with girlfriend Meghan Markle under the headline: “Time to cool off! Happy (and hunky) Prince Harry enjoys a dip in the ocean as he and Meghan relax on the beach in Jamaica after his ‘wingman’s’ sun-drenched wedding”.The prince complained to the Independent Pres
  
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• Police thwart FIVE terror plots - just minutes before attack launched, Met chief says

  14-07-2017 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  POLICE have thwarted five terror attacks in the last few weeks - including at least one which was foiled minutes before it could be carried out.
  
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• Airbnb host fined $5,000 for making discriminating comments against Asian guest

  14-07-2017 19:48
  
  Dyne Suh had posted an emotional video about the incident on YouTube after it happened.
  
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• Fearing dementia in your 40s

  14-07-2017 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sophie Leggett has a 50% chance of developing Alzheimer's in the next few years, which is why she's taking part in research to try to find a cure.
  
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• Elsa Martinelli obituary

  14-07-2017 19:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Versatile star of Hollywood’s international years whose work spanned romantic comedies, period epics and spaghetti westernsFor more than a decade from the mid-1950s, the film star Elsa Martinelli, who has died aged 82, was one of the most prominent female Italian exports to Hollywood, along with her compatriots Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Claudia Cardinale. In addition, Martinelli’s appearance seemed to be the sine qua non of Italian co-productions of period epics, romantic c
  
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• British companies must have voices heard on Brexit, says MP

  14-07-2017 19:26
  
  Rachel Reeves, the chair of the House of Commons business select committee, says she will use her powerful new role to ensure Britain’s companies can make their voices heard on Brexit.The Labour MP for Leeds West, and former Bank of England economist, beat three of her colleagues, including Liam Byrne, to the job on Wednesday, in an election among MPs from all parties.Reeves said she would follow in the footsteps of her predecessor, Iain Wright, by holding rogue firms to account – bu
  
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• Mail Online breached Prince Harry's privacy with Jamaica photos, Ipso rules

  14-07-2017 19:22
  
  Prince Harry complained that the images had been taken with a long lens camera.Prince Harry’s privacy was breached by the Mail Online publishing photographs of him wearing swimming shorts on a private beach in Jamaica, the Independent Press Standards Organisation has ruled.The prince complained to Ipso, the press watchdog, that the images had been taken “surreptitiously” using a long lens camera while he was not on official duties and abroad for a wedding with his girlfriend, M
  
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• What it takes to make Theresa May cry | Letters

  14-07-2017 19:20
  
  I felt devastated by election result, says May – video
  
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• The NHS is not the envy of the world | Letters

  14-07-2017 19:20
  
  ‘The UK has one of the highest rates of avoidable deaths in western Europe,’ says Mark Littlewood.The Commonwealth Fund’s analysis of healthcare systems is dangerously misleading (Report, 14 July).While our processes might out-do the other 10 healthcare systems considered in the study, unfortunately the NHS’s outcomes – in other words, how patients fare when treated – rank second-to-last.
  
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• A hearty welcome for Whaley McWhaleface | Brief letters

  14-07-2017 19:19
  
  • Apropos Now showing at the Ritzy: low pay and exploitation (13 July), I am delighted to report that our new independent cinema in Lewes, the Depot, pays the real living wage (£8.45 per hour) and not just to the over-25s.• Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is surely wrong that the moral of The Tale of Peter Rabbit is “disobey your parents and you could end up in a pie” (13 July).• Good news that the blue whale skeleton has been successfully installed at the Natural History
  
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• Union rejects Royal Mail's proposed new pension arrangement

  14-07-2017 19:18
  
  The main trade union at Britain's Royal Mail rejected a new pension arrangement on Friday, raising the possibility of a strike at the postal company, which was privatised four years ago.The Communications Workers Union (CWU) has opposed Royal Mail's move to replace its defined benefit pension scheme, saying it would result in employees in the plan losing on average up to a third of their future pensions."It does not meet our aspiration of a wage in retirement pension scheme, but rather still pro
  
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• Inquiry hears child migrants suffered abuse

  14-07-2017 19:10
  
  Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse is holding its first public hearings.
  
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• Theresa May And David Davis Confronted By Romanian Journalist At Spectator Summer Party

  14-07-2017 19:05
  
  A Romanian journalist got into a plush party to ask Theresa May and Davis about Brexit, in two incredibly awkward exchanges.
  
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• Home Office hit with fine over salary for child abuse inquiry chair

  14-07-2017 18:59
  The Home Office was fined more than £360,000 for breaking the rules when negotiating the salary for the head of the child sex abuse inquiry, it has been revealed.Professor Alexis Jay was appointed to head the inquiry last August, but the department secured retrospective approval for her salary.The Home Office's latest accounts show it breached the "control process" when negotiating her salary and each of the four panel members' in 2015/16.
  
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• Wimbledon 2017: Fan nearly falls into Henman Hill pond

  14-07-2017 18:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch the moment a tennis fan nearly gets soaked by stumbling on the edge of the pond at the top of Henman Hill at Wimbledon.
  
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• The Downfall Of Theresa May In 15 Handshakes

  14-07-2017 18:34
  
  Today marks one year since Theresa May became the nation’s Prime Minister and it’s an understatement to say a lot has happened since.
  
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• I took drugs because it was a fast track way of meeting people | Anonymous

  14-07-2017 18:32
  
  The new online counselling project from Terrence Higgins Trust will give people support that is empathetic and not constrained by timings and locations.• The author spoke anonymously via Terence Higgins Trust.Terence Higgins Trust and London Friend have launched the first online counselling services for gay and bisexual men who want to make changes around drug and alcohol use and relationships.
  
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• Acid victim Katie Piper demands Government action on attacks

  14-07-2017 18:28
  Acid attack victim Katie Piper has demanded a clampdown on corrosive substances to "prevent more lives being destroyed".Ms Piper, 33, described how victims of acid attacks are handed a "life sentence" through the trauma of their ordeal.It comes just a few weeks after aspiring model Resham Khan and her cousin Jameel Muhktar in east London were attacked while celebrating her 21st birthday.
  
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• U.S. doctor says "small but significant" chance of helping baby Charlie Gard

  14-07-2017 18:23
  
  By Michael HoldenLONDON (Reuters) - A U.S. doctor offering experimental treatment to a critically ill British baby could fly to London in the next few days in a bid to help persuade a judge not to allow a hospital to turn off his life support.The parents of 11-month-old Charlie Gard have been fighting a legal battle to send their son to the United States for the experimental therapy, but Britain's courts have refused permission on the grounds it would prolong his suffering without any realistic
  
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• 'Suspicious' Grenfell Fundraising Pages Removed From Crowdfunding Sites

  14-07-2017 18:18
  
  Suspicious fundraising pages set up in the wake of the Grenfell disaster have had to be removed from crowdfunding sites.
  
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• Mother's emotional reaction to daughter's graduation charms social media

  14-07-2017 17:58
  A video of a British Somali mother tearfully embracing her daughter at the latter's university graduation has prompted an emotional reaction online, after the student revealed how much the moment meant to the family.Today you cried when you saw me in my robe," wrote Ramla Tyrow, in a tweet that was shared thousands of times in just a few hours.Tyrow, who graduated in from Middlesex University with a degree in psychology and counselling, told Reuters that her mother had left her native Somalia in
  
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• Ofcom made serious errors over Murdoch Sky bid, say high-profile MPs

  14-07-2017 17:31
  
  A group of high-profile senior MPs have claimed that Ofcom made a “serious legal error” in its handling of Rupert Murdoch’s bid for Sky and could face a judicial review unless the government orders a full investigation into the threat to broadcasting standards from the deal.Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader, Sir Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat leadership candidate, Kenneth Clarke, the former Conservative chancellor, and Lord Falconer, the Labour peer and former lord chanc
  
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• American in Paris: Donald Trump's visit to France – in pictures

  14-07-2017 17:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump’s 24-hour trip coincides with Bastille Day and the centenary of US involvement in the first world war Continue reading...
  
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• An Open Letter On UK Acid Attacks

  14-07-2017 17:27
  
  This letter was first published in SAGE Publishing journal Scars, Burns & Healing.
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson TV firm made £8m profit after Amazon's Grand Tour

  14-07-2017 17:13
  
  The TV company set up by Jeremy Clarkson and his fellow former Top Gear hosts has made more than £8m in profits following the first season of their big budget Amazon show The Grand Tour.In 2015, Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May and Andy Wilman, the former Top Gear executive producer, signed a three-series deal to create a rival to the hit BBC2 motoring show for a reported £160m.
  
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• Second teenager arrested after five moped acid attacks in London

  14-07-2017 17:06
  
  A second teenager has been arrested by police investigating five linked acid attacks in London.Both are being held in custody at a north London police station and Scotland Yard said they are treating the attacks, which took place within 90 minutes, as linked.The assaults involved a pair on a moped attacking other moped riders and allegedly stealing two bikes.
  
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• Acid Attack Survivor Katie Piper Pleads For Tougher Sentencing Amid Spate Of Crimes

  14-07-2017 17:02
  
  Acid attack survivor Katie Piper has composed an open letter pleading for tougher sentencing and penalties for carrying corrosive substances.
  
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• Tim Farron decided to quit as Lib Dem leader during election

  14-07-2017 16:58
  Tim Farron has denied suggestions he deceived voters after revealing he decided to quit as Lib Dem leader two weeks into the election campaign.Mr Farron did not announce he was resigning until six days after polling day, having faced repeated questions during the campaign over whether he believed gay sex was a sin.Speaking about his decision, Mr Farron told the BBC: "I made the decision about two weeks into the election campaign.
  
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• Five hurt in acid attack robberies in London, two teenagers arrested

  14-07-2017 16:30
  
  By Costas PitasLONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested two teenagers on Friday after five acid attacks in less than 90 minutes across east London left several people with facial burns, including one with horrific injuries.Two assailants on a moped pulled up alongside a 32-year-old man in the Hackney area of east London at 2125 GMT on Thursday and threw acid in his face before one of the pair made off with the victim's moped.In the next hour and a half, three other men across Hackney and one i
  
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• Hilarious Video Of People Falling Over While Walking And Texting Has A Truly Shocking Ending

  14-07-2017 16:20
  
  This post contains graphic content There’s nothing more annoying than when someone walks straight at you with their head down looking at their phone - not looking where they are going.
  
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• London acid attack: two teenagers arrested after series of assaults

  14-07-2017 16:10
  
  Drivers and police in the street after officers said two men on a moped had carried out a string of acid attacks.Two teenagers, a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old, have been arrested as police launch a major investigation into a series of five acid attacks that took place in less than 90 minutes in east London on Thursday night.The Metropolitan police said the incidents on Thursday night appeared to be linked, and two involved victims having their mopeds stolen.
  
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• Police launch first fully-operational drone unit in the UK: All you need to know

  14-07-2017 16:01
  
  The drone unit will be able to help with missing person searches, crime scene investigation and, in future, possibly terrorism.
  
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