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• EasyJet Passenger 'Punched By Nice Airport Worker During 14-Hour Flight Delay'

  30-07-2017 23:39
  A British man holding a nine-month-old baby was punched in the face by a member of staff at Nice Airport after remonstrating over a 14-hour delay, a witness has said.
  
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• Lights in the dark

  30-07-2017 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  A century since the city became a muddy battlefield, Britons flock to Ypres to remember Passchendaele.
  
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• Was Arthur Welsh?

  30-07-2017 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  An exhibition at the National Library of Wales delves into the legends of King Arthur and Camelot.
  
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• Battle of Passchendaele: Prince William Hails 'Sacrifice' Of War Dead At Centenary Ceremony

  30-07-2017 22:22
  The Duke of Cambridge has led official commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele.
  
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• It Takes A 'Village' To Raise Breastfeeding Rates

  30-07-2017 22:19
  Just as the saying goes: 'it takes a village to raise a child,' it takes a community to support mothers to breastfeed.
  
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• More Understanding From Teachers Needed For Children In Care

  30-07-2017 22:06
  Imagine going to work and feeling like you can't tell your colleagues anything about your home life.
  
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• From Straws To Cotton Buds - How We Are All Contributing To The Growth Of Wasteland

  30-07-2017 22:05
  A land mass five times the size of North Korea is growing in the Pacific, posing as possibly one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time.
  
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• Everything you need to know about the Jalsa Salana: The UK’s biggest Islamic convention

  30-07-2017 22:05
  Over 30,000 Muslims gathered in Hampshire for the event.
  
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• A Letter To The Mama Who Wonders Where Her 'Me' Went

  30-07-2017 22:00
  Dear Mama - you're still there, though you may feel like you've been a bit lost recently.
  
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• Hammond and Fox are not on the same Brexit page

  30-07-2017 21:54
  Are Philip Hammond (far left) and Liam Fox (second right) singing from the same song sheet?Senior government sources have argued that the chancellor, Philip Hammond, and international trade secretary, Liam Fox, are on the same page when it comes to Brexit.“The chancellor is absolutely right to say freedom of movement will end in March 2019 and a new immigration system will be implemented,” went the logic.
  
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• Violence Breaks Out At Tommy Robinson Book Signing Before Sunderland-Celtic Match

  30-07-2017 21:47
  Violence broke out at an off-licence where ex-English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson was holding a book signing as trouble flared up before a Sunderland-Celtic football match.
  
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• Five Ways You Can End The 'Hidden Crisis' Of Period Poverty

  30-07-2017 21:46
  Period poverty has existed for generations across the United Kingdom.
  
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• Poignant sound of the Last Post

  30-07-2017 21:39 via bbc.co.uk
  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined Belgium's King Philippe and Queen Mathilde to mark the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele.
  
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• Hedd Wyn: The shepherd poet of Passchendaele

  30-07-2017 21:14 via bbc.co.uk
  A symbol of the Passchendaele loss - the story of poet Ellis Evans lives on today.
  
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• Friend of Diana urges Channel 4 to scrap 'intrusive' documentary

  30-07-2017 21:00
  One of Princess Diana’s closest friends is writing to Channel 4 bosses asking them to scrap a forthcoming documentary using private video footage which includes Diana talking about about her sex life with Prince Charles.Rosa Monckton, a confidante of Diana’s until she was killed in a Paris car crash 20 years ago next month, will argue that the confessional videos that Diana made as part of a course of speech coaching amounted to therapy and that using them is an “intrusion&rdqu
  
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• The Guardian view on Theresa May’s holiday – who’s in charge? | Editorial

  30-07-2017 20:45
  The occasion brought the prime minister, Theresa May, back to work for the weekend, breaking her three weeks in the Swiss mountains.To most observers (including some former Tory MPs, such as the Times columnist Matthew Parris, who wrote on Saturday that the chaos made him ashamed to be a Tory), it is both terrifying and appalling that more than a year after the referendum, Mrs May presides over a cabinet that is still arguing about what Brexit should look like.The chancellor, Philip Hammond
  
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• Good teachers need more than lofty qualifications | Letters

  30-07-2017 20:45
  Perhaps a little knowledge helps too,’ writes Ann Gordon.Small classes, large fees and levels of support that can only be dreamt of in the state sector will have provided her with comfort and support over the years.Children still have to be taught – but the government decides what, when and to what level, while meagre funding ensures large class sizes and a paucity of professional support.
  
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• The Guardian view on social care funding: can’t pay, must pay | Editorial

  30-07-2017 20:43
  Until now, a special dispensation has meant overnight carers have been paid less than half the minimum wage.It is HMRC that enforces the minimum wage.Earlier this year, in a case brought by Unison, an employment tribunal ruled that carers who stay overnight so that they are there if their client needs help should be paid at the minimum wage.
  
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• Government divided on free movement after Brexit

  30-07-2017 20:32
  Allowing free movement of people after Britain leaves the European Union would not "keep faith" with the Brexit vote, the international trade secretary said, underling divisions in the government over the issue.Liam Fox told the Sunday Times that senior government ministers had not reached a consensus on retaining free movement of people for a transitional period, a proposal outlined by finance minister Philip Hammond on Friday.
  
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• Financial Times journalists may strike over gender pay gap

  30-07-2017 20:29
  Financial Times' journalists could strike over the gender pay gap at the newspaper amid fury that female journalists are being paid 13% less than male colleagues.Sky News has learnt the FT's union has called a meeting on Wednesday after concluding senior managers were not taking the lack of pay parity and pay transparency at the newspaper "seriously enough"."The gender pay gap in FT Editorial is nearly 13% - the biggest shortfall in a decade - and the company's 'ambition' to reach equality by 20
  
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• Aircraft narrowly avoid mid-air smash near Eastbourne

  30-07-2017 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Footage shows a microlight and a CitationJet narrowly missing each other near Eastbourne.
  
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• Earl Spencer, Princess Diana’s Brother, Urges Channel 4 Not To Air Candid Documentary

  30-07-2017 18:53
  Channel 4 has defended broadcasting intimate details of Princess Diana’s failed marriage to Prince Charles as an “important historical source” as her brother urged the broadcaster to pull the documentary.
  
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• Wikileaks Says Robert Mueller Gave Russia Nuclear Material - But That's Not The Whole Story

  30-07-2017 18:16
  Wikileaks has released a classified US State Department from 2009 that appears to prove Special Counsel Robert Mueller, head of the Trump/Russia probe, once supplied the Russians with nuclear material.
  
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• Teen charged with attacking police after protest over Rashan Charles' death

  30-07-2017 18:14
  A teenager has been charged with attacking two police officers during clashes in east London.There were violent scenes in Dalston on Friday following a protest over the death of a black man.Rashan Charles, 20, died on Saturday 22 July after a police chase.
  
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• Sunday Times sacks Kevin Myers over comments on Jewish BBC presenters

  30-07-2017 17:59
  The Sunday Times has sacked a columnist in Ireland who sparked controversy with comments about high-profile women at the BBC.Kevin Myers said that two of the best-paid female presenters, Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz, were Jewish in an article about the gender pay gap at the Corporation.The paper's editor Martin Ivens said the remarks in Sunday's Irish edition were not acceptable and should never have been published.
  
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• It turns out that hiding cannabis under a children’s poster of Frozen isn’t quite a foolproof plan

  30-07-2017 17:30
  Probably not what Disney intended.
  
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• Grenfell residents condemn basing of new taskforce in council office

  30-07-2017 17:20
  Residents of the estate surrounding Grenfell Tower have condemned the decision to base the the newly appointed recovery taskforce in the offices of Kensington and Chelsea council, warning this undermines the impartiality of the team.Members of the Lancaster West residents’ association say they were told that the recovery taskforce, as well as being responsible for returning powers from the multi-agency Grenfell fire response team back to the council, would also scrutinise council structure
  
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• Birmingham Rape: Man Charged After 14-Year-Old Girl Attacked Twice

  30-07-2017 17:19
  A man has been charged with rape after a 14-year-old girl was attacked twice on the same night.
  
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• Teen double rape: Man charged over first attack in Birmingham

  30-07-2017 16:46
  A man has been charged with the rape of a 14-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted twice on the same night in Birmingham.The teenager was allegedly raped first in a secluded part of Witton railway station, not far from Aston Villa's football stadium, between 8pm on Tuesday and 2am on Wednesday.Khurram Rahi, 27, from Smethwick, is due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday over the incident at the station.
  
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• Criminals Have Passports Taken From Them And Are Banned From UK

  30-07-2017 16:35
  More than 150 jihadists and other criminals have been stripped of their citizenship and banned from returning to the UK, it has been reported.
  
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• LoveHomeSwap founder cashes in with £40m Wyndham takeover

  30-07-2017 16:05
  LoveHomeSwap, one of the UK's best-known sharing economy start-ups, is close to being sold to the American hotels giant Wyndham in a £40m deal.Sky News has learnt that Debbie Wosskow, LoveHomeSwap's founder and chief executive, has‎ struck an agreement with Wyndham Worldwide to take control of the company two years after the US hotels group originally invested in it.It will cement Ms Wosskow's status as one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Britain's sharing economy.
  
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• This guy on Twitter asked ‘How lazy are you?’ and the internet revealed some next-level stuff

  30-07-2017 16:00
  “Tied a long string to my ceiling fan so I can turn the lights off and fan on from my bed.”
  
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• Cabinet 'in a state of civil war' over Brexit, warns Vince Cable

  30-07-2017 15:33
  A rift between senior ministers on how long to allow the free movement of people after Brexit shows "all the signs of a Cabinet in a state of civil war", Vince Cable has said.The Liberal Democrat leader's remarks come after International Trade Secretary Liam Fox dismissed the idea that a consensus had been reached on the issue by the Prime Minister's top table.Mr Fox is at odds with Chancellor Philip Hammond, who said on Friday that there was a "broad acceptance" in Cabinet that free movement wo
  
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• NSPCC reports large rise in forced marriage counselling for children

  30-07-2017 15:28
  More help is being provided than ever before for children in Britain who fear being forced into marriages, with some potential victims as young as 13, the NSPCC has said.Figures from the leading children’s charity show the number of counselling sessions it has provided for youngsters has trebled in five years.Children face violence, bullying and threats from adults pressing them to marry someone they do not want to and, in some cases, have never met.
  
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• Collapsed crane in Reading 'may take days to remove' as Dutch experts are drafted in

  30-07-2017 15:17
  A crane that collapsed into a former Primark store may take days to remove as expert engineers from the Netherlands are brought in.The crane, which is about 60 metres tall, came to rest against the building in West Street, Reading.The building used to be a Primark shop, according to the Reading Chronicle.
  
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• This US steakhouse is at the centre of a heated debate because we all love a good conspiracy theory

  30-07-2017 14:45
  Even if there is no truth in it.
  
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• England build lead over South Africa on day four of third Test – live!

  30-07-2017 14:41 via theguardian.com
  Over-by-over updates from the fourth day at the OvalPaul Allott set to become director of cricket at LancashireThe Recap: sign up for the best of our sport coverageEmail Adam or tweet @collinsadam with your thoughts1.41pm BSTThanks, Vish. So you’re telling me that I’m taking over with Tom Westley on 50 with an hour or so to raise a debut ton? Party Hard.1.03pm BST50th over: England 153-2 (Westley 50, Root 38) Root keeps Maharaj out to take England to lunch with a succession of dead-b
  
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• F1: Sebastian Vettel leads Hungarian Grand Prix as Red Bulls collide – live!

  30-07-2017 14:40 via theguardian.com
  Lap-by-lap updates from the HungaroringThe Recap: sign up for the best of our sport coverageAnd email Lawrence or tweet @LawrenceOstlere 1.40pm BSTLap 24/70 Grosjean’s race is over. He can’t get his crawling car back to the pits and he pulls up to become the second retirement of this race.1.39pm BSTLap 23/70 Well it should have been a long stint. “OK slow down, bring it back,” Haas say on radio. “I think we have a crossed wheel nut.” A replay shows a mechanic
  
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• Y Not Festival Cancelled Over Weather Conditions

  30-07-2017 14:30
  Festival-goers in Britain are no strangers to a bit of mud but conditions got so bad at a music festival in Derbyshire that organisers had to take the unusual step of cancelling it.
  
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• English 'bully' ordered to stay out of Wales following drunken assault on jogger and dog walker

  30-07-2017 14:21
  A judge in Wales has ordered an English tourist who punched two people in two unprovoked attacks to do locals a favour and "keep out of Wales", local media have reported.Blake Potbury, 23, was found guilty of assaulting two strangers – a 63-year-old female jogger and a 52-year-old male dog walker – on a promenade in Llandudno, a coastal town in north Wales.Judge Huw Rees, sitting at Caernarfon Crown Court, described the defendant as a "thug and bully" and "not man enough to hold his
  
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• Denmark stun holders Germany to reach Euro 2017 semi-finals

  30-07-2017 14:16 via theguardian.com
  • Germany 1-2 Denmark (Kerschowski 3; Nadim 48, Nielsen 83)
  • Germany had won previous six European ChampionshipsDenmark stunned Euro 2017 favourites Germany with a 2-1 comeback win in Rotterdam to reach the semi-finals, blowing the tournament wide open. Second-half goals from Nadia Nadim and Theresa Nielsen overturned Isabel Kerschowski’s third-minute strike in a match that was postponed from Saturday night after heavy rain in the Dutch city. Related: England’s Mark Sampso
  
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• Mock chocs: is Poundland’s cut-price confectionery the answer to shrinkflation?

  30-07-2017 14:00 via theguardian.com
  From chocolate buttons to mini eggs, the budget store is filling a gap in the market created by the declining size of brand-name originals. We put its offerings to the taste testMore inspiring results from the self-harm Olympics that is Brexit, and now we are hitting ourselves where it hurts: chocolate. Following the referendum, big-name brands have reduced the size of their most popular items, while – in a bid to avoid “doing a Freddo”– prices have stayed the same. It is
  
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• Abolitionists still have work to do in America | Patrisse Cullors

  30-07-2017 14:00 via theguardian.com
  While we have seen some semblance of emancipation, we still live with the vestiges of slavery everyday in the United States
  Patrisse Cullors is a co-founder of Black Lives MatterWhat does it look like to build a city, state or nation invested in communities thriving rather than their death and destruction? To ask this question is the first act of an abolitionist. I am an abolitionist. What does this mean? Abolitionist resistance and resilience draws from a legacy of black led anti-colonial strug
  
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• Manchester United poised to complete Nemanja Matic signing from Chelsea

  30-07-2017 13:40 via theguardian.com
  • Juventus keen on Matic but midfielder wants to link up with José Mourinho
  • Galatasaray set for talks with United over buying Marouane FellainiManchester United are poised to complete the purchase of Nemanja Matic from Chelsea and are due to hold talks with Galatasaray at the start of the week over a deal to sell Marouane Fellaini.The signing of Matic would be a significant boost to José Mourinho after United drew a blank in efforts to purchase Eric Dier from Tottenham
  
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• Road review – raucous 80s account of a divided Britain still hits close to home

  30-07-2017 13:34 via theguardian.com
  Royal Court, London
  Lemn Sissay stars in a revival of Jim Cartwright’s 1986 account of a community scarred by unemployment that couldn’t be more relevant or rousingJim Cartwright’s play was first staged by Simon Curtis in 1986 as a promenade production that took the audience on a nocturnal journey through the cobbled streets of an imagined Lancashire town. Even if John Tiffany’s revival doesn’t make the same visceral impact, it does rich justice to a play that pins
  
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• Sunday Times accused of antisemitism over column on BBC pay

  30-07-2017 13:25 via theguardian.com
  Kevin Myers, in Irish edition, suggested Vanessa Feltz and Claudia Winkleman earned more because they were JewishThe Sunday Times has been accused of antisemitism after it published an article in its Irish edition that suggested the BBC presenters Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz are well paid because they are Jewish.The Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper removed an online version of the piece by Holocaust denier Kevin Myers on Sunday morning amid a wave of outrage, but it appeared in printed edi
  
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• Sunday Times Sacks Kevin Myers For Anti-Semitic And Sexist Column

  30-07-2017 13:12
  The editors of the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Ireland have apologised for a column slammed as sexist and anti-Semitic.
  
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• Sunday Times And Sunday Times Ireland Apologise For Kevin Myers Column

  30-07-2017 13:12
  The editors of the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Ireland have apologised for a column slammed as sexist and anti-Semitic.
  
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• Why is Google spending record sums on lobbying Washington?

  30-07-2017 13:00 via theguardian.com
  With a real threat of antitrust and privacy regulation on the horizon, Google is on track to become this year’s top corporate lobbying spender in the USFigures released last week show that Google spent a record amount of almost $6m lobbying in Washington DC in the past three months, putting the Silicon Valley behemoth on track to be the top corporate lobbying spending in the US. Last year it ranked number two, behind Comcast.Given the increased antitrust scrutiny that is coming from the De
  
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• Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System review – flawed and frustrating

  30-07-2017 13:00
  When the Ottoman empire collapsed almost a century ago, more than 1.2 million Orthodox Christian refugees fled into Greece.Backed by international loans, they moved arriving families into under-developed areas, encouraged integration and ended up dramatically improving the nation’s agricultural output.What a contrast with the abject reaction to today’s refugee crisis, which finds Greece again on the frontline.
  
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