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• After a divisive Phoenix rally, Trump calls for unity at veterans event - The Guardian

  23-08-2017 23:52 via theguardian.com
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  After a divisive Phoenix rally, Trump calls for unity at veterans event
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  Donald Trump signs the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act at the American Legion national convention in Reno on 23 August. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images. Donald Trump ...
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• Floyd Mayweather ready to place the biggest bet of his life on himself for the fight against Conor McGregor - Daily Mail

  23-08-2017 23:41 via dailymail.co.uk
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  Floyd Mayweather ready to place the biggest bet of his life on himself for the fight against Conor McGregor
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  Floyd Mayweather is preparing to put the biggest bet of his life on his certainty that he will defy an extravagant prediction from Conor McGregor's boss, Dana White. The head of the leading mixed martial arts operation boldly announced: 'Conor will ...
  Conor McGregor has "no problem" betting £100m purse with Floyd Mayweather ahead of super fightMirror.co.uk
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• Liverpool return to big time after early flurry sinks Hoffenheim - The Guardian

  23-08-2017 23:24 via theguardian.com
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  Liverpool return to big time after early flurry sinks Hoffenheim
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  Emre Can celebrates after scoring Liverpool's third against Hoffenheim. Photograph: John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images. Champions League. Liverpool return to big time after early flurry sinks Hoffenheim. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter ...
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• Poundland roof collapses as 100 firefighters tackle inferno engulfing high street store and flats above - Daily Mail

  23-08-2017 23:15 via dailymail.co.uk
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  Poundland roof collapses as 100 firefighters tackle inferno engulfing high street store and flats above
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  A huge fire has gutted a Poundland store - with 15 fire engines and 100 firefighters fighting the blaze at its peak. Social media photos showed plumes of smoke billowing from the discount shop on Old Church Road, Chingford, while the roof of the flats ...
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• Trump calls for unity one day after angry 75-minute rant at Arizona rally - The Independent

  23-08-2017 23:00 via independent.co.uk
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  Trump calls for unity one day after angry 75-minute rant at Arizona rally
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  Donald Trump returned to a theme of unity during a speech in Nevada, one day after he departed from planned remarks emphasising togetherness - in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville - to blast his perceived adversaries in the media and beyond.
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• Firefighters battle blaze at store in east London - Reuters UK

  23-08-2017 22:27 via uk.reuters.com
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  Firefighters battle blaze at store in east London
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  Firefighters battle a fire at a department store in Chingford, London, Britain August 23, 2017 in this still image obtained from social media. Jonathan Boyce via REUTERS. LONDON (Reuters) - The London Fire Brigade said on Wednesday 15 fire engines and ...and more »
  
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• Allah-Las gig cancelled in Rotterdam due to terror warning - The Guardian

  23-08-2017 22:22 via theguardian.com
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  Allah-Las gig cancelled in Rotterdam due to terror warning
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  Police during the evacuation after a gig by California band Allah-Las was canceled. Photograph: Arie Kievit/AFP/Getty Images. Netherlands. Allah-Las gig cancelled in Rotterdam due to terror warning. Driver held as Spanish-registered van containing gas ...
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• Firefighters battle blaze at store in east London

  23-08-2017 22:19
  The London Fire Brigade said on Wednesday 15 fire engines and 97 firefighters and officers were tackling a huge blaze in a department store in the east of the city.Half of the ground floor of the Poundland discount store in Chingford was alight, the London Fire Brigade said in a statement.The website of the London Evening Standard quoted police as saying however that an investigation had been launched.
  
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• Why ECB president is still flooding the system with cheap money

  23-08-2017 22:17 via theguardian.com
  While the eurozone is looking healthy, inflation remains subdued – and warning signs remain over the global economyThere was little in Mario Draghi’s comments in Germany on Wednesday to indicate that the European Central Bank plans to stop pumping cheap money in to the eurozone anytime soon.Some expected him to use the platform of a speech to a gathering of Nobel economics laureates and students to say that a long period of growth across the 19-member currency bloc warranted a reduct
  
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• Time To End Prison Scheme That Stops Children Seeing Their Dads

  23-08-2017 22:08
  Children with a father in prison are often the innocent victims torn away from their dads and left counting the days until they can visit them.
  
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• Merseyside social worker struck off for ‘deplorable’ conduct

  23-08-2017 22:04 via theguardian.com
  Kevin Sinclair alerted violent abuser to the whereabouts of his pregnant victim and gave advice on how to avoid getting caughtA senior social worker alerted a domestic violence perpetrator to the whereabouts of his pregnant victim, weeks after she jumped out of a bedroom window when he threatened to pour boiling oil over her.Kevin Sinclair, a child protection officer for Sefton council in Merseyside, was struck off for what a tribunal called “disgraceful” and “deplorable”
  
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• Chingford fire: Homes evacuated after huge blaze erupts at Poundland store in north London

  23-08-2017 21:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  RESIDENTS in Chingford, north-east London have been evacuated from their homes after a huge fire ripped through a Poundland store.
  
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• 'Heartfelt' Bruce Forsyth tribute confirmed by Strictly bosses

  23-08-2017 21:51
  Strictly Come Dancing will air a special tribute to the show's former host Sir Bruce Forsyth, bosses have confirmed.Executive producer Louise Rainbow said the show's professional dancers will pay tribute to Sir Bruce in celebration of his life when the new series starts on 23 September.Sir Bruce, affectionately known to the nation as 'Brucie', died at the age of 89 on Friday.
  
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• When will we baby boomers accept that we have a problem with booze?| Joan Smith

  23-08-2017 21:15 via theguardian.com
  We are blamed for most of the world’s misfortunes and now we’re paying for a misspent youth. In our defence, we were ignorant of the dangers of drinkFor my generation, arriving at college in the 1960s and 70s, the dire warnings were all about drugs. My parents sat me down and told me about the dangers of smoking “pot”, which they had read about in the papers. But they never said a word about alcohol. When I asked my mother what I should drink when I went to bars with my n
  
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• Transport Secretary Chris Grayling accused of 'contempt' for the North

  23-08-2017 21:15
  The Transport Secretary has been accused of having "contempt" for the North of England as the row over transport links in the region rumbles on.Chris Grayling incensed Northern civic and business leaders by saying the success of transport there depends on themselves rather than the Government.Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said the comments represented an "abdication of responsibility" by the minister, while Sheffield City Council leader Judith Dore said they showed "quite clearly hi
  
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• Jon Snow Warns Brexit And Donald Trump Distracted Journalists From Issues Around Grenfell

  23-08-2017 21:08
  Jon Snow has said journalists were too distracted by Donald Trump and the “political flatulence” of Brexit to focus on the issues surrounding the Grenfell fire, an event that “haunted” him more than wars he has covered.
  
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• Steve Bell on the UK’s Brexit negotiations – cartoon

  23-08-2017 21:01 via theguardian.com
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• Chris Froome extends Vuelta a España lead as rivals struggle on stage five

  23-08-2017 21:00 via theguardian.com
  • Team Sky rider increases his overall advantage to 10 seconds
  • Astana rider Alexey Lutsenko wins first grand tour stage of his careerChris Froome increased his lead in the Vuelta a España during a fifth stage won by Alexey Lutsenko of Kazakhstan.Froome started the day two seconds ahead of a trio of riders and with most rivals inside a minute of him. But after most of them struggled through a hilly stage and then toiled on the first summit finish, Froome looks to be in command
  
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• Trump's science envoy quits in scathing letter with an embedded message: IMPEACH - Washington Post

  23-08-2017 20:57 via washingtonpost.com
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  Trump's science envoy quits in scathing letter with an embedded message: IMPEACH
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  Daniel Kammen, a renewable energy expert appointed last year as a science envoy to the State Department, resigned Wednesday, citing President Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville as the final straw that led to his departure. Daniel ...
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• Liverpool v Hoffenheim: Champions League play-off second leg – live! - The Guardian

  23-08-2017 20:57 via theguardian.com
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  Liverpool v Hoffenheim: Champions League play-off second leg – live!
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  Liverpool could have had five. Then again, so could Hoffenheim. What a marvellously entertaining half of football. It should be over. But you know how Liverpool roll. It's not quite over yet. The second half should be a blast. Facebook Twitter Google ...
  HALF-TIME: Liverpool 3-1 Hoffenheim (5-2 on agg)Daily Mail
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• England women’s players fearful of speaking out, says Anita Asante

  23-08-2017 20:56 via theguardian.com
  • Former England player praises Eni Aluko for speaking out
  • ‘We’ve been so used to an environment of silence’Anita Asante has become the latest player to question the culture of the England women’s team, praising Eni Aluko for going public with her grievances about the manager, Mark Sampson, and criticising the “environment of silence” she believes the Football Association has fostered behind the scenes. Related: After Eni Aluko’s interview, 1
  
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• Man, 54, dies suddenly just weeks after meeting his long-lost brother for the first time in 50 years on an ITV show ... - Daily Mail

  23-08-2017 20:34 via dailymail.co.uk
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  Man, 54, dies suddenly just weeks after meeting his long-lost brother for the first time in 50 years on an ITV show ...
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  A man who met his long-lost brother for the first time after 50 years despite living just a mile away from him has died suddenly. In a heart-wrenching episode of ITV's Long Lost Family, viewers were introduced to Steve Belshaw, 54, from Blackpool, who ...and more »
  
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• Britain sends £9m to Libya to fight terror threat and migrant crisis - The Guardian

  23-08-2017 20:34 via theguardian.com
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  Britain sends £9m to Libya to fight terror threat and migrant crisis
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  Boris Johnson, the British foreign secretary, shakes hands with his Libyan counterpart, Mohamed Taha Siala, in Tripoli. Photograph: PA. Boris Johnson. Britain sends £9m to Libya to fight terror threat and migrant crisis. Boris Johnson announces aid ...
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• Britain sends £9m to Libya to fight terror threat and migrant crisis

  23-08-2017 20:34
  Boris Johnson has announced a £9m aid package for Libya to help deal with the problems of migrants risking their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean and a growing threat of terrorist groups from the war-stricken country.The foreign secretary announced the extra funding as he made his second trip to Tripoli in just four months, where he visited UK naval officers training the Libyan coastguard in search and rescue.The country has been in crisis since the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi in 201
  
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• League of Gentlemen and Alan Partridge returning to BBC

  23-08-2017 20:27 via theguardian.com
  Royston Vasey residents to return for 20th anniversary, as pride of Norfolk comes back ‘to make sense of Brexit and political unrest’The League of Gentlemen and Alan Partridge are to return to the BBC it has been announced. The long-rumoured reunion of the cast of the League will be for a series for special episodes to mark the 20th anniversary of its debut on the BBC. It will see Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson reunite revive the strange residents of
  
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• UK could remain under control of EU court for years, ministers suggest - The Guardian

  23-08-2017 20:26 via theguardian.com
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  UK could remain under control of EU court for years, ministers suggest
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  News of the government's evolving position on the ECJ sparked a political storm at Westminster. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA. Brexit. UK could remain under control of EU court for years, ministers suggest. Scale of Theresa May's climbdown shown as ...
  ECJ cannot be 'air-brushed' out of UK legal systemFinancial Times
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• Man who was found with pipe bomb in luggage at airport jailed for 18 years - News & Star

  23-08-2017 20:15 via newsandstar.co.uk
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  Man who was found with pipe bomb in luggage at airport jailed for 18 years
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  A man has been jailed for 18 years for possessing an explosive with intent to endanger life after a pipe bomb was found in his hand luggage at Manchester Airport. Nadeem Muhammad, 43, was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on Wednesday after ...
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• UK paves way for compromise over ECJ jurisdiction post-Brexit - Financial Times

  23-08-2017 20:14 via ft.com
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  UK paves way for compromise over ECJ jurisdiction post-Brexit
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  Britain has paved the way for a compromise on a new legal framework for Brexit, accepting that EU judges could continue to have a say in UK affairs during a transition period and in overseeing any future trade deal with the EU. UK prime minister ...
  European Court could still have jurisdiction during Brexit, says government reportthe Irish News
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• EU nationals deportation letters an 'unfortunate error', says May

  23-08-2017 20:13 via theguardian.com
  Home Office mistakenly sent up to 100 letters to EU citizens telling them to leave UK or face removalTheresa May admitted the Home Office made an “unfortunate error” when it mistakenly sent up to 100 letters to EU nationals living in the UK ordering them to leave the country or face deportation.The prime minister was forced into the statement after it emerged that a Finnish academic working in London had highlighted the warning letter she had received, which told her to leave the UK
  
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• Airport staff let man go after finding pipe bomb in his hand luggage - Metro

  23-08-2017 20:08 via metro.co.uk
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  Airport staff let man go after finding pipe bomb in his hand luggage
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  Security staff at Manchester Airport let a man go despite finding a viable pipe bomb in his hand luggage – meaning he could board a plane to Italy just five days later. Nadeem Muhammad, 43, has now been jailed for 18 years at Manchester Crown Court for ...
  Man jailed for trying to carry a pipe bomb onto a plane in ManchesterITV News
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• The Guardian view on UK Brexit policy: this time the lady is for turning | Editorial

  23-08-2017 20:05 via theguardian.com
  The government’s latest position paper abandons the fantasy that Britain can go it alone. Not before time, ministers are having a close encounter with realityThe orthodoxy says that few things are more humiliating for a leader than a U-turn. That’s especially true in the Conservative party, where the ghostly voice of Margaret Thatcher in 1980 – “You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning” – still echoes in the Central Office rafters. Sometimes,
  
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• Exclusive - UK finance sector proposes 'ambitious' post-Brexit trade pact

  23-08-2017 20:03
  By Huw Jones and Andrew MacAskillLONDON (Reuters) - The UK's financial sector is seeking an "ambitious" trade pact between Britain and the European Union to try to prevent a costly shift of jobs and business to the continent once the country leaves the bloc, according to a draft report seen by Reuters.Unless Britain negotiates new trading relations with the EU, banks, insurers and fund managers in Britain could be locked out of the bloc's markets when it leaves the EU in March 2019.The Internati
  
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• What Trump's Phoenix rally taught us - BBC News

  23-08-2017 20:01 via bbc.co.uk
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  What Trump's Phoenix rally taught us
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  President Trump used his "Make America Great Again" rally to grab back control of the conversation following criticism from both opponents and supporters. His response to deadly violence in Charlottesville was widely seen as too vague in its ...
  Are You Ready Yet To Accept Donald Trump For Who He Is?NPR
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• UK weather: Heavy rain sparks flash flood chaos as northern England battered by downpours

  23-08-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  FLASH floods brought chaos to parts of northern England after the region was hit by heavy downpours.
  
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• Jon Snow: reporting on Grenfell made me feel on wrong side of social divide

  23-08-2017 19:58
  The veteran journalist Jon Snow said reporting on the deadly Grenfell Tower fire made him feel “on the wrong side” of Britain’s social divide and warned that he and others in the media had become too far removed from ordinary people’s lives.The Channel 4 news presenter used a keynote speech at the Edinburgh television festival to say the episode made him conclude that there was a lack of diversity across the media, which should have been more aware about the dangers of th
  
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• The numbers are a glittering legacy of Wayne Rooney’s England career | Dominic Fifield

  23-08-2017 19:57 via theguardian.com
  For all the impressive records, Rooney’s time in an England shirt will always be judged by the failure to repeat his jaw-dropping form from Euro 2004There is an irony that Wayne Rooney, a player plenty, including the England manager, had considered surplus to requirements last season, has chosen to retire from international football just as the national team were wondering whether they might be in need of him again. Adam Lallana and Ross Barkley are in rehabilitation. Other forwards have y
  
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• Inquests open into deaths of four Grenfell Tower fire victims

  23-08-2017 19:53
  The inquests of four people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire were opened at Westminster coroner’s court on Wednesday.Iranian-born sisters Sakineh Afrasiabi, 65, and Fatemeh Afrasiabi, 59, were both identified by their dental records after their remains were found on the 23rd floor of the tower block.The court heard that the body of Mariem Elgwahry, 27, had been found on the 23rd floor next to her mother, Eslah Elgwahry, 64, whose inquest opened last month.
  
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• Bath or shower: what floats your boat?

  23-08-2017 19:48 via theguardian.com
  Brits have fallen out of love with the bath, with the shower cleaning up. We asked the public to tell us their hygiene routineI hate to burst your bubbles, but British people are rarely bathing in the tub. Just 4% of Britons say they regularly take time out for a bath, with 76% saying that they prefer the speed and efficiency of a shower, according to a new survey by Faith in Nature, a natural beauty brand.Soaking in a bath of grime-infused water is deeply unappealing for many of those who opt f
  
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• Health warning: why the sexy nurse stereotype is no laughing matter

  23-08-2017 19:41 via theguardian.com
  The refusal of an NHS trust to accept charity money because it was raised by men dressed as nurses has highlighted the sexual stereotyping of the profession. How serious a problem is it – and does it encourage harassment in the workplace?The lipstick is a bit smudged and one or two of the breasts have slipped, but the guys who dressed up as female nurses to raise money for Shropshire community health NHS trust look pretty happy. Presumably because the photograph was taken before the trust
  
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• Man caught with pipe bomb at Manchester airport jailed

  23-08-2017 19:39 via theguardian.com
  Judge criticises airport security for wrongly deciding bomb was unviable, as he sentences Nadeem Muhammad to 18 yearsA man who tried to smuggle a pipe bomb on to a flight from Manchester to Italy has been sentenced to 18 years in jail.Nadeem Muhammad, 43, was found to be carrying the “crude explosive device” when he was searched as he tried to board a flight to Bergamo on 30 January. Security officers found the bomb, made from batteries, tape, a marker pen and pins, in the zip lining
  
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• Is facial recognition tech safe or scary?

  23-08-2017 19:35
  Are you being watched and followed by security cameras?
  
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• Taylor Swift announces new album, Reputation, for November release

  23-08-2017 19:33 via theguardian.com
  After an extended hiatus, Taylor Swift announced via her social media channels Wednesday a still-unnamed lead single and a new album, dropping in NovemberTaylor Swift announced her long-awaited return on Wednesday after posting several teasers throughout the week suggesting new music was on its way. Related: Taylor Swift’s punch-the-air moment for girlsContinue reading...
  
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• Bake Off needs 3 million viewers to break even, Channel 4 says

  23-08-2017 19:31 via theguardian.com
  Broadcaster’s creative chief says she would be ‘absolutely delighted’ if show, bought for £75m, gained audience of 5 million or moreChannel 4 needs the Great British Bake Off to attract at least 3 million viewers per episode to break even on its blockbuster £75m deal to buy the show, the creative chief of the broadcaster has revealed.Jay Hunt told the Edinburgh international TV festival she would be delighted if the programme attracted between 5 million and 7 millio
  
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• Universities urged to end secrecy over vice-chancellors’ pay

  23-08-2017 19:30
  Universities must stop hiding from public scrutiny over the issue of vice-chancellors’ pay and instead make their policies on rewarding senior staff more transparent, the head of the union representing academic staff has said.Sally Hunt, the general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), said too many vice-chancellors sit on their institution’s committee responsible for setting pay for senior staff – including themselves – leading to conflicts of interest an
  
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• Samsung Galaxy Note 8: Why its new camera is so exciting - The Independent

  23-08-2017 19:28 via independent.co.uk
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  Samsung Galaxy Note 8: Why its new camera is so exciting
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  Why would you buy the Samsung Galaxy Note 8? Well, for the luxuriously big screen, for a start. If you like the idea of a 6.3-inch display crammed into a much-smaller-than-you'd-have-imagined body, then the Note 8 is off to a good start. But I'd say ...
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• Birmingham gangs: How two rivals poisoned a city's streets - BBC News

  23-08-2017 19:27 via bbc.co.uk
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  Birmingham gangs: How two rivals poisoned a city's streets
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  Eighteen men have been served injunctions by police trying to disrupt gang activity between rival Birmingham factions, the Johnson Crew and Burger Bar Boys. But what is the history of the two gangs and how have they managed to tighten their grip on the ...
  'A dangerous menace': EIGHTEEN West Midlands 'gang members' named by police in UK's biggest blitz of its kindexpressandstar.com
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• University teachers’ jobs and dignity are under threat | Letters

  23-08-2017 19:26 via theguardian.com
  Readers respond to recent articles by Harriet Swain and André SpicerReading the Russell Group of universities’ defence, you might believe there was “nothing to see here” when it comes to the treatment of university lecturers (Second-class pay and prospects: university teaching staff complain of two-tier system, 22 August).Yet over half (53%) of teaching-only staff in our universities are on fixed-term contracts, many of them less than a year in length, with no real prosp
  
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• Are Brexit negotiations a cunning EU strategy – to bore us into submission? | Suzanne Moore

  23-08-2017 19:26 via theguardian.com
  ‘Taking back control’ now resembles some sweaty negotiators, not waving but drowning in a sea of legaleseIt goes without saying that I am an expert on the ECJ, EEA, Efta and in particular the Moldovan agreement that allows Liechtenstein to share the single market. It goes without saying mainly because it is untrue. My knowledge is probably on a par with David Davis’s, to be honest, which is worrying to say the least. Many people will not understand the minutiae of trade, tariff
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon 'tried to DUPE Scots into independence' when SNP needs UK more than EVER

  23-08-2017 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  NICOLA Sturgeon faced fresh allegations of trying to dupe Scots into backing independence after it emerged the country is more reliant than ever before on the UK. 
  
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• About 100 EU nationals told to leave Britain — by mistake - Financial Times

  23-08-2017 19:15 via ft.com
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  About 100 EU nationals told to leave Britain — by mistake
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  Two months ago, Theresa May promised her fellow European leaders at a Brussels summit that no EU citizens currently living in Britain would be forced to leave the country after the UK exited the 27-member bloc in 2019. But about 100 EU nationals were ...
  Number of EU citizens detained in UK up by 27%, figures showThe Guardian
  Home Office mistakenly gives British history expert at London Universi
  
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