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• Parsons Green bombing: Police get more time to question suspects

  18-09-2017 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  They are believed to be an 18-year-old Iraqi orphan and 21-year-old Yahyah Farroukh from Syria.
  
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• 'We won't be free from Brussels!' Nigel Farage RAGES against 'softening Brexit' threat

  18-09-2017 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  A SOFT BREXIT arrangement would not allow the United Kingdom to pursue the independent trade relationship Britain voted for during the referendum, Nigel Farage warned.
  
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• Burglar death: Pensioner faces jail over firearm

  18-09-2017 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  A RECLUSIVE pensioner who shot dead a burglar at his caravan is facing jail for illegally possessing a firearm.
  
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• Lib Dem activists don BRUSSELS BERETS in bizarre show of support for EU

  18-09-2017 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  SHAMELESS Lib Dem activists have donned European Union -themed berets in a bizarre show of support for Brussels.
  
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• Reclusive pensioner faces jail for fatally shooting an intruder

  18-09-2017 23:29
  Reuben Gregory was woken by his sister's screams in the early hours of 12 June as someone attempted to break into the caravan they shared in the countryside near Heathrow.The pair attempted to fight the men off with a knife, but Gregory fired a double-barrelled shotgun through a hole in the door and hit 48-year-old Wayne Digby with a fatal shot to the chest.The man's alleged accomplice, Anthony Hearn, was also injured.
  
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• Student in rape trial ‘told girl to pretend it never happened’

  18-09-2017 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  A UNIVERSITY Challenge contestant raped a fellow student following a drunken night out then urged her to pretend it never happened, a court heard.
  
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• Around the world in 78 days: British cyclist Mark Beaumont completes record-breaking ride

  18-09-2017 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  ENDURANCE cyclist Mark Beaumont said last night it was a “dream come true” to cycle around the World in 78 days - smashing the record by almost 45 days.
  
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• London firefighters responding to warehouse fire in Tottenham

  18-09-2017 23:07
  (Reuters) - London Fire Brigade said on Monday it was attending a warehouse fire on White Hart Lane in Tottenham district, North London. Fifteen fire engines and around 95 firefighters were at the scene, the London Fire Brigade said in a tweet. (Reporting by Rama Venkat Raman in Bengaluru; Editing by Chris Reese)
  
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• British cyclist pedals around world in 78 days, smashing record

  18-09-2017 23:05
  A British endurance cyclist has smashed the Guinness World Record for the fastest circumnavigation of the planet on a bicycle, riding 18,000 miles (29,000km) in under 80 days.Mark Beaumont cycled for 18 hours a day and burned more than 9,000 calories every 24 hours as he crossed Poland, Russia, Mongolia, China, Australia and the United States."I've barely walked for two-and-a-half months."A crash in Russia on the ninth day in which he broke a tooth and injured his elbow nearly ended a ride that
  
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• Vince Cable calls for 'political adults' to work together against hard Brexit

  18-09-2017 23:00
  Britain needs “political adults” to work together to halt a damaging Brexit, Vince Cable will tell the Liberal Democrat conference on Tuesday, urging moderate Conservatives and Labour MPs to work with his party.Cable will also call on the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to listen to the many pro-EU voters who backed him in June.Jeremy, join us in the Anti-Brexit People’s Liberation Front,” he will say in his first keynote speech as Lib Dem leader.
  
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• Labour NEC poised to agree leadership nomination rule change

  18-09-2017 23:00
  Jeremy Corbyn struggled to secure enough nominations to get on to the membership ballot in 2015.Labour’s national executive committee is poised to agree to a rule change that will make it easier for another leftwing candidate to run for the party leadership after Jeremy Corbyn.The NEC will vote on the idea of reducing the threshold from 15% of MPs and MEPs to 10% in order to select candidates to be placed on a ballot for members.
  
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• Tube bomb 'pandemonium'

  18-09-2017 22:52 via bbc.co.uk
  An initial investigation into Friday's terror attack gives a snapshot of how staff responded.
  
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• Tottenham fire: 120 firefighters tackle major blaze at White Hart Lane warehouse

  18-09-2017 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  AROUND 120 firefighters are tackling a major blaze at a warehouse on White Hart Lane in Tottenham, north London.
  
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• Police given more time to question Parsons Green bomb suspects

  18-09-2017 22:30
  Police have been given more time to question two men over Friday's terror attack at Parsons Green Underground station, Scotland Yard says.Yahyah Farroukh, 21, is listed as living at an address in Stanwell, Surrey, which was searched by officers on Sunday.Both men are believed to have spent time in the care of Penelope and Ronald Jones, who received MBEs for services to children and families in 2010.
  
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• May's government is driven from the front. We just don't know the direction | John Crace

  18-09-2017 22:29
  Theresa May kept her gaze lowered.It’s not often the prime minister comes up against another world leader with better footwear.“Merci, Justin,” she said after the Canadian prime minister had kick-started their joint press conference by trying to wrack his brains for anything meaningful they had discussed over the last hour or so.
  
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• Parsons Green Bombing: Police Granted More Time To Question Two Main Suspects

  18-09-2017 22:28
  Detectives have been granted more time to question two men aged 18 and 21 over Friday’s terror attack at Parsons Green Underground station, Scotland Yard has said.
  
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• Full list of Ryanair's cancelled flights

  18-09-2017 22:12
  Ryanair has published a list of hundreds of flights it is cancelling over the next six weeks after it admitted 'messing up' pilots' holiday.
  
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• Horsey seal injured by flying ring 'making recovery'

  18-09-2017 21:13 via bbc.co.uk
  Volunteers came to the aid of a seal after its neck was trapped within a plastic flying ring.
  
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• Uber Apologises For 'Let Your Wife Take A Day Off From The Kitchen' Promotion

  18-09-2017 21:03
  Uber has apologised after its food delivery service sent out a message urging men to “let” their wives “take a day off from the kitchen”.
  
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• PM May tightens grip over Brexit talks, appoints official as EU adviser

  18-09-2017 21:03
  By Kylie MacLellanLONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May appointed the top official at the Brexit ministry as her EU adviser on Monday, taking tighter control of divorce negotiations just as Britain tries to shift the focus of talks onto the future relationship with Europe."In order to strengthen cross-government co-ordination of the next phase of negotiations with the European Union, the Prime Minister has appointed Oliver Robbins as her EU Adviser in the Cabinet Office, in addition to h
  
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• Parsons Green tube bomb: CCTV appears to show suspect with bag

  18-09-2017 20:59
  Fresh footage has emerged that appears to show the Parsons Green bomb suspect carrying a Lidl carrier bag on the morning of the attack.The video, obtained by the Press Association, shows a figure dressed in grey carrying the distinctive carrier bag.The new footage was obtained from a camera outside Ecco La Vera pizzeria on Vicarage Road in Sunbury-on-Thames, which is just minutes away from the foster home of the suspect.
  
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• 'It's RIDICULOUS' Council workers slammed after painting double yellows OVER potholes

  18-09-2017 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  COUNCIL workers have been slammed after painting double yellow lines straight into a series of deep potholes instead of filling them in.
  
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• European Union members DON'T CARE about Brexit, European Commissioner reveals

  18-09-2017 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXIT is not a priority to the remaining 27 members of the European Union, the first vice-president of the European Commission Frans Timmermans claimed.
  
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• Vince Cable lashes at UK Government for 'LETTING COUNTRY DOWN' during Brexit

  18-09-2017 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  LIBERAL DEMOCRATS leader Sir Vince Cable slammed Prime Minister Theresa May and her Government for "letting the country down" with their preparations for the Brexit negotiations.
  
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• These refugees stayed at Donald Trump’s childhood home

  18-09-2017 20:35
  The three-storey Tudor-style home in Queens was built by the US president’s father, Fred.
  
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• Shell Deer Park refinery to finish restart this week - sources

  18-09-2017 20:12
  HOUSTON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plcplans to complete the restart of its 325,700 barrel per day (bpd) joint-venture Deer Park, Texas, refinery this week, said sources familiar with plant operations. Shell spokesman Ray Fisher said the refinery's restart after being shut on Aug. 27 by Hurricane Harvey is "progressing as planned." (Reporting by Erwin Seba; Editing by Chris Reese)
  
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• Photo released of baby boy abandoned in an east London park

  18-09-2017 19:55
  A picture has been released of a baby boy abandoned in east London, with the police saying they are "very worried" about his mother's well-being.The infant - named Harry - was discovered in a park in Plaistow at about 8.20am on Sunday morning.Officers and paramedics found him wrapped in a white blanket, and he is now "doing well under the care of hospital staff".
  
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• The nation is tiring of Boris’s vainglorious act | Letters

  18-09-2017 19:51
  ‘He should leave the political stage before he does any more damage’, writes Andrew Colley.Boris Johnson certainly is yesterday’s novelty (Opinion, 18 September).It is inevitable that he will be replaced by a newer and more exciting brand, which is that of Jacob Rees-Mogg.
  
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• Feminists in Hyde Park punch-up with transgender group over who is the most radical

  18-09-2017 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  A PUBLIC discussion over transgender rights erupted into a brawl between radical feminists and transgender activists. 
  
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• Labour conundrum on rules to combat antisemitism | Letters

  18-09-2017 19:47
  As an active member of the Labour party who happens to be Jewish, I found your piece about the party rules and antisemitism laughable and alarming in equal measure (Report, 18 September).You quote Mike Katz saying it “could be a big, healing moment for the party” if conference next week approves a rule change that the pro-Israel Jewish Labour Movement (JLM), of which he is vice-chair, has been pushing for over a year now.This change would enshrine in party statutes the idea that harb
  
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• Brexit trade deal with Canada will be EVEN BETTER than EU's Ceta agreement says Trudeau

  18-09-2017 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  A NEW Brexit trade deal between the United Kingdom and Canada will be even better than the current Ceta agreement with the European Union, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
  
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• Brexit means UK can TAKE A STAND against farm animal cruelty, campaigner declares

  18-09-2017 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXIT will give the UK the "unique" opportunity to take a stand against the mistreatment of animals involved in live trade with the European Union, animal welfare campaigner Emma Slawinski said.
  
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• Theresa May said ‘Boris is Boris’ over Brexit intervention and everyone’s thinking the same thing

  18-09-2017 19:27
  Remind you of anything else?
  
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• Labour conference: most grassroots delegates support Corbyn, poll finds

  18-09-2017 19:07
  Labour’s ruling national executive is scheduled to discuss on Tuesday resolutions to be put before conference.The overwhelming majority of grassroots delegates attending next week’s Labour conference in Brighton are Jeremy Corbyn supporters who support reforms to democratise the party, according to data compiled by Momentum.The Corbyn-supporting group believes that of the 1,155 delegates chosen by constituency parties to attend the conference, 844 back reforms proposed by Momentum wh
  
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• 'Holiday disaster'

  18-09-2017 19:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Many passengers hit by the cancellation of Ryanair flights across Europe have been telling their stories.
  
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• EU gives nod to RBS competition plan, lifting state aid curbs

  18-09-2017 18:52
  European Union regulators approved a British plan allowing bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotlandto support smaller alternative banks with funds totalling around 835 million pounds ($1.1 billion) to encourage competition.The British government struck a deal with the European Commission in July for the plan, after RBS was unable to sell business banking unit Williams & Glyn and failed to meet one of the conditions of its 45 billion pound bailout.The deal is significant for RBS as it ends the bank'
  
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• 'Premier league' arms dealer Umair Khan jailed after buying grenade on dark web

  18-09-2017 18:50
  An arms dealer has been jailed for 22 years after using the dark web to source and supply guns and ammunition to organised crime groups.Under the alias 'cheeko412', Umair Khan bought large numbers of custom-made explosives, ammunition and stun guns from outside the UK.The 22-year-old was arrested on 20 February after arranging for a hand grenade to be delivered to his home in Bordesley Green, Birmingham.
  
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• Parsons Green Tube bombing: CCTV shows suspect with Lidl bag

  18-09-2017 18:49 via bbc.co.uk
  New footage captures a man in Sunbury-on-Thames in Surrey, where police are now searching a property.
  
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• Theresa May to raise Bombardier dispute with Canada's Justin Trudeau

  18-09-2017 18:33
  Theresa May has promised to do "all she can" to head off a trade dispute threatening thousands of jobs in Northern Ireland as part of her top-level talks with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Mrs May told reporters on her official plane that she wanted to find a resolution to the dispute between Canadian aerospace manufacturer Bombardier and its American rival Boeing, amid fears for 4,500 jobs at a Belfast factory run by the Canadian company.Bombardier has been accused by Boeing of receivi
  
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• 'Why jump in?' Tony Blair challenged over relevance after latest bid to THWART Brexit

  18-09-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  TONY BLAIR was challenged over his relevance to the Brexit debate after launching his latest attempt to thwart Britain’s European Union divorce.
  
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• This Is Not News: Our Clients In Brook House IRC Have Been Complaining About Abuse From G4S Detention Officers For Years

  18-09-2017 18:28
  This is the advice undercover reporter Callum Tulley receives from a fellow G4S detainee custody officer at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, in footage aired last week on BBC Panorama, on how to treat someone under 'suicide watch'.
  
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• Racism And Language

  18-09-2017 18:27
  The concept of whether words are harmful or not is one of the contentions in the free speech debate.
  
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• Stop Asking The Taliban To Surrender

  18-09-2017 18:26
  Imagine for a second that you are a member of the Taliban.
  
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• Ryanair 'mess up'

  18-09-2017 18:21 via bbc.co.uk
  The Civil Aviation Authority advises passengers not to cancel their flights themselves.
  
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• May tightens grip over Brexit talks, appoints official as EU adviser

  18-09-2017 18:17
  By Kylie MacLellanLONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May appointed the top official at the Brexit ministry as her EU adviser on Monday, taking tighter control of divorce negotiations just as Britain tries to shift the focus of talks onto the future relationship with Europe."In order to strengthen cross-government co-ordination of the next phase of negotiations with the European Union, the Prime Minister has appointed Oliver Robbins as her EU Adviser in the Cabinet Office, in addition to h
  
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• Deadly Portuguese Man O War wash up on Cornish coast after 'large numbers' invade beach

  18-09-2017 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  LARGE numbers of potentially deadly Portuguese man-of-war have washed up on a Cornish beach, forcing it to be closed.
  
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• No evidence to link London attack directly to militant groups - U.S. sources

  18-09-2017 18:14
  By Mark HosenballLONDON (Reuters) - British police and spy agencies have not found evidence that last week's attack on a London commuter train was ordered or organised by a recognised militant group, according to U.S. and British government sources familiar with the investigation.Counter-terrorism officers have arrested two men after a crude homemade bomb sent flames shooting through a packed carriage at west London's Parsons Green underground station during the Friday morning rush hour, injurin
  
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• Brexit: Vince Cable lashes at UK Government for 'LETTING COUNTRY DOWN'

  18-09-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  LIBERAL DEMOCRATS leader Sir Vince Cable slammed Prime Minister Theresa May and her Government for "letting the country down" with their preparations for the Brexit negotiations.
  
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• Boris Johnson Gets A Slapdown From Theresa May And Pat On The Back From Donald Trump

  18-09-2017 18:00
  Boris Johnson has been publicly reprimanded by Theresa May for his controversial Brexit intervention - as the Foreign Secretary received a pat on the back from US President Donald Trump.
  
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• 'This country is in a right old mess' Owen Jones insists UK is reeling from Brexit

  18-09-2017 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXIT has left the United Kingdom “in a right old state”, according to Remainer commentator Owen Jones – who blames the Conservative Government for its role.
  
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