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• Someone’s noticed something very unfortunate about the logo on this mousetrap

  06-10-2017 23:59
  Oh dear.
  
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• Wolfenstein II Is Upsetting People Because It's About Killing Nazis

  06-10-2017 22:54
  And since that fateful annus horribilis the world has learned a number of important lessons, one of which is - being a Nazi isn’t OK.
  
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• McDonald’s has made its first ever vegan burger and it’s making waves on the internet

  06-10-2017 22:34
  You can probably guess what it’s called…
  
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• Bombardier hit with new US tariff as trade row rumbles on

  06-10-2017 22:18
  Bombardier has been hit with another trade tariff, as the international dispute that threatens thousands of jobs in Northern Ireland rumbles on.The Canadian firm, which employs 4,000 people in Belfast, has been slapped with a second preliminary levy of 80% on the exports of its planes to the US, the Trump administration announced on Friday.Bombardier is already facing a 220% tariff on a new model of passenger jet as part of a separate investigation into claims from US firm Boeing that it receive
  
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• British tourist faces jail in Dubai after brushing against man in bar

  06-10-2017 21:48 via theguardian.com
  Stirling electrician arrested for indecency put his hand out to stop drink spilling and touched man on hip, say friends A British tourist is facing a three-year jail sentence in Dubai after putting his hand out in a bar to stop himself spilling his drink and touching a man’s hip, according to his representatives.Campaign group Detained in Dubai said Jamie Harron, from Stirling, central Scotland, was arrested for public indecency. Harron is said to have since lost his job and has spent more
  
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• Briton Toby Robyns 'delighted' to be home after Turkey 'smuggled' coins arrest

  06-10-2017 21:22
  A British tourist held in a Turkish jail after he was accused of trying to smuggle ancient coins out of the country has said he is "delighted and relieved" to be home.Father-of-five Toby Robyns was detained at Bodrum Airport on 19 August, when security staff reportedly found around 12 coins in his bags.Mr Robyns, 52, returned home to Southwick in West Sussex on Monday after he was released by the Turkish authorities.
  
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• This grandma thought she’d bought a children’s book, but made a terrible mistake

  06-10-2017 21:19
  Warning: If Animals Could Talk is NSFW.
  
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• Sack Boris Johnson and reshuffle cabinet, senior Tories to tell May

  06-10-2017 20:25
  Theresa May must sack Boris Johnson and shake up her cabinet if she is to reassert her authority and silence talk of a leadership plot in the wake of this week’s calamitous party conference, Conservative MPs will tell her.Few backbenchers were willing to give their public backing on Friday to Grant Shapps, the former party chairman who emerged as the prime mover behind a bid to gather enough MPs to convince the prime minister to step down.Younger backbenchers are also anxious to see a new
  
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• Ferrari showroom cleaners strike for living wage: 'They want us out'

  06-10-2017 20:05 via theguardian.com
  London pair suspended without pay after asking for an increase to their £7.50-an-hour wage after five years of serviceBest friends Freddy Lopez and Angelica Valencia Bolanos have spent six evenings a week for the past five years polishing the white tiled floors of the Ferrari and Maserati showrooms in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea – London’s richest district.Although the work is arduous and has left them struggling with health problems, they enjoyed their jobs a
  
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• The Guardian view of the white nationalists: tomorrow must not belong to them | Editorial

  06-10-2017 20:01
  Steve Bannon, the leader of Breitbart who went on to become Donald Trump’s chief strategist before leaving the White House earlier this year.A blond youth on a small stage sings America the Beautiful with camp stylings for an audience whose neo-Nazi members give him enthusiastic Hitler salutes: the grotty little cabaret turn captured on video could have come straight from Cabaret, the musical about Berlin in the last days of the Weimar Republic.
  
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• 'I see Liz looking down saying "That were nice"'

  06-10-2017 19:50
  The funeral for Liz Dawn, who portrayed Coronation Street's Vera Duckworth, was attended by her co-stars from the show.
  
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• Bus Driver Launches 'Appalling' Tirade Against Disabled Passenger Trying To Board

  06-10-2017 19:44
  A London bus driver has been filmed in a remarkable altercation with a disabled man trying to board her vehicle.
  
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• Liberal guilt is over cosying up to the corporate elite | Letters

  06-10-2017 19:35
  ‘These days, liberals are most likely to be found defending the actions of people like Clinton and Obama or, in this country, Tony Blair ... whose pursuit of neoliberal policies have done so much to produce the present broken societies,’ writes Hedley Taylor.Devorah Baum (The long read, 3 October) refers to the guilt which modern-day liberals feel because they have lost faith in utopian politics and realise they are acting out of self-interest.The guilt, she concludes, is a sign of t
  
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• Inconvenient facts about livestock farming | Letters

  06-10-2017 19:35 via theguardian.com
  Readers respond to George Monbiot’s call for an end to raising animals for foodGeorge Monbiot’s fear of the few remaining British farmers (Goodbye – and good riddance – to livestock farming, 4 October) reached new levels when he wrote that the “rich mosaic of rainforest and other habitats that once covered our hills has been erased” and blamed us for the tectonic drift that moved Britain from the equator towards the Arctic, perhaps 300m years ago. In the rest
  
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• Prince Harry to guest edit Radio 4's Today programme

  06-10-2017 19:34 via theguardian.com
  Editor Sarah Sands confirms royal input into Christmas special edition of BBC news programmePrince Harry is to guest edit Today, BBC radio’s flagship news and current affairs programme. The programme’s editor, Sarah Sands, said Harry would edit one of the Christmas specials, when a range of guest editors are traditionally deployed. Continue reading...
  
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• Prince Harry to guest edit Radio 4's Today programme

  06-10-2017 19:34
  Prince Harry is to guest edit Radio 4’s Today programme.Prince Harry is to guest edit Today, BBC radio’s flagship news and current affairs programme.The programme’s editor, Sarah Sands, said Harry would edit one of the Christmas specials, when a range of guest editors are traditionally deployed.
  
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• My mother caused a splash with Margaret Thatcher over washing | Letters

  06-10-2017 19:34
  Other people’s washing habits are not a new subject for media frenzy (Letters, 6 October).In 1961, my mother wrote an article in Family Doctor, a magazine of the British Medical Association, suggesting that cleanliness was not necessarily the most important thing for parents to focus on.Margaret Thatcher MP, the mother of twins, was happy to contribute.
  
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• Boris, Lyndon and Johnsons in the tent | Brief letters

  06-10-2017 19:34
  Reader Peter Clark suggests that the foreign secretary has defied one of Lyndon Johnson’s political principles.Sorry to be a pedantic killjoy, but you can’t voluntarily pay extra tax (Letters, 4 October).If you pay more tax than you owe, it will sit as a credit on your HMRC tax account to be offset against your future liabilities.
  
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• Murdoch’s News Group admits benefiting from hacking of army officer's emails

  06-10-2017 19:33 via theguardian.com
  Publisher to pay damages to Ian Hurst after admitting ‘vicarious liability’ as Labour calls for case to be taken into account in assessing Murdoch bid to buy Sky
  Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers, the publisher of the Sun and the now-closed News of the World, has apologised in court and agreed to pay damages to a former army intelligence officer whose computer and emails were hacked.In a hearing at the high court on Friday, News Group admitted that a private investigations
  
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• Murdoch’s News Group admits benefiting from hacking of army officer's emails

  06-10-2017 19:33
  Information hacked from the computer of Ian Hurst was sent to News Group Newspapers.Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers, the publisher of the Sun and the now-closed News of the World, has apologised in court and agreed to pay damages to a former army intelligence officer whose computer and emails were hacked.In a hearing at the high court on Friday, News Group admitted that a private investigations firm had hacked the computer of Ian Hurst and that its boss, Jonathan Rees, had then sent
  
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• Baby sleep positioners pulled by major retailers over links to suffocation deaths

  06-10-2017 19:27
  Tesco, John Lewis, Mothercare and eBay have all removed some items following a warning from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that they "could lead to death".The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has backed calls for the "unnecessary" products not to be used.The FDA has linked the products to at least 12 baby deaths in the US, which occurred when infants aged between one and four months suffocated after rolling from their side to their front.
  
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• Only three MPs call for Theresa May to resign imminently, Sky poll finds

  06-10-2017 19:05
  An overwhelming number of Tory MPs do not want Theresa May to resign imminently over concerns about her leadership.Only three MPs have admitted to Sky News that they want the Prime Minister to go, after former party chairman Grant Shapps said 30 wanted her to stand down.Sky News contacted more than 250 MPs, and of the 104 who either replied or spoke publicly, 101 said there should be no immediate change to the leadership.
  
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• Tories defend Theresa May against plotters

  06-10-2017 19:00
  Conservative MPs have come to the defences of the embattled Prime Minister
  
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• Former PM Cameron lands new job, first commercial role since leaving office

  06-10-2017 19:00
  Former British prime minister David Cameron, who stepped down abruptly last year after failing to convince British voters to remain in the EU, has been appointed to his first high profile commercial role.Cameron will take on an advisory post with the U.S.-based First Data Corp., which handles credit- and debit-card transactions for around 6 million merchants worldwide, the company said in a statement on Friday.In this role, Cameron will focus on consolidating First Data's base in its key markets
  
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• New Activists: Episode Ten Of HuffPost UK's Docu-Reality Series

  06-10-2017 18:48
  HuffPost UK has launched New Activists, a daily docu-reality series following the lives of young people who are changing the world.
  
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• Teacher Alice McBrearty jailed for sex with 15-year-old schoolboy

  06-10-2017 18:44
  A "disgraced" former teacher has been jailed for 16 months after admitting to a "full-blown sexual relationship" with a 15-year-old schoolboy.Alice McBrearty, 23, had a four-month "romance" with the teenager, who was one of her pupils.Jurors at Snaresbrook Crown Court heard how she kissed the teenager in a classroom and had sex with him at an Ibis hotel.
  
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• UK retailers halt sale of baby sleep positioners after US warning

  06-10-2017 18:35 via theguardian.com
  US regulator has linked products to at least 12 baby deaths in America, prompting action by firms including TescoSeveral UK retailers have stopped selling baby sleep positioners amid fears they can cause babies to suffocate.The positioners, sometimes called nests or wedges, are intended to keep the baby in one place on their back and are marketed as suitable for use for infants of up to six months of age. Continue reading...
  
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• Ministers 'refusing to pay for fire safety measures' after Grenfell

  06-10-2017 18:33 via theguardian.com
  Councils accuse government of washing its hands of problem after earlier promising that money would be no objectCouncils have said the government is failing to release funds to improve the fire safety of dozens of tower blocks following the Grenfell Tower disaster despite promising that a lack of financial resources should not stand in the way of essential works.Ministers have said building owners are responsible for funding safety measures, but town hall leaders complain that they are “wa
  
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• Ministers 'refusing to pay for fire safety measures' after Grenfell

  06-10-2017 18:33
  Councils have said the government is failing to release funds to improve the fire safety of dozens of tower blocks following the Grenfell Tower disaster despite promising that a lack of financial resources should not stand in the way of essential works.Ministers have said building owners are responsible for funding safety measures, but town hall leaders complain that they are “washing their hands of their responsibilities” and are being “dismissive”, four months after the
  
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• Liz Dawn funeral: Coronation Street stars say final goodbyes to Vera Duckworth

  06-10-2017 18:28
  Coronation Street stars have paid tribute to "true inspiration" Liz Dawn at her funeral.Former on-screen colleagues of the star, who played Vera Duckworth on the long-running TV show for 34 years, arrived at Salford Cathedral to pay their respects on Friday.The 77-year-old's funeral saw a whole coachload of actors from the ITV series arrive ahead of the service.
  
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• Swedish model gets rape threats after ad shows her unshaved legs

  06-10-2017 18:20 via theguardian.com
  Arvida Byström is bombarded with online abuse after posing for Adidas video with hairy legs A Swedish model says she has received rape threats for posing in an advertisement with unshaved legs.Arvida Byström, who is also a photographer and digital artist, appears in a video and photograph promoting Adidas Originals’ Superstar range. Byström, who has described the norm for women to shave as “fucked”, has hairy legs in the images and says she has faced a vicious ba
  
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• Grant Shapps: Who is Tory MP leading plot against Theresa May

  06-10-2017 18:18
  Grant Shapps has hit the headlines and sparked a Conservative Party feud by leading a plot to oust Theresa May.The 49-year-old former Conservative Party chairman and David Cameron loyalist has had a long and chequered career.Mr Shapps was born in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire and went to a grammar school in nearby Watford.
  
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• Record EuroMillions jackpot: What could you buy with £169m?

  06-10-2017 18:05
  The biggest Lottery jackpot ever on offer in the UK could be won on Friday.The top prize in the EuroMillions draw is an estimated £169m and if an individual wins it they would automatically become the joint 671st richest person in the UK.Properties in Kensington Palace Gardens in west London are currently on the market for an average of some £35m, but with your newfound riches you could sort yourself and your closest friends and family out with a swish new pad.
  
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• A Guide To Why Mass Shootings Don't Change American Gun Laws

  06-10-2017 18:02
  “There is less hope than ever for fundamental reform of America’s gun laws,” former congressman Steve Israel tells HuffPost.
  
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• 2 Sisters warned in 2009 staff could be changing poultry label dates, says MP

  06-10-2017 18:01 via theguardian.com
  Shadow business secretary’s claim comes as food watchdog widens investigation into scandal-hit supermarket supplierThe 2 Sisters Food Group was warned eight years ago that staff could be changing the dates on its chicken products, it has emerged as food industry regulators widened their investigation into the business to 12 poultry processing plants operated by the company.Jack Dromey, the shadow business secretary, said he had told the multimillionaire owner of 2 Sisters, Ranjit Singh Bop
  
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• Now you can write your own sign to fall down behind Theresa May

  06-10-2017 17:54
  Procrastination of the highest order.
  
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• 'Like a communist regime'

  06-10-2017 17:43 via bbc.co.uk
  A pilot says colleagues are leaving the airline in a mass exodus due to a "toxic atmosphere".
  
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• This Must Be The Start, And Not The End, Of Building More Social Homes

  06-10-2017 17:39
  Somewhat eclipsed by the kerfuffle over coughs, P45s and dodgy sets, was the welcome announcement by the Prime Minister of a new direction on building social homes.
  
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• A Shift To An Opt-Out Organ Donation Is Welcome But We Must Talk More About Death

  06-10-2017 17:32
  I think it is fair to say that Theresa May's conference speech is unlikely to make it into the next edition of "speeches that saved the world".
  
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• Pink Sari Revolution review – scorching truths from fight against patriarchy

  06-10-2017 17:31 via theguardian.com
  Curve, Leicester
  This slow-burning drama is adapted from Amana Fontanella-Khan’s book about Indian women’s rights campaigner Sampat Pal and her trailblazing Gulabi GangMasculinity is a weapon in Uttar Pradesh, where corruption breathes easily. Based on a book by Guardian journalist Amana Fontanella-Khan, Pink Sari Revolution shows the extent of male violence that goes unchallenged in the Indian state, and the personal cost of taking it on.The consequences of domestic abuse spill on t
  
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• Emirates A380 Makes Bumpy Landing During Storm Xavier

  06-10-2017 17:11
  An Airbus A380 is 73 metres long, weighs around 575 tonnes and costs a whopping £335 million pounds and as such requires more than a little skill to pilot without risking the 525+ people on board.
  
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