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• Wetherspoons Gets Withering Sunday Times Review And It's Made People Furious

  29-10-2017 23:20
  But a newly-opened branch of Wetherspoons has prompted a brutal review by a Sunday Times restaurant critic that has opened up a fierce debate about food snobbery and class.
  
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• Wetherspoon's Gets Withering Sunday Times Review And It's Made People Furious

  29-10-2017 23:20
  But a newly-opened branch of Wetherspoons has prompted a brutal review by a Sunday Times restaurant critic that has opened up a fierce debate about food snobbery and class.
  
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• Wetherspoon Gets Withering Sunday Times Review And It's Made People Furious

  29-10-2017 23:20
  But a newly-opened branch of Wetherspoons has prompted a brutal review by a Sunday Times restaurant critic that has opened up a fierce debate about food snobbery and class.
  
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• Where does Lewis Hamilton rank among F1's greats after fourth world title?

  29-10-2017 23:08
  Lewis Hamilton has become Britain's most successful F1 driver after winning his fourth world championship.Hamilton secured his fourth title at the Mexican Grand Prix with the feat taking him clear of three-time world champion Sir Jackie Stewart on the roll-call of British F1 champions.Hamilton's fourth championship also makes him only the fifth driver in F1 to reach the landmark, after Juan Manuel Fangio, Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel.
  
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• Lewis Hamilton wins fourth Formula One world championship

  29-10-2017 23:06
  British driver Lewis Hamilton has secured his fourth Formula One world championship.Hamilton, 32, is now the most successful British F1 driver ever, passing 70s great Sir Jackie Stewart's three world titles.:: Where does Lewis Hamilton rank among F1's greats after fourth world title?
  
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• Blue Planet II review: the ocean as you've never seen it before

  29-10-2017 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Bird-eating fish, surfing dolphins, rafts of sea otters … there are some extraordinary things going on under the sea, as David Attenborough’s brilliant new series revealsA man stands at the front of a ship, looking out. DiCaprio? Soon to be joined by Winslet? And Dion: Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you …Thankfully not, though this will be going the same way – deep down there. This man is older (91) and wiser. He is David Attenborough, of course, and this i
  
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• Driving ambition

  29-10-2017 21:41 via bbc.co.uk
  How long before Lewis Hamilton beats Michael Schumacher's records? Plus, vote who is the most talented F1 driver of all time.
  
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• Just when you thought this meme was over, a Halloween costume brought it back from the dead

  29-10-2017 21:16
  Is this the Halloween costume of 2017?
  
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• Theresa May to crack down as sex harassment allegations grow

  29-10-2017 21:00
  Theresa May has insisted that she is determined to take tough action to protect Westminster staff against sexual harassment as MPs in both major parties predicted more sleaze allegations would emerge in the coming days.The prime minister wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, calling on him establish an independent mediation service for staff wanting to raise concerns about MPs’ behaviour and to enforce a grievance procedure which is currently voluntary.The Independent
  
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• Prisoners On Day Release 'Will Be Allowed To Return Home To Vote' - Reports

  29-10-2017 20:45
  Theresa May is to risk incurring the wrath of Conservative MPs by granting voting rights to some prisoners, it has been reported.
  
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• England and Wales police in need of £1.3bn to tackle crime and terrorism

  29-10-2017 19:38
  APCC requests extra funds to pay for 5,000 more officers and an additional 1,100 armed police force members.Police forces in England and Wales will need nearly £1.3bn extra between 2018 and 2020 to tackle crime, police and crime commissioners have said.The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APPC) said an extra £440m would be required in 2018-19 and £845m more in the following financial year.
  
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• Theresa May Bemoans 'Toothless' Process To Discipline MPs After Sexual Harassment Allegations

  29-10-2017 19:08
  Theresa May has called for a new system to complain about the behaviour of MPs after allegations of a sexual harassment culture in Parliament emerged in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein abuse scandal.
  
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• Twitter is debating the composition of Google’s burger emoji, and now the CEO has had his say

  29-10-2017 18:24
  Cheese on top? Tomato on the bottom? And what do you do with the lettuce?
  
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• Government risks anger over 'plans to allow prisoners to vote'

  29-10-2017 18:11
  The Government is risking backbench anger amid reports prisoners are to be granted the vote.Justice Secretary David Lidington is ready to unveil plans to overturn the current blanket ban on prisoners voting in any elections, it has emerged.According to the Sunday Times, ministers have been informed of a proposal to allow those criminals who are let out on day-release to head to polling stations.
  
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• UK's pre-summit push to 'divide and rule EU 27' impeded Brexit talks

  29-10-2017 17:54
  The European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, had previously cautioned the UK not to appeal directly to individual EU 27 leaders.The British government’s attempt to lobby individual EU leaders in the run-up to the recent crunch EU summit, where member states were to judge the progress of the negotiations, actively damaged Theresa May’s hopes of a better outcome, the Guardian has learned.A secret plan had been drawn up under which the EU leaders would have made the surprise
  
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• UK's pre-summit push to 'divide and rule EU 27 impeded Brexit talks'

  29-10-2017 17:54
  The European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, had previously cautioned the UK not to appeal directly to individual EU 27 leaders.The British government’s attempt to lobby individual EU leaders in the run-up to the recent crunch EU summit, where member states were to judge the progress of the negotiations, actively damaged Theresa May’s hopes of a better outcome, the Guardian has learned.A secret plan had been drawn up under which the EU leaders would have made the surprise
  
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• Teenage boy dies after 'taking ecstasy' at Halloween rave

  29-10-2017 17:48
  A teenager has died after apparently taking ecstasy-type tablets at a Halloween party in Wales.Police were called at 1am on Sunday morning by paramedics when the 16-year-old boy became ill at a rave in Gwytherin, near Abergele, Conwy.North Wales Police and the Betsi Cadwaldr University Health Board issued a warning following the death.
  
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• BBC pay gap: women working with lawyers on potential legal action

  29-10-2017 17:24
  More than 40 high-profile female presenters – including Fiona Bruce, pictured – have publicly called on the BBC to change.At least 10 senior women at the BBC are working with lawyers about the gender pay gap at the corporation and could take legal action if talks with the broadcaster fail to resolve the issue.The women are being advised by the City law firm Mishcon de Reya but other law firms are also understood to be working with BBC employees about pay.
  
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• Northern Ireland parties in late push to save Stormont

  29-10-2017 17:14
  Northern Ireland's two largest parties have just hours left to reach agreement on restoring devolved government or face the return of direct rule from Westminster.Ten months after the power-sharing administration collapsed, the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Fein will resume negotiations on Monday in a last-ditch effort to save Stormont.Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire MP has publicly stated that they need a deal by Monday or Westminster, not Stormont, will set Northern Ireland's budg
  
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• Coronation Street star Bruno Langley leaves show after internal inquiry

  29-10-2017 17:10
  Coronation Street actor Bruno Langley is no longer a member of the cast following allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards a woman in a Manchester nightclub.A spokesperson for ITV confirmed Langley, who has played Todd Grimshaw on and off since 2001, was no longer contracted to the long-running soap.Langley said in a statement: "Sadly, I will no longer be working on Coronation Street.
  
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• Elfyn Evans wins 2017 Wales Rally GB

  29-10-2017 16:56
  Elfyn Evans wins 2017 Wales Rally GB
  
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• UK most attractive European country for employers and staff

  29-10-2017 16:38
  Paris comes second to London, whose broader catchment area gives it access to a bigger workforce beyond the M25.The UK is still the most attractive European country for employers and staff, despite the uncertainty created by the Brexit vote, according to a report by Colliers International.A combination of talent, location, quality of life and cost puts Britain ahead, the commercial property company said.
  
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• Boy, 15, falls from footbridge at Trafford Centre in Manchester

  29-10-2017 16:29
  Police have launched an appeal after a 15-year-old boy fell from a Manchester shopping centre footbridge leaving him in a critical condition.Greater Manchester Police said the teenager remained in hospital following the fall from the covered walkway at the Trafford Centre at about 8.15pm on Saturday.Det Sgt Stephen Warriner said: "This is a tragic incident which has left a boy fighting for his life in hospital.
  
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• Police Record Average Of More Than 150 Internet-Fuelled Crimes Daily

  29-10-2017 16:22
  More than 150 internet-fuelled crimes are recorded by police every day on average as a mounting number of investigations centre on cyber space.
  
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• Blue Planet 2: An Exclusive Tour Of The Research Vessel That Made It All Happen

  29-10-2017 16:01
  We took an exclusive tour of the research vessel, Alucia, which was used in the making of Blue Planet 2.  Peter Fielding, Alucia’s captain, gave HuffPost UK an exciting sneak peek into how the BBC crew used the ship to create the landmark series.
  
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• Silicon Valley helped Russia sway the US election. So now what? | Emily Bell

  29-10-2017 16:00
  Almost a year after the shock election of Donald Trump, the communication tactics and tools that helped him win power remain the most controversial issue in American politics and media.The 2016 “October surprise” was, in retrospect, not so much the leak of Hillary Clinton’s boring emails as the realisation that Silicon Valley had accidentally built a highly efficient real-time trading system for targeted propaganda.On Wednesday, lawyers from Twitter, Facebook and Google will he
  
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• Ed Balls was there for Washington DC Police’s Twitter account after their Balls-style tweet

  29-10-2017 15:53
  Have no fear, Ed Balls is here.
  
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• Onward Christian Soldiers dropped from local Remembrance Sunday service

  29-10-2017 15:22
  Rev Steve Bailey took his decision with the agreement of the local branch of the British Legion, but some members are upset at the move.A vicar has dropped the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers from a Remembrance Sunday service next month because of the participation of non-Christians in the commemoration.Some members of the Royal British Legion social club in Oadby, Leicestershire, are threatening to boycott the service or sing the 19th-century hymn outside the church in protest.
  
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• Gwytherin Death: Boy, 16, Dies After Suspected Ecstasy-Type Drug Overdose In Wales

  29-10-2017 15:19
  A 16-year-old boy has died after he was believed to have taken ecstasy-type tablets at a Halloween rave.
  
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• How the actual magic money tree works

  29-10-2017 15:00 via theguardian.com
  85% of MPs were unaware that new money is created every time a bank extends a loan. Were you?
  Shock data shows that most MPs do not know how money is created. Responding to a survey commissioned by Positive Money just before the June election, 85% were unaware that new money was created every time a commercial bank extended a loan, while 70% thought that only the government had the power to create new money.The results are only a shock if you didn’t see the last poll of MPs on exactly this
  
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• A&E wait times of more than four hours to affect a million more people

  29-10-2017 15:00
  A million more patients could face waits of more than four hours in NHS A&E wards in England by 2019-20 in the absence of urgent action to address rising demand, the British Medical Association has said.Analysis by the doctors’ union, shared exclusively with the Guardian, projects that the number of people attending emergency wards and waiting more than four hours to be treated could reach 3.7 million in three years’ time, up from 2.6 million in the year ending September 2017.If
  
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• British minister to be investigated over sexual harassment allegation

  29-10-2017 14:21
  British Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered an investigation into a report that one of her ministers asked a female secretary to buy sex toys for him, as she tries to tackle a culture of sexual harassment in politics.Mark Garnier, a junior international trade minister, asked secretary Caroline Edmondson to buy two sex toys and he also called her "sugar tits", the Mail on Sunday reported.Garnier told the newspaper that the comment was part of an amusing conversation about a television show, an
  
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• Little storm of frustrated machismo over 10th round stoppage highlights rising expectations around Anthony Joshua - Telegraph.co.uk

  29-10-2017 14:14 via telegraph.co.uk
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  Little storm of frustrated machismo over 10th round stoppage highlights rising expectations around Anthony Joshua
  Telegraph.co.uk
  Anthony Joshua gave them 10 entertaining rounds and plenty of gore, but still they booed and moaned about value for money on their TV screens. Britain's world heavyweight champion said of his previously pristine trunks and boots, “everything was white, ...
  Anthony Joshua wasn't perfect, but he fought Carlos Takam with a patience, brain and
  
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• Former Monarch owner makes profit-share pledge to taxpayers

  29-10-2017 14:14
  The former owner of Monarch has pledged to use part of any profit it makes from the collapsed airline to compensate taxpayers saddled with a £60m bill for flying holidaymakers back to the UK.Sky News has obtained a letter from Marc Meyohas, a partner at the investment firm Greybull Capital, to the chair of the Transport Select Committee, in which he acknowledges a "moral obligation [if we make a profit]...to defray the costs incurred by the Department for Transport (DfT) in repatriating Mo
  
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• 'Nobody understands your position!' Marr slams Diane Abbott over 'un-clear' Brexit policy

  29-10-2017 13:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  DIANE ABBOTT was skewered over Labour’s Brexit policy by Andrew Marr in a live BBC interview.
  
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• Catalonia independence: Huge Barcelona pro-Spain rally - BBC News

  29-10-2017 13:45 via bbc.co.uk
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  Catalonia independence: Huge Barcelona pro-Spain rally
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  Hundreds of thousands are attending a rally for Spanish unity in Barcelona after Catalonia was stripped of its autonomy for declaring independence. Many of those protesting in the region's largest city chanted that sacked Catalan leader Carles ...
  Spain: thousands join Barcelona rally against Catalan independenceThe Guardian
  The Latest: Catalan leader can run in vote 'if not in jail'Daily Mail
  Spain Is a Collection of Glue
  
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• 'Heartless' fraudsters take thousands of pounds from dying woman

  29-10-2017 13:34
  "Heartless" fraudsters conned a grandmother out of thousands of pounds hours after she was told she was going to die of cancer.Linda Gibbs died on 31 August aged 70.Hours after receiving the news, she was called by someone claiming to be from her telephone provider who told her a direct debit payment had failed.
  
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• Mark Garnier investigated by Cabinet Office over sex toy errand - BBC News

  29-10-2017 13:33 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News
  Mark Garnier investigated by Cabinet Office over sex toy errand
  BBC News
  Theresa May has ordered an investigation into claims about the conduct of minister Mark Garnier. Mr Garnier admitted asking his secretary to buy sex toys for him and calling her "sugar tits," according to the Mail on Sunday. The PM has asked the ...
  UK trade minister gave secretary money to buy sex toysFinancial Times
  Brexit minister who 'sent assistant to buy sex toys' will be investigated by Cabinet Office, Jere
  
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• Grave of weapons expert Dr David Kelly who blew whistle on Government's Iraq dossier, is moved after 'desecration' - Oxford Mail

  29-10-2017 13:30 via oxfordmail.co.uk
  Oxford Mail
  Grave of weapons expert Dr David Kelly who blew whistle on Government's Iraq dossier, is moved after 'desecration'
  Oxford Mail
  THE family of weapons inspector David Kelly were forced to dig up and move his body after conspiracy theorists 'desecrated' his grave, a national newspaper reported. Dr Kelly was buried at St Mary's Parish Church in Longworth, near Abingdon, where ...
  Iraq WMD inspector David Kelly's body removed from graveyardThe National
  Mystery as body of 'sexed up'
  
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• Body of Iraq WMD dossier scientist David Kelly exhumed

  29-10-2017 13:28
  The body of Dr David Kelly, the government chemical weapons expert who killed himself in 2003 after being outed as the source of a BBC story, has been exhumed, police have confirmed.The scientist’s family reportedly had his remains cremated after asking for the grave to be dug up because they were upset it was being “desecrated” by conspiracy theorists who believe Kelly was murdered.According to the Sunday Times, a source close to the scientist’s relatives claimed the Jus
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon To Issue Apology From Scottish Government Over Historical Gay Sex Convictions

  29-10-2017 13:08
  The First Minister will apologise on behalf of the Scottish Government to all men convicted of now-abolished gay sexual offences.
  
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• Teenage boy is still fighting for his life after horrific fall at the Trafford Centre - Metro

  29-10-2017 13:06 via metro.co.uk
  Metro
  Teenage boy is still fighting for his life after horrific fall at the Trafford Centre
  Metro
  The 15-year-old boy who fell from a footbridge in the Trafford Centre is fighting for his life, police say. The teenager fell from a footbridge at the Manchester shopping centre yesterday, resulting in serious injuries. Prisoners 'will be allowed out ...and more »
  
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• Westminster sex scandal: Cabinet to probe claims minister asked secretary to buy sex toys

  29-10-2017 13:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  JEREMY HUNT revealed in a live BBC interview that an investigation into Mark Garnier will be launched amid claims of sexual harassment.
  
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• 'Top Secret Heathrow Plans To Protect Queen' Found On Memory Stick In Street

  29-10-2017 12:33
  An investigation has been launched at Heathrow Airport after a memory stick reportedly containing confidential security information was found in the street.
  
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• Tory minister Mark Garnier investigated over sex toy admission

  29-10-2017 12:28
  International Trade minister Mark Garnier will be investigated over a possible breach of ministerial rules after he admitted asking a former aide to buy sex toys.The Cabinet Office will probe whether the Wyre Forest MP broke the Ministerial Code after he confirmed allegations made by his former secretary, including that he called her "sugar t***".Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed the investigation on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show.
  
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• Government reportedly planning to allow some UK prisoners to vote - The Guardian

  29-10-2017 12:26 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian
  Government reportedly planning to allow some UK prisoners to vote
  The Guardian
  The European court of human rights ruled that the UK's blanket ban on prisoners voting was unlawful. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Prisons and probation. Government reportedly planning to allow some UK prisoners to vote. Ministry ...
  Prisoners to be allowed to vote in Tory human rights U-turnEvening Standard
  Prisoners 'will be allowed out to vote' in government U-turnMetro
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• Government reportedly planning to allow some UK prisoners to vote

  29-10-2017 12:26
  The European court of human rights ruled that the UK’s blanket ban on prisoners voting was unlawful.The UK government is reportedly to scrap its blanket ban on prisoners being allowed to vote, 12 years after the European court of human rights ruled that it was unlawful.
  
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• Abuse claims concerning Westminster

  29-10-2017 11:55
  Any allegations of sexual harassment and abuse in Westminster are "deeply concerning", Downing Street has said.
  
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• Medical chief's solution for NHS 'safety problems'

  29-10-2017 11:50
  The way the National Health Service is organised is putting patients' lives at risk, according to the national medical director of NHS England.Professor Sir Bruce Keogh said a central system is needed to oversee patient safety across the NHS.Sir Bruce said there needs to be a way of ensuring those directives were taken up across the industry.
  
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• 160 year old clock winds the time back - but only by an hour - Daily Post North Wales

  29-10-2017 11:47 via dailypost.co.uk
  Daily Post North Wales
  160 year old clock winds the time back - but only by an hour
  Daily Post North Wales
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