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• UK Will Need To Observe New Brussels Rules *After* Brexit, Leak Reveals

  25-11-2017 23:00
  The UK could be required to follow new rules implemented by the European Union during a transition period after Brexit according to leaked plans reportedly drawn up by Brussels’ chief negotiator.
  
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• Irish warn Theresa May: change course or risk Brexit chaos

  25-11-2017 23:00
  Ireland’s European commissioner has urged Theresa May to change her Brexit plans dramatically to prevent a mounting crisis over the Irish border from derailing her hopes of an EU trade deal.The threat of a hard Irish border has emerged as the major obstacle to the prime minister’s aim of securing the green light for Brexit trade talks at a crucial summit only weeks away.Phil Hogan, the EU’s agriculture commissioner, told the Observer that it was a “very simple fact”
  
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• 'End Violence Against Women': Reclaim The Night March Shuts Down Streets

  25-11-2017 22:42
  Hundreds of women shut down streets in central London on Saturday evening as part of a Reclaim The Night march against male violence and for justice for rape survivors.
  
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• Gaia Pope: Candlelit vigil a week after teenager's body was discovered

  25-11-2017 22:11
  Gaia's family, including her parents Richard and Natasha and sister Clara, were joined by mourners who paid their respects to the teenager and held a minute's silence.The amphitheatre in the Prince Albert Gardens in Swanage, Dorset, where Gaia lived, was illuminated with candles lit in her memory.
  
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• Electoral body rejects claim by Vote Leave that it allowed donations

  25-11-2017 22:00
  Vote Leave, the official campaign to quit the EU, faces fresh questions over controversial payments it made to other anti-Europe movements during its successful referendum battle.The Electoral Commission has denied a claim by Vote Leave’s chief strategist, Dominic Cummings, that it had given them “a letter of permission” to make the donations to other campaigns, which are now under investigation.The commission announced a new investigation last week into donations Vote Leave ma
  
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• ’Irrelevant’ criminal record checks harm ex-offenders’ job hopes

  25-11-2017 21:30
  Criminal records checks ‘can affect somebody who stole two chocolate bars when they were 14 and they’re now in their 50s’, say campaigners.The criminal records system is hampering the rehabilitation of ex-offenders, according to new figures.Nearly three quarters of the million or so convictions revealed to employers each year in criminal records checks are more than a decade old.
  
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• Candlelit vigil held in Swanage for Gaia Pope

  25-11-2017 20:04 via bbc.co.uk
  Her family say they have never known anything like the "wave of love and solidarity" shown.
  
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• Former TV presenter John Leslie charged with Edinburgh nightclub sex assault

  25-11-2017 19:45
  Former television presenter John Leslie has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman at a nightclub in Edinburgh.Leslie, 52 - an ex-host of Blue Peter and Wheel Of Fortune - is alleged to have put his hand up a woman's skirt.The alleged incident is said to have taken place at ATIK in Tollcross while the 26-year-old woman was out on a hen night.
  
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• Battle of Cambrai: The tanks that changed warfare

  25-11-2017 19:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Deborah was one of 400 tanks used in the Battle of Cambrai during World War One.
  
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• Support for Irish PM's party falls as snap election nears

  25-11-2017 19:35
  Support for Ireland's governing Fine Gael party fell in a poll on Saturday as a political crisis that has left the country three days away from the calling of a snap election showed no sign of being resolved.Prime Minister Leo Varadkar's minority government was on the brink on Friday after the party propping it up submitted a motion of no confidence in the deputy prime minister, weeks before a summit on Britain's plans to leave the European Union where Ireland will play a key role.
  
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• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks on phone during march

  25-11-2017 19:11 via bbc.co.uk
  Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe thanked supporters by phone at a march urging her release from jail in Iran.
  
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• Girl gets final flowers on her 21st from dad who died from cancer five years ago

  25-11-2017 18:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Bailey Sellers has been receiving flowers from her father every year since he died from cancer when she was 16.
  
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• 'Unwise' Merkel ally ROASTED in heated clash for saying UK must be PUNISHED for Brexit

  25-11-2017 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  AN ally of Angela Merkel was lambasted as “unwise” in a live interview for saying Britain must be punished for Brexit.
  
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• Foster criticises Irish govt on 'aggressive' Brexit stance

  25-11-2017 17:40
  DUP leader Arlene Foster criticised the Irish government for demanding commitments from the UK before consenting to the next phase of Brexit negotiations.
  
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• Arlene Foster warns DUP will block any move for Northern Ireland to follow EU laws

  25-11-2017 17:32
  The Democratic Unionist Party's leader has warned she will not back any plan for Northern Ireland to adopt European regulations after Brexit.Arlene Foster told her party's conference she wanted a "sensible Brexit" with a seamless Irish border, but said Northern Ireland could not operate under different rules to the rest of the UK.Ms Foster told delegates: "We will not support any arrangements that create barriers to trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom or any suggest
  
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• Arlene Foster warns Sinn Féin time is short for NI deal

  25-11-2017 17:11 via bbc.co.uk
  DUP leader says Sinn Féin must choose between making a deal with them or having direct rule ministers.
  
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• Oxford Street panic created by 'perfect storm', psychologist says

  25-11-2017 17:06
  The timing and location of the Oxford Street "terror" scare created a "perfect storm" for people to panic, a leading psychologist has told Sky News.Dr Glenn Wilson also said shoppers who took to social media to describe the "more dramatic side of things" did so to boost their own self-esteem.Hundreds of people fled Oxford Circus Tube station on Friday just after 4.30pm, prompting numerous 999 calls to police reporting shots had been fired in the station and on Oxford Street.
  
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• Arlene Foster says DUP will prevent 'internal barriers' after Brexit

  25-11-2017 17:01
  The Democratic Unionist party, which holds the balance of power at Westminster, will use its parliamentary muscle to prevent any special post-Brexit deal for Northern Ireland that could “decouple” the region from the rest of the UK.Arlene Foster, the DUP leader, said she welcomed assurances from Theresa May that there will be no “internal barriers” between the province and Britain after the UK leaves the EU.
  
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• First openly gay ref speaks to sunrise

  25-11-2017 16:50
  Professional referee Ryan Atkin says being openly gay in football should hold no fears
  
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• Arlene Foster warns Sinn Féin time short for deal

  25-11-2017 16:50 via bbc.co.uk
  DUP leader says Sinn Féin must choose between making a deal with them or having direct rule ministers.
  
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• Business owner who exports to EU mocks Brussels chiefs over Brexit in HILARIOUS tirade

  25-11-2017 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  A BUSINESS owner who exports to the European Union mocked Brussels chiefs for their negotiations over a Brexit divorce bill in a hilarious tirade.
  
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• John Leslie charged with sexually assaulting woman in nightclub

  25-11-2017 16:35
  John Leslie will appear in court in due course, a Police Scotland spokesman said.The former Blue Peter presenter John Leslie has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman in an Edinburgh nightclub.The 52-year-old former Wheel of Fortune and This Morning star is alleged to have put his hand up the woman’s skirt.
  
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• Thompson: 'Bring Nazanin home for Xmas'

  25-11-2017 16:30
  Actor Emma Thompson has urged the government to do more to bring Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe home from Iran in time for Christmas.
  
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• Oxford Street: Police stand down after alert

  25-11-2017 16:30
  Oxford Street: Police stand down after alert
  
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• Birmingham bin strike: Council deal to end dispute accepted by union

  25-11-2017 16:25 via bbc.co.uk
  The agreement was reached two days before the dispute was due to go before the High Court.
  
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• Sky Sports anchor Simon Thomas 'crushed' by wife's death

  25-11-2017 16:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas says his wife, Gemma, just died three days after falling ill.
  
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• Northern Ireland's DUP says will not accept different rules to rest of UK

  25-11-2017 16:14
  The Northern Irish party propping up Britain's minority government will not support any Brexit deal that sees the province operate under different regulations to the rest of the United Kingdom, its leader said on Saturday.The border between EU-member Ireland and Northern Ireland, which will be the UK's only land frontier with the bloc after its departure, is one of three issues Brussels wants broadly solved over the next 10 days before it decides whether to move the talks onto a second phase abo
  
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• Jailed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says 'I cannot wait to be home'

  25-11-2017 16:14
  Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe phoned in to speak to friends and relatives at a march in support of the campaign to bring the British-Iranian dual national home.Among the dozens of people who attended the march in Hampstead, north London, was actress Emma Thompson who came to show her support despite suffering from pneumonia.A group of mothers who attended the rally went on to deliver a letter which they hope to be sent on to the leader of Iran calling for clemency for the mother of one.
  
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• This Year, Reclaim The Night Is More Significant Than Ever

  25-11-2017 16:03
  Please don’t ask me, “what about male victims”, Okay?
  
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• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case: Emma Thompson urges government to help

  25-11-2017 16:03 via bbc.co.uk
  Actress Emma Thompson urges Boris Johnson to help jailed mum Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
  
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• Nazanin Zaghari-Racliffe Rally: Emma Thompson Accuses Boris Johnson Of Doing 'Sweet FA' To Free Her

  25-11-2017 16:01
  Actress Emma Thompson has accused Boris Johnson of doing “sweet FA” for the British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Iran.
  
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• Mum's fury as yob SPITS on nine-month-old baby on tram

  25-11-2017 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  A MUM has been left disgusted and furious after a sick yob spat on her nine-month-old daughter on a tram.
  
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• 'We should WALK AWAY' Brexit voter slams EU chiefs for 'BLACKMAILING' UK over divorce bill

  25-11-2017 15:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  A BREXIT voter slammed European Union chiefs saying they were holding the UK to ransom and Britain should walk away from negotiations.
  
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• 'You want dire predictions to be true' Brexiteer SLAMS Europhile panellists for MOCKING UK

  25-11-2017 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  A BREXITEER has defended the country's decision to leave the EU against a panel of three Europhile guests who claimed the UK had "kicked itself into an economic disaster".
  
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• Major Oxford Street store EVACUATED - just a day after stampede

  25-11-2017 15:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  A TOPSHOP store on London's busy Oxford Street has been evacuated - just one day after police swarmed the popular shopping area after reports of gunfire.
  
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• Theresa May facing Tory rebellion over possible defence cuts

  25-11-2017 15:24
  Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a potential backbench rebellion over potential defence cost-saving plans.Tory MP Johnny Mercer, a former Army officer who now sits on the Defence Select Committee, told Sky News he has "a resilient cohort of Conservative MPs" who are unhappy with the idea of further cuts.The newspaper claimed the planned cuts would see the Army lose 12,000 soldiers, leaving its full-time strength at just 70,000.
  
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• This MP learned the hard way not to leave his phone unlocked

  25-11-2017 15:02
  Was this caused by a phone in the pocket, children or something else?
  
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• Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood ‘Prepared To Resign If Army Cuts Are Imposed’

  25-11-2017 15:01
  A defence minister is reportedly preparing to resign if cuts are imposed on the Army which would see it lose 12,000 soldiers.
  
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• M11 closure as lorry overturns in crash near Stansted

  25-11-2017 14:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Essex Police says the accident is causing "significant disruption" to drivers heading northbound.
  
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• Oxford Circus: Two men quizzed after Tube panic

  25-11-2017 14:40 via bbc.co.uk
  The men, aged 21 and 40, attended a police station voluntarily after a media appeal.
  
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• Birmingham bin strike: Council offers new deal to end dispute

  25-11-2017 14:39 via bbc.co.uk
  The proposal will see 106 staff remain on their current pay but in new roles helping with recycling.
  
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• Brexit Deal With EU On Food Imports Savaged By Australian Trade Minister

  25-11-2017 14:20
  The UK and European Union’s plans to share out quotas for cheap food imports from countries around the world after Brexit have come under fire from Australia.
  
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• Former TV presenter John Leslie charged with sexual assault

  25-11-2017 13:48 via bbc.co.uk
  The ex-Blue Peter presenter is alleged to have put his hand up a woman's skirt at an Edinburgh club.
  
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• 'Explain WHY we have to pay!' German MEP insists Britain must fulfil its promises

  25-11-2017 13:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  A GERMAN MEP was grilled on the European Union’s desire to slap a large, multi-billion pound Brexit divorce bill on Britain.
  
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• Irish prime minister 'should get a grip' on Brexit, DUP MPs say

  25-11-2017 13:33
  Two of the 10 Democratic Unionist MPs whose votes keep Theresa May in power have accused the Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, of ramping up tensions on the island over his stance on Brexit.Varadkar’s insistence that Northern Ireland could stay in the single market and the customs union was “unhelpful and obstructive” in terms of the Brexit negotiations, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson told the Guardian.
  
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• HERO DOG: Astonishing moment 'wonderful pup' saves woman from vile mugger

  25-11-2017 13:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  THIS video shows the amazing moment a stray dog rescues a woman as a vile mugger tries to snatch her handbag.
  
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• Ice delays trains as cold snap continues

  25-11-2017 13:14 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK is warned of further frosty weather after temperatures plunged below freezing overnight.
  
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• Egypt Mosque Attackers 'Were Carrying Islamic State Flags' When They Killed More Than 300

  25-11-2017 13:06
  Militants were carrying an Islamic State flag when they killed more than 300 people in an attack on a mosque in Egypt’s North Sinai, authorities have said.
  
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• Dawson Willcock: 'Brave' two-year-old dies of rare liver cancer

  25-11-2017 13:04 via bbc.co.uk
  Dawson's parents raised more than £350,000 to fund treatment for their son in America.
  
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• 'Be proud of Union Jack' MP BLASTS BBC crowd 'full of EU berets' for heckling Brexit views

  25-11-2017 12:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  LIZ Truss went head-to-head with a fiery BBC audience last night after she was continuously booed for airing her pro-Brexit views.
  
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