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• Racers rated: how the Formula One drivers performed in 2017 | Giles Richards

  27-11-2017 23:50 via theguardian.com
  Lewis Hamilton was at the peak of his powers; Sebastian Vettel mounted a grand title challenge; Max Verstappen put down a marker for the futureChampionship finish 1 Continue reading...
  
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• Chennai Six: Families' relief as men are cleared of weapons charges in India

  27-11-2017 23:47
  The families of six former British soldiers held in prison in India have spoken of their relief after they were acquitted of weapons charges.The men, known as the Chennai Six, were jailed in October 2013 while working as security guards on a ship to combat piracy in the Indian Ocean.Indian authorities were said to have found 35 guns and almost 6000 rounds of ammunition which they claimed had not been properly declared.
  
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• Meghan Markle: It was an immediate 'yes' to Prince Harry proposal

  27-11-2017 23:41
  Meghan Markle has revealed she gave an immediate "yes" to Prince Harry after he got down on one knee to propose as they cooked dinner at Kensington Palace.
  
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• Pressure grows on Irish deputy PM after police whistleblower claims

  27-11-2017 23:39 via theguardian.com
  Countdown to vote of no confidence in Dáil under way with opposition motion to censure Frances Fitzgerald in parliament Ireland’s government moved a step closer to collapsing on Monday night after documents emerged allegedly revealing its embattled deputy prime minister was aware of proposed action against a whistleblower who warned of corruption in the Irish police force.
  If the minority Fine Gael coalition falls it will precipitate a snap Christmas general election and weaken the
  
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• Transsexual woman who pushed cop onto train tracks released on bail

  27-11-2017 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  PARIS Valeta Bregazzi barged off-duty PC Sam Chegwin on to the tracks after he heard her berating bystanders and asked her to calm down.
  
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• Brighton and Crystal Palace get set for latest bout in the oddest of rivalries | Dominic Fifield

  27-11-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  The first meeting of Brighton and Crystal Palace in the top flight for 36 years on Tuesday will rekindle the peculiar spectacle of a derby that isn’t really a derbyTo many the rivalry is a peculiarity. There is no real geographical proximity to explain the loathing that exists between Crystal Palace and Brighton & Hove Albion. Even Roy Hodgson, born and bred in Croydon but whose time as a youth-team player at the south London club predates the animosity, needed a history lesson from Ja
  
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• Royal engagement gets EastEnders mention

  27-11-2017 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  News of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reached Albert Square.
  
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• Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of Freedom of Oxford over Rohingya violence

  27-11-2017 23:25
  Oxford's council has stripped the Freedom of the City from Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi over her failure to condemn violence against Rohingya Muslims.It said it had taken the decision following a unanimous vote on Monday night and that it could not "turn a blind eye to violence".In a statement, it said: "When Aung San Suu Kyi was given the Freedom of the City in 1997 it was because she reflected Oxford's values of tolerance and internationalism.
  
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• Farage says Britain should NOT pay a penny for Brexit UNLESS promised something in return

  27-11-2017 23:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  NIGEL FARAGE ripped into the European Union over its demands for Britain to put forward a multi-billion pound Brexit divorce bill, demanding the bloc offer Britain something in return.
  
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• Aung San Suu Kyi loses Freedom of Oxford over Rohingya crisis

  27-11-2017 23:02 via theguardian.com
  Oxford city council votes unanimously to strip Myanmar leader of award over her response to repressionAung San Suu Kyi has been formally stripped of the Freedom of the City of Oxford award over her response to the repression of her country’s Rohingya Muslims. Oxford city council voted unanimously to permanently remove the honour given to the de facto leader of Myanmar in 1997, and said it did not want to celebrate “those who turn a blind eye to violence”. Continue reading...
  
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• Rohingya 'Aung San Suu Kyi's responsibility'

  27-11-2017 23:00
  Acting deputy US secretary of state Simon Henshaw reflected on his own experience on the ground and called on Aung San Suu Kyi to act.
  
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• Battle over Irish border threatens EU talks

  27-11-2017 23:00
  No deal can be secured on the Irish border after Brexit until trade negotiations are settled with the EU, Liam Fox has said.
  
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• John Profumo scandal: 1960s Tory defence chief 'associated' with Nazi spy

  27-11-2017 22:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  INFAMOUS 1960s defence chief John Profumo may have had an affair with a glamorous Nazi spy years before his scandalous fling with Christine Keeler, newly declassified secret files have revealed.
  
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• Good Friday deal signatory Bertie Ahern warns 'cool it' over Ireland Brexit row

  27-11-2017 22:51
  Bertie Ahern has pleaded with both Dublin and London in the Brexit negotiations to "cool it".Speaking to Sky News, the former Irish prime minister also accused Boris Johnson and Liam Fox of sending confusing messages on the Irish border.
  
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• Corbyn becoming PM is 'worse threat to business than Brexit', says bank

  27-11-2017 22:40
  The bank has warned the UK faces a great deal of political upheaval.The prospect of Jeremy Corbyn becoming prime minister is a more serious threat to British business than Brexit, the investment bank Morgan Stanley has warned.Morgan Stanley told investors that another general election towards the end of 2018 was likely once Theresa May’s government realised it could not secure the Brexit deal it wants and the Conservative party began to fall apart, opening the door to Labour taking power.
  
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• Corbyn becoming PM is 'worse threat to British business than Brexit', says bank

  27-11-2017 22:40
  The bank has warned that the UK faces a great deal of political upheaval.The prospect of Jeremy Corbyn becoming prime minister is a more serious threat to British business than Brexit, the investment bank Morgan Stanley has warned.Morgan Stanley told investors that another general election towards the end of 2018 was likely once Theresa May’s government realised it could not secure the Brexit deal it wants and the Conservative party began to fall apart, opening the door to Labour taking po
  
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• Falstaff review – Bryn Terfel brings warmth and nuance to RLPO's brilliance

  27-11-2017 22:07 via theguardian.com
  Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
  Veteran Falstaff Bryn Terfel and a splendid cast made this concert staging of Verdi’s final opera a joyous experienceThe Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the European Opera Centre, also based in the city, first joined forces in 2006 for a double bill of Fleischmann and Shostakovich, and the two have collaborated regularly ever since. Their latest project was a concert staging of Verdi’s final opera, which also formed part of the RLPO’s current artis
  
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• Sam Allardyce back in contention to be the next Everton manager

  27-11-2017 22:01 via theguardian.com
  • Goodison club consider fresh talks with the former England manager
  • David Unsworth has endured six defeats in eight games as caretakerEverton are considering fresh discussions with Sam Allardyce regarding him becoming their new manager, after initial talks with the 63-year-old previously broke down when he was first approached earlier this month.Allardyce’s status as a potential candidate once more indicates how desperate Everton have become to find a permanent successor to Ro
  
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• 9 Important Stories Buried By All That Royal Wedding News

  27-11-2017 21:58
  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s engagement has dominated the news agenda, after the pair on Monday announced plans for a Spring wedding.
  
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• 10 Important Stories Buried By All That Royal Wedding News

  27-11-2017 21:58
  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s engagement has dominated the news agenda, after the pair on Monday announced plans for a Spring wedding.
  
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• LSO/Pappano review – refinement, energy and drama

  27-11-2017 21:34 via theguardian.com
  Barbican, London
  An all-Liszt programme showed the best of the LSO, magnificent under Pappano, while soloist Alice Sara Ott played with thrilling accuracy and involvement Total Liszt was the title of Antonio Pappano’s latest concert with the London Symphony Orchestra, an exciting, thoughtfully programmed evening that placed careful emphasis on the innovatory qualities of Liszt’s music, the connoisseurship of art and literature that so often fired his imagination, and his influence on
  
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• Prince Harry 'thrilled' after announcing he is to marry Meghan Markle

  27-11-2017 21:29 via theguardian.com
  Couple appear in public for first time since announcing their engagement and give 20-minute television interview
  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are to marry in the spring after announcing their engagement and admitting they were “totally unprepared” for the media storm that surrounded the first months of their relationship.
  The prince said he was “thrilled” to be marrying the US actor after an 18-month romance, and the couple presented themselves to the world with a photo
  
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• Meghan on Harry: 'I didn’t know much about him, I just asked, "Is he nice?"'

  27-11-2017 21:29
  Mishal Husain, who had landed the gig of conducting the post-engagement announcement interview with Prince Harry and his new fiancée, Meghan Markle, was perhaps struggling with a similar tension as she didn’t seem to quite know what to do with her face.“I was just like, uh,” said Harry with disgust.
  
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• Meghan Markle: It was an immediate yes to Prince Harry proposal

  27-11-2017 21:26
  Meghan Markle has revealed she gave an immediate "yes" to Prince Harry after he got down on one knee to propose as they cooked dinner at Kensington Palace.It was there that they got the chance to get to know each other - both admitting they did not know much before they met - and resolved to commit to a long distance relationship.
  
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• Leeds crash dead were all in same stolen car, police say

  27-11-2017 21:17
  Five people who died after a "catastrophic" crash in Leeds on Saturday night were all travelling in the same stolen car, police have said.Detective Chief Inspector Jim Griffiths said the vehicle, a black Renault Clio, was in a "terrible state" when he arrived at the scene, describing what he found as "total carnage".The hatchback, which hit a tree, was barely recognisable as a vehicle, people living nearby said.
  
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• 'I fell in love incredibly quickly': Interview in full

  27-11-2017 21:15 via bbc.co.uk
  The newly engaged couple spoke to the BBC's Mishal Husain on Monday afternoon.
  
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• Hard Brexit would hit 142 Irish cross-border agreements

  27-11-2017 21:11
  Worries also include how to deal with cross-border relationship breakdowns after Brexit.A confidential study conducted by the UK government and the European commission has listed 142 cross-border activities on the island of Ireland that would be negatively impacted by a hard Brexit.Also listed as at risk are existing cross-border agreements on mobile phone roaming, which enable commuters, tourists and business travellers to enjoy charges restricted to local rates across the entire island.
  
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• This royal wedding conspiracy theory is making serious waves online

  27-11-2017 21:00
  What if it’s all a cunning plan?
  
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• Mother of Poppi Worthington heard 'scream' before toddler's death

  27-11-2017 21:00
  The mother of toddler Poppi Worthington fought back tears as she told an inquest she heard her daughter scream shortly before her sudden death.A second inquest is being held into the death of the 13-month-old girl after a family court judge ruled her father Paul Worthington probably sexually assaulted her.Mr Worthington denies any wrongdoing and the Crown Prosecution Service has said there is "insufficient evidence" to charge him.
  
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• Argentina's missing submarine: water caused battery to short-circuit

  27-11-2017 20:57 via theguardian.com
  The San Juan has been missing since 15 November and had been ordered back to its base after it reported water had entered the vessel through its snorkelWater entered the snorkel of the Argentinian submarine ARA San Juan, causing its battery to short-circuit before it went missing on 15 November, a navy spokesman said on Monday as hope dwindled among some families of the 44-member crew. The San Juan had only a seven-day oxygen supply when it lost contact, and a sudden noise was detected that the
  
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• Defence minister Tobias Ellwood 'prepared to resign'

  27-11-2017 20:50
  Defence minister Tobias Ellwood is prepared to resign if massive cuts to the Army are given the go-ahead, according to a report.
  
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• Defence Secretary hints he may fight Chancellor over cuts

  27-11-2017 20:47
  Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has hinted that he will fight cuts to the defence budget during his debut appearance at the House of Commons despatch box.Taking questions from MPs, he repeatedly suggested he would resist the pressure to make savings but admitted he had not yet had a formal meeting with Philip Hammond.A national security review is ongoing, ordered by the Prime Minister after increasing threats from Russia and Islamist-inspired terrorism.
  
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• Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of Freedom of Oxford

  27-11-2017 20:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Councillors unanimously vote to formally remove the Myanmar leader's honour.
  
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• Anthony Joshua leads way as Sports Personality of the Year nominees revealed

  27-11-2017 20:31 via theguardian.com
  • Lewis Hamilton, Chris Froome and Johanna Konta also nominated• No rugby players or male cricketers on 12-strong Spoty shortlistThe heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua heads a 12-strong shortlist for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award that contains nine reigning British world champions from sports as diverse as taekwondo, speed skating and motorcycling. However, eyebrows will be raised at the absence of any Lions players from the drawn tour of New Zealand in the summer &ndas
  
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• Diana would be 'over the moon, so excited'

  27-11-2017 20:30
  Prince Harry says he believes his mother, Princess Diana, would have been "over the moon" about his engagement to Meghan Markle.
  
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• Needy defence secretary's blushes saved by royal engagement | John Crace

  27-11-2017 20:26 via theguardian.com
  Gavin Williamson found himself under friendly fire from his own MPs as he whined his way through defence questionsImagine the voice of a Johnny-No-Mates. A bloke with so little self-worth that he keeps a tarantula on his desk for company. That’s the shrill, nasal mewl of Gavin Williamson. Which might be perfect for the jobsworth bullying demanded of a chief whip, but is grating in a secretary of state for defence. Well before the end of his first defence questions in the Commons, MPs were
  
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• Needy defence secretary's blushes saved by royal engagement

  27-11-2017 20:26
  Gavin Williamson’s shrill, nasal mewl soon had MPs putting their fingers in their ears to stop the bleeding.Which might be perfect for the jobsworth bullying demanded of a chief whip, but is grating in a secretary of state for defence.Born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, he had a comprehensive education before going on to gain a degree in social science at the University of Bradford.
  
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• Sports Personality contenders

  27-11-2017 20:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Find out more about the 12 nominees for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2017 award, to be presented on 17 December.
  
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• BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2017: Shortlist of 12 revealed for award

  27-11-2017 20:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Twelve contenders are shortlisted for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2017 award, to be presented on 17 December.
  
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• Benefit freeze to stay for working people costing typical family £300 a year

  27-11-2017 20:24
  The freeze, which has been in place since 2015, means a real-terms cut in income for millions of people due to rising living costs.Millions of people will have their benefits frozen for another 12 months from April in a move that will cost a typical working family with two children about £300 a year.Caroline Dinenage, a work and pensions minister, confirmed that the benefit freeze for working age people will remain in place, while the state pension and some other benefits will increase by
  
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• With ‘no plans’ for a bank holiday to mark the royal wedding, some of the public aren’t happy

  27-11-2017 20:12
  Some are even planning on taking matters into their own hands.
  
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• Vaginal mesh operations for prolapse should be banned, watchdog to say

  27-11-2017 20:08
  The news has been welcomed by those campaigning to raise awareness of the potential complications experienced by some women who have been treated with mesh implants.Controversial vaginal mesh operations to treat prolapse should be banned as a routine treatment in England, new guidelines to be issued by the health watchdog will recommend.The draft guidance, seen by the Guardian, states that mesh implants for prolapse should now only be used in the context of research.
  
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• Universal credit is no answer to growing poverty | Letters

  27-11-2017 20:04 via theguardian.com
  We need universal basic income, writes William Shutt; Paul Nicholson and Baldev Sharma on the damage done by poverty and Pat Munro calls for women’s refuges to be protectedYou deserve credit for drawing attention to the failings of universal credit (Report, 24 November). Yet despite all the evidence of this inadequacy, you appear to assume, like the two main political parties, that with sufficient pause such a system can be made to work in a way that is ultimately sustainable. Universal cr
  
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• In defence of dowsing to detect water | Letters

  27-11-2017 20:04 via theguardian.com
  Guardian readers share their stories on the success of dowsingRe your article “Water firms admit they still use ‘medieval’ dowsing rods” (22 November): in the 1950s, our family lived on a farm in an isolated part of northern Somerset. The farmer submitted an application for planning permission to build two new houses in a field, including details of water supply and drainage (there were no mains services at all). He had already walked over the field with his L-shaped birc
  
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• Randox forensics inquiry: Police suspend drug-test contracts

  27-11-2017 20:02 via bbc.co.uk
  The firm is retesting forensic samples after a probe sparked a review of more than 10,000 cases.
  
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• Diana's diamonds used in engagement ring as Harry pays touching tribute to his mother

  27-11-2017 20:01
  Prince Harry paid a touching tribute to his mother with the engagement ring he gave to Meghan Markle.Kensington Palace revealed the 33-year-old designed the ring himself, using two outside diamonds from the personal collection of Princess Diana.Harry and Meghan have also spent time together in the country over the last year and a half, Kensington Palace said.
  
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• What next for the TV shows caught in the post-Weinstein crossfire?

  27-11-2017 19:55 via theguardian.com
  Shows from House of Cards to Transparent are in limbo thanks to allegations about their stars. Cancelling them would punish innocent co-stars and crew – so what should they do?Until this very recent, post-Weinstein age, predators were protected in large part by a distaste for the very idea of sexual abuse: it was so strong that it amounted to a collective phobia. Denial was easier than confrontation; disbelief of victims far more comfortable than credulity; silence, golden. That phobia per
  
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• Keir Starmer: make funding for women's refuges mandatory

  27-11-2017 19:52 via theguardian.com
  Labour MPs warn that the government’s plans to remove refuges from the welfare system will put lives at riskKeir Starmer, the shadow cabinet member and former chief prosecutor, has called for mandatory funding for refuges amid criticism over a shake-up of funding for women’s services.Abuse survivors and charities have warned the lives of vulnerable women and children will be put at risk by government plans to remove refuges and other forms of short-term supported housing from the wel
  
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• Keir Starmer: make funding for women's refuges mandatory

  27-11-2017 19:52
  Keir Starmer, the shadow cabinet member and former chief prosecutor, has called for mandatory funding for refuges amid criticism over a shake-up of funding for women’s services.Abuse survivors and charities have warned the lives of vulnerable women and children will be put at risk by government plans to remove refuges and other forms of short-term supported housing from the welfare system.On average, housing benefit makes up 53% of refuge funding and as there is no obligation for local aut
  
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• From blind date to Botswana's stars, Prince Harry charts love for U.S. actress Meghan Markle

  27-11-2017 19:51
  Just four weeks after a blind date with U.S. actress Meghan Markle that left him "beautifully surprised", Britain's Prince Harry took his wife-to-be on a trip to Botswana to camp under the stars in his tent.Harry, 33, Queen Elizabeth's grandson and fifth-in-line to the British throne, and Markle, 36, best known for her role in the U.S. TV legal drama "Suits", got engaged this month at their cottage in London over a roast chicken dinner.In their first broadcast interview since announcing the news
  
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