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• DUP Threatens To Pull Support For Conservative Government Over Irish Border Deal

  30-11-2017 23:14
  The Democratic Unionist Party has warned it may withdraw its support for Theresa May’s government if Northern Ireland is treated as a separate customs and trading regime after Brexit.
  
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• State department denies Rex Tillerson is being replaced as Trump reveals little

  30-11-2017 23:07 via theguardian.com
  Trump only confirmed the secretary of state was at White House after reports emerged Thursday that the CIA director Mike Pompeo would replace himThe state department has said it has been assured by the White House there are no plans to oust Rex Tillerson and replace him with the CIA director, Mike Pompeo. Related: Rex Tillerson: state department can be cut as we will soon solve global conflictsContinue reading...
  
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• Big freeze: More snow and ice forecast as Met Office warns of travel disruption

  30-11-2017 22:57
  Britain's big freeze is set to continue as forecasters warned snow and ice could bring more disruption to parts of the country on Friday.Temperatures are expected to plummet as low as -8C overnight - the coldest so far this winter - with severe weather warnings in place for eastern England and Scotland.Up to 5cm of snow is predicted to fall in some areas, the Met Office said.
  
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• Heavy snowfall in Durham

  30-11-2017 22:50
  As the UK braces itself for more snow, parts of Durham are already feeling the cold.
  
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• Here’s how you can do your bit against slavery in Libya

  30-11-2017 22:48
  Protest, sign a petition or donate some cash.
  
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• Mother of Manchester bomb victim Martyn Hett criticises Donald Trump

  30-11-2017 22:30
  The mother of a concert-goer who was killed in the Manchester Arena terror attack has urged Donald Trump to "stop all this hate campaign".Figen Murray told the US President in a tweet that "spreading racist material is equal to throwing petrol into a burning fire".The 29-year-old was one of 22 people killed by suicide bomber Salman Abedi as they left the concert venue.
  
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• Bellfield: 'Stone offered me money to confess to Chillenden murders'

  30-11-2017 22:23
  Levi Bellfield claims he was offered payment by Michael Stone to confess to the Chillenden murders.Bellfield, who is serving two whole life sentences for the murders of two women and schoolgirl Milly Dowler, denied making a confession to the 1996 killings of Lin Russell, 45, her daughter Megan, six, and the attempted murder of her other daughter Josie, then nine.On Wednesday, lawyers acting for Stone, who is serving two whole life sentences for the hammer killings, said they had new evidence Bel
  
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• No north-south Ireland border despite leaving customs union, British minister pledges

  30-11-2017 22:07
  There will never again be a border dividing Northern Ireland and the republic, a British minister said days before a summit at which the Irish border issue threatens to derail Britain's Brexit plans.Currently, both parts of the island are members of the same customs union, meaning checks of goods crossing the border are unnecessary.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn hits back at Morgan Stanley as he slams 'greedy' bankers

  30-11-2017 21:41
  Jeremy Corbyn has issued a furious retort to Morgan Stanley after the major investment bank warned a Labour election victory could pose a bigger threat to British business than Brexit.In a new video, the Labour leader branded bankers like Morgan Stanley "the same speculators and gamblers who crashed our economy in 2008" as his party pledged to regulate finance "to serve the public".In a strongly-worded attack on the American bank, Mr Corbyn singled out the multi-million pound pay packet of Morga
  
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• England to discover World Cup opponents at glittering Moscow draw

  30-11-2017 21:39
  Are England genuine World Cup contenders, or just - once more - pretenders?Most England fans would have a pretty quick answer to those questions.The real answers will come in a glittering - or overblown - ceremony, depending on your point of view, at Moscow's State Kremlin Palace concert hall.
  
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• 'Top Chef' judges reveal 'curveball' factor that will affect upcoming season 15

  30-11-2017 21:20
  Ahead of the season 15 premiere of "Top Chef," the judges of the beloved Bravo hit are previewing what fans can expect as the competition heads to Colorado.
  
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• Readers recommend: share songs about education

  30-11-2017 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Make your nomination in the comments and a reader will pick the best eligible tracks for a playlist next week – you have until Monday 4 December It’s not quite the end of term so we’d this week like to hear your songs on the topic of education. For more on how to interpret the theme, keep an eye on the comments.
  You have until 11pm on Monday 4 December to post your nomination and make your justification. Regular RR contributor Andrew Morrissey (known as Makinavaja in the commen
  
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• Mocked By Cameron For His Suit, Now Jeremy Corbyn's A GQ Cover Star

  30-11-2017 21:00
  David Cameron once chastised him for dressing so shabbily the then Prime Minister’s mother would order him to “put on a proper suit [and] do up his tie”.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's A GQ Cover Star But Editor Dylan Jones Describes 'Tortuous' Photoshoot

  30-11-2017 21:00
  David Cameron once chastised him for dressing so shabbily the then Prime Minister’s mother would order him to “put on a proper suit [and] do up his tie”.
  
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• Bath University's Six-Figure 'Golden Goodbye' Deal For Vice Chancellor Glynis Breakwell Sparks Huge Student Protest

  30-11-2017 20:55
  Hundreds of outraged Bath University students have marched through campus to protest the six-figure “golden goodbye” handed to the UK’s highest paid vice chancellor after she agreed to stand down amid a major row over pay.
  
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• Kellogg's to stop making Ricicles in sugar crackdown

  30-11-2017 20:34
  Kellogg's has left cereal fans outraged as it announced it will stop making Ricicles by January next year.In an attempt to cut sugar, the manufacturer will stop producing the line as well as cutting the sweet stuff in Coco Pops and Rice Krispies.It has also announced plans to strip children's marketing from Frosties packaging, to reflect its understanding that more adults than children eat the breakfast food.
  
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• Poppi inquest hears mum's frantic 999 call

  30-11-2017 20:30
  A second inquest into the death of 13-month-old Poppi Worthington has heard a 999 call from her mother.
  
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• Poppi Worthington: Father calls 13-month-old a 'bully' as he gives evidence

  30-11-2017 20:24
  The father of a toddler who died after sustaining serious injuries called the little girl a "bully" as he cried at her inquest.Paul Worthington gave evidence at the second inquest into the death of Poppi Worthington, who was found with serious injuries in her home in Barrow-in-Furness and died in hospital on 12 December, 2012.An inquest was held in 2014, during which a coroner decided he was satisfied to rely on the findings of a private family court judgment and declared Poppi's death as unexpl
  
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• Boy drowned at water park 'while parents left him alone', court hears

  30-11-2017 20:23
  Charlie Dunn was pulled from a lagoon after his stepfather Paul Smith was allegedly heard saying: "For f***'* sake, we're ready to go.The youngster, from Tamworth, Staffordshire, was found in a 1.4-metre deep pool at Bosworth Water Park in Leicestershire in July 2016, Birmingham Crown Court was told.Paul Smith and Charlie's mother Lynsey Dunn of Caledonian, Glascote Heath, deny being grossly negligent.
  
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• Universities need to shift power and money from top to bottom | Letters

  30-11-2017 20:19
  In a letter (Female staff back Bath vice-chancellor, 25 November), 15 senior staff at the University of Bath backed their vice-chancellor, Glynis Breakwell, and suggested that she had been the subject of intense criticism because of her gender.Yes, Professor Breakwell is both a woman and a vice-chancellor, something that is far too uncommon.
  
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• Get the record straight on Norris McWhirter | Letters

  30-11-2017 20:13
  Norris McWhirter (The original Brexiter, 29 November) may have been a man with “a cranial database [of] fascinating facts” but he was an avowed champion of apartheid.As a leading member of the National Association for Freedom (Naff) – now the Freedom Association – he sought to prevent the BBC from broadcasting Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday concert in 1988 on the grounds that it would constitute “anti-apartheid propaganda”.Grunwick boss George Ward sough
  
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• Tories must step up on animal welfare | Letters

  30-11-2017 20:12
  Protesters march through London in May this year to oppose Tory plans for a free vote on the repeal of the Hunting Act. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images
  
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• Scotland will fight Brexit power grab, Westminster is warned

  30-11-2017 20:12
  John Swinney (left) and Mike Russell table their demands.Mike Russell, the Scottish Brexit minister, has warned that his government will refuse to sign any exit deal unless it gets guarantees in legislation to protect Holyrood’s powers.Russell and Damian Green, the UK’s first secretary of state and de facto deputy prime minister, agreed on Thursday that substantial progress had been made in agreeing how to share out EU powers between the London and Edinburgh parliaments.
  
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• Jeremy Hunt orders NHS England bosses to stick to waiting time limits

  30-11-2017 20:12
  Jeremy Hunt has ordered NHS England to stick to waiting time limits, putting him at loggerheads with its leaders, who said hours earlier that insufficient funding from last week’s budget made this impossible.NHS England told ministers on Thursday it would have to tear up guarantees on waiting times and deny patients new drugs next year because of the lack of money.In an escalation of its public dispute with ministers over what the NHS can afford to do, it also said it would ignore recommen
  
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• What the Dickens is his name doing in an article about women seeking refuge? | Letter

  30-11-2017 20:09
  Charles Dickens, who ‘bullied his wife and was the covert lover of an impoverished teenager decades younger than him’.Surely Charles Dickens’ name is not one to bring up when addressing the effects of funding cuts on vulnerable women seeking refuge (A scandal Dickens would recognise, 29 November)?All that abuse was made possible because of his economic power.
  
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• Donald Trump's Toxic Tweets Won't Ruin Britain And America's 'Special Relationship'

  30-11-2017 20:06
  Britain’s “Special Relationship” with America looks like in trouble and looks is the operative word.
  
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• Project Fear in TATTERS: Bank boss says firms are READY for Brexit – 'We aren't panicking'

  30-11-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  GLOBAL banking chief Tidjane Thiam said he is “not panicking” about Brexit, despite fears from critics claiming Britain’s exit from the EU could result in a mass job exodus from London.
  
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• EU and Britain agree settlement post Brexit - senior EU official

  30-11-2017 20:00
  The European Union has agreed a financial settlement with Britain, a senior EU official told Reuters on Thursday, under which London has committed to paying a set share of EU budgets after Britain has left the bloc.A spokesperson for Britain's Department for Exiting the European Union was not immediately available for comment.Overall, the EU side was "optimistic" that agreement could be reached on the conditions to allow EU leaders to agree during a Dec. 14-15 summit to open talks on post-Brexit
  
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• BREAKING: Car explodes into flames at Christmas fair in London

  30-11-2017 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  A CAR erupted into flames at a Christmas fair in London this evening.
  
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• I have made my position on Trump clear, said May. Except she hadn't

  30-11-2017 19:30
  Theresa May at a press conference in Amman, Jordan, which descended into a Q&A on Donald Trump.Theresa May made little effort to conceal her boredom long before she neared the halfway mark.Sure enough, the first question was on hate crime and Donald Trump.
  
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• Newsnight blunder on Corbyn budget speech tops BBC complaints report

  30-11-2017 19:13
  An episode of Newsnight that played the wrong clip of Jeremy Corbyn responding to the budget was the most complained about programme on the BBC in the past fortnight.The BBC has revealed it received 177 complaints about Newsnight on the evening of the budget, which showed Corbyn responding to the spring budget rather than November’s.In a response to the complaints, the corporation said: “The programme team has edited the version of the programme available on BBC iPlayer to make sure
  
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• 'Absolutely DISGUSTING!' Furious Britons VENT ANGER over extortionate Brexit bill

  30-11-2017 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXITEERS are furious about having to pay the huge Brexit divorce bill that would allow Britain to get one step closer to leaving the European Union.
  
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• Uber Faces More Awkward Questions Over Safety Of Drivers And Passengers

  30-11-2017 18:54
  Uber faces questions over protection offered to drivers who work more than 60 hours a week amid fears passenger safety is being put at risk.
  
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• Grayling misleading Commons on East Coast rail 'bailout', says Labour

  30-11-2017 18:53
  Labour has accused the transport secretary of misleading parliament over the early termination of the East Coast rail franchise as it emerged that the operator, Stagecoach, had been due to pay the Treasury more than £2bn in the final four years of its contract.A new rail strategy announced by Chris Grayling on Wednesday contained plans to replace the Virgin Trains East Coast (Vtec) contract running to September 2023 with a model of a partnership between track and train operators from 2020.
  
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• Children removed from family home over parents’ 'open' relationship

  30-11-2017 18:49
  All of the children in the case are under the age of five.Three children are to be removed from their family home amid concerns that their parents’ “open relationship” may have contributed to neglect.The ruling by a family court judge makes clear that the hearing was concerned only with the impact of the parents’ unusual lifestyle on their young children, who are all under the age of five and will now be placed for adoption.
  
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• Randi Zuckerberg has called out an airline after saying she was sexually harassed on their flight

  30-11-2017 18:40
  Alaska Airlines says it has launched an investigation into the incident reported by the tech entrepreneur.
  
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• An Open Letter To The Girl Who Just Attempted Suicide

  30-11-2017 18:32
  Trigger warning: If you have personal experience of suicide or suicidal depression then you may find this post upsetting.
  
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• The Slave Auctions In Libya Are Proof Of The Development Crisis In Africa

  30-11-2017 18:31
  Migration is an issue that has forever been so close to my heart, and hearing of the atrocities going on in Libya made me feel so heavy and disgusted.
  
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• Ireland demands 'significantly more clarity' from UK over Brexit border

  30-11-2017 18:24
  DUBLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ireland needs Britain to provide "significantly more clarity" on its plans for the Irish border, Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Thursday, denting hopes that London was on the verge of a deal to move on to the second phase of Brexit talks.Avoiding a so-called "hard border" on the island of Ireland is the last major hurdle before Brexit talks can move to negotiations on Britain's future trade relationship with the EU and a possible two-year Brexit transition dea
  
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• My Worlds AIDS Day Challenge to Penny: Don’t Let This Drop

  30-11-2017 18:04
  Our new Secretary of State for International Development, Penny Mordaunt, has been in her new role for less than a month.
  
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• Payday PANIC as workers who bank with Lloyds fail to receive their wages

  30-11-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  LLOYDS customers across the country were left with pre-Christmas payday dread after checking their bank accounts to find their wages were not there.
  
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• New EU food safety rules mean paler chips

  30-11-2017 17:48
  Golden brown chips, crisps and biscuits are to become paler under new food safety guidelines issued by the European Commission.From April, food businesses and manufacturers must prove they are reducing levels of acrylamide in foods to minimise consumers' exposure to the chemical which has been identified by the World Health Organisation as a cancer risk.It can be found in a wide range of home-cooked and processed foods, including roasted potatoes and root vegetables, crisps, chips, bread, biscui
  
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• DUP warns Government Brexit border issue could 'destabilise' confidence deal

  30-11-2017 17:47
  The DUP have warned the Government they might no longer be able to count on their votes, if they detect any change to the Prime Minister's policy of treating the UK as one unitary state in Brexit negotiations.Sky News has learnt party officials met senior members of the Government on Thursday morning to discuss the issue.There had been speculation that Mrs May and her ministers may consider "regulatory convergence" between Northern Ireland and the Republic as a way of breaking the negotiations d
  
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• 'I'd be proud to be Scottish or Irish - just not English' Prof Richard Dawkins sparks fury

  30-11-2017 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  RICHARD Dawkins has provoked a furious response on social media after declaring he would be “proud to be Scottish or Irish - just not English”.
  
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• BNP Paribas upgrades trading platform to comply with EU rules

  30-11-2017 17:27
  BNP Paribas, France's biggest bank, said on Thursday it has been building extensive transparency reporting platforms for the trading of all non-equity instruments and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in response to new European Union rules.The EU's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, otherwise known as "MiFID II", aims to push more trading onto regulated public exchanges where prices and participants are visible to all and comes into effect on Jan. 3.Banks are working on new electronic tradi
  
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• Labour leads drive for equality impact assessment of Tory policies

  30-11-2017 17:19
  Philip Hammond’s autumn budget did not once mention women, Labour said.Jeremy Corbyn is leading a cross-party effort to force ministers to publish details of the impact of their policies broken down by gender, race, age, disability, class and region, after analysis showed women continue to bear the brunt of austerity.The Labour leader has signed a letter with 126 other MPs, including members of his own party, the Lib Dems, SNP and Greens, calling for an immediate equality assessment of all
  
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• CCTV released by police in hunt for man over sexual assaults on girls as young as eight

  30-11-2017 17:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  POLICE have released CCTV of a potential suspect in a string of sex attacks that has seen girls as young as eight molested on their way to or from school.
  
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• World War II bravery medal awarded to carrier pigeon could fetch £20,000 at auction

  30-11-2017 16:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  A WORLD War II bravery medal awarded to a carrier pigeon in honour of its fearless service to the RAF is expected to fetch up to £20,000 at auction.
  
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• Tumbling, but uneven, joblessness in the euro zone

  30-11-2017 16:49
  LONDON (Reuters) - It gets less attention than inflation or GDP, but the euro zone's tumbling jobless rate has been among the highlights of the bloc's surprisingly strong economic recovery.
  
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• Poppi Worthington's father cries as he refuses to answer 252 questions

  30-11-2017 16:48
  Paul Worthington, whose 13-month-old daughter, Poppi, died suddenly in the early hours of 12 December 2012, refused to answer a total of 252 questions during a second inquest into her death.In January last year it was revealed that a family court judge had ruled in 2014 that “on the balance of probabilities” Worthington, 49, had sexually assaulted Poppi before her death.
  
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