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• Surgeon accused of burning INITIALS into patients liver pleads guilty to assault

  13-12-2017 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  A SURGEON who marked his initials on two patients’ livers during operations admitted assault yesterday when he appeared in court in a “highly unusual and complex” case.
  
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• Chris Froome denies breaking rules after failing drugs test

  13-12-2017 23:38
  Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has refuted suggestions of hypocrisy after facing questions over his use of an asthma drug.Britain's most successful road cyclist was questioned on Wednesday following the release of a test result taken during the 2017 Vuelta race, which showed a concentration of Salbutamol double the threshold of World Anti-Doping Agency limits.Froome insisted his asthma symptoms were particularly troublesome during the event and denied claims of hypocrisy having p
  
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• Theresa May Urged To Appoint Advisory Panel On Grenfell Inquiry By MP David Lammy

  13-12-2017 23:10
  An MP has urged Theresa May to stop the Grenfell inquiry from “distant and unresponsive” by appointing a panel of people from the community to help its chair.
  
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• Trump undermines democracy with media attacks, says Cameron

  13-12-2017 23:05
  David Cameron made the comments during his first public lecture in Britain since resigning his post.David Cameron has accused Donald Trump of undermining democracy by attacking the media, saying the true threat posed by fake news lay with Vladimir Putin, his twitter bots and Russian efforts to use corruption as a weapon of foreign policy.
  
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• Christmas travel chaos: Greater Anglia and South Western trains to STRIKE in driver row

  13-12-2017 22:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  TRAIN passengers are set for festive misery this Christmas season as strikes and engineering works promise to bring misery over the holiday period.
  
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• Christmas food gets a chip shop makeover with a fully BATTERED meal

  13-12-2017 22:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  A CHIP shop boss has blown traditional deep-fried Mars bars out of the water by cooking an entire Christmas dinner in... batter.
  
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• Nadine Dorries Rages At 'Treacherous' Tory MPs After Brexit Rebellion

  13-12-2017 22:34
  Nadine Dorries has launched an extraordinary attack on fellow Tory MPs who  voted against the Government on Brexit, arguing they should be deselected and “never allowed to stand as MPs again”.
  
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• UK weather: Britiain braced for Arctic blast and SNOW to return as temperatures plunge

  13-12-2017 22:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  CHRISTMAS shoppers will need to wrap up this weekend as Arctic winds and snow blast back from today.
  
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• 'Mobot' picture reunites runner with long-lost family

  13-12-2017 22:10
  A runner who thought he had lost all connection to his family was reunited with relatives when his local Parkrun shared a picture of him.Jonathan Mainwaring, from Surrey, runs the 5k Parkrun every weekend but when he celebrated clocking up his 250th run he had no idea it would lead to an emotional family reunion.A photo of the runner doing the Mobot pose, inspired by Mo Farah, was shared on Ottershaw Parkrun's Facebook page in December.
  
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• REVEALED: Inside most expensive embassy in the world: US £750million fortress near Thames

  13-12-2017 22:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE United States has revealed the very first images of its new £750million embassy in London.
  
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• May defeated in parliament over Brexit blueprint

  13-12-2017 22:08
  Prime Minister Theresa May's government was defeated on Wednesday, when MPs forced through changes to its Brexit blueprint that ministers said could endanger Britain's departure from the European Union.In a blow to May, already weakened after losing her Conservative Party's majority in a June election, the 650-seat parliament voted 309 to 305 in favour of an amendment to hand MPs more say over a final exit deal with the EU.Up until the last minute of an often bitter debate in parliament, May's t
  
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• Horrific CCTV footage shows moment teenage boys hit girl with off-road bike

  13-12-2017 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  HORRIFIC CCTV footage shows the devastating moment two boys on a moped mow down a girl who was walking on the pavement in Merseyside.
  
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• People are flipping a famous Vote Leave catchphrase following the Government’s Brexit Bill defeat

  13-12-2017 21:55
  MPs say they’ve “taken back control” of Parliament.
  
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• Ruth Davidson for PM? Scottish Conservative leader hints at Westminster bid

  13-12-2017 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  SCOTTISH Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has hinted she may step away from her duties north of the border to join MPs in Westminster amid claims she could run the country as a future PM.
  
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• Government loses key Brexit bill vote after Tory rebellion

  13-12-2017 21:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Theresa May is defeated over her Brexit plans despite last-minute efforts to prevent a Tory rebellion.
  
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• Rupert Murdoch set to sell off 21st Century Fox assets to Disney

  13-12-2017 21:31
  Rupert Murdoch flanked by his sons Lachlan (left) and James in 2016 after his marriage to Jerry Hall.Rupert Murdoch is set to announce a $60bn (£45bn) deal to sell assets in 21st Century Fox, including a 39% stake in Sky and a Hollywood studio, to rival Disney.The deal includes the 20th Century Fox film studio, home to franchises including Avatar and Ice Age, Fox’s TV production business, which produces shows including The Simpsons and Modern Family, and cable stations FX and Nationa
  
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• Edinburgh mum knocked out by playground sign awarded £45,000

  13-12-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  A WOMAN who suffered a brain injury when she was hit by a playground sign in high winds has won more than £45,000 in damages.
  
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• EU Withdrawal Bill: The 12 Tories Who Voted Against Theresa May On Brexit

  13-12-2017 21:29
  Twelve Tory MPs have received plaudits from across the political divide for voting against the Government in order to put into law that MPs would get a meaningful vote on the Brexit deal agreed with Brussels.
  
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• EU Withdrawal Bill: The 11 'Tory Rebels' Who Voted Against Theresa May On Brexit

  13-12-2017 21:29
  Twelve Tory MPs have received plaudits from across the political divide for voting against the Government in order to put into law that MPs would get a meaningful vote on the Brexit deal agreed with Brussels.
  
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• 'It gives me no pleasure' Hammond explains rebellion as he is sacked in May crackdown

  13-12-2017 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  STEPHEN HAMMOND gave an interview explaining his part in the Tory rebellion gave him no pleasure moments before he was sacked as Vice Chairman of the Conservative party.
  
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• Oxford University partners with Berlin academics to cement world standing after Brexit

  13-12-2017 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  OXFORD University has moved to secure its place at the heart of European academia as it prepares for Brexit.
  
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• Vice chancellors' pay: Universities to agree new code

  13-12-2017 20:55 via bbc.co.uk
  University leaders have agreed to a new code on senior pay, which will be published in the next few weeks.
  
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• Universities minister demands restraint over vice-chancellors' pay

  13-12-2017 20:44
  Universities in England must introduce specific reforms to rein in rises in vice-chancellors’ pay, the higher education minister has said at a meeting with leaders from the sector.In unusually blunt terms, Jo Johnson told the delegation he expected pay policies for senior staff to be published more openly, and that vice-chancellors should be barred from sitting on the committees that set their pay.There has been public disquiet about the scale of vice-chancellors’ pay increases.
  
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• Parliamentary defeat will not stop preparations for Brexit day - government

  13-12-2017 20:43
  The British government is disappointed by a vote in parliament to change Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit blueprint, but it will not stop legal preparations for Britain to leave the European Union, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday."We are disappointed that parliament has voted for this amendment despite the strong assurances that we have set out," the government spokeswoman said in a statement.
  
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• The moment defeat on Brexit vote was announced

  13-12-2017 20:39 via bbc.co.uk
  The government has been narrowly defeated in a key vote on its Brexit bill after a rebellion by Tory MPs.
  
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• MPs defeat May's government on Brexit law

  13-12-2017 20:21
  LONDON (Reuters) - MPs defeated Prime Minister Theresa May's government on Wednesday, voting to change her Brexit blueprint in a move which could complicate her efforts to sever ties with the European Union.
  
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• Tory Brexit rebels inflict major defeat on Theresa May

  13-12-2017 20:18
  Dominic Grieve warned that the government’s bill would unleash ‘constitutional chaos’.Theresa May’s government has suffered a humiliating defeat in the House of Commons after MPs backed an amendment to her flagship Brexit bill, limiting the powers it will grant to ministers.As the prime minister prepares to travel to Brussels to meet her fellow EU leaders on Thursday, the former attorney general Dominic Grieve appeared to have won the support of more than a dozen Tory reb
  
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• Why can’t we get our kicks on the M66? | Brief letters

  13-12-2017 20:08
  Barbara Harriss-White (Letters, 13 December) says the mainstream media failed to report Jeremy Corbyn being awarded the MacBride international peace prize.To be fair, the mainstream media did not report on any of the previous winners, and the social media campaign currently trying to frame this as anti-Corbyn bias seems to have overlooked the fact that there were two other winners of the prize this year, Noam Chomsky and the All Okinawa Council Against Henoko New Base.
  
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• NHS faces acute and growing staffing shortage, warns agency

  13-12-2017 20:07
  Almost one in three paramedic jobs are vacant across England, according to the HEE.The NHS is beset by acute shortages of nurses and paramedics and is facing a skills drain, with staff quitting because of pressurised jobs and poor pay, health service chiefs have said.While the NHS in England has 40,000 more doctors than in 2012, it is short of 42,000 nurses, midwives and therapists, according to Health Education England, which has drafted the NHS’s first strategy in 25 years to tackle chro
  
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• Grenfell Criminal Investigation Could Take Years, Met Commissioner Cressida Dick Says

  13-12-2017 19:50
  The police’s criminal investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire is likely to last until 2019 at the earliest and could even take several years to complete, the Metropolitan Police commissioner said on Wednesday.
  
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• Maybot's fawning reception from cabinet evaporates at PMQs

  13-12-2017 19:48
  If only a fatigued and miserable Theresa had followed up the P45 she was offered at the party conference, she would have been off the hook.On Monday, Theresa May was given a fawning reception by her own benches in the Commons for deferring the tricky stuff and progressing the EU negotiations to the second phase.Despite the best efforts of David Davis to torpedo the preliminary agreement before it had even been ratified.
  
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• Kezia Dugdale ‘deeply regrets’ effect of Celebrity trip on successor’s first weeks in job

  13-12-2017 19:46
  Kezia Dugdale, the former Scottish Labour leader who angered colleagues by joining the reality show I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! just as her successor, Richard Leonard, was elected, has said she “deeply regrets” the effect of her decision on the first weeks of his leadership.Dugdale arrived at Glasgow airport on Wednesday, having stayed in Australia until the conclusion of the show, and told waiting reporters that it was “good to be back”.After a rep
  
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• Liver surgeon Simon Bramhall marked initials on patients

  13-12-2017 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Simon Bramhall admits marking his initials on the livers of two transplant patients.
  
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• A royal Christmas

  13-12-2017 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  It's Meghan Markle's first Christmas with her royal in-laws to-be. So what can she expect?
  
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• Surgeon pleads guilty to assault after 'burning' his initials on patients' livers

  13-12-2017 19:15
  A surgeon has admitted marking two patients' livers with his initials while carrying out transplant operations in Birmingham.Simon Bramhall pleaded guilty to two counts of assault at Birmingham Crown Court in a case the prosecution said was "without legal precedent in criminal law".The patients - one of whom cannot be named for legal reasons and the other being unknown - were under anaesthetic while the operations were carried out at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital in February and August 2
  
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• Couple jailed for plotting Birmingham terror attack

  13-12-2017 19:13 via bbc.co.uk
  Ummarayiat Mirza and his wife Madihah Taheer were sentenced to 16 years and 10 years respectively.
  
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• Bolton couple sentenced for burying baby in shoebox

  13-12-2017 18:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Anthony Clark, 35, and Catherine Davies, 25, admitted secretly burying their baby's body in a shoebox.
  
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• Labour reprimands Kezia Dugdale over I'm a Celebrity

  13-12-2017 18:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Scottish Labour gives its former leader a written warning over her appearance on the reality TV show.
  
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• Surgeon admits marking his initials on the livers of two patients

  13-12-2017 18:47
  Simon Bramhall, a specialist surgeon, has admitted marking his initials on the livers of two patients during transplant operations.A surgeon has pleaded guilty to marking his initials on the livers of two patients while performing transplant surgery.In a hearing at Birmingham crown court on Wednesday, Simon Bramhall admitted two counts of assault by beating relating to incidents on 9 February and 21 August 2013.
  
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• Cyclist facing questions over abnormal test result

  13-12-2017 18:45
  Cycling's world governing body have asked Team Sky to explain why Chris Froome had elevated levels of an asthma medication in his body during the Vuelta race.
  
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• Peter Kay cancels comeback comedy tour for family reasons

  13-12-2017 18:43 via bbc.co.uk
  The comedian axes "all upcoming work projects" due to "unforeseen family circumstances".
  
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• Brexit: UK makes last-ditch appeal to EU for trade talks before March

  13-12-2017 18:43
  Lorries arrive in the UK from the Channel tunnel.Britain has said it expects outlines of a trade deal settled within a year.The British government is making a last-minute diplomatic push to persuade the EU to publicly and explicitly state its willingness to hold talks on post-Brexit trade before March next year.
  
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• UVF killer Haggarty shot Catholic to hide double life

  13-12-2017 18:37 via bbc.co.uk
  Loyalist paramilitaries decided who would carry out a shooting by flipping a coin, a court hears.
  
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• The Resistible Rise Of Far-Right Extremism

  13-12-2017 18:33
  Since the infamous retweeting of Britain First, the extreme far-right is dominating the news once again and we are now marking the anniversary that neo-Nazi organisation National Action was banned in the UK.
  
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• Chris Froome would not have gained unfair advantage from asthma drug, doctor insists

  13-12-2017 18:32
  Cyclist Chris Froome would not have gained an unfair advantage over his rivals by taking the banned level of an asthma drug, an expert has said.Dr Brian Lipworth, of the Scottish Centre for Respiratory Research, said taking higher doses of Salbutamol can actually impair an athlete's performance because it can cause muscle weakness, increase their heart rate and reduce potassium in their blood.It comes after a urine sample provided by Froome in September showed double the permitted levels of the
  
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• Murder arrests after pensioner beaten in his home

  13-12-2017 18:15
  Four people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a pensioner who was savagely beaten and robbed in his own home died in hospital.Two men aged 42 and 34, and two women aged 33 and 29, have been arrested on suspicion of the 87-year-old's murder and remain in custody, Staffordshire Police said.
  
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• I Cannot Visualise Anything. I Close My Eyes And Only See Grey

  13-12-2017 18:05
  I first became aware of my ‘condition’ as a small child.
  
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• Salford house fire: Lia Pearson dies in hospital

  13-12-2017 17:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Three-year-old Lia Pearson died after the fire - thought to have been a targeted attack - in Salford.
  
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• Girl, 3, becomes fourth victim of 'targeted' house fire

  13-12-2017 17:56
  A three-year-old girl has become the latest person to die as a result of a fire at a house in Walkden, Greater Manchester.The youngster, believed to be Lia Pearson, had been fighting for her life after the blaze in Jackson Street, in the borough of Salford, on Monday.Siblings Demi, 15, Brandon, 8 and Lacie Pearson, 7, also died in the fire.
  
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• Close ranks - EU braces for 'divisive' Brexit trade talks

  13-12-2017 17:56
  EU negotiators look forward to trade talks with Britain next year once a Brexit divorce deal is endorsed by national leaders on Friday -- but they also worry this might fray the united front states have shown so far in dealing with London.Donald Tusk, who will chair Friday's summit giving the green light to negotiating a free trade pact, underlined that in his invitation letter on Tuesday to the 27 leaders who will meet after British Prime Minister Theresa May has left Brussels."Again our unity
  
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