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• Woman dead after stabbing in Aldi supermarket in Skipton

  21-12-2017 23:28
  A 30-year-old woman has died after she was stabbed in an Aldi supermarket, police have said.North Yorkshire Police said a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the attack in Skipton shortly before 3.30pm on Thursday.A woman who was in the store on Keighley Road said she had "never been so scared in my life".
  
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• Police say lifting road closures near Buckingham Palace

  21-12-2017 23:27
  LONDON (Reuters) - British police started to reopen roads around Buckingham Palace in London late on Thursday after investigating a suspicious vehicle.
  
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• Theresa May describes sadness over sacking of close friend Damian Green

  21-12-2017 23:00
  Theresa May has spoken of her deep personal sadness at being forced to sack her close friend Damian Green, but emphasised she expected the highest standards of ministers and that victims of sexual harassment should be able to feel safe speaking out.A Cabinet Office investigation found Green had breached the ministerial code in his outright denials when a Sunday newspaper reported that pornography had been found on his computer.The report, which also examined his conduct towards Conservative acti
  
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• You can now get your face printed on a coffee

  21-12-2017 22:38
  Take a look at the “selfieccino”.
  
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• A day like any other?

  21-12-2017 22:31 via bbc.co.uk
  From a bike ride in the city to a festival of culture - what some non-Christians do on 25 December.
  
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• Aldi Skipton Stabbing Sees Police Launch Murder Probe After Woman Dies

  21-12-2017 22:10
  A woman has died after being stabbed in an Aldi supermarket in North Yorkshire on Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Russia's Globex bank says hackers targeted its SWIFT computers

  21-12-2017 21:56
  MOSCOW/TORONTO (Reuters) - Hackers tried to steal 55 million roubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, the bank said on Thursday, the latest in a string of attempted cyber heists that use fraudulent wire-transfer requests.The bank's disclosure comes after SWIFT, whose messaging system is used to transfer trillions of dollars each day, warned late last month that the threat of digital heists is on the rise as hackers use increasingl
  
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• PC Keith Palmer to be remembered with memorial stone in Westminster

  21-12-2017 21:56
  A police officer murdered during the Westminster terror attack will be commemorated with a memorial stone in Parliament.The monument in memory of PC Keith Palmer will be laid near the spot he was killed by a knife-wielding terrorist in March.It will be placed near the Carriage Gates - the entrance ministers use to get into the Parliament grounds - which PC Palmer was guarding when he was fatally stabbed.
  
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• Donald Trump has gone big on his Christmas card to Congress this year

  21-12-2017 21:36
  It’s slightly larger than the average card.
  
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• Boris Johnson blasts 'vendetta' against Damian Green as he backs return for sacked minister

  21-12-2017 21:31
  Boris Johnson has piled fresh pressure on police over de facto deputy Prime Minister Damian Green's sacking, claiming he is the victim of a "vendetta".The Foreign Secretary backed his ousted Cabinet colleague, branding the leak of secret details from a raid on the Ashford MP's parliamentary office as "a bit whiffy"."I'm very sad for Damian and I think he has been a fine public servant and done a great job," Mr Johnson said on a trip to Russia.
  
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• UK minister Garnier keeps job after misconduct inquiry finds no rules broken

  21-12-2017 20:19
  British Prime Minister Theresa May wants to draw a line under allegations of misconduct against one of her junior ministers, Mark Garnier, a statement from her office said on Thursday after an investigation found he had not breached ministerial rules.May ordered the investigation in October after the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported Garnier, now a junior international trade minister, asked secretary Caroline Edmondson to buy two sex toys.The statement come a day after May forced her most senior
  
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• Sacking Green will boost May's popularity within party, Tories say

  21-12-2017 20:08
  Damian Green is said to be sad but not surprised by Theresa May’s decision.Sacking Damian Green will have left Theresa May more isolated in cabinet but more popular with backbench MPs and members, senior party figures have said.Instead, MPs have turned their ire on the former police officers whose notes from a confidential inquiry brought down May’s de facto deputy prime minister.
  
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• Cheered by news that the UK will lose Sway | Brief letters

  21-12-2017 19:57
  Jo Garrad of Hampshire was pleased with a Guardian headline this week regarding Brexit. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
  
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• Rail Ticket Machines: 70% Do Not Produce Cheapest Fares

  21-12-2017 19:46
  More than two-thirds of ticket machines on Britain’s railways do not inform passengers how to get the cheapest fares, the Department for Transport (DfT) has said.
  
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• Stormzy sings at funeral of fan's father after receiving request on Twitter

  21-12-2017 19:32
  Stormzy has performed at the funeral of a fan's father after he "tried his luck", sending the singer a message on Twitter.Nas Bockarie's dad died on the day of his graduation, and he sent a message to the grime star asking him if he could make the funeral.Stormzy replied asking to send a direct message, or DM, and it appears he has fulfilled the bold request.
  
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• Trade minister Mark Garnier cleared after sex toy investigation by Cabinet Office

  21-12-2017 19:24
  International trade minister Mark Garnier, who admitted asking a former aide to buy sex toys, has been cleared after an investigation."The member of staff in Mr Garnier's office was distressed by what had occurred," Number 10 said."It was not his intention to cause distress, and Mr Garnier has apologised unreservedly to the individual.
  
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• Elf on the top shelf: Twinings hits out at Poundland for using its product in NSFW tweet

  21-12-2017 19:16
  The budget retailer says it is “proud” of the campaign.
  
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• Acid attacks ‘making parts of London NO-GO zones’ warns MP

  21-12-2017 19:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  PARTS of London have become “no-go” zones because an acid attack epidemic is raging out of control, an MP has warned.
  
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• No respite as Madame Brexit sidesteps Green questions in Warsaw | John Crace

  21-12-2017 18:57
  This time last week, Theresa May would probably never have imagined her visit to Poland would attract so much interest.A couple of photo opportunities and a hasty press conference with the Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, that no one bothered to broadcast and she would be out of there.The sacking of Damian Green late on Wednesday night rather changed all that.
  
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• Peter Bone's BRILLIANT reason why EU will come RUNNING to Britain for a trade deal

  21-12-2017 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXITEER Peter Bone said Jean-Claude Juncker and his European Union cronies will come running for a free-trade deal because it’s more in the interest of Brussels than it is the UK.
  
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• Donald Trump's Jerusalem Decision Rejected By The UN

  21-12-2017 18:37
  More than 100 countries defied President Donald Trump on Thursday and voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to withdraw its decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
  
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• NHS cancels surgery for tens of thousands to avoid winter crisis

  21-12-2017 18:28
  Hospitals have been ordered to postpone non-urgent operations until mid-January.Tens of thousands of patients are having their surgery cancelled and hospitals are setting up makeshift wards in an unprecedented move by NHS bosses to avoid the service going into meltdown this winter.NHS England has told hospital chiefs to make the changes so they can cope with “the scale of the challenge” they will face as more patients than usual seek care over Christmas and new year.
  
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• 7 delightful ways people are coming together to help the homeless at Christmas

  21-12-2017 18:18
  From a dinner on London Euston Station for 200 homeless people, to gyms, chippies and churches opening their doors.
  
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• 12 Politicians Whose Names Can Be Sung To Christmas Songs

  21-12-2017 18:00
  1 Liz Truss to Mistletoe And Wine 'Liz Truss time/Mistletoe and wine' HT: Esther Webber @estwebber See also: 'So here it is, merry Liz Truss/Everybody's having fun' via David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley 2 Amber Rudd to Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town 'Amber Rudd is comin' to town'  HT: @PropertySpot 3 Chris Grayling to Away In A Manger 'Chris Grayling a manger/No crib for a bed' HT: Kate Forrester @kateforrester  See also: 'Away with Steve Baker/No crib for a bed' vi
  
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• Cabinet inquiry finds Mark Garnier did not breach ministerial code

  21-12-2017 17:56
  Mark Garnier did not deny the accusations made against him by his former assistant.The junior trade minister Mark Garnier has been formally cleared of wrongdoing for asking his former assistant to buy a sex toy and calling her “sugar tits”, with no action being taken against him, Downing Street has said.Garnier did not deny the accusations about the events in 2010, made by his former assistant Caroline Edmondson, which prompted a one-month investigation by the Cabinet Office to see i
  
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• Woman stabbed in Aldi - man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder

  21-12-2017 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a woman was stabbed in front of Christmas shoppers at an Aldi supermarket.
  
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• Why We Should All Care About LGBT-inclusive Relationships And Sex Education

  21-12-2017 17:47
  The Government has launched a new public consultation on what relationships and sex education should look like in England’s schools.
  
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• For The 128,000 Children In Temporary Accommodation, Christmas Will Be Far From Magical

  21-12-2017 17:41
  The run-up to Christmas is an exciting time for school children.
  
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• Civil service reports on Brexit are criticised for padding and plagiarism

  21-12-2017 17:30
  David Davis had claimed there was extensive Whitehall analysis of about 50 sectors.The threadbare state of government preparations for Brexit was exposed on Thursday as civil service reports once heralded for providing “excruciating detail” on the impact of leaving the EU were criticised for containing little more than padding, repetition and plagiarism.Months of pressure for disclosure of the economic analysis culminated, several hours before the Christmas parliamentary recess, with
  
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• Swiss decry EU 'discrimination' over financial market access

  21-12-2017 17:09
  The Swiss president is accusing the European Union of "discrimination" over a decision to only grant the country's financial market participants a one-year extension to the 28-country bloc. Doris ...
  
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• Swiss decry EU 'discrimination' over financial market access

  21-12-2017 17:09
  GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss president is accusing the European Union of "discrimination" over a decision to only grant the country's financial market participants a one-year extension to the 28-country bloc.
  
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• Firearms dealer Paul Edmunds jailed for 30 years for selling weapons used in crimes

  21-12-2017 17:04
  A firearms dealer who sold handguns and home-made bullets that were linked to more than 100 crime scenes has been jailed for 30 years.Paul Edmunds, 66, imported a Colt pistol used in a fatal shooting at a nightclub in London.Police arrested Edmunds, of Bristol Road, Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, in 2015 and found three armouries and made bullets to fit antique weapons.
  
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• How a decade-old row over a police raid led to Damian Green's fall

  21-12-2017 17:01
  The lie that brought down Damian Green was his claim late on a Saturday night that “the police have never suggested to me that improper material was found on my parliamentary computer”.In his resignation letter the deputy prime minister and Theresa May’s closest ally was forced to admit that denial was “misleading” and the police had told him and his lawyers not once but twice – in 2008 and again in 2013 – that pornographic images had been found on his H
  
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• Theresa May calls for leaking cops to be 'properly investigated'

  21-12-2017 16:57
  Theresa May has reiterated her concerns about comments made by police officers in relation to pornography found on Damian Green's computer.Speaking after a bilateral meeting with the Polish Prime Minister in Warsaw, Mrs May said she expects statements made by Metropolitan Police officers over the saga to be "properly investigated".Mr Green was asked to step down from his job as First Secretary of State, a role which effectively made him the PM's deputy, on Wednesday after a Cabinet Office invest
  
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• Twitter Urged To Ban Katie Hopkins In Wake Of Melbourne Crash Tweets

  21-12-2017 16:43
  There are growing calls for Twitter to suspend Katie Hopkins’ account following her comments about the Melbourne crash which saw a car plough into pedestrians in the Australian city.
  
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• Downsizing Infographic

  21-12-2017 16:37 via theguardian.com
  In new film Downsizing, Paul Safranek (Matt Damon) shrinks from 1.8 metres tall to just 13cm. If downsizing really was an option, how would your finances be affected and what would your environmental impact be? Scroll to find out – and to discover tips on how you could minimise your impact on the real world todayContinue reading...
  
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• Morrisons, Aldi And Co-op Recall Chicken And Bacon Caesar Wraps Over Fears They Could Contain Metal

  21-12-2017 16:08
  Chicken wraps sold at Morrisons, Aldi and the Co-op have been urgently recalled over fears they could contain pieces of metal.
  
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• Early Pregnancy Is Putting An End To Girls’ Ambitions Of Education

  21-12-2017 15:58
  “When I first discovered I was pregnant, I did not know what to do.
  
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• Finsbury Park Mosque Attack Suspect Darren Osborne Pleads Not Guilty

  21-12-2017 15:57
  The man charged with allegedly driving into worshippers near the Finsbury Park mosque has pleaded not guilty.
  
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• Tory MP's aide cleared of raping woman in Houses of Parliament

  21-12-2017 15:46
  Sam Armstrong whose relationship with Mackinlay was described by the MP as like ‘father and son’.A Conservative MP’s aide has been acquitted of raping and sexually assaulting a woman within the Houses of Parliament.Sam Armstrong, who was suspended as chief of staff to the South Thanet MP, Craig Mackinlay, was cleared by the jury of seven women and five men at Southwark crown court of two counts of rape, one count of sexual assault by penetration and one count of sexual assault.
  
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• Samuel Armstrong, Chief Of Staff Of Tory MP Craig Mackinlay, Cleared Of Raping Woman In Boss's Westminster Office

  21-12-2017 15:45
  The chief of staff of a Tory MP has been cleared of raping a woman in his boss’s Westminster office.
  
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• Turning the screw on EU: Theresa May and Poland unite with HUGE military cooperation deal

  21-12-2017 15:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  THERESA May has sent a clear warning to the European Union by signing a military deal with Poland, who are currently involved in a spat with the bloc.
  
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• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'eligible for early release' from jail in Iran - lawyer

  21-12-2017 15:18
  Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been held in an Iranian jail for more than 18 months, is eligible for early release.Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe told her husband Richard that she had been informed of the news by her Iranian lawyer.Richard Ratcliffe said he was "cautious" about the news but hoped his wife, who was arrested in 2016 during a holiday, would be home soon.
  
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• Toys R Us rescue deal is saved by pension settlement

  21-12-2017 15:13
  Toys R Us has been saved from collapse after creditors supported a rescue deal that will keep three quarters of its stores open.The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) had initially threatened to block the company's plan in a move that could have forced the country's biggest toy chain into administration just ahead of Christmas - placing 3,200 jobs at risk.Sky News had reported exclusively on the ebbs and flows in the negotiations in the days and hours ahead of the meeting - with the result on a knife
  
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• Inquiry into Keith Vaz allegations suspended for 'medical reasons'

  21-12-2017 15:10
  An investigation into newspaper allegations about the private life of Labour MP Keith Vaz has been suspended for "medical reasons".The House of Commons sleaze watchdog said the probe had been halted as it put out an updated list of ongoing inquiries.In 2016, the Leicester East MP publicly apologised to his wife and children and quit as chairman of the influential Commons Home Affairs Committee following reports in the Sunday Mirror that he paid two male escorts.
  
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• A hard knock life for London's rough sleepers

  21-12-2017 15:07
  Outside London's Piccadilly theatre where tickets cost up to 110 pounds and a banner advertising the musical "Annie" reads "It's a hard knock life", Bryan and Kevin sleep in small tents on the street.Bryan, 51, who last year nearly died from pneumonia, became homeless after personal problems led him to drink and drugs.In a report this week, parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) called the extent of homelessness across England "a national crisis".
  
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• Women's Mental Health Needs Are Being Neglected At A Time Of Crisis. We Need Gender-specific Policy To Reverse This

  21-12-2017 15:04
  This week the Mental Health Foundation published a report showing how young women and girls have slipped down the policy agenda to a point where they are almost invisible.
  
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• Theresa May 'had no choice but to dismiss' Damian Green - Hunt

  21-12-2017 14:57
  Damian Green has tweeted the day after he was sacked for making misleading statements about computer pornography - as Jeremy hunt said the Prime Minister had no choice but ask him to resign.The lifelong friend of Theresa May was asked to step down from his official job as First Secretary of State on Wednesday night for breaching the ministerial code.Mr Hunt said it was clear the Prime Minister acted with a "very heavy heart" when she ordered Mr Green to tender his resignation after summoning him
  
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• British seaside town on LOCKDOWN after shooting - man shot in head

  21-12-2017 14:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  SOUTHPORT was placed on lockdown today after a man was shot in the head.
  
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• Melbourne Crash: 'Heroic' Off Duty Police Officer Praised For Arresting Driver

  21-12-2017 14:47
  The actions of an off duty police officer who arrested the driver of a vehicle that ploughed into pedestrians in Melbourne on Thursday have been described as “heroic”.
  
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