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• Labour Warns Stamp Duty Cuts Will Fuel Surge In House Prices As Theresa May Says 16,000 Have Already Benefitted

  02-01-2018 23:31
  Labour has warned home ownership will be further out of the reach of first-time buyers thanks to the Conservative plan to cut stamp duty as Theresa May hailed the “immediate impact” on 16,000 people who have already benefited from the changes.
  
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• Storm Eleanor cuts power and floods streets amid warnings of gales

  02-01-2018 22:42
  Tens of thousand of homes are businesses have lost power in in the West of Ireland and Storm Eleanor sweeps in from the Atlantic.The storm is threatening Ireland and the west of the UK with winds of up to 90mph, putting lives at risk, the Met Office has said.The fifth named storm of the season is bringing a "very windy" spell to the UK through this evening, the night and into Wednesday morning, according to forecasters.
  
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• Donald Trump mocked on Twitter after appearing to take credit for aviation safety

  02-01-2018 22:09
  “If Trump was a rooster, he’d try to take credit for the sunrise.”
  
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• Theresa May declares 'personal mission' to fix housing crisis

  02-01-2018 21:39
  Theresa May has declared it her "personal mission" to fix Britain's housing crisis, as she hailed the effects of recent changes to stamp duty.In November, Chancellor Philip Hammond abolished stamp duty on homes up to £300,000 altogether for first-time buyers.It means a stamp duty cut for 95% of all first-time buyers who pay it and no stamp duty at all for 80% of those buying their first home, with savings of up to £5,000.
  
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• Liverpool Arena Fire: Photos Released Showing Damage Caused By Blaze

  02-01-2018 20:49
  Images have been released showing the destruction caused by a 1,000C inferno that engulfed a Liverpool car park on New Year’s Eve.
  
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• Man charged over death of London pub worker Iuliana Tudos

  02-01-2018 20:48
  A man has been charged with the murder of pub worker Iuliana Tudos, who was killed on Christmas Eve.Kasim Lewis, 31, will appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.Lewis, of Friern Barnet, north London, was arrested by police at an address in Dalston, east London, at around 1.30pm on Monday.
  
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• Finsbury Park death: man charged with murder of Iuliana Tudos

  02-01-2018 20:00
  Officers at Finsbury Park, where the body of Iuliana Tudos was found.A postmortem revealed she died from a stab wound to her abdomen and a head injury.A 31-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a woman who was found dead in a north London park.
  
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• NHS Extends Suspension Of All ‘Non-Urgent’ Operations As Winter Crisis Deepens

  02-01-2018 19:53
  Struggling hospitals have been told to continue the suspension of all non-urgent surgery until the end of January amid fears of a winter NHS meltdown.
  
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• Hospitals Told To Cancel All Routine Operations As NHS Winter Crisis Escalates

  02-01-2018 19:53
  Struggling hospitals have been told to continue the suspension of all non-urgent surgery until the end of January amid fears of a winter NHS meltdown.
  
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• High wind and flood warnings across Britain as Storm Eleanor arrives

  02-01-2018 19:43
  An amber warning has been issued as the UK braced for winds of up to 80mph that could put lives at risk and cause flooding and travel disruption as Storm Eleanor hits the country.Forecasters said northern England, southernmost fringes of Scotland and southern areas of Northern Ireland could bear the brunt of the storm as it hits Northern Ireland before crossing to the western coast of northern England and Scotland.There were reports of flash flooding in Galway city in the Republic of Ireland as
  
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• Doubts cast on DfE claims of Toby Young's qualifications for watchdog post

  02-01-2018 19:39
  Toby Young’s appointment to the board of the Office for Students has been criticised by Labour as a ‘huge missed opportunity’.Fresh questions have been raised over the suitability of Toby Young to sit on the board of the new universities regulator after it emerged that the government exaggerated his qualifications.Young acknowledged on Tuesday that the Department for Education’s (DfE) claim that he had held teaching posts at two of the world’s most illustrious insti
  
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• Man charged over death of London pub worker

  02-01-2018 19:32
  A man has been charged with the murder of a pub worker who was killed on Christmas Eve.
  
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• Finsbury Park Murder: Kasim Lewis Charged After Iuliana Tudos Killed On Christmas Eve

  02-01-2018 19:27
  A man has been charged with the murder of pub worker Iuliana Tudos in Finsbury Park on Christmas Eve, police have said.
  
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• Hospitals told to cancel some operations amid winter pressure

  02-01-2018 19:19
  Hospitals in England are being advised to cancel all elective operations and in-patient treatments until the end of January in response to extreme pressure on A&E departments over the Christmas and New Year period.With many hospitals running at close to full capacity, NHS England's National Emergency Pressures Panel (NEPP) has also said hospitals will not be penalised if patients are admitted to mixed-sex wards.
  
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• Ryanair seeks UK licence after O'Leary's hard Brexit warnings

  02-01-2018 19:18
  Ryanair is seeking a licence from British regulators to safeguard against a hard Brexit amid little apparent progress on a new aviation deal between the UK and Europe.Sky News has learnt that Ryanair tabled an application to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) shortly before Christmas for a UK Air Operator's Certificate (AOC).
  
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• Labour Shadow Minister Andy McDonald Has Had A Miserable Day On The Trains While Protesting Rail Fares Hike

  02-01-2018 18:50
  Britain’s rail network was the backdrop to farcical scenes on the day Britons faced inflation-busting ticket price rises as Labour’s trains chief attempted to join protests.
  
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• Majority of Brits back rail nationalisation, Sky data poll shows

  02-01-2018 18:33
  Some 60% of Britons support bringing the country's rail network back into public ownership, while 20% oppose it.Support is slightly up from when Sky Data last asked the question in 2015, when 55% supported the policy and 23% opposed it.This comes on the back of the biggest increase in rail fares for five years coming into effect.
  
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• BA flight makes priority landing in London after passenger illness

  02-01-2018 18:26
  LONDON (Reuters) - The crew of a British Airways flight from Bangkok to London requested a priority landing as the plane approached Heathrow airport on Tuesday due to an unwell passenger, the airline said.
  
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• Fare rises 'difficult to stomach'

  02-01-2018 18:25
  Passengers have called the largest rail fare increase in five years "difficult to stomach".
  
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• Secrets of the House of Lords dining room: ‘It’s like entering a priestly sacred chamber’

  02-01-2018 18:23
  A feast fit for a lord: the peers’ dining room. Photograph: Alain Benainous/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
  
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• Calls to drop students from migration cap rebuffed by Downing Street

  02-01-2018 17:59
  Downing Street has rebuffed calls from senior Conservatives to remove students from the UK's net migration target.Theresa May is resisting stripping out students for fear of being accused of fiddling the figures to hit her target of reducing immigration to the tens of thousands.Despite lobbying from newly-elected Scottish Tory MPs as revealed by Sky News last month, their efforts to change the way migration is counted appear to have faltered.
  
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• Former football coach charged with alleged sexual offences

  02-01-2018 17:46
  A former football coach from one of England’s professional clubs has been charged with a string of alleged sexual offences.A former football coach has been charged with a string of alleged sexual offences as part of an investigation by Cheshire police.A police spokesman said: “A former football coach will appear in court this week charged with a number of sexual offences.
  
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• Brexit: Starmer to force vote on UK's adoption of EU charter of rights

  02-01-2018 17:29
  Keir Starmer says the UK needs a ‘cast-iron guarantee’ that essential rights will be protected post-Brexit.Keir Starmer has torn into the government’s “woefully inadequate” analysis of how the EU charter of fundamental rights will be covered by British law after Brexit, warning that essential protections will be lost.The shadow Brexit secretary said Labour would force a vote on the issue this month at the next stage of the EU withdrawal bill, as the government was s
  
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• The 'Voltage': The rise of darts world champion Rob Cross

  02-01-2018 17:28
  Rob Cross swept aside darts great Phil "The Power" Taylor 7-2 in a stunning display in the World Darts Championship final on New Year's Day.It was the stunning victory over Michael van Gerwen in a spectacular 11-set, 54-leg semi-final shoot-out that went beyond the midnight hour at Alexandra Palace on Saturday that really served notice of this tungsten whirlwind.It is indicative of the 27-year-old's rise to prominence that MvG was all too aware of the Cross threat and that after defeat on Monday
  
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• Probe After Carlini Shifnal Restaurant Chef Laura Goodman ‘Boasts Of Spiking A Vegan’

  02-01-2018 17:27
  An investigation has been launched after a Shropshire restaurant chef apparently boasted about “spiking a vegan,” prompting death threats against her.
  
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• 'Torn Between Two Worlds' - Why I Left The Amish Community And My Family Behind

  02-01-2018 17:25
  The way I assessed my situation, I had only two options left.
  
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• Calls for YouTube star Logan Paul to be banned after ‘suicide’ video

  02-01-2018 17:23
  He shared footage from a forest known as frequent site of suicides which appeared to include a body.
  
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• Ryanair seeks UK licence after O’Leary’s hard Brexit warnings

  02-01-2018 16:53
  Ryanair is seeking a licence from British regulators to safeguard against a hard Brexit amid little apparent progress on a new aviation deal between the UK and Europe.Sky News has learnt that Ryanair tabled an application to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) shortly before Christmas for a UK Air Operator's Certificate (AOC).
  
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• Labour transport chief's rail fares protest scuppered after Virgin train breaks down

  02-01-2018 16:23
  Labour's transport chief has been stuck on a broken down train - on his way to a protest about rail fare rises.Andy McDonald had taken part in a demonstration outside King's Cross earlier on Tuesday and was hoping to spend the day touring similar protests at other railway stations.
  
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• Bell End residents launch petition to change 'rude' street name

  02-01-2018 16:21
  Frustrated residents have launched a petition to change the "rude" and "offensive" name of their street – Bell End.People living in the street in Rowley Regis in Sandwell, West Midlands, argue it is one of the rudest street names in the country, with some saying it could cause younger residents to be bullied at school.Bell End was ranked fourth in the UK in a list of the top 15 rudest-sounding street names released in 2014.
  
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• 'Danger to life' as Storm Eleanor expected to hit Britain with 80mph winds

  02-01-2018 15:55
  Britain could be hit by winds of up to 80mph, putting lives at risk as Storm Eleanor moves in from the Atlantic, the Met Office has said.The fifth named storm of the season will bring a "very windy" spell to the UK on Tuesday night and Wednesday, according to forecasters.The Met Office has issued several national severe weather warnings due to the potential for travel disruption as people return to work following Christmas and New Year.
  
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• New Year rail fare hikes: Furious commuters protest at stations across UK

  02-01-2018 15:50
  Furious protesters have accused train companies of forcing passengers to "pay through the nose" as they were hit by a New Year price hike.Around 40 pickets sprung up from Brighton to Berwick-upon-Tweed, as well as in London's King's Cross station, to slam the rise on the first working day of 2018.Passengers catching a train on Tuesday were hit with an average ticket price rise of 3.4%, with some commuter routes set for price hikes of more than £100.
  
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• Going dry

  02-01-2018 15:50 via bbc.co.uk
  If you are considering going dry for January, here are the benefits experts say it can bring.
  
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• Leading Brexiteer's BRUTAL response after SNP MP claims Brexit should be STOPPED

  02-01-2018 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  FORMER MP Gisela Stuart slammed the SNP’s Joanna Cherry after she claimed Article 50 should be reversed as the Brexiteer referenced the "clear majority" of Britons who voted to leave the European Union.
  
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• Here's Why London Travelcards Just Got More Expensive - Despite Sadiq Khan Suggesting He's 'Frozen' Fares

  02-01-2018 15:41
  Sadiq Khan became the target of commuters’ anger this morning after many workers found themselves paying more to travel in London - despite an announcement by the Mayor of a “TfL fares freeze”.
  
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• This guy has quit his job to focus on his 1.3m Instagram followers in 2018

  02-01-2018 15:31
  Tank Sinatra is on a mission to make more people laugh.
  
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• Pull together to tackle knife crime, top Met officer urges Londoners

  02-01-2018 15:29
  One of Scotland Yard’s most senior officers has called on Londoners to “pull together” to tackle knife crime after the new year period saw four young men stabbed to death in separate attacks.Sir Craig Mackey, the Metropolitan police deputy commissioner, said tackling serious violence and knife crime in the capital remained the top priority for the force after the recent killings pushed the total number of fatal stabbings in London to 80 in 2017 alone.
  
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• New Year London stabbings: Number of deaths 'unusual'

  02-01-2018 15:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Three men and a boy were killed in unrelated attacks across London over New Year.
  
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• Storm Eleanor to SMASH UK: Britain facing hurricane-force wind as storm to become CYCLONE

  02-01-2018 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  A COLOSSAL storm brewing in the Atlantic will unleash hurricane-force winds across Britain from tomorrow.
  
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• Liverpool car park fire: Images released

  02-01-2018 15:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Liverpool's mayor hits out at fire service budget cuts as photos from inside the multi-storey emerge.
  
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• Chris Grayling accused of being 'in hiding' over rail fair rises

  02-01-2018 15:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Opposition parties accuse the transport secretary of dodging flak over rail fare rises.
  
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• Mother sinks into mud at baby's grave

  02-01-2018 15:19 via bbc.co.uk
  A woman says she is "heartbroken" by the state of the County Down cemetery where her son is buried.
  
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• ‘He’s NOT at embassy anymore’ Julian Assange mystery deepens over cryptic tweet

  02-01-2018 15:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  JULIAN Assange could be about to release another set of files or could even be working with Donald Trump, according to the WikiLeaks founder’s fans concerned for his safety after he posted a cryptic message online.
  
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• Is Boris Johnson being lined up for super-charged Brexit role? Cabinet reshuffle latest

  02-01-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  BORIS Johnson could be offered a super-charged Brexit role in a New Year Cabinet reshuffle.
  
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• ‘You’re UNELECTED’ House of Lords warned of public BACKLASH if peers attempt block Brexit

  02-01-2018 14:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  THERESA May has been urged to overrule the House of Lords if peers attempt to block Brexit.
  
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• Triple killer Theodore Johnson admits murdering ex-partner

  02-01-2018 14:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Theodore Johnson already had convictions for killing two women he had been in relationships with.
  
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• A&E doctor sorry for 'third world conditions' as NHS winter crisis bites

  02-01-2018 14:46
  Many hospitals have come under the cosh since Christmas amid very cold weather and higher than usual prevalence of flu.Growing numbers of hospitals are struggling to cope with the onset of the NHS’s winter crisis, with one A&E doctor apologising to patients for the “third world conditions” in his overcrowded unit.Milton Keynes hospital admitted it was under “extreme and sustained pressure” because of the “very high” number of patients turning up and
  
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• Stowmarket Murder: Ex-Ukip Councillor Stephen Searle Charged Over Wife's Death

  02-01-2018 14:42
  A former Ukip councillor has appeared in court charged with the murder of his wife.
  
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• Trevor Sinclair sentenced for drink-driving and racially abusing policeman

  02-01-2018 14:18
  Former England footballer Trevor Sinclair has been sentenced to 150 hours' community service for racially abusing a policeman after being arrested for drink-driving.Sinclair, 44, was also given a 20-month driving ban.In a statement read to the court, PC Gareth Evans said Sinclair was "very calm" before the arrest but began getting "more aggressive".
  
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• Virgin Trains apologises for 'sexist' tweet

  02-01-2018 14:17 via bbc.co.uk
  When Emily Cole complained to the company about being called "honey", she was "stunned" by the response.
  
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