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• Theresa May's 25-year plan to clean up Britain

  15-01-2018 23:50
  Supermarkets will be encouraged to have plastic-free aisles - but critics say the plan needs new laws to be truly effective.
  
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• Supermarket Iceland vows to ditch plastic from its stores in five years

  15-01-2018 23:46
  A British supermarket believes it will be the first retailer in the world to make its own-brand products plastic-free within five years.Iceland, the frozen food specialist, says it has worked with environmental charities and experts to develop paper and pulp alternatives that are fully recyclable, affecting more than 1,000 lines."We've created a monster," managing director Richard Walker told Sky News.
  
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• Carillion collapse: Minister claims there is 'no chaos' as Govt battles with fallout

  15-01-2018 23:26
  A top minister has insisted there's "no evidence of chaos" amid the collapse of Carillion as he defended the Government's awarding of contracts to the now-bust construction firm.Cabinet Office minister David Lidington chaired a meeting of the emergency COBRA committee on Monday night following the collapse of the major public service provider.Carillion, which employs 20,000 workers across Britain, held multi-million pound contracts across the work of Government before banks pulled the plug on th
  
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• Who will be affected by the collapse of Carillion?

  15-01-2018 23:10
  Who will be affected by the collapse of Carillion?
  
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• CPS has no plans to prosecute Poppi Worthington's dad after coroner rules she was abused

  15-01-2018 22:58
  Toddler Poppi Worthington died from asphyxia and was sexually abused before her death, according to a coroner.David Roberts said the child's ability to breathe was compromised by an "unsafe" sleeping environment after her father Paul Worthington took her from her cot and placed her next to him in his bed.Mr Roberts said 13-month-old Poppi was suffering from an upper respiratory tract infection at the time and she was abused in the bed.
  
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• Khalid Masood took steroids before carrying out Westminster attack

  15-01-2018 22:39
  Khalid Masood died after being shot by armed police.The attacker who killed five people in a terrorist incident in Westminster last year had taken steroids in the days and hours before the attack.At a pre-inquest hearing into the attack, the chief coroner Mark Lucraft said the aim was to provide “answers and some comfort” to the families of the victims, who themselves called for an examination into the continuing “failure” to get to grips with radicalisation on the intern
  
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• Leave campaign's £350m claim was too low, says Boris Johnson

  15-01-2018 22:30
  Boris Johnson’s decision to push again on the £350m argument could irritate Downing street.Boris Johnson has ratcheted-up his defence of Vote Leave’s infamous assertion on the side of their bus that Britain sends £350m a week to the EU by saying the group could have used a much higher figure.The foreign secretary said the UK’s weekly gross contribution would rise to £438m by the end of a post-Brexit transition period and insisted leave campaigners were right t
  
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• England cricketer Ben Stokes charged with affray

  15-01-2018 22:20
  England cricketer Ben Stokes has been charged with affray after an incident outside a Bristol nightclub.The Crown Prosecution Service says the 26-year-old Durham all-rounder is accused alongside two other men.Stokes will appear with Ryan Ali, 28, and Ryan Hale, 26, at Bristol Magistrates' Court on a date to be fixed.
  
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• May faces tougher transition stance from EU amid Norway pressure

  15-01-2018 22:12
  Theresa May has been hit with a double Brexit blow as the EU toughened up its terms for a transition period and Norway privately warned Brussels that giving in to the UK’s demands for a “special” trade deal could force it to rip up its own agreements with the bloc.A paper on Michel Barnier’s demands for the transition period, leaked to the Guardian, reveals that the EU plans to insist on the free movement of people throughout the transition period and the inclusion of peo
  
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• Remainer MPs bring 'ideas and solutions' to meeting with Barnier

  15-01-2018 21:28
  Anna Soubry and Dominic Grieve leave the Berlaymont in Brussels after their meeting.“It’s all sorted, we’re staying,” joked the self-confessed arch-remainer Anna Soubry, a former Tory minister and latterly mischief-maker in chief on the Conservative backbenches.Soubry was talking to reporters after a meeting with the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, on a wet evening in Brussels.
  
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• Martin Luther King's Children Shatter Donald Trump's Attempt To Honour Their Father

  15-01-2018 21:09
  The son and daughter of Dr Martin Luther King Jr have launched extraordinary attacks on Donald Trump on what would have been the 89th birthday of their father.
  
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• Emergency govt meeting as ministers battle with Carillion collapse fallout

  15-01-2018 21:02
  The Government is holding an emergency meeting over the collapse of construction firm Carillion as ministers battle to keep public services running.Carillion, which employs 20,000 workers across Britain, had multi-million pound contracts across the work of Government before banks pulled the plug on the 200-year-old firm early on Monday morning.The Government has been told it has questions to answer after Downing Street revealed eight new contracts were signed with Carillion since July last year,
  
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• No deal Brexit could be HURT by unprepared EU countries, warns UK's top civil servant

  15-01-2018 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  A BRITISH attempt to quit the European Union with no Brexit deal could be hampered by unprepared EU members, according to Britain’s most senior civil servant Sir Jeremy Heywood.
  
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• A&E staff were too busy to treat my daughter, woman tells inquest

  15-01-2018 20:20
  Bethany Shipsey was described by her mother as a gifted photographer and animal welfare activist who was ‘full of life’.The mother of a young woman who died after taking a overdose of diet pills had to help treat her daughter herself because accident and emergency staff were too busy, an inquest has heard.Carole Shipsey, herself a nurse, said she took her daughter Bethany’s pulse and even changed the electrodes on a monitor.
  
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• Desperate measures in an underfunded NHS

  15-01-2018 19:44
  ‘We need these young people and their dreams but the government is not listening and this one never will,’ writes Jean Jackson. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA
  
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• Readers’ first impressions of the tabloid Guardian

  15-01-2018 19:42
  ‘I was dreading this day, but I have been pleasantly surprised by the new format,’ says Ian R Robinson.Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty
  
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• London law firm accused over role in South Africa scandal

  15-01-2018 19:27
  City law firm Hogan Lovells has been accused of helping enable the Gupta brothers’ “state capture”, and corruption in South Africa.Peter Hain, a former Labour cabinet minister and veteran anti-apartheid campaigner, told the House of Lords on Monday that he had reported Hogan Lovells to the UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) over concerns that the firm produced a “fatally flawed whitewash” report into claims of money laundering at the South African tax
  
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• Hero WW2 dog given medal for running into hail of bullets and stopping enemy fire

  15-01-2018 19:23
  A US military dog who protected British and American soldiers during beach landings in the Second World War has been posthumously awarded the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross.The heroic husky-Alsatian cross - called Chips - was awarded a PDSA Dickin Medal for protecting the lives of his platoon as soldiers invaded Sicily in July 1943.The men and Chips, who once met then prime minister Winston Churchill, landed at dawn but came under fire from a machine gun nest as soon as they arrived.
  
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• Hatton Garden heist gang 'benefitted from £13.6m' worth of stolen loot

  15-01-2018 19:22
  Five of the Hatton Garden heist gang "benefitted" from £13.69m of stolen loot, a court was told.Three of them accepted the figure, but two will dispute it during a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing, Woolwich Crown Court heard.A judge will have to decide how much each gang member must pay back or serve longer in prison in default of payment.
  
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• Westminster Bridge terrorist 'took steroids before killing five in Parliament attack'

  15-01-2018 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  WESTMINSTER attacker Khalid Masood took steroids hours before he ploughed into pedestrians and stabbed a police officer in March 2017, a court has heard.
  
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• Britain will pay Carillion's private sector workers for 48 hours - minister

  15-01-2018 18:54
  Britain will pay Carillion workers on private sector contracts for 48 hours after the infrastructure firm's collapse but will not offer them the same protection as those in the public sector, the minister handling the liquidation said on Monday.The government is paying the salaries of Carillion's workers after it collapsed on Monday, but Cabinet Office minister David Lidington said that those private companies employing Carillion would have only two days of government support.
  
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• Council officials face investigation over Bijan Ebrahimi case

  15-01-2018 18:49
  Bijan Ebrahimi was punched and kicked to death by a neighbour in 2013.Council officials will face an investigation over failings in the case of an Iranian refugee who was murdered by a vigilante after years of abuse.An independent review at the end of last year concluded that Bristol city council and the police were guilty of institutional racism in dealings with Bijan Ebrahimi.
  
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• 'We can make Brexit NOT happen!' Scotland threatens to FIGHT Brexit bill at Supreme Court

  15-01-2018 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE Scottish Conservatives have allied themselves with the SNP on Brexit, and threatened to fight the British Government all the way to the Supreme Court in order to win its demands on devolved powers.
  
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• Mario Testino’s royal pictures: Princess Diana’s favourite photographer’s work

  15-01-2018 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  PRINCESS Diana’s favourite photographer Mario Testino has been dropped by fashion bible Vogue following allegations he sexually exploited male models - something he denies.
  
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• Aussie flu latest: Boy, 15, dies two days after doctors confirmed he had flu

  15-01-2018 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  A TEENAGE boy has died just days after being diagnosed with flu as the Australian strain continues to sweep the country. Sean Hughes, 15, had been rushed to hospital for emergency treatment after developing flu-like symptoms.
  
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• Poppi Worthington Was Sexually Abused Before She Died, Coroner Rules

  15-01-2018 18:23
  Toddler Poppi Worthington was sexually abused before her death, a coroner has ruled.
  
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• Police hunt killer who beat baby girl to death just hours after birth

  15-01-2018 18:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  POLICE are hunting for the brutal murderer of a baby girl found in bushes with multiple injuries inflicted just hours after she was born.
  
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• Poppi Worthington died of asphyxia after sexual abuse in father's bed, coroner rules

  15-01-2018 18:11
  Toddler Poppi Worthington died from asphyxia and was sexually abused before her death, according to a coroner.David Roberts said the child's ability to breathe was compromised by an "unsafe" sleeping environment after her father Paul Worthington took her from her cot and placed her next to him in his bed.Mr Roberts said 13-month-old Poppi was suffering from an upper respiratory tract infection at the time and she was abused in the bed.
  
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• 'Like trying to get egg out of an omelette' – Britain could stay STUCK to EU, says Lamy

  15-01-2018 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  A FORMER director-general of the World Trade Organisation has warned of the difficulties of Brexit, setting out his vision for the UK’s future as a European Union member in all but name.
  
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• How far does Carillion's influence reach?

  15-01-2018 18:08 via bbc.co.uk
  How far does Carillion's influence reach?
  
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• Teach five-year-olds about dangers of knife crime, says police chief

  15-01-2018 18:07
  Children as young as five should be taught about the dangers of knife crime, a police chief has said, as new figures revealed the death toll among under-25s in London had doubled year-on-year.DCS Sean Yates, Scotland Yard’s head of knife crime, said waiting until children are older risks their exposure to scenes of violence on social media.A total of 46 people aged 25 or under were stabbed to death in London, up by 21 compared with the previous year, according to police figures.
  
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• Barry Bennell 'contacted alleged victim to say cancer was payback'

  15-01-2018 18:05
  Barry Bennell contacted one of his alleged victims via Facebook a quarter of a century after subjecting the former Manchester City junior player to a four-year ordeal that had included raping the boy numerous times, a jury has heard.Bennell used a Facebook account in the name of Richard Barry to ask his former player in 2009 if they could get back in touch, and referred to the fact he was now suffering cancer as “payback,” the trial at Liverpool crown court was told.
  
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• Poppi Worthington sexually abused before death coroner rules, but still no one charged

  15-01-2018 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  POPPI Worthington was sexually abused before her tragic death in 2012, a coroner ruled today. The inquest into the toddler’s death heard the 13-month-old was living in an “unsafe” sleeping environment when she died suddenly in suspicious circumstances.
  
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• New minister contradicted promise that rights would not be lost after Brexit

  15-01-2018 17:45
  Suella Fernandes warned that transposing the ‘flabby’ EU charter into British law would give UK citizens additional protections.One of Theresa May’s new ministers has claimed the UK’s plan to drop the EU charter of fundamental rights after Brexit would help avoid an “extra layer” of human rights, contradicting the government’s assurance that no protections would be lost.Suella Fernandes, who was promoted to the Brexit department last week, had warned in
  
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• Whisky and waders as fishermen welcome salmon season in Scotland

  15-01-2018 17:39
  On the banks of the River Tay in the Scottish highlands, a parade of pipers and a whisky-based blessing helped mark the start of the country's salmon fishing season on Monday.The village of Kenmore has been the traditional starting place for the Scottish salmon fishing for over 70 years, with the Tay being the first of the scores of river systems on which the season takes place.At the end of the day you're coming to savour the atmosphere," fisherman Leigh Kelly, 36, told Reuters.
  
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• Carillion collapses after banks pull the plug

  15-01-2018 17:34
  Carillion collapsed on Monday when its banks pulled the plug, triggering Britain's biggest corporate failure in a decade and forcing the government to step in to guarantee public services from school meals to road works.Its demise threatens to hurt smaller suppliers, merchants, rivals and Britain's biggest banks.The British government was left to ensure there was no disruption to public services.
  
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• Carillion collapse hits banks and investors, boosts short sellers

  15-01-2018 17:34
  Leading British lenders including Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group face the prospect of hundreds of millions of pounds in outstanding loans going unpaid from Carillion's collapse on Monday.Along with 10 other banks, they arranged a 790 million pound($1.1 billion) revolving credit facility for Carillion in 2015, which made up the bulk of 835 million pounds worth of syndicated bank loans owed by Carillion that mature in 2020.Many already started booking writedowns last
  
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• Poppi Worthington inquest verdict unlikely to lead to trial

  15-01-2018 17:11
  More than five years have passed since 13-month-old Poppi Worthington died at her chaotic and overcrowded home.The first inquest into Poppi Worthington’s sudden and unusual death was so short that when the coroner concluded, everyone in court gave each other the same look: was that it?No mention was made of the fact that at the time of the inquest both of Poppi’s parents were on bail in connection with her death and that her father, Paul Worthington, was suspected of sexually assault
  
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• Branson orders UK's Virgin Trains to re-stock Daily Mail after censorship spat

  15-01-2018 16:57
  Billionaire Virgin founder Richard Branson has told Virgin Trains to reintroduce the Daily Mail newspaper on their services after criticism of the British rail firm's decision to halt sales, saying the move had been made without his knowledge.Virgin Trains stopped stocking the right-leaning newspaper after a memo to staff described it as "not at all compatible" with the company's brand.The Daily Mail said the decision was disgraceful, and linked it to Branson's pro-Europe views.
  
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• Britain reassures on high-speed rail project after Carillion's collapse

  15-01-2018 16:48
  Britain said on Monday that the country's multi-billion pound rail project High Speed 2 would be delivered despite the collapse of Carillion, one of the contractors charged with its delivery.Carillion's failure creates a fresh problem for HS2, which has been beset by rising costs and vehement opposition from environmental campaigners and some lawmakers.Carillion entered compulsory liquidation on Monday in one of the biggest British corporate failures in recent years, marking the end of the road
  
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• Weather warnings as Arctic winds, hail and snow set to sweep across Britain

  15-01-2018 16:39
  Arctic winds are set to blow into parts of the UK tonight, bringing strong winds, snow, sleet and hail over three days, forecasters say.A yellow weather warning has been issued for snow and ice from Monday afternoon through to Wednesday evening.The warning covers Northern Ireland, most of Scotland and the far north of England, where Met Office spokeswoman Nicola Maxey said there could be up to 20cm of snow on land higher than 200-300 metres (650ft-984ft).
  
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• Richard Branson backtracks on Virgin's Daily Mail newspaper ban

  15-01-2018 16:39
  Virgin Trains will once again stock copies of the Daily Mail, after a decision to ban sales of the paper on the company's trains led to accusations of censorship.Richard Branson tweeted: "Freedom of speech, freedom of choice and tolerance for differing views are the core principles of any free and open society - so we have decided to reconsider our people's decision over @VirginTrains stocking the Daily Mail".The ban, which was made in response to feedback from some Virgin Trains employees, was
  
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• UK government questioned over Carillion contracts after profit warnings

  15-01-2018 16:34
  Britain's government is under pressure to explain why ministers awarded construction company Carillion 1.3 billion pounds of new contracts after it was known to be in financial difficulty.Carillion collapsed on Monday in one of Britain's biggest corporate failures, throwing hundreds of large projects into doubt and forcing the government to step in to guarantee vital public services.Britain's opposition Labour and Liberal Democrat parties called for an investigation into the government's dealing
  
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• British government will hold emergency meeting on Carillion, says minister

  15-01-2018 16:25
  The British government will hold a meeting of its COBRA emergency response committee on Monday to discuss Carillion's collapse, defence minister Gavin Williamson said.May's office said it was a planned ministerial meeting as part of the government's response.
  
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• Ryan Giggs is named Wales manager

  15-01-2018 16:22
  Ryan Giggs has been named Wales manager, the Football Association of Wales has announced.The 44-year-old former Wales captain told Sky Sports last month that he could be tempted back into football management with the national team.Giggs won 64 caps between 1991 and 2007 but was unpopular with some Wales fans for missing many internationals, especially friendlies.
  
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• Crucial National Executive Committee vote transforms Labour's future

  15-01-2018 16:20
  A raft of pro-Jeremy Corbyn candidates have swept the board in a crucial election to Labour's National Executive Committee.Among them is John Lansman, the founder of left-wing pressure group Momentum.Manchester councillor Yasmine Dar and long-standing member of Labour's National Policy Forum Rachel Garnham also join the body, which runs the party and sets its rules.
  
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• London rape trial collapses after phone images undermine case

  15-01-2018 16:18
  Scotland Yard is already conducting an urgent review after another rape case was halted in Croydon in December.A rape trial has collapsed after the Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence when it emerged that images from the defendant’s phone of him in bed with his alleged victim had not been disclosed.The failure of the case at Snaresbrook crown court, east London, is the latest example of crucial digital evidence contained on a mobile either not being found or not being handed over
  
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• London attacker took steroids before deadly rampage, inquest told

  15-01-2018 16:11
  The man who mowed down pedestrians on London's Westminster Bridge before killing a police officer outside Britain's parliament last year had taken steroids beforehand, a London court heard on Monday.Last March Khalid Masood, 52, killed four people on the bridge before, armed with two carving knives, he stabbed to death an unarmed police officer in the grounds of parliament.It was the first of five attacks on Britain last year which police blamed on terrorism.
  
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• England's Ben Stokes charged with affray

  15-01-2018 15:58
  England cricketer Ben Stokes has been charged with affray after an incident outside a Bristol nightclub.The Crown Prosecution Service says the 26-year-old Durham all-rounder is accused alongside two other men.Stokes will appear with Ryan Ali, 28, and Ryan Hale, 26, at Bristol Magistrates' Court on a date to be fixed.
  
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• Ben Stokes: England cricketer charged with affray after Bristol nightclub incident

  15-01-2018 15:52 via bbc.co.uk
  England cricketer Ben Stokes and two other men are charged with affray following an incident outside a Bristol nightclub in September.
  
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