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• Theresa May: I will fine greedy bosses who betray their workers

  20-01-2018 22:30 via theguardian.com
  • PM pledges tough rules to tackle pensions abuse
  • Whitehall weighs up plan to target executivesIrresponsible company bosses who “line their own pockets” while failing to protect workers’ pension schemes are to be hit with huge fines, under plans to be announced by Theresa May’s government within weeks. Writing in the Observer after a week which saw the collapse of Carillion, the construction and outsourcing giant, with a deficit in its pension scheme of up to
  
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• Britain's 'Ice Maidens' Become First All-Female Group To Cross Antarctica Unaided

  20-01-2018 22:27
  Six British Army soldiers have become the first all-female group to cross Antarctica using only muscle power.
  
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• Drivers Abandon Cars At Scottish Ski Resorts As UK Braces For More Snow And Ice

  20-01-2018 21:55
  Skiers faced six-mile tailbacks on Saturday as they flocked to the Scottish slopes to take advantage of the snowy conditions.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn under pressure to shift Labour policy on Brexit

  20-01-2018 21:27
  Jeremy Corbyn has so far rejected calls for anything more than transitional membership of the singl market and customs union.Jeremy Corbyn is under huge pressure to shift party policy on Brexit as an exclusive poll for the Observer reveals a substantial majority of existing and potential Labour voters want him to back permanent membership of the EU’s single market and customs union.Four times as many Labour supporters favour that option as oppose it.
  
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• Kinks and Zombies bassist Jim Rodford dies aged 76

  20-01-2018 21:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Rodford, also a founding member of Argent and bassist for the Zombies, died following a fall.
  
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• Cyrille Regis: Football pays tribute after death of former England international

  20-01-2018 20:01 via bbc.co.uk
  The Premier League pays tribute to the memory of Cyrille Regis with a minute's applause at Saturday's games.
  
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• Teenager Stabbed In Neck And Body At House In Newtownards

  20-01-2018 19:57
  A teenager has been stabbed in the neck and body at a house in Newtownards, Northern Ireland.
  
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• Thousands Of Women's March Protesters Take To The Streets On Anniversary Of Donald Trump's Inauguration

  20-01-2018 19:27
  Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across the US one year after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president.
  
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• 'Ice Maiden' team celebrates Antarctica ski record

  20-01-2018 19:26 via bbc.co.uk
  The women, who are all part of the British Army, completed their challenge in two months.
  
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• Ice Maidens become first all-female group to cross Antarctica

  20-01-2018 19:10
  Six British soldiers have become the first all-female group to cross the Antarctic using nothing but muscle power.After spending 62 days on the ice, the British Army's Ice Maiden Expedition crossed the finish line at the Hercules Inlet.Moments later, team leader Major Nics Wetherill told Sky News: "We're feeling so happy right now.
  
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• James Brokenshire leaves hospital after lung surgery

  20-01-2018 18:08
  James Brokenshire has praised the NHS staff who treated him.The former Northern Ireland secretary, James Brokenshire, has been discharged from hospital following lung surgery.Brokenshire resigned from the government for health reasons earlier this month before Theresa May’s reshuffle when his post was filled by Karen Bradley.
  
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• Mary Lou McDonald set to be new Sinn Féin president

  20-01-2018 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Mary Lou McDonald says no-one will fill the shoes of Gerry Adams, but that she has brought her own.
  
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• Who is Sinn Féin's president-elect?

  20-01-2018 17:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Stephen Walker assesses how Mary Lou McDonald will fare when she follows Gerry Adams as Sinn Féin president.
  
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• James Brokenshire: Former Northern Ireland Secretary recovering from lung surgery

  20-01-2018 17:29
  Former Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire is recovering after having lung surgery.The Conservative MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup stood down from Theresa May's Cabinet earlier this month after finding out he had a lesion on his lung.On Saturday afternoon, Mr Brokenshire posted a photo on Twitter of himself by his hospital bed, giving the thumbs up as he prepared to go home.
  
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• Ed Sheeran is engaged to girlfriend Cherry Seaborn

  20-01-2018 17:24
  Singer Ed Sheeran has announced he is engaged to girlfriend Cherry Seaborn.Sheeran, 26, met 24-year-old Cherry at Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham, Suffolk.At the end of last year Sheeran revealed he would like to marry Cherry and confessed he would "love" to start a family with her.
  
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• This police officer comforted a 93-year-old theft victim by playing a beautiful piano solo

  20-01-2018 17:20
  This Mansfield PCSO went the extra mile when he checked up on the man.
  
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• Forget product placement: now advertisers can buy storylines

  20-01-2018 17:00
  In the episode, broadcast on ABC, characters discussed P&G’s award-winning ad campaign, “The Talk”, which features African American parents talking about racism to their children.The show’s storyline involved character Dre Johnson – the father of the family, who is himself black and an ad executive – developing an advertising campaign that focuses on P&G’s film.While we are in a new golden age of television, it has been less memorable for adverti
  
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• Reading FC fans' applause tribute to teenager who died from cancer

  20-01-2018 16:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Reading FC fan Tom Stead, 19, died from a rare bone cancer on Boxing Day.
  
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• Channel 4 Calls In Security Experts After Cathy Newman Becomes Target Of 'Vicious Misogynistic Abuse'

  20-01-2018 16:46
  Channel 4 News has called in security specialists after presenter Cathy Newman became the subject of “vicious misogynistic abuse” following a debate this week over the gender pay gay.
  
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• McDonald to succeed Adams as Sinn Fein leader in striking shift

  20-01-2018 16:34
  Mary Lou McDonald will succeed Gerry Adams as Sinn Fein leader, the party said on Saturday, completing a generational shift for the Irish nationalist party as it bids to enter government on both sides of the Irish border.Adams, a pivotal figure in the political life of Ireland for almost 50 years, announced he would step down as leader of the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) last November after more than three decades in charge.
  
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• British tourists warned to 'stay in resorts' in Jamaica security emergency

  20-01-2018 16:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Tourists in Montego Bay should stay in their resorts after a number of shootings, foreign office says.
  
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• Ed Sheeran announces engagement

  20-01-2018 15:27 via bbc.co.uk
  The couple met in school although they only got together in 2015.
  
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• Macron: bespoke trade deal possible if UK accepts 'preconditions'

  20-01-2018 15:26
  Emmanuel Macron has said there should be no cherry-picking in the single market.Emmanuel Macron has said it would be possible for Britain to secure a bespoke trade deal but only if the UK accepts certain “preconditions”.The comments were made during an interview recorded for BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.
  
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• HMP Liverpool: Britain's 'worst prison' cuts healthcare budget

  20-01-2018 15:25 via bbc.co.uk
  New healthcare providers are offered £200,000 a year less than Lancashire Care NHS Trust received.
  
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• Jewish Labour group accuses party of failing to act on antisemitism complaints

  20-01-2018 14:13
  Jeremy Newmark said that the investigation into Ken Livingstone, above, appeared to be stuck in limbo.The bitter Labour party controversy over antisemitism erupted again last night, as the main organisation representing its Jewish members accused the leadership of failing to deal with a “vast backlog” of complaints and of allowing a second inquiry into Ken Livingstone to get “stuck in limbo”.The accusations by Jeremy Newmark, the national chair of the Jewish Labour Moveme
  
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• Yorkshire Dales National Park gets Tolkien-style map

  20-01-2018 14:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Dan Bell adds the Yorkshire Dales to the list of national parks he has "re-imagined" by map.
  
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• Mary Lou McDonald: New Sinn Fein boss says Irish unity 'best solution'

  20-01-2018 13:59
  Mary Lou McDonald, who has been nominated as Sinn Fein's new leader, says a united Ireland is "not a pipe dream" and "is the road were are on".The 48-year-old politician was confirmed as the sole nominee to be the party's president following Gerry Adams' announcement in November that he would step down after 34 years in the role.Mrs McDonald called on supporters at Sinn Fein's AGM to "build our new Ireland", and a special party conference to ratify a new leader will be held on 10 February.
  
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• Dixons Carphone CEO will step down to run chemist chain Boots

  20-01-2018 13:58
  Sebastian James (pictured) will be replaced in April by Alex Baldock, currently group CEO of Shop Direct.The chief executive of Britain’s biggest specialist electrical goods and mobile phone retailer will step down to run high street chemist Boots.Sebastian James, who has led Dixons Carphone for six years, has resigned in a surprise move days before it updates the City on its Christmas trading performance.
  
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• Macron says 'special' UK deal possible

  20-01-2018 13:49 via bbc.co.uk
  It might fall between the single market and a trade agreement, the French president tells the BBC.
  
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• 'Drunk' pilot removed from BA plane at Gatwick Airport

  20-01-2018 13:43 via bbc.co.uk
  The British Airways flight to Mauritius was delayed at Gatwick Airport for several hours.
  
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• Sinn Féin to be led by a woman for the first time in its modern history

  20-01-2018 13:28
  Mary Lou McDonald will succeed Gerry Adams who has been Sinn Féin’s leader since 1983.Sinn Féin will be led by a woman for the first time in its modern history, with the party’s Mary Lou McDonald the only candidate to replace Gerry Adams.The Dublin TD (MP) will be unopposed when Sinn Féin delegates elect a new president at a special conference, Ard Fheis, in February.
  
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• 'Trash girl' ignores bullies to clean Norwich's streets

  20-01-2018 13:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Schoolchildren bullied Nadia Sparkes for picking up litter from the streets.
  
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• Collapsed rape trials could hamper convictions, says Lord Judge

  20-01-2018 13:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Recent collapsed trials may deter convictions in genuine cases, a former lord chief justice warns.
  
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• Emmanuel Macron Calls Brexit Referendum A 'Mistake'

  20-01-2018 13:03
  Emmanuel Macron has said he would “love” if Britain returned to the EU, adding the Brexit referendum was a “mistake”.
  
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• Macron says a bespoke trade deal between the UK and EU is possible

  20-01-2018 12:49
  Emmanuel Macron has said there should be no cherry-picking in the single market.Emmanuel Macron has said it would be possible for Britain to secure a bespoke trade deal but only if the UK accepts certain “preconditions”.The comments were made during an interview recorded for BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.
  
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• Britain able to have bespoke deal with EU - Macron

  20-01-2018 12:47
  French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday Britain would be able to have a bespoke deal with the European Union after Brexit, one of Prime Minister Theresa May's objectives.Macron has said in the past Britain could have pacts with the EU along the lines of those with Canada or Norway but not its own, special deal.
  
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• Mary Lou McDonald to lead Sinn Fein after Gerry Adams steps down

  20-01-2018 12:28
  Sinn Fein's new leader has called on followers to "build our new Ireland".Mary Lou McDonald, 48, was confirmed as the new head of the party, following Gerry Adams' announcement in November that he would step down.Ms McDonald, an English literature graduate from Trinity College Dublin, was the only person to put her name forward for the role.
  
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• McDonald to succeed Adams as Sinn Fein leader

  20-01-2018 12:27
  BELFAST (Reuters) - Mary Lou McDonald will succeed Gerry Adams as Sinn Fein leader, the party said on Saturday, completing a generational shift for the Irish nationalist party.
  
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• The Ilford woman who carries her heart in a rucksack

  20-01-2018 12:14 via bbc.co.uk
  Selwa Hussain is the first woman in the UK to leave hospital with an artificial heart.
  
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• Can gory Britannia satisfy Game of Throne fans?

  20-01-2018 11:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Can Jez Butterworth's gory drama about the Roman invasion of Britain satisfy Game of Throne fans?
  
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• Carillion Apprentices Reveal Wage Uncertainty After Firm's Collapse

  20-01-2018 11:02
  Hundreds of apprentices in training with bankrupt construction firm Carillion still face uncertainty over wages, despite government assurances over their studies.
  
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• The Fordwich Arms, Fordwich, Kent: ‘A good first day in a new job’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent

  20-01-2018 11:00 via theguardian.com
  The smallest town in the country is set for an influx of outsiders after the re-opening of this brilliant pubDeclaring in print that any new joint is a blissful find is probably a spurious blessing. Presently, Fordwich, three miles east of Canterbury and officially Britain’s smallest town, is gorgeously unspoiled. By this I mean Fordwich is unbesmirched by Londoners, who, as I write, lie a mere 63 miles away and are now reading that Dan Smith, an ex-Clove Club chef, has taken harness of a
  
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• Boxer Bradley Smith: 'How anxiety nearly ruined me'

  20-01-2018 10:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Bradley Smith, 20, from St Ives, people should talk more about mental health.
  
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• Nick Boles, Former Tory Minister, Calls Theresa May's Government Timid And Unambitious

  20-01-2018 10:19
  Theresa May “constantly disappoints” because her Government is timid and unambitious, a former Tory minister has said.
  
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• Kate Moss: ‘I still get excited – I’m still shocked when I get a campaign’

  20-01-2018 10:00 via theguardian.com
  The model talks wild times, heroes and her charity shop habit with photographer David BaileyKate Moss Right. We’ve been given some questions, and I’m going to ask you: “What is the wildest shoot or trip you’ve been on together?” We haven’t been on any trips together – but the wildest shoot?David Bailey Every shoot we ever do. Continue reading...
  
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• David Lidington, Theresa May's De Facto Deputy, Says Britain Could Rejoin Reformed EU

  20-01-2018 09:10
  Britain could be back in the European Union in a generation if it is reformed, a senior Cabinet minister has hinted.
  
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• 7 Unlikely Beneficiaries Of Donald Trump's First 12 Months As President

  20-01-2018 08:08
  Over the past year much has been said about those who have unfairly born the brunt of the policies of Donald Trump and his administration - immigrants, women and the transgender community to name just a few.
  
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• Voters should be able to change their minds on referendums, says Speaker

  20-01-2018 08:00
  Commons Speaker John Bercow said that people on the losing side are ‘perfectly entitled to continue to argue for it’.John Bercow, the Commons Speaker, has warned democracy is under threat and said those on the wrong side of a referendum result do not have to accept their case has been lost forever, in remarks welcomed by campaigners for people’s right to change their mind on Brexit.The Speaker is duty-bound to remain neutral on political issues, but his comments appeared to mak
  
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• Elena Ferrante: 'I loved that boy to the point where I felt close to fainting'

  20-01-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  In the first of a new weekly series, the novelist recalls her first loveSome time ago, I planned to describe my first times. I listed a certain number of them: the first time I saw the sea, the first time I flew in an aeroplane, the first time I got drunk, the first time I fell in love, the first time I made love. It was an exercise both arduous and pointless.For that matter, how could it be otherwise? We always look at first times with excessive indulgence. Even if by their nature they’re
  
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• Young parents 'being pushed to breaking point' says survey

  20-01-2018 07:26
  A new survey paints a worrying picture of the pressures on young parents.Of the 2,700 mums and dads who took part in the study published by the charity Working Families, nearly one in five said they had deliberately stalled their careers and more than one in 10 said they had had to rejected a promotion to try to regain some balance in the home.The charity's chief executive, Sarah Jackson, says the findings show how becoming a parent "looks like a bad career move".
  
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