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• This Ford Focus is effectively a giant mood ring you can drive

  23-01-2018 23:55
  A ‘buzz moment’ is indicated by a big flashing animation on the car’s exterior.
  
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• Momentum denies Labour MP 'deselection hit list'

  23-01-2018 23:40
  The leader of Momentum, the left-wing Labour activist group, has denied claims that it is planning a nationwide deselection purge of MPs opposed to Jeremy Corbyn.Jon Lansman, one of three Momentum candidates elected to Labour's national executive last week, insists there is no hit list including high-profile MPs such as Hilary Benn and Angela Eagle."Momentum nationally is not going to campaign to deselect any MP and we will stick by that.
  
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• NTAs 2018: Ant and Dec win big with three awards

  23-01-2018 23:26 via bbc.co.uk
  It was their 17th win in the best presenter category, with Doctor Foster also taking two awards.
  
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• EU trade commissioner ADMITS UK will strike deals around the world easily after Brexit

  23-01-2018 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE EU’s Trade commissioner was forced to admit Britain will find it easier to strike deals with other nations outside the bloc after being probed by a Eurosceptic MEP.
  
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• 'You can ask Boris!’ Brexiteer shuts down Kay Burley over post-Brexit NHS funding

  23-01-2018 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  TORY MP John Redwood blasted Kay Burley in a fiery Sky News interview about Boris Johnson today after the Foreign Secretary called for extra NHS spending.
  
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• Manchester United to mark 60 years since Munich disaster

  23-01-2018 22:28 via bbc.co.uk
  The club is sending a special invitation to season ticket holders over the age of 65
  
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• Tributes follow death of Billy Connolly's manager Steve Brown

  23-01-2018 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  COMEDIAN Sir Billy Connolly’s long-term manager and friend, show-business entrepreneur Steve Brown, has died. Mr Brown, who was 72, worked with the Big Yin for more than three decades and represented the Glaswegian comedian right up until his death.
  
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• Jacob Rees-Mogg explains 'KEY' path UK must follow to secure 'real benefits' post-Brexit

  23-01-2018 22:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  LEADING Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has explained the direct path the UK should follow when securing trade deals once it has cut ties with the EU.
  
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• Margaret Thatcher statue plan rejected by Westminster Council

  23-01-2018 22:13 via bbc.co.uk
  Westminster Council said it was too soon after the ex-PM's death and the statue could be vandalised.
  
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• Ed Miliband Accuses Rupert Murdoch Of 'Blackmail' Over Sky Bid

  23-01-2018 22:00
  Ed Miliband has accused Rupert Murdoch of “blackmail” over a threat to close Sky News if his bid to take over Sky failed, after the competition watchdog warned the bid would give the media mogul too much power.
  
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• This is what it’s like to experience a tsunami alert first-hand

  23-01-2018 21:58
  The warning was prompted by an earthquake in Alaska, magnitude 7.9.
  
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• Ruthin School head teacher warns pupils against teen romances

  23-01-2018 21:44 via bbc.co.uk
  The public school head teacher says the "emotional turmoil" could hamper their university chances.
  
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• Fund boss Martin Gilbert: Brexit won't be as bad as feared

  23-01-2018 21:40
  One of Britain's most important investors has told Sky News that "Brexit won't be as bad" as predicted,  but says the global economic system "needs to change" because people are losing faith in capitalism.Martin Gilbert is co-chief executive of Standard Life Aberdeen, Europe's second-largest fund manager.Mr Gilbert told Sky News that he considered world growth to be "very strong" and said the US economy was "booming".
  
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• Barry Bennell trial: Coach 'used Darth Vader grip' on witness

  23-01-2018 21:34 via bbc.co.uk
  He was pinned to the wall after he interrupted the former coach abusing a boy, a court hears.
  
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• SNP warned of ‘significant issues’ with Police Scotland and BTP merger

  23-01-2018 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  SNP ministers tonight faced renewed calls to halt the controversial merger of Police Scotland with the British Transport Police, after it emerged that a series of “significant issues” will not be resolved in time.
  
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• 'Playing with fire' Brexiteer SHREDS Blair & Clegg setting Parliament 'against the people'

  23-01-2018 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  A CONSERVATIVE MP has ripped into leading Remainers for trying to set “Parliament against the people” and block Britain’s departure from the European Union.
  
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• MPs block ex-expenses chief Sir Ian Kennedy's new job

  23-01-2018 21:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Sir Ian Kennedy's Commons critics are called "petty" by one MP as they block his appointment.
  
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• Acting Police Scotland chief ‘misled over decision of bully probe boss’

  23-01-2018 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE acting Chief Constable of Police Scotland today suggested he was misled over the fate of his bully probe boss. Iain Livingstone told MSPs he had been kept in the dark about Phil Gormley by then Scottish Police Authority chairman Andrew Flanagan.
  
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• Westminster council rejects Margaret Thatcher statue plans

  23-01-2018 21:09
  Margaret Thatcher died in 2013.Councillors have rejected a proposal for a statue of Margaret Thatcher on Parliament Square in central London.Westminster council turned down a plan last July for a bronze likeness of the former prime minister, measuring one-and-a-half times lifesize and dressed in state robes.
  
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• Petrobras CEO Says He Could Consider Staying Past Elections

  23-01-2018 20:54
  Jan.23 -- Pedro Parente, Petrobras chief executive officer, discusses the impact of Brazil's political volatility on the company's strategic plan with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
  
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• Ministers rebuke Boris Johnson over NHS funding demands

  23-01-2018 20:40
  Boris Johnson has been accused by senior Conservative colleagues of playing into the hands of political opponents during a tetchy cabinet session that also brought a rebuke from Theresa May.The prime minister and almost all of her senior ministers took it in turns to stress the importance of keeping the high-level discussions confidential after being irritated by a series of pre-briefed news articles.Allies of Johnson were widely quoted revealing his plans to use the cabinet meeting to demand &p
  
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• England women: Phil Neville announced as new head coach on deal to 2021

  23-01-2018 20:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Former Manchester United and Everton full-back Phil Neville is appointed head coach of the England women's team on a deal until 2021.
  
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• Driver caught with shed on top of car as motorists warned of overhanging loads

  23-01-2018 20:31
  Drivers have been warned about placing overhanging loads on their vehicles after a car was pictured with a shed on top.
  
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• John Worboys: Fresh sex assault claim investigated

  23-01-2018 20:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Black cab rapist John Worboys could remain in custody if the investigation leads to criminal charges.
  
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• Windsor councillors leave Tory group over homelessness row

  23-01-2018 20:12
  Two councillors from the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead have quit the local authority’s Conservative party group in protest after the council leader demanded the area to be cleared of homeless people before the royal wedding in May.Simon Dudley, the council’s Conservative leader, was widely criticised for asking to Thames Valley police to take action against “aggressive begging and intimidation” and “bags and detritus” in the street.
  
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• Finsbury Park: Jury sees CCTV of attack suspect 'hiring van'

  23-01-2018 20:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Footage of Darren Osborne allegedly hiring a van in Cardiff and writing a letter, is shown in court.
  
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• The mystery of the cars abandoned in a robot car park

  23-01-2018 19:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Several vehicles from the 1990s were discovered during work to dismantle Edinburgh's "car park of the future".
  
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• EU's position begins to CRUMBLE as Portuguese minister reveals bloc can't lose 'too much'

  23-01-2018 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  PORTUGUESE Economy Minister Manuel Caldeira Cabral has admitted he does not think Brexit is good for the European Union as he warned the bloc cannot afford to lose too much during negotiations.
  
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• Fresh sex assault claim against black cab rapist John Worboys

  23-01-2018 19:48
  A fresh allegation of historical sexual assault has been made against black cab rapist John Worboys, it is understood.Scotland Yard is now investigating the claim against the 60-year-old, who has not been arrested.Worboys, a former black cab driver, was jailed indefinitely in 2009 with a minimum term of eight years for drugging and sexually assaulting female passengers.
  
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• Ipswich mother wins six-figure payout after cancer missed

  23-01-2018 19:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Tayne Eaton's symptoms got worse after she had a baby but it was 17 months before she was diagnosed.
  
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• Prince William: My earliest memory is my mother taking me to a homeless shelter

  23-01-2018 19:27
  The Duke of Cambridge has spoken of his memories of visiting homeless shelters with his mother, Princess Diana, as a child.Prince William, sporting his new buzzcut, said some of his earliest memories are of his parents showing him he would grow up to have responsibilities and that he was privileged.Speaking at the Charity Commission's annual public meeting in central London, he said: "Some of my earliest memories relate to times that my parents spoke to me - or even better, showed me - what it m
  
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• Barry Bennell threatened boy who saw abuse, court told

  23-01-2018 19:24
  Barry Bennell has denied 48 sexual abuse charges.A football coach accused of sexually abusing junior players threatened to destroy the career of one boy after the boy walked in on him “fondling” another in a changing room, a court has heard.Giving evidence at Liverpool crown court, the witness, who was 15 at the time in the early 80s, said he had returned to the changing rooms of Crewe Alexander’s Gresty Road ground after a match to find Barry Bennell with a young player on his
  
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• Prison service must be held to account

  23-01-2018 19:16
  Liverpool prison, where living conditions have been described by inspectors as the worst they can recall.The devastating report on Liverpool prison describes a broken institution (Liverpool prison has ‘worst conditions inspectors have seen’, 19 January).The squalid conditions and institutionalised degradation of prisoners is shocking.
  
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• Phil Neville: How does a man with no managerial experience come to lead England?

  23-01-2018 19:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Phil Neville's new England career might be a PR masterstroke but is he the right choice for the job?
  
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• Murdoch's Sky bid: what next for the media heavyweight?

  23-01-2018 18:58
  Rupert Murdoch has made a bid of £11.7bn for Sky but regulator says it would give the family too much control over UK news providers.What has happened to Rupert Murdoch’s bid to buy Sky?The UK competition regulator investigating Rupert Murdoch’s £11.7bn bid has said the deal is against the public interest because it would give the Murdoch family “too much control over news providers in the UK, and too much influence over public opinion and the political agenda&rdquo
  
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• Paradise Papers firm worked for bank linked to terrorist financing and organised crime

  23-01-2018 18:56 via theguardian.com
  Appleby client FBME is banned from US financial system The firm at the heart of the Paradise Papers leak provided offshore services to a bank accused of facilitating terrorist financing, transnational organised crime and the Syrian government’s chemical weapons programme.Appleby represented the Cayman Islands holding company of FBME Bank for at least a year after the US Treasury published an extraordinary roster of allegations against the bank, and acted as its agent for more than a decade
  
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• Teens who use e-cigarettes are more likely to try smoking, report shows

  23-01-2018 18:52
  “E-cigarettes cannot be simply categorized as either beneficial or harmful,” said David Eaton, chair of the committee that wrote the report, and dean and vice-provost at the University of Washington.“In some circumstances, such as their use by non-smoking adolescents and young adults, their adverse effects clearly warrant concern,” he said.E-cigarettes produce fewer toxic substances than smoking, but there is “conclusive” evidence e-cigarettes “emit nume
  
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• Private firm pushes ahead with UK-France power cable despite Brexit

  23-01-2018 18:49
  Private investment firm Aquind is pushing ahead with plans to build a 1.4 billion euro (1.22 billion pounds) high-voltage undersea power cable between Britain and France despite uncertainties created by Brexit, its managing director said on Tuesday.Kirill Glukhovskoy told Reuters the project was in the process of obtaining planning permits and marine domain authorisations from both countries, and still due to complete in 2022.Under EU regulations, revenues generated by power transmission operato
  
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• Germaine Greer attacks ‘whingeing’ Me Too movement

  23-01-2018 18:21
  The famed feminist said she wanted ‘to see women react immediately’ to inappropriate behaviour.
  
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• Texting driver's 'laughing emoji' excuse mocked by police

  23-01-2018 18:15 via bbc.co.uk
  A driver's "unusual" explanation for using his phone at the wheel results in a "police report" in emojis.
  
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• Farage: It's reform or die for UKIP

  23-01-2018 18:10
  Nigel Farage has suggested the future of UKIP rests on a crunch vote next month, amid a leadership crisis.
  
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• Anger as Labour selects one BME candidate in marginal seats

  23-01-2018 18:09
  MP David Lammy, left, and Operation Black Vote director Simon Woolley called the figures ‘disappointing’.Black and ethnic minority Labour MPs have expressed concern after a Guardian analysis revealed Labour has picked just one ethnic minority candidate in 28 of the most marginal seats where candidates have been selected to fight the next general election.
  
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• Ukip faces 'reform or die' moment, warns Nigel Farage

  23-01-2018 18:06
  Ukip faces a “reform or die” moment, Nigel Farage has warned, as insiders say the party is losing up to 1,000 paying members a month amid the continuing chaos over Henry Bolton’s future, placing severe strain on its finances.Farage stopped short of explicitly backing the beleaguered Bolton in his efforts to remain leader and reform Ukip’s internal structures on Tuesday but argued that it was a long overdue fight.
  
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• Fresh 'sex assault claim' against black cab rapist John Worboys

  23-01-2018 18:01
  A fresh allegation of historical sexual assault has been made against black cab rapist John Worboys, it is understood.
  
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• To treat or not to treat: find out what really matters to the patient

  23-01-2018 18:00
  A 91-year-old golfer was told bowel cancer at his age didn’t even merit an oncology consultation.It helps that he is not overweight, doesn’t smoke, and has avoided any major comorbidities such as heart disease, diabetes and cognitive impairment.
  
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• Police investigate new allegation against John Worboys

  23-01-2018 17:58
  John Worboys has been transferred from HMP Wakefield to HMP Belmarsh prior to his scheduled release.The police are investigating a new complaint of sexual assault against John Worboys, the black-cab rapist, it has been confirmed, as prison authorities moved him to a London jail ahead of his scheduled release.The impact on Worboys’ potential release is unknown but the move will give fresh hope to his victims that his release may be halted if he is arrested or charged in connection with a fu
  
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• Teletubbies Tinky Winky actor Simon Shelton dies

  23-01-2018 17:45
  The actor Simon Shelton, who played Tinky Winky in the popular Teletubbies TV show, has died aged 52.Shelton, also known as Simon Barnes, was best known for playing Tinky Winky, the purple handbag carrying Teletubby in the BBC children's programme.A trained ballet dancer and father-of-three, he replaced Dave Thompson who was fired from the role of Tinky Winky in 1997 after a year.
  
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• Britain to set up unit to tackle 'fake news' - May's spokesman

  23-01-2018 17:37
  Britain's government will set up a new unit to tackle "fake news" and to try to deter those who aim to use it to influence events in the country, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday."We are living in an era of fake news and competing narratives," the spokesman told reporters."We will build on existing capabilities by creating a dedicated national security communications unit.
  
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• What Britney Spears needs to know about Scarborough

  23-01-2018 17:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Locals tell Britney what she can expect when she comes to the seaside town this summer.
  
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• WATCH: Brexiteer Peter Bone's priceless reaction after being asked GLOOMY Brexit question

  23-01-2018 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  PETER BONE’S reacted hilariously after a BBC reporter suggested that Brexit could negatively impact the British economy.
  
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