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• Man charged over crash which killed teenagers

  28-01-2018 23:57
  A man arrested by police in connection with a car crash that killed three teenagers in London has been charged.Jaynesh Chudasama, 28, is due to appear in court on Monday and has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.The three teenagers were waiting at a bus stop on Friday evening when they were hit by a car that reportedly mounted the pavement close to a nearby petrol station.
  
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• Son of British jihadi Sally Jones also killed in drone strike

  28-01-2018 23:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  A US DRONE strike which killed British jihadi Sally Jones – dubbed the “White Widow” – also killed her 12-year-old son, intelligence sources have confirmed for the first time.
  
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• Man charged over triple death crash

  28-01-2018 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Jaynesh Chudasama, 28, is charged over a car crash which killed three teenagers on Friday.
  
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• Holidaymakers can now book sunbeds for £22 to end poolside stampede

  28-01-2018 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  HOLIDAYMAKERS can now book a specific sun lounger and even use a map and compass app to work out whether a spot is sunny or shady.
  
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• Two men shot in separate attacks in Belfast

  28-01-2018 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Police say the victims, aged 26 and 41, have sustained "potentially life-changing injuries".
  
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• British victims of terror launch new group to fight extremism

  28-01-2018 23:00
  British survivors of terrorism will launch a new group in a bid to influence government policy on counter-terrorism and provide support for victims.The Survivors Against Terror group – which includes the husband of murdered MP Jo Cox, the brother and mother of Manchester bombing victim Martyn Hett and the widow of fusilier Lee Rigby – argue that communities need to be better integrated and more inclusive.Dan Hett and Figen Murray, the brother and mother of Manchester bombing victim M
  
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• Aussie Flu epidemic: Tribute to perfect son, 9, killed by virus

  28-01-2018 22:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  DEVASTATED parents have paid tribute to their “perfect” nine-year-old son, thought to be the youngest person to die from flu this winter. The schoolboy died just 48 hours after being diagnosed with the type B virus and a post-mortem examination is due this week.
  
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• Man arrested after crash that killed three boys in west London

  28-01-2018 22:27
  A CCTV image of a man being sought by police in connection with the fatal crash in Hayes.A man sought by police investigating a car crash that killed three teenage pedestrians has been arrested after handing himself in at a police station, the Metropolitan police have said.Earlier on Sunday police released CCTV images of the man in connection with the crash in west London on Friday night.
  
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• Scottish science team develop new test that could help tackle Parkinson's disease

  28-01-2018 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  SCIENTISTS at a Scottish university have developed a clinical test that could lead to a major breakthrough in controlling the spread of Parkinson’s disease.
  
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• Man arrested over crash which killed teenagers

  28-01-2018 22:18
  A man sought by police in connection with the death of three teenagers in London has been arrested after handing himself in.The 34-year-old man voluntarily attended a police station in north London on Sunday evening, and has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, police said.Another 28-year-old man who was arrested at the scene remains in police custody.
  
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• Scottish economy heading for lowest growth of developed world, opponents claim

  28-01-2018 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  SCOTLAND is heading for the lowest level of growth in the developed world, opponents claimed yesterday.
  
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• Gavin Williamson left firm 'after meeting sparked by relationship'

  28-01-2018 21:36
  Gavin Williamson was accused of misusing US intelligence – a claim the MoD has denied.Sources close to a company that employed Gavin Williamson, the defence secretary, as a managing director say he attended a meeting to discuss his future after office colleagues became aware of his relationship with a junior colleague.Williamson, employed at the time at Elgin & Hall, a fireplace manufacturer based in North Yorkshire, left the company soon after attending the meeting, they said.
  
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• Crowdfunding drive for doctor struck off over six-year-old boy's death

  28-01-2018 21:36
  Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba had originally been given a 12-month suspension from practising medicine.A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to pay legal costs for a junior doctor who was struck off the medical register following a conviction for manslaughter.More than £160,000 has been raised in support of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence in 2015 over the death of six-year-old Jack Adcock.
  
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• Government warns critical industry firms to prepare for cyberattacks

  28-01-2018 21:09
  Organisations involved in critical industry and essential services have been warned by the Government that they face £17m fines if their cybersecurity preparations are not up to standard.Energy, transport, water, health and digital infrastructure firms could be fined if they fail to develop robust safeguards protecting themselves from cyberattacks.The fines and sanctions come as the government implements the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive, which would cover events such as
  
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• Don’t have nightmares: People share the creepiest things kids have said to them

  28-01-2018 20:51
  These tales make the boy from The Sixth Sense look normal.
  
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• Manhunt under way as sex offender escapes from prison

  28-01-2018 20:42
  Police are hunting for a sex offender who has escaped from prison.
  
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• May told to clarify Brexit stance or face no-confidence vote

  28-01-2018 20:17
  Theresa May: rather than setting out a fresh Brexit vision she will make a more limited speech next month.Theresa May is under growing pressure from both wings of her own party to offer more clarity in public about what Brexit deal Britain wants, or face the mounting risk of a no-confidence vote.Downing Street sources have confirmed that rather than setting out a fresh vision of Brexit in the spring, as some colleagues had hoped, May will make a more limited speech focusing on security cooperati
  
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• Survivors form anti-terror campaign group

  28-01-2018 19:52
  More than a dozen survivors and family members of those killed in terror attacks have joined forces to form a new anti-terrorism campaign group.Brendan Cox, the widower of murdered Labour MP Jo Cox, and Mike Haines, whose brother David was beheaded on camera after being held captive by Islamic State in Syria, are among the founders.At a launch event at a school, Mr Cox was joined by Jo Berry, whose father Sir Anthony Berry was killed by the IRA in the Brighton bombing, and Charlotte Dixon-Sutcli
  
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• Lord Lansley mentions 'unique' experience to undercover reporter

  28-01-2018 19:52
  Ex health secretary Lord Lansley (pictured) also suggested a fictitious Chinese company employ him through his wife’s company, Low.Asked about “picking up intelligence from someone like Liam Fox”, he replies: “Yes.What he sees the trade relationship looking like.
  
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• Tory ex-ministers deny charging fee for Brexit-related advice is wrong

  28-01-2018 19:47
  Three former Conservative cabinet ministers have denied any wrongdoing after being caught on camera offering to receive money in exchange for advising a fictitious Chinese company about the UK government’s approach to Brexit.An investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches and the Sunday Times secretly recorded Lord Lansley, and senior Tory MPs Andrew Mitchell and Peter Lilley, in meetings at a Mayfair hotel they believed were with a Chinese firm.
  
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• Five British men charged over 'pornographic dancing' in Cambodia

  28-01-2018 19:45
  Five British men in Cambodia have been charged for what officials have called "pornographic dancing".All 10 were charged with producing pornographic pictures.Cambodian police released images online appearing to show clothed and laughing tourists, some in sexually suggestive positions.
  
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• Mental Health Act reform proposals

  28-01-2018 19:04
  ‘There is a danger that the government’s review of mental health law will distract from the more pressing problem of under-resourcing of services,’ argues Ian Baguley.In his letter (26 January), Professor Tom Burns challenges the information we gave the Guardian (Lawyers seek end to forced treatment of psychiatric inpatients, 24 January).
  
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• GPS offender tagging farce tied to privatised probation

  28-01-2018 19:03
  The Commons public accounts committee report on the Ministry of Justice’s electronic monitoring fiasco is still not the full story (New tags for offenders ‘waste of money’ - MPs, 24 January).Notwithstanding the ministry’s secretive approach, plans for the mass expansion of GPS tracking, the absence of an evidence base, and the futility of developing a bespoke “super tag” were all discernible in 2014, and it is unclear why no one was able to halt such a misguid
  
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• Cut excessive BBC pay the Saudi way

  28-01-2018 19:02
  Following Saudi Arabia’s lead, why not call the bluff of all overpaid BBC personnel by locking them in a hotel, says Stuart Hutchinson. Though perhaps not the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh (above). Photograph: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty
  
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• Cryptocurrency trader 'forced at gunpoint to make bitcoin transfer'

  28-01-2018 18:47
  Thames Valley police said they were seeking witnesses who may have seen the four raiders who broke into the house in the picturesque Oxfordshire village of Moulsford, and threatened the trader and his partner.
  
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• 12 people who are extremely ready for January to be over

  28-01-2018 18:23
  ‘Why has it been January for six years?’
  
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• Conservatives 'must come together', says David Lidington

  28-01-2018 18:17 via bbc.co.uk
  David Lidington urges unity amid criticism of Brexit negotiations and policy making.
  
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• BHS creditors get £36m ‎payout two years after chain's collapse

  28-01-2018 18:16
  Unsecured creditors of BHS, the retailer once owned by Sir Philip Green‎, lodged claims worth almost £1bn in the aftermath of its collapse, according to a report compiled by the chain's liquidators.Sky News has obtained a document sent to creditors late last week which discloses that a 3.6pm interim dividend - worth a total of roughly £36m - has been paid out by FRP Advisory, which is overseeing the winding-down of what was once one of Britain's best-known high street brands.BHS
  
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• While incompetent Tory vultures circulate, there’s still room for Theresa May to rise from the ashes once again

  28-01-2018 18:12
  Beyond the hero worship of Geoffrey Boycott in those wicked girlhood days when she would wantonly run through fields of wheat, little is known of Theresa May’s interest in sport.The Fed was almost universally regarded as past his sell-by date not so long ago – and just look at him now, weeping with joy after snaffling a 20th grand slam title.At this moment, however, there seems less chance of her lasting until the next Australian Open men’s final than of Eric Pickles winning it
  
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• While incompetent Tory vultures circulate, there's still room for Theresa May to rise from the ashes once again

  28-01-2018 18:12
  Beyond the hero worship of Geoffrey Boycott in those wicked girlhood days when she would wantonly run through fields of wheat, little is known of Theresa May’s interest in sport.The Fed was almost universally regarded as past his sell-by date not so long ago – and just look at him now, weeping with joy after snaffling a 20th grand slam title.At this moment, however, there seems less chance of her lasting until the next Australian Open men’s final than of Eric Pickles winning it
  
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• Suspect caught on CCTV after three teenagers die in Hayes car crash

  28-01-2018 18:10
  Detectives have released images of a man who is believed to have fled the scene of a car crash which killed three teenage boys in west London.George Wilkinson, Josh Kennedy and Harry Rice were waiting at a bus stop with a group of friends in Hayes when they were struck by an Audi A5 on Friday night.Detective sergeant Michael Rapp said: "While the images are not of good quality, I am convinced that anyone who knows this male will recognise him.
  
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• N Korea 'hacking soaring Bitcoin exchanges'

  28-01-2018 17:55
  North Korea is seeking to profit from Bitcoin's surging value by hacking Bitcoin exchanges, security researchers have told Sky News.
  
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• Police appeal for witnesses after trader 'forced at gunpoint to transfer Bitcoin'

  28-01-2018 17:43
  The heist took place at the family's property near independent school Cranford House in the Oxfordshire village of Moulsford, where staff and children were locked inside for their own safety as police searched for the suspects.A police spokesperson confirmed that officers were called at roughly 9.40am to a report that offenders had entered a residential property and threatened the occupants."No one was seriously injured," the police spokesperson said.
  
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• Police in Edinburgh investigate Maid Marian actor's death

  28-01-2018 17:37 via bbc.co.uk
  The daughter of Howard Lew Lewis claims he died from an "NHS overdose".
  
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• MPs to vote on vacating UK parliament building for renovation works

  28-01-2018 17:37
  Restoration work at the Houses of Parliament is expected to cost at least £3.5bn.A controversial proposal for MPs and peers to vacate the traditional home of parliament is the subject of a free vote in the Commons this week, with advocates saying the Palace of Westminster is at risk of succumbing to a major fire if £3.5bn-plus of restoration works are not carried out.Meg Hillier, the Labour chair of the public accounts committee, believes a comprehensive refurbishment is necessary, m
  
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• Britain's civil servants are part of 'WORRYING' plot to KEEP UK in EU, says Brexiteer MP

  28-01-2018 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  BRITAIN could be stuck in the European Union as the UK's civil servants team up with the EU to scupper Brexit, Labour MP Kate Hoey has warned.
  
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• Laura Plummer family visit drug-smuggling Briton in jail

  28-01-2018 17:13 via bbc.co.uk
  There is speculation Laura Plummer may be freed after being jailed for smuggling drugs into Egypt.
  
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• Sunday's best photos: hunting tigers and masked partygoers

  28-01-2018 16:56 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world, including the Venice carnival and Mount Mayon volcano Continue reading...
  
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• Corbyn pledges 8,000 homes for rough sleepers

  28-01-2018 16:54 via bbc.co.uk
  He says councils would also get powers to take over "deliberately kept empty properties".
  
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• BBC to admit mistakes over pay and 'right the wrongs of the past'

  28-01-2018 16:54
  The BBC is expected to publish an audit of the pay of its on-air stars by the accountancy firm PwC on Tuesday.The BBC will admit this week it has made mistakes in how it has paid on-air stars and reveal it is prepared to work with women who have campaigned for equal pay at the corporation to overhaul its pay structure.The broadcaster will reveal a “big, bold package of modernisation that will right the wrongs of the past”, according to a senior BBC source.
  
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• Corbyn doubles pledge to help homeless on first day as Prime Minister

  28-01-2018 16:46
  Jeremy Corbyn has doubled the number of new homes Labour would make available to rough sleepers on his first day as Prime Minister.Labour committed to 4,000 in its manifesto at the 2017 general election but said it was doubling the figure because of soaring numbers of homeless people.Rough sleeping has more than doubled since the Conservatives first came to power in 2010, the latest statics from the Government show.
  
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• How my ‘dead body’ ended up on millions of cigarette packets across Europe

  28-01-2018 16:00
  In 2012, I decided to take a year-long sabbatical in Europe, eventually settling on Berlin.At €300 for millions of reproductions of my naked body, it definitely wasn’t a lucrative shoot for me, but I hope that those warnings work – that I put some people off smoking, or maybe even save some lives.
  
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• Police release images of man sought over crash that killed three boys

  28-01-2018 15:43
  A CCTV image of a man being sought by police in connection with the fatal crash in Hayes.Police have released CCTV images of a man wanted in connection with a car crash that killed three teenage boys in west London.The three victims have been named locally as Harry Rice, George Wilkinson and Josh Kennedy.
  
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• Lidington calls for unity after latest Brexit skirmishes

  28-01-2018 15:36
  Britain's Cabinet Office minister David Lidington urged his party to unite to heal growing rifts over how to leave the European Union that could threaten the prime minister's fragile grip on the leadership.After a series of public rows in recent days, Lidington, who works closely with Prime Minister Theresa May, said all sides of the ruling centre-right Conservative party should unite to confront Jeremy Corbyn's opposition Labour party."What I say to all my colleagues is the Conservative family
  
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• Teenager 'pointed gun at Lewisham officer's head'

  28-01-2018 15:35 via bbc.co.uk
  A girl aged 14 and two boys aged 17 are arrested after an officer is threatened in south London.
  
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• Body found in search for missing Lochnagar hillwalker

  28-01-2018 15:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Police have confirmed a body was found on Sunday, believed to be that of the missing 65-year-old man.
  
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• Isle of Lewis cinema opens on Sunday for first time

  28-01-2018 15:19 via bbc.co.uk
  The latest Star Wars film is shown on a Sunday in the cinema on the Isle of Lewis.
  
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• A Brexit deal looms - Hammond and May's darkest hour is up

  28-01-2018 15:19
  No matter how much Theresa May talks like a hardliner like Churchill, she acts like Lord Halifax, seeking a negotiated peace.Every year in Davos, there is a lunch organised by the CBI at which the keynote speech is invariably given by one of the senior government ministers in town.Last Thursday’s lunch was all about politics, with two topics dominating the conversation: where is the government going with Brexit and what are the prospects of Jeremy Corbyn being prime minister by the time th
  
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• Cryptocurrency trader forced at gunpoint to make bitcoin transfer

  28-01-2018 15:09
  Thames Valley police said they were seeking witnesses who may have seen the four raiders who broke into the house in the picturesque Oxfordshire village of Moulsford, and threatened the trader and his partner.
  
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• Corbyn: Labour would buy 8,000 properties for the homeless

  28-01-2018 14:40
  Jeremy Corbyn, on the Andrew Marr Show, says levels of homelessness in the UK are ‘disgraceful’.A Labour government would immediately buy thousands of properties for homeless people in a move to tackle soaring levels of rough sleeping in the UK, Jeremy Corbyn has said.Labour would also give local authorities the power to seize properties that had been deliberately left vacant, he told BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.
  
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