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• José Mourinho launches attack on Manchester United players despite win

  17-03-2018 23:46 via theguardian.com
  • Brighton beaten 2-0 in FA Cup quarter-final but manager unhappy
  • ‘There was a lack of personality, a lack of class, and a lack of desire’José Mourinho admitted he could risk losing those Manchester United players he criticised again following the 2-0 win over Brighton but believed there was nothing to lose in doing so.Goals from Romelu Lukaku and Nemanja Matic on 37 and 83 minutes at Old Trafford on Saturday night secured United’s passage to the FA Cup semi-
  
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• Drugs, plastics and flea killer: the unseen threats to UK's rivers

  17-03-2018 23:31 via theguardian.com
  Waterways look cleaner but levels of new pollutants are not being monitoredBeer hasn’t been sold in steel cans for decades. The cans Keith Dopson found in Slough’s Salt Hill stream would be collectors’ items were they in good condition, but they had disintegrated into clumps of rust.“We filled seven bin bags with rubbish,” he says. “Just from the river, not the banks. Plastic bottles and cans, lots of cans. Those steel ones must have been there for ages.&rdquo
  
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• Secret Facebook page reveals violence at heart of forum for ‘football fans’

  17-03-2018 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Fears grow overmarch of Football Lads Alliance in Birmingham as threatening posts are uncovered on invite-only spaceThe Football Lads Alliance, the group behind marches against what they call “Islamist extremists”, uses a secret Facebook page full of violent, racist and misogynistic posts, targeting Sadiq Khan and Diane Abbott, as well as playing down the crimes of the Finsbury Park mosque attacker, Darren Osborne.The Observer has gained access to the FLA’s 65,000-strong Facebo
  
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• Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach

  17-03-2018 23:03 via theguardian.com
  Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters• How Cambridge Analytica’s algorithms turned ‘likes’ into a political toolThe data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in one of the tech giant’s biggest ever data breaches, and used them to build a powerful software program to pred
  
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• Troy: Fall of a City recap – series 1, episode 5: Hunted

  17-03-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Bella Dayne’s Helen continues to look like a Real Housewife who has taken a wrong turn on a spa day, but thankfully there were interesting moments elsewhereThe Trojans
  It was a Trojan-heavy episode this week. The fall-out from last week’s duel saw Paris and Helen both hunted, one rather more literally than the other. While a desperate Paris sought comfort in old haunts – and in the process finally realised the devastation his actions have wrought – Helen dealt with the wi
  
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• Staff claim Cambridge Analytica ignored US ban on foreigners working on elections

  17-03-2018 23:00
  Cambridge Analytica worked on Donald Trump’s election campaign, despite having mainly non-US employees.Cambridge Analytica employed non-American citizens to work on US election campaigns in apparent violation of federal law, despite receiving a legal warning about the risks.The company’s responsibilities under US law were laid out in a lawyer’s memo to the company’s vice-president, Steve Bannon, British CEO Alexander Nix and Rebekah Mercer, daughter of billionaire owner R
  
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• Cambridge Analytica: links to Moscow oil firm and St Petersburg university

  17-03-2018 22:59 via theguardian.com
  Data company gave briefing to Moscow firm Lukoil, and the lecturer who developed the crucial algorithm worked for St Petersburg university
  Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic who orchestrated the harvesting of Facebook data, had previously unreported ties to a Russian university, including a teaching position and grants for research into the social media network, the Observer has discovered. Cambridge Analytica, the data firm he worked with – which funded the project to turn
  
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• Pleas for safe passage for civilians trapped in eastern Ghouta

  17-03-2018 22:46 via theguardian.com
  Doctors and civil leaders among signatories to open letter to the UN, demanding action to stop massacre by Syrian forces Doctors and civilians in the besieged enclave of eastern Ghouta have published open letters asking for their safe passage under the supervision of international guarantors, as forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad continue a military offensive that has lasted nearly a month and killed more than 1,500 civilians. Related: Syria’s new exiles: Kurds flee Afrin after Turkish assaul
  
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• Hemsby cliff-top homes 'perilously close' to edge

  17-03-2018 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Residents have been evacuated from 10 cliff-top chalets "perilously close" to the edge.
  
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• Monet and Van Gogh reborn as hi-tech magic brings back ruined masterpieces

  17-03-2018 22:30 via theguardian.com
  Water Lilies and Sunflowers among paintings being resurrected using 3D scannersArtists using cutting-edge technology and forensic analysis have reconstructed a series of lost masterpieces, including versions of Monet’s Water Lilies and Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.The re-creations are the work of Factum Arte, a group of artists and technicians whose projects have included an exact reproduction of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun. The Concert, a 17th-century work by Vermeer which was stolen
  
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• Twilight for stags and hens as young people opt for mixed celebrations

  17-03-2018 22:27 via theguardian.com
  More cross-gender friendships and a taste for quality travel are driving the move away from the single-sex benderRaucous single-sex groups of young people tottering down the middle of the road at 2am, asking policemen for selfies and carrying inflatable penises, can signify only one thing: the wedding season is under way.But with mixed friendship groups the norm, enforced gender segregation on the decline and weddings becoming increasingly extravagant, compulsory fun on separate hen and stag eve
  
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• UK finance, power and water on highest alert as threat of Russian cyber reprisal grows

  17-03-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Britain’s infrastructure ready as intelligence service warns of risk of virtual strike by MoscowBanks, energy and water companies are on maximum alert over the threat of a serious cyber-attack from Moscow as concern continues over the safety of Russian exiles in the UK.Fears that Russia will target Britain’s critical national infrastructure have prompted round-the-clock threat assessments by the UK’s financial sector, energy firms and GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence a
  
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• London will lose creative crown if rents keep forcing artists out

  17-03-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Head of Space network issues warning in book marking 50th year of studios set up by artists Bridget Riley and Peter SedgelyThe head of a leading arts organisation has warned that London’s status as a world-class creative city is at risk because artists are being forced out of the capital.Anna Harding, the chief executive of Space studios, which provides premises for nearly 800 artists including three Turner prize winners, blamed rising property prices and shrinking studios for dramatically
  
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• Children's classic books reimagined – cartoon

  17-03-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Chris Riddell on childhood favourites Continue reading...
  
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• Boris Johnson seeks EU support for tough line on Russia

  17-03-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Foreign secretary attempts to rally 27 other EU members over poisoning of Sergei SkripalBoris Johnson is seeking to cement the support of foreign ministers of the 27 other EU member states on the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal at a meeting to be held on Monday in Brussels, as the UK tries to rally more international support behind its tough stance against Moscow.Senior government insiders say ministers hope that the Foreign Affairs Council would, as a minimum, issue a joint statement cond
  
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• A woman’s final Facebook message before euthanasia: ‘I’m ready for my trip now...’

  17-03-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Assisted suicides in the Netherlands include a 29-year-old who had nothing wrong with her physicallyAt 2pm on 26 January, Aurelia Brouwers lay down on her bed to die. Clutching a toy pink dinosaur and listening to her favourite music, the 29-year-old drank her prescribed medication as close friends gathered round. “She asked me to lie next to her. She had a smile on her face, and then she went softly into sleep,” Sjoukje Willering told the Observer. “It was very serene and calm
  
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• Mark Cavendish breaks rib in spectacular Milan-San Remo crash

  17-03-2018 21:57 via theguardian.com
  • British rider’s bad luck continues with another injury
  • Vincenzo Nibali wins race with perfectly timed attackMark Cavendish suffered a frightening crash late in the Milan‑San Remo race but avoided serious injury.The 32-year-old, who has been plagued by bad luck for more than a year and was riding with a fractured rib, struck a bollard on the approach to the climb of the Poggio with a little under 10km of the 294km race left. Cavendish was sent flying through the air and
  
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• Russia spy poisoning: 23 UK diplomats expelled from Moscow

  17-03-2018 21:17 via bbc.co.uk
  It also closes the British Council in Russia - amid tensions over the nerve agent attack on an ex-spy.
  
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• Trump lawyer calls for end to Russia investigation after McCabe firing

  17-03-2018 21:12 via theguardian.com
  Attorney John Dowd responds to firing of Andrew McCabeEx-CIA chief Brennan calls Trump a ‘disgraced demagogue’Donald Trump’s personal lawyer said on Saturday he hoped the firing of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe would prompt Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general overseeing the Russia investigation, to shut down the inquiry.John Dowd spoke hours after Trump gloated that the firing of McCabe marked a “great day for democracy”. His glee provoked a savag
  
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• Carpool karaoke mums' Down's syndrome video goes viral

  17-03-2018 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Rebecca Carless says the response to the video has been "mad" and they want everyone to see it.
  
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• Eddie Jones feels chill of the fans after uncomfortable defeat by Ireland

  17-03-2018 20:40 via theguardian.com
  England’s sobering display leaves coach with boos ringing in his ears after Irish claim grand slam in style on St Patrick’s DayIt was suffering weather. The kind of cold that makes you pull down your hat and stamp the ground, shuffle your feet and clench your teeth – fitting conditions, then, for an England team struggling through three defeats in a row.This latest, the first at home since Eddie Jones took over, stung like Saturday’s wind. It has been a long winter for En
  
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• Mohamed Salah hits awesome four as Liverpool romp past Watford

  17-03-2018 20:33 via theguardian.com
  This is getting ridiculous. In a season containing nearly as many superlative descriptions as goals scored, Mohamed Salah continued to write his own Liverpool destiny with four superb finishes in a personal performance at Anfield that was as complete and as ruthless as anything this famous stadium has seen down the decades.Watford will have returned home last night wondering how they were on the end of such a sobering scoreline. They were by no means a shambles. Yet, in sport, ability generally
  
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• Newsnight Denies Altering Jeremy Corbyn’s Hat 'To Make Him Look Russian'

  17-03-2018 20:29
  A Newsnight boss has dismissed claims the programme photoshopped Jeremy
  
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• Four skiers feared dead after Swiss avalanche in Vallon d’Arbi

  17-03-2018 20:17 via theguardian.com
  Police recover two bodies buried under six metres of snow, with two people still missing Four people were feared dead on Saturday after an avalanche hit the Swiss ski area of Vallon d’Arbi, with two bodies already recovered from under six metres of snow. Police in the canton of Valais said rescue workers were searching for two more skiers who are missing after Friday’s avalanche, but that the operation had been suspended for the night. Continue reading...
  
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• Lead is even deadlier than we feared, but Brexit could put it back in our petrol | Geoffrey Lean

  17-03-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Decades after this newspaper won a ban on this poison in our fuel, there are still calls for more proofLooking back, it seems insane. Bluntly put, we took a known poison and – for three quarters of a century – used it in machines that puffed it out in breathable form. Then we drove them millions of miles a day, all over the world, regularly dosing billions of people with the toxin.Now the full effects of using lead in petrol – surely the greatest ever mass poisoning experiment
  
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• Police contact Russian exiles in UK over safety after 'murder' of Nikolai Glushkov

  17-03-2018 19:47
  Police have contacted Russian exiles in the UK to discuss their safety following the suspected murder of businessman Nikolai Glushkov, Sky News understands.Counter-terror police are investigating the death of the 68-year-old tycoon, whose body was found at his home in New Malden, southwest London, on Monday.A Russian exile in London has told Sky News he has been spoken to by police about his own safety in the wake of Mr Glushkov's death.
  
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• Russia puts UK 'four meals away from anarchy' as Putin war of words threatens power

  17-03-2018 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  RUSSIA has the ability to cause chaos in the UK and leave Britons just “four meals away from anarchy” if the war of words between Vladimir Putin and Theresa May provokes a cyber attack from Moscow, security experts have warned.
  
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• Colin Tizzard plots a Cheltenham Gold Cup repeat for Native River

  17-03-2018 19:19 via theguardian.com
  • Trainer says a light campaign can deliver a 2019 victory• Irish Turf Club stung by call for Festival ‘level playing field’A day after his gallant performance in winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Native River made what is likely to be his last public appearance for some time, mixing with an adoring south Somerset crowd in Henstridge, a village a few miles from his stable. Well over 100 people showed up despite freezing temperatures and falling snow to cheer the chestnut as
  
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• Britain and allies plan next steps against Russia

  17-03-2018 19:10
  Speaking at the Conservative spring forum on Saturday, Theresa May said Britain "would never tolerate a threat to the life" of its citizens, or others in the country, from the Russian government."This act of Russian aggression is the very antithesis of the liberal and democratic values that define the United Kingdom," she said.The pledge comes as23 British diplomats based in Russiabegin packing their bags as they are expelled from the country in retaliation for Russian representatives being told
  
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• NYPD reportedly hid Weinstein accuser, fearing district attorney would sink case

  17-03-2018 19:02 via theguardian.com
  New York magazine reports detectives investigating model’s sexual assault claim had strong case but feared DA would not prosecuteNew York detectives investigating a 2015 sexual assault complaint against Harvey Weinstein physically “hid the victim” from staff working for the Manhattan district attorney, reportedly fearing she would be treated unfairly and the case dropped.After an investigation in which one officer told New York magazine the NYPD went “above and beyond&rdq
  
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• Will Self: ‘The novel is absolutely doomed’

  17-03-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  The award-winning author, currently writing a memoir of his early years, on reading digitally and why he’s making a list of the female greatsWill Self is the author of 10 novels, five collections of short stories and several works of nonfiction, including The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Dorian and Walking to Hollywood. Phone is the final instalment of the trilogy that began with Umbrella and Shark and is out now in paperback (Viking, £8.99).Phone is the last in a 1,500-page trilogy
  
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• The big picture: Frida Kahlo in New York, 1939

  17-03-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  The artist in traditional Mexican costume photographed by her Hungarian-born lover Nickolas Muray at the end of their secret affairThe Hungarian-American photographer and Olympic fencer Nickolas Muray took this photograph of Frida Kahlo in traditional Mexican dress and cigarette in hand on a rooftop in Greenwich Village, New York, in March 1939. The pair were at the end of a secret love affair that had begun in Mexico eight years earlier.Kahlo, whose life will be celebrated in a large-scale exhi
  
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• Start your Bollywood romance here

  17-03-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  If you want to get into Indian films and TV but don’t know how, here are some of the best online offeringsFor many of us, Bollywood cinema tends to be the invisible elephant of the UK film market. Vast in output and popularity alike, it’s nonetheless a difficult scene for dilettantes to keep pace with. Media coverage and criticism is scarce, not least because mainstream Indian releases are rarely screened for the press – or perhaps this cause and effect should be reversed &ndas
  
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• One to watch: Cold Callers

  17-03-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  With their sundrenched soul-jazz grooves, this ambitious duo belie their suburban English originsHertfordshire isn’t typically a place you’d associate with smooth hip-hop-meets-R&B sounds, but rising duo Cold Callers are about to subvert your expectations. Toch-UQ and Timi.B met in secondary school during their GCSEs. “We started recording at our local youth centre and got more into it,” they have said. “Eventually we invested in our own equipment and ended up c
  
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• Kylie Minogue review – rhinestone cowgirl delivers

  17-03-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Cafe de Paris, London
  Channelling heartache and Dolly Parton, the pop princess is reborn as a double-denim country queen at the first outing of her multifaceted new albumIt starts with what sounds like the neigh of a horse, and Kylie, clad in faded double denim, descending a curved staircase like a sweetheart of the rodeo. A live band, looking only slightly rueful in their red neckerchiefs, like pet dogs in bandannas, rev up the title track from the singer’s forthcoming album, Golden, all
  
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• In the obesity blame game, it’s easy to forget the role emotions play in food

  17-03-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  From crispy pancakes to orange Club biscuits, I’ve always comforted myself with junk food. Our emotional relationship with what we eat is complicatedAnother day, another row about obesity, its causes, and what might be done to stop people from getting any fatter. The medical profession and various crusading types, Jamie Oliver among them, insist that the government must take urgent action to reduce childhood obesity: there are now 12.3 million people at risk of type 2 diabetes; the most de
  
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• ‘I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower

  17-03-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  For more than a year we’ve been investigating Cambridge Analytica and its links to the Brexit Leave campaign in the UK and Team Trump in the US presidential election. Now, 28-year-old Christopher Wylie goes on the record to discuss his role in hijacking the profiles of millions of Facebook users in order to target the US electorateThe first time I met Christopher Wylie, he didn’t yet have pink hair. That comes later. As does his mission to rewind time. To put the genie back in the bo
  
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• Cranks have turned the world upside down – it’s time to fight back | Nick Cohen

  17-03-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Conspiracy theories were once a fringe interest. In the era of populists, they’ve now gone mainstreamNothing makes the contented turn of the century feel further away than the indulgence with which the old world treated its cranks. Their prime purpose was to be entertaining freaks for the allegedly sane majority to laugh at. The BBC ran shows where Louis Theroux met religious zealots and white nationalists. As they watched, broadcasters and the audience had an unspoken pact that made sense
  
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• The Observer view on how Facebook’s destructive ethos imperils democracy | Observer editorial

  17-03-2018 18:59 via theguardian.com
  Our revelations about the harvesting of users’ data show that Mark Zuckerberg’s all-powerful company has little sense of responsibilityFacebook likes to present itself as a tech company, but often appears more like an advertising corporation that happens to use digital technology in order to conduct its core business. The personal information and data trails left by its 2 billion users to construct detailed profiles allows advertisers to send precisely calibrated advertisements to pe
  
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• St Patrick's Day: Duchess meets wolfhound

  17-03-2018 18:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Shamrocks, leprechauns and a lot of green dye- how the patron saint of Ireland is being celebrated.
  
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• Hollywood condemns Terry Gilliam for #MeToo comments

  17-03-2018 18:18 via theguardian.com
  Actors and directors criticise film-maker for likening movement to ‘mob rule’ and remarks about Weinstein scandalThe film director Terry Gilliam has come under fire from Hollywood actors and directors for comparing the #MeToo movement to “mob rule”.The former Monty Python member suggested the anti-sexual harassment campaign had led to a “world of victims” in an interview with Agence France-Presse. Continue reading...
  
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• Ex-GMTV Host Fiona Phillips Reveals Eamonn Holmes Pay Gap

  17-03-2018 18:17
  Former GMTV presenter Fiona Phillips has revealed she was paid far less than
  
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• Sketch in the city: the artist capturing urban clutter – in pictures

  17-03-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Urban Sketchers (also known as USk) is a worldwide group of more than 60,000 people who create drawings of the places they visit. Founded by journalist Gabriel Campanario in Seattle in 2007, the movement quickly went global with the help of social media. It is important that the drawings are done in situ. “It makes you look at things,” says Simone Ridyard, architect, senior lecturer at Manchester School of Art and a founder of the Manchester and Salford Urban Sketchers group. “
  
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• FLIGHT WARNING: EU may use 'arcane rules' to BAN BA and easyJet to trigger tourist chaos

  17-03-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  RYANAIR CEO Michael O'Leary has warned that British-owned airlines will be banned from flights between European countries after Brexit, as giant companies like Lufthansa and Air France seize the opportunity to punish their UK rivals.
  
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• Fishermen BETRAYED as UK to see NO CHANGE in quotas after Brexit after BUCKLING to EU

  17-03-2018 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  BRITISH fishermen are facing a Brexit betrayal after it emerged the UK will still be bound by European Union fishing quotas for around two years even after Britain leaves the bloc.
  
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• Swedish foreign minister rejects 'unacceptable and unfounded' Russia toxin claim

  17-03-2018 17:55
  STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom rejected Russian claims on Saturday that the country could be the source of a nerve toxin used against a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain, calling them "unacceptable and unfounded".
  
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• Multi-car accidents as 'Beast from the East' sequel hits UK

  17-03-2018 17:52
  Multi-car accidents have been caused by a new cold snap gripping the country and at least one major road has been closed.Derbyshire Police said the A57 Snake Pass has been closed due to snow, while multi-car accidents have also caused congestion on the A53 and A515 near Buxton.Drivers have been urged to avoid both routes, with heavy snow thought to have contributed to both incidents.
  
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• Ireland seal grand slam with storming win over England in Six Nations finale

  17-03-2018 17:50 via theguardian.com
  • England 15-24 Ireland
  • Jacob Stockdale breaks championship try-scoring recordBeware the slides of March. England’s descent continued with a third successive defeat in the sleet as Ireland achieved a third grand slam and their third title in five years. It was the home side’s first defeat here since the 2015 World Cup and their first at home in the Six Nations for six years. They were a distinct second in every aspect of the game.A hat-trick of defeats on the day of St Pa
  
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• Robot Wars has been axed by the BBC again

  17-03-2018 17:39 via bbc.co.uk
  The series has been scrapped by the BBC to make room for new shows.
  
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• Murder inquiry under way after man shot and stabbed in north London

  17-03-2018 17:10
  A murder investigation is under way after a man was found shot and stabbed in north London.A second man was also found with stab injuries and was taken to a hospital in east London, where he is in a serious but stable condition."Detectives from the homicide and major crime command are investigating," a Metropolitan Police spokesperson said.
  
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