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• Cambridge Analytica: Facebook row firm boss suspended

  20-03-2018 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Alexander Nix appeared to suggest tactics his company could use to discredit politicians online.
  
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• I’M Five – Think Of My Reputation!

  20-03-2018 23:10
  Children start to worry about their reputations from the age of five, say
  
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• Former Eurovision Host Katie Boyle, Lady Saunders Dies Aged 91

  20-03-2018 23:06
  Former Eurovision Song Contest host and actress Katie Boyle, Lady Saunders
  
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• EU 27 Could Reject Brexit Transition Deal, Warns Donald Tusk

  20-03-2018 23:03
  European Council president Donald Tusk has warned there is no guarantee EU
  
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• Alexander Nix, Cambridge Analytica CEO, suspended after data scandal

  20-03-2018 22:51
  Alexander Nix, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the heart of the data-mining scandal, has been suspended.The company said in a statement: “The board of Cambridge Analytica has announced today that it has suspended CEO Alexander Nix with immediate effect pending a full, independent investigation.
  
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• Jennie Formby Named As New Labour Party General Secretary

  20-03-2018 22:41
  A union official has been appointed Labour's new general secretary, becoming
  
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• Jennie Formby appointed Labour's new general secretary in boost for Jeremy Corbyn

  20-03-2018 22:33
  Labour have appointed their second-ever female general secretary in the party's history as trade unionist Jennie Formby took on the top role.The Unite employee was made Labour's most senior official on Tuesday to boost Jeremy Corbyn's influence over the party's internal machinery.Ms Formby was appointed by Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) to replace outgoing general secretary Iain McNicol, who announced his resignation last month.
  
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• Only 13% Of Stem Foundation Apprenticeships Started By Women

  20-03-2018 22:26
  Fewer than one in five students taking up a foundation apprenticeship in a
  
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• Cambridge Analytica played key Trump campaign role, CEO says - UK TV

  20-03-2018 22:26
  The suspended chief executive of UK-based political consultancy Cambridge Analytica claimed in secretly recorded video that his company played a decisive role in the 2016 election campaign of President Donald Trump, Channel 4 News reported on Tuesday.British broadcaster Channel 4 News mounted a "sting operation" in which it secretly recorded Cambridge Analytica Chief Executive Alexander Nix saying he had met the then Republican presidential candidate "many times" and that his firm played a centr
  
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• Councils Overpaid By £36 Million In ‘Historic’ Government Error

  20-03-2018 22:21
  Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid has revealed his department made "an
  
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• Mum 'so sorry' for girl's death in River Teifi, Cardigan

  20-03-2018 22:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Two-year-old Kiara Moore was found in the family car in a river following a two-hour search.
  
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• Man Charged With Murder After Pedestrian ‘Dragged By Car’

  20-03-2018 22:19
  A man has been charged with murdering a pedestrian who is believed to have
  
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• Katie Boyle: Ex-Eurovision hostess dies aged 91

  20-03-2018 22:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Despite once saying she was famous for being famous, Katie Boyle would spend more than half a century in the public eye.
  
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• Britain Holds Back From Escalating Reprisals On Russia After Salisbury Poisoning

  20-03-2018 22:14
  Britain has held back from an immediate escalation of the round of tit-for-tat
  
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• Man dies after trapping head at Birmingham cinema

  20-03-2018 21:17 via bbc.co.uk
  He reportedly went into cardiac arrest after he became wedged under an electronic footrest.
  
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• Hemsby cliff-top homes start to collapse

  20-03-2018 20:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Houses perched on a cliff edge have started to collapse and fall on to the beach below.
  
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• Facebook row tech firm Cambridge Analytica suspends CEO Alexander Nix

  20-03-2018 20:29
  Facebook row tech firm Cambridge Analytica has suspended its CEO Alexander Nix in the wake of a series of allegations.Facebook is currently facing investigations by authorities in the UK, EU, and the US, over a reported data incident between itself and consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica.The board of Cambridge Analytica says it has suspended Mr Nix pending a full independent investigation of his actions.
  
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• UK says RAF engineer dies in jet crash in Wales

  20-03-2018 20:18
  (Reuters) - Britain's Ministry of Defence said an engineer from the Royal Air Force's Red Arrows Aerobatics Team died when a Hawk jet crashed at RAF Valley in Anglesey, north Wales, on Tuesday.
  
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• Cambridge Analytica Chief Executive Alexander Nix Suspended Following Undercover Investigation

  20-03-2018 20:16
  The board of Cambridge Analytica has announced it has suspended chief
  
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• Polar Bear Cub Takes Its First Steps Outside

  20-03-2018 20:15
  The UK's only polar bear cub born in 25 years has taken its first steps
  
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• Sir Patrick Stewart Urges Cannabis Treatment For Boy With Epilepsy

  20-03-2018 20:14
  Sir Patrick Stewart has given his support to the campaign for a young boy to
  
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• RAF engineer has died after Red Arrows crash

  20-03-2018 20:12
  An RAF engineer has died after a Red Arrows jet crashed at RAF Valley in Anglesey.The pilot of the Hawk aircraft survived and is receiving medical treatment.Group captain Nick Tucker-Lowe said in a statement: "It's with great sadness that the RAF can confirm the death of an engineer from the RAF aerobatics team The Red Arrows in a tragic accident today.
  
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• In Pictures: Looks Familiar… Queen Shown Works Contained In Royal Collection

  20-03-2018 20:11
  The Queen laughed as Royal Academy of Arts president Christopher Le Brun said
  
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• Jeremy Hunt Sets Out Blueprint For Social Care Reform

  20-03-2018 20:10
  Health and social care workers are faced with "fragmented services" and
  
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• Cambridge Analytica suspends CEO Alexander Nix

  20-03-2018 20:10
  Alexander Nix leaves the Cambridge Analytica offices in central London. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
  
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• Spy poisoning: police say investigation could last until summer

  20-03-2018 20:01
  Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism chief, Neil Basu, said the inquiry would take weeks or months.Police have moved steel barriers into place at one of the crime scenes in Salisbury as they said the investigation into the nerve agent attack could last until the summer.Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism chief, Neil Basu, said he was confident that the culprits who left the Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, critically ill would be found but that the inquiry would
  
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• Red Arrows Jet Crashes After Incident At RAF Valley

  20-03-2018 20:01
  A Red Arrows jet has crashed after an incident at RAF Valley in north Wales,
  
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• Labour’S Brexit Stance ‘Reinforced’ By Talks With Whisky Industry Bosses

  20-03-2018 20:01
  Talks with whisky bosses have "reinforced" Labour's belief that the UK must
  
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• Cambridge Analytica execs boast of role in getting Trump elected

  20-03-2018 20:00
  Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, said he had met Donald Trump ‘many times’.Senior executives from the firm at the heart of Facebook’s data breach boasted of playing a key role in bringing Donald Trump to power and said they used “unattributable and untrackable” advertising to support their clients in elections, according to an undercover expose.In secretly recorded conversations, Cambridge Analytica’s CEO, Alexander Nix, claimed he ha
  
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• Girl, 2, who died after car went into a river in Wales was 'incredible... happy... fun'

  20-03-2018 19:56
  A toddler who died after being rescued from a car in a river has been called an "incredible happy young girl" who lived "a great adventurous fun life".
  
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• Man dies after 'getting head stuck under electronic cinema seat' in Birmingham

  20-03-2018 19:55
  A man has died after reportedly getting his head stuck under a cinema seat.The victim is said to have become trapped after bending down to retrieve his mobile phone at the end of a movie screening at Vue in Birmingham's Star City complex.West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called to reports of a patient in cardiac arrest.
  
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• Breakthrough Brexit transition deal revealed

  20-03-2018 19:55
  A "significant step" has been made in Brexit negotiations after a breakthrough deal was reached on the transition period.
  
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• Gove ‘Disappointed’ With Brexit Fishing Deal As Tories Voice Frustration

  20-03-2018 19:54
  Michael Gove said he was disappointed with the European Union over its stance
  
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• Making trade unions relevant to the next generation

  20-03-2018 19:47
  While I agree with much of John Harris’s article (Adapt or die: a new breed of union can save the fossils of old, 19 March), I want to add that over the past 20 or so years at Unite there has been a growing concern that young people simply don’t know what trade unions are.At Unite, we are well aware that we need to change and that many of these astute young people are very capable of running more flexible and representative trade unions for the future.
  
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• Michael Gove admits Brexit transition deal 'sub-optimal' for UK fishing industry

  20-03-2018 19:46
  Michael Gove has admitted the Government accepted a "sub-optimal outcome" for the UK's fishing industry in negotiations over a Brexit transition period.The Environment Secretary faced anger from MPs after the Government was accused of a "betrayal" of coastal communities.It follows the Prime Minister's decision to allow the EU to maintain control of fisheries policy until the end of 2020 - more than 21 months after the UK formally leaves the bloc.
  
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• Ringo Starr Finally Receives ‘Most Overdue’ Knighthood

  20-03-2018 19:45
  The Beatles' Ringo Starr has told of his "shock" at receiving a knighthood at
  
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• What Is Cambridge Analytica? The Company Linked To Trump And Brexit Explained

  20-03-2018 19:39
  A data analytics firm which worked on President Donald Trump's election
  
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• Didcot's Narnia and Middle Earth sign-changer found

  20-03-2018 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  A prankster added fantasy locations to signs to change perceptions of England's "most normal" town.
  
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• Meet the first polar bear cub to be born in the UK in 25 years

  20-03-2018 18:53 via bbc.co.uk
  The cub was born at the Highland Wildlife Park, near Kincraig, in December.
  
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• Stephen Hawking's ashes to be interred near Sir Isaac Newton's grave

  20-03-2018 18:37 via bbc.co.uk
  The scientist's remains will be also be interred close to Charles Darwin's grave at Westminster Abbey.
  
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• Where next for Ant and Dec and ITV?

  20-03-2018 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  It's crunch time for the celebrity duo as Ant pulls out of TV work "for the foreseeable future".
  
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• How long until we live online?

  20-03-2018 18:15 via theguardian.com
  Is the technology depicted in new film Ready Player One – where people live, work and play in a parallel digital world – science fiction, or a taste of what’s to come?In Ernest Cline’s book, Ready Player One, it’s 2045 and “missing millions” have retreated into a virtual world called OASIS to escape from a reality consumed by climate change, economic depression and an energy crisis. And you thought Brexit was bad. But, in real life, how far away are we f
  
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• G20 to recognise need for 'further dialogue and actions' on trade

  20-03-2018 18:02
  The world's financial leaders are likely to reaffirm on Tuesday their commitment to fighting protectionism and recognise the need for "further dialogue and actions" on trade, just days before U.S. steel and aluminium tariffs are to enter into force.Finance ministers and central bankers of the world's 20 biggest economies, the G20, have been meeting in Buenos Aires, discussing the risk to global economic growth posed by a potential trade war caused by the U.S. tariffs and looming trade sanctions
  
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• Corbyn Would Deal With Putin ‘Despite Fingers Pointing To Russia On Salisbury’

  20-03-2018 17:58
  Jeremy Corbyn has said he would still do business with Vladimir Putin despite
  
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• Lack Of Access To European Drug Trials Post-Brexit Would Be Disaster, MSPs Told

  20-03-2018 17:53
  Failure to secure continued access to Europe-wide trials of new treatments and
  
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• Red Arrows jet has crashed at Wales RAF base, MoD confirms

  20-03-2018 17:52
  A Red Arrows jet has crashed in Wales at an RAF base, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.The Welsh Ambulance Service said it was called shortly before 1.30pm on Tuesday to reports an aircraft had crashed at RAF Valley in Holyhead.
  
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• Lorry Driver Admits Knocking Peer Off Mobility Scooter And Killing Him

  20-03-2018 17:48
  A lorry driver has admitted knocking a Labour peer off his mobility scooter
  
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• Rent-To-Own Household Goods Firm To Write Off Debts As Part Of Redress Package

  20-03-2018 17:37
  Rent-to-own household goods provider PerfectHome is writing off the debts of
  
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• Nanny Was Intimidated To Confirm Claims Over Ex-Boyzone Star, Murder Trial Told

  20-03-2018 17:36
  A French nanny working in London was put under "relentless pressure" to
  
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• UK-Russia: May warns Putin 'there is MORE to come' as tensions SOAR

  20-03-2018 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  BRITAIN is clamping down on the on private jet passengers flying into the country as part of the response to the salisbury nerve gas attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, according to security chiefs.
  
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