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• Shoreham air crash pilot to be charged with manslaughter

  21-03-2018 23:46
  Andrew Hill faces manslaughter by gross negligence charges after 11 men died in air show tragedyThe pilot whose plane crashed in the Shoreham airshow disaster, killing 11 men, will be charged with manslaughter by gross negligence, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced.Andrew Hill also faces charges of endangerment of an aircraft under air navigation laws after the Hawker Hunter jet plummeted on to the A27 in West Sussex at 1.22pm on 22 August 2015. Continue reading...
  
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• Theresa May to tell EU leaders: 'United we succeed against Russia'

  21-03-2018 23:31
  Theresa May will tell EU leaders they will succeed in the face of Russia's threat if they remain united.At a European Council summit in Brussels on Thursday, the Prime Minister will speak of the "indiscriminate and reckless" nerve agent attack in Salisbury as part of a pattern of recent behaviour from Moscow.Addressing EU leaders, Mrs May is expected to say: "The challenge of Russia is one that will endure for years to come.
  
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• UK to ask EU leaders to expel Russian spies from own countries

  21-03-2018 23:30
  Theresa May to make request at summit, with aim of closing down Kremlin networks in EuropeBritain will encourage European leaders to expel Russian intelligence agents from their own countries in a bid to dismantle the Kremlin’s networks across Europe, warning that the west faces a long-term threat from Vladimir Putin.Theresa May will ask European leaders to examine Britain’s response to the use of a nerve agent against a Russian double agent and his daughter in Salisbury and step up
  
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• Jack Wilshere: ‘He just said if you can get a contract elsewhere you can go’

  21-03-2018 23:30
  The Arsenal midfielder is relishing a fresh chance with England seven months after Arsène Wenger realised his worst fearsIt was in early August, with the new Premier League season primed, when Arsène Wenger delivered the news Jack Wilshere dreaded. The midfielder had been working up a sweat on an exercise bike in the gym at Arsenal’s training ground when the manager ambled over and left the spin session stalled. “It was an honest conversation,” Wilshere recalls. &
  
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• Anthony Joshua raises Joseph Parker threat level with Deontay Wilder dig

  21-03-2018 23:30
  Laid-back champion suggests the unbeaten New Zealander is a more dangerous proposition than the ‘one-punch American’Heavyweights are not supposed to be laid-back – unless they have walked on to a left hook. But Anthony Joshua, elegant in his black, tailored tracksuit, embroidered with his “AJBxng” motif, his massive fists housed inside designer gloves and an initialled baseball cap perched on his head, is almost spookily relaxed, oozing menace and low-key glamour in
  
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• First UK Flights To Terracotta Army

  21-03-2018 23:29
  The UK's first direct flights to the home of China's Terracotta Army launch
  
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• Boris Johnson Compares Putin’S World Cup To Hitler’S Berlin Olympics

  21-03-2018 23:28
  Boris Johnson has compared Russia's forthcoming World Cup to Hitler's
  
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• TV Presenter Ant McPartlin Charged With Drink-Driving

  21-03-2018 23:23
  TV presenter Ant McPartlin has been charged with drink-driving following his
  
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• Chris Froome may be denied Tour de France place by race organisers ASO

  21-03-2018 23:01
  • Froome set to be refused entry if doping case is not resolved
  • Tour of the Alps will be his final warm-up race for Giro d’ItaliaThe Tour de France organisers will refuse to let Chris Froome race in this year’s event if his salbutamol case has not been resolved, it is understood.The four-times Tour champion returned an adverse finding for the asthma drug salbutamol during his winning ride at the Vuelta a España last year. He denies any wrongdoing and is continuing
  
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• Zoe Ball’s Hardest Road Home review – a bike ride with a mission and a message

  21-03-2018 23:00
  The presenter’s partner killed himself two years ago and she is cycling 355 miles to raise awareness of depression and suicide in an affecting film for Sport ReliefZoe Ball is going on a bike ride. A long bike ride, 355 miles, from Blackpool, where she was born, to Brighton where she lives. And it’s going to be tough. You see, Zoe doesn’t do much cycling. And it is going to emotional: this is a bike ride with a mission, and a message. In May 2016, Zoe’s partner Billy Yate
  
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• Knife deaths among black people 'should cause more outrage'

  21-03-2018 22:58
  Top Met officer says inadequate response is because many victims came from black communitiesKnife deaths are not causing the “collective outrage” they should because the majority of victims are from black communities, a top police officer has said.Martin Hewitt, an assistant commissioner at the Met police, said that, although the police are putting “enormous effort” into tackling knife crimes, not enough preventative work was being done. Continue reading...
  
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• Patients Remain In Stable Condition With Water-Linked Infection

  21-03-2018 22:41
  Four children remain in a stable condition with infections linked to bacteria
  
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• Facebook Had Wild West Approach To User Data, Ex-Employee Tells MPs

  21-03-2018 22:39
  Facebook had "wild west" approach to looking after its users' data and had
  
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• Weatherwatch: Arctic ice sheet engages combat submarines

  21-03-2018 22:30
  Uneven ice that scatters sonar tests the US and British navies during ICEX military exercisesThe attack submarine HMS Trenchant has joined US submarines in the Arctic for ICEX 2018, military exercises involving practice with dummy torpedo attacks and navigation and surfacing through the ice cover. The ice sheet provides almost perfect concealment for submarines but brings problems too. While the upper surface of the ice is smooth the underside is ridged with keels extending downwards for many me
  
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• RAF Engineer Killed In Red Arrows Crash Named

  21-03-2018 22:22
  The RAF engineer killed when the Red Arrows jet he was flying in crashed at
  
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• Boris Johnson Urges Restraint From Turkey Against Kurds

  21-03-2018 22:20
  Boris Johnson has called on Turkey to show restraint in its campaign against
  
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• Nicolas Sarkozy faces formal investigation over alleged Libya funding

  21-03-2018 22:18
  France’s ex-president is accused of receiving €50m in campaign funds from Muammar Gaddafi The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation for illegal campaign financing, accepting bribes and the misappropriation of Libyan state funds over allegations that he received millions of euros in illegal election campaign funding from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.Sarkozy, France’s rightwing president from 2007 to 2012, was
  
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• Justin Trudeau defends Canada's arms sales to Saudi Arabia

  21-03-2018 22:11
  Trudeau argues that sale of more than 900 armoured vehicles is in line with Canada’s foreign and defense policiesJustin Trudeau has defended his government’s decision to sign off on the sale of more than 900 armoured vehicles – including dozens described as “heavy assault” and equipped with cannons – to Saudi Arabia, arguing that the deal is in line with Canada’s foreign and defence policies.The C$15bn ($11.63bn) deal – struck by the previous Conse
  
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• Nikita Parris guides Manchester City past Linköping towards semi-finals

  21-03-2018 22:09
  • Women’s Champions League: Manchester City 2-0 Linköping
  • Parris and Jane Ross give City edge in front of Phil NevillePhil Neville, the national coach, witnessed an accomplished display from Manchester City on Wednesday night that makes Nick Cushing’s team favourites to reach the Champions League last four in the return leg next week.City made the game an exhibition of attack versus defence and came away feeling a higher margin of victory might have been returned alt
  
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• Gwyn Williams accused of racist bullying by fourth former Chelsea player

  21-03-2018 21:37
  • Legal papers delivered to Chelsea say player damaged for life
  • Williams has denied any allegations of racial or other abuse
  • Club ‘determined to do right thing’ on claims dating from 1979-85Chelsea are facing new allegations about a culture of “continued racist bullying and abuse” that is said to have left one of the club’s former youth-team players so traumatised he has deliberately avoided going anywhere near Stamford Bridge in more than 30 year
  
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• Steve Bell on the Facebook crisis and Donald Trump – cartoon

  21-03-2018 21:28
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• Bullying Not Institutionalised At Deepcut Barracks, Senior Officer Says

  21-03-2018 21:21
  Bullying was not institutionalised at Deepcut barracks, a senior officer has
  
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• Shoreham Airshow disaster pilot Andy Hill to be charged with manslaughter

  21-03-2018 21:20
  Andy Hill, from Sandon, Hertfordshire, will also be formally charged with endangering the safety of an aircraft.Eleven men died when the vintage Hawker Hunter aircraft came down onto the busy A27 in West Sussex when Mr Hill attempted a loop manoeuvre on 22 August 2015.Simon Ringrose, CPS specialist prosecutor, said: "Following a careful review of the evidence I have found there is sufficient evidence to charge Mr Hill with the manslaughter by gross negligence of the eleven men who died.
  
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• Russia Accuses UK Of Hiding Evidence In Salisbury Nerve Agent Attack

  21-03-2018 21:20
  Russia has accused Britain of deliberate concealing evidence in the escalating
  
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• Russia Has Duty To Protect England World Cup Fans – Boris Johnson

  21-03-2018 21:19
  Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has issued a warning to Russia that it has a
  
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• PM’S Deal With DUP Harming UK National Interest In Brexit Talks – Sir Nick Clegg

  21-03-2018 21:17
  Theresa May's "marriage of convenience" with the Democratic Unionists is
  
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• New Look To Shut Wave Of Stores As High Street Misery Continues

  21-03-2018 21:17
  Embattled retailer New Look has agreed a restructuring plan with creditors
  
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• Animation details pilot's errors in Shoreham air crash

  21-03-2018 21:05
  An animation from the Air Accident Investigation Branch shows how pilot Andy Hill was at fault for the Shoreham air disaster.
  
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• Breast Cancer Campaigners Call For Drug Deal As Talks Continue

  21-03-2018 21:04
  A deal needs to be struck on access to a key breast cancer drug in Scotland to
  
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• Guidance Launched For Muslims To Dispel Belief Adoption Is Forbidden

  21-03-2018 21:03
  New guidance to dispel myths around fostering and adopting has been launched
  
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• Family Courts Need Radical Reform To Shed Secrecy Charge, Says Judge

  21-03-2018 20:59
  Radical reform is needed if family court judges are to rid themselves of the
  
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• Bullying Not Institutionalised At Deepcut Barracks, Former Officer Says

  21-03-2018 20:59
  Bullying was not institutionalised at Deepcut barracks, a former officer has
  
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• Bus Driver Admits Causing Death By Careless Driving

  21-03-2018 20:55
  A bus driver has admitted causing death by careless driving after his single-
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg Admits Facebook 'Made Mistakes' Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal

  21-03-2018 20:53
  Mark Zuckerberg has admitted Facebook "made mistakes" as he broke his silence
  
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• The Latest: Zuckerberg admits mistakes, outlines steps

  21-03-2018 20:51
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the alleged use of Facebook data to influence the U.S. presidential election (all times local):
  
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• Family Of Murdered Russian Businessman ‘Devastated’ By His Death

  21-03-2018 20:49
  The family of murdered Russian businessman Nikolay Glushkov have said they are
  
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• Bargain Booze owner Conviviality must raise £125m to halt bankruptcy

  21-03-2018 20:17
  Firm issues third profits warning; says it will meet investors to raise funds via a share placingBargain Booze’s owner, Conviviality, has made clear it is likely to go bust unless it can raise £125m, as it issued its third profits warning in a month.The company, in a stock exchange announcement, said it was holding meetings with investors to raise £125m via a share placing that would help it pay a £30m tax bill due at the end of the month, fund overdue payments to credito
  
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• Cambridge Analytica was offered politicians' hacked emails, say witnesses

  21-03-2018 19:59
  Hackers offered personal data about future Nigerian president and future PM of St Kitts and Nevis, sources sayFacebook’s Mark Zuckerberg finally addresses Cambridge Analytica scandal
  The data analytics firm that worked on the Donald Trump election campaign was offered material from Israeli hackers who had accessed the private emails of two politicians who are now heads of state, witnesses have told the Guardian.Multiple sources have described how senior directors of Cambridge Analytica &nd
  
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• Lowest paid NHS staff may receive pay rise of up to 29% in new deal

  21-03-2018 19:37
  All NHS staff will see pay rise by at least 6.5% if they back deal supported by 13 of the 14 unionsHundreds of thousands of NHS staff are set to receive pay rises of between 9% and 29% over the next three years after ministers abandoned a seven-year health service salary squeeze.
  All of the more than 1 million personnel working for the NHS in England will receive at least a 6.5% increase, if they back the deal in ballots to be run by the 14 trade unions to which they belong. They include nurses,
  
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• After Salisbury, Britain must realise its true friends are in Europe | Martin Kettle

  21-03-2018 19:37
  Our EU partners have been staunch allies in a crisis. We’re leaving yet leaning more towards them, especially in defenceOf all the vacuous slogans generated by the entire Brexit campaign and process, “Global Britain” is the most vacuous of all. Not before time, the phrase is being called out for what it really is. Last week the Commons foreign affairs select committee dismissed it as meaningless, the former head of the Foreign Office trashed it as “mushy thinking”,
  
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• Bulgarians rush to save a phalanx of distressed, frozen storks

  21-03-2018 19:33
  Villagers come to the rescue after icy wings ground hundreds of migrating birdsWhat would you do if you encountered scores of distressed storks covered in ice lying in a snow-covered field? In Bulgaria, people have been taking them home.A cold snap in the north-east of the country has stranded hundreds of the migrating birds this week, covering their wings in ice and grounding them. Continue reading...
  
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• Man charged with attempted murder after knife attack on German mayor

  21-03-2018 19:26
  Altena’s Andreas Hollstein, who was willing to take asylum-seekers, was attacked with knife in NovemberGerman prosecutors have filed charges of attempted murder against a man accused of attacking the mayor of a small western town because of his welcoming stance towards refugees.Andreas Hollstein, the mayor of Altena, was attacked with a kitchen knife at a local kebab restaurant in November and suffered a cut to his neck. Continue reading...
  
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• In pictures: look again – the seductive art of Daniel Shea

  21-03-2018 19:06
  As a new book and exhibition launched this week shows, the beguiling work of the American photographer Daniel Shea manages to seduce and disconcert in equal measure.The exhibition 43-35 10th Street, runs at the Webber Gallery, London W1, 22 March to 4 May this year. The book of the same name is published by Kodoji Press.www.danielpshea.com Continue reading...
  
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• Tributes paid to RAF engineer who died in Red Arrows crash in Wales

  21-03-2018 19:04
  Cpl Jonathan Bayliss was killed when Hawk T1 aircraft crashed after takeoff at airbase in north WalesTributes have been paid to the “dedicated, skilled and experienced” Royal Air Force engineer who was killed when the Red Arrows aircraft in which he was flying crashed in north Wales.Cpl Jonathan Bayliss, 41, died when the Hawk T1 aircraft crashed in a “ball of flames” shortly after takeoff at RAF Valley at about 1.30pm on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• The Grenfell Tower recovery is still being treated as a PR problem | Seraphima Kennedy

  21-03-2018 19:03
  The families of those who died are not just a list of names: they are histories and futures. The government should heed themAround 8pm last Saturday, residents living in blocks near Grenfell Tower were shaken by what sounded like a small explosion. Minutes later, a video started circulating on Twitter: what looked like clouds of smoke rising from the temporary boiler that serves the estate, and was built to replace the one destroyed in the fire at Grenfell. Related: The Grenfell victims are forg
  
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• Saturday Night Takeaway host Ant McPartlin charged with drink-driving

  21-03-2018 18:51
  Declan Donnelly will present the show without McPartlin when it returns on 31 March
  The TV presenter Ant McPartlin has been charged with drink-driving after being arrested at the weekend, police have said.The 42-year-old entertainer is due to appear at Wimbledon magistrates court on 4 April over a collision on Lower Richmond Road, in south-west London, on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• Instagram ‘influencers’ can flog stuff all day – but it’s weird when they use their kids to do it

  21-03-2018 18:45
  Insta parents are the 21st-century version of stage parents – and history tells us that putting your child on screen can often end badly
  I see Instagram influencers have got in trouble for not making it clear when they’re advertising stuff. What are your feelings about this? Continue reading...
  
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• Why have we given up our privacy to Facebook and other sites so willingly?

  21-03-2018 18:43
  Cambridge Analytica’s ransacking of millions of Facebook users’ data has triggered a backlash against the social network – and highlighted how much personal information we share without thinking of the consequencesMark Zuckerberg breaks silence on Cambridge Analytica
  Facebook is on the ropes. A week of revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s use of data gleaned from the social network has left the world demanding answers. The company can’t seem to decide: is it outr
  
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• Ambridge Analytica: the spoof account that’s combine-harvesting data

  21-03-2018 18:41
  The Twitter account is home to ‘big farmer’ jokes and Archers-inspired gags. Just don’t confuse it with Cambridge Analytica – or Oxford Analytica, for that matterName: Ambridge Analytica.Age: Fifteen minutes of fame. Continue reading...
  
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• Palestinian Ahed Tamimi accepts prison term plea deal

  21-03-2018 18:38
  Teen filmed slapping Israeli soldiers reaches agreement pending approval by the military courtA 17-year-old Palestinian girl who was filmed slapping and kicking two Israeli soldiers outside her home has accepted a plea deal under which she will serve eight months in prison, her lawyer has said.
  Under the deal, offered by the military prosecution on Wednesday, Ahed Tamimi is expected to plead guilty to four charges, including assault, incitement and two counts of obstructing soldiers. Continue re
  
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