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• How Cambridge Analytica altered voters' perception of reality

  24-03-2018 23:40
  How Cambridge Analytica altered voters' perception of reality
  
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• Cambridge Analytica: Academics refused to carry out 'unethical' research

  24-03-2018 23:29
  Two Cambridge University academics who pioneered the use of Facebook data for science say they were approached by Cambridge Analytica to carry out work for the consultancy firm but refused on ethical grounds.Dr David Stillwell, the deputy director of The Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge, is credited with leading the way in harnessing the power of big data through social media with his myPersonality project.The personality quiz was started on Facebook in June 2007 in the very e
  
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• Easter Weekend Snow Warning As 'Beast From The East' Could Return For Third Time

  24-03-2018 22:06
  Plummeting temperatures and snow could return to parts of the UK ahead of the
  
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• Labour MPs challenge Corbyn on antisemitism and Brexit

  24-03-2018 22:01
  Jeremy Corbyn’s decision to sack Owen Smith over the latter’s support for a second EU referendum prompted party outrage.Jeremy Corbyn faces the most serious revolt by his own MPs since the failed coup of 2016 as senior figures publicly accuse him today of condoning antisemitism, while at the same time purging his inner circle of passionate pro-Europeans.MPs broke cover throughout on Saturday to demand that Corbyn appears before them on Monday evening to explain himself on both issues
  
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• Whistleblower claims Vote Leave 'cheated' during Brexit campaign

  24-03-2018 21:54
  The allegations centre around Vote Leave's links to the BeLeave campaign which it helped fund.Shahmir Sanni, who worked with Vote Leave, claims the group used BeLeave to get around strict spending limits set by the Electoral Commission.It is a breach of electoral law for different campaign organisations to co-ordinate with each other unless they operate under a shared spending cap.
  
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• Meet the people in cities around the world who stood with US teenagers for the March For Our Lives

  24-03-2018 21:46
  ‘We’re watching. We’re organised. We vote.’
  
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• The Brexit whistleblower: ‘Did Vote Leave use me? Was I naive'

  24-03-2018 21:01 via theguardian.com
  Shahmir Sanni, a volunteer for Vote Leave, the official pro-Brexit EU referendum campaign, explains how a data company linked to Cambridge Analytica played a crucial role in the result, and voices his concerns that electoral spending rules were manipulated… and evidence apparently destroyed• Brexit insider claims Vote Leave team may have breached spending limitsWhen I first met Shahmir Sanni last August, he was nervy, anxious, uncertain. “I’ve just started piecing it toge
  
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• Vote Leave Accused Of 'Cheating' During Brexit Campaign

  24-03-2018 20:59
  A whistleblower has claimed that the official Brexit campaign "cheated" and
  
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• The beast is back: Easter snow warning for UK as third cold snap nears

  24-03-2018 20:23
  Snow is expected to return to the UK from Wednesday. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Reuters
  
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• Sky speaks to Russian scientist who worked on Novichok programme

  24-03-2018 20:20
  Sky speaks to Russian scientist who worked on Novichok programme
  
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• Moscow rejects claim Sergei Skripal wrote to Vladmir Putin asking to be pardoned

  24-03-2018 20:14
  The Kremlin has denied that poisoned former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal wrote to Vladimir Putin asking to be pardoned.Mr Skripal, who remains in a coma along with his daughter Yulia, has been living in the UK since 2010 after being convicted of selling secrets to British intelligence.
  
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• Kremlin Denies Sergei Skripal Asked Putin To Be Pardoned And Return To Russia

  24-03-2018 19:55
  The Kremlin has denied the claim that former Russian spy Sergei Skripal asked
  
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• Keep your enemies close: the splits and infighting behind the Leave campaigns

  24-03-2018 19:20
  The launch of the Leave.EU campaign in November 2015 with, from right, Brittany Kaiser of Cambridge Analytica, Arron Banks, Gerry Gunster and Liz Bilney.Photograph: Reuters Tv/Reuters
  
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• Labour seeks cross-party consensus on Irish border Brexit deal

  24-03-2018 19:17
  Labour is seeking to build cross-party consensus in parliament behind plans that will enshrine into law a promise not to have any infrastructure, customs posts or cameras on the border of Northern Ireland and the Republic after Brexit.The plan, which will be announced on Sunday by shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer, would force the government to honour what is to date only a political commitment to avoid a hard border solution, once the UK leaves the EU in a year’s time.
  
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• Cambridge dominate Oxford in 164th boat race

  24-03-2018 19:10
  LONDON (Reuters) - Cambridge comfortably beat Oxford to win the 164th men's Varsity boat race on a gloomy River Thames on Saturday.
  
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• 'Appalling' England fans criticised after more than 100 arrests in Amsterdam

  24-03-2018 18:59
  Police chiefs have condemned the "appalling" behaviour of a "large number" of England football fans after dozens were arrested in Amsterdam.The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said the arrest of 100 England fans in the Dutch capital on Friday was the most for a single game in "several years" and part of a "worrying trend".It comes after 25 England supporters were held on Thursday amid ugly scenes before the team's friendly win over the Netherlands.
  
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• Counterprotesters plan a 'March for Our Guns' rally in Montana

  24-03-2018 18:10
  As hundreds of thousands of activists across the country gather at March For
  
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• BBC Journalist Frank Gardner Criticises Heathrow Airport's Treatment Of Disabled Passengers

  24-03-2018 16:34
  A BBC journalist has criticised Heathrow Airport's treatment of disabled
  
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• London tenants to protest at auction of social flats worth £7.2m

  24-03-2018 15:17
  Savills is auctioning £7.2m worth of former social housing.Tenants opposed to the social cleansing of city centres will protest outside an auction at a luxury hotel where property developers and private landlords will bid for £7.2m worth of former social flats and houses.Nearly one in 10 of the lots, which are being auctioned by leading estate agent Savills at the Marriott hotel in London’s Grosvenor Square on Monday, are former social housing, with 14 lots being sold by housin
  
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• Modern Headlights Are 'Blinding Drivers' Says RAC

  24-03-2018 15:05
  Modern headlights are so bright that they are temporarily blinding drivers,
  
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• Easter snow likely as 'beast from the east' bites UK again

  24-03-2018 14:01
  Daffodils in Greenwich Park, London, last Sunday. Snow is expected to return to the UK from Wednesday. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Reuters
  
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• The Dish: Chef David Tanis

  24-03-2018 13:59
  While at college in California, chef and food writer David Tanis found himself more often in the kitchen than the library and eventually ended up working for Alice Waters in the early days of her influential Chez Panisse. It was the beginning an association that lasted for a quarter century. He now lives in New York where he's best known as the author of several acclaimed cookbooks including his latest: " David Tanis Market Cooking."
  
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• Sacked Owen Smith: Majority of Labour members want second Brexit vote

  24-03-2018 12:17
  Owen Smith has told Sky News he was sacked from the shadow cabinet for voicing views on Brexit that are shared by the "overwhelming majority" of Labour members.Speaking a day after he was removed from his job as shadow Northern Ireland secretary, Mr Smith called the decision "disappointing" but insisted he did not regret urging his party to campaign for a second EU referendum.Mr Smith said "the vast majority of Labour members" want the country to have a say on Brexit "either at a General Electio
  
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• China warns U.S. it will defend own trade interests

  24-03-2018 10:43
  The United States has flouted trade rules with an inquiry into intellectual property and China will defend its interests, Vice Premier Liu He told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a telephone call on Saturday, Chinese state media reported.The call between Mnuchin and Liu, a confidante of President Xi Jinping, was the highest-level contact between the two governments since U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans for tariffs on up to $60 billion of Chinese goods on Thursday.Several U.
  
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• Adwoa Aboah wears spring/summer 2018 Burberry – in pictures

  24-03-2018 10:00 via theguardian.com
  The face of the year models checks, rainbows and graffiti prints from designer Christopher Bailey’s last collection for the label
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• 20 Photos of the Week

  24-03-2018 10:00 via theguardian.com
  The People’s Congress, Fallas in Valencia, the Facebook data scandal, spring equinox, Newroz and spring snowfall, joy for family of Dapchi schoolgirls in Nigeria, and Usain Bolt turns his feet to football; we take a look at the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists Continue reading...
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Faces Growing Outrage Over 'Weasel Words' 'Anti-Semitic' Mural Apology

  24-03-2018 09:58
  Jeremy Corbyn is facing a growing backlash - including from his own MPs - over
  
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• Hero French Police Officer Arnaud Beltrame Dies After Hostage Situation In Trebes

  24-03-2018 08:52
  A heroic French officer who swapped himself for a hostage during an attack on
  
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• China says ready to defend its interests in U.S. trade spat

  24-03-2018 08:47
  The United States has flouted trade rules with an inquiry into intellectual property and China will defend its interests, Vice Premier Liu He told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a telephone call on Saturday, Chinese state media reported.The call between Mnuchin and Liu, a confidante of President Xi Jinping, was the highest-level contact between the two governments since U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans for tariffs on up to $60 billion of Chinese goods on Thursday.Several U.
  
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• 8 Explosive Claims In Rebel Prince, The New Book On Charles

  24-03-2018 08:20
  A "devastating" new biography of Charles, the Prince of Wales, portrays the
  
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• Isolation And Missed Chances To Grieve: What Happens When A Rough Sleeper Dies

  24-03-2018 08:11
  Richard died in his 70s. He lived in South London, and he was homeless.
  
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• Russia nerve agent row may be turning England fans off

  24-03-2018 07:54
  Political tensions between the UK and Russia after the Salisbury nerve agent attack could force some England football fans to alter their travel plans for this summer's FIFA World Cup.Some reports suggest ticket sales to England supporters are nowhere near the level they were for the last tournament in Brazil in 2014, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued new travel advice to anyone intending to visit Russia in June and July.Russia is making final preparations to host the sport's mo
  
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• Newspaper headlines: Airline fees and plastic bottles 'victory'

  24-03-2018 07:02 via bbc.co.uk
  The government is planning a "crackdown" on hidden fees charged by airports, reports the Times.
  
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• Labour MPs attack sacking of Owen Smith over Brexit

  24-03-2018 06:41 via bbc.co.uk
  The shadow NI secretary's dismissal is described by one former minster as a 'Stalinist purge'.
  
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• Russian spy: Being an agent 'messed up' Skripal's life

  24-03-2018 06:17 via bbc.co.uk
  A school friend says Sergei Skripal was shunned by many people but did not see himself as a traitor.
  
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• U.S. charges, sanctions Iranians for global cyber attacks on behalf of Tehran

  24-03-2018 05:58
  The United States on Friday charged and sanctioned nine Iranians and an Iranian company for attempting to hack into hundreds of universities worldwide, dozens of firms and parts of the U.S. government, including its main energy regulator, on behalf of Tehran's government.The cyber attacks, beginning in at least 2013, pilfered more than 31 terabytes of academic data and intellectual property from 144 U.S. universities and 176 universities in 21 other countries, the U.S. Department of Justice said
  
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• Cambridge Analytica offices searched over data storage

  24-03-2018 05:26 via bbc.co.uk
  A judge grants the Information Commissioner a warrant after claims the firm misused Facebook data.
  
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• Pacific 'garbage patch' even worse than feared, new research shows

  24-03-2018 05:00
  The Great Pacific Garbage Patch – the largest accumulation of ocean plastic on the planet – contains even more debris than scientists had feared, according to new research.
  
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• UK plastic waste will rocket by over a million tonnes by 2030, says WWF

  24-03-2018 04:56
  The amount of plastic which Britons throw away is set rise by a fifth by the end of the next decade - with a 34% rise in crisp packets, 41% more plastic straws and 9% more drinks bottles.UK consumers could also be using a third more disposable drinks cups by 2030 without action to curb plastic waste, the study by WWF said.The conservation group wants governments to implement policies to tackle the problem, including a "latte levy" on single-use drinks cups, and a deposit return scheme to encoura
  
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• University tuition fees: Why I crowdfunded my degree

  24-03-2018 04:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Jo Garner was determined to go to university but she couldn't afford the fees.
  
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• Skripal 'regretted being double agent'

  24-03-2018 04:01 via bbc.co.uk
  A former classmate says the spy told him he even wrote to Vladimir Putin asking to come back to Russia.
  
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• Biometric wristbands could help those with autism

  24-03-2018 03:07
  A biometric wristband designed to predict epileptic seizures may soon be helping people with severe autism.David Adamson, a resident at Raby Hall in the Wirral for 17 years, is the first autistic subject to be given the device, which researchers say will measure his levels of stress and anxiety.For Mr Adamson, 34, those events regularly happen in the evenings, resulting in poor or no sleep.
  
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• Sport Relief raises more than £38m for charities

  24-03-2018 02:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Andy Murray, Geri Horner, David Ginola and many other stars took part in the TV fundraiser.
  
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• Chatsworth House £32m restoration unveiled

  24-03-2018 02:38 via bbc.co.uk
  The Duchess of Devonshire says she is "thrilled" by the work, which has taken 10 years.
  
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• Hyperemesis gravidarum: The mum whose morning sickness has never gone away

  24-03-2018 02:33 via bbc.co.uk
  A woman with three children says she is still suffering from the after-effects of extreme morning sickness.
  
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• Plaid Cymru 'would hold Wales independence referendum'

  24-03-2018 02:24 via bbc.co.uk
  In a conference speech, Adam Price will call Wales "a wealthy country whose people live in poverty".
  
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• The woman who brought skull watches back to life

  24-03-2018 02:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Scot Fiona Krüger has carved out a niche in the conservative world of Swiss watchmaking.
  
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• Protest to be staged in Edinburgh calling for tougher US gun laws

  24-03-2018 01:52 via bbc.co.uk
  The Edinburgh demonstration follows a mass shooting at a school in Florida which left 17 students and teachers dead.
  
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• Tuberculosis rates in England fall by third in six years

  24-03-2018 01:20 via bbc.co.uk
  But England still has one of the highest rates of the disease in Western Europe.
  
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• Behind the job: Life as a Formula 1 mechanic

  24-03-2018 01:18 via bbc.co.uk
  From working in a local garage to life on the super-fast, high-pressure world of F1.
  
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