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• Egypt says it deported British journalist for working illegally

  25-03-2018 22:44
  Egypt said on Sunday it had deported a British journalist working for the Times newspaper last month because she was working illegally.The Times said on Saturday its correspondent, 33-year-old Bel Trew, who had been based in Cairo for several years, was arrested while reporting on a migrant boat that had vanished two years ago, and forced to leave Egypt with no access to a lawyer.The newspaper described an "increasingly oppressive environment" for media in Egypt ahead of a presidential election
  
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• Declan Donnelly and wife Ali Astall expecting first child

  25-03-2018 22:05
  Declan Donnelly and his wife Ali Astall have announced that they are expecting their first child.
  
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• Labour leader Corbyn apologises for anti-Semitism in his party‍​

  25-03-2018 21:34
  The leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, apologised on Sunday for anti-Semitism within his party, as he faced the prospect of protests over a perceived failure to act on such incidents in the past."We recognise that anti-Semitism has occurred in pockets within the Labour Party, causing pain and hurt to our Jewish community in the Labour Party and the rest of the country," Corbyn said in a statement posted on Facebook.Labour has faced persistent criticism in recent years fo
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn apologises for 'pockets' of anti-Semitism within Labour Party

  25-03-2018 21:24
  Jeremy Corbyn has said he is "sincerely sorry" for pain caused by anti-Semitism which occurred in "pockets" within the Labour Party.In a statement on Sunday, the Labour leader said he "utterly" condemns anti-Semitism and that as leader he "will not tolerate any form of anti-Semitism that exists in and around our movement".
  
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• Oil trader Vitol hurt by profit drop in recovering oil market - FT

  25-03-2018 21:04
  Vitol posted net income of $1.5 billion (1.06 billion pounds) in the year ending December, down from more than $2 billion in 2016, one of its best years on record, the newspaper reported.The privately held commodity trader found it difficult to make money from storing cheap barrels of crude and selling them later, the FT said.The Swiss-based company, which does not publicise its entire financial information, has earlier benefited from market volatility and opportunities to lock in profit in 2016
  
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• If you take a joke apart, what do you have left? | Paul Chadwick

  25-03-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
  As readers’ editor, I have seen that investigating satire and parody as we would a news item can miss the pointThose elegant sages of laughter, EB and Katharine S White, offered this advice in the foreword to their 1941 collection of American humorous writing: “Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the purely scientific mind.” I recall it when readers, often angry or offended, want me to investigate
  
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• Companies could face court over failing to report gender pay gap

  25-03-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Head of Equality and Human Rights Commission says firms which miss 4 April deadline would be named and shamedThe head of Britain’s equality watchdog has warned companies that they could be pursued through the courts if they fail to report their gender pay gap before the 4 April deadline.
  Issuing a stark warning to the 5,000 companies that have yet to provide data on the difference between the amount they pay male and female employees, Rebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive of the Equality and
  
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• Ben Jennings on Cambridge Analytica's role in the Vote Leave campaign – cartoon

  25-03-2018 19:55 via theguardian.com
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• Greater Manchester Police Officer Hospitalised With Serious Injuries After Sword Attack

  25-03-2018 19:45
  A 23-year-old man has been arrested after a police officer was slashed with a
  
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• 'Beast of Wombwell' Peter Pickering dies days after rape conviction

  25-03-2018 19:33
  A pensioner and child killer dubbed the "Beast of Wombwell" has died just five days after being convicted of raping a teenage girl in 1972.Peter Pickering, 80, was last week convicted of raping an 18-year-old woman before he raped and killed a 14-year-old child in 1972, for which he had already been convicted.Police added that Pickering was also a suspect in a historical investigation into the 1965 murder of 14-year-old Wakefield schoolgirl Elsie Frost.
  
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• 9 tweets that sum up how you feel about the clocks going forward

  25-03-2018 19:33
  Brits really don’t like losing an hour of sleep.
  
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• 'The NRA are fearmongers': students excoriate gun group and politicians' lack of action

  25-03-2018 19:28 via theguardian.com
  Students accused the NRA of exploiting people’s fears to sell weapons
  Criticize Trump administration for its stuttering response to gun massacreStudents from Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school accused the National Rifle Association on Sunday of exploiting people’s fears to sell weapons and criticized the Trump administration for its stuttering response to last month’s gun rampage in Florida, which left 14 of their peers and three teachers dead. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on elections in Egypt: two candidates, no real choice | Editorial

  25-03-2018 19:17 via theguardian.com
  There is little doubt as to the outcome of the presidential race. But how long does Sisi plan to stay in charge?On Monday the polls will open in Egypt so that voters can elect their president. The results are not in doubt: barring some truly staggering development, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will begin his second term. That too should have a certain outcome, ending in his departure from office under the constitution’s two-term limit. Will it?This is a meaningful election in the same way
  
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• Gareth Southgate finds what he’s looking for with England’s tireless tyros | Barney Ronay

  25-03-2018 19:16 via theguardian.com
  Assured victory in Amsterdam is more proof that the coach’s plan of canny possession football is not just empty chatterLast month Gareth Southgate did a long broadcast interview with the journalist Guillem Balagué. It kicked off with Balagué lobbing up a soft one, asking England’s manager what album he would choose to keep if he could listen to only one.Rather than just doing the decent thing and saying, yeah, I listen to Drake in the car, Southgate went on to talk &nda
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn 'Sincerely Sorry' For Anti-Semitism 'Pockets' In Labour As Mural Row Escalates

  25-03-2018 19:10
  Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to root out "pockets of anti-semitism" within
  
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• The Guardian view on cars and drivers: more haste less speed | Editorial

  25-03-2018 19:06 via theguardian.com
  Cars seem to promise unfettered individualism. In the real world, they reveal the limits of selfishnessThe internal combustion engine has changed the world as much as almost any other invention of the last 150 years. The car has reshaped our cities and colonised our imaginations. It seems to offer autonomy for everyone. There is something almost delightful in the buoyant detachment from reality of advertisements showing mass-produced cars, almost all impossible for any but obsessives to tell apa
  
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• Lewis Hamilton rues Mercedes error that cost Australian Grand Prix win

  25-03-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  • Vettel wins after taking advantage of virtual-safety-car situation
  • Mercedes data told Hamilton not to open greater leadLewis Hamilton said he would prefer to trust his racer’s instinct rather than instruction from his Mercedes team after they admitted it was likely a software error cost him victory in the opening grand prix of the season in Australia.Hamilton was passed by Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel when the German tooka pit stop after the virtual safety car had been de
  
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• Scottish health system quicker to spot cancer, says George Alagiah

  25-03-2018 18:56 via theguardian.com
  BBC newsreader believes being screened at 50 would have raised chance of surviving bowel cancerThe BBC newsreader George Alagiah has said his cancer was caught “very late” and may have been detected earlier if England had similar screening procedures to Scotland.The 62-year-old presenter, who lives in London, discovered his stage four bowel cancer had returned before Christmas.Continue reading...
  
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• Corbyn’s ‘regret’ over an antisemitic mural doesn’t go remotely far enough | Matthew d’Ancona

  25-03-2018 18:54 via theguardian.com
  The party leader seems to respond as though hatred of Jewish people is an irritant, rather than a issue of fundamental rightsIf, as August Bebel, the 19th-century German leftist, warned, antisemitism is the “socialism of fools”, then it is becoming ever more pressing to ask whether the man who fancies himself our next prime minister might be rather foolish. Jeremy Corbyn’s gift for empathy does much to explain his remarkable electoral performance last June. But his wholly inade
  
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• Police officer left with 'serious injuries' after Manchester sword attack

  25-03-2018 18:53
  A police officer has been left with "serious injuries" after being slashed with a sword in Manchester on Sunday.A 23-year-old man was arrested after the officer was slashed with a sword in Whalley Range at about 1.50pm, Greater Manchester Police said.The officer is currently in hospital with "serious injuries", the force added.
  
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• Polls show Facebook losing trust as firm uses ads to apologise

  25-03-2018 18:47
  SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON (Reuters) - Opinion polls published on Sunday in the United States and Germany indicated that a majority of the public were losing trust in Facebook over privacy, as the firm ran advertisements in British and U.S. newspapers apologising to users.Fewer than half of Americans trust Facebook to obey U.S. privacy laws, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday, while a survey published by Bild am Sonntag, Germany’s largest-selling Sunday paper, found 60 percent
  
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• Steve Smith must go after scandal that has torched Australia’s reputation

  25-03-2018 18:45 via theguardian.com
  This was pre-planned cheating in South Africa and we need to know who was involved if Australian cricket is to restore trustSteve Smith’s time as Australia’s captain is surely up. It is impossible to envisage a scenario where he stays in the job. This is a train wreck.When Smith fronted the media on Saturday to explain his role in the ball-tampering scandal, one that has taken an already distasteful encounter with South Africa to new depths, he did not appear to grasp the severity of
  
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• Protesters arrested in Belarus during opposition rally

  25-03-2018 18:29 via theguardian.com
  Demonstration in Minsk was banned by Alexander Lukashenko’s governmentScores of people have been arrested in the Belarus capital, Minsk, as supporters of the country’s repressed opposition tried to hold a protest march.The attempted demonstration was to mark the 100th anniversary of the short-lived Belarusian People’s Republic of 1918-19, seen by the opposition as the foundation of an independent Belarus. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Beast of Wombwell' Peter Pickering dies days after new conviction

  25-03-2018 18:21 via theguardian.com
  Police reveal they had hoped to charge 80-year-old with murder in a third historical caseA notorious killer found guilty last week of raping a teenager weeks before he took the life of another has died.Announcing the death of Peter Pickering, police said they had hoped to charge him with the murder of a third teenage girl. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Beast of Wombwell' Peter Pickering dies days after new conviction

  25-03-2018 18:21
  Peter Pickering’s death is not being treated as suspicious.Announcing the death of Peter Pickering, police said they had hoped to charge him with the murder of a third teenage girl.Pickering, who was nicknamed the Beast of Wombwell after he admitted the manslaughter of 14-year-old Shirley Boldy in 1972, died on Saturday night after being taken ill in secure psychiatric accommodation in Berkshire, police said.
  
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• My 17-hour Qantas odyssey in kangaroo pyjamas

  25-03-2018 18:19 via theguardian.com
  The airline made history with its first non-stop flight from Australia to the UK. Here’s what it was like to be on boardThis is the story of a flight. But it starts with a few caveats. Firstly, it is not a normal flight – the passengers are not your average travellers as they include ministers, CEOs and more journalists than politicians would normally be comfortable sharing a small space with.Secondly, it is not your average payload – the luggage include cameras, tripods and sp
  
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• Fears mount for House of Fraser as it holds funding crisis talks

  25-03-2018 18:19 via theguardian.com
  Department store chain meets turnaround investor in bid to secure £40m of fresh fundingHouse of Fraser has held emergency funding talks with specialist lenders amid mounting fears for its future as retailers battle increasingly torrid trading conditions on the high street.Executives at the department store chain, which dates back to 1849, are believed to have met with Alteri, a London-based turnaround investor that focuses on struggling European retailers.Continue reading...
  
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• Steven Reid: ‘Roy Hodgson is an inspiration – working with him fits perfectly’ | Ed Aarons

  25-03-2018 18:08 via theguardian.com
  The former Republic of Ireland midfielder learned much from the former England manager during his playing career and is learning even more now as Hodgson’s first-team coach at Crystal PalaceSteven Reid winces. “We had a staff game yesterday so I’m feeling the effects a little bit. I’ve probably played twice in the last six months when we’ve been short of players. Actually the gaffer has been quite complimentary – playing that game yesterday I was thinking: &ls
  
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• Police operation in Rio favela leaves at least eight people dead

  25-03-2018 18:01 via theguardian.com
  Allegations that some of the victims were innocent residents executed in a revenge mission after a police officer was killed thereA police operation in a Rio favela has left at least eight people dead amid allegations that some of the victims were innocent residents executed in a revenge mission after a police officer was killed there this week. Police said they were attacked by drug gangsters.The bloody operation in the Rocinha favela, located near postcard beaches like Leblon, came six months
  
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• Family of Tara Newbold call for inquest into her death to resume

  25-03-2018 17:54 via theguardian.com
  Request comes as partner faces sentencing for beating her on night she died in NottinghamThe family of a woman who was severely beaten by her partner on the night she died are calling for the resumption of an inquest into her death, after the perpetrator was not charged with murder.Before the sentencing of Duane Ballin for causing grievous bodily harm with intent, Tara Newbold’s family have urged Nottinghamshire coroners service to examine the circumstances surrounding her death. The coron
  
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• Jewish leaders plan protest in Corbyn antisemitism row

  25-03-2018 17:51
  Jeremy Corbyn said he reacted to ‘concerns about the removal of public art on the grounds of free speech’.Jewish leaders have called for a show of solidarity outside parliament on Monday evening to warn the Labour leadership that “enough is enough”, after Jeremy Corbyn was engulfed in a fresh antisemitism row.The Jewish Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council issued what they described as a “call to action” on Sunday, announcing they would be deliv
  
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• Corbyn apologises for the 'pockets of antisemitism' in party

  25-03-2018 17:51
  Jewish leaders have called for a show of solidarity outside parliament on Monday evening to warn the Labour leadership that “enough is enough”, after Jeremy Corbyn was engulfed in a fresh antisemitism row.The Jewish Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council issued what they described as a “call to action” on Sunday, announcing they would be delivering a letter to the parliamentary Labour party before its regular weekly meeting on Monday.#EnoughIsEnough We call o
  
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• Liam O’Flynn obituary

  25-03-2018 17:46 via theguardian.com
  Master of the modern Irish uilleann pipes who was a co-founder of the folk band PlanxtyRevered as a modern master of the Irish uilleann pipes, Liam O’Flynn, who has died aged 72, was a solo performer who commanded deep respect from his fellow musicians, and a collaborator with a wide range of folk, classical, rock and popular music performers. Kate Bush, Enya, Mark Knopfler, John Cage, Mike Oldfield, Emmylou Harris, Sinéad O’Connor and the Everly Brothers were among the artist
  
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• Man held after police officer slashed with sword in Manchester

  25-03-2018 17:45 via theguardian.com
  Police make arrest after officer sustains serious injuries in Whalley Range incidentA 23-year-old man has been arrested after a police officer was slashed with a sword in south Manchester, police said.Greater Manchester police (GMP) said the officer was in hospital with serious injuries following the incident in Whalley Range on Sunday afternoon. Continue reading...
  
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• These pictures from the London Landmarks Half Marathon will make you want to go for a run

  25-03-2018 17:40
  Runners and supporters were out in force to attend the first London Landmarks Half Marathon.
  
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• Gender pay gaps in academy school chains among the worst in UK

  25-03-2018 17:37 via theguardian.com
  Guardian analysis reveals several trusts where women face hourly pay deficit of more than 50%Women working in academy school chains suffer some of the worst gender pay gaps in the UK, according to the Guardian’s analysis of data received through the government’s national survey of gender and pay.The figures reveal a string of multi-academy trusts in England where women face median hourly pay deficits of more than 50%. Continue reading...
  
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• Peter Pickering Was Chief Suspect In 1965 Schoolgirl Murder, Police Reveal After He Dies

  25-03-2018 17:34
  An 80-year-old rapist and child killer, known as "the Beast of Wombwell", was
  
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• First Eurovision winner Lys Assia dies at 94

  25-03-2018 17:34 via theguardian.com
  Swiss singer won the first edition of the contest in 1956 with the song RefrainThe Swiss singer Lys Assia, the first winner of the Eurovision song contest, has died aged 94.Assia, who won with the song Refrain in the first edition of the contest in 1956 in Lugano, Switzerland, died on Saturday in a Zurich hospital, Eurovision said in a statement.Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Australia start fights and moan when someone comes back’ says Stuart Broad

  25-03-2018 17:27 via theguardian.com
  • Broad says he can’t understand Darren Lehmann slating crowd
  • ‘The banter we hear in Australia is worse than in South Africa’Stuart Broad did not fall back on the Wenger defence in Auckland and no one expected that he would. Yes, he had seen the press conference of Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft in Cape Town and he was clearly well versed in the minutiae of the saga. But he displayed a determination to be statesmanlike; there were no cheap jibes. Yet somehow when
  
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• Nuclear watchdog raises Hinkley Point C concerns

  25-03-2018 17:20
  The Office for Nuclear Regulation identified several shortcomings in the way French firm EDF Energy is managing the supply chain for building the £20b plant.The UK nuclear regulator has raised concerns with EDF Energy over management failings that it warns could affect safety at the Hinkley Point C power station if left unaddressed, official documents reveal.Britain’s chief nuclear inspector identified several shortcomings in the way the French firm is managing the supply chain for t
  
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• The Schubert Ensemble review – quintet bid farewell with gentle wit and Weir

  25-03-2018 17:18 via theguardian.com
  Wigmore Hall, London
  With a programme of Schubert, Chausson and Weir, the chamber group stuck to the formula that has proved so successful for them The Schubert Ensemble have been plying their trade for 35 years, the last 23 with an unchanged lineup, but they have decided that the current season will be their last. They will give their final concert in June, but this was their farewell to London. A near-capacity audience, including quite a number who may well have been at their first concert all
  
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• Facebook logs texts and calls, users find as they delete accounts

  25-03-2018 17:17 via theguardian.com
  Leaving the social network after Cambridge Analytica scandal, users discover extent of data heldAs users continue to delete their Facebook accounts in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a number are discovering that the social network holds far more data about them than they expected, including complete logs of incoming and outgoing calls and SMS messages.The #deletefacebook movement took off after the revelations that Facebook had shared with a Cambridge psychologist the personal info
  
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• Gambling Commission recommendations may have significant impact on punters

  25-03-2018 17:11 via theguardian.com
  Online gambling firms can expect to receive close attention from the regulator during the coming months in areas such as account restrictions and closuresWhen the Gambling Commission published its long-awaited review of gaming machines and social responsibility measures last week, the final document ran to nearly 50,000 words.Yet the news reports and analysis that followed concentrated almost exclusively on a number, £30, which was taken by some at least to be the Commission’s recomm
  
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• Senior Labour figures defend Jeremy Corbyn over anti-Semitic mural row

  25-03-2018 17:04
  Senior Labour figures have defended Jeremy Corbyn amid a row over his apparent support for an anti-Semitic mural.Shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald told Sky News' Sunday with Niall Paterson that the Labour leader "hasn't got an anti-Semitic bone in his body", while deputy leader Tom Watson said Mr Corbyn had expressed "deep regret".
  
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• ​'Before, I couldn't walk 200m'​ – why surgery can be life-changing for super-obese children

  25-03-2018 17:00 via theguardian.com
  As many as 90,000 children in England could be considered eligible for bariatric surgery, yet only 18 operations were performed last year. Shouldn’t there be many more?When Vicky Counsell was 16, her doctor told her that if she didn’t have surgery to reduce her weight, there was a good chance it would kill her. She was 140kg (22st), her weight gain accelerated by the steroids she was taking for a lung condition, and she had tried everything to lose it. “It was an easy choice,&r
  
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• Conservative MP Dan Poulter cleared of 'scurrilous' allegations

  25-03-2018 16:49
  A Conservative MP has been cleared of "false and scurrilous" claims of inappropriate behaviour.Dan Poulter, MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, was investigated after a formal complaint was made his Tory colleague Andrew Bridgen.Dr Poulter, who was first elected in 2010, said the five months since the claims were made had been "incredibly difficult for me and have at times taken a considerable toll on my health".
  
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• Sunday's best photos: Palm Sunday and bears in the snow

  25-03-2018 16:45 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world, including Irish dancers in Glasgow and an epic mountain bike race Continue reading...
  
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• Car deliberately driven into group of children in Glasgow, police say

  25-03-2018 16:20
  A car has been deliberately driven into a group of children in broad daylight in Glasgow, leaving a teenager in a serious condition, police say.The five youngsters, aged between 12 and 14, were standing on a pavement in Castlemilk, Glasgow at about 3.30pm on Saturday when the incident happened.A 14-year-old girl was taken to Hairmyres Hospital where she is in a serious but stable condition.
  
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• First direct flight from Australia to London Heathrow takes 17 hours

  25-03-2018 16:18
  The first non-stop flight between Australia and the UK has landed at London.
  
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• Easter weather warning: 'Beast from the East Mark 3' may hit UK next week

  25-03-2018 16:18
  Snow and freezing temperatures could return to parts of the UK in time for Easter if the "Beast from the East" strikes for a third time.The Met Office said snow could fall in Scotland and the east coast of England as cold air envelops the country from the middle of next week.Increasingly unsettled conditions are expected later on Monday and into Tuesday as a frontal system from the west brings a spell of heavy rain followed by lower temperatures by Wednesday.
  
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