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• Second teenager in 24 hours dies amid calls to tackle London violence

  03-04-2018 23:20
  Tanesha Melbourne-Blake, the 17-year-old girl who was shot dead in Tottenham on Monday night, while an unnamed 16-year-old boy was shot in Walthamstow.MPs and campaigners have said authorities are failing to get a grip on violent crime in London after two teenagers were fatally shot on the same night in the capital.A 17-year-old girl died first after a drive-by shooting in Tottenham, north London.
  
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• Putin says hopes chemical watchdog meeting can put end to Skripal row

  03-04-2018 22:42
  Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he hoped a planned meeting of the global chemical weapons watchdog would help to defuse a major diplomatic row triggered by the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in England.Britain has blamed Russia for the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with a military-grade nerve agent in the English city of Salisbury on March 4.Moscow denies any involvement and has accused London of whipping up anti-Russian hysteria in the West.
  
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• Putin demands inquiry into Salisbury nerve agent attack

  03-04-2018 22:20
  Vladimir Putin says he wants an inquiry into the Salisbury nerve agent attack, citing a Sky News interview with the boss of Porton Down.Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, told Sky News they hadnot been able to establishwhere the novichok nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal was made.Speaking in Ankara after talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Mr Putin claimed novichok could be made in 20 nations.
  
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• 'It'll be a success!' Former Downing Street insider reveals why Brexit deal will be EASY

  03-04-2018 21:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  FORMER Downing Street advisor Tom Swarbrick said a trade deal with the European Union will be the “easiest in human history” because the Brussels bloc and UK will remain “perfectly aligned” on key issues.
  
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• Boy rescued from Wightwick Manor stone monument

  03-04-2018 21:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Max Morgan has "grown a bit" since previous visits to the same National Trust site, his father says.
  
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• In context: Just how bad is London's murder rate?

  03-04-2018 21:22
  London has experienced a spike in stabbings and shootings, but is the rate per 100,000 people any worse than other UK regions?
  
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• Delays warning as air traffic control moves to digital system

  03-04-2018 21:03 via bbc.co.uk
  The replacement of paper flight progress strips will see a two-day reduction in airspace capacity.
  
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• Porton Down experts unable to verify precise source of novichok

  03-04-2018 20:52
  British scientists at the Porton Down defence research laboratory have not established that the nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal was made in Russia, it has emerged.Gary Aitkenhead, the chief executive of the government’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), said the poison had been identified as a military-grade novichok nerve agent, which could probably be deployed only by a nation state.Aitkenhead said the government had reached its conclusion that Russia
  
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• UK military research boss says unable to say yet whether nerve agent was made in Russia - Sky

  03-04-2018 20:29
  The head of Britain's military research centre said on Tuesday it was unable yet to say whether the military-grade nerve agent that poisoned a Russian double-agent last month had been produced in Russia."We were able to identify it as Novichok, to identify that it was military-grade nerve agent," Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down in England, told Sky News.
  
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• Patrick Kielty's family rejected IRA 'revenge' offer

  03-04-2018 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Patrick Kielty says his family rejected an IRA offer of "revenge" for his father's murder by loyalist paramilitaries in 1988.
  
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• Four members of Bristol family die in Florida car crash

  03-04-2018 19:44
  Four members of a British family have died in a car crash in Florida after visiting the Kennedy Space Center to watch the launch of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket.Titusville police said Adam Stephenson, 30, Maryanne Stephenson, 29, Brian Stephenson, 66, and Sheralyn Stephenson, 56, all from Bristol, died on Monday after turning their rental car into the path of a pickup truck at an intersection.
  
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• British family of four killed in Florida after car collides with pickup truck

  03-04-2018 19:24
  A family of four from Bristol has been killed after their car collided with a pickup truck in Florida.The Britons were returning to their rental house in Davenport after visiting Kennedy Space Center when the crash happened.Adam Stephenson, 30, was driving a white Mitsubishi saloon when he turned left into the path of a black Ford F-250 pickup, Titusville police said.
  
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• Shame of Labour party antisemitism

  03-04-2018 19:23
  ‘It was thus with great dismay that I saw the special-pleading letter signed by over 40 media academics … “reframing” the issue as Jeremy Corbyn’s “trial by media”,’ writes Giles Oakley.As a member of the Labour party for over half a century and as a current Labour candidate in the council elections for the London borough of Richmond upon Thames, I have been ashamed of my party’s handling of the antisemitism crisis.Who would have thought Lab
  
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• John Worboys case shone light on IPP injustice

  03-04-2018 19:21
  Brian Barder in 1988 when he was a high commissioner to Nigeria.In later years he became a leading campaigner against indeterminate sentences for public protection (IPPs).“The role of the Parole Board has grown in the past 20 years, matching the public’s appetite for more punitive sentencing,” writes Alan Travis (Analysis, 29 March).
  
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• Four Britons killed in Florida car crash

  03-04-2018 19:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Four members of a family from Bristol have been killed in a car crash in Florida, police say.
  
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• Eight children in Glasgow flat when police found man dead

  03-04-2018 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  The body of a man, believed to be in his 40s, was discovered in Castlemilk about 04:40 on Tuesday.
  
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• Councils Raise Alarm Over Lack Of Funding For Britain's 'Ambitious' New Homelessness Law

  03-04-2018 19:14
  An "ambitious" new law to tackle homelessness could fail unless councils are
  
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• London murders: Sadiq Khan blames Theresa May as pressure grows on mayor

  03-04-2018 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  SADIQ Khan has lashed out at the Government and claimed budget cuts could be driving rising violence across the capital.
  
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• Russian spy: Source of nerve agent 'not identified'

  03-04-2018 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Porton Down says it cannot verify the precise source of the substance used to poison a Russian ex-spy.
  
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• Police efit of wide-mouthed burglary suspect goes viral

  03-04-2018 18:59
  An efit of a burglary suspect with an extremely wide mouth has gone viral after Warwickshire police posted the image on social media.Police want to speak to the man in connection with a distraction burglary in Stratford-upon-Avon on 5 February.Two men claiming to be from Orbit Housing tricked their way into a woman’s flat and one of them distracted the woman while the other searched the property and stole a quantity of cash.
  
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• Zippy, Cheshire Cat, Banana Split? Police's e-fit of suspect mocked online

  03-04-2018 18:58
  A police force has defended its decision to post a bizarre e-fit picture of a suspected burglar that has been mocked on social media.The wanted man has a particularly wide mouth that seems almost cartoonish and Twitter users have branded the image "hilarious" and a "joke".One user said: "I can't stop laughing at it" while another said "I thought it was one of the Banana Splits (a fictional furry animal character).
  
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• UK military research boss says can't say yet whether nerve agent was made in Russia - Sky News

  03-04-2018 18:57
  The head of Britain's military research centre said on Tuesday it was unable yet to say whether the military-grade nerve agent that poisoned a Russian double-agent last month had been produced in Russia."We were able to identify it as Novichok, to identify that it was military-grade nerve agent," Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down in England, told Sky News.
  
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• Porton Down experts NOT able to prove Salisbury nerve agent was Russia made

  03-04-2018 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  EXPERTS from the Ministry of Defence's Porton Down laboratory have not been able to prove that the nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal was made in Russia.
  
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• Adele 'got ordained to marry Alan Carr'

  03-04-2018 18:50 via bbc.co.uk
  The pop star conducted the Chatty Man host's wedding in her back garden, he reveals.
  
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• UK's first proton beam cancer centre to open in Newport

  03-04-2018 18:45 via bbc.co.uk
  The family of a Neath child who had the treatment abroad says it gave them their little girl back.
  
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• Jacob Rees-Mogg to host phone-in show on LBC

  03-04-2018 18:38 via bbc.co.uk
  The MP will have a fortnightly slot on the talk radio station during Nick Ferrari's breakfast show.
  
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• Ukip avoids insolvency after raising money to cover £175,000 libel bill

  03-04-2018 18:30
  Ukip is also seeking to avoid the expense of a leadership election by planning to keep its interim leader, Gerard Batten, in situ for the next 12 months.Ukip has been saved from impending bankruptcy after it raised the £175,000 needed to cover an urgent legal bill and also collected a further £300,000 in a membership fundraising drive.The beleaguered party is also seeking to avoid the expense of yet another leadership election by planning to keep the interim leader, Gerard Batten, in
  
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• Duke of Edinburgh admitted to hospital for hip surgery

  03-04-2018 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Prince Philip is due to undergo planned surgery on his hip, Buckingham Palace says.
  
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• Labour anti-Semitism row: Corbyn defends appearance at Jewdas event

  03-04-2018 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  Mainstream Jewish groups say the Labour leader should not have attended "radical" Jewish event.
  
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• 'Cheshire Cat burglar' police e-fit mocked

  03-04-2018 18:24 via bbc.co.uk
  A police force probably wasn't smiling after its mock-up of a suspect attracted widespread derision.
  
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• Tottenham shooting: Girl, 17, dies from gunshot wound

  03-04-2018 18:21 via bbc.co.uk
  A boy, 16, is also critically ill after another shooting but police are not linking the attacks.
  
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• UKIP 'saved from insolvency' by donations - Gerard Batten

  03-04-2018 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  UKIP leader Gerard Batten says the party received £300,000 in donations after a plea for help.
  
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• Porton Down experts unable to identify 'precise source' of novichok that poisoned spy

  03-04-2018 17:55
  Scientists from Porton Down have not been able to establish where the novichok nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal was made. 
  
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• Teenager Tanesha Melbourne dies in mother's arms after London shooting

  03-04-2018 17:51
  A teenage girl shot in north London died cradled in her mother’s arms, a woman who tried to save her has said.Tanesha Melbourne, who was 17-years-old, was found with gunshot wounds in Tottenham shortly after 9:30pm on Monday.
  
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• Prince Philip admitted to London hospital for hip operation

  03-04-2018 17:50
  The Duke of Edinburgh has been admitted to hospital for a planned operation on his hip, Buckingham Palace has said.The 96-year-old is being cared for at the King Edward VII Hospital in central London, where the procedure will take place on Wednesday.The Duke did not accompany the Queen to church at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on Easter Sunday because of a problem with his hip.
  
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• Has London murder rate overtaken New York?

  03-04-2018 17:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Statistics show that New York still appears to be more violent than London.
  
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• Half of European flights face delay after computer failure

  03-04-2018 17:45
  Half of flights travelling across Europe face delays due to computer failures, the continent's air safety group said.The continent-wide system which determines when and where planes can safely fly, land and take-off failed at about lunchtime on Tuesday, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) said.Half of flights across Europe face being delayed by the failure of the Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System (ETFMS).
  
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• Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth, admitted to hospital for hip surgery

  03-04-2018 17:41
  Britain's Prince Philip, the 96-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, was admitted to hospital and will have surgery on his hip on Wednesday, Buckingham Palace said."His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh was admitted to King Edward VII Hospital in London this afternoon, for planned surgery on his hip which will take place tomorrow," a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.Philip, whose title is the Duke of Edinburgh, retired from public life last August although he said he would still attend some events
  
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• Spy Poisoning: Porton Down Laboratory Unable To Identify 'Precise Source' Of Nerve Agent

  03-04-2018 17:37
  The UK's Porton Down laboratory has been unable to identify the "precise
  
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• Spy Poisoning: Porton Down Laboratory Says It's 'Not Our Responsibility' To Identify Source Of Nerve Agent

  03-04-2018 17:37
  The UK's Porton Down laboratory has said it is "not our responsibility" to
  
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• Spy Poisoning: Porton Down Laboratory Says It Hasn't Identified Source Of Nerve Agent, But It's 'Not Our Responsibility'

  03-04-2018 17:37
  The UK's Porton Down laboratory has said it is "not our responsibility" to
  
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• Porton Down experts unable to verify 'precise source of novichok'

  03-04-2018 17:35
  British scientists at Porton Down have not been able to establish where the novichok nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal was made, it has emerged.Gary Aitkenhead, the chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, Wiltshire, said it had not proved it was created in Russia.Aitkenhead confirmed the substance required “extremely sophisticated methods to create something probably only in the capabilities of a state actor”.
  
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• Sophie Lionnet death: Nanny 'could have drowned in bath'

  03-04-2018 17:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Sophie Lionnet could have drowned in the bath after a fall or a punch in the face, a court hears.
  
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• Child dies and another rushed to hospital after meningitis outbreak at Lancaster nursery

  03-04-2018 17:31
  A three-year-old boy has died after contracting meningitis B while another from the same Lancaster nursery was rushed to hospital.Hector Kirkham, from Lancaster, was taken to Royal Lancaster Infirmary on 27 March after contracting meningococcal septicaemia, but died later that day, it emerged on Tuesday.Another child who also attended Little Learners nursery and preschool in Galgate, was taken to hospital with symptoms but has been discharged.
  
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• UK military research boss says can't prove nerve agent was made in Russia - Sky News

  03-04-2018 17:26
  The head of Britain's military research centre said on Tuesday it was unable to prove the military-grade nerve agent that poisoned a Russian double-agent last month had been produced in Russia."We were able to identify it as Novichok, to identify that it was military-grade nerve agent," Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down in England, told Sky News.
  
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• BREXIT PUNISHMENT: EU could SHUT DOWN 300,000 UK websites, Brussels warns

  03-04-2018 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  BRUSSELS will delete hundreds of thousands of UK websites, unless a new Brexit deal is negotiated.
  
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• Duke Of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Admitted To Hospital For Planned Operation

  03-04-2018 17:12
  Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, has been admitted to the King Edward VII
  
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• This woman’s perfect exchange of poems with her bank is truly a relic of a kinder time

  03-04-2018 17:09
  ‘I have severely overspent, I don’t know where the money went.’
  
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• Children with autism: 'Holidays are do-able'

  03-04-2018 17:07 via bbc.co.uk
  The comedian has been on his first family holiday with his wife and three children, two of whom have autism.
  
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• Malaysia PM enters MasterChef 'crispy' chicken rendang controversy

  03-04-2018 16:29
  Malaysia's prime minister has entered the row over a chicken dish that was incorrectly criticised on MasterChef for not being "crispy".Gregg Wallace, one of the show’s judges, said the Malaysian-born contestant's chicken rendang curry was flawed.It can't be eaten but all the sauce is on the skin I can't eat," said Wallace.
  
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