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• Moves to create Scotland's first wolf park

  06-04-2018 23:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  CONSULTANTS have been brought in to find Scottish estates willing to house the country’s first wolf reserve.
  
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• X-Factor hopeful DJ swaps hit for hymns at Dunbartonshire church

  06-04-2018 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  A PORSCHE-driving former television talent show hopeful has taken up the reins of a Church of Scotland parish.
  
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• Croydon Stabbings: Two Teenagers In Hospital As London Crime Wave Continues

  06-04-2018 23:03
  Two teenagers have been stabbed at a shopping centre in Croydon as violent
  
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• Property values plummet: How much is YOUR property worth? 

  06-04-2018 22:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  AVERAGE property values owned by 30-year-olds have sunk to less than £10,000 for the first time, while over 50s hold three quarters of UK housing wealth. Are you affected by this value drop?
  
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• 'It CRUSHES democracy!' Nigel Farage rips into 'anti-democratic MONSTER' EU

  06-04-2018 22:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXITEER Nigel Farage branded the European Union an “anti-democratic monster” as he launched a furious rant at the Brussels bloc during a university debate on Thursday.
  
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• Tory Brexiteer issues this BRILLIANT reason why passports should be made in UK post-Brexit

  06-04-2018 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  TORY Brexiteer Nigel Evans issued a series of reasons as to why he is petitioning for the iconic blue passport to be printed in the UK after Brexit – insisting the European Union’s system for choosing the firm “has to be fair”.
  
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• London violence: Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick denies capital is facing 'crisis'

  06-04-2018 21:51
  Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick has denied there is a "crisis" of violent crime in London amid a spate of stabbings and shootings.The head of the capital's police force told Sky News she is "really concerned" about recent deaths and admitted London has experienced a "bad three months" in terms of murders.
  
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• London bloodbath: Two teenagers stabbed in shopping centre as violence grips capital

  06-04-2018 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  TWO teens have been rushed to hospital after a stabbing in Croydon in south London this evening. It comes after a night of horror in the capital with seven teens stabbed yesterday, bringing the total to nine teens stabbed in 24 hours.
  
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• Pensioner faces no police action over death of 'burglar'

  06-04-2018 21:18
  A pensioner who was arrested for fatally stabbing an intruder in his home is to face no further action.Henry Vincent, 37, died following a break-in at a south east London property belonging to Richard Osborn-Brooks on Wednesday.Mr Osborn-Brooks, 78, was arrested on suspicion of murder and released on bail, but on Friday the Metropolitan Police told him no further action will be taken.
  
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• Met Says It Has Not 'Lost Control' Of The Streets As It Announces 300 Extra Officers Will Patrol Crime Hot-Spots

  06-04-2018 20:59
  An extra 300 police officers will patrol London's violent crime hotspots this
  
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• Daredevil pensioner marks 106th birthday with record-breaking ZIP WIRE stunt

  06-04-2018 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  A DAREDEVIL pensioner has bagged his third Guinness World Record on his 106th birthday by becoming the oldest person to ride a zip wire.
  
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• Simon Shelton Barnes death: What did Teletubbies Tinky Winky actor die from?

  06-04-2018 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  TELETUBBIES star Simon Shelton was found dead in Liverpool after a night out in January, an inquest has concluded the cause of death, but why did he die from?
  
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• Internet speeds in YOUR area revealed: How fast is your internet connection?

  06-04-2018 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  SLOW broadband speeds in your area put you at a severe disadvantage according to a new study. What is the Government doing to improve internet connections nationwide and what internet speeds can you look forward to in your area?
  
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• Russia's misinformation is an exercise in distraction - Financial Times

  06-04-2018 20:09 via ft.com
  Financial Times
  Russia's misinformation is an exercise in distraction
  Financial Times
  The battle of narratives over the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury has led to testy exchanges and worsening diplomatic relations between Russia and the UK. The renewed Russian misinformation effort, on full display this week, has ...
  What will happen now Sergei Skripal is no longer critically ill?The Guardian
  Skripals to reveal key clues on poisoning after making rapid recoveryThe Independent
  
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• Puzzler lover set to marry his girlfriend after proposing in a CROSSWORD

  06-04-2018 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  A PUZZLE lover is set to marry his girlfriend after he proposed to her in a cryptic crossword.
  
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• 'The people HAVE DECIDED' Brexiteer MP shuts down moaning Remainer activist

  06-04-2018 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXITEER MP Kwasi Kwarteng shut down anti-Brexit activist Eloise Todd after the Remainer claimed the British Government is leading Britain towards a withdrawal from the European Union "they know will leave citizens worse off."
  
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• Aston Martin lines up banks to steer £4bn stock market float

  06-04-2018 19:55
  The British luxury car-maker Aston Martin is lining up a trio of banks to lead a prospective £4bn stock market listing that could take place within months.Sky News has learnt that the manufacturer of James Bond's vehicle of choice is close to hiring Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan as the global co-ordinators for a long-awaited initial public offering (IPO).The appointment of the three investment banks is understood to have been recommended by board members and is awaiting sign-of
  
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• Salisbury attack: Skripal cousin claims pair suffered 'food poisoning'

  06-04-2018 19:51
  The cousin of Yulia Skripal has been refused a visa to come to Britain - hours after she claimed her relatives had merely suffered food poisoning.Viktoria Skripal wanted to travel from Russia to visit Yulia and Sergei Skripal as they recover from a nerve agent attack in Salisbury, but has been denied entry to the UK.Responding to the news her visa application has been refused, Viktoria told Sky News: "What am I supposed to feel?
  
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• JUSTICE: Police CLEAR pensioner who killed career criminal amid fears he will be attacked

  06-04-2018 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  POLICE have revealed the pensioner arrested for killing an intruder to his home will face no further action.
  
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• Pensioner faces no further action over death of 'burglar'

  06-04-2018 19:39
  No further action is to be taken against the pensioner arrested after a burglar was fatally stabbed.Richard Osborn-Brooks, 78, was arrested after Henry Vincent, 37, was fatally stabbed during a failed burglary at his home in Lewisham.In a statement the Metropolitan Police said: "The 78-year-old man was told on Friday, 6 April, that following consultation between the Met and Crown Prosecution Service, no action will be taken.
  
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• No Further Action Against Pensioner Richard Osborn-Brooks, Arrested Over Fatal Stabbing Of Burglar

  06-04-2018 19:30
  Police will take no further action against a pensioner who was arrested after
  
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• RUSSIA LATEST: Sergei Skripal NO LONGER critically ill after nerve agent poisoning

  06-04-2018 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  SERGEI Skripal is no longer critically ill and is “improving rapidly”, according to doctors at Salisbury hospital where he is being treated.
  
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• UK spies KNEW Russia was developing Novichok nerve agent, claims British diplomat

  06-04-2018 19:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  BRITISH spies knew Russia had a secretive programme to manufacture the deadly nerve agent Novichok used in the Salisbury spy poison attack, according to the UK’s ambassador to Germany.
  
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• The truth about the gender pay gap – video explainer

  06-04-2018 19:04 via theguardian.com
  Britain has carried out one of the biggest data-gathering exercises on the gender pay gap, exposing large disparities between the average pay given to men and women in some of the country's best-known companies. We dispel some of the myths around the gap, and explain what it really means and why it mattersGender pay gap: what we learned and how to fix itContinue reading...
  
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• Government 'cannot bury head in the sand' amid crime surge, London MPs say

  06-04-2018 18:57
  Forty-seven London MPs have written to the Prime Minister and Home Secretary to condemn this year's violence in the capital as "neither acceptable nor inevitable".The group of Labour MPs, including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, are demanding action from Government "to stop violence becoming normalised" in London as they draw a direct link between austerity and rising crime.On Thursday, six teenagers were taken to hospital after being stabbed during another night of violence in London.
  
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• Moscow wants British explanations over Skripal's niece visa refusal

  06-04-2018 18:52
  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow wants explanations regarding Britain's refusal to issue a visa to the niece of poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, RIA news agency quoted Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying on Friday.
  
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• Irish rugby player cleared of rape says he feels shame and regret

  06-04-2018 18:49
  One of the Irish rugby international players acquitted of rape has released a statement of apology, after campaigners paid for a full-page advert in the Belfast Telegraph calling for both men to be dropped from their teams.In a statement released on Friday afternoon, Paddy Jackson expressed sorrow and shame over his behaviour towards the woman who accused him and team-mate Stuart Olding of rape.“I am ashamed that a young woman who was a visitor to my home left in a distressed state.
  
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• Growing fleet of gasoline off Europe's coast threatens to sink profits

  06-04-2018 18:38
  Gasoline stored in ships off Europe's coast has ballooned to more than 400,000 tonnes, putting pressure on the continent's traders to compete for buyers once summer demand starts.Several vessels have joined the three initially booked to store fuel off Europe's ports in mid-March, and brokers said even barges have held cargoes of gasoline for three to four weeks as the volumes traded in Europe hit record levels last month.The tankers Torm Tevere, Ridgebury John B and STI Clapham are now parked of
  
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• Poisoned Russian agent Sergei Skripal recovering rapidly, hospital says

  06-04-2018 18:27
  Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition and his health is improving rapidly, more than a month after he was poisoned with a nerve agent in England, the hospital treating him said on Friday.Skripal, 66, who as a colonel in Russian military intelligence betrayed dozens of agents to Britain's foreign spy service, was found slumped unconscious on a bench in the city of Salisbury along with his daughter Yulia on March 4.Britain blamed Russia for the poisoning, the first
  
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• Facebook will add ‘Unsend’ feature to Messenger, but here’s who allows disappearing messages now

  06-04-2018 18:21
  Facebook has been trying really, really hard to convince its users that the social network cares about our privacy and is becoming a more (buzzword alert) "transparent" platform. This makes the recent revelation that Facebook secretly deleted Mark Zuckerberg's messages in Messenger without notifying the recipients uncomfortable, to say the very least. On Friday, TechCrunch revealed that Facebook has been scrubbing private messages Zuckerberg sent before 2014 from the platform. People who'd commu
  
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• Sergei Skripal's niece denied visa to come to Britain

  06-04-2018 18:13
  The niece of poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal has been denied a visa to come to Britain, the UK Home Office (interior ministry) said on Friday.Viktoria Skripal had planned to travel to Britain to take Sergei's daughter Yulia back to Russia.Sergei and Yulia are being treated in an English hospital after being found unconscious on March 4 after an attack with nerve agent, but both are recovering and are no longer in critical condition.
  
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• Not lovin' it: McDonald's facing second wave of strikes as union ballots workers

  06-04-2018 18:01
  McDonald's is facing a new round of industrial action, as a union ballots members over whether or not to take strike action in pursuit of higher wages and improved working conditions.Sky News has learnt that the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union is balloting members over plans to strike in five different branches of McDonald's.The union notified the company on 22 March, but details of the strike plan are only emerging now.
  
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• Scientists hope harpoons can skewer space junk crisis

  06-04-2018 18:00
  A European satellite launched this week to try out ways of tackling the growing amount of garbage in space will use technology as familiar to the ancient Romans as astronauts - nets and harpoons.Engineers who have designed and created harpoons for two pioneering space debris clearing projects said the appeal of such time-tested concepts was their simplicity."The irony is not lost on us," said Alastair Wayman, an advanced projects engineer at Airbus Space in the southern English town of Stevenage
  
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• Quick-thinking cop uses computer cable and decorative arrow to save man’s life

  06-04-2018 17:56
  The state trooper grabbed whatever was to hand to fashion a makeshift tourniquet after a man accidentally shot himself in the leg.
  
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• EU on the brink as Netherlands issues THIS warning to Brexit negotiator Barnier

  06-04-2018 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  DUTCH politician Thierry Baudet tore into the European Union’s Brexit chief negotiator Michel Barnier during a speech in Parliament on Thursday – insisting the Netherlands will put a stop to an EU plot to “punish” Britain.
  
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• Polish schools in UK warned over far-right connections

  06-04-2018 17:44
  Arkady Rzegocki, Polish ambassador to the UK, said he would ‘do everything I can to prevent the spread of this narrative’.An association for Polish community schools in the UK has warned its members to be vigilant amid concerns that some have connections with groups and individuals associated with the far right.The Guardian reported on Sunday that photos posted on Facebook show events run by several Polish Saturday schools in England with banners and signs for groups that featured in
  
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• 'Ashamed' rugby star Paddy Jackson 'truly sorry' after rape acquittal

  06-04-2018 17:40
  Rugby star Paddy Jackson has said he is "ashamed" and "truly sorry" to a woman who accused him of rape.The 26-year-old and his Ireland and Ulster teammate Stuart Olding, 25, were acquitted at Belfast Crown Court last week of raping the same woman at a party at Jackson's home in south Belfast in June 2016.Jackson, who was also found not guilty of sexual assault, apologised for taking part in "degrading and offensive" Whatsapp conversations about the incident and said public criticism of his behav
  
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• Actions will speak louder than words on the gender pay gap

  06-04-2018 17:38
  Theresa May has adopted the gender pay gap as her ‘cause du jour’, but is it a ‘blue herring’?Amelia Gentleman (Angry about the pay gap, 3 April) was helpful in separating out the various reasons for unequal pay, together with ideas for women to tackle the problem.Many jobs advertised as full-time could be done by part-timers or as job shares.
  
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• Poisoned Russian agent Sergei Skripal is getting better fast, hospital says

  06-04-2018 17:16
  Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition and his health is improving rapidly more than a month after he was poisoned with a nerve agent in England, the British hospital treating him said on Friday.Skripal, 66, a former colonel in Russian military intelligence who betrayed dozens of spies to Britain's foreign spy service, and his daughter Yulia were found slumped unconscious on a public bench in the English city of Salisbury on March 4.Britain blamed Russia for the p
  
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• Jail For Fraudster Who Posed As Grenfell Widow In £19,000 Scam

  06-04-2018 17:08
  A fraudster has been jailed for four-and-a-half years after posing as a
  
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• VR, robo-assistants and 3D printed food – what will retirement look like in 2050?

  06-04-2018 16:29 via theguardian.com
  The future of retirement is changing. Humans are living longer and in the next few decades populations will increase by 3 billion. But what kind of world will we be living in and what should we be planning for?Those who are now in their late 20s and early 30s came of age at the dawn of the internet revolution. Their education was mostly analogue, their working life has been digital – and their retirement will be even more so. By 2050, it’s expected nearly 10 billion people will live
  
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• Investing in our future – why we’re opening Lifetime Isas

  06-04-2018 16:26 via theguardian.com
  Retirement reserves for a self-employed director, and an aspiring writer’s first house fund: how two very different young professionals are saving for their financial futuresOliver Sin, 29, is a freelance director, animator and illustrator who lives in Cheltenham. He has no retirement fund in place and would use the Lifetime Isa to save for the long-term futureUnfortunately, the nature of being self-employed means there’s no regularity in how often I’m paid. Projects can be spo
  
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• Pensioner crashes £92,000 Porsche through wall and onto underpass

  06-04-2018 16:22
  A pensioner crashed his Porsche 911 Targa through a wall and fence before nose-diving onto a pedestrian underpass below.The 73-year-old's sports car was severely damaged, with its bonnet, front end bodywork and front windscreen smashed on Southway in Colchester, Essex at around 6pm on Thursday.Neither the driver nor anyone else was injured in the collision, which left the vehicle hanging over a low wall in an almost vertical position with its front end resting on the walkway, surrounded by rubbl
  
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• Flawless white diamonds, among largest ever offered, to go on sale

  06-04-2018 16:09
  Two flawless white diamonds each weighing in at more than 50 carats are expected to fetch more than $15 million (10.65 million pounds) when they are auctioned in May, auctioneers Sotheby's Diamonds said on Friday.The diamonds, a 51.71 carat round brilliant-cut gemstone and a 50.39 carat oval, are the second-largest of their respective kinds ever to come to auction, Sotheby's said.The sale of the gemstones, discovered and purchased at tender in Botswana, comes after a 102 carat white diamond sold
  
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• Tanesha Melbourne-Blake: Man arrested over Tottenham murder

  06-04-2018 16:01
  A man has been arrested over the shooting dead of 17-year-old Tanesha Melbourne-Blake in Tottenham on Monday.Officers were called to Chalgrove Road at 9.35pm on Monday and found Tanesha with a gunshot wound.Police say they have an open mind on the motive for the attack and are still trying to establish the car used in the murder, as well as the number of people in the car and in Tanesha's group.
  
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• Prince Harry and fiancee Meghan visit Invictus Games trials

  06-04-2018 16:01
  Britain's Prince Harry and his American fiancee Meghan Markle made their latest public appearance together on Friday to cheer on competitors hoping to be chosen for the UK team for the Invictus Games later this year.Harry and Markle, who will marry at Windsor Castle on May 19, watched more than 400 service personnel at the University of Bath Sports Training Village in western England as they took part in trials for October's Games in Sydney.Harry founded the Games, an international sports compet
  
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• Nerve agent attack: Sergei Skripal no longer in a critical condition

  06-04-2018 16:01
  Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition following last month's nerve agent attack, Salisbury District Hospital says.The former Russian double agent is "responding well to treatment" and is "improving rapidly", said Dr Christine Blanshard, medical director at the hospital.On Thursday, Ms Skripal revealed she "woke up over a week ago" and that her "strength is growing daily".
  
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• 'Miracle' recovery: How Sergei and Yulia Skripal survived the novichok attack

  06-04-2018 16:00
  Poisoned spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition and his daughter says her strength is "growing daily".Alastair Hay, Professor of Environmental Toxicology at Leeds University, tells Sky News how they may have fought off the novichok nerve agent and managed a "miracle" recovery.:: But first, how dangerous is novichok really?
  
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• UK infrastructure being targeted by hackers

  06-04-2018 15:56
  Hackers are targeting companies connected to the UK's critical national infrastructure, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned.The campaign against critical national infrastructure (CNI) has been taking place since at least March 2017 and is ongoing, according to an industry advisory notice circulated by the NCSC.Cybersecurity companies which have identified very similar campaigns include Symantec, BAE Systems and Kaspersky Labs, who have suggested that the hackers may be based in
  
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• Where are the priorities? Farage makes BRILLIANT point about PC culture and knife crime

  06-04-2018 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  NIGEL FARAGE delivered a furious verdict on the police’s approach to violent crime after reports showed London’s murder rate over the last two months had overtaken New York’s, and six young men were stabbed in the capital on Thursday night.
  
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