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• Bodies found after Tarbert trawler raised from depths

  12-04-2018 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE bodies of two trawlermen who died when their boat sank in Loch Fyne three months ago are understood to have been found on board the tragic vessel. Duncan MacDougall, 46, and Przemek Krawczyk, 38, both of Tarbert, vanished when the trawler capsized and sank in the Argyll sea loch in January.
  
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• Terry McAuliffe on Trump: "If I ran I'd beat him"

  12-04-2018 23:24
  Former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe said on "The Takeout" podcast that if he ran for president, he would beat President Trump. "I'd have to make a decision to run, but if I ran I'd beat him. You bet," he told CBS News' Major Garrett.
  
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• UK ministers agree need to deter Syrian chemical weapon use

  12-04-2018 22:13
  British Prime Minister Theresa May won backing from her senior ministers to take unspecified action with the United States and France to deter further use of chemical weapons by Syria after a suspected poison gas attack on civilians.Russia has warned the West against attacking its Syrian ally President Bashar al-Assad, who is also supported by Iran, and says there is no evidence of a chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma near Damascus.
  
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• Man buys car to drive from London to Bristol – because it's CHEAPER than a train ticket

  12-04-2018 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  BRITAIN's overpriced rail fares have been exposed once again after an enterprising man managed to buy a car, tax it, insure it and then drive it from London to Bristol – for less cash then the cost of a train ticket.
  
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• Did senators questioning Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg understand the internet? – video

  12-04-2018 21:58 via theguardian.com
  The Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, faced five hours of questioning on Capitol Hill for the first time on Tuesday. However, questions and comments from some of the senators ranged from less technically informed to the bizarre, raising the question: did they really understand how the internet works?Zuckerberg got off lightly. Why are politicians so bad at asking questions?Continue reading...
  
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• Bargain Hunter Tom Church Buys Car To Travel To Bristol And Back Because It's Cheaper Than A Train Ticket

  12-04-2018 21:34
  A man has claimed he bought a car to drive from London to Bristol and back
  
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• UK set for mini-heatwave (and you might want to make most of it)

  12-04-2018 21:26
  After a cool, grey, drizzly spell, temperatures are forecast to reach the mid-20s Celsius in a mini heatwave next week.Warmer conditions will come as the jet stream moves north and high pressure over Scandinavia extends towards the UK.While the whole UK should see higher temperatures, the south will be warmest, with the mercury set to reach the mid-20s Celsius by the middle of the week.
  
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• Call to ban protests at all UK abortion clinics after Ealing Council implements 'safe zone'

  12-04-2018 20:57
  Laws banning protesters from demonstrating outside abortion clinics should be implemented across the country, according to the leader of Ealing Council.The authority passed a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) on Tuesday evening, forbidding pro-life activists from campaigning outside the Marie Stopes surgery in west London."I absolutely want to see national legislation, a PSPO isn't an ideal solution and we risk creating a postcode lottery for the women who need the treatment.
  
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• Corbyn demands privy council briefing prior to any UK military action in Syria

  12-04-2018 20:45
  Jeremy Corbyn has demanded a private briefing on the government’s intelligence about the Douma chemical weapons attack, saying “more bombing, more killing, more war will not save life” in Syria.Repeating his declaration that parliament must be consulted before military action is taken, the Labour leader urged Theresa May to learn lessons from the Chilcot report showing failures in the lead-up to the Iraq war.The Guardian understands that Corbyn has requested a privy council bri
  
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• Far-right British soldier pictured doing a Nazi-style salute cleared of terror offence

  12-04-2018 20:40
  A serving British soldier and white supremacist who kept a photo of himself giving a Nazi-style salute has been cleared of a terrorism offence.Corporal Mikko Vehvilainen, who had a box of Nazi flags and a Hitler Youth knife in the garage of his barracks home, had been charged for allegedly possessing an "Anders Breivik manifesto", drawn up by the Norwegian far-right terrorist who killed 77 people in an attack in 2011.The 33-year-old, who also kept a ceremonial SS dagger representing a Nazi param
  
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• 2,000 jobs go as Toys R Us UK finally shuts shop

  12-04-2018 19:27
  Toys R Us UK will close down its 75 remaining stores in just under a fortnight, the retailer's administrator has confirmed.
  
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• Sir Cliff Richard sues BBC: Corporation blames police in court

  12-04-2018 19:14
  The BBC began its defence against a lawsuit from Sir Cliff Richard by blaming police.Sir Cliff is calling for the broadcaster to pay him "very substantial" damages after live reporting the search in August 2014 by South Yorkshire Police of the popstar's apartment in Sunningdale, Berkshire, as part of an investigation into a historical child sex abuse allegation.A BBC reporter had gained prior knowledge of the raid and the corporation broadcast it as it unfolded, naming Sir Cliff in reporting.
  
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• Where UK ministers and other key MPs stand on possible Syria attack

  12-04-2018 19:08
  The prime minister and her close aides have tried to take the same methodical, step-by-step approach to calibrating Britain’s response to the Douma attack that they deployed after the Salisbury poisoning – though that is far harder to achieve when action is likely to be led by the erratic Donald Trump.Johnson said in February, before the latest attack, that he would support “limited action” against Syria to punish Bashar al-Assad’s regime for the use of chemical wea
  
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• BBC under fire over Enoch Powell 'rivers of blood' broadcast

  12-04-2018 19:07
  The BBC has come under fire over plans to air a full recitation of Enoch Powell’s infamous “rivers of blood” speech, with a Labour peer writing to Ofcom about the broadcast and one contributor saying she regrets taking part.The 50th anniversary broadcast on Saturday will feature the actor Ian McDiarmid reading the full text of Powell’s incendiary speech, interspersed with analysis and criticism.After the announcement, the University of Wolverhampton academic Dr Shirin Hir
  
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• Activists bring case at appeal court over UK arms sales to Saudis

  12-04-2018 18:48
  An Amnesty International campaigner holds a model of a missile in protest at British arms sales to Saudi Arabia.Human rights campaigners have begun an attempt to overturn a high court judgment that allows the British government to continue to export arms to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen.The Campaign Against Arms Trade brought the case against Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, seeking permission to appeal against a decision last July that granting licences for the export of arms from t
  
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• 'Cash-for-ash' inquiry: Arlene Foster says she regrets spiralling costs

  12-04-2018 18:45
  Northern Ireland’s former first minister Arlene Foster has told the inquiry into the green energy scheme that resulted in the collapse of the power-sharing government that she deeply regretted its spiralling costs.The renewable heat incentive (RHI) programme was championed by Foster when she was the devolved enterprise minister but its costs ran into hundreds of millions of pounds.Foster told the public inquiry into the scheme that she believed Sinn Féin protests over RHI costs were
  
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• Secret rightwing strategy to discredit teacher strikes revealed

  12-04-2018 18:39
  Marchers are greeted at the state capitol after marching 110 miles from Tulsa as protests continue over school funding, in Oklahoma City, on 10 April.A nationwide network of rightwing thinktanks is launching a PR counteroffensive against the teachers’ strikes that are sweeping the country, circulating a “messaging guide” for anti-union activists that portrays the walkouts as harmful to low-income parents and their children.Titled “How to talk about teacher strikes”,
  
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• Former Rochdale leader Richard Farnell 'lied to abuse inquiry'

  12-04-2018 18:23
  Labour has suspended a former Rochdale council leader following the release of a report into child sex abuse which reveals he lied during the inquiry.Richard Farnell told a panel that he did not know about claims of widespread sexual exploitation in the town between 1986 and 1992.Mr Farnell claimed his colleagues had not informed him of claims that boys as young as eight at the council-run Knowl View school and Cambridge House Hostel were being sexually targeted by men from as far afield as Shef
  
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• Has Jeremy Corbyn ever supported a war?

  12-04-2018 18:19 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour leader insists he is not a pacifist and will back military action as a "last resort".
  
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• Caribbean nations demand solution to 'illegal immigrants' anomaly

  12-04-2018 17:56
  Jamaicans leave the HMS Empire Windrush at Tilbury in 1948.Caribbean diplomats have condemned the Home Office’s treatment of many long-term Commonwealth-born UK residents as “illegal immigrants”.At an unprecedented meeting of high commissioners from all the Caribbean Commonwealth nations, diplomats called on the UK government to adopt a more compassionate approach to individuals who arrived from Caribbean countries as children in the 1950s and 1960s and were never formally natu
  
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• How world's first electrified road charges moving vehicles – video

  12-04-2018 17:54 via theguardian.com
  Sweden has opened the world's first electrified road. The 1.2-mile route, between Stockholm Arlanda airport and a logistics site, will now actively charge cars and lorries as they travel along it using an innovative energy transfer system World's first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden Continue reading...
  
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• Ex-Russian spy poisoned with nerve agent, watchdog confirms

  12-04-2018 17:37
  THE HAGUE/LONDON (Reuters) - The lethal poison that struck down a former Russian spy and his daughter last month in England was a highly pure type of Novichok nerve agent, the global chemical weapons watchdog concluded on Thursday, backing Britain's findings.Sergei Skripal, a former colonel in Russian military intelligence who betrayed dozens of agents to Britain's MI6 foreign spy service, and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench in the cathedral city of Salisbury on March 4.Brit
  
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• Parachute retrial: Soldier Emile Cilliers 'cared nothing' for wife he 'tried to murder'

  12-04-2018 16:52
  A soldier thought he would get an insurance payout for his wife's death when he allegedly tampered with her parachute, a court has heard.Emile Cilliers, 38, of the Royal Army Physical Training Corps, faces two charges of attempted murder and a third of damaging a gas fitting to recklessly endanger her life.Winchester Crown Court has been told that he allegedly sabotaged his wife Victoria's main and reserve parachutes before a jump at the Army Parachute Association at Netheravon, Wiltshire, on 5
  
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• Naomie Harris on what is it like to work with The Rock

  12-04-2018 16:45
  Rampage star Naomie Harris tells Sky News what it was like to work with The Rock in front of a green screen.
  
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• Russia says OPCW report on Skripals may be part of action to discredit Moscow

  12-04-2018 16:42
  Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday it had reason to think that a report by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the poisoning of a former spy in Britain was a part of London's operation to discredit Russia.Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the foreign ministry, said at a briefing that Russia would not believe any conclusions about the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia unless Russian experts were given access to the investigation.The global ch
  
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• Naomie Harris: I was determined not to get typecast after Moonlight

  12-04-2018 16:42
  Last time we saw Naomie Harris, she was being Oscar nominated for her role in Moonlight, the indie film that famously beat La La Land.In Rampage, Harris stars opposite Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson as a genetic scientist trying to stop three giant predators from tearing a city apart."But after Moonlight, what happened was I just got all these offers which were basically to play Paula again.
  
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• Ireland threatens to SCUPPER Brexit: Dublin wins support of Germany to block UK's EU exit

  12-04-2018 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  IRELAND has threatened to scupper Brexit if Britain does not adhere to the “backstop” Irish border agreement reached between Westminster and the European Union in December.
  
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• Russia says needs to study OPCW report on Skripal case - TASS

  12-04-2018 16:21
  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday Russia needed to study a report by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain, the TASS news agency reported.
  
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• Germany - Russia must answer open questions on nerve agent attack in UK

  12-04-2018 16:21
  The German government on Thursday called on Russia to answer open questions about a nerve agent attack that struck down a former Russian spy and his daughter last month in England, after the global chemical weapons watchdog backed Britain's findings.A spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry welcomed Britain's decision to involve the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) from the start, as well as its call for a special session of the watchdog on April 18."Britain gave us
  
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• Trawler raised from loch bed in search for missing fishermen

  12-04-2018 16:20
  A sunken trawler has been lifted to the surface of a Scottish loch in an attempt to find two missing fishermen.Duncan MacDougall and Przemek Krawczyk were on board the Nancy Glen when it capsized in Loch Fyne in Argyll and Bute on 18 January.The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) had already conducted a seabed survey of it.
  
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• Disney must offer to buy all of Sky even if Fox plans blocked, Takeover Panel rules

  12-04-2018 16:02
  Britain's Takeover Panel has ruled that Disney must offer to buy all of Sky if it succeeds in its planned purchase of the majority of 21st Century Fox.It means that even if Fox's plans to take over Sky are blocked as a result of an investigation by competition regulators, Disney would still have to offer Sky's shareholders a deal at the same price of 1075p per share.The decision from the Takeover Panel, which applies City rules on takeovers and mergers under a code designed to ensure shareholder
  
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• Russian foreign ministry - no one has seen Skripals for over a month

  12-04-2018 16:01
  MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that no one except British authorities had seen poisoned former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for over a month.
  
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• Skripals poisoned with nerve agent, chemical arms watchdog confirms

  12-04-2018 15:33
  THE HAGUE/LONDON (Reuters) - The lethal poison that struck down a former Russian spy and his daughter last month in England was a highly pure type of Novichok nerve agent, the global chemical weapons watchdog concluded on Thursday, backing Britain's findings.Sergei Skripal, a former colonel in Russian military intelligence who betrayed dozens of agents to Britain’s MI6 foreign spy service, and his daughter were found unconscious on a bench in the English cathedral city of Salisbury on Marc
  
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• Labour suspends former Rochdale leader after abuse inquiry

  12-04-2018 15:32
  Labour has suspended a former Rochdale council leader following the release of a report into child sex abuse, saying he lied during the inquiry.Richard Farnell told a panel that he did not know about claims of widespread sexual exploitation in the town between 1986 and 1992.Mr Farnell claimed his colleagues at the council had not informed him of allegations surrounding the council-run Knowl View school and Cambridge House Hostel, which included evidence that late Liberal MP Cyril Smith was abusi
  
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• Police chief warns you could be ARRESTED if you remove shrine to Hither Green burglar

  12-04-2018 15:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  MET POLICE chief Craig Mackey said raging locals who have continuously torn down tributes to the Hither Green burglar could be arrested if they take actions that “breach the peace” in the neighbourhood.
  
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• Britain requests U.N. Security Council meet on poison report

  12-04-2018 15:11
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Britain requested on Thursday that the United Nations Security Council meet next week to discuss a chemical weapons watchdog report that concluded a nerve agent was used in the attempted murder of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.
  
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• Hither Green: police try to calm tensions over flower tributes

  12-04-2018 15:01
  Friends and family of Henry Vincent attach flowers to a fence in Hither Green, near where he died.A few yards along the street in Hither Green, police stood outside Osborn-Brooks’ home and kept a watchful eye on a crowd of reporters and photographers who had assembled in expectation of a protest, billed online as being in support of the local community.About 200 people have joined a closed Facebook group that says it has been set up to arrange a peaceful protest to support residents of Sou
  
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• Chemical watchdog OPCW backs UK findings as it confirms novichok poisoned Sergei Skripal

  12-04-2018 15:00
  Independent chemical weapons scientists have confirmed that "high purity" novichok was used in the attempted murder of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.Tests carried out by experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) showed the nerve agent was found in environmental samples collected in Salisbury.Blood tests also revealed that the chemical was found in blood samples taken from the Skripals and Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, the police off
  
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• BBC to air reading of Enoch Powell's 'rivers of blood' speech

  12-04-2018 14:57
  The BBC will air a complete recitation of Enoch Powell’s infamous “rivers of blood” speech to mark its 50th anniversary.The Labour peer Andrew Adonis called the speech “the worst incitement to racial violence by a public figure in modern Britain” and said the broadcast should not go ahead.The BBC’s media editor, Amol Rajan, who will present the broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday night, defended the decision, saying that rather than being read continuously the sp
  
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• Resigned Rochdale council leader 'lied to child abuse inquiry'

  12-04-2018 14:48
  Rochdale’s recently resigned council leader is facing a police investigation after an official inquiry concluded that he lied under oath about child sexual abuse allegations.The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) said the evidence given by Richard Farnell about his knowledge of abuse in the town defied belief.As Greater Manchester police said it was considering launching a perjury investigation, Farnell was suspended by the Labour party but claimed in a statement that he h
  
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• Ex-Rochdale council leader lied to us, child abuse inquiry finds

  12-04-2018 14:48
  Rochdale’s recently resigned council leader is facing a possible police investigation after an official inquiry concluded that he lied under oath about child sexual abuse allegations.The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) said the evidence given by Richard Farnell about his knowledge of abuse in the town defied belief.As Greater Manchester police said it was considering launching a perjury investigation, Farnell was suspended by the Labour party but claimed in a statement
  
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• Britain to sizzle in mini heatwave next week as hot air arrives from Europe

  12-04-2018 14:42
  After a cool, grey, drizzly spell, temperatures are forecast to reach the mid-20s Celsius in a mini heatwave next week.Warmer conditions will come as the jet stream moves north and high pressure over Scandinavia extends towards the UK.While the whole UK should see higher temperatures, the south will be warmest, with the mercury set to reach the mid-20s Celsius by the middle of the week.
  
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• Trump dials back rhetoric as he tweets Syria attack may not happen soon – live updates

  12-04-2018 14:35 via theguardian.com
  Follow latest developments in Syria crisis, plus the OPCW backs UK over Salisbury spy poisoning and cabinet meets to discuss military action after Syria chemical attackRetaliation in Syria: what are May’s options?Syria deconfliction hotline open and in use, says Kremlin
  Chemical weapons watchdog confirms novichok use in Salisbury 1.35pm BST The OPCW’s executive council will meet next Wednesday following a request by the UK government.The 59th Meeting of #OPCW's Executive Council (ECM
  
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• Rape and murder of Muslim girl in India raises religious tensions

  12-04-2018 14:35 via theguardian.com
  Arrest of temple custodian leads to confrontation between police and dozens of Hindu lawyersWhen police in northern India went to court on Monday to file charges implicating eight men in the rape and murder of a Muslim child, they were confronted by dozens of Hindu lawyers determined to keep them out. The killing of eight year-old Asifa Bano, details of which were released on Wednesday, and ongoing efforts by Hindu groups to disrupt the police investigation have sickened many Indians and deepene
  
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• Commonwealth Games 2018: Zharnel Hughes disqualified in 200m drama – live!

  12-04-2018 14:35 via theguardian.com
  Updates from the eighth day of the Gold Coast GamesFeel free to get in touch on email or tweet @benfisherjMedal table – the latest tallies 1.35pm BST Melissa Wu takes the final medal of day eight, edging out Meaghen Benfeito, of Canada, and England’s Lois Toulson, who takes bronze. Wu’s score of 360.40 is enough to take gold from Benfeito, who registered 359.75 points. It’s not been dull on the Gold Coast!1.30pm BST Day eight is almost done and dusted, with just the women
  
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• National Enquirer paid doorman $30,000 to keep quiet about Trump affair rumor

  12-04-2018 14:34 via theguardian.com
  Dino Sajudin received payment for signing over rights to a rumor he’d heard that Trump fathered a child with an employee in the 1980s Eight months before the company that owns the National Enquirer paid $150,000 to a former Playboy model who claimed she’d had an affair with Donald Trump, the tabloid’s parent made a $30,000 payment to a less famous individual: a former doorman at one of Trump’s New York buildings.As it did with the model, the Enquirer signed the ex-doorman
  
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• India cruise past England to secure ODI series victory

  12-04-2018 14:33 via theguardian.com
  England 201-9; India 202-2, win by eight wicketsIndia wrap up the three-match series 2-1India recorded a comfortable eight-wicket victory over England at Nagpur to win the final one-day international and secure the three-match series 2-1. Heather Knight had won the toss and elected to bat, but opener Tammy Beaumont, making her 50th ODI appearance, had managed just four when she edged Jhulan Ghoswami behind. Danielle Wyatt also failed to make an impact, playing the seamer onto the stumps for only
  
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• Alex Beckett, theatre and W1A actor, dies suddenly

  12-04-2018 14:32 via theguardian.com
  Tributes paid to acclaimed actor who had been appearing in the Donmar’s production of The Way of the WorldThe Donmar Warehouse in London has announced the sudden death of the actor Alex Beckett, who was appearing in the theatre’s current production The Way of the World.In a joint statement, the Donmar’s artistic director Josie Rourke and executive producer Kate Pakenham said: “We are deeply shocked by the tragic loss of our dear friend and brilliant actor Alex Beckett, a
  
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• Growth in London's finance centre to stall because of Brexit, says Santander boss

  12-04-2018 14:17
  The chairwoman of Spain's biggest bank Banco SantanderAna Botin warned on Thursday that growth in London's financial centre was set to stall due to the turmoil triggered by Brexit."I don't think so many companies or people are going to leave the UK, it is the people that are not coming that we should worry about because the UK was on a huge upward trend and that is not as strong now," Botin told the audience at an event organised by the Wall Street Journal in London.
  
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• Finland has found the answer to homelessness. It couldn’t be simpler | Harry Quilter-Pinner

  12-04-2018 14:12 via theguardian.com
  The number of rough sleepers in Britain is soaring, with deaths now a weekly occurrence. It’s time we got over our prejudices“I was born in Liverpool and grew up on a council estate. I had a clean home, toys and nice meals as a kid. When I was nine years old, the sexual abuse started. My abusers made me feel special. They gave me gifts, moneys, cigarettes and sweets. When I was 13 I ran away from home and soon found myself in the murky world of prostitution on the streets. My life wa
  
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