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• Dead burglar to get '£100000 funeral including horse-drawn procession past home of pensioner who killed him' - Mirror.co.uk

  13-04-2018 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
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  Dead burglar to get '£100000 funeral including horse-drawn procession past home of pensioner who killed him'
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  Dead burglar Henry Vincent is to get a £100,000 funeral, including a horse-drawn procession, past the home of the pensioner who stabbed him, it has been claimed. The funeral for the 37-year-old will apparently act as a message showing that "gypsies are ...
  The lesson from Hither Green – no one can be forced to share another's griefThe Guardian
  
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• Feds conducted 'covert' surveillance on Trump lawyer Michael Cohen email accounts, feared he'd delete records - CNBC

  13-04-2018 23:49 via cnbc.com
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  Feds conducted 'covert' surveillance on Trump lawyer Michael Cohen email accounts, feared he'd delete records
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  Federal prosecutors asked a U.S. District Court judge on Friday to deny a request from President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, that would give his attorneys veto power over what materials seized from Cohen by the FBI could be used by ...
  Michael Cohen Attorneys Fight Review of Seized Records in Criminal ProbeWall Street Journal
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• Syria crisis has brought cold war back with a vengeance – UN - The Guardian

  13-04-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
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  Syria crisis has brought cold war back with a vengeance – UN
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  Relations between the west and Russia have deteriorated sharply amid concerns about a US-led military strike in the Middle East, prompting the United Nations secretary general to declare “the cold war is back with a vengeance”. Adding to tensions on an ...
  Russia claims UK faked Syria 'chemical attack' as UN says Cold War back 'with a vengeance'Sky News
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• Will The Missile Strike On Syria Lead To World War Three? Everything You Need To Know

  13-04-2018 22:53
  Britain, America and France have struck the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar
  
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• Will A Missile Strike On Syria Lead To World War Three? Everything You Need To Know

  13-04-2018 22:53
  A suspected chemical attack on Syrian civilians last weekend - which Russia
  
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• Iwan Thomas's excitement as he opens royal invite to big day

  13-04-2018 22:06 via bbc.co.uk
  Former Welsh sprint champion Iwan Thomas excitedly opens a letter sent from Buckingham Palace.
  
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• PM among cabinet members earning money as landlords

  13-04-2018 21:32
  Philip Hammond, Theresa May and Boris Johnson all make money renting out property.Nine cabinet ministers, including the prime minister, are making more than £10,000 a year by acting as landlords, a Guardian analysis has found.Following Jeremy Hunt’s failure to declare the purchase of seven luxury flats that he subsequently rented out, an analysis of the parliamentary register of MPs’ interests shows eight other members of the cabinet own property that is rented out for a five-f
  
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• PM among cabinet members earning money as a landlord

  13-04-2018 21:32
  Philip Hammond, Theresa May and Boris Johnson all make money renting out property.Nine cabinet ministers, including the prime minister, are making more than £10,000 a year by acting as landlords, a Guardian analysis has found.Following Jeremy Hunt’s failure to declare the purchase of seven luxury flats that he subsequently rented out, an analysis of the parliamentary register of MPs’ interests shows eight other members of the cabinet own property that is rented out for a five-f
  
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• 'You should be talking English': Woman injured after 'racist' attack on Night Tube

  13-04-2018 20:00
  Two attackers told a woman speaking Spanish on the Night Tube that she "should be talking English when in England" before launching a brutal assault on her.British Transport Police are hunting for two women after the "racially motivated" incident on the Central Line in the early hours of Saturday.The 24-year-old victim was talking to friends between Liverpool Street and Stratford when she was set upon at around 3.45am, with her attackers grabbing her by the hair and pulling her around.
  
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• Housing minister defends claim of immigration impact on house prices

  13-04-2018 19:57
  Dominic Raab, the housing minister who claimed in an interview last week that immigration had “put house prices up by something like 20%” over the past 25 years, has had to contextualise the figure.The UK Statistics Authority asked Raab, a leading Brexiter, to publish the evidence for his claim.A document published on Friday by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government shows that the finding was based on an out-of-date model that had never been intended for this kind
  
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• Google ordered to remove UK conviction from search results - Financial Times

  13-04-2018 19:53 via ft.com
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  Google ordered to remove UK conviction from search results
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  Google has been ordered to remove a remorseful businessman's previous criminal conviction from its search engine results, in a ruling that is likely to have thousands of people also demanding their “right to be forgotten”. The High Court in London ...
  Businessman fighting for 'right to be forgotten' over past crime wins High Court action against GoogleDaily Mail
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• UK police arrest man on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts

  13-04-2018 19:52
  The 27-year-old man was arrested by the police's Counter Terrorism Command, the force said.A 24-year-old woman was also arrested in London on suspicion of having information about acts of terrorism, police added.
  
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• Spanish Woman Dragged By Hair In 'Racially-Motivated' Night Tube Attack

  13-04-2018 19:36
  Police are appealing for witnesses after a "vicious and racially-motivated"
  
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• C of E bishops want immigration amnesty for 'Windrush generation'

  13-04-2018 19:17
  Four Church of England bishops have joined a call for an immigration amnesty for people who moved to the UK from the Caribbean decades ago but now face uncertainty over their status.This week, Caribbean diplomats in the UK condemned the Home Office’s treatment of many longterm Commonwealth-born UK residents as “illegal immigrants”.
  
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• 'I lost seven stone to save my liver'

  13-04-2018 19:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Frances Carroll needed sticks to walk any distance when she was a size 22. Now she's a fitness instructor.
  
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• Two men jailed for gang-related human trafficking offences

  13-04-2018 19:00
  Fesal Mahamud, left, and Mahad Yusuf.Two gang members who ran a so-called “county line” drug network have been jailed for human trafficking offences.Mahad Yusuf, 20, and Fesal Mahamud, 19, pleaded guilty in December to trafficking a vulnerable 19-year-old woman who was forced to transport drugs from London to Swansea.
  
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• Assad ally Hezbollah plays down 'total war' risk over Syria

  13-04-2018 18:59
  Lebanon's Hezbollah movement played down on Friday the risk that the Syrian crisis would spiral into a U.S.-Russian military conflict, but its leader raised the possibility of a "direct fight" between Iran and Israel.The heavily armed and Tehran-backed Shi'ite movement has been a vital military ally of President Bashar al-Assad in the seven-year-old Syrian war."We rule out the situation developing into a direct American-Russian clash or a wide state of war," said deputy Hezbollah leader Sheikh N
  
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• Sir Cliff Richard breaks down in tears as he gives evidence during BBC trial

  13-04-2018 18:57
  Sir Cliff Richard broke down in tears as he gave evidence in court over "shocking and upsetting" BBC coverage of a police raid on his home.The 77-year-old singer is suing the corporation over its live reporting of a search of his Berkshire apartment by South Yorkshire Police in August 2014, which came as part of an investigation into a historical child sex abuse allegation.Sir Cliff added that he was left "on my knees in the kitchen, sobbing" in the days after the raid, having known that he "had
  
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• This injured bird of prey’s rescuer had to evacuate their car after it woke up

  13-04-2018 18:38
  The red kite was taken in by the RSPCA after a three-and-a-half hour wait for the motorist.
  
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• Met told to bring gross misconduct hearings over death of Sean Rigg

  13-04-2018 18:27
  Sean Rigg, who died at Brixton police station in 2008.The Metropolitan police has been ordered to schedule gross misconduct hearings for five officers over the death of Sean Rigg, whose heart stopped at a south London police station 10 years ago after prolonged restraint in a police van.The Independent Office for Police Conduct told the force to bring proceedings against the officers for allegedly failing to identify and treat the 40-year-old as suffering from mental health problems, failing to
  
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• Hotter than the Costa del Sol: UK finally set for sunshine with temperatures up to 25C

  13-04-2018 18:18
  It's finally time to get ready for summer - or a taste of it, at least - as temperatures in the UK are predicted to be hotter than the Costa del Sol next week.Forecasters say the southeast could experience highs of around 25C, a few degrees warmer than the sunny Spanish holiday resort.Temperatures here are also expected to be higher than in Rome and Athens.
  
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• How are the young professionals of today planning for tomorrow?

  13-04-2018 18:13 via theguardian.com
  Many millennials may feel as though they face an uncertain financial future. We spoke to three young Brits to find out how they manage their finances en route to a new home or a more secure retirementWhen it comes to finances, the cards are stacked against the UK’s twenty- and thirtysomethings. Millennials are the first generation in more than 100 years to earn less than their parents, and an increasing proportion are in freelance jobs, making it more difficult to save for the future. Hous
  
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• Police name girl, 14, found dead in Wolverhampton - The Guardian

  13-04-2018 18:09 via theguardian.com
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  Police name girl, 14, found dead in Wolverhampton
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  A 14-year-old girl found dead in Wolverhampton has been named by police as Vicktorija Sokolova. Two boys aged 16 and 17 have been arrested by detectives investigating her death. Vicktorija's body was discovered by a member of the public in West Park at ...
  Tori Sokolova death: Heartbreaking tribute to 'beautiful' 14-year-old girl found dead in Wolverhampton parkEvening Standard
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• Businessman wins 'right to be forgotten' on Google in 'unprecedented' ruling

  13-04-2018 18:05
  A businessman fighting for the "right to be forgotten" on Google has won his "unprecedented" High Court action against the tech giant.The man, named only as NT2 in court, wanted a past crime he committed to not come up in search results.Mr Justice Warby delivered a blow to Google by ruling in his favour on Friday.
  
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• Russian envoy says UK spying claims about Skripals a 'big surprise'

  13-04-2018 17:54
  "If someone was spying, why were the British services not complaining about that?" Alexander Yakovenko told reporters.Sergei Skripal has been living in Britain since 2010 but his daughter only arrived last month, to visit her father.Earlier on Friday, the national security adviser to Britain's prime minister told NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in a letter that email accounts of Yulia had been targeted in 2013 by cyber specialists from Russia's GRU military intelligence service.
  
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• Ladies Day draws thousands of fashion fans to Aintree

  13-04-2018 17:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Dedicated followers of fashion descend on Aintree for Ladies Day.
  
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• Russia to ban Telegram messenger over encryption dispute

  13-04-2018 17:02
  A Russian court on Friday ordered that access to the Telegram messenger service be blocked in Russia, heralding possible communication disruption for millions of users in the latest clash between global technology firms and Russian authorities.The decision came a week after state communication watchdog, Roskomnadzor, filed a lawsuit to limit access to Telegram following the company's repeated refusal to give Russian state security services access to its users' secret messages.As part of its serv
  
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• Royal wedding: Alexi Lubomirski to photograph Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's big day

  13-04-2018 16:49
  A photographer who has snapped stars including Beyonce, Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman has been named as the official Royal wedding photographer.Alexi Lubomirski, who also took Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's engagement pictures, said he is delighted to have been chosen to take the photos on 19 May.
  
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• Russia has been spying on Skripals for five years, security adviser says

  13-04-2018 16:37
  Russian intelligence has been spying on the Skripals for at least five years, national security adviser Mark Sedwill has said.Cyber experts from military intelligence agency the GRU targeted Yulia Skripal's email accounts as far back as 2013, according to the security chief.A program set up in Russia in the 2000s trained personnel from "special units" in the use of chemical warfare agents, he said, including investigating how nerve agents could be administered through door handles.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn demands US and Russia 'stop blocking each other' at UN to end Syria deadlock

  13-04-2018 16:31
  Jeremy Corbyn has called on Russia and the US to "stop blocking each other" at the UN, as he cautioned against more airstrikes in Syria.Speaking to Sky News, the Labour leader said both countries "had form" in voting down each other's resolutions.Calling for unity, Mr Corbyn said on Friday: "I would say very strongly to Russia and the US: 'Stop blocking each other's resolutions'.
  
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• UK weather: Temperatures to hit the mid-20s next week

  13-04-2018 16:23
  Winter is finally set to disappear as temperatures to hit 23 degrees this week in parts of Britain, say the Met Office
  
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• Jaguar Land Rover 'to cut 1,000 jobs' in Solihull

  13-04-2018 16:21
  Jaguar Land Rover is to shed 1,000 jobs and cut production at two sites, according to reports.The carmaker said it would make an announcement to employees on Monday regarding its production plans for 2018/19.It added: "In light of the continuing headwinds impacting the car industry, we are making some adjustments to our production schedules and the level of agency staff.
  
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• Feminists to stage rally at Ulster rugby match after rape acquittal

  13-04-2018 16:10
  Up to 1,000 people took part in a demonstration in Belfast last month after Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were cleared of rape.Hundreds of protesters are preparing to gather at the home of Ulster Rugby as organisers of the demonstration say they want to “stamp out” misogyny and sexism in sport amid the controversy over two Irish internationals cleared of rape.In the run-up to Ulster’s clash with Welsh side Osprey at the Kingspan stadium in Belfast on Friday night, the group c
  
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• Kassem Eid Was Gassed In Syria In 2013 – This Is What He Wants The West To Do Now

  13-04-2018 16:05
  Donald Trump has written explosive tweets, Russian diplomats have issued stark
  
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• Thomas Chipperfield Says He'll Keep The Show On The Road

  13-04-2018 16:00
  Britain's last remaining lion tamer, Thomas Chipperfield says he's determined to keep touring the UK despite increasing opposition from animal rights campaigners, politicians and celebrities.
  
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• Britain's last lion tamer 'more determined than ever' despite rejection

  13-04-2018 15:54
  Britain's last lion tamer says he is more determined than ever to keep fighting for his profession after having his latest application to tour in England rejected.Thomas Chipperfield hasn't toured in the UK since 2015, when he did a summer of shows in Wales.Sky News filmed a special report with the 28-year-old as he faced increasing pressure from animal rights groups but still had dozens of paying members of the public turn up regularly.
  
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• RAF base in Cyprus prepares for potential strike on Syria

  13-04-2018 15:24
  The road to Akrotiri is strewn with daffodils.Vineyards are also in blossom, lending this south-western corner of Cyprus a bucolic feel.Further along, towards the RAF facility at the end of the road, a handwritten board announces strawberries for sale at a roadside farm.
  
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• Russia spied on Skripal and daughter for at least five years - UK

  13-04-2018 15:18
  Russia's intelligence agencies spied on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for at least five years before they were attacked with a nerve agent in March, the national security adviser to Britain's prime minister said.Mark Sedwill said in a letter to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday that email accounts of Yulia had been targeted in 2013 by cyber specialists from Russia's GRU military intelligence service.
  
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• Will the Brexit Museum's main exhibit be a bus with £350m on the side?

  13-04-2018 15:10
  Sadly, it looks as if the main exhibit – the bus with £350m on the side and a cardboard cut-out of Boris Johnson next to it – will not be on show as the incriminating evidence has all gone awol, but the organisers are desperate for people to get in touch with any suitable donations.Only a handful chose to ask anything moderately testing, and even they blew it by wasting most of their allotted four or five minutes, taking so long to get to the point that it wasn’t hard for
  
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• Tom Daley makes plea for Commonwealth LGBT rights after winning gold

  13-04-2018 15:03
  Diver Tom Daley has made a plea for Commonwealth countries to decriminalise homosexuality after winning a gold medal in the 10m synchronised dive.The 23-year-old gay athlete is in Australia's Gold Coast competing in the Commonwealth Games, a competition between countries that were formerly under the rule of the British Empire.Tweeting in celebration of his gold medal, he highlighted that 37 of the 53 countries currently in the Commonwealth have laws that criminalise same sex relationships.
  
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• Tom Daley: Homophobia is massive in sport, says champion diver

  13-04-2018 14:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Diver Tom Daley says it is important for LGBT athletes "to be able come out and share their personal stories."
  
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• Options markets still flashing red for Russia's battered rouble

  13-04-2018 14:46
  Russia's rouble has endured its worst week in more than 2-1/2 years but foreign exchange derivatives predict more pain ahead as bond and equity investors continue slashing exposure to the market after tough new sanctions from the United States.While a market bounce in the past two days has helped the rouble nearly halve its weekly losses since Wednesday, option market indicators such as implied volatility and risk reversals on the Russian currency remain at extremely elevated levels.More signifi
  
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• Jaguar Land Rover to shed 1,000 jobs - reports

  13-04-2018 14:46
  Jaguar Land Rover is to shed 1,000 jobs and cut production at two sites, according to reports.The carmaker said it would make an announcement to employees on Monday regarding its production plans for 2018/19.It added: "In light of the continuing headwinds impacting the car industry, we are making some adjustments to our production schedules and the level of agency staff.
  
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• WATCH: Temperatures set to soar in Cornwall - Pirate FM

  13-04-2018 14:40 via piratefm.co.uk
  WATCH: Temperatures set to soar in Cornwall
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  Temperatures in Cornwall could soar as experts say a mini heatwave is heading for the UK next week. After a cool, grey, drizzly spell, it is thought it could reach as high as the mid-20s Celsius, with the Duchy's weather set to improve drastically over ...and more »
  
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• Russia have been spying on Skripals for five years, security adviser says

  13-04-2018 14:40
  Russian intelligence has been spying on the Skripals for at least five years, national security adviser Mark Sedwill has said.
  
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• Prince Philip leaves hospital after hip surgery

  13-04-2018 14:39
  Prince Philip has thanked well-wishers after being discharged from hospital following his hip operation.The Duke of Edinburgh appeared in good spirits, waving to journalists waiting outside the King Edward VII Hospital in central London as he was driven away in a Land Rover Discovery.Buckingham Palace said in a statement: "His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh left King Edward VII's Hospital at midday today, following a hip replacement operation last week.
  
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• Alfie Evans' parents fight ruling to end toddler's life-support

  13-04-2018 14:38
  The family of terminally ill toddler Alfie Evans are mounting a legal challenge against the decision to stop his life-support.The couple have already lost legal fights in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights.On Thursday night, police were called after hundreds of protesters gathered outside Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Merseyside, where Alfie is being cared for.
  
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• Parents of Alfie Evans launch legal challenge over end-of-life care

  13-04-2018 14:31
  The parents of a seriously ill boy at the centre of a life-support treatment battle are to mount another legal challenge.Tom Evans, 21, and Kate James, 20, are preparing to ask court of appeal judges to allow 23-month-old Alfie Evans to continue to receive treatment.The latest legal challenge, set for Monday, came after hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside a hospital in Liverpool to protest against the decision to turn off the baby’s life support.
  
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• New laws to stop bogus holiday sickness claims

  13-04-2018 14:30
  The rules will limit the legal costs that can be claimed for package holiday sickness cases, closing a loophole that the travel industry believes has prompted a growing number of claims.Until now, the legal costs have not been capped and this has left some tour operators facing massive bills, sometimes out of proportion to the damages claimed.This has prompted many operators to settle out of court rather than challenge claims, and it has also inspired claims management companies to encourage tou
  
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• Russia spied on Skripal and his daughter for at least five years - Press Association

  13-04-2018 14:20
  LONDON (Reuters) - Russia's intelligence agencies have been spying on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for at least five years, Britain's National Security Adviser Mark Sedwill has told the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, according to a Press Assocation tweet on Friday.
  
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