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• 'It's reprehensible!' Former Brexit minster SLAMS EU for refusing to talk about trade

  23-04-2018 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  FORMER Brexit minister David Jones dismantled the EU's continuous attempts to delay Brexit as the Brussels bloc refuses to move onto trade talks over the issue of the Irish border.
  
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• Rolls-Royce considers 'technical' Brexit switch

  23-04-2018 23:50
  British manufacturing giant Rolls-Royce is considering moving the design approval process for its large jet engines to Germanyas a "technical measure" to avoid Brexit disruption.The FTSE 100 group said it was among possible contingency moves but was not expected to result in jobs being transferred out of the UK - and that no final decision had been taken.The engine maker also said it was in regular dialogue with the Government about its plans to ensure there was no interruption in service to its
  
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• 9 Dead, 16 Injured in Toronto Crash

  23-04-2018 23:37
  ++GRAPHIC VIDEO++ A police official says nine people have been killed and 16 injured from the van that jumped onto a sidewalk and struck pedestrians in north Toronto. (April 23)
  
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• 'Would have voted for SOVIET Union!' Nigel Farage in stitches after caller SAVAGES Corbyn

  23-04-2018 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  NIGEL Farage could not contain his laughter when a caller branded Jeremy Corbyn’s demands that St George’s Day should be a national holiday as a “slimy version of hypocrisy”, during an LBC phone-in.
  
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• Royal births – grit, fortitude and impressive fashion sense

  23-04-2018 23:11
  The pressure of being royal, and living family life on a public stage, is never shown in more stark relief than it is on the steps of the Lindo Wing.Whatever your views on the monarchy, it would be churlish not to be impressed by the grit shown, once again, by the Duchess of Cambridge as she smiled beatifically in high heels and freshly washed hair, just seven hours after giving birth.For each postpartum photo call, the Duchess has worn a bespoke dress by British designer Jenny Packham.
  
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• William and Kate show new prince to the world

  23-04-2018 22:34
  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have introduced their new son to the world.The prince was born at the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington at 11.01am on St George's Day.The Duke of Cambridge was at his wife's side as she gave birth and left for just a short while later in the afternoon to collect Prince George, four, and Princess Charlotte, two.
  
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• Army trucks arrive to start clean-up in Salisbury after Skripal poisoning

  23-04-2018 22:33
  Three army trucks have arrived in Salisbury to start the clean-up operation in the city following the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.The convoy rolled into the city at dusk to begin the decontamination of nerve agent "hotspots".Soldiers unloaded two large metal containers and a military mini-JCB type vehicle in the Maltings shopping area, where Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found critically ill seven weeks ago.
  
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• MP campaigning on behalf of Windrush migrants told to 'stop knocking country down'

  23-04-2018 22:30
  An MP campaigning on behalf of those affected by the Windrush scandal has been sent a letter telling him to stop making "vile and obscene" speeches "knocking this country down".
  
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• 'Could I answer? Thank you!' Peer SNAPS at John Humphrys in fiery debate on Syria

  23-04-2018 22:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  JOHN Humphrys was shut down by a Labour Peer during a fiery radio interview on the Peer's latest meeting with the Grand Mufti of Syria following the US-led attack on the Assad regime.
  
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• London bloodbath: Three teenagers stabbed in TWO HOURS as wave of violence grips capital

  23-04-2018 22:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  A TEENAGER has been stabbed during a fight outside a busy train station in south London this evening just hours after two girls were stabbed in the north of the capital.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn’s ally is ‘FANTASIST’ who questioned Jo Cox’s murder

  23-04-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  JEREMY Corbyn is under pressure to ditch an ally who questioned whether the Manchester Arena bombing and Jo Cox’s murder really happened.
  
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• Robot helps Jack McLinden, 14, to be Everton mascot

  23-04-2018 21:53 via bbc.co.uk
  A robot carried on to the pitch feeds panoramic live images and sound back to Jack McLinden's tablet.
  
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• ‘What Brexit rebellion?’ Confident Iain Duncan Smith promises ‘Remainers will NOT win’

  23-04-2018 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  IAIN Duncan Smith issued a rallying cry to worried Brexit voters that they should not fear “there being a rebellion” while promising Theresa May will “deliver” the detachment from the EU that the public voted for.
  
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• Government could probe Star and Express newspaper takeover

  23-04-2018 21:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Government says it is "minded" to investigate Trinity Mirror deal to buy the Star and Express newspapers.
  
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• Government could intervene over Express takeover

  23-04-2018 21:10
  Culture Secretary Matt Hancock is to consider intervening in Trinity Mirror's £126.7m deal to buy newspapers including the Daily Express and Daily Star.Mr Hancock said in a statement that he was "minded" to issue a public interest intervention notice after the merger was brought to his attention by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).The deal, completed last month, gave Trinity Mirror control of the Star and the Express's daily and Sunday titles as well as celebrity magazines OK!,
  
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• NHS England faces first legal challenge to plans for health shake-up

  23-04-2018 21:06
  Critics say the contracts for the ACOs could threaten patient safety by forcing hospitals and doctors to ration patients’ access to treatment.NHS England faces a legal challenge to its plans to overhaul how the health service operates, which critics say are unlawful and could lead to patients being denied treatment.Campaigners on Tuesday will try to derail plans to introduce of “ accountable care organisations” (ACOs), which they say could force doctors to decide what care a pa
  
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• Amber Rudd takes responsibility – for saving Windrush-era home secretaries

  23-04-2018 20:51
  Amber Rudd speaks in the decidedly uncompliant environment of the House of Commons on Monday. Photograph: PA
  
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• EU FURY: Brussels boss has THIS furious response to Jacob Rees-Mogg Brexit threat

  23-04-2018 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  EUROPEAN UNION Commissioner Phil Hogan has fired back at Jacob Rees-Mogg after the Conservative MP said Theresa May should “call the EU’s bluff” on the Irish border problem.
  
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• London bloodbath: 60th violent murder in London just yards from Corbyn’s home

  23-04-2018 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  A YOUNG man who was “full of life” was stabbed to death in a “brutal and violent” attack just yards from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s home in Finsbury Park, north London.
  
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• ‘VOTE AGAIN!’ Liverpool boss Jürgen Klopp says 'Brexit makes NO SENSE'

  23-04-2018 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  LIVERPOOL manager Jürgen Klopp has called for a second vote on Brexit, claiming the British public did not have the “right information” to make an informed decision the first time around.
  
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• 'Astonishing' Lords deliver May another Brexit DEFEAT as peers DEMAND EU legislation

  23-04-2018 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  THERESA May has suffered a fresh setback to her Brexit plans after the House of Lords dealt the Government another defeat on crunch withdrawal legislation.
  
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• Royal baby: Duke and duchess show off new son

  23-04-2018 20:04 via bbc.co.uk
  Prince William says he has "thrice the worry now" as he and Catherine leave hospital with their 8lb 7oz baby.
  
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• Compensation promised to Windrush families who 'suffered loss'

  23-04-2018 20:04
  Windrush families who have "suffered loss" because of failures over their immigration status will receive compensation, it has been announced.Home Secretary Amber Rudd promised to set up the reparation scheme "with urgency".The measure - and others - were revealed on Monday after Ms Rudd faced calls to resign over her handling of the scandal.
  
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• Toronto Van Attack: 10 Dead And 15 Injured After Man Drives Deliberately Into Pedestrians In Canadian City

  23-04-2018 20:02
  * 10 dead and 15 injured as pedestrians struck during lunch time.
  
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• Toronto: Van 'Hits Pedestrians' In Canadian City

  23-04-2018 20:02
  As many as ten people have been injured after a van appeared to mount a
  
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• Toronto: Van 'Hits Multiple Pedestrians' In Canadian City

  23-04-2018 20:02
  Several people have been injured after a van mounted the curb and hit
  
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• Toronto: 9 Dead And 16 Injured After Van Drives Into Pedestrians In Canadian City

  23-04-2018 20:02
  * 9 dead and 16 injured as pedestrians struck during lunch time.
  
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• Toronto: 10 Dead And 15 Injured After Van Drives Deliberately Into Pedestrians In Canadian City

  23-04-2018 20:02
  * 10 dead and 15 injured as pedestrians struck during lunch time.
  
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• It's a boy - "Very excited" Prince William takes Kate home after birth of prince

  23-04-2018 20:02
  Kate, wife of Prince William, smiled and waved as she left hospital on Monday after giving birth to a boy who is now fifth in line to the British throne.William was present for the birth at St Mary's Hospital in west London where their other two children, George and Charlotte, were also born.William later put the boy, strapped into a car seat, into a waiting car.
  
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• May suffers another defeat in upper house over EU rights

  23-04-2018 19:57
  Britain's upper house of parliament handed the government itsthird defeat over Brexit in less than a week on Monday, voting down plans not to retain EU rights in national law before Britain leaves the bloc.The defeat is one of several Prime Minister Theresa May'sConservative government is expected to suffer in the House of Lords as parliament debates legislation which will enact Britain's exit from the European Union in March next year.
  
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• 'EU get on with it' Lord Lawson lets rip at Remainers attempt to keep UK TRAPPED

  23-04-2018 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  LORD Lawson exploded at “phoney” Remainers who “cannot accept” the idea of leaving the EU bringing them in direct opposition to the will of the people.
  
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• Companies forced to set up whistleblowing channels under new EU law

  23-04-2018 19:55
  Companies forced to set up whistleblowing channels under new EU law
  
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• Alfie Evans granted Italian citizenship in life support legal row

  23-04-2018 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  The Italian foreign office says it hopes the terminally ill toddler "can get immediate transfer to Italy".
  
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• Italy grants Alfie Evans citizenship as protesters try to storm hospital in Liverpool

  23-04-2018 19:38
  Italy has granted citizenship to 23-month-old Alfie Evans, who has a degenerative neurological condition, in a bid to secure his "immediate" transfer to Rome for treatment.The Italian foreign ministry made the announcement as protesters blocked the road outside Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool and tried to storm the entrance after European judges refused to intervene.Alfie's father, who is said to be "heartbroken" following the ruling, spoke to supporters briefly outside the hospital t
  
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• Alfie Evans NEW HOPE: Terminal tot given Italian citizenship for special treatment

  23-04-2018 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  TERMINALLY ill toddler Alfie Evans has been granted Italian citizenship as his parents eye up the possibility of moving him to Rome for special treatment.
  
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• The newborns who share birthday with royal baby

  23-04-2018 19:27 via bbc.co.uk
  The non-royal babies born shortly before the Duchess of Cambridge's third child.
  
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• Mirror takeover of Express and Star faces fresh investigation

  23-04-2018 19:27
  The Trinity Mirror deal for Express Newspapers could be subject to a public interest intervention notice.The government has dealt a blow to the Daily Mirror publisher’s £200m takeover of the Express and Star titles by signalling its intent to launch an investigation into the deal over issues including editorial independence.The culture secretary, Matt Hancock, said on Monday he was “minded to” issue a public interest intervention notice for an in-depth inquiry and would c
  
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• Cannibal killer who murdered cop hanged himself in his prison cell, inquest hears

  23-04-2018 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  CANNIBAL killer Stefano Brizzi hanged himself in his prison cell two months after telling a psychiatrist he had made a noose because he was bored, an inquest heard.
  
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• Smiling Prince William and Kate leave hospital with newborn son

  23-04-2018 19:09
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate left hospital with smiles on Monday carrying their newborn son, less than 7 hours after his birth.
  
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• Factbox - A prince is born: Kate, wife of Prince William, gives birth to third child

  23-04-2018 19:09
  Kate, the wife of Britain's Prince William, gave birth to a boy at a hospital in London on Monday, the third child for the royal couple.WHAT DID KENSINGTON PALACE SAY?"Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 1101hrs.
  
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• Britain to set up compensation scheme for 'Windrush' migrants

  23-04-2018 19:06
  Britain will compensate some Caribbean immigrants who have lived legally in Britain for decades and have wrongly been labelled illegal immigrants because of trouble documenting their status, interior minister Amber Rudd said on Monday.The government will also waive fees associated with becoming a citizen and ensure these long-term British residents do not have to pass Britain's citizenship test, Rudd told parliament."The state has let these people down," Rudd said.
  
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• The poignant plot of the Frasier episode starring David Ogden Stiers

  23-04-2018 19:02
  Your obituary to the wonderful David Ogden Stiers (21 April) makes mention of his appearance in a 2003 episode of Frasier.You say that in many ways his snobbish Winchester (in the TV series of M*A*S*H) was an antecedent of Frasier.
  
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• Royal baby: William and Kate emerge from hospital with prince

  23-04-2018 19:02 via bbc.co.uk
  The world gets its first glimpse of the newborn boy who is fifth in line to the throne.
  
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• Let’s talk about cancer treatment, not ‘cancer journeys’

  23-04-2018 19:02
  It is astonishing that “cancer diaries” (Why I live in dread of another cancer confessional, 18 April) have proliferated to the extent that some of your correspondents (As a cancer patient, I needed distraction, Letters, Anne Hay, 23 April) can describe them as cliches or tediously omnipresent.Perhaps there has been a trend towards “oversharing”, but on the whole this is surely a corrective to the dreadful mandatory silence that surrounded cancer not so long ago
  
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• Windrush scandal: Amber Rudd promises free British citizenship for affected migrants

  23-04-2018 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  AMBER Rudd has announced a package of measures aimed at helping Windrush generation migrants become British citizens as the Government attempts to limit the fallout from the scandal.
  
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• Stephen Lawrence Day to be held annually

  23-04-2018 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  A national commemoration of murdered teenager will take place on 22 April each year, the PM says.
  
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• Windrush generation will get UK citizenship, says Amber Rudd

  23-04-2018 18:44
  The home secretary has pledged that the Windrush generation will be granted British citizenship, as the government attempted to draw a line under the scandal.Amber Rudd told the Commons that citizenship would be granted to anyone from the group of Caribbean immigrants who wanted it and applicants would qualify for compensation for their often “heartbreaking” treatment.The Home Office would waive fees, she said, and there would be no requirement for applicants to take a knowledge test
  
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• Jillian Howell death: Victim 'had bully scrawled on head'

  23-04-2018 18:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Jillian Howell, 46, was found with multiple stab wounds at her home in Brighton last October.
  
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• London court hearing in Bristol Taser case criticised

  23-04-2018 18:41
  Judah Adunbi, a former member of an independent advisory group to Avon and Somerset police, was allegedly shot by an officer with a stun gun in Bristol last year.PC Claire Boddie, of Avon and Somerset police, has denied common assault and her trial is due to be heard by the deputy senior district judge Tan Ikram next month in either Salisbury, which is 60 miles from Bristol, or Chippenham, 30 miles away.Supporters of Adunbi say confidence in the legal system would be undermined if the case is no
  
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• Windrush: UK citizenship fees and language tests waived

  23-04-2018 18:37 via bbc.co.uk
  The home secretary also promises compensation - as Labour warns against "token" compensation.
  
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