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• Victoria Pendleton pulls out of Everest bid after suffering oxygen deficiency

  04-05-2018 23:27
  Former Olympic cyclist Victoria Pendleton has had to hit the brakes on her climb up Mount Everest because of health concerns."I am incredibly disappointed not to complete the challenge and frustrated as I feel in great physical condition and was moving swiftly and efficiently through the icefall and across the glacier.Pendleton and Fogle - along with mountaineer Kenton Cool - had taken on the challenge for the British Red Cross to raise awareness about the environmental challenges the 8,848 metr
  
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• This video of a woman juggling with herself will make you dizzy

  04-05-2018 23:19
  Yep – she juggles with herself.
  
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• Ex-MP Harvey Proctor sues Met Police over child sex abuse claims

  04-05-2018 23:03
  Former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor has told Sky News he is taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police and a man who accused him of historical child sex abuse allegations.Fighting back tears and with his voice breaking, Mr Proctor said: "The police have destroyed my life.Mr Proctor was identified as a suspect during Operation Midland.
  
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• Lib Dems mount mini fightback in local elections

  04-05-2018 22:14
  The Liberal Democrats leader Vince Cable says his party had shown it ‘can win anywhere’ and claims ‘a return to three-party politics’ in light of the local election results.Liberal Democrats pulled off a string of surprising victories overnight, netting three councils from the Conservatives, as the party’s leader Vince Cable said experts had “underestimated” his party’s resilience.It won two key councils in south-west London, building on gains in l
  
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• Wanted fugitive Jamie Acourt arrested in Barcelona

  04-05-2018 22:09
  Jamie Acourt, one of Britain's most wanted fugitives, has been captured in Barcelona during a joint police operation.The 41-year-old, from south London, was arrested by armed officers after he left the Metropolitan Sagrada Familia Gym on Friday afternoon.The NCA and the Spanish authorities, in partnership with Crimestoppers, had pursued him through Operation Captura, a joint initiative which has now located 81 of 96 wanted fugitives.
  
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• BREAKING: Jamie Acourt, one of UK's most wanted fugitives, captured in Barcelona

  04-05-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  JAMIE Acourt, one of Britain’s most wanted fugitives, has been arrested in Spain, the National Crime Agency has said.
  
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• 'You’re flip-flopping!' Thornberry ENRAGED as Tory Brexiteer tells her HARD truth

  04-05-2018 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXITEER Minister Dominic Raab infuriated Labour frontbencher Emily Thornberry after he said he will not accept lectures from the “flip-flopping” Labour Party.
  
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• Warmer than the Costa del Sol! UK set for 27C on bank holiday Monday

  04-05-2018 21:27
  Long journeys this bank holiday weekend could be well worth the slog, with temperatures of 27C (80F) forecast in some areas.Almost three million car journeys are predicted for Friday evening, as Britons hit the road ahead of what forecasters believe could be the hottest early-May bank holiday Monday in nearly two decades.It is set to be even warmer than the French Riviera and the Costa del Sol, with 8.5 million car journeys forecast between Friday and Monday.
  
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• May and Corbyn strike positive note after local elections

  04-05-2018 21:20
  Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have both talked up the performances of their parties following the local election results.Fears of a difficult set of results for the Tories proved unfounded, as they managed to hold on to a number of London councils and make gains in Brexit-supporting areas of the North and Midlands, suffering a net loss of 30 seats.There were bright spots for Labour - including its best performance in London since 1971 and victories in Kirklees and Plymouth - but the party failed
  
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• THOUSANDS of Britons owed £120 by bungling energy suppliers who got their sums wrong

  04-05-2018 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  THOUSANDS of British households are owed £120 after bungling energy suppliers got their sums wrong.
  
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• Breast cancer screening hotline staffed by people with only an hour's training

  04-05-2018 21:00
  Medics screen scans for breast cancer.A helpline set up by the government for women affected by an IT failure has been criticised by its staff.Distraught women contacting the government’s breast cancer screening hotline are being connected with call-handlers who have had only one hour’s training and are relying on a cheat sheet of symptoms, the Guardian has learned.
  
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• Skygazers await shooting stars as Earth passes through dust of Halley's Comet

  04-05-2018 20:46
  Skygazers will get the chance to see several shooting stars next week as Earth passes through dust left over from Halley's Comet.The "Eta Aquariid" meteor shower can be seen between late April and May every year, and is expected to be at peak visibility over the bank holiday weekend.Meteoroids from Halley's Comet strike the Earth's atmosphere at roughly 150,000 miles per hour (240,000kph) and burn up in the process.
  
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• New cars must do at least 50 miles using electric power by 2040 - report

  04-05-2018 20:40
  Industry publication Autocar reported that a Government "ban" on such cars would be enforced from 2040 as part of the Road To Zero Strategy.If manufacturers comply, most hybrid cars on sale today, including the Toyota Prius, will no longer be available to buy new.The news follows the Government's announcement last year that it would ban all diesel and petrol cars in the UK by 2040.
  
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• REVEALED: The heartbreaking order Harry and William were told before Diana's funeral walk

  04-05-2018 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  PRINCES Harry and William were heartbreakingly ordered not to cry at their mother Princess Diana’s funeral by a stern Prince Charles.
  
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• Fifty live crocodiles seized at Heathrow Airport

  04-05-2018 20:21
  An illegal shipment of 50 live crocodiles has been seized by border officials at Heathrow Airport.The one-year-old saltwater reptiles, each measuring around a foot long, were stuffed in five boxes that arrived from Malaysia.The individual cases only had room for four crocodiles, but 10 of the animals were packed into each one.
  
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• Local elections: May and Corbyn strike positive note after mixed night for Conservatives and Labour

  04-05-2018 20:15
  Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn both talked up the performances of their parties following a mixed night for the Conservatives and Labour in the local elections.Fears of a difficult set of results for the Tories proved unfounded, as they managed to hold onto a number of London councils and make gains in Brexit-supporting areas of the North and Midlands.There were bright spots for Labour - including its best performance in London since 1971 and victories in Kirklees and Plymouth - but the party fai
  
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• Czechs tested Novichok-like substance for chemical warfare protection - government

  04-05-2018 20:02
  Nerve agents of the Novichok type though not the same as that used to poison a former Russian spy in Britain have been synthesised in tiny amounts in the Czech Republic to help train the army against chemical warfare, the government said.The Czech Republic had been listed among others by Russia as potential source of the Novichok-like substance that left ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in critical condition in the English city of Salisbury on March 4.The Czech Defence Minis
  
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• Local elections: neither Corbyn nor May able to break poll deadlock

  04-05-2018 19:56
  Theresa May meets party supporters in Dudley, which was held by the Tories.Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May both sought to put a brave face on local council results that suggested neither can break the electoral deadlock that delivered a hung parliament last June.For Labour, setbacks in the Midlands and a failure to live up to sky-high expectations in the capital, where it had set its sights on Wandsworth and Westminster, took the shine off an unexpected victory in Plymouth.
  
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• Local elections: Corbyn and May find neither can break electoral deadlock

  04-05-2018 19:56
  Theresa May meets party supporters in Dudley, which was held by the Tories.Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May both sought to put a brave face on local council results that suggested neither can break the electoral deadlock that delivered a hung parliament last June.For Labour, setbacks in the Midlands and a failure to live up to sky-high expectations in the capital, where it had set its sights on Wandsworth and Westminster, took the shine off an unexpected victory in Plymouth.
  
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• Labour MP: 'We've had good and mixed results'

  04-05-2018 19:35
  Labour MP: 'We've had good results, and mixed results'
  
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• Hemsby home dragged back from crumbling cliff

  04-05-2018 19:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Lance Martin's property was three feet away from falling to the beach below.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn 'CANCELS Labour victory parade in Barnet' after local election FLOP

  04-05-2018 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  JEREMY CORBYN was reportedly planning a victory parade to celebrate taking control of Barnet council but was forced to cancel it when the Conservatives won, chair of the Jewish Leadership Council Jonathan Goldstein has revealed.
  
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• Barnet Labour councillor says Corbyn's anti-Semitism row influenced election results

  04-05-2018 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  A FORMER Labour Party councillor has claimed Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-Semitism row influenced election results, particularly in London target council Barnet.
  
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• New Labour mayor Rokhsana Fiaz plots referendum on her role

  04-05-2018 19:25
  A newly elected Labour mayor is planning to hold a referendum on whether her London constituency even needs somebody in the role.
  
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• Qatar steps in to rescue Rosneft's troubled stake sale to China

  04-05-2018 19:18
  LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Qatar is taking a stake in Rosneftof nearly 19 percent, rescuing the Russian oil major from its stalled deal to sell a major stake to China's CEFC.The deal strengthens ties between Moscow and Doha at a time Qatar when is facing boycott by its Gulf Arab neighbours.Qatar's sovereign investment fund QIA initially bought 19.5 percent in Rosneft together with Swiss trading giant Glencorefor 10.2 billion euros (9 billion pounds) during the Russian firm's partial privatisation
  
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• Local election results 2018: Parties fail to make decisive gains

  04-05-2018 19:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May focus on their successes on a mixed night which sees their parties level-pegging in share of votes.
  
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• Donald Trump 'expected to visit Scotland'

  04-05-2018 19:09 via bbc.co.uk
  The BBC understands current plans for the US president's trip to the UK include a visit to Scotland.
  
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• Air France unions keep May 7-8 strike call after pay deal rejected

  04-05-2018 19:05
  PARIS (Reuters) - Air France unions on Friday said they were maintaining a strike call for next Monday and Tuesday after staff rejected a pay deal and the company's CEO said he would resign.
  
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• Labour anti-Semitism crisis: Holocaust survivor blasts Corbyn over row as he receives MBE

  04-05-2018 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  A JEWISH holocaust survivor who was today honoured by the Queen has lashed out at Jeremy Corbyn over his handling of the anti-Semitism row which has dogged the Labour party.
  
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• Police force introduces 'gender-neutral hats' as they break 37-year tradition

  04-05-2018 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  A POLICE force has become one of the first constabularies in the country to introduce “gender-neutral hats”.
  
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• 50 crocodiles seized at Heathrow airport

  04-05-2018 18:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Border officers confiscated the year-old reptiles because they were not being transported correctly.
  
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• Yorkshire teenager wanted to copy Natural Born Killers, court told

  04-05-2018 18:14
  The judge at Leeds crown court called for a break when the defendant became visibly distressed.The ex-girlfriend of a teenager accused of plotting to kill his teachers and fellow pupils told police that life with him became a “living hell” as he became obsessed with the Columbine massacre and killing her parents, a court heard.The girl, who cannot be identified, told officers how the 14-year-old boy wanted them to emulate Mickey and Mallory Knox, the lead characters of the 1994 film
  
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• Irish border backup plan suggests checks at ports and airports after Brexit

  04-05-2018 18:12
  The proposal is described as ‘infinitely preferable’ to a hard land border on the island of Ireland.A backup plan to impose border checks on trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK at ports and airports to avoid a hard border with the Republic of Ireland after Brexit has been drafted by senior civil servants.The proposal is described as “infinitely preferable” to a hard land border on the island of Ireland and the risk of a return to violence.
  
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• Hottest early May Bank Holiday Monday expected

  04-05-2018 18:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Parts of England could reach 27C on Monday - breaking the record of 23.6C set in 1999.
  
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• Brexit plan drawn up for border checks between NI and rest of UK

  04-05-2018 18:12
  The proposal is described as ‘infinitely preferable’ to a hard land border on the island of Ireland.A backup plan to impose border checks on trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK at ports and airports to avoid a hard border with the Republic of Ireland after Brexit has been drafted by senior civil servants.The proposal is described as “infinitely preferable” to a hard land border on the island of Ireland and the risk of a return to violence.
  
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• Let them eat nothing: on this Harry, Meghan and Sajid Javid agree

  04-05-2018 18:10
  Most notably in his enthusiasm for the American Ayn Rand, whose best known books The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged were written in the 1950s.Not only was Rand a notoriously unpleasant woman – few people who had the misfortune to meet her had a good word to say about her – and her books clunkingly badly written, but her fiction is a barely disguised mouthpiece for her Nietzschean, some might say borderline Nazi, belief that the weak and the frail deserve every misfortune that comes
  
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• BT to announce THOUSANDS of job cuts in bid to save whopping £500million

  04-05-2018 18:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  BT is planning to cut thousands of jobs next week in a bid to save an eye-watering £500million over the next three years, it is claimed.
  
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• Tory Brexiters believe local election results are vindication

  04-05-2018 17:57
  Conservative Brexiters have seized on the party’s local election results as a vindication of their hard line on the customs union, presaging the argument cabinet ministers are likely to make next week when the Brexit subcommittee meets to try and break the deadlock.The biggest Tory successes were outside London in areas where Labour should be challenging to win parliamentary seats.“Jeremy Corbyn has been abandoned in many leave areas – his pledge to stay in the customs union me
  
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• Henry Vincent funeral cost YOU estimated £15,000 to police

  04-05-2018 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  A CHAOTIC funeral for career criminal Henry Vincent which saw violence flare as eggs and rocks were thrown is estimated to have cost the British taxpayer a whopping £15,000 in policing payments.
  
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• This New Zealand beer advert is unpredictable in the most wonderful way

  04-05-2018 17:54
  Speight’s brewery has done away with ‘blokey’ stereotypes.
  
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• Royal wedding: Meghan Markle's father to walk her down aisle

  04-05-2018 17:47 via bbc.co.uk
  All of Ms Markle's bridesmaids will be children, according to new details released about the wedding.
  
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• Paradise Papers: BBC, Guardian and Appleby agree settlement

  04-05-2018 17:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Appleby, the Guardian and the BBC say differences have been resolved over the leaked documents.
  
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• Breast cancer risk increases with age

  04-05-2018 17:40
  A radiologist examines mammograms. Photograph: Burger/Phanie / Rex Features
  
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• Standing up for transsexual rights

  04-05-2018 17:39
  There are fears over the proposed removal of safeguards from the Gender Recognition Act. Photograph: David Bank/Getty Images
  
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• Russian spy poisoning: Watchdog backtracks over Novichok amount

  04-05-2018 17:37 via bbc.co.uk
  An official statement from the watchdog contradicted information given by its director general.
  
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• ‘This made me chuckle' Andrew Neil mocks 'the Owen Jones effect' at local elections

  04-05-2018 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  COLUMNIST and Momentum supporter Owen Jones has been widely mocked after his attempt to 'unseat the Tories' in key council seats across the capital ended in a disappointing night for Labour.
  
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• Reading elects one of the youngest councillors in UK

  04-05-2018 17:24 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour's Ellie Emberson is one of the youngest councillors elected in the country.
  
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• Exposed and dependent - Germany desperate to avoid trade war

  04-05-2018 17:24
  As Europe's biggest exporter to the United States and with more than 1 million German jobs at stake, Germany is desperate to avoid a European Union trade war with the United States.In the run-up to a June 1 deadline for U.S. President Donald Trump to impose steel and aluminium tariffs on the EU, Berlin is urging its European partners to show some flexibility and pursue a broad trade deal that benefits both sides.
  
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• Unite's McCluskey survives challenge over his leadership election win

  04-05-2018 17:23
  The head of Britain's biggest union has survived an attempt to force a rerun of the election that saw him reinstated as leader last year.Len McCluskey, leader of Unite, was re-elected to his post after enjoying a narrow win over Gerard Coyne, who was the union's regional officer for the West Midlands.Mr Coyne, who was since been removed from his role, complained that Mr McCluskey had breached election rules by calling the contest, even though there was no vacancy for the job of general secretary
  
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• Moet the lawn? Essex couple mark lottery win with champagne garden design

  04-05-2018 17:23
  A couple who won £3m on a scratchcard have spent three days mowing a celebratory champagne bottle and two glasses into their lawn.Sue Richards, 51, and her partner Barry Maddox, 58, won the prize two years ago and moved into their dream home in Billericay, Essex.It took three days of work as well as advice from a man the couple have only referred to as "Mr Lawn".
  
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