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• Why Sadio Mané bought 300 Liverpool shirts for his village in Senegal - The Guardian

  24-05-2018 23:40 via theguardian.com
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  Why Sadio Mané bought 300 Liverpool shirts for his village in Senegal
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  The forward has bought 300 shirts for his native village of Bambali, where he watched the 2005 Champions League final. 'Do not be 3-0 down' is the instruction from home. Andy Hunter. Thu 24 May 2018 17.40 EDT Last modified on Thu 24 May 2018 18.10 ...
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• #HomeToVote sees Irish people sharing their impressive journeys to the polls

  24-05-2018 23:15
  Irish people have travelled from as far as Costa Rica and Australia to vote in the eighth amendment referendum.
  
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• Schoolboys guilty of plotting Columbine-style mass killing in North Yorkshire

  24-05-2018 23:04
  Two schoolboys who plotted to kill fellow students in a Columbine-style massacre have been found guilty of conspiracy to murder.The 15-year-old boys, who cannot be named, had put together a "hit list" of fellow pupils and teachers they wanted to kill at their school in Northallerton, North Yorkshire.Both of the boys sat motionless alongside their tearful mothers as the verdicts were read out at Leeds Crown Court on Thursday.
  
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• Sister of Grenfell victim: 'My trust in this country has been destroyed'

  24-05-2018 22:42
  The sister of a woman killed in the Grenfell fire has said her trust in the UK "has been destroyed" after her closest relative died on the 23rd floor of the tower.Hayat told the Grenfell Tower inquiry that her sister Fathia Ali Ahmed Elsanosi, also known as Fathia Ahmed, had come to the UK as a refugee "seeking security and safety" from political persecution in Sudan."She felt safe here in London," Hayat said.
  
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• EU dismisses latest British ideas on Ireland after Brexit

  24-05-2018 22:35
  LONDON/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Britain's post-Brexit adaptation will run through 2020, as planned, a British government spokeswoman said on Thursday as the EU dismissed London's ideas for a longer status quo on customs and trade in a fight over the Irish border.Both sides say they want to avoid a return of border checks on the island of Ireland after Brexit, but the European Union dismisses London's idea to that end as unrealistic.The EU has hence insisted on a "backstop" plan stipulating that, shoul
  
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• Seal released after recovering from plastic air filter injury

  24-05-2018 22:04 via bbc.co.uk
  The seal named Relashio was close to death when he was rescued.
  
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• Other famous prank calls after Boris Johnson's 18-minute chat with 'Armenian prime minister' - Sky News

  24-05-2018 21:08 via news.sky.com
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  Other famous prank calls after Boris Johnson's 18-minute chat with 'Armenian prime minister'
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  Politicians, world leaders, celebrities and even the Queen have all been caught out by hoaxers over the years. 20:07, UK, Thursday 24 May 2018. The Queen was victim of a prank call in 1995. Image: The Queen was victim of a prank call in 1995. By Greg ...
  Boris Johnson duped by Russian hoaxer Alexei Stolyarov posing as Armenian PMThe Australianall 72 news articles »
  
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• This might just be the world’s best summer job

  24-05-2018 21:07
  Hot tub tester? Yes please!
  
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• UK 'chasing a fantasy' in Brexit talks, top EU official warns

  24-05-2018 20:34
  The prime minister and the UK were urged ‘to accept the consequences of their own choices’, by the EU official.The EU has accused the British government of “chasing a fantasy” and warned that it will not negotiate under threat, after a fraught week of Brexit talks in Brussels that have raised serious concerns about the future of the negotiations.The whole approach of the UK government to the discussions was castigated by a senior EU official involved, who further warned t
  
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• European autos tumble as U.S. tariff threat rattles Germans

  24-05-2018 20:33
  FRANKFURT/PARIS (Reuters) - A U.S. warning that it may introduce tariffs on foreign auto imports hit shares in German carmakers BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen, which together control more than 90 percent of the North American premium auto market.The shares fell on Thursday after President Donald Trump's administration opened a trade probe into whether vehicle imports had damaged the U.S. auto industry.
  
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• Noel Edmonds told 'this isn't a show' as he gatecrashes Lloyds AGM

  24-05-2018 20:30
  TV presenter Noel Edmonds was told "this isn't a show" as he lambasted Lloyds bosses during the bank's annual general meeting.Edmonds purchased one share at 67p so he could attend the meeting and was among 20.78% shareholders who voted against pay plans for the bank's top bosses.The former Deal or No Deal presenter is seeking compensation from the bank after allegedly falling victim to fraud by former staff at HBOS Reading, which Lloyds rescued during the financial crisis.
  
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• Walkden fire: Pair sentenced for murdering four children in petrol bomb attack

  24-05-2018 20:16
  Two men have been given life sentences for murdering four children with petrol bombs as they slept in their beds.The arson attack in Walkden, Greater Manchester, killed 15-year-old Demi Pearson, her brother Brandon, eight, and her sister Lacie, seven, on 11 December last year.Youngest child Lia, aged three, died in hospital two days after the fire despite being rescued with her mother, Michelle Pearson, who spent months in a coma and is still recovering from her injuries in hospital.
  
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• Hundreds of deaths of homeless people 'going unexamined'

  24-05-2018 20:00
  Nearly 300 homeless people have died since 2013, said the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.Hundreds of deaths of vulnerable homeless people in England and Wales are going unexamined, an investigation has found.Web scraping and freedom of information requests submitted by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) have revealed that safeguarding adults reviews (SARs) – which charities say are crucial to determining whether the deaths could have been prevented – have almost never b
  
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• 1,000 Liverpool fans have Champions League final flights cancelled

  24-05-2018 19:56
  About 1,000 fans heading to watch Liverpool play in the Champions League final in the next two days have had their flights cancelled.Three planeloads of the fans were due to fly to the Ukrainian capital, where the match is being staged on Saturday night, but Kiev airport says it does not have enough landing slots.Liverpool say the problem arose as a result of a dispute between the travel company and the aviation authorities in Kiev over the size of the aircraft.
  
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• 'They Were Expecting Me To Miscarry In My Own Home': Why This Mother Is Voting Yes To Abortion In Ireland

  24-05-2018 19:45
  Oonagh McDermott's first pregnancy, she says, was a "brutalisation".
  
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• Meet The Young Men And Women Voting To Keep Ireland's Ban On Abortion

  24-05-2018 19:38
  Ireland's abortion referendum has been cast as an identity battle between the
  
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• MI6 releases TV advert to shake off James Bond image

  24-05-2018 18:50
  MI6 has revealed that applications to join the service went up after the Salisbury poisonings as "more highly motivated candidates" came forward.It has also emerged that the UK's overseas intelligence agency will be open to recruiting the British-born children of migrant parents for the first time in its history.Previously, the parents of applicants had to have lived in the UK for a certain number of years but that will now be changed to help MI6 better reflect the diversity of modern British so
  
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• Irish border Brexit progress 'elusive', EU says after talks

  24-05-2018 18:45
  British and EU negotiators have made little progress this week on efforts to avoid a post-Brexit hard border in Ireland, a senior EU official said on Thursday."Progress so far seems elusive and substantive progress even more so," the official told reporters, saying a key problem was London's insistence on proposing solutions that would treat Northern Ireland as part of the whole United Kingdom.
  
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• Anglicans support same-sex marriage

  24-05-2018 18:42
  ‘Many clergy would like to offer weddings to all, but their hands are tied by this legislation,’ writes Priscilla Bench-Capon.It is unfair to say that same-sex marriage is “forbidden by the church [of England] despite being sanctioned by parliament” (Are you there, God?In the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, culture secretary Maria Miller imposed a “quadruple lock” on the Church of England, banning it from offering same-sex marriage without fresh pri
  
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• Yerevan calling? UK's Johnson discusses Russia with hoax caller

  24-05-2018 18:28
  Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talked international relations and rude poetry with a hoax caller who pretended to be the Armenian prime minister in a new gaffe by one of Britain's most prominent politicians.In the 18-minute call, Johnson discussed relations with Russia, the Iran nuclear deal and the Syrian war, according to audio of the call uploaded on YouTube and shared on the Twitter pages of Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus.Britain's foreign office confirmed that Johnson had bee
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn 'not advocating' Irish unity referendum

  24-05-2018 18:20
  Jeremy Corbyn is not calling for a referendum on Irish unity but highlighted how a poll could be held under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.The Labour leader has historically supported the policy but announced on Friday that he was not "advocating" a referendum on it.Under the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Secretary has the power to call a poll on whether Northern Ireland should stay aligned with Britain or become part of the Republic of Ireland.
  
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• Walkden fire: Pair jailed for life for murdering four children in petrol bomb attack

  24-05-2018 18:17
  Two men have been given life sentences for murdering four children with petrol bombs as they slept in their beds.The arson attack in Walkden, Greater Manchester, killed 15-year-old Demi Pearson, her brother Brandon, eight, and her sister Lacie, seven, on 11 December last year.Youngest child Lia, aged three, died in hospital two days after the fire, despite being rescued with her mother, Michelle Pearson, who spent months in a coma and is still recovering from her injuries in hospital.
  
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• Life sentences for men who murdered four children in arson attack

  24-05-2018 18:15
  Two men have been handed life sentences for murdering four children after they petrol bombed a family home as part of an ongoing feud with the victims’ older brother.Zak Bolland, 23, and his friend David Worrall, 25, were each convicted of four counts of murder at Manchester crown court on Thursday.Each was handed four life sentences, with Bolland told he would serve a minimum term of 40 years and Worrall serving a minimum of 37.
  
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• Doctors in Commons rally to overturn ban on medicinal cannabis

  24-05-2018 18:15
  MP Dan Poulter said case of boy being denied treatment highlights ‘absurdities about the law’.Doctors in the House of Commons are to lead a campaign to change the law banning the medicinal use of cannabis, as a new all-party parliamentary group (APPG) forms to campaign for the issue.Dan Poulter, a former health minister who still works part-time as a GP, said he had already signed up fellow Conservative Andrew Murrison, Labour’s Paul Williams, and Philippa Whitford of the Scott
  
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• Sheep stuck under river bridge is rescued by fire crews

  24-05-2018 18:09 via bbc.co.uk
  The ram was looking a little sheepish as fire service crews tried to save him from the rising tide.
  
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• UK transport minister says cost of Heathrow must be kept down

  24-05-2018 18:06
  The cost of expanding Heathrow Airport must be kept down, British transport minister Chris Grayling said on Thursday,heeding airline warnings that the airport's new runway must not be so expensive that passengers end up paying higher prices.Heathrow is Europe's busiest airport but it is now full.Grayling gave an insight into the government's position in a speech, saying the new runway should not result in passengers paying much higher ticket prices.
  
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• EU told Britain 'time-limited' backstop won't work - EU official

  24-05-2018 18:03
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union Brexit negotiators told their British counterparts this week that a suggestion from London to make a backstop solution for avoiding a hard border on Ireland "time-limited" was unacceptable.
  
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• Grandmother speaks after Walkden house fire murder convictions - The Bolton News

  24-05-2018 18:01 via theboltonnews.co.uk
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  Grandmother speaks after Walkden house fire murder convictions
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  An event took place on St Mary's Road, Walkden to remember the Pearson youngsters who died in a house fire on Jackson Street. 0 comments. THE grandmother of four children who were killed in a petrol bomb attack has spoken of her grief after two men ...and more »
  
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• 'No question I was targeted by twitter mob'

  24-05-2018 17:57 via bbc.co.uk
  The Spectator columnist says he was accused of actions by MPs that were "completely untrue, just completely malicious and false".
  
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• British army soldier tried to murder wife by sabotaging her parachute

  24-05-2018 17:49
  A British army sergeant who sabotaged his wife's parachute, causing her to plunge 4,000 feet to the ground after jumping from a plane, was found guilty on Thursday of trying to murder her.Victoria Cilliers, 41, suffered severe injuries to her spine, broke her leg, collarbone and ribs and only survived because she landed in a newly ploughed field, a court heard.Winchester Crown Court heard that, knowing his wife was planning a skydive, Cilliers had sabotaged her parachute in an airfield toilet cu
  
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• A hipster road trip through Seattle, Portland and San Francisco

  24-05-2018 17:46 via theguardian.com
  If your inner cool kid is calling out for a vacation, the west coast of America has all the microbreweries, bikes and cat yoga you needBy Christian Koch Continue reading...
  
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• Spy agency MI6 will recruit children of immigrants for first time

  24-05-2018 17:41
  Britain's foreign spy agency will allow the children of immigrants to join the organisation for the first time and willlaunch its first ever TV advert.Alex Younger, the chief of MI6 known as "C", is scrapping a rule that new recruits must have two British-born parents and they will now only need to be British born.The service is on a recruitment drive aimed at women with children and black and minority ethnic candidates to bolster the service's diversity.
  
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• Investigation launched into hoax call to UK's Johnson - May's spokeswoman

  24-05-2018 17:27
  An investigation is under way to determine how a hoax caller was able to speak to British foreign minister Boris Johnson in an 18 minute phone conversation, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday.Johnson talked international relations and rude poetry with a hoax caller who pretended to be the Armenian prime minister in an embarrassing new gaffe for one of Britain's most prominent politicians."This shouldn't have happened and an investigation is under way to determine the c
  
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• Army sergeant Emile Cilliers guilty of trying to kill wife by tampering with her parachute

  24-05-2018 17:26
  Emile Cilliers had run up debts of around £22,000 and was plotting to gain access to his wife Victoria's life insurance payout.The 38-year-old, from Amesbury, in Wiltshire, removed key parts of Mrs Cillier's reserve parachute before she took part in a 4,000ft jump at Netheravon Airfield on 5 April 2015.As a captain in the army, Mrs Cilliers had a love for skydiving.
  
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• 'Very dangerous' sergeant tampered with parachute to murder Scots wife - HeraldScotland

  24-05-2018 17:08 via heraldscotland.com
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  'Very dangerous' sergeant tampered with parachute to murder Scots wife
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  A "VERY dangerous, coercive and manipulative" Army sergeant has been found guilty of attempting to murder his wife by tampering with her parachute and sabotaging a gas valve at their home. A jury of nine men and three women convicted 38-year-old ...
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• Jaguar Land Rover Plant Workers Facing Redundancy Have Just Learnt Their Fate Through A Massive 'Data Leak'

  24-05-2018 16:58
  An apparent data breach at Jaguar Land Rover's West Midlands factory has
  
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• Brexit customs plan could cost UK aerospace/defence industry £2.3 billion - trade body

  24-05-2018 16:48
  Britain's aerospace and defence industry could face extra costs of 2.3 billion pounds ($3 billion) to comply with the customs arrangement favoured by some Brexit supporters within the cabinet, according to forecasts by trade body ADS.Britain's future customs arrangement with the European Union is a matter for debate within Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet, between those who favour a clean break with Europe and those willing to accept closer cooperation with Brussels.The customs arrangement k
  
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• Boys who plotted UK school shooting guilty of murder conspiracy

  24-05-2018 16:30
  The boys were tried at Leeds crown court.Two teenage boys have been found guilty of plotting to kill pupils and teachers at their North Yorkshire school after developing an obsession with the Columbine massacre.The boys, who were 14 when their plans were uncovered last October, intended to shoot pupils and teachers “to clear out the underclass” and had begun stockpiling bomb-making equipment to blow up the school in Northallerton, Leeds crown court heard.
  
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• BT paid chief £2.3m shortly after revealing 13,000 job cuts

  24-05-2018 16:23
  Gavin Patterson, head of BT, was praised for achieving an ‘above-target outcome’.BT has revealed it paid its chief executive, Gavin Patterson, £2.3m last year – only weeks after announcing 13,000 job cuts in a bid to slash costs at the embattled telecoms group.Patterson’s pay package included a performance bonus of £1.3m in the year to the end of March, according to the group’s annual report.
  
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• Where are the richest households in the UK?

  24-05-2018 16:16 via bbc.co.uk
  The average UK household income, after taxes and benefits are accounted for, is £19,432 per person.
  
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• Yerevan calling? Johnson discusses Russia with hoax caller in latest gaffe

  24-05-2018 16:02
  Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talked international relations and rude poetry with a hoax caller who pretended to be the Armenian Prime Minister in an embarrassing new gaffe for one of Britain's most prominent politicians.In an 18 minute call, Johnson discussed relations with Russia, the Iran nuclear deal and the Syrian war, according to audio of the call uploaded on YouTube and shared on the Twitter pages of Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus.Britain's foreign office confirmed that J
  
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• Donald Trump Cancels North Korea Summit With Bizarre Letter To Kim Jong-Un

  24-05-2018 15:51
  Donald Trump has called off the historic summit between the US and North
  
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• Coach watched porn with Newcastle United youth players, court hears

  24-05-2018 15:48
  The former Newcastle United coach George Ormond arrives at Newcastle crown court earlier this week.Teenage boys in Newcastle United’s youth football teams were sexually abused by a coach who was working for the club as a “driver, kit man and gopher”, a jury has been told.George Ormond is alleged to have abused boys while they were staying at a hotel organised by Newcastle United, the prosecuting barrister, Sharon Beattie, told Newcastle crown court.
  
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• Investors attack Lloyds Bank over mistreatment of customers

  24-05-2018 15:47
  Britain's Lloyds Banking Group faced a barrage of allegations of poor customer service and withholding misconduct compensation on Thursday, laying bare the task of rebuilding customer trust after years of reputational damage.Shareholders of the UK's biggest commercial and retail lender were quick to go on the attack at the bank's annual general meeting, venting their anger over issues from fraud to the mistreatment of small businesses and the rates it charges "vulnerable" mortgage borrowers.A li
  
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• Yulia Skripal: 'I'm lucky to have survived'

  24-05-2018 15:35
  Yulia Skripal has said she feels lucky to have survived being poisoned and that she would one day like to return home to Russia.
  
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• Boris Johnson holds 18-minute phone call with hoax Armenian prime minister

  24-05-2018 15:33
  Boris Johnson held an 18-minute phone call with a prankster claiming to be the Armenian prime minister.The pair talked about Russia, Vladimir Putin and the Salisbury poisoning during the conversation, audio released on Thursday revealed.Mr Johnson began by congratulating the hoax caller "very sincerely on your remarkable success", believing he was talking to the newly-elected Armenian leader Nikol Pashinyan.
  
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• Uber will soon detail plan to stop using diesel cars in London

  24-05-2018 15:28
  Uber [UBER.UL] said it will provide more information in the coming weeks on how it plans to stop diesel using cars in London and of a proposed scrappage scheme, as the court date nears for the taxi app to defend its right to operate in London nears.The Silicon Valley firm said in September it will stop using diesel cars in London by the end of 2019 and that the vast majority of rides will be in electric or hybrid vehicles by then."In the coming weeks we’ll set out more details of our plan
  
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• Boris Johnson Pranked By Russians Posing As Armenian PM To Discuss Salisbury Poisoning

  24-05-2018 15:27
  Boris Johnson has been pranked by two Russians posing as the recently-
  
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• Army sergeant Emile Cilliers guilty of tampering with wife's parachute

  24-05-2018 15:21
  Emile Cilliers had run up debts of around £22,000 and was plotting to gain access to his wife Victoria's life insurance payout.The 38-year-old, from Amesbury, removed key parts of Mrs Cillier's reserve parachute before she took part in a 4,000ft jump at Netheravon Airfield, in Wiltshire, on 5 April 2015.As a Captain in the army, Mrs Cilliers had a love for skydiving.
  
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• No extra time; UK says Brexit transition will end in December 2020

  24-05-2018 15:14
  LONDON/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Britain will end its implementation period with the European Union after Brexit in December 2020, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday, denying a media report that the government was seeking a new transition until 2023.The spokeswoman repeated Britain's stance that the transition period would end in December 2020 after The Times newspaper reported that May would propose another transition covering customs and trade to run from 2021 until 2023 to
  
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