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• Bank Holiday Monday flood warnings as travel disruption expected

  27-05-2018 23:43
  Bank Holiday flood warnings have been issued for parts of the UK with people told to expect thunder and lightning on Monday morning.Families are set to face treacherous conditions as they return home from getaways after the long weekend, as forecasters predict heavy rain and strong winds will batter parts of England and Wales.A Met Office yellow warning, which advises people to expect flooding and disruption to travel services, will be in place from midnight to 6am on Monday.
  
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• Loris Karius: Death threats to Liverpool goalkeeper looked into by police

  27-05-2018 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Merseyside Police says it is aware of death threats made to Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius after the Champions League final.
  
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• Storms cause heavy flooding in Birmingham

  27-05-2018 22:56 via bbc.co.uk
  West Midlands Police is warning people to avoid driving in the city.
  
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• Biggest Weekend: Taylor Swift plays the hits then runs in Swansea

  27-05-2018 22:15 via bbc.co.uk
  The US pop star plays a brief, but hit-packed, show at the BBC Music Biggest Weekend festival.
  
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• US officials enter North Korea to prepare for summit - Financial Times

  27-05-2018 22:12 via ft.com
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  US officials enter North Korea to prepare for summit
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  US officials have crossed over into North Korea for bilateral talks, raising hopes that the Singapore summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un could still take place despite days of diplomatic ups and downs. Mr Trump, who last week called off his ...
  Trump: North Korea has 'brilliant potential' as US team arrives at borderSky News
  US officials meet with North Koreans despite uncertainty surrounding Trum
  
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• MPs call for Theresa May to permit poll on abortion in Northern Ireland - The Guardian

  27-05-2018 21:35 via theguardian.com
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  MPs call for Theresa May to permit poll on abortion in Northern Ireland
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  Theresa May was facing growing demands to allow a referendum on relaxing the abortion laws in Northern Ireland on Sunday after signalling that she will not risk alienating her DUP allies by letting MPs settle the matter with a parliamentary vote.
  Theresa May faces prospect of government rift over calls to scrap Northern Ireland abortion banThe Independent
  Labour pressures Theresa May over Northern
  
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• 'Mind-reading' headset allows viewers to change plot of new film

  27-05-2018 21:22
  During the movie, called The Moment, viewers wear an electroencephalogram (EEG) headset.With different versions of each scene having been filmed, there are potentially trillions of routes through the narrative, in which its characters fight for survival in a dystopian future.PhD researcher Richard Ramchurn, the film's director, explained: "The headset reads really tiny electrical signals generated by the firing of neurons in your brain.
  
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• Mother's drug warning after daughter's festival death

  27-05-2018 20:38
  Georgia Jones, 18, had a "45-minute fit" and was taken to hospital after "taking two pills" at the Hampshire music event on Saturday.Another person is in a critical condition and 12 others have been treated at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth after the first night of the Mutiny Festival.Georgia's mother Janine Milburn has posted a plea on Facebook for people not to take drugs, adding that she hopes her message stops others from "ending up the same".
  
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• Mutiny Festival death: Mum's grief at losing 'little girl'

  27-05-2018 20:37 via bbc.co.uk
  Janine Milburn hopes the death of her "little girl" at a festival will deter others from taking drugs.
  
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• Chris Froome wins Giro d'Italia to claim historic Grand Tour treble

  27-05-2018 19:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Chris Froome becomes the first Briton to win the Giro d'Italia and only the seventh man to claim all three Grand Tour titles.
  
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• Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius sent death threats after Champions League blunders

  27-05-2018 18:39
  Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius has received abuse and death threats on social media after his nightmare performance in the Champions League final.Fans blame the blundering player's errors for Liverpool's 3-1 defeat against Real Madrid.Karius broke down in tears at the final whistle, admitted his mistakes and made a heartfelt apology to fans for letting them and the team down.
  
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• Foster: Republic's abortion referendum 'has no impact upon law in Northern Ireland'

  27-05-2018 18:23
  The Irish Republic's abortion referendum result "has no impact upon the law in Northern Ireland", according to DUP leader Arlene Foster.In her first comments since voters south of the border overwhelmingly backed relaxing abortion laws, Ms Foster said it was for the Northern Ireland Assembly to "debate and decide" whether to follow suit on what was a "devolved issue".The result in Friday's poll has sparked calls for Theresa May to reform the laws in Northern Ireland and act in the absence of a d
  
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• Teenager who died at musical festival named as Georgia Jones, Sky sources say

  27-05-2018 18:19
  One of two people who diedat the Mutiny Festival has been named as 18-year-old Georgia Jones.It comes as festival organisers warned of a "bad batch" of drugs at the annual two-day music gathering, with 15 revellers having attended hospital after the first night.Georgia became unwell just after 7pm on Saturday and was taken to the Queen Alexandra Hospital where she later died.
  
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• Gay marriage and the church

  27-05-2018 17:59
  Priscilla Bench-Capon blames the then government for exempting the Anglican church from the legal obligation to offer same-sex marriage (Letters, 25 May).Since its inception in Tudor times, the established church has been forbidden to have canon law contrary to the secular law of the land.David Cameron wanted to “fast track” gay marriage, not fully appreciating that the process for amending canon law was lengthy and complex.
  
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• Teen murder victim Louis-Ryan Menezes 'stabbed in chest'

  27-05-2018 17:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Three people who had been arrested in connection with the death have been released without charge.
  
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• Jacob Rees-Mogg urges Theresa May to get tough with Brussels on Brexit

  27-05-2018 17:24
  A prominent Brexiteer has urged Theresa May to toughen her stance in talks with Brussels after making "errors" in her negotiating strategy.Jacob Rees-Mogg, who is leader of the influential European Research Group of Conservative MPs, said there was "no menace in me at all" over his actions.The MP for North East Somerset also said it had be an error on the prime minister's part to rule out the prospect of unilaterally keeping an open Irish border post-Brexit.
  
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• Derbyshire drug dealer's mansion disguised as shed seized

  27-05-2018 17:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Alan Yeomans was jailed for six-and-a-half years for drugs and money laundering offences.
  
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• 'Shocking' rise in coroner warnings over NHS patient deaths, says Labour

  27-05-2018 17:06
  The number of legal warnings issued by coroners over patient deaths in England attributed to NHS resourcing issues has risen by 40% in three years.There were 42 prevention of future death reports (PFDs) relating to issues such as lack of beds, staff shortages and insufficiently trained agency staff in 2016 compared with 30 in 2013.Jeremy Hunt has claimed patient safety as his watchword, yet the truth is that more deaths are being blamed on a lack of resources in the NHS.
  
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• Reece Williams charged with 'brutal' murder of Marcel Campbell in north London

  27-05-2018 16:51
  Police have charged a 22-year-old man with murder after a 30-year-old was stabbed to death on a busy street in north London.In the latest in an increasingly long line of fatal incidents in the capital this year, Marcel Campbell was attacked in broad daylight in Upper Street, Islington, on 21 May.Officers responded to the "brutal attack" at around 6.30pm, which took the number of people thought to have been killed by gun and knife crime in London this year to 64.
  
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• Liverpool fans 'devastated' after loss

  27-05-2018 16:40
  Liverpool fans 'devastated' after loss
  
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• Missing Serena Alexander-Benson, 13, believed to be in Poland

  27-05-2018 16:39
  A missing girl who failed to turn up to school in Wimbledon on Friday has travelled to Poland, police believe.Serena Alexander-Benson, 13, told her father she was going to school when she left their south-west London home at 7.50am on Friday.In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: "Active lines of inquiry are being pursued by officers, working with the National Crime Agency and the Polish authorities.
  
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• Liverpool goalie Loris Karius sent death threats after Champions League blunders

  27-05-2018 16:39
  Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius has received abuse and death threats on social media after his nightmare performance in the Champions League final.Fans blame the blundering keeper's errors for Liverpool's 3-1 defeat against Real Madrid.Karius broke down in tears at the final whistle, admitted his mistakes and made a heartfelt apology to fans for letting them and the team down.
  
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• May refuses to relax Northern Ireland abortion rules

  27-05-2018 16:37
  British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a showdown with ministers and members of parliament in her Conservative party after refusing to back reform of Northern Ireland's highly restrictive abortion rules after neighbouring Ireland's vote to liberalise its laws.Voters in Ireland, a once deeply Catholic nation, backed the change by two-to-one, a far higher margin than any opinion poll in the run up to the vote had predicted.The prime minister is facing calls from within her cabinet to scrap the s
  
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• Busking goes cashless with 'a world first' for London

  27-05-2018 16:37 via bbc.co.uk
  London introduces a contactless payment scheme for buskers that allows tap-to-pay donations.
  
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• Police trial AI software to help process mobile phone evidence

  27-05-2018 16:36
  A suspect has his pockets searched by police officers near Elephant and Castle station in London.Artificial intelligence software capable of interpreting images, matching faces and analysing patterns of communication is being piloted by UK police forces to speed up examination of mobile phones seized in crime investigations.Cellebrite, the Israeli-founded and now Japanese-owned company behind some of the software, claims a wider rollout would solve problems over failures to disclose crucial digi
  
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• What Elon Musk and George Soros can teach us about media credibility

  27-05-2018 15:00
  Elon Musk is mooting a media credibility rating website.After a few negative headlines about his electric car company, Tesla, Musk took exception to an investigation by Reveal, website for the Center for Investigative Reporting, into the number of unreported injuries.
  
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• Ethiopia pardons abducted Briton on death row

  27-05-2018 14:30
  Last year Boris Johnson said he would not intervene in the case of Andargachew Tsege, above, despite being urged to so by top lawyers.A Briton who has spent four years on death row in Ethiopia after being abducted at an airport in Yemen has been pardoned.Andargachew Tsege, an opponent of the regime in Addis Ababa, first came to the UK in 1979.
  
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• After Ireland says Yes to abortion, what next for Northern Ireland?

  27-05-2018 14:18 via bbc.co.uk
  The successful campaign to repeal Ireland's Eighth Amendment turns to face the north.
  
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• Labour's Tom Watson Reveals Secret Behind Dramatic Weight Loss

  27-05-2018 14:03
  Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson is no longer such a political heavyweight
  
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• Abortion laws in Northern Ireland are 'unsustainable', shadow minister says

  27-05-2018 14:00
  A senior shadow minister has declared abortion laws in Northern Ireland "unsustainable", as Theresa May faces calls to act in the wake of the Irish referendum.Labour's Jonathan Ashworth told Sky's Ridge on Sunday that women in Northern Ireland "should have the same rights" as those in the rest of Ireland.The Republic overwhelmingly backed relaxing abortion laws in a referendum on Friday, with more than 65% voting in favour.
  
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• London's Stansted has flights disrupted by lightning strike

  27-05-2018 13:53
  London's Stansted airport delayed, diverted and cancelled some flights after a lightning strike on an aircraft fuelling system during storms that unleashed more than 64,000 thunderbolts.British skies were lit up by the electric storms overnight and there were reports of flooding and homes left without power after torrential rain.Stansted is London's third-busiest airport and is a key hub for the discount airline Ryanair, which said that its customers could get a full refund.
  
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• Why the chances of change in NI abortion law remain slim

  27-05-2018 13:43
  There's going to be a lot of focus on Northern Ireland and their abortion regime over the next few days and weeks.While that discussion takes place, it's worth remembering that the laws which govern abortion in the UK overall are also rather unusual by international standards.What is the law on abortion in the UK outside Northern Ireland?
  
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• Jacob Rees-Mogg urges May to revive her no-deal threat to Brussels

  27-05-2018 13:27
  Jacob Rees-Mogg has urged Theresa May to revive her threat to leave the EU without a deal if Brussels continues to take an uncompromising approach in the Brexit negotiations.Rees-Mogg, the chair of the European Research Group, which represents about 60 of the most pro-Brexit Conservative MPs, used an interview on Sunday on BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show to claim that the UK could be more intransigent because it was in a much stronger negotiating position than people realised.Despite being
  
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• Fears For Safety Of Young Orphan, 10, If He Is Deported

  27-05-2018 13:14
  An orphaned 10-year-old boy would be put in danger if he is deported to the
  
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• Where are England's 10 national parks?

  27-05-2018 12:33 via bbc.co.uk
  England could be adding to its 10 current national parks after a review was announced.
  
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• Thunderstorms deliver more than 60,000 lightning strikes across UK

  27-05-2018 12:33
  Electric storms have swept through the UK, creating dramatic skyscapes worthy of a Hollywood film.After a sunny start to the Bank Holiday weekend, with temperatures reaching 27C (80.6F), Saturday's balmy evening eventually broke into a violent thunderstorm accompanied by heavy rain.The UK was struck by lightning more than 60,000 times in 24 hours, according to the Met Office.
  
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• New National Parks: Michael Gove Has Some Big Proposals For 70-Year-Old System

  27-05-2018 12:27
  A new wave of national parks could be created after Environment Secretary
  
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• May faces calls to relax Northern Ireland abortion rules

  27-05-2018 12:23
  British Prime Minister Theresa May faced demands from ministers and members of parliament in her Conservative party to reform Northern Ireland's highly restrictive abortion rules after neighbouring Ireland's vote to liberalise its laws.Voters in Ireland, a once deeply Catholic nation, backed the change by two-to-one, a far higher margin than any opinion poll in the run up to the vote had predicted.Penny Mordaunt, Britain's women and equalities minister, said that the victory to legalise abortion
  
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• Stansted brought to partial standstill after thunderstorms hit UK

  27-05-2018 12:11
  Lightning is seen over London.Flights from Stansted airport have been delayed, diverted and cancelled after a major thunderstorm battered the UK with up to 20,000 bolts of lightning.Hundreds of homes were left without power after the humid bank holiday weather broke into an intense four-hour storm across the south of the country late on Saturday night.
  
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• Thunderstorms deliver up to 20,000 lightning strikes across UK

  27-05-2018 11:59
  Electric storms have swept through the UK, creating dramatic skyscapes worthy of a Hollywood film.After a sunny start to the Bank Holiday weekend, with temperatures reaching 27C (80.6F), Saturday's balmy evening eventually broke into a violent thunderstorm accompanied by heavy rain.The UK was struck by lightning between 15,000 and 20,000 times, according to Met Office meteorologist Charlie Powell.
  
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• Electrical storms light up UK skies

  27-05-2018 11:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Some of the best footage of last night's light show and the 15,000 lightning strikes that came with it.
  
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• Mutiny Festival cancelled as 'safety precaution' after man and woman die

  27-05-2018 11:37
  Sunday's events at Mutiny Festival have been cancelled following the deaths of an 18-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man.The woman became unwell just after 7pm on Saturday and was taken to Queen Alexandra Hospital where she later died.The man was found collapsed around half an hour later, also dying at Queen Alexandra Hospital later that evening.
  
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• Refugees 'Having Chemotherapy Stopped' Amid Confusion Over NHS Charging Rules

  27-05-2018 10:59
  Asylum seekers suffering from cancer are having chemotherapy stopped mid-way
  
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• London buskers first in world to be paid with contactless cards

  27-05-2018 10:31
  A contactless payment scheme is to be introduced for buskers in London in what is being described as a world first.Performers will be handed readers that allow them to set a fixed amount of money to donate and accept contactless payments from passers-by.The Busk in London project, a Mayor of London initiative that has partnered with tech company iZettle, will allow street musicians across the capital to accept payments via cash, contactless cards, wearable technology and chip and pin.
  
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• Flights delayed after lightning strike at Stansted Airport

  27-05-2018 10:14
  Flights are delayed at Stansted Airport after lightning hit the aircraft fuelling system, leaving planes unable to refuel.
  
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• Mutiny Festival Deaths: Two Die After Falling Ill At Portsmouth Event

  27-05-2018 09:52
  An 18-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man have died after falling ill at the
  
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• Mutiny Festival Deaths: Event Cancelled As Two Die After Falling Ill

  27-05-2018 09:52
  The Mutiny Festival in Portsmouth has been cancelled after an 18-year-old
  
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• UK Weather Forecast: Huge Disruption Caused By Thunderstorms

  27-05-2018 09:30
  Warnings have been issued as intense lightning and thunderstorms look set to
  
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• Investment In Fossil Fuels And Tobacco By MPs' Pension Fund Soars

  27-05-2018 09:12
  Eco-campaigners have reacted with fury after it emerged fossil fuel and
  
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• ‘We need reform of the NHS to avoid a decade of misery’

  27-05-2018 09:00
  As a cross-party group of MPs who have come together to campaign for a new settlement for the NHS and social care, we welcomed last week’s report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the Health Foundation.The IFS report, commissioned by the NHS Confederation, offers a robust and credible analysis of the pressure this will place on the NHS and care system, which is already stretched to the limit, and of the implications for public spending on these services.
  
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