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• 'Brexit' cash and taxpayer wallets to fund NHS cash boost

  16-06-2018 23:43
  The NHS will receive an extra £20bn a year in real terms funding by 2024, Prime Minister Theresa May has agreed.Mrs May is setting out the five-year budget to mark the 70th anniversary of the health service and says the extra money will come from what is being termed a "Brexit dividend"."As the prime minister announces a historic long-term funding boost and 10-year plan for the health service, we are backing the NHS to show the world what a cutting-edge 21st century healthcare system can l
  
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• May to unveil £20bn a year boost to NHS spending

  16-06-2018 23:30
  Theresa May to announce cash boost for NHS by 2023-24.Taxpayers are to be asked to help fund a £20bn a year injection of extra cash into the National Health Service by 2023-24 that will pay for thousands more doctors and nurses, while cutting cancer deaths and improving mental health services, Theresa May will say today.The announcement, before the NHS’s 70th birthday next month, will represent the biggest funding boost since Gordon Brown imposed a one percentage point rise in Nation
  
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• Leave. EU faces new questions over contacts with Russia

  16-06-2018 22:29
  A leader of the Leave.EU campaign suggested sending a “message of support” to the Russian ambassador after the then foreign secretary made a speech that was critical of Russia, documents seen by the Observer suggest.The material also appears to show that Andy Wigmore, spokesman for the Leave.EU campaign and the business partner of Arron Banks, the biggest funder of Brexit, passed confidential legal documents to high-ranking officials at the Russian embassy and then denied it to parli
  
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• Alfie Dingley: Government Faces Growing Pressure To Allow Second Boy Access To Medical Cannabis

  16-06-2018 21:59
  The government is facing mounting pressure to extend an unprecedented decision
  
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• Alfie Dingley: Government Faces Growing Pressure To Allow Second Boy Access To Cannabis Oil

  16-06-2018 21:59
  The government is facing mounting pressure to extend an unprecedented decision
  
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• Labour Live: Corbyn fails to address Brexit divisions amid festival protest

  16-06-2018 21:54
  Jeremy Corbyn failed to bury divisions on Brexit as he addressed supporters at Labour's one-day "JezFest" event in north London.The Labour leader's key address at Labour Live was hijacked by pro-EU campaigners, who unfurled a banner calling on Mr Corbyn to "stop backing Brexit".Many attendees at the Labour Live event also sported "B******* to Brexit" stickers, while others looked to put further pressure on the leadership to change their stance on the UK's departure from the EU.
  
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• Glasgow School of Art: ‘It should have been the safest building’

  16-06-2018 21:54
  Crowds gathered in Glasgow as the Mackintosh building burned for the second time.The hosepipes snaked all the way down to the river Clyde, thick with water, as firefighters smothered the last of the flames on Friday night.While they worked, students and artists, architects and sculptors gathered in the streets around the Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building – Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s art nouveau masterpiece – to find out what had happened, and ask: four years af
  
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• Glasgow School of Art may be beyond repair after second fire

  16-06-2018 21:27
  Fears were mounting last night that the Glasgow School of Art will be beyond repair after a devastating fire ripped through the Mackintosh building for a second time in four years.Initial inspections suggested that the grade A-listed art school, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and completed in 1909, has been gutted and its roof and upper floors almost entirely destroyed by the blaze that took hold on Friday night.Alan Dunlop, the school’s professor of architecture, said: “I can
  
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• Teen rescued after falling 80ft down blowhole in Cornwall

  16-06-2018 21:10
  A teenager managed to escape any major injuries after falling 24m (80ft) down a blowhole in Cornwall.A number of rescuers were lowered into the hole in between Trevone Bay and Harlyn Bay near Padstow just before 1am on Saturday to save the 16-year-old.Newquay Coastguard called it a "complex cliff rescue" as teams battled for about three-and-a-half hours through the night to rescue the boy.
  
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• World Cup 2018: England fans arrive in Russia for first game

  16-06-2018 20:06
  England fans have received a warm welcome after arriving in Russia ahead of the Three Lions' first World Cup game against Tunisia on Monday.Supporters descended on Volgograd and were greeted by enthusiastic locals, with some even wearing England or Premier League football shirts themselves.One of the supporters, Chris Clarke, 48, from Staffordshire, said he was "a bit worried" about going to Russia but soon realised it was an "amazing place".
  
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• Our children deserve protection on their painful route to adulthood | Barbara Ellen

  16-06-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  The father of a student who killed himself is right to demand that universities keep in contact with parentsBeyond legal definitions, at which point are your children truly adults? When they decide? When you do?James Murray, father of Ben, the 19-year-old Bristol University student who killed himself last month, is asking for the relaxation of data protection laws that prevent parents from being alerted about students with mental health issues. Continue reading...
  
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• The big picture: childish defiance in Soviet-era Czechoslovakia

  16-06-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Dagmar Hochová’s delightful image makes a subversive statement when freedom of expression was outlawedIt is 50 years since the Prague spring, that expression of rebellion and love in the Czech capital that ended in August 1968 with Russian tanks on the streets and another generation of Soviet repression. Dagmar Hochová took photographs that captured all of the hopes and fears of the long postwar struggle for freedom in her country, which culminated in the Velvet Revolution of
  
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• Sketches of festival life – in pictures

  16-06-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Earlier this month, London-based artist Joey Yu headed to Field Day, a two-day music festival held in south London’s Brockwell Park, to record the action with crayons, pencils and paper. Commissioned by design website It’s Nice That, she documented the musicians, including Erykah Badu, Princess Nokia and Loyle Carner, as well as the fans singing along and relaxing on the grass. “A couple of times I drew on stage,” says Yu, “tucked among the wires and smoke machines,
  
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• Can Glasgow's art school be rebuilt? The city holds its breath

  16-06-2018 17:41
  A collection of plaster casts was kept in the Mack building, which was undergoing a multi-million pound renovation after a fire in 2014.At around midnight I was aimlessly checking Twitter when Martin, a friend whose bookshop is near the Glasgow School of Art, tweeted an image indicating “the Mack” was on fire.
  
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• Locals Furious After 'Goldfinger' Tycoon Wins Hastings Pier Bid

  16-06-2018 17:08
  Campaigners in Hastings have reacted with fury to news that their bid to keep
  
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• Boy, 16, Sparks Major Rescue Operation After Plunging Near Cornwall Cliffs

  16-06-2018 16:31
  A teenager thought to have been celebrating the end of exams plunged 80 feet
  
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• Glasgow art school's Mackintosh building 'consumed' by devastating inferno

  16-06-2018 16:27
  A devastating blaze that "consumed" Glasgow's world-renowned School of Art has been described as heartbreaking by Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon.Investigators are at the scene as firefighters continued to dampen down the fire at the Mackintosh building, which broke out late on Friday and spread to the neighbouring O2 ABC music venue.The building had been undergoing a multimillion-pound restoration programme, which had been due to be completed next year.
  
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• Spain Rescues More Than 900 Boat Migrants, Finds Four Bodies

  16-06-2018 15:51
  Spain's coast guard rescued 933 migrants and found four dead bodies in the
  
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• Andy Murray Will Make His Comeback At Queen's Next Week Ahead of Wimbledon

  16-06-2018 15:19
  Britain's former world number one Andy Murray will make his competitive return
  
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• Tory 'dinosaur' damages party image as MP blocks upskirting bill

  16-06-2018 15:08
  Sir Christopher Chope may not be on Twitter, but the 71-year-old Conservative MP's name was trending on Friday night after he decided to single-handedly block a bill to make upskirting a criminal offence.Sir Christopher's colleagues knew all too well the damage this would do."Don't underestimate just how furious many Tory MPs are about this," tweeted Paul Masterton, a new MP who is 39 years Sir Christopher's junior.
  
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• Epileptic boy to be given cannabis treatment previously banned by Home Office

  16-06-2018 15:07
  A severely epileptic boy is to be allowed cannabis treatment after the Home Office backed down on banning it.Charlotte Caldwell attempted to bring in medicinal cannabis oil to the UK for her 12-year-old son Billy but it was confiscated at Heathrow Airport on Monday after a flight from Canada.Ms Caldwell said on Saturday that Billy had two seizures overnight but he was now stable and asleep.
  
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• UK authorities release confiscated cannabis after boy hospitalised

  16-06-2018 14:36
  Britain's interior minister used an exceptional power on Saturday to release medicinal cannabis oil that had been confiscated from an epileptic boy who was later hospitalised suffering from seizures.Billy Caldwell, 12, had travelled to Canada with his mother, Charlotte, to get the cannabis oil after Billy's doctor was ordered to stop prescribing it, but when they flew back into London on Monday customs officials confiscated their supplies.The boy was hospitalised on Friday after suffering severa
  
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• Siemens wins $2 billion contract to build new London Tube trains

  16-06-2018 14:30
  A division of Germany's Siemenshas been awarded a contract worth about 1.5 billion pounds ($2 billion) to design and build 94 new trains for the Piccadilly Line on London's metropolitan train network, known as the Tube.Transport for London (TfL), the public body in charge of the Tube, said the award of the contract would allow Siemens Mobility Limited to push ahead with its plan to build a new factory in Goole, east Yorkshire, in northern England."The Siemens Mobility Limited factory would emplo
  
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• Actress's anger at being 'fat-shamed' by theatre reviewer

  16-06-2018 14:18
  The star of TV's Derry Girls has criticised at a theatre reviewer for calling her "an overweight little girl".Thousands of social media users and actors have come out in support of Nicola Coughlan after Philip Fisher commented on her body in his review of The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, in which she is currently starring at London's Donmar Warehouse.The 30-year-old Irish actress, who plays Clare in TV series Derry Girls, also pointed out that this is the second time Mr Fisher has commented on her
  
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• Home Office returns cannabis oil for boy's epilepsy treatment

  16-06-2018 14:02
  Charlotte Caldwell said talks had been held through the night to resolve the issue.Billy Caldwell’s family, who had been using it to treat his severe epilepsy.The government backdown came shortly after the 12-year-old’s mother, Charlotte, said she was confident the Home Office would grant a special licence so her son could be treated with the anti-epileptic cannabis medicine.
  
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• British government ordered to open Amritsar massacre files

  16-06-2018 14:00
  Sikhs in Trafalgar Square commemorate the June 1984 attack at the Golden Temple, Amritsar.A tribunal has ordered that secret Downing Street files relating to Anglo-Indian relations at the time of the 1984 massacre at the Golden Temple of Amritsar must be made public.Campaigners say the Margaret Thatcher-era documents could reveal further information about the UK’s military role in the deaths of hundreds and possibly thousands at Sikhism’s holiest site following a violent assault by t
  
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• Severely epileptic boy denied cannabis treatment is in 'crisis situation'

  16-06-2018 12:51
  The mother of a severely epileptic boy who has been refused cannabis treatment says he has suffered two more seizures overnight.Charlotte Caldwell attempted to bring in medicinal cannabis oil to the UK for her 12-year-old son Billy but it was confiscated at Heathrow airport on Monday after a flight from Canada.Ms Caldwell said on Saturday that Billy had two seizures overnight but he was now stable and asleep.
  
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• Teen 'distraught' as racist slurs written on school leaving shirt

  16-06-2018 12:40
  A mother was reduced to tears after her son brought home his signed school shirt with racist comments on.Juliet Ryan's 15-year-old son was celebrating his last day at school in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex on Friday, with students writing farewell messages on each other's shirts.Ms Ryan told Sky News: "He came through the door, he was bouncy and really happy it was his last day at school.
  
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• British boy hospitalised after medicinal cannabis confiscated

  16-06-2018 12:23
  An epileptic boy has been hospitalised in London days after the authorities confiscated his cannabis oil medication in a case that has stirred debate about the medicinal use of the illegal drug.Billy Caldwell, 12, had travelled to Canada with his mother Charlotte to obtain cannabis oil after Billy's doctor was ordered to stop prescribing it, but when they flew back into London customs officials confiscated their supplies."Billy needs his confiscated anti-epilepsy medication immediately," Charlot
  
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• JK Rowling Calls For An End To Orphanages

  16-06-2018 12:10
  JK Rowling has called for an alternative to orphanages, saying children "all
  
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• Share your thanks to the NHS

  16-06-2018 11:00
  What would you like to say to NHS staff? Photograph: FS Productions/Getty Images/Blend Images
  
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• 'Challenging and complex': Glasgow fire ravages art school and O2 venue

  16-06-2018 10:01
  A huge fire has broken out at Glasgow School of Art, just four years after it was severely damaged in a blaze."There is a fire at the Mackintosh Building.The fire brigade are currently on scene," posted the Glasgow School of Art's Twitter account around midnight, 40 minutes after firefighters were called to the scene.
  
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• Royal Wedding Effect: Church Of England To Embrace US-Style Preachers

  16-06-2018 09:17
  The Church of England hopes to rejuvenate itself by taking inspiration from
  
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• Glasgow fire: Art School's Mackintosh Building Ravaged By Major Blaze

  16-06-2018 08:42
  More than 120 fire fighters have tackled a fire which ravaged Glasgow's world
  
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• 120 firefighters tackle blaze at Glasgow School of Art and O2 venue

  16-06-2018 07:17
  A huge fire has broken out at Glasgow School of Art, just four years after it was severely damaged in a blaze.The fire brigade are currently on scene," posted the Glasgow School of Art's Twitter account around midnight, 40 minutes after firefighters were called to the scene.More than 120 firefighters and 20 fire engines are tackling the blaze.
  
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• Stephen Collins on Airbnb – cartoon

  16-06-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
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• Who is Christopher Chope, the Tory MP who blocked the upskirting law?

  16-06-2018 06:57
  Outrage and anger was sparked when a law to ban upskirting was stopped in its tracks when Sir Christopher Chope objected to it.The Christchurch MP has a record of blocking private members' bills and is on a crusade to challenge many of them.Mr Chope has been branded a "maverick" by Culture Minister Margot James, who accused the 71-year-old Tory of bringing the Conservatives into disrepute.
  
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• Exclusive ride on first self-driving motorbike

  16-06-2018 06:53
  Sky News has been given an exclusive ride on the first self-driving motorbike.The BMW C1 can steer, control its speed and keep itself upright without any human intervention.It is the first step towards a fully autonomous machine that could whisk passengers through city traffic far more safely.
  
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• Fire tears through church and former nightclub in Newport

  16-06-2018 03:40
  A large fire has torn through a former nightclub and a church in Newport, south Wales.Flames broke out in the former Zanzibar nightclub and the Bethel Community Church next door around 6.19pm on Friday evening.More than 70 firefighters using 10 fire engines and 11 supporting appliances, including a crane, have been at the scene to attempt to bring the blaze under control.
  
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• Huge fire breaks out at Glasgow School of Art

  16-06-2018 03:21
  A huge fire has broken out at Glasgow School of Art, just four years after it was severely damaged in a blaze."There is a fire at the Mackintosh Building.The fire brigade are currently on scene," posted the Glasgow School of Art's Twitter account.
  
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• Huge fire tears through church and former nightclub in Newport

  16-06-2018 00:56
  A huge fire has torn through a former nightclub and a church in Newport, south Wales.Flames broke out in the former Zanzibar nightclub and the Bethel Community Church next door around 6.19pm on Friday evening.More than 70 firefighters using 10 fire engines and 11 supporting appliances, including a crane, have been at the scene to attempt to bring the blaze under control.
  
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• Oxfam cuts operations due to drop in funding after sex scandal, says report

  16-06-2018 00:49
  Oxfam is reportedly making cuts to its operations due to a drop in funding after a sex abuse scandal led to it being kicked out of Haiti.The charity became embroiled in a controversy following allegations of sexual misconduct against some of its staff in the Caribbean country following a devastating earthquake in 2010.It was made aware of allegations that some of its aid workers used sex workers while they were working in the relief effort there.
  
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• Epileptic boy Billy Caldwell has 'life-threatening seizures' after cannabis confiscated

  16-06-2018 00:12
  The mother of a severely epileptic boy who was refused cannabis treatment in the UK has told Sky News she is "absolutely devastated" after he suffered a series of life-threatening seizures.Charlotte Caldwell attempted to bring medicinal cannabis oil into the UK for her 12-year-old son Billy, but it was confiscated at Heathrow airport on Monday after a flight from Canada.Speaking outside the London hospital, Ms Caldwell said her son's "brutal condition" had "returned with a vengeance" since the m
  
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