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• FA condemns England fans over Nazi salutes video in Volgograd

  20-06-2018 23:32
  The Football Association has condemned a small group of England fans after a video appeared of them singing anti-Semitic songs.
  
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• How England changed shape: Holland on Southgate’s tactical evolution

  20-06-2018 23:30 via theguardian.com
  England assistant manager reveals the influences and considerations that led to England’s decision to play a back three in RussiaIt was over dinner one night in Sochi when the idea was crystallised. Gareth Southgate was with his assistant, Steve Holland, as he often tended to be last summer. They had the European Under-21 Championship to follow in Poland and, simultaneously, the Confederations Cup in Russia. Then one night, in a restaurant on the Black Sea, the discussion turned to England
  
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• Chancellor to promise a series of post-Brexit financial partnerships

  20-06-2018 23:30
  Philip Hammond will say that London can be the gateway to global financial markets.The government plans to safeguard London’s position as the world’s leading financial centre after Brexit by signing a series of financial partnerships with non-EU countries.Philip Hammond will use his keynote Mansion House to the City’s elite on Thursday to say that the government intends to strike deals outside of the single market that will make the UK a gateway to financial markets.
  
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• BBC staff caught up in claims of sexual assault at Welsh assembly

  20-06-2018 22:26
  When BBC journalists began investigating the treatment of staff at the Welsh assembly, they were expecting to find accusations of bullying and mistreatment by politicians.Unexpectedly they uncovered claims of sexual assault against the BBC’s own staff.The corporation sent an anonymous survey to 247 employees who work for assembly members in April.
  
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• Lionel Messi the sun king makes Argentina blind to new tricks

  20-06-2018 21:38 via theguardian.com
  Jorge Sampaoli’s team are geared around their star but heads-down servicing of him may not be the way to win a World CupFame, fame, fatal fame. It can play hideous tricks on the brain. Here’s an unexpected World Cup statistic. With the opening seven days of Russia 2018 now done, one outfield player has run less over 90 minutes than anyone else in any position in any team. His name? Why, it’s Lionel Messi!Yes, that Messi: many people’s choice as the most gloriously ta
  
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• Ailing MP wheeled into Commons in pyjamas criticises Tory whips

  20-06-2018 21:28
  A Labour MP who discharged herself from hospital and attended parliament in her pyjamas in order to take part in a Brexit vote has accused Tory whips of stripping her of her dignity.Naz Shah, the MP for Bradford West, said parliamentary voting procedures were archaic and undignified after the whips refused her request to be paired with a Tory MP to cancel out each other’s vote – a practice that allows MPs to be absent from parliament with good reason.
  
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• U.S. ambassador says Trump to meet Queen Elizabeth on UK visit

  20-06-2018 21:22
  U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Queen Elizabeth during a visit to Britain next month, the U.S. ambassador in London told Sky News on Wednesday.Trump is due in mid-July after months of back-and-forth over when he would visit the country that has traditionally been the United States' closest ally, raising questions over the state of their relationship.Asked if Trump would meet the queen during what has been described as a working visit, U.S. Ambassador Woody Johnson said: "Yes.
  
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• TPG plots break-up and sale as teachers' bible hits end of term

  20-06-2018 21:21
  The parent company of the teachers' bible, the Times Education Supplement, is to be broken up and sold off by its private equity backers.Sky News has learnt that TPG Capital, the American private equity firm, has hired investment bankers ‎from Macquarie Capital to orchestrate the disposal of TES Global's higher education division (THE).The unit includes Times Higher Education, the weekly magazine which reports on news and issues related to the post-18 education sector.
  
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• Altice selling stakes in French, Portuguese telecom towers to cut debt

  20-06-2018 21:14
  Dutch-based telecoms and cable group Altice plans to raise 2.5 billion euros (£2.2 billion) from selling stakes in its telecoms towers businesses in France and Portugal to reduce its debt, the company said on Wednesday.The group, whose founder is billionaire Patrick Drahi, is restructuring to revive its fortunes after growing rapidly in recent years through a series of acquisitions.The company plans to build up the towers businesses and boost revenues through the stake sales, it said.
  
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• May faces down pro-EU rebel lawmakers to win Brexit vote

  20-06-2018 21:12
  Prime Minister Theresa May won a crucial Brexit vote in parliament on Wednesday, keeping her divided government's plans to end more than 40 years of British partnership with the European Union on track.After pro-EU Conservative lawmaker Dominic Grieve said he would support the government's proposal for a "meaningful vote" in parliament on Britain's exit, a potential rebellion that could have undermined May's authority was averted.May adopted a high-risk strategy by facing off with rebels in her
  
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• British police investigate World Cup fans in Nazi salute video

  20-06-2018 21:05
  British police said on Wednesday they were investigating images of England football fans making Nazi salutes in what appeared to be a bar in the Russian city of Volgograd, where England played Tunisia on Monday.The video, shared widely on social media, shows three fans raising their arms in the salute and singing an anti-Semitic song with references to the Auschwitz concentration camp, punctuated with shouts of "Sieg Heil"."The abhorrent behaviour seen in this video is completely unacceptable an
  
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• Two Tottenham housing blocks at risk of catastrophic collapse

  20-06-2018 20:32 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: 200 families are to be urgently moved out of blocks on Broadwater Farm estate after post-Grenfell safety checksMore than 200 homes on the Broadwater Farm estate in north London are at risk of catastrophic collapse and all the families are to be urgently moved out following tests carried out in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.Two residential blocks, which were completed in the early 1970s are among 11 buildings on the Tottenham estate that failed structural tests, are the most
  
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• Theresa May avoids damaging Brexit defeat with last-minute concession

  20-06-2018 20:22
  Theresa May has avoided a damaging Brexit defeat in the Commons after offering a last-minute concession to placate potential Tory rebels.It would have ensured the Commons had the opportunity to block a "no deal" Brexit in the event Mrs May was unable to reach a deal with Brussels.
  
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• Rashan Charles death 'an accident', jury rules as family brand inquest a farce

  20-06-2018 20:08
  An inquest into the death of a man who died after he was chased by police has been branded a farce by his family.A jury found the death of Rashan Charles was an accident following a justified use of force.Mr Charles, 20, died in hospital in the early hours of 22 July 2018 following a chase by an officer into a shop in Dalston, east London, where he was tackled to the ground and restrained.
  
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• A bad day for Grieve, the rebel Tory who forgot how to rebel

  20-06-2018 20:01
  Gullible Grieve, the Luke Skywalker of the Rebel Alliance.Before Dominic Grieve had spoken, the debate on parliament having a meaningful vote in the event of a no-deal Brexit had been on a knife-edge.The government whips had feverishly patrolled the Tory benches, searching for the slightest sign of weakness in suspected rebels.
  
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• Italy's treatment of Roma people rooted in centuries-old prejudice

  20-06-2018 19:51 via theguardian.com
  History of persecution includes enslavement, forced sterilisation and massacresWhen Italy’s new government attacked the country’s Roma population, threatening to expel thousands from the country, they were tapping into centuries-old prejudices against the group.Persecution of the Roma in Europe dates back at least several hundred years. The Council of Europe details a history of extreme persecution including enslavement, forced sterilisation, separation from children and massacres. C
  
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• This pair’s hide and seek game is total couple goals

  20-06-2018 19:47
  Colton and Kat sure know how to entertain themselves on a shopping trip.
  
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• Poundworld starts closing down sales as talks go to the wire

  20-06-2018 19:42
  Poundworld has started a closing down sale across its entire estate of shops - but says it still hopes to survive.It has also emerged that the restructuring firm Hilco has been brought in to help manage the process of either selling or closing the chain's stores.A hundred jobs were lost at Poundworld's headquarters in Yorkshire on Tuesday as the company made a desperate attempt to cut overheads and attract a buyer for all, or some, of the business.
  
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• The art of the U-turn: May scrambles to avoid Brexit bill defeat

  20-06-2018 19:41
  Theresa May returns to Downing Street after a narrow Commons win, but dark mutterings that Brexiters could chuck the PM overboard refuse to go away.Theresa May has turned the last-minute swerve into an art form – and by persuading Dominic Grieve, if not all of his band of followers, to swing behind the government on Wednesday, she avoided yet another much-anticipated showdown.As so often in recent days, both sides of the Brexit civil war now raging in the Tory party declared victory.
  
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• 'Charlie changed our lives completely'

  20-06-2018 19:38 via bbc.co.uk
  The parents of Charlie Gard say they want a change in the law and 'will try and help anyone else who is in the same boat as us'.
  
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• The gene-edited pigs immune to lung disease

  20-06-2018 19:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Pigs in Scotland have had their genes altered so they are now immune to a deadly respiratory disease.
  
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• PM murder plot trial: MI5 agent tells of chats with Isis supporter

  20-06-2018 19:30
  An Islamic State (Isis) supporter accused of plotting to behead Theresa May claimed that the terror group would find other backers among a list of 6,000 Instagram followers that he offered to hand over to an MI5 agent posing as a terrorist, a court has heard.Details of online conversations between Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman and an agent pretending to be an Isis amir or leader were heard on the second day of evidence at Old Bailey where the MI5 operative gave evidence from behind a screen.Th
  
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• May's delay over Trump visit backfires as US-EU divide grows

  20-06-2018 19:21
  If Theresa May thought her favoured weapon – delay – would somehow ensure Donald Trump’s visit to the UK next month would be less controversial than if it had occurred last year, she appears to have miscalculated.In May’s cabinet, the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, held sway, arguing that post-Brexit Britain had to remain close to a country with which it had a natural affinity, and anyway Trump’s re-election could not be discounted.
  
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• Michael Jackson's personal photographer: 'He didn't identify as one gender'

  20-06-2018 19:19 via theguardian.com
  Harrison Funk spent three rollercoaster decades capturing the pop legend’s extraordinary life. He reveals the stories behind his favourites shots, from hugs with Mandela to wielding a powder puff backstage
  ‘Me and Michael had our own language,” says Harrison Funk. “The buzzword was always the same. He would ask, ‘Harrison, can you make magic?’ Anything less wasn’t acceptable.” Funk was the photographer who got closer to Michael Jackson than any oth
  
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• Royal Ascot tips: Stradivarius can hit winning note in the Gold Cup

  20-06-2018 19:18 via theguardian.com
  A strong finisher in the Yorkshire Cup during May, John Gosden’s colt has a fine chance of following up at AscotThe John Gosden/Frankie Dettori express, which chugged along so nicely on Tuesday, went slithering off the rails and down a mountainside on Wednesday. But the Newmarket duo have an excellent chance to get back on track with Stradivarius (4.20) in the Gold Cup.This flashy chestnut, a winner in this week last year when the ground was similarly quick, started his season on a very en
  
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• Bernard Hinault urges Tour riders to strike if Chris Froome takes part

  20-06-2018 19:13 via theguardian.com
  • Riders should refuse to race, says Tour de France legend
  • Hinault: ‘Chris Froome should not be at the start of the Tour’Bernard Hinault, the five-times winner of the Tour de France, has called on riders in this year’s race to strike in protest at the presence of Chris Froome, who is awaiting the outcome of an adverse analytical finding for the asthma drug salbutamol. Related: Chris Froome should not be listed with cycling greats, says HinaultContinue reading..
  
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• 'Yours cynically': emails show DfT contempt for rail users, says MP

  20-06-2018 19:12
  Private emails sent between government officials after warnings of impending rail chaos in the north of England show “complete disrespect and contempt” for passengers, an MP has said.Documents released after a freedom of information request to the Department for Transport, and passed to the Labour MP for Wigan, Lisa Nandy, show discussions between officials after passenger groups warned more than two years ago that planned changes to train routes would result in widespread disruption
  
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• Brexit: Will a dividend help pay for increasing the NHS budget?

  20-06-2018 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  It doesn't take into account extra spending associated with leaving the EU and potential economic impact
  
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• UK regional airports will be hit hard by Heathrow’s third runway

  20-06-2018 18:49
  A plane approaching Heathrow airport. ‘Regional MPs should look beyond the corporate sales puff of Heathrow, as touted by ministers,’ writes Paul McGuinness.According to the government’s own figures, the impact of Heathrow expansion on UK regional airports will be alarmingly negative.
  
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• High time that we relaxed the rules on cannabis use

  20-06-2018 18:49
  One of the wisdoms of our healthcare system is its evidence-based approach to the use of medicines, which also helps make rational decisions on health economics (Javid announces review into use of medicinal cannabis, 20 June).Its legal status makes it difficult for manufacturers to conduct trials and some potential medicines have not reached the market, partly due to insufficient numbers and partly because clearly it doesn’t work for everyone.All medicines can be dangerous when used incorr
  
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• Profile: Dr Jane Barton, GP and the Gosport hospital scandal

  20-06-2018 18:48
  Dr Jane Barton is the retired GP at the heart of the Gosport scandal, who signed off the medical prescriptions that potentially contributed to the early deaths of hundreds of patients.An independent inquiry, which started in 2014, has reviewed 833 death certificates signed by Barton, and found that 456 patients died and possibly 200 more had their lives shortened because of the routine practice at Gosport War Memorial hospital.There is no suggestion Barton intentionally took lives.
  
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• Pride clothing made in countries where being gay is illegal

  20-06-2018 18:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Clothing by H&M and Levi's is made in countries where homosexuality is illegal, BBC Newsnight finds.
  
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• NHS cash not going to come from a 'Brexit dividend'

  20-06-2018 18:30
  Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies says the new cash for the NHS won't be able to come from Brexit savings, but only higher taxes.
  
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• Children delight as refugees build Ferris wheels in Rohingya camps

  20-06-2018 18:28
  ‘They said the community had built them; we counted six but there may be more.’
  
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• Donald Trump Is To Meet The Queen On UK Visit - Reports

  20-06-2018 18:23
  Donald Trump will meet the Queen when he visits the UK next month, according
  
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• Theresa May reported to ad watchdog over 'Brexit dividend' for NHS claim

  20-06-2018 18:21
  Theresa May has been reported to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for claiming the NHS will receive a funding boost from a "Brexit dividend".Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson demanded that the ad watchdog investigate, calling the allegation "at best misleading and at worst a complete myth".It said that the NHS would be funded by a "Brexit dividend" - highlighted by large, bold letters - and "the country contributing a bit more".
  
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• 'They grabbed me and taped me to a chair'

  20-06-2018 18:17 via bbc.co.uk
  A woman who claims she was taped to a chair by two male colleagues tells how she was left her petrified.
  
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• Gosport hospital deaths: families condemn 'scandalous' failings

  20-06-2018 18:13
  Bridget Reeves (centre) speaks to the media outside Portsmouth Cathedral after the disclosure of the Gosport Independent Panel’s report.Families of the Gosport War Memorial hospital victims launched an excoriating attack on a system that held 12 separate investigations into the deaths yet held no one accountable.“The inexcusable failure of them all is not only shameful, it is scandalous and it is immoral,” they said in a statement, read by Bridget Reeves, whose 88-year-old gran
  
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• Donald Trump to meet the Queen during working visit to UK, says US ambassador

  20-06-2018 18:08
  Donald Trump will meet the Queen when he visits Britain next month, the US ambassador to the UK has told Sky News.The US president is due in Britain for a working visit on Friday 13 July - his first to the country since being elected in 2016.It is not a state visit with all the pomp and ceremony that comes with that, so the pair would not necessarily need to meet.
  
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• Unjustified medication shortened 456 lives in a UK hospital, report says

  20-06-2018 17:48
  More than 450 patients died prematurely in a British hospital after they were given powerful painkillers with no medical justification, in what a damning report on Wednesday found was a "disregard for human life".Britain's prosecution service said it would examine whether criminal charges could be brought following the deaths at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in southern England.An independent panel found that between 1989 and 2000, there was an institutionalised regime of prescribing and adminis
  
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• EU withdrawal bill: how did your MP vote on the 'meaningful vote'?

  20-06-2018 17:45
  David Davis issued a ministerial statement explaining that it would ultimately be up to the Speaker to decide whether MPs could amend the government’s plans if no deal is reached by 21 January.In light of the statement, Grieve announced he would no longer be backing his own Lords amendment, saying he would “accept the government’s difficulty” and support the government’s compromise.In the end there were six Conservative rebels who voted for the amendment, while four
  
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• Leading pro-EU rebel lawmaker backs down, will support government on Brexit laws

  20-06-2018 17:33
  LONDON (Reuters) - The pro-European Union MP leading a group of rebels threatening to vote against Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit law said on Wednesday that he had accepted assurances from minister and would now support the government.
  
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• Wombats frontman: 'Streaming has levelled the playing field'

  20-06-2018 17:31
  Streaming has only brought positives to the music industry, according to the lead singer of Liverpool band The Wombats."I think that I wanted to make an album that was more sure of itself, was more organic, wasn't screaming 'listen to me' or 'you need to play me 20 times a day on the radio'.
  
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• Britain's May wins Brexit vote in parliament

  20-06-2018 17:22
  Prime Minister Theresa May won a crucial Brexit vote in parliament on Wednesday, keeping her deeply divided government's plans to end Britain's more than 40 years of partnership with the European Union on track.After pro-EU Conservative lawmaker Dominic Grieve said he would support the government's proposal for a "meaningful vote" in parliament on any Brexit deal, a potential rebellion that could have undermined May's authority looked was averted.May adopted a high-risk strategy by facing off wi
  
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• PM May defeats pro-EU rebels, wins lawmakers' approval for Brexit plan

  20-06-2018 17:21
  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday won approval for her plan on how much say MPs should get over Brexit, defeating a attempt by pro-European Union rebels to give parliament more influence.
  
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• Minister accused of misleading MPs in deportations row

  20-06-2018 17:13
  Caroline Nokes, the immigration minister, has been accused for a third time of incompetence and misleading parliament over the Home Office’s use of counter-terrorism powers to deport highly skilled migrants who have made legitimate amendments to their tax records.In a heated debate at Westminster Hall last week, MPs challenged Nokes about the usage of paragraph 322(5) of the immigration rules.Nokes also said all current cases were on hold.
  
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• To ban or not to ban: Should phones be allowed in schools?

  20-06-2018 17:12 via bbc.co.uk
  The culture secretary says schools should ban phones from schools - but what do head teachers say?
  
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• Brexit 'meaningful vote': May wins after rebels accept compromise

  20-06-2018 17:12
  Dominic Grieve speaking during the debate on the EU withdrawal bill in the House of Commons.The final obstacle to the EU withdrawal bill was removed as MPs voted 303 to 319 against an amendment tabled by the former attorney general Dominic Grieve – before he accepted government reassurances about its respect for the power of MPs to hold it to account.At least six Tory rebels – Ken Clarke, Sarah Wollaston, Anna Soubry, Heidi Allen, Antoinette Sandbach and Philip Lee, who resigned last
  
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• Rashan Charles's death after police chase was accident, jury finds

  20-06-2018 16:49
  Tributes to Rashan Charles left outside a shop in Hackney, north-east London, after his death.A jury has found that the death of 20-year-old Rashan Charles, who died last year after being chased and restrained by police in north-east London, was an accident.The inquest at St Pancras coroner’s court found the actions of a police officer who restrained Charles and brought him to the ground was a justified use of force.
  
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• SSE to enter Seagreen Scottish offshore wind project into subsidy auction

  20-06-2018 16:44
  LONDON (Reuters) - British utility SSEplans to enter its Seagreen wind project that lies off the coast of Scotland into Britain's auction for renewable subsidies next year, it said on Wednesday.
  
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