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• Man charged with murder of woman found in back garden in Greenwich

  24-06-2018 23:46
  A man has been charged with murder of a woman whose body was found in south London, the Metropolitan Police has said.Gary Davies, a 50-year-old from Greenwich, will appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on Monday.A post-mortem was carried out on Sunday and gave the cause of death as stab wounds to the back.
  
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• Eddie Jones given no uarantee he will be England’s World Cup coach

  24-06-2018 23:00
  • But Australian retains RFU support despite poor results
  • Run of defeats was ended by 25-10 win over South AfricaEddie Jones has been told there is no absolute guarantee he will remain as England’s head coach until the 2019 Rugby World Cup despite his team’s victory in the third Test against South Africa.Rugby Football Union officials have stressed, however, that Jones retains their support after a season during which England finished fifth in the Six Nations Championship
  
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• Trump ally apologises for 'cotton-picking' comment about black strategist

  24-06-2018 22:53
  Citizens United president David Bossie posts public apology for using racially charged term on Fox & FriendsDavid Bossie, a close ally and supporter of Donald Trump, apologised on Sunday for using a racially charged term when he said a black Democratic strategist was “out of his cotton-picking mind”. Related: Expert: Sarah Sanders broke ethics rules with tweet about restaurant ejectionContinue reading...
  
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• Trump ally apologises for 'cotton-picking' comment about black strategist

  24-06-2018 22:53
  David Bossie was a deputy campaign manager for Trump in the 2016 election.David Bossie, a close ally and supporter of Donald Trump, apologised on Sunday for using a racially charged term when he said a black Democratic strategist was “out of his cotton-picking mind”.Now president of the conservative advocacy group Citizens United, Bossie was a deputy campaign manager for Trump in the 2016 election.
  
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• Labour MP John Woodcock slams 'tainted' sexual harassment investigation

  24-06-2018 22:48
  An MP suspended by Labour over a sexual harassment allegation has said he will no longer cooperate with an internal investigation into his behaviour because he believes it is politically motivated.John Woodcock accused the party of "allowing its disciplinary process to be tainted and open to charges of rigging".In a letter to Jennie Formby, Labour's general secretary, Mr Woodcock accused her of having a "disregard for the law" by not providing an update on the investigation's progress.
  
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• New York City's 49th LGBT pride march – in pictures

  24-06-2018 22:31
  Sunday saw Manhattan host the 49th New York pride march, a procession of color on a winding route from 16th Street up to 29th New York gay pride parade marches toward 50th year with new purpose Continue reading...
  
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• Jesse Lingard laughs off Panama bruisers to help England find their joy | Barney Ronay

  24-06-2018 22:29
  Tireless midfielder is becoming the grinning symbol of a team that has come to Russia with a strange sense of exuberanceWell, that was fun, in between the painful bits. First, it is necessary to issue the disclaimers. Yes, Panama unravelled like a cheap cigar in Nizhny Novgorod. Faced with England’s excellent first-half movement, they fell apart like a wicker-rimmed hat left to bake in the sun. At times Panama played a genuinely ugly brand of football, hacking and whingeing and spoiling li
  
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• ‘Felipe Baloy scores. Panama make history. The whole country explodes’ | Fernando Cuenco

  24-06-2018 22:26
  In Panama City thousands gather in the early morning to watch the ‘Sele’ take on England and in the hearts of everyone Baloy’s ‘consolation’ makes it 1-0 to La Marea Roja5am, around the Rommel Fernández Stadium. An unusual encounter on the Vía España for a Sunday before dawn. On the one hand there are those who got up early, gathered in groups of friends and families; on the other night owls who come from nightclubs and bars celebrating their Pa
  
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• Jack Monroe's five top cheap eating tips

  24-06-2018 22:16 via bbc.co.uk
  The food blogger gives advice on how to eat well with a limited budget.
  
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• Colombia’s triple hammer blow dumps Poland out of World Cup

  24-06-2018 21:55
  Sometimes the answer comes by changing the question. Rather than asking whether he should play James Rodríguez – now he was sufficiently recovered from his calf injury to start – or Juan Quintero, and coming up with a fairly obvious response, José Pekerman selected both and was rewarded not merely with a result that keeps alive Colombia’s hopes of making the last 16, but with a performance that made them look like a side that could go a long, long way in the tourn
  
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• Erdoğan claims victory in Turkish presidential election

  24-06-2018 21:51
  Opposition has not conceded defeat, with counting of ballots still underway Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has claimed victory in Turkey’s presidential election, but the opposition has not conceded defeat, as not all ballots have been counted.“The Turkish public has mandated me as president according to unofficial results,” Erdoğan said on Sunday night. “I hope nobody will damage democracy by casting a shadow on this election and its results to hide their failure.”
  
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• Jeremy Hunt Airbus Brexit remarks criticised by Tory minister

  24-06-2018 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Guto Bebb says responses to Airbus' jobs warnings are "unworthy and inflammatory".
  
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• Spain can take nothing for granted against Morocco, says Busquets

  24-06-2018 21:34
  • Spain want to finish top to secure easier route to final
  • Spain and Portugal level on points going into final group gamesAccording to Sergio Busquets, football has not been fair to Morocco and they agree. Hervé Renard insisted that his team, out of the World Cup after being defeated twice in two games, were victims of an “injustice” at the hands of VAR, and Spain’s midfielder said they had deserved more. But that does not mean there will be pity when they me
  
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• Britons Charlie and Gayle Anderson murdered in Jamaica

  24-06-2018 21:29 via bbc.co.uk
  Charlie and Gayle Anderson, from Manchester, had recently retired to the Caribbean island.
  
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• This man travelled around Tibet dressed as Boba Fett and the photos are glorious

  24-06-2018 21:12
  Richard Sorensen chose to dress as his favourite Star Wars character because of his ‘mysterious presence’.
  
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• Migration is threat to EU free travel area, says Italian prime minister

  24-06-2018 21:02
  Giuseppe Conte presents 10-point plan to solve migration crisis at emergency summitItaly has warned the future of the EU’s border-free travel zone is at stake as it sought to ease the pressure on Mediterranean countries arising from hosting refugees and migrants.Italy’s prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, was speaking at a mini-EU summit in Brussels, where he said a plan from his government presented at the summit represented a paradigm shift in dealing with migration. But his ambitious
  
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• Retired British couple believed to have been murdered in Jamaica

  24-06-2018 21:00
  Family of Charlie and Gayle Anderson, aged 74 and 71, are ‘completely devastated’ The family of a retired British couple believed to have been murdered in their home in Jamaica have said they are “completely devastated”.Charlie and Gayle Anderson, aged 74 and 71, had recently retired to the Caribbean island from Manchester, their family said. Continue reading...
  
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• Len McCluskey at odds with Corbyn over Heathrow expansion

  24-06-2018 21:00
  Union boss and Corbyn ally urges all Labour MPs to back expansion ahead of third runway vote Len McCluskey has written to all Labour MPs urging them to back Heathrow expansion on Monday, a move that puts the head of the Unite union directly at odds with Jeremy Corbyn.He said they had “the opportunity to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs” by backing the government’s decision to build a third runway. Continue reading...
  
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• Marin Cilic fights back to win Queen’s Club title against Novak Djokovic

  24-06-2018 20:55
  • Croatian beats Serb 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3
  • Roger Federer beaten by Borna Coric in Halle finalThere is something gnawing away at Novak Djokovic a week before Wimbledon and, if it was just losing against Marin Cilic in the final of the Fever‑Tree Championship, he might return from a few days at home in Monte Carlo refreshed and ready to go again.It was tough to tell, though, as his voice dipped in the immediate aftermath of Cilic’s 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3 win in just under three hou
  
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• Jos Buttler hundred seals England’s series whitewash of Australia in thriller

  24-06-2018 20:54
  • Australia 205; England 208-9 – England win by one wicket
  • Buttler leads recovery to win nailbiting fifth ODIAn unbeaten and freakishly nerveless century from Jos Buttler came to the rescue for England yesterday, almost singlehandedly securing a nail-biting one-wicket victory over Australia and thus a first ever 5-0 whitewash of their historic rivals in any format.How Eoin Morgan needed his star wicketkeeper’s intervention in sunny Manchester after the world’s most
  
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• Retired British couple, Charlie and Gayle Anderson, 'murdered' in Jamaica

  24-06-2018 20:23
  A British couple have been found dead at their home in Jamaica - with police believing they were murdered.Charlie and Gayle Anderson, who had four grandchildren and one great-grandchild, had retired to the Caribbean island after living in Manchester.According to local media, their bodies had both been burned when they were found in Mount Pleasant on Friday.
  
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• Donald Hall, US poet laureate and prize-winning man of letters, dies at 89

  24-06-2018 20:18
  Daughter confirms death at home in New HampshireHall was known for work on love, loss, baseball and the pastDonald Hall, a prolific and award-winning poet and man of letters who was widely admired for his sharp humor and painful candor about nature, mortality, baseball and the distant past, has died. He was 89.Hall’s daughter, Philippa Smith, confirmed on Sunday that her father died on Saturday at his home in Wilmot, New Hampshire, after being in hospice care for some time.Continue reading
  
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• Slash 'obscene' Home Office fees, say MPs and campaigners

  24-06-2018 20:09
  Call comes as inquiry begins into charges that soared under hostile environment policyMPs and campaigners have called for urgent action to reduce Home Office fees as the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration launches an inquiry into the charges.David Bolt issued a call for evidence as he started work on an inspection of the Home Office’s charging for asylum, immigration, nationality and customs services. Bolt said it would look at the rationale for the fees, including the
  
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• Ben Jennings on the government's strategy to cut obesity – cartoon

  24-06-2018 20:08
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• The editor, the cartoonist, his image and her decision | Paul Chadwick

  24-06-2018 20:00
  Steve Bell was angry when Katharine Viner rejected his cartoon about the death of Razan al-Najjar. I believe Viner was right, and that Bell’s public reaction ill-served his causeOn Wednesday 6 June the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, rejected a cartoon submitted by Steve Bell, whose images have appeared in the Guardian over the past 36 years. The decision enraged Bell, and he protested in two emails that he copied to all editorial staff. Inevitably the emails leaked and other media repor
  
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• 'I still feel mutilated': victims of disgraced gynaecologist Emil Gayed speak out

  24-06-2018 20:00
  Women treated at hospital in Taree come forward to tell of botched operations, high-handed dismissal of complaints and long-lasting traumaRhiannon Tull knew one thing when she was pregnant with her first child. She did not want her gynaecologist to be Dr Emil Shawky Gayed. Gayed (pictured below) had a reputation in the regional town of Taree on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, where he worked as a visiting medical officer, consulting in his private rooms as an obstetrician and gynaecologi
  
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• After 25 years of being homeless, I learned there’s one simple thing you can do to help | Gregory P Smith

  24-06-2018 20:00
  I felt so invisible that sometimes being bashed was a relief: ‘At least the thugs were engaging with me’There are as many pathways to homelessness as there are homeless people in the world. For some, it’s a sudden freefall triggered by a lost job, a broken home life or some other seismic personal upheaval. For others the road to sleeping rough winds down a slow, steady and depressing gradient until it arrives – quite literally – at rock bottom. Tragically, some are
  
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• UK's 'most patriotic' street gets bunting out again for England

  24-06-2018 19:41
  The ironically named Wales Street in Oldham is bedecked in more than 1,500 St George’s flagsWhen the full-time whistle blew in Russia, the party on a terraced street in Oldham was in full swing. Children ran out to play football while the umpteenth rendition of the Fat Les song Vindaloo blared out on to the street dubbed “the most patriotic in Britain”.More than 1,500 St George’s flags fly on the ironically named Wales Street, where every house is festooned with England c
  
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• UK's 'most patriotic' street gets bunting out again for England

  24-06-2018 19:41
  The idea for the patriotic display in Wales Street, temporarily renamed England Street, came in the pub.When the full-time whistle blew in Russia, the party on a terraced street in Oldham was in full swing.Children ran out to play football while the umpteenth rendition of the Fat Les song Vindaloo blared out on to the street dubbed “the most patriotic in Britain”.
  
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• Male journalists ignore female peers on Twitter, study shows

  24-06-2018 19:39
  Male journalists dominate online political discussion because they mainly interact with other men and ignore women, according to a study of American political reporters.The research found male political journalists based in Washington DC reply to other male journalists 91.5% of the time, suggesting female journalists are struggling to make their voices heard in discussion of the Donald Trump era.Nikki Usher of the University of Illinois, who helped author the study, said it was a problem because
  
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• Backlash as defence secretary 'threatens to break May'

  24-06-2018 19:38
  A furious row has broken out over reports the defence secretary threatened to bring down Theresa May unless she gives more money to the military.Gavin Williamson suggested he could lead a rebellion of Conservative MPs to vote down the next budget, The Mail on Sunday claimed."I made her - and I can break her," Mr Williamson reportedly told military chiefs.
  
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• Trump stokes immigration chaos with call for summary deportations

  24-06-2018 19:33
  President tweets demand for end to due process at borderDHS says it knows whereabouts of 2,053 separated children
  Donald Trump called on Sunday for the US to abandon its judicial system and summarily deport people who enter the country. Related: 'All I hear is my daughter, crying': a Salvadoran father's plight after separation at borderContinue reading...
  
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• A shoot ‘em up on the US-Mexico border captures Trump’s odious politics | Matthew d’Ancona

  24-06-2018 19:27
  As populism surges in Europe and America, Sicario 2 cuts through the political babble to show what is at stakeIn times of pulverising change and social turbulence, when traditional political categories seem wanting and standard institutional processes falter, reality often manifests itself most vividly in culture and artistic expression.So it is with Sicario 2: Soldado, which opens on Friday: a pulsing, nerve-shredding thriller set on and around the Mexico-United States border and its infernal p
  
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• The Guardian view on hyper-populism: it’s infecting politicians and technocrats | Editorial

  24-06-2018 19:05
  We need a society to encourage dissent so that individuals can resist the challenge of undemocratic thought. This means giving people a voice as well as a voteIt was Michael Gove who before the Brexit referendum said “people in this country have had enough of experts”. The highly educated Mr Gove was mining a rich seam of voters fed up with, and disregarding of, expert opinion. Brexiters have continued in this pejorative style. Only last week the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, rep
  
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• Gosport inquiry 'ignored' evidence about syringes

  24-06-2018 18:52
  A whistle-blower has claimed the Gosport inquiry ignored concerns that some syringes could be misused to administer dangerously high doses of medicine.The claims asserted that the concerns were ignored in order to avoid a national scandal and that the NHS was slow to take certain syringes out of use.Explaining the issue, Dr Iain Lawrie, vice president of the Association for Palliative Medicine, told Sky News that some hospitals used two types of syringes in one unit - one to deliver drugs once a
  
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• Senegal and Japan keep World Cup knockout hopes alive with 2-2 draw

  24-06-2018 18:51
  Japan have taken their oldest ever World Cup squad to Russia and all that experience counted for something as they summoned the spirit and attacking intuition to twice drag themselves back into a match that challenged them in every way.There had been many a cliche about the stylistic difference between African and Asian football in the pre-match discourse, but Japan’s determination to compete first and then break with conviction was a great leveller. Continue reading...
  
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• Manchester parties as England's World Cup squad beat Panama 6-1 - Manchester Evening News

  24-06-2018 18:40 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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  Manchester parties as England's World Cup squad beat Panama 6-1
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  England hit Panama for six at the World Cup - and Manchester celebrated the historic win in party style. Bars in the Printworks were packed out, with some fans even forced to peer in at screens from the street outside the Seven Stars Wetherspoon ...and more »
  
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• Laura Ingalls Wilder's name removed from book award over racism concerns

  24-06-2018 18:40
  American Library Association changes award name after examining ‘expressions of stereotypical attitudes’ in booksA division of the American Library Association has voted to remove the name of Laura Ingalls Wilder from a major children’s book award, over concerns about how the author portrayed African Americans and Native Americans. Related: Pioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder review – gritty memoir dispels Little House mythsContinue reading...
  
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• What next for the Glasgow School of Art?

  24-06-2018 18:15
  Aerial view of the smoldering ruins of the Glasgow School of Art. ‘If the Germans and Poles can reconstruct their destroyed iconic buildings, surely we can,’ writes Louis Hellman.The Glasgow School of Art should be reconstructed as it was (Editorial, 20 June).Mackintosh did not, after all, physically build it himself – his genius resides in the design and a faithful rebuild is no less a Mackintosh building than the original.
  
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• Lessons learned from Gosport hospital scandal

  24-06-2018 18:14
  Jeremy Hunt must reduce the burden on NHS staff, says Dennis Bacon.Jeremy Hunt said the blame culture in the NHS must change to avoid more scandals like those tragically exposed at Gosport War Memorial hospital (Report, 21 June).Staff are the NHS’s biggest asset and by getting its workforce culture right, not only will Hunt improve patient safety and prevent future scandals such as the one at Gosport hospital, he will reduce the burden on staff that is making so many want to leave the NHS
  
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• At last! Clothes for diasbled people get a mention

  24-06-2018 18:12
  Your headline takes the DWP statement too much at face value (Parkinson’s and MS sufferers spared benefit tests in U-turn, 19 June).Unfortunately, the announcement that certain people with long-term conditions will be exempted from regular tests for the disability benefit, personal independence payment, is not all that it seems.Second, it is limited to people getting the highest (“enhanced”) rates of this benefit, yet the DWP is fielding staff at appeal tribunals with performan
  
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• Lewis Hamilton wins French Grand Prix as Sebastian Vettel finishes fifth

  24-06-2018 18:10
  • Mercedes driver regains world championship lead
  • Red Bull’s Verstappen is second and Ferrari’s Räikkönen thirdLewis Hamilton won the French Grand Prix, the first the country has held for 10 years, with a controlled and dominant run from pole for Mercedes. But his championship rival Sebastian Vettel made an error on the opening lap that forced him almost to the back of the field and he could manage only fifth. The Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo
  
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• Killed by keyhole surgery at close range

  24-06-2018 18:10
  Graffiti on a railway line near Loughborough Junction railway station, south London, where three people died in unexplained cirumstances.Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
  
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• World Cup 2018: England fans react to 6-1 win over Panama

  24-06-2018 17:58 via bbc.co.uk
  Jubilant supporters celebrate as England record their biggest win ever in the World Cup finals.
  
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• Pundits react to record England win

  24-06-2018 17:50 via bbc.co.uk
  'Sparkling' and 'sheer brilliance' - BBC Sport's World Cup pundits react to Sunday's 6-1 win over Panama.
  
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• Dozens injured by explosion at apartment block in west Germany

  24-06-2018 17:48
  Four people thought badly hurt after unexplained blast in city of WuppertalTwenty-five people have been injured, four of them severely, when an explosion destroyed an apartment building in the western German city of Wuppertal, police have said.Police said the explosion rocked the several-storey building shortly before midnight on Saturday with a large bang, scaring people in surrounding homes so much they ran out into the street in a panic. The detonation was so severe it destroyed the building
  
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• Isle of Wight festival celebrates Kane's goal

  24-06-2018 17:45
  Isle of Wight festival goers celebrate Harry Kane scoring from the penalty spot taking England to 5-0 before half-time.
  
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• Gosport inquiry 'ignored' evidence about dangerous syringes

  24-06-2018 17:45
  A whistle-blower has claimed that the Gosport inquiry ignored evidence of faulty syringes being used by hospitals to avoid a national scandal - and thousands more people may have died as a result of their widespread use in the NHS.According to The Sunday Times, the whistle-blower was on the inquiry which concluded 456 people had their lives shortened after they were prescribed powerful opioids without medical justification.The panel was warned a national helpline would have to be set up, as well
  
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• England beat Panama 6-1: Team through to knockout stage of World Cup

  24-06-2018 17:34
  England are through to the knockout stage of the World Cup after a record-breaking performance against Panama.The team won 6-1 - with the most goals they have ever scored in a World Cup final match.Two penalties and a deflection from Harry Kane, two headers from John Stones and a stunning strike from Jesse Lingard left Panama in tatters.
  
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• UK ministers take aim at business over Brexit warnings

  24-06-2018 17:10
  The British government and business leaders clashed in a deepening row over Brexit on Sunday after a senior minister accused companies of issuing "completely inappropriate" threats and undermining the prime minister.Aircraft manufacturer Airbuslast week issued its strongest warning over the impact of Britain's departure from the European Union, saying a withdrawal without a deal would force it to reconsider its long-term position and put thousands of British jobs at risk.Other European companies
  
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