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• Geraint Thomas inspires girl's Ventoux climb

  03-08-2018 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  A 10-year-old rides up one of the Tour de France's most fearsome mountains while on a family holiday.
  
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• Camberwell Stabbing: Pair Arrested Over Murder Of Drill Rapper Incognito

  03-08-2018 23:08
  A teenager and a man injured in a stabbing which left London "drill" rapper
  
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• Watch: A helicopter emerges out of the mist on Lake District road

  03-08-2018 22:43
  An incredible sight.
  
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• Stabbed pair held for murder after death of rapper Incognito

  03-08-2018 22:14
  Two people including a teenager treated in hospital for stab wounds after the rapper Incognito was killed in London have been arrested on suspicion of murder.The 23-year-old musician Siddique Kamara became the second member of the drill music group Moscow17 to die on Warham Street, Camberwell, in three months.Mr Kamara was found to have died of two stab wounds to the chest in a post mortem on Friday.
  
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• Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn vows to root out anti-Semitic 'poison' in his party

  03-08-2018 22:14
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has insisted people who 'dish out anti-Semitic poison' do not do it in his name.In an article in The Guardian newspaper, Mr Corbyn acknowledged that there was a "real problem" Labour was "working to overcome and said he sought to guarantee the security of the Jewish community by "whatever measures necessary".The Labour leader was seeking to address the storm of criticism aimed at him over failing to deal decisively with anti-Semitism within his party.
  
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• Drill rapper murder: Injured boy and man arrested

  03-08-2018 22:06 via bbc.co.uk
  A boy and man injured in a stabbing which left drill rapper Incognito dead have been arrested.
  
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• Refugees forced into destitution by lack of information, charities say

  03-08-2018 21:54
  Refugees are being made destitute because they are not informed about how to apply for asylum, charities have said.Thousands could be being wrongly refused sanctuary or support because they do not know how to navigate the UK's complex system, according to a coalition headed by Refugee Action.Tim Hilton, the head of services for Refugee Action, said the majority of asylum seekers lack basic knowledge about legal rights, accessing lawyers or negotiating applications and interviews.
  
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• Anti-Semites don't speak for me, says Jeremy Corbyn

  03-08-2018 21:39 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour leader makes a fresh attempt to draw a line under the anti-Semitism row engulfing his party.
  
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• Homeland actor: 'Refugees just want sanctuary'

  03-08-2018 21:20
  Homeland star Mandy Patinkin has just visited Uganda to see the work being done to help people rebuild the lives of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo living there.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's Declaration That Anti-Semites Have 'No Place' In Labour Party Dismissed As 'Meaningless'

  03-08-2018 21:19
  Jeremy Corbyn's declaration that anti-Semites have "no place" in the Labour
  
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• Britain's Labour leader sees 'real problem' of anti-Semitism in party

  03-08-2018 21:05
  The leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said on Friday there was a "real problem" of anti-Semitism in his party which he would root out, but he also hit back at strong criticism of Labour from Jewish newspapers.In an article written for The Guardian newspaper, Corbyn stopped short of agreeing to adopt in full an internationally accepted definition of anti-Semitism, along with a series of examples, as sought by Jewish groups.
  
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• Theresa May meets Emmanuel Macron to find way through Brexit impasse

  03-08-2018 21:04
  Who’d have thought Brexit would take us to the seaside?
  
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• Bees living on top of a London mosque

  03-08-2018 20:57 via bbc.co.uk
  There are 400,000 bees living on the roof of the East London Mosque in Whitechapel.
  
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• Donald Campbell's restored Bluebird set for Scotland run

  03-08-2018 20:38 via bbc.co.uk
  The record-breaking hydroplane, which crashed in 1967 killing Donald Campbell, is to run in Scotland.
  
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• Carolyn Harris: Corbyn backs under fire MP in gay slur row

  03-08-2018 20:22 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour MP is at the centre of as row over claims she used a gay slur in a comment to a ex-aide.
  
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• May and Macron hold 'informal' Brexit talks in France

  03-08-2018 19:58
  It was presented in the French press as a desperate Theresa May flying to the south of France to enlist the president’s help with Brexit.Fine food and wine served with a dose of politics was on the menu for a private dinner between Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, and May and her husband, Philip, at the 13th-century Fort Brégançon.Macron had travelled to the state summer house on the Mediterranean coast earlier in the day after his last council of ministers in Paris.
  
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• Four friends killed in crash whilst being pursued by unmarked police car are named

  03-08-2018 19:50
  Four friends who died in a car crash while being pursued by an unmarked police vehicle in Bradford have been named.Murtza Chaudhry, 21, Arbaaz Hussain, 21, Zeeshan Khalid, 20, and Tayyab Siddique, 22, were killed in the early hours of Thursday morning.The BMW the men were travelling in was being pursued by police when it crashed on Toller Lane, Bradford, at around 5.30am on Thursday.
  
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• Refiner Neste's shares fall as renewables margins disappoint

  03-08-2018 19:35
  Finnish oil refiner and biofuel producer Neste said on Friday it was optimistic about its performance for 2018 but disappointment over margins in its renewable fuel division hit the company's shares.Neste, which produces diesel and other fuels from renewable material at plants in Singapore and Rotterdam, said it now expected a "very strong" 2018 compared with its previous guidance of a "strong" year.The shares have nearly doubled in value over the past year, helped by its profitable biofuel busi
  
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• Bradford Car Crash: Four Men Who Died In Police Chase Named

  03-08-2018 19:29
  The four young men who died in a car crash in Bradford while being pursued by
  
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• Stan & Ollie: Steve Coogan and John C Reilly star as Laurel and Hardy

  03-08-2018 19:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Alan Partridge star Steve Coogan has gone from playing one hapless comedy character to another.
  
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• Four dead in Bradford police chase crash are named

  03-08-2018 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Four men men aged between 20 and 22 were in a BMW that crashed during a police pursuit in Bradford.
  
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• Political risks eclipse Monte dei Paschi's turnaround progress

  03-08-2018 19:20
  Rising political risk in Italy dented Monte dei Paschi di Siena's financial strength in the second quarter, casting a shadow over a nascent recovery at the country's fourth-largest bank.Italian banks, which hold 380 billion euros (£338.34 billion) of the country's government bonds, are paying the price of a spike in sovereign borrowing costs under a new anti-establishment government which markets fear could weaken Rome's public finances.State-owned Monte dei Paschi said its core capital ha
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Labour is not a threat to Jewish life in Britain

  03-08-2018 19:14
  Jeremy Corbyn has broken his silence over the antisemitism row engulfing Labour, acknowledging the party has “a real problem” over the issue but strongly rejecting the idea that it poses any threat to the Jewish community in the UK.Writing in the Guardian following increasing calls for him to take a lead and address the concerns of many Jewish groups, the Labour leader accepted that the party’s incomplete adoption of an internationally recognised definition of antisemitism had
  
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• Teenager Safaa Boular jailed for life over IS terror plot

  03-08-2018 19:13 via bbc.co.uk
  Safaa Boular is the youngest woman to be convicted of a terror attack plot on British soil.
  
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• Labour 'making rules up' in Margaret Hodge investigation, MP's lawyers claim

  03-08-2018 19:11
  Labour has been accused of "making the rules up" as it goes along, over an investigation into Jewish MP Dame Margaret Hodge.Lawyers acting on behalf of her claimed the party's position was "untenable" as it had failed to answer basic questions about the inquiry, which was launched two weeks ago.Dame Margaret is being investigated for confronting Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over the party's anti-Semitism crisis, calling him a "racist" and an "anti-Semite".
  
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• TalkRadio Host James Whale Suspended After Appearing To Laugh As Rape Victim Describes Assault Live On Air

  03-08-2018 19:10
  TalkRadio host James Whale has been "suspended pending investigation" after
  
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• Man jailed for threatening ice cream van owner with samurai sword

  03-08-2018 19:05
  A man has been jailed after threatening an ice cream van owner with a samurai sword as she served three children.Jamie Tickle, 24, from Haydock, had been taking cocaine and was drunk when he climbed into the back of Nuntaporn Watkinson's ice cream van while waving a samurai sword on 1 July.In a victim impact statement, Mrs Watkinson, 34, said: "I had thoughts of being killed and never seeing my children again.
  
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• Mamma Mia: Special cinema screening for fan with dementia

  03-08-2018 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Rhiannon Lewis felt she needed to take her mum Shirley out of the cinema after hearing tutting.
  
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• UK children with ADHD wait up to two years for diagnosis, say experts

  03-08-2018 19:00
  Depending on where they live, some children have to wait years to be seen by a mental health specialist.Children with ADHD are waiting up to two years for a diagnosis in the UK, harming their chances of education and prospects for the future, say experts.ADHD – attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – is a recognised mental health condition.
  
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• Safaa Boular: UK's Youngest female terror plotter handed life sentence

  03-08-2018 18:47
  Safaa Boular, the youngest woman convicted of plotting a terror attack on British soil, has been jailed for life with a minimum of 13 years.The 18-year-old was sitting her GCSEs when she was seduced by IS fighter Naweed Hussain, originally from Coventry and more than 15 years her senior.Judge Mark Dennis QC sentenced Boular to life imprisonment with a minimum of 13 years at the Old Bailey on Friday - making her the last member of Britain's first all-women terror cell to be jailed.
  
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• Woman, 76, 'survives on cheese' after pension payment error

  03-08-2018 18:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Diane Geraghty's pension payments were stopped after her husband's death, leaving her with no money.
  
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• Ex-Sainsbury's boss Justin King: 'Make Amazon pay fair share of tax'

  03-08-2018 18:43
  One of Britain's best-known retailers says Britain's tax system should be radically changed to stop online companies having "an unfair advantage", and being subsidised by the taxes of their rivals.Justin King, former chief executive of Sainsbury's, has called for business rates to be halved, with the lost revenue replaced by a 2% increase in VAT.Mr King was boss of Sainsbury's for a decade until stepping down in 2014.
  
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• Stonehenge: First people came from west Wales

  03-08-2018 18:17 via bbc.co.uk
  The first long-term residents of Stonehenge, along with the first stones, arrived about 5,000 years ago.
  
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• Youngest member of female terrorism cell jailed in Britain

  03-08-2018 18:16
  The youngest member of an all-female terrorism cell in Britain was jailed for life with a minimum term of 13 years on Friday for plotting attacks in London with her sister and mother.Safaa Boular, 18, began planning an attack in Britain after being thwarted in her attempts to join an Islamic State (IS) fighter in Syria, police said."All three women were filled with hate and toxic ideology and were determined to carry out a terrorist attack," said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, senior
  
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• The debate about which cover versions beat the original just got reignited

  03-08-2018 18:13
  If Jeff Buckley and Sinead O’Connor are not allowed to be mentioned, who takes the crown?
  
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• Chamisa: Today Is A Day Of Mourning For Democracy

  03-08-2018 18:05
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• The taxman cometh: Denis Healey’s surprise Tyneside visit

  03-08-2018 17:45
  Denis Healey, for whose greeting “Hello, young man” I will be forever grateful since I was 60 at the time, was, like me, an inveterate haunter of secondhand bookshops (Letters, 3 August).Healey rang the doorbell and when the man opened the door, he was astonished to see the very recognisable Healey standing there.“I’ve coom for tha taxes!” Healey boomed.
  
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• Teen guilty of all-female UK terror plot

  03-08-2018 17:45
  Teen guilty of all-female UK terror plot
  
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• Safaa Boular jailed: Youngest woman convicted of plotting UK terror attack handed life sentence

  03-08-2018 17:32
  Safaa Boular, the youngest woman convicted of plotting a terror attack on British soil, has been jailed for life with a minimum of 13 years.The 18-year-old was sitting her GCSEs when she was seduced by IS fighter Naweed Hussain, originally from Coventry.Judge Mark Dennis QC sentenced Boular to life imprisonment with a minimum of 13 years at the Old Bailey on Friday - making her the last member of Britain's first all-woman terror cell to be jailed.
  
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• Princess Eugenie reveals she 'got in trouble' for off-limits Buckingham Palace snap of Prince Andrew

  03-08-2018 17:25
  Princess Eugenie has revealed she "got into trouble" for posting a picture of her father Prince Andrew inside Buckingham Palace.The 28-year-old royal, who is preparing to marry Jack Brooksbank on 12 October, shared a picture of her "Papa" to her 288,000 Instagram followers in June.Prince Andrew, 58, happily smiles in the picture, wearing his redcoat military uniform from his first Trooping of the Colour ceremony as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards to mark the Queen's 92nd birthday.
  
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• Missing Samantha Eastwood: How Does A Much-Loved Midwife Disappear Without A Trace?

  03-08-2018 17:14
  It is now more than a week since a "much-loved" midwife, Samantha Eastwood,
  
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• MPs study value for money from pensions

  03-08-2018 17:12
  LONDON (Reuters) - MPs have launched an inquiry into whether people are getting value for money from their private pensions and impartial information from financial advisers.
  
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• Miraculous Mountain Rescue In New Zealand

  03-08-2018 17:12
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• Asthma awareness: 'My son was gone just like that'

  03-08-2018 17:03 via bbc.co.uk
  Donna Green's son Tiernan died aged 20 from an asthma attack. Now she's educating others to raise awareness.
  
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• Hunt vows to 'do everything' to secure release of mother jailed in Iran

  03-08-2018 17:02
  Jeremy Hunt has been given a painted stone by the family of a British-Iranian mother jailed in Tehran as a reminder of the promise to leave "no stone unturned" in the quest to free her.The pebble, painted with words "#FreeNazanin", was presented to the foreign secretary by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Richard, on Thursday.Mr Hunt lamented the "shocking and desperate situation", promising to "do everything we can to bring her home".
  
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• Parole Board receives 851 requests for release details following Warboys case

  03-08-2018 17:01
  The Parole Board has had more than 800 requests for details of its decisions under a new scheme following the John Worboys case.The Parole Board assesses whether serving prisoners in England and Wales are safe to be released into the community or moved to open conditions, considering around 25,000 cases a year.The Parole Board's release direction was quashed by the High Court in March.
  
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• Europe heatwave: Side effects felt by zoo animals, sprout farmers and more

  03-08-2018 16:58 via bbc.co.uk
  Soaring temperatures are taking their toll on everyone from sprout farmers to zoo animals.
  
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• Safaa Boular Who Planned Alice In Wonderland Tea Party Terror Plot Jailed For Life

  03-08-2018 16:53
  The youngest woman to be convicted of plotting a terror attack on British soil
  
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• Jail For Safaa Boular Who Planned Alice In Wonderland Tea Party Terror Plot

  03-08-2018 16:53
  The youngest woman to be convicted of plotting a terror attack on British soil
  
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• Teenager jailed for life over British Museum bomb plot

  03-08-2018 16:50
  Safaa Boular had wanted to carry out a suicide attack in Syria, the trial heard.A jury found that Safaa Boular plotted with her partner, Naweed Hussain, an Islamic State militant, to launch a grenade and bomb attack on the British Museum in Bloomsbury, central London.Boular was the final member of her terror cell to be sentenced at the Old Bailey, after the convictions of her mother, Mina Dich, 44, her older sister, Rizlaine Boular, 22, and the family friend Khawla Barghouthi, 21.
  
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