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• Labour faces 'eternal shame' over anti-Semitism, deputy leader Tom Watson says

  04-08-2018 23:40
  Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has dramatically triggered a civil war at the top of the party by publicly declaring war on Jeremy Corbyn over anti-Semitism.Just 24 hours after the Labour leader attempted to calm the row which has raged for weeks, Mr Watson declared that Labour faces "eternal shame" over anti-Semitism.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn vows to root out anti-Semitic 'poison' in his party

  04-08-2018 23:35
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has insisted people who 'dish out anti-Semitic poison' do not do it in his name.
  
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• UK trade minister Fox says EU is pushing Britain to no-deal Brexit

  04-08-2018 23:34
  British trade minister Liam Fox said "intransigence" from the European Union was pushing Britain towards a no-deal Brexit, in an interview published on Saturday by the Sunday Times.With less than eight months until Britain quits the EU, the government has yet to agree a divorce deal with Brussels and has stepped up planning for the possibility of leaving the bloc without any formal agreement.Fox, a promiment Brexit supporter in Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet, put the odds of Britain leavin
  
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• Tom Watson Hits Out At Labour's Handling Of Anti-Semitism Row

  04-08-2018 23:00
  Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson has hit out at his party's handling of the
  
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• NHS told: give trans patients equal access to fertility service

  04-08-2018 22:30
  The European Human Rights Commission says NHS policies discriminate against the transgender community and need to be changed urgently.The NHS must offer transgender patients awaiting transitioning treatment access to fertility services or it risks breaking the law, the health service has been warned by the country’s equality watchdog.The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is threatening legal action if “outdated” NHS policies, which it says discriminate against the tra
  
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• Melania Trump praises LeBron James in statement after husband insults him

  04-08-2018 21:52 via theguardian.com
  Shortly after Donald Trump mocked NBA star, first lady says she would visit his school and Michael Jordan joins chorus of supportThe US first lady, Melania Trump, said she would be open to visiting the NBA superstar LeBron James’s new public school, the day after her husband questioned the Los Angeles Lakers player’s intelligence. Donald Trump insulted James on Friday night hours after CNN re-aired an interview with the basketball player and reporter Don Lemon. “Lebron James wa
  
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• Tom Watson: Labour faces ‘eternal shame’ over antisemitism

  04-08-2018 21:00
  Tom Watson, Labour’s deputy leader, said the party should adopt the full IHRA definition of antisemitism.Labour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, says that the party will “disappear into a vortex of eternal shame and embarrassment” and render itself unfit for government, unless it calls an immediate halt to damaging arguments over antisemitism.Speaking to the Observer, Watson called on Jeremy Corbyn to drop without delay internal inquiries into two Labour MPs – Margaret
  
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• Serco to pause plans to evict asylum seekers after Glasgow protests

  04-08-2018 20:57
  Private housing provider Serco has announced that it will pause its controversial plans to evict hundreds of asylum seekers who have been told they cannot stay in the UK after further protests outside the Home Office base in Glasgow on Saturday morning.In a statement issued after the latest protests, Serco said it would “pause all further lock-change notices to other asylum seekers who have received negative decisions whilst the law is being tested and clarified”.Condemnation of
  
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• Georgia Hall in contention for maiden major at Women’s British Open

  04-08-2018 20:37 via theguardian.com
  • Hall one shot back heading into final round
  • Thailand’s Pornanong Phatlum in the leadIt took until Georgia Hall’s 49th hole at the Women’s British Open for a scorecard aberration. That the 22-year-old responded so strongly from her first bogey illustrated a competitive spirit that will be necessary if Hall is to win her first major title on Sunday.Hall’s dropped shot at the 13th was offset – and more – by birdies at the 15th and 16th. After handin
  
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• Virgin Media And UKTV Dispute Rumbles On As Companies Fail To Reach Agreement Over Wiped Channels

  04-08-2018 20:20
  The UKTV and Virgin Media dispute rumbles on as the two companies fail to
  
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• Police Car Overturns During Moped Chase Near Buckingham Palace

  04-08-2018 20:17
  A police car overturned near Buckingham Palace on Saturday and a teenager was
  
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• Police car overturns in moped crash near Buckingham Palace

  04-08-2018 19:55
  A police car flipped upside down after it collided with a moped suspected in a "series of offences" near Buckingham Palace.Officers spotted the moped at 4.30am began to pursue it as "the vehicle, rider and pillion passenger matched the description of a moped believed to have been involved in a series of offences".The moped then collided with a second police car travelling in the opposite direction in Grosvenor Place, outside the palace's grounds.
  
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• Duchess of Sussex spends 37th birthday at society wedding for Prince Harry's old friends

  04-08-2018 19:08
  Meghan Markle has rung in her 37th birthday at a society wedding for one of husband Prince Harry's closest school friends.The former Suits actress was the star attraction at Charlie van Straubenzee's nuptials to Daisy Jenks at St Mary the Virgin Church in Frensham, Surrey.Mr van Straubenzee, 30, was one of Harry's ushers at his wedding in Windsor on 19 May.
  
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• UK weather: Heatwave to continue with 32C expected

  04-08-2018 19:00
  The UK heatwave will continue in full force over the next few days with temperatures in some areas peaking at 32C (89.6F).Although nowhere near the roasting conditions in southern Europe, the Met Office is still urging people to stay "sun sensible" - drink lots of water and stay out of the sun in the hottest part of the day.
  
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• Samantha Eastwood: police find body in search for midwife

  04-08-2018 18:30 via theguardian.com
  Man, 32, is re-arrested on suspicion of murder and two other men, aged 28 and 60, arrestedDetectives searching for missing midwife Samantha Eastwood, 28, have found a body, Staffordshire police said.A 32-year-old man who had previously been arrested by Staffordshire police in connection with her disappearance has been re-arrested on suspicion of murder. The force said two other men, aged 28 and 60, have been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. Continue reading...
  
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• Police car hits moped in chase around Buckingham Palace

  04-08-2018 18:15
  Police began tailing the moped, its rider and pillion passenger at Hyde Park Corner.A teenager suffered serious leg injuries and another person escaped after a police car crashed into their moped and flipped during a high-speed chase on roads near Buckingham Palace.Police began tailing the moped, its rider and pillion passenger at Hyde Park Corner at about 4.30am, after it matched the description of a vehicle believed to have been involved in a series of crimes.
  
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• Severn Bridge closes due to 'unprecedented' levels of staff sickness

  04-08-2018 17:48
  Motorists were left stuck in tailbacks as "unprecedented" levels of staff sickness forced the closure of the Severn Bridge.The motorway suspension bridge between England and Wales re-opened at 2pm but was closed all morning after a "crucial" toll staff member called in sick."We apologise for any inconvenience that the closure of the M48 Old Severn Bridge may have caused drivers on Saturday morning," Severn Bridges head of operations Rob Llewellyn told Sky News.
  
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• Three men held after body found in search for missing midwife Samantha Eastwood

  04-08-2018 17:46
  A body has been discovered during a search for a missing midwife in Staffordshire, as it emerged three men have been arrested by police.
  
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• 'We miss you': Sister appeals for missing midwife

  04-08-2018 17:45
  Gemma Eastwood asks for her sister to come home 'where she belongs' in an emotional appeal.
  
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• Anger and confusion as ‘complex’ NHS pay deal disappoints staff

  04-08-2018 17:33
  Nurses, paramedics and pharmacy technicians are among those who have been disappointed by the recent NHS pay deal.Some NHS staff have been angered by the recent pay deal for more than a million workers, complaining that they are not receiving the increases they had been promised.One union has been forced to apologise and hold an emergency meeting after admitting to misleading members over the deal, and some NHS staff are complaining that they are either seeing a tiny increase in their pay packet
  
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• Samantha Eastwood: Body Found During Search For Missing Midwife

  04-08-2018 17:31
  Detectives searching for missing midwife Samantha Eastwood have found a body,
  
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• Ben Stokes bowls England to victory over India in a thrilling first Test

  04-08-2018 17:15
  Ben Stokes took the crucial wicket of Virat Kohli as England wrapped up a 31-run win over India on the fourth morning of an enthralling first Test at Edgbaston.After James Anderson had Dinesh Karthik caught at slip in the opening over of the day, Kohli reached his half-century before the India captain was pinned leg before wicket as he moved across his stumps and departed for 51, having taken his side to within 53 runs of victory.With the crowd up, Stokes sensed an opportunity and three balls la
  
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• This Man Is Making Cannabis Oil And Giving It Out For Free To Help Terminally Ill People

  04-08-2018 17:12
  In an unassuming suburban home in a nondescript modern housing estate in
  
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• Mark Carney's Brexit Warning Sparks Fury Among Tory MPs

  04-08-2018 16:53
  Mark Carney's warning that a no deal Brexit is "highly undesirable" has
  
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• Brighton Pride 2018: the annual LGBTQ parade in pictures

  04-08-2018 16:44 via theguardian.com
  The yearly festival on the south coast is the biggest LGBTQ event in the country. A parade through the city culminates at a party in Preston Park, headlined this year by Britney Spears Continue reading...
  
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• Antisemitism row adds strength to growing sense of Jewish identity

  04-08-2018 16:41
  In a public display of anger, protesters demonstrate in Parliament Square against antisemitism in the Labour party.In a row of Georgian houses in north London, a small museum charts the history of Jews in Britain.Its role in the story began after it was reported last week that the museum had been approached to host a meeting at which Jeremy Corbyn would speak about Labour and antisemitism, the issue that has dominated the political landscape in recent weeks and has dogged the party for more than
  
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• Northern rail cancels 80 Sunday services

  04-08-2018 16:31
  Northern rail has advised its customers to plan their journey carefully and check online for cancellations.Northern rail has cancelled about 80 services on Sunday and is expecting to have to cancel more after staff “made themselves unavailable to work”.Liverpool was worst hit, with all 30 direct trains between Liverpool and Manchester airport cancelled.
  
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• The Grenfell inquiry: tragic revelations of failure, buck-passing … and bravery

  04-08-2018 16:02
  It took 36 minutes for a fourth-floor kitchen fire to sweep 20 storeys up to the top of Grenfell Tower in the early hours of 14 June 2017.Barristers are now homing in on what happened second by second, with much of the evidence centring on the controversial refurbishment of the 1974 building, ordered in 2012 and completed in 2016.The inquiry has heard from several witnesses that Grenfell Tower was riddled with faults that accelerated the fire and made survival harder.
  
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• Fears for NHS as apprenticeships fail to plug gaps left by Brexit brain drain

  04-08-2018 16:00 via theguardian.com
  The promise was 1,000 trainee nurses a year, but data shows a serious shortfall for registered and nursing associate programmesThe total number of people starting NHS apprenticeships has fallen by more than a third in the past three years, raising new concerns about shortages of key staff such as nurses after Brexit.Figures released by the Department for Education show a 36% drop in the number of people taking up NHS apprenticeships between 2015/16 and 2017/18, with take-up of such positions fal
  
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• UK heatwave to continue as Europe roasts

  04-08-2018 15:47
  The UK heatwave will continue in full force over the next few days with temperatures in some areas peaking at 32C (89.6F).Although nowhere near the roasting conditions in southern Europe, the Met Office is still urging people to stay "sun sensible" - drink lots of water and stay out of the sun in the hottest part of the day.
  
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• Hunt for missing midwife Samantha Eastwood: Police search quarry

  04-08-2018 15:42
  Police investigating the disappearance of midwife Samantha Eastwood are searching a disused quarry near Stoke-on-Trent.Specialist teams are carrying out searches in Caverswall in a bid to find clues as to the whereabouts of the 28-year-old, who has not been seen in more than a week.An occupant of a neighbouring farm to where police are searching said officers had asked to view footage from his CCTV camera of the night she disappeared, but his camera didn't have enough storage to go back that far
  
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• Police chase jet-ski riders on River Thames

  04-08-2018 15:34
  The drama unfolded on Friday evening, and witnesses said it looked like something out of an action movie.
  
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• Will skyscrapers sink to new depths in British cities?

  04-08-2018 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Councils are under pressure to build higher, but campaigners say new towers will ruin historic skylinesIn Bristol, the city’s mayor has announced that he wants its skyline to grow. In Norwich, the developers Weston Homes want to build a “beacon” of 20 storeys, in the face of fears that it will trash views of “one of Europe’s great medieval cities”, as Historic England put it. In Manchester, a city whose skyline has been changing for a while, the chairman&
  
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• Tom Harris resigns from Labour amid antisemitism row

  04-08-2018 14:32
  Tom Harris said his decision ‘was not a comment on any people who have chosen to remain’.A former Labour MP and transport minister has resigned from the party after more than three decades as a member amid the ongoing antisemitism row.Tom Harris, who represented Glasgow constituencies in the Commons for 14 years until 2015, said his decision was personal and that he did not plan to join another party.
  
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• £10m cash call rescues payday lender Wonga from insolvency

  04-08-2018 13:56
  Wonga, one of Britain's largest short-term money-lenders, has been saved from going bust by an emergency £10m cash injection from a consortium of high-profile technology investors.Sky News ‎can exclusively reveal that Wonga, which was among the pioneers of the UK's online payday lending sector, has been rescued in the last few weeks after its chief executive warned shareholders that it was in danger of becoming insolvent.Sources close to Wonga said the £10m had now been received
  
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• Southeast Asia falls short on cybersecurity pact with Russia: Singapore

  04-08-2018 13:42
  The draft of a communique seen by Reuters before meetings between regional leaders and other world delegates started on Thursday, spoke about strengthening cooperation with Russia, accused of meddling in U.S. elections, in the field of cybersecurity.The wording was dropped in the final communique issued on Thursday evening.
  
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• Glasgow protesters rally against Serco plan to evict asylum seekers

  04-08-2018 13:34
  Campaigners gathered outside the Home Office branch in Glasgow on Saturday to protest against the threatened mass eviction by the private housing provider Serco of hundreds of asylum seekers who have been told they cannot stay in the UK.The protest, organised by a coalition of Scottish refugee charities and anti-racism groups, included the symbolic burning of eviction notices in a brazier.Supporters insist that many of those Serco intends to evict are still pursuing asylum cases, and could have
  
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• Feuding Surgeons Contributed To Higher Death Rate at St George's Hospital In London, Report Says

  04-08-2018 13:24
  A "toxic" feud between two rival camps at a troubled heart-surgery unit
  
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• Police searching for Stoke-on-Trent midwife focus on nearby rural area

  04-08-2018 12:15
  Samantha Eastwood left work in her car, which was found at her home, but she has not been seen since.Detectives investigating the disappearance of a midwife are carrying out searches in rural Stoke-on-Trent.Samantha Eastwood was last seen leaving work after her night shift at Royal Stoke University hospital eight days ago.
  
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• Missing Midwife Samantha Eastwood: Police Begin Search Of Rural Area

  04-08-2018 12:03
  Detectives investigating the disappearance of midwife Samantha Eastwood are
  
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• Surgeons' feud at St George's Hospital 'contributed to higher death rate'

  04-08-2018 11:49
  The unit at St George's Hospital in south London was consumed by a "dark force" and patients were put at risk by a dysfunctional team of surgeons, the report is quoted as saying.The damning report was written by former NHS England deputy medical director Mike Bewick following high mortality rates at the hospital.The facility had a cardiac surgery death rate of 3.7% - above the 2% average - and internal scrutiny was "inadequate".
  
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• Missing midwife Samantha Eastwood: Police begin search of rural area near Stoke

  04-08-2018 11:33
  Police investigating the disappearance of midwife Samantha Eastwood have cordoned off a rural area near Stoke-on-Trent.Specialist teams are carrying out searches in Caverswall in a bid to find clues as to the whereabouts of the 28-year-old, who has not been seen in more than a week.Officers are investigating reports of screaming coming from Ms Eastwood's home in the hours after she was last seen, and a 32-year-old man was arrested in connection with the disappearance but later released under inv
  
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• How the American left is rediscovering morality

  04-08-2018 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders talk to Sarah Smarsh about knowing what’s right from wrongAfter the 2016 presidential election, headlines described a “divided” United States. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – at the time a 27-year-old bartender, now a progressive political star running for US Congress after she pulled off a fantastic primary upset in New York last month – sensed an underlying problem that was deeper than politics, more personal than demographic
  
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• Mars pulls adverts from YouTube over drill rap video placement

  04-08-2018 10:46
  Floral tributes are left in Warham Street in Camberwell, south London, where Moscow17 rapper Incognito was killed on Wednesday.Mars has pulled all of its advertising from YouTube until site’s executives are able to guarantee that its products will not be shown alongside drill music.An ad for Starburst, a Mars product, was said to have appeared ahead of a video featuring the Moscow17 group, one of whose members was stabbed to death in Camberwell, south London, on Wednesday evening, in a con
  
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• Only A Third Of Plastic Food Pots And Tubs Can Be Recycled, Councils Say

  04-08-2018 10:38
  Only a third of the plastic in packaging pots and trays for food bought by
  
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• British holidaymakers Warned To Stay Out Of Sun As Extreme Heatwave Scorches Europe

  04-08-2018 09:41
  British holidaymakers are being warned to stay out of the sun during the day
  
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• Police pursue jetskis on the Thames in 'Bond-style' chase

  04-08-2018 08:25
  Londoners could be forgiven for thinking a new James Bond film was being shot on the Thames as jetskis sped through the capital.Scotland Yard's marine policing unit was spotted chasing four jetskis as they raced past the Greenwich Peninsula towards central London on Friday evening.Video showed the jetskis making their way west at high speeds past the O2 Arena - where Brosnan's 007 finished one of the most epic Bond boat chases.
  
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• Ahed Tamimi wants the world to know what's happening in Palestine – video

  04-08-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Eight months in an Israeli prison has strengthened Ahed Tamimi's resolve. The 17-year-old activist was convicted of assault for hitting an Israeli soldier who was standing guard outside her home. Her imprisonment garnered international attention and highlighted the cases of what local human rights groups say are more than 300 Palestinian children who had been arrested and detained by Israeli authorities.She walks out of prison determined to study international law so that she might one day repre
  
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• Only a third of plastic food pots can be recycled, local authorities say

  04-08-2018 06:30
  Two-thirds of the plastics used to package foods from fruit and vegetables to microwave meals go to landfill or are incinerated, town hall chiefs have said.Around 525,000 tons of plastic pots, tubs and trays are collected from UK households each year, but just 169,145 tons can actually be recycled, analysis by the Local Government Association (LGA) shows.The LGA says councils are doing everything they can to tackle plastic waste, with 99% of local authorities collecting plastic bottles for recyc
  
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• Radio host James Whale suspended over 'insensitive' rape victim interview

  04-08-2018 05:27
  Talkshow host James Whale has been suspended from Talkradio after interviewing a rape victim with a "complete lack of sensitivity".The station said his interview with journalist Nichi Hodgson on Monday "was conducted in a manner that did not reflect the values of the station and completely lacked sensitivity".Ms Hodgson, 34, revealed she had been orally raped in a black cab in January in the phone discussion about flirtation since the #MeToo movement started.
  
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