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• Girl, 9, Dies As Cliff Collapses In Staithes, North Yorkshire

  08-08-2018 23:32
  A nine-year-old girl has died after suffering head injuries when a section of
  
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• New 'big society' bid to boost charities' role in public services

  08-08-2018 23:30
  The government has launched a new “big society”-style strategy designed to enable charities to play a bigger role in the provision of public services, from social care and homelessness to libraries.Ministers say they want to help the public sector, private businesses, charities and volunteers to work together more closely to solve social problems, build stronger communities and create a fairer society.“Government alone cannot solve the complex challenges facing society, such as
  
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• 'Reckless' driver who 'drove at cyclists in stolen Audi' in south London named

  08-08-2018 22:37
  Police have named a wanted man after a stolen car was driven at speed towards cyclists during morning rush hour.The Met Police issued a photo of "reckless driver" Shane Seymour following an incident in Clapham, south London, on 1 August.Scotland Yard described it as "only a matter of luck that no one was seriously injured or even killed" after a black Audi, known to be stolen and with false plates, was driven at cyclists.
  
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• There's Something Not Quite Right About Theresa May's Curtsy

  08-08-2018 22:25
  Those lucky enough to meet a member of the Royal family must remember a short
  
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• Girl, nine, dies in rock fall on beach in Staithes, North Yorkshire

  08-08-2018 22:11
  A nine-year-old girl has died after suffering head injuries in a rock fall on a beach in North Yorkshire, police have confirmed.Emergency services were called to Seaton Garth in Staithes at 4.45pm after reports a girl had received serious head injuries in a rock fall.Despite the efforts of the emergency services, she died at the scene, North Yorkshire Police said.
  
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• US imposes sanctions on Russia over Skripal poisonings in Salisbury

  08-08-2018 22:03
  The US state department will impose sanctions on Russia after it determined Moscow used a nerve agent to attack the Skripals.The US expelled a number of Russian diplomats as part of an international response to the attack, when the former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were taken ill in March.
  
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• Tories under pressure over disciplinary action against Boris Johnson

  08-08-2018 21:45
  Boris Johnson used his column in the Telegraph to compare women in burqas to ‘letterboxes’.The Conservative party is coming under intense pressure to decide whether to take disciplinary action against Boris Johnson following his continued refusal to apologise for his controversial descriptions of fully veiled Muslim women.A complaint about Johnson has been lodged with Tory party chairman Brandon Lewis, who is responsible for the party’s code of conduct which says that Tory MPs
  
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• AP Top Extended Financial Headlines at 3:39 p.m. EDT

  08-08-2018 21:39
  A group of Tesla Inc. board members says it is evaluating CEO and chairman Elon Musk's $72 billion proposal to take the Electric car and solar panel maker private
  
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• Salisbury Spy Poisoning: US Says Russia Was Behind Nerve Agent Attack In UK, And Will Impose Sanctions

  08-08-2018 21:32
  The US has said Russia used a chemical weapon to try to assassinate ex-spy
  
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• Why one man is driving 30,000km to spell out Brexit message

  08-08-2018 20:49
  If you were travelling round 32 European countries this summer, you might struggle to learn even a little of each of the languages.Andy Pardy is driving 30,000 km (18,000 miles) on a trip he's dubbed "the last European tour" to send a message to politicians and the public back home - "stop Brexit".Beginning on 16 July, Mr Pardy set off from Loch Lomond in Scotland bound for the Port of Stranraer, his springboard to Northern Ireland.
  
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• Ben Stokes said he was protecting gay couple in fight, court told

  08-08-2018 20:49
  Ben Stokes arrives at Bristol crown court, where he is charged with affray, which he denies.The cricketer Ben Stokes feared being violently attacked by two men carrying weapons as he intervened to protect a gay couple on the receiving end of homophobic abuse, a jury has heard.The Durham and England player said in a statement read to Bristol crown court that he became involved in a violent street fight to stop his “gay friends” from being beaten up.
  
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• 'Firenado': A Fire Tornado Has Created An Apocalyptic Scene Over A Plastics Factory In Derbyshire

  08-08-2018 20:32
  Firefighters have captured the moment a "firenado" \- a fire tornado
  
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• Boris Johnson's Burka Comments Split Tory Party As MP Warns Of Public's 'Despair'

  08-08-2018 20:30
  Controversy surrounding Boris Johnson's comments about women in burkas
  
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• Lenders poised to decide House of Fraser fate on Thursday

  08-08-2018 20:04
  House of Fraser's (HoF) creditors are expected to decide the 169 year-old department store chain's fate on Thursday as they assess takeover bids from the billionaire tycoons Mike Ashley and Philip Day, and the retail turnaround fund Alteri Investors.Sky News has learnt that PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) spent most of Wednesday negotiating on behalf of HoF's lenders and bondholders with at least three prospective buyers of the famous high street business.The detailed nature of the talks will prese
  
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• Bowler who deliberately threw game to stop batsman getting century is banned

  08-08-2018 19:58
  A club cricketer who threw a ball over the boundary to deny an opposition batsman a debut century has been banned for nine matches.The delivery by the unnamed bowler, who was playing for Minehead, came as their opponents, Purnell, needed just five runs to win and left batsman Jay Darrell stranded on 98 not out.The unsportsmanlike incident, in a Somerset Cricket League game on Saturday, attracted widespread condemnation.
  
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• AP Top Extended Financial Headlines at 1:45 p.m. EDT

  08-08-2018 19:46
  A group of Tesla Inc. board members says it is evaluating CEO and chairman Elon Musk's $72 billion proposal to take the Electric car and solar panel maker private
  
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• Tory MP breaks ranks on Northamptonshire council crisis

  08-08-2018 19:18
  Northamptonshire county council was declared technically bankrupt in February.A Conservative MP has said ministers need to urgently “learn the lessons” from the financial collapse of Tory-run Northamptonshire county council if they are to prevent more councils slipping into insolvency.Andrew Lewer, the MP for Northamptonshire South, said that while mismanagement had fuelled the Northamptonshire crisis, the council was also a victim of underlying financial pressures affecting all loca
  
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• Boris Johnson's burka jibe: Why do some Muslim women wear the veil?

  08-08-2018 19:13 via bbc.co.uk
  The differences between a hijab, niqab and burka - and why some women wear them while others don't.
  
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• Damaging rigidity of universal credit

  08-08-2018 19:07
  ‘Your universal credit may go up and down in an arbitrary way in relation to your needs, depending on when things happen.Your report (Households left in debt by flaws in design of universal credit system, 6 August) rightly focuses on the rigidity of the monthly assessment for universal credit when it comes to the different ways in which people are paid.
  
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• Ben Stokes trial: England cricketer told 'shut up or I'll bottle you'

  08-08-2018 18:58
  Ben Stokes was told "shut up or I'll bottle you" after he took exception to two men acting in a "homophobic" way, a court has been told.The England cricketer is accused of affray following an alleged incident outside a Bristol nightclub during the early hours of 25 September last year.In his first statement to police, Stokes described how he and England teammate Alex Hales were heading to a casino when they saw "two guys who were obviously gay" being spoken to by "two much larger men".
  
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• Inside the hunt for career criminal behind burglary crime wave

  08-08-2018 18:35
  Michael Dodsworth was released from prison early like so many inmates each year.Since his release there have been a spate of burglaries in Dodsworth's home town of Darlington, County Durham, and police know he is behind at least one of them because he was caught red handed on his victim's CCTV camera.Detective Inspector Sharon Alderson is in charge of a small team of officers whose job it is to catch the young man.
  
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• Cricket Star Ben Stokes Was ‘Main Aggressor In 2am Brawl Outside Nightclub’

  08-08-2018 18:00
  England cricketer Ben Stokes was the "main aggressor" in a fight that took
  
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• AP Top Extended Financial Headlines at 11:52 a.m. EDT

  08-08-2018 17:52
  A group of Tesla Inc. board members says it is evaluating CEO and chairman Elon Musk's $72 billion proposal to take the Electric car and solar panel maker private
  
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• Uplifting Notes Torn Down By Local Council

  08-08-2018 17:27
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• Transfer window news: Kepa set for Chelsea medical, Jack Grealish latest and more – live!

  08-08-2018 17:21 via theguardian.com
  Updates, reaction and rumours on all the deals as they happenKepa’s £71m buyout clause is met, say Athletic BilbaoTransfer window – every move and club-by-club guideAny comments? You can email Ben or tweet him4.21pm BST At Middlesbrough, out goes Adama Traoré and in comes Jordan Hugill on a season-long loan from West Ham United. Hugill, the former Boro season-ticket holder who was pulling pints at the Dickens Inn a handful of years ago, bolsters Tony Pulis’s front
  
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• Homebase To Close 60 Stores With Loss Of 1,000 Jobs – Report

  08-08-2018 17:21
  DIY retailer Homebase is reportedly to close as many as 60 stores and cull
  
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• 'Ninety-three of our former pupils died in WW1'

  08-08-2018 17:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Scottish school pupils join events to mark the WW1 Battle of Amiens.
  
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• Is your local council facing cuts? Share your tips

  08-08-2018 17:14 via theguardian.com
  We’d like your help to find out more about current or future cuts to UK council services. If you’re aware of any where you live, please get in touchLast week Northamptonshire county council, which is technically insolvent, published proposals that could lead to drastic loss of jobs and cuts to all its services over the next few months including core services such as children’s and adult social care. East-Sussex county council, has said it was preparing to cut back services to t
  
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• 'Elitist': angry book pirates hit back after author campaign sinks website

  08-08-2018 17:14 via theguardian.com
  OceanofPDF was shut down last week after publishers issued hundreds of takedown notices – but authors have been left dealing with angry usersAuthors have been called elitist by book pirates, after they successfully campaigned to shut down a website that offered free PDFs of thousands of in-copyright books. OceanofPDF was closed last week after publishers including Penguin Random House and HarperCollins issued hundreds of takedown notices, with several high-profile authors including Philip
  
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• Joseph Kabila ruled out as DRC election candidate

  08-08-2018 17:13 via theguardian.com
  Ruling coalition selects little-known Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary in surprise moveJoseph Kabila will not be a candidate in elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo later this year, according to government officials.Many had predicted that the 47-year-old president, in power since 2001, would run for a third term, despite being barred from doing so by the constitution. Continue reading...
  
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• Highly rated academy over-aided Sats pupils, inquiry finds

  08-08-2018 17:11 via theguardian.com
  Harris Academy Philip Lane pupils will not get results for English reading and mathsA primary school praised by ministers as a model academy over-aided pupils in this year’s national tests, a government investigation has concluded.Year 6 pupils at Harris Academy Philip Lane in Haringey, north London, received too much help in their English reading and maths reasoning Sats, according to the Standards and Testing Agency (STA). Continue reading...
  
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• Pound hit by Brexit worries; China hits back against latest US tariffs - business live

  08-08-2018 17:07 via theguardian.com
  Sterling has dropped close to a one-year low as fears of a hard Brexit riseLatest: China announces tariffs on $16bn of US goodsCoal, medical equipment and steel products affectedPound falls against dollar and euroBrexit fears are hurting sterling 4.07pm BST So far, China has managed a tit-for-tat response to America’s trade tariffs -- including today’s retaliation to US plans for tariffs on $16bn of Chinese goods.But Beijing can’t respond in kind if Donald Trump implements his
  
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• Ohio police investigate incident of officers Tasering 11-year-old girl

  08-08-2018 17:01 via theguardian.com
  Cincinnati police chief opens investigation after officers used a stun gun on a girl they say was shoplifting from a Kroger storeCincinnati police have opened an investigation after an officer Tasered an 11-year-old for allegedly stealing from a supermarket.Police say the incident happened around 9.30pm Monday at a Kroger store in Cincinnati. Authorities say the officer suspected the girl was using a backpack to shoplift when he approached her. Police say the girl resisted and fled before she wa
  
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• The Fiver | A convenient time to request a one-way ticket on Do One Airways

  08-08-2018 16:59 via theguardian.com
  Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!If you’ve spotted Maurizio Sarri scrabbling around in the last few days, the chances are he’s looking for a trap door. At the end of last season, when it was mooted that Sarri would swap Napoli for Chelsea, it looked a good gig. A decent squad, a hierarchy so sick of the last guy they would probably give you a solid gold toilet if you asked them nicely while conspicuously being Not Antonio Conte, and a club who had surely learned les
  
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• Police Appeal After Man Groped Women On Trains from Manchester Airport

  08-08-2018 16:56
  Police are appealing for witnesses after a man groped two women on separate
  
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• Dominic Grieve: I will leave party if Boris Johnson becomes leader

  08-08-2018 16:52 via theguardian.com
  Former attorney general says comments about burqas show Johnson is not a ‘fit and proper’ person to lead ToriesA former Conservative cabinet minister has said he would leave the party if Boris Johnson were elected leader, as recriminations mounted over the former foreign secretary’s description of Muslim women in burqas.
  The former attorney general Dominic Grieve, who has become a prominent advocate for a soft Brexit, described Johnson’s comments as “very embarrassi
  
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• Dafydd Jones's best photograph: Oxford rowers leap through a burning boat

  08-08-2018 16:48 via theguardian.com
  ‘The winners of the Oxford University rowing race would set a boat on fire and then – after a long, boozy dinner – jump through the blaze arm in arm’
  I took this shot at Oriel College, Oxford, in 1984. I had heard that whoever won the summer rowing competition would set fire to a boat in celebration. Oriel had won seven years in a row at that point, and I remember there were complaints that it was all getting out of hand.The whole event was slightly mad. After a long, boo
  
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• Senior Tories Speak Out Against Johnson

  08-08-2018 16:45
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• Bring It On review – Lin-Manuel Miranda songs add cheer to hit-and-miss musical

  08-08-2018 16:43 via theguardian.com
  Southwark Playhouse, London
  With numbers co-written by the award-winning Hamilton creator, the real gem is the show’s scoreBetween creating In the Heights and Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda co-wrote the music and lyrics for this 2011 US high-school show inspired by the popular teen film. Some of the numbers reveal the capacity for densely rhymed hip-hop that has become his admired trademark. Yet for all the production’s energy, there is something odd about members of the youth-oriented
  
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• From Rihanna's eyebrows to slip dresses: should we embrace the 90s revival?

  08-08-2018 16:31 via theguardian.com
  The problem with 90s nostalgia is that the decade was already backward-looking. It’s dress-up and it won’t lastNow that Rihanna has super-thin eyebrows and slip dresses are in fashion, does this mean the 90s are back? And, as I can remember it the first time round, am I too old to carry this off? Mary, by emailThe question is not whether you are too old, Mary, but whether you would want to. Some of us lived our formative years in the 90s and the only reason we wore dresses over jeans
  
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• No trainers, no vests, no mopeds: is the Royal Oak Britain’s strictest pub?

  08-08-2018 16:25 via theguardian.com
  The South Yorkshire inn has so many rules, it’s incredible anyone manages to get in to buy a drinkName: The Royal Oak.Age: Old, but under new management. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Clear Evidence' To Charge Brother Of Manchester Arena Bomber, Police Say

  08-08-2018 16:23
  Police say there is "clear evidence" to charge the brother of the Manchester
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel on climate change: 'Somebody needs to get through to Trump'

  08-08-2018 16:06 via theguardian.com
  Comics, including Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah and Kimmel, discussed Paul Manafort’s trial and the threat of climate changeLate-night hosts on Tuesday discussed the trial of former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and Trump’s approach to climate change. Related: Trevor Noah: 'Trump gets a vacation, but we don't get a vacation from him'Continue reading...
  
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• Sky Data poll: Comparing women who wear burkas to bank robbers 'not racist'

  08-08-2018 16:01
  The majority of Britons think describing women in burkas as looking like "letter boxes" and "bank robbers" is not racist - but are split as to whether Boris Johnson should apologise for doing so, according to a new Sky Data poll.Six in 10 - 60% - say it is not racist to compare Muslim women wearing burkas to bank robbers and letter boxes, as Mr Johnson did in an opinion column earlier this week, while 33% think it is.
  
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• The Negotiator (AKA Beirut) review – Jon Hamm talks tough in hostage thriller

  08-08-2018 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Brad Anderson’s Middle East-set drama is gamely byzantine but fails to integrate its hero’s troubled past effectively‘A frontrunner who stumbled. But he’s manageable.” That’s the official precis of Mason Skiles (Jon Hamm), former US diplomat in Beirut who, after personal tragedy sends him back to the US and into the arms of Jack Daniel’s, is asked to return to the Middle East to broker a tricky hostage swap. Bourne screenwriter Tony Gilroy’s thrill
  
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• ‘By Jove, the war’s coming to an end': Battle of Amiens remembered

  08-08-2018 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Descendants of those who fought in decisive first world war assault gather at city’s cathedralIt was the point at which “aerial, mechanical and human courage and ingenuity combined with devastating results” to turn the tide of the first world war, Prince William told the 3,000 people gathered to commemorate the Battle of Amiens in the city’s Notre-Dame cathedral.Remembrance of the four-day assault – launched at 4.20am, 100 years ago to the day – may live in th
  
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• Brandon Lewis: half of Tory candidates must be women

  08-08-2018 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Party chairman says he wants ‘radical change’ but gives no timetable for gender-balanced listsAt least half the Conservative candidates on the party’s official list must be women, the Tory chairman, Brandon Lewis, has announced, insisting the party wants “radical change” in parliament, where 80% of Tory MPs are male.As the party began to select prospective MPs, Lewis launched a package of measures on Wednesday to encourage women to stand as Tory candidates. The meas
  
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• The ‘Croydon cat killer’ hunt has lasted three grisly years. But is he man or myth?

  08-08-2018 15:57 via theguardian.com
  The police and RSPCA have backed Snarl, set up by a south London couple, to solve the bloody deaths of up to 500 pets. Will their trail lead to justice?Tony Jenkins takes a deep breath as he sits down with his large cappuccino in a south-London cafe. He pulls out his phone and lays it on the table. “It might go at any time,” he says. “If it’s someone saying: ‘I’ve just found my cat and its head is missing,’ or a vet, or police saying someone’s brou
  
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• George Cunningham obituary

  08-08-2018 15:56
  George Cunningham’s amendment to the Scotland Act sealed the fate of James Callaghan’s tottering minority government.The former Labour MP George Cunningham, who has died aged 87, was an independent-minded politician who used his mastery of parliamentary procedure to devastating effect, most notably in opposition to his government’s attempt to introduce devolution in Scotland in 1979.A backbench amendment introduced by Cunningham led to the defeat of James Callaghan’s gove
  
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• Ben Stokes was 'main aggressor' in Bristol brawl, court hears

  08-08-2018 15:50 via theguardian.com
  Off-duty police officer tells court England cricketer was ‘trying to get at’ another manBen Stokes was the “main aggressor” in a late-night street fight in Bristol that left one man with serious facial injuries including a broken eye socket and a deep cut to his face, a court has heard.The England cricketer knocked out Ryan Ali with one punch while the firefighter appeared to be backing away from a confrontation, the jury at Bristol crown court was told. Continue reading.
  
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