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• Jeremy Corbyn Accused Of 'Arrogance' By Former Scottish Labour Leader, Jim Murphy, Over Anti-Semitism Row

  10-08-2018 23:11
  A former Scottish Labour leader has accused Jeremy Corbyn of being "arrogant"
  
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• Labour anti-Semitism row: Jeremy Corbyn faces new claims he compared Israel to Nazis

  10-08-2018 22:09
  Jeremy Corbyn is facing fresh accusations of comparing Israelis to the Nazis after a video emerged of the Labour leader claiming actions in the West Bank are like World War Two occupations.Footage shows Mr Corbyn speaking at an event in which he suggested Palestinians in the West Bank live "under occupation of the very sort that would be recognised by many people in Europe who suffered occupation during the Second World War".An internationally-recognised definition and examples of anti-Semitism,
  
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• A California town ravaged by wildfire – in pictures

  10-08-2018 21:54 via theguardian.com
  The Carr fire, one of 13 large fires burning in California, was ignited in late July when a trailer tire blew out and created sparks as it ground on the asphalt. It killed seven people and destroyed 1,077 homes in the small city of Redding, in the far north of the state. New photos released by the city show the extent of the damage Continue reading...
  
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• Chess prodigy Shreyas Royal allowed to stay in UK after campaign

  10-08-2018 20:48
  A nine-year-old chess prodigy has been backed to become England's first world champion after being allowed to stay in the UK.Shreyas Royal and his parents, who are from India, feared for their future after being told they would not be permitted to stay after their UK visa expires next month.Shreyas's father, Jitendra Singh, has been granted a new work visa due to the "exceptional circumstances" of his son's talent.
  
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• Donald Trump Is 'Racist' And 'Uses The N-Word', Omarosa Manigault Newman Claims

  10-08-2018 20:34
  Donald Trump has been accused of being a "racist" who repeatedly used "the
  
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• Lewis Ludlow: Ripped up notes revealed Islamic State terror plotter's prime targets

  10-08-2018 20:24
  A terror plotter wrote down his prime targets for an attack - before ripping them up and throwing them away.Lewis Ludlow, 26, who swore allegiance to Islamic State (IS), pleaded guilty to plotting to kill around 100 people outside the Disney store on London's Oxford Street on Friday.The paper scraps revealed "potential attack sites" including "madam tussauds", "Oxford Street - busiest time…", "St Paul's cathedral" and a "Shia temple in Romford".
  
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• Peak social media? Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat fail to make new friends

  10-08-2018 19:16
  More than 3 million under-25s are expected to abandon Facebook in the UK and US by the end of this year.Twitter and Snapchat have also reported userbase declines.Snapchat – falling into line behind Facebook and Twitter – has become the latest social network to report declining user numbers in its half year results.
  
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• Campaign for second Brexit vote seeks support beyond capital

  10-08-2018 19:16
  Campaigners for a second referendum will hold the first of a series of events outside London on Saturday to try to mobilise popular support for the plan beyond the capital.The Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston, the Lib Dem leader, Sir Vince Cable, and Labour’s Stephen Doughty will address a lunchtime event at the Colston Hall in Bristol, where tickets have sold out.Organised by the People’s Vote campaign, it will be followed by events in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Cambridge and Cardiff befo
  
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• Emerging market contagion back with a vengeance as Turkey pops

  10-08-2018 19:15
  The plunge in the Turkish lira has set off a wave of selling across emerging market assets, reviving the spectre of contagion that has been the sector's Achilles heel for decades.Although the ripple effects may not yet be of the scale of the financial firestorms of 1997-2000 or the global financial crash of 2008-2009, seemingly indiscriminate selling of emerging markets as far afield as South Africa, Russia and Mexico was clear this week as Turkey's crisis deepened.There were hopes earlier this
  
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• Equality watchdog attacks Boris Johnson's 'inflammatory' remarks

  10-08-2018 19:14
  Boris Johnson compared fully veiled women to letterboxes.The equalities watchdog has branded Boris Johnson’s comments on the burqa “inflammatory and divisive”, but said it has no powers to launch an investigation.The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said it had received a complaint from a member of the public about Johnson’s controversial article in the Daily Telegraph, but its remit extended to breaches of equality law, such as the denial of a service on the g
  
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• Second union boss urges Labour to adopt full definition of antisemitism

  10-08-2018 19:09
  A Labour spokesperson said Jeremy Corbyn was a ‘militant opponent of antisemitism’.Dave Prentis, the Unison general secretary, has become the second major union boss in two days to call for Labour to adopt the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition on antisemitism, arguing that not doing so is costing the party the moral high ground to oppose racial hatred and oppression.
  
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• Four million people in England are long-term users of antidepressants

  10-08-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Data obtained by the Guardian shows that one in six people in England were prescribed antidepressants in 2017More than four million people in England are long-term users of antidepressants, new figures obtained by the Guardian show.Data released under the Freedom of Information Act shows that more than 7.3 million people were prescribed antidepressants in 2017-18, 4.4 million of whom also received a prescription for such drugs in both of the two previous years. Continue reading...
  
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• Cricketer Ben Stokes accused of lying to the jury over 'homophobic abuse'

  10-08-2018 18:49
  Ben Stokes has been accused of lying over alleged homophobic abuse directed towards a gay couple on the night of his arrest outside a Bristol bar.Stokes told the jury he stepped in after telling the men to stop, but that he had "significant memory blackout" about exactly what they had said to the couple.All three men were charged with affray over September's incident, but on Thursday judge Peter Blair directed the jury at Bristol Crown Court to find Mr Hale not guilty.
  
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• Man admits terror plot aiming to kill 100 people on London's Oxford Street

  10-08-2018 18:27
  Oxford Street in central London is a busy shopping area.A man has pleaded guilty to a terrorist plot to drive a van into shoppers outside a Disney store on Oxford Street in London, with the hope of killing 100 people.Lewis Ludlow, 26, pledged allegiance to Islamic State and was caught by a joint police and MI5 operation.
  
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• Ben Stokes denies that he 'lost all control' in Bristol brawl

  10-08-2018 18:25
  Ben Stokes and his wife, Clare, arrive at Bristol crown court.Ben Stokes has denied that CCTV footage of him brawling in a Bristol street showed “an angry man” who had “lost all control”.Stokes is accused of affray near Mbargo nightclub in the Clifton Triangle area of Bristol during the early hours of 25 September last year.
  
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• UN Says Yemen School Bus Attack Worst Ever

  10-08-2018 18:06
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• Britain concerned by Yemen attack, calls for investigation - minister

  10-08-2018 17:54
  A transparent investigation must be held into an air strike in Yemen which killed dozens of children, a British Foreign Office minister said on Friday.A Saudi-led coalition said on Friday it would investigate the strike on a bus in northern Yemen, the latest in a series of mass casualty air strikes in Yemen's war."Deeply concerned by reports of yesterday's attack in Saada, Yemen resulting in tragic deaths of so many children.
  
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• Sports Direct rescues House of Fraser for 90 million pounds

  10-08-2018 17:50
  Sports Direct, the British sportswear retailer controlled by tycoon Mike Ashley, has snapped up House of Fraser from the department store group's administrators for 90 million pounds.Billionaire Ashley, who also owns English Premier League soccer club Newcastle United, said on Friday his ambition was to transform House of Fraser "into the Harrods of the High Street" - a reference to the Qatari-owned luxury department store inLondon that was once owned by House of Fraser.
  
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• Mike Ashley's Sports Direct buys struggling House of Fraser for £90m

  10-08-2018 17:37
  Billionaire businessman Mike Ashley intends to transform House of Fraser into "the Harrods of the high street" after his Sports Direct firm agreed a £90m cash buyout of the struggling chain.Sky News exclusively revealed that Mr Ashley was close to an agreement after the accountancy firm EY was appointed the administrator for the 169-year-old department store chain.In a statement to the London Stock Exchange, Sports Direct said it had acquired all of the UK stores, brand and stock of House
  
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• Bowel cancer screening age to be lowered to 50 in England

  10-08-2018 17:32
  Bowel cancer screening in England will be brought forward 10 years to begin at the age of 50.The government has agreed with the recommendation of an independent expert committee to reduce the age at which men and women are invited for bowel screening.The move follows calls by high-profile bowel cancer sufferers, such as former health secretary Lord Lansley and BBC newsreader George Alagiah, to improve screening programmes.
  
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• U.S. strongly condemns Russia's poisoning of former spy - White House

  10-08-2018 17:19
  The White House said on Friday the United States strongly condemned Russia's use of chemical weapons against a former Russian agent in Britain, two days after the U.S. State Department announced sanctions over the move."The attack against Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, United Kingdom, on March 4, 2018, was a reckless display of contempt for the universally held norm against chemical weapons," said a spokesman for the White House National Security Council in an email.
  
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• Former UK lecturer arrested in Romania while on the run

  10-08-2018 17:16
  Julian Myerscough fled his trial at Ipswich crown court before being found guilty.A former law lecturer who went on the run from a court in England in 2015 before being found guilty of downloading indecent images of children has been arrested in Romania.Julian Myerscough, 56, who taught criminal law at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, fled from his trial at Ipswich crown court while jurors were deliberating their verdicts.
  
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• Two Police Officers Among Dead In Fredericton Shooting

  10-08-2018 17:12
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• Rare baby rhino born at Chester Zoo has 'big personality' and 'bundles of energy'

  10-08-2018 17:11
  A rhino calf - one of only 650 in the world - has played outside for the first time, 10 days after being born at Chester Zoo.Keepers, who say the eastern black rhino has "bundles of energy", will soon choose a name that matches his "big personality"."Malindi has bonded very well with her new calf during these important early days and, as an experienced mum, is doing a great job once again," said the zoo's curator of mammals, Tim Rowlands.
  
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• Why 'Pony Painting Parties' Are The Latest Trend To Be Targeted By Animal Rights Activists

  10-08-2018 17:09
  "Pony painting" parties, which see children decorate horses with edible
  
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• Brexit risks: food insecurity and a weak pound

  10-08-2018 17:09
  The NFU is right to highlight the danger Brexit poses for British food (Food shortage warning, 8 August).It is concerning in this uncertain geopolitical landscape that there has been a long-term decline in our food security.Brexit brings additional risks and we could be at the mercy of other nations in our government’s bid to strike trade deals.
  
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• State should restrict gambling ads seen by children, industry says

  10-08-2018 17:00
  Gambling TV adverts are permitted before 9pm in the UK, as long as they are attached to live sporting events.Senior gambling industry figures have admitted concerns that children are being exposed to too many betting adverts on TV and have called on the government to act.The growing consensus among of industry bosses prompted calls from Labour for the government to crack down on “out of control” gambling ads.
  
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• Edinburgh festival authors face 'Kafkaesque' UK visa process

  10-08-2018 16:48
  Foreign authors invited to Edinburgh to appear in the world's biggest arts festival are being put off by a British visa process which organizers say is humiliating and Kafkaesque.The complexity of getting permission to visit Britain risks damaging its cultural reputation, organizers say, and is likely to worsen once Britain leaves the European Union in March 2019."Applying for visas seems to have become incredibly complicated this year, almost Kafkaesque in complexity," said Nick Barley, Edinbur
  
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• The frontline battle against monkey dust epidemic

  10-08-2018 16:44
  Late afternoon in Stoke-on-Trent and another one is up on a roof.
  
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• London Disney store plot: Muslim convert pleads guilty to planning terror attack

  10-08-2018 16:43
  A Muslim convert has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill around 100 people outside a Disney store on London's Oxford Street.Lewis Ludlow, 26, swore allegiance to Islamic State as he prepared to drive a van through London's main shopping area or near Madame Tussauds.Ludlow, of Rochester, in Kent, planned an attack after being stopped by police at Heathrow airport in February as he tried to board a flight to the Philippines.
  
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• NFL Players Still Kneeling

  10-08-2018 16:31
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• U.S. strongly condemns Russian use of chemical weapons - White House

  10-08-2018 16:30
  The White House said on Friday the United States strongly condemned Russia's use of chemical weapons against a former Russian agent in Britain, two days after the U.S. State Department announced sanctions over the move."The attack against Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, United Kingdom, on March 4, 2018, was a reckless display of contempt for the universally held norm against chemical weapons," said a spokesman for the White House National Security Council in an email.
  
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• Windrush citizens still waiting for cases to be resolved

  10-08-2018 16:17 via theguardian.com
  Home Office told one woman to seek charity help to feed her child while waiting for newsWindrush citizens who have had their lives turned upside down by a harsh government policy that wrongly targeted them over their immigration status are still waiting for their cases to be resolved, despite a government pledge to process them in two weeks.Dozens of those referred to the Windrush taskforce have yet to receive news about their citizenship and biometric residence permits. Continue reading...
  
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• Boy, 16, Pleads Not Guilty To Murder Of Viktorija Sokolova, 14

  10-08-2018 16:16
  A 16-year-old boy has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a 14-year-old girl,
  
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• UK economy on track to grow at fastest since fourth quarter 2016 - NIESR

  10-08-2018 16:11
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economy looks on track to grow at its fastest rate since the tail end of 2016, according to an estimate from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) on Friday.
  
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• Gove must answer claims he 'intervened' in school abuse case – lawyers

  10-08-2018 15:57
  Michael Gove has denied he intervened in Downside Abbey school investigation while he was the education secretary.Lawyers representing child abuse survivors have called for the environment secretary, Michael Gove, to be called before a public inquiry over an allegation he intervened in a sexual abuse investigation at a boarding school.
  
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• Call for Gove to give evidence over school abuse case claims

  10-08-2018 15:57
  Michael Gove has denied he intervened in the Downside Abbey school investigation while he was the education secretary.Lawyers representing child abuse survivors have called for the environment secretary, Michael Gove, to be called before a public inquiry over an allegation he intervened in a sexual abuse investigation at a boarding school.
  
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• Don't Panic, But The Heatwave Is Making Wasps Live Longer

  10-08-2018 15:33
  While the heatwave has provided perfect conditions for Britons to hit the
  
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• How a historian’s chance discovery shed light on an unusual Victorian hobby

  10-08-2018 15:30
  Cut-outs from photographs are arranged in painted scenes.
  
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• Ben Stokes denies claim he 'lost all control' in Bristol brawl

  10-08-2018 15:19
  Ben Stokes and his wife, Clare, arrive at Bristol crown court.Ben Stokes has denied that CCTV footage of him brawling in a Bristol street showed “an angry man who has lost all control”.Stokes is accused of affray near Mbargo nightclub in the Clifton Triangle area of Bristol during the early hours of 25 September last year.
  
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• Former Tory leader defends Boris Johnson over burqa comments

  10-08-2018 15:18
  The former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith has said the party’s internal disciplinary system should not be used to “shut down” Boris Johnson after his controversial comments about fully veiled Muslim women.The MP voiced unhappiness that Johnson had been referred to the party’s internal disciplinary process on Thursday, and argued that the former foreign secretary had a right to free speech, even if people took offence at his remarks.“You may not agree wi
  
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• Ryanair strike hits 55,000 passengers across Europe

  10-08-2018 15:06
  DUBLIN/BERLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair endured its worst one-day strike on Friday after a walk-out by pilots in five European countries disrupted the plans of an estimated 55,000 travellers with the budget airline at the height of the summer holiday season.Ryanair, which averted widespread strikes before last Christmas by agreeing to recognise unions for the first time in its 30-year history, has been unable to quell rising protests over slow progress in negotiating collective labour agreements.In re
  
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• Raging Flood Waters Force Evacuations In France

  10-08-2018 15:01
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• Man lay dead in tent 'for a year' near Somerset road

  10-08-2018 14:56
  A man lay dead in a tent near a Somerset road for up to a year before he was found, police have said.The body was discovered on 15 August 2017, but officers are still trying to find his next of kin to let them know.A driving licence, birth certificate and a newspaper from August 2016 were also found in the tent.
  
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• Samantha Eastwood’s Family Speak Of Tragic Midwife's Death

  10-08-2018 14:54
  The family of Samantha Eastwood have released a new photograph of the midwife,
  
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• Girl Killed In Seaside Holiday Rock Fall Was 'Light Of Our Lives' Say Devastated Family

  10-08-2018 14:49
  The family of a nine-year-old girl who died when rocks fell from a cliff in a
  
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• Tented Britain: rise in rough sleepers taking shelter under canvas

  10-08-2018 14:47 via theguardian.com
  UK may not have tent cities like US, but encampments have become feature of British lifeSun-bleached food packaging and the fading remnants of a campfire are the only clues that people used to live in woodland near Cardiff Bay. Residents nearby said the homeless men living in Hamadryad Park had left shortly after Aaron French-Willcox, 19, was found cold and unresponsive in a tent at an encampment in the early hours of 13 February.French-Wilcox, who had type one diabetes and died from diabetic ke
  
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• Chancellor Philip Hammond Considering 'Amazon Tax' For Online Retailers

  10-08-2018 14:46
  Chancellor Philip Hammond has hinted he may introduce a so-called Amazon tax
  
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• UK economy warms up a touch, Brexit hurdles ahead

  10-08-2018 14:43
  Britain's economy warmed up a little in the second quarter from its winter slowdown of early 2018, but there was no sign of an end to its stuttering performance ahead of Brexit next year.Gross domestic product expanded 0.4 percent in the April-June period after a 0.2 percent rise in the first quarter, as expected in a Reuters poll of economists, the Office for National Statistics said.Sterling, shaken over the last week by growing talk of a no-deal Brexit, was little moved by the data which show
  
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• Ben Stokes Tells Affray Jury: 'I Wasn’t Angry And Drunk I Was Talking To God'

  10-08-2018 14:32
  England cricketer Ben Stokes has denied being "angry and out of control" on
  
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