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• Teen 'cried for help' as four stabbed in Camberwell, south London

  16-08-2018 22:52
  Six men have been arrested after four teenage boys were stabbed in Camberwell, south London.In what police are calling a "senseless" crime, the four injured teens were taken to hospital after the attack on Elmington Estate, Camberwell Road.
  
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• Police TURN ON May over pay rise SNUB - ‘Saying thank you DOES NOT cut it’

  16-08-2018 22:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  POLICE officers today accused Theresa May of holding them in "contempt" after it was claimed she blocked Home Secretary Sajid Javid's call for them to get a bigger pay rise.
  
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• Six held after four teens stabbed in Camberwell, south London

  16-08-2018 21:54
  Six men have been arrested after four teenage boys were stabbed in Camberwell, south London.In what police are calling a "senseless" crime, the four injured teens were taken to hospital after the attack on Elmington Estate, Camberwell Road."[You] can't see much from the road as the scene was deeper inside the estate," witness Chris Hardley told Sky News.
  
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• A-level results: foreign languages suffer further slump

  16-08-2018 21:18
  Students at Ffynone House school in Swansea discuss their A-level results.A-levels in traditional foreign languages have suffered a further slump, with the number of people taking German falling so steeply that it has been overtaken by Mandarin.About 3,000 students sat German A-levels, a drop of 16% on last year and a 45% fall since 2010.
  
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• Margaret Hodge Likens Labour's Disciplinary Investigation To Nazi Germany

  16-08-2018 21:12
  Dame Margaret Hodge has likened a Labour Party disciplinary investigation into
  
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• Police investigate links between Arena bomber and Manchester imam

  16-08-2018 20:45
  Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi attended Didsbury mosque regularly.Police in Manchester are investigating claims that an imam at a British mosque attended by the arena bomber delivered a sermon advocating armed jihad six months before the attack.Greater Manchester police (GMP) said it had been passed footage from the BBC purporting to show an imam at Didsbury mosque praising “mujahideen” fighting abroad – a term commonly used for Islamist guerrilla fighters.
  
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• Camberwell Stabbings: Four Men Injured After Incident In South London

  16-08-2018 20:34
  Four males have been stabbed in south London in the latest wave of violence in
  
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• Camberwell Stabbing: Six Arrested After Knife Attack In South London

  16-08-2018 20:34
  Four teenagers, aged between 15 and 16 years old, have been stabbed on a south
  
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• Camberwell Knife Attack: Six Arrested After Quadruple Stabbing In South London

  16-08-2018 20:34
  Four teenagers have been stabbed on a south London housing estate in the
  
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• Armed police tackle man waving a gun in a Swansea park

  16-08-2018 20:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch the moment police dealt with a man who brandished a gun - which later turned out to be a toy - in Swansea.
  
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• Four men stabbed in south London

  16-08-2018 20:16
  Five men have been arrested after four men were stabbed in Camberwell, south London."[You] can't see much from the road as the scene was deeper inside the estate," he told Sky News.Scotland Yard said five males have been arrested after police were called to Landor House, Camberwell, shortly before 5.25pm on Thursday.
  
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• Man charged with murder after Britain's Got Talent finalist stabbed to death in London

  16-08-2018 20:09
  A man has been charged with the murder of a young mother who was a finalist on Britain's Got Talent with an NHS choir.Desmond Sylva, 40, is accused of stabbing nurse Simonne Kerr, 31, in Battersea, southwest London, on Wednesday, Scotland Yard said.Sylva was charged the day after Ms Kerr was found with a knife wound at her home.
  
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• Margaret Hodge: Labour investigation made me think about treatment of Jews in 1930s Germany

  16-08-2018 20:08
  A Jewish Labour MP has said the moment she found out she faced investigation for confronting Jeremy Corbyn over anti-Semitism made her think about "what it felt like to be a Jew in Germany in the 30s".Former minister Margaret Hodge, who faced disciplinary action for calling the Labour leader an anti-Semite, told Sky News "it felt almost as if they were coming for me"."It's rather difficult to define but there's that fear and it reminded me of what my dad used to say," Ms Hodge said in her first
  
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• IDS says Carney 'got it WRONG' as he attacks 'panicking' financial markets over Brexit

  16-08-2018 20:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXITEER Iain Duncan Smith attacked Bank of England Governor Mark Carney after he “got it wrong” when he claimed the Brexit vote slowed the UK economy and resulted in Britain being the “slowest growing in the G7”.
  
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• Trinidad judge loses bid to halt legal inquiry into his private life

  16-08-2018 20:03
  Trinidad and Tobago’s chief justice, Ivor Archie, who has been facing mounting public criticism over his ‘close friendship’ with Dillian Johnson.Judges in London have dismissed an attempt by the chief justice of Trinidad and Tobago to halt a legal investigation into his private life and alleged business dealings.Ivor Archie had been facing mounting public criticism over his “close friendship” with Dillian Johnson, who was described as a “convicted felon”
  
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• Simonne Kerr: Man Charged With Murdering Britain's Got Talent Star

  16-08-2018 19:52
  A man has been charged with murdering a nurse who performed on Britain's Got
  
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• Nurse stabbed to death in Battersea had sung on Britain's Got Talent

  16-08-2018 19:50
  Simonne Kerr with her son Kavele, who died of sickle cell disease at the age of six.A woman found stabbed to death in her London home was a nurse who had performed in a choir on Britain’s Got Talent after her son died of sickle cell disease.Police named the 31-year-old found with a knife wound at her flat in Battersea on Wednesday as Simonne Kerr.
  
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• Battersea stabbing victim named and man charged with murder

  16-08-2018 19:50
  Simonne Kerr with her son Kavele, who died of sickle cell disease at the age of six.A woman found stabbed to death in her London home was a nurse who had performed in a choir on Britain’s Got Talent after her son died of sickle cell disease.Police named the 31-year-old found with a knife wound at her flat in Battersea on Wednesday as Simonne Kerr.
  
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• LONDON BLOODBATH: Four hurt in QUADRUPLE STABBING in Camberwell - 'It is CARNAGE out here'

  16-08-2018 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  FOUR men have been rushed to hospital after being stabbed in Camberwell, south-east London, as the capital's knife crime epidemic continues.
  
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• Britain's Got Talent star found stabbed to death in Battersea age 31

  16-08-2018 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  A WOMAN who was stabbed to death at her home in Battersea, south west London, yesterday was a Britain’s Got Talent star.
  
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• Labour anti-Semitism: Unite leader Len McCluskey lashes out at Blairites and 'hostile' Jewish leaders

  16-08-2018 19:30
  Jeremy Corbyn's chief trade union cheerleader, Len McCluskey, has accused "Blairite" Labour MPs of using the anti-Semitism row to provoke a split in the party.In a typically belligerent outburst, the Unite leader also took aim at his friend-turned-foe Tom Watson, Labour's deputy leader, and accused Jewish leaders of hostility to Mr Corbyn."Two things have now become clear regarding Labour's anti-Semitism controversy," Mr McCluskey wrote in a lengthy and wide-ranging blog for the HuffPost website
  
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• Taxpayer-funded ferry deal hit by MORE delays - SNP urged 'GET A GRIP'

  16-08-2018 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  A £100 MILLION green ferry deal has been hit by further delays, sparking fears of fresh disruption for Scotland’s island communities. Two new taxpayer-funded vessels are being built at Ferguson Marine Engineering’s shipyard in Port Glasgow on the Clyde.
  
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• Lucy McHugh: CCTV Footage Released Showing Murdered Schoolgirl The Day She Disappeared

  16-08-2018 19:18
  CCTV footage showing murdered schoolgirl Lucy McHugh the day she disappeared
  
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• Falling offshore T-bond holdings highlight U.S. cash repatriation

  16-08-2018 19:01
  In low-tax jurisdictions from Ireland to the Bahamas, the stock of Treasury bond holdings is down $22 billion (£17.32 billion) this year in a sign U.S. companies are repatriating cash held offshore after changes to how foreign earnings are taxed.Over the years, U.S. multinationals have accumulated an estimated $3 trillion (£2.36 trillion) in worldwide profits offshore, held in cash as well as securities including U.S. Treasuries.This is the result of a rule under the previous tax reg
  
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• Garden shed houses pub and Blackpool Tower model

  16-08-2018 18:52 via bbc.co.uk
  The elaborate shed also has a bar, recreation room, swimming pool and toilet block.
  
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• WATCH: Have-a-go hero sends motorbike thief FLYING as he rams him with Ford Fiesta

  16-08-2018 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  A HAVE-A-GO hero was so furious at two motorbike thieves that he took action into his own hands - watch CCTV footage of the anti-moped vigilante ram into the pair as they attempt to steal a motorbike.
  
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• Asking staff to pay for rail mess isn’t fare

  16-08-2018 18:41
  It is an accepted fact that our rail industry, to put it mildly, leaves a great deal to be desired.Excuses given include staff shortages, broken trains, signals, track issues, and of course the major timetable change.Now we have notice of fare increases which the secretary of state, Chris Grayling, says should be eased by the workforce taking a lower-than-inflation pay increase (Report, 15 August).
  
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• Labour complains to press regulator over Corbyn wreath row story

  16-08-2018 18:29
  Labour has complained to the press regulator about the coverage by six Fleet Street newspapers of Jeremy Corbyn's controversial visit to a cemetery in Tunisia in 2014.The party claims The Sun, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Metro misrepresented the event, which has plunged the Labour leader into a fierce row over the past week.In its complaint to IPSO, Labour accuses the newspapers of wrongly claiming the event was commemorating members of the Black September terro
  
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• Delroy Forrester Found Guilty Of Manslaughter After Beating Niece To Death

  16-08-2018 18:18
  A man who battered his 11-year-old great-niece to death, leaving her with
  
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• Labour antisemitism row: Unite boss accuses Jewish leaders of 'truculent hostility'

  16-08-2018 18:17
  Len McCluskey has accused Jewish leaders of showing “truculent hostility” towards Labour, as he called for the party to draw a line under the antisemitism row by adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance guidelines in full.The Unite general secretary’s backing for the full IHRA definition, with all its examples, in Labour’s new code of conduct, will tip the balance on the party’s national executive committee, which is due to discuss the issue at its
  
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• England rugby star Danny Cipriani says he's 'truly sorry' for police assault

  16-08-2018 18:13
  England rugby star Danny Cirpirani says he is "truly sorry" and "mortified" after he admitted common assault and resisting arrest.The 30-year-old fly-half pleaded guilty to both charges at Jersey Magistrates' Court and was fined.Mike Preston, defending, said Cipriani had suffered "extreme embarrassment and knows he has let himself, his family and his club down".
  
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• Didsbury Mosque Imam Caught On Tape Appearing To 'Call For Jihad', Report Claims

  16-08-2018 18:02
  An Imam at a Manchester mosque where terrorist Salman Abedi worshipped has
  
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• Turkey will emerge stronger from lira crisis despite U.S. row - minister

  16-08-2018 17:45
  Finance Minister Berat Albayrak assured international investors on Thursday that Turkey would emerge stronger from its currency crisis, insisting the country's banks were healthy and signalling it could ride out a row with the United States.In a conference call with thousands of investors and economists, Albayrak - who is President Tayyip Erdogan's son-in-law - said Turkey fully understood and recognised all its domestic challenges but was dealing with what he described as a market anomaly.With
  
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• Zoo hunts for 'friendly' missing wallaby who was spotted sunbathing in Wolverhampton

  16-08-2018 17:32
  A "small, friendly" wallaby appears to have got the jump on zookeepers who are hunting for her after she escaped and was spotted eating grass and sunbathing.Holly, who lives at Wild Zoological Park in Bobbington, West Midlands, was spotted near a Sainsbury's in Wolverhampton.Staffordshire Police said they received a call from a member of the public who spotted the animal in Bridgnorth Road, Wombourne, at around 9.20pm on Wednesday.
  
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• Super Cup reaction and Celtic's Champions League exit – Football Weekly Extra

  16-08-2018 17:16 via theguardian.com
  Max Rushden and co on Atlético’s win over Madrid, European woe for Celtic and Bristol Rovers’ dubious half-time entertainmentRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Paul Doyle and Nick Miller to discuss Atlético’s Super Cup win over Real Madrid, asking Sid Lowe whether Madrid are capable of competing without Zidan
  
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• Police inspector admits making indecent images of children

  16-08-2018 17:13
  A police inspector has pleaded guilty to making and distributing hundreds of indecent images of children, including a boy aged six.Lee Bartram also filmed a sunbathing teenager while he was on bail, Walsall Magistrates' Court was told.Bartram, who worked in Birmingham city centre, admitted five counts of making indecent images of a child and two counts of distributing similar images.
  
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• The world's first film poster expected to fetch up to £60,000 at auction

  16-08-2018 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE world's first film poster is going under the hammer. Printed and pasted on walls in Paris, the poster promoted the Lumiere brothers' short films, a series of one-minute glimpses into everyday life.
  
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• Stormzy launches Cambridge scholarship for black students

  16-08-2018 16:56
  Stormzy is offering to help black Cambridge University students pay their tuition fees by launching a new scholarship.The scholarship aims to encourage the admission of more black students to top universities, after none got into some Cambridge University collages between 2012 and 2016.Two Cambridge students this year and two next year will have their fees paid for by the scholarship.
  
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• Paddy Power DOWN - Betfair DOWN: Betting sites go offline leaving gamblers panicking

  16-08-2018 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  PADDY Power and Betfair’s websites have crashed, leaving its millions of members panicking over their online betting accounts.
  
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• Queen's doctor Peter Fisher dies in cycling collision in London

  16-08-2018 16:52
  Tributes have been paid to Dr Peter Fisher, one of the Queen's doctors, who has died after being struck by a lorry while cycling in central London.Dr Gill Gaskin, medical director at University College London Hospitals, said: "We are all deeply shocked and saddened to learn that Dr Peter Fisher tragically died in a road traffic accident yesterday."Peter was director of research at UCLH's Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine, and physician to Her Majesty the Queen.
  
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• Police release new CCTV of murdered teenager Lucy McHugh

  16-08-2018 16:47
  Police have released new CCTV footage showing the last known movements of murdered schoolgirl Lucy McHugh.The 13-year-old was found stabbed to death in an area of woodland at Southampton Sports Centre on 26 July, having last been seen the morning before.Initial footage of her walking past a Tesco Express in the morning around half an hour after she left home was played to Southampton fans on the big screen at St Mary's Stadium before their Premier League opener against Burnley on Sunday, in the
  
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• 12 of the funniest A-level tweets to mark results day

  16-08-2018 16:40
  A-grades all round for these Twitter comedians.
  
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• Queen's doctor Peter Fisher dies in cycling collision

  16-08-2018 16:22
  Tributes have been paid to Dr Peter Fisher, one of the Queen's doctors, who has died after being struck by a lorry while cycling in central London.Dr Gill Gaskin, medical director at University College London Hospitals, said: "We are all deeply shocked and saddened to learn that Dr Peter Fisher tragically died in a road traffic accident yesterday."Peter was director of research at UCLH's Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine, and physician to Her Majesty the Queen.
  
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• Alarm as more Britons die of skin than Aussies

  16-08-2018 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE fashion for excessive tanning is seeing more people die from skin cancer in Britain than die in Australia, grim figures show. Sun beds and the popularity of sunshine package holidays are blamed for cases increasing sevenfold since the 1970s.
  
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• Turkey will emerge stronger from lira crisis, finance minister tells investors

  16-08-2018 16:12
  Finance Minister Berat Albayrak assured international investors on Thursday that Turkey would emerge stronger from its currency crisis, insisting that the country's banks were healthy and strong.In a conference call with thousands of investors and economists, Albayrak - who is President Tayyip Erdogan's son-in-law - said Turkey fully understood and recognised all its domestic challenges but was dealing with what he described as a market anomaly.The Turkish lira hit a record low of 7.24 to the do
  
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• The queen of soul: Aretha Franklin – a life in pictures

  16-08-2018 16:10 via theguardian.com
  The queen of soul for six decades, Aretha Franklin, has died aged 76. Take a look at some of her greatest moments, from her first ever recording session at Columbia to her final ever live performanceAretha Franklin tributes and live reactionsA voice that gave America its heart and soulAretha Franklin, ‘queen of soul’, dies aged 76 Continue reading...
  
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• Brexit FURY: Sarcastic Verhofstadt MOCKS May's 'budget airline' plan for EU citizens

  16-08-2018 16:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  GUY Verhofstadt has savaged Home Office plans to register European Union citizens who wish to remain living in Britain after Brexit alphabetically.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth's doctor killed in London road crash

  16-08-2018 16:04
  A doctor who worked as a physician to The Queen has been killed after colliding with a truck as he cycled through central London.Peter Fisher, 67, was riding through the High Holborn area on Wednesday morning when the collision occurred."We are all deeply shocked and saddened to learn that Dr Peter Fisher tragically died in a road traffic accident yesterday," Gill Gaskin, medical director at University College London Hospitals (UCLH), said in a statement on Thursday.
  
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• Labour complains to regulator over coverage of cemetery visit

  16-08-2018 16:04
  Jeremy Corbyn wrote about his trip to Tunisia at the time for the Morning Star newspaper.The Labour party has formally complained to the press regulator, Ipso, about the coverage by several British newspapers of Jeremy Corbyn’s decision to lay a wreath at a cemetery in Tunisia.In its complaint, the party said the Sun, the Times, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Express and Metro had misrepresented the event, which the Labour leader attended in 2014.
  
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• Far-right terrorist caught with bomb-making kit is jailed

  16-08-2018 16:04
  Peter Morgan at a neo-Nazi rally: the far-right terrorist has been jailed by a Scottish court for 12 years.A far-right terrorist who was caught with bomb-making equipment and neo-Nazi material has been jailed by a Scottish court for 12 years.Peter Morgan, 35, from Edinburgh, had already begun assembling an improvised bomb from ball bearings, which an expert said could have caused catastrophic injuries, and had a cache of bomb-making manuals at his home.
  
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