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• May begins Africa trip with nod to rightwing Tories on overseas aid

  27-08-2018 23:30
  Theresa May will set a condition that the UK ensure its overseas aid spending matches “wider national security priorities” as well as tackling poverty, in a speech due to be delivered in Cape Town as she begins a three-day trip to Africa.The prime minister will recommit to maintaining the aid budget at 0.7% of GDP, a pledge David Cameron originally made, but will seek to deflect criticism of the level of spending by the right of the Conservative party by saying it has to have a wider
  
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• US Open 2018, day one: Murray v Duckworth, Halep and Edmund out – live!

  27-08-2018 23:17
  Updates from the first round matches at Flushing MeadowsMemory Lane: 40 years of the US Open at Flushing MeadowsStephens returns to US Open as champion and Williams’ heirEmail James with any thoughts | Tweet @piercy360 10.17pm BST Men’s first round 10.13pm BST The players are having a 10-minute heat break so we’ll go around the courts before I pass you to my colleague Bryan Armen Graham. Sloane Stephens is 2-1 up in the second after winning the first set 6-1. Wimbledon semi-fin
  
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• Trump belatedly pays tribute to McCain and orders flag to fly at half staff

  27-08-2018 23:09
  Arizona senator’s farewell message criticized president – without naming him – calling US ‘a nation of ideals, not blood and soil’Two days after John McCain’s death and well behind the thousands of glowing tributes that poured in from around the country – and beyond – for the war hero, Donald Trump issued a statement on Monday afternoon saying he respected the late senator’s service to his country.The belated statement came moments after McCa
  
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• Drinkers Like Me – Adrian Chiles review: the complicated, conflicted world of boozing

  27-08-2018 23:00
  The broadcaster’s film about ‘nice, regular drinking’ soon becomes an analysis of much more, from his physical and mental health to society’s difficult relationship with alcoholAdrian Chiles has a drinking problem. Or maybe he has an Adrian Chiles problem, alleviated by drinking. Anyway, he’s definitely not an alcoholic, he says in his exploration of “nice, regular drinking” in Drinkers Like Me – Adrian Chiles (BBC Two). He can’t be, because
  
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• Chris Ashton’s chance of England recall hit by ban-related lack of matches

  27-08-2018 23:00
  • Sale wing loses chance to play before England squad is named
  • Wasps’ Jimmy Gopperth may miss season with ligament injuryChris Ashton’s chances of a swift England recall have suffered another blow after Sale Sharks confirmed their winger will be ineligible to play any rugby before the national head coach, Eddie Jones, names his autumn squad.Ashton had hoped to play in his new club’s European Challenge Cup game in Perpignan on 12 October but has now been told hi
  
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• Bodyguard recap: series one, episode two – genuinely edge-of-the-sofa TV

  27-08-2018 23:00
  There was no let-up in the second installation of Jed Mercurio’s new thriller, which featured some major set pieces – as well as an illicit encounterRead the Bodyguard episode one recapPhew. Jed Mercurio clearly doesn’t intend to hang around with this series. It is only episode two and we have already had an assassination attempt, a second unsuccessful terrorist attack, the beginning of what could be a very damaging love affair, political machinations between the home office an
  
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• Lucas Moura double for Spurs helps deepen gloom at Manchester United

  27-08-2018 22:58
  If nothing else, there was no mutiny. José Mourinho still heard his name being sung and, at the final whistle, Old Trafford was not too unkind on the manager or his players. Yet these are deeply troubling times for Manchester United, with the chants of “you’re not special any more” loud and clear from the corner housing the victorious Tottenham Hotspur supporters.The problem for Mourinho is that it is threatening to become the soundtrack to United season. This is the fir
  
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• Church buys five-bedroom, $2.3m Silicon Valley home for retiring bishop

  27-08-2018 22:55
  Catholic diocese of San Jose’s mission is to serve the poorBishop Patrick McGrath: ‘It’s a good investment’The Catholic diocese of San Jose has purchased a five-bedroom, $2.3m home in Silicon Valley for its retiring bishop despite the 640,000-member diocese’s mission of charity and serving the poor.Bishop Patrick J McGrath, 73, acknowledged in an interview with the Mercury News of San Jose that the price tag is “a lot of money”, saying “I could und
  
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• Family's Tribute After 16-Year-Old Timothy Murray Dies While Out Walking

  27-08-2018 22:50
  The family of a teenage boy who died while out walking in the Scottish
  
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• Andy Murray battles past James Duckworth in winning return to US Open

  27-08-2018 22:47
  • Scot opens campaign with 6-7, 6-3, 7-5, 6-3 victory
  • ‘I’m very happy to be back,’ says former world No 1The last time Andy Murray played more than three sets in one match he moved over the Centre Court grass at Wimbledon like Hercules – Harold Steptoe’s horse, not the Roman god. On the hardcourt of Louis Armstrong Stadium on Monday the former US Open champion was more spritely than that hobbling beast and rekindled a smattering of his best moments
  
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• Notting Hill Carnival: Grenfell victims remembered amid Caribbean celebrations

  27-08-2018 22:37
  Notting Hill Carnival stages and music fell silent as the crowds and performers paid tribute to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.The party atmosphere came to a halt at 3pm on Monday as silence rang out across the west London streets for 72 seconds - one for each person killed in the blaze.It was broken with cheers, whistles and the booming voice of the late Aretha Franklin singing Respect.
  
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• No complaints about Alex Salmond before January, says government

  27-08-2018 22:36
  SNP under pressure to release information about allegations against former first ministerThe Scottish government has confirmed that there are no recorded complaints about Alex Salmond from before January.The detail emerged after opposition parties called for “full transparency” over the Scottish government’s investigation of sexual harassment allegations against the former first minister. Continue reading...
  
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• Notting Hill Carnival Revellers Pay Silent Tribute To Grenfell Victims

  27-08-2018 22:18
  Notting Hill Carnival revellers fell silent on Monday as they paid tribute to
  
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• Europe can no longer rely on US for security, says Emmanuel Macron

  27-08-2018 21:46
  French president to push for greater defence cooperation among European Union membersThe French president, Emmanuel Macron, has warned that Europe can no longer depend on the US for its military defence and called for an urgent new European security policy in the face of rising nationalism and extremism.“Europe can no longer rely on the United States for its security,” Macron said in a foreign policy speech at what he called a “crisis moment” for European politics and glo
  
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• Trump Says Nafta Deal Is Reached Between US and Mexico - New York Times

  27-08-2018 21:41 via nytimes.com
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  Trump Says Nafta Deal Is Reached Between US and Mexico
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  WASHINGTON — President Trump said Monday that the United States and Mexico had reached agreement to revise key portions of the North American Free Trade Agreement and would finalize it within days, suggesting he was ready to jettison Canada from ...
  Trump announces US-Mexico trade deal, setting stage for Nafta overhaulThe Guardian
  Trump announces US-Mexico trade deal to replace NAFTA, and says 'we wi
  
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• Memory Lane: 40 years of the US Open at Flushing Meadows

  27-08-2018 21:36
  2018 sees the 40th anniversary of the US Open’s move from the clay courts of the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills to the hard courts at the USTA National Tennis Center in Queens Continue reading...
  
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• John McCain issues subtle rebuke of Trump in farewell letter before his death - Washington Post

  27-08-2018 21:35 via washingtonpost.com
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  John McCain issues subtle rebuke of Trump in farewell letter before his death
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  PHOENIX — In his final words to the nation before his passing, Sen. John McCain delivered a veiled rebuke of President Trump, calling on Americans to rally behind the country's founding ideals rather than hiding behind walls and succumbing to ...
  Read John McCain's farewell letter in fullThe Independent
  As Trump Stays Silent on John McCain's Death, the Senator Gets a Last WordNew
  
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• The US former cardinal whose sexual abuse case dogged pope's Ireland visit

  27-08-2018 21:23
  The pontiff has faced a call for his resignation over his handling of the allegations against the 88-year-old Theodore McCarrickAn 88-year-old American former cardinal, who was already the highest-ranking US priest accused of sexual abuse, has suddenly found himself at the center of the latest storm that has engulfed the Roman Catholic church and marred the pope’s visit to Ireland.Theodore McCarrick resigned as a cardinal last month over abuse allegations arising from a series of grand jur
  
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• Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals

  27-08-2018 21:10
  Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’Air pollution causes a “huge” reduction in intelligence, according to new research, indicating that the damage to society of toxic air is far deeper than the well-known impacts on physical health.The research was conducted in China but is relevant across the world, with 95% of the global population breathing unsafe air. It found that high pollution levels led to significant drops in test
  
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• France to make contingency plans for no-deal Brexit

  27-08-2018 20:59
  French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Monday asked his ministers to prepare contingency measures in case of a no-deal Brexit.France hopes Britain will reach a deal with its European Union partners on its exit from the bloc but needs to be ready if not, Philippe's office said in a statement.In a government meeting convened to discuss this, Philippe "tasked ministers to prepare contingency measures that would be necessary ... to mitigate the difficulties linked with this unprecedented challeng
  
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• Lucy McHugh funeral: 'Celebration of life' held for murdered Southampton schoolgirl

  27-08-2018 20:39
  Mourners have paid tribute to murdered schoolgirl Lucy McHugh by wearing her favourite colours to her funeral.
  
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• The Beano wartime editions mocking Hitler emerge for sale after 70 years

  27-08-2018 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  A COLLECTION of wartime editions of The Beano containing morale-boosting comic strips ridiculing Adolf Hitler has come to light over 70 years later. The amusing storylines that featured in the classic comic include one of Desperate Dan single-handedly defeating the German navy by drinking the Baltic Sea dry.
  
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• Top US student loans official resigns over 'open hostility' from White House

  27-08-2018 20:24
  In his resignation letter, Seth Frotman said Trump’s budget director was serving ‘the most powerful financial companies’The government’s top official overseeing the $1.5tn student loan market resigned in protest on Monday, citing what he says is the White House’s open hostility toward protecting the nation’s millions of student loan borrowers. Seth Frotman will be stepping down as student loan ombudsman at the end of the week, according to his resignation lett
  
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• Surrey Stars thrash Loughborough Lightning to win Super League final

  27-08-2018 20:13
  • Surrey Stars 183-6 bt Loughborough Lightning 117 by 66 runs• Lizelle Lee hits six sixes in knock of 104 from 58 ballsA commanding innings of 104 from Lizelle Lee, struck in 58 balls including six sixes, took Surrey Stars to their first Kia Super League title with a 66-run win against Loughborough Lightning at Hove.Surrey’s total of 183 for six was their highest in the competition. The Stars then bowled out Loughborough for 117, the 19-year-old Mady Villiers finishing her four o
  
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• Lewis Pugh faces toughest battle yet as Long Swim final hurdle nears

  27-08-2018 20:06
  Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh now faces his greatest ever challenge if he is to finish his Long Swim up the length of the English Channel.Already mentally and physically exhausted, and with a shoulder damaged by the repetitive motion of half a million strokes over the last six weeks, Lewis says he will have to dig deep to complete the record.Lewis said trying to swim across by going further inland was problematic because of a nearby nuclear power station.
  
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• The writing was on the wall when John McCain unleashed Sarah Palin

  27-08-2018 20:03
  McCain’s running mate was the non-expert who represented ordinary people, who preached a kind of anti-intellectualism and ultimately a far-right anti-politics – it was all there in 2008Just before Barack Obama first won the presidency, I was covering John McCain’s rallies in Kentucky. The people I met there convinced me that McCain might win, that this was no done deal. I was working with a writer who happened to be black – David Matthews – and at one rally we were
  
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• I wanted to make jokes about my destroyed career, but all I felt was grief | Yassmin Abdel-Magied

  27-08-2018 20:00
  Ushered out of my job, my mental health spiralling, reputation in shambles, I felt a deep, cavernous sense of loss for my once optimistic selfI recently spent some time in my childhood home of Brisbane. As we drove around the soft bend leading up to my family’s double brick house, I couldn’t help but reminisce. I’d travelled on this road many a time on almost all forms of transport: driving in my new Alfa Romeo at 3am in the morning, sneaking back into the house from a late-nig
  
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• Anaemia drugs could also aid recovery after heart attack, says study

  27-08-2018 20:00
  After a heart attack, a protein called HIF acts to help cells survive.Type 2 diabetes to affect the process.Hopes have been raised that drugs being trialled to treat anaemia could also be used to aid recovery after a heart attack and help decrease the chance of future heart failure.
  
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• Notting Hill Carnival: More than 200 arrests as police uncover terrifying weapons

  27-08-2018 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  OVER 200 arrests have been made at the Notting Hill carnival this weekend, so far, along with a terrifying array of weapons being confiscated by the police.
  
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• 'You're blowing in the wind!' Remainer SHUT DOWN by Sky host over second referendum calls

  27-08-2018 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  REMAIN campaigner Will Dry's call for a second Brexit referendum was mocked by Sky host Tom Macleod who argued he could not be trusted by British voters as he originally voted to leave the EU.
  
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• The Guardian view on atrocities in Myanmar: hold the guilty to account | Editorial

  27-08-2018 19:35
  The UN has published a damning report on Myanmar. Who can be held responsible, and how?The expulsion of 700,000 refugees; the deaths of perhaps 25,000 people; untold rapes, terror and dehumanisation: the last year has been very grim in the north and west of Myanmar. It can’t be called an unknown catastrophe, either. The world has had to make some effort to ignore what has happened in the last year. Much has been reported, despite the best efforts of the Burmese government, which include th
  
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• Notting Hill Carnival 2018: Rain, rum and reggae - BBC News

  27-08-2018 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
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  Notting Hill Carnival 2018: Rain, rum and reggae
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  A performer checks there's not a feather out of place on her glittering green headpiece. Someone shrieks in horrified delight as his pal flicks body paint into the air, spraying others with the slick, slimy orange liquid. A child reaches out her ...
  Notting Hill Carnival falls silent in moving tribute to victims of Grenfell Tower fireEvening Standard
  Notting Hill carnival revellers strut their stuff in sequinned Caribbean costum
  
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• Myanmar's Military Leaders Should Be Tried For Genocide, UN Investigators Say - NPR

  27-08-2018 19:12 via npr.org
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  Myanmar's Military Leaders Should Be Tried For Genocide, UN Investigators Say
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  The mass killings of Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine State constitute genocide and top military commanders should face prosecution for crimes against humanity, a team of United Nations investigators has concluded. After an eruption of intense violence ...
  Daily briefing: UN on Rohingya 'genocide', McCain tributes, Florida mass shootingFinancial Times
  Myanmar Rohingya: UN says military leaders must face genocide
  
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• Letters: John Calder the Liberal

  27-08-2018 19:10
  Your obituary of John Calder highlighted his successes as a courageous publisher and opponent of censorship, but he was also active in politics, as an energetic supporter of the Scottish Liberal party.The titles his firm published included Community Politics, a volume of essays edited by Peter Hain (at that time a member of the party), Liberal Politics in Britain, by Arthur Cyr, and No Shining Armour, by the former Labour MP Edward (Eddie) Milne, which exposed widespread corruption in public lif
  
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• Tom Watson demands answers about alleged Russian Brexit plot

  27-08-2018 19:05
  Tom Watson addresses the Byline festival in East Sussex.Tom Watson, the deputy leader of the Labour party, has called on the government to confirm if the National Crime Agency is looking into whether there was Russian interference in the EU referendum.Watson suggested the vote may have been “stolen” and said that if the NCA was not investigating then a full public inquiry with powers similar to those of the US special counsel Robert Mueller must be held.
  
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• What the ban on Serena Williams’ catsuit says about the sexualising of black women’s bodies

  27-08-2018 19:02
  When the tournament banned the tennis star’s bodysuit, it was disrespecting one of the greatest athletes of all time. Here’s whyIf Wide Awoke were invited to come up with a list of feminist moments of 2018, Serena Williams in a black catsuit winning her first grand slam match since giving birth would top it. Williams, probably the greatest female tennis player of all time, said the bodysuit she wore on court at this year’s French Open made her feel like “a warri
  
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• On Notting Hill carnival doorsteps – in pictures

  27-08-2018 19:02
  Photographer Grey Hutton captures the scenes on doorsteps and at windows along the carnival route in west London where revellers, families and entrepreneurs have created parties, resting spots, meeting places and temporary restaurants Continue reading...
  
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• The bolshie, brilliant history of the women of Doctor Who

  27-08-2018 19:01
  From the feminist journalist Sarah Jane Smith to the fiery flight attendant Tegan Jovanka, Doctor Who’s female characters have been anything but props. So what can we expect from Jodie Whittaker?Now here is a lovely thing: Next, possibly the world’s least cutting-edge science fiction fashion store, is stocking an extremely credible version of the new Doctor’s striped T-shirt. You didn’t get that with Colin Baker.But the joy (or, just as significantly, the relati
  
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• Revealed: immigration rules in UK more than double in length

  27-08-2018 19:00
  Home Office officials have made more than 5,700 changes to the immigration rules since 2010, a Guardian analysis has revealed, making the visa system nearly impossible to navigate, according to senior judges and lawyers.When May’s successor, Amber Rudd, resigned this year over the Windrush scandal, the new home secretary, Sajid Javid, signalled a change in tone but has yet to substantially change course on policy.The analysis shows that at some points the Home Office introduced changes at
  
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• Edinburgh festival fringe companies back 'bed tax' after another record year

  27-08-2018 18:59
  Promoters say they could support levy to fund arts and tourism as they hail bumper ticket salesEdinburgh festival fringe companies have given their qualified backing to the idea of imposing a tourism levy in the city, as it emerged ticket sales this year had again broken records.Influential promoters such as the Underbelly and Pleasance said they could support a so-called bed tax being considered by Edinburgh council as long as its proceeds directly funded the city’s arts and tourism indus
  
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• Edinburgh festival fringe companies back 'bed tax' after another record year

  27-08-2018 18:59
  Edinburgh festival fringe companies have given their qualified backing to the idea of imposing a tourism levy in the city, as it emerged ticket sales this year had again broken records.Influential promoters such as the Underbelly and Pleasance said they could support a so-called bed tax being considered by Edinburgh council as long as its proceeds directly funded the city’s arts and tourism industries.The endorsement came as Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society said the event had broken the p
  
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• Nelson Mandela's prison letter on friend's death up for auction

  27-08-2018 18:47
  Letter to family of fellow anti-apartheid activist expected to sell for £100,000A tender unpublished letter from Nelson Mandela, written from his prison cell on Robben Island when he learned months late of the death of his friend and fellow anti-apartheid activist Michael Harmel, is expected to fetch up to £100,000 at auction.Mandela wrote on 1 October 1974, 10 years into his life sentence, on both sides of a thin sheet of cheap paper covered in official prison stamps, to Harmel&rsqu
  
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• Martin Rowson on Corbyn the campaigner – cartoon

  27-08-2018 18:47
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• ‘It'd be a tremendous FOLLY!' Brexiteer ridicules calls for Labour to back second vote

  27-08-2018 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  LABOUR Leave campaigner Brendan Chilton hit back at calls from Remainers for the Labour Party to back a so-called People’s Vote – insisting that it would be a “tremendous folly” to attempt to change the party’s policy on Brexit.
  
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• Greens rising star quits deputy leader race after father jailed for rape

  27-08-2018 18:45
  Party to investigate how Aimee Challenor’s father was able to be her election agent after arrestA rising young member of the Greens has pulled out of the race to become the party’s deputy leader after her father, who was previously her election agent, was jailed for abusing and raping a child.Aimee Challenor, the Greens’ equalities spokeswoman, who was among the frontrunners in the leadership contest, said she had had no idea about the crimes, but was withdrawing to prevent the
  
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• Elia Viviani’s raw speed takes first sprint stage of Vuelta a España

  27-08-2018 18:44
  • Italian edges out Nizzolo and Sagan in Alhaurín de la Torre
  • Team Sky’s Michal Kwiatkowski retains leader’s red jerseyThe Italian national champion Elia Viviani won the first sprint stage of the Vuelta a España on Monday, demonstrating raw speed to edge out Giacomo Nizzolo and the world champion Peter Sagan on a false-flat finish in Alhaurín de la Torre. Team Sky’s Michal Kwiatkowski finished safely in the bunch to retain the red leader’s
  
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• Murder suspect named after deaths of mum and daughter in Solihull

  27-08-2018 18:36
  Police have issued a photo of a man they are searching for following the alleged murders of a mother and daughter.Janbaz Tarin, 21, is being sought over the killings of his former partner, Raneem Oudeh, and her mother, Khaola Saleem.The women, aged 22 and 49, were discovered with serious stab wounds at 12.30 am on Northdown Road in Solihull, West Midlands.
  
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• Police release picture of suspect after mother and daughter killed in Solihull - The Guardian

  27-08-2018 18:30 via theguardian.com
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  Police release picture of suspect after mother and daughter killed in Solihull
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  Detectives have released a photograph of a man they are hunting following the killings of a Syrian woman and her mother in the West Midlands. Janbaz Tarin, 21, is being sought over the killings of his former partner, Raneem Oudeh, and her mother ...
  Prime suspect Janbaz Tarin sought in connection with murder of ex-partner and her motherThe Independent
  Cops raid home in search for 'killer' Ja
  
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• Police release picture of suspect after mother and daughter killed in Solihull

  27-08-2018 18:30
  Janbaz Tarin, 21, who is being is being sought over the killings.Detectives have released a photograph of a man they are hunting following the murder of a Syrian woman and her mother in the West Midlands.Janbaz Tarin, 21, is being sought over the killings of his former partner, Raneem Oudeh, and her mother, Khaola Saleem.
  
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• Goodbye for now, Big Brother. It was a pleasure watching you

  27-08-2018 18:30
  After 20 years, the show is a shadow of its former self – and it’s easy to forget just how formative it once was as TV’s original reality programmeAlmost 20 years since the show first aired, it appears Big Brother is switching off the cameras. After the latest celebrity series limped in with just 2 million viewers, Channel 5’s controller, Ben Frow, said he is planning “for a year without Big Brother” – the TV equivalent of your parents taking the family
  
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