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• Jacqueline Pearce, who played Blake's 7 villain Servalan, dies aged 74

  03-09-2018 23:48
  Jacqueline Pearce, who starred in science fiction TV show Blake's 7, has died aged 74shortly after being diagnosed with lung cancer, her friend John Ainsworth has said.Ms Pearce, best known for playing villain Supreme Commander Servalan in the popular BBC series, died at her home in Lancashire.Mr Ainsworth, a friend of 25 years who was with her when she died, told the Press Association she had been diagnosed "a couple of weeks ago" and chose to be cared for at home after leaving hospital.
  
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• Dog rescued after plunging 80ft down mineshaft in Ceredigion

  03-09-2018 22:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Nine-month old Ruby escaped the ordeal with no more than a cut to her leg.
  
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• Weatherwatch: Charles Keeling's CO2 curve shows drastic rise in 60 years

  03-09-2018 22:30
  Mauna Loa weather observatory, at 3,400 metres, which measures weather and atmospheric CO2.A remarkable run of observations began 60 years ago at a weather station high on a volcano in Hawaii.Charles Keeling began monitoring carbon dioxide in the clean air at 3,400 metres (11,150ft) on Mauna Loa, far away from vegetation and urban pollution.
  
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• Theresa May 'in fear' of Boris Johnson as Chequers plan attacked

  03-09-2018 22:12
  Theresa May has been accused of living in fear of Boris Johnson as she saw her Brexit strategy come under renewed attack from both Tory Leavers and Remainers.Mrs May is facing a turbulent few months in parliament as she attempts to win agreement for her Brexit proposals, known as the Chequers plan, both within her own party and from the EU.It will likely see her survival in Downing Street put at its most perilous point since the immediate aftermath of the disastrous general election result last
  
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• Daughter pays tribute to mum who died in banana boat accident in Egypt

  03-09-2018 22:11
  The daughter of a British woman who died in a banana boat accident in Egypt has paid tribute to her "most loving mother".Janice Bowles died in front of her daughter after she was flipped from the boat and left trapped underneath, according to The Sun.Ms Bowles, 58, from Bristol, was on a family holiday in the beach resort town of Hurgahada before her death.
  
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• Russia's VTB bank apologises for CEO who called Boris Johnson a 'jerk'

  03-09-2018 21:46
  Russian state bank VTB apologised for its CEO Andrey Kostin who made what it called an "emotional comment" on Monday when he described former British foreign minister Boris Johnson as a "jerk".Standing next to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the country's prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Relations university, Kostin said Russia was lucky to have such a minister, while criticising his foreign counterparts."Look at, excuse me, the jerks in the West, say at Johnson and others,"
  
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• 'Early bird rapist': Christopher Clark jailed for 1985 attack after DNA match

  03-09-2018 21:29
  A serial sex attacker has been jailed for raping a teenage girl at knifepoint in 1985 after a DNA match linked him to the crime last year.Christopher Clark, 68, who became known as the early bird rapist because he targeted young women in the early hours of the morning, was sentenced to 13 years in custody and five on extended licence for attacking the girl after pleading guilty last month.The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told Basildon Crown Court she attempted suicide, struggle
  
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• Labour's ruling body to decide on new antisemitism definition

  03-09-2018 21:25
  Jeremy Corbyn speaks with passengers on board a train to Leeds from Manchester Victoria Station as he tours the North of England by rail.Labour’s ruling body is expected to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism in full and issue a clarification emphasising the right to non-racist free speech when discussing Israeli politics.The national executive committee (NEC) will discuss antisemitism on Tuesday and, while the principle of adopting the
  
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• In Video: Watch woman take off with baby after crashing car in police chase

  03-09-2018 21:25
  The woman tried to hijack another car after the incident in San Antonio, Texas.
  
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• Bomb disposal sent to BBC after reports of suspicious vehicle

  03-09-2018 21:12
  Police carried out a series of controlled explosions outside BBC Broadcasting House on Monday after reports of a suspicious vehicle.A bomb disposal robot and emergency services were photographed investigating an orange van, which emergency services later established contained cardboard boxes and a motorbike.Roads around the building in central London were closed at around 4.50pm and staff were told to stay away from windows while emergency services investigated the vehicle.
  
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• Baboons at Paignton Zoo filmed flossing teeth with broom bristles and hair

  03-09-2018 20:28
  Baboons have been filmed apparently flossing their teeth with broom bristles and hairs from others in their group at a British zoo.An adult baboon and a youngster were observed showing the remarkably human behaviour at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in Devon by Charlotte Morgan, an animal behaviour student at the University of Exeter.Miss Morgan said: "Past research at the zoo found that certain baboons floss using their own hair and bristles from broom heads.
  
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• TV news presenter Rachael Bland told she has 'days to live' as cancer spreads

  03-09-2018 19:47
  News presenter Rachael Bland has been told she has just days left to live, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.The BBC broadcaster was first diagnosed with breast cancer in November 2016, where it was found to have already spread to lymph nodes under her right arm.Despite treatment including four months of chemotherapy, a mastectomy, radiotherapy and a round of immunotherapy, the cancer spread, and Mrs Bland has now been told she has days left to live.
  
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• Five difficulties wheelchair users face when flying by plane

  03-09-2018 19:33
  A disabled man and his mother were kicked off a Ryanair flight last week after staff “couldn’t fold his wheelchair”.Gary Dunne, who has mobility problems and is deaf, and 81-year-old Kathleen from the Wirral, Merseyside, were then rebooked on a second flight the next day – only to be asked to leave once again.Humiliatingly, the pilot then announced over the tannoy that the delay was due to “the lady with the wheelchair”.
  
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• Rees-Mogg: Barnier agrees that Chequers proposal is 'rubbish'

  03-09-2018 18:57
  Jacob Rees-Mogg has claimed that he and the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, bonded in a meeting in Brussels over their shared assessment that Theresa May’s Chequers plan is “complete rubbish”.The Tory MP, who was visiting the European commission with the cross-party Brexit select committee, said he had been encouraged by the lack of enthusiasm he had found for the prime minister’s plans.Emerging from the commission’s headquarters, Rees-Mogg told reporte
  
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• Cochlear implant: Deaf one-year-old hears sound for the first time

  03-09-2018 18:45 via bbc.co.uk
  The parents of Max Brett, who had a cochlear implant fitted, wanted to share the "incredible moment".
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn ally Peter Willsman re-elected to Labour's ruling body after anti-Semitism rant

  03-09-2018 18:43
  An ally of Jeremy Corbyn who claimed Jewish "Trump fanatics" were behind anti-Semitism allegations has been re-elected to his place on Labour's ruling body.Peter Willsman was among a raft of supporters of Mr Corbyn to be voted on to Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) on Monday, following a ballot of party members.The group had been dubbed the "JC 9" and their election will tighten Mr Corbyn and his allies' hold on Labour's internal structures.
  
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• Former UBS trader jailed for Britain's biggest fraud faces deportation

  03-09-2018 18:36
  British authorities are preparing to deport a former UBStrader jailed for the country's biggest fraud which cost the Swiss bank $2.25 billion (£1.75 billion), his spokesman said on Monday.Ghanaian citizen Kweku Adoboli was released from prison on probation in 2015 after serving half of a seven-year sentence, but he has now been detained pending his deportation.The 38-year-old was detained on Monday following a routine visit to a Scottish police station, his spokesman, Nick Hopewell-Smith,
  
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• Subeditors needed more than ever

  03-09-2018 18:33
  Subeditors at work on the old London Evening News. Photograph: Dempsie/ANL/Rex/Shutterstock
  
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• Perspective needed on Labour’s woes

  03-09-2018 18:33
  Frank Field. ‘In the modern history of the Labour party he will not be the first MP to face deselection and try to cling on to his seat, nice salary and benefits,’ writes Steven Walker.Recent media commentary about splits in the Labour party and exaggerated claims of widespread antisemitism are nothing new.The Labour party has 552,000 members, 257 MPs, 188 lords, 20 MEPs, 23 MSPs, 29 Welsh assembly members, 12 London assembly members and 6,470 councillors.
  
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• New UK white collar crime boss pledges to keep agency independent

  03-09-2018 18:31
  The new head of Britain's white-collar crime agency pledged on Monday to keep it independent, but work more closely with international enforcement watchdogs and the private sector to stop fraud, drawing on her experience with the FBI.Former U.S. federal prosecutor Lisa Osofsky was named director of Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in June, saying she wanted to embolden an agency whose future has been in doubt."I started a five-year term with the Attorney General's support and commitment to m
  
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• Chris Evans: from enfant terrible to morning radio's favourite family man

  03-09-2018 18:31
  Chris Evans got his big break when he joined The Big Breakfast in 1992, along with (from left) Gaby Roslin, Paula Yates and Mark Lamarr.The last time Chris Evans quit the BBC for Virgin Radio, he resigned from Radio 1’s Breakfast Show with a reputation as an enfant terrible of British broadcasting, known for hitting the tabloid headlines with all-day benders and signing off with a rant about his contractual conditions.The broadcaster’s transformation into a voice who speaks to middle
  
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• Mauritius takes UK to court over Chagos Islands

  03-09-2018 17:47
  Mauritius has gone to court to claim Britain used undue pressure to force it to give up the Chagos Islands in exchange for independence.In 1966, the year after the UK got control of the Indian Ocean archipelago, it leased the biggest island Diego Garcia to the US.Mauritius' case at the International Court of Justice got under way in The Hague on Monday.
  
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• Britain's oldest newlyweds tie the knot with a combined age of 183

  03-09-2018 17:30
  Britain's oldest newlyweds have tied the knot with a combined age of 183 at a ceremony attended by friends and family.Rob Cave, 91, and his wife Margaret, 92, had been friends more than 30 years before they married in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, on Friday.Margaret, whose previous surname was James, is a former actress who played station cafe waitress Beryl Walters in the 1945 film Brief Encounter.
  
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• British teen who was 'raped' in Koh Tao faces ban from Thailand

  03-09-2018 17:28
  A British teenager who claimed she was raped on a Thai island faces being banned from the country over her "false" allegation.The 19-year-old claimed she was drugged, stripped, robbed and raped in June on Sairee Beach in Koh Tao, an island popular with foreigners learning to dive.Police on Koh Tao have now said the evidence they have gathered does not support her version of events.
  
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• Frank Field: I will not trigger a byelection

  03-09-2018 17:27
  Frank Field resigned the Labour whip last week, claiming the party risked becoming a ‘force for antisemitism’.Frank Field has decided he will not trigger a byelection following his decision to resign the Labour party whip, citing the issues of antisemitism and bullying.The veteran chairman of the work and pensions select committee said he would continue to represent his constituents and had been approached by the law firm Mischcon de Reya as he prepared to fight any attempt by Labour
  
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• White South African workers protest against Sasol's black share scheme

  03-09-2018 17:07
  Workers from South Africa's mainly-white Solidarity union staged a go-slow protest at the petrochemicals firm Sasolon Monday over a share scheme offered exclusively to black staff, and said they would begin a full strike on Thursday.South African companies are required to meet quotas on black ownership, employment and procurement as part of a drive to reverse decades of exclusion under apartheid.Solidarity has been waging a challenge against racial quotas in the workplace, and lodged a complaint
  
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• What is the scale of online child sex abuse?

  03-09-2018 17:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Material from the UK may be hosted in the Netherlands, showing images of children in South East Asia.
  
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• Period poverty: meet the women behind the campaigns to end it

  03-09-2018 16:55 via theguardian.com
  A growing number of organisations and activists are working to end a phenomenon that’s depriving vulnerable young women of time in education. At the same time, efforts are under way to eliminate tampon tax and taboos around menstruationFrom the time we’re old enough to get our periods, girls can be made to feel ashamed of them. Everyone who sat in a classroom through those strange, secretive years will remember the absolute horror and dread of being caught short or having to ask a te
  
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• Warm weather in UK could remain during autumn

  03-09-2018 16:32
  Britain could enjoy warm weather well into October as above-average temperatures continue in the autumn months.It comes as the Met Office said England had its hottest summer on record this year, while the rest of the UK enjoyed the joint-hottest.A Met Office three-month outlook released to local authorities in Britain indicates for "August-September-October as a whole, above average temperatures are more likely than below average temperatures".
  
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• Tony Blair to meet Salvini to discuss Trans Adriatic Pipeline

  03-09-2018 16:25
  Tony Blair has worked as a consultant on the Trans Adriatic Pipeline since 2014.The Italian far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, will meet the former British prime minister Tony Blair in Rome to discuss controversial plans to extend a gas pipeline that will run from Azerbaijan to Puglia in southern Italy.Blair has worked as a consultant on the Trans Adriatic Pipeline since 2014, which is the pet project of Azerbaijan’s strongman president, Ilham Aliyev.
  
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• Russian bank VTB sells its U.S. business to its executives

  03-09-2018 16:25
  MOSCOW (Reuters) - VTB , Russia's second biggest bank, said on Monday it had sold its New York-based business, VTB Capital Inc., to its executives, citing geopolitics as one of the reasons for the deal.
  
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• TSB hit by another IT glitch, angering some customers

  03-09-2018 16:12
  TSB was hit by another technology glitch on Monday, the latest since a botched IT upgrade in April resulted in one of the country's worst banking outages.TSB chief executive Paul Pester was criticised by MPs over his handling of the crisis, which has cost its Spanish parent Sabadell more than 200 million euros (£180.3 million) and damaged TSB's reputation.The outage, which the bank said hit online and mobile banking, prompted some customers to say they would switch banks.
  
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• What your water company plans to charge you

  03-09-2018 16:09
  Two figures have loomed large in the thoughts of water company bosses during the last year.One is Jeremy Corbyn who, if he makes it to 10 Downing Street, has threatened to nationalise the industry.The other is Jonson Cox, chairman of Ofwat, the industry regulator.
  
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• Why Rudd resigned and will she return?

  03-09-2018 16:06 via bbc.co.uk
  Asked if she wants a return to the cabinet, Amber Rudd says she is "not without ambition".
  
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• Man who lost most of his penis to flesh-eating bug wins six-figure hospital payout

  03-09-2018 16:05
  A cancer patient who was left with just an inch-and-a-half of his penis after he contracted a flesh-eating superbug while undergoing a routine operation has received a six-figure payout.The potentially fatal infection - necrotising fasciitis - left Andrew Lane in "constant pain" after having an operation to remove his prostate gland in March 2013.Mr Lane, who had been admitted to Southend Hospital in Essex, was rushed to theatre but he had already lost most of his penis.
  
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• Scorchio! England baked in hottest summer on record

  03-09-2018 16:00
  England had its hottest summer on record this year, while the rest of the UK enjoyed the joint-hottest, the Met Office says.England's temperatures beat the previous record mean temperature of 17C (62.6F) set in 1976.Temperatures for June to August in the UK reveal this year is joint top of the league table in records which date back to 1910.
  
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• Man Who Lost Most Of His Penis To Flesh-Eating Superbug Wins Six-Figure Payout

  03-09-2018 16:00
  A cancer patient who lost most of his penis to a flesh-eating superbug after
  
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• Home secretary tells Google to 'do a lot, lot more' on child abuse

  03-09-2018 15:59
  The home secretary has told Google to "do a lot lot more" in tackling online child abuse in a speech at the NSPCC."Keeping our children safe will be my mission as Home Secretary," he said in the speech which followed the announcement that UK police had arrested 131 suspected online paedophiles last week.There are at least 80,000 people in the UK believed to pose a sexual threat to children online, Mr Javid claimed, declaring it was his "personal mission" to address the issue.
  
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• Australian Instagram Model Sinead McNamara Found Dead On Superyacht In Greece

  03-09-2018 15:30
  Sinead McNamara, a 20-year-old Instagram model from Australia, has been found
  
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• Treasury in talks with Bank of England Governor Mark Carney to extend stay beyond Brexit

  03-09-2018 15:28
  The Treasury and Bank of England are in talks over whether Governor Mark Carney is prepared to stay beyond his official tenure at the bank.Sky News has learned that talks are ongoing among the three parties as to whether Mr Carney would consider continuing in his role beyond his planned departure date of June 30 next year.At his appointment in 2013, Mr Carney originally planned to serve just five years of a maximum eight-year term as governor.
  
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• German government: Chemnitz protesters should shun neo-Nazis

  03-09-2018 15:21
  Germany's government on Monday urged those aggrieved by the suspected killing of a man by migrants in Chemnitz to distance themselves from far-right extremists who have participated in violent, xenophobic protest marches in the eastern city over the past week.The fatal stabbing of 35-year-old carpenter Daniel Hillig in the eastern city on Aug. 26 sparked a series of rallies, some of which erupted into violence.Protesters looked on as neo-Nazis performed the stiff-armed 'Hitler salute,' chanted "
  
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• Liverpool star Sadio Mane cleans mosque toilets after win over Leicester

  03-09-2018 15:09
  Liverpool star Sadio Mane has been pictured helping to clean the toilets at his mosque.The striker, who scored Liverpool's first goal against Leicester on Saturday afternoon, appears to be filling up a bucket ready to clean the toilets in a video which emerged later the same day.It is understood the video was taken on Saturday night - just hours after Mane helped Liverpool maintain their 100% start to the season.
  
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• Javid: tech firms not taking online child sexual abuse seriously

  03-09-2018 15:04
  Sajid Javid challenged tech companies to fight online child sexual exploitation in the same way they had tackled terrorist content.Some technology firms are refusing to take online child sexual abuse seriously enough, the Home Secretary has said, while announcing an extra £21.5m to help investigators who say they are facing a “constant uphill struggle” to track down offenders.Sajid Javid said he didn’t want to “name and shame” the companies because he wanted t
  
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• Pair face court martial over three deaths on SAS test march

  03-09-2018 14:58
  A major in the British army and a former officer are facing trial by court martial over the deaths of three men who suffered fatal heat illness during an SAS test march in the Brecon Beacons in south Wales.The two men can only be identified by the ciphers 1A and 1B and sat hidden behind a screen at the court martial centre in Bulford as proceedings began on Monday.Cipher 1A is a major and 1B is a former warrant officer who has now left the armed forces.
  
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• From the Copacabana to Manchester - UK college honours Manilow

  03-09-2018 14:52
  Star singer Barry Manilow got another award for his trophy cabinet in front of an audience of roaring fans in the northern English city of Manchester.After the show, Stott said he was hoping to build up links with Manilow so the star could inspire his students and boost their careers.
  
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• Critics 'chuck rocks from both sides' at May's Brexit plans

  03-09-2018 14:45
  Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy means disaster for Britain, her former foreign secretary Boris Johnson said, as critics at home and officials in Brussels stepped up their opposition to her plans for how to leave the European Union.With under two months before Britain and the EU want to agree a deal to end over 40 years of union, May is struggling to sell what she calls her business-friendly Brexit to her own party and across a divided country.The prospect that she could fail to reac
  
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• Chris Evans: A life in broadcasting

  03-09-2018 14:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Three decades in the life of one of the UK's most successful, and occasionally controversial, stars.
  
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• UK Weather: Scorching Temperatures Make 2018 One Of The Hottest Summers On Record

  03-09-2018 14:32
  This year was the joint-hottest summer on record for the UK as a whole and the
  
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• World stocks slip for third day as trade, emerging market worries bite

  03-09-2018 14:22
  Global stock markets fell for a third straight day on Monday, hurt by worries over the escalation of trade disputes between world powers and a deepening sell-off across emerging market currencies.With U.S. markets closed for Labor Day, trading activity was generally subdued.European shares were largely flat , although London's blue-chip FTSE rallied almost 1 percentthanks to a weak British pound.
  
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• Former England captain Alastair Cook to retire from international cricket

  03-09-2018 13:58
  Former England captain Alastair Cook will retire from international cricket at the end of the current Test series against India.England's record run scorer said he was quitting "after much thought and deliberation over the last few months," he said in a statement.Cook, who is also England's most-capped player, said it was a "sad day" but he could retire "with a big smile on my face knowing I have given everything and there is nothing left in the tank".
  
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