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• Thousands Of Patients Could Be At Risk After Serious NHS Tech Blunder

  09-09-2018 23:34
  Thousands of NHS patients may have been subjected to serious harm after a
  
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• Celebrities appeal to media to change how suicide is reported

  09-09-2018 23:00
  The letter is written to mark World Suicide Prevention Day on Monday.Author Ian Rankin, London mayor Sadiq Khan, broadcaster Stephen Fry and DJ Lauren Laverne are among 130 signatories to a letter calling on the nation’s media to lead the way in transforming how suicide is covered.The letter, which has been backed by cross-party MPs and mental health organisations Samaritans and Mind, states there should be an end to the use of the phrase “commit suicide”, which suggests suicid
  
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• Kylie and Jason dance again live in Hyde Park

  09-09-2018 22:24 via bbc.co.uk
  The duo perform Especially For You together, as Kylie headlines Radio 2's day-long music festival.
  
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• It's 200 Days Until Brexit – So What On Earth Happens Between Now And Then?

  09-09-2018 21:52
  In 200 days' time, the United Kingdom will leave the European Union. The
  
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• Woman, 28, charged after 'stabbing' in Barnsley town centre

  09-09-2018 20:19
  A 28-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder after an alleged stabbing in Barnsley town centre.Following speculation on social media, South Yorkshire Police said they had established "definitively" that it was not an act of terrorism, or a group attack.The suspect - Ayaan Ali, from Isleworth, west London - has also been charged with affray and possession of an offensive weapon.
  
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• Sexual assaults in women's prison reignite debate over transgender inmates

  09-09-2018 20:06
  A leading prison reformer has said prisoners who have committed violent offences against women should not be able to transfer to women’s prisons if they have not legally changed their gender, after it emerged that a transgender inmate had sexually assaulted fellow prisoners after transferring to a women’s prison.Karen White was on remand for multiple rapes and other sexual offences against women when she transferred to New Hall prison, near Wakefield.Last week it emerged that after t
  
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• Met police dropped 30,000 criminal investigations in first 24 hours last year

  09-09-2018 20:00
  Critics say the disclosures show the effect of austerity on the Met police’s ability to do its duty.The Metropolitan police are increasingly dropping investigations into serious crimes such as sexual offences, violent attacks and arson within hours of them being reported, the Guardian can reveal.The UK’s largest force “screened out” 34,164 crimes without further investigation on the day they were reported in 2017, compared to 13,019 the year before.
  
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• Brexit racist? UK is Europe's ‘ONLY member’ not to have anti-immigrant party in parliament

  09-09-2018 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  BRITAIN has the most positive view of immigration in the European Union despite claims on the Continent that the Brexit vote was fuelled by racism and xenophobia, Dan Hannan has declared.
  
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• British Man Dies After Becoming Ill On Jet2 Flight To Ibiza

  09-09-2018 19:37
  A British man has died after he fell ill on a Jet2 flight to Ibiza.
  
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• Britain stood alone? Let’s consign that myth to history

  09-09-2018 19:36
  Neville Chamberlain on his return from Munich after meeting with Hitler in 1938. ‘Chamberlain’s policy of appeasing Hitler’s Germany itself contributed in no small measure to the subsequent Nazi wartime domination of continental Europe,’ writes Paul Vyšný.Michael Knowles (Letters, 8 September) wants to end Brexit negotiations, which the EU uses to punish us, ungrateful for our help in the second world war.Indeed, Britain stood up on behalf of Europe aga
  
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• Keep England’s FGM cases in perspective

  09-09-2018 19:35
  British police taking part in an operation to target FGM speak to a woman arriving by Eurostar train in London.Your report (Intelligence on FGM to be shared by UK and US, 7 September) contains the potentially misleading statement that “Between January and March, there were 1,030 cases of FGM in England, according to the NHS”.This is not a count of the number of girls who were subjected to FGM during the three-month period.
  
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• How Labour party democracy can work

  09-09-2018 19:35
  Chuka Umunna. ‘It’s rather ironic to hear Chuka Umunna and others complain about a handful of constituency Labour parties passing motions of no confidence in their MPs and exaggerating the influence of the leadership in that process,’ writes Steven Walker.Since becoming Labour leader three years ago Jeremy Corbyn has helped increase the party membership to over half a million.
  
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• Record result for European soccer clubs with 1st-time profit

  09-09-2018 19:32
  GENEVA (AP) — In a record result for European soccer, top-tier clubs combined to make a first-time profit of 600 million euros ($694 million) last year with spending on player transfers included.
  
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• Sweethearts wed after losing touch for 60 years

  09-09-2018 19:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Ron Owen, 84, and Ruth Holt, 79, dated in the 1950s but then lost touch for many years.
  
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• Woman Charged With Attempted Murder Over Barnsley Stabbing

  09-09-2018 19:13
  A woman has been charged with attempted murder after a man was allegedly
  
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• Cardiff welcomes home their hero Thomas

  09-09-2018 18:55
  Sky's Rebecca Williams visits Cardiff as they welcomehome their hero Geraint Thomas with a parade.
  
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• Geraint Thomas signs new three-year deal with Team Sky after Tour de France win

  09-09-2018 18:51
  Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas has signed a new three-year contract with Team Sky.Since then, Thomas has won key week-long races including Paris-Nice and the Criterium du Dauphine, and he secured his first Tour de France stage win in 2017.Thomas became the third British rider to win the Tour for Team Sky, following in the footsteps of Sir Bradley Wiggins and four-time winner Chris Froome.
  
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• Denmark v Wales: Nations League – live!

  09-09-2018 18:47 via theguardian.com
  Giggs puts his faith in youth as Wales bask in glory of Irish triumphFull-strength Denmark after deal is struck over players’ rightsAny thoughts? You can email Rob Smyth 5.47pm BST5.47pm BST Half-time reading Related: Stan Kroenke’s prohibition gangster style: will it bring Arsenal success?Continue reading...
  
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• North Korean 70th anniversary parade – in pictures

  09-09-2018 18:39 via theguardian.com
  North Korea staged a major military parade in the capital, Pyongyang, on Sunday, to mark 70 years since the nation’s founding Continue reading...
  
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• Trump aides: anonymous 'resistance' op-ed is national security risk

  09-09-2018 18:35 via theguardian.com
  Hunt for author of piece depicting sidelining of president
  Pence: ‘We’ll find out if criminal activity involved’The Trump administration warned of a potential national security risk related to an opinion piece published last week in which an anonymous administration official declared he or she was working from the inside to subvert the president. Related: Fear review: Bob Woodward's dragnet descends on Donald TrumpContinue reading...
  
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• Sweden election: voters go to polls amid far-right fears – live

  09-09-2018 18:35 via theguardian.com
  Follow the latest in Sweden’s general election, where anti-immigration populist Sweden Democrats are expected to make big gains 5.35pm BST Richard Orange is in Malmo speaking to voters for the Guardian, some more stylish than others. Emil Jönsson turned up to vote for the Green Party dressed in a jacket, trilby hat and bow tie."It's voting day. You have to dress yourself up," says Emil Jönsson in Malmö. "It's a festival like Christmas or Midsummer." pic.twitter.com/pAlxTMbgR
  
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• Donald Trump Drafted Tweet That Would Have Sparked War With North Korea, Says Bob Woodward

  09-09-2018 18:32
  A tweet written by Donald Trump but not sent at the last minute would have
  
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• Donald Trump Drafted Tweet That Could Have Sparked War With North Korea, Says Bob Woodward

  09-09-2018 18:32
  A tweet written by Donald Trump but not sent at the last minute could have
  
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• Amount of NHS land earmarked for sale to developers is soaring

  09-09-2018 18:30 via theguardian.com
  New figures prompt fears that underfunding has forced cash-strapped trusts to dispose of vital assetsMinisters stand accused of “selling off the NHS’s family silver” after new figures revealed that the amount of health service land being earmarked for sale to private developers is soaring.The NHS is seeking buyers for 718 different plots of land or buildings it owns across England, prompting fears that underfunding has forced cash-strapped NHS trusts to dispose of vital assets.
  
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• Pence acknowledges tie-breaker may be needed to confirm Kavanaugh

  09-09-2018 18:26 via theguardian.com
  After fiery hearings, VP’s power to break Senate ties may be needed for first time on a supreme court nominationVice-President Mike Pence acknowledged on Sunday that he may be required to cast a tie-breaking vote to secure the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as a supreme court justice, in what would be a first in US history. Related: Trump aides claim anonymous 'resistance' op-ed is national security riskContinue reading...
  
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• John Lewis made 1,800 redundancies in the past year

  09-09-2018 18:11 via theguardian.com
  New jobs created at Westfield and other centres mean job losses amount to 700, according to staff magazineThe John Lewis Partnership made more than 1,800 people redundant in the year to the end of June, nearly three times the level in the previous year, as it cut costs amid a profits slump.The scale of the cutbacks made over the past 12 months emerged in an update to employees in the staff magazine, the Gazette.John Lewis said 1,838 people had been made redundant in the past year, 289% more than
  
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• Russian police arrest hundreds protesting against Putin pension plan

  09-09-2018 18:08 via theguardian.com
  Unrest breaks out as Google pulls YouTube ads by Putin critic Alexei NavalnyPolice detained almost 300 people across Russia during protests against government plans to raise the national retirement age that have resulted in President Vladimir Putin’s approval ratings slumping to a four-year low.Thousands of protesters took to the streets on Sunday in dozens of towns and cities after Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin critic, called for nationwide rallies against the pension reforms. Navalny was j
  
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• Greek PM promises relief measures after years of austerity

  09-09-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Alexis Tsipras pledges to raise wages, cut taxes and boost welfare spendingGreek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has announced a raft of relief measures “to mend wounds” created during Greece’s prolonged economic crisis, as he attempts to recover the popularity he has lost since enforcing contentious austerity measures.In his first major policy address since debt-stricken Athens ended more than eight years of foreign tutelage under international bailout in August, the leftist lea
  
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• Tory Eurosceptics' plan for Brexit: a new force to defend the Falklands

  09-09-2018 17:58
  Jacob Rees-Mogg, the European Research Group’s head, claims the UK has nothing to fear from trading on WTO terms.A draft plan for Brexit to be proposed by Tory Eurosceptics includes significant tax cuts, as well as more eyebrow-raising ideas such as a new military expeditionary force to defend the Falklands and a domestic-built missile defence system, according to a leaked version.The document from the European Research Group (ERG), which corrals the bulk of the hard Brexit-supporting Cons
  
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• Trump doesn’t think Stormy Daniels’ hush-money deal is valid, his lawyer says

  09-09-2018 17:53 via theguardian.com
  Trump will not sue Daniels for breaking agreement. Move could kill attempts by Daniels’ attorney to force the president to testifyDonald Trump does not believe porn actor and director Stormy Daniels’ hush-money deal, which his former personal lawyer said was done to influence the 2016 presidential election, is valid and will not carry out threats to sue her for breaking the agreement by discussing details of their alleged affair, Trump’s attorney said in a court filing on Satur
  
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• London councils accused of holding up rollout of electric car charging points

  09-09-2018 17:49 via theguardian.com
  Energy company SSE claims thousands of new points are in bureaucratic limboBritain has thousands fewer electric car charging points than required because councils are frustrating their rollout, according to one of the country’s biggest energy companies.Big six energy firm SSE said that when it started work three years ago, it had hoped to install 6,000 charging points in London by now, but had fitted just 762 because of delays by local authorities. Continue reading...
  
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• Manchester City stifle Ji So Yun to earn draw with Chelsea in WSL opener

  09-09-2018 17:48 via theguardian.com
  • Chelsea 0-0 Manchester City
  • High intensity but no goals in meeting of last season’s top twoChelsea’s manager Emma Hayes was critical of this possibly title-defining league opener against Manchester City coming so soon after an important round of international qualifiers.However the players showed little sign that their travels had had much of an impact as both teams exploded out of the blocks, but neither could make the breakthrough. Continue reading...
  
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• Record-breaking fifth consecutive victory for Sir Mo Farah in Great North Run

  09-09-2018 17:44
  Sir Mo Farah has won the Great North Run for a record-breaking fifth-consecutive time.
  
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• Robert Maxwell's Sons Ian and Kevin Break 27 Year Silence About Father's Death

  09-09-2018 17:33
  The sons of publishing tycoon and fraudster Robert Maxwell have revealed their
  
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• 'Right to be forgotten' could threaten global free speech, say NGOs

  09-09-2018 17:31 via theguardian.com
  ECJ hears France’s data regulator wants to extend 2014 ruling to apply universallyThe so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ online is in danger of being transformed into a tool of global censorship through a test case at the European court of justice (ECJ) this week, free speech organisations are warning.An application by the French data regulator for greater powers to remove out of date or embarrassing content from internet domains around the world will enable authoritarian regime
  
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• 'Major hurricane' could hit US east coast as tropical storm Florence strengthens

  09-09-2018 17:27 via theguardian.com
  Officials in Carolinas warn residents to prepare for impactSouth Carolina and Virginia declare state of emergencyForecasters said Tropical Storm Florence turned into a hurricane on Sunday and was swirling toward the US east coast for what could be a direct hit toward the end of the week. The storm’s sustained winds reached 75mph, just over the threshold for a hurricane, on Sunday morning as it was swirling across the Atlantic, about 750 miles south-east of Bermuda. It was moving west
  
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• Labour will make companies set up 'ownership funds' - Observer

  09-09-2018 17:26
  The Labour Party will make private companies employing more than 250 people set up "ownership funds" to give workers financial stakes in their firms if the party comes to power, its finance spokesman told the Observer newspaper.John McDonnell said in an interview published on Sunday that he would introduce such legislation in the first year of a Labour government - part of the opposition party's drive to "shift wealth and power in favour of working people".Britain is not due to hold a new electi
  
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• Ignore Boris Johnson’s sex life. His flirtation with Steve Bannon is the real worry | Matthew d’Ancona

  09-09-2018 17:15 via theguardian.com
  The Tory grassroots have moved on. To scupper his leadership bid, rivals must realise his private life is irrelevantWhen Boris Johnson was in contact with Steve Bannon in July, the message Donald Trump’s ex-chief strategist had for him was straightforward: man up. Step up to the plate. Get off your knees. You can imagine this unpleasant challenge to Johnson’s virility by the self-appointed guru of the populist right. The apparent response has been no less pleasant to behold. Last mon
  
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• Tennis rallies behind Serena Williams after US Open sexism claim

  09-09-2018 17:10 via theguardian.com
  Players past and present back 23-time grand slam champion following outburst at umpireTennis players past and present have rallied behind Serena Williams after she claimed the sport was riddled by sexism following an extraordinary on-court tirade at an umpire during the US Open women’s final.The 23-time grand slam winner said she was fighting for the future rights of women players by publicly criticising the chair umpire Carlos Ramos for what she interpreted as double standards. The final
  
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• Miscarriage of justice body's funding cuts criticised as workload grows

  09-09-2018 17:10 via theguardian.com
  Cuts having severe impact on work of Criminal Cases Review Commission, critics sayGovernment funding of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the last hope for people battling miscarriages of justice, has come under attack as the number applications rises steeply.The new justice minister Edward Argar has defended the long-term decline in the agency’s budget on the grounds that it is “sufficiently funded for the work that it does”. Continue reading...
  
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• Miscarriage of justice body's funding cuts criticised as workload grows

  09-09-2018 17:10
  The commission received 1,439 applications last year, compared to 885 in 2003/4.Government funding of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the last hope for people battling miscarriages of justice, has come under attack as the number applications rises steeply.The new justice minister Edward Argar has defended the long-term decline in the agency’s budget on the grounds that it is “sufficiently funded for the work that it does”.
  
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• British man dies after Jet2 flight diverted to Toulouse

  09-09-2018 17:06
  A British man has died in Toulouse after needing medication assistance on a flight.The man, who has not yet been named, was flying from Manchester to the Spanish island of Ibiza when the plane had to be diverted to France because of the medical emergency.A spokesman for Jet2, the airline he was flying with, confirmed the death on Saturday evening.
  
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• Royal Navy sailors held in US over drunken behaviour

  09-09-2018 17:02 via theguardian.com
  One is Tasered and three are charged with resisting arrest during shore leave in FloridaSeveral Royal Navy sailors have been arrested following reports of drunken behaviour while docked in Florida. The Ministry of Defence said six personnel were arrested but a spokeswoman could not confirm whether they were from the £3.1bn HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s new aircraft carrier, or support ships. Continue reading...
  
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• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari – digested read

  09-09-2018 17:00 via theguardian.com
  ‘Some people think robots will make humans redundant, and we should prepare by lying on sun loungers. I don’t know’The world can be a very scary place. When I wrote Sapiens and Homo Deus I had no idea they would both become worldwide bestsellers. So I was totally unprepared when my publishers immediately demanded a follow-up. For a few hours I was in a state of panic, before inspiration came to me. If my previous books had dealt with the past and the future, why didn’t I
  
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• Exhibition celebrates Grange Hill 40th anniversary

  09-09-2018 16:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Creator Phil Redmond says he wanted to make a show that reflected working class life.
  
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• British man dies after medical emergency on plane to Ibiza

  09-09-2018 16:37 via theguardian.com
  Jet2 flight from Manchester diverted to Toulouse where man who later died was taken to hospitalA British man has died after needing medical attention on a flight to Ibiza.The Jet2 flight from Manchester diverted to Toulouse on Saturday evening due to the medical emergency. Continue reading...
  
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• British man dies after medical emergency on flight to Ibiza

  09-09-2018 16:37 via theguardian.com
  Jet2 flight from Manchester diverted to Toulouse where man was taken to hospitalA British man has died after needing medical attention on a flight to Ibiza.The Jet2 flight from Manchester diverted to Toulouse on Saturday evening due to the medical emergency. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump aides claim anonymous 'resistance' op-ed is national security risk

  09-09-2018 16:35 via theguardian.com
  Hunt for author of piece depicting sidelining of president
  Pence: ‘We’ll find out if criminal activity involved’The Trump administration warned of a potential national security risk related to an opinion piece published last week in which an anonymous administration official declared he or she was working from the inside to subvert the president. Related: Fear review: Bob Woodward's dragnet descends on Donald TrumpContinue reading...
  
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• Refugee Rocket Scientist Lands Job After Canary Wharf Job Hunt Goes Viral

  09-09-2018 16:35
  A former refugee with a rocket science degree who stood outside Canary Wharf
  
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• Sweden election: voters go to polls amid far-right surge – live

  09-09-2018 16:32 via theguardian.com
  Follow the latest in Sweden’s general election, where anti-immigration populist Sweden Democrats are expected to make big gains 3.32pm BST Jon Henley is reporting from Stockholm, where locals were up early to vote.Swedes really vote. They were queuing up outside the Skepparsgatan polling station in Stockholm this morning ... Turnout last time round was 85%. pic.twitter.com/GojXaPMufoChristian Democrats in Sjöbo handing out free sausage. "Guaranteed free from 'valfläsk' (election
  
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