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• Eurostar trains could be BLOCKED after no-deal Brexit, French minister warns

  13-09-2018 23:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  FRANCE's Europe minister Nathalie Loiseau has warned Eurostar trains may be blocked from coming in to France in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
  
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• BREXIT CRISIS: Bank of England boss Mark Carney warns no-deal could be like 2008 crash

  13-09-2018 23:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  BANK of England Governor Mark Carney has warned Theresa May the consequences of a no-deal Brexit could be as bad as the financial crisis from 2008.
  
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• Union boss: Israel created Labour's antisemitism row to distract attention from 'atrocities'

  13-09-2018 23:35
  A union boss and Jeremy Corbyn ally has suggested Israel created Labour's antisemitism row to distract attention from its "atrocities".PCS leader Mark Serwotka claimed the country has tried to "create a story that does not exist", in remarks set to reignite the party's antisemitism row.
  
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• Theresa May should sort Brexit deal and then go, former policy chief says

  13-09-2018 23:35
  Theresa May should leave office once she has agreed a Brexit deal with Brussels and steered it through parliament, according to her former policy chief.George Freeman said it was his view that the prime minister must "seal the deal for a new generation and hand the torch to them".The remarks come amid a febrile atmosphere at Westminster over Mrs May's leadership, with dozens of her MPs said to be plotting her downfall because of their opposition to her Chequers plan for Brexit.
  
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• Mark Carney: 'No-deal' Brexit could see house prices crash by a third

  13-09-2018 23:24
  Bank of England governor Mark Carney has warned ministers that a "no-deal" Brexit could see house prices crash by a third, Sky sources say.Briefing Theresa May and her top team in Downing Street, Mark Carney laid out three different scenarios the Bank believes could come to pass if Britain leaves the EU without a withdrawal agreement.The worst case scenario would see Britain go into recession, a slump in the value of the pound and a crash in house prices.
  
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• Brecon Beacons SAS deaths: Still 'serious failings' five years on, court martial hears

  13-09-2018 23:09
  No appropriate guidelines have been implemented relating to heatstroke during endurance exercises in the armed forces more than five years since three SAS reservists died, a court has heard.The men suffered heatstroke following a 16-mile (26km) exercise in the Brecon Beacons in July 2013 and failings on the expedition were described as "some of the most significant", a health and safety inspector had seen.Two of those in charge of the march, who can only be identified as 1A and 1B, deny negligen
  
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• What a WASTE! UK fishermen forced to THROW AWAY 9ft bluefin tuna due to FISHING QUOTAS

  13-09-2018 22:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  A MASSIVE 9ft bluefin tuna accidentally caught off the coast of Devon had to be thrown away due to fishing quotas - despite being big enough to have “fed a whole town”, fishermen said.
  
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• One-In-Five Secondary School Children Are Caring For Relatives At Home, Shocking New Figures Reveal

  13-09-2018 22:54
  Shocking new figures suggest one-in-five secondary school children in England
  
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• WATCH: Hurricane Helene to BATTER Britain as terrifying chart shows 110MPH WINDS

  13-09-2018 22:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  HURRICANE Helene is charging towards the UK and a terrifying chart shows its expected power as it reaches landfall with gale force winds and heavy rain.
  
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• No Deal Brexit 'Disaster' Fears As Mark Carney Warns House Prices Could Drop By One-Third

  13-09-2018 22:06
  MPs have warned that Theresa May is leading the country towards "economic
  
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• M5 crash: Man and woman killed in seven-vehicle collision in Somerset

  13-09-2018 21:54
  Emergency services were called to the scene near junction 24 at Huntworth just after 8.30am on Thursday.The female driver of one car and the male passenger of another car were pronounced dead at the scene, a police spokesman said.
  
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• Tory MEPs criticised by Jewish and Muslim groups for Hungary vote

  13-09-2018 21:31
  Tory MEPs had argued that use of article 7 would strengthen Viktor Orbán domestically.Jewish and Muslim leaders have criticised Conservative MEPs for voting against measures to censure Hungary, saying it was deeply worrying that they had declined to condemn the repressive policies of the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán.The European parliament voted on Wednesday to trigger the EU’s most serious disciplinary procedures due to policies in Hungary to reduce judicial indepe
  
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• Brexit papers: What no deal could mean

  13-09-2018 21:31 via bbc.co.uk
  We boil down the tranche of new papers from the government and what they could mean for you.
  
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• BOE's Carney says house prices would fall a third after chaotic no-deal Brexit - The Times

  13-09-2018 21:30
  The Bank of England declined to comment on the report when contacted by Reuters.Carney also said the impact of a no-deal Brexit could be as catastrophic as the 2008 financial crisis, according to The Guardian newspaper.Carney attended a meeting of the government's top ministers to outline the bank's preparations for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit, which both London and Brussels hope to avoid.
  
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• No-deal Brexit could be as bad as 2008 financial crash, Carney says

  13-09-2018 21:13
  Cabinet sources said Mark Carney painted a bleak economic picture.The governor of the Bank of England has warned the cabinet that the impact of a no-deal Brexit could be as catastrophic as the financial crisis that crippled the UK economy a decade ago.During a special cabinet meeting on Thursday to discuss preparations for the UK crashing out of the union, Mark Carney told Theresa May and her senior ministers of the potentially dire economic consequences of leaving on poor terms.
  
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• Hassan Mustafa: Ex-student who beheaded friend found not guilty of murder

  13-09-2018 20:44
  A former medical student has been cleared of murder on the grounds of insanity after he beheaded his friend in a betting shop.Hassan Mustafa decapitated Khalid Yousef with a knife before mutilating his face and one of his hands, Birmingham Crown Court heard.Yousef, a former housemate of the accused, was attacked by Mustafa, 35 at the time of the killing, at a branch of Paddy Power in Handsworth in January.
  
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• REVEALED: Prince William's SHOCK comment to Princess Diana on first day of school

  13-09-2018 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  PRINCE William’s former bodyguard has revealed the Duke of Cambridge’s surprising comment to Princess Diana as she dropped him off for his first day of school.
  
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• MP ‘Makes History’ With Baby In The House Of Commons

  13-09-2018 20:34
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• France may stop trains and planes from UK under no-deal Brexit

  13-09-2018 20:22
  Nathalie Loiseau said Eurostar trains could be stopped on reaching French territory if no contingency plans were in place.Eurostar trains may stop running in the event of a chaotic no-deal Brexit, the French minister for Europan affairs has warned.Nathalie Loiseau sounded the warning as she made clear France was against a “blindfold Brexit”, in which key negotiating issues were deferred until the UK had left the EU.
  
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• Brexit no-deal may stop Eurostar trains entering France -French minister

  13-09-2018 20:06
  Eurostar trains heading from London to Paris may not be allowed into France if there is no Brexit deal and sufficient preparations have not been made, France's European Affairs minister said on Thursday.Nathalie Loiseau was asked at a speaking event in London whether it was a real possibility that Eurostar trains coming from London would not be allowed on French soil if there were no Brexit deal.
  
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• Dr Chris Busby: Police become unwell at chemical weapons expert's Devon home

  13-09-2018 19:56
  A chemical weapons expert has been arrested after police started feeling ill while visiting his Devon home.Dr Chris Busby, 73, has been detained under the explosives act after officers at his Bideford home on Wednesday morning felt unwell.Devon and Cornwall Police said officers at the retired research scientist's home also found "a number of items" which "require expert analysis from specialist officers and an explosive ordnance disposal team".
  
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• Labour conference must debate Brexit deal vote, say local groups

  13-09-2018 19:54
  Jeremy Corbyn faces a conference motion over a referendum on the final Brexit deal.More than 100 constituency Labour parties have submitted motions to the Labour conference calling for the party to back a referendum on any final Brexit deal.Campaigners believe the party has received an unprecedented number of submissions on a single topic.
  
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• EU leaders will not give Michel Barnier new Brexit instructions

  13-09-2018 19:52
  The leaders of the EU will not impose new instructions upon Michel Barnier to get a Brexit deal, a senior diplomat has confirmed, in a blow to the UK’s hopes of going over the chief negotiator’s head to secure approval for its Chequers plan.At a summit in Salzburg next week, Europe’s leaders will hear a presentation from Theresa May at a dinner before discussing Brexit among themselves the following day, with just weeks to go before an agreement is needed.An EU diplomat involve
  
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• 'Wash your mouth out,' Italy's Salvini tells EU Commissioner

  13-09-2018 19:43
  The EU's top economic official said on Thursday he feared "little Mussolinis" might be emerging in Europe, drawing a furious response from Italy's far-right interior minister who accused him of insulting his country and Italians.Frenchman Pierre Moscovici, who is the European Union's economics affairs commissioner, said the current political situation, with populist, far-right forces on the rise in many nations, resembled the 1930s when Germany's Adolf Hitler and Italian fascist chief Benito Mus
  
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• Rail Passengers Face Five Years Of Disruption In Upgrade Plans Between York, Leeds And Manchester

  13-09-2018 19:34
  Rail commuters face five years of misery as a major investment programme has
  
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• Brexit deal cannot be a 'fudge'- Raab

  13-09-2018 19:33
  Any Brexit deal has to set out a clear model for the relationship between London and Brussels after Britain leaves the European Union, Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Thursday."I don't think we can have fudges," he told ITV news when asked whether he would be satisfied with a vague declaration of political intentions.
  
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• UK offers 'Calais leave' to children denied asylum

  13-09-2018 19:24
  ‘Calais leave’ will allow the children to study, work and access public funds and healthcare in the UK.Children who were refused asylum after being brought to the UK when the Calais refugee camp was closed are to be granted leave to remain in the country.A total of 549 children were transferred to the UK to be reunited with family members when the camp was cleared in October 2016, but a small number did not qualify for refugee status under immigration rules.
  
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• History’s warnings about Brexit stasis

  13-09-2018 19:22
  Anti-Brexit protest outside parliament on 10 September 2018. ‘Brexeternity now beckons,’ writes Denis Macshane.Rafael Behr is surely right that the biggest challenge in mobilising voters on Brexit is that they are bored with it (The remainers’ big problem?No one in Britain believed Hitler was a real menace until the Panzers arrived at Dunkirk and bombs fell on London docks.
  
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• Drink-free days and heart health quizzes

  13-09-2018 19:20
  Karen Wynyard wonders whether she’ll be able to survive without the daily support of a large glass of red.Having just read Stuart Heritage’s article on alcohol-free days (Journal, 11 September), I must now let all Guardian letter readers know how pleased I am with myself.
  
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• UK will pay 'substantially' less to EU in event of no Brexit deal - Raab

  13-09-2018 19:18
  Britain will pay "substantially" less to the European Union than the roughly 39 billion pounds withdrawal bill agreed with the bloc if there is no final agreement, Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Thursday."I'm not going to put a number on it but what I would say is that it would be substantially below the financial settlement in the withdrawal agreement," he said when asked about how much Britain would pay in a BBC interview.Raab said it may take time to work out how much Britain would need
  
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• The normalisation of gambling in football

  13-09-2018 19:18
  Both clubs’ shirts feature the name of an online betting company.It is right for Simon Stevens of NHS England to highlight the worrying connection between gambling and sports (Report, 6 September).The World Cup revealed the extent to which the gambling industry has become embedded in professional sport.
  
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• Mum Who Took Fulham School To Court Over Her Son's Dreadlocks Says It Was Never Just About Winning

  13-09-2018 19:17
  The mother of a 13-year-old boy who won the right to return to a school after
  
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• Mum Who Took Fulham School To Court Over Her Son's Dreadlocks Says It Was Never About Winning

  13-09-2018 19:17
  The mother of a 13-year-old boy who won the right to return to a school after
  
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• 'Lies and fabrication': UK attacks Russian novichok suspects' tourist claims

  13-09-2018 19:14
  Downing Street has rubbished claims the Russian novichok suspects were in Salisbury as tourists - calling their remarks "lies".It comes after the two men suspected of targeting Sergei and Yulia Skripal with novichok have denied being Russian agents or having anything to do with the poisoning.Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov told the Kremin-funded TV channel Russia Today (RT) they were only in Salisbury on 3 March as tourists to visit the cathedral and nearby Stonehenge.
  
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• Spy poisoning suspects' interview 'an insult to public's intelligence'

  13-09-2018 19:03
  An interview with the two men identified as suspects in the Salisbury nerve agent attack has been dismissed by Downing Street as “lies and blatant fabrications” and “an insult to the public’s intelligence”.In a forceful response to the broadcast on Russian state-funded television in which the men claimed to have been in Salisbury to visit its cathedral, the British government accused Russia of having “responded with contempt” and said the men’s sta
  
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• Special relationship!? EU will stop warning UK about SPACE JUNK if there’s no Brexit

  13-09-2018 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE European Union will stop warning the UK about potential fatal space debris plummeting towards Earth in the event of a no-deal Brexit, new Government papers have sensationally revealed, despite claims the bloc and Britain will work closely together after the divorce.
  
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• Vital minutes lost as Westminster victim held face down in River Thames

  13-09-2018 18:37
  Vital moments were lost in the rescue of a Westminster Bridge terror victim after she was thrown into the water, inquests have heard.Crew on a passing clipper boat were unaware of the chaos on the bridge after Khalid Masood drove his car into crowds of tourists and thought Andreea Cristea's body could have been in the river for some time.CCTV footage shown in court at the fourth day of the inquests of the Westminster terror attacks show Captain Gordon Markley asking if it was a "wind-up" before
  
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• Britain hands over more Northern Ireland trade data to Brussels - EU official

  13-09-2018 18:31
  Britain has handed over more data on trade flows with Northern Ireland at the request of chief negotiator Michel Barnier, an EU official said on Thursday, part of efforts to address the border question with EU member Ireland.Signals from Brussels have buoyed hopes that Britain and the European Union can agree a divorce deal before March, but there are still concerns over whether the two sides can agree a way to prevent the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland.
  
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• What could 'no-deal' mean for you?

  13-09-2018 18:30
  Sky's Laura Bundock runs through the government's plans for a 'no-deal' Brexit.
  
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• UK drivers could need permits to drive in Europe under 'no-deal' Brexit scenario

  13-09-2018 18:28
  British drivers could face the "extra burden" of applying for a permit to drive in the European Union in the event of a "no-deal" Brexit, the government has warned.In the latest batch of papers outlining how a failure to reach a deal could impact on British life, ministers revealed UK driving licences may no longer be valid on their own for driving on the continent.This is because the EU might not agree to recognise UK licences, a development which would require drivers to apply for Internationa
  
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• Ryanair faces one-day strike in five countries over contracts

  13-09-2018 18:16
  BRUSSELS/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanairfaces a one-day walkout by cabin crew across five countries on Sept. 28 as unions step up pressure on Europe's biggest budget airline to accept local contracts.The threatened strike in Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain is aimed at pressuring shareholders set to meet on Sept. 20 to address Ryanair's labour agreements, union officials said on Thursday."It is time the company accepted to employ us with local contracts under local conditions in ac
  
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• More white suspects than people of Asian appearance arrested over terror claims

  13-09-2018 18:03
  More white suspects than people of Asian appearance have been arrested by anti-terrorism police in a year for the first time in more than a decade.Home Office figures reveal a total of 100 people went to trial in the year ending 30 June 2018 - an increase of 39% on the previous year.The figures show a total of 351 arrests were made where terrorism-related activity was suspected.
  
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• Dwarf soccer team in Morocco seeks aid

  13-09-2018 18:03
  Morocco's soccer team for people with dwarfism hopes for sponsors to help fund their participation in an international tournament in Argentina.
  
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• Three Italy cabin crew unions reach labour agreement with Ryanair

  13-09-2018 17:58
  ROME (Reuters) - Unions representing three of Ryanair'sItaly-based cabin crews said on Thursday they had reached an agreement in principle for a three-year collective labour agreement, according to a statement.
  
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• Biker Lands First Quadruple Tailwhip

  13-09-2018 17:53
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• Skripal suspects' account of Salisbury trip does not add up

  13-09-2018 17:50
  The explanation offered by the men known as Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov for their trip to London and Salisbury throws up as many questions as it answers.On Saturday 3 March – which the British authorities claim was the date of a reconnaissance mission – they got to Salisbury train station but say they were driven back by snow, even though local newspaper pictures show people going about their business with little difficulty.The next day they accept they may have been close t
  
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• UK attacks Russian Skripal tourist claims as 'lies'

  13-09-2018 17:46
  Downing Street has rubbished claims the Russian novichok suspects were in Salisbury as tourists - calling their remarks "lies".Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov told Russia Today (RT) they were only in Salisbury on 3 March as tourists to visit the cathedral and nearby Stonehenge.In their first interview since being named as suspects by the British government they said they were victims of a "fantastical coincidence" and would like an apology from the real poisoners.
  
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• No cell signal? No problem: Spotify now lets you download up to 10,000 songs

  13-09-2018 17:44
  Spotify has finally raised its limit on songs you can download for offline playback to 10,000 songs, and you can download on up to five devices now, up from the previous number of three.
  
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• Lilly Kass’s school condensed her name to make an eyebrow-raising email address

  13-09-2018 17:43
  The freshman has no plans to change it just yet.
  
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• Protestor who 'bullied' Rees-Mogg's children labels them 'FAIR GAME' in foul-mouthed rant

  13-09-2018 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  JACOB Rees Mogg protester Ian Bone has defended yelling viscious insults about their father at the Tory MPs children, claiming that he would be happy to target other MPs children in the future.
  
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