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• Gulliver’s World Rollercoaster Becomes Stuck With 21 Passengers On Board

  15-09-2018 22:18
  Twenty-one people were trapped on a rollercoaster for about two hours when it
  
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• Gulliver's World: 21 trapped on rollercoaster

  15-09-2018 21:58 via bbc.co.uk
  The ride at Gulliver's World theme park, in Cheshire, was stuck 50ft in the air for about two hours.
  
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• Give Britain a new referendum on Brexit, says Sadiq Khan

  15-09-2018 21:29
  Sadiq Khan, left, with the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.The mayor of London has issued a dramatic call for another referendum on EU membership, insisting that the people must be given the chance to reject a Brexit deal that will be bad for the economy, jobs and the NHS.Writing in the Observer, Sadiq Khan says that, with so little time left to negotiate, there are now only two possible outcomes: a bad deal for the UK or “no deal” at all, which will be even worse.
  
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• Victim in stolen lorry crash near Barnsley named as Jacqueline Wileman

  15-09-2018 20:44
  A woman who died after a stolen lorry crashed into the side of a house near Barnsley has been named as Jacqueline Wileman.Police said four men were arrested after the incident on Park View in Brierley, South Yorkshire.The crash happened around 1.40pm on Friday and has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
  
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• Vince Cable Grilled By Lib Dem Activists Over Plans To Open Up Leadership

  15-09-2018 20:08
  Sir Vince Cable has faced tough questions from Lib Dem activists over
  
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• Children trapped for two hours on Gulliver's World rollercoaster

  15-09-2018 19:53
  More than 20 people, including children, have been rescued from a rollercoaster that broke down 50ft (15m) in the air.Passengers were stuck on the Crazy Train ride at Gulliver's World in Warrington for more than two hours after it became stuck on Saturday afternoon.One witness told the Liverpool Echo that the ride was shaking before it broke down, adding that they noticed "a very large object fly off" the attraction.
  
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• Labour party conference will vote for reselection, says Chris Williamson

  15-09-2018 19:34
  Controversial plans that would make it easier for Labour members to deselect sitting MPs are likely to be passed at the party conference next week with the backing of Unite and other unions, a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn has predicted.The claim, which will alarm MPs already worried about being purged, was made by the Corbynite MP Chris Williamson at a party meeting last month, a recording of which has been passed to the Observer.The issue of whether conference will back what is called “manda
  
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• Ex-British Soldier Joe Robinson Jailed In Turkey After Fighting Islamic State In Syria

  15-09-2018 19:25
  The Foreign Office has been accused of providing "very little help" to a
  
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• Labour conference will vote for reselection, says Chris Williamson

  15-09-2018 19:00
  Controversial plans that would make it easier for Labour members to deselect sitting MPs are likely to be passed at the party conference next week with the backing of Unite and other unions, a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn has predicted.The claim, which will alarm MPs already worried about being purged, was made by the Corbynite MP Chris Williamson at a party meeting last month, a recording of which has been passed to the Observer.The issue of whether conference will back what is called “manda
  
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• British cyclist Simon Yates set to win Spain's La Vuelta

  15-09-2018 18:44
  British cyclist Simon Yates is certain to win Spain's La Vuelta after leading the day before Sunday's processional final stage.Team Sky's Chris Froome is the current holder of the Giro d'Italia winner title and his teammate Geraint Thomas won the Tour de France.
  
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• Watford v Manchester United: Premier League – live!

  15-09-2018 18:25
  Premier League updates from the 5.30pm BST kick-offYoga, tackles, timekeeping: Gracia’s Watford revolutionClockwatch – live with Barry Glendenning!And feel free to email Niall or tweet him5.23pm BST PreviousWatford’s 3-1 win here in 2016 was only their fifth ever victory over Manchester United, in 30 meetings. All of the others came between 1978 and 1986, including this 1-0 FA Cup third-round win in 1982, when the Hornets were in the second tier: 5.17pm BST A brief pre-match ch
  
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• Typhoon Mangkhut Leaves At Least 12 People Dead As It Batters The Philippines

  15-09-2018 18:21
  Typhoon Mangkhut has lashed the northern Philippines with destructive winds
  
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• Floyd Mayweather says rematch with Manny Pacquiao is happening this year

  15-09-2018 18:13
  Mayweather: ‘I’m coming back to fight Manny Pacquiao’American earned over $200m for win in their first boutFloyd Mayweather Jr says a rematch with Manny Pacquiao will take place this year. Related: Gennady Golovkin scoffs at 'clown' Canelo Álvarez at contentious weigh-inContinue reading...
  
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• Storm Florence: North Carolina governor warns of 'epic' inland flooding – live updates

  15-09-2018 18:12
  Five people have died in North Carolina and although the hurricane has been downgraded to a tropical storm, storm surges and strong winds could pose a danger for days
  • Storm tracker: follow the hurricane’s path 4.38pm BST Rescue teams in Jacksonville, North Carolina are using dinghys to navigate otherwise impassible stretches of highway.Rescue teams on Piney Green Road. Jacksonville, NC pic.twitter.com/ctQVwlSvj9 4.30pm BST North Carolina governor Roy Cooper warned in a Saturday morn
  
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• Scientists warn of global crisis over failure to tackle tuberculosis

  15-09-2018 18:05
  With 10 million new cases each year, outcome of UN summit in New York could prove crucialHeads of state, doctors and scientists will gather in New York next week to discuss one of the world’s most alarming medical crises: the failure of global efforts to tackle tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on Earth.More than 10 million new cases of TB are detected every year and about 1.7 million people die of the disease, according to a recent report by UK doctors. At the same time, the
  
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• Chelsea go top after Eden Hazard’s irrepressible hat-trick sees off Cardiff

  15-09-2018 18:05
  By the time Willian bent his magnificent shot high to Neil Etheridge’s left, it had all started to feel straightforward for Chelsea. At first glance, they had done a fine job of undermining Maurizio Sarri’s pleas for patience once again. Eden Hazard had scored an irrepressible hat-trick, the sun was shining on Stamford Bridge and Chelsea were on their way to joining Liverpool at the top of the Premier League table.Yet while the scoreline had the look of a rout, the reality was that t
  
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• Arsenal’s Mesut Özil leaves Ciaran Clark and Newcastle too much to do

  15-09-2018 18:05
  Midway through the afternoon Unai Emery was quite possibly bracing himself for the sort of uncomfortable post-match scrutiny with which Arsène Wenger eventually became so wearily familiar. Emery’s Arsenal ended the first half seemingly barely able to string two passes together and apparently struggling to grasp their new instructions to advance with intricacy right from the very back.At that point Newcastle United were pressing their guests into increasingly flustered submission and
  
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• V&A Dundee review – a flawed treasure house on the Tay

  15-09-2018 18:00
  You cannot fault the ambition that underpins the V&A’s striking new northern outpost, but behind the powerful exterior not all is sweetness and lightIn the Oak Room, a 1907 interior by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a gallery balustrade is decorated with thin strips of timber that overlay and intersect like weaving. They effect transitions from firmer pillars below and plainer panels around them into delicate multiple uprights that reach to the ceiling. The gridded pattern of the wood is e
  
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• The arty garages of Berkeley, California – in pictures

  15-09-2018 18:00
  For the past two years, Ian Wood has been capturing his home town of Berkeley, California, through its array of garages. The project began during Wood’s dog walks, eventually becoming a way of documenting the city. “Garages embody the colourful, messy, free spirit of Berkeley’s history,” he says. “You don’t see many homes with murals on them, but it’s apparently OK on garages: kids have their forts, adults have garages.” Many involve street art &nd
  
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• Low-cost, no-frills Durham private school attacked by teachers

  15-09-2018 18:00
  Founders accused of using children as guinea pigs in an educational experiment and trading on parents’ anxietiesA new private school offering a no-frills education for just £52 a week will open its doors to pupils in Durham this week, despite vociferous opposition from teaching unions, which say it is impossible to provide a quality education on such a low budget.The launch of the Independent Grammar School: Durham has been greeted with scepticism by many in the sector who accuse the
  
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• Matilda’s new adventures at 30: astrophysicist, explorer or bookworm

  15-09-2018 17:59
  To mark three decades since Roald Dahl’s heroine first appeared, her illustrator, Quentin Blake, has imagined her life nowShe was the quintessential young rebel who broke all the rules about how good little girls should be portrayed in children’s literature by standing up to bullies in the name of justice – and having a laugh at the same time. Continue reading...
  
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• Simon Yates set to seal Vuelta a España win after surviving final mountain stage

  15-09-2018 17:54
  • Yates leads with only processional stage to Madrid remaining
  • Bury rider completes grand tour clean sweep for British cyclingSimon Yates is set to win the Vuelta a España in Madrid on Sunday after successfully defending his overall lead in Saturday’s final mountain stage in Andorra. Related: Vuelta a España: Simon Yates goes for victory in decisive stage 20 - live!Continue reading...
  
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• London tomboy meets Parisian chic in Alexa Chung’s designer debut

  15-09-2018 17:45
  The fashionista’s first catwalk show, at London fashion week, was assured – and unmistakably inspired by her own personal style“Going to catwalk shows and being photographed wearing nice clothes doesn’t make you an expert on them,” said Alexa Chung on Saturday before her debut show as a fashion designer.True, but the glamorous version of on-the-job training – which saw Chung become a well-known face at London fashion week long before she launched her Alexachun
  
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• Man 'murdered wife to end marital strife'

  15-09-2018 17:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Lewis Bennett is due to stand trial for second-degree murder in December, authorities in the US say.
  
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• Kirstie Allsopp Defends Decision To Smash Her Children's iPads

  15-09-2018 17:41
  Kirstie Allsopp has defended her decision to smash her children's iPads,
  
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• Coven ready: from Instagram to TV, why are witches so popular?

  15-09-2018 17:41
  Occult dramas from The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina to Strange Angel are a theme of the new season’s TV. Is this a response to the uncertainty of contemporary politics?Once an endangered species confined to blasted heaths and moonlit woods, today’s witches are flourishing and emerging blinking into the Golden Age of Television. And, this time, it’s political.A Discovery of Witches, an adaptation of Deborah Harkness’s novel about a young witch who finds an ancient manusc
  
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• Low prices and no frills: can Tesco’s secret plan defeat Lidl and Aldi?

  15-09-2018 17:40
  All eyes will be on the launch of discount chain Jack’s for clues as to whether the UK’s biggest grocer can operate as well as its sharp German rivals at the cheapest end of the marketThe Tesco founder, Jack Cohen, was an enterprising market trader who brought modern supermarket retailing to postwar Britain. Nearly a century later, Cohen, nicknamed “Slasher Jack” because he liked to “pile it high and sell it cheap”, is making a high street comeback.On Wednesda
  
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• Toronto 2018 roundup: popcorn, syrup and a convict in space

  15-09-2018 17:00
  While Steve McQueen and Barry Jenkins led the hype for Oscars, it was veteran director Claire Denis’s bizarre sci-fi High Life that really caught the eyeThe Toronto international film festival is an increasingly glitzy affair, with enough world premieres from celebrated auteurs to have even casual moviegoers frothing at the mouth – and critics positively weak at the knees. Courting the sweet spot between art house and mainstream, it’s a prime destination for Oscar contenders op
  
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• Regrets? Viola Davis has had a few… and is brave to admit it | Rebecca Nicholson

  15-09-2018 17:00
  The Help star’s admission is a rarity in an era of social media that makes our opinions appear fixedPlenty of people have regrets over past professional decisions. I have my doubts about the wisdom of trying out as a de facto shop security guard for one single, ill-advised shift, after it transpired that you couldn’t prevent shoplifting just by wishing customers wouldn’t nick things.I might have been incorrect in declaring that the first ever episode of Broadchurch was so silly
  
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• Myers-Briggs personality tests: what kind of person are you?

  15-09-2018 17:00
  The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is used by firms worldwide to test their employees. In her new book, Merve Emre looks at the system’s curious originsMerve Emre was 22 when she found out she was an ENTJ, though she was yet to understand what an impact it would have on her life.Emre had recently graduated from Harvard University and was working as an associate consultant at Bain & Company, one of the “big three” management consultants. Two weeks in, she and the rest of her in
  
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• China’s pitiless war on Muslim Uighurs poses a dilemma for the west

  15-09-2018 17:00
  Europe seeks a ‘golden era’ of trade and investment with a country that is holding a million people in ‘re-education’ campsChina is facing mounting international criticism over its systematic repression of Muslim Uighurs in western Xinjiang province, where an estimated 1 million people have been detained in “re-education” camps and subjected to prolonged physical and psychological abuse.But Chinese leaders remain defiant, telling the UN and human rights activi
  
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• UK’s smart meter revolution at risk of being short-circuited

  15-09-2018 16:59
  The energy industry is struggling to meet installation targets after some embarrassing glitchesOne of Britain’s biggest national infrastructure projects in decades is coming off the rails, according to a welter of criticism from politicians, consumer groups and media outlets.The target of the carping is not the HS2 railway project or Heathrow runway expansion, but the government’s requirement for energy suppliers to offer all homes and businesses a smart meter by the end of 2020. Con
  
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• Documents reveal Salisbury poisoning suspects' Russian defence ministry ties

  15-09-2018 16:59
  Ruslan Boshirov, left, and Alexander Petrov appeared on a Russian TV channel to deny wrongdoing.Documents uncovered by investigative journalists have provided the first public evidence that the suspects in the Salisbury novichok attack have formal ties to the Russian ministry of defence.British authorities have charged Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov with conspiracy to murder Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey.
  
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• Documents reveal Salisbury poisoning suspects' Russian defence ministry ties

  15-09-2018 16:59
  Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, who are wanted for the Skripal novichok attack, are linked to Russian defence ministryDocuments uncovered by investigative journalists have provided the first public evidence that the suspects in the Salisbury novichok attack have formal ties to the Russian ministry of defence.British authorities have charged Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov with conspiracy to murder Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey. The former Russian spy and
  
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• US has no plan for Middle East peace, says senior Palestinian

  15-09-2018 16:43
  Chief negotiator Saeb Erekat says US is trying to change terms of reference: ‘I don’t think they will ever introduce a plan’The US will not present its long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace any time soon and is instead trying to unilaterally change the terms of reference for any future proposal, a senior Palestinian official said on Saturday. Related: Palestinians still live under apartheid in Israel, 25 years after the Oslo accord | Avi ShlaimContinue reading...
  
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• Lewis Hamilton smashes track record to take Singapore F1 GP pole

  15-09-2018 16:30
  • Championship leader sets Marina Bay best by three seconds
  • Max Verstappen second fastest, Sebastian Vettel thirdLewis Hamilton took pole for Mercedes with a consummate lap under the lights of the Marina Bay circuit. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was in second place with the Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel in third. Hamilton took the pole with a time that smashed the track record by more than three seconds.Hamilton was quickest on the first hot laps in Q3, threading the needle in Singa
  
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• British ex-soldier jailed in Turkey for fighting alongside banned Kurdish militia

  15-09-2018 16:30
  Joe Robinson remains on bail and is planning appeal against his convictionA former British army soldier has been jailed for nearly eight years in Turkey after he was convicted of fighting against the Islamic State terror group alongside a banned Kurdish militia.Joe Robinson, 25, formerly of Accrington, Lancashire, was sentenced to seven years and six months’ imprisonment for belonging to the YPG, a Kurdish armed group proscribed as terrorists by Turkish law. Continue reading...
  
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• Labour figures slam claim that Michael Foot was paid by Soviets

  15-09-2018 16:23
  Jeremy Corbyn, Neil Kinnock and John McDonnell condemn re-emergence of claim eight years after ex-Labour leader’s deathSenior Labour figures and the family of former party leader Michael Foot have reacted with anger over the re-emergence of the explosive claim that he was a paid Soviet informant.Neil Kinnock, who succeeded Foot as Labour leader, said his predecessor had been a “passionate and continual critic of the Soviet Union” in response to the allegation that MI6 believed
  
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• Storm Florence: Disaster Declared In North Carolina Amid Warnings It Will Last For Days

  15-09-2018 16:21
  Donald Trump has declared a disaster in North Carolina where a tropical storm
  
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• Five Dead As Storm Florence Brings Surging Seawater And Torrential Rain To US East Coast

  15-09-2018 16:21
  Storm Florence has battered the eastern US coast with non-stop rain, surging
  
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• NHS mental health crisis worsens as 2,000 staff quit per month

  15-09-2018 16:18
  Pledge to boost services undermined by failure to retain thousands of key workers, minister admitsThousands of nurses, therapists and psychiatrists are quitting NHS mental health services, raising serious doubts about ministerial pledges to dramatically expand the workforce.Two thousand mental health staff a month are leaving their posts in the NHS in England, according to figures from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). The news comes as services are already seriously understaffed
  
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• Five men sought after 'sickening' attack on traffic warden

  15-09-2018 16:13
  A man has been arrested and police are looking for five others after a traffic warden was dragged off his moped and violently kicked and stamped on.West Midlands Police says the "sickening violence" happened between 5pm and 5.30pm on 14 September in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham.The victim, who was on duty, was dragged from his moped before being kicked and having his head stamped on.
  
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• Food and Brexit: will our cupboards be bare?

  15-09-2018 16:10
  From farmers and poultry producers to professors of food policy, those on the frontline have been sounding the alarm. So how will the UK cope after 29 March 2019?It is a warm day and the European Commission building, on leafy Smith Square a few streets away from the Houses of Parliament, has laid on a buffet. There will be sandwiches. There will be roasted chicken legs. Whether anybody will have an appetite for it after the event it is to follow is another matter entirely; perhaps they’ll
  
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• Waitrose To Remove All Plastic Bags By March 2019 To Save 500 Tonnes Of Plastic A Year

  15-09-2018 16:05
  Waitrose is to remove all plastic bags by next March in a move that will
  
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• Author of How to Murder Your Husband charged with murdering husband

  15-09-2018 16:03
  Self-published writer Nancy Crampton Brophy, 68, arrestedChef Daniel Brophy, 63, shot dead at culinary instituteA self-published romance writer has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of her husband.Nancy Crampton Brophy, 68, was arrested last week in the killing of her husband of 27 years, Daniel Brophy, at the Oregon Culinary Institute in June. Continue reading...
  
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• Off Tanzania, in one of the world’s richest seas, why is the catch getting smaller?

  15-09-2018 16:00
  In Dar-es-Salaam, local fishermen are being squeezed out by illegal boats with explosives which take much of the catch, killing coral reef and putting an eco-system at riskFishing boat XTK191, known as Home Boy, returned to Kivukoni fish market in downtown Dar es Salaam at dawn one day last week. The 15 young men on board the old dhow dropped anchor and heaved their catch over the side for others to run it across the beach to where hundreds of traders milled.Within an hour of landing in eastern
  
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• 'It was like a family': remembering the Mangrove, Notting Hill's Caribbean haven

  15-09-2018 16:00
  The west London cafe, which opened 50 years ago, became a symbol of black urban resistanceA two-bedroom flat on Notting Hill’s All Saints Road can fetch up to £2m these days. But half a century ago, when property prices were a small fraction of what they are now, the road was on the frontline of battles between the police and the black community.Notting Hill and Brixton were the two main areas where Windrush migrants settled. The majority who arrived in Notting Hill came from Trinida
  
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• Crazy Rich Asians – a sugary delight

  15-09-2018 16:00
  The clash between new and old money is explored in Jon Chu’s hilarious if superficial adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s bestsellerMuch has been written about the impact of Jon M Chu’s adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s bestselling 2013 novel Crazy Rich Asians. Indeed, it’s not insignificant that the film is the first Hollywood studio movie to feature a majority Asian cast since The Joy Luck Club in 1993. Yet to evaluate it solely on the basis of representation is to do it a d
  
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• 'It was like a family': remembering the Mangrove, Notting Hill's Caribbean haven

  15-09-2018 16:00
  Left to right: Roy Hemmings, Jean Cabussel and Frank Crichlow.A two-bedroom flat on Notting Hill’s All Saints Road can fetch up to £2m these days.Notting Hill and Brixton were the two main areas where Windrush migrants settled.
  
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• Alexa Chung debut show takes flight at London Fashion Week

  15-09-2018 15:52
  British model and television host Alexa Chung took fashionistas to the airport on Saturday for a journey to summer destinations at her debut London Fashion Week show.Chung, a fashion darling who has collaborated with British clothing retailer Marks & Spencer and had a Mulberry handbag named after her, swapped the coveted catwalk front row for backstage - sending out models in her eponymous brand, which she launched last year.The airport lounge themed show nodded to hot destinations with plen
  
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