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• Storm Bronagh to batter UK with 70mph winds after Ali leaves trail of destruction

  20-09-2018 23:58
  The UK is set to be battered by winds of up to 70mph as Storm Bronagh prepares to make its presence felt in the aftermath of Storm Ali.The second named storm of the season will affect Wales and much of England on Friday, with yellow "be aware" warnings in place for both wind and rain.Bronagh is likely to bring disruption during the morning rush hour due to the possibility of fallen trees, and the Met Office is also warning of flying debris posing a danger to life.
  
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• Wolf Alice on the role of rock music in today's society

  20-09-2018 23:55
  The Mercury Prize nominee says rock music may be struggling to make the charts but believes the genre will always be there.
  
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• Donald Tusk Mocks Theresa May Over Brexit With Instagram Post About Cake And Cherries

  20-09-2018 23:23
  It's been a rough few days for Theresa May and her plans for Brexit.
  
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• Voodoo nurse's trafficking sentence increased

  20-09-2018 23:21
  A nurse who used voodoo rituals to intimidate, threaten and traffic five young women from Nigeria to Germany has had her sentence increased from 14 to 18 years.Josephine Iyamu was the first person to be prosecuted in the UK for arranging the travel for sexual exploitation of victims who had no connection to Britain.The National Crime Agency said she had used her status to recruit vulnerable women from rural villages, promising them a better life in Europe and charging them up to 38,000 euros.
  
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• Hospitals warn key waiting time target for NHS operations 'will never be met again'

  20-09-2018 23:05
  NHS hospital trusts have warned it will be impossible to meet a key waiting time target for elective operations this winter.Under the NHS Constitution, 92% of patients awaiting planned procedures such as knee and hip surgery are meant to be treated within 18 weeks.The target has not been met since December 2016, and with more than four million people on the waiting list across England, there are warnings it will never be met again.
  
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• Labour's annual conference to focus on austerity and Brexit

  20-09-2018 23:00
  The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has regularly attacked the government over living standards.For all the pre-event talk about Brexit and internal rules, Labour’s annual conference will have an official focus on boosting living standards and helping communities, themes central to the party’s election campaign last year.
  
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• A&E appointments system proposed in NHS targets shakeup

  20-09-2018 23:00
  NHS England is reviewing its targets as part of a 10-year plan.Patients could have to start booking appointments in A&E units, and those with only minor ailments wait many hours before they are seen, under a proposed shakeup of NHS targets.NHS England chiefs are examining whether to relax the longstanding obligation to see 95% of A&E patients within four hours.
  
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• David Davis On The Brexit Battle Ahead: 40 'Rock Solid' Rebels Are Ready To Vote May's Chequers Deal Down

  20-09-2018 22:20
  For David Davis, life is no longer as sweet as it once was. The former Brexit
  
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• Khalid Masood criticises wife for not saying 'there's any good in ISIS' in audio

  20-09-2018 21:36
  Khalid Masood can be heard criticising his wife for never saying "there's any good in ISIS" in a recording played at the Westminster attack inquests.The terrorist can be heard telling his widow Rohey Hydara: "What annoys me about you sometimes is you seem to accept all this propaganda.It was heard that she wanted to show Masood how much angry he would get when he was on steroids.
  
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• Meghan launches Grenfell cookbook and says she's 'proud to live in diverse' London

  20-09-2018 21:24
  The Duchess of Sussex has gushed about her new home city as she launched a charity cookbook for the families of the Grenfell fire.Speaking to those gathered for the launch, the Duchess said: "I had just recently moved to London and I felt so immediately embraced by the women in the kitchen, the warmth and your kindness and also to be able in this city and to see in this one small room how multi-cultural it was.The cookbook is a compilation of recipes from families who lived in and around Grenfel
  
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• Brexiters hit back at Emmanuel Macron for calling them liars

  20-09-2018 20:49
  Leading Brexiters have criticised the French president, Emmanuel Macron, for his extraordinary break in diplomatic convention in which he branded prominent leavers as liars who had misled the British people.While Theresa May’s Chequers plan was left hanging by a thread after an ambush at the Salzburg summit, her French counterpart launched an unprecedented attack on Brexiters, warning that leaving the EU was “not without costs”.Furious leavers immediately hit back, accusing Mac
  
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• May humiliated by Salzburg ambush as she fights to save Chequers plan

  20-09-2018 20:35
  Theresa May was left fighting to save her Chequers Brexit plan and with it her authority as prime minister after she was ambushed at the end of the Salzburg summit when EU leaders unexpectedly declared that her proposals would not work.The prime minister was thrown on to the defensive – just over a week before the Conservative party conference – when EU leaders led by Donald Tusk and Emmanuel Macron rejected her Chequers plan as it stood, prompting hard Brexit Conservatives to demand
  
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• Theresa May sticks by Chequers plan for Brexit despite EU warning it 'will not work'

  20-09-2018 20:33
  Theresa May is defiantly sticking by her Chequers strategy for Brexit, despite the EU insisting a key element of her plan "will not work" and issuing a four-week deadline to agree a deal.The prime minister was dealt a large setback on Thursday after she failed to attract EU backing for her Brexit plan during an informal gathering of the bloc's leaders in Salzburg, Austria.At the end of the summit, European Council president Donald Tusk admitted there were "positive elements" to Mrs May's Chequer
  
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• Brexit replay? World Cup win more likely, May says

  20-09-2018 20:26
  It is more likely that England's soccer team will win the World Cup than that Britain will rejoin the European Union after Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May said in remarks published on Thursday.May spoke to an Austrian tabloid during a summit of European Union leaders in Salzburg at which May's counterparts warned her that if she will not give ground on trade and the Irish border by November they are ready to cope with Britain crashing out.
  
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• RAF intercepts Russian bomber jets over North Sea after refusing to talk to air traffic control

  20-09-2018 20:18
  British military aircraft were scrambled to the North Sea after two Russian bombers would not talk to UK air traffic control.Two RAF planes were sent to the coast off Newcastle after the Russian Blackjacks long-range bomber jets passed through "a variety of international airspace", which had been monitored by NATO partners.A Typhoon fighter jet and a supporting Airbus Voyager tanker plane were sent out from RAF Lossiemouth in northeast Scotland just before 3pm, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) conf
  
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• The new Ring Stick Up Cam works with Ring Alarm security system

  20-09-2018 20:09
  Amazon is rolling out a bunch of new gadgets today, a few of which are focused
  
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• Labour 'could win 1.5m more votes' by backing Brexit referendum

  20-09-2018 20:00
  The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, makes a speech just before the Brexit referendum in June 2016.Labour could win more than 1.5 million extra voters if it backed a second referendum on Brexit, potentially delivering the party a Commons majority, according to new polling for the campaign group People’s Vote.Labour’s policy on Brexit will be a central issue at its conference in Liverpool, which kicks off on Saturday, with more than 100 local parties urging the leadership to back a refer
  
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• Macron puts the boot in after May's Brexit breakfast blunder

  20-09-2018 19:56
  Emmanuel Macron, left, with Theresa May in Salzburg.The spin from Downing Street had been that Theresa May’s meeting with her Irish counterpart, Leo Varadkar, shortly after breakfast in the margins of an EU summit in Austria, had been “relatively warm”, albeit “frank”.The dawning truth later that evening was that, in a premiership littered with missteps, May had made one of her worst errors of judgment as the two leaders and their teams met in a private room in Salz
  
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• Theresa May in denial after her Salzburg ordeal

  20-09-2018 19:32
  If it hadn’t all been so numbingly inevitable, it might have been possible to feel sorry for Theresa May. Back in the UK, both remainers and leavers had pronounced her Chequers’ proposals to be dead in the water, but the prime minister had still travelled to the informal EU summit in Salzburg hoping for a stay of execution.A few luke-warm words and some insincere air kisses at the very least, until after she had survived the Conservative party conference.No attempts to sugar the pill
  
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• Russian bomber jets intercepted over North Sea after refusing to talk to air traffic control

  20-09-2018 19:32
  British and French jets were scrambled to the North Sea after two Russian bombers would not talk to British air traffic control.The four aircraft were sent to the North Sea after the Russian Blackjacks long-range bomber jets had passed through "a variety of international airspace", which had been monitored by NATO partners.An RAF Typhoon fighter jet and a supporting Airbus Voyager tanker plane were sent out from RAF Lossiemouth in northeast Scotland just before 3pm.
  
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• Widow of Westminster attacker 'sorry she was not more vigilant'

  20-09-2018 19:16
  The widow of the man responsible for last year’s Westminster terrorist attack in which five people died and dozens were injured has said she is sorry she was not “more vigilant” and described her husband as “evil”.Rohey Hydara wept during the inquest into the deaths as she apologised to survivors and families of the victims.During evidence at the Old Bailey, where the press were cleared from the room to listen via an audio link in another room, Hydara told how on th
  
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• Emmanuel Macron Accuses Top Brexiteers Of Being ‘Liars' As Chequers Deal Lies In Tatters

  20-09-2018 19:16
  Emmanuel Macron has launched a withering attack on Brexiteers as Theresa May's
  
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• Westminster attacker's mother tells court: 'I'm utterly ashamed'

  20-09-2018 19:03
  Masood converted to Islam in 2003 after spending time in prison and his mother, Janet Ajao, said he had "never stopped talking about it".The inquest also heard that Masood referred to his murderous attack as an "exciting opportunity" in "chilling" handwritten notes made days earlier.
  
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• 'I quit my job so I don't have to travel to work'

  20-09-2018 18:27
  A new report into Britain's railways says punctuality is the worst it has been for 12 years as problems with new timetables led to delays and cancellations.Tool hire manager Ian Cain, 38, tells Sky News why he decided to quit his job.Prior to arriving into work, I would search the route and train times every day, hoping to find a better solution to this problem.
  
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• Transport secretary: Railways 'no longer fit to meet today's challenges'

  20-09-2018 18:05
  A fresh review is announced as a report blames the government and rail companies for this summer's timetable chaos.
  
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• EU pushes October Brexit agreement, threatens no deal

  20-09-2018 18:05
  European Union leaders will push for a Brexit deal next month but warned Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday that if she will not give ground on trade and the Irish border by November they are ready to cope with Britain crashing out."Don't worry, be happy," joked EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker after telling reporters after a summit in Austria that the Europeans had full plans in place in the event there was no deal before Britain leaves next March.May promised new proposals to reassur
  
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• Episode #130 | The Exotic Spresm

  20-09-2018 17:53
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• Police question couple at centre of Salisbury poisoning scare

  20-09-2018 17:36
  Alex King and Anna Shapiro were taken to hospital on Sunday after apparently falling ill at a restaurant in Salisbury.Detectives have interviewed a couple at the centre of a fresh poisoning scare in Salisbury amid growing suspicion that the incident was a hoax.Alex King and Russian-born Anna Shapiro were taken to hospital on Sunday evening after apparently falling ill at an Italian restaurant.
  
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• Spain hopes to reach deal on Gibraltar status with Britain by October

  20-09-2018 17:31
  Spain hopes to reach a framework deal with Britain by October on the status of Gibraltar after Britain's exit from the European Union, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Thursday.Spain also needed a transitional period alongside Britain to reach agreements on matters relating to environmental, fiscal and tobacco trading laws on the British territory, he said.
  
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• Irish PM says May promised him new border proposals

  20-09-2018 17:31
  British Prime Minister Theresa May told Ireland's Leo Varadkar that she would make new proposals on the post-Brexit Irish border but presented nothing in writing, the Irish prime minister said on Thursday.Speaking after two days of talks with EU leaders in Austria, Varadkar said other states offered him their full support in the Brexit talks."All of the EU leaders ... gave me their absolute support in standing behind Ireland, saying that an agreement that doesn't work for Ireland, doesn't work f
  
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• China looks to restrict imported current affairs TV content

  20-09-2018 17:20
  China is looking to tighten regulation of overseas-produced content, especially blocking current affairs shows from being shown in the country.Chinese regulators will restrict film, TV series and animation that will be aired on domestic television stations or online video platforms, a draft guidance by the National Radio and Television Administration showed on Thursday.    The move comes amid a broader clamp-down targeting online content from livestreams and blogs to mobile gaming
  
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• How painting golf courses helped an inmate get exonerated over murder conviction

  20-09-2018 17:15
  Valentino Dixon became known for beautiful coloured pencil drawings of golf courses during his 27-year prison stay.
  
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• May: EU criticism of Chequers plan is 'negotiating tactic'

  20-09-2018 17:06
  Theresa May was forced to insist her Chequers plan was not dead and accused European Union leaders of engaging in “negotiating tactics” after she was ambushed at the end of Salzburg summit when Donald Tusk declared that her proposals would not work.The prime minister acknowledged that she had had a “frank bilateral” with Tusk an hour before her end-of-summit press conference in which she was forced to defend Chequers and maintain that it was possible to reach a Brexit dea
  
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• Taiwan seeking 3D gun blueprint manufacturer in Texas ‘underage sex’ probe

  20-09-2018 16:59
  Cody Wilson is thought to be on the island.
  
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• Wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water: Trump becomes a meme

  20-09-2018 16:55
  The US president was describing the impact of Hurricane Florence.
  
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• Irish PM says Britain's May promised him new border proposals

  20-09-2018 16:54
  British Prime Minister Theresa May told Ireland's Leo Varadkar that she would make new proposals on the post-Brexit Irish border but presented nothing in writing, the Irish prime minister said on Thursday.Speaking after two days of talks with EU leaders in Austria, Varadkar said other states offered him their full support in the Brexit talks."All of the EU leaders ... gave me their absolute support in standing behind Ireland, saying that an agreement that doesn't work for Ireland, doesn't work f
  
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• EU pushes for October Brexit agreement, but threatens no deal

  20-09-2018 16:54
  European Union leaders will push for a Brexit deal next month but warned British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday that if she won't give ground on trade and the Irish border by November they are ready to cope with talks collapsing."Don't worry, be happy," joked EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker after telling reporters at a summit in Austria that the Europeans had full plans in place in the event there was no deal before Britain leaves next March.May promised new proposals to reassure
  
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• Chequers plan is dead, says Tusk as Macron calls Brexiters liars

  20-09-2018 16:54
  Donald Tusk, the European council president, has ratcheted up the pressure on Theresa May by rejecting the Chequers plan and warning of a breakdown in the Brexit talks unless she delivers a solution for the Irish border by October – a deadline the British prime minister had already said she will not be able to meet.The stark threat to unravel the talks came as the French president, Emmanuel Macron, broke with diplomatic niceties and accused those of backing Brexit of being liars.The commen
  
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• Care, Transport And Recycling Services At Risk As Councils ‘Braced For £1bn Of Cuts’ In 2019

  20-09-2018 16:54
  Local authorities are set to make a further £1bn in spending cuts, the County
  
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• Meghan's mother Doria Ragland helps Duchess of Sussex launch Grenfell cookbook

  20-09-2018 16:49
  The Duchess of Sussex was joined by her mother at a Kensington Palace reception to launch a Grenfell cookbook.Doria Ragland, who lives in Meghan's native California, made a surprise appearance as she joined the duchess and Prince Harry at the garden function on Thursday.The mother and daughter have not been seen together in public since the royal wedding on 19 May.
  
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• Duchess Meghan joined by her mother for launch of London Grenfell cookbook

  20-09-2018 16:43
  Meghan Markle, Britain's Duchess of Sussex, was joined by her mother and husband Prince Harry on Thursday for the launch of a charity recipe book to help a community cooking project set up in the wake of London's Grenfell Tower fire disaster.The duchess's mother Doria Ragland was a surprise visitor for the launch of the cookbook, which will raise funds for the Hubb Community Project created last summer by survivors of the blaze that killed 71 people after engulfing the 24-storey social housing b
  
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• EU leaders comments on Brexit at informal summit in Austria

  20-09-2018 16:28
  European Union leaders met in Salzburg, Austria, for an informal summit to discuss migration and Brexit."Prime Minister May and I have conversations about this all the time, but this is a negotiation between the European Union and United Kingdom, and Ireland is staying at the heart of Europe, we're staying in the single market in the Euro, we help defend those great projects that have brought enormous prosperity across the continent of Europe.
  
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• May says there is no EU counter-proposal for Brexit deal

  20-09-2018 16:27
  Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday there had been no counter proposal from the European Union for a Brexit deal that would be acceptable to Britain."There is no counter proposal on the table at the moment that actually deals, delivers on what we need to do and respects the integrity of the United Kingdom and respects the result of the referendum," May told a news conference after meeting EU leaders in Salzburg, Austria.May said her "Chequers" proposal for a Brexit deal was the only one
  
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• McDonald's, Wetherspoon and TGI Fridays workers plan strike

  20-09-2018 16:25
  Workers from three popular hospitality chains are set to take part in a coordinated UK strike next month to highlight low pay and poor working conditions across the industry.Staff from McDonald's, JD Wetherspoon and TGI Fridays will simultaneously walk out of their restaurants and pubs on 4 October, and gather for a rally at London's Leicester Square.Workers from two Wetherspoon pubs in Brighton, as well as McDonalds staff in Brixton, Crayford, Cambridge and Watford, and TGI Fridays employees in
  
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• 'Serious failings' led to hospital death of patient who drank cleaning fluid, inquest rules

  20-09-2018 16:25
  "Serious failings" at a hospital led to the death of an elderly patient who drank Flash cleaning fluid after it was put in a water jug on her bedside table, an inquest has ruled.Joan Blaber died six days after drinking the floor cleaner at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton where she was being treated.
  
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• CCTV Captures Moment Car Crashes Into Gravesend Nightclub

  20-09-2018 16:23
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• Macron calls May's Chequers plan 'unacceptable', expects new proposals in October

  20-09-2018 16:17
  French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday the Brexit plan proposed by British Prime Minister's Theresa May was unacceptable in its current form and that he expected new proposals from Britain in October to sort out pending issues."It was a good and brave step by the prime minister," Macron told reporters."But we all agreed on this today, the proposals in their current state are not acceptable, especially on the economic side of it," he said.
  
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• PM May confirms she will bring new proposal for Northern Ireland

  20-09-2018 16:16
  SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed on Thursday that she would present the European Union with a new proposal to try to find agreement on a backstop to ensure an open border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
  
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• May says UK preparing for no deal if no acceptable Brexit proposals agreed

  20-09-2018 16:16
  Britain is preparing to leave the European Union without an agreement on the terms of its departure unless there is a proposal it deems acceptable, British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday.May said that she would only agree to a "backstop" proposal for the Irish border if it worked for the whole United Kingdom."If there is no agreement on a deal that is acceptable to the United Kingdom, then we're preparing for no deal," she said at a news conference after meeting EU leaders in Austri
  
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• NHS trusts told to stop using subsidiary firms to save money

  20-09-2018 16:06
  NHS Improvement disclosed the shift in policy on its website.NHS hospital trusts have been told to stop setting up private companies and transferring staff into them, a move which has provoked strong criticism from health unions and Labour.NHS Improvement, which regulates the health service’s finances, has ordered England’s 240 trusts to “pause” controversial plans to create any more of the subsidiary companies.
  
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