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• Children caught up in drugs gangs being failed by police, says Home Office report

  01-10-2018 23:58
  A police dog sniffs a school bag in High Wycombe.Children exploited by gangs operating “county lines” drugs rings have been failed by police and agencies unable to operate effectively across regional boundaries, according to a new report.Officers were not easily able to share intelligence with other forces or even between teams in the same force while local authorities were often unaware of vulnerable children within their areas, the report, commissioned by the Home Office, said.
  
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• Passengers Stranded After Budget Airline Primera Air Collapses

  01-10-2018 23:57
  A budget airline that began offering cheap long-haul flights earlier this year
  
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• Johnson would delay Brexit if he became PM - Sun newspaper

  01-10-2018 23:54
  BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Boris Johnson, Britain's former foreign minister, has told senior members of the governing Conservative Party he would delay Brexit by at least six months if he became prime minister, the Sun newspaper said on Monday.
  
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• Watch dramatic footage taken from the centre of Tropical Storm Rosa in Arizona

  01-10-2018 23:39
  Meteorologist Matthew Strauser filmed a video from an intense storm ‘microburst’ in Yuma, Arizona.
  
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• Tories urged to get behind May as party rivals go on offensive

  01-10-2018 23:00
  Theresa May and Philip Hammond meet apprentices at the engineering services company adi Group in Birmingham on Monday.Ruth Davidson has urged her warring party to “get behind the prime minister” as senior Conservatives sought to shore up Theresa May’s authority before a highly anticipated speech from the would-be party leader Boris Johnson.The Scottish Tory leader’s pointed call for unity came as Johnson appeared to mock the prime minister when he was photographed running
  
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• Brexit: DUP 'pushing back hard' on new Northern Ireland backstop proposal

  01-10-2018 22:46
  The DUP is "pushing back hard" against an attempt to win its approval for a potential Irish border backstop compromise already signalled by Theresa May, Sky News sources say.Sky News has established that informal sounding out with the DUP to accept some increased forms of checks "in the Irish Sea" between Northern Ireland and Great Britain is occurring - including at the margins of Conservative Conference.
  
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• Exclusive: Wiltshire Council Calls On Insurers To Step In After Salisbury Poisonings

  01-10-2018 22:45
  The council overseeing recovery operations in Salisbury has called on
  
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• Conservatives would block another Scottish independence vote - Davidson

  01-10-2018 22:02
  Britain's Conservative party will commit in its next manifesto to blocking another referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has said.The comment has raised hackles amongst nationalists north of the English border, where they have a majority in the devolved parliament and are increasingly discontented over Brexit.Historically, such gestures have been perceived as distant London telling Scotland what to do.
  
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• Conservative Party Conference: Where have all the Tories gone?

  01-10-2018 21:10
  The same question could be asked here at this Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.It was full at the start on day one, for the speeches of party chairman Brandon Lewis and the ebullient Digby Jones, who gave a rumbustious after dinner-style speech, including his "irrelevance and seriously offensive" attack on Boris Johnson.Theresa May and her husband Philip were in the hall then, sitting a few rows back among the activists, in the way that David Cameron used to when he was leader.
  
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• Conservatives should back May, says lawmaker Rees-Mogg

  01-10-2018 21:04
  Changing Conservative leader could cause more problems than it solves and the party should back Prime Minister Theresa May, senior Eurosceptic lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg said on Monday.The Conservatives, meeting for their annual conference, are deeply divided over Brexit and have just six months before a deadline to reach an agreement with the European Union expires.Rees-Mogg, considered a possible successor to May, said the Conservatives' lack of a parliamentary majority meant it would be difficu
  
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• Brexit disputes turn hairy on the fringe of the Tory conference

  01-10-2018 20:35
  The conference hall may be one-third full, but the real action at the Conservative party conference is on the fringes.While Boris Johnson is yet to arrive, there were queues half an hour long to get in to see Jacob Rees-Mogg discuss Brexit, and elsewhere, delegates crammed into meetings to hear Priti Patel denounce her colleagues in government.
  
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• Brussels rejects Theresa May's plea to break Brexit deadlock

  01-10-2018 20:14
  EU diplomats have rejected Theresa May’s conference pitch that Brussels must move first to break the deadlock over negotiations as Jean-Claude Juncker said British people were only “finding out now” about the scale of the problems caused by Brexit.The European commission president told an audience in Germany that he regretted that the voters had not been properly informed ahead of the Brexit referendum in 2016.“What I really regret is there was no real Brexit campaign in
  
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• Michael Gove unveils scheme to provide 250m meals in food waste crackdown

  01-10-2018 20:12
  Michael Gove has unveiled a food waste reduction scheme aimed at providing 250 million extra meals per year for those most in need.The environment secretary announced the pilot scheme, to be backed by the £15m of extra funding allocated to tackle food waste, at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.It is planned to reduce the 100,000 tonnes of food per year in the retail and food manufacturing sectors that is edible and readily available but goes uneaten.
  
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• Transport for London was 'unprepared for vehicle attacks' before Westminster

  01-10-2018 20:01
  Five people were killed in the March 2017 attack, four of them having been hit by Masood's rented SUV.As the highway authority, TfL would have been responsible for installing the barriers.Siwan Hayward, TfL's head of transport policing, said that the risk of a vehicle being used as a weapon on bridge's had not been appreciated at the time.
  
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• International agreement on digital taxes unlikely soon - Hammond

  01-10-2018 19:48
  Chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond said on Monday that an international agreement to tax digital service providers was unlikely to come any time soon, blaming U.S. tax reforms brought in by U.S. President Donald Trump."I have to say my prognosis is that it is quite unlikely that we will be able to achieve international agreement in anything like a sensible time scale," he said at an event on the sidelines of the Conservative Party annual conference.
  
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• Mylee Billingham: Dad murdered daughter in 'revenge' attack

  01-10-2018 19:47 via bbc.co.uk
  William Billingham is convicted of murdering his eight-year-old daughter by stabbing her through the chest.
  
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• Lab 11 nightclub can keep licence after teen's death

  01-10-2018 19:44 via bbc.co.uk
  The 19-year-old was taken ill at the Birmingham club and later died at hospital.
  
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• Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab Warns Brussels That UK Will Slash Corporation Tax In A ‘No Deal’ EU Exit

  01-10-2018 19:42
  Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab has suggested the Tories would slash corporation
  
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• British seem to think the EU is quitting the UK - Juncker

  01-10-2018 19:36
  The discussion in Britain over its departure from the European Union is still far removed from reality, the European Commission's President Jean-Claude Juncker said at a public forum in the German city of Freiburg."Sometimes I have the impression that the British think that it's us quitting Great Britain, but it's exactly the other way around," he said to laughs from an audience of several thousand, adding that the British public had never properly been informed about the consequences of quittin
  
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• Britain must not pull the rug out under trade with EU - Hammond

  01-10-2018 19:36
  British finance minister Philip Hammond said on Mondayrebalancing trade with the EU was a delicate process which should be done gradually, and that product standards should stay the same after Brexit."We have to be very, very careful and we need a very, very gradual process of rebalancing our trade between Europe and the rest of the world," Hammond said at an event at the Conservative Party's annual conference in Birmingham.Hammond said goods regulation in the EU had been stable for the last two
  
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• Sir Paul McCartney photo-bombs newlyweds in Winnipeg

  01-10-2018 19:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Sir Paul McCartney was riding his bike in Winnipeg when he passed a couple taking wedding photos.
  
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• Britain looking at regulatory checks for Brexit Irish border fix

  01-10-2018 19:31
  Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Monday Britain was looking at how regulatory checks on some goods could be used as part of a solution to move Brexit talks, notably a "backstop deal" for the Irish border, forward.Raab described a media report that had said the government was preparing to back down on customs checks between mainland Britain and Northern Ireland as "overspeculating".
  
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• Allergy death: Pret 'complete dereliction of duty' says father of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse

  01-10-2018 19:26
  Pret A Manger has committed a "complete dereliction of duty", says the father of a girl who died after suffering an allergic reaction to one of their baguettes.Nadim Ednan-Laperouse told Sky News: "Any large company that prides itself on being a leader in their field as Pret does should go and examine that law as they know it and do far more than that.The parents of Natasha, 15, who died in 2016 after suffering an allergic reaction to sesame which was not declared on the label of an artichoke, o
  
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• UK could go it alone on digital services tax - finance minister says

  01-10-2018 19:10
  Britain will unilaterally implement a digital service tax if there is no wider international agreement soon on how to tax the world's biggest internet companies, finance minister Philip Hammond said on Monday."The best way to tax international companies is through international agreements but the time for talking is coming to an end and the stalling has to stop," Hammond will tell the Conservative Party conference in the English city of Birmingham."If we cannot reach agreement, the UK will go it
  
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• Vital teaching funds lost to supply agencies

  01-10-2018 19:07
  A major drain on resources not mentioned in your report (Thousands of headteachers rally against damaging school cuts, 29 September) is the growth of the gig economy in the education sector.A good head wants a qualified and experienced supply teacher and pays the going rate to ensure that the children’s education is disrupted as little as possible.More and more lessons are being covered by inexperienced teachers, teaching assistants or unqualified cover supervisors.
  
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• The leftwing case for Brexit has its flaws

  01-10-2018 19:07
  Workers at a Jaguar assembly plant in Castle Bromwich, UK. ‘The immediate post-Brexit future seems likely to result in unemployment for thousands in the manufacturing industry,’ writes Derrick Joad.Larry Elliott highlights the minority case on the left for leaving the EU (The left case for leave is gaining strength as it becomes clear that this Europe is not for turning, 1 October).At the moment we are most likely to be heading for a rightwing Brexit, stirring up racism and attacks o
  
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• Philip Hammond: party must offer solutions to Labour questions

  01-10-2018 18:59
  The government’s growing concern at the challenge posed by Labour has been highlighted by Philip Hammond as the chancellor admitted that Jeremy Corbyn was asking questions the Conservatives needed to answer.Hammond joined other cabinet colleagues in warning that Labour’s policies would endanger the economy but said his own party needed to show itself “worthy of the privilege of governing post-Brexit Britain”.The chancellor said: “Let me be clear about one thing &nda
  
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• Matilda takes on 'new nemesis' Donald Trump in statues for 30th anniversary of Roald Dahl classic

  01-10-2018 18:50
  Now, 30 years after Roald Dahl's much-loved story was released, Matilda Wormwood has a new nemesis - in the shape of Donald Trump.A statue of the defiant little girl facing up to the US president has been unveiled near the author's former home in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, to mark the anniversary of the book's publication.The idea came from a public survey by The Roald Dahl Story Company as part of a search to find out what fans think the grown-up Matilda would be doing today.
  
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• Father guilty of murdering eight-year-old Mylee Billingham

  01-10-2018 18:50
  A man has been found guilty of murdering his young daughter and making a threat to kill his ex-partner.Unemployed factory worker William Billingham stabbed eight-year-old Mylee through the chest with a kitchen knife in an act of revenge against his ex-partner, a trial at Birmingham Crown Court heard.Moments before killing his daughter, Billingham, 55, had held the knife to the neck of Mylee's mother Tracey Taundry, 34.
  
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• Cowboys called in to round up cows roaming on major road after accident

  01-10-2018 18:41
  More than 80 animals were loose after the crash.
  
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• Three of May's ministers privately 'see argument for' second Brexit vote - MP

  01-10-2018 18:39
  Three British government ministers privately support the idea of holding a second referendum on the final Brexit deal, a former junior minister said on Monday.Conservative lawmaker Phillip Lee, who resigned from the justice ministry in June over the government's handling of Brexit, told a packed pro-EU event on the sidelines of the party's annual conference that the ministers had told him so in private conversations.Lee did not identify the three ministers.
  
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• Mylee Billingham: Dad found guilty of daughter's stab murder

  01-10-2018 18:35 via bbc.co.uk
  William Billingham is convicted of killing his eight-year-old daughter by stabbing her through the chest.
  
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• Brexit proposals are not undeliverable, it is about political will - Raab

  01-10-2018 18:31
  BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Britain's Brexit proposals are not undeliverable but rather it is political will holding up negotiations, Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Monday.
  
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• Letters Are Falling Off The Walls Of The Conservative Conference Again

  01-10-2018 18:27
  In what could be an ominous sign for Theresa May, letters are falling off the
  
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• It's time for EU to get serious on Brexit, says Dominic Raab

  01-10-2018 17:57 via bbc.co.uk
  The Brexit secretary spoke amid EU anger at being compared with a Soviet-era prison.
  
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• Female football coach jailed after admitting unsolved murder of teenager from 2004

  01-10-2018 17:55
  Karen Tunmore, now 36, smashed 19-year-old Scott Pritchard over the head with a baseball bat outside his home in Sunderland in 2004, following a dispute over money.In the years before the confession, Mr Pritchard's father, Robert Stacey, had been accused of murdering his own son, spending 16 weeks on remand before the case against him was dropped.In a statement read at Newcastle Crown Court, Mr Stacey said he received abuse over the accusation for more than a decade and became afraid to walk aro
  
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• Raab says Britain needs a credible response from EU

  01-10-2018 17:51
  BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Britain is waiting for a credible response from the European Union to the government's proposals on the future trading arrangement, Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Monday.
  
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• Nottingham Council Denies New PSPO Proposals Could 'Criminalise' Homeless People

  01-10-2018 17:50
  Nottingham City council has denied that new proposals to prevent anti-social
  
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• Homeless People Could Soon Become 'Criminalised' By New Rules In Nottingham

  01-10-2018 17:50
  A leading human rights group is urging Nottingham City Council to scrap
  
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• Nottingham care home inquiry reveals 343 cases of child sexual abuse

  01-10-2018 17:46
  A generation of young people in care in Nottinghamshire were "betrayed" by a dysfunctional system that allowed the sexual abuse of vulnerable children to flourish, an inquiry has heard.The extent of the scandal was outlined at the opening of the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) hearings in Nottingham that revealed that 343 individuals have come forward to say they were sexually abused as children.Despite three previous police investigations and numerous reviews, the scale of t
  
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• Children under 11 'banned' from Bridgend remembrance parade

  01-10-2018 17:43 via bbc.co.uk
  A separate service will be held on 10 November for children under 11 and their families.
  
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• The big issues for Conservative Party members

  01-10-2018 17:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Brexit deal or no deal? Theresa May or Boris Johnson? What do Conservative party members want?
  
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• Firefighters say post-Grenfell partial cladding ban does not go far enough

  01-10-2018 17:23
  The Fire Brigades Union said measures announced on Monday failed to address the issue of Grenfell-style cladding on nearly 500 buildings across England.The government’s announcement of a partial ban on some combustible cladding after the Grenfell Tower fire does not go far enough, the Fire Brigades Union has said.James Brokenshire, the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, announced on Monday that panels similar to those that burned so ferociously on 14 June 201
  
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• Father guilty of murdering 8-year-old Mylee Billingham

  01-10-2018 17:17
  William Billingham has been found guilty of murdering his eight-year-old daughter Mylee and making a threat to kill his ex-partner.The unemployed factory worker stabbed his daughter through the chest with a kitchen knife in an apparent act of revenge against his ex-partner, a trial at Birmingham Crown Court heard.Moments before the murder, Billingham, 55, had held the knife to the neck of Mylee's mother Tracey Taundry, 34.
  
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• Philip Hammond compares Theresa May's Brexit plan to the light bulb

  01-10-2018 17:13
  Philip Hammond has compared Theresa May's Brexit plan to the light bulb, as he called on colleagues to unite behind the prime minister to get the "best possible outcome" in the negotiations.In his speech to the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, the chancellor said he shared Mrs May's "determination" to get her Chequers blueprint for Britain's EU exit agreed.While Mr Hammond said he was maintaining "enough fiscal firepower" to support the economy in the event of a "no-deal" Brexit, he
  
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• Who Are The Stansted 15?

  01-10-2018 17:06
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• Manchester United hammered, Sturridge's stunner and Hampden rumble – Football Weekly

  01-10-2018 17:02 via theguardian.com
  Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Lars Sivertsen and Mark Langdon to look back at the weekend’s action. And is Mourinho’s position untenable after United’s worst start in 29 years?Join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Lars Sivertsen and Mark Langdon to look back at the weekend’s action, commencing with West Ham’s emphatic 3-1 victory over Manchester United. Is Mourinho’s position untenable af
  
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• William Billingham Convicted Of Murder Of Daughter Mylee

  01-10-2018 16:58
  A factory worker who stabbed his eight-year-old daughter through the chest in
  
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• Tory Ministers Secretly Back Second Brexit Referendum, Claims Pro-EU MP

  01-10-2018 16:51
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• Three Tory Ministers Secretly Back Second Brexit Referendum, Claims Pro-EU Tory MP

  01-10-2018 16:51
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