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• Disposal company piled up NHS clinical waste including body parts

  04-10-2018 23:21
  Clinical waste from the NHS including human body parts has been piled up by a waste disposal company.Healthcare Environmental Services (HES) has said it is working to "reduce the volume" of waste after reports that a huge backlog of medical and other kinds of matter had been allowed to build up.The Environment Agency has launched a criminal investigation, and confirmed the company breached its permits at five waste disposal sites in England.
  
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• European Council President Donald Tusk Says A Canada-Style Brexit Deal Is Still On The Table

  04-10-2018 23:18
  Theresa May is facing renewed calls to abandon her Chequers blueprint for
  
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• Another spectator hit on head by wayward golf ball at Kingsbarns in Fife

  04-10-2018 22:41
  A spectator has been struck by a golf ball, just days after another was injured at the Ryder Cup.The woman was seen bleeding from a cut to the forehead after being hit by Tyrrell Hatton's tee shot on the 15th hole at the Kingsbarns course near St Andrews.Hatton was pictured hugging her, while fellow player Luke Donald also went to help.
  
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• Monarch engineers scramble for rescue amid winding-up threat

  04-10-2018 20:23
  The engineering arm of Monarch Airlines is this week scrambling to put together a financial restructuring deal amid the threat of a possible winding-up petition from the taxman.Sky News has learnt that Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has drawn up plans to take action against Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) over an unpaid tax bill, the size of which was unclear on Thursday evening.The move raises questions over the future of a business which employs more than 800 people and provide
  
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• Irish PM urges May to publish border plan 'as soon as possible'

  04-10-2018 20:18
  Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (left) and Donald Tusk in Brussels on Thursday.Ireland’s prime minister has urged Theresa May to publish her revised Brexit border plan “as soon as possible” so the UK and EU can seal a Brexit deal in November.Leo Varadkar said the UK must not delay until a few days before a crunch summit on 17-18 October because the EU needed time to “respond to it in a meaningful way” if talks were to advance.
  
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• EX-HSBC employee in jail over 67,000 pounds customer accounts scam

  04-10-2018 20:09
  A former employee at an HSBCbranch has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for handing over confidential details of three customer accounts to criminals, London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement, resulting in the theft of more than67,000 pounds.The investigation started in March 2016 when three of the bank's customers had money removed from their accounts shortly after interacting with 27-year old employee, Liberty Staph, who worked in a HSBC branch in central London.HSBC declined to com
  
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• Megan Lee: Two Deny Manslaughter After Teen Suffered Fatal Reaction To Takeaway Meal

  04-10-2018 20:03
  A teenager with a nut allergy suffered a fatal asthma attack shortly after
  
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• We Could Finally Find Out Next Month What Brexit Actually Means

  04-10-2018 20:00
  In Theresa May's own words, we're hurtling into the "toughest phase" of the
  
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• Tory deputy chairman defends Shaun Bailey over multiculturalism remarks

  04-10-2018 19:50
  The Conservatives’ deputy chairman has conceded that the party’s newly selected London mayoral candidate “could and should” have made clear he was not singling out Muslims or Hindus when he wrote about the impact of multiculturalism.James Cleverly insisted Shaun Bailey had been misunderstood, and that he was trying to say that because black boys were learning more about faiths other than “their own Christian culture”, they were more likely to drift into crime.
  
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• Scottish Labour Reshuffle Dubbed 'Purge Of The Moderates'

  04-10-2018 19:48
  A shock reshuffle of Scottish Labour's frontbench by leader Richard Leonard
  
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• Theresa May’s ideas on austerity and acting in the national interest

  04-10-2018 19:34
  ‘Leadership is doing what you believe to be right.’ Theresa May at the 2018 Conservative party conference, Birmingham, UK.Who is Theresa May kidding?For millions of adults and children living at or below the poverty line because of the savage cuts of the past few years, for those on NHS waiting lists that daily grow longer, for those in substandard housing or who cannot even get on the housing ladder, it will be a permanent legacy of Tory government callousness and indifference to th
  
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• Russian cyber agents targeted UK Foreign Office

  04-10-2018 19:34
  Russian spies targeted the UK's Foreign Office, computers at Porton Down and the chemical weapons watchdog, officials have said.On Thursday, Dutch authorities said it disrupted a cyber operation conducted by Russia's GRU, targeting the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).The British ambassador to the Netherlands, Peter Wilson, also revealed how one of the agents allegedly attempted to disrupt the investigation into Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17), which was shot down i
  
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• Only Fools And Horses viewers 'would call Del Boy a pervert in 2018', says Marlene

  04-10-2018 19:31
  Sue Holderness, who played Boycie's flirtatious wife Marlene in the 1980s sitcom - which starred Sir David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst as Derek and Rodney Trotter - says political correctness has gone too far and people now would be calling for Del to be locked up."The very first episode, Del gave me a big hug, kissed me fondly and pinched my arse and nobody took any offence at it, except Boycie who looked daggers," she said.
  
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• 'Bite his hand off': Brexiteers seize on Donald Tusk's intervention

  04-10-2018 19:31
  Donald Tusk has given fresh impetus to Conservative MPs who want Theresa May to ditch her Brexit plan, a little more than 24 hours after the prime minister again called for "respect" from Brussels.The European Council president also strongly criticised Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, branding his recent comparison of the EU to the Soviet Union "unwise as it is insulting", noting he had "spent half his life in the Soviet bloc".
  
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• O2 says network recovering after brief outage

  04-10-2018 19:30
  (Reuters) - British mobile operator O2, which is owned by Spain's Telefonica , said on Thursday its network had suffered an outage that prevented users from making calls, but it had now been fixed.
  
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• Secure hospitals are not penal institutions

  04-10-2018 19:27
  High-security hospitals such as Broadmoor, above, are not prisons, and it is unhelpful to talk of ‘serving a sentence’ in one, says Mat Kinton.While unpacking the myth of the she-devil (The long read, 2 October), Helena Kennedy unfortunately reiterates a different myth.It is incorrect to say that Ian Brady “served his sentence in a penal institution for the insane until his death”.
  
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• 7 Scarcely Believable Blunders Russia Made When Trying To Hack Basically Everyone

  04-10-2018 19:27
  Western countries issued coordinated denunciations of Russia on Thursday for
  
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• Government paying lip service to industrial strategy – Vince Cable

  04-10-2018 19:15
  Vince Cable was business secretary in the coalition government.The Liberal Democrat leader, Vince Cable, has accused the government of paying lip service to its plan for an industrial strategy, after failing to establish a watchdog to help deliver it nearly a year after it was first announced.Cable, who was business secretary in the coalition government with the Conservatives, said that “Brexit has sucked the energy out of Whitehall”, delaying the implementation of other vital work a
  
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• Britain's Johnson welcomes Tusk's talk of a Canada-type deal

  04-10-2018 19:15
  Britain's former foreign minister Boris Johnson, who has led calls for Theresa May to ditch her Brexit plan, on Thursday welcomed a proposal from Brussels for the two sides to agree a Canada-style deal.Johnson is May's most powerful critic in her governing party and he has called for the prime minister to drop her so-called Chequers plan in favour of a Canada-type deal which drops the need for the UK to apply EU regulations on trade.
  
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• Body parts pile up as NHS supplier fails to dispose of human waste

  04-10-2018 19:07
  Body parts including amputated limbs and waste from cancer treatment have been retained rather than disposed of by a major NHS supplier, prompting the government’s emergency committee to take action.The health and social care secretary, Matt Hancock, chaired a Cobra committee meeting last month amid concern that the firm’s failure to get rid of the waste could pose a health hazard.The company involved, Healthcare Environment Services Ltd (HES), is employed by at least 50 NHS hospital
  
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• Nobody puts Shetland in the corner: Law bans box around islands on maps

  04-10-2018 19:04
  The Shetland Islands must be represented accurately on official maps, rather than being boxed off to save space, after a new law came in to force.It follows a campaign by Shetland MSP Tavish Scott, who said the archipelago should be "in the right place on the map".Reacting to the latest development, he said: "The box is closed.
  
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• UK asylum seekers may have been detained unlawfully, rules court

  04-10-2018 19:00
  In a test case brought by five asylum seekers who were challenging the provisions of the Dublin III regulations, the appeal court judges ruled that the detained people could not be held indefinitely.Under Dublin III, asylum seekers must claim asylum in the first safe country they arrive in.If they arrive in the UK and claim asylum and the Home Office discovers that they have passed through another safe country first, the Home Office can send them back to that country.
  
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• Khalid Masood Inquest Jurors Upset By Graphic Footage Of Westminster Attack

  04-10-2018 18:41
  Jurors at the inquest into the death of Westminster Bridge attacker Khalid
  
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• Teacher accused of sex with schoolboy says claims are like a 'weird porn film'

  04-10-2018 18:11
  A teacher accused of having sex with a student in a plane toilet said the boy's claims are imagined and sound like the script of a "weird porn film", a court has heard.Eleanor Wilson, 29, is on trial accused of having sexual intercourse with the teenager on a British Airways flight home from an overseas camping trip in August 2015.Bristol Crown Court heard details of what Wilson told police when she was interviewed over the allegations.
  
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• Shiro's Story: The UK rap drama stacking up views

  04-10-2018 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Meet the man behind Shiro's Story, a low-budget drama set in London, on the verge of signing a deal.
  
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• Accused teacher says boy’s sex claims like ‘weird porn film’

  04-10-2018 17:46
  Eleanor Wilson did acknowledge being in almost daily contact with the teenager over the summer.A teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old pupil in a plane toilet described the allegation as sounding like the script of a “weird porn film” and claimed the complainant had imagined the episode.Eleanor Wilson accepted that she gave the teenager her phone number and they were in contact almost daily over the summer following the alleged incident but she said she was horrified at th
  
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• Unilad owner to be placed in administration amid 'debts'

  04-10-2018 17:44
  Unilad, the social-first publisher, is to be placed in administration as its current owners battle a series of financial challenges.Judge Clive Jones heard that directors of the British company, who had previously argued against the appointment of administrators, had now agreed to the process.The company behind Unilad is Bentley Harrigan, which took over in 2014 after snapping up a majority stake from Alex Partridge, who founded the site in 2010.
  
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• 'County lines' drug dealer who used children as 'workhorses' jailed

  04-10-2018 17:27
  A drug dealer has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for trafficking children across counties in the first conviction of its kind in the UK.Zakaria Mohammed, from Aston in Birmingham, admitted running a drugs supply chain and trafficking two boys and a girl to deal on his behalf in the drug dens of Lincoln.Police said the children were used as "expendable workhorses" and they were found in a "filthy" one-bed flat with two class A drug users, surrounded by used syringes.
  
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• Is austerity really over? Theresa May's promise lacks key details

  04-10-2018 17:25
  Theresa May’s promise to end the austerity of the last 10 years was deliberately vague.Theresa May announced an end to austerity in her Conservative party conference speech this week.Did Theresa May give a timeframe for ending austerity this week?
  
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• 'Black Night': Upgraded tank for UK army unveiled by BAE Systems

  04-10-2018 17:25
  An upgraded version of the British army's tanks has been developed - complete with night vision and a laser warning system.BAE Systems has unveiled the enhanced tank, dubbed the "Black Night", in the hope the Ministry of Defence will purchase the upgrades to ensure the army has the best equipment possible.It is an upgrade of the Challenger 2 tank built by the company in the 1990s, which has been used in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq.
  
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• EU's Barnier - Brexit deal must have legally sound Ireland backstop

  04-10-2018 17:16
  A divorce deal with Britain requires a legally sound solution for the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, the European Union's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Thursday after talks with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar."We are in the final stage of the #Brexit negotiations & working hand-in-hand w/ the Irish gov.To agree to any deal, we need to have a legally sound backstop solution for Ireland and Northern Ireland," Barnier said in a tweet.
  
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• England manager Gareth Southgate staying on for 2022 World Cup in Qatar

  04-10-2018 17:04
  Gareth Southgate has signed a new contract to stay as England manager until the end of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.It follows England's strong performance in the summer when they reached the World Cup semi-finals in Russia.The team eventually finished fourth after a play-off against Belgium, making it the country's joint best performance in a World Cup played overseas.
  
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• Tonnes Of Human Body Parts And Waste Stockpiled By NHS Disposal Company

  04-10-2018 16:58
  An NHS contractor has been forced to stockpile hundreds of tonnes of human
  
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• Hospitality workers protest over pay and conditions

  04-10-2018 16:53
  Workers from across the hospitality industry have joined up for a protest as part of a day of action on disputes over pay and working conditions.McDonald's and TGI Fridays employees together with Wetherspoons pub staff gathered at a rally in London's Leicester Square alongside couriers from Deliveroo and Uber Eats plus Uber drivers.The day of action was organised by War on Want, Unite, and the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union.
  
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• 58,000 pregnancy tests sold in UK recalled amid inaccurate results

  04-10-2018 16:53
  More than 58,000 pregnancy tests that were sold in the UK have been recalled after some returned inaccurate results.People who bought Clear & Simple digital pregnancy tests have been urged to check the lot number after a small number returned false positives.An announcement by manufacturer Guangzhou Wondfo Biotech only concerned these pregnancy tests.
  
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• MI5 provides immunity for agents' criminal acts, tribunal told

  04-10-2018 16:42
  MI5 grants its informants legal cover to participate in crimes that may extend to murder, torture and sexual assaults, a tribunal has heard.The policy, in existence since the early 1990s, is likely to have enabled the Security Service to conceal wide ranging illegal activity, Ben Jaffey QC, representing an alliance of human rights group, told the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT) on Thursday.The policy was so secret that even judicial oversight of the practice, introduced in 2012, was not init
  
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• Putin’s Shirtless Calendar

  04-10-2018 16:33
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• Russia cyber attacks: Who are the Fancy Bear and Sandworm hackers?

  04-10-2018 16:31
  Russia's military intelligence service has been accused of carrying out "brazen close access cyber operations across the world".
  
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• Russia 'tried to hack Foreign Office', says British diplomat

  04-10-2018 16:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Intelligence officers also targeted the lab investigating the Salisbury poisoning, a UK diplomat says.
  
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• Two die in accident at Banham Poultry in Norfolk

  04-10-2018 16:11 via bbc.co.uk
  The pest control workers died in a suspected chemical incident in the early hours of Thursday.
  
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• Grenfell Tower inquiry: Fire safety advice like 'waiting in a trap'

  04-10-2018 16:11 via bbc.co.uk
  One of the first people to escape the Grenfell Tower says his neighbours "were like family".
  
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• Drug dealer trafficked children to work for county lines business

  04-10-2018 16:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Zakaria Mohammed is said to be the first drug-dealer convicted of trafficking children under the Modern Slavery Act.
  
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• Lowestoft school introduces pedal machines under desks

  04-10-2018 16:04 via bbc.co.uk
  The head teacher estimates some children burn up to 800 calories a day on the machines.
  
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• This Is The First Drug Dealer To Be Jailed Over Modern Slavery After Forcing Kids To Work For Him

  04-10-2018 15:58
  A drug dealer who trafficked three teenagers from Birmingham to rural
  
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• Gareth Southgate: England manager signs new contract until 2022 World Cup

  04-10-2018 15:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Gareth Southgate signs a new contract which will see him remain as England manager until the 2022 World Cup.
  
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• EU chief attacks USSR comparison and urges UK to compromise

  04-10-2018 15:52
  European council president, Donald Tusk, left, with Ireland’s prime minister, Leo Varadkar.The president of the European council, Donald Tusk, condemned Jeremy Hunt’s “unwise and insulting” comparison of the EU to the Soviet Union, as he piled pressure on the British government to compromise for a Brexit deal.
  
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• Westminster attacker’s inquest is not criminal trial, coroner tells jury

  04-10-2018 15:38
  Khalid Masood killed five people and injured many others, and was eventually shot dead by police.The jury at the inquest into the death of Khalid Masood, who carried out the Westminster Bridge attack in which five victims died, have been told “nobody is on trial” and there is “no question of attributing blame”.The chief coroner, Mark Lucraft QC, opened the inquest into the death of Masood at the Old Bailey on Thursday.
  
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• Tusk slams UK slurs on EU, urges 'Canada plus plus plus' Brexit deal

  04-10-2018 15:38
  European Council President Donald Tusk sharply criticised what he called "emotional" and "insulting" statements about the EU by British ministers and urged London on Thursday to accept an offer of very close post-Brexit ties.The European Union was offering Britain a "Canada plus plus plus" arrangement, Tusk told reporters after meeting the Irish prime minister, explaining Britain could have not just a free trade accord like that with Canada but also extremely close relations in security, foreign
  
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• Brexit crunch time - Diary dates for Britain's EU departure

  04-10-2018 15:33
  LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - With just six months to go until Britain is due to leave the European Union, negotiations between the sides to agree a divorce settlement and a blueprint of new relations after Brexit are in the final stretch.If they fail to agree, Britain could face leaving without a deal, a national election or even another referendum.Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar holds talks with EU officials on Thursday, as Britain and the bloc make a new push to overcome their differences
  
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• False widow spider finds close four east London schools

  04-10-2018 15:32 via bbc.co.uk
  False widows are about the size of a 50p coin and are the most dangerous spider species in the UK.
  
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