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• Northern Ireland's DUP says it won't be bullied on Brexit

  10-10-2018 23:16
  A lawmaker from the small Northern Irish party that British Prime Minister Theresa May's government relies on for support has said his party will not be bullied in Brexit talks, and that an unacceptable deal will be defeated in parliament.Writing in the Telegraph, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) lawmaker Sammy Wilson said May's British government should not blink in negotiations and would face the consequences if it submitted to "draconian" proposals from the European Union that could keep Brita
  
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• Fiona Bruce given police escort to film BBC News at Six

  10-10-2018 23:02
  Fiona Bruce made it on time to present the news from the Millbank studios near parliament.The newsreader Fiona Bruce was given a police escort through London rush-hour traffic to film the BBC News at Six at an alternative set, after technical issues downed live broadcasts at the main BBC studios.The presenter flagged down a passing police car after she got stuck in traffic with BBC home editor and presenter Mark Easton just 40 minutes before the news bulletin on Wednesday.
  
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• UK minister Lidington says he expects a Brexit deal eventually

  10-10-2018 22:11
  LONDON (Reuters) - A senior British cabinet minister said on Wednesday he expected that Britain would be able to strike a deal with the European Union to leave the bloc eventually, even if it was not a certainty.
  
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• Private contractors paid millions to run UK detention centres

  10-10-2018 22:00
  Campsfield House immigration removal centre in Oxfordshire is operated by the private contractor Mitie. Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex/Shutterstock
  
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• May faces Brexit battle as DUP threatens to sabotage government

  10-10-2018 21:55
  Theresa May is fighting to keep the delicate Brexit negotiations on track after the DUP threatened to vote down the budget and bring down her premiership if a divorce deal meant that Northern Ireland was treated separately from the rest of the UK.The prime minister responded by summoning senior cabinet members to Downing Street on Thursday, where she was expected to update them on progress amid signs that the sabre-rattling DUP and the Tory right were acting in concert against her.
  
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• Seann Walsh 'deeply regrets' kissing Strictly Come Dancing partner Katya Jones

  10-10-2018 21:25
  Seann Walsh has said he "deeply" regrets kissing his Strictly Come Dancing partner Katya Jones, but insisted he is "not the person I'm being portrayed as".Stand-up comedian Walsh was dumped on Twitter by his long-term partner Rebecca Humphries after pictures emerged of him kissing with professional dancer Jones.Walsh and Jones, who is married, have now addressed the fallout during an appearance on BBC Two's Strictly spin-off show It Takes Two.
  
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• Grenfell refurb details 'kept secret to protect commercial interests'

  10-10-2018 21:13
  Ed Daffarn has told the inquiry he complained to the landlord that residents were not asked about the type of cladding being installed.A Grenfell Tower resident’s demand for information from his landlord about how decisions were being made about the building’s refurbishment was dismissed to protect the “commercial interests” of the contractor Rydon, it has emerged.In September 2014, almost three years before the disaster that claimed 72 lives, Ed Daffarn made a request un
  
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• Revealed: The bridesmaids and pageboys that will take part in Princess Eugenie's wedding

  10-10-2018 21:08
  Princess Eugenie has named the pageboys and bridesmaids who will have a starring role at her wedding on Friday.At three years old, Princess Charlotte is already no stranger to high profile royal events.William and Kate's middle child made an appearance at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, apparently mastering the so-called "royal wave" and sticking her tongue out at the crowds.
  
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• 'WASTE of money' Fury as police drive BBC's Fiona Bruce to WORK

  10-10-2018 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE BBC has sparked outrage after News at 6 editor Mark Easton and presenter Fiona Bruce were driven by the police so they were not late to work.
  
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• Welsh government refuses to halt 'nuclear mud' dumping

  10-10-2018 20:41
  The Welsh government insists that debris from the Hinkley Point C construction site is safe.The Labour-led Welsh government has been heavily criticised after refusing to halt the dumping of “nuclear mud” from a power station project in the sea off Cardiff.It insisted that the debris from the Hinkley Point C construction site in Somerset was safe and argued that it would be breaking the law if it suspended the disposal licence.
  
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• Pro-remain Tory MPs will form group to vote down May's Brexit deal

  10-10-2018 20:33
  The pro-Europe Tory MPs Dominic Grieve, Anna Soubry and Ken Clarke leaving 10 Downing Street in June.A group of remain-backing Tory MPs are plotting to form a rival movement to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s highly effective Eurosceptics, with the aim of voting down Theresa May’s Brexit deal amid concerns that it would wreck the economy.Senior MPs behind the new group said they believed the Eurosceptics would eventually swing behind May’s final Brexit deal, but Tory whips had underestimated
  
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• Suspected neo-Nazi father 'posed with baby Adolf while wearing KKK robes'

  10-10-2018 20:19
  A suspected neo-Nazi who named his baby Adolf posed for a photo with the child whilst wearing Ku Klux Klan robes, a court heard.Adam Thomas, 22, and his partner Claudia Patatas, 38, are on trial accused of being members of the "extreme and violent" far-right group National Action.Thomas is facing a separate charge of possessing The Anarchist Cookbook, a terrorist document which contains bomb-making instructions.
  
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• Russian website names third GRU officer involved in Salisbury poisoning

  10-10-2018 20:15
  The Russian news website Fontanka named on Wednesday a third GRU military intelligence operative, Sergey Fedotov, as having been involved in trying to kill ex-spy Sergei Skripal in the English city of Salisbury.The website said records show Fedotov visited Britain in 2016, 2017 and 2018 and left the country on March 4 this year,the same day as two other GRU agents who have already been named.Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found slumped on a public bench in Salisbury on that date, and the ca
  
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• Crewe youth coach had 'strange relationship' with boy, court told

  10-10-2018 20:03
  Paul McCann, who is alleged to have groomed a teenage boy by showering him with gifts, taking him on football tours and letting him drink alcohol.A football club director has told a court about the “strange relationship” between a former youth team coach at Crewe Alexandra and the teenage boy he is accused of abusing.Lee Congerton, a former player who is now head of recruitment at Celtic, gave evidence in the trial of Paul McCann, who coached Crewe’s under-16s.
  
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• Andrew Neil LAMBASTS Labour MP as she claims second Brexit vote would UNITE Britain

  10-10-2018 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  ANDREW Neil dismissed Remainer Alison McGovern's claim a second Brexit referendum would "bring the country together" as the Labour MP argued the vote would be the only way out of Theresa May's "Brexit mess".
  
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• EU's Barnier says Brexit deal may be "within reach" next week, demands Irish checks

  10-10-2018 20:00
  European Union Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Wednesday an agreement with Britain could be "within reach" next week, calling for decisive progress in the talks in time for a summit of all 28 EU leaders.Negotiators from both sides have been locked in talks this week to overcome differences on the biggest outstanding hurdle to a deal - how to keep the UK frontier with the Irish republic free of border checks after Britain leaves the EU in March.Leaders of the 27 countries that will remai
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon flagship childcare policy ‘about to IMPLODE” warn nurseries

  10-10-2018 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  NICOLA Sturgeon’s flagship childcare policy is “about to implode”, nurseries have warned. Newly published documents show the plans are not being properly funded and risk pushing private childcare providers out of business.
  
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• Police 'must assess impact of terror inquiries on communities'

  10-10-2018 19:42
  Police respond to the bombing at the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena in May 2017.Police chiefs need to take into account the impact of large-scale operations on communities, the terror laws watchdog has said, after assessing the impact the investigation into the Manchester arena bombing had on the city’s Muslims.Max Hill QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, discovered that a 35-year-old woman received compensation after she was wrongfully arrested in the day
  
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• Soldier in Tommy Robinson video to be discharged from army

  10-10-2018 19:41
  The army is taking steps to discharge a soldier who appeared in a video with far-right activist Tommy Robinson.Sky News was told the recruit had a long record of disciplinary problems.Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, shared a video on Monday of trainee soldiers cheering and singing his name.
  
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• Women Stop Traffic in Westminster Over Pensions

  10-10-2018 19:29
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• Brexit: where do things stand for Britain as the endgame approaches?

  10-10-2018 19:14
  After a series of deadline extensions and fudged decisions, Britain and the EU are finally approaching what is very much the endgame for Brexit.Officially, one date looms large: next Wednesday, when a summit of EU leaders in Brussels will attempt to thrash out Brexit terms that are acceptable both to Theresa May and the EU27.The focus would then switch to an emergency summit, pencilled in for 13 November, giving more time for movement on both sides.
  
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• Parliament ERUPTS as Ken Clarke makes SHOCK claim Brexiteers are 'right wing nationalists'

  10-10-2018 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  ARCH-Remainer Ken Clarke caused havoc in the House of Commons on Wednesday as he claimed Tory Brexiteers are "right-wing nationalists" as he questioned Theresa May on how she will manage to get support for her Chequers proposal in Parliament.
  
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• Sharing rather than building is the answer to housing shortage

  10-10-2018 19:03
  ‘The true innovation lies in how people live, not in the building of more homes,’ says Andrea Jones.Regarding Radhika Bynon’s letter (14 September) about housing innovation and scaling up solutions to make the sector work better, I argue that the true innovation lies in how people live, not in the building of more homes.During my PhD research into alternative living arrangements in later life I analysed the housing stock statistics to discover that if the current stock was divi
  
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• Son forced to leave elderly father behind as Grenfell Tower became a 'wall of fire', inquiry hears

  10-10-2018 18:44
  A son who was forced to leave his elderly father in Grenfell Tower has said he could see "a wall of fire through the window"."It felt like I was running away from my father," Samuel Daniels said.More than 70 people died as a result of the fire at Grenfell Tower last June.
  
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• The anger at Harvey Weinstein has been turned into something positive, says London Film Festival director

  10-10-2018 18:42
  The anger directed at disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein "has been turned into something positive" in the year since his fall from grace, the director of the London Film Festival has told Sky News.Speaking at the opening of the event following one of Hollywood's most turbulent years, Tricia Tuttle said redressing gender imbalance in the film industry had been "a long time in the making".The film festival itself has responded with a significant emphasis on female stories and women filmmakers - s
  
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• BBC News forced to play old content on live channel for an hour

  10-10-2018 18:35
  Ben Brown appears on the BBC News channel with the word ‘recorded’ written top left of the screen.The BBC News channel had to play repeats of old news after the live broadcast went down for an hour owing to a “technical issue”.The difficulties started shortly after 3pm on Wednesday and the news presenter Ben Brown appeared with the word “recorded” at the top left of the screen.
  
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• 'He was going to kill me': Bodyguard who shot Westminster attacker breaks down during inquest

  10-10-2018 18:26
  A bodyguard who shot dead Westminster attacker Khalid Masood broke down in court as he said he believed "he was going to kill me".The close protection officer, identified only as SA74, said he told Masood, 52, to "get back" as the attacker ran towards him with two large knives covered in blood in the Palace of Westminster on 22 March 2017.During Masood's rampage across Westminster Bridge he killed four people and injured 29 others, before knifing unarmed PC Keith Palmer to death as he guarded th
  
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• Weinstein: 'Am I allowed to flirt with you?'

  10-10-2018 18:25
  Sky News has obtained a video of Harvey Weinstein behaving inappropriately with a businesswoman.
  
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• 'It was a UK referendum' Remainer Soubry SHUT DOWN by DUP MP on second Brexit vote

  10-10-2018 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  DUP MP Sammy Wilson dismantled Anna Soubry's claim the UK deserved a second chance to vote on the final Brexit deal as the Tory Remainer argued it was "especially" fair for Northern Ireland to have a say.
  
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• Two Britons among 10 dead in Majorca flooding

  10-10-2018 18:20
  Two Britons are among at least 10 people killed during flooding on the Spanish island of Majorca.The pair died in a taxi in the town of Sant Llorenc after torrents formed following downpours on the popular holiday island.Local officials have held an emergency meeting to coordinate their response, with 100 rescue workers and 80 soldiers sent to the area.
  
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• Limo driver's widow: He worried about the vehicles' safety

  10-10-2018 18:15
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The widow of a limousine driver involved in a New York state crash that killed 20 people says her husband had expressed concerns about the company's vehicles.
  
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• Final Brexit divorce deal could be reached by next Wednesday - EU

  10-10-2018 18:14
  A final deal on the terms of Britain's divorce from the EU is "within reach" by next Wednesday, the bloc's chief negotiator has said.Michel Barnier announced 80 to 85% of the treaty has been agreed.Currently 10% of these are screened, but it would have to rise to 100%, Mr Barnier said, adding that these would amount to scanning bar codes on lorries and ferries travelling between the two.
  
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• EU's Barnier says Brexit deal "within reach" next week, demands Irish checks

  10-10-2018 18:00
  European Union Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier on Wednesday said an agreement with Britain was "within reach", calling for decisive progress in the talks in time for a summit of all 28 EU leaders next week.Brexit negotiators from both sides have been locked in intense discussions this week, trying to overcome differences on the biggest outstanding hurdle to a deal - how to keep the Ireland-UK border open after Britain leaves the EU in March."An agreement is within reach for Oct. 17, next Wednes
  
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• Zamira Hajiyeva, wife of jailed banker, named as subject of 'McMafia' order

  10-10-2018 17:57
  The wife of a jailed Azerbaijani banker can be revealed as the subject of the UK's first unexplained wealth orders.Zamira Hajiyeva, who spent more than £16m in Harrods between September 2006 and June 2016, was named at a High Court hearing last week as only "Mrs A".Mrs Hajiyeva was issued with the first two unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) to be obtained by the National Crime Agency against two properties worth £22m in total.
  
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• Brexit deal next week "within reach" - Barnier

  10-10-2018 17:51
  A Brexit deal is "within reach" next week, EU negotiator Michel Barnier said on Wednesday, even as he rammed home his insistence that Britain must accept possible checks on trade between its mainland and Northern Ireland."An agreement is within reach for Oct. 17, next Wednesday, if we succeed to the end of this negotiation now," Barnier said in a speech to business leaders at the European Parliament.EU leaders are due to meet for dinner in Brussels next Wednesday and hope to agree a withdrawal t
  
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• Khashoggi case is test for UK's relationship with Saudi Arabia

  10-10-2018 17:40
  The multiplying allegations about high-level Saudi military involvement in the abduction or murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi is placing an unprecedented strain on the close security and trade relationship between the UK and Saudi Arabia, which has been a pillar of British foreign policy.The British foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has in the past been willing to defend the relationship, saying it has prevented bombs from going off on the streets of London.
  
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• Suicide prevention minister joked about throwing herself off Beachy Head

  10-10-2018 17:34
  The government's new suicide prevention minister once said she would "sooner jump off Beachy Head" than defect from the Conservatives, it has been revealed.Jackie Doyle-Price told the Thurrock Gazette in 2014: "I would sooner jump off Beachy Head than join UKIP.Beachy Head in East Sussex is a notorious suicide spot, with around 20 people each year killing themselves by throwing themselves from the chalk cliffs.
  
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• Brexit deal can be done by Wednesday – ONLY customs union can fix Irish border checks

  10-10-2018 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  MICHEL Barnier believes a Brexit agreement is “within reach” despite both the European Union and United Kingdom still at a loggerheads over the thorny Irish border issue.
  
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• May's cabinet to discuss Brexit next week - spokesman

  10-10-2018 17:15
  LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May will discuss Brexit with her cabinet of senior ministers at their regular Tuesday meeting next week, May's spokesman told reporters on Wednesday.
  
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• Policing officials under criminal investigation over interest-free loans

  10-10-2018 17:00
  Car loans given to the three officers from members’ money are included in the investigations.Three senior officials at a Police Federation branch are under criminal investigation over their handling of funds, including receiving interest-free loans worth tens of thousands of pounds, the Guardian has learned.An investigation has begun into the former secretary of the West Mercia branch Jamie Harrision, who has been suspended from his role with the federation.
  
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• DUP ‘Prepared’ To Topple Theresa May By Voting Down The Budget If UK Compromises Too Much On Brexit

  10-10-2018 16:59
  The Democratic Unionist Party is threatening to vote against the Budget - and
  
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• 'You're going to Holland' British lorry driver MOCKS migrant stowaways who beg him to stop

  10-10-2018 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  A BRITISH lorry driver filmed himself taunting migrants who were riding on his truck before they quickly realised he wasn’t going in the direction they wanted.
  
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• Wellcome Collection Admits 'Making Wrong Call' After Replacing 'Women' With 'Womxn' In Workshop Ad

  10-10-2018 16:42
  A London museum has apologised after it was accused of "eroding women's
  
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• Brexit aside, British troops test ability to reinforce Europe

  10-10-2018 16:40
  British troops disembarked in the Netherlands on Wednesday en route to Norway to test NATO's ability to move personnel and armour quickly across Europe, an exercise officers said showed London's commitment to European security after Brexit.In a drill with Cold War echoes, Britain is moving some 600 armoured vehicles, jeeps and supply trucks and 1,200 troops by land to NATO's northern flank over 10 days to join the alliance's biggest exercises since the end of the Soviet Union.Britain, which has
  
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• Why a Scottish caravan park fears Donald Trump is putting off its guests

  10-10-2018 16:39
  Donald Trump plays a round of golf at Trump Turnberry in July, during his first official visit to the UK.Paul McCartney was dead right.Plus Girvan is famous for the historic Turnberry golf course, one of the links courses that hosts the Open Championship.
  
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• Why Canary Wharf might soon become as quirky as Shoreditch

  10-10-2018 16:37
  The tech sector has been one of the more vocal voices in business calling for the UK to retain full access to skilled migrant workers after Britain leaves the EU.Migrant workers, many from the EU, have played a large part in UK tech's success and many in the sector fear for its prospects if a substantial number leave post-Brexit.Canary Wharf Group, the property giant behind the transformation of London's Docklands, has unveiled the latest part of the development - a five million sq ft mixed-use
  
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• Woman who spent $21M at Harrods fights UK wealth order

  10-10-2018 16:31
  A woman from Azerbaijan who spent 16 million pounds ($21 million) on jewelry, wine and other goods at luxury London department store Harrods over the course of a decade has become the first target of a British power to seize money from people suspected of getting their wealth through corruption.A court has ordered Zamira Hajiyeva, 55, to explain where she got the money to also buy an 11.5 million pound ($15 million) London home close to Harrods and a golf course outside the city worth 10.5 milli
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn challenges May's claim that 'austerity is ending'

  10-10-2018 16:24
  Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May clashed over austerity at the first PMQs of the new term, with the Labour leader telling the prime minister her rhetoric needs to be matched with action.Mr Corbyn seized on the pledge - contained in Mrs May's keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference last week - asking the PM how she intends to end the cutbacks for police, the NHS, schools, councils and disabled people.Mrs May stuck by her conference pledge and told MPs that while austerity would be coming
  
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• DUP threatens to vote against budget if May crosses Brexit red lines

  10-10-2018 16:22
  The DUP leader, Arlene Foster, has said she does not want Northern Ireland going off in a different direction from the rest of the UK.The DUP has stepped up the pressure on Theresa May over its demands for Brexit, by briefing that it could vote against this month’s budget if the prime minister breaches the party’s red lines on the issue at next week’s EU summit.The threat – which could in theory topple May, or even bring down the government – has not been made publi
  
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• Princess Eugenie wedding: George and Charlotte star in bridal party

  10-10-2018 16:09
  Princess Eugenie and her fiance Jack Brooksbank have announced their bridal party, including Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
  
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