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• Combat loneliness with 'social prescribing', says Theresa May

  14-10-2018 23:30
  Loneliness is linked to illnesses including heart disease, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.GPs in England will be able to refer people to take part in social activities such as cookery classes, walking clubs and art groups to combat loneliness, the prime minister has said.Instead of offering medication, doctors will be encouraged to use “social prescribing” to refer lonely patients to activities that could help tackle feelings of isolation.
  
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• Boys held after brawl outside McDonald's in Essex leaves man critical

  14-10-2018 23:21
  Two teenage boys have been arrested after a man suffered a life-threatening head injury following a brawl outside a McDonald's.The man fell after an altercation with a group outside the fast food restaurant on the High Street in Hadleigh, Essex, shortly before 9pm on Saturday.One of the boys, a 13-year-old from Leigh-on-Sea, was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm.
  
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• Brexit talks stall before midweek EU summit

  14-10-2018 22:18
  BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - The stubborn problem of Britain's land border with Ireland thwarted a drive to clinch a Brexit deal before a European Union summit this week, as negotiators admitted defeat after marathon talks and pressed pause for the coming days.EU negotiator Michel Barnier said after meeting British Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab that they could still not bridge a gap between his "backstop" demands that Northern Ireland stay in the EU's economic zone if there is a risk that border
  
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• Brexit progress made, but unresolved issues on backstop - UK Brexit ministry

  14-10-2018 22:18
  Britain and the European Union have made progress "in a number of key areas" in Brexit negotiations, but there remain a number of "unresolved issues relating to the backstop", Britain's Brexit ministry said on Sunday."The UK is still committed to making progress at the October European Council," a spokeswoman for the ministry said in a statement.
  
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• Pro-Brexit ministers urged to quit to scupper Theresa May's plans

  14-10-2018 22:02
  Andrea Leadsom, right, has convened a meeting of the ‘pizza group’.It has in the past been attended by Penny Mordaunt, left, and Esther McVey, centre.Pro-leave cabinet members are to meet on Monday to discuss Theresa May’s proposed deal to leave the EU amid calls from backbenchers that they should resign to force a change in policy or a change in leader.
  
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• Scandal-hit Strictly couple Seann Walsh and Katya Jones stay for another week

  14-10-2018 22:00
  Strictly contestant Seann Walsh and his professional partner Katya Jones have remained in the competition, despite days of controversy after they were photographed kissing in the street.Jones is married to another dancer on the show, and Walsh was in a relationship at the time.Katie Piper and her professional partner Gorka Marquez became the third couple to leave the show this year.
  
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• Jeremy Hunt Jokes About Brexit While Navigating A Maze Just As Talks In Brussels Stall

  14-10-2018 21:51
  Jeremy Hunt has attempted to maintain a sense of humour during strained Brexit
  
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• Jeremy Hunt Jokes About Brexit While Navigating A Maze And It's A Gift To The Internet

  14-10-2018 21:51
  Jeremy Hunt has attempted to maintain a sense of humour during strained Brexit
  
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• 'Key issues' remain on Brexit despite Dominic Raab's dash to Brussels

  14-10-2018 21:50
  Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab flew to Brussels on Sunday for unscheduled talks with EU negotiator Michel Barnier - but "key issues" remain despite speculation a deal had been reached.News of the talks fuelled reports that a divorce agreement may be close ahead of Wednesday's crunch summit of European leaders.Politico went as far as citing unnamed diplomats as saying a deal was done.
  
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• Julian Assange to regain internet access at embassy base – reports

  14-10-2018 21:14
  Julian Assange was forced offline in May by the Ecuadorean government, which said he had issued ‘messages that might interfere with other states’.Ecuador has partly restored Julian Assange’s communications with the outside world from its London embassy where the WikiLeaks founder has been living for over six years, according to reports.The Ecuadorian government suspended access in March because it said Assange had breached “a written commitment made to the government at t
  
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• World Conker Champion 'practised for 20 minutes'

  14-10-2018 20:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Karen Holloway, 32, from Derby, was declared the overall winner.
  
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• Irish border issue holds up Brexit deal - EU's Barnier

  14-10-2018 20:47
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The thorny problem of how to ensure Brexit does not mean frontier checks between Ireland and Northern Ireland is among issues holding up a deal on Britain's withdrawal, EU negotiator Michel Barnier said on Sunday.
  
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• No deal yet after flurry of Brexit diplomacy in Brussels - officials

  14-10-2018 20:15
  BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - Brexit negotiators have yet to seal a deal on Britain's divorce terms, officials said, after a flurry of meetings in Brussels on Sunday to try to secure a draft agreement before Prime Minister Theresa May arrives for a summit this week.With less than six months until Britain leaves the European Union, Britain's Brexit minister Dominic Raab met EU negotiator Michel Barnier and the ambassadors of the 27 other member states were separately summoned to a meeting.
  
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• Brexit secretary Dominic Raab flies out for unscheduled Brexit talks

  14-10-2018 20:12
  Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab flew to Brussels on Sunday for unscheduled talks with EU negotiator Michel Barnier ahead of Wednesday's crunch leaders' summit.Sources have told Sky's Mark Stone this isn't the case.
  
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• Can Theresa May survive calling the DUP's bluff on Brexit?

  14-10-2018 19:54
  Theresa May is probably ruing the day she entered into a confidence and supply agreement with a Northern Irish party in order to stay in power.Not for the first time, the Democratic Unionist party is threatening to torpedo her plans to secure a Brexit deal with the EU but this time it coincides with open revolt from inside her cabinet, a combination that could prove lethal to the prime minister.With the former Brexit secretary David Davis calling for rebellion and the possibility of more cabinet
  
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• Man, 21, named as victim of Storm Callum landslide

  14-10-2018 19:39
  One of the two men to have died following Storm Callum has been named.Corey Sharpling, 21, from Newcastle Emlyn, was killed on Saturday when a "large-scale" landslide hit a road that had been blocked by a tree near Cwmduad, west Wales.Mr Sharpling is one of two people to have died in relation to Storm Callum, with another man reported to have been swept away by rough seas in Brighton.
  
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• Who are the cabinet ministers most likely to quit over backstop plan?

  14-10-2018 19:31
  If Theresa May agrees to an Irish backstop that keeps the UK in the customs union indefinitely she is likely to face an outcry from Brexiters that could lead to resignations from her cabinet.Sources close to leave-supporting ministers described the atmosphere as “tense” and “febrile” as they awaited the outcome of unexpected crunch talks in Brussels on Sunday between the Brexit secretary, Dominic Raab, and the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier.Conservative party
  
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• Britain should stand 'rock solid' behind May - foreign secretary

  14-10-2018 19:15
  LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Sunday it was time for people to stand "rock solid" behind Prime Minister Theresa May over Brexit after a former colleague called on her cabinet to exert its authority to make her change her plans.
  
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• Universal credit is an ill-conceived shambles

  14-10-2018 19:09
  It is no coincidence that Gordon Brown (Tory benefit cuts will spark poll tax-style chaos, claims Brown, 10 October) and John Major (Report, 12 October) should suggest that the government’s plans to complete the roll-out of universal credit risk provoking a response similar to the civil disorder that greeted the poll tax.The breadth and depth of opposition to the way that this change to the payment of benefits has been progressing is astonishing, stretching as it does from the archbishop o
  
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• What lies in store for the super-rich?

  14-10-2018 19:08
  Globalisation has destabilised the world economy and is exhausting resources.Population growth or global warming will, soon enough, put an end to the current period human excess.1) Many rich and successful entrepreneurs are in favour of Brexit and thus do not see it as a concern.
  
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• Folic acid to be added to UK flour in effort to reduce birth defects

  14-10-2018 19:04
  Scientists believe hundreds of babies a year in the UK will escape profound disabilities, such as spina bifida, once new policy takes effect.All flour is to be fortified with folic acid after ministers swung behind a plan that medical experts say will reduce the number of babies born in the UK with serious birth defects, the Guardian can reveal.The policy, which will be introduced within weeks, comes after minister were convinced by their own advisers that it would reduce the risk of babies deve
  
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• Needed: a jab for political stupidity

  14-10-2018 18:51
  The over-65s will have to wait for their NHS flu jabs. Photograph: David Cheskin/PA
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing stars wake up to travellers 50 yards from hotel

  14-10-2018 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  STRICTLY Come Dancing stars woke up to a group of travellers setting up just 50 yards from the hotel they are staying in.
  
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• Storm Callum victim named as England and Wales clean up after floods

  14-10-2018 18:31
  The man who died in a landslide in Carmarthenshire, west Wales, on Saturday has been named by police as Corey Thomas Sharpling, 21.Large swathes of Wales and England were mopping up on Sunday after more than a month’s rain fell within a few hours as Storm Callum swept across the UK over the weekend.
  
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• Storm Callum: Corey Thomas Sharpling Named As Young Man Who Died In Carmarthenshire Landslide

  14-10-2018 18:17
  The family of a 21-year-old man who died in a landslide during Storm Callum
  
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• Brexit deal not likely on Sunday - EU sources

  14-10-2018 18:07
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Weekend negotiations in Brussels between British and EU officials have not yet produced a final Brexit deal for leaders to approve this week, senior EU sources told Reuters on Sunday.
  
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• Why The Missing Saudi Journalist Case Is So Delicate For The UK Government

  14-10-2018 18:06
  The mysterious case of a Saudi Arabian journalist who went missing last week
  
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• Old Vic among UK beneficiaries of trust embroiled in drug crisis

  14-10-2018 17:59
  The Old Vic in London, which received £300,000 from the Sackler Trust last year.The Old Vic, the National Theatre and several other UK cultural and educational institutions received donations totalling more than £7m last year from the Sackler family, whose influential philanthropic role has come under the spotlight after allegations that the transatlantic dynasty’s fortune has been tainted by the US opioid crisis.The largest beneficiary was Imperial College London, which receiv
  
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• Negotiators reach Brexit divorce deal - Politico cites EU diplomats

  14-10-2018 17:59
  Brexit negotiators have reached a deal on a withdrawal agreement, the Politico news website reported on Sunday, citing three EU diplomats.Three senior EU diplomats have told Reuters on condition of anonymity that a deal on Britain's divorce terms had been reached, but others with knowledge of the negotiations said it was not the case.Senior EU negotiators declined to comment when asked by Reuters on whether a deal has been reached.
  
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• Teen killed in collision involving car, police vehicle and ambulance in Suffolk

  14-10-2018 17:54
  A man has died after a collision involving a car, a police vehicle and an ambulance.The 19-year-old had been "in the carriageway" when the three vehicles collided at around 4.35am on Sunday, Suffolk Police said."Neither the police car or the ambulance were responding to an emergency at the time and as such were not travelling on 'blue light' runs," police said.
  
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• British restaurant owner shot dead by hunter while cycling in French Alps

  14-10-2018 17:50
  A British man has been shot dead by a hunter while cycling in the French Alps.Mark Sutton, a 34-year-old restaurant owner, was riding a mountain bike when he was shot on Saturday evening.Prosecutors in France said they were investigating the gunman on suspicion of "aggravated manslaughter".
  
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• Two people killed as Storm Callum brings floods to UK

  14-10-2018 17:48
  Large swathes of Wales and England are mopping up after more than a month’s rain fell within a few hours as Storm Callum swept across the UK.Two people were killed, one man as he was engulfed by a landslip and a second after entering the sea off Brighton.The contrast in weekend weather across the UK was also extraordinary.
  
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• Number of supervised offenders charged with violent crimes rises 21%

  14-10-2018 17:43
  There were 627 serious further offence (SFO) reviews conducted in2017-18, a freedom of information request response disclosed, a 21% rise on the 517 in the previous 12-month period.SFO reviews are triggered when an offender under statutory probation supervision is charged with murder, manslaughter, rape or other serious violent or sexual offences.Among high-profile SFO reviews conducted in the 2017-18 period was the case of Simon Mellors, from Nottingham, who killed his ex-girlfriend, Janet Scot
  
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• 'It's a deliberate cock-up!' Brexiteer claims May's 'APPALLING' Brexit is to keep UK IN EU

  14-10-2018 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  CONSERVATIVE Brexiteer Andrew Bridgen claimed Theresa May's Brexit strategy could be a "deliberate cock-up" aimed at keeping the UK shackled to the European Union dismissing Britons will to leave the Brussels bloc.
  
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• Emily Thornberry blasted for Labour's 'silly' Brexit tests designed to get Corbyn in power

  14-10-2018 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  EMILY Thornberry was challenged on Labour's six Brexit tests which were branded as "silly" requirements aimed to trigger a general election.
  
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• With May under pressure, Brexit diplomacy steps up in Brussels

  14-10-2018 17:24
  BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - British Brexit minister Dominic Raab will hold talks with the EU's chief negotiator on Sunday, the first in a flurry of formal meetings in Brussels where officials are trying to hammer out agreement on the terms of a divorce deal.With less than six months until Brexit day and Prime Minister Theresa May due in Brussels for a summit on Wednesday, both sides are holding intensive talks to try to seal an agreement ending Britain's more than 40 years in the European Union.
  
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• Barry Gardiner branded 'UNREALISTIC' as Labour customs union alternative rubbished

  14-10-2018 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  LABOUR frontbencher Barry Gardiner was shut down by John Pienaar as the BBC radio host dismissed Labour's post-Brexit alternative to the EU's customs union as "unrealistic".
  
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• Somalian whose deportation was blocked by furious plane passengers was gang rapist

  14-10-2018 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  A SOMALIAN whose deportation was halted by passengers on a plane is a convicted gang rapist, it has been reported.
  
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• Red Arrows’ longest serving pilot retires: Falklands pilot steps down after 2500 flights

  14-10-2018 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  The longest-serving Red Arrows pilot ever - who flew the Tornado F3 over the Falklands and for the Queen in this year's RAF 100 celebrations - has retired.
  
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• Liverpool shooting: CCTV image shows cyclist wanted over murder of Carl Russell

  14-10-2018 17:07
  Police have issued an image of a cyclist wanted after the murder of a man who was gunned down in front of his girlfriend in Liverpool.Carl Russell, 27, was shot dead a week ago in the Belle Vale area of the city as he and his partner got out of a car.It was later revealed Mr Russell was a prisoner on day release from HMP Thorn Cross, a category D open jail in Warrington.
  
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• A14 traffic latest: Road closed near Rougham, as teen killed in crash with police car

  14-10-2018 16:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  A TEENAGER was killed in a horror crash involving a police car and an ambulance in the early hours of Sunday morning.
  
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• UK Brexit minister to hold talks with EU - source

  14-10-2018 16:42
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - British Brexit minister Dominic Raab will hold talks with the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, in Brussels later on Sunday, a diplomatic source said.
  
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• Brexit talks explained: why now is a crucial moment in negotiations

  14-10-2018 16:34
  Why is now a key moment in the Brexit negotiations?Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, said last month in Salzburg that he would need to see maximum progress on the problem of agreeing an all-weather “backstop” solution for avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland by the time of the leaders’ summit starting in Brussels on Wednesday.The EU’s backstop proposal was that Northern Ireland would in effect stay in the single market and the customs union wh
  
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• Brexit talks explained: breaking down the latest developments

  14-10-2018 16:34
  Why is now a key moment in the Brexit negotiations?Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, said last month in Salzburg that he would need to see maximum progress on the problem of agreeing an all-weather “backstop” solution for avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland by the time of the leaders’ summit starting in Brussels on Wednesday.
  
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• Storm Callum: First victim named as landslide kills near Carmarthen, Wales

  14-10-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  STORM Callum has claimed its first victim after killing a 21-year-old bus passenger Corey Sharpling in Carmarthen, Wales.
  
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• Saturday Night Live Reveals What Trump Was Really Thinking When Kanye West Called By

  14-10-2018 16:22
  This week Kanye West proved you can still be surprised with what comes out of
  
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• 'Local welfare' schemes in England on brink of collapse, says report

  14-10-2018 16:20
  Universal credit claimants facing hardship are routinely directed to local welfare schemes by DWP helplines.A survey of more than 150 council-run schemes by Church Action on Poverty found that nearly a quarter had been shut down since 2013, while a further quarter have reduced spending by 85% or more.Huge cuts to council budgets have left the system, which replaced the old social fund, struggling to survive.
  
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• Ireland 'cannot accept' Brexit backstop time limit

  14-10-2018 15:50
  reland's deputy PM and foreign minister Simon Coveney directly contradicts the UK government's stance on the Irish border issue.
  
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• British restaurant owner, 34, shot dead by hunter while cycling in French Alps

  14-10-2018 15:49
  A British man has been shot dead by a hunter while cycling in the French Alps.The 34-year-old restaurant owner, whose name has not been released, was riding a mountain bike when he was shot on Saturday evening.Prosecutors in France said they were treating the case as "aggravated manslaughter".
  
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• Former minister calls on UK cabinet to make May change mind on Brexit

  14-10-2018 15:46
  Critics of Theresa May's plans for leaving the European Union stepped up the pressure on the British prime minister on Sunday, with one former minister saying her cabinet team should exert its authority to force her to change course.With less than six months until Brexit day and with May due in Brussels for a summit on Wednesday, both sides are holding intensive talks to try to seal an agreement on the terms of Britain's divorce.Brexit minister Dominic Raab was due to meet the EU's chief negotia
  
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