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• Republican smears Essex village in campaign ad supporting Trump

  31-10-2018 23:27
  An American politician has been forced to apologise for using an unflattering image of an Essex village to warn voters about the consequences of not supporting Donald Trump.Republican Nick Stella's Facebook page posted a bleak picture of Jaywick Sands showing unpaved roads and dilapidated homes ahead of the US midterm elections on Tuesday.The page now appears to have been deleted from Facebook after Essex residents expressed their anger over the post.
  
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• US attacks UK plan for digital services tax on tech giants

  31-10-2018 23:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Plans to impose a new tax on tech giants risk US retaliation and could hurt trade relations.
  
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• May seeks to reassure business on Brexit progress

  31-10-2018 22:45
  Prime Minister Theresa May appeared assured when she met business leaders on Wednesday, attendees of the meeting said, and sounded confident on prospects for striking a Brexit deal despite concern that Britain might leave the European Union without one.May and Chancellor Philip Hammond met around 150 executives to discuss Britain's departure from the world's biggest trading bloc and this week's annual budget, which included spending pledges and higher taxes on technology firms.Serco CEO Rupert S
  
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• Can football clubs help stop prisoners reoffending?

  31-10-2018 22:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Can pairing up every professional club with a local prison help cut reoffending rates?
  
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• Brexit Secretary under fire after indicating he expects a deal in three weeks

  31-10-2018 22:11
  Dominic Raab was accused of a U-turn after his department later insisted there was no ‘set date’.
  
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• Raab backtracks hours after hinting Brexit deal just weeks away

  31-10-2018 21:56
  The Brexit secretary appeared to suggest a completion timeframe for the UK-EU negotiations.Dominic Raab has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown after appearing to suggest that the UK’s increasingly fraught Brexit negotiations with the EU could be completed in three weeks’ time.The Brexit secretary admitted there was “no set date for the negotiations to conclude” three hours after a letter he had sent to a select committee was released in which he said he was happy
  
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• Police chief: officers shouldn't have to log misogyny complaints

  31-10-2018 21:56
  A senior police chief has said officers should not have to deal with reports of misogyny and it should not be a criminal offence, calling for them to focus instead on “core policing”.Sara Thornton, the chair of the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), told her organisation’s annual conference that while recording complaints of misogynist abuse might be desirable, police did not have the time or resources.Thornton said the funding crisis meant police chiefs should focus on cor
  
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• Guardian beats rivals in study to be named UK's most trusted newspaper

  31-10-2018 21:35
  The Guardian is the most trusted newspaper brand in the UK, a study by a non-partisan media research organisation has found.The research, conducted by the US-based Pew Research Centre, found the Guardian was particularly trusted among readers aged 18 to 29.The pan-European study looked at a number of news outlets in a bid “to capture the scope and variety of the news media landscape in each country”.
  
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• Britain says no date set for end of Brexit talks after Raab hints at November deal

  31-10-2018 21:30
  Britain on Wednesday said there was no set date for Brexit talks to finish, backtracking from a letter by Brexit secretary Dominic Raab that suggested a deal on the terms of its departure from the European Union could be finalised by Nov. 21.Raab had said that a Brexit deal was firmly in sight and should be agreed by that date in a week-old letter to a lawmaker that was published on Wednesday, briefly sending sterling sharply higher."There is no set date for the (EU) negotiations to conclude," a
  
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• US politician ‘did not intend to smear’ Essex village in campaign ad

  31-10-2018 21:27
  Faded seaside village Jaywick Sands was the most deprived neighbourhood in England in 2015.
  
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• Tottenham Hotspur: Why Spurs must solve new stadium issues

  31-10-2018 21:26 via bbc.co.uk
  A stressful stadium move is causing unease at Tottenham but with rising costs and other issues at play, getting it wrong could have far-reaching consequences for the club, writes Simon Stone.
  
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• Hunt: Brexit deal by November 21 entirely possible

  31-10-2018 21:21
  Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Wednesday it was entirely possible that there could be enough progress in Brexit talks for a deal with the European Union to be agreed by Nov.21.Brexit minister Dominic Raab said earlier in a letter to a lawmaker that he expected a deal to be finalised by Nov. 21, but his department said on Wednesday that there was no set date for EU negotiations to end."I think it is entirely possible that we could make enough progress by then," Hunt said in response to a q
  
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• May, Hammond batted away business requests for more investment - executive

  31-10-2018 21:17
  Prime Minister Theresa May and Chancellor Philip Hammond batted away on Wednesday requests from business leadersfor special treatment due to Brexit, a senior executive told Reuters.One of the business leaders attending a meeting with May and Hammond had requested more subsidies given the uncertainty surrounding Britain's departure from the European Union, said the executive, who declined to be named.
  
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• Joined-up approach needed for leaving the EU, says fishing organisation

  31-10-2018 21:00
  The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation believe an exit from the Common Fisheries Policy could have great benefits.
  
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• Part of police station closed after disturbance

  31-10-2018 20:35
  The incident saw windows damaged.
  
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• May gave robust update to business, admitted Brexit investment difficulties - Serco CEO

  31-10-2018 20:27
  Prime Minister Theresa May was robust in giving a pragmatic assessment of Brexit talks to executives on Wednesday but admitted there was little she could do to spur investment while uncertainty remained, Serco CEO Rupert Soames said.Soames told Reuters that May and Chancellor Philip Hammond gave a "reassuringly robust performance" to business leaders, adding that it was "helpful to have practical recognition that the uncertainty is causing investment to slow down" and that there was "not a lot"
  
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• Metro.co.uk paid MP £20,000 after false homophobia claims

  31-10-2018 20:26
  Metro.co.uk also offered Gavin Shuker its unreserved apologies for the opinion piece.The Labour MP Gavin Shuker has received £20,000 in damages from Metro.co.uk after it falsely accused him of being homophobic and promoting abortion.The payment, disclosed in the latest register of member’s interests, related to a Metro opinion piece published earlier this year entitled “We need to stop attaching morals to sex work – it can be fatal” which defended sex work and criti
  
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• Christmas train trouble ahead as engineering works hit railways

  31-10-2018 20:25
  People hoping to use Britain's railways to be with their families for Christmas will face major disruptions due to engineering works.
  
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• May told executives Britain to be 'unequivocally' pro-business - May's office

  31-10-2018 20:23
  Prime Minister Theresa May told 150 business leaders that her government would be "unequivocally pro-business", May's office said on Wednesday, after criticism from some quarters that business had slipped as a priority in Brexit talks."She set out that the government would work to build a Britain that would be unequivocally pro-business," May's office said in a statement after addressing the chairs and chief executives, adding that she had also updated them on the progress of Brexit talks withou
  
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• Duchess Kate sees letters of relatives killed in WW1

  31-10-2018 20:20
  Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, was shown poignant letters and documents on Wednesday relating to three of her relatives who fought and died during World War One.The duchess's great-great-grandfather, Francis Martineau Lupton had five children, three of whom - Francis, Maurice and Lionel - were killed in the war.Ahead of the centenary of the end of the conflict, Kate, wife of Queen Elizabeth's grandson Prince William, was shown documents in the Imperial War Museum's archive including letters the
  
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• Labour expected to seek Budget amendments to increase tax on high earners

  31-10-2018 20:06
  The move follows divisions in Labour over not opposing middle class tax cuts.
  
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• UK Brexit ministry says no set date for EU negotiations to end

  31-10-2018 20:01
  Britain's Brexit ministry said on Wednesday that there was no set date for Brexit talks to end and Nov. 21 was simply the date MPs proposed Brexit secretary Dominic Raab should appear before a Brexit committee."There is no set date for the (EU) negotiations to conclude," a ministry spokesperson said in a statement after Raab's letter to the Chair of parliament's Committee on Exiting the European Union was published.
  
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• Channel 4's Leeds move will boost already thriving local screen industry

  31-10-2018 20:01
  The Yorkshire city had been seen as the third choice behind Birmingham and Manchester.In the race to host Channel 4’s new regional headquarters, Birmingham and Manchester were always seen as the frontrunners.On Wednesday morning Ladbrokes had Birmingham as the favourite with odds of 11/10 and Manchester in second place on 9/4.
  
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• Queen sends condolences to Indonesia following plane disaster

  31-10-2018 19:37
  All 189 people on board were killed in the incident.
  
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• Britain should get divorce deal with EU done by Nov. 21 - Raab

  31-10-2018 19:36
  A Brexit deal is now firmly in sight and should be finalised by Nov. 21, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said in a week-old letter to a lawmaker that was published on Wednesday and briefly sent sterling sharply higher.With just five months until Britain is due to exit the European Union, little is clear: Prime Minister Theresa May has yet to clinch a divorce deal and rebels in her Conservative party - both eurosceptic and pro-EU - have threatened to vote down any deal she does make.Raab, in a lett
  
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• Suzy Lamplugh: police dig up patio of house linked to suspect

  31-10-2018 19:33
  A police forensics team turn their attention to a patio area after digging up the garden and garage floor at the house in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.Police examining a back garden in connection with the murder of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh have extended their searches to the patio area.On Tuesday forensic teams began digging up the garden and taking up the concrete floor of the garage at a home previously owned by the mother of the prime suspect, John Cannan.
  
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• Hunt: Kremlin has paid a high price for Novichok attack

  31-10-2018 19:30
  Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Russia had engaged in a campaign to ‘destabilise the international order’.
  
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• Psychoactive drugs not being detected – prison watchdog

  31-10-2018 19:15
  The Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs), the independent oversight bodies for Northern Ireland’s three prisons, published their annual assessment.
  
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• Labour seeks budget change to increase tax on top 5% of earners

  31-10-2018 19:12
  Shadow chancellor John McDonnell is expected to sign an amendment outlining an alternative tax plan.Labour is to propose an amendment to the budget in an attempt to clarify its stance on the government’s tax cuts for higher earners and to defuse a row within its own party.While the change stands virtually no chance of being passed, it is being used as a way to re-state Labour’s tax policy following dissent over the party’s position on the proposed increase to the higher-rate ta
  
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• Anglo-Irish relations discussed at Intergovernmental Conference

  31-10-2018 19:11
  Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster has previously dismissed the conference as a ‘talking shop’.
  
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• Carausius and the 50p Brexit coin

  31-10-2018 19:08
  Boris Johnson. Comparisons between the former foreign secretary and the rebel Roman emperor Carausius are wide of the mark, writes Guy de la Bédoyère. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images
  
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• It’s time for Greenham Common: the movie

  31-10-2018 19:07
  Women protesters line the fence at Greenham Common air base. Photograph: PA
  
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• Spinal implant helps paralysed patients walk again

  31-10-2018 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists develop an implant that can enable paralysed patients to walk again temporarily.
  
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• First Minister meets organisers of world peace concert for Armistice

  31-10-2018 19:01
  The main event will be at the site of a former hospital which treated First World War poet Wilfred Owen.
  
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• Parkinson’s disease could originate in appendix, study finds

  31-10-2018 19:00
  Parkinson’s disease could originate in the appendix, according to one of the largest studies of the neurodegenerative illness.The analysis of health records of more than 1 million individuals in Sweden found that having the appendix removed early in life is linked to a 19% reduced risk of developing Parkinson’s disease.The findings are the latest to implicate the gut and immune system in the genesis of the disease, in which the loss of neurons in a brain area that controls movement l
  
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• Five countries hold 70% of world's last wildernesses, map reveals

  31-10-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  First map of Earth’s intact ecosystems shows just five nations are responsible for most of them – but it will require global action to protect themJust five countries hold 70% of the world’s remaining untouched wilderness areas and urgent international action is needed to protect them, according to new research.Researchers from the University of Queensland (UQ) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have for the first time produced a global map that sets out which countrie
  
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• Bird eggshell colours evolved from dinosaurs, scientists find

  31-10-2018 19:00
  Camouflaging colours emerged to help protect vulnerable offspring from predators.
  
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• Appendix removal ‘could reduce Parkinson’s risk’

  31-10-2018 19:00
  A study of a million people identified a 20% reduction for those who had the organ removed.
  
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• Home Office letter contradicts 'extra £160m' for counter-terrorism policing

  31-10-2018 18:58
  The funds allocated to counter-terrorism policing this year have been exaggerated, says Louise Haigh, Labour’s spokesperson.The chancellor has been accused of exaggerating an increase in the amount of funding for counter-terrorism policing, after a leaked letter from a security official said the year-on-year rise was £59m rather than the £160m announced in the budget.Philip Hammond, whose budget speech included an announcement of extra funds for counter-terrorism, said on Monda
  
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• Counter-terror police disagree with 'extra £160m' announcement

  31-10-2018 18:58
  Philip Hammond’s budget speech contained the announcement of extra funds for counter-terrorism.The chancellor has been accused of exaggerating increased funding for counter-terrorism policing, after a leaked letter from a security official said the actual year-on-year increase was £59m rather than the £160m announced in the budget.
  
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• Two bodies found in suspicious death investigation

  31-10-2018 18:52
  Police Scotland could not confirm reports it was a suspected murder-suicide.
  
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• Search for missing mother extended to woodland near Bluewater Shopping Centre

  31-10-2018 18:39
  The disappearance of Sarah Wellgreen is being treated as potential murder by Kent Police.
  
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• Private nurseries being ‘swept aside’, say Tories

  31-10-2018 18:35
  The party used its debating time at Holyrood to raise concerns around ministers’ flagship childcare expansion.
  
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• Suzy Lamplugh: We want to bury her where we choose

  31-10-2018 18:34
  The brother of murdered estate agent Suzy Lamplugh has said the family want to bury her in a place of their choosing.Ms Lamplugh has not been seen since 1986 but in 1994 police said they believed she had been murdered.Richard Lamplugh's words come as detectives spent a third day excavating a property in the West Midlands where the mother of John Cannan, the prime suspect in the presumed murder of Ms Lamplugh, used to live.
  
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• Corbyn and Maybot, the love story, as revealed in peculiar interpretive dance

  31-10-2018 18:30
  Theresa May gratefully accepted Jeremy Corbyn’s largesse during prime minister’s questions in the Commons.Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn may have their ideological differences, but they have become emotionally inseparable.You’d have thought May’s claims that austerity was coming to an end would have presented Corbyn with an easy target at prime minister’s questions after the chancellor’s budget had delivered no extra money for schools or prisons.
  
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• Boris Johnson Bonfire Effigy To Be Burned

  31-10-2018 18:29
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• Jeremy Corbyn Promises To End Tory Benefits Freeze And Give Claimants Rises In Line With Inflation

  31-10-2018 18:22
  Jeremy Corbyn has toughened Labour's opposition to Tory welfare cuts with a
  
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• Scottish GDP growth larger than UK, figures confirm

  31-10-2018 18:18
  Finance Secretary Derek Mackay said a report suggests even better results over the coming years.
  
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• RAF Typhoon jets scrambled to intercept Russian planes in UK airspace

  31-10-2018 18:14
  British fighter jets have been scrambled after to intercept Russian military aircraft which had flown near UK airspace.The Ministry of Defence confirmed that Typhoon fighters were launched on Wednesday in response to the incident.A spokesman said: "Typhoon fighters were scrambled today as a precautionary measure against a potential incursion into UK area of interest by one or more unidentified aircraft.
  
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• Children ‘Think They Won’t Get Mental Health Help Unless They Attempt Suicide’

  31-10-2018 18:14
  Suicidal children believe they will not be able to get mental health support
  
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