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• May sets up business councils to advise on post-Brexit policy

  06-11-2018 23:49
  Prime Minister Theresa May has created five new business councils to advise on issues facing core sectors of the economy as Britain leaves the European Union, her office said on Tuesday.With less than five months before Britain is due to quit the bloc and no exit deal yet agreed, business leaders have been demanding greater certainty over the kind of trade terms the divorce will deliver.Last week, May and Chancellor Philip Hammond met around 150 executives to discuss their concerns about Britain
  
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• Man, 98, fighting for life after attack in his London home

  06-11-2018 23:47
  A 98-year-old man has been left fighting for his life after being attacked by robbers in his own home, Metropolitan police have said.Detectives were called to the house in Bounds Green, north London, shortly after 10am on Tuesday and found the man suffering serious injuries.The level of violence used was completely excessive,” said DI Paul Ridley, who is leading the investigation.
  
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• 'Off The Charts' Response As Babysitting Job Offers All Expenses Paid Trip To Bahamas At Christmas

  06-11-2018 23:19
  It's the ultimate babysitting gig: an all expenses paid trip to the Bahamas to
  
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• Labour's Hilary Benn fights back tears during Armistice tribute in Commons

  06-11-2018 23:16
  A senior Labour MP's voice broke with emotion as he spoke in the House of Commons about two British soldiers who never came home from the First World War.In a debate marking the 100th anniversary of the end of hostilities, former cabinet minister Hilary Benn told MPs about his great uncle Oliver Williams Benn, as well as George Edwin Ellison - the last British soldier to be killed in action.In an emotional speech, Mr Benn revealed how "Oliver was little spoken of" in his family because he suspec
  
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• Grenfell Tower bonfire: Police search property

  06-11-2018 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  A video shared online shows a cardboard model of the tower being set alight by a laughing crowd.
  
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• Grenfell bonfire video: Six men released from custody

  06-11-2018 23:08
  Six men arrested over a video showing a model of Grenfell Tower being burned while people laughed and joked have been released.Scotland Yard has said the men, who were arrested on suspicion of a public order offence, have been freed from police custody but are still under investigation.The suspects - aged between 19 and 55 - had all handed themselves in at a police station on Monday and Tuesday over the offensive video, which was met with a public outcry after it emerged on social media.
  
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• Six men questioned over Grenfell bonfire investigation released

  06-11-2018 23:04
  Scotland Yard said the men, who were all arrested under the Public Order Act, were freed under investigation.
  
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• Red Star Belgrade 2-0 Liverpool: Reds suffer shock defeat in Serbia

  06-11-2018 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Liverpool suffer a shock in Serbia as two goals from Milan Pavkov give Red Star Belgrade victory in their Champions League group-stage match.
  
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• Ched Evans suing lawyers for lost earnings after rape conviction overturned

  06-11-2018 22:41
  The footballer battled for five years to clear his name after being jailed on rape charges that were later quashed in a retrial.
  
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• 98-year-old man fighting for life after attack and robbery at Enfield home

  06-11-2018 22:41
  Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward.
  
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• New Westminster bullying and harassment inquiries won't look at specific cases

  06-11-2018 22:27
  New inquiries into bullying and harassment at Westminster still won't investigate specific allegations.It was announced on Tuesday that a leading barrister will conduct an independent inquiry into the treatment of MPs' staff.Gemma White QC has been appointed to lead the work but - following the recommendation of the House of Commons back in July - she will not investigate specific allegations against individuals or reopen past cases.
  
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• Poppies: Why a paper flower divides opinion

  06-11-2018 22:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Why the famous red pin, created to remember the casualties of war, creates so much debate.
  
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• Lit firework 'put in homeless army veteran's coat by youths'

  06-11-2018 21:47 via bbc.co.uk
  It is one in a series of attacks involving fireworks that have been reported across the UK.
  
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• Three released after ex-cattle market blaze thought to be started by fireworks

  06-11-2018 21:16
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• Pressure On Jeremy Corbyn As Momentum Members Back Second Brexit Referendum

  06-11-2018 21:10
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn faces fresh pressure to get behind a second Brexit
  
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• Refuse worker dies in bin lorry collision

  06-11-2018 20:54
  Tributes were paid to John Winton, 51, who was also a part-time firefighter.
  
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• Police Scotland ‘inappropriately recorded’ allegations against officers

  06-11-2018 20:52
  The Police Investigations and Review Commission made the claim when giving evidence to MSPs on Holyrood’s Justice Committee.
  
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• PM office rejects BBC report on November Brexit timetable

  06-11-2018 20:31
  Britain wants a Brexit agreement by the end of November and Prime Minister Theresa May would give a speech on Nov. 19 saying she had delivered on the referendum with a deal which brings the country back together, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
  
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• Michelin ‘to consider Scottish Government proposals to prevent plant closure’

  06-11-2018 20:27
  Scotland’s Economy Secretary Derek Mackay updated MSPs after visiting Dundee on Tuesday.
  
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• Leaked plan to sell Brexit deal: 'Measured success is the narrative'

  06-11-2018 20:26
  Dominic Raab leaves a cabinet meeting.As a PR plan it is certainly ambitious, featuring endorsements from world leaders and an interview with Theresa May by David Dimbleby.Details of the plan, seen by the Guardian among others, lay out an apparent timetable for the month, from a cabinet meeting on Tuesday to a House of Commons vote on the deal it says will take place on 27 November.
  
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• Hyde Park bomb accused in court over soldier murders in Northern Ireland

  06-11-2018 20:19
  A man whose trial over the 1982 IRA bombing in London's Hyde Park collapsed has appeared in court on suspicion of murdering two soldiers in Northern Ireland in 1972.John Downey, 66, was arrested on Monday evening by Irish officers in County Donegal under a European Arrest Warrant as part of a joint operation with the Police Service of Northern Ireland.Downey is being held on suspicion of killing Lance Corporal Alfred Johnston, 32, and Private James Eames, 33, in County Fermanagh.
  
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• Sir Philip Green: Ex-employee faced 'barrage of abuse'

  06-11-2018 20:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Former staff at Arcadia say the tycoon was a bully who harassed staff and threw things at them.
  
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• Ched Evans To Sue Lawyers Over 'Lost Earnings' After Overturned Rape Conviction

  06-11-2018 20:08
  Footballer Ched Evans is to sue the lawyers who represented him in a 2012 rape
  
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• Royal British Legion helps ex-soldier Neil Preece's PTSD recovery

  06-11-2018 20:03 via bbc.co.uk
  Former soldier battles back from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Poppy Appeal support.
  
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• London stabbings: tributes paid to fifth victim in six days

  06-11-2018 19:58
  Tributes have been paid to a 16-year-old boy who died in front of his parents in the fifth fatal stabbing in London in six days.The death of the teenager, named locally as John, was the 119th violent death in London so far this year.Police were initially called to a street in Tulse Hill, south London, at 10.53pm on Monday to reports of a shooting.
  
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• Brexit: Cabinet aims for deal by end of November

  06-11-2018 19:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Notes seen by the BBC appear to detail how a deal could be presented to MPs and the public.
  
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• The Guardian view on school academies: cracks in the system

  06-11-2018 19:41
  The cracks in the English and Welsh school system are growing.While the number of children leaving schools when they are aged 15 or 16 is rising nationally (from less than 0.1% seven years ago to 2% this year), and some large local authorities have seen rises of 4-5%, academies are losing more pupils than other types of schools.Guardian research this summer showed that the majority of schools that issued more than 20% of pupils with a fixed-term exclusion in 2016-17 were also academies.
  
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• The Guardian view on academy schools: cracks in the system

  06-11-2018 19:41
  ‘Why it has been left to journalists and independent researchers to uncover the fact that schools are shedding pupils at such a rate?’ Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
  
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• DUP leader Foster says Dublin rhetoric could lead to no-deal

  06-11-2018 19:33
  BELFAST (Reuters) - The leader of the Northern Irish party propping up British Prime Minister Theresa May's government says the rhetoric surrounding the current Brexit negotiations suggests "we're heading towards a no-deal".
  
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• University of Northamptonshire investigates fireworks on campus

  06-11-2018 19:32 via bbc.co.uk
  People can be seen running from the explosions just feet above their heads in a public space.
  
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• Teenager 'murdered man with cricket bat as victim looked for stolen bikes'

  06-11-2018 19:32
  A teenager armed with a cricket bat crept up on a man and murdered him with a single blow to the head, a court heard.The 16-year-old boy - who cannot be named for legal reasons - is accused of killing Derek Whyteside as the 42-year-old searched for two stolen bikes on an estate in Telford on the afternoon of 18 June.Stafford Crown Court has heard how Mr Whyteside - who lived with his partner and her four children - was attacked by three people, one of whom was the youngster who struck him with t
  
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• German prosecutors search BlackRock in dividend-stripping inquiry -source

  06-11-2018 19:29
  Prosecutors searched the Munich offices of BlackRockon Tuesday, a person with knowledge of the matter said, as part of the country's largest post-war fraud investigation.The practice being investigated, known as cum-ex, typically involved trading company shares rapidly around a syndicate of banks, investors and hedge funds to create the impression of numerous owners, each of whom was entitled to a tax rebate.A BlackRock spokesman said the world's biggest fund manager was "fully cooperating with
  
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• No-deal Brexit prospect causing bureaucracy fears for dog day care centre owner

  06-11-2018 19:28
  Eimear Matthews, who lives on the Irish border, said she feared Brexit could have a major impact on her business.
  
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• Ched Evans suing his former lawyers over lost earnings after overturned rape conviction

  06-11-2018 19:23
  Footballer Ched Evans is suing the lawyers who represented him in a rape trial in an effort to recoup a potential fortune of millions in lost earnings.Evans spent two-and-a-half years in prison after being convicted of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room at the end a drunken night in north Wales in 2011, but a retrial in 2016 found him not guilty.Evans is now claiming he was badly advised by Brabners, the legal firm that defended him in the initial trial in 2012.
  
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• Hopes of Brexit deal but Theresa May tells cabinet not 'at any cost'

  06-11-2018 19:16
  Theresa May has told ministers she is confident of reaching a Brexit deal with the European Union, but stressed "this would not be done at any cost".The prime minister updated her cabinet on Tuesday about the progress of negotiations with Brussels, amid signs a divorce agreement could finally be in sight.Although Mrs May has stated 95% of the UK's withdrawal agreement is settled, the Irish border issue continues to prove a sticking point in exit talks.
  
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• Revealed: Leaked Draft Of PR Plan For May's Brexit Deal

  06-11-2018 19:12
  MPs will vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal on November 27, an email leaked to
  
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• In Video: Christmas comes early as Santas ride on the London Eye

  06-11-2018 19:10
  The dozen Father Christmases took a break from their Santa School classroom and got a good look at a possible flight path for their reindeer.
  
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• Hyde Park bomb accused remanded in custody over murder of UDR soldiers

  06-11-2018 19:03
  John Downey was detained by Irish gardai on Monday evening under a European Arrest Warrant.
  
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• Who Is Arron Banks?

  06-11-2018 19:00
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• Meat tax could save thousands of UK lives, say scientists

  06-11-2018 19:00
  Experts have called for a health tax on meat to prevent deaths from chronic disease and save the global economy billions of pound.
  
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• Sixth man arrested in Grenfell bonfire investigation

  06-11-2018 18:46
  A 19-year-old man has been detained in relation to the incident.
  
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• Big Brother's big influence on the world of TV

  06-11-2018 18:40 via bbc.co.uk
  After 18 years the reality show has come to an end but its influence on today's TV will still live on.
  
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• May hopes backstop review mechanism could break Brexit deadlock

  06-11-2018 18:36
  Mammoth Cabinet meeting did not reach final decision on UK’s preferred formula for withdrawal agreement.
  
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• Fiscal Phil’s fan club of one awards a gold star for the budget

  06-11-2018 18:35
  There was a time when you could rely on the government benches being almost full for Treasury questions.A chance for MPs to acquire some gravitas by appearing to look economically literate while showing their support for the chancellor.
  
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• UK police arrest six men over burning of Grenfell Tower effigy

  06-11-2018 18:31
  LONDON (Reuters) - British police have arrested six men after a video was posted on the internet that showed men mocking the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze by burning an effigy of the building as part of Guy Fawkes' Night celebrations.
  
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• Qatar agrees to buy London's Grosvenor House hotel - source

  06-11-2018 18:30
  A source with knowledge of the deal said the acquisition of Grosvenor House - located on Park Lane in London's swanky Mayfair district - had been agreed on Tuesday with the vendor, private U.S. real estate investment firm Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. The price was not disclosed.Ashkenazy Acquisition did not respond to a request for comment and nor did the Qatar Investment Authority, which is buying the hotel via its Katara Hospitality holding.Qatar has already bought of one of New York’s mo
  
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• Deaths in secure hospitals reviewed by government after Sky investigation

  06-11-2018 18:30
  The deaths of at least 40 people admitted to secure hospitals are being reviewed to "double-check" nothing was untoward, the government has announced.Care minister Caroline Dinenage told the House of Commons NHS England is reviewing the circumstances and investigation of each of the deaths.The review comes a week after Sky News revealed that at least 40 people with a learning disability or autism died while admitted to Assessment and Treatment Units (ATUs) since 2015.
  
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• Professor Campbell Gemmell to head air quality strategy review

  06-11-2018 18:28
  Campaigners have warned Scotland will not meet air quality targets unless further action is taken.
  
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• KFC chips: This woman's tweet may have helped change the recipe

  06-11-2018 18:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Charlie Burness's tweet is used by the fast food chain to announce it's updating its recipe.
  
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• Tax ‘gulf’ could hit public-sector jobs in Scotland, Tories claim

  06-11-2018 18:23
  New research by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre shows how much more income tax people could pay compared to in England.
  
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