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• Rees-Mogg warns May's Cabinet 'concerned' over NOT being involved in Brexit decisions

  07-11-2018 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  JACOB Rees-Mogg claimed there are growing concerns amongst members of Theresa May's Cabinet over their limited involvement in any decision the Prime Minister takes on Brexit.
  
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• NHS is increasing fridge capacity to STOCKPILE medicines in case of no-deal Brexit

  07-11-2018 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed the Government is increasing refrigerator capacity for medicines in anticipation of a no-deal Brexit.
  
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• Home Secretary urges Met to use full powers to combat stabbings

  07-11-2018 23:00
  Sajid Javid acknowledged that it was a national issue, while recognising the particular challenge in London.
  
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• 'EU is NOT world leader!' Dominic Raab attacks Brussels over data protection laws

  07-11-2018 22:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXIT Secretary Dominic Raab argued the European Union is not the “world leading protector of data”, while also discussing how the UK will maintain data protection standards.
  
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• 'A woman's place is in elected office', Theresa May tells politicians

  07-11-2018 22:00
  Theresa May told a gathering of female politicians from around the world that “a woman’s place is in elected office” as she urged them to work together to make sure their voices were heard.As she welcomed more than 100 women MPs to Downing Street ahead of a landmark event to celebrate the centenary of women’s suffrage in the UK, she told the politicians, from 86 places across the world, from Afghanistan to the Vatican, about the progress already made.It means a greater fo
  
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• Son releases picture of dad, 98, fighting for life in hospital after 'BRUTAL' attack

  07-11-2018 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE son of a vulnerable 98-year-old pensioner fighting for his life in hospital after being brutally attacked and robbed at his own London home is “lost for words at man’s inhumanity to man” as he releases a shocking image of his father's injuries.
  
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• Parents of Pret allergy victim say supermarket labelling ‘not good enough’

  07-11-2018 21:34
  Nadim and Tanya Ednan-Laperouse told BBC Watchdog that supermarkets failing to give allergen reliable information angers them
  
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• May's crunch cabinet meeting over Brexit deal delayed amid row

  07-11-2018 21:32
  It is understood that the prime minister, Theresa May, was hoping to sign off her Brexit plan on Thursday.A crucial cabinet meeting to agree the UK’s Brexit negotiating position has been pushed back from Thursday to the weekend or early next week amid a row over whether to provide the full legal advice on the backstop to senior ministers.Some ministers had believed the cabinet could have met late on Thursday afternoon to sign off Theresa May’s Brexit plan but No 10 indicated that the
  
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• Samsung unveils foldable phone with Infinity Flex Display

  07-11-2018 21:25
  The new device has two screens, including a folding AMOLED display that can be opened out from within the phone.
  
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• Fianna Fail senator stripped of role after Northern Ireland ‘candidate launch’

  07-11-2018 21:19
  A statement from Fianna Fail said the party leader had reassigned a number of responsibilities in the party’s Seanad Eireann team.
  
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• Helicopter safety checks ordered after Leicester City death crash

  07-11-2018 20:57
  The European Aviation Safety Agency has issued an emergency Airworthiness Directive following the accident.
  
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• BBC reporter left red-faced after awkward gaffe during Brexit interview with Tory MP

  07-11-2018 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  BBC reporter Alex Forsyth was left red-faced after she stumbled over Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski's name as she introduced him to viewers during a Brexit interview.
  
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• Murder probe launched after man found dead on footpath

  07-11-2018 20:37
  The body of Darren Sinclair was found in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow on Tuesday.
  
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• Momentum to examine US Senate race for tips for Labour campaigns

  07-11-2018 20:35
  The Labour party grassroots campaign group Momentum wants to study the Texas Senate race which saw the Democratic candidate come close to winning in a state where the Republicans were seen as so dominant that it was not worth a serious contest.The early belief is that Labour’s ground operation could learn from Beto O’Rourke’s campaign against the incumbent Ted Cruz, which relied heavily on a year-long campaign in which the Democratic party recruited volunteers in areas previous
  
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• Excited Spice Girls say reunion tour will feel strange without 'Posh'

  07-11-2018 20:24
  British pop band the Spice Girls joked on Wednesday about their plans for a new album after announcing they would reunite for a UK tour next year but said it would feel strange performing without "Posh Spice" Victoria Beckham.Fashion designer Beckham posted on Instagram on Monday that she wouldn't join the other four Spice Girls on stage again, but wished Geri Horner (Ginger Spice), Melanie Brown (Scary Spice), Melanie Chisholm (Sporty Spice) and Emma Bunton (Baby Spice) well for their six-date
  
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• Stabbed man fighting for life after five die in London street attacks in a week

  07-11-2018 20:13
  Two men have been stabbed in daylight on London's streets - after five others died from knife attacks in the capital within a week.Police were called just after midday to reports of a stabbing on Willow Vale in Shepherd's Bush, west London.The man was taken to hospital in an Air Ambulance in a serious condition.
  
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• Scotland Yard Christmas tree appeal launched

  07-11-2018 20:10
  The Metropolitan Police’s annual appeal asks Londoners to give gifts to less fortunate children across the capital.
  
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• Esther McVey's Universal Credit Claim Sparks Twitter Row With Mental Health Charity Mind

  07-11-2018 20:09
  Leading mental health charity Mind has slammed claims by Esther McVey that it
  
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• Brexit plan to rebuild British High Street REVEALED

  07-11-2018 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  STEPS to "re-invent" and celebrate Britain's high streets and wider communities to build a "stronger, fairer" post-Brexit Britain were unveiled today by the Government.
  
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• 'Remember their sacrifice' Hammond unveils £19billion fund to support forces

  07-11-2018 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  MORE details of a £19billion package to refurbish village and miners' halls, fund battlefield tours for school children and give extra support to serving and ex-service personnel were unveiled today by Chancellor Philip Hammond.
  
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• Arlene Foster blasts Sinn Fein’s ‘hysterical’ response to John Downey’s arrest

  07-11-2018 19:41
  The DUP leader heavily criticised the republican party after a number of senior figures condemned the arrest.
  
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• Volunteering can help to combat loneliness, but is it truly an illness?

  07-11-2018 19:24
  ‘Volunteers can pick up patients and take them to appointments, explain treatments and provide companionship,’ writes Thomas Hughes-Hallett.Maximising volunteering in the NHS is a crucial way to help combat the loneliness that Fay Bound Alberti highlights (Loneliness is an illness of the body – as well as the mind, 1 November).Volunteer support for hospital patients at mealtimes leaves patients feeling more satisfied and helps improve their nutrition and hydration.
  
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• Knife crime epidemic should surprise no one

  07-11-2018 19:24
  Young man holding a knife. ‘What chance does anyone have of feeling safe on the streets of London, especially if they’re young and male?’ asks Tammy Boydell.Later, it was disconcerting to overhear PCSOs, patrolling locally, say that they would avoid the school because it got “really nasty round there”.
  
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• Higher education reform is our priority

  07-11-2018 19:24
  The fact is we have a huge skills deficit in our country, with the manufacturers organisation, the EEF, warning that almost three-quarters of businesses are concerned about finding workers with the skills they need.On social justice, we are determined to reverse the decline of people from disadvantaged areas going to university, with the number falling by 15% each year since 2011.There should be more flexible learning to encourage part-timers and an end to the rigid structure of three-year degre
  
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• Antibiotic resistant superbugs 'will kill 90,000 Britons by 2050'

  07-11-2018 19:15
  The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimates resistant infections could kill about 2.4 million people in Europe, North America and Australia by 2050 unless more is done to tackle the problem, which it describes as “one of the biggest threats to modern medicine”.Simple hygiene measures such as hand washing and more conservative prescribing of antibiotics could prevent some of the deaths, the authors said.There are growing concerns about the increasing nu
  
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• Some GPs ‘have lost faith in Irish health minister over abortion’

  07-11-2018 19:14
  Some 640 general practitioners signed a petition raising concerns over the Irish government’s plan to press ahead with a GP-led abortion service.
  
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• UK government must show MPs legal advice on Irish backstop - Labour

  07-11-2018 19:03
  The British government must show MPs the full legal advice it has received on the so-called Irish backstop before they are asked to vote on any Brexit agreement, the opposition Labour Party said on Wednesday.Disagreements over the backstop, an insurance policy to avoid a hard border between British-ruled Northern Ireland and EU member state Ireland, remain the key stumbling block to reaching an exit deal with the European Union.London wants the backstop to have a clear end date or exit mechanism
  
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• Sinn Fein mayors not taking part in Remembrance Sunday events

  07-11-2018 19:01
  The party’s mayors will not be laying wreaths in individual one-off ceremonies before the events begin either.
  
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• Holyrood backing of a People’s Vote on Brexit deal hailed as ‘momentous’

  07-11-2018 18:50
  Two Labour MSPs defied the whip to join the Greens and all but one of the SNP in backing the Lib Dem call for a referendum on the final agreement.
  
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• BREXIT FEUD: Labour MEP and Ukip leader CLASH 'I have NO NEED to keep nose in Euro TROUGH'

  07-11-2018 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  A BITTER Brexit feud broke out on the European Union Parliament’s internal email system as British MEPs sniped at their rivals employability in a bizarre altercation over the possible extension of Article 50.
  
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• Installation of shrouded figures honours fallen soldiers of the Somme

  07-11-2018 18:36
  The 72,396 figures are laid out on an area about the size of a football pitch at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
  
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• Dead Brothel Owner Wins Nevada Election

  07-11-2018 18:35
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• Arron Banks dropped from BBC Question Time panel

  07-11-2018 18:34
  Banks is under investigation over multiple criminal allegations in relation to his leave campaign.Businessman and Brexit campaigner Arron Banks has been removed from the panel of next week’s BBC Question Time following a furore over his interview on the Andrew Marr show.The National Crime Agency is investigating allegations of multiple criminal offences by Banks and his unofficial leave campaign in the EU referendum.
  
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• Andy Burnham criticises 'mounting chaos' of UK's asylum system

  07-11-2018 18:34
  Theresa May’s local authority of Windsor and Maidenhead has no asylum seekers at all.Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, has become the latest leader to threaten to stop housing new asylum seekers as the government came under pressure to listen to the concerns of northern communities.
  
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• Children most likely to be stabbed on the way home from school

  07-11-2018 18:30
  A report suggests children are most at risk of being stabbed on their way home from school, between the times of 4-6pm.
  
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• Scottish MP ‘astonished’ to be classed as English taxpayer

  07-11-2018 18:28
  Patricia Gibson, who represents North Ayrshire and Arran, said HMRC had told her it was an ‘error’.
  
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• Home-made poppies go on show as residents join forces for Armistice Day

  07-11-2018 18:22
  Towns across the country have been covered in decorations ahead of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
  
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• Emma Thompson Receives Damehood

  07-11-2018 18:21
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• Scottish Parliament backs People’s Vote on final Brexit deal

  07-11-2018 18:18
  The SNP and Greens backed the Lib Dems in the face of Conservative opposition and 21 MSPs abstained.
  
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• Katie Price clothing brand set to close with just £13 in bank

  07-11-2018 18:09
  The reality television star launched the business, now known as KP Boutique, in 2016.
  
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• David Cameron Spotted In Westminster, Says He 'Fully Supports' Theresa May

  07-11-2018 17:47
  David Cameron has said he fully supports Theresa May following reports he was
  
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• 15 migrant children found in refrigerated lorry at UK port

  07-11-2018 17:42
  Thought to be from Vietnam, the group were found at the Port of Newhaven in Sussex on Thursday.
  
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• Theresa May facing growing calls to publish legal advice on Brexit deal

  07-11-2018 17:34
  Theresa May is coming under increasing pressure to publish the government's legal advice on a possible Brexit deal.The prime minister is facing calls to make public the guidance given to her by Attorney General Geoffrey Cox QC on potential post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland.As Mrs May works to achieve a breakthrough in negotiations with the EU - currently still deadlocked on the Irish border issue - a growing number of MPs are demanding to see the legal assessment of any agreement bef
  
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• Plaque marks Beatles’ only Irish concerts

  07-11-2018 17:34
  Dublin was gripped by Beatlemania back in November 1963 when The Beatles performed their only two concerts in the heart of the city.
  
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• Facebook delays roll-out of UK political advertiser checks

  07-11-2018 17:34
  Facebook has delayed plans to introduce checks on verifying the identities of political advertisers as part of an initiative to tackle election interference.In April, Facebook's chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer told MPs that new measures to boost transparency on the social network would be introduced in the UK.
  
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• Ex-PM David Cameron tells Sky News he 'fully supports' Theresa May

  07-11-2018 17:34
  Former prime minister David Cameron has told Sky News he is in full support of Theresa May as she battles to get a Brexit deal.Spotted walking past 10 Downing Street on Wednesday, the ex-Tory leader denied he was in Westminster to advise his successor.After quitting as both prime minister and an MP when he lost the EU referendum in 2016, Mr Cameron signed a £800,000 contract with publishers William Collins to pen his memoirs.
  
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• Excited Spice Girls say reunion tour will feel strange without "Posh"

  07-11-2018 17:31
  British pop band the Spice Girls joked on Wednesday about their plans for a new album after announcing they would reunite for a UK tour next year but said it would feel strange performing without "Posh Spice" Victoria Beckham.Fashion designer Beckham posted on Instagram on Monday that she wouldn't join the other four Spice Girls on stage again, but wished Geri Horner (Ginger Spice), Melanie Brown (Scary Spice), Melanie Chisholm (Sporty Spice) and Emma Bunton (Baby Spice) well for their six-date
  
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• May under pressure from all sides over Brexit legal advice

  07-11-2018 17:30
  The Prime Minister faced calls to publish legal advice on the backstop.
  
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• In Video: Thousands of figures honour soldiers killed at Somme

  07-11-2018 17:30
  Artist Rob Heard has spent five years on the project.
  
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• Fake diet pills duo ordered to hand over more than £820,000

  07-11-2018 17:20
  A confiscation order was made against Helen Buchan and Carol Wiseman at Peterhead Sheriff Court.
  
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