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• Change Brexit course or face total surrender - Boris Johnson

  11-11-2018 23:46
  Former British foreign minister Boris Johnson called again on Sunday for Prime Minister Theresa May to change course on Brexit, accusing her of forcing through a deal to keep the country locked in the EU's customs union in a "total surrender".It was the latest call by Johnson, the figurehead of Britain's campaign to leave the European Union, for May to drop her so-called Chequers plans in favour of negotiating a clean break with the bloc and securing a Canada-style free trade deal.
  
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• Five-minute neck scan could become part of future dementia screening

  11-11-2018 23:45
  Cognitive decline is often one of the first signs of dementia, but not everyone who displays this problem will go on to develop the condition.
  
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• José Mourinho defends Manchester United from ‘outplayed’ claims

  11-11-2018 23:39
  • ‘The game was open for 80-something minutes’
  • Sterling ticked off by Guardiola after City’s 3-1 winJosé Mourinho reached deep into his book of excuses after Manchester United were outplayed in the derby to fall 12 points behind the Premier League leaders.To almost every observer at the Etihad Stadium, the game was controlled by City but the Manchester United manager saw things differently. Although his side’s only shot on target was the second-half pen
  
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• Theresa May: UK open to 'different' Russia relationship

  11-11-2018 23:26
  The prime minister will use Lord Mayor’s banquet speech to outline desire for increased cooperation with MoscowTheresa May will say the United Kingdom is open to a “different” kind of relationship with Russia following a year of deteriorating relations between the two countries.The Novichok poisonings of double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, by Russian intelligence agents in Salisbury and a series of cyber-attacks allegedly directed by the Kremlin have strained t
  
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• Eddie Jones’s England formula looking good despite All Blacks defeat | Robert Kitson

  11-11-2018 22:59
  With the Rugby World Cup less than a year away, England have shown they are back near the peak of the game after their wobbles in the springEagerly awaited Tests do not always live up to their billing. This was different: a belter from start to (another) contentious finish, a sporting event to nourish the soul. Both sides deserved credit for rising above the sodden conditions and contributing to an occasion as rich, in every sense, as any the old cabbage patch has staged outside the 2015 Rugby W
  
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• Michael D Higgins pledges to be president for all people of Ireland

  11-11-2018 22:40
  Irish Premier Leo Varadkar paid a warm tribute to Mr Higgins, describing Ireland as fortunate to have him as president.
  
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• Dynasties review: A leader called David who is ever fearful of a coup – remind you of anything?

  11-11-2018 22:30
  The opening episode of David Attenborough’s new series follows the power struggles within a troop of chimpanzees and reveals just how little divides us from our primate cousinsThey say that the first person who will live to 200 has already been born. We tend to think this means recently born, but what if – as every sign seems to suggest – it’s David Attenborough? What if being born into privilege (that’s not meant as snide commentary – just an acknowledgement
  
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• Irish leader Varadkar attends Armistice commemorations in Paris

  11-11-2018 22:26
  The Irish premier joined more than 70 heads of state and government in the French capital.
  
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• Twenty hurt as double-decker 'hits car, bus and bus shelter' in south London

  11-11-2018 22:18
  A 15-year-old girl is in a critical condition and 19 others were injured after a bus crash in the south London borough of Croydon.A double-decker bus is believed to have collided with a car, another bus and a bus shelter just after midday on Sunday, police said.The male driver of the double-decker bus was arrested on suspicion of failing a roadside drugs screening test and is in custody at a police station in south London.
  
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• May under fire from all sides over Brexit

  11-11-2018 22:15
  Cabinet divisions have been exposed on the backstop arrangement as the PM’s right-hand Brexit adviser has talks in Brussels.
  
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• Dignitaries and wellwishers attend historic presidential inauguration

  11-11-2018 21:49
  The ceremony reflected many of Michael D Higgin’s passions, including poetry, music, the Irish language and a diverse range of voices.
  
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• City’s David Silva and Sergio Agüero display their enduring brilliance | Barney Ronay

  11-11-2018 21:47
  Manchester City’s golden pair of old lags proved the dominant forces as the champions ran rings around Manchester UnitedOn an afternoon of cold, imperious dominance at the Etihad Stadium, two things stood out. First Manchester City produced passages of football that were utterly breathtaking, so beautifully engineered in their movement and passing that at times the result felt like an inevitability.And second David Silva and Sergio Agüero, the two most bizarrely gong-free superstars i
  
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• ‘Labour WILL stick to its guns’ Starmer fills Corbyn VACUUM to issue stark Brexit warning

  11-11-2018 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  LABOUR will “stick to its guns” and will never back Theresa May’s plans for a soft Brexit, Keir Starmer has warned.
  
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• Queen and President of Germany attend remembrance service at Westminster Abbey

  11-11-2018 21:40
  The pair watched as flowers were laid at the grave of The Unknown Warrior, later shaking hands at the end of the service.
  
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• Remembrance Day 2018: Britain glows under 1,000 beacons of light to mark end of WW1

  11-11-2018 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  BRITAIN has been lit up with 1,000 fire beacons to commemorate the end of the end of World War 1.
  
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• Verstappen shoves 'idiot' Ocon in clash following Hamilton's Brazil win

  11-11-2018 21:26
  • Verstappen pushes Esteban Ocon in post-race incident
  • Hamilton win earns Mercedes the constructors’ titleWith his fifth title already secured, Lewis Hamilton had been explicit he wanted to end the season strongly. Yet while he did win the Brazilian Grand Prix this was an almost unexpected victory that had turned on a moment. Max Verstappen had put in a superb drive only to be denied the top step after a clash left his chances spiralling away as Hamilton swept into the lead to
  
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• Lewis Hamilton wins Brazil GP after Max Verstappen is hit by backmarker

  11-11-2018 21:26
  • Verstappen calls Esteban Ocon ‘an idiot’ after costly collision• Hamilton: ‘This is what we’ve worked for every single day’With his fifth title already secured, Lewis Hamilton had been explicit he wanted to end the season strongly. Yet while he did win the Brazilian Grand Prix this was an almost unexpected victory that had turned on a moment. Max Verstappen had put in a superb drive only to be denied the top step after a clash left his chances spiralling
  
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• Democrats set to investigate if Trump used 'state power' to target the press

  11-11-2018 21:04
  Adam Schiff says Congress would begin investigating whether Trump targeted CNN and the Washington Post as political paybackThe Democrat likely to lead the House intelligence committee next year said Congress would investigate whether Donald Trump used “the instruments of state power to punish the press” in at least two alleged instances. Related: Florida orders recount as Trump and Scott claim 'elections being stolen'Continue reading...
  
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• Emmanuel Macron Condemns Nationalism As 'Betrayal Of Patriotism' In Front Of Donald Trump

  11-11-2018 20:54
  French President Emmanuel Macron has condemned nationalism as a "betrayal of
  
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• 'Log off and talk to your children'

  11-11-2018 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  EDUCATION Secretary Damian Hinds has issued a "must do better" note to parents who spend too long staring at phones and tablets at the expense of caring for their children. Mr Hinds is launching an initiative to support parents to teach their children to read and write before they go to school.
  
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• The courage and carnage of WWI

  11-11-2018 20:45
  Commemorations will take place across Europe to mark a hundred years since the end of the First World War.
  
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• Brexit: Theresa May's plan under siege from across Tory party

  11-11-2018 20:22
  Theresa May’s Brexit plan is under siege from across the Tory party as she attempts to overcome the final sticking points with Brussels in time to push it through a critical meeting of her cabinet ministers on Tuesday.As time runs out, leading Brexiters have told the prime minister they remain deeply opposed to her version of an exit mechanism that would prevent the UK unilaterally quitting a temporary customs arrangement if Brexit talks collapse.
  
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• Man charged after Drumchapel death

  11-11-2018 20:11
  The body of Darren Sinclair, 27, was found on a footpath on November 6.
  
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• Baby dies in police car chase

  11-11-2018 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  AN off-duty midwife tried vainly to save the life of a baby injured in a car crash which killed four people. The accident happened when a vehicle being chased by police crashed into a people carrier with its driver and six passengers.
  
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• Michael D Higgins sworn in to serve second term as Irish President

  11-11-2018 20:04
  Irish premier Leo Varadkar thanked Mr Higgins for his service.
  
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• Police name motorcyclist who died in ‘wrong way’ crash

  11-11-2018 20:03
  The collision, involving a car and a motorbike, happened on the East Kilbride expressway.
  
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• Sheffield Car Crash: Father And One-Year-Old Son Named Among Four Dead

  11-11-2018 19:52
  A man who died in a horror car crash with his one-year-old son and two other
  
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• Cathedral service marks 100 years since First World War Armistice

  11-11-2018 19:51
  Princess Anne and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon were among those who attended the service in Glasgow.
  
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• Thumbs up from Putin as Trump rains on Armistice parade

  11-11-2018 19:45
  US president’s apparent snub of Belleau memorial highlights absence of western solidarityThe weekend away in Paris should not have been hard. For most politicians, events like the armistice commemoration represent an opportunity to project themselves as greater than the sum of their soundbites, above the political fray, sombre yet at their ease among world leaders as they look out across the century gone by. There are lofty prepared remarks and no questions.For Donald Trump, that was a bri
  
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• 100 years of remembrance: 'Feeling pity rather than horror'

  11-11-2018 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  ON August 13, 1914, 27 officers and warrant officers, 48 sergeants and 929 soldiers of the Worcestershire Regiment's 2nd Battalion embarked for France. By the time 18-year-old Private FAJ Jimmy 'Tanky" Taylor joined them two years later, the Worcesters had covered themselves in glory.
  
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• May cannot expect Labour to save her Brexit vote - Thornberry

  11-11-2018 19:19
  British Prime Minister Theresa May cannot expect the opposition Labour Party to save her in a parliamentary vote on any Brexit deal, Emily Thornberry, Labour's foreign affairs policy chief, said on Sunday."What we've said is that you cannot simply come to the House of Commons with a bit of nonsense ... you cannot expect the Labour Party to save you from your own backbenchers," Thornberry told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, saying Labour would vote against any deal that did not meet its tests.
  
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• Police in talks to scrap 'reasonable grounds' condition for stop and search

  11-11-2018 19:16
  Exclusive: police chiefs in England and Wales want to expand use of the search powerPolice chiefs want to trigger an expansion of stop and search by lowering the level of suspicion an officer needs against a suspect to use the power, the Guardian has learned.They want to scrap the requirement that “reasonable grounds” are needed before a person can be subjected to a search, amid mounting concern over knife attacks. Continue reading...
  
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• Police in talks to scrap 'reasonable grounds' condition for stop and search

  11-11-2018 19:16
  Police chiefs want to trigger an expansion of stop and search by lowering the level of suspicion an officer needs against a suspect to use the power, the Guardian has learned.Senior officers have held talks with advisers to the home secretary, Sajid Javid, within the last fortnight to discuss the issue.It would fuel the debate about police discrimination against minority ethnic communities, civil liberties and the role stop and search has to play in tackling violent crime.
  
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• Father killed in crash ‘was devoted to his children’

  11-11-2018 18:55
  Adnan Ashraf Jarral, his son Usman Adnan Jarral and husband and wife Miroslav Duna and Vlasta Dunova died in the collision in Sheffield.
  
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• Theresa May And Jeremy Corbyn Lay Wreaths With German President To Mark Armistice Day Centenary

  11-11-2018 18:50
  Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May have laid poppy wreaths at the Cenotaph as part
  
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• Victims of Sheffield police chase crash named by South Yorkshire police

  11-11-2018 18:48
  Adnan Ashraf Jarral, 35, and his one-year-old baby boy Usman died when the VW Touran people carrier they were travelling in was hit by a Golf that had been pursued by police.Two other people, Vlasta Dunova, 41, and her husband Miroslav Duna,50, also died in the smash in the Darnall area of Sheffield, shortly before 9pm.Mr Jarral's uncle, Shafqat Mirza, told Sky News correspondent Tom Parmenter, who is in Darnall, that his nephew was a "unique character, very humble, very polite - he was full of
  
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• Failure to get to grips with UK’s housing crisis

  11-11-2018 18:47
  Although the people at the top of [Persimmon] receive ludicrously high remuneration, those at the bottom (cleaners, security guards and catering staff) are paid so poorly they are on universal credit,’ writes Jerry Hodgkinson.Setting up a housing commission to make public spaces more beautiful is an odd choice of priorities by a government in the midst of a housing crisis that highlights the lack of provision for the human need for shelter in the UK (Tory cronyism: a seemingly endless sour
  
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• Softly, softly for now, May's enforcers gear up for big Brexit vote

  11-11-2018 18:30
  Less than five months before Britain leaves the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May's parliamentary enforcers are on the prowl.For now, the government "whips" whose job it is to ensure parliament backs whatever Brexit deal May agrees with Brussels are taking a softly-softly approach.With an agreement most likely to go before lawmakers later this year, May's team and the whips she appointed are quietly sounding out who might vote against it, several politicians told Reuters.
  
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• Armistice Day: 10,000 march past Cenotaph in national thank you to the WWI fallen

  11-11-2018 18:28
  Thousands of people marched past the Cenotaph in central London to pay their own respects to the soldiers who fought in the First World War.For the first time, after the Royal Family and Commonwealth representatives laid their wreaths, 10,000 people were able to walk past the memorial and lay their own tributes, remembering loved ones lost in the war.The march was described as a "nation's thank you", and thousands of descendants of First World War soldiers were involved, including Jackie Sherida
  
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• Armistice centenary chance to represent family, says Iraq War veteran

  11-11-2018 18:28
  Simon Brown, who was almost blinded in Basra in 2006, marched in memory of his great-grandfather, grandfather and father.
  
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• Armistice Day, wildfires and mummified cats: Sunday's best photos

  11-11-2018 18:17
  The Guardian’s picture editors bring you photo highlights from around the world including the 100 year centenary of Armistice Day, California wildfires and mummified cats Continue reading...
  
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• Drogheda road evacuated after suspicious device found

  11-11-2018 18:06
  A security cordon and traffic diversions were put in place.
  
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• Charles lays wreath for Welsh Guards

  11-11-2018 18:00
  The prince was at the Guards’ Memorial in central London.
  
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• Britain battling CRIMEWAVE EPIDEMIC but STILL sends £30m per year to fight crime ABROAD

  11-11-2018 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE Government is spending millions every year fighting crime abroad whilst the UK police force continues to struggle to tackle domestic crime in Britain. Up to £30 million per year of taxpayers’ money is set overseas through the Department for International Development and the Foreign Office, according to the Mail on Sunday.
  
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• Catholic archbishop tells Belfast memorial of shared ‘responsibility to heal’

  11-11-2018 17:52
  Eamon Martin was addressing a service at St Anne’s Cathedral.
  
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• Teenage girl critical as double-decker 'hits car, bus and bus shelter' in south London

  11-11-2018 17:41
  A 15-year-old girl is in a critical condition after a bus crash in the south London borough of Croydon.A double-decker bus is believed to have collided with a car, another bus and a bus shelter just after midday on Sunday, police said.The male driver of the double-decker bus has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving and is in custody at a police station in south London.
  
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• Communities mark 100 years since First World War Armistice

  11-11-2018 17:14
  Parades, ceremonies and services were held across the country to honour those who have lost their lives in conflict.
  
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• Boy, 10, dies and eight-year-old girl found seriously injured at property, says Police Scotland

  11-11-2018 17:13
  A 10-year-old boy has died and an eight-year-old girl was found with life-threatening injuries after an incident at a property in Perth and Kinross.The boy died at the scene while the girl was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee with serious injuries.Chief Inspector Ian Scott, of Police Scotland said: "At this time, our thoughts are very much with the family and friends of the young boy who has died in this incident and with the young girl who remains in a serious condition in hospital.
  
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• 'You have NO EVIDENCE!' Emily Thornberry SHUT DOWN over 'FANTASY' Brexit proposals

  11-11-2018 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  LABOUR's Emily Thornberry was trounced by Andrew Marr as the Shadow Foreign Secretary claimed Labour would have done a better job than Theresa May at negotiating with the EU on Brexit.
  
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• 'EU CAN'T hold us to customs union' Leadsom issues dire WARNING to EU over Brexit backstop

  11-11-2018 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXITEER Andrea Leadsom sent a stern warning to Brussels as she vowed the UK "cannot be held against its will" in a customs union arrangement with the EU.
  
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