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• Revealed: Government Fails To Count Hundreds Of Thousands Of Rough Sleepers

  20-11-2018 23:30
  Hundreds of thousands of rough sleepers are not being recorded in official
  
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• Give more quota to small fishing boats after Brexit, Labour says

  20-11-2018 23:30
  Smaller boats have just 6% of the total quota, despite making up most of the British fishing fleet, the party said.
  
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• May heads to Brussels under pressure to rewrite Brexit deal

  20-11-2018 23:22
  Brexiteer ministers have urged Theresa May to extract further concessions from the European Union.
  
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• Woman, 21, arrested as part of double murder investigation in Coventry

  20-11-2018 23:18
  A 21-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assisting a man believed to have been involved in a double murder.Issuing a further appeal for information, Detective Chief Inspector Chris Mallett said: "We have made significant progress with this complex investigation.Mr Shaw was found dead with gunshot injuries to his chest on 25 March, four days after Mr Robbins went missing in the same area.
  
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• Cabinet fears May won't be ready to sign off draft Brexit deal by Sunday's crucial EU summit

  20-11-2018 23:12
  Theresa May's cabinet has expressed concerns that she will not be ready to sign off her Brexit deal by Sunday's summit with EU leaders.Sky News has learnt that the cabinet agreed the prime minister should adopt bolder language when she travels to Brussels to flesh out the political declaration on the future relationship between the UK and EU.The current document is just seven pages long, but senior ministers were shown a secret 20-page draft that will form the basis of a key meeting between Jean
  
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• Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee: 'I see a revolution. Starting right now'

  20-11-2018 22:54
  Officially, Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn't have a favourite website.Then, in 2014, Moves was bought by Facebook - meaning Sir Tim's data now potentially belonged to the world's biggest social network.Facebook simply announced that it was "moving on".
  
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• Marks & Spencer in sexism row over 'vomit-inducing' window display

  20-11-2018 22:28
  Marks & Spencer has been embroiled in a sexism row after a window display was branded "vomit-inducing" for placing women's "fancy little knickers" beside men's suits.The display at a Nottingham store shows model David Gandy wearing a suit with the tagline "must-have outfits to impress".Meanwhile, the adjacent women's lingerie features the slogan "must-have fancy little knickers".
  
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• Government 'Falling Apart' As DUP Anger Over Brexit Causes More Budget Humiliation

  20-11-2018 22:13
  Theresa May was told the government is "falling apart" after her ministers
  
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• Man challenges Australian prosecutors after suffering life-changing injuries

  20-11-2018 22:10
  Michael Hyndman was celebrating the new year in Sydney in January when he was struck and hit his head, causing bleeding to the brain.
  
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• Theresa May contemplates scrapping Irish backstop to appease Brexiteers

  20-11-2018 21:51
  Theresa May is examining a last-minute plan to scrap the Irish backstop in a bid to win over mutinous Conservative Brexiteers and bring the DUP back onside.The prime minister told her cabinet that she was exploring "technological" solutions to maintain a soft border in Ireland in place of her backstop plan as she looked to appease her Brexiteers ahead of a critical vote in the Commons on her deal next month.The revival of "alternative arrangements" to keep the border open came after senior Brexi
  
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• MPs kick-off in the House of Commons chamber as they unite over football

  20-11-2018 21:49
  Ms Haigh said Speaker John Bercow gave them permission.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn and Nicola Sturgeon team up in bid to block draft Brexit deal

  20-11-2018 21:47
  Jeremy Corbyn and Nicola Sturgeon have teamed up in a bid to block the government's draft Brexit deal - and stop a "no deal" divorce.The Labour leader and Scottish First Minister joined a delegation including shadow chancellor John McDonnell and shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer to discuss blocking a "blind" separation from the EU.
  
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• Proposed Brexit deal threatens integrity of UK, DUP veteran warns

  20-11-2018 21:23
  Lord McCrea uses his maiden speech to argue that the proposed withdrawal agreement is ‘not a good deal’ and should be rejected.
  
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• Police switch focus of search for missing teenager to Banchory

  20-11-2018 21:20
  Liam Smith has not been seen since Saturday when he boarded a bus in Aberdeen.
  
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• Brexit agreement should not be changed: Ireland’s deputy PM

  20-11-2018 21:13
  Mr Coveney told parliament in Dublin that it was ‘not going to be re-opened’.
  
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• Brexit agreement asking people to take blindfold leap off cliff – Sturgeon

  20-11-2018 21:10
  Scotland’s First Minister held talks with both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn in Westminster on Tuesday.
  
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• Sturgeon urges Tory remainers to help build soft Brexit coalition

  20-11-2018 20:28
  Conservative remainer MPs have a “role to play” in building a coalition to drive a soft Brexit through the Commons, Nicola Sturgeon has said as opposition parties seek to find common ground with unhappy Tory backbenchers.The Scottish National party leader suggested opposition parties would look at the Norway model, proposed by senior Tory backbenchers including former ministers Nick Boles, Nicky Morgan and George Freeman.
  
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• Man held on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with minicab shooting

  20-11-2018 20:24
  A 26-year-old man is being quizzed on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with a north London minicab shooting
  
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• Catering giant could change menus in no-deal Brexit

  20-11-2018 20:18
  School meals provider Compass said it could change its menus and use alternative ingredients as it became the latest company to announce contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit scenario.The FTSE 100 group, which is the world's biggest catering firm, said it was ready to start stockpiling ingredients if needed while it also had concerns over the impact on thousands of EU nationals in its British workforce.Its British division only represents a tenth of the overall business but chief executive Domi
  
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• Charles given birthday serenade by Kindertransport refugees

  20-11-2018 20:16
  The Kindertransport brought some 10,000 children aged between three and 17 years to safety from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia and Poland.
  
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• What does the deal mean for Ireland?

  20-11-2018 20:15
  The issue of the Northern Irish border has been the most problematic of the negotiations. David Blevins reports
  
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• Family pay tribute to ‘one in a million’ teenager after crash death

  20-11-2018 20:15
  Connor Aird died in hospital following the crash in Fife on November 11.
  
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• M&S under fire for window display featuring knickers next to men’s suits

  20-11-2018 20:00
  The retailer placed the “must-have” knickers next to men’s suits featuring the slogan “outfits to impress”.
  
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• Calls for new agency to rival Interpol as Russian candidate on course to become new president

  20-11-2018 19:54
  Britain should set up a new organisation to rival Interpol if a senior Russian official becomes its new president, ministers are being urged.Senior MPs raised fears at the prospect of Major General Alexander Prokopchuk being elected head of the global policing organisation.Tom Tugendhat and Yvette Cooper, chairs of the influential Commons foreign and home affairs select committees, respectively, said Mr Prokopchuk being elected would be "the latest nail in Interpol's coffin".
  
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• Russell Bishop trial: Victim's father breaks down in court as he denies killing daughter

  20-11-2018 19:48
  The father of a young girl murdered with her friend 32 years ago broke down in tears as he denied being involved in her sexual abuse and death.
  
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• Brexit deal works for all UK, May tells Scottish leader

  20-11-2018 19:47
  A majority of Scots voted to remain in the European Union in the referendum and Sturgeon's Scottish National Party, which runs a devolved administration in Edinburgh, has said it will vote against May's Brexit deal.Earlier, Sturgeon said she wanted to form a "coalition of opposition" to May's Brexit plan with the main opposition Labour and other parties.
  
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• Case dropped against Chinese journalist who allegedly slapped Tory delegate

  20-11-2018 19:42
  A case has been dropped against a Chinese state journalist charged with common assault after she allegedly slapped a delegate at this year’s Conservative party conference.Last month West Midlands police confirmed that Kong, a journalist with the state broadcaster CCTV, had been charged over the incident at a fringe event at the conference on 30 September.Video of the incident appeared to show Lieu gently pushing Kong away as she heckled a speaker at the event.
  
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• Police officer charged over 'racially aggravated' dog attack on traveller

  20-11-2018 19:40
  A policeman whose dog injured a member of the public has been charged with racially aggravated wounding.Paul Birch, a West Midlands Police constable, is accused of unlawfully and maliciously causing grievous bodily harm to a man with a group of travellers.It follows an incident at the site of the former North Worcestershire Golf Course in Northfield, Birmingham, in September last year.
  
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• 100 Years Of Voting For Women

  20-11-2018 19:37
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• Nicola Sturgeon And Jeremy Corbyn In Talks To Avoid No-Deal Brexit

  20-11-2018 19:34
  First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has warned Jeremy Corbyn that Labour is the
  
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• MOT emissions test failure rate soars after tougher rules introduced

  20-11-2018 19:34
  Nearly 750,000 cars failed the emissions tests since May 20.
  
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• Prince William felt 'very sad' while working for air ambulance

  20-11-2018 19:25
  Prince William has opened up about feeling "very sad and very down" while working for the air ambulance.The royal was speaking at the inaugural This Can Happen conference at The O2 in London, which aims to address mental health issues in the workplace.William, 35, told how one particular incident "took him over the edge".
  
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• Labour: we'll end compulsory GCSE maths and English resits

  20-11-2018 19:24
  Labour has promised to end the “remorseless cycle” of compulsory GCSE maths and English resits as part of its plans to reform further education (FE).Currently, FE students are required to keep retaking GCSEs until they get at least a grade 4 (or a C under the old grading system) as a condition of college funding, even though many fail again and again.Under Labour plans announced on Tuesday, students and colleges will be allowed to choose alternative qualifications instead to ensure t
  
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• Transport spending in London still twice northern England's

  20-11-2018 19:15
  In Yorkshire and the Humber, transport spending actually fell by £18 per person.The “northern powerhouse” was the Conservatives’ big idea for closing the north-south divide and winning over sceptical voters in the north of England.
  
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• Minister champions sex life benefits of cycling

  20-11-2018 19:13
  Rory Stewart pointed to a study which suggested men who cycle have the sexual prowess of those five years younger.
  
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• 100 years on, female MPs are still too few

  20-11-2018 19:09
  A visitor views photographs in the Women’s Place in Parliament exhibition in Westminster Hall, June 2018. Photograph: Kirsty O'Connor/PA
  
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• Proud to be called a champagne socialist

  20-11-2018 19:08
  Despite her radical genealogy, Christine Hawkes is happy to keep drinking champagne.The people who tell us “We are the editors of the Journal of Controversial Ideas” (Letters, 19 November) claim in the next paragraph that “At present there is no Journal of Controversial Ideas” – funny set of editors then.If the letter shows how they intend to interpret “the highest standards of academic rigour” for Vol 1 No 1, heaven knows what it will be like when stand
  
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• A lame response to NHS ward closures

  20-11-2018 19:08
  If there is one thing more depressing than increasingly frequent ward closures in the NHS, now including cancer care units (Report, 19 November), it is the impossibly complacent responses from the Department of Health.It is no use at all stating that there are “11,900 more nurses on our wards since 2010” when, according to the Nuffield Trust, there is currently a shortage of more than 100,000 staff across the NHS, and the department is clearly not providing the “support they ne
  
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• Family ‘so worried’ over disappearance of teenage boy

  20-11-2018 18:54
  Liam Smith, 16, went missing from Aberdeen on Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Rain and snow to continue overnight before UK cold snap eases

  20-11-2018 18:46
  Rain and snow fell across the UK on Tuesday, making for slippery roads.
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon: No agreement on alternative Brexit with Labour

  20-11-2018 18:46
  The Scottish First Minister met Jeremy Corbyn in Westminster to try and agree a way forward.
  
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• Boris Johnson, Chancellor Hammond expected to attend DUP conference - source

  20-11-2018 18:39
  BELFAST (Reuters) - British Chancellor Philip Hammond and former foreign minister Boris Johnson are both expected to attend the annual conference of the Democratic Unionist Party in Belfast this weekend, a source from the party told Reuters on Tuesday.
  
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• Help make life easier for electric vehicle owners, ministers told

  20-11-2018 18:37
  He wants existing law to be amended to create an ‘industry standard’ for charging points.
  
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• Fifth of NHS providers missing all key national targets, study finds

  20-11-2018 18:36
  An investigation found that 29 hospital trusts and boards out of 157 across the UK had not hit a single target for a year.
  
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• Wounding charge brought against Pc after man injured by police dog

  20-11-2018 18:32
  The Independent Office for Police Conduct said the injured man was taken to hospital after being bitten by a West Midlands Police dog.
  
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• Britain to hold auction for renewable subsidies in May 2019

  20-11-2018 18:24
  Britian will hold its next auction for subsidies to help fund renewable power projects in May next year, with 60 million pounds available, the government said on Tuesday.Under the so-called contract for difference (CfD) scheme, qualifying projects are guaranteed a minimum price at which they can sell electricity, and renewable power generators bid for CfD contracts in a round of auctions.Britain's energy minister Claire Perry told parliament the government was in the final stages of concluding a
  
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• Patrick Harvie condemns UK Government’s dismissal of UN poverty report

  20-11-2018 18:18
  The Scottish Green Party co-convener added Scotland should not be complacent in its efforts to tackle the issue.
  
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• Patience is a virtue, says Rees-Mogg as anti-May letters fail to arrive

  20-11-2018 18:18
  Jacob Rees-Mogg has so far failed to find the 47 allies he needs to force a vote of no confidence in Theresa May’s leadership.
  
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• Teachers closer to industrial action after rejecting pay deal

  20-11-2018 18:17
  Members of the EIS and SSTA unions have voted almost unanimously to turn down the Scottish Government’s offer.
  
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• ‘Do not feed the pigeons’ and nine other unwritten rules about London

  20-11-2018 18:13 via theguardian.com
  London is a world in a city with its own rules and customs, many of them unwritten. This Londoner’s guide will help you avoid some potential clangersThe tube
  For something whose sole aim is to get people from A to B, the tube is fraught with potential faux pas. One main rule is that you should always stand on the right on escalators. If you dare to break this, you’ll be met with a lot of muttering and eye-rolls, although no one will dare to berate you personally. You must also never,
  
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