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• Brexit will open door to new trade deals around the world, says May

  02-12-2018 23:39
  The PM will tell MPs that leaders at the G20 summit in Argentina were keen to strike agreements with Britain outside the EU.
  
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• Woman Killed On Train While 'Leaning Out Of Window' Near Bristol Temple Meads Station

  02-12-2018 23:33
  A woman killed on a train may have been leaning out of a window when she
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn 'running scared' of Brexit TV debate, Downing Street claims

  02-12-2018 23:32
  Downing Street says Jeremy Corbyn is "running scared" of a Brexit debate with Theresa May.The debate is due to happen on 9 December - two days before MPs vote on the deal Mrs May has secured with the EU - but there is still disagreement over the format.Mr Corbyn has said he will go with the Tory preference for a BBC debate if it is a straight head-to-head after previously indicating a preference for a similar ITV proposal.
  
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• Woman killed on Bristol-bound train 'may have had head out of window'

  02-12-2018 23:09
  A woman who was killed on a train may have been leaning out of a window when she suffered a blow to the head, police have said.The victim, who has not been identified, sustained serious head injuries on a service bound for Bristol Temple Meads station, between Bath and Keynsham, on Saturday evening.A spokesman for British Transport Police said: "We were called at around 10.10pm following a report a woman had received serious head injuries while travelling on a train between Bath and Keynsham.
  
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• Teenager arrested in connection with Londonderry murder released on bail

  02-12-2018 22:57
  Detectives said Edward Meenan had sustained significant injuries to his head and body.
  
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• Woman killed on train may have been leaning out window: police

  02-12-2018 22:54
  The incident occurred on a service travelling between Bath and Keynsham on Saturday.
  
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• Candlelight vigil held in memory of Ballymurphy Massacre victims

  02-12-2018 22:22
  The families and friends of those killed in 1971 also planted a “tree of truth” in their honour.
  
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• Labour questions DfE's £2.5m apprenticeship advertising spend

  02-12-2018 20:56
  Takeup of apprenticeships in the first three-quarters of the year were 34% lower than the previous year.Labour has questioned why ministers are spending more than £2.5m with a single advertising agency to promote apprenticeships, when the number of people entering such schemes is dropping and the government seems to have abandoned its targets in the area.A written parliamentary question to the Department for Education (DfE) from the shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, found the depa
  
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• Hunt for missing British woman, 28, who vanished on night out in Tenerife

  02-12-2018 20:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  POLICE in Tenerife are hunting for a British woman who went missing on a night out in Puerto de la Cruz.
  
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• Man arrested over unexplained Amesbury death released

  02-12-2018 20:38
  The 51-year-old is now being treated as a witness by police investigating the death.
  
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• Ben Jennings on Theresa May's Brexit deal – cartoon

  02-12-2018 20:35 via theguardian.com
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• German ambassador urges ‘vigilance’ against xenophobia at Kindertransport event

  02-12-2018 20:33
  A ceremony commemorated the arrival of the first Kindertransport train on December 2 1938.
  
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• Controversial Ukip leader Gerard Batten backed by national executive

  02-12-2018 20:06
  Ukip’s leader, Gerard Batten, was strongly backed by his party’s national executive at an emergency meeting on Sunday.Ukip’s leader, Gerard Batten, has been strongly backed by its national executive.The move will prevent yet another civil war for the party, but possibly hastening the exit of Nigel Farage, who has publicly despaired at the current hard-right stance.
  
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• Universal Credit fuelling 'epidemic' of suffering, foodbank charity claims

  02-12-2018 20:00
  Foodbanks across Merseyside are stockpiling donations ahead of another rollout of Universal Credit this week, which campaigners say is fuelling an "epidemic" of suffering.Before the Merseyside derby at Anfield, fans from both Liverpool and Everton donated thousands of bags of food to Fans Supporting Foodbanks - a grassroots charity that says that donations need to double if it is to keep up with current demand."It's not a humanitarian crisis, it's an epidemic now," founder and Everton fan Dave K
  
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• Coastguard rescues dog stranded on cliff ledge

  02-12-2018 19:58
  The animal was 20ft down a cliff along a remote part of Scotland’s west coast.
  
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• Andrew Marr Makes Plea To Help The Homeless On Flagship Politics Show

  02-12-2018 19:28
  Andrew Marr has made an impassioned plea not to ignore the growing
  
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• Ted Baker investigates ‘forced hugging’ claims

  02-12-2018 19:22
  An online petition was set up demanding the fashion firm establish a way of reporting allegations of harassment to an independent body.
  
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• Octomum who rakes in £30k a year in benefits to get £2,500 boob job in Turkey

  02-12-2018 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  A SINGLE mother with eight children who rakes in an eye-watering £30,000-a-year in benefits has sparked fury for announcing plans to fly to Turkey for a £2,500 boob job.
  
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• Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?

  02-12-2018 19:00
  Spearheaded by a team of social psychologists at the University of Washington and Yale, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) promised to lift the veil on people’s subconscious attitudes towards others.Upon publishing their landmark paper in 1998, the team described “a new tool that measures the unconscious roots of prejudice” that they said affected 90-95% of people.Unconscious bias – the subject of the Guardian’s Bias in Britain series – offered a new explanat
  
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• Bias in Britain: explore the poll results

  02-12-2018 19:00
  The following questions were put to 1,000 black, Asian and minority ethnic people and 1,797 white people.In every case, the minority respondents were much more likely to report the negative experience.
  
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• Doctors must feel comfortable prescribing cannabis, says UK’s ‘first’ patient

  02-12-2018 18:50
  Carly Barton was prescribed medicinal cannabis by a private pain specialist last month in what they believe is a UK first.
  
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• Pensioner threatened on doorstep by man armed with knife

  02-12-2018 18:23
  The attacker forced the 81-year-old to drive to a bank in Ayr in an attempt to steal cash from him.
  
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• Theresa May in battle over Brexit legal advice as charm offensive begins

  02-12-2018 18:12
  Theresa May has returned from the G20 summit in Buenos Aires to face a crucial period for her Brexit plans.Theresa May faces her first major battle in a crucial period for her Brexit plans, with the government at risk of being declared in contempt of parliament in a row over the publication of official legal advice on the departure deal.The prime minister, back in London from the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, will simultaneously begin a charm offensive to win over Tory MPs in dozens of face-to-fac
  
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• Woman becomes first UK patient to get cannabis prescription

  02-12-2018 18:01
  A 32-year-old woman is believed to be the first person prescribed cannabis in the UK after it was made legal for medicinal use last month.Carly Barton, from Brighton, who suffers constant pain from fibromyalgia following a stroke in her 20s, was given a prescription by a private doctor who specialises in pain management.The drug is having to be imported from the Netherlands and Ms Barton is unsure when she will be able to collect her medication - which consists of two flower-based cannabis produ
  
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• Birmingham Hit And Run: Family Pays Tribute As Victim Named As Alex Knight

  02-12-2018 18:00
  The family of a pedestrian killed when he was hit by a car in Birmingham said
  
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• I'll win battle to turn the ghost Tube stations into nightclubs

  02-12-2018 17:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Businessman to take on Boris Johnson in High Court.
  
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• Letter: Judith Kazantzis obituary

  02-12-2018 17:45
  Judith Pakenham with her fiance John Kazantzis in 1962. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
  
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• History lessons about comprehensive schools

  02-12-2018 17:42
  Pupils sit an exam at a UK secondary school. ‘In reality there have been very few real comprehensive schools in our class-ridden and unequal society,’ writes Tony Mitchell.Afua Hirsch (Free education is disappearing before our eyes, 28 November) contrasts the current state of education with that ushered in by the 1944 Education Act, which she writes established comprehensive schools.For elementary pupils the leaving age was 14 and the curriculum was narrow, and many of the older gram
  
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• Zip wire for the Lake District hits a snag

  02-12-2018 17:41
  As a born-and-bred Cumbrian, I agree totally with Simon Jenkins (A zip wire is the last thing the Lakes needs, 30 November).The Lake District planning authority is demonstrating a total lack of care.This is a national park, not a giant fairground.
  
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• Calling time on university initiation ceremonies

  02-12-2018 17:40
  One reader’s daughter was ‘whisked off a street, blindfolded and put into a van along with a group of the other non-uninitiated’. Photograph: Ian West/PA
  
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• A new vocabulary for Brexit fatigue

  02-12-2018 17:40
  Is anyone else suffering from Brexhaustion, wonders Dr Aldo Zammit Borda.Photograph: Getty/iStockphoto
  
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• SNP expects amendment to suspend Article 50 EU withdrawal process to be brought

  02-12-2018 17:09
  MPs from across the chamber have indicated they would support such a move to suspend the Brexit process, Ian Blackford said.
  
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• Search for missing British woman Amy Louise Gerard in Tenerife

  02-12-2018 17:08
  Police are searching for a British woman who disappeared from outside a bar in Tenerife.Amy Louise Gerard, 28, was last seen standing outside Irish Molly Malone's in Puerto de la Cruz at around 12.20am on Friday.The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has confirmed it is assisting the family of a British woman in Tenerife.
  
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• NHS to introduce mental health checks for new fathers

  02-12-2018 17:01
  NHS England described the offer as a radical initiative.New fathers and fathers-to-be will be offered mental health checks if their partner is suffering anxiety, psychosis or postnatal depression, NHS England has announced.While it is well recognised that pregnant women and and new mothers can experience mental health problems, little attention has been paid to their partners.
  
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• Murder case detectives return to scene two weeks on

  02-12-2018 17:00
  Billyjoe Bates, 28, was found badly injured in Glasgow’s Milton area on Sunday November 18.
  
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• Met police numbers 'will fall dramatically without new funds'

  02-12-2018 16:56
  Newly qualified Metropolitan police officers take part in their Passing out Parade at Hendon police training college.Officer numbers in the Metropolitan police will fall to their lowest level since 2002 unless hundreds of millions of pounds in new funding can be secured, London’s Labour mayor has said.The force currently has just under 29,700 officers.
  
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• Body of man found on rocks in Portstewart

  02-12-2018 16:43
  Police are investigating the circumstances of the man’s death and part of the town has been sealed off.
  
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• Santa runs and Paris repairs: Sunday's best photos

  02-12-2018 16:41 via theguardian.com
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• Metal band Bring Me The Horizon 'horrified' after fan dies at Alexandra Palace gig

  02-12-2018 16:28
  Alternative metal band Bring Me The Horizon has said it is "horrified" after learning that a fan died at its Alexandra Palace gig.Emergency services were called to reports of someone feeling unwell at the north London music venue on Friday shortly before 10pm but were unable to save the man.Alexandra Palace issued a statement on Twitter, offering condolences to the concertgoer's family.
  
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• Man and woman arrested over assault as armed police hunt third suspect

  02-12-2018 16:17
  The incident occurred in Weston-super-Mare in the early hours of Sunday.
  
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• Man arrested after unexplained death of woman in Amesbury

  02-12-2018 16:14
  Police found the body of the woman, aged in her thirties, at a property in Bence Court.
  
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• Partners Of New And Expectant Mothers To Be Offered NHS Mental Health Checks

  02-12-2018 16:11
  Partners of new and expectant mothers will be offered mental health checks and
  
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• All change at the Daily Mail as Mark Carney escapes a bashing

  02-12-2018 16:00
  Measured analysis at the Mail with Geordie Greig at the helm.Anyone looking for signs of change at the Daily Mail should study its reaction to the Bank of England’s Brexit analysis last week as much as its support for the prime minister.“Carnage,” shrieked the Sun. The first quote in the Boris-backing Telegraph story was from Jacob Rees-Mogg, who called Carney – who has never stood for public office – “a failed second-rate Canadian politician” who was tr
  
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• Navy sinks migrant aid as boats are too costly

  02-12-2018 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  PLANS to seek help from the Royal Navy to tackle desperate migrants illegally crossing the Channel have been abandoned because the boats are too expensive, it is claimed.
  
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• Teenage boy ‘critical’ following HGV collision

  02-12-2018 15:36
  The 15-year-old was struck in South Lanarkshire on Saturday evening.
  
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• Access to fishing and trade matters ‘separate issues’, insists Lidington

  02-12-2018 15:21
  Cabinet office minister David Lidington made his comments in a BBC Scotland interview.
  
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• BBC in hot water over debate – and an unlikely pastor

  02-12-2018 15:00
  Jeremy Corbyn’s appearance on ITV’s Good Morning allowed him to burnish his man-of-the-people status.There is an episode of The Thick of It in which a member of a focus group is discovered to be an act and not the genuine voice of Middle England.
  
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• Four arrested following aggravated burglary

  02-12-2018 14:26
  The PSNI is appealing for the public’s help following the incident in Londonderry.
  
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• Gove says Government can win vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal

  02-12-2018 14:14
  The Environment Secretary says the agreement with Brussels is not perfect but the alternative is ‘no deal or no Brexit’.
  
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• Labour threatens May with new Brexit hurdle

  02-12-2018 13:58
  The main opposition Labour Party said on Sunday it would press for contempt proceedings against the government if Prime Minister Theresa May fails to produce the full legal advice she has received on her Brexit deal.The threat is yet another hurdle May must clear before parliament votes on Dec. 11 on her deal for Britain's exit from the European Union, its biggest shift in foreign and trade policy for more than 40 years.Labour has said it will vote against the deal.
  
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