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• Appeal as man, 90, reported missing

  11-12-2018 23:50
  William Scott went missing in the Chesser area of Edinburgh on Tuesday morning.
  
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• Ian Paisley facing new questions over luxury Maldives holiday

  11-12-2018 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC Spotlight programme's evidence suggests the North Antrim MP did not declare a holiday to the Maldives in 2016.
  
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• Theresa May Facing Growing Threat Of No Confidence Vote From Tory MPs

  11-12-2018 23:37
  Theresa May is facing growing expectations of a dramatic vote of no confidence
  
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• Theresa May Facing Growing Leadership Threat As Tory Plotters Claim They 'Have The Numbers' For 'No Confidence' Vote

  11-12-2018 23:37
  Theresa May is facing growing expectations of a dramatic vote of no confidence
  
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• Owen Paterson joins Tory calls for vote of no confidence in May

  11-12-2018 23:36
  Westminster is awash with speculation that the threshold of 48 letters needed to trigger a vote of Tory MPs is close to being reached.
  
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• Man charged over the murder of Padraig Fox in Co Down

  11-12-2018 23:35
  A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder and a 26-year-old man has been charged with perverting the course of justice.
  
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• After Brexit vote delay, leadership challenge looms for May

  11-12-2018 23:32
  LONDON/BERLIN (Reuters) - An attempt to oust British Prime Minister Theresa May gathered pace on Tuesday, a day after her decision to delay a vote in parliament on her Brexit deal for fear of a rout angered many in her Conservative Party.With May on a tour of European capitals to try to secure "reassurances" to calm the crisis at home, the BBC and other media cited sources as saying the required number of letters from Conservative lawmakers calling for a no-confidence vote in her leadership of t
  
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• Missing woman dies after collapsing at hospital

  11-12-2018 23:25
  Amanda Cox was found at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on Monday.
  
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• Mo Salah, Liverpool’s kangaroo, looks ready to bounce through winter slog | Barney Ronay

  11-12-2018 23:23
  The Egyptian just keeps on keeping on, and does so with a rare lightness. Against Napoli he got his reward, and hinted at what may be to come over the next few monthsJust past the half hour at a chilly, angsty Anfield Mo Salah was suddenly free in space on the edge of the Napoli box, scampering in on goal in that bouncy style, hair flapping, legs whirring like a cartoon kangaroo. Salah had time to look up, pause and nudge a doomed pass across the six-yard box in the vague direction of Sadio Man&
  
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• Explainer - How does a leadership challenge to a Conservative prime minister work?

  11-12-2018 23:21
  Prime Minister Theresa May's position as leader of the Conservative Party - and consequently her premiership - is under threat from lawmakers who are unhappy at the Brexit deal she has agreed with the European Union.The BBC reported on Tuesday, citing multiple sources, that a leadership challenge had been triggered, although there was no official confirmation of this.- WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN FOR THERE TO BE A LEADERSHIP CONTEST?
  
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• How does a Tory leadership contest work?

  11-12-2018 23:20
  If Theresa May does face a challenge from 48 of her MPs these events should follow.
  
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• PM May returns to Downing Street office - TV

  11-12-2018 23:19
  LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May has returned to her Downing Street office, television footage showed late on Tuesday, as media reported the threshold of lawmakers' letters to trigger a vote of no confidence in her leadership had been reached.
  
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• Sinn Fein MEP and staff flee Strasbourg gunman amid pandemonium

  11-12-2018 23:17
  Martina Anderson and her staff had been visiting the Christmas market in the French city when the shooting started.
  
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• Pressure Grows On Jeremy Corbyn To Trigger Brexit No-Confidence Vote After Keir Starmer Warning

  11-12-2018 23:17
  Labour has a tight window of opportunity to trigger a no-confidence motion in
  
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• Backstop must be removed, Arlene Foster insists

  11-12-2018 23:15
  The Democratic Unionist leader was speaking ahead of travelling to London on Wednesday for a series of meetings.
  
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• Lucas Moura’s late goal in Barcelona takes Tottenham through to last 16

  11-12-2018 23:04
  The drama and tension were unremitting to the last. Tottenham had been in and out and then they were back in again when the substitute Lucas Moura connected with Harry Kane’s cross to snatch the equaliser. Spurs had pressed hard on the front foot throughout an excellent second-half performance and the goal was no more than they deserved. Related: Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino: ‘I never said it was impossible’Continue reading...
  
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• Pinocchio and the two Democrats: how that Trump meeting descended into farce

  11-12-2018 23:00
  The president’s heated public exchange with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer was the political equivalent of a custard pie fightIt seemed to start on cordial terms, a brave new world of bipartisan dialogue on the great issues of the day, less than a week after the funeral of George HW Bush.Just kidding. Continue reading...
  
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• Strasbourg Christmas market shooting: suspect on the run after three killed

  11-12-2018 22:45
  France upgrades security threat level after terrorist attack leaves at least 12 injuredFrance has upgraded its security threat level as police hunted a gunman who shot three people dead and injured 12 others in a terror attack on Strasbourg’s celebrated Christmas market on Tuesday evening.Six hours after the gunman disappeared after firing at passers-by in the busy city centre, interior minister Christophe Castaner said the government had raised the risk level to the highest category. Cont
  
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• PM May could face confidence motion on Wednesday night - lawmaker

  11-12-2018 22:42
  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's lawmakers could vote on a no confidence motion in her leadership as soon as Wednesday night, said a Conservative lawmaker who has long been critical of May.
  
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• Don't know if threshold reached to trigger no confidence vote in PM May - Rees-Mogg

  11-12-2018 22:40
  (Reuters) - Eurosceptic British lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg said in an interview with CNBC he does not know if the 48-letter threshold has been reached to trigger no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Theresa May's leadership.
  
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• Brazil: gunman kills four worshippers during mass at cathedral

  11-12-2018 22:32
  Campinas gunman Euler Fernando Gandolfo, 49, also wounded four others before killing himself
  A man opened fire in a cathedral in southern Brazil after mass on Tuesday, killing four and leaving four others injured before turning a gun on himself, authorities said.The incident happened at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Campinas, a city about 60 miles (100km) north of São Paulo. Continue reading...
  
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• Threshold reached to trigger no confidence vote in PM May - BBC

  11-12-2018 21:55
  LONDON (Reuters) - Enough letters have been submitted by Conservative lawmakers to trigger a vote of no confidence in British Prime Minister Theresa May's leadership, the BBC reported on Tuesday, citing multiple sources who believe the tally of 48 has been reached.
  
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• US accused of obstructing talks at UN climate change summit

  11-12-2018 21:52
  Vanuatu’s foreign minister says worst offenders on global warming are blocking progressThe United States and other high carbon dioxide-emitting developed countries are deliberately frustrating the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, Vanuatu’s foreign minister has said. His warning came as Pacific and Indian ocean states warned they faced annihilation if a global climate “rule book” could not brokered.In a bruising speech before ministers and heads of state, Vanuatu&rsq
  
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• Theresa May Should 'Resign Now' Says Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg As 'No Confidence' Speculation Intensifies

  11-12-2018 21:49
  Theresa May should resign immediately because her humiliating climbdown over
  
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• Tommy Robinson Supporter Filmed Launching 'Black C**t' Tirade At Train Passenger

  11-12-2018 21:34
  A self-proclaimed Tommy Robinson supporter has been filmed launching a lengthy
  
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• Melting ice art installation opens at London's Tate Modern

  11-12-2018 21:19 via bbc.co.uk
  An art installation featuring 30 blocks of ice brought from Greenland has been unveiled in London.
  
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• Premiership Rugby aiming to finalise £230m CVC deal by Christmas

  11-12-2018 21:17
  • Agreement reached in principle with private equity firm
  • Each club will receive £18m windfall if deal goes throughPremiership Rugby hopes to conclude a £230m agreement with a private equity firm before Christmas after a board meeting on Tuesday failed to tie up a few loose ends.When the 13 shareholders in Premiership Rugby, made up of the 12 clubs in the top flight plus London Irish, first discussed the proposal in September they rejected it, not least because CVC Capita
  
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• Strasbourg: 'Extremist' Gunman On The Run As Two Shot Dead Near Christmas Market

  11-12-2018 21:01
  Two people have died following gunshots in the French city of Strasbourg on
  
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• British Steel Redcar named as Britain's least used railway station

  11-12-2018 21:00
  A North Yorkshire railway station has been named Britain's least used after it fell victim to the closure of a steel works.Only 40 passengers used British Steel Redcar in 2017/18, according to Office of Rail and Road figures.The National Rail Enquiries website says the station has no ticket machines, no waiting room, no toilet facilities and no step-free access.
  
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• Threat of no-confidence vote in May grows as Tories lobby against her

  11-12-2018 20:58
  Theresa May’s grip on power appears to be slipping as speculation grows at Westminster that she could face a vote of no confidence from Tory MPs exasperated at her last-minute decision to pull the meaningful vote.While the prime minister took a whistlestop tour of European capitals on Tuesday in an effort to win fresh concessions from EU leaders, MPs were lobbying colleagues to submit letters of no confidence in her leadership to Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 Committee of backbencher
  
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• May’s leadership under threat as Tory MPs mobilise against her

  11-12-2018 20:58
  Theresa May’s grip on power appears to be slipping as speculation grows at Westminster that she could face a vote of no confidence from Tory MPs exasperated at her last-minute decision to pull the meaningful vote.While the prime minister took a whistlestop tour of European capitals on Tuesday in an effort to win fresh concessions from EU leaders, MPs were lobbying colleagues to submit letters of no confidence in her leadership to Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 Committee of backbencher
  
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• EU to act on derivatives clearing in case of no-deal Brexit - document

  11-12-2018 20:51
  The European Union is set to implement a commitment to avoid disruption in the cross-border derivatives market if Britain crashes out of the bloc next March without a deal, an EU document showed on Tuesday.British Prime Minister Theresa May's decision on Monday to delay a parliamentary vote on Britain's divorce settlement with the EU has increased the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.This would leave EU customers cut off from UK-based market operators if no contingency measures were in place.
  
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• EU risks bank crisis from 'no-deal' Brexit, say UK officials

  11-12-2018 20:49
  UK officials have been warning EU27 nations that a "no-deal" Brexit places a high risk of financial disruption to their banks, Sky News understands.Dozens of banks, including some of Europe's biggest in Germany and France, have complex outstanding financial contracts, known as derivatives, notionally worth tens of trillions of pounds, operated through the City of London.Sky sources say that the names of specific EU mega-banks especially exposed to and reliant on UK cleared derivatives have been
  
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• Greenwich Stabbing: Police Name Teenager Stabbed To Death In London In Latest Wave Of Violence

  11-12-2018 20:47
  Police have named an 18-year-old man who died after being knifed in a flat in
  
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• Struggling UK universities warn staff of possible job cuts

  11-12-2018 20:46
  Unions say cutting university staff would send out the wrong signal to potential students.Universities are warning staff to prepare for redundancies in the new year as a result of deteriorating balance sheets and lowered forecasts for student recruitment, coupled with the uncertainty of Brexit and sudden shifts in government policy.In recent days more than half a dozen universities have told staff there could be job cuts in 2019, including members of the research-intensive Russell Group such as
  
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• Why the film-maker behind Love Is the Message is turning his lens to whiteness

  11-12-2018 20:37
  Arthur Jafa says his celebrated short offered only a ‘microwave epiphany about blackness’Just days after the US presidential election in 2016, Arthur Jafa debuted his seven-minute film Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death, which won acclaim as a hugely impactful portrayal of American life.Set to Kanye West’s anthemic homily Ultralight Beam, the film oscillated between clips of ordinary black life and extraordinary violence inflicted on black bodies. Continue reading...
  
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• Labour keeps open possibility of December no-confidence vote

  11-12-2018 20:36
  Labour has not ruled out tabling a motion of no confidence in the government before Christmas if the prime minister fails to bring her Brexit deal back to the House of Commons for a vote.Tuesday’s weekly meeting of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet saw a lively discussion about the best parliamentary tactics in the wake of the prime minister’s shock decision to delay the meaningful vote, the Guardian understands.
  
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• England’s Joe Cokanasiga faces battle to prove Six Nations fitness after knee injury

  11-12-2018 20:36
  • Wing damaged medial ligament in loss to Leinster
  • Eddie Jones due to name squad on 16 JanuaryThe England wing Joe Cokanasiga is set to be out of action until the new year and faces a battle to prove his fitness for the Six Nations after Bath confirmed he has suffered a torn medial knee ligament. Related: Joe Cokanasiga has power and pace to add to England’s strength in depthContinue reading...
  
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• 'Gold-plated' investor visa scheme 'not suspended'

  11-12-2018 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  The £2m fast-track to settling in the UK remains open, contrary to announcements, the Home Office says.
  
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• Improvised weapon ‘designed to kill police officers’ found in Belfast

  11-12-2018 20:23
  The discovery follows a security operation in the Upper Dunmurry Lane area in the west of the city which lasted several days.
  
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• Cheshire police chief cleared of misconduct in 'bullying' inquiry

  11-12-2018 20:22
  Simon Byrne, suspended chief constable, exonerated after panel dismisses all 74 claimsA chief constable whose career ended while he was suspended over more than 70 misconduct claims has been completely cleared of wrongdoing.Simon Byrne was cleared by a panel of all 74 allegations made against him while he was chief constable of Cheshire police. Some of the claims were branded “trivial” and “exaggerated”. Continue reading...
  
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• Cheshire police chief cleared of misconduct in 'bullying' inquiry

  11-12-2018 20:22
  Simon Byrne, pictured while serving in the Met police.A chief constable whose career ended while he was suspended as he faced more than 70 misconduct claims, has been completely cleared of wrongdoing.Simon Byrne was cleared by a panel over all of the 74 allegations made against him while he was chief constable of Cheshire police.
  
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• After May's appeal, Germany's Merkel says no more Brexit negotiations

  11-12-2018 20:10
  Germany's Angela Merkel and other European Union leaders ruled out more negotiations on Brexit on Tuesday but were looking for ways to offer Britain reassurances after Prime Minister Theresa May pulled a parliamentary vote rather than lose heavily.With less than four months left until the United Kingdom is due to leave the EU on March 29, May's Brexit deal is floundering, opening up prospects that run the gamut from a disorderly no-deal divorce to calling Brexit off.A day after abruptly pulling
  
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• Google boss Sundar Pichai fends off claims of political bias

  11-12-2018 20:05
  The chief executive faced a grilling about its usage of people’s data and its work with China.
  
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• Criminalisation of sex work normalises violence, review finds

  11-12-2018 20:00
  Sex workers three times more likely to experience violence from client where trade is criminalised, data showsSex workers are more likely to suffer poor health, violence and abuse in countries where their trade is criminalised, a major review has found.The review, by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, found that sex workers suffering repressive policing – including arrest, imprisonment and extortion by officers – were three times more likely to exper
  
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• Aquaman review – a complete bellyflop

  11-12-2018 20:00
  This part-underwater-set superhero origin story is a mess and even Jason Momoa’s good-ol’-boy persona can’t revive itAfter appearances in two earlier films, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, Aquaman now gets his own origin-story showcase in the DC Extended Universe, a story of his infancy and childhood that kicks off like a laugh-free version of Ron Howard’s Splash. Despite some engagingly surreal moments, heartfelt environmentalist gestures, big-name
  
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• Father Christmas given parking ticket at shopping centre

  11-12-2018 19:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Santa said he was "stunned" to receive the fine, but promises it will not ruin Christmas.
  
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• Theresa May struggles with freedom of movement in a child-proof limo | John Crace

  11-12-2018 19:58
  In Brussels, the prime minister was rather wishing the car door had never openedWhile the prime minister kept Angela Merkel waiting for 30 seconds as she struggled with the child lock on her limo in Berlin, back home her ministers were left to pick up the pieces of her decision to unilaterally pull the vote on her Brexit deal. Phones that were normally on 24/7 were switched off. Related: The Guardian view on MPs and Brexit: parliament must decide | EditorialContinue reading...
  
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• May struggles with freedom of movement in a child-proof limo

  11-12-2018 19:58
  While the prime minister kept Angela Merkel waiting for 30 seconds as she struggled with the child lock on her limo in Berlin, back home her ministers were left to pick up the pieces of her decision to unilaterally pull the vote on her Brexit deal.It was inevitable then that the junior Brexit minister, Robin Walker, was made to answer Yvette Cooper’s urgent question on the legal timing of the vote that had been tabled for the attorney general.There is a good reason Walker is the only minis
  
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• Theresa May brushes aside speculation of impending confidence vote

  11-12-2018 19:51
  The Prime Minister said she had found a ‘shared determination’ to deal with Brexit concerns during meetings with EU leaders.
  
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