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• New Brexit vote would 'break faith' with British, says May

  16-12-2018 23:58
  Prime Minister Theresa May will state her opposition to a second Brexit referendum on Monday, telling parliament such a vote would "break faith" with British people and do "irreparable damage" to politics.With May facing deadlock in parliament over her deal to leave the European Union and the bloc offering little in the way of concessions to win lawmakers over, more politicians are calling for a second referendum to break the impasse."Another vote which would do irreparable damage to the integri
  
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• Sports Personality of the Year winner: Geraint Thomas triumphs after Tour de France success

  16-12-2018 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas beats Lewis Hamilton and Harry Kane to be named BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2018.
  
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• Colin Kroll, HQ Trivia and Vine app co-founder, dies in New York aged 34

  16-12-2018 23:40 via theguardian.com
  Police find technology entrepreneur unconscious on his bed in Manhattan apartmentColin Kroll, a technology executive who co-founded the HQ Trivia app, has been found dead in New York at the age of 34.The city’s police department said officers had gone to Kroll’s Manhattan apartment early on Sunday after getting a call asking for a wellbeing check on him. He was found unconscious and unresponsive on his bed.Continue reading...
  
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• Second Brexit referendum would be a disaster, warns May - Daily Mail

  16-12-2018 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  Second Brexit referendum would be a disaster, warns May  Daily MailMPs could resolve Brexit deadlock with non-binding free votes, says senior Tory  The GuardianThere will be no People's Vote as Theresa May condemns call for second Brexit referendum  MetroA people’s vote on Brexit was a distant hope. Last week changed that  The GuardianTheresa May: Second EU referendum would do ‘irreparable damage’  iNewsView full coverage on Goo
  
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• Lord Sugar hires his Apprentice for 2018

  16-12-2018 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Did nut milk entrepreneur Camilla Ainsworth or swimwear designer Sian Gabbidon win the £250,000 investment?
  
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• Brexit battle: Theresa May to reject growing calls for second EU referendum

  16-12-2018 23:31
  Theresa May is to reject the growing calls from MPs for a new Brexit referendum, claiming it would be a breach of faith with voters.Mr Blair hit back by accusing her of trying to "steamroller" MPs into accepting a bad Brexit deal and of threatening to have the UK "crash out" of the EU without a deal.In her statement to MPs, Mrs May will declare: "Let us not break faith with the British people by trying to stage another referendum.
  
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• Theresa May To Warn Second Brexit Referendum Would Do 'Irreparable Damage' To British Politics

  16-12-2018 23:30
  Theresa May will move to dampen calls for a new Brexit referendum by warning a
  
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• May will warn that new Brexit poll would damage democracy

  16-12-2018 23:30
  PM will use an address to the Commons to attack calls for a fresh referendum on EU withdrawal.
  
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• Brexit: PM to urge parliament not to 'break faith with the people'

  16-12-2018 23:30
  The prime minister made little progress on the Irish backstop at the EU summit in Brussels.Theresa May will urge MPs on Monday not to “break faith with the British people” by demanding a second referendum, as she faces intense pressure to give parliament a say on Brexit before Christmas.The prime minister will make a statement to MPs on last week’s European council summit in Brussels, from which she returned with little evidence of progress in securing legal reassurances on the
  
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• Team Sky cyclist Geraint Thomas wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year

  16-12-2018 23:08
  Team Sky cyclist Geraint Thomas has been named BBC Sports Personality of the Year.Thomas was the first Welshman to win the Tour de France in July, the first Grand Tour success of his 12-year career.The other athletes short-listed for the award were triple European sprint champion Dina Asher-Smith, English cricket's record test wicket taker James Anderson and double Olympic skeleton champion, Lizzy Yarnold.
  
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• Scrapping Severn bridges toll ‘could increase traffic and business costs’

  16-12-2018 23:03
  Charges for crossing the two bridges will be scrapped from Monday.
  
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• Saturday Night Live satirises Theresa May’s week after confidence vote

  16-12-2018 22:36
  Matt Damon played the role of former prime minister David Cameron in the comedy sketch.
  
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• BREXIT NO DEAL WARNING: Tourists booking holidays after March 29 could face travel CHOAS

  16-12-2018 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  TOURISTS could be warned not to book holidays after March 29 in the event of a no deal Brexit under emergency contingency plans discussed by government officials, it has been claimed.
  
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• SPOTY winner announced

  16-12-2018 22:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch as Geraint Thomas is announced as the winner of BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2018 at the Genting Arena in Birmingham.
  
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• Geraint Thomas Wins BBC Sports Personality Of The Year

  16-12-2018 22:06
  Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas has won the BBC Sports Personality of
  
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• REVEALED: How German hate preacher who inspired jihadis made UK his HOME under May

  16-12-2018 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  A GERMAN hate preacher who allegedly helped inspire more than 100 jihadists to join terrorists in Syria moved to Britain during Prime Minister Theresa May’s time as home secretary, it has emerged.
  
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• Girl, 15, arrested over double stabbing in Ipswich

  16-12-2018 21:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Two men suffered injuries in an attack in Ipswich, police say.
  
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• Chester Zoo staff 'devastated' after fire

  16-12-2018 21:14 via bbc.co.uk
  Some birds, frogs, fish and insects could not be saved on "one of the zoo's toughest days".
  
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• Planes Struggled To Land As Storm Deirdre Hit Manchester Airport

  16-12-2018 20:55
  Planes were struggling to land at Manchester Airport as Storm Deirdre battered
  
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• Two women die in Woodhead Pass car crash in icy conditions

  16-12-2018 20:41
  Two people have died in a car crash during the weekend's icy weather.The two women, 20 and 22, were in a white Fiat 500 which collided with a blue Mini Cooper on the A628 Woodhead Pass in Barnsley.South Yorkshire police said a number of witnesses stopped at the scene of the collision, which happened at around 1.30pm on Saturday.
  
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• Battlefield V Getting Playlists with Original Time to Kill Restored - Game Rant

  16-12-2018 20:34 via gamerant.com
  Battlefield V Getting Playlists with Original Time to Kill Restored  Game RantDICE responds to Battlefield 5 TTK controversy  VG247DICE Responds To Controversial Battlefield 5 Changes  GameSpotBattlefield 5 will add more 'core' playlists with old TTK values next week  PC GamerDICE Adds New Battlefield 5 Playlists With Old TTK Balancing  VGR.comView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Collingham fire: Boy, 5, is third family member to die

  16-12-2018 20:24 via bbc.co.uk
  A boy aged five dies in hospital following the deaths of his mother and eight-year-old sister.
  
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• In Video: Planes abort landings at Manchester Airport

  16-12-2018 20:05
  Storm Deidre brought challenging conditions.
  
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• UK efforts in Iraq 'hindered by hostile immigration policy'

  16-12-2018 20:02
  Government-backed projects to tackle the aftermath of the war in Iraq have been frustrated or scuppered by the UK’s continuing “hostile” immigration policy, it has been claimed.A scheme that involves training Iraqi civil servants at UK universities faces being axed after immigration officials rejected dozens of student visa applications.Another project, funded by the UK government to research gender-based displacement and violence in Iraqi Kurdistan, was hampered when six membe
  
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• Explorer And Ex-Soldier Anthony Middleton Thinks 'Suffering' Caused By No Deal Brexit Would 'Bring Back British Values'

  16-12-2018 19:50
  An explorer and former special forces soldier has faced a backlash on social
  
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• Brexit: what options are mooted to break the stalemate?

  16-12-2018 19:41
  Theresa May leaves a press conference after the EU summit last week.As Theresa May prepares to address parliament on Monday after Downing Street denied there were plans for a second referendum, here are some of the options being floated as a solution to the current impasse.
  
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• Is the public falling out of love with Meghan over rumours of tantrums?

  16-12-2018 19:33
  This weekend we've seen more newspaper reports that it's not all happy families at Kensington Palace, some of which I have been told are total fiction.After 2018 started with wall-to-wall excitement and largely positive stories about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, why has the tone of the coverage changed?Under the protection of anonymity some of those who are apparently close to Harry and Meghan have been happy to spill the beans.
  
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• Saturday Night Live skit sends up Theresa May's Brexit woes

  16-12-2018 19:00
  In the SNL sketch, the prime minister, played by Kate McKinnon, busts out her infamous dance moves.A robot-dancing Theresa May has been given the Saturday Night Live treatment after her political week to forget.The US late-night show, which often lampoons Donald Trump, turned its comedic lens on British politics for the sketch titled “Happy Christmas, Britain!”.
  
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• A second referendum and curbs on migration

  16-12-2018 18:48
  Chris Hughes wonders why Theresa May and David Cameron did not avail themselves of the ‘whole range of controls’ used by other EU member states to control free movement?Jonathan Freedland is right to argue that the EU is not going to bust apart its treaty laws just to give anti-foreigner forces here some comfort (Winning a second referendum is possible – with Europe’s help, 15 December).Indeed, in the political declaration agreed between Theresa May and other heads of gov
  
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• NHS to offer mature students £5k to become mental health nurses

  16-12-2018 18:46
  Applications from mature students to study mental health and disability nursing having fallen by 40% since 2016.The NHS will offer mature students a £5,000 bonus to become mental health or learning disability nurses as part of its forthcoming long term plan, the Guardian can reveal.The payments are designed to tackle severe nursing shortages in two areas that NHS bosses and ministers have agreed are key priorities in which care needs to be significantly improved.
  
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• Consumers hit the shops – but weekend footfall down on last year

  16-12-2018 18:32
  Experts said a lack of consumer confidence lies at the heart of a lower spend both in shops and online.
  
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• Enduring lessons of Donald Winnicott’s toy story

  16-12-2018 18:27
  Loved toys can help children cope with separation and loss.The piece about the importance of the transitional object (Bear necessities, G2, 12 December) brought to mind another of Donald Winnicott’s coinages: the “good enough” parent.
  
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• Examining human behaviour and bias

  16-12-2018 18:25
  ‘When you tap my knee with a reflex hammer and I kick, that’s a reflex.If I’m still kicking you a minute later, that’s something else,’ says Eldar Shafir of Princeton University.Implicit bias is frequently invoked these days, from racial bias in the classroom or in hiring, to gender bias in academic settings.
  
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• Man’s body found on beach

  16-12-2018 18:19
  Police said the death was being treated as unexplained.
  
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• Labour attacks police cuts as figures show fall in charging rates

  16-12-2018 18:14
  The government announced last week an additional £970m in police funding for 2019.Labour has accused the government of putting people in danger through police cuts, after figures showed that the proportion of arrests for suspected violent offences that led to a charge had fallen by a third in two years.The figures, which come days after a new funding settlement for police was criticised as insufficient, showed it was not possible to “keep people safe on the cheap”, said the sha
  
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• Russia using 'hardcore propaganda' against UK, warns top diplomat

  16-12-2018 18:03
  Latvia has raised concerns with Britain over what one diplomat described as "hardcore propaganda" against the UK and its allies aired by two Russian-language television channels that are registered in London.A letter seen by Sky News from the Latvian foreign ministry to Sir Alan Duncan, a foreign office minister, alleges "malicious" reporting by NTV Mir and Ren TV - which broadcast into the Baltic states - in their coverage of the Salisbury nerve agent attack.Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, i
  
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• Corbyn: Scottish Government must lift inhumane two-child cap

  16-12-2018 17:54
  The Labour Party leader was speaking in Edinburgh as he attended a Christmas lunch alongside people who have experienced homelessness.
  
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• Mystery of woman found unconscious with head injury

  16-12-2018 17:53
  A passing motorist found the woman in Beith, Ayrshire, on Friday.
  
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• Woman arrested for suspected drink driving after car ends up in tree

  16-12-2018 17:35
  A woman has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving after a crash that left a car vertical in a tree.The blue vehicle dramatically overturned after smashing into a telegraph pole on the B4386 at Cruckton, near Shrewsbury in the early hours of Sunday.West Mercia Police posted a picture of the crumpled vehicle held up in branches with the front of the car pointing to the ground.
  
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• Three young men assaulted during night out

  16-12-2018 17:29
  One of the men needed hospital treatment after suffering a facial injury in the attack in Glasgow.
  
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• Tributes paid to three family members killed in Nottinghamshire fire

  16-12-2018 17:27
  Tributes have been paid to a family involved in a house fire that killed two children and their mother.Justine Collinson, 33, died along with eight-year-old daughter, Isabella, and her five-year-old son, Harvey.The fire broke out at around 7am on Saturday at the family’s home in the Nottinghamshire village of Collingham.
  
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• Brexit: What happens next may have to be put to MPs' vote - Fox

  16-12-2018 17:15 via bbc.co.uk
  A free vote by MPs is an option, says Brexiteer Liam Fox - but he thinks a new EU referendum unlikely.
  
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• How zombie Theresa May has left no option for Brexiteers other than No Deal chaos - The Sun

  16-12-2018 17:12 via thesun.co.uk
  How zombie Theresa May has left no option for Brexiteers other than No Deal chaos  The SunThere are at least five possible directions for Brexit on the table - but they all seem doomed because none will win the backing of MPs.View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Mother and two children killed in house fire in Nottinghamshire

  16-12-2018 17:07
  Three family members who died after a house fire in Nottinghamshire were a mother and two children.A 33-year-old woman, understood to be Justine Collison, died on Saturday following the blaze in Collingham.It is understood a 34-year-old man who remains in a serious condition in hospital is Mrs Collison's husband Gavin.
  
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• Farage has BRILLIANT reaction to Tony Blair’s latest attempt to 'MEDDLE' with Brexit vote

  16-12-2018 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  NIGEL FARAGE has hit out at Tony Blair for his “constant meddling” in Brexit and insisted he would simply fuel the Leave vote again in the event of there being a second Brexit referendum.
  
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• Planes struggle to land at Manchester Airport

  16-12-2018 16:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Storm Deirdre has brought strong winds to the UK this weekend, resulting in planes having to abort landings.
  
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• Sean Garland ‘helped transform Irish republicanism’

  16-12-2018 16:47
  The former Workers’ Party president died from cancer on Thursday aged 84.
  
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• Change in student loan accounting could add £10bn to national debt

  16-12-2018 16:38
  Loans for tuition and maintenance in England are not yet included in the Treasury’s public sector net borrowing figures.The government faces an extra £10bn being added to its borrowing as the result of a radical shake-up in the accounting for student loans, with experts warning of increased uncertainty over the outlook for university funding.The Office for National Statistics is due to announce its plans to change provisions for student loans in the UK’s national accounts, with
  
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• Blair: May is 'banging her head against a brick wall'

  16-12-2018 16:30
  The former prime minister says both the EU and the UK would benefit from extending Article 50 to allow for another vote on Brexit.
  
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• Where do former prime ministers and ex-party leaders stand on Brexit?

  16-12-2018 16:19
  Tony Blair and Theresa May have been embroiled in a public row after she accused him of "undermining" the EU divorce talks by calling for a second Brexit referendum.Mrs May's predecessor triggered the referendum on Britain's membership of the EU and campaigned for Remain, before leaving politics shortly after the historic vote came back for Leave.
  
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