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• Twiggy, Southgate, Kane and Cook all honoured in New Year list

  28-12-2018 23:53
  Sixties supermodel Twiggy has been given a damehood in the New Year Honours list for services to fashion, the arts and charity.The 69-year-old, who has enjoyed a 50-year career in modelling, singing and acting, told Sky News her legs "went weak" when she opened the letter.Dame Twiggy added: "I am a very proud Brit.
  
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• Python Palin and Dame Twiggy joined by cave rescue divers in 2019 honours list

  28-12-2018 23:48
  There is also recognition for people who responded to the terror attacks in Manchester and London in 2017.
  
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• New Year Honours 2019: Twiggy, Palin and Pullman

  28-12-2018 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  The comedian is among those recognised in the New Year Honours alongside Twiggy and Philip Pulman.
  
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• Special honour for William and Kate’s personal assistant

  28-12-2018 23:38
  Natasha Archer has been made a member of the Royal Victorian Order by the Queen.
  
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• World’s oldest supermodel recognised in honours still has ‘plenty of energy’

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Daphne Selfe was ‘totally surprised’ to have been awarded a British Empire Medal for her services to women and fashion.
  
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• Volunteer honoured for work with stroke charity

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Paul Okroj said he is passionate about highlighting the impact volunteering has in Scotland.
  
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• Violinist Nicola Benedetti adds another string to her bow with CBE

  28-12-2018 23:30
  The musician is a passionate supporter of efforts to encourage children to learn an instrument.
  
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• Victims of Viagogo campaign founder given MBE after helping reclaim almost £1m

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Claire Turnham created the VofV group on Facebook in early 2017 after she was overcharged by Viagogo for Ed Sheeran tickets.
  
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• Trio of British businesswomen to receive New Year’s honours

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Jayne-Anne Gadhia, Ann Gloag and Alison Brittain will all be recognised.
  
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• Trio honoured for work at University of Glasgow

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Professor Iain McInnes has been made a CBE for services to medicine.
  
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• Sporting greats Gregg and McBride on New Year Honours list

  28-12-2018 23:30
  The two stars will be joined by Northern Ireland’s first female firefighter.
  
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• New Year's Honours list 2019 REVEALED: Military honours, celebrity honours IN FULL

  28-12-2018 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE New Years Honour list has been released and the recipients include sports stars, celebrities, military personnel and hundreds of community champions. Here are the celebrity and military honours in full.
  
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• New Year's Honours: Brave, hardworking Britons big winners in Queen's list

  28-12-2018 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  British divers who helped save a youth football team trapped inside a flooded cave in Thailand have been decorated alongside stars of entertainment, sport and the arts in the 2019 New Year Honours list.
  
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• New Year honours list rewards terror attack responders

  28-12-2018 23:30 via theguardian.com
  London and Manchester emergency workers recognised along with Twiggy, Margaret Atwood and Michael PalinDozens of emergency service workers have been recognised in a New Year honours list that highlights the extraordinary response to major terrorist incidents in London and Manchester.Celebrities including the 1960s model Twiggy, who becomes a dame, and the comedian and TV presenter Michael Palin, who is knighted, are also garlanded in the 2019 list alongside the literary giants Margaret Atwood an
  
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• Knighthood for prominent Brexit supporter who twice ran for Tory leader

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Campaigners for a second EU referendum said the gong for John Redwood was a sign of Theresa May’s weakness.
  
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• Knife crime activists recognised in New Year honours

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Mark Prince, far left, and Stephen Addison, second from right, with Diana Parkinson, Andria Zafirakou and Andrea Aviet outside Admiralty House.Two campaigners tackling knife and gang crime in London are among those on the New Year honours list.Mark Prince, a former boxer, receives an OBE for his work after the fatal stabbing of his 15-year-old son, Kiyan, a prodigious footballing talent, in 2006.
  
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• Honour for man who became youngest paramedic in Scotland

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Paul Gowens has been awarded the Queen’s Ambulance Service Medal, which recognises exceptional devotion to duty, merit and conduct.
  
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• Health campaigner ‘humbled’ at MBE

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Melissa Mead has campaigned to raise awareness of sepsis after her one-year-old son William died from the condition in 2014.
  
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• Former Scotland international Doddie Weir ‘humbled’ by OBE

  28-12-2018 23:30
  The rugby legend was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2017.
  
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• Father of murdered nurse Jane Clough ‘very proud’ with MBE

  28-12-2018 23:30
  John Clough and his wife Penny, who was honoured in 2013, have been prominent campaigners since her death in 2010.
  
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• Education chief honoured for services to learning in Scotland

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Maria Walker, Education Scotland’s strategic director, was named in the Queen’s New Year Honours List.
  
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• Dundee life scientist working to eliminate disease knighted

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Professor Mike Ferguson is recognised in the New Year Honours.
  
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• Doddie Weir and Ann Gloag recognised in New Year Honours

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Scots from a range of fields have been honoured by the Queen.
  
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• British Red Cross volunteer with 40 years of service honoured

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Professor Colin Moffat said he is ‘only a small cog in the big Red Cross wheel’.
  
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• Alastair Cook leads list of sporting New Year honours with knighthood

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Alastair Cook became the 11th Englishman to be knighted for services to cricket.Alastair Cook has been hailed as an exemplary ambassador for cricket after the former England captain received a knighthood in the New Year honours list.Colin Graves, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, led the praise for Cook after the 34-year-old became the 11th Englishman to be knighted for services to cricket.
  
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• Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland review – pure gallus from a folk comedy hero

  28-12-2018 23:01 via theguardian.com
  Connolly recounts his thrilling escape from the shipyards in a vivid portrait of 1960s Glasgow‘When I was nominated for a knighthood, the woman interviewing me said, very nicely, ‘It’ll be strange for you, having a knighthood, coming from nothing.’ And I said, I don’t come from nothing. I come from something.”
  There are many reasons to cheer Billy Connolly. Him being possibly the greatest standup comedian of all time is a sound one. But in his documentary dota
  
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• Army captain becomes first Briton to cross Antarctica solo

  28-12-2018 22:44
  Captain Lou Rudd also sets the record for the the most expedition miles covered in the frozen continent
  
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• Vital ecosystems in tidal flats lost to development and rising sea levels

  28-12-2018 22:07 via theguardian.com
  First global coastline survey shows 16% of tidal flats lost between 1984 and 2016Coastal development and sea level rise are causing the decline of tidal flats along the world’s coastlines, according to research that has mapped the ecosystems for the first time.Scientists from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Queensland used machine-learning to analyse more than 700,000 satellite images to map the extent of and change in tidal flats around the globe. Continue r
  
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• Iceland bridge crash: Family's 'horrifying shock' as three killed

  28-12-2018 21:34
  The family of two British women and a baby girl who died in a car crash in Iceland say the accident has come as a "horrifying shock".Rajshree and Khushboo Laturia, and 10-month-old Shreeprabha Laturia, died when the 4x4 they were in careered off a bridge.Shreeprabha was the daughter of Rajshree and her husband Shreeraj Laturia.
  
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• Iceland bridge crash victims’ relatives describe ‘horrifying shock’

  28-12-2018 21:25
  The vehicle was carrying two British brothers travelling around the country with their families.
  
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• Suspended Labour MP found guilty of lying to police insists she will not resign

  28-12-2018 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  A DISGRACED Labour MP was convicted of lying to police over a speeding offence has indicated she will not resign.
  
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• Woman charged with murdering two children in Margate

  28-12-2018 21:17
  A 37-year-old woman has been charged with murder after two children died in Margate, police have said.
  
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• Man killed in house blast in Hampshire town of Andover named

  28-12-2018 21:09
  A man who died in a gas explosion at a house in Hampshire has been named as James Kirkby.Neighbouring properties were evacuated as a precaution in Launcelot Close, off King Arthurs Way.Forensic investigators remain at the scene as part of enquiries into the cause of the explosion.
  
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• Channel crossings: 'Every day you look for the smuggler and take a chance'

  28-12-2018 21:09
  A Border Force patrol boat in Dover Marina. Ali is still in Calais after being picked up twice trying to cross the Channel. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
  
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• Wildlife park brothers to embark on conservation roadtrip across Africa

  28-12-2018 21:00
  The team from Paradise Wildlife Park in Hertfordshire plan to deliver equipment and funds to anti-poaching projects in a number of countries.
  
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• Woman charged with murder after deaths of two children in Margate

  28-12-2018 20:46
  The house in Margate where the two children were discovered on Thursday.A woman has been charged with murder in connection with the deaths of two children in Margate.Samantha Ford, 37, has been charged with two counts of murder after the children were discovered at a property in the Kent coastal town in the early hours of Thursday, Kent and Essex serious crime directorate said.
  
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• Smiling stock photo actors used in post-Brexit immigration scheme advert

  28-12-2018 20:24
  A dozen smiling people featured in a Brexit advert by the government have been revealed as models posing for a stock photo.The video - released by the Home Office on Twitter - told EU citizens what they needed to do to stay in the UK after Brexit.It gave them details of the "settled status scheme", the new way those from the continent already living in Britain will be categorised for immigration purposes.
  
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• Woman charged with murder following deaths of two children

  28-12-2018 20:23
  Samantha Ford, 37, is due to appear in court on Saturday.
  
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• Bomb attack on tourist bus near pyramids kills at least four people

  28-12-2018 20:22 via theguardian.com
  Egyptian officials say roadside bomb exploded near bus carrying Vietnamese touristsAt least four people have been killed and another 10 injured after a roadside bomb exploded near a bus carrying Vietnamese tourists close to the pyramids in Giza.Three of the dead were Vietnamese and one was an Egyptian tour guide. Continue reading...
  
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• Channel migrant crossings: who is coming and why?

  28-12-2018 20:16 via theguardian.com
  Seaborne migration to England from France has been rising steadily due to range of factorsHome secretary Sajid Javid has declared the rising number of migrants attempting to cross the Channel to be a major incident. Javid has appointed a gold commander to deal with the growing crisis and asked for an urgent call with his French counterpart to discuss the issue. Continue reading...
  
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• Convicted MP Fiona Onasanya intends to stay in parliament

  28-12-2018 20:11 via theguardian.com
  The Labour MP, found guilty of perverting the course of justice, says she will continue to ‘fight injustice’An MP convicted of perverting the course of justice has indicated she intends to stay in the House of Commons, despite facing a possible jail sentence.Fiona Onasanya was suspended by Labour after being found guilty at the Old Bailey earlier this month. The party said in a statement that she should quit as MP for Peterborough. Continue reading...
  
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• How 99% of fuel thieves can get away scot-free

  28-12-2018 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  FUEL thieves in one of Britain's car crime hotspots are almost guaranteed to get away scot-free after police admitted garage forecourt CCTV is not good enough to snare the culprits.
  
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• Convicted MP plans to stay in Parliament

  28-12-2018 19:48
  Fiona Onasanya has said she will remain Peterborough MP despite facing a possible jail sentence for lying to police.
  
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• Revealed: homeless people given one-way tickets to other areas

  28-12-2018 19:43
  Data shows 6,810 travel tickets have been purchased by 83 councils in England and Wales since 2015.Thousands of rough sleepers and homeless people have been given one-way train, bus and flight tickets to leave areas by councils, and sometimes even to leave the country, in the last four years, a Guardian investigation can reveal.The tickets were bought through “reconnection policies” that aim to encourage rough sleepers to voluntarily return to areas where they have family and support
  
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• Second investigation launched into Scottish NHS waste firm

  28-12-2018 19:34
  Safety regulators have launched a second criminal investigation into a Scottish waste firm accused of stockpiling several hundred tonnes of toxic and infectious hospital waste, including body parts, at sites in England and Scotland.Healthcare Environmental Services (HES) laid off its workforce of about 400 people without pay on Thursday after the NHS cancelled dozens of waste collection contracts.The contracts were cancelled after warnings from the Environment Agency (EA) in England that HES was
  
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• How climate extremes were kind and cruel to British wildlife

  28-12-2018 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  WILDLIFE endured a "rollercoaster year" due to the sub-zero Beast From The East followed by England's warmest summer on record, the National Trust revealed yesterday.
  
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• Vatican hears testimony from alleged McCarrick abuse victim

  28-12-2018 19:25
  The Vatican has taken testimony from a man who says ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick sexually abused him for years starting when he was 11, evidence that the initial case against the retired archbishop has expanded to include serious allegations of misconduct.James Grein testified Thursday in New York before the judicial vicar for the New York City archdiocese, who was asked by the Holy See to take his statement, said Grein's civil attorney Patrick Noaker.The testimony, which lasted about an hour,
  
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• Brexiter hedge fund chief's bets against UK economy fail to pay off

  28-12-2018 19:24 via theguardian.com
  Crispin Odey’s share of profit from Odey Asset Management is down £4m on last yearCrispin Odey’s share of the profit of his hedge fund has fallen by £4m, as various bets made by the Brexit-backing billionaire against the UK economy and British businesses failed to pay off.Odey collected £1.5m from Odey Asset Management in the year to 5 April, a 72% decline on the £5.5m he made in the previous 12 months, according to accounts filed at Companies House. Continue
  
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• 19 for '19: unmissable sporting events to mark in your diary

  28-12-2018 19:22 via theguardian.com
  World cups will feature prominently in what promises to be a spectacular sporting yearMore than 7,000 athletes from 170 nations are due to compete at the largest multi-sport event for people with intellectual disabilities and one which in 2019 celebrates its 50th anniversary. There will be 24 different individual and team disciplines, ranging from athletics and badminton to cycling and kayaking, and Great Britain is expected to send over a team large enough to compete in every one. Continue read
  
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• Brian Adcock on what 2019 might hold for the prime minister – cartoon

  28-12-2018 19:12 via theguardian.com
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