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• Microsoft wins $1.76 billion defence contract - Pentagon

  11-01-2019 23:17
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has been awarded a five-year contract worth $1.76 billion (1.37 billion pounds) for delivering enterprise services for the Defense Department, Coast Guard and intelligence services, the Pentagon said on Friday.
  
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• Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa admits sending spy to Derby training

  11-01-2019 23:08
  Leeds United manager Marcelo Bielsa has admitted sending someone to spy on Derby County in training - but insisted it was "not illegal".Derby called police on Thursday morning following reports that a man was "acting suspiciously" on the perimeter of their training ground, ahead of the two teams' clash in the Championship, which Leeds won 2-0.The man was escorted away by police and Derby manager Frank Lampard stopped training until the incident was over.
  
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• Jose Munoz, Nissan's hard-charging chief performance officer and the man who drove the company's US sales to record highs, is leaving the automaker. - Automotive News Europe

  11-01-2019 23:06 via europe.autonews.com
  Jose Munoz, Nissan's hard-charging chief performance officer and the man who drove the company's US sales to record highs, is leaving the automaker.  Automotive News EuropeCarlos Ghosn: Ex-Nissan chair faces two new charges  BBC NewsSenior Nissan executive José Muñoz resigns as Ghosn probe widens  Financial TimesGhosn Deputy Resigns From Nissan a Week After Going on Leave  BloombergNissan top executive Munoz resigns amid broadened Ghosn probe
  
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• ‘A number in hospital’ after bus crashes into bridge in Highlands

  11-01-2019 22:27
  Fire, police and ambulance crews were sent to the scene.
  
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• Thieves steal 'extremely heavy' hippo sculpture in Kent

  11-01-2019 22:17
  Police are searching for an "extremely heavy" bronze hippopotamus which has been stolen in Kent.It weighs almost three quarters of a tonne so anyone taking it would have needed a "large vehicle such as a flatbed truck", PC Nick Lingham from Kent Police said.PC Lingham said the " hugely distinctive object" would not be easy to sell as scrap or to a collector.
  
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• Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa admits spying on Derby in training

  11-01-2019 22:12
  Leeds United manager Marcelo Bielsa has admitted sending someone to spy on Derby County in training, saying it is "not illegal".Derby called police on Thursday morning following reports that a man was "acting suspiciously" on the perimeter of their training ground, ahead of the two teams' clash in the Championship on Friday evening.The man was escorted away by police and manager Frank Lampard stopped training until the incident was over.
  
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• Ministers urge May to seek help from Corbyn if Brexit deal voted down - Bloomberg

  11-01-2019 21:45
  (Reuters) - Senior British ministers have urged Prime Minister Theresa May to invite opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn for talks with a view to agreeing a joint Brexit plan if parliament votes down her deal next week, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
  
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• Surrey Police criticised for blurring face of pickpocket caught on video stealing from shopper

  11-01-2019 20:37
  Police have been accused of protecting the identity of a pickpocket caught on video stealing from an elderly supermarket shopper.Iulian Vinatoru, 48, stole from a pensioner at a Waitrose supermarket in West Byfleet, Surrey, on 7 December.CCTV footage shows him approaching the victim from behind, reaching into his coat pocket and removing what looks like a wallet.
  
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• Two Britons injured in fatal bus crash in Cuba

  11-01-2019 20:26
  The driver said he lost control on the road between the cities of Baracoa and Guantanamo.
  
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• MPs' charity pancake race in Westminster cancelled over security fears

  11-01-2019 20:20
  A disability charity could lose out on some of its fundraising, after it cancelled a race in Westminster over MPs' security fears.Rehab scrapped its annual event with politicians, blaming the "intense level of activity" near parliament in the run up to a vote on the Brexit deal next week.It told hopeful competitors the pancake race scheduled for early March would "not be appropriate" to stage "against the background of this activity".
  
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• Jail for Briton who organised cyber attack on mobile phone network in Liberia

  11-01-2019 20:16
  Daniel Kaye was jailed for 32 months.
  
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• MPs' charity pancake race in Westminster cancelled over harassment fears

  11-01-2019 20:11
  A disability charity could lose out on some of its fundraising, after it cancelled a race in Westminster over MPs' harassment fears.Rehab scrapped its annual event with politicians, blaming the "intense level of activity" near parliament in the run up to a vote on the Brexit deal next week.It told hopeful competitors the pancake race scheduled for early March would "not be appropriate" to stage "against the background of this activity".
  
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• Jarvis Cocker’s Pop-Tastic Brexit Analogy

  11-01-2019 20:00
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• 'People's vote': backers bide their time to force Labour's hand

  11-01-2019 19:41
  The Tory remainer Sarah Wollaston has scrapped plans to table an amendment calling for the public to be allowed to exercise ‘informed consent’.Backing for a second Brexit referendum in parliament is unlikely to be tested until after next week’s meaningful vote, as campaigners weigh up the best moment to try to win over the Labour leadership.The Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston has scrapped plans to table a “doctors’ amendment” calling for the public to be allow
  
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• School bus crashes into house following car collision

  11-01-2019 19:39
  The collision happened in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, at around 3.15pm on Friday.
  
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• Football club distances itself from behaviour of player convicted over sex photo

  11-01-2019 19:33
  Cliftonville FC's statement comes as the Irish Football Association announced that Jay Donnelly will face its disciplinary committee.
  
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• Car industry swerves to avoid hazards ahead - Financial Times

  11-01-2019 19:21 via ft.com
  Car industry swerves to avoid hazards ahead  Financial TimesFears of 'car-mageddon' look premature as groups brace for downturn with job cuts.
  
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• China cracks down on Twitter users critical of its government

  11-01-2019 19:10
  It won't surprise you to hear that China keeps a tight lid on homegrown social
  
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• Destiny Devs 'Cheered and Popped Champagne' as Bungie Announced Break Up with Activision - Push Square

  11-01-2019 19:03 via pushsquare.com
  Destiny Devs 'Cheered and Popped Champagne' as Bungie Announced Break Up with Activision  Push SquareXbox One UPDATE: Microsoft fans sent into overdrive about THIS Scarlett demand  ExpressDestiny: 7 Challenges After the Bungie Activision Split  IGNActivision Currently Under Investigation for Fraud Following Bungie Split  Comicbook.comBungie Parts Ways With Activision Blizzard, And It's Taking Destiny  GameSpotView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Lib Dems select friend of Charles Kennedy to fight late MP’s seat

  11-01-2019 18:57
  Craig Harrow has been hailed by the party as high calibre candidate to contest the Ross, Skye and Lochaber Westminster constituency.
  
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• Theresa May Allies Preparing Last-Ditch Plan To Avoid Irish Backstop

  11-01-2019 18:54
  Allies of Theresa May are drafting a last-ditch plan to rescue her Brexit
  
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• Royal Marsden pays tribute to 'friend, colleague and mentor' following sudden death - Your Local Guardian

  11-01-2019 18:49 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  Royal Marsden pays tribute to 'friend, colleague and mentor' following sudden death  Your Local GuardianRoyal Marsden's leading cancer expert Martin Gore dies  BBC NewsProfessor Martin Gore: tributes pour in to ‘founding father of medical oncology’  iNewsDuke of Cambridge 'deeply saddened' by death of British cancer expert who died after yellow fever vaccination  Telegraph.co.ukYellow Fever vaccine: what are its side effects and is the vaccinat
  
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• Brexit deal keeps UK tied to EU rules that helped Jaguar Land Rover move to Slovakia - Telegraph.co.uk

  11-01-2019 18:45 via telegraph.co.uk
  Brexit deal keeps UK tied to EU rules that helped Jaguar Land Rover move to Slovakia  Telegraph.co.ukJacob Rees-Mogg calls for probe into JLR's Slovakian 'sweetener'  expressandstar.comNew Jaguar Land Rover development partnership unveiled  Coventry TelegraphLand Rover to axe jobs, Trump may skip Davos & more on News Blast | Business Today  Business TodayJaguar Land Rover moved 2,350 jobs to Slovakia with the help of £110m EU sweetener  
  
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• Victoria Beckham's ex-brother-in-law Darren Flood jailed over £800,000 fraud

  11-01-2019 18:28
  The former brother-in-law of Victoria Beckham has been jailed for his role in a criminal gang that scammed vulnerable victims out of almost £1m.Darren Flood, 40, was a director of The Commodities Link (TCL) scam, which convinced people that they could make big returns by investing in rare metals.Kingston Crown Court heard how some of those involved mentioned to their targets that Flood was married to the sister of former Spice Girls star Beckham in a bid to give the business legitimacy.
  
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• Public should ‘report anything suspicious’ after heavy hippo sculpture is stolen

  11-01-2019 18:11
  The bronze hippo weighs nearly a tonne and requires the strength of five people to lift it.
  
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• Fiona Bruce acclaimed for cool, calm Question Time debut

  11-01-2019 18:07
  It’s lovely to be here.” And with that, and a knowing smile to the camera, Fiona Bruce swept away 25 years of David Dimbleby’s Question Time and claimed the nation’s highest-profile political programme absolutely as her own.Bruce had confessed to feeling uncharacteristically apprehensive before her debut on the BBC One programme on Thursday night, chairing a panel that comprised the Conservative deputy chairman, James Cleverly, the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornber
  
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• Search for doctor missing in Co Donegal ends without breakthrough

  11-01-2019 17:55
  Gardai said nothing which furthered the hunt for Deirdre O'Flaherty was located during the operation in Milford.
  
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• Brexit debate, day six: if no one else was trying, why should The Saj?

  11-01-2019 17:54
  The Commons chamber was more like an echo chamber.You get a bigger crowd for an adjournment debate on the illegal trade of seahorses.Sajid Javid certainly didn’t look best pleased to be called upon to resume the debate.
  
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• New homes alone won’t solve the housing crisis

  11-01-2019 17:51
  ‘Before we start spending £225bn on concreting over huge tracts of green space, how about doing more with the existing housing stock?’ writes John Worrall.Unless the basic structure of housing provision in the UK is changed to restore to local authorities powers of compulsory purchase, with taxation on the land-value enhancement, this will be the unintended consequence.
  
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• MI5 to face inquest questions over London Bridge terrorist attack

  11-01-2019 17:50
  A memorial to those killed in the London Bridge attack a year after it happened.Families who lost loved ones in the London Bridge attacks will demand answers from MI5 as to how the terrorist ringleader Khuram Butt directed the atrocity despite being under investigation by the security services.A pre-inquest hearing decided on Friday that the security services should face questions and that family lawyers should be given documents from MI5 about their decision making in the run-up to the June 201
  
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• ‘Mental anguish’ and wider problems with IPP sentences

  11-01-2019 17:50
  ‘IPP prisoners are more than twice as likely to self-harm as people serving determinate sentences,’ writes Mark Day of the Prison Reform Trust.IPP was the invention of David Blunkett in 2001, against the advice of officials.
  
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• Music in dementia care sounds promising, but there is a catch

  11-01-2019 17:46
  Susan Tomes thinks there should be a simpler way of allowing musicians to play for patients.Your article on music in dementia care (Making music isn’t a nicety, it’s a necessity, 9 January) illustrates the benefit of using live music to unlock happy memories and powers of communication in dementia sufferers.Some years ago, when I first had experience of family members in care, I realised that live music was a nice thing for dementia patients.
  
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• Tourists killed as Cuba bus crashes in wet weather - Brits among injured

  11-01-2019 17:37
  Seven people are dead and five are in a critical condition after a bus carrying tourists crashed in Cuba.Eighteen Cubans and 22 tourists were on board when it crashed in wet conditions between the eastern cities of Baracoa and Guantanmo.The identities of the crash victims have not been released.
  
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• Father creates app to override teen son’s phone in emergencies

  11-01-2019 17:37
  Interest in ReplyASAP has rocketed in recent weeks as the app 'struck a chord' with parents.
  
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• Alex Hepburn trial jury fails to reach verdicts

  11-01-2019 17:36
  The jury in the trial of county cricketer Alex Hepburn has been discharged after failing to reach verdicts on two counts of rape.Jurors deliberated for more than nine hours before being released by judge Jim Tindal on Friday after a five-day trial at Worcester crown court.Australian-born Hepburn, 23, of Worcester, denied raping a woman in April 2017.
  
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• Jury in rape trial of cricketer Alex Hepburn fails to reach verdict

  11-01-2019 17:35
  The jury in the trial of a cricketer accused of raping a woman in his teammate's bed has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict.
  
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• MSPs review freedom of information laws following concerns

  11-01-2019 17:34
  The Public Audit and Post-Legislative Scrutiny Committee is seeking a range of views on the legislation.
  
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• Norwich man ‘with name on house’ denies home is restaurant

  11-01-2019 17:31
  Neighbours complained after the man installed a large sign above his front door and sent out flyers inviting people to 'book a table for sushi'.
  
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• Campaigners lose court challenge over process at controversial fracking site

  11-01-2019 17:30
  A High Court claim that the Environment Agency failed to ensure best techniques were used at Cuadrilla's Preston New Road site has been dismissed.
  
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• Woman fatally struck by tree branch was leaning out of train window labelled with warning sticker

  11-01-2019 17:29
  A woman died when she put her head out of a moving train through a window labelled with a warning sticker, an accident report has found.Bethan Roper, 28, died on the Great Western Railway train near Twerton, Bath, on 1 December.A preliminary report by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) found that a yellow "Caution" label above the door said: "Do not lean out of window when train is moving".
  
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• Sir Andy Murray comforted by mother after tearful retirement announcement

  11-01-2019 17:29
  The former world number one has announced he will give up the game this year.
  
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• Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick 'Not Far Away' From Backing PM's Brexit Deal

  11-01-2019 17:21
  Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick has said he is "not far away" from voting for
  
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• Repetitive radio bursts have been recorded coming from space for a second time - AOL UK

  11-01-2019 17:20 via aol.co.uk
  Repetitive radio bursts have been recorded coming from space for a second time  AOL UKCanadian Telescope Finds 13 More Fast Radio Bursts Including the Second One Ever Seen Repeating  Universe TodayB.C. telescope provides new insights beyond our galaxy  Caledonia CourierRadio telescope picks up powerful energy burst from beyond Milky Way  Global NewsRadio signals are coming from deep space  KXLY SpokaneView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Government Will Fight Crowdfunded Legal Challenge To Voter ID Plans

  11-01-2019 17:18
  > Today my legal challenge to the government’s voter ID plans was issued in
  
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• Bulls rescued by firefighters from overturned cattle lorry

  11-01-2019 17:18
  The incident took place in Co Fermanagh close to the Irish border.
  
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• Leeds United accused of 'spying' on rivals Derby County during training

  11-01-2019 17:14
  Derby County have accused Leeds United of spying on their training ground after a man was escorted away from the perimeter fence by police.Derby claim the man is an employee of their Championship promotion rivals, who play each other on Friday evening.Manager Frank Lampard stopped training until the incident had been resolved.
  
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• Gang jailed for stolen Land Rover conspiracy

  11-01-2019 17:05
  High value cars were stolen and then delivered to a secluded yard in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire to be broken down and the parts sold.
  
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• Pupil has novel idea for Sir Andy Murray’s retirement

  11-01-2019 17:03
  Staff and children at Dunblane Primary School have paid tribute to the retiring tennis ace.
  
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• 7 million Americans have the flu - but it is MUCH less deadly than last year, CDC reveals - Daily Mail

  11-01-2019 17:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  7 million Americans have the flu - but it is MUCH less deadly than last year, CDC reveals  Daily MailMore people in Oregon hospitalized with the flu, says CDC  KPTV.comCDC To Track Flu Season In Real Time  CBS New YorkFlu Vaccine, United States Market is expected to reach nearly US 3 Billion by 2024 | Seqirus, Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline(GSK)  openPRGetting the flu shot?  Castanet NewsView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Professor at UK university honoured for universe expansion theory

  11-01-2019 17:00
  Professor Bernard Schutz joins Professor Stephen Hawking in receiving the honour.
  
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