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• Scotland and City of London benefit from working together – Sturgeon

  28-01-2019 23:46
  Scotland's First Minister spoke at a business event hosted by Lord Mayor of London Peter Estlin.
  
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• Salford Murder Probe: Man Arrested As Missing Girl, 16, Found In Derelict Building

  28-01-2019 23:27
  A man has been arrested after the body of a 16-year-old girl was found in a
  
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• UK Home Office will seek to end free movement in case of no-deal Brexit

  28-01-2019 23:25
  For a transitional period, citizens of the European Economic Area and their family members, including Swiss citizens, will be able to come to the UK for visits, work or study and will be able to enter the UK as they do now, the Home Office said in the statement.
  
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• Facebook ‘willing to change everything’ to tackle suicide posts, says Clegg

  28-01-2019 23:18
  The former Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister is now head of global affairs at the social media company.
  
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• Labour Forced Into Embarrassing U-Turn On Tory Immigration Bill After Backlash From MPs

  28-01-2019 22:46
  Labour MPs have hit out at their party's "ludicrous confusion" over Tory
  
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• Body of 16-year-old girl found in derelict building

  28-01-2019 22:45
  The girl was reported missing from Bury before her body was found in Salford.
  
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• Nick Clegg accused of 'drinking Facebook Kool-Aid' after major speech

  28-01-2019 22:24
  Facebook communications boss Sir Nick Clegg has admitted the social network has "a lot more work to do" to combat content that promotes self-harm.The former Liberal Democrat leader, who turned his back on politics in October to take up the role of head of global affairs and communications at the tech giant, addressed the issue during a speech in Brussels.Sir Nick, 52, used his first major address since joining Facebook to discuss major issues the company has faced over the past year - including
  
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• New Immigration Bill will make Tories unelectable, says former minister

  28-01-2019 22:22
  Anna Soubry called the 'breaking point' EU referendum advert 'one of the darkest moments in British history'.
  
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• Call for 'pragmatism' to minimise disruption in case 'no-deal' Brexit

  28-01-2019 22:18
  Mr Bertrand is president of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France which would be hit hard in the event of Brexit 'no-deal' disruption.Mr Bertrand conceded that new checks would have to take place at the ports if no Brexit divorce deal can be reached between the UK and the EU, but he called on the central government's of both the UK and France to use common sense in order to minimise disruption.
  
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• Hammond to deliver Spring fiscal statement on March 11 - Sky

  28-01-2019 22:06
  LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Philip Hammond will deliver his Spring fiscal statement on March 11, Sky News reported on Monday.
  
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• New EU migrants will get three-year right to stay under no-deal Brexit – Javid

  28-01-2019 21:53
  Sajid Javid said those wishing to stay longer than three months will need to apply for permission under a new European Temporary Leave to Remain plan.
  
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• MPs pooh-pooh Tigger Hancock’s plans for the NHS after Brexit

  28-01-2019 21:40
  Theresa May is so vague that her MPs are unable to agree on what she has said moments after she has stopped talking – but that hasn’t stopped Matt Hancock, the cabinet’s most enthusiastic Man-Boy, from publishing his own 10-year plan for the NHS.On Tigger’s watch, no one is going to get cancer, no one is going to become obese and everyone is going to live for ever.Understandably, perhaps, the health select committee had not been totally convinced by these promises and had
  
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• Tesco cutting at least 4,500 staff

  28-01-2019 21:35
  Supermarket chain Tesco have announced they are to cut up to 9,000 jobs as part of their restructuring plans.
  
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• Theresa May Risks Fresh Brexit Humiliation As Hardline Eurosceptics Threaten To Scupper Her Bid To Get A New Deal

  28-01-2019 21:33
  Theresa May is risking fresh Brexit humiliation after hardline Eurosceptics
  
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• May asked her lawmakers to support call for alternative to Northern Irish backstop

  28-01-2019 21:25
  Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday asked her lawmakers to support a proposal which calls for the Northern Irish backstop in her Brexit deal with Brussels to be replaced with alternative arrangements.Conservative Party Chairman Brandon Lewis confirmed the move after May addressed her lawmakers at a private meeting in parliament at which she sought to heal divisions and present a united front to Brussels over Brexit.Lawmakers will on Tuesday debate and vote on May's next steps, after the overwhe
  
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• Labour makes abrupt U-turn over immigration bill vote

  28-01-2019 21:12
  Labour has been forced into an embarrassing U-turn on the government’s flagship immigration bill, after initially saying it would not oppose the legislation that brings free movement to an end.The shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, had sparked a backlash among MPs when she told the House of Commons the frontbench would not vote against the post-Brexit legislation.“The Labour party is clear that when Britain leaves the single market, freedom of movement ends, and we set this out in
  
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• Police hunting group of men over murder of community worker

  28-01-2019 21:11
  Local representatives said Ian Ogle, 45, was highly regarded for his community work.
  
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• Factbox - Brexit 'plan B': What happens next in parliament?

  28-01-2019 20:33
  Instead, Tuesday is a chance to discover what sort of changes to her strategy would be required to win the support of parliament, so May can try to renegotiate the deal in Brussels and then ask lawmakers to approve it.May has said she wants to secure concessions relating to the border with Northern Ireland in order to win the support of pro-Brexit lawmakers in her own party and the small Northern Irish party which props up her government, who voted against her deal.Some lawmakers want to shift c
  
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• Brothers jailed for 'chilling' high-speed crash that killed four people

  28-01-2019 20:32
  Elliott Bower, 19, was sentenced to 11-and-a-half years in prison for causing the crash.The Bower brothers were wanted by police at the time of the crash, and had earlier posted a picture of themselves on social media with the caption "f*** da police".During sentencing, Judge Jeremy Richardson said the trio were part of a "miserably inadequate group of deeply malevolent local criminals".
  
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• Viking passion for football on display ahead of Up Helly Aa festival

  28-01-2019 20:29
  This year's galley boat, which will be burned as part of an annual ritual, is painted in the green and white hoops of Celtic.
  
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• ECB's Visco says austerity should be avoided where not necessary

  28-01-2019 20:16
  Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco on Monday criticised countries that adopt restrictive fiscal policies when they are not necessary, in an apparent dig at Germany.Speaking at a book presentation in Pisa, Visco said austerity policies adopted by Italy in 2011 and 2012 were necessary to restore market confidence during a debt crisis, even though they depressed the economy.Many Italian economists criticise Germany for its large trade and budget surpluses, which they blame for depressing the econ
  
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• Government gives its backing to plan for alternative to Brexit backstop

  28-01-2019 20:07
  Hardline Conservative eurosceptics said they would not back an amendment tabled by Tory grandee Sir Graham Brady.
  
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• May told Conservative lawmakers - send Brussels a message about what you want on Brexit

  28-01-2019 20:03
  Prime Minister Theresa May told her Conservative lawmakers on Monday that they needed to send a message to Brussels about what changes they wanted to her Brexit deal.Describing May's speech, Conservative lawmaker Simon Hart said: "The general view was that we need to coalesce around something that's the nearest thing to a reasonable solution.
  
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• Justice ministry knew court IT systems were ‘obsolete’, papers reveal

  28-01-2019 20:02
  The Ministry of Justice knew its court computer systems were “obsolete” and “out of support” long before the network went into meltdown last week, internal documents have revealed.An MoJ digital and technology review warned last year that judges in employment tribunals were threatening to stop hearing cases because of the unreliability of communications and 30,000 users were on systems that needed “immediate remediation”.The detailed assessment seen by the Gua
  
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• Nick Clegg defends Facebook’s use of data and advertising

  28-01-2019 20:00
  The new head of global affairs at Facebook urged industry and government to work together on regulations to protect users' privacy.
  
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• Rural community rallying round after four men killed in road crash

  28-01-2019 19:57
  The men, who were in their 20s, died after the car they were travelling in left a narrow country road in north-west Donegal.
  
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• Police issue direct appeal to missing Sheffield teenager

  28-01-2019 19:55
  Police believe Pamela Horvathova is still in her hometown of Sheffield.Concerns for Pamela Horvathova’s safety have increased since she was reported missing by her family on Christmas Eve.Police said they believed the teenager, a member of the Roma community who is originally from Slovakia, was in Sheffield but too afraid to return to her home in the city.
  
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• Extradition hearing told of ‘fabricated’ evidence against ‘bomb suspect’

  28-01-2019 19:29
  Authorities in Northern Ireland wish to extradite John Downey over two murders in 1972.
  
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• How to retain teachers in the current climate?

  28-01-2019 19:27
  Damian Hinds’ recognition of the need for a new teacher retention and recruitment strategy is to be welcomed (Fewer emails, more job shares: a new strategy to retain teachers, 26 January), but his proposals don’t get to the heart of the matter.As numerous studies have shown, it is not workload but what teachers perceive as the increase in unnecessary and unproductive tasks that is the main problem.The most burdensome of these tasks is recording, inputting, monitoring and analysing da
  
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• MPs may have to work Fridays and weekends to avoid legal cliff edge

  28-01-2019 19:21
  The EU withdrawal agreement bill will pass through the Commons and Lords before 29 March and is expected to be subject to scores of MPs’ amendments.MPs may be forced to work on Fridays, weekends and during the parliamentary recess as it has emerged that the government has passed only one-sixth of the secondary legislation needed to get Britain ready to avoid a legal cliff edge after Brexit.With 60 days to go until 29 March, and just 30 of those working days, the government admits it is run
  
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• The damage that private schools do to their pupils and to society

  28-01-2019 19:20
  Pupils line the top of a boundary wall at Eton to watch fellow schoolboys playing the “Eton Wall Game”, November 2007.Kate Clanchy’s polished review of David Kynaston and Francis Green’s Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private School Problem (The unfairness of fee-paying schools affects all our lives.Kynaston, Clanchy, and (not to forget) Melissa Benn clearly do good work promoting rational debate on the issue, but all of them consistently ignore the body of work th
  
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• EU membership is the only good deal

  28-01-2019 19:19
  ‘From a European perspective, Tuesday’s parliamentary debate on amendments is pure theatre.’ Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
  
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• Aspirin and the treatment of cancer

  28-01-2019 19:19
  A recent review of the medical literature shows that low-dose aspirin taken by patients with cancer (Bitter pill: is aspirin really a wonder drug?, G2, 24 January) is associated with a reduction in cancer deaths, and a reduction in cancer spread (metastases).Over 70 studies have been published, together including 120,000 cancer patients taking aspirin and over 400,000 cancer patients not taking aspirin.A meta-analysis shows a 24% reduction in cancer deaths and a 19% reduction in deaths from all
  
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• PM urges Conservative MPs to back demand to replace Brexit backstop

  28-01-2019 19:15
  Theresa May has urged Conservative MPs to support a demand for the controversial backstop arrangement in her Brexit deal to be replaced with "alternative arrangements".The prime minister has asked Tory MPs to back the position during a series of Brexit votes in the House of Commons on Tuesday.As she seeks to put pressure on the EU over altering the backstop, Mrs May will whip her party's MPs to support the proposal being spearheaded by senior backbencher Sir Graham Brady.
  
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• Jacob Rees-Mogg refuses to support anti-backstop amendment

  28-01-2019 19:15
  Jacob Rees-Mogg said the ERG was in ‘no mood’ to support the move by a Theresa May loyalist.Jacob Rees-Mogg, the chair of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Conservative backbenchers, has refused to back an amendment that would send Theresa May back to Brussels to demand an alternative arrangement to the Irish border backstop.After the ERG’s members met in parliament on Monday, Rees-Mogg said they were in “no mood” to support an amendment tabled by the senior
  
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• Charles gets behind wheel of electric London black cab

  28-01-2019 19:11
  The heir to the throne already has eco-friendly cars he uses in public and private.
  
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• Teacher shortages due to strong economy, claims minister

  28-01-2019 19:08
  Labour's urgent question followed the launch of plans to attract and retain teachers.
  
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• Medicine to be prioritised over food in no-deal Brexit, says Health Secretary

  28-01-2019 19:07
  Matt Hancock said the proportion of food imported into Britain is 'much smaller' than medicine'.
  
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• Female nursery worker, 18, jailed for sexually abusing children

  28-01-2019 19:03
  Sophie Elms, who was 17 when she committed the offences, has been jailed for seven years and 10 months.A teenage childcare student has been jailed for sexually abusing two children and taking photographs of them for a man she met online.Sophie Elms was 17 when she committed the offences against the children, who were two and three, making her one of the youngest offenders of her type in the UK.
  
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• Emiliano Sala: Underwater search to begin for missing plane

  28-01-2019 19:02
  An underwater search is set to begin for the missing plane carrying Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala, a scientist involved in the operation has said.Now shipwreck hunting expert David Mearns, who has been assisting the family, has said a survey vessel has been hired to carry out an underwater search this weekend.Mr Mearns, of Bluewater Recoveries, told reporters in Guernsey: "We have sourced and hired a survey vessel equipped with state-of-the-art search equipment, which will be used to con
  
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• May asked her lawmakers to support call for alternative to Northern Irish backstop - source

  28-01-2019 18:57
  Prime Minister Theresa May has asked her lawmakers to support a proposal which calls for the Northern Irish backstop in her Brexit deal with Brussels to be replaced with alternative arrangements, a source in her office said on Monday.Many pro-Brexit lawmakers oppose the so-called "backstop", an insurance policy aimed at preventing a hard border in Ireland if no other solutions can be agreed.The source said May told a meeting of her Conservative lawmakers on Monday that they would be told to vote
  
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• Man jailed for causing four deaths in 79mph Sheffield crash

  28-01-2019 18:55
  Elliott Bower was described by the judge as a ‘miserably wretched local criminal’.A 19-year-old man has been jailed for 11 years for killing four people including a toddler in a high-speed crash after a police chase through a built-up area of Sheffield.Elliott Bower was driving a stolen Volkswagen Golf when it collided at 79mph with a people carrier in a residential street in November.
  
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• Marine scientist to lead private search for Emiliano Sala plane

  28-01-2019 18:52
  David Mearns said efforts to find the Piper PA-46 Malibu carrying the footballer and pilot David Ibbotson will focus on an area north of Alderney.
  
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• Matt Hancock: Government Would Prioritise Medicines Over Food In No-Deal Brexit

  28-01-2019 18:41
  The government would prioritise medicines over food in the case of a no-deal
  
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• Child abuse could have taken place despite lack of convictions, inquiry told

  28-01-2019 18:34
  The chief executive officer of Quarriers she was 'deeply saddened' by evidence of harm at its former residential homes.
  
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• ‘Street Valium’ linked to sharp rise in Glasgow drug deaths

  28-01-2019 18:33
  Health chiefs say the pills are flooding Glasgow, where they are being sold to vulnerable people for pennies.
  
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• Eurosceptic lawmaker Rees-Mogg expects UK government to set out Brexit position in amendment

  28-01-2019 18:28
  LONDON (Reuters) - Prominent pro-Brexit Conservative lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg said on Monday he expected the government would set out its position on changes it plans to seek to its Brexit deal ahead of a debate in parliament on Tuesday.
  
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• Stella Creasy: 'Government Prioritising The DUP Over Northern Irish Women's Abortion Rights'

  28-01-2019 18:16
  The government is more concerned with keeping the DUP on side than giving
  
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• ‘Cheeky’ escapee red panda saw chance to explore, says Belfast zookeeper

  28-01-2019 18:09
  Amber took her chance of freedom when two electric fences failed at Belfast Zoo on Sunday afternoon.
  
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• Police searching for missing Teesside man find body in river

  28-01-2019 18:04
  Luke Jobson: police had been scouring the area around Yarm for the missing 22-year-old.Police searching for a missing 22-year-old man who went missing after a night out in Yarm, Teesside, have found a body.Luke Jobson was last seen near to Yarm school at about 2.15am on Saturday and officers assisted by a police helicopter had been scouring the area around the town for any sign of him.
  
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