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• 'My job interview was most demeaning, embarrassing two hours of my life'

  31-01-2019 23:37
  Olivia Bland has described how she was "torn to shreds" during a "brutal" two-hour job interview which felt like she was "sat in a room with my abusive ex".Posting her response to the company, Web Applications UK, on Twitter, Ms Bland said she found the interview process by the firm's boss "very uncomfortable" and he "tried his best to intimidate and assert power over a young woman".Job interviews are never easy.
  
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• What should drivers do if they are caught in the snow?

  31-01-2019 23:15
  Motorists are advised not to leave their car and to stay warm.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's visit to highlight bus service cuts almost delayed - when his bus is late

  31-01-2019 23:06
  Jeremy Corbyn was forced to get a lift to a meeting to discuss cuts to bus services - after the bus he needed didn't arrive.The Labour leader was instead driven to Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire, from Lenton, Nottinghamshire, because the number 21 was delayed.Mr Corbyn was meeting with residents and community leaders in Kirk Hallam, who have expressed concerns about the reduction in the 21 service.
  
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• Altrincham FC ‘first in the world’ to wear LGBT kit in competitive fixture

  31-01-2019 23:06
  'The more noise we make about this issue the less of an issue it will become.'
  
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• Major travel disruption as heavy snow hits England and Wales

  31-01-2019 23:00
  Snow 12cm deep has been measured in Cornwall, according to the Met Office.
  
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• Hurley, John and Mills settle out of court over phone hacking claims

  31-01-2019 22:29
  Elton John and Elizabeth Hurley settled, avoiding a high court trial next week.Elizabeth Hurley, Elton John, and Heather Mills have settled their phone-hacking claims against The Sun’s parent company at the last minute, avoiding a potentially embarrassing trial for Rupert Murdoch’s media empire over claims that the practice was “widespread” at the paper.
  
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• UK Snow: Motorists Urged Not To Abandon Cars After Vehicles Trapped On A39 And A30 In Cornwall

  31-01-2019 22:25
  Police are urging people to stay in their cars to keep warm after around 20
  
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• Rees-Mogg promotes ‘sensible’ deal to leave EU

  31-01-2019 21:49
  The Conservative MP as well as political donor Arron Banks were among the guests at a Democratic Unionist dinner in Ballymena, Co Antrim on Thursday.
  
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• Acting Debenhams ‎chair Duddy might suit Moss Bros board

  31-01-2019 21:42
  The stand-in chairman at Debenhams is being sounded out about ‎the top job at Moss Bros, the leading suit-hire specialist on UK high streets.Sky News has learnt that Terry Duddy has been shortlisted as a potential successor to Debbie Hewitt, who is to step down as Moss Bros chairman later this year.Mr Duddy's involvement in the process will surprise retail analysts because of his enlarged workload‎ at Debenhams in the wake of Sir Ian Cheshire's ousting at the hands of Mike Ashley, the Sp
  
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• Judge to review Fiona Onasanya sentence after leniency objection

  31-01-2019 21:20
  Fiona Onasanya has faced condemnation for continuing as an independent MP.Fiona Onasanya, the MP jailed for repeatedly lying about a speeding ticket, is to have her three-month prison sentence reviewed after a complaint that it is unduly lenient.The sentence follows her conviction in December for perverting the course of justice.
  
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• Man charged with making and distributing child porn images

  31-01-2019 21:09
  The man, aged 50, is expected to appear before Newtownards Magistrates' Court on Friday.
  
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• Rough sleeping and overcrowding figures prompt calls for action

  31-01-2019 21:04
  The report says 4,677 people were counted or estimated to be sleeping on the streets in England.Campaigners have called for renewed action to tackle Britain’s housing crisis after official figures indicated a surge in rough sleeping in England’s cities, coupled with record number of families living in overcrowded homes.Charities said welfare cuts, soaring rents and shortages of affordable homes were behind steep rises in street sleeping in London, Birmingham, and Manchester.
  
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• Chris Grayling says criticism is because he's 'lightning rod for anti-Brexit brigade'

  31-01-2019 21:03
  Transport Secretary Chris Grayling believes he is the subject of personal criticism because he is "a lightning rod for the anti-Brexit brigade".Prior to overseeing the country's transport network, Mr Grayling was in charge of the courts system as justice secretary and Lord Chancellor."This is a trade union that regards Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party as too right-wing to affiliate to and wants to stand in the way of modernisation of the railways.
  
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• Transport Secretary Chris Grayling Explains Why He Thinks People Want Him To Resign

  31-01-2019 21:00
  The much-beleaguered transport secretary Chris Grayling - who oversaw huge
  
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• £10m for projects to make schools greener and connect children with nature

  31-01-2019 20:59
  Funding allocated as Michael Gove launches 'year of green action' to encourage more people to get involved in environmental action.
  
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• British Airways says bad weather may affect short-haul flights from Heathrow

  31-01-2019 20:57
  LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways warned passengers on Thursday that bad weather in southeast England could affect some short-haul flights.
  
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• Britain to benefit from EU-Japan trade deal for just 57 days

  31-01-2019 20:33
  The agreement reached after years of negotiations is forecast to boost trade by more than £30 billion a year.
  
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• Barclays trial jury told to ignore defendants' jokes about prison

  31-01-2019 20:10
  The judge overseeing a historic case against former Barclays bosses has instructed the jury not to dwell on “soundbites” in which defendants joked about food and sex in prison, adding that the prosecutor’s allegations implicate individuals connected to the bank’s Qatari investors.In what is considered a rare move so early in a trial, Mr Justice Robert Jay addressed the jury in Southwark crown court on Thursday.
  
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• Man who laundered bank raid cash challenges state over £3m seized from home

  31-01-2019 20:09
  Ted Cunningham mounted judicial review proceedings against the Garda Commissioner, Head of the Criminal Assets Bureau, the DPP and Danske Bank.
  
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• SNP passes last-minute budget with Green party backing

  31-01-2019 20:08
  First minister Nicola Sturgeon and finance secretary Derek Mackay, centre, arrive at Holyrood, Edinburgh.The Scottish National party has secured the support of the Greens to pass its government’s budget just hours before the first key vote on the spending plans.The deal was reached on Thursday afternoon after days of intense negotiations with the SNP minority government, which centred around Green demands for an immediate boost to local government funding and, longer term, an alternative s
  
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• Budget concessions erode trust in Government, businesses warn

  31-01-2019 20:04
  They say ministers have broken their promise not to bring in a so-called tourist tax without support from the industry.
  
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• Scottish political party leaders support campaign tackling loneliness

  31-01-2019 19:37
  Age Scotland has described loneliness as a 'public health crisis' and say it has the same effect as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
  
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• Rough sleeping increases in the North and Midlands despite overall fall

  31-01-2019 19:36
  The number of people sleeping rough has continued to soar in the Midlands and some areas of the North - despite an overall fall in total figures across England for the first time in eight years.The number of people sleeping rough across England in autumn last year was estimated at 4,667, according to new statistics released by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.This represented a 2% fall from autumn 2017, from 4,751 people, the first time the number of people sleeping roug
  
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• Eating breakfast 'not a good strategy' for weight loss - AOL UK

  31-01-2019 19:32 via aol.co.uk
  Eating breakfast 'not a good strategy' for weight loss  AOL UKStudy finds eating breakfast may have little impact on weight loss  SlashGearEating breakfast may not help with weight loss after all finds new study - The Jakarta Post  Jakarta PostStudy: Eating Breakfast May Not Help You Lose Weight  CBS BostonEating breakfast 'not a good strategy' for weight loss, study claims  Yahoo LifestyleView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Dr Stewart Adams: Chemist who invented ibuprofen after taking it to cure own hangover dies

  31-01-2019 19:32
  A British chemist who helped invent the painkiller ibuprofen after he took it to cure his own hangover has died at the age of 95.Dr Stewart Adams, who was awarded an OBE in 1987, died at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham on Wednesday.Ibuprofen is now one of the world's best-selling anti-inflammatory painkillers.
  
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• Labour councils, Tory cuts and a century of fighting austerity

  31-01-2019 19:31
  George Lansbury pictured in 1937.The Labour politician was imprisoned for refusing to pass on rate income to richer boroughs in order to maintain workers’ wages and services for the poor.Zoe Williams’ article (Red-on-red warfare won’t stop austerity, 29 January) contains some welcome recognition of the challenges that councils face under prolonged Tory austerity.
  
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• Surge in prison deaths a national scandal, say campaigners

  31-01-2019 19:02
  Campaigners have branded a surge in deaths in prisons in England and Wales a “national scandal” as the justice secretary, David Gauke, conceded fresh figures revealing a deterioration in safety behind bars was “disturbing”.Prisoner-on-prisoner assaults and self-harm incidents hit record levels, according to the latest batch of statistics from the Ministry of Justice, while deaths in prison jumped 10% to 325.The figures come as jails have been hit by a series of damning re
  
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• In Pictures: Britons wrap up warm as winter bites

  31-01-2019 19:01
  The mercury plunged to leave temperatures as low as minus 12.9C.
  
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• May accused of ‘enormous act of bad faith’ over border backstop

  31-01-2019 18:58
  Sinn Fein, the SDLP, the Alliance Party and Green Party NI have criticised Theresa May.
  
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• Police shelve data harvesting device roll-out to seek legal clarity

  31-01-2019 18:55
  The cyber kiosks, which enable officers to quickly access mobile phone data, were tested in Edinburgh and Stirling in 2016.
  
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• Holyrood approves Budget after SNP agrees deal with Greens

  31-01-2019 18:51
  MSPs approved the general principles of the Bill by 67 votes to 58.
  
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• Judge refuses to publish list of political groups spied on by police

  31-01-2019 18:46
  Protesters outside the high court in London where the public inquiry is taking place.A public inquiry examining undercover policing is refusing to publish a list of more than 1,000 political groups that have been spied on since 1968.Sir John Mitting, the retired judge heading the inquiry, was urged to publish the list at a preliminary hearing on Thursday by victims of surveillance who are seeking to uncover the extent of the espionage.
  
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• Rough sleepers 17 times more likely to experience abuse, charity says

  31-01-2019 18:34
  According to homeless charity Crisis, rough sleepers are 17 times more likely to experience horrifying abuse than the general public.
  
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• Sky to broadcast first live TV news coverage of underwater world

  31-01-2019 18:25
  We will use small submarines to explore the 'twilight zone' down to 300 metres, drawing attention to the plight of our oceans.
  
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• Cabinet Ministers Hammond, Clark And Rudd 'Must Step Up To Block No-Deal Brexit'

  31-01-2019 18:25
  Senior ministers need to "step up to the plate" and be ready to quit to block
  
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• Meghan raises fears about how menstruation affects girls’ education

  31-01-2019 18:23
  The duchess spoke out about the issue when she met students from the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
  
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• Plastics found in the guts of UK's seals, dolphins and whales

  31-01-2019 18:22
  Scientists have discovered that microplastics are accumulating in the guts of every marine mammal that has washed up on the shores on the UK.In a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers from the University of Exeter and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) examined 50 carcasses.The carcasses, which came from 10 species of seals, dolphins and whales, all contained microplastics - plastic particles smaller than 5mm - in their digestive systems.
  
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• Investigation under way after major fire in Belfast

  31-01-2019 18:17
  The blaze at the Lewis Community Tavern raged from 8.16am and was still being tackled by firefighters on Thursday evening.
  
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• Family attacks failure to punish student who sexually assaulted girl

  31-01-2019 18:15
  A teenager who was given an absolute discharge despite being found guilty of sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl was granted leniency because he acted out of “inappropriate curiosity” and not for sexual gratification.During a three-day trial, Dumbarton sheriff court heard that Christopher Daniel, an 18-year-old dental student, had repeatedly touched the child’s vagina over her clothing as she sat on his knee playing on a computer.Daniel left court with no conviction and wit
  
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• Edinburgh Summer Sessions announces headline acts

  31-01-2019 18:13
  Florence + The Machine and Chvrches are among those taking part in the annual festival.
  
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• Teenager spared jail after attack on former ambassador to US

  31-01-2019 18:12
  A teenager has been spared jail despite inflicting "horrific" injuries on former British ambassador to the US Sir Christopher Meyer.A witness to the attack told Uxbridge Youth Court that the 17-year-old lashed out at Sir Christopher after the former ambassador pushed past him and called him a "'b*****d" at London's Victoria station on 11 July last year.The boy, then 16, lost his temper and pushed the former ambassador from behind - causing Sir Christopher to fall to the ground and lose conscious
  
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• Murdered Belfast community worker was stabbed 11 times, say police

  31-01-2019 17:55
  More than 1,000 people attended a vigil in Ian Ogle's memory on Wednesday.
  
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• Man arrested after woman raped in Fife

  31-01-2019 17:50
  The attack happened in Methil on Tuesday evening.
  
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• Cost reductions at npower likely to affect around 900 jobs

  31-01-2019 17:50
  The retail energy market is 'incredibly tough', said the company.
  
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• EU fears short article 50 extension will mean no-deal Brexit in June

  31-01-2019 17:47
  Officials fear Theresa May will request an inadequate three-month extension for fear of enraging the Brexiters in the Conservative party.EU officials fear Theresa May is setting the UK on course for a no-deal exit at the end of June because she will not have the political courage to ask for the longer Brexit delay they believe she needs.Senior figures in Brussels have been war-gaming the likely next steps by the British government, and believe a delay to the UK’s exit date of 29 March is n
  
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• Less Scottish fish for EU diners without Brexit deal - fishermen

  31-01-2019 17:46
  Fewer Scottish langoustines, scallops and salmon will reach the plates of gourmands in the European Union if there is a no-deal Brexit because border delays could mean they rot before they can be delivered, fishing officials said.Scottish fishermen plan to reduce their catches if Britain exits the European Union on March 29 without a transition deal, in order to avoid potential losses, industry officials said.Scotland accounts for most of the fish caught in the United Kingdom, which is the secon
  
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• Quiz: How financially savvy are you?

  31-01-2019 17:45
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• Brexit risks ‘sub-optimal’ policing deals across Europe, Scotland’s top cop warns

  31-01-2019 17:45
  Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said the loss of the EU-wide legal powers like European Arrest Warrants are the biggest challenge posed by Brexit.
  
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• Government confirms MPs’ February break facing the axe over Brexit

  31-01-2019 17:37
  The House of Commons was expected to rise at the end of business on February 14 and return on February 25.
  
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• Chief law officer questions woman’s eligibility to challenge abortion laws

  31-01-2019 17:37
  Sarah Ewart has taken a case to Belfast High Court arguing the current law contravenes her human rights.
  
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