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• UK Brexit minister to work with compromise Brexit plan Conservatives

  03-02-2019 23:52
  Britain's Brexit minister Stephen Barclay will hold a meeting of a new working group of Conservative lawmakers on Monday seeking to find an alternative plan to avoid a post-Brexit border in Ireland, Prime Minister Theresa May's office said.Last week lawmakers voted to support May's Brexit deal if she could agree "alternative arrangements" to replace a controversial Irish border arrangement, known as the backstop.The EU has so far ruled out reopening the exit deal to make any changes to the backs
  
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• May will seek "pragmatic" solution to Brexit deal in Brussels

  03-02-2019 23:50
  British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would seek a "pragmatic solution" to a parliamentary impasse over the terms on which Britain leaves the European Union when she tries to reopen talks with Brussels.With less than two months until Britain is due to leave the bloc on March 29, concerns are growing over the risk of a disorderly 'no deal' exit.Members of parliament, who last month rejected May's Brexit deal with the EU, have instructed her to return to Brussels to renegotiate the
  
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• Hardline Brexiteers to join new taskforce seeking backstop alternative

  03-02-2019 23:47
  The group is due to meet at the Cabinet Office in Whitehall, with meetings also scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
  
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• Emiliano Sala: Missing Premier League footballer's plane found

  03-02-2019 23:41
  The plane that was carrying the missing Premier League footballer Emiliano Sala has been found nearly two weeks after it disappeared.A search boat located the wreckage on the seabed of the English Channel this morning.The Piper Malibu aircraft, which was heading from Nantes in France to Cardiff in Wales, vanished from radars close to the Channel Islands on 21 January.
  
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• Hard Brexiters say only acceptable way forward is to remove backstop

  03-02-2019 23:30
  Tory MP Steve Baker is examining technological methods to avoid the proposed Ireland backstop.Hard Brexiters have warned Theresa May that the only proposal they are likely to support to break the Brexit impasse is a version of the “Malthouse compromise”, which envisages removing the backstop from the draft European Union exit treaty.Steve Baker, vice chair of the European Research Group, said that he and other Conservative Eurosceptics could not support the alternative they believed
  
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• Emiliano Sala plane wreckage found in Channel

  03-02-2019 23:19
  The plane carrying the newly-signed Cardiff City footballer and pilot David Ibbotson disappeared on January 21.
  
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• Emiliano Sala: Wreckage Found In Search For Missing Plane Carrying Cardiff Striker

  03-02-2019 22:18
  The plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson that went
  
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• Sonar search for missing plane carrying footballer and pilot under way

  03-02-2019 22:12
  The Piper Malibu carrying the footballer and his pilot disappeared on January 21.
  
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• Fire breaks out at Glasgow shop

  03-02-2019 21:22
  Three fire engines were called out to deal with the blaze on Argyle Street.
  
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• Fishermen pulled from water after boat sinks

  03-02-2019 21:07
  The crew was rescued by lifeboat and airlifted to hospital by a Coastguard rescue helicopter.
  
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• Warning to motorists as gas leak closes main road

  03-02-2019 20:44
  Police have shut the A760 between Lochwinnoch and Kilbirnie to deal with a gas leak.
  
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• Daniel Kawczynski Hangs Up On Radio Host After His Howler Of A Twitter Error Is Pointed Out

  03-02-2019 19:49
  A Brexit-backing Tory MP has hung up on a radio host after it was pointed out
  
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• Man in 50s dies in Essex light aircraft crash

  03-02-2019 19:42
  He died after his aircraft came down in Belchamp Walter on the Essex-Suffolk border, police said.
  
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• Man dies in light aircraft crash on Essex-Suffolk county border

  03-02-2019 19:36
  A man has died in a light aircraft crash on the county border between Essex and Suffolk.Essex Police said the victim was in his 50s and was pronounced dead at the scene.Five fire engines were sent to the site by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, and another three were deployed by the Suffolk brigade after the crash just before midday.
  
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• Government was warned about cutting legal aid

  03-02-2019 19:08
  Cuts to legal aid removed one of the essential checks and balances in a system weighted against the disadvantaged.In your interview (‘Legal aid can’t be a bottomless pit.Other policies promoted by the coalition government include the “hostile environment” developed by the Home Office and the welfare reform programme.
  
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• Police 'extremely concerned' for missing student Daniel Williams

  03-02-2019 18:50
  Police say they are "extremely concerned" for the welfare of a university student who has been missing for four days.Daniel Williams, 19, was last seen just after midnight in a student union bar at the University of Reading early on Thursday.The teenager was reported missing after he failed to return to his campus accommodation.
  
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• More disruption expected as UK copes with snow and sleet

  03-02-2019 18:45
  The wintry weather that has led to stranded travellers abandoning cars in freezing temperatures continued on Sunday after the coldest night in England so far this winter, when a low of -11.7C (10.9F) was recorded at Chillingham Barns in Northumberland.After a week of snow and sleet, milder temperatures look set to return to most of the UK on Monday, although new warnings have been issued by forecasters.Snow across parts of Scotland could lead to disruption by Monday morning while central and eas
  
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• Two youths attacked in west London

  03-02-2019 18:31
  They were stabbed in Hounslow on Sunday and are being treated for non-life threatening injuries in hospital.
  
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• Britain set for ‘more traditional winter’ after big freeze

  03-02-2019 18:21
  It comes as England recorded the coldest night of the winter so far.
  
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• No-deal Brexit 'savage' for food and agriculture, farmers warn

  03-02-2019 17:34
  Farmers are warning that a no-deal Brexit would be "savage" as they call for assurances on Britain's commitment to high animal welfare standards.Minette Batters, president of the National Farmers' Union, said farmers face being locked out of trade for six to nine months if Britain leaves the EU on 29 March without a deal.Should Britain not agree a deal with the EU, it will revert to trading on World Trade Organisation rules.
  
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• Former SNP MP Angus Robertson heads new polling and research organisation

  03-02-2019 17:11
  Mr Robertson said that Progress Scotland would help 'prepare the case for Scotland to progress towards independence'.
  
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• Resumption of deportation flights 'brutal', say Labour MPs

  03-02-2019 17:04
  Government plans to restart deportation charter flights to the Caribbean as early as this week have been attacked as “brutal” and “a scandal” by leading Labour politicians.The Home Office said a flight to Jamaica will take off in the coming weeks carrying out the enforced removals of foreign national offenders.The charter flight will be the first since March 2017, before the Windrush scandal when it emerged dozens of people had been wrongly deported from the UK by the Hom
  
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• New Caribbean deportation flights attacked as 'insult to Windrush victims'

  03-02-2019 17:04
  Government plans to restart deportation charter flights to the Caribbean as early as this week have been attacked as “brutal” and “a scandal” by leading Labour politicians.The Home Office said a flight to Jamaica will take off in the coming weeks carrying out the enforced removals of foreign national offenders.The charter flight will be the first since March 2017, before the Windrush scandal when it emerged dozens of people had been wrongly deported from the UK by the Hom
  
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• Use of predictive policing programs in UK risks entrenching discrimination – report

  03-02-2019 17:00
  A police officer watches a television monitor looking at London’s CCTV camera network.The rapid growth in the use of computer programs to predict crime hotspots and people who are likely to reoffend risks locking discrimination into the criminal justice system, a report has warned.Amid mounting financial pressure, at least a dozen police forces are using or considering the predictive analytics.
  
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• UK police use of computer programs to predict crime sparks discrimination warning

  03-02-2019 17:00
  A police officer watches a television monitor looking at London’s CCTV camera network.The rapid growth in the use of computer programs to predict crime hotspots and people who are likely to reoffend risks locking discrimination into the criminal justice system, a report has warned.Amid mounting financial pressure, at least a dozen police forces are using or considering the predictive analytics.
  
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• Missing student's mother 'broken' as Coastguard and police dogs joins search

  03-02-2019 16:55
  The mother of a missing student is "broken", as hundreds of students joined more than 70 police officers in freezing conditions to look for her.Libby Squire, 21, has not been seen by friends since getting into a taxi outside the Welly nightclub in central Hull at 11pm on Thursday.Police said they are "extremely concerned" for the University of Hull student's welfare as her family said her disappearance is "very out of character".
  
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• Dozens to be deported on charter flight to Jamaica after living in UK for decades

  03-02-2019 16:34
  Dozens of people will be deported to Jamaica on a charter flight this week, despite many having lived for decades in the UK and having children and families in the UK.Many of the deportees, all of whom have criminal convictions, have never returned to Jamaica and have said they fear for their safety in the country.Sky News has spoken to several men currently held in Harmondsworth detention centre, where they say 30-40 men have been told they have been booked on a 6 February flight and moved to a
  
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• Police conduct air and land search for missing Reading student

  03-02-2019 16:30
  Daniel Williams went missing at about midnight on Thursday after leaving a Reading University student bar.Police have said they are extremely concerned after the search for a missing University of Reading student entered its fourth day.An air and land search for Daniel Williams, 19, was continuing after he failed to return to his student accommodation in the early hours of Thursday.
  
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• Man Dies After Light Aircraft Comes Down In Essex Field

  03-02-2019 16:24
  A man has died in a light aircraft crash on the Essex-Suffolk border, police
  
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• Emergency Services Rush To 'Serious Incident' Following Reports Of A Light Aircraft Coming Down

  03-02-2019 16:24
  Emergency services are at the scene of a "serious incident" at the Essex and
  
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• Police apologise after ‘bit of banter’ tweet of filthy squad car goes viral

  03-02-2019 16:02
  Lincolnshire Police said it 'fell below the standards we set for ourselves' after the dirty vehicle was spotted in Skegness.
  
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• Nissan boss confirms Sunderland blow - Brexit 'not helping'

  03-02-2019 15:57
  Nissan has told staff in Sunderland the company will not make the new X-Trail there, as previously planned.The firm had been expected to make the announcement to workers in the coming week but brought this forward after Sky News learned of the change of plan yesterday.Today, Nissan's Europe division boss wrote to Sunderland factory staff confirming the news and telling them the model will continue to be made in Japan.
  
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• Coastguard helping in search for missing student

  03-02-2019 15:55
  Libby Squire has not been seen since disappearing on Thursday night.
  
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• Thai family shares DNA with Yorkshire police to help identify body

  03-02-2019 15:32
  The body of a woman of south-east Asian origin was found at Pen-y-Ghent in 2004.DNA from a Thai family who think their missing relative could be a woman who was found dead in the Yorkshire Dales has been shared with police.The woman’s body was discovered by a group of walkers on Pen-y-Ghent in September 2004.
  
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• Taoiseach says hospital overspend probe will target individual responsibility

  03-02-2019 15:13
  The review, ordered by the Government, initially looked to 'establish the underlying root causes' for the spiralling costs.
  
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• Search for missing university student enters fourth day

  03-02-2019 15:00
  Daniel Williams, 19, was reported missing after he failed to return to his student accommodation.
  
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• Poison and the papers: why tabloids are obsessed with Meghan ‘flaunting’ her bump

  03-02-2019 15:00
  Is the Duchess of Sussex ‘virtue signalling’ – or just doing what all expectant mothers do?Alert the foetus police (otherwise known as the popular press) to pore over the ways in which she is “flaunting” her baby bump.Apparently, she touches her pregnant belly, cradles it and strokes it as pregnant women do.
  
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• Police ‘Extremely Concerned’ For Missing Reading University Student Daniel Williams

  03-02-2019 14:48
  The search for a Reading University student who has been missing for three
  
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• Leaving EU without a deal is 'survivable' - Liam Fox

  03-02-2019 14:46
  Liam Fox has said leaving the European Union without a deal will be "survivable".The international trade secretary told Sophy Ridge on Sunday that it would not be in Britain's best interest to leave without a deal in place with the European Union, and admitted it could put the economy "into a position of unnecessary turmoil".
  
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• Girl, 15, shot in leg in 'random attack' in Greater Manchester

  03-02-2019 14:46
  A teenage girl has been injured after being shot in a "random attack" as she walked down a road in Greater Manchester.Greater Manchester Police Chief Inspector Mark Warner called for anybody with information to come forward."On the information we have at the moment this would seem to have been a random attack with complete disregard for the potential consequences - the girl was just walking down the road when she was shot at, now she requires surgery.
  
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• Coldest night of winter for England, but what's next for UK?

  03-02-2019 14:45
  Sub-zero temperatures made Saturday night the coldest so far but forecasters say the big freeze will give way to milder temperatures.A low of -11.7C (10.9F) was recorded at Chillingham Barns in Northumberland in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the Met Office.In Scotland, a low of -12.6C (9.3F) was seen at Braemar in the Highlands, although it was a few degrees off the -15.4C seen there on Thursday.
  
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• Nissan takes swipe at Brexit ‘uncertainty’ as it confirms X-Trail Sunderland axe

  03-02-2019 14:43
  Its European boss said it decided to build the 4×4 in Japan for 'business reasons' but said Brexit woes were impacting on future planning for firms.
  
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• Drop in Labour membership part of natural cycle of politics, MP says

  03-02-2019 14:22
  Paul Sweeney responded to reports that Labour membership in Scotland has fallen by 4,764 over the last year.
  
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• Former SNP MP starts Scottish independence polling initiative

  03-02-2019 14:21
  A new polling organisation gathering data on Scotland’s evolving views on independence has been launched by the Scottish National party’s former Westminster leader Angus Robertson, as the party leader and first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, prepares to set out her thinking on a second referendum.Robertson, a respected figure across the party who lost his seat in the 2017 general election, is heading up Progress Scotland alongside Mark Diffley, previously director of Ipsos Mori Scotland,
  
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• Sajid Javid dismisses speculation of snap general election in June

  03-02-2019 13:16
  Sajid Javid has said “the last thing we want is a general election”, emphasising that the government is still hoping to secure a time limit or unilateral exit mechanism for the Irish border backstop.The home secretary dismissed newspaper reports that Downing Street strategists were considering holding a snap general election on 6 June, if Theresa May cannot get her Brexit deal through parliament before the 29 March deadline.“The last thing we want is a general election, the peo
  
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• Nissan confirms car model will be made in Japan instead of Sunderland

  03-02-2019 13:09
  The decision is a blow for the UK’s car industry, which has been warning for years about the impact of Brexit uncertainty.
  
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• Motorists struggle in UK snow

  03-02-2019 13:00
  Snow and ice have been causing disruption across the UK as motorists speak of absolutely treacherous conditions on the roads.
  
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• Jack Shepherd ‘thought of marrying woman he killed in speedboat crash’

  03-02-2019 12:57
  Jack Shepherd was convicted in his absence last year of killing Charlotte Brown in 2015 when the speedboat they were in overturned in the Thames.
  
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• Nissan Confirms X-Trail Model Will Not Be Built In Sunderland Adding That Brexit Is 'Not Helping'

  03-02-2019 12:55
  Nissan has told staff in Sunderland that it will cancel plans to build its new
  
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• Coldest night for England but thaw is on the way

  03-02-2019 12:49
  Sub-zero temperatures made Saturday night the coldest so far but forecasters say the big freeze will give way to milder temperatures.A low of -11.7C (10.9F) was recorded at Chillingham Barns in Northumberland in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the Met Office.In Scotland, a low of -12.6C (9.3F) was seen at Braemar in the Highlands, although it was a few degrees off the -15.4C seen there on Thursday.
  
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