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• Harry and Meghan attend gala performance at Natural History Museum

  12-02-2019 23:06
  The couple saw The Wider Earth, a play chronicling Charles Darwin’s travels across the globe.
  
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• Ancient looted artwork returned to Italy by Christie's auction house

  12-02-2019 23:02
  A dozen looted artworks, some more than 2,000 years old, have been returned to Italy by Christie's auction house.The move was billed by Italian officials as "the first case of such close co-operation between Italy and a private auction house".It is part of Rome's long-standing efforts to repatriate antiquities it says were illegally obtained and trafficked on the art market.
  
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• Two charged with murder over alleyway body

  12-02-2019 22:58
  The body of Pat Ward was discovered in Clogher, Co Tyrone on Saturday
  
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• Windies cricketer Shannon Gabriel charged by ICC over 'homophobic' comment to Joe Root

  12-02-2019 22:38
  West Indies cricketer Shannon Gabriel has been charged by the international cricketing body over an "inappropriate comment" to England captain Joe Root.Root was overheard saying "there's nothing wrong with being gay" as he reacted to something that Gabriel said which was not picked up by microphones in the on-field incident on day three of the third Test in Saint Lucia yesterday.Gabriel was swiftly spoken to over the alleged sledging incident by at least one of the on-field umpires about his lan
  
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• Call for law to curb 'creeping influence' from hostile foreign powers

  12-02-2019 22:33
  The government is being urged to draw up legislation to force lawyers, lobbyists, politicians and others who do work for foreign governments such as Russia to register their activities.Conservative MP Bob Seely told Sky News he is campaigning for the new law to end what he described as an "unhealthy, creeping influence" from hostile foreign powers.The security services are understood to be keen on a UK version of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in the United States.
  
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• CCTV shows last images of Libby before her disappearance

  12-02-2019 22:28
  Police released footage on the 12th day of the search for the missing University of Hull student.
  
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• May faces fresh Commons attempt to block a no-deal Brexit

  12-02-2019 22:24
  PM's chief EU adviser overheard warning of a long delay to Britain's EU withdrawal unless MPs back her agreement.
  
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• Theresa May's Brexit tactic: my way or a long delay

  12-02-2019 22:21
  Olly Robbins is the most senior civil servant involved in the Brexit process.Theresa May’s high-stakes Brexit strategy may have been accidentally revealed after her chief negotiator Olly Robbins was overheard in a Brussels bar saying MPs will be given a last-minute choice between her deal and a lengthy delay.The prime minister has repeatedly insisted that the government intends to leave the EU as planned on 29 March, and urged MPs to “hold our nerve”, while she tries to renegot
  
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• Brexiteer Fury As May's Top Civil Servant Says It's Her Deal Or 'Long' Delay To Leaving European Union

  12-02-2019 22:05
  Eurosceptic MPs reacted with anger after a top civil servant was overhead in aBrussels bar saying that MPs face a choice between the PM's deal and a "long"Brexit delay
  
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• UK's chief Brexit negotiator says: It's May's deal or extension - ITV

  12-02-2019 21:30
  Britain's lead Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins has saidlawmakers face a choice between Prime Minister Theresa May's exit deal or a long extension of the March 29 deadline for leaving the EU, ITV news said, citing a private conversation.ITV news reported that its correspondent had overheard Robbins, who is a career civil servant, not a politician, talking to colleagues at a hotel bar in Brussels on Monday.Robbins said he expected UK lawmakers in March to be presented with the option of backing a r
  
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• Brexit: extending Article 50 would serve no purpose - FT quotes PM May

  12-02-2019 21:27
  (Reuters) - British Prime Minster Theresa May told business leaders on Tuesday that extending the Article 50 process under which the UK is meant to leave the European Union on March 29 would serve no purpose, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
  
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• Prince of Wales attends ballet world premiere

  12-02-2019 21:19
  The Prince of Wales attended the world premiere of The Cunning Little Vixen, presented at the Royal Opera House in honour of his 70th birthday.
  
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• Prince Harry and Meghan attend Darwin play in aid of forest conservation

  12-02-2019 21:18
  Prince Harry and his wife Meghan attended a play on Tuesday evening about the young Charles Darwin's 19th Century expedition on HMS Beagle, in aid of forest conservation.The Duke and Duchess Sussex were guests of honour at a gala performance of "The Wider Earth," staged at London's Natural History Museum in support of the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust and the production’s charitable partner, The Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy.Harry is president of the Trust, which uses its network an
  
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• Labour MP has new plan for parliament vote on no-deal Brexit

  12-02-2019 20:59
  British MP Yvette Cooper, one of the leading campaigners against Britain leaving the EU without an agreement with the bloc, unveiled a new plan on Tuesday to ensure parliament has a chance to vote on ruling out a no-deal Brexit.A first attempt by opposition Labour lawmaker Cooper and Conservative Nick Boles to give parliament the power to request a delay to Britain's March 29 exit from the European Union was defeated by parliament on Jan. 29.Cooper said her new proposal, which has cross-party su
  
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• Family of NHS nurse who died after missed cervical cancer want inquiry

  12-02-2019 20:38
  Julie O'Connor, 49, died last week after recording a poignant video from her bed just days before.The former NHS nurse, from Gloucestershire, described her anger at the mistakes made by the NHS that she and her family believe cost her the opportunity of treating her cervical cancer.In the video, Mrs O'Connor said: "I think it took six attempts for the cancer to be diagnosed.
  
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• Inertia-gripped May lets the clock keep ticking

  12-02-2019 20:23
  With just 45 days to go until the UK leaves the EU, the government still has no idea on what terms a deal – if any – can be reached.Shares in Mogadon have rocketed as parliament sleepwalks towards Brexit.Theresa May couldn’t believe her luck.
  
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• Alesha MacPhail: Father sold drugs to teen accused of killing his six-year-old daughter

  12-02-2019 20:10
  A father has told a murder trial that he sold cannabis to the teenager accused of murdering his daughter.Robert MacPhail, 26, was asked if he knew the 16-year-old accused of abducting, raping and murdering six-year-old Alesha MacPhail.Alesha was killed after she went to stay with her father for a holiday break at her grandparents' house on the Isle of Bute in July 2018.
  
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• Girl in hospital after being struck by vehicle

  12-02-2019 19:56
  The child is being treated at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Children.
  
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• Theresa May heckled as she denies 'running down the clock' on Brexit

  12-02-2019 19:54
  Theresa May has denied she is trying to "run down the clock" on Brexit, as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the prime minister of "blackmailing" MPs into supporting her "deeply flawed deal".Returning to the Commons to update MPs on the latest Brexit developments, Mrs May faced claims she was playing for time with 45 days until Britain is due to leave the European Union.The prime minister told parliament she "wanted to have this sorted before Christmas", a claim which prompted howls of derisio
  
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• CCTV shows last known movements of missing Libby Squire

  12-02-2019 19:45
  Fresh CCTV footage shows her walking toward The Welly Club in the city at 11.18pm, unsteady on her feet as she negotiated snowfall from earlier that day.Ms Squire, wearing a black dress, can be seen with friends at one point, one in a winter coat who appears to loop arms with her as they wait to get into the club.Less than five minutes later Ms Squire was turned away as doormen thought she was too drunk, so she got into a cab to head home.
  
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• MPs Launch Fresh Plan To Halt A No-Deal Brexit 'By Accident'

  12-02-2019 19:42
  MPs racing to stop a no-deal Brexit could force Theresa May to hand backcontrol to parliament in mid-March if the UK is still on course to crash out
  
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• Alesha MacPhail murder trial hears of frantic search for the six-year-old

  12-02-2019 19:32
  The trial at the High Court in Glasgow is expected to last two weeks.
  
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• Teenage newlyweds named as burglary suspects killed in crash

  12-02-2019 19:23
  A heavily-pregnant teenager and her husband are understood to be the two burglary suspects killed after their car crashed into a coach in west London.Shauna McDonagh, 18, and her 19-year-old husband Patrick, were killed on the A40 near East Acton after smashing into the vehicle when they drove the wrong way down the road at about 9pm on Sunday.A second man who was in the car was taken to hospital and subsequently arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary.
  
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• Camilla ‘grows wings’ on visit to Liverpool

  12-02-2019 19:15
  Like thousands before her, Camilla posed for a picture in front of a mural of a pair of wings called For All Liverpool's Liver Birds.
  
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• Our constituencies voted to leave – based on an impossible promise

  12-02-2019 19:14
  A ‘Leave’ campaign bus in June 2016. ‘Far from taking back control, Brexit would see the UK forced to follow EU rules over which we will no longer have a say,’ write 15 Labour MPs.As MPs representing constituencies that voted to leave the EU in 2016, we know only too well about the divisions Brexit has provoked.
  
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• In defence of Christopher Chope on FGM legislation

  12-02-2019 19:13
  Last week, Sir Christopher Chope MP objected to the passage of a private member’s bill seeking amendment to the Children Act 1989 which would apparently close a perceived legal gap to allow family courts to make interim care and supervisory orders about children deemed at risk of FGM.What seems to have been overlooked entirely in parliament and subsequent reporting is that such powers already exist in the family court.
  
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• Residents considering appeal after losing privacy case against Tate Modern

  12-02-2019 19:10
  Residents of flats overlooked by the art gallery have said they are 'extremely disappointed' after losing a High Court privacy battle.
  
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• Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay Completely Messes Up Jean-Claude Juncker's Name

  12-02-2019 18:56
  The new Brexit Secretary has marked the second stage of his first big EUrenegotiation talks by completely messing up the name of the president of theEuropean Commission
  
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• Belfast street was a blueprint for N Ireland, Ballymurphy inquest told

  12-02-2019 18:55
  Over three days, from August 9-11, 10 people died in shootings at a number of locations in west Belfast.
  
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• Alesha MacPhail's father 'sold cannabis to murder accused'

  12-02-2019 18:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Robert MacPhail admits doing deals with the boy who is charged with killing his six-year-old daughter.
  
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• TV star tells Charles of comfort hospice provided over her mother

  12-02-2019 18:51
  Marie Curie patron Charles met the actress when he visited the charity's Liverpool hospice where the performer's mum Marj received care.
  
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• Husband remembers ‘bubbly’ wife after court rules on fatal bus crash

  12-02-2019 18:37
  Rachel Cassells died after being struck by a vehicle at Trossachs Woollen Mill, with the venue and coach firm Allan's Group found liable for damages.
  
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• Upskirting made criminal offence from April

  12-02-2019 18:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Offenders will face being jailed for two years and being put on the sex offenders' register.
  
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• Bestival death: actor's daughter 'tried to eat twigs' after taking drug

  12-02-2019 18:21
  Louella Fletcher-Michie also scraped thorns across her face, Winchester crown court was told.A musician accused of the manslaughter of an actor’s daughter at a festival told a police officer that she scraped thorns across her face and tried to eat twigs after taking a party drug, a court has heard.Ceon Broughton claimed he and Louella Fletcher-Michie went into the woods at Bestival in Dorset after buying the drugs because they were “people of nature”.
  
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• Britain to provide £6.5m in emergency aid for Venezuela

  12-02-2019 18:15
  International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt calls for aid agencies to be given unhindered access to those caught up in the crisis.
  
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• Best Natasha Lyonne roles, American Pie, Orange Is The New Black, Anti-Birth and I'm A Cheerleader to Russian Doll - Den of Geek UK

  12-02-2019 18:15 via denofgeek.com
  Best Natasha Lyonne roles, American Pie, Orange Is The New Black, Anti-Birth and I'm A Cheerleader to Russian Doll  Den of Geek UKOver and over: why is Hollywood still obsessed with Groundhog Day?  The GuardianNetflix’s ‘Russian Doll’ filmed ‘two or three’ different endings  NME LiveThis fan theory about Netflix's Russian Doll is actually quite dark  Cosmopolitan.comRussian Doll: Understanding Horse, the show’s most myst
  
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• Family tribute to ‘devoted’ father of six shot while waiting for daughter

  12-02-2019 18:14
  James Taylor was gunned down outside a dance school.
  
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• Both sides want an EU exit deal, says UK Brexit minister

  12-02-2019 18:10
  Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said on Tuesday both Britain and the European Union wanted to see a Brexit deal, recognising that a British exit without an agreement would be in neither of the sides' interests.
  
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• Acid attack accused tells jurors he was ‘forced’ to burn boy after ‘gun’ threat

  12-02-2019 18:06
  Adam Cech, 27, is accused, alongside six others, of conspiring to carry out an acid attack on the three-year-old boy
  
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• Theresa May: There is a 'shared determination' on workers' rights

  12-02-2019 18:05
  Theresa May says there is a "shared determination" that Brexit doesn't damage workers' rights.The Prime Minister faced questions from MPs over Brexit.
  
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• Brexit: Theresa May promises meaningful vote after more talks with EU

  12-02-2019 18:03 via bbc.co.uk
  The PM promises a final vote on her deal after talks with the EU - Labour says she is running down the clock.
  
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• France tells UK to make clear its Brexit intentions

  12-02-2019 18:00
  PARIS (Reuters) - London still needs to make clear its next steps towards reaching a deal over the terms of its divorce with the European Union, France's foreign ministry said on Tuesday after talks were held with Britain's foreign secretary.
  
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• "Real hunger" for Brexit deal - Jeremy Hunt

  12-02-2019 18:00
  LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Tuesday it was still possible to get a Brexit deal by March 29 when Britain leaves, describing a "real hunger" to finalise the exit in the European Union.
  
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• British gin exports reach record £612 million

  12-02-2019 17:52
  The value of British gin exports has more than doubled since 2010, HM Revenue and Customs figures show.
  
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• Scots will be urged to check weather forecasts to adapt to climate change

  12-02-2019 17:47
  A five-year Government plan warns people to expect milder, wetter winters; hotter, drier summers, and more frequent extreme weather.
  
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• Father 'Celebrated Acid Attack On Three-Year-Old Son With Text To Accomplice', Court Hears

  12-02-2019 17:45
  An "arrogant and selfish" father in the midst of a custody battle was "handingover acid" in a pub car park hours before it was used to burn his three-year-old son, a court heard
  
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• Channel Tunnel will stay open in event of no-deal Brexit

  12-02-2019 17:43
  The EU Commission said its proposal is conditional on the UK maintaining safety standards identical to EU requirements.
  
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• Kings Cross attack: 'Corrosive substance' thrown at men

  12-02-2019 17:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Two men were found with facial injuries believed to have been caused by the substance after an altercation.
  
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• Youngster crushed by car seat in fit of childish temper, court told

  12-02-2019 17:35
  Waterson, 25, son of ex-minister Nigel Waterson, and hairdresser Hoare, 23, have both denied responsibility for Alfie’s death.
  
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• 'Draw the blinds': Flat owners lose privacy case against Tate's viewing platform

  12-02-2019 17:29
  Residents of London flats have said they are "extremely disappointed" after losing their legal fight against Tate Modern.The owners of four flats in a "world-class development" on the South Bank had taken the art gallery to the High Court in an attempt to stop "hundreds of thousands of visitors" looking into their homes from the Tate's viewing platform.
  
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