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• Missed The Valentine's Day Brexit Massacre? Here's Everything You Need To Know

  14-02-2019 23:49
  Ahh, Valentine's Day
  
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• Jacob Rees-Mogg comments on concentration camps

  14-02-2019 23:41 via bbc.co.uk
  The Tory MP compares the death rate in Boer War concentration camps to that of Glasgow at the time.
  
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• Labour Activist Suspended For Anti-Semitism After Liverpool MP Louise Ellman Demands Tougher Action

  14-02-2019 23:38
  A Labour activist who posted graphic anti-Semitic imagery from a whitesupremacist US website has been suspended from the party and barred from itscandidates list, HuffPost UK can reveal
  
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• Lord Ahmed 'took advantage' of vulnerable women

  14-02-2019 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  He is accused of exploiting his position to pursue sex with women who sought help, Newsnight reveals.
  
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• Judge critical of PG&E's wildfire role demands more answers

  14-02-2019 23:26
  A U.S. judge who has berated Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for its role in California wildfires demanded Thursday that the utility answer more questions about its efforts to clear trees and branches that can fall on its power lines and start fires.Judge William Alsup asked the utility in a court filing if it was in compliance with a state law requiring it to clear vegetation within certain distances of electric lines.The judge also questioned a part of the utility's recently submitted wildfire
  
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• BBC did not give advice on abortion after Call The Midwife episode says charity

  14-02-2019 23:10
  BPAS claims the broadcaster has made itself partisan by excluding information to viewers on the 'contentious' issue.
  
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• Amazon's retreat from New York represents a turning point | Ross Barkan

  14-02-2019 23:10
  The company’s surrender is a warning to all Democrats who claim to be progressive: you don’t get to support a company like this anymoreAmazon was ready to impose its will on the largest city in America. The trillion dollar corporation had lined up the support of the mayor of New York City, the governor of New York, and began hiring the fleet of well-compensated lobbyists and strategists necessary to see its vision through.It was a typical American story: a corporation with unfathomab
  
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• Eddie Jones hand grenades will not faze us, says Wales’s Neil Jenkins

  14-02-2019 23:00
  • Home coach keen to focus on rugby not words
  • Wales know they must impose their own gameWales are ready for a war of words in the buildup to their match against England in Cardiff a week on Saturday, with Eddie Jones making an early start on Sunday by declaring he does not see the Principality Stadium as a fortress.The Welsh coaching setup believe the salvos will count for little once the two remaining unbeaten teams in the Six Nations meet. “It is up to Eddie what he says; I a
  
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• Valencia and Denis Cheryshev deal Celtic harrowing Europa League defeat

  14-02-2019 22:55
  Valencia’s passage to the last 16 of the Europa League already seems secure. On a bruising night for Brendan Rodgers and Celtic, the Spanish side cantered towards a victory which should render next week at the Mestalla a formality.That Valencia have superior resource to Celtic is hardly breaking news. Nonetheless, a team normally so ebullient at home were curiously flat and error-ridden. Long before full time it had become a question of how many Valencia were of a mind to score. They settl
  
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• Russian intelligence officer ‘in UK during Salisbury Novichok attack’ named

  14-02-2019 22:54
  The attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal left him and his daughter Yulia critically ill.
  
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• Olivier Giroud’s backheel helps Chelsea see out first-leg win in Malmö

  14-02-2019 22:51
  European competition has offered Maurizio Sarri some respite. Chelsea may not have dazzled in southern Sweden, and the Italian was infuriated by the late concession that has left the tie more delicately balanced than he would have hoped. But, in the context of the wounds inflicted recently on his team at Arsenal, Bournemouth and Manchester City, any victory away from home, however workmanlike, is to be cherished.Malmö’s late reward, taken neatly on the gallop by Anders Christiansen as
  
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• Scorched film sets: a Hollywood park after wildfires

  14-02-2019 22:48
  Recent blazes scorched 90% of the federally protected Santa Monica Mountains – destroying a 1950s Hollywood set and affecting biodiversity. But life is slowly coming backThe fire came quickly. Fueled by dry, blustering winds, officials were unable to contain the Woolsey fire before it scorched the canyons of Ventura and Los Angeles counties, taking close to 97,000 acres and 1,500 properties with it.One of the great casualties was the Santa Monica Mountains national recreation area. Nearly
  
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• Pair killed in police chase were expecting baby on Valentine's Day

  14-02-2019 22:44
  An unborn baby who died when her teenage parents were killed in a head-on crash after a police pursuit was due to have been born on Valentine's Day.Patrick McDonagh, 19, and his 18-year-old wife Shauna, died on the A40 near East Acton in west London just before 9pm on Sunday.Investigators said on Thursday the newlywed couple were not present at the burglary that prompted the officers to give chase.
  
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• Former mixed martial arts fighter turns politician

  14-02-2019 22:15
  Paddy Holohan, who was known as The Hooligan, has decided to run in the upcoming local elections in May.
  
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• Shoreham Airshow pilot Andrew Hill had 'very limited' experience in crash plane

  14-02-2019 21:56
  The pilot of a plane which crashed during the Shoreham Airshow, killing 11 people, has told a court his experience of flying the aircraft was "very limited".Andrew Hill was at the controls of a 1950s Hawker Hunter fighter jet when it plunged to the ground on 22 August 2015.The court has so far heard Hill had a lengthy career in aviation and was an experienced military, commercial and display pilot who had flown aircrafts including a Jet Provost and a Harrier as well as the Hunter.
  
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• Temperatures rise for Valentine’s Day

  14-02-2019 21:53
  Temperatures passed 16C in Bala, Wales - double the norm for this time of year.
  
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• A40 police pursuit crash couple 'were not at burglary'

  14-02-2019 21:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Newlywed teens Patrick and Shauna McDonagh died when their car collided with a coach after a pursuit.
  
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• Embarrassing loss for Theresa May in symbolic vote on Brexit plan

  14-02-2019 21:44
  Theresa May has suffered an embarrassing defeat in the House of Commons as MPs voted against her approach to Brexit.Theresa May brought a motion forward to reiterate support for the approach MPs agreed last month - noting negotiations between the UK and the EU over the Irish backstop were ongoing.Although tonight's vote was not binding, it comes as Mrs May's Attorney General Geoffrey Cox travels to Brussels to continue talks about the backstop.
  
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• Conservatives react angrily to defeat of May's Brexit plan

  14-02-2019 21:17
  Conservative MP Nick Boles said: “The ERG want a no-deal Brexit and will stop at nothing to get it”.Theresa May is set to face intense pressure from remain-minded Conservative MPs to finally face down hardline Brexiters in her party after a planned restatement of a departure strategy agreed two weeks ago by the Commons was defeated.Abstentions by MPs from the pro-Brexit European Research Group (ERG) played a big part in seeing the government motion voted down after the Brexit secreta
  
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• Arsenal slip at Bate Borisov with Lacazette denied goal and sent off

  14-02-2019 21:08
  What on earth have Arsenal become? Or what are they even trying to become? These questions cut raggedly through the cold air as Unai Emery’s strange team toiled against Belarusian opponents who have been on a winter break and not played a competitive match for nine weeks. Bate Borisov still more than nullified the best this flawed Arsenal incarnation could offer and inflicted a defeat that was more worrying in its style than its result. Continue reading...
  
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• Meal kits cut food waste but packaging is a problem, study finds

  14-02-2019 21:00
  Deliveries ‘almost always’ use more energy than buying ingredients from supermarketHome delivery meal kits can slash food waste by more than two-thirds, but suppliers need to switch to reusable packaging to make them environmentally friendly, researchers say.Tailor-made meal kits save waste by providing people with precise amounts of fresh ingredients for chosen recipes, meaning leftovers are minimised and less food goes off before people have a chance to use it. Continue reading...
  
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• Dilly the Declutterer: London's Marie Kondo

  14-02-2019 20:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Dilly the Declutterer says mindfulness is key when it comes to helping her clients.
  
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• Phew, the Bank would deploy common sense on no-deal Brexit | Nils Pratley

  14-02-2019 20:52
  Previous projections of a deep recession had assumed the MPC would crank up interest ratesA no-deal Brexit, in economic terms, would be a trip into the unknown and would very likely involve a severe shock. Even the sober sub-set of Brexit promoters concedes the latter short-term point. But at least one likely outcome is becoming clearer: the Bank of England would not make things worse by cranking up interest rates.The idea that it might was a strange notion entertained by Threadneedle Street las
  
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• Phew, the Bank would deploy common sense on no-deal Brexit

  14-02-2019 20:52
  Mark Carney’s ‘worst-case’ scenario document in November was not his finest hour.A no-deal Brexit, in economic terms, would be a trip into the unknown and would very likely involve a severe shock.The idea that it might was a strange notion entertained by Threadneedle Street last November as it sketched various scenarios for the UK’s departure from the European Union.
  
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• AFC Wimbledon midfielder dyes his beard team colours

  14-02-2019 20:52
  Scott Wagstaff promised to dye his beard in AFC Wimbledon's traditional blue and yellow colours if they beat West Ham - and they did. Ahead of their FA Cup game against Millwall on Saturday, the midfielder took the opportunity to fulfil his promise.
  
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• More Brexit embarrassment for May as parliament defeats her again

  14-02-2019 20:42
  Prime Minister Theresa May suffered a defeat on her Brexit strategy on Thursday that undermined her pledge to European Union leaders to get her divorce deal approved if they grant her concessions.In a show of muscle, hardline Brexit supporters in her Conservative Party decided to abstain, handing her an embarrassing, albeit symbolic, defeat as she tries to renegotiate her deal with the EU.May was absent from the House of Commons for the debate and the outcome of the vote, which deepened the sens
  
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• Six things we've learned from May's latest Brexit defeat

  14-02-2019 20:38
  This became apparent during the opening of the debate when Tory Brexiters were saying the Malthouse compromise should be official government policy, but Stephen Barclay, the Brexit secretary, refused to concede this.If it says what Anna Soubry thinks it will say, it will strengthen the hand of those MPs arguing that no deal should be ruled out.
  
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• History will not forgive May’s reckless push to the no-deal precipice | Polly Toynbee

  14-02-2019 20:30
  The prime minister is being held hostage by Brexit hardliners. She does more damage every day she refuses to face them downJust another Brexit day of dither, delay and dawdling. Just another humiliating defeat for Theresa May at the hands of the party within her party that she dare not confront. Clever Anna Soubry won a significant victory: the Conservative MP forced the government to agree to publish its no-deal advice – we shall now know what the cabinet knows. We shall see the full horr
  
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• Theresa May suffers new Commons Brexit humiliation

  14-02-2019 20:23
  MPs voted down the Government motion by 303 to 258.
  
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• 'Executed by firing squad': video shows police firing a dozen shots at man

  14-02-2019 20:23
  Cellphone footage sparks outrage days after six California officers fired at Willie McCoy, who had been asleep in his carSign up for the US morning briefing for a fresh perspectiveVideo footage of police killing a 20-year-old California man in his car shows a group of officers firing more than a dozen shots at him, prompting his family to say he was “executed by a firing squad”.Blurry cellphone footage of six officers shootingWillie McCoy, an aspiring rapper who had been sleeping in
  
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• Shoreham airshow trial: pilot admits very limited experience with plane that crashed

  14-02-2019 20:19
  The pilot whose plane crashed during the Shoreham airshow in 2015, killing 11 people, had “very limited” experience of flying that aircraft, he has told a court.Andrew Hill flew a 1950s Hawker Hunter fighter jet in the display on 22 August that year.The aircraft plunged to the ground and exploded into a fireball on the A27 in West Sussex after he failed to complete a loop manoeuvre.
  
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• Spirited away: Canadian thieves steal more than $9,000 in iceberg water

  14-02-2019 20:16
  Police investigate a case of 30,000 litres of valuable iceberg water – intended for vodka productionPolice in Canada are investigating a chilling theft in a Newfoundland community after the disappearance of 30,000 litres of valuable iceberg water.Thieves are believed to have covertly pilfered the water from a storage facility in the coastal town of Port Union last week. The water was intended for vodka production, said police. Continue reading...
  
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• Three people in court charged with Aberdeen attempted murder

  14-02-2019 20:14
  A 41-year-old man suffered serious injuries in an incident on Tuesday evening and was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for treatment.
  
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• Can you negotiate with people who are certifiable? Ask the EU | John Crace

  14-02-2019 20:14
  The Brexit secretary’s out of the loop, the clock’s ticking and the cherry-picking farce proceeds as Europe looks onCometh the hour, cometh the man. And who better to deputise for the prime minister during the latest debate on why the government still doesn’t have a clue about what it’s doing about Brexit than the Brexit secretary himself? Stephen Barclay’s the one member of the cabinet whose job description is to know nothing whatsoever about Brexit. A man put on t
  
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• Can you negotiate with people who are certifiable? Ask the EU

  14-02-2019 20:14
  The Brexit secretary, Stephen Barclay, the one member of the cabinet whose job description is to know nothing whatsoever about Brexit.Stephen Barclay’s the one member of the cabinet whose job description is to know nothing whatsoever about Brexit.In a parallel, fairer, world, Barclay would be an anonymous financial adviser, whose only success was to have been runner-up in a lifetime achievement award hosted by the north-east Cambridgeshire regional chamber of commerce for being the only pe
  
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• Steve Bell on Theresa May's latest Brexit vote defeat – cartoon

  14-02-2019 20:13
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• Father of teen IS bride Amira Abase: 'Let the teenagers into UK'

  14-02-2019 20:11 via bbc.co.uk
  The father of one of the girls who travelled to Syria in 2015 to join IS says they were 'vulnerable'.
  
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• Missing Libby Squire: Police admit student 'may have come to harm' and issue images of replica clothes

  14-02-2019 20:05
  Detectives looking for missing student Libby Squire have admitted "she may have come to some harm".The last sighting of the 21-year-old student is believed to be on Beverley Road in Hull around 12.05am on Friday 1 February at the junction with Haworth Street.Libby has now been missing for a fortnight, and police have made a fresh appeal for information about her disappearance.
  
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• Labour MPs Defy Jeremy Corbyn To Back SNP Attempt To Delay Brexit

  14-02-2019 20:00
  Rebel Labour and Tory MPs defied their party leaders and joined an SNP-ledattempt to delay Brexit
  
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• DNA from Darwin’s rabbit shows myxomatosis battle

  14-02-2019 20:00
  Darwin’s rabbit was a wild rabbit collected in Kent, said a spokesman for London’s Natural History Museum, where it is now housed.
  
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• Skripal poisoning: Bellingcat names 'third man' in Salisbury case

  14-02-2019 19:58 via bbc.co.uk
  He is claimed to be a Russian intelligence officer who was in the UK at the time of the 2018 attack.
  
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• Salisbury poisoning: website says it has identified third GRU suspect

  14-02-2019 19:58
  Denis Sergeyev named as involved in suspected poisoning in Bulgaria in 2015 by website BellingcatA third suspect linked to the poisoning of the former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury has been identified as a high-ranking officer in Russian military intelligence by the investigative website Bellingcat.Bellingcat reported that Denis Sergeyev, a graduate of the Military Diplomatic Academy, a training ground for intelligence officers, is the real identity of a man o
  
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• Brexit live: Theresa May suffers fresh Commons Brexit humiliation

  14-02-2019 19:55
  MPs vote down the Government motion by 303 to 258.
  
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• EU in ‘no mood’ to sacrifice Ireland’s interests to reach Brexit deal

  14-02-2019 19:47
  Simon Coveney hit out at Westminster saying it is 'incredible' that the UK Parliament has allowed the Brexit process to get to its current state.
  
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• How did your MP vote on the latest Brexit motion?

  14-02-2019 19:44
  Theresa May suffered another defeat on Brexit tonight as both pro- and anti-European Tories helped vote down a motion supporting her approach to negotiations. Find out how your MP voted on the main motion and each of the amendments Continue reading...
  
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• Search for Shackleton's Endurance called off after loss of submarine

  14-02-2019 19:42
  Weddell Sea expedition team loses contact with autonomous vehicle under ice sheetThe search for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, Endurance, has been called off after extreme weather trapped an underwater vehicle under a sheet of ice.Explorers working on the Weddell Sea Expedition had hoped to find the Antarctic explorer’s vessel, which was crushed by ice and sank in 1915 during his ultimately unsuccessful attempt at a land crossing of the continent. But severe weather closed in and
  
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• The Churchill row is part of the glib approach to history that gave us Brexit | Simon Jenkins

  14-02-2019 19:40
  John McDonnell is entitled to dislike Britain’s wartime leader. But simplistic views of the past are at the root of many woesChurchill, hero or villain? Prince Charles, goodie or baddie? Jesus Christ, yes or no? John McDonnell, modern Herodotus or fool? Tick the boxes and pass the GCSE. Welcome to the new history. McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, is entitled to dislike Winston Churchill, but why for Tonypandy? Churchill happened to be Liberal home secretary in 1910 and was asked to author
  
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• Ukraine deports Orthodox bishop after stripping citizenship

  14-02-2019 19:37
  Russia condemns move as row escalates over Ukrainian church’s autonomyUkraine has stripped an Orthodox bishop of his citizenship and barred him from entering the country as a dispute escalates over the Ukrainian and Russian branches of the church.Ukrainian border guards said on Thursday that they had detained and deported Bishop Gedeon, the abbot of a Kiev monastery, because he allegedly held dual Ukraine-US citizenship. The deportation was condemned by Russian officials, who called on the
  
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• PM defeat over Brexit strategy announced

  14-02-2019 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Theresa May has suffered a fresh defeat in a Commons vote on her Brexit strategy, losing by 303 to 258.
  
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• Ali Issa Ahmad: British football fan detained 'for wearing Qatar shirt' is freed

  14-02-2019 19:31
  A British man held in the United Arab Emirates reportedly for wearing a Qatar shirt has been freed and has left the country, say Sky sources.Ali Issa Ahmad, 26, was arrested in Sharjah emirate on 22 January, apparently after he had the Qatar shirt on at a football match - considered an offence in the UAE.UAE officials denied he was detained for wearing the garment and insisted he had been charged after making false assault allegations to officers.
  
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