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• May to hold Brexit talks with EU's Juncker; urges party unity

  16-02-2019 23:48
  Prime Minister Theresa May is to hold Brexit talks with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker next week, her office said on Saturday, following this week's symbolic defeat in parliament which was widely interpreted as undermining her negotiating strength with the EU.On Monday, Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay will meet EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier, it added in a statement.
  
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• Mass brawl erupts at Haydock Park racecourse, forcing mother and child to flee

  16-02-2019 23:46
  Dozens of spectators have been involved in a mass brawl at Haydock Park racecourse.A mother and child had to be led to safety after getting caught up in the fighting, which happened as the last race got under way on Saturday.About 40 people were involved in the violence at the Merseyside racecourse as two gangs of men traded blows.
  
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• Flybmi goes into administration - all flights cancelled

  16-02-2019 23:37
  Regional airline Flybmi has gone into administration, with all flights cancelled from Saturday.The British company, which flew 17 regional jet aircraft on routes to 25 European cities, says Brexit has been a major factor in its demise.In 2018, Flybmi had carried 522,000 passengers on 29,000 flights.
  
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• People's Vote campaign announces London march for weekend before Brexit day - Evening Standard

  16-02-2019 23:36 via standard.co.uk
  People's Vote campaign announces London march for weekend before Brexit day  Evening StandardRemainers plan mass march and key vote in last days before Brexit  The GuardianRemainers set date for anti-Brexit 'Put it to People' protest WEEK before UK leaves EU  ExpressThis is not the Brexit I expected when I voted Leave, which is why I want a Final Say  The IndependentLet us march once more for a Final Say on Brexit  The IndependentView full covera
  
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• Theresa May issues plea to Tory MPs to unite and deliver on Brexit

  16-02-2019 23:30
  The Prime Minister announced that she will return to Brussels for further talks with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker next week.
  
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• Man, 27, appears in court charged with murders of three pensioners

  16-02-2019 23:26
  A 27-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murders of three elderly men in Exeter.Alexander Lewis-Ranwell appeared at Exeter Magistrates' Court accused of killing 80-year-old Anthony Payne and twins Dick and Roger Carter, who were 84.Devon and Cornwall Police said the deaths had been linked because of the "level of violence used".
  
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• Remainers set date for anti-Brexit 'Put it to People' protest WEEK before UK leaves EU

  16-02-2019 23:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  REMAINERS have announced plans for a 'Put it to the People' march calling for a second Brexit referendum just a week before Britain is due to finally exit the EU on March 29.
  
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• People’s Vote campaign announces plans for march weekend before Brexit day

  16-02-2019 23:00
  Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable predicted 'hundreds of thousands' of people would take to the streets to demand their voices are heard.
  
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• Let us raise our daughter's baby, say family of Bethnal Green Jihadi bride Shamima Begum - The Telegraph

  16-02-2019 23:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  Let us raise our daughter's baby, say family of Bethnal Green Jihadi bride Shamima Begum  The TelegraphLet Shamima Begum return to UK or risk more terror recruits, says expert  The GuardianFamily of ISIS bride Shamima Begum urge UK government to give them custody of her unborn child  Daily MailEx-jihadi bride says Shamima Begum should be given a second chance at life in UK  Metro.co.ukThe Shamima Begum debate plays right into Theresa May’s hands 
  
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• Mass brawl erupts at Haydock Park racecourse

  16-02-2019 22:54
  One man was arrested for affray and drug possession
  
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• Father living along border fears what Brexit will bring after flybmi collapse

  16-02-2019 22:47
  Civil engineer Danny McLaughlin had 14 upcoming flights out of City of Derry airport to London Stansted.
  
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• City of Derry Airport ‘reviewing options’ to replace flybmi Stansted service

  16-02-2019 21:51
  The airport tweeted advice to customers after it emerged that flybmi has suspended flights and is filing for administration.
  
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• Airline flybmi cancels all flights and files for administration

  16-02-2019 21:44
  The company cited difficulties created by Brexit.
  
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• Yellow Vest protests spill into LONDON as six arrested during violent Whitehall revolt

  16-02-2019 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE Yellow Vest Movement that has dogged Paris, Amsterdam and EU headquarters in Brussels today bled into Britain as police arrested six in a violent clash at London’s Whitehall that saw two officers assaulted.
  
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• Man, 63, critical after thieves run him over with his own car in Greater Manchester

  16-02-2019 21:26
  A 63-year-old man is fighting for his life in hospital after being run over by thieves making off with his car.The victim is in a critical condition with serious head inquiries after being hit by the vehicle in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester.Officers said the man saw his car being taken in a cul-de-sac called Rushmere and as he tried to run after it he was struck in nearby Nook Lane close to a mini roundabout.
  
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• Labour green group urges Corbyn to back second Brexit vote

  16-02-2019 21:22
  The only environmental group affiliated to the Labour party has written to Jeremy Corbyn calling on him to back a second referendum on Brexit and to campaign for remain.It warns that leaving the EU will have devastating consequences for millions of British people, drastically undermine UK farmers, and do untold damage to the countryside.The hard-hitting letter from the Socialist Environment and Resources Association (SERA), considered to be the environmental voice inside Labour, says that leavin
  
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• Aberdeen flights cancelled after flybmi goes into administration

  16-02-2019 21:12
  Flybmi has announced the immediate cancellation of all flights after the company announced its collapse and blamed Brexit.
  
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• UK regional airline Flybmi goes into administration blaming Brexit

  16-02-2019 21:09
  British regional airline Flybmi has gone into administration and has cancelled all flights with immediate effect, the company said in a statement on Saturday, blaming Brexit uncertainty as one of the reasons for its collapse.A spokesperson for British Midland Regional Ltd said the company had taken the decision due to increased fuel and carbon costs and to uncertainty arising from Britain's plans to leave the European Union on March 29.The airline, based in the English East Midlands, operates 17
  
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• Mahrez: Focus is the key for City - Manchester City FC

  16-02-2019 21:09 via mancity.com
  Mahrez: Focus is the key for City  Manchester City FCManchester City: Phil Foden says his side can win quadruple this season  BBC SportNewport County 1 Manchester City : Player Ratings  Man City SquareGALLERY: Come on County! City gets behind Flynn's Exiles  South Wales ArgusNewport County 1-4 Man City highlights and reaction as Foden, Sane and Mahrez score  Manchester Evening NewsView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Flybmi plunges into administration leaving flights cancelled - HeraldScotland

  16-02-2019 21:04 via heraldscotland.com
  Flybmi plunges into administration leaving flights cancelled  HeraldScotlandUK regional airline Flybmi ceases operations  BBC NewsFlybmi goes into administration - blames 'Brexit uncertainty'  Sky NewsWhat Flybmi are telling customers to do if they have booking  HeraldScotlandRegional airline Flybmi collapses blaming Brexit uncertainty  The GuardianView full coverage on Google News
  
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• What customers affected by the flybmi suspension should do

  16-02-2019 20:54
  Flybmi said it would not be able to purchase, rearrange or reschedule any flights on behalf of customers.
  
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• Labour pulls level with Tories in latest opinion poll

  16-02-2019 20:33
  Labour has pulled level with the Conservatives, according to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer that suggests significant potential support for a new party.Jeremy Corbyn’s party had trailed the Tories by seven points two weeks ago.It marks a return to the tight poll results that have been a feature in recent months.
  
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• British Flybmi Airline Goes Into Administration After Being 'Seriously Affected' By Uncertainty Over Brexit

  16-02-2019 20:22
  Airline FlyBMI has suspended all operations and is filing for administration,it has announced
  
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• Alexa Chung goes 'off the grid', Holland dresses 'global citizen' at London Fashion

  16-02-2019 20:21
  Model, presenter-turned-designer Alexa Chung went back in time for her second catwalk show in London on Saturday, showing a collection inspired by the idea of a group of women escaping to California's Big Sur in the 1980s to go "off the grid".Chung, a long-time darling of the British fashion industry with a Mulberry handbag named after her, turned to 1983, the year she was born, for the autumn/winter 2019 line presented on the second day of London Fashion Week.In a bunker-like setting with the o
  
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• Lady Falkender, Harold Wilson's right-hand woman, dies, aged 86

  16-02-2019 20:15
  Lady Falkender, Harold Wilson’s former right-hand woman, died of pneumonia 10 days ago, aged 86, but the news emerged only late on Friday, triggering a flurry of tributes from politicians and commentators.Formerly Marcia Williams, Falkender was the private and political secretary to the Labour prime minister during his premiership in the 1960s and 1970s.
  
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• FlyBMI administration: Britain's regional airline CANCELS all flights after collapse

  16-02-2019 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  AIRLINE FlyBMI has gone into administration, with all the British regional airline's flights cancelled.
  
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• Lovren visits specialist to make Bayern clash - Click Liverpool

  16-02-2019 19:53 via clickliverpool.com
  Lovren visits specialist to make Bayern clash  Click LiverpoolRobbie Fowler: Why I am apprehensive for Liverpool clashes with Bayern and Man Utd  Mirror OnlineKingsley Coman: Bayern Munich forward fit for Liverpool Champions League tie  BBC SportLiverpool news and transfers RECAP - Klopp moves for Malcom, Rabiot future latest, Bayern Munich injury blow  Liverpool EchoArjen Robben opens up on injury mystery ruling him out of Liverpool first leg  M
  
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• InSight’s heat probe will dig 16 feet beneath the surface of Mars - Digital Trends

  16-02-2019 19:50 via digitaltrends.com
  InSight’s heat probe will dig 16 feet beneath the surface of Mars  Digital TrendsJokers please: first human Mars mission may need onboard comedians  The GuardianNasa wants to recruit a ‘class clown’ for its first manned voyage to Mars to keep crew relaxed and ent  The SunCaptain Scott lost race to South Pole because he didn't have 'class clown' in his team, scientists say  The TelegraphThe Opportunity Rover Lives On as 'Dungeons & Dra
  
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• Fake passports being used by Tamil community

  16-02-2019 19:25
  Fake passports are being used by Tamils to enter the UK, according to one community leader. Sky's Lisa Holland reports.
  
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• Lee Radziwill: a life in pictures

  16-02-2019 19:02
  Radziwill, the younger sister of Jackie Kennedy, has died at the age of 85. Married three times, she was a well-known socialite and a successful interior designer Continue reading...
  
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• Kady McDermott changes name of 'copycat' Instagram after death threats over Maria Fowler spat - Mirror Online

  16-02-2019 18:57 via mirror.co.uk
  Kady McDermott changes name of 'copycat' Instagram after death threats over Maria Fowler spat  Mirror OnlineMaria Fowler fears Kady McDermott will ‘come to harm’ after she’s sent death threats from vicious trolls  The SunView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Boohoo changes its mind - hours after announcing ban on wool

  16-02-2019 18:52
  Boohoo has announced it will continue using wool in its products, despite earlier promising to enforce a ban by the autumn.The online fashion retailer had faced a backlash after unveiling plans to stop selling items containing wool - with one sheep farmer telling Sky News he was "absolutely disgusted" by the ban.Boohoo's initial plans to scrap wool products had been praised by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
  
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• Emiliano Sala: Cardiff manager Warnock attends player's wake

  16-02-2019 18:48
  Neil Warnock has paid his respects at the wake of footballer Emiliano Sala, who died shortly after signing for his team.
  
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• How Sri Lankans are getting into UK illegally revealed

  16-02-2019 18:39
  A Sri Lankan community leader has told Sky News the vast majority of illegal immigrants arriving in Britain from the country are coming on fake passports.Ambihai Seevaratnam, who works in human rights and is chairperson of Croydon temple in south London, says it has become much more difficult to get visas to come to the UK and that Tamils fleeing Sri Lanka are turning to agents to buy fake Sri Lankan passports and fake visas."I would probably say 80 to 85% of people arriving from Sri Lanka are c
  
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• Let Shamima Begum return to UK or risk more terror recruits, says expert

  16-02-2019 18:36
  Shamima Begum, 19, wants to return to the UK from a Syrian refugee camp to raise her child.The home secretary’s response to teenage Islamic State bride Shamima Begum will guarantee new recruits to the ideology that underpins the terror group, a former senior counter-radicalisation expert for the government has warned.As the debate over whether to allow Begum, who left the UK to join Islamic State as a 15-year-old, to return home continued yesterday, Hanif Qadir said Sajid Javid’s rea
  
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• Buhari and opposition leader blame each other for Nigerian election delay - The Guardian

  16-02-2019 18:27 via theguardian.com
  Buhari and opposition leader blame each other for Nigerian election delay  The GuardianNigeria election 2019: Poll halted in last-minute drama  BBC NewsNigerians suspicious after last-minute election delay  Financial TimesNigeria postpones election just hours before polls due to open  The GuardianNigeria election 2019: Appeal for calm after shock delay  BBC NewsView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Neil Warnock and Cardiff chief Ken Choo join mourners at Emiliano Sala funeral

  16-02-2019 18:25
  The Cardiff FC manager and club chief executive paid their respects at a public vigil in Sala's hometown in Argentina.
  
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• Model appears to suffer unfortunate nip slip on catwalk during bizarre A.W.A.K.E. MODE show at London Fashion - The Sun

  16-02-2019 18:07 via thesun.co.uk
  Model appears to suffer unfortunate nip slip on catwalk during bizarre A.W.A.K.E. MODE show at London Fashion  The SunAlexa Chung Gives Vogue An Exclusive Look At Her Second London Fashion Week Show  Vogue.co.ukAlexa Chung does floral dresses with a feminist call to arms  Telegraph.co.ukLondon Fashion Week 2019: All the best street style looks  Evening StandardLondon Fashion Week: Celebrities on the front row at the AW19 runway shows  The Indepen
  
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• Stained-glass three-wheelers – in pictures

  16-02-2019 18:00
  Reliant Robins, the celebrated three-wheeled British cars, have been given a makeover in Stuart Langley’s Stained Glass Cars. Inspired by the windows in Durham Cathedral, the project began in 2013 for Artichoke’s Lumiere festival. The Hartlepool-based artist fitted out three cars with British iconography, with a focus on north-east England: the Angel of the North appears on one; another depicts the Lindisfarne gospels. “The third car is a celebratory mashup of rock and royalty,
  
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• 'Senseless': Karl Marx memorial vandalised for second time in two weeks

  16-02-2019 17:29
  The grave, which is popular with tourists at Highgate Cemetery, was also attacked with a hammer on 4 February.The charity which runs the cemetery said at the time that the Grade I-listed memorial was subject to a "deliberate and sustained attack" and "will never be the same again".Maxwell Blowfield, who visited the cemetery on Saturday morning with his mother, said the damage was "shocking" to see.
  
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• UK weather forecast – SNOW to blanket Britain NEXT WEEK with -2C Arctic blast after 15C ‘Spanish plume’ - The Sun

  16-02-2019 17:25 via thesun.co.uk
  UK weather forecast – SNOW to blanket Britain NEXT WEEK with -2C Arctic blast after 15C ‘Spanish plume’  The SunBritain will be blanketed in the white stuff as an Arctic blast brings winter back  Daily MailUK weather forecast: Arctic blast to BLANKET Britain with snow NEXT WEEK  Express.co.ukScotland weather forecast – SNOW to blanket UK this week with -2C Arctic blast after 15C ‘Spanish plume’  The Scottish SunUK weathe
  
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• Shamima Begum could be a challenge to de-radicalise – counter-extremism expert

  16-02-2019 17:20
  She has said she will 'do anything required just to be able to come home and live quietly with my child' after being tracked down in northern Syria.
  
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• Karl Marx Grave: Monument Vandalised For Second Time This Month

  16-02-2019 17:11
  A historic monument that marks Karl Marx's grave has been vandalised for thesecond time in two weeks
  
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• High intensity intervals better for weight loss concludes study - road.cc

  16-02-2019 17:09 via road.cc
  High intensity intervals better for weight loss concludes study  road.ccA new study has concluded that high intensity interval training (HIIT) is likely to prove more effective for weight loss than moderate-intensity continuous training ...View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Karl Marx's London grave vandalised again, with red paint

  16-02-2019 16:52
  A memorial to Karl Marx at the cemetery in north London where the 19th century political philosopher is buried has been defaced for the second time in less than a fortnight - this time with red paint.Earlier this month, the monument in Highgate cemetery, which is among British structures listed as being of exceptional historical interest, was damaged with a hammer.Pictures posted on Twitter by the cemetery on Saturday showed the marble gravestone daubed with political slogans.
  
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• Why 'SOFT Brexit' should have been OFF the table from the start, according to economists

  16-02-2019 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  A SOFT BREXIT should have been off the table from the start, as acknowledging early on that Britain would have not been part of the customs union and single market would have allowed the UK to make major preparations and strengthened its hand during the negotiations with the EU, two leading economists claim in their book.
  
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• DUP leader warns Sinn Fein that restoration of devolution is ‘no game’

  16-02-2019 16:14
  Arlene Foster was speaking at her party's Spring conference in Omagh, Co Tyrone.
  
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• Boohoo faces backlash for banning wool products over animal rights concerns

  16-02-2019 16:09
  Fashion website Boohoo has become the first UK mainstream retailer to ban the use of wool in its products - but has faced backlash over the decision.The online store, which also owns PrettyLittleThing and Nasty Gal, said in a statement it would "not knowingly source wool products" by the autumn.The move has been applauded by animal rights organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta), which recently released footage of abuse at 99 shearing sheds across the world.
  
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• Immigration images: protest and partying in Paris and London

  16-02-2019 16:00
  A new exhibition at the Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration celebrates the potent mix of migration, music, anti-racism and political activism that reshaped the cultures of France and Britain since the early sixties Continue reading...
  
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• Alexa Chung imagines 'off the grid' escapism for second London show

  16-02-2019 15:56
  Model, presenter-turned-designer Alexa Chung went back in time for her second catwalk show in London on Saturday, presenting a collection inspired by the idea of a group of women escaping to California's Big Sur in the 1980s to go "off the grid".Chung, a long-time darling of the British fashion industry with a Mulberry handbag named after her, turned to 1983, the year she was born, for the autumn/winter 2019 line presented on the second day of London Fashion Week.In a bunker-like setting with th
  
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