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• Leeds man charged with terror offences

  08-03-2019 23:40
  Police said Pawel Golaszewski was arrested after an intelligence-led investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing North East.
  
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• 13 arrested after oil protest at museum

  08-03-2019 23:35
  Police were called to a planned protest against the Scottish Oil Club's annual dinner being held at the National Museum of Scotland.
  
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• Hammond sees more spending, tax cuts if Brexit deal done - FT

  08-03-2019 23:34
  Chancellor Philip Hammond said he would be able to free up billions of pounds in extra public spending or tax cuts if the country can resolve its Brexit impasse, the Financial Times said on Friday.Hammond is due to announce a half-yearly update on the budget on Wednesday, a day after parliament votes on Prime Minister Theresa May's plan for a Brexit divorce deal with the rest of the European Union.Hammond told the FT that the new official fiscal forecasts would show that the public finances were
  
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• Man, 33, Charged With 'Right-Wing' Terror Offences, Police Say

  08-03-2019 23:33
  A 33-year-old man arrested in Leeds last month on suspicion of right-wingterror offences has been charged, police said
  
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• Dad attacks 18-month sentence for 'child killer'

  08-03-2019 23:30
  The family of girl a who died nine years after she was involved in a car crash have attacked the driver's 18-month prison sentence as an "insult".Cerys Edwards was travelling in the car with her parents when they were struck by a Range Rover Sport on 11 November 2006 - just after her first birthday.The driver of the car - married father-of-two Antonio Boparan, who was 19 and is now 32 - appeared at Birmingham Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
  
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• Meghan: We hope 'embryonic kicking of feminism' is in our child

  08-03-2019 23:28
  The Duchess of Sussex has joked she can feel the "embryonic kicking of feminism" inside her as she joined a star-studded panel of feminists and national figures to mark International Women's Day.Meghan told reporters: "I'd seen this documentary on Netflix about feminism and one of the things they said during pregnancy was I feel the embryonic kicking of feminism.
  
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• Britain throws out Michel Barnier's bid to end Brexit deadlock - 'it's a non-starter'

  08-03-2019 23:26
  The UK has thrown out the EU's latest attempt to break the Brexit deadlock over the Irish backstop and accused Brussels of trying to "rerun old arguments".It comes after the bloc's chief Brexit negotiator revealed the reassurances he offered Britain over the controversial Northern Ireland issue.Michel Barnier said he proposed a "legally binding interpretation" of the Brexit deal.
  
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• Northern Ireland: Allison Marimon-Herrera, 15, was strangled, police say

  08-03-2019 23:23
  A 15-year-old girl - one of three people found dead in a flat in Northern Ireland - was strangled to death, police have said.Allison Marimon-Herrera's body was discovered with two others at the property in Newry, County Down, on Thursday.Officers said there was a "strong possibility" her mother, 37-year-old Giselle Marimon-Herrera, was also strangled.
  
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• Baby of IS bride Shamima Begum has died in Syria

  08-03-2019 23:21
  The baby son of Islamic State (IS) bride Shamima Begum has died in Syria, theSyrian Democratic Forces said.The confirmation came after a day of confusion surrounding the fate of the baby boy, Jarrah, who was born in mid-February.On Friday afternoon, Begum's family lawyer Tasnime Akunjee had said there were "strong but as yet unconfirmed" reports that Jarrah had died.
  
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• Shamima Begum’s baby son has died, lawyer confirms

  08-03-2019 23:06
  The 19-year-old gave birth to the boy in a refugee camp in Syria, having previously lost two children.
  
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• S&P 500 slips to end worst week of year - The Australian Financial Review

  08-03-2019 22:59 via afr.com
  S&P 500 slips to end worst week of year  The Australian Financial ReviewCentral banks shift stance in face of ‘pervasive uncertainty’  Financial TimesUS stocks cap worst week of 2019 after jobs data  Sydney Morning HeraldWhat's Going On? European Central Bank Reverses Itself  Seeking AlphaGold Has Room To Move Higher But Don't Expect A Breakout Rally - Analysts  Kitco NewsView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Teenage girl found dead at flat in Co Down was strangled, say police

  08-03-2019 22:49
  Allison Marimon-Herrera, 15, was one of three people found dead this week at the flat in Newry.
  
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• Man arrested after incident at Hibernian v Rangers match

  08-03-2019 22:39
  The arrest comes after a man was shown on television kicking the ball away from James Tavernier and pushes were exchanged before police stepped in.
  
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• Shamima Begum’s Son Was Innocent, Her Lawyer Says, As Baby's Death Is Confirmed

  08-03-2019 22:01
  Isis bride Shamima Begum's son was "completely innocent", her family's lawyersaid, as reports confirmed the baby had died in Syria
  
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• Baby of Islamic State teenager in UK furore dies - group

  08-03-2019 21:27
  DEIR AL-ZOR, Syria (Reuters) - The baby of Shamima Begum, a teenager who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria, has died, a spokesman for the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Friday.Begum, whose two older children had also previously died, was stripped of her British citizenship last month on security grounds after she was discovered in a detention camp in Syria.The 19-year-old left London to join IS when she was 15.
  
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• SpaceX crew capsule returns to Earth, paving the way for human launches - Spaceflight Now

  08-03-2019 21:18 via spaceflightnow.com
  SpaceX crew capsule returns to Earth, paving the way for human launches  Spaceflight NowSpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft returned to Earth on Friday with an on-target splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now. SpaceX's ...View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Parents paying for glue sticks to help cash-strapped schools, headteachers say

  08-03-2019 21:00
  Thousands of headteachers are warning of a 'schools funding crisis'.
  
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• Tom Watson sets up centre-left group within Labour party

  08-03-2019 20:53
  Tom Watson has urged party leader Jeremy Corbyn to do more to tackle antisemitism. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/Rex/ShutterstockLabour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, is promising to “ensure all voices within the party feel they are being heard”, as he convenes a new centre-left grouping of MPs, widely regarded at Westminster as a rival power base to Jeremy Corbyn’s.Watson has made a series of pointed public interventions since a group of seven MPs announced that they were leav
  
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• Britain dismisses latest EU move to end Brexit deadlock

  08-03-2019 20:42
  Ministers say Brussels is simply trying to 'rerun old arguments' over the Northern Ireland backstop.
  
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• ‘Proud’ female scientists mark International Women’s Day

  08-03-2019 20:33
  Women across the world working in Stem subjects took to Twitter to discuss equality in the field.
  
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• How more exercise in school could help cut youth knife crime

  08-03-2019 20:18
  Schools are being accused of failing young people, leading to the rise in gang violence and fatal stabbings across the UK.Harriet Sergeant, a research fellow for the Centre of Policy Studies, has described adolescent males as an "alien species" who need "special care and attention" in schools.There's nothing more hierarchical, structured or competitive or active than a gang," Ms Sergeant told Adam Boulton on the All Out Politics podcast.
  
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• Sophie to support UK’s work helping victims of rape and sexual violence in war

  08-03-2019 19:37
  The Countess of Wessex said she will champion the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative.
  
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• Northern Ireland's DUP - Barnier's Brexit proposal 'neither realistic nor sensible'

  08-03-2019 19:37
  European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier's proposal giving Britain the unilateral right to leave the customs union is "neither realistic nor sensible", the deputy head of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party said on Friday."This is neither a realistic nor sensible proposal from Michel Barnier," Nigel Dodds, whose party props up Britain's minority government, said in a statement.
  
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• Fire crews working to remove pair from three-car crash involving police vehicle

  08-03-2019 19:32
  One person has already been safely removed from a car after the crash in Kirkcaldy on Friday afternoon.
  
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• REVEALED: Cabinet minister warns Kuenssberg UK may 'lose control' of Brexit next week

  08-03-2019 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  A CABINET minister has told BBC’s Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg the Government may “lose control” of Brexit next week in the critical House of Commons votes.
  
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• Police Investigate 'Homophobic Graffiti' At Parkfield Primary School In Birmingham

  08-03-2019 19:29
  Detectives are investigating reports of homophobic graffiti at a school whichis at the centre of a row over lessons about same-sex relationships
  
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• EU's Barnier makes last ditch Brexit offer, Britain 'not impressed'

  08-03-2019 19:24
  The European Union can give Britain the unilateral right to leave their customs union after Brexit, chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Friday in a bid to push their divorce deal over the line in the divided British parliament.
  
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• Brexit minister - no time to 'rerun old arguments' on Irish backstop

  08-03-2019 19:24
  LONDON (Reuters) - Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said now was not the time to rerun old arguments, in response to proposals put forward by the chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier on the contentious Irish backstop.
  
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• 'Just one more push' to get Brexit, May urges EU

  08-03-2019 19:24
  Prime Minister Theresa May urged the European Union on Friday to make "just one more push" to break the Brexit deadlock but proposals from the bloc's chief negotiator fell short of anything that would win over the British parliament.Three weeks before Britain is due to leave the EU, May has failed so far to get the changes to her divorce deal that she believes would gain the support of MPs, who handed the government a defeat of record proportions in January.In a last-ditch appeal to the EU and t
  
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• Thousands of teachers assaulted in classrooms, union says

  08-03-2019 19:22
  NASUWT national officer Jane Peckham told Labour's Scottish conference more needs to be done to tackle indiscipline.
  
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• Not just schools: five public service areas struggling with cuts

  08-03-2019 19:21
  Off-duty police officers protesting at funding cuts in 2012. Photograph: Eddie Keogh/ReutersIn addition to education, critics point to the damaging impact of austerity cuts first introduced in 2010 across a range of other policy areas: Housing Housing has become a full-blown crisis since 2010: more expensive, more scarce, and less secure in many parts of the country, especially for young people and low-income working families, as successive governments have let the market balloon while imposing
  
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• Corbyn ‘utterly determined’ to root out anti-Semitism from Labour

  08-03-2019 19:09
  The Labour leader also urged his warring party to unite behind him in a bid to oust the Tories from Westminster.
  
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• Mother jailed for 13 years in first British FGM conviction

  08-03-2019 19:05
  A 37-year-old mother has been jailed for 13 years after becoming the first person in the UK to be convicted of female genital mutilation (FGM).The woman was sentenced to 11 years after being found guilty of cutting her three-year-old daughter despite using witchcraft to "shut up" her accusers.Mrs Justice Whipple added two further years for possessing indecent images and extreme pornography at a hearing on Friday.
  
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• Police Haul Away International Women's Day Protesters in Barcelona

  08-03-2019 19:04
  Women across Spain took to the streets in a series of strikes and walkouts on International Women’s Day, March 8.This footage shows police officers forcibly moving a group of protesters who have sat in the street in Barcelona.According to a report from El Pais, more than 500 demonstrations were planned across Spain for International Women’s Day.The Spanish workers and trade unions CCOO and UGT backed the strikes in order to highlight wage disparities, workplace discrimination, and do
  
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• Film-maker found in shallow grave was working on new project, friend says

  08-03-2019 19:03
  Laureline Garcia-Bertaux worked with Dame Joan Collins on 2018 short film Gerry.
  
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• Parents vow to continue protest against LGBT classes

  08-03-2019 19:00
  Lessons about LGBT relationships have been halted at Birmingham's Parkfield Community School but will reportedly resume after Easter.Irfan Musa, whose son attends the school, told Sky News: "We want to bring our children up the way we want to bring them up.
  
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• 'Is Brexit deal failure YOUR fault?' Barnier QUIZZED just hours before offering UK choice

  08-03-2019 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  MICHEL BARNIER was quizzed on whether it would be his "fault" if the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal fails to pass in the House of Commons next week, just hours before the EU announced the UK will "not be forced into a customs union against its will".
  
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• UK 'not impressed by Barnier's tweets' on Irish backstop - government source

  08-03-2019 18:54
  Britain was "not impressed" by proposals from the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier saying the bloc was ready to give Britain the unilateral right to leave the customs union, a British government source said on Friday.Barnier added in a series of tweets that Britain would still need to honour its commitment to preserve a border free of controls between EU member Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland - something that in previous negotiations led to proposals t
  
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• First person convicted of FGM receives 13-year jail term

  08-03-2019 18:50
  The 37-year-old Ugandan woman was found guilty of cutting her three-year-old daughter.
  
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• Shoreham airshow crash pilot cleared over deaths of 11 people

  08-03-2019 18:49
  Andrew Hill said he experienced ‘cognitive impairment’ while at the controls of the vintage jet. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PARelatives of victims of the Shoreham airshow disaster in which 11 men died have expressed their disappointment after the display pilot who crashed a vintage Hawker Hunter jet was cleared of manslaughter.Andrew Hill, 54, a British Airways captain and former RAF flying instructor, was accused during his trial of flying “too low and too slow” a
  
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• Relatives of airshow victims 'disappointed' by not guilty verdict

  08-03-2019 18:49
  Andrew Hill said he had experienced ‘cognitive impairment’ while at the controls of the vintage jet. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PARelatives of victims of the Shoreham airshow disaster in which 11 men died have expressed their disappointment after the display pilot who crashed a vintage Hawker Hunter jet was cleared of manslaughter.Andrew Hill, 54, a British Airways captain and former RAF flying instructor, was accused during his trial of flying “too low and too slow&rdqu
  
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• Michelle McManus relieved to move on after guitar case assault

  08-03-2019 18:47
  Derek McArthur was fined £350 after the incident in Glasgow two years ago.
  
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• Mother jailed for 11 years in first British FGM conviction

  08-03-2019 18:44
  The judge at the Old Bailey said it was not known why the woman inflicted FGM on her child, although witchcraft was a possibility. Photograph: PAA mother has been jailed for 11 years after becoming the first person in Britain to be convicted of female genital mutilation (FGM) in a landmark case.The 37-year-old woman was found guilty of cutting her three-year-old daughter.A further two years were added to her sentence for possessing indecent images and extreme pornography.Campaigners welcomed the
  
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• Shamima Begum: Syrian forces deny reports IS bride's baby has died

  08-03-2019 18:39
  Syrian Democratic Forces have denied reports that the baby son of Islamic State (IS) bride Shamima Begum has died.An SDF spokesman told Sky News the claims were untrue and Begum's son is "alive and healthy".
  
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• The Families Struggling For Closure, Five Years After MH370 Disappeared

  08-03-2019 18:37
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• Police hunt for 'mystery date' as woman film-maker found murdered

  08-03-2019 18:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  A FILM producer found buried in a shallow grave in her back garden was due to meet a mystery man around the time she was murdered, it was claimed yesterday.
  
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• Meghan avoids Twitter so she doesn’t get muddled by the ‘noise’

  08-03-2019 18:28
  The Duchess of Sussex joined a star-studded panel of feminists and national figures to mark International Women's Day.
  
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• Police investigate homophobic graffiti at sex education row school

  08-03-2019 18:19
  West Midlands Police said the vandalism was reported by a governor during half-term.
  
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• Arron Banks Told Leave.EU To 'Keep Pumping' Brexit Ads In Wake Of Jo Cox Murder, Probe Claims

  08-03-2019 18:15
  Millionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks ignored a ban on campaigning in the wakeof Jo Cox's murder, telling the Leave
  
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• Vegan pie crowned champion at industry awards for first time

  08-03-2019 18:14
  The curried sweet potato and butternut squash vegan pie was made by a butcher based in Somerset.
  
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