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• Mothers send sons to Somalia to avoid knife crime

  09-03-2019 23:59
  A boy walks past the site of a recent car bomb in Mogadishu, Somalia. Despite such terrorist attacks, British teenagers are being sent to the country by their parents.Photograph: Mohamed Abdiwahab/GettyBritish teenagers are being sent by their parents to Somalia, itself recovering from a series of terror attacks, because of concern that the police cannot protect them from knife crime.Representatives from north London’s Somali community say hundreds of children have been flown to Somalia, S
  
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• Post-mortem tests show film-maker buried in shallow grave had been strangled

  09-03-2019 23:58
  Laureline Garcia-Bertaux was found dead in her garden in south-west London.
  
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• Muslim leader urges Bangladesh to take in IS runaway Shamima Begum

  09-03-2019 23:45
  The call came amid a backlash over Home Secretary Sajid Javid's removal of her citizenship after the teenager's baby boy died in Syria.
  
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• Climber gravely ill after mountain rescue

  09-03-2019 23:42
  Two men were airlifted from a peak in the Highlands after a night on the mountain.
  
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• John McDonnell says he and Jeremy Corbyn are preparing for government

  09-03-2019 23:31
  The shadow chancellor said he believed Labour would win a 'reasonable majority' if there was an election.
  
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• Brexit secretary met Labour MPs championing second referendum

  09-03-2019 23:30
  Stephen Barclay leads his team out of his office for Brussels on 5 March. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PAThe cabinet minister in charge of Brexit has held detailed talks with Labour MPs who are championing plans for a second referendum – amid signs of mounting desperation inside Theresa May’s government about what to do if the prime minister’s deal suffers another crushing defeat on Tuesday.Stephen Barclay, the Brexit secretary, called the meeting with Labour’s Peter Kyle
  
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• Catherine Shaw: Appeal launched for British backpacker missing in Guatemala

  09-03-2019 23:15
  The parents of a 23-year-old British backpacker missing in Guatemala say they are "desperately worried" about her as they released a video urging her to get in touch.Catherine Shaw, from Witney, near Oxford, was last seen on 4 March and reported missing the day after.In a statement released through the Lucie Blackman Trust, which is supporting the family, her parents said they have been "desperately worried" since she disappeared.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn is 'poison', says interfaith expert and former government adviser - Telegraph.co.uk

  09-03-2019 23:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  Jeremy Corbyn is 'poison', says interfaith expert and former government adviser  Telegraph.co.ukJeremy Corbyn ‘refused to meet Muslim activist because he’s linked to Jewish group’  The SunAnti-Semitism row: John McDonnell would welcome Labour probe  BBC NewsScottish Labour conference is lower league affair as more people turn up to watch Elgin v Clyde  Daily RecordMPs should vote down the Withdrawal Agreement - again. As the PM likes to s
  
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• Experiences of hatred and discrimination recounted at Labour event

  09-03-2019 22:07
  Anas Sarwar MSP told how his son had been subjected to racism from his own team-mates while playing football.
  
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• Senior Muslim leader: Muslim country should adopt IS bride Shamima Begum

  09-03-2019 21:55
  One of the world's top Muslim leaders has called on Muslim countries to "adopt" Islamic State bride Shamima Begum following the cancellation of her British citizenship.Shamima Begum went to Syria to join Islamic State as a 15-year-old school girl and married a Dutch fighter shortly after her arrival.
  
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• 'Elderly man told he's going to die via video-link' - ITV News

  09-03-2019 21:55 via itv.com
  'Elderly man told he's going to die via video-link'  ITV NewsAn elderly man in the US was reportedly told he was going to die via a video-link on what his family described as a "robot". Ernest Quintana, 79, was said to have ...
  
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• Bluster, rhetoric – but no results: last desperate chance to save the deal

  09-03-2019 21:00
  Geoffrey Cox, the attorney general, admitted ‘robust’ discussions but no breakthrough had taken place in Brussels. Photograph: Dinendra Haria/Rex/ShutterstockAt the end of a convivial drinks party at the British ambassador’s grand 19th-century residence in Brussels on Tuesday evening the guests had to be politely ushered out of the exquisitely decorated rooms just after 9pm. Less than a mile up the road, on the 13th floor of the European commission’s Berlaymont headquarte
  
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• Snow, ice and strong winds forecast as wintry weather returns

  09-03-2019 20:22
  The Met Office has issued a number of yellow weather warnings for Sunday, and later next week.
  
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• Delay Brexit to save environment, green charities urge PM

  09-03-2019 19:58
  Leading environmental charities have told Theresa May to extend article 50 so that environmental protections can be maintained. Photograph: ReutersFive leading green organisations have called on Theresa May to delay Brexit to avoid losing environmental protections created by “decades of campaigning”. Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace UK, Green Alliance, E3G and ChemTrust have said the prime minister should try to extend article 50 because the government has failed to live up to its pr
  
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• Worthing United honour two players killed in Shoreham air disaster

  09-03-2019 19:57
  Non-league Worthing United wore special jerseys today as a tribute to their two players who lost their lives in the Shoreham air disaster in 2015.Team-mates Matt Grimstone and Jacob Schilt had been travelling together to play for the club when a Hawker Hunter jet crashed on the A27 in West Sussex, killing 11 men.Pilot Andy Hill was found not guilty of 11 counts of manslaughter by gross negligence at the Old Bailey on Friday.
  
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• Motorist, 87, critical after crash with police car

  09-03-2019 19:55
  The collision happened on Friday when officers were responding to an emergency call.
  
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• UK weather: Met Office issues warnings next week for 'wet and windy' conditions

  09-03-2019 19:06
  Wet and windy weather will hit the UK next week, with forecasters predicting that strong gusts could damage trees and power lines and cause travel disruption.The Met Office has issued two yellow weather warnings for wind, including one for much of England from around midnight on Wednesday until 3pm.The second warning covers most of Northern Ireland and begins at 3pm on Tuesday, lasting until midnight.
  
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• Labour’s Richard Leonard promises free bus network for Scotland

  09-03-2019 18:51
  The Scottish Labour leader made the pledge as he addressed the party's conference in Dundee.
  
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• Chef found dead in street was murdered, police believe

  09-03-2019 18:35
  Lionel Simenya is thought to have been involved in an altercation on Fords Road in Edinburgh.
  
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• Corbyn urged to step up and ‘enthusiastically’ back Brexit referendum amendment

  09-03-2019 18:33
  Labour MP Ian Murray urged his party to leader to impose a whip if the Commons votes on the Kyle/Wilson amendment.
  
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• Labour proposes prison terms for offenders who breach detention curfews

  09-03-2019 18:27
  Speaking at the Scottish Labour conference, MSP Daniel Johnson said the party will table amendments to the Management of Offenders Bill at Holyrood.
  
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• Five detained over disorder at Hibs-Rangers match

  09-03-2019 18:11
  A supporter became involved in an exchange with Rangers captain James Tavernier on the Easter Road pitch.
  
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• Former Irish soldier ‘detained in Syria’

  09-03-2019 18:05
  Irish police and military believe the woman is a former member of the Defence Forces.
  
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• Seaside sentries: Britain's coastal navigation markers – in pictures

  09-03-2019 18:00
  Photographer Paul Thompson walked for miles along the British coastline over a period of three years in search of navigation markers to shoot. “I noticed that they all seemed to have their own personality,” he says. The resulting series, Navigate, which captures these little-noticed guidance aids for seafarers at sunset, looks at “Britain from the edges out” at this time of huge political turmoil. For Thompson, brought up on England’s north-east coast but now London
  
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• Central London roads reopen after reports of suspicious vehicle

  09-03-2019 17:44
  A view of Westminster Bridge and the start of Victoria Embankment, with Portcullis House on the corner of the two roads. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/GettyArmed police evacuated Westminster Bridge and Victoria Embankment in central London on Saturday afternoon after a suspicious vehicle was found close to the Houses of Parliament.Footage from traffic cameras in the area showed a cordon set up on the bridge and police sealing off the entrance to Parliament Square and halfway along the Embankment
  
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• Northern Ireland will not be dowry for EU to deliver Brexit – UUP leader

  09-03-2019 17:43
  Robin Swann said the backstop proposal 'drove a coach and horses through the 1998 Belfast Agreement'.
  
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• British police briefly close roads near parliament over security alert

  09-03-2019 17:43
  British police briefly shut London's Westminster bridge and roads close to parliament and the capital's police headquarters on Saturday due to a suspicious vehicle.A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said officers had sealed off roads at Victoria Embankment next to the River Thames and close to New Scotland Yard, the head office of the Metropolitan Police, and by Parliament Square.Images on social media showed a heavy police presence at the central London location that is popular with touris
  
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• UK on precipice of recession over Brexit: Kezia Dugdale

  09-03-2019 17:40
  The former Scottish Labour leader said the poorest members of society would be hardest hit by an increase in the cost of living.
  
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• What does the Milky Weigh? NASA calculates the mass of our galaxy - Digital Trends

  09-03-2019 17:24 via digitaltrends.com
  What does the Milky Weigh? NASA calculates the mass of our galaxy  Digital TrendsOur Milky Way Galaxy Weighs As Much As 1.5 Trillion Suns  Space.comHow Much Does the Milky Way Weigh?  Sputnik InternationalNew NASA Measurements: Milky Way Galaxy Is "On the Beefier Side"  FuturismHubble captures two colliding galaxies merging to form a super-galaxy  Digital TrendsView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Brexit must not upend peace process, warns Sinn Fein

  09-03-2019 17:24
  Mary Lou McDonald urged the Irish Government to 'stay strong' as the UK's exit deadline approaches.
  
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• Tom Ballard: Body of missing British climber and climbing partner found on mountain in Pakistan

  09-03-2019 17:17
  The bodies of a missing British man and his Italian climbing partner have been found by rescuers on a mountain in Pakistan.Tom Ballard, 30, from Derbyshire, and Daniele Nardi, 42, from near Rome, were reported missing on Nanga Parbat, nicknamed killer mountain, more than a week ago.Earlier, Alex Txikon, who was leading the Spanish-Pakistani search team, reported spotting "two shapes" on the Mummery Spur that Mr Ballard and Mr Nardi had taken.
  
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• Shamima Begum: Father apologises to Britain for daughter 'doing wrong'

  09-03-2019 17:13
  Ahmed Ali spoke to the BBC in a village in Bangladesh - in an interview recorded before he found out Ms Begum's baby son had died.
  
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• Police release image of stolen car after hit-and-run

  09-03-2019 17:08
  The red Mazda was taken from an address in Glasgow before Wednesday's crash.
  
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• Roads Reopen In Westminster Following Reports Of A Suspicious Vehicle

  09-03-2019 17:03
  A police cordon has been removed and roads have been opened in central Londonafter police investigated reports of a suspicious vehicle
  
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• Call for Corbyn to sack MPs who do not support People's Vote

  09-03-2019 17:03
  Ian Murray, a prominent advocate for a fresh referendum on Brexit. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PAA leading pro-European Labour MP has called on Jeremy Corbyn to sack any shadow ministers who refuse to support a second Brexit referendum. Ian Murray, a prominent supporter of the People’s Vote campaign, said the Labour leader needed to prove his commitment to a referendum by telling his MPs to back the measure in any Westminster vote, or else face sanctions. Many pro-EU Labour MPs suspect Corbyn
  
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• Call for Corbyn to sack MPs who do not support People's Vote

  09-03-2019 17:03
  Ian Murray, a prominent advocate for a fresh referendum on Brexit. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PAA leading pro-European Labour MP has called on Jeremy Corbyn to sack any shadow ministers who refuse to support a second Brexit referendum.Ian Murray, a prominent supporter of the People’s Vote campaign, said the Labour leader needed to prove his commitment to a referendum by telling his MPs to back the measure in any Westminster vote, or else face sanctions.Many pro-EU Labour MPs suspect Corbyn ha
  
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• Youth prison put inmates in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day

  09-03-2019 17:00
  The Howard League for Penal reform said it had been ‘inundated’ with calls’ from prisoners in Aylesbury. Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphotoA prison for young adults has been placed in special measures by the government after it was found that inmates were locked alone in their cells for up to 23 hours a day – a practice campaigners have described as de facto solitary confinement.Aylesbury Young Offender Institution in Buckinghamshire also kept some inmates in its segreg
  
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• Samsung's New Galaxy Buds Almost Give AirPods a Run for Their Money - Gizmodo UK

  09-03-2019 17:00 via gizmodo.co.uk
  Samsung's New Galaxy Buds Almost Give AirPods a Run for Their Money  Gizmodo UKGalaxy Note 9 and Galaxy S9 have just been eclipsed by Samsung's newest phone  ExpressSamsung Galaxy S10 vs Sony Xperia 1: The weigh-in  StuffGalaxy S10 review - Samsung's new flagship leaves fans with a tough choice to make  ExpressThe Galaxy S10+ is so good that my Pixel 3 XL is going in a drawer  Android PoliceView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Philip Hammond weighs options for spring statement spending

  09-03-2019 17:00
  Philip Hammond’s plans will be boosted by improved income tax receipts over the past year. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty ImagesOn Wednesday, MPs expect to hear the chancellor tell them that austerity will soon be consigned to history. Philip Hammond said in last year’s budget that “austerity is coming to an end” and teased ministers with the promise of the cash that he and his predecessor George Osborne denied them in the previous eight years.There is a huge gap to fi
  
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• 15-minute laser is best treatment for glaucoma patients, says study

  09-03-2019 17:00
  The 15-minute treatment reduces fluid pressure within the eye.Photograph: BSIP/GettyLasers should become the principal method in the UK for treating patients with the debilitating eye condition glaucoma. That is the stark conclusion of a three-year study published on Sunday.The report, which appears in the Lancet, says the laser technique – known as selective laser trabeculoplasty or SLT – should replace the prescribing of eye drops, the current favoured way to treat glaucoma. The st
  
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• Shamima Begum: Father apologises to UK for daughter 'doing wrong'

  09-03-2019 16:36
  Ahmed Ali begs forgiveness for his daughter, who he says has "done wrong without realising it".
  
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• Labour peer launches plan to replace House of Lords

  09-03-2019 16:33
  Baroness Pauline Bryan of Partick said the move would ensure the Scottish Parliament is 'no longer subordinate to Westminster'.
  
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• Government to provide free sanitary products at secondary schools in England

  09-03-2019 16:19
  Chancellor Philip Hammond is expected to announce the funds in his spring statement, says Free Periods.Free Periods - led by 19-year-old Amika George - launched a legal campaign in January, alongside the Red Box Project, calling for the government to end period poverty.
  
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• Father of Claudia Lawrence urges missing student’s family to ‘keep up hope’

  09-03-2019 16:16
  Libby Squire, 21, was reported missing after a night out in Hull on February 1.
  
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• Music equipment stolen in break-in at cathedral

  09-03-2019 15:47
  Thieves targeted St Andrew's Cathedral in Aberdeen earlier this week.
  
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• Asda pledges to cease single knife sales over stabbing fears

  09-03-2019 15:45
  The Home Office welcomed the supermarket's move.
  
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• Two rescued after avalanche on mountain near Glencoe

  09-03-2019 15:38
  Two climbers have been rescued after surviving an avalanche on a Scottish mountain.The pair had been climbing Boomerang Gully on the 3,658ft-high (1,115m) Stob Coire nan Lochan, near Glencoe, when they went missing on Friday.A search was launched that evening but, despite the efforts of the coastguard and mountain rescue teams from Glencoe and Lochaber, there was no sign of them.
  
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• Tom Ballard: Body of missing British climber found on mountain in Pakistan

  09-03-2019 15:24
  The bodies of a missing British man and his Italian climbing partner have been found by rescuers on a mountain in Pakistan.Tom Ballard, 30, from Derbyshire, and Daniele Nardi, 42, from near Rome, were reported missing on Nanga Parbat, nicknamed killer mountain, more than a week ago.Earlier, Alex Txikon, who was leading the Spanish-Pakistani search team, reported spotting "two shapes" on the Mummery Spur that Mr Ballard and Mr Nardi had taken.
  
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• In Pictures: Stormy seas as forecasters issue weather warning

  09-03-2019 15:18
  The Met Office has warned the windy weather could cause damage.
  
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• Women’s Day demonstrators remember teenager found strangled

  09-03-2019 15:15
  Allison Marimon-Herrera, 15, and her mother were among three people found dead at a flat in Newry.
  
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