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• Government: New laws to protect UK elections and referendums from foreign interference

  05-05-2019 23:37
  The government wants to introduce new laws to protect elections and referendums in the UK from the risk of interference by foreign powers.
  
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• Hunt for Joseph McCann intensifies as two more women abducted in Cheshire

  05-05-2019 23:31
  Police believe Joseph McCann, who is wanted by the Metropolitan Police, is linked to the abduction of two women on Sunday in Cheshire.Described by police as "extremely dangerous", the 34-year-old is suspected of being involved in two women being forced into a black Fiat Punto in Congleton town centre, Cheshire, at around 6.45pm.Police are checking roads in and out of Congleton and boosted numbers of officers are on the streets.
  
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• Joseph McCann: Fugitive Hunted For Abducting Three Women Wanted Over Two More Kidnappings

  05-05-2019 23:10
  Fugitive Joseph McCann, who is being hunted for the abduction and "horrific"rapes of three women, is also wanted in connection with the abduction of twomore women on Sunday, police said
  
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• Fugitive Joseph McCann wanted ‘over suspected abduction of two more women’

  05-05-2019 23:03
  Road checks in and out of the town are taking place amid a large police presence in the area.
  
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• Teenager charged with murder of 18-year-old found dead in woods

  05-05-2019 22:31
  Police believe the body is that of Alex Davies, from Skelmersdale.
  
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• Leytonstone crash: Murder probe after man, 52, dies

  05-05-2019 21:21 via bbc.co.uk
  A 52-year-old man was killed after being hit by a car in Leytonstone, east London.
  
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• UK Health Minister Says They Have Not Ruled Out Making Vaccinations Compulsary - UNILAD

  05-05-2019 21:17
  UK Health Minister Says They Have Not Ruled Out Making Vaccinations Compulsary  UNILADAfter saying those that peddle the anti-vaccination 'have blood on their hands', the Health Secertary Matt Hancock has said he is looking 'at all options' including ...View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Marathon course too long after ‘human error’

  05-05-2019 20:59
  Participants ran an extra 0.3 miles more than they should have.
  
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• Murder probe after pedestrians ‘deliberately’ hit by car

  05-05-2019 20:57
  A 32-year-old man remains in hospital with serious injuries.
  
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• Leytonstone Murder Probe: Man Dies After Car Ploughs Into Pedestrians In East London

  05-05-2019 20:41
  A murder investigation has been launched after a 52-year-old man was hit by acar in Leytonstone, east London
  
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• Sri Lanka imposes curfew in Negombo after clashes, bans social media

  05-05-2019 20:40
  COLOMBO (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan government has reimposed a ban on social media platforms in an effort to stop the spread of rumours after violence erupted between groups of civilians in Negombo, north of the capital and site of one of the Easter Sunday bombings.
  
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• Tell us: how fair are bus ticket prices where you live?

  05-05-2019 20:35
  We are looking for your help as we report on bus services and fares around England
  Bus passengers in parts of England are paying high fares to travel short distances, with new reporting highlighting a particular discrepancy between those living inside and outside major cities.Guardian research has found that passengers in parts of England are paying up to £6 for a single journey, four times the £1.50 Londoners are charged. Continue reading...
  
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• London murder: Man dies after car 'DELIBERATELY' driven into pedestrians in Leytonstone

  05-05-2019 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  A CAR ploughed into two pedestrians in Leytonstone, east London, killing one man in what police have described as a "deliberate" act.
  
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• Belfast Marathon Organisers Apologise After Course Is 0.3 Miles Too Long

  05-05-2019 20:17
  The organisers of Belfast marathon have apologised to its competitors afteradmitting the route was mistakenly extended
  
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• Rory Stewart declares he would like to be prime minister

  05-05-2019 19:34
  Rory Stewart was appointed international development secretary this week. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PARory Stewart has declared he wants the prime minister’s job, becoming the first cabinet minister to openly do so, as he warned the Conservatives the party would lose 4m votes if it pursued a hard version of Brexit to “outdo Nigel Farage”. Stewart, who was made international development secretary this week, said “yes” when asked if he would throw his hat into the ri
  
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• Tributes to ‘happy, polite’ boy, 13, who died after falling into sea

  05-05-2019 19:31
  Dillan Brown, from Llandudno, is understood to have slipped, hit his head and plunged into the water while playing with a friend.
  
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• 81-year-old woman dies in A9 crash

  05-05-2019 19:16
  The road was closed for several hours following the collision.
  
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• Boy, 13, dies after Great Orme Llandudno sea rescue

  05-05-2019 18:50 via bbc.co.uk
  He was airlifted to hospital after a 999 call reporting a person in the water off Llandudno.
  
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• Puppy CROOKS taxed £5m for illicitly selling dogs on black market

  05-05-2019 18:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  MORE than £5.3million has been clawed back from illegal puppy farmers by the taxman.
  
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• Brexit lessons for Labour to learn from the local election results

  05-05-2019 18:33
  Liberal Democrat supporters celebrate the party’s success in the local elections in Chelmsford, Essex. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesYour editorial (While Brexit lingers, big political parties are losing out to smaller rivals, 4 May) says the most notable winners from Thursday’s elections were the Greens. I am pleased they did well, but baffled by your failure to acknowledge the most obvious conclusion from the results. The Liberal Democrats, the one party that has been consist
  
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• Solutions for the social care crisis

  05-05-2019 18:32
  ‘Much of social care is performed by EU nationals, on low wages, who have been voting with their feet ever since the referendum,’ writes Carol Hedges. Photograph: Getty ImagesThe answer to Nils Pratley’s plaintive question – “Can we not ban hedge funds and private equity firms from owning care homes?” – is a very loud “yes” (Hedge funds and care homes: the unlikeliest of marriages that does no one any favours, 1 May).We need to place social c
  
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• Give students with poor A-levels a break

  05-05-2019 18:32
  ‘We should be encouraging students to aspire to university and taking their individual circumstances into account,’ writes Matt Waddup.Photograph: ijeab/Getty Images/iStockphotoThe latest gaffe by the Conservative education minister Theodore Agnew once again shows how tone-deaf the privileged are to the reality of those who face a bumpier ride. His attack on the policy of widening participation at universities (It’s lunacy to let students into universities with E grades, says m
  
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• Opaque trial of tests for four-year-olds

  05-05-2019 18:31
  ‘Unfortunately, some two-thirds of these results have been redacted,’ say the authors of the letter below. Photograph: Dave Thompson/PAChris Pratt (Letters, 30 April) commends the critical evaluation of proposals for baseline testing of four-year-olds that we carried out for the British Educational Research Association. As a result of a freedom of information request, the Department for Education and the National Foundation for Educational Research have now released results of the tr
  
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• Traffic-free days begin in Edinburgh city centre

  05-05-2019 18:15 via bbc.co.uk
  A number of Edinburgh's city centre streets were closed to traffic in an attempt to reduce air pollution.
  
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• Audi car deliberately set on fire in driveway, police say

  05-05-2019 18:06
  The vehicle was completely burnt out in the blaze in the early hours of Sunday.
  
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• Boys orphaned in tsunami help Sri Lanka terror victims

  05-05-2019 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  WHEN terrorist bombs exploded in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday it brought back terrible memories for Paul Forkan.
  
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• Sainsbury’s opening times: What time is Sainsbury’s open on Bank Holiday Monday?

  05-05-2019 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  MOST Britons will enjoy a day off work on May 6 as it’s a bank holiday Monday. But one of the downsides to the extra day away from the office can be shops’ reduced bank holiday opening hours. This is when Sainsbury’s is open on bank holiday Monday.
  
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• Porthleven cliff plunge: Three teenagers suffer life-threatening injuries after 70ft fall

  05-05-2019 17:52
  Despite his wounds, one of the three managed to call the Coastguard to request help at Parc Trammel Cove, near the town of Porthleven, at just after midnight on Sunday.Emergency services including Coastguard teams, an RNLI lifeboat, paramedics and police descended on the scene to aid the injured trio, one aged 18 and two aged 19, who were airlifted to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.Martin Leslie, coastal operations area commander, said the Coastguard helicopter crew that transferred them to the
  
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• Gavin Williamson accuses May of 'classic smear' over diabetes claim

  05-05-2019 17:30
  Former defence secretary Gavin Williamson has accused the prime minister of smearing him with claims he made derogatory comments about her diabetes.Theresa May also reportedly blocked Mr Williamson from sending British troops "to invade Africa".Mr Williamson told Sky's defence and security correspondent Alistair Bunkall: "It is absolutely crazy, on both counts.
  
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• Streets in Edinburgh closed to vehicles to cut air pollution

  05-05-2019 17:26
  Open Streets in Edinburgh will take place on the first Sunday of every month in an 18-month trial.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Judge defends using rape victims' phones

  05-05-2019 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE issue of police demanding that some alleged rape victims hand over their mobile phones has been wildly misinterpreted by MPs and campaigners, judges and top lawyers warn.
  
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• Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to choose UNUSUAL name for baby that UNIFIES the US and UK

  05-05-2019 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  MEGHAN MARKLE and Prince Harry could be leaning towards a royal baby name that pays tribute to both US and UK history, according to royal expert Victoria Arbiter.
  
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• On the buses: how London stacks up against the regions

  05-05-2019 17:00
  Drive time: travellers queue for a bus on a high street in Dagenham, east London. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters
  Who runs the buses? The vast majority of England’s buses are in private hands, bar a few remaining municipal companies, notably in Nottingham and Blackpool. But the big difference between London and the rest of the country is in how the services are dictated. Since deregulation was passed by the Thatcher government in 1985, a two-tier system has developed. In London, which was
  
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• 5G signal jamming 'an international concern'

  05-05-2019 17:00
  The roll-out of 5G mobile networks could have a big impact on weather forecasters’ ability to predict major weather events.
  
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• New 5G network could interrupt weather forecast satellites

  05-05-2019 16:57
  The roll-out of 5G mobile networks could have a big impact on weather forecasters' ability to predict major weather events.Weather satellites use certain radio frequency bands in the electromagnetic spectrum to monitor water vapour in the atmosphere, but bands near these frequencies may also be used by 5G networks.In particular the concern regards the 26 GHz band (between 24.25 GHz to 27.5 GHz) which is being sold internationally as part of the 5G spectrum.
  
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• Three teenagers badly hurt after falling from cliffs in Cornwall

  05-05-2019 16:50
  One of the casualties used his mobile phone torch to guide rescuers to their location.
  
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• Kamasi Washington says Brexit could make touring UK tricky for artists

  05-05-2019 16:47
  US jazz saxophonist says international musicians will find UK less appealingThe United Kingdom leaving the EU could make the country less appealing to international performers, one of the world’s leading jazz musicians has said.Kamasi Washington, whose album The Epic and his work with Kendrick Lamar made him a poster boy of the jazz revival, said Brexit was not an inviting idea to musicians and could make coming to the UK harder for smaller bands. Continue reading...
  
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• NHS miracle machine could mean the END of hospital bugs

  05-05-2019 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  A NEW “vacuum dressing” that could save thousands of lives by slashing the number of post- surgical infections is set to be approved by watchdogs this week. The hand-held vacuum is attached by tube to the surgical dressing, preventing bacteria multiplying by sucking away fluids while accelerating healing by drawing up growth cells.
  
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• Rees-Mogg 'to stand for Brexit Party' in Peterborough by-election to send message to May

  05-05-2019 16:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  JACOB REES-MOGG’s sister, Annunziata, is planning to run as a Brexit Party candidate in the Peterborough by-election on June 6, according to party sources.
  
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• 'We’ll NEVER leave the EU’ - Mark Francois backs IDS’ call for May’s IMMEDIATE resignation

  05-05-2019 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  MARK FRANCOIS claimed the UK would never leave the EU with Theresa May as Prime Minister and supported Iain Duncan Smith's call for her to set an immediate date of departure.
  
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• Manchester murder: Arrest made as man dies after being repeatedly stabbed in leg

  05-05-2019 16:26
  Police have arrested a murder suspect after a man was repeatedly stabbed in the leg in a "senseless act of violence".The victim, believed to be in his 20s, was knifed several times in Beswick at around 2am on Sunday, before the suspected attacker fled in a car, Greater Manchester Police said.Detective Superintendent Lewis Hughes said: "This is an incredibly tragic set of circumstances which has resulted in a young man losing his life.
  
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• Brexit: John McDonnell pours cold water on May's customs union plan

  05-05-2019 16:18
  The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, has poured cold water on Theresa May’s plan to offer a temporary customs union to win Labour over to a Brexit deal, saying the cross-party talks were like “trying to enter a contract with a company going into administration”.McDonnell said his party wanted to do a deal as quickly as possible but would require a permanent customs union to provide stability for businesses, not just an interim arrangement until the next election.He also said
  
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• Three Teenagers Seriously Injured After Falling 70 Feet From Cliffs In Cornwall

  05-05-2019 16:15
  Three teenagers have sustained multiple serious injuries after apparentlyfalling 70ft from cliffs on to a beach
  
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• Edinburgh streets shut to traffic in move to cut air pollution

  05-05-2019 15:58
  Several streets in the centre of Edinburgh are closed to cars, vans, motorbikes and buses this afternoon as part of plans to cut air pollution.
  
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• Birling Gap cliff edge 'wedding couple' spark warning

  05-05-2019 15:58 via bbc.co.uk
  A couple were spotted apparently posing for a wedding shot right on the cliff edge at Birling Gap.
  
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• Donald Trump Throws Himself Wide Open To Ridicule With Bizarre Horse Race Tweet

  05-05-2019 15:51
  Donald Trump has claimed the result of this year's Kentucky Derby was a resultof "political correctness" after the winner was disqualified for obstructingother horses
  
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• Red Clydeside commemorated in George Square rally on May Day

  05-05-2019 15:38
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted his support to those in attendance at the rally.
  
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• Naomi Long hails ‘tremendous’ success at Northern Ireland elections

  05-05-2019 15:24
  The Alliance Party made huge gains across Northern Ireland with a representation increase of 65%.
  
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• Police name teenage girl killed in Wiltshire as Ellie Gould, 17

  05-05-2019 15:18
  Ellie was a year 12 pupil at Hardenhuish school in Chippenham. Photograph: Wiltshire police/PAA teenage girl who was killed in Calne, Wiltshire, has been named. Ellie Gould, 17, was pronounced dead after emergency services were called to Springfield Drive in the town at 3.15pm on Friday. Wiltshire police said a 17-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of murder on Friday remained in custody. The force said Ellie was a year 12 pupil at Hardenhuish school, a large mixed secondary school and sixth for
  
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• Where can electric scooters be ridden in the UK?

  05-05-2019 15:17 via bbc.co.uk
  What are the rules on electric scooters on roads, cycle lanes and pavements?
  
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