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• Lidgate Fire: Two People Dead After Reports Of 'Multiple Explosions' At House In Suffolk

  07-05-2019 23:43
  A fire at a bungalow has left two people dead after reports of multipleexplosions at the home in Lidgate, Suffolk
  
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• Lidgate Fire: Two People Dead After Reports Of 'Multiple Explosions' At House In Suffolk

  07-05-2019 23:43
  A fire at a bungalow has left two people dead after reports of multipleexplosions at the home in Lidgate, Suffolk
  
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• What a comeback! Liverpool score four to go through to Champions League final

  07-05-2019 23:29
  Liverpool have beaten Barcelona 4-0 in the second leg of their semi-final clash to go through to the Champions league final.The Merseyside team started the match 3-0 down on aggregate and faced a uphill battle to reach the final.Origi took advantage of a lull in Barcelona's defence in the 79th minute to score his second goal, and his team's fourth, the winning goal of the match.
  
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• Paralysed ex-builder pledges new legal fight for assisted dying law change

  07-05-2019 23:09
  Paul Lamb is calling for an end to the current 'cruel and discriminatory law'.
  
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• Bodies of two men in their 50s found in Manchester

  07-05-2019 22:58
  An investigation is under way after the bodies of two men in their 50s were found at an address in Manchester.
  
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• We'll stay close, Prince Charles tells Germans

  07-05-2019 22:45
  Ties between Britain and Germany will remain close in the future, Prince Charles told an audience in Berlin, in a clear reference to ongoing uncertainty over Britain's looming departure from the European Union.In the speech, in which he alternated between English and German, Charles did not mention Brexit by name, but dwelt on his family's own roots in the German aristocracy.
  
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• Conservatives resume Brexit talks with Labour amid low expectations

  07-05-2019 22:45
  Britain's Conservative government held what it called "constructive and detailed" talks with the opposition Labour Party on Tuesday as the two sides struggle to break a parliamentary deadlock over the country's exit from the European Union.After Prime Minister Theresa May's deal was rejected three times in parliament and she was forced to delay Brexit, the government has spent more than four weeks in talks with Labour - negotiations that have done little to soften positions in either party.The g
  
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• Tory revolt threatened if Theresa May does not quit soon

  07-05-2019 22:41
  Members of the 1922 Committee have demanded 'clarity' on when the Prime Minister intends to stand down.
  
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• May Ready To Delay Brexit To August As Talks With Labour Limp On

  07-05-2019 22:37
  Theresa May is ready to delay Brexit to August in yet another bid to buy timefor a compromise deal with Labour
  
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• Brexit talks fail again as Government confirms Euro elections will go ahead

  07-05-2019 22:06
  The Government is 'redoubling efforts' to get an EU Withdrawal Agreement ratified by the start of July.
  
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• All the key announcements from Google’s I/O developer conference

  07-05-2019 22:03
  From new Pixel phones to a faster Google Assistant.
  
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• Teenager killed in Southwark stabbing named by police

  07-05-2019 21:54
  McCaulay Junior Urugbezi-Edwards had been chased before the attack, police said.
  
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• Police investigate Ukip candidate over Jess Phillips rape comments

  07-05-2019 21:41
  Phillips told the BBC she broke down in tears in Birmingham city centre ‘because I felt the weight of years and years and years of abuse’. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/ShutterstockPolice are investigating comments by a Ukip candidate in the European elections speculating about whether he would rape the MP Jess Phillips amid growing concern over threats to politicians. Carl Benjamin, Ukip’s candidate for South West England, sent a tweet to the MP for Birmingham Yardley in 2016 sayin
  
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• Pedestrian dies after being hit by lorry

  07-05-2019 21:41
  The PSNI said the incident happened in Cookstown, Co Tyrone on Tuesday.
  
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• Royal baby: Queen 'beaming' as she is asked about her new great-grandchild

  07-05-2019 21:39
  Members of the Royal Family have been sending their congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after the birth of their new baby boy.A "beaming" Queen was hosting an event at Windsor Castle - the same royal residence where Harry and Meghan are spending their second day with the child - when she was asked about the new addition to the family.Buckingham Palace said on Monday that the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were "delighted" at the news of the birth of Harry and Meghan's baby son.
  
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• Google announces new mid-range Pixel smartphones

  07-05-2019 21:26
  The technology giant has revealed its plans to offer more accessible smartphones to consumers.
  
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• Google Pixel 3a: A budget £399 phone in a premium market

  07-05-2019 21:24
  Google has announced its new budget phone, the Pixel 3a - which at £399 is aimed at consumers turned off by more expensive devices.The Pixel 3a measures 5.6in corner-to-corner, while the 6in Pixel 3a XL will set consumers back £469.In another definite bonus for those who aren't buying a phone alongside a range of peripherals, the Pixel 3a devices keep the 3.5mm headphone hack which Apple was so maligned for ditching.
  
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• Jason Manford: Comedian shares mental health battle

  07-05-2019 21:12 via bbc.co.uk
  The comedian said he struggles with anxiety and depression and social media can make it worse.
  
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• 'Outdated' Move To Deny Nurse Marathon Record Overturned After Uniform Outcry

  07-05-2019 21:01
  An NHS nurse who was denied a Guinness World Record after running the LondonMarathon in scrubs - and not a dress - has seen the decision overturned
  
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• UK terror threat: How has it changed?

  07-05-2019 20:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Why the security services face radically different challenges from when the Islamic State group's caliphate first emerged five years ago.
  
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• Prince Charles - joyous to have another grandson

  07-05-2019 20:48
  BERLIN (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Charles, in Berlin on the first day of a trip to Germany, drew laughter and applause on Tuesday when he expressed delight at having become a grandfather to another baby.
  
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• Working Class Professionals Feel Forced To Hide 'Embarrassing' Background, Says Social Mobility Chief Alan Milburn

  07-05-2019 20:46
  Working class professionals earn around £7,000 less than middle classcolleagues, struggle to get promoted and feel forced to "hide" their"embarrassing" backgrounds, Alan Milburn has said
  
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• Pupils lose out on £65m of free school meals money, says charity

  07-05-2019 20:40
  Pupils receiving free school meals say the issue has highlighted how they feel stigmatised. Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty ImagesSecondary school pupils from the most disadvantaged families who are entitled to free school meals are losing out on tens of millions of pounds every year in unspent lunch funds, according to an investigation by a charity.Citizens UK said free school meals money that is not spent by a pupil, perhaps because they are off sick or have missed lunch due to sport commit
  
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• Quote or misquote? MPs often get it wrong, find researchers

  07-05-2019 20:39
  The words of Churchill, Einstein, Gandhi and co have often echoed around the chamber of the Commons - but they are often quoted wrongly.
  
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• UK Conservatives' Brexit talks with Labour 'constructive and detailed'

  07-05-2019 20:37
  LONDON (Reuters) - Talks held on Tuesday between Britain's Conservative government and the opposition Labour Party aimed at breaking the impasse over Brexit were "constructive and detailed", a Downing Street spokesman said.
  
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• Police identify second woman found dead in east London freezer

  07-05-2019 20:33
  The second of two women found in a freezer in east London has been named as Henriett Szucs.The 34-year-old was a Hungarian citizen and had lived in the UK for several years but had no fixed address, according to the Metropolitan Police.It comes after police confirmed the first victim was Mihirican Mustafa, 38, who had been reported missing on 10 May 2018.
  
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• London Bridge attack: inquest told of 'high and terrible drama'

  07-05-2019 20:29
  Flowers left on London Bridge for the victims of the terrorist attack in June 2017. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PAA woman kissed her fiance and told him she loved him as they strolled across London Bridge moments before she was struck down by terrorists deliberately driving a van at pedestrians, an inquest has heard.Heart-wrenching details emerged on Tuesday as the inquest began into the deaths of eight people in the 3 June 2017 attack. All eight died in the first three minutes of the atrocity.
  
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• Man guilty of upskirting photos spared jail after losing job and having mental health issues

  07-05-2019 20:28
  A businessman who hid from press photographers after admitting he took "degrading" upskirt pictures of a young woman has been spared jail.Neil Abbott, 32, said his life had been turned upside down - he lost his job, had mental health issues and was no longer able to afford to get married or buy a house - following his conviction.
  
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• Royal baby: The Queen leads congratulations to Meghan and Harry

  07-05-2019 20:26
  Members of the Royal Family have been sending their congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after the birth of their new baby boy.A "beaming" Queen was hosting an event at Windsor Castle - the same royal residence where Harry and Meghan are spending their second day with the child - when she was asked about the new addition to the family.Buckingham Palace said on Monday that the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were "delighted" at the news of the birth of Harry and Meghan's baby son.
  
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• Theresa May Clings On As Threat Of Early Leadership Contest Grows

  07-05-2019 20:24
  Senior Tory MPs could vote as early as next week on whether to change partyrules to oust Theresa May, HuffPost UK has learned
  
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• Uber drivers to go on strike over pay ahead of company's stock market flotation

  07-05-2019 20:22
  Uber drivers are to go on strike on Wednesday - 24 hours before the minicab company's stock market flotation.Drivers in cities across the UK, including in London, Birmingham, Nottingham and Glasgow, are holding protests, as well as a nine-hour boycott of Uber's app.Uber, which is based in San Francisco, is aiming to raise $9bn (almost £7bn) in its initial public offering on Thursday.
  
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• MSPs back new law raising age of criminal responsibility in Scotland to 12

  07-05-2019 20:16
  But the Scottish Government came under fire for not going far enough from Liberal Democrat Alex Cole-Hamilton.
  
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• Departing PSNI chief says politicians ‘shifting the blame’ on peace process

  07-05-2019 20:13
  George Hamilton told a meeting at Queen's University Belfast honestly and leadership is needed on the issue, not 'point scoring'.
  
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• Fake news ‘spreading to young people through Instagram memes’

  07-05-2019 20:08
  Young people are leaving Facebook and heading to Instagram, but so is online disinformation, according to a journalism academic.
  
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• Second London freezer victim identified by police

  07-05-2019 20:05
  No formal cause of death has yet been established for the women.
  
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• London Bridge inquest: family portraits of the eight victims

  07-05-2019 19:52
  Victims of the London Bridge attack: (top row, left to right) Christine Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger; (bottom row, l-r) Kirsty Boden, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas and Ignacio Echeverría Photograph: PA
  Christine Archibald, 30, from British Columbia, Canada Archibald’s father, Greg, told the inquest that his daughter was “gentle but determined”. She “finally found her calling” when she started training as a socia
  
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• Canning Town Deaths: Second Woman Named After Two Bodies Found In East London Freezer

  07-05-2019 19:52
  The second woman whose body was found in a freezer in an east London flat hasbeen named
  
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• Jean Vanier obituary

  07-05-2019 19:19
  Jean Vanier in 1990. His initiative was prompted by visits to long-stay hospitals for people with learning disabilities. ‘Huge concrete walls, 80 men living in dormitories and no work,’ he said. Photograph: Philippe Caron/Sygma/Getty ImagesJean Vanier, who has died of cancer aged 90, was the founder of L’Arche communities for adults with learning disabilities, living alongside those without them. He once said: “I had no plan, I just met people and people with disabilities
  
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• Cadbury World creates giant chocolate teddy bear to celebrate royal birth

  07-05-2019 19:08
  It is the fourth time the chocolatiers have marked the birth of a royal baby with such a creation.
  
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• Powersharing talks must not be privatised, says Eastwood

  07-05-2019 19:01
  Colum Eastwood said any bilateral side process between the DUP and Sinn Fein would not work.
  
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• Ferrari shares race ahead after fast start to 2019

  07-05-2019 18:58
  Ferrari beat forecasts on Tuesday with a 14 percent rise in first-quarter core earnings, boosting its shares on growing expectations the Italian luxury carmaker might soon raise its full-year financial targets.Milan-listed Ferrari shares rose as much as 5.7 percent on the results, which were driven by strong sales of the 8 cylinder Portofino model and the 812 Superfast among higher-margin 12 cylinder models.Ferrari stuck to its full-year targets, but analysts said an increase might be in store.
  
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• London Bridge terror attack victim told fiance ‘I love you’

  07-05-2019 18:57
  The inquests have got under way at the Old Bailey.
  
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• Council election results prove local politics is alive and well

  07-05-2019 18:57
  Local election ballot papers being counted in Peterborough.Photograph: Terry Harris/REX/ShutterstockJohn Harris is absolutely right that political change is coming from a local level (Don’t look to Westminster for new ideas – ask your councillor, 6 May). Residents 4 Uttlesford (R4U) has just taken our district council from the Tories in their heartland (one of our MPs is Kemi Badenoch, a Tory vice-chair) by a massive majority. If the results had only reflected Brexit-influenced trend
  
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• Northern Ireland parties in powersharing vow after ‘constructive’ meeting

  07-05-2019 18:51
  Party leaders held a short round-table meeting at Stormont House for the first exchanges of a new talks process.
  
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• 'Misrule of law': Pamela Anderson's jail visit to Julian Assange

  07-05-2019 18:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Pamela Anderson criticised the decision to jail Julian Assange, after visiting him at Belmarsh prison in London.
  
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• Domino's shares down as international prospects go cold

  07-05-2019 18:46
  Investors lost their appetite in Domino's Pizza after it warned its struggling overseas business would remain in the red this year.Shares fell by as much as 11% after the dwindling prospects for the group's international operations overshadowed another quarter of sales growth in its main UK and Ireland market.Chief executive David Wild said that after the "disappointing" performance for the international division - which includes Switzerland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - it no longer expected th
  
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• Ex-Conservative donors ready to give 'big bucks' to Brexit Party, claims Nigel Farage

  07-05-2019 18:40
  Former Conservative donors are ready to provide "big bucks" for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party to fight a general election, the anti-EU campaigner has suggested.The Brexit Party has been formed to contest the upcoming European Parliament elections on 23 May, which the government has now confirmed will definitely take place.Promising the Brexit Party would "be ready" to fight a general election "that took place any time from September onwards", Mr Farage said: "For us, these European elections on 23
  
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• Theresa May regrets UK having to hold European elections

  07-05-2019 18:37
  Theresa May now hopes to get a Brexit deal through parliament before MEPs have to take their seats. Photograph: WPA pool/Getty ImagesTheresa May “deeply regrets” that Britain will have to take part in European elections on 23 May, and is pinning her hopes on completing the Brexit process in time to avoid MEPs having to take their seats.After weeks of holding out the prospect of reaching a cross-party Brexit deal in time to avoid the UK taking part in the elections, the government mad
  
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• Hopes of imminent Brexit deal fade after 'tense' cross-party talks

  07-05-2019 18:37
  Theresa May now hopes to get a Brexit deal through parliament before MEPs have to take their seats. Photograph: WPA/Getty ImagesHopes are fading that a cross-party Brexit deal could be struck within days after Labour sources described Tuesday’s three-hour round of talks as “the most robust to date”.Labour’s negotiating team was irked by leaks to Sunday newspapers about concessions Theresa May was preparing to make, which they believe amounted to little more than a rehash
  
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• North Sea helicopter pilots vote for industrial action

  07-05-2019 18:35
  The decision comes amid a dispute over pay with employers CHC Scotia.
  
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