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• David Beckham and 'Class of 92' watch their Salford City team win promotion to Football League

  11-05-2019 23:56
  David Beckham and fellow Manchester United legends watched their Salford City team win promotion to the Football League for the first time in their history.Co-owners Beckham, Gary and Phil Neville, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and Ryan Giggs saw their side win promotion to Sky Bet League Two after beating Fylde 3-0 in the National League play-off final at Wembley.
  
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• Sir Philip Green no longer a billionaire as fortune halves in a year - Sunday Times Rich List

  11-05-2019 23:45
  Sir Philip Green is no longer a billionaire after his fortune halved in a year, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.The retail tycoon has seen his fortune plummet by a whopping £1.05bn in 12 months and it now stands at £950m, compared with nearly £5bn in 2007, the newspaper said.It is the first time he has not held billionaire status since 2002.
  
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• Brexit Party overtakes Tories in new general election poll

  11-05-2019 23:43
  Nigel Farage's party is one point ahead of the Conservatives in what would be the Tories' worst ever result, according to the ComRes survey of voting
  
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• Yemen civil war could be a step closer to an end after Houthi rebels 'begin withdrawal from key city' - ITV News

  11-05-2019 23:12 via itv.com
  Yemen civil war could be a step closer to an end after Houthi rebels 'begin withdrawal from key city'  ITV NewsYemen: Houthis' port withdrawal 'going according to plan', says UN  The GuardianYemen war: Houthi withdrawal from Hudaydah as planned - UN  BBC NewsOn the front line of forgotten war in Yemen where a child dies every 12 minutes  Mirror OnlineHouthis begin to withdraw forces from Yemen port  Financial TimesView full coverage on Google New
  
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• New father the Duke of Sussex joins Queen at Royal Windsor Horse Show

  11-05-2019 22:45
  This year's performance marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria
  
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• Mountain horror: Climber plummets to death while scaling highest peak in Ireland

  11-05-2019 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  A MAN has died after plunging off the highest mountain in Ireland.
  
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• Fight to replace PM May complicating Brexit talks - Labour's McDonnell

  11-05-2019 22:18
  The battle among leading Conservatives to replace Theresa May as prime minister threatens to derail talks with the opposition Labour Party and the bid to find a Brexit compromise, Labour's John McDonnell said.May, who has offered to quit if lawmakers accept her Brexit deal, opened cross-party talks with Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party more than a month ago after parliament rejected her European Union withdrawal deal three times.The talks with Labour are a last resort for May, whose party's deep div
  
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• Farage cannot be allowed to dictate Britain’s future. He must be thwarted | Tony Blair

  11-05-2019 22:02
  The EU election results will send a vital message to MPs about BrexitIf you care about what the Brexiters are doing to our country, then vote on 23 May. All that matters is that on 24 May, Nigel Farage and his allies on the far right of the Conservative party cannot claim they speak for Britain.Politics is not an exact science. After the vote, there will be a ledger. On one side will be hard or no-deal Brexit with Farage and the Tory fellow travellers. On the other will be those who want an end
  
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• Sacked defence secretary Gavin Williamson: PM's Brexit talks with Labour will fail - Sky News

  11-05-2019 22:01 via news.sky.com
  Sacked defence secretary Gavin Williamson: PM's Brexit talks with Labour will fail  Sky NewsGavin Williamson says the Brexit talks with Labour are "politically naive" and a "betrayal of democracy".
  
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• Scottish newspaper Sunday Mail to support Green Party in European elections

  11-05-2019 22:00
  The paper said it had chosen to back the Greens because climate change was not being treated as a priority by the major parties.
  
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• Gavin Williamson attacks PM’s Brexit talks with Labour as ‘grave mistake’

  11-05-2019 22:00
  Former defence secretary Mr Williamson said pressing ahead with the talks will have 'fatal' consequences.
  
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• EU elections: key dilemma for remainers is who to choose

  11-05-2019 22:00
  Nigel Farage’s early success has come at the expense of the Tory party: the Brexit party leader in Sunderland on Saturday. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PAPolls in the run-up to the European election make startling reading. Nigel Farage’s new Brexit party has raced into the lead, grabbing more than a third of the vote share. You might have assumed that ardent Leavers, who did not want this election to happen, would boycott it, but that would be to underestimate Farage’s genius in of
  
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• Theresa May takes to the pitch after ‘inspiring’ week of English football

  11-05-2019 21:33
  Mrs May kicked a ball around while out and about in her constituency.
  
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• Nigel Farage's Brexit Party polling higher than Labour and Tories combined before EU elections

  11-05-2019 21:21
  The Brexit Party is polling higher than the two major parties combined ahead of this month's European election.Nigel Farage's party are on course to get 34% of the votes, according to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer.Labour are on 21% and the Conservatives are in fourth place on 11%.
  
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• Philip Green no longer a billionaire and Arcadia worthless, says rich list

  11-05-2019 21:12
  The Sunday Times Rich List recorded the tycoon's fortune falling £1.05 billion in a year.
  
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• New Insta Kill / Death Spot Found in Fortnite Outside of Neo Tilted - Fortnite Insider

  11-05-2019 21:11 via fortniteinsider.com
  New Insta Kill / Death Spot Found in Fortnite Outside of Neo Tilted  Fortnite InsiderAnother 'instant death' location found due to Fortnite Season 9  FortniteINTELHow to complete Gemini challenges for Fortnite Season 9  DexertoNew Fortnite instant death spot found near Neo...  Dot EsportsFortnite Fans will finally be able to "undo purchases" soon  FortniteINTELView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Football play-off CHAOS: Match halted as WALL COLLAPSES during goal celebrations

  11-05-2019 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  A CRUNCH football play-off was suspended earlier this evening when a terrace barrier collapsed during goal celebrations.
  
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• Theresa May must go now if the Conservative Party is to survive - Telegraph.co.uk

  11-05-2019 21:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  Theresa May must go now if the Conservative Party is to survive  Telegraph.co.ukFarage, Rees-Mogg, Claire Fox... Britain is seduced by politicians who are ‘characters’  The GuardianView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Brexit Party doubles lead over Labour in European election poll

  11-05-2019 20:56
  Nigel Farage's party has galloped into first place with 34% support.
  
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• We were seen as D-Day dodgers: Veterans mark 75 years since 'forgotten battle'

  11-05-2019 20:17
  Veterans once labelled "D-Day dodgers" have gathered to commemorate a little-known battle often overshadowed by the success of the Normandy landings.The Battle of Monte Cassino was pivotal in leading to Italy's liberation in the Second World War but those who fought in it have felt "ignored" for 75 years.Over 123 days in 1944 they suffered 55,000 casualties as they tried to take a monastery fortified by the Germans in Monte Cassino, between Naples and Rome.
  
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• Britain's Conservatives in fourth place in EU election poll, Farage leads

  11-05-2019 20:16
  Theresa May's Conservative Party has fallen into fourth place in a poll on voting intentions for the European elections, well behind Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party which has more support than Britain's traditionally two biggest parties combined.According to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer newspaper, Farage's newly formed party is on 34% of the vote ahead of the May 23 election that is being held because Britain failed to leave the European Union as expected in March.
  
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• Uber IPO is called the worst ever after investors lose $618million on paper - Daily Mail

  11-05-2019 19:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  Uber IPO is called the worst ever after investors lose $618million on paper  Daily MailUber’s spluttering IPO: where might the blame lie?  Financial TimesAll Eyes on Uber's Second Day of Trading After Debut Flop  BloombergUber begins trading nearly 7% below its initial public offering price  Syracuse.comUber's Underwhelming IPO, Lyft Earnings and More Car News This Week  WIREDView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Brexit Party snapping at Tories’ heels in latest general election poll

  11-05-2019 19:16
  The Opinium survey of voting intentions shows Nigel Farage's party one point behind the Conservatives
  
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• London protest demands Israel end 'unprecedented attacks' on Palestine

  11-05-2019 19:12
  ‘Palestinians should be able to live free from ever expanding settlements on stolen land,’ said Labour MP Richard Burgeon. Photograph: Penelope Barritt/Rex/ShutterstockThousands have demonstrated in central London to demand an end to the “unprecedented attacks” against the Palestinian people at the hands of Israel.Marching from Portland Place to Whitehall, a diverse crowd chanted “Palestine will be free” and called for the right of Palestinian refugees to retu
  
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• ‘Just like Nazi Germany’ Head claims pupils at £12,000-a-term school being victimised

  11-05-2019 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE head of a £12,700-a-term private school has compared discrimination against his pupils to the treatment of Jews by Hitler’s Nazi Germany, triggering an angry reaction on social media.
  
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• The Premier League title race neither side - especially their managers - deserve to lose

  11-05-2019 18:55
  At the centre of the compelling final day drama is Manchester City's Pep Guardiola, whose team leads Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool by a single point.Whatever happens when Guardiola's City visit Brighton and Klopp's Liverpool entertain Wolves, the pair seem set to battle it out for many future titles, certainly at home, possibly in Europe, too.The Manchester City team Guardiola has built is at the pinnacle of English football and is poised to become the first team in a decade to retain the Premier Lea
  
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• Thousands march in Cardiff calling for Welsh independence

  11-05-2019 18:52
  Poll shows 12% of Welsh people support self-government. Photograph: Chris FairweaTher/Huw Evans/Rex/ShutterstockThousands have demonstrated in Cardiff to call for an independent Wales in what organisers said was the first such march in Welsh history. Some protesters said they had been lifelong supporters of independence, while others said they were converted by Brexit and austerity. A recent poll for ITV Wales showed that 12% of people support self-government. As the march ended with a rendition
  
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• Lyra McKee: Two Londonderry men charged with rioting

  11-05-2019 18:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Two men are charged with rioting in Londonderry on the night the journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead.
  
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• Pot shots: the plant photographs of Luigi Ghirri – in pictures

  11-05-2019 18:00
  Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri created his project Colazione sull’Erba (Breakfast on the Grass), images of trees, pots and plants in Modena, in 1972-74. The title is inspired by Edouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, but instead of focusing on nature’s bucolic side, Ghirri portrays its manmade aspects. He later wrote that “the mythical image of nature and home takes centre stage” in the series, which is being published in a new book. Call Me By You
  
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• Schoolboy pleads with teachers for time off to watch team

  11-05-2019 17:58 via bbc.co.uk
  Cameron Hoffman, who watches with his grandma, said it was important as "she isn't getting any younger".
  
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• Joyful reunion as dog welcomes owner, 96, back from hospital

  11-05-2019 17:25 via bbc.co.uk
  After spending 16 days in hospital Feliks Oszczyk, 96, was also delighted to see his dog Ben.
  
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• Holyhead crossbow shooting victim dies in hospital

  11-05-2019 17:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Gerald Corrigan, 74, suffered "horrendous" injuries when he was shot outside his Holyhead home.
  
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• Pensioner shot with crossbow bolt in Anglesey dies in hospital

  11-05-2019 17:09
  Gerald Corrigan died as a result of 'horrendous injuries he sustained', North Wales Police said.
  
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• Theresa May could set exit date this week - Sir Graham Brady

  11-05-2019 17:06 via bbc.co.uk
  Senior Tory Sir Graham Brady says he expects to learn Theresa May's departure timetable within days.
  
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• Prime Minister’s Brexit deal is ‘surrender document’ – Farage

  11-05-2019 17:04
  The Brexit Party leader told hundreds at a rally in the North East that MPs think they are 'morons'.
  
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• We lost faith in joint efforts to halt wars. Result? Ask Syria...

  11-05-2019 17:00
  Syrian civil defence workers carry a victim after an airstrike hit a market killing several people in the village of Ras el-Ain.Photograph: APSuggestions that the war in Syria is winding down must sound like a sick joke to the people of Ras al-Ain. Their village, in north-western Idlib province, was targeted in an air raid last week. Five residents were killed, including three children, and at least 20 others were injured. A local man, Hussein al-Sheikh, described to Al Jazeera reporter Farah Na
  
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• Pensioner dies after crossbow attack while fixing satellite dish

  11-05-2019 16:53
  A man who was injured when he was shot with a crossbow while fixing his satellite dish has died in hospital.
  
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• Change UK asks BBC to explain pulling Have I Got News For You

  11-05-2019 16:45
  Heidi Allen said Nigel Farage seemed to be on the BBC all the time. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PAChange UK has written to the BBC to call for a full explanation of the decision not to air an episode of Have I Got News For You featuring its interim leader, Heidi Allen, claiming the broadcaster was providing Nigel Farage with unduly favourable coverage. The newly formed party also raised concerns over the fairness of the BBC’s coverage of Change UK and demanded an urgent review of the decisi
  
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• Labour pledges £10 minimum wage for under-18s

  11-05-2019 16:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Jeremy Corbyn unveils plans for under-18s to be paid £10 an hour, rather than the current £4.35.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: 'We will abolish the youth rate of the minimum wage'

  11-05-2019 16:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Jeremy Corbyn unveils plans for under-18s to be paid £10 an hour, rather than the current £4.35.
  
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• Coventry tortoise Tommy returned after theft

  11-05-2019 16:12 via bbc.co.uk
  The female tortoise has been 82-year-old Yvonne Machin's pet for 68 years.
  
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• Thirty years on, the Tiananmen Square image that shocked the world

  11-05-2019 16:05
  Photographer Jeff Widener explains how a series of mishaps meant it was almost the picture that got awayA solitary figure in a white shirt and black trousers clutches a bag and stands in front of a column of halted tanks, a cluster of street lights floating to one side like balloons. The man’s shoulders are rounded, almost passive in front of the four tanks whose gun barrels are raised as if in an ironic salute.Thirty years on from the violent crushing of pro-democracy protests in Tiananme
  
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• Tesco car park murder accused appears in court

  11-05-2019 16:01
  A man has appeared in court accused of stabbing another man to death in a supermarket car park.Aqib Pervaiz, 26, appeared at Reading Magistrates' Court on Saturday, charged with the murder of Nadeem Uddin Hameed Mohammed.Mr Mohammed, 24, was found with a stab wound in his chest in the car park of the Tesco store in Wellington Street in Slough, Berkshire, at 12.32pm on Wednesday, Thames Valley Police said.
  
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• Thousands walk as sun rises to raise money for suicide awareness campaign

  11-05-2019 15:55
  Darkness Into Light is the flagship fundraiser for Pieta House, which supports people in suicidal distress or engaging in self-harm.
  
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• 'Have I Got News For You' Row Escalates As Change UK Complains To BBC Chief

  11-05-2019 15:52
  The row ever the last-minute cancellation of Friday night's Have I Got NewsFor You has escalated, as Change UK published a letter it has written to BBCchief Lord Hall
  
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• Headteacher claims parents fear 'social engineering' as more state students go to Oxbridge

  11-05-2019 15:36
  The headteacher of an independent school is facing a backlash after saying a rise in state school pupils being accepted by Oxford or Cambridge has caused parents to fear "social engineering".In an interview with The Times, Anthony Wallersteiner, head of the £12,000-a-term Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, said schemes to help poorer students had "successfully driven down the number of Oxbridge places awarded to privately educated pupils".
  
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• Business warning over Labour 'tit for tat' minimum wage hike

  11-05-2019 15:35
  Businesses have warned that a "tit-for-tat" over the minimum wage could damage jobs after Jeremy Corbyn announced Labour plans to increase pay for young workers.Mr Corbyn confirmed proposals to extend the party's £10 minimum wage policy to 16 and 17-year-olds during a speech in Birmingham today.The increase would be "nothing less than life-changing" for young workers and could see them earn an extra £2,500 per year, he said.
  
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• Car and bins ablaze outside house in wilful fireraising incident

  11-05-2019 15:31
  Police Scotland has said no-one was injured.
  
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• Mothers and families to demand climate action in London march

  11-05-2019 15:12
  The Mothers Rise Up rally comes after ministers announce an in-depth review of air pollution.
  
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• Woman dies following house fire in Co Down

  11-05-2019 14:59
  Investigations are under way into the cause of the blaze in Holywood.
  
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