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• PM May says Brexit legislation to have 'improved package of measures'

  18-05-2019 23:55
  Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May said she will present a "new bold offer" to lawmakers with "an improved package of measures" in a final attempt to get the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement Bill through parliament before she leaves office.After failing three times to get parliament's approval for her Brexit deal, the government will now put the bill, legislation which will enact that deal, before parliament for a vote in early June."Whatever the outcome of any (indicative) votes, I will not be sim
  
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• Kate hails power of great outdoors in helping children become happy adults

  18-05-2019 23:49
  The mother-of-three has co-created a garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.
  
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• Don’t lead us to disaster, moderate Tories warn frontrunner Boris Johnson

  18-05-2019 23:45
  Boris Johnson is party favourite at 7/4 in the Conservative leadership race. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PAConservative leadership contenders will shepherd the party to disaster if they adopt the “comfort blanket of populism” in response to Nigel Farage, scores of Tory MPs will warn this week.Eight cabinet ministers are among a group of 60 modernising MPs who will call on contenders for the leadership to “reject narrow nationalism” in their quest to replace Theresa May. The
  
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• Eurovision 2019: Viewers convinced UK has NO chance of winning after noticing key issue - Mirror Online

  18-05-2019 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  Eurovision 2019: Viewers convinced UK has NO chance of winning after noticing key issue  Mirror OnlineAzerbaijan - LIVE - Chingiz - Truth - Grand Final - Eurovision 2019  Eurovision.tvIceland's Eurovision entry was full of leather, fire and chains  Wales OnlineNewcastle choreographer Lee Proud makes the Eurovision final with Iceland  Chronicle LiveView full coverage on Google News
  
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• May to make ‘bold offer’ in final bid to get MPs to back her Brexit deal

  18-05-2019 23:10
  Ministers are to discuss a package of measures aimed at winning cross-party support for the Withdrawal Agreement Bill.
  
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• Tory grandee Lord Heseltine to vote Lib Dem in European election

  18-05-2019 23:07
  He said the Conservatives have become 'infected by the virus of extremism' and he cannot endorse their support for Brexit.
  
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• Eurovision 2019: follow all the songs and action – live - The Guardian

  18-05-2019 23:02 via theguardian.com
  Eurovision 2019: follow all the songs and action – live  The GuardianThe creation of 'Roi' - Bilal Hassani and Émilie Satt talk music making  Eurovision.tvEurovision final 2019: Who is France's entry Bilal Hassani and what is his song?  The IndependentBilal Hassani - Roi - Eurovision 2019 France (Rehearsal)  EuroVisionaryFrance - LIVE - Bilal Hassani - Roi - Grand Final - Eurovision 2019  Eurovision Song ContestView full coverage on
  
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• Brexit Party overtakes Tories in poll on general election voting intentions

  18-05-2019 22:26
  Labour remain in front, but the Conservatives have been pushed into third place by Nigel Farage's party, according to the survey.
  
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• Tommy Robinson: Police vehicles damaged during clashes at campaign event in Oldham - The Independent

  18-05-2019 22:25 via independent.co.uk
  Tommy Robinson: Police vehicles damaged during clashes at campaign event in Oldham  The IndependentTommy Robinson: Trouble flares at event in Oldham  BBC NewsViolence breaks out at Tommy Robinson campaign event as supporters clash with crowds in Oldham  Daily MailObjects thrown and police vehicles smashed as violence erupts at Tommy Robinson event in Oldham  Manchester Evening NewsTommy Robinson: Salvini shows far-right agenda attainable  The Gua
  
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• UK's Brexit Party maintains big lead in EU election poll

  18-05-2019 22:20
  Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party has kept a big lead over both the ruling Conservative Party and the opposition Labour Party in a poll on voting intentions for the European elections.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 Britain is participating in because it failed to leave the European Union as expected at the end of March.The poll put Labour in second place on 20%, down 1 percentage p
  
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• Europe’s far-right leaders unite with a vow to ‘change history’

  18-05-2019 22:10
  Geert Wilders, left, Matteo Salvini, centre, and Marine Le Pen at a rally of European nationalist and far-right parties in Milan. Photograph: Alessandro Garofalo/ReutersItalian deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini led a rally of his European far-right allies in front of Milan’s Gothic cathedral on Saturday. He pledged to change history after this week’s EU elections by making the populist alliance one of the largest groupings in the European parliament. Flanked by France’s Mari
  
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• Thousands descend on Paisley for pipe band event

  18-05-2019 22:03
  The British Pipe Band Championships were held, with St Laurence O'Toole being crowned winners.
  
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• Report: LaMelo Ball likely headed to China or Australia

  18-05-2019 22:00
  LaMelo Ball, the youngest of the three basketball-playing Ball brothers, likely will play professionally in China or Australia before entering his name in the 2020 NBA Draft.The elder Ball took sons LaMelo and LiAngelo to play in Lithuania, and they also played in the Junior Basketball Association.
  
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• Labour panics as remain voters switch to Liberal Democrats - The Guardian

  18-05-2019 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Labour panics as remain voters switch to Liberal Democrats  The GuardianGeneral election risks 'killing Brexit', Matt Hancock warns  BBC NewsThe Tories are heading towards the cliff edge  Telegraph.co.ukTories and Labour are despised over Brexit – but there is a path out of this democratic crisis  Telegraph.co.ukNigel Farage claims Leavers are the true democrats – this is why he’s wrong  The IndependentView full coverage on Goog
  
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• Brexit: May could end impasse with 'confirmatory' vote, Sir Keir Starmer claims

  18-05-2019 21:55
  Labour's Brexit spokesman has suggested Theresa May could still end parliamentary deadlock by including a "confirmatory" public vote as part of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill.Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said he was doubtful a third attempt to get the WAB through parliament would succeed.
  
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• Lotto results RECAP: Numbers for Saturday's £11.7million National Lottery jackpot - Mirror.co.uk

  18-05-2019 21:51 via mirror.co.uk
  Lotto results RECAP: Numbers for Saturday's £11.7million National Lottery jackpot  Mirror.co.ukLotto results for Saturday, May 18: National Lottery winning numbers from the latest draw  Wales OnlineNational Lottery results - Winning numbers for Saturday May 18 and Thunderball results  Liverpool EchoNational Lottery results: The winning Lotto numbers for Saturday, May 18  Bristol PostLOTTO RESULTS: Winning National Lottery and Thunderball numbers for
  
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• Eurovision 2019: follow all the songs and action – live

  18-05-2019 21:43
  It’s the most controversial Eurovision in history, and it has a half-time show from pop legend Madonna. Settle in for a long, kitsch night in Tel Aviv8.43pm BST Serhat is a Eurovision legend, and he’s giving this ridiculous party anthem both barrels. He can’t sing, he can’t dance, he looks like Pitbull’s dad and the song is objectively terrible, but I absolutely LOVE it. Serhat is the spirit of Eurovision and the epitome of Dare To Dream - be a hero, be the rainbow,
  
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• US PGA Championship 2019: third round – live!

  18-05-2019 21:38
  Brooks Koepka leads by seven going into day threeOfficial leaderboard: get the latest from Bethpage BlackAnd feel free to email [email protected] 8.37pm BST A downhill ten-footer for DJ at 5. A birdie chance that trundles past the hole. His first par of the round, after opening birdie-bogey-birdie-bogey. He’s -6. Back on 4, Spieth sends his approach well left, down a swale covered in the thickest, most verdant grass. He’s not got going yet at all. Koepka meanwhile finds a
  
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• Opinion | Steve Bannon Is a Fan of Italy's Donald Trump - The New York Times

  18-05-2019 21:33 via nytimes.com
  Opinion | Steve Bannon Is a Fan of Italy's Donald Trump  The New York TimesEU CHALLENGED: Eurosceptics assemble in Milan as Salvini launches new alliance  Express.co.ukEurope’s far-right leaders unite with a vow to ‘change history’  The GuardianHow Matteo Salvini's alliance of European nationalists plan to tear apart the fabric of the EU  Telegraph.co.ukSalvini leads populist gang towards a European shake-up  The TimesView full
  
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• Scale of police sexual abuse claims revealed

  18-05-2019 21:28
  A police passing out ceremony in London. There were 63 dismissals, retirements or resignations after complaints of sexual misconduct against the Metropolitan Police from 2012-18.Photograph: Rex FeaturesNearly 1,500 accusations of sexual misconduct, including sexual harassment, exploitation of crime victims and child abuse, have been made against police officers in England and Wales over six years, the Observer can reveal.Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that 1,491 compl
  
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• Revealed: scale of police sexual abuse claims - The Guardian

  18-05-2019 21:28 via theguardian.com
  Revealed: scale of police sexual abuse claims  The GuardianNearly 1,500 accusations of sexual misconduct, including sexual harassment, exploitation of crime victims and child abuse, have been made against police ...
  
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• Revealed: scale of police sexual abuse claims

  18-05-2019 21:28
  Nearly 1,500 accusations made against officers in England and Wales over six yearsNearly 1,500 accusations of sexual misconduct, including sexual harassment, exploitation of crime victims and child abuse, have been made against police officers in England and Wales over six years, the Observer can reveal.Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that 1,491 complaints were filed against police officers, special constables and police community support officers (PCSOs) across 33 for
  
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• 'Corrosive' mobile phones should be totally banned in schools

  18-05-2019 21:11
  A new campaign is asking schools to pledge to go mobile phone free.Describing the devices as "corrosive" the signatories agreed that "phones should not be used, seen or heard at any point, anywhere on the school site".Research has shown that mobile phones in schools can be detrimental to learning.
  
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• Brexit: May could end impasse with 'confirmatory' vote, Sir Keir Starmer claims - Sky News

  18-05-2019 21:06 via news.sky.com
  Brexit: May could end impasse with 'confirmatory' vote, Sir Keir Starmer claims  Sky NewsBrexit: Withdrawal Agreement Bill 'should include public vote'  BBC NewsBrexit: Referendum should be included in Withdrawal Agreement Bill, Labour says  The IndependentKeir Starmer blames 'wannabe Tory leaders' for Brexit talks failure  The GuardianTheresa May must offer second referendum as 'only way to break Brexit deadlock'  Metro.co.ukView full coverage o
  
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• Austria to move fast to hold elections after coalition collapses

  18-05-2019 21:04
  Government falls apart after vice-chancellor resigns because of compromising secret video
  Austria is heading for snap elections after the far-right vice-chancellor resigned over a video that appeared to show him promising public contracts to a woman posing as a Russian backer, in return for help in his election campaign.The Austrian chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, said on Saturday that “enough was enough” and his conservative Austrian People’s party (ÖVP) was ending its 18-mon
  
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• Tories in for a Brexit party trouncing, while Remainers abandon Labour - The Guardian

  18-05-2019 21:02 via theguardian.com
  Tories in for a Brexit party trouncing, while Remainers abandon Labour  The GuardianGeneral election risks 'killing Brexit', Matt Hancock warns  BBC NewsPETER OBORNE: Now we know the carnage Corbyn would wreak if he gets the keys to No 10  Daily MailTories and Labour are despised over Brexit – but there is a path out of this democratic crisis  Telegraph.co.ukThere’s so much at stake in the EU elections. This is about what kind of country we wan
  
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• Tories in for a Brexit party trouncing, while Remainers abandon Labour

  18-05-2019 21:02
  Polling shows Nigel Farage’s party would defeat Tories in a general election, while Lib Dems become top choice for Remain votersMore voters now say they would back the Brexit party at the next general election than the Conservatives, according to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer.Nigel Farage’s party increased its support by three points to 24% of the vote, leapfrogging the Tories and trailing Labour by just five points. The Conservatives claimed 22% of the vote, the same figu
  
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• Girl, 14, raped by 3 men after her FAMILY sold her for £1,700 - Mirror Online

  18-05-2019 21:02 via mirror.co.uk
  Girl, 14, raped by 3 men after her FAMILY sold her for £1,700  Mirror OnlineThe teenager's desperate family reportedly sold her for extra cash in Rajasthan, India.
  
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• Coast to hand Chinese the keys to West Coast, Britain's most profitable train franchise - Telegraph.co.uk

  18-05-2019 21:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  Coast to hand Chinese the keys to West Coast, Britain's most profitable train franchise  Telegraph.co.ukAn activist hedge fund is poised to step up its attack on FirstGroup, issuing a set of radical demands that include slicing the company in two and ordering the ...
  
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• Manchester City 6-0 Watford: FA Cup final player ratings - The Guardian

  18-05-2019 20:57 via theguardian.com
  Manchester City 6-0 Watford: FA Cup final player ratings  The Guardian'We will fear no one in Europe!' Wolves fans bullish as Nuno's men qualify for Europa League - WATCH  expressandstar.comBernardo Silva’s tirelessness in the Manchester City midfield makes him Pep Guardiola’s perfect disciple  iNewsManchester City win FA Cup to seal treble with 6-0 demolition of Watford  The GuardianIf ex-con Deeney lifts the cup for Watford it will complete u
  
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• Hegerberg stars as Lyon crush Barcelona to win Women’s Champions League

  18-05-2019 20:39
  • Final: Lyon 4-1 Barcelona
  • Norwegian Ada Hegerberg hits a hat-trick in the first half-hourPeople will bemoan the gulf in class. This was supposed to be competitive football at the top level. But Lyon’s one-sided mauling of Barcelona is not something to be criticised, but should instead be celebrated as a testament to investment, to equality. Club president Jean-Michel Aulas’s long-term project is paying dividends and then some.An emotional early opener from the Budapest-
  
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• Manchester City win FA Cup to secure historic domestic football treble

  18-05-2019 20:24
  Manchester City have beaten Watford to win the FA Cup, becoming the first men's team to win a domestic treble.Man City had already won the Premier League title and the League Cup, and taking the FA Cup as well makes them the first men's team to win all three major trophies in one season.Arsenal's women's side has won it four times.
  
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• LV carry-on luggage? No thanks, we're going normcore, say stars

  18-05-2019 20:15
  Affordable luggage brands such as Away and Tumi are now favoured by the Instagram glitteratiAs the warm weather approaches and bite-size travel breaks are reported to be on the rise, airport fashion is given as much consideration as what to wear to the beach. This summer, however, it’s all about accessories, specifically, the status suitcase.For decades, Louis Vuitton have been the go-to for upmarket “it” cases, trailed by everyone from David Beckham to Catherine Deneuve. Howev
  
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• Boats carrying 20 migrants intercepted off Kent coast

  18-05-2019 20:04
  Border Force vessels handed the men, women and children to immigration officials.
  
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• Austria chancellor calls for snap election after corruption scandal - BBC News

  18-05-2019 20:04 via bbc.co.uk
  Austria chancellor calls for snap election after corruption scandal  BBC NewsAustria to move fast to hold elections after coalition collapses  The GuardianAustria to hold snap election after vice chancellor resigns in ‘corruption video scandal’  The Independent‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!’ Austria’s Kurz SCRAPS coalition and DEMANDS general election  Express.co.ukHeinz-Christian Strache: Vice-chancellor caught on secret video  
  
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• From Alabama to Armagh, women are on the front line waging the ‘war on abortion’ | Catherine Bennett

  18-05-2019 20:00
  Far from being driven just by men, many female voices are heard in the anti-choice lobbyIntensifying campaigns to criminalise all abortion in the US have been summarised, accurately, as a war on women, one that calls on women to, as the presidential contender Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has put it, “fight like hell”.In terms of knowing the enemy, much of it, in the US, will certainly resemble the Alabama misogynists – the 25 white, male, no longer young Republicans who have just
  
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• Bowel cancer warning - four of the most common signs and symptoms you may be ignoring - Express

  18-05-2019 20:00 via express.co.uk
  Bowel cancer warning - four of the most common signs and symptoms you may be ignoring  ExpressBOWEL cancer symptoms can be difficult to spot, as they don't necessarily make you feel ill. These are the most common warning signs of bowel cancer to look ...View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Wolves qualify for Europe! - expressandstar.com

  18-05-2019 19:58 via expressandstar.com
  Wolves qualify for Europe!  expressandstar.comManchester City win FA Cup to seal treble with 6-0 demolition of Watford  The GuardianFA Cup final: Man City look to make history, Watford aim for an upset  BBC SportNeville Southall: I hope Watford win the FA Cup final – the pain of defeat never goes away  iNews'I don't feel sorry for Liverpool - we were just better' - De Bruyne  Eurosport.co.ukView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Manchester City win FA Cup to seal treble with 6-0 demolition of Watford - The Guardian

  18-05-2019 19:50 via theguardian.com
  Manchester City win FA Cup to seal treble with 6-0 demolition of Watford  The GuardianGuardiola: "We have to keep getting better"  Football365.comMan City FA Cup win 'shows hallmark of true greatness'  BBC SportWatford pupils cheer on the Hornets ahead of FA Cup Final  Watford ObserverEnglish football has been moulded in City boss Pep Guardiola's image  Daily MailView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Manchester City win FA Cup to seal treble with 6-0 demolition of Watford

  18-05-2019 19:50
  And then there were three. Or maybe even four, perhaps, if Pep Guardiola had his way and we counted the Community Shield as a major trophy, as they do in Spain with the Supercopa. Let’s call it three, the first domestic treble by any men’s team in history, and another thumping demonstration of how Manchester City have changed the landscape of English football.They turned this final into such a cakewalk it was difficult, long before the end, not to sympathise with the latest team to f
  
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• James Charles reveals he considered suicide after Tati Westbrook video - Metro.co.uk

  18-05-2019 19:49 via metro.co.uk
  James Charles reveals he considered suicide after Tati Westbrook video  Metro.co.ukThe condemnation of James Charles is tinged with homophobia  PinkNewsJeffree Star just said he has "no ill will" towards James Charles  Cosmopolitan.comJames Charles thanks PewDiePie for support amid Tati Westbrook claims  Metro.co.ukTearful Tati Westbrook returns to social media after James Charles feud with emotional video  The SunView full coverage on Google New
  
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• Banbridge pipe bomb incident condemned

  18-05-2019 19:49
  Residents were evacuated from 25 homes during the security alert.
  
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• Harlequins miss play-off spot as Lang’s late penalty falls agonisingly short

  18-05-2019 19:37
  • Wasps 27-25 Harlequins
  • Late drama as James Lang has chance to give Quins winHome is where the heartache has been for Wasps this season, but it was Harlequins who felt the agony when James Lang’s 50-metre penalty in the last minute, that would have taken his side into fourth place and a play-off at Exeter, was a puff of wind short of going over. When Harlequins won here 20 months ago, it ended an unbeaten 20-match run in the league for the hosts, but most sides have found thei
  
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• Serious shortage of people doing ‘proper’ jobs on film sets

  18-05-2019 19:29
  Recruitment campaign announced at Cannes to counter huge shortage of skilled film workers, from plasterers and make-up artistsCinema needs its moments of high glamour to attract funding and sell tickets, and each May the Cannes Film Festival provides them in grand style, with plenty of diaphanous gowns, jewels and famous faces. But tomorrow morning, on the beach where much of the deal-making takes place, an appeal will be made for something it needs even more: skilled workers who can build sets
  
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• Devastating Catalans prove too much for Wigan at enthusiastic Camp Nou

  18-05-2019 19:19
  • Catalans Dragons 33–16 Wigan Warriors• Record crowd in Barcelona revels in five-try drubbingFor a sport that has spent the majority of its existence confined largely to the M62, the significance of what Catalans Dragons have achieved in the past year with regard to broadening rugby league’s horizons is perhaps greater than anything seen before. In the wake of last August’s Challenge Cup triumph at Wembley those in charge of developing the game in Catalonia promised
  
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• David Willey and Tom Curran fight for England’s last World Cup spot

  18-05-2019 19:19
  England’s bowlers brace themselves for bad news as Ed Smith gets ready to decide final 15England will reveal their final World Cup squad at Lord’s on Tuesday morning and for one of the 16 players deployed so far against Pakistan – a series they lead 3-0 going into Sunday’s fifth instalment at Headingley – a huge disappointment awaits.Ed Smith, the national selector who was on site for the tense three-wicket victory at Trent Bridge on Friday, will need to be spot on
  
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• Three men charged over ATM raids

  18-05-2019 19:18
  The trio will appear before a district judge in Belfast on Monday.
  
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• Tyler, the Creator forced to cancel first UK gig in four years

  18-05-2019 19:13
  The rapper, banned from entering the country in 2015, said impromptu London show got ‘too rowdy’The US rapper Tyler, the Creator, returned to the UK on Saturday, four years after he was banned from entering the country, only to see his impromptu gig cancelled when legions of fans turned up to watch him perform.The rapper, whose given name is Tyler Gregory Okonma, was banned from the UK in 2015 over the content of his lyrics, at that time the Home Office alleged the songwriter “
  
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• Thousands rally in Belfast in support of same-sex marriage

  18-05-2019 19:12
  Thousands of people marched through Belfast on Saturday to demand the recognition of same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland, the only region of the United Kingdom where it does not have legal status.Attempts to legislate for same-sex marriage have been blocked by the Democratic Unionist Party, a key ally of British Prime Minister Theresa May, despite opinion polls in recent years showing most in the region are in favour.Sara Canning, the partner of journalist and LGBT rights campaigner Lyra McKee
  
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• Bolton Wanderers: Food bank steps into feed unpaid staff

  18-05-2019 19:12
  Fans of Bolton Wanderers have said it's "heartbreaking" to have to donate food and supplies to staff who haven't been paid by the club.The club fell into administration on Monday and a food bank has now switched its focus to helping the employees who are struggling financially.On Saturday fans queued to donate food, drinks, toiletries and other essentials and were helped by staff from local supermarkets who also added to the collections.
  
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