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• Man airlifted to hospital after going overboard in harbour

  19-05-2019 23:44
  Montrose lifeboat attended at the Angus harbour along with the coastguard helicopter and ambulance service.
  
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• Kate hands-on with ‘addictive’ gardening creation at Chelsea Flower Show

  19-05-2019 23:30
  The garden's centrepiece is a high-platform tree house.
  
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• George, Charlotte and Louis visit mother Kate’s Chelsea Flower Show garden

  19-05-2019 23:30
  The royal children went to view the Duchess of Cambridge's creation ahead of its unveiling this week.
  
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• Duke and Duchess of Cambridge dote on their children in new photos

  19-05-2019 23:30
  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's children have made a rare public appearance to visit their mothers "Back to Nature" garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.William and Kate took Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis to see the garden co-designed by Kate, before the show opens to the public tomorrow.In pictures taken by the photographer Matt Porteous, Charlotte and Louis are seen playing on a rope knot swing, while in another George and Charlotte are dipping their toes in a water featu
  
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• May's new Brexit offer retains Northern Irish backstop, nothing new on customs - paper

  19-05-2019 23:25
  (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's new Brexit offer to UK lawmakers retains the Northern Irish backstop and does not add anything new on customs arrangements, The Telegraph newspaper reported late on Sunday.
  
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• Theresa May Prepares 'Bold Offer' To Rescue Brexit Deal As Polls Point To European Elections Disaster

  19-05-2019 23:20
  The Prime Minister outlined how she will make a final attempt to get herwithdrawal agreement onto the statute book before she leaves office despitecross-party Brexit talks collapsing last week
  
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• Manchester Airport cancels dozens of flights due to fuel supply problems

  19-05-2019 23:15
  Thousands of passengers are stranded at Manchester Airport after dozens of flights were cancelled and delayed due to fuel supply problems.There have been at least 69 cancellations - 37 arrivals and 32 departures - since the issue started on Sunday afternoon, with a number of other flights hit by delays.With more cancellations and delays listed for well into the early hours, the disruption is set to continue on Monday.
  
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• Tories urge leadership contenders to prioritise climate emergency

  19-05-2019 23:00
  Nicky Morgan said there are huge opportunities for the UK to lead the way in green finance and environmental innovation.Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesModerate Conservatives including Nicky Morgan and Amber Rudd are urging contenders for their party’s leadership to put the battle against the climate emergency at the forefront of the contest. The 60-strong One Nation group of senior Tories, created as a bulwark against what they perceive as their party’s lurch to the right, is ca
  
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• Manchester airport flights delayed after refuelling power failure

  19-05-2019 23:00
  Ryanair, easyJet, Jet2 and British Airways flights are affected by the refuelling problem at Manchester airport. Photograph: Andrew Yates/ReutersDozens of flights were delayed and cancelled at Manchester airport on Sunday because of refuelling problems.Up to 13,000 passengers were left frustrated after flights to Tenerife, Belfast and Milan were among the 86 cancelled, while others have been delayed by about three hours.It is believed that all refuelling on site has stopped – the airport s
  
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• Manchester flights cancelled due to fuel supply problems

  19-05-2019 21:39
  A spokesman for Manchester Airport said 48 flights were cancelled.
  
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• Walsall: Man critical after being shot shot in the stomach in barber shop

  19-05-2019 21:29
  A man is in a critical condition after being shot in the stomach in a barber shop.The victim, in his 20s, was in a barber shop named locally as Katz Kutz, in the Birchils area of Walsall just after 5pm on Sunday when men entered and assaulted him.West Midlands Police said one of the men left and returned with what is believed to be a shotgun.
  
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• Walsall Shooting: Man In Critical Condition After Being Shot In Barber Shop

  19-05-2019 20:47
  A man is in a critical condition after being shot in a barber shop
  
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• Manchester Airport: Flights Grounded As Power Cut Leaves Planes Unable To Refuel

  19-05-2019 20:36
  Flights at Manchester Airport have been grounded after a power cut left planesunable to refuel
  
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• Theresa May prepares 'bold' last-ditch offer to MPs on Brexit bill

  19-05-2019 20:13
  Theresa May arrives at a Conservative EU election campaign event in Bristol on Friday. Photograph: Toby Melville/ReutersTheresa May will ask her cabinet to sign off a package of Brexit concessions this week, as she gears up for one last bid to win over MPs and salvage something concrete from her troubled premiership.With the Conservatives on course for a drubbing in Thursday’s European elections, the prime minister hopes the results will focus the minds of her own MPs and persuade them to
  
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• Manchester bombing: Victim's mum defies injuries to complete 10km run

  19-05-2019 19:45
  A woman who was badly injured in the Manchester bomb attack and lost her eight-year-old daughter in the atrocity has defied the odds to complete the city's 10km race.Lisa Roussos was holding her daughter Saffie's hand when the bomb exploded at an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena two years ago.After a six-week coma Lisa woke up to hear that her daughter had died.
  
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• Soldiers oversee fuel rationing in some Venezuelan towns amid shortages

  19-05-2019 19:33
  MARACAIBO/PUNTO FIJO, May 19 (Reuters) - Soldiers oversaw rationing of gasoline at service stations in several parts of Venezuela on Sunday as worsening fuel shortages forced angry drivers to wait for hours to fill their tanks, prompting protests in some areas.Venezuela, whose economy is reeling from a painful five-year recession amid a prolonged political crisis, saw long lines of vehicles appear at services stations in several regions this week after a shutdown at the OPEC nation's second-larg
  
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• 52 Migrants Found Off Kent Coast While Crossing The English Channel This Weekend

  19-05-2019 19:19
  More than 50 migrants have been found in the English Channel travellingtowards the UK during the weekend
  
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• Corbyn and Blair – a tale of two treacheries?

  19-05-2019 19:06
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, 19 May.Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC/PAI agree with the point Gary Younge is making (Don’t give up on Labour now. It’s been much worse than this, 17 May). For those lifelong Labour voters who have stuck with the party through thick and thin, Brexit is perhaps an unexpected tipping point. I am not a lifelong voter, and in fact I left the Labour party when Tony Blair became leader. This was initially more a gut reaction than
  
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• Today’s disturbing echoes of the buildup to the second world war

  19-05-2019 19:05
  Chancellor Adolf Hitler in Berlin on 24 March 1933. ‘Hitler’s rise initially was through democratic votes in general elections, with the Nazis becoming the biggest party in the Reichstag after the July 1932 election,’ writes Bernie Evans. Photograph: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty ImagesAs Martin Kettle says (Brexit Britain and Weimar Germany are perilously alike, 16 May), there exist in the UK at the moment far too many similarities with Weimar Germany for comfort. I
  
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• Crimes by soldiers must be prosecuted

  19-05-2019 19:04
  Prisoners in a camp during the Kenya emergency, 1952. ‘There was cogent evidence of widespread abuses committed by British soldiers and security forces under the control of the British army,’ write Bryan Cox and Mary Ruck. Photograph: Stroud/Getty ImagesThose who advocate immunity for the armed forces (Mordaunt says troop amnesty should extend to the Troubles, 16 May) proceed on the premise that abuses by the British military are always confined to “a few bad apples” and
  
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• Eggs thrown at van during Tommy Robinson campaign event

  19-05-2019 18:38
  Robinson supporters and counter-protesters gathered in Bootle, Merseyside, ahead of the campaigner’s planned visit.
  
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• InterCity 125: Hundreds bid farewell to high speed train

  19-05-2019 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  After more than 40 years of service, the old InterCity 125 trains have made their last journey.
  
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• In Pictures: Jive dancing and vintage vehicle displays at 1940s weekend

  19-05-2019 18:30
  Re-enactments were also part of the annual event in the West Yorkshire village of Haworth.
  
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• EU will not renegotiate Brexit deal with new UK PM, says Irish foreign minister

  19-05-2019 18:23
  Simon Coveney described political events at Westminster as 'extraordinary'.
  
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• Model railway lovers devastated as vandals smash years of work

  19-05-2019 18:10
  The scene of devastation at Welland academy in Stamford. Photograph: Market Deeping Model Railway Club/SWNSVandals have smashed up a model railway show, causing thousands of pounds worth of damage and leaving exhibitors “devastated and distraught”. Members of Market Deeping Model Railway club were forced to cancel their annual exhibition at Welland academy in Stamford, Lincolnshire, after the break-in and rampage in the early hours of Saturday morning. The club’s chairman, Pete
  
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• Scores of migrants make Channel crossing to UK over weekend

  19-05-2019 18:08
  Border Force has been called out to four incidents.
  
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• Wimbledon: No 1 court roof unveiled with star-studded ceremony

  19-05-2019 18:07
  Some of tennis' greatest players went head to head under the new roof at No 1 Court in Wimbledon.The All England Lawn Tennis Club unveiled the fully retractable roof on top of its second biggest court in a star-studded ceremony featuring the likes of Paloma Faith and players including Pat Cash, Jamie Murray and Venus Williams.The roof was built on a budget of £70m and took three years to complete.
  
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• From accountant to darts champion

  19-05-2019 18:06 via bbc.co.uk
  How a darts player went from having £2,000 in the bank to winning £200,000 in prize money.
  
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• Soubry: Change UK doing 'remarkably well' despite polls

  19-05-2019 17:50
  Change UK's Anna Soubry says the party offers the change voters want, despite its low showing in the polls nationally.
  
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• Change UK: Revoke Article 50 to hold second Brexit referendum

  19-05-2019 17:43
  Britain's EU exit should be stopped to allow time to hold a second referendum, according to Change UK.Party spokesman Chuka Umunna said the country was facing a "national emergency" - the prospect of leaving the EU with no deal at the end of October."I have come to the view that we are now at the point where we are going to need to revoke Article 50," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.
  
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• Second Brexit referendum would not be disastrous, says Jeremy Corbyn

  19-05-2019 17:39
  The Opposition leader reiterated a second referendum should be an option on the table to respond to what emerges from Parliament.
  
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• Irish government offers support to find missing Everest climber

  19-05-2019 17:28
  Deputy premier Simon Coveney said the authorities would offer financial or organisational support to help find Seamus Lawless.
  
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• Dozens of migrants intercepted in the Channel off Kent over the weekend

  19-05-2019 17:17
  52 migrants have been intercepted by border force boats off the coast of Kent by UK Border Force officials this weekend.Border Force cutters were dispatched to two incidents on Saturday, according to the Home Office, with local reports saying that there was another group of migrants intercepted on Sunday off the coast of Dover.On Saturday morning at 5.50am, a small, rigid inflatable boat was intercepted carrying 11 men, who claimed to be from Iran.
  
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• Urban Tree Challenge: 130,000 trees to be planted across England as part of £10m project

  19-05-2019 17:15
  Environment Secretary Michael Gove has launched a new £10m plan to plant more than 130,000 trees in towns and cities in England.Called the Urban Tree Challenge Fund, grants will be made available over the next two years to green urban areas, in an effort to try and meet the government's target to plant one million trees by 2022.The scheme will be open to individuals, local authorities and charities, and will be administered by the Forestry Commission.
  
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• Reports of row over Trump’s Ireland visit exaggerated – Coveney

  19-05-2019 16:48
  Ireland's deputy premier denied US and Irish officials are at odds on where Donald Trump might meet Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
  
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• UKIP leader dismisses low polling figures

  19-05-2019 16:25
  Gerard Batten MEP says he doesn't believe negative polling information about his part in the European elections.
  
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• UKIP leader Gerard Batten: My position 'untenable' if I lose seat

  19-05-2019 16:17
  UKIP leader Gerard Batten has said his position as leader will be "untenable" if he loses his seat in the European elections.Former leader Nigel Farage's newly-formed Brexit Party is expected to finish first.Despite this, Mr Batten maintains he still has strong support within the party.
  
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• Rail timetable changes: Passenger group calls for plan to avoid repeat of 2018 chaos

  19-05-2019 16:03
  The rail industry has been urged to make sure there is no repeat of the chaos that occurred when the network's timetable changed last May.Last May, during one of the two annual timetable changes, people using trains faced weeks of disruption across large parts of the country.A further report in December by the regulator found that because "nobody took control" at the time, there was a potential for a repeat of the failings.
  
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• Netflix close to long-term UK studio space deal at Pinewood

  19-05-2019 15:46
  Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson in Sex Education, produced by Netflix in the UK. Photograph: Sam Taylor/APNetflix is close to securing a deal to lease space at Pinewood Studios, home to the James Bond and Star Wars franchises, to ensure its growing slate of UK productions can be made without delay.Netflix, which is understood to be near to signing a 10-year deal with Pinewood, began the hunt for a permanent production base last year, as revealed by the Guardian.Securing a long lease on stud
  
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• Veteran Labour MP denounces Cold War spy claims as a lie

  19-05-2019 15:42
  Geoffrey Robinson says allegations he passed intelligence to communist Czechoslovakia are a 'complete fabrication'.
  
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• 'Future of Britain is in Europe,' the Queen told Germany in 1988

  19-05-2019 15:36
  The Queen’s choice of hat in June 2017 led some to believe she was a remainer. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Queen confided to the German ambassador that she believed the future of Britain lay in Europe, newly released diplomatic cables from 1988 have shown. “Some have not realised this yet,” the monarch allegedly said of her subjects. She also appeared to back the creation of the single market. In a memo composed on the occasion of his farewell visit to the Britis
  
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• 'Future of Britain is in Europe,' the Queen told Germany in 1988

  19-05-2019 15:36
  The Queen’s choice of hat in June 2017 led some to believe she was a remainer. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Queen confided to the German ambassador that she believed the future of Britain lay in Europe, newly released diplomatic cables from 1988 have shown.“Some have not realised this yet,” the monarch allegedly said of her subjects. She also appeared to back the creation of the single market.In a memo composed on the occasion of his farewell visit to the British
  
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• European election poll puts Scottish Tories and Labour in joint fourth

  19-05-2019 15:21
  Just one in five Scottish voters will back Labour or the Tories in the European election according to a new poll.
  
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• Wartime sea mine caught in fishing net detonated

  19-05-2019 15:18
  The 7ft-long German device was snared by a vessel off the Isle of Wight on Saturday morning.
  
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• Defence Minister won't run for Tory leader

  19-05-2019 15:15
  Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood confirms he won't run for Tory leader when a contest occurs.
  
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• Police condemn speculation about violence at Tommy Robinson rally

  19-05-2019 15:09
  Tommy Robinson is running as a candidate for North West England in the European elections. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PAPolice have condemned “speculation and ill-informed comments” on social media about violence that erupted during a Tommy Robinson campaign rally in Oldham.Greater Manchester police said bricks and eggs were thrown during clashes between supporters of the anti-Islam activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, and counter-protesters on Saturday night.Ch Supt N
  
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• Jeremy Kyle Show: why take so long to end this daily humiliation?

  19-05-2019 15:00
  The Jeremy Kyle Show was axed following the death of participant Steve Dymond. Photograph: ITV/Rex/ShutterstockIn 2013, more than 1 million people watched a 17-year-old girl being called a “crackhead” and a “silly anorexic slapper” by her sister on national television while a well known TV presenter informed them that the girl had “slept with 33 men”. The girl then took and failed a lie detector test – a controversial device which measures blood pressure
  
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• 'Staggeringly silly': critics tear apart Jacob Rees-Mogg's new book

  19-05-2019 14:57
  Rees Mogg, the ERG chair and MP for North East Somerset, reportedly spent about 300 hours writing the book. Photograph: Yui Mok/PAAdoring colleagues on the right of the Conservative party hang on Jacob Rees-Mogg’s every word in the House of Commons, considering him one of Brexit’s foremost rhetoricians.But after the release of his new book about eminent Victorians, the literary world has begged to differ, with critics gleefully mauling it as “staggeringly silly” and &ldqu
  
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• 'Have some loyalty': Minister Tobias Ellwood hits out at Tory leadership manoeuvring

  19-05-2019 14:57
  A minister has vented his frustration with Conservative colleagues jockeying to replace Theresa May, urging them to focus on getting Brexit "across the line" first.Tobias Ellwood told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday he would not be putting himself forward to succeed the prime minister."I don't have the rank and I don't have the experience," the defence minister said.
  
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• May to make 'new, bold offer' in Brexit bill, Labour sceptical

  19-05-2019 14:51
  British 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 divorce deal through parliament before she leaves office.After failing three times to get parliament's approval for her deal, the government will now put the Withdrawal Agreement 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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