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• May's Conservative Party faces historically worst election result in Brexit crisis - poll

  30-05-2019 23:59
  British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party would suffer its worst general election result if a vote were held now, according to an opinion poll, as voters frustrated with the deadlock over Brexit rejected the main political parties.The Conservatives, one of the most successful parties in the western world, would slump to third place in a nationwide vote with 19 percent, its lowest place since the party was founded almost 200 years ago, the YouGov poll for The Times newspaper showed.
  
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• Conservative Party faces historically worst election result in Brexit crisis - poll

  30-05-2019 23:59
  Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party would suffer its worst general election result if a vote were held now, according to an opinion poll, as voters frustrated with the deadlock over Brexit rejected the main political parties.The Conservatives, one of the most successful parties in the western world, would slump to third place in a nationwide vote with 19 percent, its lowest place since the party was founded almost 200 years ago, the YouGov poll for The Times newspaper showed.The Labo
  
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• Lib Dems Surge Ahead of Tories And Labour To Top General Election Poll

  30-05-2019 23:55
  The Liberal Democrat comeback appears to have gained momentum after a shockpoll put Sir Vince Cable's party in first place following its huge gains inthe European elections
  
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• Tory leadership contenders up to 12 as former chief whip enters race

  30-05-2019 23:51
  Mark Harper has acknowledged he is an underdog in the battle to become the next prime minister.
  
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• Man stabbed to death with scissors in street attack in Edinburgh

  30-05-2019 23:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  A MAN was knifed to death with a pair of scissors yesterday as he walked in the shadow of one of the UK’s favourite tourist spots.
  
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• Andy Robertson: ‘We don’t deserve anything yet. The league shows that’

  30-05-2019 23:30
  Liverpool defender was in Homebase the day after last season’s Champions League final. He hopes to be celebrating this timeKiev is boxed off and parked in the past for Andy Robertson, whose shuddering return to earth after last season’s Champions League final included buying a barbecue in Homebase the following day, but the brutal lesson in what it takes to win European football’s greatest prize has not been forgotten. That much is clear in his blunt dismissal of the theory tha
  
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• Nick Ferrari plays HILARIOUS prank on FAILED Change UK MEP Rachel Johnson - ’No Change UK’

  30-05-2019 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXITEER Nick Ferrari played a hilarious prank on Change UK MEP hopeful Rachel Johnson with a T-shirt mocking her failure to land a seat in the European Parliament.
  
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• Woman seriously injured in car crash near safari park

  30-05-2019 23:19
  A white Volkswagen Beetle collided with a silver Mercedes on the A84 on Thursday.
  
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• Pet-owner WARNING: Dogs BANNED from beaches this summer - but HORSES are allowed

  30-05-2019 23:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  DOGS are being banned from beaches by councils across the UK this summer - but horses will still be allowed to exercise on one beach in Weymouth.
  
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• CBI boss warns Tory leadership hopefuls of ‘severe’ damage from no-deal Brexit

  30-05-2019 23:12
  Carolyn Fairbairn urged the next prime minister to reach an agreement with Brussels.
  
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• Rory Stewart laughs off selfie gaffe by holding the camera for Jo Swinson

  30-05-2019 22:53
  The Tory leadership candidate was mocked earlier in the week for pretending to film himself in Kew Gardens.
  
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• Mark Harper enters prime minister race to replace May - Telegraph

  30-05-2019 22:53
  (Reuters) - Britain's Mark Harper has become the 12th Conservative Party member of parliament to enter the leadership race to replace Prime Minister Theresa May, the Telegraph reported on Thursday.
  
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• Davidson and Swinney back calls to raise charity lottery limit

  30-05-2019 21:55
  The political rivals were among the guests at a People's Postcode Lottery event in Holyrood on Thursday evening.
  
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• Elderly woman wrestled to ground by bike-riding thug in SHOCKING daylight attack

  30-05-2019 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  A TAXI driver has been praised by police for helping an elderly woman who was wrestled to the ground by a bike-riding thug who tried to steal her gold bangles.
  
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• 'Nick' drew map of injuries inflicted by alleged VIP paedophile ring

  30-05-2019 21:52
  An artist sketch of Carl Beech, known as ‘Nick’, at Newcastle Crown Court.Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PAA former nurse accused of fabricating claims of a VIP paedophile ring drew a “body map” for his counsellor featuring an array of injuries he claimed to have suffered at the hands of the gang, including broken bones, snake bites, wasp stings and burns, a court has heard. Carl Beech – known by the pseudonym “Nick” – told his counsellor, Vicki Paters
  
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• Nigel Farage admits UK may NEED general election to end Brexit deadlock - 'Had enough'

  30-05-2019 21:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  NIGEL FARAGE conceded British voters may need to be called back to the polls later this year if the British Government fails to deliver on Brexit by October.
  
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• Parents against LGBT lessons in school 'being pushed into corner'

  30-05-2019 21:38
  A man accused of inflaming tensions over relationships classes at a primary school in Birmingham has told Sky News his "people are being pushed into a corner".Shakeel Afsar is one of a number of people who do not want children to be taught about same-sex partnerships at Anderton Park Primary School.It is estimated the 300-strong protest at the school gates will grow to 500 when term recommences next week.
  
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• Large fire breaks out at country house in Liverpool

  30-05-2019 21:34
  Firefighters were called to the Grade-I listed Woolton Hall shortly before 6pm on Thursday.
  
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• EU panic: Barnier's Brexit team ‘TERRIFIED’ of Verhofstadt ‘causing TROUBLE’ - shock video

  30-05-2019 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  MICHEL BARNIER’S Brexit team were ‘TERRIFIED’ of Guy Verhofstadt making the Brexit negotiation more difficult, it has been revealed in shocking behind the scenes footage.
  
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• EU panic: Barnier Brexit team ‘TERRIFIED’ of Verhofstadt ‘causing TROUBLE’ - shock video

  30-05-2019 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  MICHEL BARNIER’S Brexit team were ‘TERRIFIED’ of Guy Verhofstadt making the Brexit negotiation more difficult, it has been revealed in shocking behind the scenes footage.
  
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• Galloway threatens Alastair Campbell with LEGAL ACTION for 'misconduct' over Iraq War

  30-05-2019 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  GEORGE GALLOWAY has announced he will seek advice to launch legal action against Alastair Campbell over his alleged "misconduct in public office" during the run-up to the Iraq War.
  
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• Poll Reveals Labour And Tory Members Fleeing Parties At European Elections

  30-05-2019 21:03
  The full extent of the exodus from the Labour and Conservative parties at lastweek's European elections has been revealed in a shock new poll
  
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• Olympian Eilish McColgan's medals stolen from Manchester home

  30-05-2019 21:00
  Eilish McColgan competed in the London 2012 Olympic Games. Photograph: Andy Astfalck/Getty ImagesBurglars have stolen medals and commemorative jewellery from the London 2012 Games belonging to the British Olympian Eilish McColgan, she has said. The runner said her home in Manchester was broken into on Wednesday, while she was in Sweden for a race. She said she was “upset and angry” about the break-in and distressed by the thought that “some utter scumbag has been roaming around
  
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• Olympian Eilish McColgan's medals stolen from Manchester home

  30-05-2019 21:00
  Eilish McColgan competed in the London 2012 Olympic Games. Photograph: Andy Astfalck/Getty ImagesBurglars have stolen medals and commemorative jewellery from the London 2012 Games belonging to the British Olympian Eilish McColgan, she has said.The runner said her home in Manchester was broken into on Wednesday, while she was in Sweden for a race.She said she was “upset and angry” about the break-in and distressed by the thought that “some utter scumbag has been roaming around o
  
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• MoD says it is ‘safe-keeping’ 57 medals returned by Northern Ireland veterans

  30-05-2019 20:49
  The Ministry of Defence said unclaimed medals may have to be disposed of in the future. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PAFifty-seven medals returned by veterans are being kept by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) as the government continues to face a backlash over moves to prosecute soldiers accused of crimes during the Troubles. Downing Street has written to former soldiers who returned their Northern Ireland service medals to say they will be kept in case of a change of heart but that a decision may have
  
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• European election recount could take one month to complete

  30-05-2019 20:39
  Sinn Fein candidate Liadh Ni Riada requested a recheck and recount.
  
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• Airbnb short-term letting boom puts pressure on housing and communities

  30-05-2019 20:38
  Everyone knows that Google, Apple and Facebook are big, and that Uber and Netflix are fairly sizeable too."We are blind to the amount of short-term letting that goes on," said Ian Adams, cabinet member for Westminster Council, which estimates that as many as one in 15 housing units in the borough are being let as short-term rentals.When you factor in rival short-term letting platforms such as Booking.com and TripAdvisor, then it's clear we are in the midst of a short-term letting boom, which is
  
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• Referendum may be only way out of Brexit deadlock, says Hammond

  30-05-2019 20:37
  Philip Hammond says his preference is for parliament to reach an agreement over the terms of the UK’s departure from the EU. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PAPhilip Hammond has become the most senior Conservative to signal that he might be prepared to back a second referendum, piling pressure on Tory leadership candidates backing no deal by warning that they could lose a vote of no confidence. In a significant intervention, the chancellor said the only way of breaking the Brexit deadlock mig
  
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• Paedophile ring accuser ‘sought help for issues linked to childhood abuse’

  30-05-2019 20:31
  Carl Beech, 51, denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.
  
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• Ex-head of British army denies Ballymurphy killings cover-up

  30-05-2019 20:24
  Relatives of those who died on Bloody Sunday and in Ballymurphy embrace outside court in Belfast on Thursday. Photograph: Niall Carson/PAThe former head of the British army has denied there was a cover-up after soldiers shot dead 10 people in the so-called Ballymurphy massacre, one of the most controversial episodes of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.Gen Sir Mike Jackson told a coroner’s inquest in Belfast on Thursday that he had no explanation for the apparent lack of a serious investiga
  
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• Donald Trump praises 'GREAT' pals Johnson and Farage ahead of Tory leadership contest

  30-05-2019 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  DONALD TRUMP has expressed his appreciation of “friends” Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson ahead of his state visit to the UK.
  
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• Seven Tory leadership candidates declare themselves feminists

  30-05-2019 20:11
  Boris Johnson considers himself a feminist. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty ImagesThe leading Conservative leadership candidates – Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid, Michael Gove, Matthew Hancock, Andrea Leadsom and Rory Stewart – have all declared that they are feminists, after Dominic Raab said he was “probably not” one. The question of women’s equality became an issue in the contest after Raab, one of the favourites to be Conservative leader, rejected the
  
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• Eight Tory leadership candidates declare themselves feminists

  30-05-2019 20:11
  Boris Johnson considers himself a feminist. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty ImagesMost of the Conservative leadership candidates – Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid, Michael Gove, Matthew Hancock, Andrea Leadsom, Rory Stewart and James Cleverly – have all declared that they are feminists, after Dominic Raab said he was “probably not” one.The question of women’s equality became an issue in the contest after Raab, one of the favourites to be Conservative leade
  
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• Universities hit back after report proposing funding cuts

  30-05-2019 20:01
  Former financier Philip Augar, author of the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding. Photograph: WPA Pool/GettyUniversity leaders said their sector could be pushed into “survival mode” if the funding cuts proposed by a new report into student financing become government policy.The Augar report on post-18 education in England, commissioned by Theresa May, recommended a shift in funding away from universities towards further education (FE) and vocational training, with the report shar
  
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• Two police officers taken to hospital after car hits their vehicle

  30-05-2019 19:57
  Their patrol car was parked on the hard shoulder of the M876 near Falkirk when it was crashed into.
  
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• We're too nice to Albert – he was no perfect prince, claims historian

  30-05-2019 19:50
  Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are often portrayed as being the ideal royal partnership. Photograph: Roger Fenton/Getty ImagesHe is seen by many historians as the figure behind some of the greatest national projects of his time, and a loving husband who supported Queen Victoria throughout her reign. But Prince Albert gets too much positive press, historian Lucy Worsley has said.Worsley told a packed audience of 1,700 people at Hay festival that Albert lacked emotional intelligence and manipula
  
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• Sarah Vine reveals HILARIOUS new title if husband Michael Gove becomes Prime Minister

  30-05-2019 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  MICHAEL GOVE's wife Sarah Vine has admitted to not liking the term "First Lady" and would consider another title should her husband win the Tory leadership contest to take over Number 10 from Theresa May.
  
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• My friend Walter Wolfgang’s life was a portrait in moral courage | Jeremy Corbyn

  30-05-2019 19:40
  He always stood up for what he believed in, and he’ll be standing, in spirit, with protesters against Donald TrumpDonald Trump flies into the UK next week, and we will be treated to the surreal spectacle of a widely reviled president meeting a defeated prime minister amid scenes of pomp, ceremony and protest.For all the high-level meetings he will attend, the president would gain far more by staying home and learning about the life of my friend Walter Wolfgang, who died this week at the ag
  
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• Four prisoners released from jail with electronic tag ‘unlawfully at large’

  30-05-2019 19:35
  Four offenders released on home detention curfew are 'unlawfully at large' a report by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary Scotland revealed.
  
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• Trump mum on PM race ahead of state visit

  30-05-2019 19:29
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday kept mum on the race to be the next British prime minister, but praised the two most high-profile proponents of Britain's departure from the European Union on Thursday as he prepared for a state visit to Britain fraught with the possibility of diplomatic peril.Departing Sunday for a Monday arrival, Trump and his wife, Melania will be treated to a full display of royal pageantry: a private lunch and official banquet at Buckingham Palace put on by Queen Eliz
  
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• Prince Harry opens Cricket World Cup as England play South Africa at the Oval

  30-05-2019 19:27
  Prince Harry opened the Cricket World Cup as England took on South Africa at the Oval.The Duke of Sussex also met school pupils who had been selected as "anthem children" from the tournament's youth engagement programme.No sooner had he opened the event with "you won't want to miss any of it", than England had lost a wicket in just the second ball of the match.
  
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• Celtic FC’s response to sexual abuse scandal condemned by MSPs

  30-05-2019 19:27
  James Dornan and Professor Adam Tomkins both shared correspondence sent to the club in the wake of James McCafferty being jailed.
  
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• Children 'using make-up to lighten skin to avoid racial bullying'

  30-05-2019 19:20
  Children are lightening their skin with make-up to avoid racial bullying, according to a report from the NSPCC.The number of race hate crimes against under-18s rose by more than a fifth between 2015 and last year, new research by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children showed.Some bullied children told their counsellors they had tried to change the colour of their skin by using make-up after being racially abused.
  
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• Boy in theme park rollercoaster fall was 'hanging backwards outside carriage'

  30-05-2019 19:19
  A six-year-old boy has been airlifted to hospital after falling from a rollercoaster at Lightwater Valley theme park in North Yorkshire.Pictures show the helicopter landing at the park, near Ripon in North Yorkshire.A witness told Sky News that the boy had fallen up to 15ft (4.5m).
  
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• Ahead of UK visit, Trump praises Brexit-supporting 'friends' Johnson and Farage

  30-05-2019 19:12
  WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump lauded Britain's most high-profile Brexit supporters - Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage - as his friends on Thursday, weighing into Britain's political crisis just days before his state visit to London.Trump told reporters he had great respect for Johnson and Farage and considered them friends, but declined to say whether he supported Johnson to succeed Theresa May, who is stepping down as prime minister after failing to steer the country o
  
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• Taoiseach warns Corbyn that only big change could reopen Brexit deal

  30-05-2019 19:05
  Leo Varadkar warned Jeremy Corbyn that there would have to be a fundamental change to UK red lines.
  
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• Judy Murray inducted into university’s sports hall of fame

  30-05-2019 19:04
  The tennis coach was honoured alongside Dr Chloe Maclean and Corrie Scott.
  
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• Concerns over GP at Hand’s effect on local primary care in the NHS

  30-05-2019 19:04
  GP waiting room. ‘GP practices are funded according to the number of patients on their books. Loss of patients means loss of income.’ Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PAThere is an important debate to be had about the use of digital technology in NHS services (NHS trust plans switch to ‘virtual’ emergency treatment, 24 May). Babylon GP at Hand has the potential to cause significant damage to local primary care provision – as we are seeing in Hammersmith and Fulham (H&
  
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• Brexit – to compromise or make hard choices?

  30-05-2019 19:04
  Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and members of the shadow cabinet.Photograph: Phil Noble/ReutersPaul Mason is right (Corbynism is in crisis. Labour will have to oppose Brexit, 28 May) and Gloria De Piero is wrong (Switching to remain would wreck Labour, 28 May). The idea that Labour can be restored as one big, happy family that will produce social justice once Brexit is “got over with” is a hopeless delusion. Ms De Piero admits that the problems of people in run-down constituencies
  
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• Windrush generation will not lose benefits after compensation payouts, government confirms

  30-05-2019 19:01
  Claimants given compensation will still get support, documents show, but uncertainty remainsThe government is expected to introduce new regulation to prevent members of the Windrush generation losing out on the financial support they are entitled to, after fears that claiming compensation could lead to a loss of benefits.In response to the threat of legal action, officials have stated in internal documents that regulations will be introduced “in due course” to ensure those currently
  
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