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• UK plans crackdown on high-pressure tactics in funeral sales

  01-06-2019 23:40
  Britain is to crack down on high-pressure and misleading tactics in the sale of funeral plans, City minister John Glen said on Saturday.New plans to regulate the pre-paid funeral sector for the first time will ensure the market is competitive and that consumers, who are often old and vulnerable, understand what they are buying, he added.The sector will now be overseen by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the regulator for 58,000 financial services firms and markets in Britain.
  
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• Hundreds of D-Day veterans to be joined by world leaders for 75th anniversary

  01-06-2019 23:30
  The commemorations are expected to be one of the biggest British military spectacles in recent years.
  
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• Liverpool beat Tottenham to win Champions League final

  01-06-2019 23:29
  Liverpool have won the Champions League after beating Tottenham 2-0 in the final in Madrid.It capped an extraordinary year for English clubs in European football after Chelsea beat Arsenal in the Europa League final in Wednesday.After the final whistle Liverpool striker Mo Salah, who scored Liverpool's first goal from the penalty spot, said "everyone is happy now", while defender Trent Alexander-Arnold said the win was "hard to put into words".
  
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• Government targets 'shameful' funeral plan sale tactics - BBC News

  01-06-2019 23:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Government targets 'shameful' funeral plan sale tactics  BBC NewsCompanies that pressure people into buying funeral plans could face criminal charges in future.View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Conservative MP Phillip Lee loses confidence vote by local association

  01-06-2019 23:25
  It comes after fellow Tory Dominic Grieve lost a similar vote earlier this year.
  
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• Liverpool fans go wild after final whistle

  01-06-2019 23:20
  Liverpool have won the Champions League after beating Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in Madrid.
  
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• New pill offers lifeline to 'death sentence' breast cancer patients by adding years to their life expectancy - Daily Mail

  01-06-2019 23:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  New pill offers lifeline to 'death sentence' breast cancer patients by adding years to their life expectancy  Daily MailNew breast cancer treatment offers hope of longer life to younger women  The GuardianBreast cancer drug gives new hope to young women with disease by improving survival by 50 per cent  The TelegraphBreast cancer drug boosts survival by 52 per cent in young women, study claims  The Sun'New hope' in fight against breast cancer as scientists
  
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• All-night party begins as Liverpool fans celebrate Champions League victory

  01-06-2019 23:04
  The Merseyside club beat London rivals Tottenham 2-0 in Madrid.
  
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• Here are the British Soap Awards 2019 winners in full - DigitalSpy.com

  01-06-2019 23:00 via digitalspy.com
  Here are the British Soap Awards 2019 winners in full  DigitalSpy.comBritish Soap Awards 2019: Corrie's Lucy Fallon narrowly avoids a wardrobe malfunction in a deeply plunging white gown as she leads the bleary-eyed departures from glitzy afterparty  Daily MailBritish Soap Awards 2019 Best Dressed: EastEnders' Lucy Fallon, Coronation Street's Brooke Vincent & Emmerdale's Lucy Pargeter  HELLO!British Soap Awards 2019: Pregnant Brooke Vincent reveals her bump in g
  
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• David Blunkett: Jeremy Corbyn should sack his top aides

  01-06-2019 22:30
  The former home secretary calls on trades unions and Momentum to exert pressure on the Labour leader. Former home secretary David Blunkett has called on trades unions and the grassroots Labour movement Momentum to insist that Jeremy Corbyn sack his closest advisers in order to save the party from collapse. The extraordinary demand from the Labour grandee reflects frustration across the party at its performance in the European elections as well as anger over its handling of antisemitism, and the
  
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• Border Force intercepts 74 migrants in boats off Kent coast

  01-06-2019 22:19
  The Home Office says a total of 74 migrants were aboard the record number of eight migrant boats that landed off the Kent coast earlier today.The area of response has stretched across from Dover to Winchelsea Beach in East Sussex, where border force agents have been seen engaging with some of the migrants.Coastguards say they helped UK Border Force to intercept the eight boats on Saturday morning.
  
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• 74 migrants held as eight boats intercepted crossing Channel

  01-06-2019 22:09
  Home Secretary Sajid Javid described the day's events as 'concerning'.
  
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• Pioneering psychedelic rocker Roky Erickson dies aged 71 - AOL UK

  01-06-2019 21:38 via aol.co.uk
  Pioneering psychedelic rocker Roky Erickson dies aged 71  AOL UKPsychedelic rock legend Roky Erickson has died  NME LiveRoky Erickson: the visionary who took a trip to the edge of rock'n'roll  The GuardianPioneering psychedelic rocker Roky Erickson dies at 71  FOX 7 AustinFounding member of 13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson, has died age 71  Far Out MagazineView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Northern Ireland police discover bomb under officer's car

  01-06-2019 21:33
  Police in Northern Ireland discovered a bomb under a police officer's car in Belfast on Saturday that they said was probably planted by militant nationalists intent on killing one of their officers had it not been detected in time.While a 1998 peace deal largely ended three decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, police officers are sporadically targeted by small splinter groups still active in the British-run province."Our belief is that this attempted murder was carried out by viole
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn won’t listen to the many and heeds only the few

  01-06-2019 21:30
  Seumas Milne looks on as Jeremy Corbyn gives a television interview. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty ImagesLabour is imploding from within and the people of Britain deserve better. When I heard the recording of Pete Willsman, member of Labour’s national executive committee, expressing his antisemitic views, my heart sank. Could it really get any worse? Earlier this year when good colleagues such as Luciana Berger left the party for what became Change UK their cry for help resonated far
  
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• Birmingham pub bombings inquest: anger at £200,000 PR campaign bill

  01-06-2019 21:00
  Families of 21 victims say the total legal aid offered to their lawyers was just £350,000. Relatives of the 21 people killed in the Birmingham pub bombings have reacted furiously to new figures showing that the media campaign for the inquest got two-thirds as much public money as the total legal aid offered to the victims’ families. Figures obtained following a freedom of information request into the 1974 attacks reveal that £202,000 was paid to Crest Advisory, who dealt with t
  
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• Belfast police find 'viable' bomb underneath officer's car

  01-06-2019 20:59
  A suspicious object found underneath a police officer's car in Belfast has been found to be a "viable" bomb.A nearby golf club, which was holding a tournament at the time, was evacuated after the object was discovered just after 1pm on Saturday.Club member Alan Paterson said police were alerted after someone at the tournament spotted the object under the vehicle.
  
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• Viable explosive device found under police officer’s car

  01-06-2019 20:23
  The bomb was found in the car park of a golf course in East Belfast.
  
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• Viable bomb found under police officer’s car in Belfast

  01-06-2019 20:09
  Army bomb disposal experts have examined the device, which was found in the car park of Shandon Park Golf Club.
  
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• Temperature soars above 27C on hottest day of the year

  01-06-2019 19:47
  The mercury rose to 27.6C at Heathrow on Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Rugby-McCall praises Saracens' spirit after comeback win

  01-06-2019 19:44
  Saracens coach Mark McCall has seen his team scale the heights during a glorious last five years but said his players continue to amaze him after they fought back from 11 points down to beat Exeter 37-34 in the Premiership final on Saturday."Exeter played really well and either side of halftime we couldn’t control them but this group never ceases to amaze me - somehow they found energy.The victory completed a second European/domestic double for Saracens and was their seventh successive vic
  
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• Victims of Virginia Beach mass shooting named by officials - Metro.co.uk

  01-06-2019 19:39 via metro.co.uk
  Victims of Virginia Beach mass shooting named by officials  Metro.co.ukVirginia Beach killings: City names 12 victims of mass shooting  BBC NewsVirginia Beach shooting: 12 dead as city mourns 'the most devastating day'  The GuardianEditorial: In Virginia Beach, a tragedy we didn't deserve  Virginian-PilotPICTURED: 'Loner' Virginia Beach gunman, 40, and longtime city engineer who 'brushed his teeth and chatted to a colleague' before 'indiscriminately' shoot
  
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• By-election campaign all about core Labour values, Corbyn tells rally

  01-06-2019 19:30
  The Labour leader was campaigning in Peterborough ahead of next week's ballot.
  
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• ‘Viable’ bomb found under police officer’s car at east Belfast golf club

  01-06-2019 19:16
  Police and Army bomb disposal experts are at the scene at Shandon Park Golf Club.
  
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• Corbyn accuses Trump of interfering in UK politics with Johnson comments

  01-06-2019 19:16
  UK Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Saturday U.S. President Donald Trump's comments endorsing Conservative front-runner Boris Johnson as the next prime minister were an "unacceptable interference" in Britain's affairs.In an interview with the Sun newspaper ahead of his three-day state visit to Britain next week, Trump said of the former foreign secretary: "I think Boris would do a very good job.
  
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• Spurs fans race to Champions League final after seven-hour flight delay

  01-06-2019 19:14
  The 180 supporters will have just an hour to disembark, get through security and get to the stadium for tonight's clash with Liverpool in Madrid.
  
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• Conservative MP Phillip Lee loses vote of no confidence

  01-06-2019 19:04
  Remain supporter blames ‘orchestrated, destructive campaign from outside party’. A former Conservative minister who resigned over the government’s handling of Brexit has lost a vote of no confidence in him by his local association, after he was outspoken in his support for a vote on the final deal. Phillip Lee, MP for Bracknell in Berkshire, said he recognised that a majority of his Conservative association’s members opposed his view on Brexit, but argued he was elected t
  
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• US justice department prepares Google antitrust probe - Financial Times

  01-06-2019 18:31 via ft.com
  US justice department prepares Google antitrust probe  Financial TimesThe US Department of Justice is preparing an antitrust investigation into Google in a sign the regulatory pressure on the search giant is rising after years of competition scrutiny in Europe. The justice department recently won jurisdiction for a probe into the company from the Federal Trade Commission, according to people familiar with the matter. The FTC shares responsibility for antitrust enforcement in the US and
  
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• Fans ejected for attempting to get into the Champions League final with fake tickets

  01-06-2019 18:18
  Many supporters have travelled to Madrid without a ticket, while authorities decided to ban big screens from broadcasting the match.
  
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• Sajid Javid does not have right to stop Scots independence vote – Carwyn Jones

  01-06-2019 18:06
  The former Welsh first minister spoke out after Sajid Javid said he would not allow another referendum if he became prime minister.
  
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• New breast cancer treatment offers hope of longer life to younger women

  01-06-2019 17:59
  Women given the combined treatment lived an average 23.8 months without their cancer progressing. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PAYounger women with breast cancer have been given the hope of living longer after what is described as “one of the greatest advances in breast cancer research in recent decades”. Adding ribociclib, a targeted drug that disrupts cancer cells, to standard hormone therapy was found to boost survival among premenopausal patients who have an advanced form of the diseas
  
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• Record nine migrant boats land off Kent coast

  01-06-2019 17:58
  A record nine migrant boats have landed off the Kent coast, according to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.The area of response has stretched across from Dover to Winchelsea Beach in East Sussex, where border force agents have been seen engaging with some of the migrants.Coastguards say they have helped UKBorder Force to deal with the nine incidents this morning.
  
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• UK border authorities respond to 13 boat crossings in one day

  01-06-2019 17:35
  Activists say more help should be given to avoid dangerous crossings in small boats. UK border police have been responding to a number of boats carrying migrants across the Channel. Authorities assisted with 13 incidents off the Kent coast on Saturday morning, HM Coastguard said. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said it used RNLI lifeboats from Dover, Dungeness and Rye to respond to the small-boat crossings, as well as coastguard rescue teams from Folkestone, Langdon and Rye Bay. Images of men
  
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• Farage predicts even bigger Brexit Party impact at Peterborough by-election

  01-06-2019 17:17
  His party is the bookies' favourite to win the poll.
  
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• The 2019 Wellcome photography prize: close focus on the human condition

  01-06-2019 17:00
  The annual awards celebrate the best images of science around the worldA human face lies inert on a surgical tray as if staring up at the team of doctors hovering over it. It has taken them 16 hours of precise, painstaking work to remove it from a 31-year-old female donor, who had died three days earlier. A few seconds after photographer Lynn Johnson captured this extraordinary moment, plastic surgeons in the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, began the second phase of a procedure that lasted around 30 hou
  
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• Police hunt gunman after homes damaged

  01-06-2019 17:00
  Shots were fired at properties in Drumchapel, Glasgow, on Friday, damaging the windows.
  
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• Four Britons among eight climbers missing in Himalayas after deadly season

  01-06-2019 16:28
  Four British people are believed to be among eight climbers missing in India's Himalayas, following a spate of deaths on the mountains.Local media reports say the group were attempting to reach the summit of India's second-highest peak Nanda Devi in Uttarakhand.The missing Britons have been named locally as group leader Martin Moran, John McLaren, Rupert Whewell and Richard Payne.
  
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• MSPs demand investigation into reports children still detained in Dungavel

  01-06-2019 16:24
  Reports suggest at least 21 young people had been held at the South Lanarkshire centre since 2010.
  
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• Trump is no friend to Britain: time to give him and his foreign policy the heave-ho

  01-06-2019 16:13
  Mike Pompeo has ‘thrust a well-aimed dagger into the heart of the ‘special relationship’. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty ImagesAs usual, Mike Pompeo was brutally frank. Speaking in London last month, the US secretary of state warned that future bilateral intelligence sharing would be at risk if Britain allowed the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei access to its new 5G rollout. “The US has an obligation to ensure the places where we operate [are] within trusted networks, a
  
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• At least 13 migrant boats land off Kent coast

  01-06-2019 16:11
  At least 13 migrant boats have landed off the Kent coast, Sky News understands.The area of response has stretched across from Dover to Winchelsea Beach in East Sussex, where border force agents have been seen engaging with some of the migrants.Charlie Elphicke, MP for Dover and Deal, said if the number of boats is verified, it would be "a record number of boats arriving in a single day".
  
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• A free press is not an optional extra, Jeremy Hunt tells media congress

  01-06-2019 15:59
  The Foreign Secretary spoke at the World News Media Congress in Glasgow.
  
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• Couples divided by Spurs-Liverpool loyalties braced for Champions League final

  01-06-2019 15:49
  The first all-English final since 2008 will test domestic harmony in some households.
  
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• Police investigate rape of man in Maidenhead

  01-06-2019 15:39
  Appeal for information after man found in distressed state in Berkshire park. Police have appealed for information after a man was raped in a park near the centre of Maidenhead, in Berkshire. A member of the public contacted Thames Valley police at about 3.30am on Saturday after finding a man in a distressed state in Grenfell Park, next to the train station in Maidenhead. Officers were watching the scene on Saturday but police did not say whether any arrests had been made. DCI Penny Mackenzie sa
  
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• RIP BBM: BlackBerry Messenger Shuts Down - MakeUseOf

  01-06-2019 15:33 via makeuseof.com
  RIP BBM: BlackBerry Messenger Shuts Down  MakeUseOfBBM: BlackBerry Messenger finally shuts down after years of trying to lure people back  The IndependentBBM Shuts Down Today Due To Lack Of Users  LADbibleBlackBerry Messenger Officially Shut Down  iClarifiedGoodbye BlackBerry Messenger: Service pivotal to 2011 London rioters shuts down over lack of users  ITV NewsView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Former Arsenal star Jose Antonio Reyes, 35, dies in car crash

  01-06-2019 15:13
  Ex-Arsenal striker Jose Antonio Reyes, 35, has died in a car crash, his former club Sevilla FC has confirmed.Posting an image of the club's crest with a black ribbon, the club said on Twitter: "We couldn't be confirming worse news.Beloved Sevilla star Jose Antonio Reyes has died in a traffic collision.
  
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• Police appeal after man raped in Grenfell Park in Maidenhead

  01-06-2019 15:06
  A man has been raped in a park in Maidenhead, Berkshire.Thames Valley Police said he was found in a distressed state in Grenfell Park, which is situated near the town centre, at 3.33am on Saturday by a passer-by.The victim, who is in his 20s, told the member of the public he was raped near the park's basketball court.
  
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• Ian Bailey ‘praying truth will come out’ about murder

  01-06-2019 14:54
  Bailey, 62, was found guilty in his absence on Friday of killing Sophie Toscan du Plantier, 39, following a trial of only three days.
  
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• In Pictures: Duke of York takes salute at Colonel’s Review

  01-06-2019 14:02
  It is the first time for Prince Andrew to inspect the troops at the event on The Mall.
  
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• ‘Potentially dangerous’ raccoon dogs recaptured after escape

  01-06-2019 14:00
  The pair dug their way out of an enclosure in Nottinghamshire.
  
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• NASA photo showcases landing site for Mars 2020 - AccuWeather.com

  01-06-2019 13:56 via accuweather.com
  NASA photo showcases landing site for Mars 2020  AccuWeather.comBreathtaking Images Show Fluffy Martian Clouds Photographed From The Planet's Surface  ScienceAlertCuriosity rover finds evidence that water once existed on the surface of Mars  Digital TrendsMartian clouds sail above NASA's Curiosity rover  MashableMartian clouds sail above NASA's Curiosity rover  Yahoo NewsView full coverage on Google News
  
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