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• Tory leadership contender sparks row after ‘branding Jeremy Corbyn anti-Semitic’

  05-06-2019 23:45
  Matt Hancock said the UK 'could end up with the first anti-Semitic leader of a Western nation since the Second World War'.
  
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• Matt Hancock attacks 'antisemitic' Labour at private Tory hustings

  05-06-2019 23:39
  Health Secretary Matt Hancock has attacked Labour at a hustings event, where he apparently warned of the danger of an "antisemitic party" taking power.The private hustings, which took place at parliament, was organised by the centre-right One Nation group, and several Tory leadership hopefuls made their pitches.An MP supportive of Matt Hancock said the health secretary had warned about the possibility of a Labour government.
  
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• England fans clash with police in Portugal during Nations League match screening

  05-06-2019 22:47
  Some of those watching cheered and filmed the altercation on their phones.
  
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• Shot fired at prison worker in ‘targeted attempted murder’

  05-06-2019 22:35
  The 38-year-old man was leaving a property in Bearsden early on Wednesday when the incident happened.
  
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• President Trump says Brexit 'no problem' for Ireland

  05-06-2019 22:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Mr Trump tells reporters that Ireland is in "great shape" and that Americans "love the Irish".
  
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• Donald Trump expresses confidence in future of Northern Ireland despite impasse

  05-06-2019 22:08
  The US president was speaking during a press conference on his first official visit in his role to the Republic of Ireland.
  
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• D-Day landings commemorated

  05-06-2019 22:08 via bbc.co.uk
  The Queen and world leaders joined veterans to mark the 75th anniversary of the operation.
  
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• Ireland has open mind on Huawei security concerns raised by US, Varadkar says

  05-06-2019 22:06
  The Taoiseach made the comments after talking to President Donald Trump at Shannon Airport.
  
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• On-the-run Salisbury Novichok hoaxer jailed

  05-06-2019 22:02 via bbc.co.uk
  Alex King went on the run in December after claiming he had been poisoned at a Prezzo restaurant in Salisbury.
  
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• Matt Hancock brands Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite

  05-06-2019 22:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour calls the remarks, made at a Tory leadership hustings, a "baseless political attack".
  
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• Closure fears for Bridgend Ford plant

  05-06-2019 21:59 via bbc.co.uk
  A union says it would be a "disaster" if their worst fears are confirmed at a meeting on Thursday.
  
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• Queen says 'thank you' to veterans as world leaders mark D-Day anniversary

  05-06-2019 21:57
  The Queen has paid tribute to the "heroism" of D-Day troops, marking 75 years since the Normandy landings that changed the course of the Second World War.Special events took place throughout the day to commemorate the historic military offensive.The Red Arrows, an RAF Voyager and Typhoons flew over Portsmouth as the Queen and world leaders looked on.
  
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• Unions in shock over reports of Ford plans to close Bridgend factory

  05-06-2019 21:47
  Ford said it would not comment on the speculation.
  
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• Corbyn as PM would be 'west's first antisemitic leader since WWII'

  05-06-2019 21:29
  Health secretary Matt Hancock warns Tory MPs of risks of not choosing right leader. The health secretary, Matt Hancock, has claimed that if Jeremy Corbyn won a general election he would be “the first antisemitic leader of a western nation since the second world war”. Speaking at a private hustings event in Westminster for the Tory leadership, Hancock sought to portray himself as the best candidate to appeal to younger voters and win a general election. According to a supporter in the
  
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• Donald Trump talks Brexit with Irish premier

  05-06-2019 21:26
  The US president was holding a bilateral meeting with Leo Varadkar at Shannon Airport.
  
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• Queen says 'thank you' as world leaders mark D-Day

  05-06-2019 21:23
  The Queen has paid tribute to the "heroism" of D-Day troops, marking 75 years since the Normandy landings that changed the course of the Second World War.Special events took place throughout the day to commemorate the historic military offensive.The Red Arrows, an RAF Voyager and Typhoons flew over Portsmouth as the Queen and world leaders looked on.
  
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• Protesters at Shannon Airport demonstrate against US president

  05-06-2019 21:12
  Many of the protesters who attended were there to protest Shannon Airport's use by the American military.
  
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• British veterans parachute over Normandy 75 years after making D-Day jump

  05-06-2019 21:12
  Two British war veterans in their mid-nineties parachuted over the fields of Normandy, northern France, on Wednesday, 75 years after they jumped behind German defences on D-Day in an operation that helped turn the tide of World War Two against Adolf Hitler.Dressed in red jumpsuits, 95-year-old Harry Read and 94-year-old John Hutton performed tandem jumps with the British Parachute Regiment’s freefall display team, the Red Devils.Read was just 20-years old and Hutton, known to his friends a
  
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• Rural village of Doonbeg gives warm welcome to US president

  05-06-2019 21:04
  Mr Trump is staying a short distance away in his five-star hotel
  
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• MV Boudicca and veterans waved off by PM as Normandy journey begins

  05-06-2019 21:02
  The Royal British Legion cruise ship is carrying 250 Second World War heroes to D-day commemorations.
  
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• Trump defends environmental record after remarks from Irish president

  05-06-2019 20:53
  Mr Trump was asked about Mr Higgins' remarks as he faced press questions at Shannon Airport on Wednesday.
  
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• Fears for 1,700 jobs as Ford set to close Bridgend plant

  05-06-2019 20:36
  Ford is expected to announce plans to close its engine plant in Bridgend, with 1,700 jobs under threat, Sky News understands.The car maker has called a meeting with union leaders on Thursday, when an announcement on the future of the site in South Wales is set to be made.As well as its 1,700-strong workforce, hundreds more people are employed in businesses that supply the plant, which has been manufacturing engines in Bridgend for 40 years.
  
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• D-Day veteran celebrates after parachuting into Normandy 75 years later

  05-06-2019 20:31
  Harry Read took part in a tandem jump with the Red Devils after a display of some 280 parachutists in Sannerville on Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• Arcadia postpones knife-edge vote on store closure plans

  05-06-2019 20:29
  Sir Philip Green's company is still negotiating with landlords.
  
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• Prison worker targeted in Bearsden street shooting

  05-06-2019 20:24 via bbc.co.uk
  Shot were fired as the man left his home in Bearsden and the incident is being treated as attempted murder.
  
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• Murder detectives launch CCTV appeal over man’s disappearance

  05-06-2019 20:11
  Police believe 55-year-old William McCormick, known as Pat, from Comber, Co Down, was murdered.
  
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• Lifeboat service axed due to ‘historic rivalries’

  05-06-2019 20:10
  The RNLI took the decision after volunteers continued to show negative behaviours that have been challenged for many years.
  
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• Toddler murders highlight critical state of social services

  05-06-2019 19:55
  Dylan Tiffin-Brown and Evelyn-Rose Muggleton were killed by men who had a history of domestic violence. Photograph: PAThe circumstances surrounding the horrific killings of Dylan Tiffin-Brown, two, and Evelyn-Rose Muggleton, one, throw the spotlight not just on “systemic weaknesses” at Northamptonshire county council but the critical state of children’s social services across England. The serious case review reports said mistakes were made during events leading up to the childr
  
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• Schools in England to give extra lessons on dangers of knives

  05-06-2019 19:44
  Home Office plan to support and inform pupils aged 11-16 ahead of summer break as knife and gang crimes soar. Pupils in schools in England are to be given additional lessons before the summer holidays warning them of the dangers of carrying knives. Children at risk of knife crime are known to be vulnerable during the long summer break, especially if they have time on their hands and, with the schools shut, have no safe space. Campaigners say that, due to government cuts to youth services, there
  
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• Why some soldiers are facing prosecution for actions in NI

  05-06-2019 19:39 via bbc.co.uk
  Families of those shot by British servicemen want to see some retired soldiers face investigations.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Likened To Hitler By Tory Leadership Candidate Matt Hancock

  05-06-2019 19:39
  Tory leadership candidate Matt Hancock has claimed Jeremy Corbyn would be thefirst anti-Semitic leader in the West since Hitler if Labour wins power
  
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• Ford Bridgend Job Fears As Union Leaders Summoned To HQ

  05-06-2019 19:35
  US car giant Ford has called union leaders from its Bridgend plant in SouthWales to a meeting at its UK headquarters
  
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• Brexit party eyes early breakthrough in Peterborough byelection

  05-06-2019 19:35
  Brexit party candidate Mike Greene admits the party’s inexperience is a problem. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PAIf the Brexit party wins the Peterborough byelection, it would return its first MP to Westminster just eight weeks after being formed – a trajectory that took Nigel Farage’s previous party, Ukip, more than two decades. And in a further sign of the fast-shifting fault lines of British politics, while Labour hopes it can retain the seat, the Conservatives, who held it for 1
  
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• On-the-run drug dealer who sparked Novichok scare is jailed

  05-06-2019 19:22
  Alex King, 42, was sentenced to 11 years in his absence in January.
  
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• Ford expected to announce closure of Welsh engine factory - source

  05-06-2019 19:14
  Carmaker Ford is expected to announce on Thursday that it is closing its engine facility in Bridgend, Wales, a source told Reuters, in what would be another blow to Britain's car industry.More than 2,000 people work at the site, according to Ford's website, which is one of two Ford engine plants in Britain.A spokeswoman for Ford declined to comment on what she said was speculation, after the expected closure was also reported by ITV news and other media.
  
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• Blood scandal victim infected as a child slams ‘peddlers of death’ behind trial

  05-06-2019 19:14
  Inquiry told 50 schoolboys were placed on a trial involving American products in the 1980s
  
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• Enterprise Bill is momentous for South of Scotland, MSPs told

  05-06-2019 19:12
  Holyrood approved legislation to create a new enterprise agency for the South of Scotland.
  
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• Ford plant closure fears as union leaders called to meeting

  05-06-2019 19:06
  The car giant has refused to comment on speculation it could shut down its engine factory in Bridgend, South Wales.
  
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• Sir Philip Green's rescue deal hangs in the balance

  05-06-2019 19:04 via bbc.co.uk
  A meeting to rescue the troubled Arcadia group is adjourned after an initial rejection of the deal.
  
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• Queen says 'thank you' as world leaders read letters to mark D-Day

  05-06-2019 19:03
  A flypast has marked 75 years since the D-Day landings that changed the course of the Second World War - with the Queen paying tribute to those who took part and world leaders reading letters of testimony from the time.The RAF voyager, the Red Arrows and typhoons soared over the skies of Portsmouth as the Queen and world leaders watched on.The D-Day landings saw allied forces launch an air, naval and land assault on Nazi-occupied France and were the start of a long, bloody campaign to liberate n
  
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• Northamptonshire child murders: Care failings revealed

  05-06-2019 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Case reviews into the murders of two toddlers in Northamptonshire prompt claims of "massive failures".
  
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• In pictures: D-Day landings commemorated

  05-06-2019 18:54 via bbc.co.uk
  President Donald Trump was among the world leaders attending D-Day commemorations in Portsmouth.
  
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• Trump and Charles chat with veterans at D-Day anniversary reception

  05-06-2019 18:53
  Thomas Cuthbert, 93, jokingly told the US president that if 'only he was 20 years younger' while pointing to the First Lady.
  
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• Council admits 'considerable shame' over children murdered by mum's partners

  05-06-2019 18:52
  A council has apologised over the deaths of two children who were murdered by their mother's partners.Northamptonshire County Council said it feels "considerable shame" over the deaths of Dylan Tiffin-Brown, two, and one-year-old Evelyn-Rose Muggleton.A review by the Northamptonshire Safeguarding Children Board (NSCB) found there were "lost opportunities" as agencies overlooked the killers' criminal past and history of abuse.
  
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• Daughter of first British D-Day soldier killed in action pays tribute to others

  05-06-2019 18:50
  Margaret Brotheridge said she was celebrating 'freedom' on the 75th anniversary of the campaign.
  
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• Ex-wife of London Bridge attacker reveals details of their life

  05-06-2019 18:38
  Charisse O'Leary broke down in tears as she told the court what she knew about Rachid Redouane, 30, with whom she had a child.Ms O'Leary began a relationship with Redouane - one of three perpetrators of the 3 June 2017 attack - in 2010 when he was working as a cash-in-hand pastry chef, she told the inquest.In March 2016, the couple moved to Barking where there was a mosque nearby which enabled Redouane to start attending every day.
  
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• The talking points and highlights from Donald Trump’s three days in the UK

  05-06-2019 18:35
  All the best pictures, videos and moments from the US President's state visit.
  
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• Sheridan Smith: 'Dad would have been so proud'

  05-06-2019 18:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Sheridan Smith sang Vera Lynn's We Will Meet Again at the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
  
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• PM candidate Gove opens door to Brexit delay - Buzzfeed

  05-06-2019 18:28
  British lawmaker Michael Gove, a candidate to replace Prime Minister Theresa May, has opened the door to delaying Brexit beyond Oct. 31 if a deal with the EU were nearly complete, Buzzfeed reporter Alex Wickham said on Twitter.“If we are making progress and are on the verge of a deal, and we’ve had a good EU Council in October and we’re 99% of the way there on Halloween are we seriously saying we wouldn’t take a bit more time to get the deal done?” Gove was quoted a
  
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• Football ground blaze investigators following positive line of inquiry

  05-06-2019 18:27
  Police have appealed for more information on the fire at Newtown Park, Bo'ness, on Tuesday.
  
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