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• Boris Johnson sets out vision for Number 10 as Tory race hots up

  08-06-2019 23:57
  The former foreign secretary said he would refuse to hand over £39 billion to Brussels until he gets a better Brexit deal.
  
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• Jeremy Hunt Promises Housing Blitz And To Slash Student Loan Interest

  08-06-2019 23:30
  Conservative leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt has unveiled a raft of newpolicy pledges as part of his bid to become the next prime minister
  
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• Ruth Davidson backing Sajid Javid for Tory leader

  08-06-2019 23:20 via bbc.co.uk
  The Scottish Conservative leader says the home secretary is a "unifier" and the best candidate for PM.
  
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• Labour MP reported to chief whip for backing LGBT teaching protesters

  08-06-2019 23:18
  Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said Roger Godsiff's views do not represent the Labour Party.
  
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• Johnson threatens to withhold 39 billion pound Brexit payment

  08-06-2019 23:09
  The EU has repeatedly said it will not reopen discussion of the Brexit transition deal it reached with May last year, which British lawmakers have rejected three times, prompting May to announce her resignation earlier this month.Johnson, a former foreign secretary in May's cabinet, is popular with ordinary Conservative Party members, who will decide between the two candidates who come top in a series of votes by Conservative lawmakers over the coming weeks.
  
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• Sajid Javid receives boost to Tory leadership bid with Davidson endorsement

  08-06-2019 23:03
  The Scottish Tory leader said the Home Secretary 'embodies Conservative values'.
  
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• Ofsted Chief On Equality, School Cuts And The Widespread 'Confusion' Over Mental Illness

  08-06-2019 23:00
  Brexit has dominated the headlines during Amanda Spielman's two years as chiefinspector of schools at Ofsted
  
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• Thornberry may face reshuffle after Labour split over new EU vote

  08-06-2019 22:10
  Corbyn flanked by Diane Abbott, left, and Emily Thornberry at Labour’s 2018 conference.Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty ImagesJeremy Corbyn and his inner circle are considering a frontbench reshuffle that could see the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, moved as a punishment for insisting that the party must back a second Brexit referendum, according to several senior figures in the party. There is also growing support from some of Corbyn’s allies, including union leaders close t
  
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• Police appeal in hunt for missing 15-year-old

  08-06-2019 22:10
  Ryan Morris was last seen at noon on Saturday in the north-east of Dundee.
  
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• ‘Prejudiced’ Home Office refusing visas to African researchers

  08-06-2019 22:07
  Health workers prepare the body of a Congolese woman for burial after she died of Ebola. Researchers were refused entry to the UK for vital training to combat the outbreak. Photograph: Baz Ratner/ReutersThe Home Office is being accused of institutional racism and damaging British research projects through increasingly arbitrary and “insulting” visa refusals for academics.In April, a team of six Ebola researchers from Sierra Leone were unable to attend vital training in the UK, funded
  
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• Tory leadership race: the triumphs and turkeys

  08-06-2019 22:05
  With nominations open and confessions coming thick and fast, we look at what kind of week the candidates have had. Quote of the week ‘It was a mistake. I look back and I think, I wish I hadn’t done that’ Michael Gove on his cocaine admission Tweet of the week Any leadership campaign which interrupts me during #LoveIsland will be subjected to a vicious and just the right side of plausible smear campaign. You have been warned #leavemealone Tory MP Paul Masterton gets his prioriti
  
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• Justin Edinburgh: Leyton Orient manager dies aged 49 after cardiac arrest

  08-06-2019 21:55
  Justin Edinburgh, who managed Leyton Orient and played for Tottenham Hotspur, has died aged 49 after suffering a cardiac arrest.Orient chairman Nigel Travis said the club was "completely heartbroken by this tragedy", describing Edinburgh as a "wonderful, inspirational human being"."All our thoughts are with Justin's wife Kerri and their children Charlie and Cydnie at this very sad time," the club said in a statement.
  
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• Huge fire engulfs former university campus being turned into luxury homes

  08-06-2019 21:47
  Firefighters say the cause of the blaze at the former Strathclyde University building in Jordanhill, Glasgow, is not yet known.
  
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• Charity wound up after boss spends donations on Range Rover

  08-06-2019 21:41
  A charity has been wound up after its boss spent donations on a Range Rover, his medical expenses, and his mortgage.A High Court judge said there had been "failings (and) deficiencies" at Thrift Urban Housing, and de facto director Preston Lennox was "at the heart of all of them".Mr Lennox received payments totalling £119,650 via 36 cheques from the charity's bank account, Judge Clive Jones said.
  
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• Sally Challen ruling gives hope to other abused women jailed for murder

  08-06-2019 21:35
  The mother of a woman who murdered her boyfriend is hoping the conviction can be changed after a decision that saw another woman - Sally Challen - go free.Emma-Jayne Magson, 25, stabbed James Knight after a drunken row in March 2016 and was convicted of murder in Leicester eight months later.Joanne Smith said her daughter acted in self-defence, describing it as a "terrible night that went wrong".
  
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• Justin Edinburgh Dead: Leyton Orient Manager Dies Aged 49

  08-06-2019 20:59
  Leyton Orient manager Justin Edinburgh has died at the age of 49 aftersuffering a cardiac arrest
  
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• Woman dies after being bitten by dog in Preston

  08-06-2019 20:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Sharon Jennings, 55, from Preston, was taken to hospital after the incident.
  
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• Christopher Guest More Jr: One of UK's most wanted held in Malta after 16 years on run

  08-06-2019 20:07
  One of the UK's most wanted men has been arrested in Malta after 16 years on the run.Christopher Guest More Jr, 41, was pursued in connection with the murder of Brian Waters at a remote Cheshire farmhouse in June 2003.Mr Waters, 44, was tortured and beaten to death in front of his two adult children at Burnt House Farm in Tabley, near Knutsford.
  
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• Michael Gove's cocaine admission: 'a rich thread of hypocrisy'

  08-06-2019 20:03
  Michael Gove ‘has delivered a politically crafted and deeply unconvincing handwringing statement of regret’. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PAIn a picturesque village in Michael Gove’s constituency there were whiffs of freshly ground coffee, carnations and controversy in the air following the revelations about him taking cocaine. The mood in the sleepy Surrey parish of Chobham was of surprise, but also cynicism after the Conservative leadership candidate admitted taking the
  
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• D-Day veterans' homecoming diverted to Dover by Storm Miguel

  08-06-2019 19:29 via bbc.co.uk
  The veterans were heading to a welcome party in Portsmouth, but instead docked at Dover.
  
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• Hundreds of women strip off for cancer charity skinny dip

  08-06-2019 18:59
  Just under 1,800 people took part in the Strip and Dip event on a beach in Co Wicklow.
  
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• One of Europe's most wanted men is arrested in Malta

  08-06-2019 18:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Christopher Guest More Jr is detained after spending 16 years on the run following a brutal murder.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn defends new Labour MP, saying: 'She is not a racist in any way'

  08-06-2019 18:50
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the party's newest MP Lisa Forbes is "not a racist in any way" after calls for her to be suspended.Ms Forbes, who was elected as the new MP for Peterborough in Thursday's by-election, sparked controversy over a Facebook post she "liked" which said Theresa May has a "Zionist slave masters agenda".Ms Forbes has apologised for "not calling out these posts" and promised to challenge antisemitism in future.
  
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• Firefighters tackling blaze at former university campus in Glasgow

  08-06-2019 18:32
  Fire crews have been called to a 'well-developed' fire at Strathclyde University's former Jordanhill Campus in Glasgow.
  
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• Architect of 'hostile environment' policy named in honours list

  08-06-2019 18:28
  The Home Office has been accused of shirking its responsibility to put right the wrongs suffered by victims of the Windrush scandal. Photograph: PAOne of the architects of Theresa May’s “hostile environment” immigration policies, which led to hundreds of West Indian migrants being wrongly denied benefits and deported, was among the former prime minister’s staff handed honours. Glyn Williams, who was the Home Office’s head of migration policy between 2010 and 2013, w
  
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• Regan Tierney murder: Man found in house dies

  08-06-2019 18:06 via bbc.co.uk
  The badly injured man was discovered at the same house as mother-of-two Regan Tierney.
  
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• Ed Davey rules out a Remain alliance if he becomes Lib Dem leader

  08-06-2019 18:00
  Pact would compromise the party and reduce clarity of its message. Liberal Democrat leadership hopeful Ed Davey has ruled out forming any kind of pact with other Remain parties and independent MPs who want the UK to stay in the EU, saying they must join his party and try to influence it from within. The former cabinet minister said the Lib Dems had proved their strength in the recent local and European elections, and that any formal pact would compromise the party and reduce the clarity of its m
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggests supreme court will issue more 5-4 decisions

  08-06-2019 17:58
  Justice also described the retirement of swing vote Anthony Kennedy as ‘the event of greatest consequence’. Ruth Bader Ginsburg intimated on Friday that the US supreme court will soon issue more 5-4 decisions in watershed cases. The justice also said she regarded the retirement last year of swing vote Anthony Kennedy as “the event of greatest consequence for the current term, and perhaps for many terms ahead”. Ginsburg, 86, told a legal conference in New York the highest
  
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• Michael Gove’s cocaine use no bar to leadership race, says rival Dominic Raab

  08-06-2019 17:54
  The Environment Secretary says it was a mistake to have taken the drug 20 years ago.
  
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• Christopher Guest More Jr Arrested Over Gruesome Murder After 16 Years On The Run

  08-06-2019 17:53
  One of Britain's most wanted fugitives has been arrested in Malta over thebrutal killing of a father at a remote Cheshire farmhouse 16 years ago
  
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• One of Britain’s most wanted men arrested over torture murder

  08-06-2019 17:41
  Christopher Guest More Jr appeared in court in Malta on Saturday.
  
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• Labour MP sparks party row after telling LGBT teaching protesters ‘you’re right’

  08-06-2019 17:29
  Roger Godsiff told protesters who have been campaigning outside Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham they have a 'just cause'.
  
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• Justice system smeared our mother, say Sally Challen’s sons

  08-06-2019 17:23
  Sally Challen, flanked by her sons James, left, and David, leaving the Old Bailey after hearing she will not face a retrial. Photograph: Yui Mok/PASally Challen was subjected to a false narrative by a criminal justice system that painted her as “a controlling and jealous lover who planned to kill her husband”, her son has said. In doing so it failed to recognise the decades of abuse and coercive control she had suffered at his hands, David Challen writes in an article for today&rsquo
  
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• Prince Louis makes Buckingham Palace balcony debut

  08-06-2019 16:51
  Meanwhile, the Duchess of Sussex made her first public appearance at an official royal event since welcoming baby Archie.
  
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• Sinn Fein ‘determined’ to move forward after poor performance in elections

  08-06-2019 16:43
  The party suffered a huge number of casualties in recent elections.
  
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• Cocaine confession: Michael Gove accused of 'rank hypocrisy'

  08-06-2019 16:39
  Michael Gove has been accused of "rank hypocrisy" after the former justice secretary admitted to taking cocaine on "several occasions".After Mr Gove's admission, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas criticised him for the policies he support as justice secretary.Mr Gove, now the environment secretary, told the Daily Mail it was a "mistake" when he used the drug two decades ago.
  
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• Confirmed: FIFA 20 has a FIFA Street mode called Volta Football - Eurogamer.net

  08-06-2019 16:19 via eurogamer.net
  Confirmed: FIFA 20 has a FIFA Street mode called Volta Football  Eurogamer.netFIFA 20 Release Date Reveal Countdown: Trailer launch time, Gameplay News and EA Play LIVE - Daily Star  Daily StarFIFA 20 release date announced for September  Metro.co.ukFIFA 20 release date set for September  Eurogamer.netFIFA 20 Trailer reveals Volta, a FIFA Street mode reimagined for PS4 and Xbox One consoles  Daily StarView full coverage on Google News
  
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• French Open 2019: Novak Djokovic beaten by Dominic Thiem in semi-final - BBC Sport

  08-06-2019 16:16 via bbc.co.uk
  French Open 2019: Novak Djokovic beaten by Dominic Thiem in semi-final  BBC SportWho is Novak Djokovic’s wife Jelena and how many children does French Open 2016 champ have with her?  The SunThiem beats Djokovic in five sets to reach French Open final – as it happened  The GuardianFrench Open 2019: Criticism as Novak Djokovic v Dominic Thiem suspended because of bad weather  BBC SportFrench Open 2019: Dominic Thiem defeats Novak Djokovic in five
  
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• In Pictures: No cutting corners – lawnmower racers do battle

  08-06-2019 16:04
  Participants reached speeds of up to 50mph.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: new Labour MP Lisa Forbes ‘not a racist in any way’

  08-06-2019 15:58
  Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Lisa Forbes is a good woman. Not a racist in any way whatsoever.’ Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PALabour’s newest MP, Lisa Forbes, is “not a racist in any way”, Jeremy Corbyn has said after a Jewish group called for her to be suspended over interactions with Facebook posts that critics claimed exposed her as an antisemite. The Jewish Labour Movement had called for Forbes to have the whip suspended and some of her new Commons colleagues were critical af
  
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• In Pictures: Meghan back in the spotlight for Trooping the Colour

  08-06-2019 15:22
  The event marks the Queen's official birthday.
  
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• Police thank ‘helpful’ drug dealer for leaving stash alongside name and address

  08-06-2019 15:15
  'Thankfully the owner of the bag was helpful enough to leave his Community Payback card,' police said.
  
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• Scottish Labour declares support for Brexit deal vote and campaign to remain

  08-06-2019 15:14
  The Scottish Labour executive has announced the party will campaign for a public vote on any Brexit deal and 'wholeheartedly campaign for remain'.
  
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• Michael Gove accused of 'rank hypocrisy' over cocaine use

  08-06-2019 15:01
  Michael Gove has been accused of "rank hypocrisy" after the former justice secretary admitted to taking cocaine on "several occasions".After Mr Gove's admission, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas criticised him for the policies he support as justice secretary.Mr Gove, now the environment secretary, told the Daily Mail it was a "mistake" when he used the drug two decades ago.
  
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• Cocaine confession: Michael Gove accused of 'rank hypocrisy' - Sky News

  08-06-2019 14:52 via news.sky.com
  Cocaine confession: Michael Gove accused of 'rank hypocrisy'  Sky NewsMichael Gove: Cocaine 'mistake' a 'deep regret'  BBC NewsMichael Gove admits to taking cocaine on 'several occasions'  The GuardianTory leadership contender Gove admits taking cocaine  Financial TimesCocaine, cannabis and opium: Which politicians have used drugs and what did they take?  Sky NewsView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Man Utd star reveals two things they must do differently next season - Mirror Online

  08-06-2019 14:48 via mirror.co.uk
  Man Utd star reveals two things they must do differently next season  Mirror OnlineDaniel James: Man Utd agree 'deal in principle' for Swansea midfielder  BBC Sport‘This will surely be a huge pay rise’ – Further details emerge from imminent Manchester United deal: Opinion  Football League WorldRyan Giggs gives verdict on Daniel James' proposed Man Utd move and youngster's availability for Wales  Wales OnlineWhy Manchester United signed Da
  
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• WATCH as England's Jason Roy knocks over umpire after World Cup hundred - Sky Sports

  08-06-2019 14:41 via skysports.com
  WATCH as England's Jason Roy knocks over umpire after World Cup hundred  Sky SportsEngland v Bangladesh in the ICC Cricket World Cup - in-play clips, radio & text - Live  BBC SportEngland vs Bangladesh live, 2019 Cricket World Cup: Updates and latest score as Jason Roy century puts hosts in command  The IndependentEngland must revert to Plan A to beat Bangladesh after blinking in World Cup defeat by Pakistan  Daily MailEngland eye revenge in Bangladesh
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn says new Labour MP is 'not a racist in any way' - ITV News

  08-06-2019 14:36 via itv.com
  Jeremy Corbyn says new Labour MP is 'not a racist in any way'  ITV NewsNew Labour MP 'must be suspended' | News  The TimesJewish Labour Movement urges party to suspend new Peterborough MP Lisa Forbes  iNewsJeremy Corbyn: new Labour MP Lisa Forbes ‘not a racist in any way’  The GuardianShame on the Labour 'moderates' who ditched their lofty stance on anti-Semitism at the first hint of power  Telegraph.co.ukView full coverage on Google
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn says new Labour MP is ‘not a racist in any way’

  08-06-2019 14:12
  Newly-elected Peterborough MP Lisa Forbes has faced criticism over her social media activities.
  
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• NHS patients being fed bacon with cancer-causing nitrites - The Guardian

  08-06-2019 14:00 via theguardian.com
  NHS patients being fed bacon with cancer-causing nitrites  The GuardianFour out of five NHS hospital trusts are serving up bacon and ham products that have been linked to colorectal cancer.
  
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