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• Westlife light up Croke Park for homecoming performance

  05-07-2019 23:30
  The UK's top-selling album group of the 21st century stormed the stage dressed in military inspired outfits.
  
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• Teenage sensation Cori Gauff’s Wimbledon run continues with comeback win

  05-07-2019 22:45
  Gauff's win went some way to soothing fans' disappointment after it was revealed Andy Murray and Serena Williams would not be playing on Friday night.
  
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• Johnson: I will live with consequences of refusal to comment on private life

  05-07-2019 22:28
  The former foreign secretary was questioned about his character by a Tory member at a hustings.
  
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• US authorities warn citizens not to attend Irish music festival

  05-07-2019 21:36
  The travel alert said there was the 'potential for violence' at the Longitude Festival, which this year will feature stars such as Stormzy.
  
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• Coroner to urge new review after man confessed to strangling ‘Little Girl Blue’

  05-07-2019 21:12
  Senior Birmingham coroner Louise Hunt said she will write to the Crown Prosecution Service after being told that John Sir made three confessions.
  
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• What is contempt of court and why was Tommy Robinson convicted of it?

  05-07-2019 21:03
  The English Defence League founder could face up to two years in prison.
  
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• Tory leadership contenders pressed on whether they would allow indyref2

  05-07-2019 20:35
  Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have travelled to Scotland to take part in a hustings in Perth.
  
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• Wimbledon 2019: Sprinkler sends doubles partners scurrying during a break

  05-07-2019 20:32 via bbc.co.uk
  A water sprinkler gives Laura Siegemund and Artem Sitak an unpleasant - and rather damp - surprise as a Court 15 gets an unexpected soaking.
  
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• Davis criticises facial recognition technology

  05-07-2019 20:15
  Davis criticises facial recognition technology
  
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• Boris Johnson pledges to fight for union ‘with every breath in my body’

  05-07-2019 19:55
  The former foreign secretary spoke out ahead of a leadership hustings in Scotland.
  
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• Lynton Crosby lobby firm works with high-sugar drinks brand

  05-07-2019 19:34
  Link to product in Australia comes as business partner runs Boris Johnson campaign. The firm run by Lynton Crosby, whose business partner is helping Boris Johnson run his Tory leadership bid, lobbies in Australia on behalf of a major flavoured milk brand that contains more sugar than Coca-Cola, it has emerged. Last week Johnson announced that as prime minister he would reconsider a tax introduced last year that places a levy on high-sugar drinks. The tax does not cover sugary milk-based drinks b
  
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• Camilla reveals Spirit of Discovery during naming ceremony in Dover

  05-07-2019 19:29
  The Duchess of Cornwall said she was keen to book a berth on the Saga Group's new luxury liner.
  
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• Man jailed for laundering more than £10m through Jewish charity

  05-07-2019 19:10
  Met discovered Edward Cohen also sold counterfeit erectile dysfunction and slimming pills. A man has been jailed for almost 10 years for selling counterfeit erectile dysfunction and slimming pills and laundering more than £10m through bank accounts linked to a Jewish charity. The Met police identified a number of websites offering erectile dysfunction medication and slimming aids, primarily for customers in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France, during an investigation in 2013. A group
  
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• Police probing murder of pregnant woman to return to scene one week on

  05-07-2019 18:42
  Her baby son – who was named Riley by family members after he was delivered by paramedics – died in hospital in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
  
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• Man fights off machete-wielding robber with bar stool and pot plant

  05-07-2019 18:42
  Video shows the man attacking the robber with a bar stool before throwing a pot plant at him.
  
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• Far-right activist Tommy Robinson convicted in contempt-of-court case

  05-07-2019 18:42
  Judges on Friday found British far-right activist Tommy Robinson to be in contempt of court after he filmed defendants during a trial last year and posted the footage on social media, breaching reporting restrictions on the case.Robinson, 36, co-founder of the English Defence League (EDL) which has staged violent demonstrations against Islam, was earlier jailed for making the video recordings outside a courthouse in Leeds, northern England, which revealed the identities of defendants accused of
  
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• Tommy Robinson in contempt of court for ‘aggressively confronting’ defendants

  05-07-2019 18:37
  High Court judges found the former English Defence League (EDL) leader was in contempt when filming defendants outside Leeds Crown Court in May 2018.
  
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• Sturgeon must do more to prepare for no-deal Brexit, says Hunt

  05-07-2019 18:37
  The Tory leadership candidate was speaking ahead of a hustings with rival Boris Johnson in Perth.
  
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• Police chief pledges action after court rules over failure to conduct probe

  05-07-2019 18:37
  Simon Byrne said he accepted the judgment delivered at the Court of Appeal in Belfast by Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan.
  
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• JLR boss denies crying wolf over Brexit

  05-07-2019 18:35
  Sky's Ian King asks the JLR boss Ralf Speth whether its UK electric car investment showed the company had cried wolf over Brexit.
  
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• Far-right extremist who set fire to synagogue locked up in hospital indefinitely

  05-07-2019 18:26
  Tristan Morgan, 52, was spotted walking away carrying a petrol can and laughing as smoke spewed from the 18th Century synagogue in Exeter.
  
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• Laura Kuenssberg warns of impending chaos in Labour - 'Explosive development'

  05-07-2019 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg warned the current turmoil in the Labour Party could bring some "explosive" surprises after the summer recess as the resolved Tory leadership contest will shine a light on Jeremy Corbyn's future.
  
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• A people’s vote remains the best way to get through Brexit impasse

  05-07-2019 18:15
  ‘As the past three years have shown, the binary choice between remain and leave masked the reality that there was not one leave option, but many,’ say signatories including Helena Kennedy QC. Photograph: PAThe 2016 referendum continues to cause mayhem. It is unlikely that a change of prime minister will put an end to this chaos. We are lawyers and write, at this pivotal moment, to reiterate unequivocal support for a people’s vote as the enduring and most effective, democratic m
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn and the real civil service

  05-07-2019 18:14
  ‘A quick read of the Times’ scoop on “civil service fears” about Corbyn’s health revealed little substance behind the headline,’ says Dave Penman. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/ReutersIt’s unsurprising that the Times would want to sensationalise tittle-tattle between civil servants over coffee for a striking headline. It’s also unsurprising that those around Jeremy Corbyn don’t appreciate claims about his supposed frailty.However, it’s dis
  
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• Windrush memorial belongs in Brixton, not Waterloo

  05-07-2019 18:13
  Arthur Torrington rejects the assertion that the central London train station is an appropriate site, saying Brixton is where the immigrants set up home. The late Sam King, a co-founder of Windrush Foundation, would not have agreed with Floella Benjamin’s suggestion that Waterloo station is an appropriate site for a Windrush monument ( Letters, 26 June). Neither do I, who have nurtured and publicised the “Windrush phenomenon” since 1995. Baroness Benjamin did not consult with m
  
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• Ann Widdecombe has proved me wrong

  05-07-2019 18:11
  Ann Widdecombe gives a speech to the European parliament alongside the Brexit party leader Nigel Farage. Photograph: EuropaTV/PAThe item on Lodge Moor (Students reveal stories from Britain’s largest prisoner of war camp, 4 July) reminded me of an incident early in my career as a German teacher. I was travelling to Vienna along the Danube by scooter in 1965 when a heavy shower reduced the surface to mud. We took shelter in a café with the men repairing the road and, chatting with the
  
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• Lidington declines to rule out statute of limitations for veterans

  05-07-2019 18:09
  David Lidington said ministers would have to think 'very carefully' about the issue of amnesty.
  
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• In pictures: UK's highest altitude highline completed on Ben Nevis

  05-07-2019 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  The feat was completed more than 1,300m above a gully on Britain's highest mountain.
  
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• Tory leadership donations: who's really backing Boris Johnson

  05-07-2019 17:58
  Analysis of candidates’ funding finds bulk of donors from worlds of finance, banking and property. The role of donors to Tory leadership candidates has come into focus after it emerged Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have taken money from a climate change denier, a director of companies based in tax havens, a fox hunting enthusiast, fast food millionaires and a banker with close links to the Saudi regime, among others. An analysis of the past nine months of donations and other declared incom
  
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• Tommy Robinson faces jail after being found in contempt of court

  05-07-2019 17:52
  Two senior judges found the 36-year-old was in contempt when he filmed defendants in a criminal trial outside Leeds Crown Court in May 2018.
  
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• What is contempt of court, and why is Tommy Robinson guilty of it?

  05-07-2019 17:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Tommy Robinson has been jailed for being in "contempt of court". But what does that mean?
  
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• Universal Credit: Watchdog Confirms Investigation Into DWP Advertising

  05-07-2019 17:32
  A government advertising campaign which championed the crisis-hit UniversalCredit benefit scheme in the style of a newspaper report will be investigatedby the marketing watchdog
  
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• Westminster vow over same sex-marriage in NI if Assembly not restored

  05-07-2019 17:30
  The Minister for the Cabinet made the comments during a visit to a business in Co Fermanagh on Friday.
  
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• Tommy Robinson found in contempt of court - Old Bailey verdict

  05-07-2019 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  TOMMY Robinson is facing a jail sentence after he was found in contempt of court by High Court judges for filming defendants in a criminal trial and broadcasting the footage on social media.
  
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• Howzat? Lawmakers ready to play hardball - on the cricket pitch

  05-07-2019 17:23
  If 'playing with a straight bat' and 'stumping your opponent' are handy skills for the English-speaking politician, then where better to practise them than where they originated: on the cricket pitch?Legislators from some of the main cricket-playing nations will descend on London next week for the inaugural Inter-Parliamentarians Cricket World Cup, to trade fast balls and attacking strokes instead of policy papers and put-downs.A cross-party group of politicians representing England will be join
  
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• VIP abuse ring accuser 'totally ashamed' of paedophile conviction

  05-07-2019 17:00
  Artist sketch of Carl Beech giving evidence at Newcastle crown court, where he is accused of inventing claims about a Westminster VIP paedophile ring. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PAA former nurse accused of fabricating claims of a murderous VIP paedophile ring in Westminster has opened up about his shame over being caught with a hoard of child abuse images.Carl Beech, 51, pleaded guilty in a separate trial to viewing indecent images of young boys and covertly recording a child using the toilet at
  
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• Hospital staff given cannabis cake by mistake as thank you gift

  05-07-2019 16:52
  The gift was taken into Warrington Hospital in Cheshire by a visitor who was unaware there was cannabis in the cake.
  
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• Pakistan set Bangladesh a target of 316 to win: Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!

  05-07-2019 16:45
  Cricket World Cup updates from the match at Lord’sEngland qualify for the semi-finals – The Spin podcastAnd you can email or tweet Adam with your thoughts 3.45pm BST 12th over: Bangladesh 57-2 (Shakib 19, Mushfiqur 8) Hafeez in for his fifth, Sarfaraz trying to get through his overs while the going is good. This Bangladesh engine room, which includes Mahmudulluh (back from injury) is so important if they are a serious chance of chasing this down. Needless to say, the wicketkeeper is
  
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• Wimbledon 2019: Pella beats Anderson, Halep v Azarenka and more – live!

  05-07-2019 16:41
  Wimbledon updates on day five of the action at SW19Kyrgios’s unusual pub prep ends in defeat to Nadal
  Any thoughts? You can email Katy or tweet @KatyMurrells 3.41pm BST There’s an inconvenient fence in the way but we believe Murray and Serena are hitting together. pic.twitter.com/eUaRxSULTH 3.35pm BST Novak Djokovic has advanced with the minimum of fuss so far as he chases a fifth Wimbledon title that would draw him level with Bjorn Borg. Arguably the biggest challenge he’s fac
  
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• Couple mark milestone of their own at Faslane parade

  05-07-2019 16:38
  Alan Pitchfork and his wife Brenda are celebrating 50 years of marriage after meeting at the naval base in the 1960s.
  
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• Princess Royal leads 50th anniversary celebrations at nuclear base

  05-07-2019 16:37
  Trident has been operated by the Royal Navy Submarine Service at Faslane since 1969.
  
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• How I became a victim of a modern slavery gang

  05-07-2019 16:36 via bbc.co.uk
  A gang of eight traffickers have been convicted in a landmark modern slavery case.
  
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• Labour MP Jess Phillips leaves son at No 10 amid school cuts protest

  05-07-2019 16:34
  Children, parents and teachers from Birmingham, Stockport, Leicester, Sussex, Hertfordshire and Wiltshire were among the protesters.
  
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• Government obliged to legalise abortion in Northern Ireland, says Labour MP

  05-07-2019 16:32
  Stella Creasy backed by 60 cross-party MPs calling for human rights to be upheldThe Labour MP Stella Creasy is leading another attempt to extend access to abortion to Northern Ireland, tabling an amendment arguing that the government is obliged to do this to comply with human rights obligations.Up to 60 MPs from across different parties were expected to co-sign the amendment, according to the Walthamstow MP, who has tried in the past to change Northern Ireland’s notoriously strict abortion
  
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• Wong Ping's Heart Digger review – finding politics in a dismembered giraffe

  05-07-2019 16:29
  Camden Arts Centre, London
  The Hong Kong sculptor and animator smuggles dissent and subversion into his lurid inflatables and sexually explicit cartoonsA handsome chicken with Tourette syndrome becomes a social media superstar but is led into rash behaviour by its overinflated self-belief. A cow, jailed for political protests, later makes a fortune selling distressed denim associated with its youthful rebel image. A turtle dating a blind, one-eyed elephant gets dumped after checking out the elep
  
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• Very heterosexual couples and 18th-century airports: it's 4 July, Trump-style | Hannah Jane Parkinson

  05-07-2019 16:29
  Donald Trump’s Independence Day extravaganza was special. And not only for the sight of Tiffany set free from her basementI cannot wait, as a global citizen and (for obvious reasons) constant consumer of news, for independence from Donald Trump. I will be celebrating every single day. Many of us will. And if you needed another reason (I anticipate that you do not), Trump’s latest boneheaded episode was to give an Independence Day speech that referenced American takeover of airports i
  
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• Tory leadership: Young members' take on the next PM

  05-07-2019 16:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson made their pitch to be the next PM to Conservative Party members in York.
  
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• Stephen Port victim inquests to focus on potential police failings

  05-07-2019 16:22
  Judge promises loved ones of serial killer’s four victims a ‘full, fair and fearless’ inquiry Possible police failings during the investigation into the serial killer Stephen Port will be the main focus of new inquests into the deaths of his four victims.At a pre-inquest review at the Old Bailey, the judge, Sarah Munro QC, sitting as an assistant coroner, promised bereaved relatives and partners a “full, fair and fearless” inquiry. Continue reading...
  
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• Man in south Wales jailed for abusing 150 children online

  05-07-2019 16:21
  Owain Thomas, 29, from Pontypridd, recorded children carrying out sex acts An aspiring barrister has been jailed for 10 years after recording more than 150 children carrying out sex acts he told them to perform.Owain Thomas, 29, from south Wales, targeted children between the ages of nine and 16 on the internet, paying some with online game currency to encourage them to co-operate with his demands to perform indecent acts. Continue reading...
  
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• Boorish sex tourists are ruining Amsterdam. It’s time to ship them out | Senay Boztas

  05-07-2019 16:20
  Any charm the city’s red-light district once had has been trampled by a flood of leering visitors. But change is comingAs I battled a pushchair across the unhelpful Amsterdam cobbles, three young Englishmen approached. “Where’s the red-light district?” they asked this bleary-eyed, breastfeeding mother. I thought about directing them straight into a cold canal, but politely waved in the direction of what the Dutch call De Wallen. Related: Amsterdam mayor under fire for red
  
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