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• Labour Account 'Hacked' As Rogue Tweet Says Party Is 'Institutionally Racist'

  10-07-2019 23:58
  The Labour Party's press team says its Twitter account was "hacked" after amessage was posted accusing the party of being "institutionally racist"
  
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• Woolwich Stabbing: Man In His 20s Dies After Being Stabbed Repeatedly In Broad Daylight In South London

  10-07-2019 23:06
  A man has died after being stabbed in broad daylight in south east London, theMetropolitan Police has said
  
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• Hammond makes clear he won’t serve with Johnson as he delivers Brexit warning

  10-07-2019 22:57
  Chancellor indicates he will be a backbench 'nightmare' over a no deal Brexit.
  
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• Man arrested after scaling Buckingham Palace’s front gates

  10-07-2019 22:53
  The man tried to gain entry to the palace at around 2am, according to the Metropolitan Police.
  
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• Buckingham Palace: Man, 22, Arrested After Climbing Front Gates At 2am

  10-07-2019 22:43
  A 22-year-old man was arrested after he climbed over the front gates ofBuckingham Palace in the middle of the night, Scotland Yard said
  
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• Guns could be used in violence if bonfire material removed, police warn

  10-07-2019 22:29
  The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) opposes the local council's proposed clearance operation at its site over trespass concerns.
  
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• Medical examinations for peers called for to help combat harassment

  10-07-2019 22:22
  Staff have suggested that health problems such as dementia could be contributing to the behaviour of some peers.
  
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• ‘MuRena’ dream ends on disappointing day for Britons at Wimbledon

  10-07-2019 21:57
  Serena Williams and Sir Andy Murray exited the mixed doubles at the third-round stage.
  
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• France likely to use border checks as 'political tool' after no-deal Brexit - Hammond

  10-07-2019 21:50
  France is likely to threaten delays on its border with Britain to exert political leverage if there is a no-deal Brexit, British finance minister Philip Hammond said on Wednesday.Hammond, who has repeatedly called on fellow Conservatives to rule out leaving the European Union without a transition deal to smooth border arrangements and other issues, repeated his view that a no-deal Brexit would cause major economic damage.A high proportion of British exports and imports to and from the rest of Eu
  
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• Footballer Daniel Sturridge’s joy as his stolen dog is returned

  10-07-2019 21:13
  Foster Washington said his nephew found Lucci and brought him to his car in South Los Angeles.
  
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• Gatwick suspends flights for two hours over control tower problem

  10-07-2019 21:04
  Gatwick airport officials said they were working towards resuming flights ‘as soon as possible’. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PAGatwick airport suspended all inbound and outbound flights for around two hours on Wednesday due to an “air traffic control system issue”.Eight flights into Gatwick, in West Sussex, were cancelled and 26 diverted before operations resumed at 7.10pm and passengers were warned there would be further delays into the evening, with the airport advising the
  
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• Dozens of flights affected after air traffic control problem at Gatwick Airport

  10-07-2019 21:01
  A total of 26 flights had been diverted and eight cancelled.
  
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• Man ‘suffers seizure’ while restrained by police after parking dispute

  10-07-2019 20:55
  The incident happened in Tower Hamlets, east London, on Tuesday.
  
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• Bonfires: Police understood to have issued gun violence warning to councillors

  10-07-2019 20:46
  Menacing graffiti has already been written on a wall near Avoniel Leisure Centre warning against intervention.
  
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• Our man in the US wins scant support from either party leader

  10-07-2019 20:42
  At PMQs neither May nor Corbyn seemed outraged by the resignation of Kim Darroch as US ambassador. The gaps on the benches grow larger every week as more and more MPs follow their therapists’ advice and steer clear of prime minister’s questions. Yet there is still a hardcore of some 250 or so who can’t resist their weekly self-harm fix. A session guaranteed to leave everyone involved feeling cheapened and no more informed. The irony is that the biggest masochists are the two ma
  
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• Darroch's resignation may have chilling effect on diplomacy, experts warn

  10-07-2019 20:29
  UK ambassador to the US’s departure may prompt ‘very big change’ in how international diplomacy is conducted. The resignation of Sir Kim Darroch as the UK’s ambassador to the US after controversy over leaked memos in which he criticized Donald Trump could have a chilling effect on international diplomacy, experts have warned. Veteran diplomats defended Darroch’s confidential memos – in which he referred to the Trump administration as “incompetent”
  
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• Darroch's resignation may have chilling effect on diplomacy, experts warn

  10-07-2019 20:29
  Sir Kim Darroch in Washington on 20 October 2017.Photograph: Sait Serkan Gurbuz/APThe resignation of Sir Kim Darroch as the UK’s ambassador to the US after controversy over leaked memos in which he criticized Donald Trump could have a chilling effect on international diplomacy, experts have warned.Veteran diplomats defended Darroch’s confidential memos – in which he referred to the Trump administration as “incompetent” and “inept” – as the nature o
  
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• £100bn on HS2 not worth spending to create ‘some jobs in Birmingham’, MP says

  10-07-2019 20:23
  Tory MP Victoria Prentis said there are more cost-effective ways to boost employment in the UK.
  
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• Gatwick Airport suspends all flights after air traffic control issue

  10-07-2019 20:16
  The issue in the airport's control tower triggered the suspension shortly after 5pm on Wednesday.
  
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• Roberto Bautista Agut kisses goodbye to stag do after quarter-final win

  10-07-2019 20:13
  The Spaniard will now face Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon on Friday rather than partying with his friends in Ibiza.
  
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• Labour denies claims senior figures interfered with anti-Semitism complaints

  10-07-2019 20:07
  The party is braced for allegations in a BBC Panorama programme due to air on Wednesday night.
  
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• The global spread of Islamic State

  10-07-2019 20:05
  Sky's foreign affairs editor Deborah Haynes looks at how the threat of Jihadi terrorism is no longer isolated in Syria.
  
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• Trump's rhetoric 'makes journalists vulnerable to abuse', says Amal Clooney

  10-07-2019 20:04
  Lawyer criticises US president at media freedom conference alongside Jeremy Hunt. The lawyer Amal Clooney has joined the foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, in criticising Donald Trump’s attacks on the media, saying the US president has emboldened individuals who wish to persecute journalists. “The country of James Madison has a leader today who vilifies the media, making honest journalists all over the world more vulnerable to abuse,” said Clooney, referencing the former president
  
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• Gatwick airport halts all flights due to control tower problem

  10-07-2019 20:02
  Flights were suspended at 5pm because of ‘air traffic control system issue’. Gatwich airport suspended all inbound and outbound flights for around two hours on Wednesday due to an “air traffic control system issue” in its control tower. Eight flights into Gatwick were cancelled and 26 diverted before operations resumed at 7.10pm and passengers were warned there would be further delays into the evening, with the airport advising them to check with their airlines. Traveller
  
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• Inquiry begins after police filmed pinning down man ‘having a fit’

  10-07-2019 20:01
  Three police officers are under investigation after they were filmed striking a man and pinning him down while he appeared to be having a seizure during a traffic stop.The incident took place at about 5.30pm on a residential street in Poplar, east London, when police told the man of Moroccan origin to move his car, which had a blue badge, from a single yellow line.In video filmed by onlookers as officers wrestle him to the ground, one appears to be kneeing him and another can then be clearly see
  
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• Mystery of sex change in fish unlocked, scientists say

  10-07-2019 20:00
  Around 500 species like clownfish made famous by Finding Nemo and the Caribbean bluehead wrasse, routinely change their sex in adulthood.
  
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• London’s climate could be more like Barcelona’s by 2050, study suggests

  10-07-2019 20:00
  Pairing up cities can help people visualise the impacts of climate change, such as the risk of the kind of severe drought that hit Barcelona in 2008.
  
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• Fossilised skulls provide earliest known evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia

  10-07-2019 20:00
  The specimens discovered in the Apidima Caves in Greece suggest modern humans may have existed in the area 150,000 years earlier than thought.
  
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• Revealed: Corbyn's Online Fightback In Response To BBC Panorama Anti-Semitism Special

  10-07-2019 19:56
  The advice - drafted by his most senior aides - stresses that supportersshould not interact with "trolls" and should stress that anti-Semitism is "avery very real and serious problem in Labour"
  
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• Revealed: Corbyn's Online Fightback In Response To BBC Panorama Anti-Semitism Special

  10-07-2019 19:56
  "Jeremy Corbyn is not an Antisemite
  
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• Gatwick Airport Resumes Flights Following Problem With Air Traffic Control

  10-07-2019 19:48
  Gatwick Airport has announced that flights have resumed following an earlierissue in its control tower
  
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• House of Lords staff too scared to complain about harassment

  10-07-2019 19:36
  One in five upper house staff members have experienced bullying or harassment, report says. Peers have overseen a culture of harassment and bullying in the House of Lords which has been hidden because staff fear reprisals, according to an official report released on Wednesday. One in five members of staff in the upper house say they have experienced bullying or harassment, a seven month inquiry conducted by Naomi Ellenbogen QC has discovered. Recommendations for the House of Lords include the in
  
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• Vicar tells abuse inquiry archbishops ‘not fit for office’

  10-07-2019 19:31
  The Rev Matthew Ineson gave evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse investigation into the Anglican Church.
  
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• 7 Revelations From The House Of Lords Report On Bullying And Harassment

  10-07-2019 19:31
  Peers have been guilty of bullying and harassment of House of Lords staff, awide-ranging new report into parliament's unelected chamber has found
  
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• Home Office 'not that bothered' over English tests scandal, MP says

  10-07-2019 19:28
  The Home Office accused more than 30,000 international students of cheating in the test. Photograph: Yui Mok/PAThe home secretary, Sajid Javid, feels “real concern” about the fate of international students who say they were wrongly accused by his department of cheating in an English language test and is considering whether more can be done to help them, MPs have been told.But senior Home Office civil servants were accused of being “insufficiently curious” and “basic
  
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• What the European Union has done for us

  10-07-2019 19:27
  Rory Palmer MEP, Louise Ellman MP, Simon Sweeney, Mike Tomlinson, Dan Levy and John D Walsh respond to an article by David Conn about EU funding for the UK’s regions. David Conn presents an accurate and fair appraisal of the shortcomings in highlighting the practical benefits to the UK’s regions of EU membership ( What has the EU done for us? We still don’t have an answer, 10 July). I know from experience that it was not for want of trying. In the event of a further referendum
  
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• From Cori Gauff to Greta Thunberg, children show adult snowflakes the way

  10-07-2019 19:27
  Readers Emilie Lamplough and Dr Helen Care welcome recent articles stressing the positive contributions teenagers are making to society. What a positive piece by Margaret Rooke ( Cori Gauff isn’t the only fantastic teen, 8 July). It’s sad the way society scoffs at teenagers and rather strange how adults are becoming increasingly frightened of them. The modern British teenager is a very different animal to the one earlier generations recognise from their own misspent youth and, becaus
  
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• Conservatives are economical with the truth over UK debt

  10-07-2019 19:25
  The national debt has gone up, not down, under the Tories, writes John Elgar. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PAIt is a commonplace of today’s political debate that the Conservative government (with the help of its coalition partners and other supporters) has reduced the national debt. Such statements are widely believed, and always go unchallenged. They play an important part in supporting the imagined economic competence of the Conservatives when compared with previous Labour governments. B
  
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• Whitehall dismay as Darroch forced out of Washington post

  10-07-2019 19:21
  Senior civil servants have warned of a 'disturbing pattern' of top officials forced to quit after attacks by MPs and the media.
  
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• Pat McCormick’s body found in lake by murder probe police

  10-07-2019 19:08
  His body was found in a lake in the Ballygowan area on Tuesday afternoon.
  
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• Amal Clooney: Trump making honest journalists more vulnerable to abuse

  10-07-2019 18:56
  The human rights lawyer has championed the benefits of a free press.
  
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• England have the chance to make history but Australia stand in the way - The Guardian

  10-07-2019 18:53 via theguardian.com
  England have the chance to make history but Australia stand in the way  The GuardianThe host nation are bidding to reach their first World Cup final since 1992 but must overcome a relaxed Australia.View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Jazz musician Gary Crosby awarded Queen’s Medal for Music

  10-07-2019 18:51
  The Queen presented Crosby with the award.
  
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• Harry and William duke it out in charity polo match watched by their families

  10-07-2019 18:47
  The match will help raise funds for charities supported by the royals.
  
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• Next six months could be Scotland’s toughest, Sturgeon warns

  10-07-2019 18:40
  The First Minister said Westminster is 'crumbling' and Scotland 'must have an alternative choice'.
  
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• US women's soccer team victory parade – in pictures

  10-07-2019 18:32
  Fresh from their fourth World Cup triumph, the team have been honoured by a traditional ticker-tape parade in New York Continue reading...
  
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• Labour bosses accused of undermining fight against antisemitism

  10-07-2019 18:23
  Former officials tell BBC Panorama that top aides interfered in investigations. Eight whistleblowers have said how they felt consistently undermined by senior Labour bosses in their attempts to tackle antisemitism, alleging consistent interference in complaints and claiming that one key aide mocked their efforts. Four of the whistleblowers, including the former Labour general secretary Iain McNicol, who left his post last year, have broken non-disclosure agreements to come forward. Speaking to t
  
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• Jury retires in trial of Irish businessman accused of having disguised stun gun

  10-07-2019 18:17
  Thomas Kavanagh was arrested by National Crime Agency officers at Birmingham Airport.
  
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• Dispute led to eight deaths in petrol bomb attack on home, court hears

  10-07-2019 18:15
  Shahid Mohammed denies eight counts of murder and a single count of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life.
  
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• Cambridgeshire zoo keeper’s tiger mauling death an accident, inquest concludes

  10-07-2019 18:08
  Rosa King, 33, was savaged by a Malayan male called Cicip at Hamerton Zoo Park in Cambridgeshire.
  
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