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• Drill rapper Unknown T charged with murder

  16-07-2019 23:24
  The London artist has collaborated with AJ Tracey and appeared on stage with US rapper Drake.
  
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• Boris Johnson Should Have Given UK's Ambassador 'Ringing Endorsement' In Trump Row, Ex-Diplomat Says

  16-07-2019 22:16
  Boris Johnson should have given a "ringing endorsement" of Britain'sambassador to the US after his criticism of Donald Trump, a senior formerdiplomat has suggested
  
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• MEPs back von der Leyen as first woman head of European Commission

  16-07-2019 22:04
  The tight vote came after the German politician suggested Brexit could be extended past October if there is a good reason.
  
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• Next Tory leader will have to compromise on Brexit – Rudd

  16-07-2019 21:50
  Boris Johnson's team has played down reports he could suspend Parliament.
  
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• Labour peers tell Corbyn: you have failed test of leadership

  16-07-2019 21:42
  Labour peers have taken out an advert in the Guardian addressed to Jeremy Corbyn.Photograph: Peter Nicholls/ReutersMore than sixty Labour peers have taken out an advertisement accusing Jeremy Corbyn of having “failed the test of leadership” over his handling of antisemitism complaints within the party.The peers, including more than a dozen former ministers such as Peter Hain, Beverley Hughes and John Reid, have addressed the advert in the Guardian to Corbyn directly, saying: “T
  
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• Man due in court over missing mother

  16-07-2019 21:33
  Patricia Henry has not been seen since November 2017.
  
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• The Gove-Johnson love affair is back on – for a month or two, anyway

  16-07-2019 20:19
  Michael Gove and Boris Johnson shared the Vote Leave love-nest in 2016 but soon fell out. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesMost insiders give it a month, two at the outside, before the divorce lawyers are called in. But for now the on-off-off-off relationship between Michael Gove and Boris Johnson is very much back on.Never mind that Mikey had such serious reservations about Boris after sharing the Vote Leave love-nest bus during the referendum that he chose to resign as his campaign
  
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• ‘I had one thought and that was people’s lives needed to be saved’

  16-07-2019 20:02
  A police officer described how he acted to stop one of the London Bridge terrorists from detonating a bomb.
  
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• Exclusive: 10 Labour MPs 'Ready To Back No-Deal Rather Than No Brexit At All'

  16-07-2019 19:58
  As many as ten Labour MPs are ready to back no-deal over no Brexit at all,Jeremy Corbyn's ex-frontbencher Emma Lewell-Buck has said
  
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• One giant treat for mankind: Moon landing recreated in chocolate

  16-07-2019 19:22
  The model was fashioned at Cadbury World in Bournville, Birmingham.
  
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• Labour’s NEC urged to auto-exclude members where irrefutable evidence of racism

  16-07-2019 19:22
  Tom Watson, the party’s deputy leader, was among five members of the National Executive Committee who submitted the motion to the chair of the NEC.
  
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• Estate condemns hen harrier death in ‘illegal trap’

  16-07-2019 19:20
  Leadhills Estate says it has reported suspicious activity to police.
  
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• Senior officers hail ‘tremendous’ bravery in face of London Bridge attackers

  16-07-2019 19:17
  Cressida Dick spoke outside the Old Bailey after a jury found Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba were lawfully killed.
  
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• Mother of seriously ill five-year-old girl wants daughter to be ‘given time’

  16-07-2019 19:14
  The family of Tafida Raqeeb are fighting a legal battle over her treatment after doctors said it is her best interests to be allowed to die.
  
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• Boris Johnson 'ignored expert advice' over £1bn mayoral vanity projects

  16-07-2019 19:04
  No 10 frontrunner defied senior officials over doomed projects including Routemaster and garden bridge. Boris Johnson has been accused of repeatedly ignoring expert advice on the viability of his so-called vanity projects as London mayor, leaving tax payers with a bill of nearly £1bn and rising. Some of those who worked closely with Johnson as mayor, including fellow Conservatives, told the Guardian that he defied senior officials over a string of profligate projects and resisted being hel
  
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• Tom Watson backs Labour motion to auto-exclude members accused of racism

  16-07-2019 18:58
  Tom Watson backs the motion that will radically overhaul the party’s complaints process. Photograph: Toby Melville/ReutersTom Watson and four members of Labour’s governing body have backed a new motion which would auto-exclude members accused of racism or other forms of discrimination – a radical overhaul of the party’s complaints process.The auto-exclusion would apply where there is “irrefutable evidence” of discrimination and would be overseen by an independ
  
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• Clear glass solar panels ‘could charge mobile phones and electric cars’

  16-07-2019 18:52
  A working model of the glass has been created to show the viability of the process, but it now needs to be refined.
  
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• The Open ‘switch has flicked’ as tourists flock to Portrush

  16-07-2019 18:46
  Golf fans and tourists from around the world have converged on Portrush to enjoy the buzz as The Open returns for the first time in over 60 years.
  
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• London Bridge attack: police lawfully killed terrorists, inquest finds

  16-07-2019 18:45
  Police officers at the scene of London Bridge attack in June 2017. Photograph: Daniel Sorabji/AFP/Getty ImagesThe three terrorists whose rampage left eight people dead at London Bridge were lawfully shot dead by armed police officers after they ignored clear warning shouts, an inquest jury has found.During the June 2017 attack the men first ran over pedestrians on London Bridge, then stabbed Saturday night revellers in 10 minutes of carnage.It ended only after armed officers who rushed to the sc
  
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• Scotland has highest drug-related death rate in EU

  16-07-2019 18:42
  Scotland had the highest drug-related death rate in the European Union in 2018, with the likes of heroin, methadone and cocainekilling at almost three times the rate of the United Kingdom as a whole.A report published by National Records of Scotland on Tuesday said a record 1,187 people died from drugs in 2018, up 27% on the year before, giving a rate of 213 per million.Dr Saket Priyadarshi, a medical director for addictions in Scotland, told a parliamentary committee last month that Scottish dr
  
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• Robots may reach the moon before humans return to it suggests NASA project - Euronews

  16-07-2019 18:41 via euronews.com
  Robots may reach the moon before humans return to it suggests NASA project  EuronewsA NASA sponsored lab in Colorado, USA, is aiming to send robots to the moon to construct telescopes capable of looking back in time.View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Beware Boris Johnson’s lust for the limelight and power

  16-07-2019 18:41
  Boris Johnson, with his Factfinder book on the shelf. Photograph: Neville Elder/Corbis/Getty ImagesPerhaps those Conservatives who are voting for a prospective prime minister and Brexit negotiator should seriously consider their positions in view of Boris Johnson’s background, which seems to have formed his unreliable and quite worrying character (‘He was the paramount of exaggeration and distortion and lies. He was a clown’, 15 July). In 1989 Lord Hanney, Britain’s ambas
  
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• Research shines light on why women more likely to develop Alzheimer's

  16-07-2019 18:39
  PET scan results that are part of a study on Alzheimer’s disease at a hospital in Washington.Photograph: Evan Vucci/APThe reason women appear to be at greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease than men might be due to a number of genetic, anatomical and even social influences, researchers have suggested.Recent figures show about 65% of those with living with dementia in the UK are women, with a similar statistic seen in the US for Alzheimer’s disease, while dementia is the
  
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• Boris Johnson And Theresa May Warned About Brexit's Biggest Problem In 2016

  16-07-2019 18:32
  Boris Johnson and Theresa May were warned three years ago they were makingimpossible promises on the Irish border that could now trigger a no-dealBrexit
  
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• Boris Johnson’s team plays down reports he could suspend Parliament

  16-07-2019 18:25
  A source close to the campaign told PA the team was 'discussing everything as an option'.
  
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• Were Trump's racist tweets racist? Some news outlets won't say

  16-07-2019 18:23
  Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday he did not have a racist bone in his body. Photograph: Rex/ShutterstockWhen Donald Trump launched his extraordinary attack on a group of minority ethnic Democratic congresswomen, urging them to “go back” to the “totally broken and crime-infested places” from which they supposedly came, he played on a racist trope.The women – Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley – said Trump’s remarks were
  
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• Boris Johnson's failed vanity projects as London mayor – video

  16-07-2019 18:10
  From sweatbox buses to a novelty 'dangleway' and fantasy bridges that never saw a brick laid. Boris Johnson’s design legacy in London left the taxpayer with a bill of more than £940m after his eight years as mayor. The Guardian's design and architecture critic, Oliver Wainwright, takes a tour of the worst monuments to Johnson's ego etched across the capital. He finds out what they really cost us then and how much we are still paying for them now Continue reading...
  
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• Iran’s supreme leader promises response to seizure of Grace 1 tanker

  16-07-2019 18:09
  The UK said escalation of tensions in the Gulf was not in anyone's interests after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's threat.
  
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• Briton one step closer to walking on the moon with Nasa and UK Space Agency deal

  16-07-2019 17:58
  The statement of intent paves the way for UK commercial satellite communication and navigation services to be used by future Nasa missions.
  
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• I'd take no deal over no Brexit, says Labour's Sarah Champion

  16-07-2019 17:35
  Former shadow minister says she cannot support Labour becoming a remain party. The former shadow cabinet minister Sarah Champion has said she would “take no deal” over remaining in the EU, arguing that Labour had to deliver the result of the referendum. MPs close to Boris Johnson have suggested they believe his administration could secure enough Labour votes to pass a new version of a Brexit deal, after Jeremy Corbyn said Labour would campaign for remain in a second referendum. Champ
  
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• Pound slumps to two-year lows as no-deal Brexit looms into view

  16-07-2019 17:34
  Traders are concerned that a no-deal Brexit is more likely, after both Conservative leadership candidates toughened their positions.
  
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• Finance firms sign code in bid to support women-led start-ups

  16-07-2019 17:30
  The initiative aims to close the gap between male and female entrepreneurs.
  
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• IMF managing director Christine Lagarde resigns

  16-07-2019 17:27
  The process to appoint a successor will now begin.
  
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• Religious order admits ‘framework’ allowed abuse of children in care

  16-07-2019 17:23
  The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry was hearing closing statements into its investigation of the Christian Brothers' residential institutions.
  
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• Yousef Makki's family say they were treated 'like criminals' at trial

  16-07-2019 17:17
  Sister of fatally stabbed teenager says they feel ‘let down’ after not guilty verdict. The family of an aspiring heart surgeon who was fatally stabbed have said they were treated “like criminals” by the courts and feel “let down” by the prosecution after a teenager was cleared of his murder. Yousef Makki, 17, died from a single stab wound to the heart following an argument with a friend, known as Boy A, in an upmarket suburb of Cheshire on 2 March. Boy A, 17,
  
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• One in 25 UK workers now aged 65 and over

  16-07-2019 17:11
  It is the first time the proportion of employees 65 and over has passed 4%.
  
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• Pub with longest name in UK reopens next to pub with shortest

  16-07-2019 17:01
  Stalybridge pub is called the Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn. It might not trip off the tongue after a pint or two but punters in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, can now choose to drink in the pub with the country’s longest name – and then pop two doors down to the pub with the shortest. The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn has reopened after closing three years ago. Referred to by locals as the Rifleman for short, it received
  
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• 'You pay for it, chum': Johnson's struggle to save his garden bridge

  16-07-2019 17:00
  Joanna Lumley with Boris Johnson. ‘Please say yes,’ she wrote to him, asking for support for the bridge idea. Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex/ShutterstockIt was promised as a “tiara on the head of our fabulous city” and “a gift to the people of London” that would be entirely paid for by big business and rich benefactors, but Boris Johnson’s plan for a garden bridge across the Thames cost taxpayers £43m even though the scheme was scrapped long before
  
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• US vice president remembers Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11 anniversary

  16-07-2019 16:54
  Events across the world celebrate 50 years since mankind set off to the moon.
  
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• Children among migrants detained by Border Force in Dover

  16-07-2019 16:34
  A group of up to 38 people were stopped crossing the Channel, a witness said.
  
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• Rocketman unveils latest stage in mission to put tourists into space

  16-07-2019 16:33
  Steven Bennett, managing director of Starchaser Industries, said Nova 2 will blast off next year.
  
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• London Bridge attackers lawfully killed by police, inquest jury concludes

  16-07-2019 16:09
  Chief coroner Mark Lucraft QC had directed the jurors that was the only 'safe' conclusion in the circumstances.
  
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• Michael Gove makes pitch for position in Boris Johnson's cabinet

  16-07-2019 16:07
  Former rival says Johnson would make a ‘great prime minister’ despite backing no deal. Michael Gove has made a pitch to be in Boris Johnson’s cabinet regardless of whether it pursues a no-deal Brexit and has lavished praise on his former bitter rival who stands on the brink of becoming prime minister. Gove set out his view that Johnson and Jeremy Hunt would be “great prime ministers” and claimed “we can trust them both to do the right thing on every critical i
  
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• Michael Gove makes pitch for position in Boris Johnson's cabinet

  16-07-2019 16:07
  Michael Gove, who could press for a new brief if Johnson becomes prime minister. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PAMichael Gove has made a pitch to be in Boris Johnson’s cabinet regardless of whether it pursues a no-deal Brexit and has lavished praise on his former bitter rival who stands on the brink of becoming prime minister.Gove set out his view that Johnson and Jeremy Hunt would be “great prime ministers” and claimed “we can trust them both to do the right thing on every
  
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• Brexit must not distract from bid to tackle climate change, Michael Gove says

  16-07-2019 16:05
  The Environment Secretary made the comments in what could be his last speech in the role.
  
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• Johnson v Hunt: five lessons from the Tory leadership hustings

  16-07-2019 16:03
  Neither of the potential prime ministers has a grasp of detail or a clear vision. Several weeks of Conservative leadership hustings and associated TV shows are now, barring a final event on Wednesday, finally over. So what have we learned about Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt during this electoral marathon? Neither has shown a huge grasp of difficult details Johnson’s broad-brush approach is well known and arguably part of his appeal, and he coasted through most hustings events gaining appla
  
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• Fox eyes 'big prize' of U.S. trade deal, says lots of issues in the way

  16-07-2019 16:03
  The quicker Britain can reach a post-Brexit trade deal with the United States the better but there are a lot of issues in the way of doing so, British trade minister Liam Fox said on Tuesday.The close allies were caught in an escalating spat last week after memos from Britain's ambassador to Washington describing Donald Trump's administration as inept infuriated the president, ultimately leading to the envoy's resignation.Asked whether the row would damage the prospects of a UK-U.S. trade deal,
  
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• Beachgoers enjoy balmy temperatures but showers forecast for weekend

  16-07-2019 15:57
  'Hit and miss' weather is expected on Saturday and Sunday, the Met Office said.
  
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• Firearms surrender to include holiday souvenir stun guns and pepper sprays

  16-07-2019 15:54
  The campaign is being backed by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) and other Government agencies.
  
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• Ministers considering proposals to raise National Lottery age limit to 18

  16-07-2019 15:47
  The move would apply to scratchcards and instant win games online.
  
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