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• Brexit means a 'better deal' for farmers, PM Johnson tells Wales

  29-07-2019 23:33
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell Welsh farmers on Tuesday they will get a better deal after Brexit, part of a countrywide tour to win support for his "do or die" pledge to leave the European Union by Oct. 31.Just days after taking office as prime minister, Johnson kicked off the domestic tour, underlining his desire to win Britain over rather than courting EU leaders to try to persuade them to change their minds on a divorce deal he says is dead."I will always back Britain's great farmers
  
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• Nigel Farage takes down caller who prefers Juncker leading UK in fiery clash –'Surrender!'

  29-07-2019 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  NIGEL FARAGE fiercely clashed with a radio caller who claimed to prefer the European Commission to decide on his life rather than the UK Government despite having voted for Brexit in the 2016 EU referendum.
  
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• Labour Claims Fracking Will Make Net-Zero By 2050 Impossible

  29-07-2019 23:30
  Jeremy Corbyn has urged Boris Johnson to ban fracking ahead of joiningprotesters opposed to the controversial process of gas extraction
  
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• Alastair Campbell says he no longer wishes to be a Labour member

  29-07-2019 23:30
  Alastair Campbell says he fears the country has already decided the country does not want Corbyn as PM. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PAAlastair Campbell, the former No 10 director of communications under Tony Blair, has said he no longer wishes to be a Labour member, warning that Jeremy Corbyn is poised to lose the next election against Boris Johnson and destroy the party “as a political force capable of winning power”.Campbell had planned to fight his expulsion from Labour for revea
  
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• 'Dangerous' UK government intent on forcing no deal, says Sturgeon

  29-07-2019 22:07
  Boris Johnson has been accused by Nicola Sturgeon of intentionally pushing the UK towards a no-deal Brexit, despite his “bluff and bluster” about wanting an agreement with EU leaders.After meeting Johnson face-to-face in Edinburgh, the Scottish first minister said she believed he was pursuing a “dangerous” hardline strategy with EU leaders, with the likely outcome of no-deal Brexit.She made the accusation on a day of chaos over the new prime minister’s Brexit strate
  
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• Water park closed after children suffer ‘severe diarrhoea and projectile vomiting’

  29-07-2019 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  A FAMILY-FRIENDLY theme park has closed its water activity area after children became “violently sick” after visiting the Leicestershire attraction.
  
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• No deal to revive Stormont without equal marriage, O’Neill tells Pride event

  29-07-2019 21:52
  Same-sex marriage is among the issues over which Sinn Fein and the DUP have failed to reach agreement.
  
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• Davidson: I don't support a no-deal Brexit

  29-07-2019 21:30
  Davidson: I don't support a no-deal Brexit
  
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• Sinn Féin raises fears over proposed amnesty for British soldiers

  29-07-2019 21:07
  Appointment of new minister prompts concerns about troops who served in Northern Ireland. Johnny Mercer’s appointment as minister for veterans has prompted Sinn Féin to voice concern that a Boris Johnson-led government would extend a proposed amnesty from prosecution for ex-soldiers to cover those who served in Northern Ireland. Initial briefings suggested the new prime minister had told Mercer – who has campaigned for the amnesty to be extended to cover the Troubles – i
  
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• Study reveals how bacteria beat immune systems

  29-07-2019 21:00
  The evolution of more severe infections is not necessarily driven by pathogens increasing the speed at which they multiply, scientists say.
  
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• Parents who believe in showing children who is boss ‘may be on right track’

  29-07-2019 21:00
  Toddlers aged 17 months expect leaders to step up when a member of their group breaks the rules, research suggests.
  
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• UK demands Iran releases British vessel - ‘Come out of the dark!’

  29-07-2019 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  DOMINIC Raab has demanded Iran release its UK-flagged Stena Impero oil tanker and ordered Tehran to follow international rules after the vessel was seized by Middle Eastern forces in the Gulf.
  
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• What Vote Leave leaders really said about no-deal Brexit

  29-07-2019 20:18
  Dominic Raab speaks at a Vote Leave campaign event in London on 8 June 2016. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/Rex/ShutterstockIt was a contentious suggestion – but the new foreign secretary, Dominic Raab was adamant. During an interview on BBC’s Today programme, he seemed to say the 2016 referendum result gave a mandate for a no-deal Brexit.In a testy exchange, he insisted it was made “clear” by “those on the campaign” that “we should strive for a good deal, b
  
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• Eugenie is not pregnant – Duchess of York quashes grandmother-to-be rumours

  29-07-2019 20:18
  Sarah told a gathering in the US that she wasn't due to be a grandmother yet.
  
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• Counter-terrorism probe after chemicals, fake gun and grenades found in home

  29-07-2019 20:11
  A 59-year-old man has been arrested after the discovery during a police raid in Lowestoft.
  
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• Johnson secretly pursuing dangerous no-deal Brexit, Nicola Sturgeon says

  29-07-2019 20:06
  The Scottish First Minister and new Prime Minister met for talks in Edinburgh.
  
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• Cruel benefits system MUST be changed so the dying don't suffer

  29-07-2019 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  DOWNTON Abbey star Jim Carter is today calling on Daily Express readers to join the battle for terminally ill people to get quick access to benefits.
  
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• Workers at under-threat Belfast shipyard ask for meeting with PM

  29-07-2019 20:00
  Trade unionists fear a yard which built the doomed Titanic liner and helped define the city's industrial past could close as early as this week.
  
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• Met Office confirms new UK record temperature of 38.7C

  29-07-2019 19:41
  People enjoying the River Cam in Cambridge last Thursday, now the hottest UK day on record. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty ImagesThe highest temperature ever recorded in the UK – 38.7C – has been confirmed by the Met Office.The measurement, taken at Cambridge Botanic Garden last Thursday, was subject to quality control and analysis by meteorologists over the weekend. The previous record of 38.5C was recorded in Faversham, Kent, in August 2003.The recording was taken at a Met Office clim
  
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• Pound Tumbles To New Two-Year Low Against The Dollar As No-Deal Brexit Fears Grow

  29-07-2019 19:32
  The pound has tumbled against the US dollar to a new two-year low as currencytraders reacted to the increased likelihood of Boris Johnson's new governmenttoughens its language on a no-deal Brexit
  
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• 'EU gone AWOL' Ex-Royal Navy chief attacks 'appalling' response to Iran tanker standoff

  29-07-2019 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  FORMER Royal Navy officer Chris Parry attacked Theresa May's response to the Iran tanker standoff as he claimed the approach failed to convince both the European Union and the US to support the UK in the counter-attack.
  
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• Paula Williamson, the actress who married Charles Bronson, found dead aged 38

  29-07-2019 19:29
  Staffordshire Police said she was found at a house in Stoke-on-Trent on Monday.
  
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• Michelle Obama tells Meghan to ‘savour’ start of motherhood

  29-07-2019 19:12
  The former first lady was interviewed by the Duchess of Sussex for fashion bible British Vogue.
  
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• Boris Johnson is more demagogue than demigod

  29-07-2019 19:05
  A more realistic and modest model for Johnson can be found in the figure of Harold Macmillan, writes Paul McGilchrist. Photograph: WPA Pool/Getty ImagesSimon Jenkins’ portrait of Boris Johnson as a failed Athenian leader is diverting (Is there a Greek hero in No 10, or just a bust?, 27 July). Unfortunately, Jenkins’ forensic demolition of the man still manages to flatter him by taking his classical pretensions seriously. A more relevant and prosaic model for Johnson can be found much
  
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• Call for change to assisted dying law

  29-07-2019 19:02
  The late Debbie Purdy with her husband, Omar Puente, who is one of the signatories to this letter. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PAWe represent a diverse range of perspectives from across British society, including those who have accompanied loved ones abroad for an assisted death. We all agree that the right to choose how we die is a fundamental human right, and that those who are either terminally ill or facing incurable suffering should have the option of a peaceful, painless, and dignified death.I
  
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• Shana Grice: Ex-officer defends decision to fine teenager for time wasting

  29-07-2019 19:01
  Ms Grice was issued with a fixed penalty notice after she complained about being harassed by ex-partner Michael Lane.
  
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• 'Boris not bluffing' Anna Soubry admits Prime Minister's Brexit plans are real deal for UK

  29-07-2019 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  ANNA SOUBRY was forced to admit Boris Johnson is unlikely to be "bluffing" on his commitment to deliver on the Brexit referendum vote "deal or no deal".
  
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• New temperature record set for UK in heatwave, Met Office confirms

  29-07-2019 18:48
  A temperature of 38.7C was recorded at Cambridge University Botanic Garden on Thursday.
  
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• Missing the churchgoing Theresa May already

  29-07-2019 18:43
  Jacob Rees-Mogg reveals his own poor grasp of English in some of the language rules sent to his staff, says Cherry Weston. Photograph: Hannah McKay/ReutersThe excellent obituary of Bryan Marshall (25 July) failed to mention his episode of Granada TV’s A Family at War. I had a few lines in the episode where he played a Polish soldier called Stashek; he was brilliant but it says something about this country that he had to go to Australia for work. The list goes on; Del Henney died this year
  
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• Workers in protest at under-threat Belfast shipyard

  29-07-2019 18:39
  Trade unionists fear a yard which built the doomed Titanic liner and helped define the city's industrial past could close as early as this week.
  
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• New PM criticised for ‘snubbing’ Leo Varadkar

  29-07-2019 18:39
  It comes amid heightened tensions between the UK and Irish governments over the Brexit stand-off.
  
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• Brexiteer Bone trounces Remainers' hopes of 'hijacking' Boris - 'It's going to be no deal'

  29-07-2019 18:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  CONSERVATIVE MP Peter Bone claimed the possibility of Remainers in the House of Commons succeeding in their attempts to stop a no deal Brexit scenario is "very, very unlikely" as he outlined the limited tools left to "hijack" Boris Johnson's plan.
  
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• Record-high temperature of 38.7C reached on July 25 - weather service

  29-07-2019 18:32
  Britain recorded its highest-ever temperature of 38.7 Celsius (101.7 Fahrenheit) in Cambridge on July 25, the country's national weather service said on Monday, confirming an earlier provisional reading.The temperature was recorded at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, beating a previous record high of 38.5 Celsius from August 2003.The Met Office, a government weather forecasting agency, provisionally announced the result on Friday and said on Monday that it had now been officially validated.
  
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• Emmerdale actor ‘bit man after row in beer garden about daughter’

  29-07-2019 18:29
  Mark Jordon, who plays Daz Spencer in the Yorkshire-based soap, denies the charges.
  
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• Boris Johnson to see Brexit 'disintegrate' if key strategy plays out, Lord Adonis claims

  29-07-2019 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  BORIS JOHNSON will cause Brexit to "disintegrate" unless he ensures the "escalating crisis" he has brought forward is resolved in a deal, Remainer activist Lord Adonis has claimed.
  
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• Arrest made after woman shouted homophobic abuse during Pride march

  29-07-2019 18:09
  Footage posted on social media showed a woman wearing a black niqab repeatedly shouting 'shame on you' at participants.
  
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• Former Coronation Street actor Paula Williamson dies aged 38

  29-07-2019 18:08
  Paula Williamson. Staffordshire police said her death was not being treated as suspicious. Photograph: Staffordshire Police/PAPaula Williamson, the former Emmerdale and Coronation Street actor who married the notorious prisoner Charles Bronson, has died aged 38.Williamson was found dead at an address in Sneyd Green in Stoke-on-Trent on Monday morning, Staffordshire police said. Her death is not being treated as suspicious.The actor married Bronson in a prison chapel in 2017. He had proposed to h
  
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• Pound hits new two-year low as no-deal Brexit rhetoric hardens

  29-07-2019 18:01
  Investors are concerned that the Government is getting closer to a no-deal Brexit, which they believe will hit the UK economy and the pound.
  
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• Grenfell Tower bonfire model ‘an artistic effort’

  29-07-2019 18:01
  Westminster Magistrates Court heard that the joke is protected by the right to freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights.
  
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• Man arrested in Suffolk after grenades and chemicals found

  29-07-2019 17:55
  Police made the discovery on Sunday afternoon while executing an arrest warrant.Photograph: Peter Byrne/PAA man has been arrested on suspicion of a terrorism offence after two military grenades, a gun and chemicals were found at a house in Suffolk. Officers from Suffolk constabulary made the discovery on Sunday afternoon while executing an arrest warrant at a property in Lowestoft.A 59-year-old man was initially arrested on Sunday on suspicion of a firearms offence before being further arrested
  
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• Boris's 'ideal Brexit scenario' outlined by pollster John Curtice - 'Farage must accept'

  29-07-2019 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  BORIS JOHNSON may only have one chance to save himself from losing a general election in the event Remainer MPs in Parliament win a no confidence vote against the Prime Minister to stop no deal Brexit, polling guru John Curtice has claimed.
  
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• Boris Johnson sees ‘no reason’ for Scotland holding second independence vote

  29-07-2019 17:50
  The new Prime Minister spoke out on his first visit north of the border since taking over from Theresa May.
  
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• Paula Williamson, actress and wife of Charles Bronson, found dead aged 38

  29-07-2019 17:48
  Staffordshire Police said she was found at a house in Stoke-on-Trent on Monday.
  
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• Meghan reveals apprehension at asking to guest edit British Vogue

  29-07-2019 17:37
  The duchess declined to be the cover star of the famous fashion bible.
  
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• Iran issues footage of warning to warship crew: ‘Don’t put your life in danger’

  29-07-2019 17:35
  The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has released footage of incidents in the Strait of Hormuz.
  
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• Woodford investor suspension extended until December – and charges still apply

  29-07-2019 17:28
  Investors will not be allowed to retrieve their cash in Woodford Equity Income Fund until bosses sell off investments in unlisted firms.
  
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• Injured veteran ‘very proud’ to travel to roof of historic mansion

  29-07-2019 17:21
  Ben Parkinson said: 'Out of everyone they could have asked, they asked me.'
  
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• Brussels blasted over 'unhelpful stance' on Brexit deal - 'Something's got to move'

  29-07-2019 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE European Union was accused of holding an "unhelpful stance" towards demands from the British Government to rediscuss the terms of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, with Labour donor John Mills warning the bloc "there must be movement" if they want a deal.
  
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• ‘War cabinet’ and committees to focus on Brexit and no-deal preparations

  29-07-2019 17:09
  The six-strong all-male Exit Strategy Committee - known as XS - will meet twice a week as Boris Johnson steps up planning for a no-deal scenario.
  
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• New technology could help farmers detect plant diseases using smartphones

  29-07-2019 17:00
  It currently takes 'days or weeks' to diagnose diseases in crops, according to North Carolina State University.
  
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