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• Boris Johnson: EU must scrap the backstop to avoid a no-deal Brexit

  30-07-2019 23:52
  After rebuff from Irish taoiseach, PM ready to blame ‘friends across the Channel’. Boris Johnson has said it is up to the EU to compromise to avoid a no-deal Brexit, after his demands for the backstop to be scrapped were met with a flat refusal from the Irish taoiseach, Leo Varadkar. In comments that showed he is preparing to blame the EU if the UK ends up leaving without a deal, Johnson said he was not aiming for a no-deal Brexit but the situation was “very much up to our frie
  
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• Johnson: Stormont Assembly must be restored as soon as possible

  30-07-2019 23:44
  The Prime Minister said he will do 'everything he can' to help the parties reach agreement to revive devolved government.
  
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• Johnson dines with DUP leaders to discuss confidence and supply deal

  30-07-2019 23:41
  The DUP's 10 MPs have propped up the minority Government at Westminster since the 2017 general election.
  
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• PM Johnson heads to Northern Ireland, Brexit's toughest riddle

  30-07-2019 23:36
  Britain's new Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be confronted by the most intractable riddle of Brexit on Wednesday when he visits Northern Ireland on a nationwide tour to sell his plan to pull Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal.A week after he took power, Johnson's office made no mention of Brexit in a statement overnight announcing plans for his visit to the province, the only part of Britain to share a land border with the rest of the EU.Plans for the border have become
  
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• Patel calls for ‘back door’ into end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms

  30-07-2019 23:27
  The Home Secretary was speaking after the Five Eyes security summit in London.
  
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• Boris Johnson Has Been Booed Again

  30-07-2019 23:05
  Johnson was jeered after he emerged from a vehicle outside the Senedd as hebriskly climbed the stairs
  
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• Shana Grice murder: police officer's hearing was a sham, say parents

  30-07-2019 23:02
  Shana Grice was killed at her home in Brighton in August 2016. Photograph: PAThe parents of a woman who was accused of wasting police time five months before she was killed by her ex-boyfriend have denounced disciplinary proceedings against the police officer involved as a sham after he was found not to have committed gross misconduct.A panel sitting in Lewes, East Sussex found Trevor Godfrey failed to adequately investigate Shana Grice’s allegations of harassment and stalking and failed t
  
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• RAF Typhoon jets intercept Russian military aircraft near Estonia

  30-07-2019 22:58
  The British fighters targeted the Russian IL-76 military transport aircraft on Sunday, the Ministry of Defence said.
  
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• MP left with concussion after chair accident

  30-07-2019 22:28
  Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns posted a photo of herself in a neck brace.
  
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• Seesaws on US-Mexico border allow citizens to connect through the wall

  30-07-2019 22:20
  'Actions that take place on one side have a direct consequence on the other side.'
  
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• Prince Harry Speaks Out On 'Unconscious Bias' And Racism In British Vogue Interview

  30-07-2019 22:17
  Prince Harry has addressed the topic of racism in an exclusive British Vogueinterview
  
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• Iranian ambassador: Tanker 'was not going to Syria'

  30-07-2019 22:05
  Hamid Baeidinejad, Iran's ambassador to the UK, declines to reveal where an Iranian tanker was headed before being seized by Royal Marines.
  
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• Coastguard teams rescue stranded walkers 100ft up cliff

  30-07-2019 22:01
  The man and woman climbed Filey Brigg, in North Yorkshire, as they tried to escape the tide.
  
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• Yorkshire pounded by hailstones – and more storms are on the way

  30-07-2019 21:41
  Hail 'the size of sweets' hit North Yorkshire on Tuesday afternoon.
  
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• Johnson adviser said Tories do not care about poor people or NHS

  30-07-2019 21:30
  Exclusive: Dominic Cummings expressed damning views of party in 2017 and now has key role in No 10. Voters are right to think Tory MPs largely do not care about poorer people or the NHS, according to Dominic Cummings in comments that have emerged from two years ago. Boris Johnson’s new senior adviser and a key architect of Brexit gave his damning view on Conservative MPs at a conference in 2017, where he said: “People think, and by the way I think most people are right: ‘The To
  
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• Four Dead In 'Drug-Related Incidents' In 48 Hours Across Essex

  30-07-2019 21:23
  Police are investigating four deaths in two days believed to be linked toillegal drugs
  
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• Home Office spent £268k on deportation flights that never flew

  30-07-2019 20:53
  Protesters supporting the Stansted 15, who stopped a Home Office deportation flight in 2017.Photograph: Kristian Buus/In Pictures/GettyThe Home Office has spent a quarter of a million pounds on charter flights to deport people in the last three months without a single plane leaving the runway in that period, it has been revealed.About 12,000 migrants are forcibly removed from the UK each year with another 20,000 removed through the voluntary returns route. Approximately 2,000 of those forcibly r
  
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• England region plans world-first for climate change teaching

  30-07-2019 20:51
  School strikes have thrust young people to the forefront of climate activism. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImagesA region of northern England plans to become the first place in the world to have a UN-accredited climate change teacher in every state primary and secondary school.Jamie Driscoll, the new mayor of the North of Tyne combined authority, said every school in the area would have the opportunity to train a member of staff to give lessons on global heating and the impact of the climat
  
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• UK calls meeting with US and France to discuss Hormuz plan

  30-07-2019 20:38
  Aim is to create international mission to safeguard shipping through strait near Iran. The UK has invited military representatives of the US, France and other European countries to a meeting in Bahrain on Wednesday in an attempt to create an international mission to safeguard shipping through the strait of Hormuz. Britain hopes it can act as bridge between the US – which has the largest military presence of a western nation in the region – and countries such as Germany, which is relu
  
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• Ex-Pc who accused Shana Grice of wasting police time committed misconduct

  30-07-2019 20:38
  Trevor Godfrey's actions did not, however, amount to gross misconduct and Sussex Police said it was learning lessons about how it deals with stalking.
  
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• Police chief: cuts must be reversed to fix 'social fabric' and stop gangs

  30-07-2019 20:28
  Jon Boutcher says extra police will not help unless impact of Tory austerity is addressed. Austerity-driven cuts that have left disadvantaged children vulnerable to gangs must be reversed to repair Britain’s “social fabric” and reduce crime, a police chief has said. In a damning indictment of the effects of years of austerity on crime, Jon Boutcher, the chief constable of Bedfordshire, called for police to be freed up to focus on hardcore criminals and not victims of social &ld
  
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• ‘Growing concern’ for crew of British-flagged tanker seized by Iran

  30-07-2019 20:20
  The Stena Impero tanker was seized by Iranian forces on July 19 in the Strait of Hormuz.
  
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• Pregnant women with pre-eclampsia ‘at higher risk of kidney failure later’

  30-07-2019 20:00
  Researchers found that those who had pre-eclampsia in at least one pregnancy were nearly five times more likely to have end stage kidney disease.
  
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• Prince Harry speaks out on 'unconscious' racism bias

  30-07-2019 19:32
  Britain's Prince Harry has spoken of the "unconscious bias" of racism, saying some people did not realise their own prejudices and that stigma was handed down from generation to generation.In an interview he conducted with conservationist Jane Goodall for British Vogue magazine, Harry also suggested that he wanted to have only two children with his wife Meghan.The discussion between Harry and Goodall about the impact of upbringing and environment on people's views appears in the September issue
  
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• Driver charged after bus roof ripped off in railway bridge crash

  30-07-2019 19:26
  The incident happened in Fauldhouse, West Lothian, on Tuesday morning.
  
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• Michael Sheen reveals he ‘put it all on the line’ for Homeless World Cup

  30-07-2019 19:12
  The Hollywood actor made a substantial financial donation to ensure the event went ahead.
  
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• Johnson refuses to give details on his no-deal Brexit plans for farming

  30-07-2019 19:01
  PM evasive during Wales visit after being told to ‘stop playing Russian roulette’ with sector. Boris Johnson has declined to give specific detail on how his government would help agriculture in the event of a no-deal Brexit, after farming groups said it would be catastrophic for the sheep and lamb industry. Before his trip to Wales, where he visited a chicken farm near Newport, the prime minister was urged to “stop playing Russian roulette” with farming and warned that le
  
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• Boris Johnson Poses With Chickens As Snap Of His Aide Dressed As Tory-Taunting Bird Emerges

  30-07-2019 18:55
  Boris Johnson has been pictured inspecting chickens in a farm - on the day itwas revealed the prime minister's new head of communications dressed as thebird to mock his Tory colleagues
  
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• Ex-PC committed misconduct over ‘time-wasting’ murder victim, panel finds

  30-07-2019 18:47
  A misconduct panel sitting in Lewes heard the case against Trevor Godfrey who served with Sussex Police.
  
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• Man with Parkinson’s ‘left to crawl through airport on hands and knees’

  30-07-2019 18:44
  Parkinson's UK has branded the treatment of trustee David Allan 'shocking and unacceptable'.
  
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• Boris Johnson clutches chicken after reports spin doctor was Tory-taunting bird

  30-07-2019 18:44
  Lee Cain donned the Daily Mirror's chicken costume to mock David Cameron as Conservative leader.
  
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• Johnson says failure to secure Brexit deal will be EU’s fault

  30-07-2019 18:43
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson was visiting Wales where he promised help for farmers in the event of a 'tricky' no-deal scenario.
  
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• Shana Grice: Former Police Officer Found To Have Committed Misconduct Over Teenager's Murder

  30-07-2019 18:33
  Panel chairwoman Victoria Goodfellow said: "While clearly serious matters,they are not enough to mean gross misconduct
  
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• L'Oreal sales growth slows as North America falters

  30-07-2019 18:29
  Maybelline maker L'Orealon Tuesday posted weaker than expected second-quarter sales growth, with like-for-like revenue falling in North America as demand for make-up slows.L'Oreal, like rivals such as Estee Lauder , continues to benefit from strong demand across Asia, now its biggest market, with appetite for high-end brands particularly strong in China.The French cosmetic group's performance in North America deteriorated in the quarter after a bumpy start to the year, with comparable sales down
  
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• Share your favourite holiday memories for the chance to win a £200 hotel voucher

  30-07-2019 18:22
  Tell us about extraordinary trips, surprises, wonderful excursions, or ones that went wrong … anything that made for a memorable journeyWe would love to hear your holiday memories and mishaps. You might have stayed in an oddball hotel, got hopelessly lost on a walk, got off the ferry at the wrong island, ordered something in a restaurant that was infinitely better, or worse, than what you thought you’d asked for …Or just tell us about one holiday that stands out from all the
  
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• Carl Beech case: police broke the law, says retired high court judge

  30-07-2019 18:16
  Call for criminal investigation after claim officers unlawfully obtained search warrants. Scotland Yard has come under renewed fire over its handling of a £2.5m inquiry into false VIP paedophile ring allegations after a retired high court judge who reviewed the investigation said police broke the law. Sir Richard Henriques is calling for a criminal investigation after he said Metropolitan police officers “unlawfully” obtained search warrants by using false evidence to raid the
  
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• Alarm at drop in rape cases brought to court

  30-07-2019 18:01
  ‘Justice system leaders must be pressed on your revelation that only one in every 65 rapes reported to the police now ends up in court,’ write Sarah Green, Harriet Wistrich and C Quinn.Photograph: Clara Molden/PAYour front-page report (Revealed: collapse in rape cases that end up in court, 27 July) was truly shocking and leads us to ask whether rape has effectively been decriminalised. Justice system leaders, including those at the top of the police, prosecution service and courts, m
  
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• Tony Blair’s sister-in-law takes aim at New Labour in Edinburgh Fringe play

  30-07-2019 17:58
  Accidentally Muslim tells the story of Lauren Booth's conversion to Islam after visiting Palestine and opposing the Iraq war.
  
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• Metro mayor plans for climate change teachers in every school

  30-07-2019 17:49
  Labour's Jamie Driscoll is proposing that every state school in his North of Tyne area should have at least one UN-accredited climate change teacher.
  
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• Under fire, Swiss minister dumps Philip Morris as Expo sponsor

  30-07-2019 17:48
  Switzerland scrapped a 1.8 million Swiss franc (1.5 million pounds) sponsorship deal with Philip Morris Internationalfor the country's pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai after being widely criticised for taking tobacco money to promote its image abroad.Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis made the decision so as "not to undermine the primary objective of the Swiss presence in Dubai, which is to convey a positive image of Switzerland", theforeign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.The World Health Or
  
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• Prince Harry: unconscious bias affects whether you are racist

  30-07-2019 17:37
  The Duke of Sussex was interviewed for British Vogue, guest-edited by his wife. Photograph: Jacob King/PAPrince Harry has spoken of how “unconscious bias” can affect racism, saying that many people fail to acknowledge their own bias due to their upbringing and environment.The Duke of Sussex made the remarks during an interview with conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall.He also spoke of his fears for the future of the planet, and that he and his wife planned to have a maximum
  
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• Corbyn snubs Cuadrilla boss as he tells protesters Labour will ban fracking

  30-07-2019 17:36
  The Labour leader made the pledge as he visited a controversial site in Lancashire.
  
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• Johnson vows to support British farmers after Brexit

  30-07-2019 17:35
  The Prime Minister was visiting Newport in South Wales.
  
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• Outgoing Centrica CEO Iain Conn: What you need to know

  30-07-2019 17:19
  The chief executive has presided over a turbulent period at the British Gas owner.
  
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• Harry says he is having two children ‘maximum’ in British Vogue interview

  30-07-2019 17:12
  The Duke of Sussex made the remark in conversation with Dr Jane Goodall for the fashion bible, which his wife Meghan is guest-editing.
  
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• Man caught urinating outside train station given mop and forced to clean up

  30-07-2019 17:09
  The man was refused travel by British Transport Police and asked to leave the station after cleaning up.
  
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• War veteran hits out at watchdog’s investigation over collapsed VIP abuse probe

  30-07-2019 17:01
  War veteran Lord Bramall spoke out after an ex-High Court judge who reviewed the investigation claimed police warrants had been obtained 'unlawfully'.
  
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• Dubai ruler’s wife seeks 'forced marriage protection order' in English court

  30-07-2019 16:35
  The wife of Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum has applied for a "forced marriage protection order" in England's High Court in relation to one of her two children.Princess Haya bint al-Hussein, the 45-year-old Jordanian daughter of late King Hussein and half-sister to King Abdullah, also applied for a "non-molestation order," which protects from harassment or threats.At the High Court of England and Wales, she also applied for wardship, which means a child is placed in the hands o
  
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• Consumer confidence ticks up in July but remains in negative territory

  30-07-2019 16:32
  The GfK consumer confidence index hit minus 11, up from minus 13 in June.
  
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• Sinn Fein says Brexit threat means Dublin should prepare for Irish unification

  30-07-2019 16:27
  Northern Ireland's largest nationalist party on Tuesday called on the Irish government to prepare for the unification of the British region with EU-member Ireland, saying "bullish" Boris Johnson's Brexit posed a threat.Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald told supporters in Belfast that Johnson was "not my prime minister".
  
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