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• PC Andrew Harper: Killed officer 'died of multiple injuries' - BBC News

  17-08-2019 23:42 via bbc.co.uk
  PC Andrew Harper: Killed officer 'died of multiple injuries'  BBC NewsPC Andrew Harper 'died of multiple injuries' as 10 suspects remain in custody for more questioning  Liverpool EchoPolice given more time to question PC Andrew Harper murder suspects  GetReadingOfficer yelled 'stay with me, keep breathing' to 'murdered' PC Andrew Harper  Daily StarAndrew Harper death: Ten males aged 13 to 30 arrested  BBC NewsView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Owen Jones attacked outside London pub

  17-08-2019 23:32
  Guardian columnist claims attack was ‘premeditated assault’The Guardian columnist and activist Owen Jones has been physically assaulted in London while celebrating his 35th birthday with friends.In an attack he called “a blatant premeditated assault”, Jones said he was kicked, punched and thrown to the ground by a group of men in the early hours of Saturday morning. Continue reading...
  
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• Man Utd defender Harry Maguire has plenty to prove to me, says Wolves ace Diogo Jota - The Sun

  17-08-2019 23:31 via thesun.co.uk
  Man Utd defender Harry Maguire has plenty to prove to me, says Wolves ace Diogo Jota  The Sun‘We are better now’ - Ole Gunnar Solskjaer reveals two things Man Utd must do vs Wolves  ExpressManchester United predicted line up vs Wolves  Manchester Evening NewsMan Utd news: What Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has told Anthony Martial he MUST do this season  Metro.co.ukManchester United news: ‘Age is just a number, look at Kylian Mbappe & Marcus R
  
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• Boris Johnson to tell Merkel and Macron there must be new Brexit deal

  17-08-2019 23:30
  It comes as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reiterated his call for MPs to work together to prevent a no-deal withdrawal from the EU.
  
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• Ashes: Steve Smith scare shows cricket hasn't learned from Phillip Hughes tragedy - Stuff.co.nz

  17-08-2019 23:23 via stuff.co.nz
  Ashes: Steve Smith scare shows cricket hasn't learned from Phillip Hughes tragedy  Stuff.co.nzAshes 2019: England v Australia second Test, day four – as it happened  The GuardianAshes 2019: England-Australia second Test set for thrilling conclusion  BBC SportAshes 2019: Jofra Archer’s talent is unquestionable, but do England know how to get the best out of him?  The IndependentMoeen Ali: Worcestershire's England all-rounder to make County Champ
  
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• The Businesses Stockpiling For A 'Disastrous' No-Deal Brexit

  17-08-2019 23:13
  Warehouse capacity across the UK is being stretched to capacity as companiestry to plan for Black Friday and the Christmas period, both just a few weeksafter the October 31st deadline
  
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• Dozens feared dead or wounded after explosion at Kabul wedding hall - ITV News

  17-08-2019 23:11 via itv.com
  Dozens feared dead or wounded after explosion at Kabul wedding hall  ITV NewsAfghanistan wedding hall blast: more than 60 killed, 180 injured  The GuardianAfghanistan: Bomb kills 63 at wedding in Kabul  BBC NewsSuicide-bomb rips through wedding blast in Kabul as dozens feared dead  The TelegraphBomb blast at wedding party in Kabul, Afghanistan kills 63 and injures 182 more  Sky NewsView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Parliament cannot stop Brexit, Johnson to tell Macron and Merkel

  17-08-2019 23:05
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the Westminster parliament cannot stop Brexit and a new deal must be agreed if Britain is to avoid leaving the EU without one.The United Kingdom is heading towards a constitutional crisis at home and a showdown with the EU as Johnson has repeatedly vowed to leave the bloc on Oct. 31 without a deal unless it agrees to renegotiate the Brexit divorce.After more than three years of Brexit
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn vows to stop ‘influx of big money into politics’

  17-08-2019 23:00
  The Labour leader said his party would ban donations or loans to political parties from non-doms and those not registered for tax in the UK.
  
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• Labour and Tory MPs plot ‘radical’ law to thwart no-deal Brexit

  17-08-2019 22:20
  Those who feel any bid to topple Boris Johnson will fail are focusing on measures to stop the UK crashing out. Senior Labour and Conservative MPs leading the battle to stop a no-deal Brexit are focusing on passing a “radical” new law to block it, after concluding that there is no imminent prospect of toppling Boris Johnson and installing an emergency government. Last week was punctuated by rows among MPs over who should lead a temporary government to stop a no-deal Brexit, with the L
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn pleads with MPs: back me now before it’s too late

  17-08-2019 22:20
  Britain stands on precipice, warns Labour leader, as 100 MPs tell Boris Johnson to recall parliament. Jeremy Corbyn has issued an urgent plea to MPs to unite to stop no-deal Brexit “before it’s too late”, amid cross-party demands for an immediate recall of parliament to deal with the crisis. In a show of defiance, a group of more than 100 MPs representing every Westminster party except the DUP has signed a letter stating it is “unacceptable” for parliament to wait u
  
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• Inter approach Manchester United in bid to sign Alexis Sánchez on loan

  17-08-2019 22:20
  • Chile striker targeted after Inter miss out on Edin Dzeko
  • Ole Gunnar Solskjær had said he expected Sánchez to stayInternazionale are hoping to sign Alexis Sánchez on a season-long loan and are confident of agreeing a deal with Manchester United.The striker turned down a move to Roma last week, with United reported to have offered to cover a large proportion of his £300,000-a-week wages. Yet having already signed Romelu Lukaku for £74m, the Inter mana
  
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• Woman who thought she had kidney stones gives birth to triplets

  17-08-2019 22:03
  Dannette and Austin Giltz named their unexpected arrivals Blaze, Gypsy and Nikki.
  
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• Police forces halt trials of facial recognition systems

  17-08-2019 21:58
  Government attempts to use the controversial surveillance technology are thwarted by UK forcesPolice forces are pushing back against Home Office attempts to roll out facial recognition systems, dealing a harsh blow to government plans to introduce the controversial technology.Kent Police and West Midlands Police were named by ministers in June as collaborating with the Home Office to trial the technology to trace “missing and vulnerable persons”. The announcement prompted concern tha
  
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• Nora Quoirin's body brought home to be 'close to loving families' despite questions - Mirror Online

  17-08-2019 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  Nora Quoirin's body brought home to be 'close to loving families' despite questions  Mirror OnlineNora Quoirin's family dismiss 'unhelpful' speculation over death  The GuardianNora Quoirin search team expert says it was ‘impossible’ for her to reach jungle ravine where she was found st  The SunNora Quoirin's family hit out at 'distressing and unhelpful' comments by other relatives  Mirror.co.ukNora Quoirin’s family ask for end to ‘u
  
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• Police seize weapons as Portland braces for clashes between far-right and antifa protesters - The Telegraph

  17-08-2019 21:40 via telegraph.co.uk
  Police seize weapons as Portland braces for clashes between far-right and antifa protesters  The TelegraphPortland rally: Far-right and antifa groups face off  BBC NewsPortland rally: Proud Boys vow to march each month after biggest protest of Trump era  The GuardianAs Portland braces for Proud Boys protests, here's what Trump doesn't get about antifa  NBC NewsGabriel Nadales: Antifa violence feared in Portland Saturday – Group must be condemned and
  
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• Trump suspends CNN analyst's credentials in another shot at the press

  17-08-2019 21:29
  The move stems from a July altercation with Breitbart reporter Sebastian Gorka, and echoes actions against CNN’s Jim AcostaThe Trump administration has fired another shot in its war with the US press, suspending the credentials of Brian Karem, White House correspondent for Playboy and an analyst for CNN. Related: ‘The president's insane’: book by CNN's Jim Acosta charts Trump war on pressContinue reading...
  
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• Emergency services search for six-year-old boy after river fall

  17-08-2019 21:24
  Kent Police said officers were called to Richborough Road in Sandwich at about 1.20pm on Saturday.
  
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• Smith and Archer hypnotise to leave second Test tantalisingly poised

  17-08-2019 21:19
  • Second Test, day four: England 258 & 96-4; Australia 250
  • England struggling after epic duel has crowd captivatedA mid-afternoon duel between two contrasting, charismatic characters eclipsed the match situation at Lord’s for a while. For once the back-page headlines were trustworthy. The critical contest was between Jofra Archer, England’s newest and fastest paceman, and Steve Smith, the indomitable former Test captain of Australia returning to his cherished natural
  
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• Emergency services search for six-year-old boy who fell into river in Sandwich, Kent - Sky News

  17-08-2019 20:47 via news.sky.com
  Emergency services search for six-year-old boy who fell into river in Sandwich, Kent  Sky NewsSearch for boy missing in River Stour in Sandwich  BBC NewsDesperate search for six-year-old boy who fell into Kent river  Devon LiveSearch for boy, six, who fell into River Stour during 'family trip'  The TelegraphBoy, 6, missing after falling into the River Stour in Kent while fishing with his dad who dived in to try to  The SunView full coverage on Go
  
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• Lucas Moura earns Spurs draw at Manchester City as VAR history repeats

  17-08-2019 20:41
  It was an extraordinary finale and, amid all the drama and utter confusion, spare a thought perhaps for those Manchester City supporters who had happily left the stadium, believing they had just seen their team score a dramatic and joyous stoppage-time winner.What they had not accounted for was VAR concluding, after what felt like an age, that the shot from Gabriel Jesus had been preceded by a handball from Aymeric Laporte. Jesus had danced in front of the supporters, wriggling his hips, samba-s
  
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• Marie Colvin biography wins literary award in Edinburgh

  17-08-2019 20:30
  Lindsey Hilsum picked up the James Tait Black Prize for biography, while Olivia Laing won the fiction prize for her book Crudo.
  
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• Jean-Luc Brunel: three former models say they were sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein friend

  17-08-2019 20:29
  Special investigation: As attention turns to associates of the deceased billionaire sex offender, the French model scout is back in the headlinesOn a hot Friday evening in France last month, Jean-Luc Brunel was revelling in his natural habitat: a lavish party packed with the rich and beautiful. Related: Rats and raw sewage: Jeffrey Epstein jail blighted by 'horrible' conditionsContinue reading...
  
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• PC Andrew Harper inquiry: police get more time to question suspects

  17-08-2019 20:26
  Police search the scene where Thames Valley officer PC Andrew Harper, 28, died. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PADetectives were granted an extra 36 hours on Saturday to question 10 suspects arrested on suspicion of murdering a newlywed policeman who died after being “dragged for a distance” by a van when he responded to reports of a rural burglary.Forensic teams meanwhile continued inspecting a countryside caravan park in Berkshire where the suspects had been staying, three miles from whe
  
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• George North try helps Wales bounce back with home win against England

  17-08-2019 19:40
  • World Cup warm-up: Wales 13-6 England
  • Quick-witted score proves difference between two sidesThis was a warm-up that did not lack heat. Both camps maintained in the build-up that results were of secondary importance as they counted down to the start of the World Cup in Japan, but the rapture Wales’s players showed in the final minute when they repelled a maul suggested otherwise.The response of the crowd at the final whistle was even more jubilant. The victory will put Wales a
  
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• Emergency services search for young child who fell into river

  17-08-2019 19:24
  Kent Police said officers were called to Richborough Road in Sandwich at about 1.20pm on Saturday.
  
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• Dark circles round the eyes and acne could be signs you need to change your diet - Mirror Online

  17-08-2019 19:04 via mirror.co.uk
  Dark circles round the eyes and acne could be signs you need to change your diet  Mirror OnlineNoticed any problems with your skin lately? Nutritionists explain why it may well be telling you something is wrong elsewhere.
  
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• Louise Doughty: ‘I can’t bear anything chicklitty or girly’

  17-08-2019 19:00
  The novelist on why her new heroine is a ghost trapped at Peterborough station, writing a book aged 11, and what she’d say to Emily BrontëLouise Doughty is a novelist, playwright and journalist. Her 2010 novel, Whatever You Love, was shortlisted for the Costa novel award and the Orange prize, while her bestselling novel Apple Tree Yard was adapted by the BBC into a four-part drama starring Emily Watson and Ben Chaplin. Her most recent novel, Platform Seven, tackles suicide, coercive c
  
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• Detectives given extra 36 hours to quiz suspects in death of Pc Andrew Harper

  17-08-2019 18:43
  The newlywed officer, 28, died of multiple injuries while investigating a burglary in Berkshire on Thursday night.
  
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• Dina Asher-Smith full of confidence before toughest test of the year

  17-08-2019 18:36
  • Briton faces best in the world in Diamond League 200m
  • ‘You can’t be daunted by anybody’ – Asher-SmithWhen the question came, Dina Asher-Smith did not even blink. “What is it like being the hunted, not the hunter, now that you are one of the best sprinters in the world?” Britain’s triple European champion was asked. “I like it,” she replied. “It’s cool. Everybody thinks they are the best in the race. That’s how
  
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• Jean-Claude Juncker cuts short holiday to have urgent surgery

  17-08-2019 18:28
  Outgoing European commission chief has returned home to have gall bladder removedThe outgoing head of the European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has cut short a holiday to undergo urgent surgery, his press team has said.“Jean-Claude Juncker had to shorten his holiday in Austria for medical reasons. He was taken back to Luxembourg where he will undergo an urgent cholecystectomy [surgical removal of the gallbladder],” the team said on Saturday of what is normally a routine medical p
  
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• Teenager charged with murder of Peter Duncan in Newcastle

  17-08-2019 18:27
  Victim was stabbed with screwdriver in shopping centre and died in hospitalA 17-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of Peter Duncan, the lawyer who was stabbed with a screwdriver in a Newcastle shopping centre, Northumbria police have said.The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with murder, possession of an offensive weapon and theft, and will appear before North Tyneside magistrates court on Monday. Continue reading...
  
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• Safe injection rooms are key to halting rise in drug deaths – expert

  17-08-2019 18:26
  Former drugs tsar says Home Office must end opposition to ‘fixing’ spaces to tackle issueThe Home Office must abandon its opposition to safe injection rooms if it wants to reduce drug-related deaths, now at record levels, a former government drugs chief has said.David Nutt, who was chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, said that failure to respond to last week’s revelation that drug deaths were at their highest since records began in 1993 would constitute &ldquo
  
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• Fears grow that WW2 wreck could explode on Kent coast

  17-08-2019 18:00
  Experts divided over risk from US munitions ship that sank 75 years ago near SheernessIt is 75 years this Tuesday since the SS Richard Montgomery sank off the Kent coast on its way to allied-occupied France. But the remains of the US cargo vessel, which went down on 20 August 1944, with more than 6,000 tonnes of munitions on board, continue to haunt the Thames estuary.With politicians and salvage experts divided over the extent of the threat that the most monitored wreck in British waters poses
  
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• Bob Mortimer: ‘As a kid I’d put 17 spoons of sugar in my tea’

  17-08-2019 18:00
  The co-star of TV’s Gone Fishing remembers childhood diets, ‘pocket meat’ and getting married on the day of his heart opI eat a tin of sardines every day. I had one just a few minutes ago. Kippers or smoked haddock are a nice treat. I have quite a thing about having a fish on its own on the plate.Before we did Gone Fishing, Paul Whitehouse and I sort of knew that “heart” would become a bit of a label for us [Mortimer had a triple bypass in 2015; Whitehouse had stent
  
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• A Belarusian woman's life story in outfits – in pictures

  17-08-2019 18:00
  Minsk-based photographer Tatsiana Tkachova was in Volozhin, Belarus in 2017 when she saw an elegant woman in a bright dress. So began her friendship with Vera, now 92. Tkachova took 27 portraits for Vera’s Seasons, telling Vera’s story and that of the region. The last portrait is of the dress Vera will wear at her funeral Continue reading...
  
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• Owen Jones 'Beaten Up In Blatant Premeditated Assault'

  17-08-2019 17:45
  "My friends were punched trying to defend me
  
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• Pub gives away free meals to children going hungry in school holidays

  17-08-2019 17:34
  The Crown Inn in Keynsham is also hosting regular parties to help families who are struggling to make ends meet.
  
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• How China's propaganda machine is whitewashing Hong Kong protests and rallying mainlanders against pro-Democracy movement - Telegraph.co.uk

  17-08-2019 17:21 via telegraph.co.uk
  How China's propaganda machine is whitewashing Hong Kong protests and rallying mainlanders against pro-Democracy movement  Telegraph.co.ukStand-off in Hong Kong: ‘Get out of the airport,’ they said. ‘Something’s going to happen’  The GuardianHong Kong: Police chase protesters after taunts and egg throwing  Sky NewsCan Hong Kong Avoid Becoming Tiananmen?  The New York TimesNewt Gingrich: US must stand with people of Hong Kong f
  
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• Glasgow Pride parade in pictures as 9000 attend despite union boycott over commercialisation of event - Daily Record

  17-08-2019 17:20 via dailyrecord.co.uk
  Glasgow Pride parade in pictures as 9000 attend despite union boycott over commercialisation of event  Daily RecordTickets to enter the charity's march this year cost LGBT+ groups £120 for a walking group or £420 for commercial organisations.View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Teenager on murder charge after lawyer stabbed to death

  17-08-2019 17:14
  Peter Duncan, 52 died following the incident in Old Eldon Square, Newcastle, early on Wednesday evening.
  
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• 'No sea sickness so far': Greta Thunberg update on Atlantic crossing

  17-08-2019 17:04
  Climate activist is four days into a two-week journey on solar-powered yachtFour days into its two-week Atlantic crossing, the solar-powered yacht carrying climate activist Greta Thunberg is becalmed in the ocean after a choppy start to the trip, still 2,500 nautical miles from New York.In an update posted to Twitter around midday on Saturday, the 16-year-old said she was eating and sleeping well and had no sea sickness so far. Continue reading...
  
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• Peter Duncan Stabbing: 17-Year-Old Charged With Murder Of 'Devoted Father'

  17-08-2019 17:03
  A 17-year-old has been charged with the murder of Peter Duncan who was stabbedwith a screwdriver in Newcastle on Wednesday, Northumbria Police said
  
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• If global markets are unsettled, they have good reason to be so

  17-08-2019 17:00
  Last week’s upheavals in bond values were an all-too-rational response to a cocktail of economic troublesEvery year the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City hosts a symposium in the Grand Teton resort of Jackson Hole. Some years, guests have little to do but chew the fat and listen to distinguished speakers explain points of economic importance. Sometimes, though, the conclave in Wyoming takes place with a crisis looming. One such year was 2008. This year is shaping up to be another.Global
  
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• Dramatic spaces: raising the curtain on Dominic Cooper’s bolthole

  17-08-2019 17:00
  The actor’s penthouse provides a welcome escape from the ‘chaos and madness’ of life on screenBringing your work home with you takes on a whole new meaning in Dominic Cooper’s Victorian terraced property in north London. One bedroom is furnished entirely with pieces from the New York hotel room set seen in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again in which he reprises his character Sky. “I really needed to do the room up quickly and so I bought all of the furniture from that set
  
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• Family of Pc Andrew Harper ‘devastated’ following his death

  17-08-2019 16:57
  The officer was killed during an incident in Berkshire on Thursday night.
  
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• PC Andrew Harper murder inquiry: police search caravan site

  17-08-2019 16:42
  Thames Valley police have launched a widescale murder investigation into the incident.Photograph: Ben Birchall/PAForensic officers are searching a caravan site three miles from where a newlywed policeman died in the line of duty after being dragged by a vehicle as he responded to reports of a burglary.PC Andrew Harper, who was due to go on honeymoon next week, was killed late on Thursday evening when he was struck by a vehicle after leaving his car at the crossroads on the A4 near Sulhamstead vi
  
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• Brexit: Corbyn hits back at MPs refusing to support him as PM

  17-08-2019 16:40
  Jeremy Corbyn with the local Labour group leader, Linda Thomas, (right) and Bolton West candidate Julie Hilling, during a visit to Bolton. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PAJeremy Corbyn has hit back at leading Tory MPs orchestrating efforts to stop a no-deal Brexit who are refusing to back him as a caretaker prime minister to prevent the UK crashing out of the EU.Corbyn’s hopes of forming a unity government are fading as a number of prominent Conservatives working to stop no-deal Brexit have rule
  
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• Acclaimed animator who created Roger Rabbit dies aged 86

  17-08-2019 16:34
  The live-action animated film starring Bob Hoskins saw Richard Williams win a Bafta as well as two Oscars for his work.
  
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• Queen vs Donald Trump: The tough Queen who can refuse Trump’s bizarre Greenland bid - Express

  17-08-2019 16:28 via express.co.uk
  Queen vs Donald Trump: The tough Queen who can refuse Trump’s bizarre Greenland bid  ExpressUS President Donald Trump phones supporter he 'fat-shamed'  BBC NewsDonald Trump phones and leaves voicemail for supporter he bodyshamed during rally  Evening StandardDonald Trump’s plan to buy Greenland shows he doesn’t understand democracy – leader comment  The ScotsmanTrump fat-shames one of his own supporters at campaign rally  
  
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