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• Cause of breathing problems for Essex beachgoers remains a mystery

  25-08-2019 23:37
  People have been advised not to go into the water in the seaside town of Frinton.
  
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• PM pledges £10m to help protect Amazon rainforest

  25-08-2019 23:30
  The funding will be made available immediately to protect and restore the habitat, including in areas affected by the current fires.
  
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• Johnson to burnish green credentials with G7 biodiversity plea

  25-08-2019 23:30
  Boris Johnson and other G7 leaders will discuss the crisis in the Amazon alongside other environmental issues on Monday. Photograph: Markus Schreiber/APBoris Johnson will call on his G7 colleagues to do more to combat mass extinctions as he seeks to strengthen his environmental credentials.Speaking in Biarritz, as discussion turns to the Amazon rainforest fires, the prime minister will call for more ambitious targets on biodiversity alongside measures to tackle the climate crisis, and reinforce
  
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• Eagle-eyed space fans spot letters ‘E’ and ‘T’ on Mars in NASA satellite photo - The Sun

  25-08-2019 23:30 via thesun.co.uk
  Eagle-eyed space fans spot letters ‘E’ and ‘T’ on Mars in NASA satellite photo  The SunE.T. was famously stranded on Earth in the classic film — but now another “extra terrestrial” has been seen on Mars. A NASA satellite photo captured what ...View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Boris Johnson fires warning at EU over no deal Brexit - ‘UK will easily cope’

  25-08-2019 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  BORIS Johnson insisted the UK can “easily cope” with a no-deal Brexit after a fresh clash with the EU over the deadlocked withdrawal negotiations.
  
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• In Pictures: Bog snorkellers compete in championship in Wales

  25-08-2019 23:09
  The 34th edition of the annual event produced plenty of fancy dress.
  
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• Ashes 2019: How Twitter Reacted To Ben Stokes' Heroics

  25-08-2019 23:08
  Ben Stokes set social media alight after his magnificent, against-all-oddscentury that saved the Ashes on Sunday
  
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• Ross-On-Wye Crash: Two Dead In Collision With Ambulance

  25-08-2019 22:10
  Two people have died after a collision between their car and an ambulance inHerefordshire, West Mercia Police has said
  
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• Aer Lingus says sorry to passengers after boarding passes fail to download

  25-08-2019 22:06
  The Irish airline said passengers will have to be issued with their pass at the airport.
  
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• Clacton beach warning as Essex town sees people 'coughing and struggling to breathe'

  25-08-2019 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  BEACHGOERS were told to keep out the sea in an Essex town after people were left "coughing and struggling to breathe" as temperatures hit record levels today.
  
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• Emergency services at Essex seafront as people left ‘struggling to breathe’

  25-08-2019 21:13
  Beachgoers said they had been left struggling to breathe but the cause is unknown and is being investigated.
  
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• Thugs trash D-Day war memorial and kick over flower display - urgent appeal

  25-08-2019 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  A D-DAY war memorial was trashed by teenage thugs who also kicked over the surrounding flower display in a shocking act of vandalism.
  
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• G7: Trump's demands for Russia's readmission cause row in Biarritz - The Guardian

  25-08-2019 20:22 via theguardian.com
  G7: Trump's demands for Russia's readmission cause row in Biarritz  The GuardianDonald Trump has rowed with his fellow G7 leaders over his demand that Russia be readmitted to the group, rejecting arguments that it should remain an ...View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Boris Johnson Offers Brexit Metaphor After Morning Swim In Sea At G7 Summit

  25-08-2019 20:21
  Boris Johnson literally swam against the tide at the G7 summit in France as heprepared for a day of global politicking with an early morning dip offBiarritz beach
  
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• Beachgoers left 'gasping for breath' after incident in Essex

  25-08-2019 20:02
  Emergency services received several reports of people coughing and struggling to breathe at Frinton beach in Essex. Photograph: Mark Wray/PAEmergency services have been called to the seafront in Essex to investigate reports of people coughing and struggling to breathe.Police, the ambulance service and the fire service attended Fourth Avenue in Frinton, off the Esplanade, after receiving calls from beachgoers in distress shortly after 2pm on Sunday.Tendring district council later tweeted that Cla
  
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• In Pictures: More fun in the sun as Britain basks in bank holiday heatwave

  25-08-2019 19:08
  Experts have warned the public to stay hydrated.
  
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• Hottest ever August bank holiday weekend for UK as temperature reaches 33.3C

  25-08-2019 18:55
  Forecasts have tipped the mercury to climb closer to 33C as the weekend goes on.
  
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• Two arrested over attempted murder of police officers

  25-08-2019 18:46
  The men were arrested following searches in the Lurgan and Craigavon areas.
  
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• Prince Andrew took flight on Epstein private jet with Russian model

  25-08-2019 18:39
  In 1999, prince and Anna Malova were among nine people on previously undisclosed flight from the US Virgin Islands to Florida. Prince Andrew took a previously undisclosed flight on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet with a group that included a Russian model. Andrew and Anna Malova, then 27, were among nine people on Epstein’s plane for a trip from the US Virgin Islands to Florida in February 1999, according to flight logs. Malova was later jailed in the US for failing to comply with a co
  
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• Boy, 12, dies from injuries after electric shock on railway line

  25-08-2019 18:36
  The child came into contact with overhead power lines on tracks in Glasgow on August 18.
  
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• Julie Maxwell: Soft Border Patrol actor dies, aged 34

  25-08-2019 18:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Mrs Maxwell's agent said she was a "force of nature" and that her death was a "big shock".
  
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• Boris Johnson Pulls Out Of Channel 4 Interview After News Chief Calls Him ‘A Coward’

  25-08-2019 18:34
  Relations between Boris Johnson and Channel 4 News have hit a new low afterthe PM scrapped a planned interview just days after the channel's chiefaccused him of being a "coward"
  
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• Boy, 12, dies after railway power lines accident in Glasgow

  25-08-2019 18:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Police say the 12-year-old died in hospital almost a week after the incident in Glasgow.
  
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• Birmingham firefighter leaves blaze for birth of first child

  25-08-2019 18:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Toshwa Dennis was tackling a scrapheap fire when he got the call to say Savannah was arriving early.
  
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• HS2 costs and benefits: a search for clear evidence

  25-08-2019 18:21
  A construction site for the HS2 high-speed rail scheme in Euston, London. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PAPhilip Inman asserts that “HS2 has been 15 years in the making and is the best compromise option the transport ministry and its advisers could come up with for improving the UK’s transport system” (Business view, 22 August). HS2’s problem is that it is uncompromising: it was designed to run very fast, and therefore in an almost straight line, worsening its damage to the
  
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• Banksy 'Brexit' mural: Scaffolding appears over Dover EU piece

  25-08-2019 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  The artwork appeared near Dover's ferry terminal in 2017 on a building due to be demolished.
  
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• Boris Johnson turns Biarritz swim into Brexit metaphor

  25-08-2019 18:00
  Boris Johnson points to the rock he swam to off Biarritz. Photograph: Pool/ReutersBoris Johnson took the plunge into choppy waters – literally – early on Sunday morning, as he began his first international summit as prime minister, in the French seaside resort of Biarritz.Watched closely by French protection officers on boats and paddleboards, and accompanied at least some of the way by the UK’s ambassador to Paris, Ed Llewellyn, Johnson struck out from the beach and swam to a
  
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• Hammond hits out at Johnson over no-deal Brexit leaks

  25-08-2019 17:45
  The documents indicated the UK will be hit with a three-month 'meltdown' at its ports.
  
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• UK airports ordered to use 3D baggage scanners by 2022

  25-08-2019 17:39
  Government enforces use of technology to cut ‘hassle’ for passengers at security check. Long queues at airport security as passengers put liquid containers in plastic bags and remove laptops from carry-ons could soon be over after the government ordered airports to introduce new 3D scanners by 2022. Announcing the plans, Boris Johnson said the scanners would cut down on “hassle” for travellers. “By making journeys through UK airports easier than ever, this new equip
  
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• Boris Johnson pulled interview after criticism by head of news, says Channel 4

  25-08-2019 17:39
  Broadcaster says team flew to Biarritz for planned interview but were told access denied over Dorothy Byrne’s condemnation. Channel 4 News has said that Downing Street froze it out of a planned interview at the G7 summit because of criticism of Boris Johnson by the channel’s head of news, who had described him as a “known liar” and a “coward”. According to the editor of Channel 4 News, Ben de Pear, a team of journalists had flown to Biarritz after being invite
  
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• Reading Festival: Revellers bask in record temperatures

  25-08-2019 17:37 via bbc.co.uk
  On the hottest late August bank holiday weekend, Reading Festival revellers enjoy the sunshine.
  
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• England win epic Ashes test to keep series alive

  25-08-2019 17:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Ben Stokes' astonishing 135 not out repeats his World Cup heroics and gives England one of their greatest victories and keep the Ashes alive.
  
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• Ashes 2019: England Beat Australia In Third Test After Thrilling Ben Stokes Century

  25-08-2019 17:19
  England has won the third Ashes test match after a thrilling Ben Stokescentury that defied the odds and prevented Australia from retaining the urn
  
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• In calls and emails, Argentine executives seek jobs abroad to escape crisis

  25-08-2019 17:18
  Argentine executives and graduates shocked by President Mauricio Macri's drubbing in elections this month have begun calling and emailing in droves in search of work in Brazil, Chile and Colombia, head hunters and visa advisers told Reuters.Executive search specialists say the resumes that have deluged their offices in those countries reached a peaked after Macri lost ground to a centre-left Peronist challenger in the Aug. 11 primary elections, causing the peso to plummet in value.Leftist Albert
  
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• Boris Johnson Admits Chances Of No-Deal Brexit Now ‘Touch And Go’

  25-08-2019 17:07
  Boris Johnson has admitted that the chances of a no-deal Brexit are "touch andgo" as he warned that he could spend Theresa May's £39bn divorce bill ondomestic priorities instead
  
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• British Airways cut off worried passengers fearing cancelled flights after BA email error

  25-08-2019 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  BRITISH AIRWAYS cut off panicked customers enquiring about cancelled flights after the airline sent thousands of emails warning flights might be cancelled or delayed.
  
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• Nigel Farage's message to Boris Johnson: Don't trust Philip Hammond!

  25-08-2019 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  NIGEL FARAGE savaged former Chancellor Philip Hammond for revealing that the leaked Operation Yellowhammer report came from a minister in Boris Johnson’s government, claiming that the Remainer was simply trying to stop Brexit from happening all along.
  
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• Nigel Farage delighted after border expert reveals there IS a solution to the backstop

  25-08-2019 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE IRISH backstop can be solved by technology after all, a border expert revealed to a delighted Nigel Farage this morning.
  
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• Boris Johnson scraps Channel 4 G7 interview after rebuke from news chief

  25-08-2019 16:49
  The Prime Minister was told by ITV's Robert Peston that he had 'shot himself in the foot' over his refusal to speak to Channel 4.
  
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• Family of soldier killed in Guildford pub bombings denied legal aid for inquest

  25-08-2019 16:38
  The denial of legal aid to the family of Ann Hamilton, one of five people killed in the 1974 bombings, has been described as a 'travesty'.
  
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• Nigel Farage in stitches as he mocks Tusk over 'James Bond baddie' threat to Brexit Britai

  25-08-2019 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  NIGEL FARAGE was left in stitches after replaying a recording of EU Council President Donald Tusk claiming Boris Johnson would be to blame for a no deal Brexit, with the Brexiteer comparing the top Eurocrat to a "James Bond baddie."
  
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• Revellers soak up the sunshine at Notting Hill Carnival

  25-08-2019 16:24
  Almost a million people are set to attend the two-day event in west London.
  
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• Rory McIlroy fan hit by lightning at golf event 'bruised and shaken'

  25-08-2019 16:13 via bbc.co.uk
  Ryan Murphy, 19, from Cookstown, was following McIlroy at a US competition when he was hit by lightning.
  
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• Brexit: Boris Johnson says odds of striking deal 'touch and go'

  25-08-2019 16:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Boris Johnson previously said the chances of leaving without a deal were "a million to one".
  
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• Two Dead Following Light Aircraft Crash In Oxfordshire

  25-08-2019 15:56
  Two people have died in a light aircraft crash in Oxfordshire
  
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• Hottest ever August bank holiday weekend for UK as temperature reaches 31.6C

  25-08-2019 15:55
  Forecasts have tipped the mercury to climb closer to 33C as the weekend goes on.
  
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• UK weather: Hottest late August bank holiday weekend on record

  25-08-2019 15:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Forecasters warn temperatures could get even hotter, after 31.6C is reached in west London.
  
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• Tory Minister drops Brexit 'secret' before revealing ports completely 'ready' for no deal

  25-08-2019 15:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  UK ports are “much more prepared than people realise” for a no deal Brexit, the transport secretary has claimed after insisting that his department is “ready” for all eventualities.
  
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• Grandfather killed in stabbing yards from home after pint in local pub

  25-08-2019 15:37
  Building company director Allan Isichei died in the incident in Southall, west London, on Saturday evening.
  
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• Boris Johnson and Donald Trump ‘gung-ho’ for trade deal after first meeting

  25-08-2019 15:36
  The Prime Minister had his first meeting with the US President at the G7 summit in Biarritz.
  
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