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• Lucky player could scoop record UK EuroMillions jackpot

  17-09-2019 23:43
  The jackpot on Friday is an estimated £167 million.
  
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• Labour votes to scrap student wing ahead of party conference

  17-09-2019 23:39
  Momentum founder Jon Lansman led the successful efforts to replace Labour Students. Photograph: Joel Goodman/LNP/REX/ShutterstockThe founder of Momentum, a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn, has succeeded in a bid to make the party effectively abolish its 40-year-old student wing, which is dominated by the more centrist side of the party.Jon Lansman won the backing of Labour’s ruling national executive committee (NEC) for a motion that argued Labour Students was not officially affiliated and shoul
  
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• Fish weighing less than a gram makes full recovery after surgery

  17-09-2019 23:31
  Molly the exotic fish underwent surgery to remove a soft tissue mass at Highcroft Vets in Bristol.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: I’ll stay neutral and let the people decide on Brexit

  17-09-2019 23:29
  Jeremy Corbyn has laid down a marker of his determination to seek a better Brexit deal from the EU Photograph: Ken Jack/Getty ImagesJeremy Corbyn has set out the four pillars of a “sensible” Brexit deal he would negotiate with the EU, as he pledged to carry out whatever the people decide in a second EU referendum as Labour prime minister.The Labour leader set out how he would go into an election offering to negotiate a Brexit deal involving a customs union, ahead of next week’s
  
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• Corbyn says he will put ‘sensible’ Brexit deal to voters in new referendum

  17-09-2019 23:02
  He said Labour would negotiate a new Leave agreement with the EU if it wins the next election and put it to the vote along with a Remain option.
  
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• New poll on independence published five years on from Scottish referendum

  17-09-2019 23:00
  The research was carried out by Survation for the pro-UK campaign group Scotland in Union.
  
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• Diageo workers suspend strike after last-ditch pay deal offer

  17-09-2019 22:36
  Industrial action would have seen almost two-thirds of the firm's workers take part in a series of rolling strikes over 10 days.
  
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• Johnson talks to Saudi crown prince in wake of oil facility attacks

  17-09-2019 22:21
  Downing Street said work is still ongoing to establish what happened.
  
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• Chile taps China, Japan in lithium-for-tech push, faces tough sell

  17-09-2019 21:07
  Chile is making a renewed push for battery technology investment in return for access to its lithium deposits, piquing interest from China, Japan and Europe as global firms look to tie up supply of the metal vital for the shift to electric vehicles.The South American country, the world's No. 2 lithium producer, has held global road shows ahead of a second lithium-for-investment tender, according to officials and Chilean government documents seen by Reuters.
  
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• Labour MPs To Still Face Reselection Battles Despite Impending Snap Election

  17-09-2019 20:41
  Labour MPs will still have to face internal reselection battles despite theimpending snap election, the party's ruling body has decided
  
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• Labour MPs To Face Reselection Battles Despite Impending Snap Election

  17-09-2019 20:41
  Labour MPs will still have to face internal reselection battles despite theimpending snap election, the party's ruling body has decided
  
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• Corbyn vows to put 'sensible' Brexit deal to voters in referendum

  17-09-2019 20:31
  Labour leader says as PM he would ‘carry out whatever the people decide’ in second EU referendum with remain as an option. Jeremy Corbyn has set out the four pillars of a “sensible” Brexit deal he would negotiate with the EU, as he pledged to carry out whatever the people decide in a second EU referendum as Labour prime minister. The Labour leader set out how he would go into an election offering to negotiate a Brexit deal involving a customs union, ahead of next week&rsq
  
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• Advertising watchdog to take no further action over Treasury duty free ad

  17-09-2019 20:24
  The Advertising Standards Authority said the ad announcing a return to duty free shopping in the event of a no deal Brexit fell outside its remit.
  
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• Body scanners screen for weapons at Stratford station

  17-09-2019 20:17
  Technology is in use for the first time at a UK station and can detect knives and guns. Commuters have experienced the first use of body scanners to screen for weapons at a British railway station, as local authorities stressed they had sought assurances from police that the public were made aware of their rights. The technology – which can detect weapons including guns, knives and explosive devices concealed under clothing at distances of up to 30ft – was in use on Tuesday in the le
  
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• Supreme court grapples with dilemma of politics versus the law

  17-09-2019 20:10
  Even the finest legal minds at times seemed baffled by ‘justiciability’ of prorogation. At the start of the three-day hearing to resolve contradictory judgments made by Scottish and English courts on the prorogation of parliament, attempts to refine the interlocking issues seemed on occasions to baffle even the finest legal minds. One of the first fundamental questions for the supreme court is whether Boris Johnson’s private advice to the Queen to prorogue parliament was &ldquo
  
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• Peanut allergies affected by exercise and sleep deprivation, study suggests

  17-09-2019 19:58
  Both can significantly reduce the 'threshold of reactivity' - the amount of peanut needed to trigger a reaction, the study found.
  
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• Here's What Happened On Day One Of The Supreme Court Prorogation Hearing

  17-09-2019 19:58
  Bet you thought that, with parliament suspended for a few weeks, you wouldn'thave to try and get your head round complicated politics story for a while
  
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• Lord Pannick stays calm and Keen lacks interest at supreme court

  17-09-2019 19:56
  A bad day for nominative determinism at legal hearing over suspension of parliament. Not all the 11 supreme court judges looked entirely pleased to be back in session. It was bad enough being dragged back to work in mid-September. After all, they hadn’t slogged their way to the top of the legal profession only to have their summer holidays cut short. But what made things even worse was they were effectively being asked to decide whether the Scottish or the English and Welsh courts had got
  
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• Man with stage four cancer completes Britain’s ‘hardest walk’

  17-09-2019 19:54
  Martyn Wells took on the on the Cape Wrath Trail to raise money for charity.
  
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• Government declines to rule out fresh prorogation if it loses case

  17-09-2019 19:48
  Supreme court told PM will ‘abide’ by any ruling but minister declines to say if MPs could be sent away again immediately. Boris Johnson has given an undertaking to the supreme court that he will “abide” by any ruling it makes about recalling parliament but a government minister declined to be drawn about whether MPs could be sent away again immediately. Addressing an emergency hearing of the UK’s highest court, Lord Keen QC, who is a justice minister and one of the
  
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• Prime minister makes a mockery of national leadership

  17-09-2019 19:34
  I confess that I voted for Boris Johnson in the Conservative leadership election because I was persuaded that he had the confidence that was entirely lacking from Theresa May. After his appalling performance skipping the Luxembourg press conference I am regretting my decision (Johnson left humiliated as Brexit visit ends in chaos, 17 September).How did the prime minister think this would come across? Whether you are for remain or leave, no one can deny that Boris is intent on harming his own pos
  
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• Phillip Lee and HIV tests for migrants

  17-09-2019 19:33
  Phillip Lee at the Liberal Democrat party conference in Bournemouth on Tuesday. LGBT activists in senior party roles quit in protest after the former Tory justice minister was accepted into the Lib Dems earlier this month. Photograph: James Veysey/Rex/ShutterstockDr Phillip Lee MP claims that he has been misrepresented on his 2014 amendment to the immigration bill, saying that he wanted migrants screened for HIV “so that they could be treated”, rather than so they could be kept out (
  
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• Dilemmas posed by Lib Dem vow to exit Brexit without referendum

  17-09-2019 19:33
  Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson speaking at the party’s annual conference in Bournemouth. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/ReutersThe Liberal Democrats’ new referendum bypass policy to stop Brexit is clearly a tactical error, as identified by Polly Toynbee (Swinson’s move to revoke hands Labour a golden opportunity, 17 September). It also has the greater significance of sinking their claim to the moral high ground on EU policy, already flawed by their failure to acknowledge their role in g
  
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• Lack of decent jobs fuels UK drugs trade

  17-09-2019 19:32
  A man holding a bag of cocaine. Photograph: DedMityay/Getty Images/iStockphotoYour editorial on county lines states, rightly, that “there is no point in pretending that there is any quick fix” (Police will not be able to cut off the county lines drug dealers on their own, 17 September). However, all the solutions put forward in relation to the phenomenon – better funding of youth services, placing youth services on a statutory footing etc – evade the fundamental point: th
  
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• How far can buoyant Liberal Democrats bounce back?

  17-09-2019 19:32
  Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson leaves after she delivered her speech at party conference in Bournemouth. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/ReutersAt what was a pre-election conference in all but name, any time a group of Liberal Democrat activists gathered the same question would arise: how far can a buoyant party with a bounce in its step, a clear Brexit position and a new leader rise from its current 18 MPs?The answer would generally range from a base assumption of 40 seats, rising to giddy specu
  
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• NASA is eyeing the end of 2024 for the next human moon landing - Daily Mail

  17-09-2019 19:12 via news.google.com
  NASA is eyeing the end of 2024 for the next human moon landing  Daily MailNasa astronauts train for 2024 return to the Moon inside giant water tank to simulate low gravity  The SunResearchers put forward plan for elevator between moon and Earth  Business InsiderCubesat Mission Will Be First to Fly Lunar Gateway's Unusual Orbit  Space.comCubeSat mission to help NASA chart an orbit for its orbiting lunar space station  FirstpostView full coverage o
  
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• Police had no option but to remove Extinction Rebellion activists, court told

  17-09-2019 19:11
  A number of Extinction Rebellion supporters attended the trial.
  
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• Prevent review remit is not superficial

  17-09-2019 19:10
  The independent reviewer of the government’s Prevent anti-radicalisation programme, Alex Carlile, rejects criticism of the inquiry’s terms of reference. Your article ( Prevent review branded ‘superficial’ as past decisions overlooked, 16 September) was founded on a misunderstanding of the terms of reference of my independent review of Prevent. As I have made very clear, it is an evidence-based review with nothing off the table. In order to meet that requirement, I shall e
  
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• Dalai Lama inspires latest post on Harry and Meghan’s Instagram account

  17-09-2019 19:10
  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's account regularly has comments from leading world figures.
  
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• Crumbs! Girl, 11, scares off armed robber by throwing bread at him

  17-09-2019 19:05
  The 11-year-old used her loaf to deter the suspect during an incident at a Sussex supermarket.
  
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• London police and Facebook move to stop live streaming of terror attacks

  17-09-2019 19:02
  London police and Facebook said on Tuesday they plan to share resources to stop the live streaming of terrorist attacks like that in Christchurch, New Zealand, earlier this year.The Metropolitan Police will share video of its firearms officers training with Facebook to help the company develop technology to identify the live streaming of an attack on its platform.Social media companies are under increasing pressure to act after a gunman killed 51 people in the New Zealand attack and live-streame
  
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• Facebook and Met Police team up to tackle live streaming of terrorist attacks

  17-09-2019 19:00
  The force will start sharing footage from its firearms training centres from October.
  
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• Sheffield strip club keeps licence despite opposition by feminist coalition

  17-09-2019 18:53
  Spearmint Rhino dancers label covert filming, showing 74 breaches, ‘revenge porn tactics’. A strip club in Sheffield had its licence renewed after the council ruled covertly recorded footage of dancers breaking no-touching rules should not force its closure. Dancers at Spearmint Rhino celebrated the ruling on Tuesday, made after eight hours of heated testimony from both sides on Monday. Dancers had accused campaigners who made the undercover recordings of “revenge porn tactics&
  
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• Cricketer Ben Stokes backed by board after he condemns report on family tragedy

  17-09-2019 18:35
  The sporting hero criticised the story as the 'lowest form of journalism'.
  
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• Coveney says Ireland yet to see written proposals from UK on Brexit deal

  17-09-2019 18:31
  The British Government has yet to put forward a written plan to deal with Brexit, the Irish Deputy Premier Simon Coveney has said.
  
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• Exclusive: Brexit Party Candidate Quits Over 'Islamophobic' Social Media Posts

  17-09-2019 18:29
  A general election candidate for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party has been forcedto quit after HuffPost UK highlighted a string of "Islamophobic" messages heposted on social media
  
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• First measurements of 'interstellar comet' - BBC News

  17-09-2019 18:25 via news.google.com
  First measurements of 'interstellar comet'  BBC NewsThis is the first picture of a comet from another solar system  Metro.co.ukScientists release stunning picture of first comet from another solar system  The IndependentComet Borisov: Interstellar visitor might just be the most important comet in our system  Express.co.ukCould we intercept interstellar comet C/2019 Q4 Borisov?  Phys.OrgView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Everything that was missing from Jo Swinson’s Lib Dem conference speech

  17-09-2019 18:13
  Some people and topics were conspicuous by their absence.
  
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• Funeral held for police officer who died on duty

  17-09-2019 18:07
  Roy Buggins, who served for 29 years, fell ill in Montrose, Angus, on September 3.
  
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• PM will comply if Supreme Court rules prorogation was unlawful, says lawyer

  17-09-2019 17:56
  Lord Keen, the Advocate General for Scotland, gave a legal undertaking on behalf of Boris Johnson - but refused to rule out a second prorogation.
  
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• MIT scientist resigns over emails discussing academic linked to Epstein

  17-09-2019 17:52
  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge. Photograph: Charles Krupa/APThe computer scientist Richard Stallman has resigned from MIT and the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which he founded and led, after leaked emails appeared to show him downplaying another academic’s alleged participation in the purported sex trafficking of minors by Jeffrey Epstein.On his personal website, Stallman wrote: “I am resigning effective immediately from my position in [the Computer
  
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• Trade wars, Brexit are 'profit warning', Dutch king says

  17-09-2019 17:49
  Trade wars and the threat of Brexit were acting as a "profit warning" for the Dutch economy, and the government intended to increase investments to protect its future, Dutch King Willem-Alexander told parliament on Tuesday, in an address prepared by the government.The address came as Prime Minister Mark Rutte's government released details of its 2020 budget, which featured spending increases on healthcare and housing.The government also confirmed it plans to create a national investment fund nex
  
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• Jurors retire in trial of 80-year-old accused of husband’s ‘mercy killing’

  17-09-2019 17:49
  Mavis Eccleston denies murder and manslaughter over the death of her husband Dennis.
  
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• Rise in number of older people seeking help for homelessness – ONS

  17-09-2019 17:42
  An upward trend in adults aged over 60 applying for help has been recorded in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
  
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• Luxembourg PM's treatment of Johnson 'may harm Brexit talks'

  17-09-2019 17:33
  EU politicians fear disdain may make it harder for UK leader to move Tory MPs on red lines. Concerns have been raised that the Luxembourg prime minister’s humiliation of Boris Johnson will harden negotiating positions in London. The decision by Xavier Bettel to proceed with a press conference after the British prime minister had declined to appear in front of anti-Brexit protesters prompted criticism from UK politicians. The justice secretary, Robert Buckland, accused Bettel on Tuesday of
  
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• Power dressing: the enduring appeal of a fashion uniform

  17-09-2019 17:06
  From the fashion world to politics, many public figures favour a uniform. And with minimalism the fastest growing sartorial trend, it’s never been more appealing to edit your wardrobe down to a few signature piecesOne of the biggest trendsetters in fashion this year hasn’t been a designer draping away in a Paris atelier, nor an Instagram influencer with effortless personal style. It’s not even a celebrity whose stylish endorsement spawned sellouts and waiting lists. No. The wom
  
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• UK’s Brexit proposals over Irish backstop kept secret amid leak fears

  17-09-2019 17:05
  Brussels has repeatedly demanded a formal, legally operational proposal from the UK to end the Brexit deadlock.
  
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• 10 timeless fashion trends that never date

  17-09-2019 17:05
  Iconic staples rule the catwalk this season. And the best news? They’re probably already in your wardrobe …Is there anything more satisfying, fashion wise, than seeing a trend on the catwalk that you’ve already got in your wardrobe? Iconic classics that stand the test of time are the ultimate rebuff to “What was I thinking?” fads. Here, we reveal the timeless prints, styles and colours you’ll want to wear again and again. Continue reading...
  
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• Jo Swinson: Being a woman will not stop me from toppling Boris Johnson

  17-09-2019 17:03
  The Liberal Democrat leader condemned the Prime Minister for using insults such as 'girly swot' in her party conference leader's speech.
  
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• Black carbon particles found in placenta – study

  17-09-2019 17:00
  Researchers say particle transfer across the placenta has been suggested but to date, no direct evidence in real-life, human context exists.
  
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