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• Hopes of saving Thomas Cook ‘slim’ after lengthy talks

  22-09-2019 23:52
  Unions representing Thomas Cook staff have urged the Government to intervene.
  
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• Teenager charged with murder after woman’s body discovered

  22-09-2019 23:49
  Wesley Streete, 19, of Tamworth, has been charged with murder.
  
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• Tanzania not sharing information on suspected Ebola cases: WHO - Al Jazeera English

  22-09-2019 23:39 via news.google.com
  Tanzania not sharing information on suspected Ebola cases: WHO  Al Jazeera EnglishTanzania not sharing information on suspected Ebola cases – WHO  The New TimesWorld Health Organization Accuses Tanzania Of Hiding Ebola Cases  Sputnik InternationalMalawi risks Ebola attack as neighbouring Tanzania gets it - Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi  Nyasa TimesWorld Health Organization says Tanzania is not sharing details on Ebola  
  
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• Britain to create 1 billion pound fund for clean energy technology

  22-09-2019 23:38
  Britain will create a 1 billion pound ($1.25 billion) fund for scientists around the world to create and test new technology to help developing countries reduce carbon emissions, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will say on Monday.At the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Johnson will call for greater global action to tackle what he will describe as the twin threats of climate change and biodiversity loss.
  
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• Eyeing elections, Labour plan care spending boost

  22-09-2019 23:32
  Britain's opposition Labour Party will on Monday set out a 6 billion pound per year plan to help look after elderly people, as it pitches its economic agenda for a socialist-run country at the party's annual conference.Labour is hoping to use the Brexit chaos engulfing Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative government to win control of Britain's $2.8 trillion economy at an early election expected to be called later this year.Presenting himself as Britain's finance minister in waiting, veter
  
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• PM to unveil funding to help scientists tackle climate change

  22-09-2019 23:30
  The PM hopes the money will save the black rhino, African elephant, snow leopard and Sumatran tiger from extinction.
  
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• Labour To Offer Free Personal Care For Elderly People In England

  22-09-2019 23:30
  All elderly people in England will be eligible for free help with basic taskssuch as getting out of bed, washing and feeding themselves under Labour plansfor a national care service
  
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• Boris Johnson unveils £1.2bn for climate and endangered species

  22-09-2019 23:30
  Boris Johnson says he has always been optimistic about technological solutions to the climate emergency. Photograph: ReutersBoris Johnson has unveiled a combined £1.2bn in funding for new efforts to tackle the climate emergency and protect endangered species as he prepares to attend the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York.While at the UN general assembly, the prime minister will use a speech to announce £1bn in aid money for UK inventors to seek fundin
  
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• Back Jeremy Corbyn on Brexit or 'step aside', Labour frontbenchers warned

  22-09-2019 23:19
  Union boss Len McCluskey, a prominent ally of the Labour leader, says the party "must go into an election united".
  
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• Thomas Cook holidaymakers will not be left stranded, Foreign Secretary says

  22-09-2019 22:53
  Dominic Raab said contingency planning is in place if the company collapses.
  
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• Boat Catches Fire And Explodes On The River Thames

  22-09-2019 22:40
  Passengers jumped overboard after a boat became engulfed in in flames after itexploded on the river Thames
  
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• Labour deputy row: how move against Watson nearly became a full-scale split

  22-09-2019 22:32
  A reinvigorated Tom Watson arrived in Brighton to cheers from activists. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PAWith a general election within touching distance, Labour’s conference in Brighton was meant to be a showcase for its radical policies and an opportunity to enthuse grassroots members about the project of propelling Jeremy Corbyn into Downing Street.Instead, it kicked off on Friday evening with a botched bid to oust Tom Watson by abolishing his job and has continued with a battle over Brexi
  
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• Forget The Brexit Rebel Alliance, Is Corbyn Now On The Dark Side?

  22-09-2019 21:50
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• UK court will not rule on Monday morning on PM Johnson's suspension of parliament

  22-09-2019 21:45
  The United Kingdom Supreme Court will not rule on Monday morning on Prime Minister Boris Johnson's suspension of parliament but will update on timings later on Monday, a court spokeswoman said on Sunday."The hand-down for the following cases: R (on the application of Miller) (Appellant) v The Prime Minister (Respondent), Cherry and others (Respondents) v Advocate General for Scotland (Appellant) UKSC 2019/0193, will not happen tomorrow (Monday) morning," a spokeswoman said.
  
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• Labour commits hara-kiri by copying Tories' playbook on infighting

  22-09-2019 21:37
  Tom Watson emerged positively chipper from his near-death experience.Photograph: Victoria Jones/PAClassic Dom. He’s got the Labour party just where he wants it. Taking a leaf out of the Conservative party playbook. The Tories have spent the last few years fighting over Europe and conducting drive-by shootings on each other. And the lesson that Labour appears to have taken from this is that if it wants to be successful at the next election and form the next government, then it has to behave
  
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• Corbyn on collision course with Labour members over Brexit

  22-09-2019 21:32
  Jeremy Corbyn at the Labour conference, where he faces a battle with pro-remain delegates. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PAJeremy Corbyn has risked the wrath of Labour’s membership after he moved to stop the party campaigning to remain in the EU at a general election.Before a crucial vote on Monday on whether it should explicitly back remain in any election, Labour’s autumn conference descended into factional rows with rebellious MPs privately threatening another leadership challenge.Th
  
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• Third boy arrested in Slough skate park murder probe

  22-09-2019 21:22
  A third arrest has been made as police investigate the fatal stabbing,
  
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• Slough Stabbing: Third Boy Arrested On Suspicion Of Murder

  22-09-2019 20:43
  Police investigating the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy in Slough havearrested a third boy on suspicion of murder
  
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• Yellow weather warning as UK set to be battered by heavy rain

  22-09-2019 20:35
  Travellers have been warned to brace themselves for disruption, particularly on Tuesday.
  
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• Labour delegates vote for plan that would abolish private schools

  22-09-2019 20:28
  The shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, supports integrating private schools into the state sector. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PALabour delegates have endorsed radical plans that would abolish private schools by removing their charitable status and redistributing their endowments, investments and properties to the state sector.Conference delegates approved a motion that said such a commitment should be included in the party’s next general election manifesto. The motion added univers
  
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• Thomas Cook halts holidays to Tunisia ‘hostage’ hotel

  22-09-2019 20:13
  The resort demanded extra money from guests for fear it will not be paid what it is due from the embattled travel company.
  
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• Diane Abbott urges resigned Corbyn adviser to reconsider

  22-09-2019 20:05
  Shadow home secretary calls Andrew Fisher ‘an asset’ and close friend of Labour leader. Diane Abbott has urged a key adviser to Jeremy Corbyn who resigned citing a lack of “professionalism, competence and human decency” in the Labour leader’s team to reconsider his decision. In a leaked resignation memo to colleagues, Andrew Fisher, who masterminded the party’s 2017 manifesto, said he no longer had faith that Labour would be successful and accused the leadersh
  
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• Diane Abbott asks resigned Corbyn adviser to reconsider

  22-09-2019 20:05
  Diane Abbott addressing the Labour conference in Brighton. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PADiane Abbott has urged a key adviser to Jeremy Corbyn who resigned citing a lack of “professionalism, competence and human decency” in the Labour leader’s team to reconsider his decision.In a leaked resignation memo to colleagues, Andrew Fisher, who masterminded the party’s 2017 manifesto, said he no longer had faith that Labour would be successful and accused the leadership team of ma
  
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• Second boy arrested on suspicion of murder after Slough stabbing

  22-09-2019 20:03
  Police have appealed for witnesses.
  
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• Labour Party Votes To Abolish Private Schools In Major Education Shake-Up

  22-09-2019 19:31
  Labour has voted to effectively abolish private schools in a major shake-up ofthe education system
  
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• Diane Abbott Says Tory Brexit Rebels Could Prop Up Labour Government

  22-09-2019 19:23
  A senior Jeremy Corbyn ally has suggested a minority Labour government couldbe propped up by sacked Tory rebels seeking avert a no-deal Brexit under BorisJohnson
  
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• Labour’s next manifesto to commit to integrate private schools into state sector

  22-09-2019 19:07
  Angela Rayner said a future Labour government would scrap the 'tax loopholes' which benefit private schools, in its first budget.
  
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• From Eton to life on Earth, how power and wealth harm society

  22-09-2019 19:02
  A group of Eton boys, pictured in the 1930s. Photograph: KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Keystone via Getty ImagesMusa Okwonga makes no reference to the economic inequality that the existence of Eton and similar private schools has created and continues to create in this country (There’s a side to Eton you won’t read about in David Cameron’s memoirs, 21 September). Suggesting that Eton should inculcate compassion is downright patronising to the growing numbers of poor whose lives are des
  
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• Corbyn criticises media over coverage of Johnson claims

  22-09-2019 18:45
  Jeremy Corbyn claimed the establishment close ranks.
  
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• MPs join journalists in first women’s conference football match

  22-09-2019 18:44
  Former sports minister Tracey Crouch captained the team.
  
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• Battle of Arnhem veteran: I wanted to see Gordon’s stone so I could say ‘hi pal’

  22-09-2019 17:30
  Sandy Cortmann, from Aberdeen, took a small bottle of whisky to the graveside of Private Gordon Matthews.
  
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• Staff at Whipps Cross hospital: 'Our goodwill is running dry'

  22-09-2019 17:28
  Medics at hospital where Boris Johnson was confronted say £350m rebuild is badly needed. “It’s a really, really good hospital, to be honest. It doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. Staff are very proud of it. But the patient was right to say what he said.” The speaker is a nurse at Whipps Cross hospital in London, where Boris Johnson had an awkward encounter last Wednesday with the father of a seven-day-old girl about conditions there. The ward on which she was
  
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• Staff at Whipps Cross hospital: 'Our goodwill is running dry'

  22-09-2019 17:28
  Boris Johnson on a visit to Whipps Cross hospital in east London last week, when he was confronted by a patient’s father. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA“It’s a really, really good hospital, to be honest. It doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. Staff are very proud of it. But the patient was right to say what he said.”The speaker is a nurse at Whipps Cross hospital in London, where Boris Johnson had an awkward encounter last Wednesday with the father of a seven-day-old g
  
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• Sadiq Khan calls Donald Trump ‘poster boy for far-right around world’

  22-09-2019 17:22
  The US president has made his disapproval of the London mayor well-known
  
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• Thornberry warns Labour could be crushed like film hero without clear EU stance

  22-09-2019 17:21
  The shadow foreign secretary also said she did not support Labour holding a 'special conference' to decide the party’s Brexit position.
  
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• Labour Brexit row deepens as shadow cabinet loyalty questioned by Corbyn ally

  22-09-2019 17:16
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is trying to postpone a decision on whether the party would back remain in a second referendum.
  
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• Sinn Fein ‘open to arrangement’ between pro-Remain parties to oust DUP MPs

  22-09-2019 17:14
  Sinn Fein MLA Conor Murphy said there is an opportunity to see pro-remain candidates win seats in North, East and South Belfast.
  
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• English people living in Wales tilted it towards Brexit, research finds

  22-09-2019 16:59
  The Usk valley near Llangynidr at sunset. A fifth of people living in Wales were born in England. Photograph: Adam Burton/Getty ImagesThe question of why Wales voted to leave the European Union can in large part be answered by the number of English retired people who have moved across the border, new research has found.Despite being one of the biggest beneficiaries of EU funding, Wales voted leave by a majority of 52% to 48% in the 2016 referendum – a result that took some analysts by surp
  
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• Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness has been living with HIV

  22-09-2019 16:43
  He was diagnosed aged 25.
  
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• Adventurer returns after ‘magical’ round-the-world gyrocopter challenge

  22-09-2019 16:39
  James Ketchell has completed his epic 175-day journey in a James Bond-style gyrocopter.
  
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• British pupils honour Battle of Arnhem heroes at memorial service

  22-09-2019 16:07
  Local children joined a 75th-anniversary commemoration service at Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery in the Netherlands.
  
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• Labour to announce it would reverse austerity cuts to adult social care

  22-09-2019 16:01
  The adult care system is ‘mired in crisis’, a Labour source said. Photograph: FredFroese/Getty ImagesA Labour government would launch a multibillion-pound plan to reverse austerity cuts to care services and fix England’s growing social care crisis, shadow ministers are expected to announce next week.A £7bn-a-year programme of free personal care for people over 65 who need help with washing, dressing and eating will be at the heart of the strategy, which is likely to be un
  
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• Climate change causes and impacts are accelerating, experts warn

  22-09-2019 16:00
  Warning comes as countries gather for UN summit aimed at boosting efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
  
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• Labour pledges to abolish prescription charges in England

  22-09-2019 15:28
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said scrapping the charges for everyone was 'simple common sense'.
  
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• Khan blasts ‘anti-walking, anti-cycling’ councils as parts of London go car free

  22-09-2019 15:16
  Stretches of road in the city centre were closed to traffic and 15 boroughs across the capital took part including Hackney, Islington and Haringey.
  
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• Extinction Rebellion protesters gather outside Labour Party conference

  22-09-2019 14:51
  Hundreds turned out in Brighton, causing traffic to back up.
  
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• Let's decide our Brexit referendum stance now, says Labour's foreign policy chief

  22-09-2019 14:17
  Britain's main opposition Labour Party should make a decision on what to campaign for in any second referendum now, the party's foreign affairs policy chief, Emily Thornberry, said on Sunday, putting herself at odds with leader Jeremy Corbyn.Earlier, Corbyn said Labour would hold a special conference or meeting to decide what to campaign for in a second referendum after an election.
  
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• Corbyn suggests UK could be better off after Brexit if deal is right

  22-09-2019 13:50
  Jeremy Corbyn has suggested a Labour Brexit deal could be preferable to remaining in the EU, putting himself on a collision course with activists and MPs pushing for the party to campaign for remain.In an appearance on BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show before a contentious debate on Brexit at the party’s conference in Brighton, Corbyn sought to play down Labour divisions after an aborted attempt to ditch Tom Watson’s job and the resignation of a key policy aide, Andrew Fisher.When
  
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• In Pictures: Battle of Britain atmosphere recreated at Duxford Air Show

  22-09-2019 13:39
  Attendees dressed up in historical clothing as they walked between planes such as Hawker Hurricanes and Spitfires.
  
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• Thomas Cook holidaymakers won’t be left stranded, Foreign Secretary says

  22-09-2019 13:38
  Dominic Raab said contingency planning is in place if the company collapses.
  
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