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• Johnson sparks outrage by saying ‘getting Brexit done’ would honour Jo Cox

  25-09-2019 23:58
  Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson described the PM's words as 'sickening'.
  
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• Why Johnson May Come To Regret His 'Surrender Act' Rhetoric

  25-09-2019 23:28
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• All the new Amazon devices coming to the UK

  25-09-2019 22:44
  From the Echo Buds to the Echo Show 8 and new budget Echo Flex.
  
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• PM branded a disgrace after saying best way to honour Jo Cox is to deliver Brexit

  25-09-2019 22:43
  Boris Johnson’s reference to memory of murdered MP prompts gasps in Commons. Boris Johnson has been branded a disgrace for dismissing pleas from Labour MPs to stop using inflammatory language in light of the murder of Jo Cox, telling one that it was “humbug” and another that the best way to honour her was to “get Brexit done”. Johnson caused uproar in the House of Commons after he responded dismissively to Labour MP Paula Sherriff, who made a heartfelt speech callin
  
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• PM branded a disgrace after he says best way to honour Jo Cox is to deliver Brexit

  25-09-2019 22:43
  Boris Johnson’s reference to memory of murdered MP prompts gasps in Commons. Boris Johnson has been branded a disgrace for dismissing pleas from Labour MPs to stop using inflammatory language in light of the murder of Jo Cox, telling one that it was “humbug” and another that the best way to honour her was to “get Brexit done”. Johnson caused uproar in the House of Commons after he responded dismissively to Labour MP Paula Sherriff, who made a heartfelt speech callin
  
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• Fury As Boris Johnson Dismisses As 'Humbug' Friends Of Jo Cox's Pleas To Tone Down Language

  25-09-2019 22:32
  Boris Johnson has sparked "horrendous" scenes in the Commons after respondingto the pleas of friends of murdered MP Jo Cox to tone down his language bydescribing them as "humbug"
  
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• Outrage as Johnson claims getting Brexit done is best way to honour murdered MP

  25-09-2019 22:30
  The Prime Minister dismissed concerns from a colleague of murdered MP Jo Cox as 'humbug'.
  
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• No apologies: MPs' fury as Boris Johnson goes on the attack

  25-09-2019 22:04
  An unrepentant Boris Johnson has sparked a furious backlash after he repeated his criticism of the supreme court judgment, and rejected MPs’ pleas to moderate his “inflammatory” language as “humbug”.Addressing a rowdy and adversarial House of Commons, just hours after flying back early from New York, Johnson went on the attack, accusing Jeremy Corbyn of trying to thwart Brexit and running scared of an election.Johnson infuriated opposition MPs by dismissing fears th
  
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• Commons' fury as PM rejects pleas over his 'inflammatory' rhetoric

  25-09-2019 22:04
  Facing MPs after supreme court defeat, Boris Johnson repeats criticism of judgment. An unrepentant Boris Johnson has sparked a furious backlash after he repeated his criticism of the supreme court judgment, and rejected MPs’ pleas to moderate his “inflammatory” language as “humbug”. Addressing a rowdy and adversarial House of Commons, just hours after flying back early from New York, Johnson went on the attack, accusing Jeremy Corbyn of trying to thwart Brexit and r
  
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• Johnson offers words of praise to Egypt's leader despite repression

  25-09-2019 21:43
  Boris Johnson and Egypt’s President Sisi say they want to build on talks at the G7 summit in August. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/ReutersThe prime minister, Boris Johnson, lavished praise on Egypt at a bilateral meeting with its president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, in New York, hours before the UK hosted a global media freedom conference with Amal Clooney, the UK’s special envoy on media freedom.Sisi has just instigated a fresh massive crackdown on journalists following the outbreak of prot
  
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• Thomas Cook Airlines chief apologises after ‘inappropriately timed’ video

  25-09-2019 21:21
  Christoph Debus said he "never, ever intended to cause offence".
  
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• One nation Tories' 'sense of doom' over Boris Johnson tactics

  25-09-2019 21:06
  Centre-right MPs already open to trying to get rid of PM if no progress on a Brexit deal soon. One nation Conservative MPs are privately feeling “a real sense of doom” about Boris Johnson’s tactics, with speculation growing over whether he could be removed and replaced by someone else if he fails to get a deal. While Eurosceptics are rallying round their leader, Conservative MPs on the liberal centrist wing of the party expressed frustration about Johnson’s missteps and w
  
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• Amazon unveils new Echo smart devices

  25-09-2019 20:53
  The new Echo Studio speaker will be the first capable of playing 3D audio through its five built-in directional speakers.
  
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• MPs seek way to make Boris Johnson request Brexit extension earlier

  25-09-2019 20:21
  Lib Dem leader says party looking at ways to make PM go to Brussels before 19 October. Opposition MPs are discussing plans to force Boris Johnson to request a Brexit extension earlier than the current 19 October deadline. MPs returned to Westminster on Wednesday after the government’s suspension of parliament was declared unlawful. The Liberal Democrat leader, Jo Swinson, said her party was looking at ways of legislating in parliament to remove the threat of no deal more quickly than the d
  
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• Labour media tactics: more Trumpian than it would like to admit?

  25-09-2019 20:05
  Party is more confrontational with media than ever but sceptics claim it is not always acting in good faith. Jeremy Corbyn’s social media team could have recorded a video on any topic to mark the start of the Labour party conference: Brexit, the proposal to scrap Ofsted, or the plan to abolish prescription charges in England. Instead, they decided to show the Labour leader criticising The Andrew Marr Show for giving the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, an easy ride. In a clip that attracte
  
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• Johnson says Supreme Court was wrong to block suspension of Parliament

  25-09-2019 20:01
  The Prime Minister repeated his call for a general election to end the 'paralysed Parliament' which had failed to deliver Brexit.
  
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• NHS privatisation to be reined in under secret plan to reform care

  25-09-2019 20:00
  Proposal expected to feature in Queen’s speech after spending on private firms passes £9bn. Privatisation of NHS care will be significantly curbed under confidential plans that health service bosses expect Downing Street to include in the Queen’s speech next month. Local NHS bodies in England would no longer have to put out to tender any contract worth at least £615,278. That requirement has contributed to a big increase in outsourcing of services and a record £9.2b
  
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• Boris Johnson Offers Opposition The Chance To Bring Him Down In Vote Of No Confidence

  25-09-2019 19:45
  Boris Johnson has offered opposition MPs the opportunity to try and bring downhis government in a bid to end the Brexit crisis
  
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• PM’s ‘heartfelt condolences’ after man killed at Tube station in constituency

  25-09-2019 19:32
  Tashan Daniel, 20, was stabbed at Hillingdon station as he headed to an Arsenal match on Tuesday afternoon.
  
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• UK told it must table proposals for Irish backstop by next week

  25-09-2019 19:28
  The taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, at the United Nations general assembly in New York. Photograph: Jason DeCrow/APBoris Johnson must table written proposals within a week to fix “gaping holes” in his plans for the Irish border, the EU has said, as a former Irish taoiseach cited the IRA’s attempt to kill Margaret Thatcher as the violence he risked fuelling.EU diplomats briefed by the European commission on the latest proposals from London, including a fourth confidential paper, sugges
  
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• Almost a month’s rain recorded in 24 hours in parts of England

  25-09-2019 19:23
  Thursday is forecast to be a clearer day, but with some blustery showers across England and Wales.
  
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• The BBC’s part in building Airstrip One

  25-09-2019 19:08
  ‘It seems to me that perhaps the BBC has taken an easy option in utilising US material because it is in a version of English.’ Photograph: Nick Ansell/PAYour report on Mark Thompson’s forthcoming Steve Hewlett memorial lecture highlights his concern about the emergence of an “Airstrip One” status for the UK (Thompson: US streaming giants a threat to ‘cultural sovereignty’, 25 September). Those who listen to the BBC World Service at night on the Radio 4 w
  
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• Meghan gives Archie’s hand-me-downs to charity supporting mothers with HIV

  25-09-2019 19:08
  The royal youngster made his first official appearance of the tour in Cape Town, South Africa.
  
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• Labour, Brexit and the task of uniting a deeply divided country

  25-09-2019 19:08
  ‘I feel Corbyn is trying to be even-handed to leavers and remainers,’ writes Judith Daniels. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PAPaula Surridge is right up to a point (The political divide goes deeper than leave v remain, Journal, 24 September). I found, as did friends to the right and left of me in the Labour party, that Europe and EU membership is a stronger part of my identity than being part of the political tribe of Labour. I was a member for 38 years, but Brexit is something both exis
  
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• Britain's finance watchdog tells firms to think, not tick boxes

  25-09-2019 19:00
  Britain's finance industry watchdog wants financial services firms to think for themselves when applying new accountability rules for staff rather than adopt a "tick box" mentality for the new regime.The new rules are designed to ensure staff are "fit and proper" will apply to thousands more financial services employees from December.The aim is to improve behaviour by making top management of financial firms directly accountable for their actions, helping regulators to punish the right people qu
  
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• Financial firms underestimating climate change risk - BOE's Carney

  25-09-2019 18:56
  "This will affect the value - in some cases positively, in some case negatively - of every single financial asset," Carney said, reiterating some of his concerns about the risks climate change poses to the stability of the global financial system.Carney spoke at a business conference in New York organised by Bloomberg.
  
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• Grant Shapps lifts sections of speech from Chris Grayling

  25-09-2019 18:39
  Minister’s speech on Thomas Cook collapse follows text of predecessor’s 2017 statement on Monarch Airlines. If there was a previous transport secretary that the incumbent, Grant Shapps, might hope not to imitate, it would surely be his notoriously calamity-stricken predecessor Chris Grayling. But just a few months after his return to the cabinet after several years out in the cold, Shapps appears to have followed Grayling’s example rather too closely – lifting sections of
  
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• Derby County players on drink-drive charge after crash

  25-09-2019 18:34
  Tom Lawrence, 25, and Mason Bennett, 23, will appear in court next month.
  
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• Call to modernise law after transgender man loses birth certificate battle

  25-09-2019 18:22
  Freddy McConnell, a multimedia journalist who works for The Guardian, wants to be registered as father or parent on his child's birth certificate
  
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• Scammers targeting people affected by Thomas Cook collapse

  25-09-2019 18:20
  Transport Secretary Grant Shapps branded the fraudulent activity 'absolutely disgusting'.
  
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• Space regulation ‘must keep up with technological innovation’

  25-09-2019 17:56
  Nik Smith, UK country director for Lockheed Martin Space, suggested regulations need to be better at keeping up with the industry.
  
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• Phone Calls To UK-Funded Firm Of Boris Johnson's Friend 'Answered From California'

  25-09-2019 17:50
  A report in The Sunday Times said the address used to apply for the grant wasa UK-based property no longer associated with her
  
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• Tim Peake: People will land on Mars within 50 years

  25-09-2019 17:43
  The European Space Agency astronaut said he is not convinced the feat will be achieved in the next two decades.
  
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• Thomas Cook: The Last Flight

  25-09-2019 17:34
  A special programme looking at the final days of tour operator Thomas Cook which collapsed after 178 years in business.
  
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• Geoffrey Cox Signals Domestic Abuse Bill Could Be Pushed Through The Commons

  25-09-2019 17:26
  Geoffrey Cox has signalled that a landmark bill to update domestic abuse lawscould soon be pushed through the Commons
  
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• Union brands PM ‘a disgrace’ if he does not intervene to help Wrightbus

  25-09-2019 17:24
  Around 1,200 workers were made redundant as the firm went into administration after failed attempts to find a buyer.
  
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• Who is Sir William Wright?

  25-09-2019 17:22
  The Wright family created a bus business which became world famous after it manufactured the 'Boris buses' for London.
  
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• Anywhere but Westminster: the real fight to take back control – video

  25-09-2019 17:18
  John Harris and John Domokos dive once again into what rumbles beneath the Brexit crisis. In London, a remain-supporting courier leads a fight for basic rights and in leave-voting Derbyshire, ex-miners yearn for a past of solidarity and respect  – while at the Labour party conference, it's all going off. Warning: this video contains signs of hope Continue reading...
  
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• Thomas Cook Execs Could Be Stripped Of Controversial Bonuses, Says Grant Shapps

  25-09-2019 17:15
  The government will examine whether millions of pounds paid in bonuses toThomas Cook executives before the company collapsed this week can berecovered
  
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• Worker dies in 'incident' at Tata Steel site in south Wales

  25-09-2019 17:04
  A worker died in an incident at the Tata Steelsite at Port Talbot in South Wales on Wednesday, police and the company said."We have to report the sad news that a contractor colleague working at our Port Talbot site has died following an incident on the site today," Tata Steel Europe said on Twitter.South Wales Police said they had been called to the site shortly after 2 p.m, describing it as an isolated incident.
  
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• Tata Steel reports 'incident' at its site in south Wales

  25-09-2019 17:04
  Tata Steelsaid there had been an incident at its site in Port Talbot in South Wales on Wednesday but police said it did not represent a threat to the public."We can confirm there has been an incident at our Port Talbot site," Tata said on Twitter.It did not give any details of what had happened but South Wales Police said it was an isolated incident.
  
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• In Pictures: Archie steals the show as he meets archbishop in South Africa

  25-09-2019 16:49
  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex introduced their baby son to Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
  
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• Meghan enjoying ‘exciting’ mix of royal duties and motherhood

  25-09-2019 16:45
  The duchess was speaking to a group of female entrepreneurs in Cape Town.
  
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• Meghan receives warm welcome at Cape Town mothers’ charity

  25-09-2019 16:37
  The Duchess of Sussex met staff from the mothers2mothers organisation.
  
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• Austrian Couple Received 25,000 Ecstasy Tablets In The Post By Accident

  25-09-2019 16:26
  An Austrian couple keenly awaiting the delivery of two mail-order dresses wereleft somewhat surprised when they received almost 25,000 ecstasy tablets inthe post instead
  
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• Policeman sacked after admitting online grooming charges

  25-09-2019 16:22
  Bedfordshire-born Stephen Shaw, who worked in Coventry, faces a possible jail term in November.
  
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• Cork bartender hopes foraged ingredients can serve up world title

  25-09-2019 16:21
  Linda O'Flynn used Irish grown fig leaves in a cocktail served up for judges at the world bartender of the year finals.
  
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• Transgender man loses court battle to be registered as father

  25-09-2019 16:20
  Freddy McConnell has lived as a man for years but retained his female reproductive system and gave birth in 2018. Photograph: ITV/Rex/ShutterstockA transgender man from Kent who gave birth with the help of fertility treatment cannot be registered as his child’s father, the most senior family judge in England and Wales has ruled.In the first legal definition of a mother in English common law, Sir Andrew McFarlane, the president of the high court’s family division, ruled on Wednesday t
  
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• World’s best bartenders compete in ‘Olympic Games’ of cocktail making

  25-09-2019 16:15
  National champions from six continents are in Glasgow vying for the world title.
  
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• Boris Johnson accused of seeking to create 'no man's land' at Irish border

  25-09-2019 16:13
  Former taoiseach says PM’s border plan could fuel violence akin to IRA attack in 1984. The attempted murder of Margaret Thatcher by the IRA has been raised by a former prime minister of Ireland as an example of the gravity of the violence that Boris Johnson’s plans for the Irish border could fuel. John Bruton, who was the taoiseach between 1994 and 1997, accused Johnson of seeking to create a “no-man’s land” at the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland. &
  
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