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• Corbyn Urged By Labour MPs To Put Brexit Referendum Before Snap Election

  30-09-2019 23:53
  Labour MPs have told Jeremy Corbyn to secure a new Brexit referendum beforethe next general election is held, HuffPost UK can reveal
  
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• Serious violent and sexual offenders to spend longer behind bars

  30-09-2019 23:30
  Justice Secretary Robert Buckland will set out sentencing reforms in his Tory conference speech.
  
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• Conservatives to scrap automatic early release of some prisoners

  30-09-2019 23:30
  Violent and sex offenders in England and Wales to serve two-thirds of sentence in jail. Violent and sex offenders in England and Wales will no longer be automatically released halfway through their jail sentence under government plans that will increase the prison population by about 3,000. Nearly all offenders – 92% in 2018 – sentenced to immediate custody are released at the midway point on licence in the community under rules introduced in 2005. As part of a tough-on-crime agenda
  
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• Why Boris Johnson Is Parking His Tanks On Labour's Lawn

  30-09-2019 23:11
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• No need to cut down on bacon sandwiches, researchers say

  30-09-2019 23:00
  The research flies in the face of previous studies.
  
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• Harry: Human race ‘driving ourselves to extinction’

  30-09-2019 22:20
  The duke has been highlighting the importance of trees by guest editing the Instagram account of National Geographic.
  
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• UK proposes customs centres on both sides of Irish border - RTE report

  30-09-2019 22:18
  Britain is proposing to set up "customs clearance centres" on both sides of the Irish border after Brexit in order to avoid the need for border checks on the border itself, Irish state broadcaster RTE reported on Monday.The issue of how to manage the Irish border after Brexit has been one of the main obstacles to an exit agreement between the European Union and Britain.The British government is expected to present new proposals to the EU to try and break the deadlock this week.
  
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• Ireland dismisses reported UK Brexit border proposal

  30-09-2019 22:18
  Britain is proposing to set up "customs clearance centres" on both sides of the Irish border after Brexit, Irish national broadcaster RTE reported on Monday, an idea Ireland's foreign minister quickly dismissed as a "non-starter".The British proposal would place clearance centres, effectively customs posts, between 5-10 miles (8-16 km) 'back' from and on each side of the border, RTE Europe Editor Tony Connelly said on Twitter.
  
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• BBC urged to ‘learn the lessons’ as reversal of Naga Munchetty ruling welcomed

  30-09-2019 22:15
  The ruling was reversed by Lord Hall.
  
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• BBC boss Lord Hall overturns Naga Munchetty decision

  30-09-2019 22:13
  The BBC director-general personally reviewed the decision.
  
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• Boris Johnson to set out Brexit proposals to Brussels this week

  30-09-2019 21:55
  The Prime Minister has said the UK side had made 'pretty big moves' to reach a deal.
  
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• Rees-Mogg Accuses Manchester Venue Of 'Political Spite' For Cancelling Hard Brexit Event

  30-09-2019 21:48
  Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused a Manchester venue of acting "out of politicalspite" after a hardline Brexiteer Tory fringe event was cancelled with lessthan 24 hours' notice
  
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• Naga Munchetty: BBC reverses decision to censure presenter

  30-09-2019 21:47
  Director general Tony Hall emails staff to say he is overturning ruling over impartiality guidelines. The BBC has reversed its decision to sanction BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty for breaking impartiality guidelines with her comments about Donald Trump, following a staff uprising against the ruling and enormous political pressure. Tony Hall, the BBC director general, emailed all staff on Monday to say he had reviewed the decision following internal and external protests. He said that, on
  
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• 'Maoist' Dominic Cummings Out To 'Destroy' Political System, Says Dominic Grieve

  30-09-2019 21:27
  Boris Johnson advisor Dominic Cummings is a "Maoist right winger" who is"taking a sledgehammer" to the British constitution, Dominic Grieve has said
  
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• Flood warnings across UK as country braced for torrential rain

  30-09-2019 21:25
  There are dozens of flood warnings in place.
  
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• Remarks that sparked BBC controversy

  30-09-2019 21:01
  Naga Munchetty was found to have been in breach of BBC editorial guidelines when she said on air that the US president's call for a group of female Democrats to "go back" to their own countries was "embedded in racism".
  
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• CPS could and should have extradited paedophile music teacher

  30-09-2019 20:56
  Chris Ling was first investigated in 1990 after abuse allegations but case was dropped due to supposed lack of evidence. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) could and should have extradited a paedophile music teacher suspected of grooming and sexually abusing a string of girls at a school in Manchester, the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has heard. In 1990, detectives began investigating Chris Ling, a violin teacher at Chetham’s School of Music. He had moved to the US with som
  
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• Tories try to woo low-paid with vow to raise national living wage

  30-09-2019 20:15
  Labour dismisses pledge to raise pay to £10.50 an hour as ‘pathetic’ attempt to catch up. Sajid Javid has signalled the government’s intention to woo low-paid workers in the forthcoming general election by announcing plans to increase the “national living wage” to £10.50 an hour. The chancellor said his new five-year target to raise the national living wage and reduce the age at which people could receive it from 25 to 21 meant the Conservatives were now
  
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• Redwood vows Tories will take action after Supreme Court ruling - 'Judges must be careful'

  30-09-2019 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXITEER MP John Redwood lashed out at the Fixed Term Parliament’s Act as a “very bad piece of legislation” and claimed the Supreme Court needs “guidance” over political issues.
  
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• Boris Johnson groping allegation haunts Tory conference

  30-09-2019 20:05
  Conservative activists raise concerns despite ministers’ efforts to avoid issue. Speeches were given by ministers, activists crammed into overheated meeting rooms, panels were under way on all manner of topics. Yet 24 hours after the journalist Charlotte Edwardes made an explosive allegation that Boris Johnson had inappropriately grabbed her thigh, the Conservatives were still dealing with that revelation by trying not to talk about it. Cabinet secretaries stuck to scripts about “get
  
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• Naga Munchetty's co-host was included in original complaint about Trump remarks

  30-09-2019 19:28
  BBC presenter Naga Munchetty's co-host Dan Walker was included in the original complaint which led to her being disciplined over remarks made about Donald Trump, correspondence seen by Sky News shows.Munchetty was found to have been in breach of BBC editorial guidelines when she said on air that the US president's call for a group of female Democrats to "go back" to their own countries was "embedded in racism".It sparked a huge backlash, with many questioning why the broadcaster was penalising o
  
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• Hardline Conservative Brexiters open door to support for deal

  30-09-2019 19:25
  Mark Francois signals shift by European Research Group as PM prepares for Brussels talks. Signs have emerged that the hardline position of the Conservative party’s most Eurosceptic backbenchers has softened just days before Boris Johnson’s team are due to enter a “tunnel” of secret negotiations with Brussels. Mark Francois, the deputy chair of the European Research Group, has opened the door to a potential Brexit deal, indicating he would look at one even if it included a
  
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• Welsh nationalism and the wider ramifications

  30-09-2019 19:22
  Readers respond to Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s argument that Brexit is giving independence fresh appeal. While Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s article ( Independence for Wales: back on the agenda, Journal, 28 September) is timely and welcome, it doesn’t acknowledge some points which, as one of the organisers of the march in my home town of Merthyr, I feel are significant. First, the main movement behind this resurgence has been Yes Cymru, a non-partisan group throughout our nation that h
  
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• Sajid Javid addresses his mum in Punjabi at Tory party conference

  30-09-2019 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  The chancellor noted that his family were the first Asians to move into Downing Street.
  
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• Opposition must unite to stop Johnson’s neoliberal Brexit plan

  30-09-2019 19:16
  Readers discuss the prime minister’s probable intentions for a no-deal Brexit and the importance of pro-EU parties rallying together to prevent it. Your editorial (28 September) claimed that the prime minister has been pursuing a three-phase strategy, the implication of which is that he actually hoped to bounce the EU into a deal and subsequently win an election, which would give him a majority in parliament. I don’t find this plausible. Nothing is more likely than that Boris Johnson
  
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• Veteran Boris Johnson aide quits as Downing Street adviser

  30-09-2019 19:11
  Exclusive: Alex Crowley’s departure comes as sources suggest atmosphere of feuding exists in No 10. A veteran of Boris Johnson’s political campaigns has resigned as a Downing Street political adviser as tensions rise between former Vote Leave members and ex-City Hall factions around No 10. Alex Crowley, who worked on Johnson’s Tory leadership campaign, two mayoral campaigns and wrote a book about him, quit last week after just weeks in the prime minister’s political unit.
  
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• Walton-on-the-Naze fishermen cut off by tide rescued by lifeboat

  30-09-2019 19:07 via bbc.co.uk
  The men are rescued after being swamped by the incoming water.
  
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• BBC TV licence: Surge in fraud feared after free licences for over 75s scrapped

  30-09-2019 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE BBC’s controversial decision to scrap free TV licences for over-75s could lead to a surge in fraud, a top charity has warned.
  
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• Car lost after Bristol festival found a week later

  30-09-2019 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  Connor Spear, known as "Fun-time Frankie", failed to find the car even with the help of his mum.
  
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• Anti-abortion posters targeting Stella Creasy to be pulled

  30-09-2019 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  There was an outcry after the campaign targeting Stella Creasy appeared in her constituency.
  
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• Theresa May: I would rather write Alpine whodunnit than memoir

  30-09-2019 19:00
  Ex-PM says she would like to write novel based on ill-fated 19th century ascent of Matterhorn. He was the British mountaineer who led the first ascent of one of the most formidable mountains in the Alps. She was the prime minister who is likely to go down in history for ultimately failing to reach the summit of her own personal Matterhorn. Yet in her first public interview since leaving Downing Street – at a book festival in where she was asked about what book she might now find the time t
  
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• QUB: Gay students given electric shocks 'to cure homosexuality'

  30-09-2019 18:57 via bbc.co.uk
  A gay man recalls being given electrical shock therapy at Queen's University in Belfast.
  
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• Boris Johnson 'touching' row continues at Tory conference

  30-09-2019 18:50 via bbc.co.uk
  A female journalist has accused the prime minister of squeezing her thigh at a lunch in 1999, which he denies.
  
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• So long summer: ‘I would always choose a winter day in the mountains’

  30-09-2019 18:48
  Summer’s gone and winter is coming. But that should be cause for celebration according to Catherine Cooper as it means the slopes are calling once againIt’s September – the children are back at school, the leaves on the trees are starting to turn from green to inviting shades of auburn, and the need for a pumpkin spiced latte is overwhelming. For many people, their summer holiday is already starting to feel like a distant memory, with their next major trip some way off.But rath
  
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• Tory conference: National Living Wage to rise to £10.50, says chancellor

  30-09-2019 18:47 via bbc.co.uk
  The chancellor says it will be £10.50 an hour by 2024, with a lower age threshold - down from 25 to 21.
  
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• Prince Harry honours soldier killed in anti-poaching effort

  30-09-2019 18:43 via bbc.co.uk
  The Duke of Sussex praises Matthew Talbot, saying he played a "huge part" in conservation efforts.
  
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• 'Quiet' husband bludgeoned wife with crowbar

  30-09-2019 18:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Ann Marie Pomphret was abusive to her husband, who "finally snapped", his murder trial has heard.
  
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• Ad agency apologises to Stella Creasy over foetus billboard campaign

  30-09-2019 18:25
  Anti-abortion group ran the campaign after MPs approved Creasy’s amendment to extend abortion rights to Northern Ireland. An advertising agency has apologised for running a campaign against the Labour MP Stella Creasy by an anti-abortion group, which included a billboard featuring a foetus and the words “Stop Stella”. The company, Clear Channel, said it would like to “sincerely apologise” for any offence caused after the poster appeared in Walthamstow, north-east Lo
  
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• Coventry taxi driver saves woman from sex trafficker

  30-09-2019 18:08 via bbc.co.uk
  A concerned taxi driver rang police after he was booked to take the woman to a brothel in Coventry.
  
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• Sajid Javid announces plan to raise national living wage to £10.50 an hour

  30-09-2019 17:50
  The Chancellor also said the Government would bring down the age threshold to cover all workers over the age of 21.
  
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• Theresa May: No regrets over ‘fantastic’ political career

  30-09-2019 17:40
  The former prime minister was speaking at the Henley Literature Festival.
  
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• Emiliano Sala: Fifa rules Cardiff must pay first instalment of £5.3m to Nantes

  30-09-2019 17:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Cardiff City have been told to pay the first instalment of £5.3m to Nantes for striker Emiliano Sala, who died in a plane crash.
  
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• Murder inquiry after teenager hit by van

  30-09-2019 17:37 via bbc.co.uk
  Police say the driver deliberately drove at Liam Hendry and his group of friends, fatally injuring him.
  
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• In Pictures: Harry honours soldier killed during anti-poaching mission in Malawi

  30-09-2019 17:36
  Guardsman Mathew Talbot died during his first deployment.
  
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• Opposition rift remains over who should lead anti no-deal Brexit government

  30-09-2019 17:33
  Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson is still ruling out Jeremy Corbyn as caretaker prime minister.
  
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• Boris Johnson calls on EU to act to find ‘landing zone’ for Brexit deal

  30-09-2019 17:33
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK side had made some 'pretty big moves' towards a Brexit deal.
  
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• Bercow and Westminster parties agree to 'use moderate language'

  30-09-2019 17:32 via bbc.co.uk
  The agreement follows a stormy week in Parliament where MPs were criticised over their language.
  
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• Prudential staff ‘were offered spa breaks among pension sales incentives’

  30-09-2019 17:23
  Prudential has been fined nearly £24 million after failing to ensure customers were consistently told they may get a better deal by shopping around.
  
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• Teenage girls arrested on suspicion of murder after elderly man found dead

  30-09-2019 17:22
  Police were called to an address in Edinburgh Drive on Saturday, to reports of a man in his 80s in cardiac arrest.
  
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• Crowd chants as Boris Johnson vows to 'stick to guns' in passionate Brexit rallying cry

  30-09-2019 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson asked a crowd of Welsh members if he is “fighting a losing battle”, before pledging to get Brexit “done” by October 31.
  
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