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• Boris Johnson to set out final Brexit offer to Brussels on Wednesday

  01-10-2019 23:18
  The Prime Minister will use his Conservative Party Conference speech to unveil the Brexit package.
  
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• Johnson to unveil 'final Brexit offer' to EU

  01-10-2019 23:03
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Wednesday unveil his final Brexit offer to the European Union and say that, if Brussels does not engage with it, Britain will stop talking and leave on Oct. 31 regardless.In his closing speech to his Conservatives' annual conference, Johnson will stick to his hard line on Brexit, offering the party faithful details of what he will describe as his "fair and reasonable compromise".With less than a month left until Britain is due to leave the EU, the future of B
  
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• Final proposal - PM Johnson to unveil Brexit offer to EU

  01-10-2019 23:03
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Wednesday unveil his final Brexit offer to the European Union and make clear that if Brussels does not engage with the proposal, Britain will not negotiate further and will leave on Oct. 31.In his closing speech to his governing Conservatives' annual conference, Johnson will stick to his hard line on Brexit, offering the party faithful the first details of what he will describe as his "fair and reasonable compromise".With less than a month until Britain is du
  
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• PM strikes secret deal with DUP as he draws up 'final Brexit offer'

  01-10-2019 23:00
  Boris Johnson agrees pact with Northern Irish party as details emerge of ‘two borders’ plan. Boris Johnson has struck a secret deal with the Democratic Unionist party involving radical proposals for a Belfast-Dublin “bilateral lock” on post-Brexit arrangements on the island of Ireland. Details have emerged of the prime minister’s final Brexit offer that he will lay out on Wednesday, with Northern Ireland staying under EU single market regulations for agri-food and m
  
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• Duchess reveals Archie’s feeding times dictate tour schedule

  01-10-2019 23:00
  Archie has been seen once on the trip - when the duke and duchess visited Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
  
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• Harry accuses tabloid press of ‘ruthless campaign’ against Meghan

  01-10-2019 22:39
  The duke referenced his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.
  
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• Diane Abbott To Make History As First Black Person To Represent Their Party At PMQs

  01-10-2019 22:30
  Diane Abbott will make history as the first black person to represent theirparty at Prime Minister's Questions, it has been revealed
  
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• Senior MP ‘mortified’ after Tory conference clash with security

  01-10-2019 22:16
  Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was thrown out of the Conservative Party conference after an altercation with staff.
  
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• Johnson: Rubber about to hit the road in drive for Brexit deal

  01-10-2019 22:16
  The UK is expected to submit its formal proposals for a Brexit agreement to Brussels within days.
  
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• Meghan Markle sues UK newspaper; Prince Harry attacks tabloid press

  01-10-2019 21:57
  Meghan Markle, the wife of Britain's Prince Harry, has started legal proceedings against the Mail on Sunday newspaper over the publication of a private letter that her lawyers said was "unlawful".In a lengthy, emotional statement, Prince Harry said on Tuesday that the couple had taken legal action in response to what he called "bullying" by some sections of the British press.
  
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• Meghan Markle files legal claim against newspaper over letter publication

  01-10-2019 21:57
  Meghan Markle, the wife of Britain's Prince Harry, has started legal proceedings against the Mail on Sunday newspaper over the publication of a private letter that her lawyers said was "unlawful".Schillings, the law firm, described the publication as part of a "campaign by this media group to publish false and deliberately derogatory stories about her, as well as her husband.Schillings said the case was being paid for privately by Prince Harry and Megan, who are also known as the Duke and Duches
  
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• Why Boris Johnson Is Hugging His Hardline Brexiteers Close

  01-10-2019 21:36
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• Meghan Markle To Sue The Mail On Sunday Over Publishing Private Letter

  01-10-2019 20:55
  Meghan Markle has launched legal action against the Mail on Sunday, allegingthat the newspaper unlawfully published one of her private letters
  
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• Meghan pays tribute to murdered student in South Africa

  01-10-2019 20:47
  The Duchess of Sussex leaves a yellow ribbon with a message on it honouring Uyinene Mrwetyana who was beaten to death last month.
  
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• Chancellor Sajid Javid Hints He Could Scrap Inheritance Tax

  01-10-2019 20:29
  Chancellor Sajid Javid has hinted that he could be prepared to scrap theinheritance tax
  
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• Chancellor hints he could announce cut to inheritance tax in Budget

  01-10-2019 20:16
  Sajid Javid said he understands the arguments against the death duty and said that reforming it was 'something that's on my mind'.
  
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• UK democracy at a low point, bishop tells judges

  01-10-2019 20:12
  Rt Rev Dame Sarah Mullally refers to Brexit ‘chaos and confusion’ as legal year opens. British democracy is at one of its “low points” and the government’s justice policy is letting “prisons proliferate”, the bishop of London has said at the formal opening of the legal year. Delivering the sermon in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday, the Rt Rev Dame Sarah Mullally referred to the “chaos and confusion” of the Brexit crisis and praised Magna Carta f
  
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• Duchess of Sussex to take legal action against newspaper over private letter

  01-10-2019 20:11
  The Mail on Sunday has been approached for comment.
  
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• Diane Abbott to be first black person to speak for party at PMQs

  01-10-2019 19:46
  Shadow home secretary will stand in for Corbyn this week during Black History Month. Diane Abbott will become the first minority ethnic parliamentarian to represent their party at prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, when the shadow home secretary stands in for Jeremy Corbyn. Boris Johnson will be in Manchester delivering his speech at Conservative party conference when the weekly clash is due to take place, leaving the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, to deputise. The House of Commons
  
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• Suspected drug dealer convicted of murder after years on run

  01-10-2019 19:40
  Shane O’Brien, 31, fled the UK in a private plane and spent three and a half years on the run. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PAA suspected drug gangster who slashed an innocent man to death in a bar and went on the run overseas for three and a half years has been convicted of murder.Shane O’Brien, 31, fled Britain after chartering a private plane and became one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, hoping his extensive criminal connections would shield him from justice.On Tue
  
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• Corbyn must lead any caretaker government, says McDonnell

  01-10-2019 19:36
  Shadow chancellor backs Labour leader amid concerns over cross-party support. Jeremy Corbyn will never step aside to allow an alternative candidate to lead a caretaker government because “the rules are the rules”, the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, has said. Opposition leaders have held a series of meetings in recent weeks to discuss how to prevent a no-deal Brexit – and have not ruled out a vote of no confidence in the government if Boris Johnson tries to force through a n
  
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• There will be a budget this year, says Britain's finance minister Javid

  01-10-2019 19:22
  Finance minister Sajid Javid said on Tuesday there would be a budget this year, the content of which would depend on whether Britain leaves the European Union with a deal or without a deal.Britain is less than a month away from leaving the EU - a pivotal moment for the world's fifth largest economy - but there is huge uncertainty about what terms it will exit on and whether it will leave the bloc on time, or even at all.Javid on Monday set out his economic agenda to the Conservative Party's annu
  
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• Tory policy announcements: duplicity and hyperbole

  01-10-2019 19:17
  Sajid Javid. ‘Of course low-paid workers will benefit from increases in the national minimum wage but such gains will disappear under the weight of fast rising food and fuel bills.’ Photograph: James McCauley/REX/ShutterstockDescribing the chancellor’s speech as “hyperbole that crumbles under scrutiny” is a kind way of making clear that it was nothing more than a cynical jumble of half-baked, half-true assertions (This party split the country. A cash splurge can&rsq
  
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• Dover could lose £1bn of trade a week with no-deal Brexit

  01-10-2019 19:06
  The port of Dover handles 17% of the UK’s trade in goods Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PADover could lose £1bn worth of trade a week if Britain leaves the EU without a deal, the port has said.Doug Bannister, the chief executive at the port of Dover, told a fringe event at the Conservative conference that the government’s assumed drop in traffic under a no-deal scenario would cut £1bn a week from the flow of goods.He said the port had made extensive preparations for 31 Octob
  
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• Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown kicked out of Tory conference, but who is he?

  01-10-2019 18:52
  The senior Tory has been an MP since 1992.
  
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• ‘We’re coming after you’: Priti Patel unveils £20m county lines crackdown

  01-10-2019 18:45
  The government is to spend £20m on tackling county lines drug networks, including recruiting more specialist caseworkers to deal with victims groomed into gangs, the home secretary has announced.County lines involves gangs in cities such as London, Birmingham and Liverpool using children as young as 11 to deal mostly heroin and crack cocaine over a network of dedicated mobile phones.In her speech to the Conservative party conference in Manchester on Tuesday, Priti Patel said the extra cash
  
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• Disabled boy, five, ‘humiliated’ in Legoland after being told to walk

  01-10-2019 18:43
  Sebby Brett, from Gloucestershire, was visiting the theme park with his family as a treat following four operations in 12 months.
  
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• Up to 60% of police officers could get Tasers, Priti Patel pledges

  01-10-2019 18:41
  Ms Patel also reiterated a tough stance on immigration.
  
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• In Pictures: Torrential rain brings flash floods

  01-10-2019 18:32
  Heavy downpours will die out on Tuesday night - but forecasters warned fine weather on Wednesday will be short-lived.
  
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• 'Stress tests' to prevent another Thomas Cook

  01-10-2019 18:31
  Ryanair's marketing boss, Kenny Jacobs, says greater financial regulation is needed after the collapse of Thomas Cook.
  
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• British drug discovery firm C4X confident of striking deals

  01-10-2019 18:27
  Britain's C4X Discovery said on Tuesday it was confident of striking partnership deals for its programmes in therapy areas such as sickle cell, cancer and inflammation, sending the AIM-listed company's shares up 5%.C4X Discovery uses genetic databases to target patients likely to respond to drugs and virtual technology to create 3D models of molecules that can predict behaviour in the body.It then looks to license the drug candidate to a pharmaceutical partner to continue development into the cl
  
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• Lengthy sentences handed to UK members of Romanian burglary gang

  01-10-2019 18:22
  Birmingham Crown Court was told two men are still being sought after fleeing the country.
  
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• Patient numbers at Muckamore Abbey Hospital ‘significantly reduced’

  01-10-2019 18:16
  The centre just outside Antrim town provides inpatient facilities for those with learning difficulties and cognitive issues.
  
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• Britain’s most wanted fugitive guilty of murdering ‘always innocent’ young man

  01-10-2019 18:15
  The family of 21-year-old Josh Hanson said he 'got some justice' after the verdict.
  
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• Under-pressure Johnson: Lots of stuff being thrown at me due to Brexit

  01-10-2019 18:02
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted things are going 'much better' than critics claim.
  
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• Families face shocking injustice over legal aid for inquests, campaigners say

  01-10-2019 18:02
  Director of Inquest Deborah Coles said the 'inequality of arms' was the 'single greatest obstacle to bereaved families'.
  
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• Flash flooding as downpours drench UK

  01-10-2019 18:01
  Forecasters said respite from the rain on Wednesday will be shortlived as the remnants of Hurricane Lorenzo track over the UK on Thursday and Friday.
  
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• British Range Rovers shipped to southern Africa for Sussex tour

  01-10-2019 17:54
  Meghan was pictured arriving in a British registered Range Rover during her visit to the University of Johannesburg on Tuesday.
  
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• Ai Weiwei: British Government must make its voice heard over Hong Kong

  01-10-2019 17:43
  The Chinese artist is now based in the UK.
  
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• Family reveals heartbreak six months after father and son vanished in Malaga

  01-10-2019 17:35
  Daniel and Liam Poole have not been seen since April 1 in the Spanish city.
  
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• Gigi Hadid confronts runway crasher at Chanel's PFW show

  01-10-2019 17:34
  There was some unexpected drama on Tuesday morning at Chanel's Paris Fashion Week show.
  
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• Priti Patel Says Jeremy Corbyn Will 'Surrender' Borders And Make UK 'Less Safe'

  01-10-2019 17:23
  Home Secretary Priti Patel has launched an attack on Jeremy Corbyn overimmigration, accusing him of a "surrender" of Britain's borders
  
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• Infrastrata chief ‘hopeful’ Harland and Wolff can get back to work this week

  01-10-2019 17:23
  John Wood was speaking hours after it emerged the firm had bought the historic Belfast shipyard for £6million.
  
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• Defence Secretary: UK may not be able to convict IS fighters who fled to Syria

  01-10-2019 17:19
  Ben Wallace warned that the former jihadis could end up 'living next door' as the evidence required for prosecution would belong to another country.
  
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• Senior Tory MP asked to leave party conference after incident

  01-10-2019 17:16
  Police at the Conservative conference after the incident. Paramedics also attended the scene. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PAA senior Conservative MP has been asked to leave the party’s conference after police were called to an incident in which he allegedly behaved in a “totally unacceptable” fashion.Officers were asked to attend the international lounge at the conference in Manchester at Tuesday lunchtime after reports of an incident believed to involve Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, a
  
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• Meghan: South Africa facing ‘crisis’ amid rise in violence against women

  01-10-2019 17:14
  The duchess learned about support available to victims of violence.
  
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• Government urged to take action on homelessness

  01-10-2019 17:14
  The majority of the deaths in 2018 were men – an estimated 641 deaths - with an average age of 45 for men and 43 for women.
  
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• Britain will introduce points-based immigration system - interior minister

  01-10-2019 17:05
  British interior minister Priti Patel will say on Tuesday the government will end free movement and introduce an Australian-style points-based immigration system once the country leaves the European Union.In a speech at the Conservative Party's annual conference, Patel will say her Brexit mission is "to end the free movement of people once and for all.
  
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• Nissan ‘will review Qashqai production in UK in event of no-deal Brexit’

  01-10-2019 17:04
  The Japanese car manufacturer received assurances from Theresa May's government in 2016 that it would be protected from the impact of Brexit.
  
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• Senior MP kicked out of Tory conference after clash with security

  01-10-2019 17:03
  Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown had attempted to bring his fiancee, who did not have the relevant pass, into a lounge at the event.
  
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