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• Rachel Riley among stars joining covert Poppy Appeal campaign

  23-10-2019 23:30
  The Countdown star headed to Salford to kick off this year's annual campaign to raise money for those in the British armed forces.
  
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• Labour unveils plans for carbon-neutral energy system by 2030s

  23-10-2019 23:30
  Labour’s Rebecca Long-Bailey said the report would kickstart Labour’s ‘green industrial revolution’. Photograph: Michael Bowles/Rex/ShutterstockLabour will unveil plans to create a carbon-neutral energy system by the 2030s including insulation upgrades for every home in the UK and enough new solar panels to cover 22,000 football pitches.The party will set out its fast-track climate strategy on Thursday after adopting plans to work towards a net-zero carbon economy two dec
  
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• Troubles proceedings: Mandela-style truth process may be set up

  23-10-2019 22:47
  The Bloody Sunday memorial in Derry, Northern Ireland. In March, ‘Soldier F’ was prosecuted for playing a part in the massacre. Photograph: Peter Morrison/APMinisters are actively examining the possibility of introducing a South African-style truth and reconciliation commission for Northern Ireland whereby witnesses would get immunity from prosecution in an attempt to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.The idea was raised at the defence select committee and is partly aimed at reduc
  
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• Bob Geldof says Parliament is ‘betrayal of Churchill’

  23-10-2019 22:08
  The former Boomtown Rats frontman is a prominent Remainer.
  
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• Johnson's cabinet split over gambling on pre-Christmas election

  23-10-2019 21:27
  Prime minister awaits decision of EU27 over extension before next move. Boris Johnson’s cabinet is divided over how to proceed with Brexit, as the prime minister faces the stark choice of pressing ahead with his deal or gambling his premiership on a pre-Christmas general election. After an inconclusive meeting with Jeremy Corbyn on Wednesday morning in an attempt to agree an acceptable timetable for parliament to consider the bill, the prime minister told MPs at Wednesday’s PMQs that
  
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• Brexit deal could lead to loyalist disorder, PSNI chief warns

  23-10-2019 21:20
  Simon Byrne said they had to be prepared that loyalists could react if they felt their position in the United Kingdom was under threat.
  
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• Labour peer suspended over sexual harassment and transphobia

  23-10-2019 21:19
  Lord Stone also used racial slurs while giving evidence to Lords standards committee. The Labour party has suspended a peer after the House of Lords standards committee found that he had harassed four female colleagues and made transphobic remarks. The independent commissioner for standards, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, upheld a series of complaints made against Andrew Stone in a report published on Wednesday. Lord Stone, a former managing director of Marks and Spencer, also repeatedly used the N-word
  
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• Major says ‘young will win’ as he predicts new alliance with EU in future

  23-10-2019 21:17
  The former prime minister was speaking at the One Young World global forum for young leaders.
  
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• Happy-go-lucky: Ribble Valley officially named UK's happiest place

  23-10-2019 21:08
  Residents and business owners of rural Lancashire district unsurprised by ONS findings. Ask the residents of the Ribble Valley whether they would swap their rural lives for a busy city one, and the answer is straightforward: “Definitely not. The thought of it horrifies me,” said Jonathan Gledhill, the landlord of the Red Pump Inn, a village dining pub in this quiet part of mid-Lancashire. Just north of the former mill towns of south Lancashire, this green and pleasant part of the nor
  
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• Police work to identify 39 people found dead inside lorry in Essex

  23-10-2019 20:50
  Murder investigation launched alongside inquiry into possible role of organised crime groups. Police officers are working to identify 39 people found dead in the back of a lorry in Essex as part of a wide-ranging murder investigation into the UK’s worst such tragedy in almost 20 years. The possible role of cross-border organised crime groups was a key priority for Essex police, who were alerted to the bodies of 38 adults and one teenager in the lorry at an industrial park in Grays by the a
  
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• Johnson pulls out of appearance before senior MPs to ‘focus on Brexit’

  23-10-2019 20:48
  The PM is accused of an 'unacceptable' refusal to face questions after cancelling hearing with the Commons Liaison Committee.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn urged by MPs to resist calls for election

  23-10-2019 20:48
  Labour MPs anxious about prospect of abandoning idea of Brexit referendum. Jeremy Corbyn is facing significant pressure from his own MPs to resist any government calls for an immediate general election, as Labour refused to confirm when they might back such a poll even if a lengthy Brexit extension is agreed. While the official Labour position remains that Corbyn will support an election once the immediate threat of a no-deal Brexit no longer exists, the party leadership is refusing to be pinned
  
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• People-smuggling checks at UK ports inadequate, hauliers say

  23-10-2019 20:46
  Trucks using the Calais-Dover are said to be subjected to a triple check involving sniffer dogs, heartbeat scanners and carbon dioxide monitors. Photograph: Bloomberg/GettyLorry drivers horrified by the news that 39 people were found dead in a refrigerated container have said checks on people smuggling at UK ports are often inadequate and that such an incident had been “a matter of time”.As a murder investigation got under way on Wednesday, hauliers in Holyhead, where the arrested dr
  
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• People smuggling checks at UK ports 'inadequate', hauliers say

  23-10-2019 20:46
  Lorry drivers say death of 39 people in container on Wednesday was ‘matter of time’. Lorry drivers horrified by the news of 39 people dying in a refrigerated container warned on Wednesday that checks on people smuggling at UK ports were often inadequate and that such an incident had been “a matter of time”. As a murder investigation got underway on Wednesday, hauliers in Holyhead, where the arrested driver Mo Robinson was reported to have arrived in the UK before picking
  
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• European leaders expected to grant Brexit delay

  23-10-2019 20:42
  Donald Tusk tells Boris Johnson he has recommended that the EU27 accept request for extension. Boris Johnson will be left waiting for the EU’s terms for a further Brexit extension until Friday, with signs of momentum building behind Donald Tusk’s plan for a delay up to 31 January. Tusk, the president of the European council, told Johnson in a phone call on Wednesday his reasons for “recommending the EU27 accept the UK request for an extension”. The debate among the EU27 i
  
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• 'Sick of it': Cheshire town fatigued and divided by Brexit

  23-10-2019 20:38
  Local MP Antoinette Sandbach lost the Tory whip over her Brexit stance but she says she represents the views of her constituents. Winsford is not one of Cheshire’s stereotypically leafy, affluent communities. An overspill town from Liverpool and home to the UK’s largest salt mine, Antoinette Sandbach thinks it is one of the most pro-Brexit parts of her sprawling rural constituency of Eddisbury. The safe Tory seat is estimated to have voted 52% in favour of leave in the referendum, wh
  
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• 'Sick of it': Cheshire town fatigued and divided by Brexit

  23-10-2019 20:38
  Winsford is thought to be one of the most pro-Brexit parts of Antoinette Sandbach’s Eddisbury constituency. Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The GuardianWinsford is not one of Cheshire’s stereotypically leafy, affluent communities. An overspill town from Liverpool and home to the UK’s largest salt mine, Antoinette Sandbach thinks it is one of the most pro-Brexit parts of her sprawling rural constituency of Eddisbury.The safe Tory seat is estimated to have voted 52% in favour of leave
  
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• DUP Will Back Boris Johnson's Queen's Speech Despite Brexit Deal Anger

  23-10-2019 20:36
  Democratic Unionist Party MPs will back Boris Johnson's Queen's Speech despitetheir anger over his Brexit deal
  
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• Peer Suspended From Labour Party Over Sexual Harassment Allegations

  23-10-2019 20:29
  The Lords independent commissioner for standards upheld four complaintsagainst Lord Stone of Blackheath, who was accused of sexism, transphobia andunwanted touching
  
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• I advised ‘vulnerable’ Harry to tell the truth on TV show, says presenter

  23-10-2019 20:24
  ITV's Tom Bradby is a long-time friend of the duke.
  
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• Essex lorry deaths: how dangerous is the journey to the UK?

  23-10-2019 20:21
  Who were the 39 people found in a lorry in Grays, and where were they travelling from?. Where did the 39 people who were found dead in a lorry container come from? We don’t know yet. Police were clear on Wednesday that they were some way from identifying them or confirming their point of origin. The only detail they provided of the victims initially was that 38 were adults and one was a teenager. Throughout the day, information emerged that might provide clues as to where the victims were
  
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• Boris Johnson Dodges Scrutiny From Senior MPs With A Scrawled Note

  23-10-2019 20:18
  Boris Johnson has pulled out of an appearance before some of parliament's mostsenior MPs - sending a scrawled note at the last minute
  
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• What does the Brexit timetable look like now?

  23-10-2019 19:59
  Will European leaders agree to a fresh delay – and if so, when will it be announced?. What is happening with the Brexit timetable? After MPs voted against Boris Johnson’s accelerated timetable for passing the Brexit withdrawal bill through the Commons, the prime minister said he would pause the legislative process. Johnson said MPs were not seeking to scrutinise the bill but merely trying to block his plans to leave the EU by 31 October. He said he did not want a delay and would cont
  
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• Not even the PM's narcissism can protect him as cracks show

  23-10-2019 19:58
  Boris Johnson appears rattled and even his own backbenchers see a false prophet. Finally, some clarity. After months of pretence, almost everyone in Westminster has abandoned any pretence to having a plan. Now it’s more or less a total mind-fuck. An out of control rollercoaster of parallel universes in which any number of incompatible things can be both true and not true simultaneously. Labour both want an election and don’t want an election. They also want to get Brexit done but hav
  
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• Nine suspected migrants found in back of M20 lorry just hours after 39 found dead in Essex

  23-10-2019 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  POLICE have found nine suspected migrants in the back of a lorry on the M20 hours after 39 have been found dead in Essex sending shockwaves across the UK.
  
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• Hillsborough father was told to 'shut your prattle', court hears

  23-10-2019 19:33
  In trial of David Duckenfield, Trevor Hicks recalls retort from a police officer during disaster. Trevor Hicks, whose two teenage daughters were killed in the crush at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989, was told to “shut your fucking prattle” when he called on a senior police officer to help as the disaster was unfolding, a court has heard. Hicks, who went to the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest with his then wife, Jenni, and their daughters Vicki, 15, and Sarah,
  
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• Not much support for Labour’s Brexit rebels

  23-10-2019 19:30
  Readers air their views on the Labour MPs who voted with the government in the House of Commons on Tuesday. It seems some Labour MPs do believe you can polish a turd ( Parliament puts brakes on Johnson’s race for Brexit, 23 October). Lisa Nandy justified voting for Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal because she is going to improve it as the bill goes through parliament. But in supporting a deal that should be anathema to the Labour party, Nandy and the other 18 Labour MPs who voted for it &
  
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• Police begin process of identifying 39 people found dead in trailer in Essex

  23-10-2019 19:29
  A 25-year-old truck driver from Northern Ireland was arrested following the grim discovery.
  
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• Creativity is the key to the arts and the sciences

  23-10-2019 19:29
  Creativity must be part of all aspects of learning in schools, argues Trevor Jones. With reference to your editorial ( Creativity must make a comeback in schools – and not just in arts lessons, 19 October), as someone who was discouraged at school from studying art with mathematics and sciences, I agree that,“creativity is not something that should inhabit the school curriculum only as it relates to drama, music, art and other obviously creative subjects.” The philosopher Henri
  
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• Nine People Found In Back Of Lorry On M20 Motorway, Kent Police Says

  23-10-2019 19:28
  Nine people have been found in the back of a lorry travelling on the London-bound carriageway of the M20 motorway, Kent Police says
  
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• Vagina Museum’s bid for alcohol licence sparks stag party concerns

  23-10-2019 19:14
  It is described as the 'world's first bricks and mortar museum dedicated to vaginas'.
  
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• Lorry horror highlights risks migrants take to try to reach UK

  23-10-2019 19:08
  Campaigners say government crackdown has led some people to resort to desperate measures. The discovery of 39 people dead in the back of a lorry in Essex has renewed focus on the risks taken by undocumented migrants to travel to the UK to seek safety and shelter. A lack of safe and legal routes into the UK is in part driving a dependence on life-threatening methods including squeezing into the back of refrigerated lorries or riding in vulnerable dinghies across wild seas. People fleeing the thre
  
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• New research sheds light on the ‘very earliest stages of colon cancer’

  23-10-2019 19:00
  Scientists have developed new technology that they say could help them understand how a healthy cell becomes a cancerous one.
  
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• Brexit plot by 'childish' MPs exposed -Remainers in one last shot at derailing Boris' deal

  23-10-2019 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  BORIS JOHNSON may yet be thwarted by Remainers attempting to stop Brexit, as MPs will launch one final attack on the Prime Minister's EU deal according to one expert.
  
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• Lorry container deaths investigation: What we know so far

  23-10-2019 18:48
  The 39 victims included a teenager.
  
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• 'Disgraceful': Unionists slam minister over Irish Sea checks

  23-10-2019 18:39
  Julian Smith, the Northern Ireland secretary, during his appearance before the Northern Ireland affairs select committee. Photograph: House of Commons/PAUnionist MPs have branded the government’s approach to Northern Ireland in the Brexit talks “despicable” and a “betrayal”.In his first appearance before the Northern Ireland affairs select committee, Julian Smith, the Northern Ireland secretary, was questioned about plans to require businesses selling or transiting
  
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• Bathroom hygiene: how to ensure you never spread E coli

  23-10-2019 18:38
  The largest cause of bacterial bloodstream infections in the UK is not associated with uncooked meat as we thought. Uncooked chicken has a reputation problem where germs are concerned, and rightly so. But new research from the University of East Anglia, published in The Lancet: Infectious Diseases, finds that people not washing their hands may be a leading cause in the spread of E coli in the UK. “Let’s be clear about E coli,” says Prof David Livermore, who led the research. &l
  
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• Essex lorry captured on CCTV

  23-10-2019 18:30
  The vehicle is believed to have come from Bulgaria and entered the UK at Holyhead in north Wales on Saturday
  
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• Why Labour's election reluctance goes beyond no-deal Brexit fears

  23-10-2019 18:29
  Dismal polling puts Jeremy Corbyn’s party behind where Michael Foot was in the run-up to the 1983 general election. Boris Johnson’s hopes of achieving Brexit by his “do or die” deadline of 31 October may look increasingly remote, but there is little immediate sign that Labour is going to be able to capitalise. The Conservatives already enjoy a healthy poll lead of 10 points, on average, according to Britain Elects, with the government on 35%. That leaves Jeremy Corbyn&rsq
  
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• Home Secretary to seek clarity on goods checks between Northern Ireland and GB

  23-10-2019 18:29
  Priti Patel said the situation 'depends on various circumstances'.
  
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• Teenager arrested after stabbing at Manchester McDonald’s

  23-10-2019 18:27
  One witness said 'everyone was screaming'.
  
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• Tribute to Elgin man, 83, fatally injured in woods

  23-10-2019 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  GRIEVING family members have paid tribute to a “doting, warm-hearted” pensioner who died after allegedly being assaulted as he walked his dog in woodland.
  
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• Sturgeon humiliation: Nationalist think tank's own poll shows Scots backing STAYING in UK

  23-10-2019 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  MORE Yes than No voters have changed their minds about ­breaking up the UK, according to a “secretive” opinion poll.
  
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• Irish firms could move north to take advantage of Brexit deal – Coveney

  23-10-2019 18:12
  Simon Coveney said entrepreneurs would see the rewards of operating under single market rules but with tariff free access to the UK market.
  
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• Relief for Windrush sisters as removal threat overturned

  23-10-2019 18:09
  Bumi Thomas, whose sister got citizenship, wins appeal against removal from UK. Two Windrush sisters who describe themselves as inseparable are celebrating after a judge ruled that one of them should not be sent back to Nigeria. Bumi Thomas, 36, was at risk of removal from the UK and at one point was given 14 days to leave, while her sister Kemi, 38, was not because of their different dates of birth. Bumi took her case to an immigration tribunal hearing last week, and a judge ruled on Wednesday
  
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• Lorry trailer containing bodies arrived in UK from Belgium

  23-10-2019 18:09
  Essex Police said 39 people were discovered dead in the lorry's container.
  
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• Ellie Goulding says fans come to her for answers about climate crisis

  23-10-2019 18:02
  The singer has commended younger people for taking action against climate change.
  
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• Racism in universities is a systemic problem, not a series of incidents

  23-10-2019 18:00
  To combat racism, universities need to stop focusing on incidents and overhaul the structures that perpetuate them. Racial harassment, from open abuse to more passive mistreatment, is so commonplace in UK universities that for black staff members such as myself, it feels like something we just have to get used to. With the publication of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s new report, we now have evidence to prove that racism is grossly under-acknowledged in universities. The figure
  
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• NHS Operation Delays 'Huge Opportunity' To Get Treatment 'In Other Ways', Says Tory MP

  23-10-2019 18:00
  Patients waiting for an operation on the NHS can go abroad for treatment, ToryMP Tom Tugendhat has suggested
  
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• Meghan shares awkward curtsy-hug with founder of One Young World at summit

  23-10-2019 17:55
  The Duchess of Sussex and Kate Robertson shared an awkward greeting at the opening ceremony of the summit.
  
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