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• Two Men Charged With Murder After Stabbing At Elephant And Castle Tube Station

  24-10-2019 23:45
  Two men have been charged with murder after a 24-year-old man was stabbed todeath in a London Underground station last month
  
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• Owner of hairdressing chains Supercuts and Regis goes into administration

  24-10-2019 22:52
  Two Deloitte restructuring partners have been appointed to the parent company.
  
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• Edinburgh South Labour MP Ian Murray reselected despite union attack

  24-10-2019 22:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Local members back the Edinburgh South MP who the Unite union had said undermined the Labour leadership.
  
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• Wary Tories say Johnson’s election gamble could be seen as a stunt

  24-10-2019 22:45
  Boris Johnson leaves No 10 after Thursday’s cabinet meeting. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty ImagesConservative MPs are privately concerned that Boris Johnson’s call for a general election is a gamble that could easily backfire.Following Theresa May’s failed bid to win a majority in the 2017 general election, there are nerves about advocating another national vote upon a fatigued electorate near to Christmas.One MP said the move, if successfully portrayed by Labour as a
  
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• How does Johnson hope to get a general election and will Labour back it?

  24-10-2019 22:41
  Amid the Brexit deadlock, the Prime Minister has issued another call for a vote.
  
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• Brexit 'do or die': what are Boris Johnson's options now?

  24-10-2019 22:31
  Boris Johnson has pledged to ‘get Brexit done’. Photograph: PRU/AFP via GettyBoris Johnson set out a new ultimatum on Thursday night to MPs: back a general election before Christmas in exchange for more time to scrutinise the Brexit deal. What exactly has Boris Johnson offered?In a letter to Jeremy Corbyn, he sought to present himself as open to compromise by telling the Labour leader that he would, after weeks of rancour, give parliament “all possible time” – inclu
  
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• Blue plaque for jazz musician Ronnie Scott at site of first London club

  24-10-2019 22:27
  The original Ronnie Scott's bar was opened in the basement of 39 Gerrard Street, Chinatown, Soho, on October 30 1959.
  
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• EU set to put Brexit delay on hold after Johnson's ultimatum

  24-10-2019 22:23
  PM’s threat to pull deal if Corbyn rejects general election leaves Brussels in state of flux. The EU’s plan to offer the UK an extension until 31 January on Friday is expected to be put on hold after Boris Johnson threatened to pull the Brexit deal if Jeremy Corbyn rejects a general election. Sources said the dramatic developments in Westminster needed to be fully understood and the choreography in Brussels could change. Donald Tusk, the European council chairman, had been expected t
  
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• EU set to put Brexit delay on hold after Johnson's ultimatum

  24-10-2019 22:23
  France’s EU minister, Amélie de Montchalin, who says clarity from London is needed. Photograph: Jacques Witt/SIPA/Rex/ShutterstockThe EU’s plan to offer the UK an extension until 31 January on Friday is expected to be put on hold after Boris Johnson threatened to pull the Brexit deal if Jeremy Corbyn rejects a general election.Sources said the dramatic developments in Westminster needed to be fully understood and the choreography in Brussels could change.Donald Tusk, the Europ
  
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• EU could rethink Brexit extension after latest Johnson manoeuvre

  24-10-2019 22:23
  France’s EU minister, Amélie de Montchalin, who says clarity from London is needed. Photograph: Jacques Witt/SIPA/REX/ShutterstockEU plans to offer the UK an extension up to 31 January on Friday is expected to be put on hold after Boris Johnson threatened to pull the Brexit deal if Jeremy Corbyn rejects a general election.Sources said the dramatic developments in Westminster needed to be fully understood and the choreography in Brussels could change.Donald Tusk, the European council
  
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• Lewis Hamilton brushes off critics and steps up efforts to be more green

  24-10-2019 22:18
  • Mercedes driver aims to be carbon neutral by end of year
  • Hamilton can win sixth F1 world title at Mexican Grand PrixLewis Hamilton has robustly defended his environmental concerns, having received strident criticism for recent posts on Instagram. The world champion made a heartfelt statement after the Japanese Grand Prix in which he expressed his despair that more was not being done to address the climate crisis. He was disparaged by some for his stance, given the environmental foo
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Says He'll Wait On Brussels To Make Election Decision As Labour MPs Divided

  24-10-2019 22:14
  Boris Johnson's bid to force an early general election looked set to fall flatafter Labour and opposition parties signalled they would block the move
  
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• Johnson seeks 12 December election after shelving 'do or die' Brexit pledge

  24-10-2019 22:12
  Boris Johnson has abandoned his “do or die” pledge to leave the EU by 31 October and will plead with MPs next week to give him a pre-Christmas general election.The prime minister wrote to Jeremy Corbyn on Thursday night saying he would give parliament one last opportunity to scrutinise his withdrawal agreement bill and “get Brexit done” by 6 November. But he will also table a motion under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act next Monday asking for an early general election. It
  
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• Boris Johnson seeks December election in bid to break Brexit impasse

  24-10-2019 22:04
  The Prime Minister is pushing for a poll on December 12.
  
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• Will Labour Back A Christmas Election?

  24-10-2019 22:03
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• Violence against MPs ‘worth it’ to secure desired Brexit outcome – survey

  24-10-2019 22:03
  Researchers said they were 'genuinely shocked' at the findings.
  
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• Police start moving bodies of 39 people found dead in lorry

  24-10-2019 22:02
  It is thought they were all Chinese nationals.
  
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• David Miliband: Brexit is wrecking British democracy

  24-10-2019 21:46
  David Miliband: ‘When churches become sects, the system breaks down.’ Photograph: David Levenson/Getty ImagesBrexit has taken a wrecking ball to British democracy, with ministers counting on an outdated mandate to justify their decisions and the main parties in danger of turning into sects, former foreign secretary David Miliband has claimed. In a lecture on Thursday night, Miliband cited the refusal of the chancellor, Sajid Javid, to produce an economic impact assessment of Boris Jo
  
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• Labour poised to block bid for 12 December general election

  24-10-2019 21:36
  Jeremy Corbyn in parliament on Tuesday. He said he wants to make sure ‘no deal is off the table’ before backing an election.Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament/EPALabour appears poised to block Boris Johnson’s offer of a pre-Christmas general election on 12 December by telling MPs to abstain in Monday’s vote.The party previously said that it would back an early election when a no-deal Brexit scenario could be firmly ruled out, and has twice rejected attempts by Johns
  
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• No room at the inn? Christmas ballot could struggle for venues

  24-10-2019 21:19
  Venues big enough for counts to be held may be especially hard to find.Photograph: Hannah McKay/ReutersBallot organisers face a battle over venue space with organisers of pantomimes, nativity plays and festive parties if they are to arrange what would be the closest general election to Christmas since the first one-day vote was held more than a century ago.The prime minister, Boris Johnson, has named 12 December as his preferred date for an election. Should MPs grant his wish, it would be the fi
  
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• Lorry victims were trapped before reaching Belgian coast, officials say

  24-10-2019 21:14
  Police at the scene where the bodies were found in Grays, Essex. Photograph: Invicta Kent Media/Rex/ShutterstockThe 39 people who were found dead in a refrigerated lorry trailer in Essex on Wednesday were already trapped when they arrived at the Belgian coast en route to England, local officials have said, as police confirmed that the victims were all Chinese nationals.The Belgian officials said the eight women and 31 men would have been locked in the trailer at temperatures as low as -25C for a
  
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• Vigil in Belfast for 39 who died in container tragedy

  24-10-2019 21:09
  A small crowd of people held lit candles at the front of City Hall.
  
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• Essex lorry deaths: 'How I nearly suffocated in the back of a lorry'

  24-10-2019 20:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Jawad Amiri says nearly suffocating inside a refrigerated lorry was like lying in a moving grave.
  
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• Rees-Mogg breaks broken news to a horrified house

  24-10-2019 20:36
  Surreal is real as Boris Johnson ditches date with supergroup of MPs and sends out Commons leader to demand election. Ceci n’est pas une pipe. This is not a sketch. Just as Magritte played with traditional conventions of words, images and meaning, so modern politics works in reverse. The surreal has become fully integrated back into the real. So much so, it’s almost impossible to distinguish between the two. If a train were to emerge from one of the fireplaces inside Westminster pala
  
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• 'For all ports, this is a problem': sadness in Zeebrugge over lorry deaths

  24-10-2019 20:34
  Security at Belgium port means victims likely got on before and were trapped for at least 10 hours. Row after row of shipping containers destined for British shores lined the sprawling Belgian industrial port at Zeebrugge. A little more than 48 hours earlier, 39 Chinese nationals had been hidden somewhere in the ranks of containers, waiting to begin a new life in the UK. Instead, the trailer became their tomb. On Thursday, lorry drivers and officials at the port suggested the victims would have
  
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• Johnson tells MPs: Back December election to get more time on Brexit deal

  24-10-2019 20:18
  The Prime Minister will ask the Commons to vote on a motion for an early poll on Monday.
  
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• Shipping container claims probed as groups of African children found in Belfast

  24-10-2019 20:17
  The young people from Eritrea have been discovered in different locations across the city since August 2.
  
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• BBC starts work on drama about Salisbury novichok poisonings

  24-10-2019 20:17
  Series starring Anne-Marie Duff and Rafe Spall examines impact on Wiltshire city’s residents. Filming has begun on a three-part factual drama that examines the impact of the 2018 novichok poisonings on the community of Salisbury, in Wiltshire. The cast for the three-parter, entitled Salisbury, is led by Anne-Marie Duff, Rafe Spall and Mark Addy. Also featured is MyAnna Buring, who has been starring in another drama focusing on a Russian attack on British soil: the play A Very Expensive Poi
  
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• Hire company ‘shellshocked’ after 39 found dead inside trailer

  24-10-2019 20:16
  A spokesman for Global Trailer Rentals Ltd confirmed it owned the part of the lorry which was found on an industrial estate in Grays, Essex.
  
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• Record-breaking year for England’s museums and galleries, says Government

  24-10-2019 20:10
  Nearly 50 million people visited venues sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the Government said.
  
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• In Pictures: UK awash in autumn splendour

  24-10-2019 20:04
  The whole country is basking in an autumnal glow.
  
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• Two journeys into one: how lorry driver and Chinese nationals reached Essex

  24-10-2019 19:57
  Around 4,000 lorries travel through Zeebrugge every day to and from the UK. Photograph: Kurt Desplenter/Belga/AFP via Getty ImagesThe grisly discovery of 39 dead Chinese men and women in the back of a lorry in Essex on Wednesday was the culmination of two fateful journeys. The first involved the tractor unit, or cab, of the lorry – the front of the vehicle – which is known to have been driven by 25-year-old Mo Robinson. Robinson lives in Laurelvale, a village outside Portadown in Cou
  
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• QuickQuid owner on brink of collapse as payday lender complaints surge

  24-10-2019 19:57
  CashEuroNet UK close to entering administration in latest blow to high-cost loans industry The UK’s largest payday lender is at risk of entering administration, a year after its rival Wonga collapsed due to a surge in complaints.The US owner of CashEuroNet UK, which operates the QuickQuid and On Stride brands, is considering its options after confirming plans to exit its British operations. Continue reading...
  
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• China-UK people trafficking often driven by debt, experts say

  24-10-2019 19:54
  People attend a vigil outside the Home Office in Westminster for the 39 Chinese people found dead inside a lorry. Photograph: Hollie Adams/PAChinese migrants hoping to reach the UK can typically pay smugglers anything up to £14,000 and may then find themselves in debt bondage, according to experts who work with them.On Thursday, police confirmed the 39 people found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex were Chinese nationals. While the full circumstances around their journey and death are not y
  
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• Harry Dunn: Crash victim's family to take Foreign Office to court

  24-10-2019 19:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Harry Dunn's parents want a judicial review into the diplomatic immunity for suspect Anne Sacoolas.
  
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• Barclays reverses decision to end Post Office cash withdrawals

  24-10-2019 19:48
  Barclays said it will now commit to 'full participation' in the Post Office's banking framework.
  
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• Sacked council chief demands £300,000 in missed payments during paid leave

  24-10-2019 19:44
  Caerphilly, where Anthony O’Sullivan was suspended in 2013 as chief executive.Photograph: AlamyA council chief executive who was sacked after spending more than six years on fully paid special leave has asked the local authority for £300,000 in missed holiday pay and other expenses.Anthony O’Sullivan claims that Caerphilly council in south Wales should reimburse him for holiday pay he argues he did not receive, as well as for legal fees and missed payments that he would have re
  
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• Aidan James: The British man who was put on trial after fighting IS

  24-10-2019 19:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Aidan James - who fought with a Kurdish militia in Syria - has been convicted of a terrorism offence.
  
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• Government eyes first December general election since 1923

  24-10-2019 19:40
  Time is running out to go to the polls before Christmas.
  
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• BAME women in the police: 'There aren't many women of colour'

  24-10-2019 19:38 via bbc.co.uk
  PC L'wren Bremmer had never met a black female officer before. She now hopes to change the way police are seen.
  
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• Man charged and second arrested in Milton Keynes double murder investigation

  24-10-2019 19:36
  Charlie Chandler, of Fitzwilliam Street, Bletchley, was charged with two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.
  
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• Brexit: Can a no-deal still happen?

  24-10-2019 19:29 via bbc.co.uk
  The prime minister has sent the EU a Brexit extension request - but could no deal still happen?
  
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• Rosneft switches contracts to euros from dollars due to U.S. sanctions

  24-10-2019 19:24
  VERONA/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's largest oil company Rosnefthas fully switched the currency of its contracts to euros from U.S. dollars in a move to shield its transactions from U.S. sanctions, its Chief Executive Igor Sechin said on Thursday.Rosneft's switch to the euro is seen as part of Russia's wider-scale drive to reduce dependence on the dollar, but it is unlikely to quickly boost the euro's role for Russia given the negative interest rates it carries.
  
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• TikTok app poses potential national security risk, says senior Democrat

  24-10-2019 19:18
  Chuck Schumer and Tom Cotton urged inquiry, noting app reportedly censors material such as Hong Kong protest contentChuck Schumer, the most senior Democrat in the Senate, has urged the government to investigate TikTok, describing the China-owned social media app as “a potential counter-intelligence threat we cannot ignore” and warning it could be used to interfere in US elections. Related: Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please BeijingContinue reading...
  
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• Harry Dunn’s family to take action against Foreign Office and police

  24-10-2019 19:16
  The teenager was killed when his motorbike crashed into a car outside RAF Croughton in August.
  
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• Man charged over murders at party in Milton Keynes

  24-10-2019 19:14
  Dom Ansah (left) and Ben Gillham-Rice were stabbed to death on Saturday.Composite: PAA man has been charged with the murder of two 17-year-old boys and the attempted murder of two other males at a birthday party at a house in Milton Keynes.Charlie Chandler, 21, from Bletchley, was charged on Thursday in relation to the attacks on Saturday night.Thames Valley police confirmed that a 22-year-old man had also been arrested in connection with the double murder investigation and remained in custody.A
  
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• Boris Johnson offers MPs more time to debate Brexit if December election agreed

  24-10-2019 19:11
  It comes amid signs the EU is set to grant a fresh Brexit delay until the end of January.
  
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• Essex lorry deaths latest: 'Shellshocked' Irish company confirms ownership of trailer at centre of murder probe - Evening Standard

  24-10-2019 19:06 via news.google.com
  Essex lorry deaths latest: 'Shellshocked' Irish company confirms ownership of trailer at centre of murder probe  Evening StandardEssex lorry deaths: Post-mortem examinations to start on 39 bodies  BBC NewsMan and woman arrested over 39 bodies found in lorry  Daily RecordEssex lorry deaths: Two more people arrested over discovery of 39 bodies | Latest Suffolk and Essex News  East Anglian Daily TimesWarning over 'Snakehead' smuggling gangs as police try to i
  
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• Milton Keynes Double Murder: Man Charged And Second Arrested As Investigation Continues

  24-10-2019 19:05
  A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder after two teenagers were killedat a house party in Milton Keynes, police have said
  
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• MPs approve Queen’s Speech despite Johnson’s election push

  24-10-2019 19:03
  The Government's programme was supported by 310 votes to 294.
  
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