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• Boris Johnson: All Tory election candidates have promised to back my Brexit deal

  16-11-2019 23:56
  
  The Prime Minister made the statement in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph.
  
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• I'm A Celebrity's Caitlyn Jenner 'wanted to become a woman over 40 years ago' - Mirror Online

  16-11-2019 23:30 via news.google.com
  I'm A Celebrity's Caitlyn Jenner 'wanted to become a woman over 40 years ago'  Mirror OnlineI'm A Celebrity SPOILER: Caitlyn Jenner and Nadine Coyle face the skydive  Daily MailMeet Caitlyn Jenner – the former Olympic athlete doing I’m a Celebrity 2019  RadioTimesCaitlyn Jenner car crash: What happened in the Caitlyn Jenner car crash?  Express.co.ukCaitlyn Jenner's first wife Chrystie Scott claims she 'spoke about being a woman 40 YEARS ago'&nb
  
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• Duke of York has no regrets about Epstein friendship, but final visit was wrong

  16-11-2019 23:10
  
  Andrew had said he was transitioning out of the Royal Navy and wanted to the know more about the world of business.
  
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• PM Johnson says all Conservative election candidates pledge to back his Brexit deal

  16-11-2019 23:08
  
  "All 635 Conservative candidates standing at this election – every single one of them – has pledged to me that if elected they will vote in Parliament to pass my Brexit deal so we can end the uncertainty and finally leave the EU", Johnson told the Telegraph newspaper in an interview published http://bit.ly/2rSSQ8v late on Saturday.
  
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• Johnson: All Conservative election candidates pledge to back my Brexit deal

  16-11-2019 23:08
  
  "All 635 Conservative candidates standing at this election – every single one of them – has pledged to me that if elected they will vote in Parliament to pass my Brexit deal so we can end the uncertainty and finally leave the EU," Johnson told the Telegraph newspaper in an interview published http://bit.ly/2rSSQ8v late on Saturday.Johnson struck a last-minute Brexit deal with the European Union last month, as the bloc granted a third delay to the divorce that was originally supposed
  
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• Transcript: Prince Andrew on the Epstein scandal

  16-11-2019 23:02
  
  Transcript: Prince Andrew on the Epstein scandalExcerpts from Prince Andrew and The Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview on BBC 2* Duke of York claims alibi in Newsnight interview
  
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• What is the excuse for this misogynistic nonsense served up in a gilded chamber?

  16-11-2019 23:01
  
  What is the excuse for this misogynistic nonsense served up in a gilded chamber?. The Duke of York’s interview exposes the Queen as having protected the royal family’s own, morally vacant, nemesis
  
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• What is the excuse for Prince Andrew's misogynistic nonsense served in a gilded chamber?

  16-11-2019 23:01
  
  What is the excuse for Prince Andrew's misogynistic nonsense served in a gilded chamber?. The Duke of York’s interview exposes the Queen as having protected the royal family’s own, morally vacant, nemesis
  
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• What is the excuse for Prince Andrew's misogynistic nonsense served in a gilded chamber?

  16-11-2019 23:01
  
  What is the excuse for Prince Andrew's misogynistic nonsense served in a gilded chamber?The Duke of York’s interview exposes the Queen as having protected the royal family’s own, morally vacant, nemesis
  
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• Prince Andrew Interview: 'Little apology or remorse'

  16-11-2019 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Duke of York does not regret Epstein friendship, writes BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond.
  
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• Prince Andrew 'categorically' denies sex claims

  16-11-2019 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The prince tells the BBC he has "no recollection" of meeting a US woman who says she was forced to have sex with him.
  
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• High-stakes gamble on TV interview over Epstein backfires on Duke of York

  16-11-2019 22:50
  
  High-stakes gamble on TV interview over Epstein backfires on Duke of York. Decision to face questions on BBC programme draws critical reaction from woman at centre of allegations
  
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• Prince Andrew: I didn’t have sex with teenager, I was at home after pizza party

  16-11-2019 22:49
  
  Prince Andrew: I didn’t have sex with teenager, I was at home after pizza partyDuke of York claims alibi in Emily Maitlis interview for NewsnightPrince Andrew with Emily Maitlis, who interviewed him on Newsnight. Photograph: Mark Harrison/Mark Harrison/BBC
  
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• Prince Andrew: I didn’t have sex with teenager, I was at home after Pizza Express in Woking

  16-11-2019 22:49
  
  Prince Andrew: I didn’t have sex with teenager, I was at home after Pizza Express in Woking. Duke of York claims alibi in Emily Maitlis interview for Newsnight
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn vows to exclude NHS from trade deals as PM accused of ‘secrecy’

  16-11-2019 22:39
  
  The Labour leader claimed Boris Johnson plans to agree measures that would 'drive up the cost of medicines'.
  
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• Duke could not have slept with accuser ‘because he was at Pizza Express’

  16-11-2019 22:38
  
  The Duke of York also claimed allegations about him 'profusely' perspiring were untrue because he was unable to sweat at the time.
  
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• Play-offs for N Ireland after Netherlands draw

  16-11-2019 22:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland's slim hopes of qualifying automatically for the Euro 2020 finals are over as they draw 0-0 with the Netherlands in Belfast.
  
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• Andrew details relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in ‘no holds barred’ interview

  16-11-2019 22:32
  
  The duke said with 'hindsight', his decision to stay at the paedophile's house was 'definitely the wrong thing to do'.
  
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• A week in UK politics: Nursery crimes, clashing ironclads and Corbyn on hold

  16-11-2019 22:17
  
  A week in UK politics: Nursery crimes, clashing ironclads and Corbyn on holdFrom wheels coming off the prime minister’s bus and copyright battles to Labour’s takeover glitch and a Brexit party candidate’s strategic nous Boris Johnson was working with both children and Rosie the Rabbit during a visit to West Monkton primary school in Taunton, Somerset. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
  
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• View from Belfast: republicans cheering on Tories, loyalists for Corbyn – what’s going on?

  16-11-2019 22:07
  
  View from Belfast: republicans cheering on Tories, loyalists for Corbyn – what’s going on?Brexit has made Northern Ireland’s politics even more complicated, with some believing a Conservative majority could lead to a united IrelandA Loyalist protest poster featuring Boris Johnston in east Belfast. Photograph: Paul McErlane/The Guardian
  
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• Corbyn - Labour to exclude NHS, medicines from trade deals with U.S.

  16-11-2019 21:55
  
  "Boris Johnson is engaged in a cover-up of secret talks for a sell-out American trade deal that would drive up the cost of medicines and lead to runaway privatisation of our health service," Corbyn wrote in the Observer http://bit.ly/2KsglM4.
  
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• Labour promises free dental check-ups for all

  16-11-2019 21:46
  
  The shadow health secretary has unveiled plans to scrap band one dentistry charges.
  
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• Dozens planned new centrist party after Brexit, says ex-Tory minister

  16-11-2019 21:45
  
  Dozens planned new centrist party after Brexit, says ex-Tory ministerNick Boles says ‘final resolve’ of supporters was lackingThe former Conservative minister Nick Boles delivering his resignation speech in the Commons on 1 April. Photograph: Handout/Reuters
  
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• Sinn Fein ready for government if United Ireland on the table

  16-11-2019 21:30
  
  Ms McDonald added that the referendum on a united Ireland was a simply a question of when.
  
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• PM Johnson's Conservatives have highest support since 2017 - polls

  16-11-2019 21:10
  
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party have the highest level of support since 2017, according to opinion polls published on Saturday.The Dec. 12 election was called to end three years of disagreement over Brexit that has sapped investors' faith in the stability of the world's fifth largest economy and damaged Britain's standing since it voted in a 2016 referendum to leave the European Union.Voters in 2016 referendum narrowly voted in favour of leaving the EU.
  
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• Why party pacts don’t always reap the results that leaders hope for

  16-11-2019 21:05
  
  Why party pacts don’t always reap the results that leaders hope for. Twists and turns of tactical voting could prove a headache for all the parties
  
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• Voters have choice of Tory no-deal Brexit or second referendum, says David Gauke

  16-11-2019 21:03
  
  Voters have choice of Tory no-deal Brexit or second referendum, says David Gauke. Ex-Conservative justice secretary says refusal to extend transition leaves ‘no way out’ under Boris Johnson
  
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• Floods chaos could continue until Tuesday, but relief from rain forecast

  16-11-2019 20:58
  
  River levels in some areas remain high but the Met Office has not issued any weather warnings as drier conditions approach.
  
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• Labour will exclude the NHS and medicines from trade deals with the US

  16-11-2019 20:29
  
  Labour will exclude the NHS and medicines from trade deals with the USDonald Trump wants the big US pharmaceutical companies to get its hands on our public services – and the Conservatives are conniving to help the sell-off* Corbyn vows to protect NHS from US drugs firms Jeremy Corbyn at Crawley hospital on October 30, the day after MPs voted for a December general election. Photograph: Peter Summers/Getty Images
  
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• Corbyn vows to protect NHS from US drugs firms

  16-11-2019 20:29
  
  Corbyn vows to protect NHS from US drugs firmsLabour leader accuses Johnson of cover-up about trade talks between UK and US on widening access for US firms to the UK drugs market* Corbyn: Labour will exclude the NHS and medicines from trade deals with the USJeremy Corbyn speaking after a Labour clause V meeting on the manifesto in London yesterday. Photograph: Dominc Lipinski/PA
  
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• Corbyn counts on TV debates to close the gap as Tories’ poll lead increases

  16-11-2019 20:03
  
  Corbyn counts on TV debates to close the gap as Tories’ poll lead increases. Labour leader sharpens up for televised showdown as polls reveal Conservatives have a 16-point lead
  
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• Sinn Féin: Michelle O'Neill sees off John O'Dowd's bid for vice-presidency

  16-11-2019 19:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  John O'Dowd challenged the party's vice-president in a vote at the annual conference in Londonderry.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn hails Labour manifesto that gives ‘promise of a better Britain’

  16-11-2019 19:36
  
  The manifesto is expected to be launched on Thursday.
  
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• Campaign highlights: Sturgeon and Johnson press the flesh out on the trail

  16-11-2019 19:36
  
  Meanwhile, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats thinks a hung parliament is the most likely outcome on December 12.
  
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• Michelle O Neill survives challenge to role as Sinn Fein vice president

  16-11-2019 19:13
  
  Ms O’Neill became vice president in January 2018 when her predecessor, Mary Lou McDonald, succeeded the retiring Gerry Adams.
  
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• ‘Our brother shouldn’t have died like this,’ say Sheku Bayoh’s family

  16-11-2019 19:00
  
  ‘Our brother shouldn’t have died like this,’ say Sheku Bayoh’s family. Relatives of a man who died in police custody are pinning their hopes on a public inquiry into the incident
  
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• Man jailed for creeping into sleeping victim’s home and kissing her

  16-11-2019 18:42
  Ian Essom, 41, restrained the woman when she tried to resist his advances, police said.
  
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• Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, 1989 - in pictures

  16-11-2019 18:15
  
  Thirty years ago, Czech photographer Bohumil Eichler was working for a dissident student-run news agency when the Velvet Revolution began. His work from Prague has rarely been seen, until now. Continue reading...
  
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• In Pictures: Boris goes door-knocking as Labour holds manifesto meeting

  16-11-2019 18:11
  
  Here are some of the highlights from Saturday’s General Election campaign events.
  
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• Bolton flats blaze: Student flats' cladding 'a concern'

  16-11-2019 18:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Greater Manchester's mayor is to talk to the prime minister in the wake of the major blaze in Bolton.
  
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• Russian artists capture everyday Soviet life – in pictures

  16-11-2019 18:00
  
  At the height of tensions during the cold war, Russian artists never imagined their work being appreciated outside the eastern bloc. But in 1960 the American art collector Eric Estorick travelled to the Soviet Union and was so taken with the work of artists from Leningrad Experimental Graphics Laboratory that he bought up hundreds of works, exhibiting them at his Grosvenor Gallery in London in 1961. Inspired by that landmark show, the Estorick gallery is now mounting a display of work by 15 such
  
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• General election 2019: Police 'assessing' call for peerage claim probe

  16-11-2019 17:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Calls grow for an inquiry into claims Brexit Party candidates were offered Lords seats to step aside.
  
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• Malaysia's ruling party loses fourth by-election

  16-11-2019 17:23
  
  Malaysia's ruling coalition lost its fourth electoral contest on Saturday since coming to power last May, uncovering deepening cracks in the young alliance mired by uncertainty over a succession plan for its top leadership.The opposition secured a majority of over 15,000 votes to wrest the Tanjung Piai parliamentary seat, a rural constituency in the southern state of Johor, from Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's ruling Pakatan Harapan (PH) pact.The coalition, led by the centrist People's Justice
  
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• NHS board special measures call over child's hospital death

  16-11-2019 17:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MSP Anas Sarwar says Glasgow's health board is "not fit for purpose" over its handling of infection problems.
  
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• Bar staff help student to source emergency medication following Bolton fire

  16-11-2019 17:09
  
  Ellie Cornish was helped by staff at a local cocktail bar after she evacuated her building.
  
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• Fresh police move on abortion group targeting Stella Creasy

  16-11-2019 17:05
  Fresh police move on abortion group targeting Stella CreasyMet asks prosecutors for advice on ‘harassment’ of leading Labour candidateStella Creasy led successful efforts to decriminalise abortion in Northern Ireland.Photograph: Richard Gardner/REX/Shutterstock
  
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• North Greenwich station fire: Jubilee line shut down as firefighters evacuate station

  16-11-2019 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE JUBILEE LINE was shut down this afternoon due to a fire at North Greenwich station.
  
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• Allegations of electoral fraud ‘could be political corruption of highest order’

  16-11-2019 16:29
  
  A senior peer has written to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and Director of Public Prosecutions.
  
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• Grenfell United raises concerns over cladding after Bolton student fire

  16-11-2019 16:27
  
  Grenfell United raises concerns over cladding after Bolton student fire. Campaign group wants national emergency to be called over building safety inaction
  
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• NASA Announce City-Killing Asteroid Could Hit Earth On May 6, 2022 - UNILAD

  16-11-2019 16:22 via news.google.com
  NASA Announce City-Killing Asteroid Could Hit Earth On May 6, 2022  UNILADNASA announce exact date city-killer asteroid could hit the Earth  Daily StarNASA asteroid alert: Scientists give exact date rock size of Great Pyramid could hit Earth  Express.co.ukNASA Reveals Date When Asteroid the Size of the Great Pyramid of Giza Could Hit Earth  Sputnik InternationalNASA reveals the exact date when rogue asteroid will hit earth & trigger massive devastation
  
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