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• Sir Keir Starmer cancels weekend campaigning due to ill health of mother-in-law

  07-02-2020 23:15
  
  Sir Keir pulled out of campaign events for a number of days in January..
  
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• Coming out to your spouse: ‘My wife thought I was confused but I knew I wasn’t’

  07-02-2020 22:44
  
  Laurence Hicks, 62, came out to his wife as gay after the pair had been married for 20 years.
  
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• Stars urged to ditch the red carpet sequins to save the oceans

  07-02-2020 22:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Although shiny on the red carpet they ‘hide serious socio-environmental impacts’Fashion insiders are warning the great and the good of Hollywood not to wear sequins on the Academy Awards red carpet because of their terrible environmental impact.Last Sunday at the Baftas, despite guests being urged to opt for more planet-friendly fashion choices, Scarlett Johansson wore a sequinned pink Versace dress, Rebel Wilson was wrapped in a red sequin custom-made Prabal Gurung gown and Naomie H
  
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• Milton Keynes quarantine site for Britons returning from coronavirus-hit city

  07-02-2020 22:16
  
  The individuals will remain at the site in isolation for 14 days, according to South Central Ambulance Service.
  
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• Harry and Meghan can achieve ‘great’ philanthropic work, David Furnish says

  07-02-2020 22:13
  
  Mr Furnish and his husband Sir Elton John are close friends of the couple.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein trial hears from expert on unreliable memories

  07-02-2020 22:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Elizabeth Loftus says ‘post-event information’ can color recollections and ‘emotion is not a guarantee’ memory is authenticLawyers for Harvey Weinstein turned on Friday to an expert known for studying false, repressed and unreliable memories who has worked on behalf of clients including the serial killer Ted Bundy. Related: Harvey Weinstein trial: attorney shows dress witness wore during alleged attackContinue reading...
  
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• Manchester United file complaint against Sun over Woodward house attack

  07-02-2020 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  • Club believe tabloid had advance notice of incident
  • The Sun says it ‘vigorously defends its right to report’Manchester United believe the Sun newspaper had “advance notice” of the attack on the house of Ed Woodward and have filed a complaint to Ipso, the media watchdog.The incident occurred on 28 January, when a group wearing balaclavas launched flares at the Cheshire home of the club’s executive vice-chairman. Graffiti was sprayed on the front gates a
  
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• College admissions scandal: ex-CEO of investment firm gets longest prison sentence yet

  07-02-2020 21:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Douglas Hodge, former chief executive of Pimco, sentenced to nine months over bribes totaling $850,000The former head of a top investment firm was sentenced on Friday to nine months in prison – the harshest sentence of any of the parents caught up in the college admissions bribery scandal. Related: Felicity Huffman released early from 14-day prison sentence – reportContinue reading...
  
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• Phillip Schofield: Support for ITV presenter after he comes out as gay

  07-02-2020 21:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ant and Dec, David Walliams, Piers Morgan and James Corden applaud the ITV presenter's announcement.
  
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• Phillip Schofield announcement: How it feels when your partner comes out as gay

  07-02-2020 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  "You doubt everything you've ever believed in your life," says one woman, who still lives with her husband.
  
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• Harry and Meghan attend JP Morgan event in Miami

  07-02-2020 21:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prince Harry speaks at the event, a month after the couple announced plans to step back as senior royals.
  
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• Coronavirus: Royal Caribbean bans all Chinese nationals from its cruise ships

  07-02-2020 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Sweeping measure is likely to anger BeijingFour feverish passengers hospitalized in New Jersey The US cruise ship company Royal Caribbean has announced that would-be passengers and crew with Chinese passports will be banned from all of its cruise ships – regardless of when they were last in the country at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak.The measure – which also covers people with Hong Kong and Macau passports – comes amid growing concerns over the fast-spreading virus, w
  
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• Harry ‘reveals therapy over mother’s death’ during Florida speech

  07-02-2020 21:06
  
  The Sussexes attended their first event since announcing they will leave the royal family.
  
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• Long-Bailey vows to back all strikes ‘no questions asked’ as Labour leader

  07-02-2020 21:00
  
  The leadership contender says Labour's path back to power is through rebuilding the trade union movement.
  
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• Coronavirus: Next Britons flown from China to be taken to Milton Keynes

  07-02-2020 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK citizens returning from coronavirus-hit China will be quarantined for 14 days.
  
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• US vice president indicates Huawei decision could jeopardise trade talks

  07-02-2020 20:47
  
  Comments come after reports US President Donald Trump 'apoplectic' over UK 5G move.
  
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• FBU dismisses claim firefighters are 'under-occupied'

  07-02-2020 20:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The fire service minister suggested firefighters could also respond to medical emergencies in Wales.
  
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• Storm Ciara: Severe disruption likely as gales hit

  07-02-2020 20:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rain and wind means possible flooding and huge transport disruption in Wales - especially on trains.
  
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• Storm Ciara: Expect 'severe disruption' as gales hit

  07-02-2020 20:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rain and wind means possible flooding and huge transport disruption in Wales - especially on trains.
  
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• Advocates blame anti-vaxxers after four-year-old boy dies from flu

  07-02-2020 20:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Colorado boy’s mother admitted in a Facebook post she refused to fill the doctor’s prescription for TamifluHealth advocates are blaming anti-vaccine propaganda perpetuated online for the death of a four-year-old Colorado boy from the flu earlier this week.The boy’s mother, Geneva Montoya, admitted in a Facebook post that she refused to fill the doctor’s prescription for Tamiflu, the most common antiviral medication prescribed to treat the flu. Continue reading...
  
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• Beales to close half of its stores after collapse

  07-02-2020 20:08
  
  The 139-year-old business collapsed into administration in January.
  
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• UK's Prince Harry speaks at JP Morgan event in Miami - royal source

  07-02-2020 20:02
  
  Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan attended an event organised by American bank JP Morgan in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, a royal source said, one of the couple's first engagements since stepping down from royal duties.A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman had no immediate comment.JP Morgan did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
  
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• Prince Harry speaks at JP Morgan event in Miami - royal source

  07-02-2020 20:02
  
  Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan attended an event organised by American bank JP Morgan in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, a royal source said, one of the couple's first engagements since stepping down from royal duties.A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman had no immediate comment.A spokesman for JP Morgan declined to comment.
  
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• Sussexes in first joint event since announcing they are leaving royal duties

  07-02-2020 20:00
  
  Details have not been released about why the couple attended the event.
  
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• Labour's canvassing strategy had 'major deficiencies', leaked report says

  07-02-2020 19:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Opportunity to increase vote share in marginals was missed due to ineffective grassroots operation, analysis showsA damning internal report into Labour’s on-the-ground election campaign has revealed activists did not have enough campaign material, were poorly prepared to talk about policy on the doorstep and did not target the right marginal seats.The leaked analysis by a Labour staffer, produced for senior party figures, found that officials were not in the right parts of the country to r
  
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• Labour's canvassing strategy had 'major deficiencies', leaked report says

  07-02-2020 19:57
  
  Labour's canvassing strategy had 'major deficiencies', leaked report says. Opportunity to increase vote share in marginals was missed due to ineffective grassroots operation, analysis shows
  
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• Labour's canvassing strategy had 'major deficiencies', leaked report says

  07-02-2020 19:57
  
  Labour's canvassing strategy had 'major deficiencies', leaked report saysOpportunity to increase vote share in marginals was missed due to ineffective grassroots operation, analysis shows
  
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• Shamima Begum is a product of Britain. She should face justice here | Aina Khan

  07-02-2020 19:53 via theguardian.com
  
  She’s a victim of child grooming by a death cult. And her banishment tells all ethnic minorities that they’re not seen as fully BritishWhen British teenager Shamima Begum’s citizenship was revoked last February, the then home secretary, Sajid Javid, justified the response in the name of protecting national security. Married to an Islamic State militant eight years her senior and heavily pregnant with their third child at the time, it was difficult for many people to sympathise
  
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• Mike Pence hints UK's Huawei decision could jeopardise trade talks

  07-02-2020 19:53
  
  Mike Pence hints UK's Huawei decision could jeopardise trade talksVice-president says US is ‘profoundly disappointed’ with Chinese firm’s 5G involvement
  
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• Father of Meredith Kercher dies after suspected hit-and-run

  07-02-2020 19:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Police say John Kercher was found with series of injuries after incident in south LondonThe father of the murdered student Meredith Kercher has died after a suspected hit-and-run incident in south London, police have said.Scotland Yard confirmed on Friday that John Kercher, 77, had died six days earlier, having been found suffering from a series of injuries on 13 January. Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident. Continue reading...
  
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• Unseen letters among ‘treasure trove’ of Charles Dickens items to go on display

  07-02-2020 19:45
  
  The collection will be researched, catalogued and conserved before going on display over the next two years.
  
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• George Osborne's future at Evening Standard in doubt

  07-02-2020 19:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: former chancellor expected to leave role amid shakeup by new chief executive, sources sayGeorge Osborne’s future at the Evening Standard is believed to be in doubt, with sources at the newspaper expecting the former chancellor to leave the publication.Osborne was appointed to edit the daily London newspaper in March 2017 and since then has continued to juggle the job with several other roles, including a £650,000-a-year post advising the investment fund BlackRock, and as c
  
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• George Osborne's future at Evening Standard in doubt

  07-02-2020 19:43
  
  George Osborne's future at Evening Standard in doubt. Exclusive: former chancellor expected to leave role amid shakeup by new chief executive, sources say
  
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• George Osborne's future at Evening Standard in doubt

  07-02-2020 19:43
  
  George Osborne's future at Evening Standard in doubtExclusive: former chancellor expected to leave role amid shakeup by new chief executive, sources say
  
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• Phillip Schofield's statement is 'huge moment' for gay community

  07-02-2020 19:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Attitudes to gay people have undergone massive change since 1980s when presenter made his TV debutIn 1985, the year Phillip Schofield made his debut on British children’s TV, the Sun reported that a Liverpool publican had banned gay people from his establishment. “A lot of ordinary people are going to catch something from the glasses,” he told the paper, according to a contemporaneous report in the Gay Times. “We don’t want gays on the premises.”Two years late
  
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• Phillip Schofield's statement is 'huge moment' for gay community

  07-02-2020 19:33
  
  Phillip Schofield's statement is 'huge moment' for gay communityAttitudes to gay people have undergone massive change since 1980s when presenter made his TV debut
  
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• Man Utd reports the Sun over vice-chairman home attack

  07-02-2020 19:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The club claims the newspaper received advanced notice of the attack on its vice-chairman's home.
  
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• Ucas to stop advertising private loans to students

  07-02-2020 19:23
  
  Ucas to stop advertising private loans to studentsUniversity admissions service bows to pressure after rebuke from Charity Commission
  
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• Sainsbury's upskirter targeted schoolgirls at Newport store

  07-02-2020 19:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man who took photographs up the skirts of 20 women and girls is convicted of voyeurism.
  
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• Train passengers urged to avoid travel on Sunday due to Storm Ciara

  07-02-2020 19:15
  The Met Office predicted that heavy wind and rain would cause disruption to flights, trains and ferries, as well as damage to buildings.
  
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• His master's voice? Jair Bolsonaro posts video of himself watching Trump rant

  07-02-2020 18:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Brazil’s president was accused of kowtowing with his 73-minute Facebook live stream but some see method in his obsequiousnessHe has long styled himself as a tropical Trump – a socialist-skewering hardman fighting Brazilian carnage. Related: Power is everything – and progressives forget that at their peril | Jonathan FreedlandContinue reading...
  
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• Branston double murder accused 'went on pleasure tour'

  07-02-2020 18:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Andrei-Mihai Simion-Munteanu hired an escort and visited castles after strangling his mother.
  
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• Beales to close more than half of its stores

  07-02-2020 18:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Efforts to sell all 23 stores together have failed, administrators KPMG said.
  
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• Man found guilty of smuggling £50m worth of live eels out of UK

  07-02-2020 18:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Gilbert Khoo transported endangered ‘glass eels’ to Hong Kong hidden beneath other fishA seafood salesman has been found guilty of smuggling more than £53m worth of endangered live eels out of the UK.Gilbert Khoo, 66, transported the rare elvers from London to Hong Kong hidden underneath other fish between 2015 and 2017. Continue reading...
  
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• Channel migrants: More than 100 intercepted over 10 hours

  07-02-2020 18:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Border Force and Kent Police say they dealt with six incidents during one day.
  
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• New mothers to receive health check six weeks after giving birth

  07-02-2020 18:37
  
  New mothers to receive health check six weeks after giving birthCampaigners welcome move to assess women in England for physical and mental wellbeing
  
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• New mothers in England to receive health check six weeks after giving birth

  07-02-2020 18:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Campaigners welcome move to assess women for physical and mental wellbeingNew mothers will be given a physical and mental health check six weeks after giving birth, in a victory forcampaigners.From April, the 600,000 women a year who have babies in England will undergo an assessment of their health and wellbeing with either a GP or practice nurse at their surgery. Continue reading...
  
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• The BBC is a precious national asset that we must protect

  07-02-2020 18:35
  
  The BBC is a precious national asset that we must protectReaders and campaigners respond to the news that the government is considering decriminalising non-payment of the licence fee
  
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• An Ofsted inspection should not be like entering the dragons’ den

  07-02-2020 18:31
  
  An Ofsted inspection should not be like entering the dragons’ denMichael Bassey thinks Ofsted should be abolished, Sarah Hale questions its definition of relevant knowledge, Sara Davidson says the inspectorate requires improvement, while Linda Rhead points out that erroneous judgments have huge implications
  
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• How this government treats its employees is a sign of its character

  07-02-2020 18:28
  
  How this government treats its employees is a sign of its characterEmployment lawyer John Bowers QC writes about some worrying incidents that have taken place in the civil service, which have left staff demoralised
  
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