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• Sinn Fein president urges EU to adopt pro-Irish unity stance

  10-02-2020 23:57
  
  Mary Lou McDonald's call came as former Fianna Fail taoiseach Bertie Ahern said a poll on unification was inevitable.
  
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• The End review – devastating TV that shows what makes life worth living

  10-02-2020 23:35
  
  What’s the point of it all? Harriet Walter and Frances O’Connor play a mother and daughter grappling with life’s eternal questions in this funny and painfully perceptive drama
  We open with Harriet Walter lying in bed with a bag over her head and a near-empty bottle of booze by her side. A log falls out of the fire downstairs and sets light to the place. Burning is clearly not how she wants to go, so she swings herself out of bed, tears the bag off, takes a final swig of vodka a
  
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• Johnson promises £5bn cash injection for bus and cycle links

  10-02-2020 23:30
  
  The five-year funding package for local transport is seen as a bid to placate critics of the HS2 rail link.
  
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• Johnson plans £5bn bus funding ahead of HS2 announcement

  10-02-2020 23:30
  
  No 10 says cash will mean more frequent buses, better Sunday services and simpler faresBoris Johnson will announce plans to spend £5bn over the next five years on improving bus services and building new cycle routes, in a bid to assuage concerns that HS2 will suck resources from other priorities.Ahead of an expected announcement on Tuesday giving the green light to the vast infrastructure project, Johnson will claim that his government will offer bus passengers outside London a more freque
  
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• Johnson plans £5bn boost for bus services and cycle routes

  10-02-2020 23:30
  
  Johnson plans £5bn boost for bus services and cycle routes. No 10 says cash will mean more frequent buses, better Sunday services and simpler fares
  
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• Can Labour Reclaim Tony Blair’s ‘Tough On Crime And Causes Of Crime’ Strategy?

  10-02-2020 23:28
  
  Boris Johnson has proved he'll stop at nothing to paint the Opposition as 'weak'.
  
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• 'Reaper of death': scientists discover new dinosaur species related to T rex

  10-02-2020 23:20
  
  Species is thought to be the oldest member of the T rex family yet discovered in northern North AmericaScientists in Canada have announced the discoveryof a new species of dinosaur closely related to Tyrannosaurus rex that strode the plain of North America about 80m years ago. Related: Dinosaurs had feathers ruffled by parasites, study findsContinue reading...
  
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• Johnson expected to defy Tory critics and back HS2

  10-02-2020 23:13
  
  The Prime Minister risks a civil war within his party over the controversial rail project.
  
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• Prime Minister expected to give green light to HS2

  10-02-2020 23:12
  
  Former HS2 Ltd chairman Douglas Oakervee was commissioned by the Government to lead a review into whether or not the programme should be scrapped.
  
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• Campaigners claim victory in bid to stop 50 deportations to Jamaica

  10-02-2020 23:08
  
  Campaigners are claiming victory in their fight to stop the deportation of more than 50 people to Jamaica from the UK on Tuesday.The detainees, who the Home Office says are foreign criminals and are being held at two centres near Heathrow Airport, were due to be flown to the Caribbean island on Tuesday morning.Earlier on Monday, campaigners lost a High Court ruling but later a Court of Appeal judge, Lady Justice Simler, reached a different decision.
  
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• Toto Wolff will ‘give 100%’ to keep Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes

  10-02-2020 23:00
  
  • Team principal and world champion to meet for talks• Hamilton’s £40m-a-year deal runs out in NovemberToto Wolff has said his priority is to ensure Lewis Hamilton signs a new contract with Mercedes. They will meet for talks at the team’s base in Brackley before the 2020 race car is officially launched on Friday.The Mercedes team principal does not expect money to be a sticking point with Hamilton, whose deal reportedly worth £40m a year runs until the end of th
  
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• England may need to manage Jofra Archer differently, admits Silverwood

  10-02-2020 22:53
  
  • England coach says Archer may bowl shorter spells
  • ‘Being a fast bowler is hard work. It’s just how it is’Chris Silverwood has conceded for the first time he may look at managing Jofra Archer differently in Test cricket. The England coach said he could use Archer in shorter spells than has been the case but, if the situation demanded, he would still ask the paceman to bowl 40 overs in an innings.“Things like [bowling 40 overs] we have to look at,” Silve
  
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• Severe weather shuts Queensferry Crossing

  10-02-2020 22:51
  
  Operators Amey said the bridge would be closed until further notice due to ice falling from the cables.
  
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• Running reaches crossroads as Nike-led footwear arms race infects mainstream | Jonathan Liew

  10-02-2020 22:44
  
  From Olympic and world records down to Parkruns Vaporfly’s sole technology thrives at the expense of a sport’s soulThere was a guy at Parkrun the weekend before last wearing a pair of lime-green Vaporflys on the start line. At least he looked suitably sheepish about it – pointedly ignoring the sharp whispers, the discreet pointing, the gentle ribbing from his running club mates. With its clownish platform heels and lurid alien colour scheme, the Vaporfly is not a shoe for blend
  
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• Woodward backs Solskjær to lead Manchester United’s summer spending

  10-02-2020 22:39
  
  • Club vice-chairman targets ‘high-quality’ acquisitions
  • Aston Villa’s Jack Grealish has been linked with moveManchester United’s vice-chairman Ed Woodward has backed Ole Gunnar Solskjær to attract “high-quality acquisitions” in the summer and transform the club’s fortunes.Woodward, who has become a target of hatred from a section of disgruntled United supporters who regularly sing about his death, recently had his home attacked as tens
  
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• Climbers rescued in blizzard after scaling Ben Nevis in trainers

  10-02-2020 22:18
  
  The group had to be airlifted off Britain's highest peak.
  
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• Tory MP Accused Of 'Mocking' Children Concerned About Climate Change

  10-02-2020 22:06
  
  Veteran backbencher Christopher Chope has tabled laws to help reduce “anxiety” about the environment in schools.
  
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• Court Ruling Threatens To Halt Deportation Flight To Jamaica

  10-02-2020 21:58
  
  Campaigners say the deportation of around 50 people held near Heathrow cannot go ahead after a Court of Appeal ruling.
  
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• TD filmed shouting ‘Up the ‘Ra’ defends controversial comments

  10-02-2020 21:47
  
  Waterford TD David Cullinane was recorded making the comment as he spoke to supporters hours after he was elected.
  
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• Campaigners hail Court of Appeal intervention over planned deportation flight

  10-02-2020 21:47
  
  The judge granted the order without a court hearing following an urgent application.
  
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• Court deals blow to UK government's deportation plans

  10-02-2020 21:27
  
  Court of appeal orders Home Office to prove detainees had access to functioning phonesThe government has received a blow to its plans to deport about 50 people to Jamaica after one of two legal actions to try to halt the scheduled flight succeeded.The court of appeal made the ruling in an emergency out-of-hours hearing on Monday night, ordering the Home Office not to remove anyone scheduled to be deported from two detention centres near Heathrow on the 6.30am flight to Jamaica on Tuesday –
  
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• Court deals blow to UK government's deportation plans

  10-02-2020 21:27
  
  Court deals blow to UK government's deportation plans. Court of appeal orders Home Office to prove detainees had access to functioning phones
  
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• Court deals blow to UK government's deportation plans

  10-02-2020 21:27
  
  Court deals blow to UK government's deportation plansCourt of appeal orders Home Office to prove detainees had access to functioning phones
  
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• Korean cinema's global reach highlighted by Parasite's Oscar win

  10-02-2020 21:16
  
  Fans emphasise rich diversity of film-making, which has been thrilling audiences for yearsThe Oscar success of Parasite, which became the first foreign-language film to win best picture, might have taken UK-based Korean artists and film buffs by surprise as much as anyone, but some had already been banking on a wider boon.Before the awards ceremony, London-based playwright and screenwriter Kyo Choi tweeted reference points that have come to be associated with Korea. She wrote: “Hope #Paras
  
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• Windrush: ministers asked how many died before payout

  10-02-2020 21:10
  
  Windrush: ministers asked how many died before payoutScheme has made payments to just 36 people, despite 11,000 being eligible
  
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• Key Harvey Weinstein witness denies accuser's claim as trial draws to close

  10-02-2020 21:05
  
  Mexican model Claudia Salinas flatly denies closing door of hotel bathroom on mogul and Lauren Young in 2013A key witness for the defence at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial denied she enabled the movie producer to sexually assault an aspiring actor in a bathroom at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2013. Related: Donna Rotunno: the legal Rottweiler leading Harvey Weinstein’s defenseContinue reading...
  
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• Everton show the way by promoting community rather gambling | David Conn

  10-02-2020 20:45
  
  If Premier League clubs want recognition for work off the pitch, then rejecting sponsorship from bookies is the way forwardIn a climate of serious concern finally rising about football’s drenching with gambling adverts, Everton showed a glimpse of a better future at their home match with Crystal Palace on Saturday. Rather than promoting to the watching world Everton’s sponsor, the Kenyan betting giant SportPesa, the players wore a name across their shirts that looked very much more a
  
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• Priti Patel Branded 'Shameful' For Leaving Commons Before Questions On Deportation Flight

  10-02-2020 20:39
  
  MP David Lammy criticises home secretary over people being sent to Jamaica as he asks: "When will black lives matter once again?”
  
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• Deportation flight prompts protests outside Downing Street

  10-02-2020 20:36
  
  The demonstrators carried placards reading 'Solidarity with the Windrush Generation' and chanted 'no charter flight, respect human rights'.
  
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• Are the Tories for the left-behind towns, or the wealthy shires? We’ll soon find out | Polly Toynbee

  10-02-2020 20:34
  
  The party faces an unpalatable budget choice: no new spending, raise taxes on the rich, or break its own fiscal rulesDid anyone expect triumphant Tories to take a leaf out of Jeremy Corbyn’s defeated manifesto? But there it is, leaked to the Financial Times and the Sunday Telegraph. Plans are (just possibly) afoot to raise fat sums from the rich to spend in the new Tory seats of the north. Yes, even reviving Ed Miliband’s £2bn mansion tax. Despite four abysmal election failures
  
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• Two years after Windrush, we’re deporting people who’ve only known Britain as home | David Lammy

  10-02-2020 20:23
  
  The government is ignoring its own review and ripping apart families, showing how little regard it has for the lives it ruinsOver the phone last Thursday I spoke to Tayjay, a 24-year-old man being held in Colnbrook detention centre. Tayjay has lived in the UK since he was five, as was obvious when I heard his strong London accent. His life is deeply entwined with his family, all of whom live in the UK. Most days, he takes his younger brother to school.Tayjay told me he was the victim of county l
  
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• Ex-Virgin Money chief joins cultural shake-up at Lloyd's of London

  10-02-2020 20:15
  
  Insurance market hit by bad behaviour allegations in 2019 appoints Jayne-Anne GadhiaLloyd’s of London has appointed the former Virgin Money chief executive Jayne-Anne Gadhia to help oversee a cultural overhaul at the insurance market after it was rocked by bullying and harassment allegations last year.Lloyd’s is expected to confirm Gadhia’s involvement on Tuesday as it unveils a culture advisory group that includes members from organisations such as Mental Health UK and the bus
  
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• Deportation row: David Lammy asks 'when will black lives matter again'

  10-02-2020 20:15
  
  Deportation row: David Lammy asks 'when will black lives matter again'. Labour MPs condemn removal of 50 people to Jamaica with Windrush report pending
  
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• Deportation row: David Lammy asks 'when will black lives matter again'

  10-02-2020 20:15
  
  Deportation row: David Lammy asks 'when will black lives matter again'Labour MPs condemn removal of 50 people to Jamaica with Windrush report pending
  
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• 'We needed to get the muppets out': voters on backing Sinn Féin

  10-02-2020 20:09
  
  Many who supported the party say they did so to shake up the established orderMarian Ryan voted for Sinn Féin for the first time in her life because she could not bear the prospect of the same old crowd running another government. “We need change,” the 63-year-old Dublin childminder said on Monday. “We needed to get the muppets out.”She made up her mind the moment the election was announced three weeks ago and cast her vote on Saturday with a giddy hope she was clo
  
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• 'We needed to get the muppets out': voters on backing Sinn Féin

  10-02-2020 20:09
  
  'We needed to get the muppets out': voters on backing Sinn Féin. Voters supported the party in the hope of sparking change and condemning the status quo
  
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• 'We needed to get the muppets out': voters on backing Sinn Féin

  10-02-2020 20:09
  
  'We needed to get the muppets out': voters on backing Sinn FéinMany who supported the party say they did so to shake up the established order
  
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• British man guilty of plotting Islamist attack on London sights

  10-02-2020 20:01
  
  A British Uber driver, previously cleared of a sword attack on police outside Buckingham Palace, was convicted on Monday of a plot to kill people in the name of Islam at London tourist destinations including Madame Tussauds and the Gay Pride parade.Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 28, from Luton, north of London, boasted to undercover detectives about having deceived the jury after being acquitted of wounding police officers outside Queen Elizabeth's London home in 2017.Chowdhury subsequently tried to o
  
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• Fraud charges possible over Grenfell Tower refit, says inquiry chair

  10-02-2020 20:00
  
  Fraud charges possible over Grenfell Tower refit, says inquiry chairWitnesses ‘very likely’ to be asked to discuss issues involving potential offences
  
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• Memo to British political pundits: Ireland’s election isn’t about you | Peter Geoghegan

  10-02-2020 19:51
  
  After Sinn Féin’s unexpected success commentators rushed in with half-baked conclusions about what it all meantThere has been no shortage of surprises in Ireland’s election results. A party historically linked to the Provisional IRA won the popular vote. A political duopoly rooted in a civil war a century earlier has, finally, ended. And nobody knows what the next government will look like.Given all this real drama, it was more than a bit curious to see the reaction from secti
  
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• Who is your secret crush? Just don’t say Piers Morgan

  10-02-2020 19:36
  
  The controversial broadcaster has been voted the top secret crush of magazine readers – but who would you vote for?It is the biggest awards-season upset since the La La Land/Moonlight best-picture mixup: Piers Morgan has been voted the top secret crush of magazine readers. In a poll conducted by Heat, the controversial broadcaster and Twitter loudmouth beat off stiff competition from Prince Harry, Alan Sugar and Ant and Dec (separately, of course). Morgan won by a landslide, reportedly rec
  
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• The Guardian view on Windrush compensation: why the delay? | Editorial

  10-02-2020 19:30
  
  That only 36 people have received payments is unacceptable when so many suffered so much for so longSince the UK government first apologised for the Windrush scandal in April 2018, 8,000 people have been granted new documents that prove they live in the UK legally. Yet in the 10 months since it was set up, only 36 people have received any money from a scheme set up to compensate them for harm caused by their having been wrongly classified as illegal immigrants. The discrepancy is troubling. Dela
  
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• Welfare system fails to protect vulnerable people

  10-02-2020 19:27
  
  Welfare system fails to protect vulnerable people. Readers respond after the National Audit Office found that at least 69 suicides could be linked to problems with benefit claims over the last six years
  
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• We will do all we can for the Latin Village market in Seven Sisters

  10-02-2020 19:26
  
  We will do all we can for the Latin Village market in Seven SistersCllr Joseph Ejiofor says Haringey council has done everything it can to address traders’ concerns over a major redevelopment, and Lawrence Greenberg says plans to build on tube station car parks is not in London’s interest
  
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• Long-Bailey calls for Labour contest to move on from data misuse claims

  10-02-2020 19:26
  
  Long-Bailey calls for Labour contest to move on from data misuse claimsCandidate’s team denies it was behind decision to report Keir Starmer over a data breach
  
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• Humanities are not the right courses to cut

  10-02-2020 19:26
  
  Humanities are not the right courses to cutRoger Brown says the rot started with a 1985 green paper which declared that the fundamental purpose of higher education was to serve the economy, Glyn Turton points out that humanities teach people to see through lies and hypocrisy, and Sharman Finlay says degree choice is not necessarily linked to career options
  
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• Tottenham’s Dele Alli may face FA charge over coronavirus video

  10-02-2020 19:24
  
  • FA writes to Alli asking for his observations
  • Alli being investigated for infringement of rule E3(1)Dele Alli is facing a possible Football Association charge over a social media post in which he appeared to mock an Asian man and claimed he might be infected with the coronavirus.The FA has written to the Tottenham midfielder asking for his observations, the first step in a process that could end in a charge of misconduct. Continue reading...
  
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• Import controls will begin as soon Brexit transition ends, says Gove

  10-02-2020 19:20
  
  Retailers have warned that ministers will have to move fast to ensure the flow of goods from the EU continues after January 1 2021.
  
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• Here's What Happened In The Irish Election And How The UK Will Be Affected

  10-02-2020 19:17
  
  Everything you need to know as Sinn Fein's surge smashed the country's traditional two party politics.
  
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• Tunisia to shelve plan for UN vote on Trump's Middle East plan

  10-02-2020 19:14
  
  Security council vote was seen as test of support for deal and of Britain’s relations with USArab plans for a UN security council vote on Tuesday designed to show international opposition to Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan are expected to be shelved after the US and the UK raised separate objections to the draft text.In what was being seen as a key test of the diplomatic support for Trump’s “ultimate deal”, Tunisia, with Arab League and Palestinian support, ha
  
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