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• Former Hull MP Kevin McNamara dies aged 82

  06-08-2017 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Kevin McNamara, who served his constituency for nearly 40 years, fell ill while on holiday in Spain.
  
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• David Cameron: from prime minister to reluctant festival-goer

  06-08-2017 23:23
  Former PM’s glum expression in a couple’s selfie at the Wilderness festival in Oxfordshire indicates it was not to his likingIn a possible sign that he had taken inspiration from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s Glastonbury appearance this year David Cameron was spotted at the upmarket Wilderness festival in Oxfordshire by unsuspecting festival goers.The former prime minister was seen in a selfie taken by Labour activist Vanessa Price and her husband. He seemed to be sporting an e
  
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• The life and work of Oscar Nemon

  06-08-2017 22:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Oscar Nemon, the Croatian-born man who came to Britain to escape the Nazis, created iconic images of some of the most famous people of his day,
  
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• David Cameron photobombs festival selfie

  06-08-2017 22:04 via bbc.co.uk
  A Labour activist snapped the former prime minister at the Oxfordshire event.
  
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• London cycle seizures put spoke in wheel of rental scheme

  06-08-2017 20:00
  Wandsworth council takes 130 oBikes off roads, describing them as ‘yellow plague’
  
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• UK government tries to play down potential Brexit divorce bill

  06-08-2017 19:47
  Downing Street says it will pay EU ‘no more than it needs to’
  
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• Former MP Michelle Thomson criticises SNP leadership

  06-08-2017 18:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Michelle Thomson says leader Nicola Sturgeon did not listen to her story over business activities.
  
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• Ex-Labour MP Kevin McNamara dies aged 82 after short illness

  06-08-2017 18:17
  McNamara, who represented Hull North for 39 years, had fallen ill and been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancerThe former Labour MP Kevin McNamara, who sat in parliament for nearly 40 years, has died aged 82.McNamara was taken ill on holiday in Spain and died at his home in Formby on Merseyside. Continue reading...
  
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• Brexit 'Divorce Bill' Of £36 Billion Rejected By Tory Eurosceptics

  06-08-2017 17:42
  
  Britain could reportedly pay up to £36 billion to the European Union in a so-called Brexit divorce bill.
  Tory Eurosceptics have insisted that the UK should not pay the fee following suggestions the Government might be prepared to offer the sum as part of a deal.
  Whitehall sources have sought to play down speculation Theresa May would be prepared to pay a €40 billion bill in order to strike a comprehensive free trade agreement with Brussels.Tory MPs warned that handing over money to Br
  
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• MPs urge government to delay universal credit rollout

  06-08-2017 17:30
  MPs’ letter calls for extension of universal credit to be postponed until next year to avoid people suffering Christmas hardshipDavid Gauke, the work and pensions secretary, has been urged by 30 Labour MPs, and the Green party MP Caroline Lucas, to delay the expansion of the new universal credit benefit system to stop their constituents suffering severe hardship over Christmas.In a letter to the Guardian the group, led by the Labour MP Laura Pidcock, called on the government to put off the
  
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• Former SNP MP calls for apology from Sturgeon after fraud case dropped

  06-08-2017 16:10
  Michelle Thomson, asked to resign the whip in 2015 pending the investigation, also criticised party’s governance structureA former Scottish National party MP has criticised the governance structure of the SNP after a fraud investigation into her business dealings was dropped, and called for an apology from Nicola Sturgeon.Michelle Thomson was asked to resign the SNP whip in September 2015, months after being elected, when the police began examining whether her property dealings potentially
  
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• UK intelligence agencies turn to start-ups on cyber security

  06-08-2017 13:38
  Private sector coders are being sought to develop fixes for virulent global crimes
  
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• UK intelligence agencies partner with start-ups on cyber security

  06-08-2017 13:38
  Private sector coders are being sought to develop fixes for virulent global crimes
  
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• Fears grow at UK companies over political risk surrounding Brexit

  06-08-2017 13:02
  More than two-thirds of FTSE 350 groups in Bellwether survey predict economic decline
  
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• The Article 49 strategy to keep Britain in the EU

  06-08-2017 12:24
  If the UK wants to reboot its relationship with the bloc, this approach is best
  
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• I Met Defend Europe To Try And Work Out What The Hell They're Doing

  06-08-2017 11:46
  
  Simon Wald is on a mission to ‘Defend Europe’.
  The tall, fair-haired, multi-lingual, 30-year-old German makes an almost comical sight in the baking Sicilian sun as he takes photos of a docked ship whilst trying trying to avoid the suspicious stares of its crew.
  “The first step on this mission is to achieve a complete documentation and observation of the doings of those NGOs,” he tells me.“Those NGOs” are charities such as SOS Méditerranée&nb
  
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• Vince Cable hits out at hardline Brexit 'martyrs'

  06-08-2017 11:16
  Lib Dem leader claims older voters with views coloured by nostalgia for imperial past ‘shafted’ younger pro-EU generationSir Vince Cable has criticised older voters who see economic pain as a price worth paying for leaving the EU, saying those who think of themselves as “Brexit martyrs” are shafting young people.The Liberal Democrat leader said it was dangerous to see those people as martyrs because they would not be the ones to suffer most from the effects of Brexit. Con
  
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• Vince Cable: Young 'shafted' over Brexit

  06-08-2017 11:01 via bbc.co.uk
  The Lib Dem leader says older people have become "self-declared martyrs" over leaving the EU.
  
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• Curry, cars and tortillas

  06-08-2017 01:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Brexit talks have so far been fraught, but the UK is now trying a charm offensive with EU countries.
  
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• Donald Trump, look behind you – cartoon

  06-08-2017 01:05
  Chris Riddell on the US president and the Russian bear that just won’t go away Continue reading...
  
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• UK launches independent energy review

  06-08-2017 01:04
  Government looks to assuage concerns over cost and supply
  
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