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• Crisp Making Hit By Brexit Labour Shortage, Reveals UK Food Federation Chief

  24-10-2017 23:30
  Crisp production is being hit by a Brexit-induced labour shortage, the chief of the UK’s food federation has said during his starkest warning yet over a drop in migrant workers.In an interview with HuffPost UK, Food and Drink Federation boss Ian Wright called on the Government to do more to reassure EU migrants they are welcome in the country as companies across the sector experience staff shortages.Wright said an owner of a medium-sized crisp manufacturer told him his factory is having to
  
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• Dementia tax: Tory MPs urged to back Labour push to scrap policy

  24-10-2017 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Opposition day debate will call on Conservatives to confirm they will ditch unpopular manifesto pledge
  The shadow social care minister has called on Conservative MPs to renounce the so-called “dementia tax”, proposed in the party’s election manifesto, before a debate in parliament on the social care crisis. Related: The ‘dementia tax’ mess shows how little May thinks of disabled people | Frances RyanContinue reading...
  
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• Steve Bell on the Brexit brigade – cartoon

  24-10-2017 22:30 via theguardian.com
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• Republican Senator Jeff Flake Takes Astonishing Stand Against Donald Trump In Scathing Resignation Speech

  24-10-2017 22:07
  Another Republican Senator has stepped forward to condemn Donald Trump, labelling the US President “dangerous to democracy” in a blistering take-down.In a withering attack from the floor of the Senate, Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona, said it was “time for our complicity and accommodation to the unacceptable to end” and said Republicans would not “meekly accept such behaviour” if a Democrat was in the White House.His tirade came hours after he joined f
  
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• 'EastEnders' Spoilers: Tamzin Outhwaite To Return As Melanie Owen After 16 Years Away

  24-10-2017 21:00
  ‘EastEnders’ bosses were not kidding when they said they had big news, as they have announced the return of Tamzin Outhwaite as Melanie Owen.Sixteen years after she was last seen in Walford, the character will be making a permanent comeback under plans to overhaul the BBC soap.The announcement was teased on Twitter in the lead-up to it, but many fans believed this would reveal news Kat and Alfie Moon (Jessie Wallace and Shane Richie) would be returning to Albert Square.
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• Philip Hammond plays down £50bn housing boost in Budget

  24-10-2017 20:59
  Landlords hit again as chancellor considers stamp duty cuts for first time buyers
  
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• UK terrorism law expert warns government over plans for new legislation

  24-10-2017 20:31 via theguardian.com
  Max Hill questions home secretary’s plan to impose 15-year jail term on people who repeatedly view terrorist content onlineIntroducing new laws to prosecute extremists would be wrong, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has said. Related: Certain terror offences should carry longer jail terms, QC saysContinue reading...
  
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• London’s airports will be ‘completely full’ in 20 years

  24-10-2017 20:19
  Grayling says forecasts show need to push on with third Heathrow runway
  
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• Scotland enshrines fracking ban in national long-term plan

  24-10-2017 20:13
  Move will prevent any future reversal of bar on shale mining
  
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• Michael Bloomberg: Brexit is stupidest thing any country has done besides Trump

  24-10-2017 20:12 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Billionaire media mogul says it is ‘hard to understand why a country doing so well wanted to ruin it’Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul and former mayor of New York, has said Brexit is the “single stupidest thing any country has ever done” apart from the election of Donald Trump as US president.Bloomberg argued that “it is really hard to understand why a country that was doing so well wanted to ruin it” with the Brexit vote, in a series
  
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• Virgin Money boss warns sexism is still rife in the City of London

  24-10-2017 19:59
  Gadhia cites personal examples and points to Goldman and JPMorgan over charter
  
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• Philip Hammond shoots from the hip with colleagues in the firing line | John Crace

  24-10-2017 19:26 via theguardian.com
  As the Maybot malfunctions, Freewheelin’ Phil loses patience with silly questions while Liz Truss forgets who was in the last governmentWith the prime minister barely even in charge of herself at the moment, it’s everyone for themselves in the cabinet right now. A state of affairs that seems to suit Philip Hammond rather well as he no longer really seems to care that much if he stays in a job or not. On the whole, he’d rather remain chancellor – he’s vain enough to
  
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• Labour investigates MP Jared O'Mara

  24-10-2017 19:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Mr O'Mara says a constituent's allegations of offensive language in March 2017 are "untrue".
  
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• Gemma Collins Is Hoping PR From *That* Fall Will Help Boost 'TOWIE' Ratings, Says Charlie King

  24-10-2017 19:04
  Gemma Collins’s fall at the Radio 1 Teen Awards is all anyone can talk about this week, and she is hoping to use that to TOWIE’s advantage, according to her co-star Charlie King.The fitness instructor, who appears on the ITVBe show alongside The GC, has claimed she believes the videos of her crashing down a hole on stage at Sunday’s (22 October) event will boost TOWIE’s ratings.Speaking to HuffPost UK on an episode of ‘BUILD’, Charlie admitted Gemma has been &
  
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• MPs Demand Right To Veto UK's Exit From Single Market

  24-10-2017 19:02
  A cross-party group of MPs have called for parliament to be given the power to veto the UK’s exit from the single market.Conservative MP Anna Soubry and Labour MPs Stephen Kinnock and Heidi Alexander joined forces on Tuesday to ask for a Commons debate be held on whether parliament should have to approve the UK’s exit from the the European Economic Area (EEA)The EEA treaty, signed in 1994, extends the single market beyond the current 28 EU members to non-EU states Norway, Lichte
  
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• Governing without a majority – Politics Weekly podcast

  24-10-2017 19:01 via theguardian.com
  Heather Stewart is joined by Rowena Mason, Sonia Sodha and Meg Russell to discuss Theresa May’s ability to operate without a majority. Plus Prof Rob Ford on the Tories’ troublesome right flank and Conservative MP Ben Bradley on enticing young people to consider voting ToryThe EU withdrawal bill has been delayed again, there’s a rebellion brewing on the budget and every week brings another climbdown for the prime minister. Such is the reality of governing Britain without a major
  
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• Winnie Harlow, Halima Aden and Hari Nef Are Literal Works Of Art In Harper's Bazaar'

  24-10-2017 18:02
  Winnie Harlow, Halima Aden and Hari Nef posed as famous artworks - the subjects of which they have more in common with than you may at first think.The striking ‘Art Of Beauty’ editorial by photographer Pari Duvoric for Harpers Bazaar US honoured the work of artists who created iconic paintings that have stood the test of time.Harlow sat as Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, while Aden re-imagined  Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring and Nef stunned as John
  
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• These Inmates Are Going Home Using VR From Prison

  24-10-2017 18:01
  Inmates are using virtual reality to visit home in this Santiago prison.A group of prison inmates experienced, for the first time in a long time, what it felt like to visit their homes. Filmmaker, Catalina Alarcón, took a 360º camera to the inmates’ houses and the inmate experience this“We wanted the inmates to have the opportunity to interact with their families, returning home for a few seconds thanks to technology,” said the filmmaker, Catalina Alarcó
  
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• Brexit 'more complex than first moon landing', says academic study

  24-10-2017 17:54 via theguardian.com
  Analysis by German professor claims project for UK to leave the EU is a trickier task than Nasa’s 1969 moonshotBritain extricating itself from the European Union will be “incomparably more complex” than the first moon landing, an academic study has found.Roland Alter, a professor at Heilbronn University in Germany who specialises in risk assessment, said he had been inspired to carry out his analysis after comments by the Brexit secretary, David Davis, that he was “runnin
  
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• Tory MP under fire over 'sinister' Brexit demand to universities

  24-10-2017 17:48 via bbc.co.uk
  A Tory MP is under fire after writing to universities asking for names of staff who teach courses on Brexit.
  
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• 'Liar' Series 2: Tom Bailey Actor Warren Brown Admits His Future On The Show Is Unclear

  24-10-2017 17:35
  ‘Liar’ star Warren Brown has addressed the show’s recently-announced second series, admitting that he doesn’t know if he’ll be in it.The six-week series was a huge hit when it aired on ITV earlier this year, and as the credits rolled on the finale, bosses announced that we’ll be getting more episodes in 2018.However, speaking to HuffPost UK on ‘BUILD’, Warren confessed that has no idea what’s actually happening next.“I can’t say a
  
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• The Truth About Brexit That Theresa May Won't Let You Read

  24-10-2017 17:32
  The longer the Brexit process has gone on the more it has become clear that no-one could have known the true consequences of a vote to leave at the time of the referendum.Even now we still do not know many of the fundamental facts about the costs and risks of leaving the EU. We know it will cost money - but we don't know how much. We know it will damage trade, yet we are in the dark about how badly. And we know it is already driving up prices and even taxes in the UK, but we still don't know how
  
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• Terry Richardson Responds To Reports He Has Been 'Banned' From Condé Nast Publications

  24-10-2017 17:32
  Terry Richardson has responded to reports he has been banned from Condé Nast publications including Vogue and GQ.A representative of the photographer sent HuffPost UK the following statement:“Terry is disappointed to hear about this email especially because he has previously addressed these old stories.“He is an artist who has been known for his sexually explicit work so many of his professional interactions with subjects were sexual and explicit in nature but all of the
  
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• The Role Of The Media In Fuelling Hate Crime

  24-10-2017 17:29
  Last week it was National Hate Crime Awareness Week, an event that is increasingly relevant in today's society; the last year has seen an unrecognisable upsurge in open bigotry and subsequent hate crime in the UK evidencing a resurgence of racism on a scale many would not have viewed as possible in 2017. Reports of hate crime have gone up an unprecedented amount in aftermath of the Brexit vote and the recent spate of terrorist attacks in both London and Manchester. The attacks in Manchester and
  
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• We Must Include Women From Conflict Zones In The #MeToo Hashtag

  24-10-2017 17:26
  The #MeToo hashtag is still racing along like a runaway train threatening to expose men who need to subjugate women in order to feel any personal self worth. In the media and the blogosphere, feminists have written articles upon articles arguing/discussing/explaining how rape is not about sexual desire. It is simply about power and has nothing to do with a woman's burkha or short skirt.There are women today who have been and are being raped in conflict zones that need to be included in the #MeTo
  
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• Equalities Minister Justine Greening Asks Jeremy Corbyn To Remove Whip From Jared O'Mara

  24-10-2017 17:20
  Justine Greening has written to Jeremy Corbyn to ask if he will remove the party whip from scandal-hit Labour MP Jared O’Mara.The education secretary said historic homophobic and misogynistic comments made online by O’Mara, as well as fresh claims he abused a woman as recently as seven months ago, must be fully investigated.O’Mara was forced to apologise and resign his position on the women and equalities select committee after posts he made on forums more than a decade ago wer
  
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• After Surviving Cancer In My 20's I Can't Wait To Turn 30

  24-10-2017 17:20
  To the young, 21 is a coming of age filled with energy, parties and the anticipation of life beginning. 40 is the swift descent into middle age where saggy jowls sip tepid cocktails before dashing home to relieve the babysitter of her charges.30 is somewhere in between.I am not the first of my friends to turn 30. Those who have already entered their fourth decade have done so with a quiet dread which I struggle to understand. To them ageing is something to be feared rather than something to be t
  
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• Tory MP's Brexit Letter To Universities Called 'Foolish And Outrageous' By Lord Patten

  24-10-2017 17:19
  A Brexiteer MP’s letter to universities that asked for the names of academics teaching about Brexit was “foolish and outrageous”, a former Conservative Party chair and Oxford University vice-chancellor has said.Lord Patten said Tory Chris Heaton-Harris’ letter was “idiotic Leninism” and the MP was trying “in a rather pathetic way to make [academics] think that somehow they’ll be criticised unless they follow the Brexiteers&rsquo
  
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• Writing Saved My Life

  24-10-2017 17:17
  I've always been a writer. My house is stuffed with notebooks - the notebooks stuffed with stories, poems and the musings of an unquiet mind. Open them up and words spill out, sometimes like birds of the imagination, sometimes like the tears of the heartbroken. Most of my life is contained within those pages or saved in electronic folders on a hard drive. Writing is what I do.No surprise then that when my new partner, Blacksmith Paul, died just twelve weeks after my last remaining parent, it was
  
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• #Bloodnormal And The Role Of The Media In De-Stigmatising Taboo

  24-10-2017 17:15
  Ah, periods. For around 50% of the population they arrive in a spectacular and slightly alarming fashion in your early teens and then continue like clockwork (my own clock being slightly faulty and terrible at timekeeping) until the sweet release of menopause. What can make the early few appearances of Mother Nature's little gift even more of a struggle are the negative or sometimes completely no reactions at a time when you most need reassurance. I remember proudly announcing my first period at
  
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• For Mental Illness, Halloween Is Still A Costume Drama

  24-10-2017 17:12
  There was a time when the most popular Halloween costumes were confined to the folk lore of vampire bats and ghosts. This was undoubtedly the popular culture at a time when "horror literature" was based on novels such as Mary Shelley's Frankensteinand Bram Stoker's Dracula. Although much of this is still with us in the Trick of Treating of today, the past 50 years have a taken a more sinister turn.With the release of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest in the 1970s, mental illness appeared to become
  
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• Inside London's Design-Your-Own Diamond Store Where You Can Create Ethical Engagement Rings

  24-10-2017 17:11
  Those in the market for an engagement ring can now watch their idea go from design to completion at a “diamond concept store” in London’s Piccadilly.Vashi, in London’s Piccadilly, gives customers the choice to choose the way their jewellery is made, which is convenient as most women say they’d like to choose their own diamond, according to a survey by jeweller Mappin & Webb.“The concept as you come into the store is that you can choose your
  
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• Jared O’Mara: Labour Party Launches Investigation Into MP's 'Comments And Behaviour'

  24-10-2017 17:07
  The Labour Party has launched an investigation into MP Jared O’Mara’s “comments and behaviour”, a spokeswoman said.The step by the party comes as Tory minister Justine Greening wrote to Jeremy Corbyn to ask if he will remove the party whip from scandal-hit Labour MP Jared O’Mara.The education secretary said historic homophobic and misogynistic comments made online by O’Mara, as well as fresh claims he abused a woman as recently as seven months ago, must be ful
  
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• Donald Trump Proves Bob Corker Right In Astoundingly Ironic Twitter Tirade

  24-10-2017 16:59
  Bob Corker, the US Senator who branded the White House an “adult daycare centre” has accused Donald Trump of “debasing” the US and has almost immediately been proven right.During a CNN interview at the Capitol, Corker said the President has “great difficulty with the truth” and is “purposely breaking down relationships we have around the world that had been useful to our nation”.“It’s amazing. Unfortunately world leaders are very aware
  
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• The Government Need To Step Up And Tackle London's Filthy Air

  24-10-2017 16:58
  Recent revelations have shown that nearly 95% of London's population - some 7.9 million people - live in areas exceeding global guidelines for toxic air particles by more than 50%. As London's Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy, I find this completely unacceptable.Londoners of all ages are being affected by the high level of pollution in our city. It has been linked to dementia, heart disease, strokes and our children having reduced lung capacity - and it is absolutely clear London is facin
  
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• ‘Stranger Things’ Season 2 Theories: The 8 Most Intriguing Predictions Ahead Of The New Episodes

  24-10-2017 16:53
  There are just days to go before ‘Stranger Things 2’ - one of the most hotly-anticipated series of the year - arrives on Netflix, which means it’s time to have one, final glance at the theories on what will take place in the episodes.The second season is comprised of nine parts and while Netflix have kept the exact details of what’s next for the residents of Hawkins under lock and key, they’ve dropped more than a few hints at what the themes will be in recent months
  
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• Give Us A Break! Men Sneak More Leisure Time

  24-10-2017 16:53
  Men in Britain enjoy an average of 40 minutes’ more leisure time a day than women, new figures suggest.They had six hours and nine minutes of free time per day in 2015, compared with five hours and 29 minutes for women, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).The gender gap was greatest in the North West, where men enjoyed around seven hours more leisure time than women every week.However, the gap was smallest in Northern Ireland, where free time was identical for men and wom
  
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• The Government Wants To Shutdown The Brexit Debate

  24-10-2017 16:52
  A Government intent on giving itself sweeping new powers to bypass Parliament. 50 studies on the future of the country witheld from the public. And now Universities told to disclose what professors are saying to their students. This is not a fictional world invented by George Orwell. This is Brexit Britain.The intervention by Chris Heaton-Harris, the whip who asked universities to tell him what they were teaching students about Brexit and who it was delivering those lessons, is just the latest m
  
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• 'Intelligent' Nanoparticles Could Treat Cancer Without Harmful Side-Effects

  24-10-2017 16:46
  Scientists from the University of Surrey have developed a ‘intelligent’ form of nanoparticle that can be heated to a temperature high enough to kill cancerous cells, yet is then able to self-regulate and cool itself so as not to harm any surrounding healthy tissue.The advanced nanoparticles were created through a partnership between the University of Surrey’s Advanced Sciences department and the Dalian University of Technology in China.Thermotherapy has long been used as a trea
  
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• ‘Visceral’ design unveiled for UK Holocaust memorial

  24-10-2017 16:33
  Series of blades will slice through the earth and become a jagged row of flanges
  
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• Universal credit: Labour attacks minister's absence from debate

  24-10-2017 16:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour criticises the work and pensions secretary for failing to attend a debate on universal credit.
  
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• Tory MP's Brexit demand to universities 'offensive' - Lord Patten

  24-10-2017 15:49 via bbc.co.uk
  A Tory MP is under fire after writing to universities asking for a list of professors who teach Brexit.
  
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• Young Conservative MPs bid to win over Corbyn supporters

  24-10-2017 15:35 via bbc.co.uk
  The new intake of younger Conservative MPs want to change their party's image and freshen their appeal.
  
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• No vote on Parliament renovation for 18 months

  24-10-2017 15:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom proposes a new "delivery body" to assess the costs of the repairs.
  
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• 2097: Live In Aarhus - Step Into The Future

  24-10-2017 14:39
  Every evening from Monday 30 October to Sunday 5 November, a fleet of private electric cars will arrive in Aarhus, Denmark to take a select group of passengers to a secret city location where they will be dropped into the science fiction world of 2097.
  Exploring tunnels, stairwells, and floodlit spaces using a handheld GPS device, you will encounter a person from the future, before you are returned to the present. Uncover a world where consciousness is transferred from the dead to the living and
  
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• Greek lessons for Brexiters

  24-10-2017 14:12
  A ‘kolotoumba’ would require public to swing strongly against Brexit over next year
  
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• Universities recoil at Brexit-backing MP’s request for names

  24-10-2017 13:48
  Tory accused of making ‘sinister’ inquiry for material freely available online
  
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• UK universities recoil at Brexit-backing MP’s request for names

  24-10-2017 13:48
  Tory accused of making sinister inquiry for material freely available online
  
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• Brexit: MPs quiz Facebook over Russian-linked 'fake news'

  24-10-2017 13:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Does Facebook have evidence of paid-for activity by Russian-linked accounts at the time of the referendum?
  
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• What future MP Jared O’Mara told Sophie Evans earlier in 2017

  24-10-2017 13:04 via bbc.co.uk
  One of Jared O'Mara's constituents who met him in March 2017, says the future MP used abusive and sexist language to her.
  
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