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• Lord Adonis calls on Grayling to quit and slams ‘broken’ Brexit government

  30-12-2017 23:00
  Government bailout of Stagecoach-Virgin run East Coast line causes Labour peer to criticise ‘radical Brexiter subordinate to hard-right ideology’Adonis on Brexit: ‘No mandarin backs May’Lord Adonis is calling for the resignation of transport secretary Chris Grayling for using hundreds of millions in taxpayers’ money to bail out private rail companies – a decision which the former government infrastructure tsar says is symptomatic of a government that has &ldqu
  
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• The real Brexit challenges facing the UK in 2018

  30-12-2017 19:00 via ft.com
  Negotiations on the future relationship may question the very idea of leaving the EU
  
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• Manchester Fire: Blaze At Block Of Flats On Joiner Street, In Northern Quarter

  30-12-2017 18:10
  Firefighters are tackling a blaze at a block of flats in Manchester city centre.Light building in central MCR https://t.co/f5tcXcUgsppic.twitter.com/3fLYZQja2v— Pete Sheppard (@TonePhotog) December 30, 2017Serious apartment block fire in the City Centre. Avoid Church St area. pic.twitter.com/H0cRM3UwLP— Les Gunn (@funny_gunny) December 30, 2017@MENnewsdesk - fire currently in the apartments next to Afflecks Palace pic.twitter.com/UN9yhrlz0t— f (@gold_freya) December 30, 2017Twe
  
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• Body Of Man Wearing Only Socks Found On Brown's Bay, Whitley Bay, In North Tyneside

  30-12-2017 17:50
  The body of a man who was wearing only socks has been found on a beach.The naked body was found in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, Northumbria Police said.He was reportedly discovered by a dog walker at about 8.20am. An investigation has been launched into the man’s death, which police are currently treating as “unexplained”.The area has been cordoned off by police.Officers are carrying out enquiries and are urging anyone with information to call 101 and quote reference numbe
  
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• Please Help Me Convince The Home Office That My Friend Is An Asset To This Country And Not A Threat

  30-12-2017 17:01
  On the night of December 19 I received a message from Laura. Our mutual friend Ahmed had been missing since the previous day, he was supposed to play football but didn’t show up. His phone was disconnected and he was last seen online more than 20 hours earlier. One of our friends had knocked on his door but received no answer.The morning after the police informed us he was “safe and well” but could not disclose his location or other information. It was only later in the afterno
  
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• Polling expert John Curtice gets 'unanticipated' knighthood

  30-12-2017 16:40 via bbc.co.uk
  The political scientist has been involved in election analysis for decades and is a regular on TV.
  
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• Finsbury Park Murder Sees £13,000 Raised For Iuliana Tudos' Funeral

  30-12-2017 16:40
  A crowdfunding appeal in memory of a pub worker who was murdered in a London park on Christmas Eve has passed £13,000.The campaign to raise money for a funeral for Iuliana Tudos, 22, reached its original £4,000 target within 11 hours and by Saturday afternoon had raised more than three times that amount.Tudos, who also called herself Julie, was found dead in Finsbury Park, near her north London home, on Wednesday afternoon, having gone missing on December 24.She had been st
  
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• Kensington And Chelsea Council Apologises To Grenfell Survivors Who Missed Out On Christmas Cash

  30-12-2017 16:29
  The council responsible for Grenfell Tower has apologised after money promised to survivors to help cover the cost of Christmas did not arrive in time.Kensington and Chelsea Council failed to pay 18 households ahead of the festive season.Three of the households were from Grenfell Tower and nearby Grenfell Walk. Seven were from the walkways around the tower and the rest were from households from the wider Lancaster West Estate.Kim Taylor-Smith, deputy leader of the council, said: “This was
  
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• Brexit is a 'nationalist spasm': Lord Adonis resigns as infrastructure tsar

  30-12-2017 16:09
  Labour peer urges his party to support second referendum as he steps down as chair of national commissionBrexit has caused a “nervous breakdown” in Whitehall, the former Labour minister Andrew Adonis has said following his resignation as chair of the government-backed National Infrastructure Commission.Lord Adonis resigned on Friday in protest at Theresa May’s management of Britain’s departure from the EU, describing the process as “a dangerous populist and national
  
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• Fifth Suspect Arrested Over 'Terror Attack Plot'

  30-12-2017 14:39
  A fifth man has been arrested over an alleged terror attack plot, police said.Two buildings in Sheffield are being searched by counter-terrorist officers after the 21-year-old from the city was held late on Friday.It follows the arrests of four men in the South Yorkshire city and nearby Chesterfield in Derbyshire on December 19.UPDATE: Further arrest in #Sheffield as part on ongoing investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing North East @TerrorismPolice - full details are on their website https:
  
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• New Year Honours: Theresa May Accused of Rewarding 'Services To The Establishment'

  30-12-2017 13:37
  Theresa May has faced claims of rewarding “services to the establishment” and having “doled out political favours” in the New Year Honours.Key Tory powerbroker Graham Brady, regarded as the voice of the party’s backbenches at Westminster, has been awarded a knighthood.As chairman of the 1922 Committee, he is listened to closely by the leadership and would play a crucial role in any future leadership contest, which would be triggered if 15% of the party’s MPs -
  
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• Jay-Z ‘Family Feud’ Music Video: Rapper ‘Confesses’ To Beyoncé In Star-Studded New Clip

  30-12-2017 13:10
  Jay-Z has revealed the music video for his track ‘Family Feud’ and it’s fair to say that the rapper pulled out all the stops for the clip, which features cameos from countless celebs - including Beyoncé and their daughter, Blue Ivy Carter. Directed by Ava DuVernay, the video’s narrative spans a whopping 200 years, with much of the action set in a church. At one point, the rapper walks through the chapel with Blue Ivy, before taking a seat in confession and ref
  
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• Millennials to secure 'inheritance boom'

  30-12-2017 12:48 via bbc.co.uk
  But a think tank says inheritance will come too late to help young people on to the housing ladder.
  
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• Nick Clegg's Knighthood Labelled An 'Insult' As Petitions Against It Gain Support

  30-12-2017 12:42
  Nick Clegg’s Knighthood has been met with confusion and outrage with two petitions against him receiving the honour continuing to gain signatures - pushing past the 50,000 mark.The former Lib Dem party leader, who lost his seat in the June snap election and has since written a book about stopping Brexit, was knighted for “public and political service” in the New Year’s honours list, for his five years as deputy prime minister.News of the knighthood was cont
  
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• Government silenced me, says Adonis

  30-12-2017 12:03 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour peer quit his independent advisory role, attacking Theresa May's handling of Brexit.
  
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• ‘Black Mirror’ New Series: Executive Producer Annabel Jones Discusses All-Female Lead Roles

  30-12-2017 11:40
  ‘Black Mirror’ series four has finally arrived on Netflix and while there are many things that make the new series pretty special - don’t worry, we’re not about to drop a load of spoilers - there’s one aspect that will delight many fans.It’s easy to miss but each of the new episodes has a female protagonist, something co-creator Annabel Jones has discussed in a new interview.The executive producer worked with Charlie Brooker on the series and has told The Holl
  
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• Knighthood for Nick Clegg in New Year Honours list

  30-12-2017 11:03 via bbc.co.uk
  The former deputy prime minister is knighted, alongside several current MPs.
  
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• ‘Coronation Street’ Reveals Carla Connor’s Big Secret

  30-12-2017 11:00
  ‘Coronation Street’ bosses promised that Carla Connor’s Christmas return would be driven by a secret motive and in Friday (29 December) night’s episode, it was revealed that she’s suffering from a life-threatening illness.Viewers saw Alison King’s character discussing her health with friend Roy Cropper, who accused her of not facing up to her problems.“I am facing it, I’ve got kidney problems, there I’ve said it. Are you happy now?, she told
  
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• Sir John Curtice: 'The election was easier to predict than this'

  30-12-2017 10:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Psephologist John Curtice says he had not predicted the knighthood he has been given for services to social sciences and politics.
  
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• Next Year, Let's All Cry More

  30-12-2017 10:05
  Ahhh, a new year. The perfect opportunity to finally get that gym membership you’ve been putting off, to shed a few pounds and save for that car you’ve always wanted. A new chance to reinvent yourself, to change your style, make a career change or to give up alcohol once and for all. Only to find yourself in the middle of January feeling deflated, downtrodden and completely restricted by the resolutions you seem to give yourself every year. We’ve all been there and it’s n
  
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• 2017 Has Been An 'Unprecedented Period Of Humanitarian Need', Say Aid Agencies

  30-12-2017 09:40
  From hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing a horrific programme of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, to hundreds of children succumbing to starvation each day in war-torn Yemen, 2017 has been a year marked by a series of deadly crises.With four of the highest-level humanitarian emergencies currently under way, millions of people whose lives have been destroyed by the war in Syria are also in dire need of help, as are those caught at the centre of “Africa’s world war” in
  
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• New Year's Eve Rail To Be Disrupted By Fresh Strikes

  30-12-2017 09:35
  New Year’s Eve rail travel is set to be disrupted because of fresh strikes in long-running disputes over the role of guards on trains and other issues.Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union on South Western Railway (SWR) and CrossCountry will walk out for 24 hours on Sunday, causing delays and cancellations.The union is planning more strikes in January against SWR, Southern, Merseyrail, Greater Anglia and Arriva Rail North in the bitter row over guards.@RMTunion today laun
  
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• The MPs and ex-MPs who died in 2017 - part three

  30-12-2017 09:26 via bbc.co.uk
  A look back at the lives of the MPs and former MPs who passed away in 2017.
  
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• British politics in 2017: Terror, tragedy, Theresa May and Brexit

  30-12-2017 05:00 via ft.com
  Dramatic year ends with the prime minister clinging to power
  
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• Millennials Set For 'Inheritance Boom' - But Improved Life Expectancy Means It Won't Arrive Until They're Ready To Retire

  30-12-2017 01:07
  Millennials are in line for the biggest “inheritance boom” of any post-war generation, but it will be too late to solve the housing crisis or wealth chasm between generations. A new report by the influential think tank the Resolution Foundation said wealth accumulated by older people would benefit younger generations in years to come.But the most common age at which millennials’ - those born between 1981 and 2000 -  inherit would be 61, because of their pare
  
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• But Improved Life Expectancy Means It Won't Arrive Until They're Ready To Retire

  30-12-2017 01:07
  Millennials are in line for the biggest “inheritance boom” of any post-war generation, but it will be too late to solve the housing crisis or wealth chasm between generations.A new report by the influential think tank the Resolution Foundation said wealth accumulated by older people would benefit younger generations in years to come.But the most common age at which millennials’ - those born between 1981 and 2000 -  inherit would be 61, because of their parents&rs
  
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• BBC TV Shows And Radio Programmes Result In Over 400,000 Calls To Action Line

  30-12-2017 01:02
  “If you were affected by this programme, please call this number or visit our website for advice.” Sound familiar? If you watched a drama, listened to a radio programme or tuned in to watch any of the soaps this year, then you probably heard a callout along these lines.The BBC aired 456 of them in 2017 alone and has now revealed how many people got in touch with them for advice on sensitive issues including sexual abuse, female genital mutilation (FGM) and post-traumatic stress disor
  
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• UK millennials to inherit more than their parents, says think-tank

  30-12-2017 01:01 via ft.com
  Potential windfalls will come too late to help solve housing problems
  
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