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• Hither Green: Second Man Sought Over Failed Burglary Arrested

  20-04-2018 23:12
  A man wanted in connection with an aggravated burglary in which another intruder died has been arrested by police.Billy Jeeves, 28, was wanted by officers investigating the failed robbery at a home in Hither Green, south east London.He was located and detained in north Kent on Friday evening by the Met’s Homicide and Major Crime Command.Jeeves was arrested on suspicion of two counts of burglary, theft and possession of a controlled substance, the force said.Scotland Yard confirmed Jeeves w
  
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• National Archives records back case for Windrush migrants

  20-04-2018 22:30 via ft.com
  Immigration ledgers strengthen cases of those whose landing slips were destroyed
  
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• Britain threatens to quit Galileo satellite project

  20-04-2018 22:30 via ft.com
  Row deepens over whether UK will be allowed access to sensitive information after Brexit
  
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• Avicii Dead: Calvin Harris And Liam Payne Lead Tributes To Swedish DJ

  20-04-2018 21:40
  Famous faces from the music world have paid tribute to Avicii, following his death at the age of 28. The sad news was announced by the DJ’s publicist, who confirmed that Avicii - real name Tim Bergling was “found dead in Muscat, Oman, this Friday afternoon local time, April 20”.Calvin Harris and David Guetta were among the first to share their condolences online, with the former writing on Twitter: “Devastating news about Avicii, a beautiful soul, passionate and extr
  
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• Windrush Campaigners Vow To Get Justice As May Backs 'Appropriate' Compensation

  20-04-2018 21:33
  .@HackneyAbbott tells Brixton’s Windrush rally she “won’t stop until I have got justice” pic.twitter.com/MAetUfQywE— George Bowden (@georgebowden) April 20, 2018Labour’s Diane Abbott joined campaigners vowing to “get justice” for those caught up in the Windrush generation scandal as the Prime Minster backed compensation “where appropriate”.The shadow home secretary blasted Theresa May for her handling of the furore, saying the PM &ldquo
  
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• I Didn't Let Enoch Powell's Speech Change Britain For Me

  20-04-2018 21:01
  On April 20th, 1968 Enoch Powell made a speech in Birmingham that to this day overshadows every government’s attempts to speak on immigration.Franklin Thomas, 73, was serving in the British army at the time Powell delivered his speech. He spoke to HuffPost UK about how he reacted to it in 1968 and whether he thought its legacy had made things better or worse for future generations of Britain.
  
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• Commonwealth citizens left hanging on UK rights

  20-04-2018 20:41 via ft.com
  No 10 coy on whether they will have the same privileges as people from EU post-Brexit
  
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• Windrush immigrants in shock after being cast adrift by UK

  20-04-2018 19:49 via ft.com
  Doubts over Britishness push Caribbean community to question their future in country
  
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• Theresa May says Windrush victims will be paid compensation

  20-04-2018 19:45
  PM tells Commonwealth leaders she will do ‘whatever it takes’ to resolve anxieties and problemsTheresa May has reassured Commonwealth leaders that members of the Windrush generation who had suffered “anxieties and problems” as a result of the government’s immigration rules would be paid compensation.Related: 'It's inhumane': the Windrush victims who have lost jobs, homes and loved onesContinue reading...
  
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• Philip Hammond argues against ring-fenced tax to fund NHS

  20-04-2018 19:41 via ft.com
  Chancellor says hypothecation would lead to fall in health spending if recession hit
  
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• Avicii Dead: Swedish DJ Dies, Aged 28

  20-04-2018 19:36
  Swedish DJ Avicii has died at the age of 28, his representative has announced. The news was first reported by various Swedish news outlets on Friday (20 April) evening.In a statement subsequently issued to Press Association, the DJ’s rep said: “It is with profound sorrow that we announce the loss of Tim Bergling, also known as Avicii.“He was found dead in Muscat, Oman, this Friday afternoon local time, April 20.“The family is devastated and we ask everyone to pl
  
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• Why The World Needs A Way Of Measuring The Effectives Of Countries’ Investments In Their Own People

  20-04-2018 18:20
  Countries need to invest in their most important asset – their own people – and it pays to start early.Children, who receive the right nutrition early on in life, learn much more effectively when they start school. This in turn has a huge knock-on effect on their ability to thrive in the workplace as an adult.Vietnam is a shining example of a country which has invested in its own people in the last two decades, and has reaped huge benefits. It has focused on providing proper nutritio
  
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• Conservative former councillor urges people to vote Labour

  20-04-2018 18:09
  Sury Khatri resigned party whip of Barnet council after being deselected in ‘hard-Brexit coup’A deselected Conservative on Barnet council – one of the key battlegrounds in next month’s local elections – has used his valedictory speech to urge voters to back local Labour candidates.Sury Khatri resigned the party whip in March, losing the Tories their majority on the council, when he was not selected to stand again in the north London borough. Continue reading...
  
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• Windrush debacle overshadows Commonwealth summit

  20-04-2018 17:58 via ft.com
  Britain faces question over immigration, identity and post-Brexit trade
  
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• US Democrat Party Sues Trump Campaign, Russia And WikiLeaks

  20-04-2018 17:48
  The US Democrat Party is suing Donald Trump’s election campaign, Russia and WikiLeaks, claiming there was a conspiracy to help the Republican nominee win the 2016 presidential election. The party alleges in the federal lawsuit in Manhattan that top Trump campaign officials conspired with the Russian government and its military spy agency to hurt Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and tilt the election to Trump by hacking Democratic Party computers, Reuters reports.This is
  
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• How A 'Health In All Policies' Approach Can Help Solve Our NHS Crises

  20-04-2018 17:26
  We rightly focus on the day-to-day cash crisis afflicting the National Health Service (NHS), and the impact on patient care. In specific areas such as A&E, social care and mental health, there is real pressure on the system. But beyond these pressing concerns, we need an informed national debate about the future of health and social care in this country.I am one of nearly 100 MPs from all parties who recently wrote to the Prime Minister calling for a convention to discuss a sustainable futur
  
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• The Unique, Highly Challenging Task Of Film A Documentary On 'Rivers Of Blood' From A Non-White Perspective

  20-04-2018 17:00
  In spite of accumulating countless TV documentary filmmaking ‘air miles’ over the last thirty-odd years, I found Rivers of Blood: 50 Years On a highly challenging project to work on for a variety of reasons. To begin with, aside from producing and directing this landmark 90-minute documentary for Channel 5, I chose to do most of the filming as well.Casting was tricky, too. Not least as my vision for the film involved approaching the half-century of British race relations since Enoch
  
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• Nick Timothy, Ex-Theresa May Aide, Deletes Twitter Account After Defence Of PM Is Disputed

  20-04-2018 16:57
  A former top aide to Theresa May has apparently deleted his Twitter account after his bold claim that she was not responsible for for the infamous “Go Home” vans was disputed.Nick Timothy, who has been a columnist in the Daily Telegraph since he quit as May’s chief of staff last year, wrote in his latest offering that the prime minister opposed the infamous vans when appeared on Britain’s streets in 2012, and was not consulted on their introduction as she was abroad.&ldqu
  
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• It's time to stop believing in these 'magic' Brexit solutions

  20-04-2018 16:52
  UK’s unlikely proposals to solve Irish border question leaves Brussels wondering if customs union may be most realistic optionFrom the minute the UK government first proposed its idea last August of maintaining “invisible borders” after Brexit, the convoluted plan was dismissed as “magical thinking” by EU officials. What has changed this week is that the time for pretending otherwise has run out.First, Downing Street reassurances were rejected on Wednesday by the Ho
  
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• Why Do We Continue To Tell Women In Positions Of Power They Are Not Fully Female?

  20-04-2018 16:47
  How is Theresa May feeling? Ashamed, I hope, about the Windrush scandal.  But, when it comes to the key men around her, angry, put upon and under threat, I’m pretty sure.  That’s how Margaret Thatcher felt in her last 18 months as Prime Minister, as I saw first-hand when I worked for her.  Equal pay, sexual harassment, misogyny: things haven’t fundamentally changed.  From #MeToo to #ToxicTwitter, women are speaking out.  But the long-suffering Theresa&r
  
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• Tea With My Grandmother, Who Has Alzheimer's

  20-04-2018 16:43
  A deceivingly heavy bag of groceries in one hand, two gallons of milk in the other and newly bloomed daffodils that smell of spring in abundance balancing in the crevice of my right elbow. I struggle slightly to reach the doorbell, and while doing so, I try to brush off and leave the look of agitation of Saturday afternoon traffic through the roads of North London behind. If anyone deserves a smile, she does. I ring the doorbell once more, just in case. I hear the faint, yet rapid footsteps of m
  
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• As CHOGM Ends, The Commonwealth Remains A Bastion Of Homophobia

  20-04-2018 16:43
  The Commonwealth is a bastion of homophobia. Thirty-six of the 53 member states criminalise same-sex relationships, with penalties ranging up to life imprisonment in in nine countries and the risk of execution in parts of two, Pakistan and Nigeria. Despite this outrageous persecution, the biennial Commonwealth summit has for six decades refused to debate, let alone support, LGBT+ equality. This year is no different. As the summit convened in London, once again LGBT+ rights were excluded fro
  
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• Women Don't Need To Accept Discrimination, However Subtle It Is

  20-04-2018 16:39
  Inequality.We can find it everywhere, throughout the world in all sorts of forms and being directed against all sorts of people.However, arguably one of the most pervasive forms of inequality globally, is gender inequality. It crosses cultures, religions and ethnic boundaries. Wherever you go in the world, you can find similar attitudes when it comes the rights of women and girls.However, these gender inequalities, are often well hidden. They lay under layers of normalcy and culture and are ofte
  
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• Limited Shelf Life: How Newsagents’ Displays Of Magazines Reinforce Gender Stereotypes

  20-04-2018 16:35
  On my way back from a shoot in London the other day, I was in the Kings Cross branch of WHSmith, looking for photography magazines. I eventually found them in ‘Men’s Lifestyle & General Interest’, along with music magazines, my other ‘go to’ journal choice and the place I’m most likely to find my work. It felt slightly strange to have to encroach on the male domain of FHM and Angling Times to read about cameras and music. Maybe it was just a question of sp
  
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• My Biggest Fears As A Single Mum

  20-04-2018 16:33
  Miss Tequila Shot slides up to the bar in her hot pants. She’s in Thailand, with a nymphet style body and bouncy, firm tits. She flicks her hair this way and that. She’s free, unencumbered and wild like a horse. Men would expect to find her perched on a rock in a lagoon, her naked form half visible through a misty haze, like a perfume advert. She doesn’t come with kids. That would ruin the illusion.I take a snapshot of my day, at any given moment. The only thing you will see me
  
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• Windrush Generation Scandal May Spark Human Rights Group Action Against Home Office

  20-04-2018 16:30
  A major law firm has signalled it may consider launching a Windrush group action compensation claim against the Home Office over potential breaches of the Human Rights Act.The “likely underlying basis” of any compensation claim, a partner at law firm Leigh Day told HuffPost UK, would centre on the Home Office’s “failure” to exclude the Windrush generation from the Government’s “hostile environment” policy.The Windrush generation has been living leg
  
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• Amber Rudd boasted of harsher immigration strategy, leak reveals

  20-04-2018 16:21
  Exclusive: home secretary told PM she would give officials more ‘teeth’ to deport migrantsAmber Rudd privately boasted to the prime minister that she would give immigration officials more “teeth” to hunt down and deport thousands more illegal migrants and accelerate the UK’s deportation programme, a leaked private letter has revealed. Related: Theresa May says Windrush victims will be paid compensationContinue reading...
  
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• Delayed Brexit immigration plans 'due in months'

  20-04-2018 16:11 via bbc.co.uk
  Downing Street says a White Paper will be published in months, amid reports of a cabinet row over delays.
  
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• Peer charged over height of hedges

  20-04-2018 15:49 via bbc.co.uk
  The peer has four weeks to cut the hedges after failing to do so in January when asked by his local council.
  
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• Brexit: No 10 still 'confident' of Irish border solution

  20-04-2018 15:47 via bbc.co.uk
  But the BBC understands the UK's plans have come in for sustained criticism from EU officials.
  
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• We All Have A Part To Play In The Crackdown On Plastics

  20-04-2018 15:32
  Earlier this week, I hosted the launch of a joint report by Brita and Keep Britain Tidy which looked at the behavioural issues around people switching to reusable bottles. People seem to be more aware and more willing to consider alternatives, but convenience has a lot to do with whether someone actually makes the switch and then sticks with it.Given that my reusable water bottle has become a permanent fixture since giving up plastic for Lent, my purge on plastics has shifted to smaller single-u
  
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• Questions over Conservative donor tax probe

  20-04-2018 15:27 via bbc.co.uk
  HMRC denies refusing to assist with a probe into a French telecoms firm because it had been a Tory donor.
  
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• Arsène Wenger bids adieu after transforming English football

  20-04-2018 15:20 via ft.com
  Frenchman quits after 22-year reign as Arsenal manager
  
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• Theresa May's Irish Border Plan 'Annihilated' By Brussels In Boost For Remainers

  20-04-2018 15:19
  Theresa May’s plans for the Irish border post-Brexit were reportedly subjected to a “systematic and forensic annihilation” in Brussels - and remainers have seized on the news. According to the Telegraph, Brussels officials delivered “a detailed and forensic rebuttal” of the Prime Minister’s proposals to avoid a hard border with Ireland. Quoting unnamed EU sources, the report said Britain’s lead negotiator Olly Robbins was told “none
  
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• Theresa May's 'Deport First, Appeal Later' Immigration 'Boasts' Blamed For Windrush Scandal

  20-04-2018 14:48
  In October 2013 @theresa_may proudly boasted that she would "deport first and hear appeals later". I opposed her then and I oppose her now. Theresa May must take responsibility for the Windrush crisis. It is because of her race to the bottom pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment. pic.twitter.com/xExpXKnLJI— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) April 20, 2018Theresa May’s move in 2013 to expand the number of people the government could hear immigration appeals from after they had already been de
  
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• Legal Q&A

  20-04-2018 14:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Questions from those affected by the Windrush immigration row answered by an immigration lawyer.
  
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• Prince Charles to be next Commonwealth head

  20-04-2018 14:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Commonwealth leaders agree that Prince Charles will be the next head of the organisation, BBC understands.
  
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• Maya Jama Apologises After Offensive Tweet About 'Dark-Skinned Women' Is Unearthed

  20-04-2018 14:39
  Maya Jama has issued an apology after an offensive tweet about “dark skinned women” was unearthed on her Twitter. The Radio 1 presenter was on the receiving end of a backlash when it was revealed she posted on her account back in 2012: “Dark skin bitches shaving their head expecting to look like Amber Rose, when really they end up looking like Micheal Jordan.” Looooooooool.”Maya has since broken her silence on social media to give her “genuine and sincere
  
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• Windrush cases expose arbitrary immigration targets

  20-04-2018 14:33 via ft.com
  The Home Office has enforced policy in a rigid and rules-based way
  
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• EU rejects Irish border proposals and says Brexit talks could still fail

  20-04-2018 14:29
  Michel Barnier says the UK wants to cherry-pick its terms and that the EU response is: ‘No way’The EU’s chief negotiator has warned there is still a “risk of failure” in the Brexit negotiations as Brussels continues to reject Britain’s proposals on avoiding a hard border in Ireland.Michel Barnier said on Friday that a quarter of the work needed to complete preparations for the UK to leave the EU next March remained to be done. Continue reading...
  
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• Hero Firefighters To Run London Marathon For Children Who Survived Grenfell

  20-04-2018 14:26
  On Sunday, eight firefighters will tie up their laces and join more than 40,000 runners taking part in the London Marathon.The team, from North Kensington fire station, were the first crew on the scene at the Grenfell Tower fire last June. Since then they’ve grieved with the community. But now, they say, it’s time to “heal and re-build”.They hope to raise £50,000 for children who survived or were impacted by the tragedy so they can access crucial services
  
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• New Charity Hopes To Revolutionise School Lunches By Putting 100 Restaurant Chefs In Schools

  20-04-2018 14:23
  Kids’ school lunches could be revolutionised thanks to a new charity that is putting restaurant chefs in schools.The charity - Chefs In Schools - has been co-founded by Henry Dimbleby (co-founder of Leon), Nicole Pisani (former head chef at NOPI) and Louise Nichols (head of the Leap Federation of Schools). Launching today [20 April] It aims to train 100 professional restaurant chefs to work in 100 schools by 2023, transforming school lunches and providing cookery lessons for pupils.Th
  
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• Carwyn Jones 'caused considerable distress' to Sargeant family

  20-04-2018 14:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Carwyn Jones is criticised in a strongly-worded letter from the family's lawyers.
  
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• Prince Charles Confirmed As Next Head Of The Commonwealth

  20-04-2018 14:20
  Commonwealth leaders have agreed to the Prince of Wales becoming the next head of the Commonwealth after the Queen, it has been confirmed.It comes a day after the Queen publicly endorsed his future leadership at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London.The unprecedented move was thought likely to end years of speculation about who will take over as head of the institution, which has a combined population of 2.4 billion, which her father King George VI first led in the after
  
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• Guess What, Mrs May? Words Have Consequences

  20-04-2018 14:19
  Theresa May learned an important lesson this week: words have meanings.They also - especially when spoken by government ministers - have consequences. Real consequences for real people.People like Dexter Bristol, who came to Britain at the age of eight from Grenada to join his mother, and who died suddenly last month at the age of 57 after being classified as an illegal immigrant and losing his job.We’ll return to him in a moment. But first, for the benefit of Mrs May, a dictionary definit
  
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• John Tomlin Sentenced To 16 Years For Acid Attack On Resham Khan

  20-04-2018 14:15
  A 25-year-old man has been sentenced to 16 years in jail with a four year extended licence after dousing an aspiring model and her cousin with acid as they sat in a car. John Tomlin was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, having previously pleaded guilty to two offences of grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent. Resham Khan and Jameel Mukhtar suffered severe burns on their faces and bodies following the attack on Khan’s 21st birthday in June last year.T
  
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• Wenger Is Out So Now We Can Celebrate His Extraordinary Achievements And Fundamental Decency As A Human Being

  20-04-2018 14:06
  So Arsene Wenger is leaving, and a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders. For many years now we Arsenal fans have lived through an almost comically repetitive situation in which we never quite bought the players we needed in the positions that needed to be improved, and when it came to the performances on the pitch, late-period Wenger’s Arsenal found new ways to embarrass themselves with one calamitously inept defeat after another, season after season. Sure there were the FA Cup tr
  
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• How the Brexit vote is changing the EU

  20-04-2018 13:57 via ft.com
  There are six areas where UK’s exit decision is making a difference  
  
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• The Astronomical Consequences Of An Existential Catastrophe

  20-04-2018 13:54
  The future could contain astronomical amounts of value, so understanding and preventing existential risks should be a top priority for humanity.For most of human history, thinking about the future of humanity has been largely bound up with religious beliefs about the end of the world. Myths about messianic figures, bodily resurrections, and apocalyptic battles shaped the ideas that many people had about what the culmination of history and transformation of the earth would look like.This began to
  
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• Ariana Grande's 'No More Tears Left To Cry' Music Video: 6 Things You Might Have Missed

  20-04-2018 13:34
  There are just two words on every pop fan’s lips today: Ariana Grande.On Friday (20 April) she released the lead single from her upcoming fourth album, ‘No More Tears Left To Cry’, with its accompanying music video, and we’re already completely hooked.But while the song has captured everyone’s attention, it seems certain references in the music video may have passed certain fans by.Here are just six things you might have missed...Dave MeyersThe video opens with a tw
  
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