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• 'Good chance' of US-UK trade deal, says Vance

  15-04-2025 14:32 via bbc.com
  
  The Trump administration's trade policy shakeup has caused global economic turmoil.
  
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• Climbing of Winston Churchill statue to become a crime

  07-05-2025 02:51 via bbc.com
  
  The home secretary will include Churchill's statue in new law trying to stop war memorial vandalism.
  
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• The Papers: 'Two-tier' trade deal and 'Labour turmoil' over winter fuel

  07-05-2025 01:51 via bbc.com
  
  Tory and Reform anger over a new UK-India trade deal featurs on several front pages.
  
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• How street sex workers are helping police stop child abuse

  07-05-2025 01:10 via bbc.com
  
  As darkness falls across Bristol, street sex workers are helping to protect its most at-risk children.
  
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• Abuse victim fled ex but council left her in unsecure home

  07-05-2025 01:08 via bbc.com
  
  Jane says she barricaded herself into her house each night as she waited to get extra security.
  
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• GCSE results day to change for thousands of students with new app

  07-05-2025 01:02 via bbc.com
  
  School leaders have welcomed the plans for digital exam grades, but said they would need "seamless" support.
  
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• Bobby Sands statue investigated by council planners

  07-05-2025 01:01 via bbc.com
  
  First Minister Michelle O'Neill was among those who attended on the day of the unveiling.
  
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• Senedd election could be seismic, expert says

  06-05-2025 23:57 via bbc.com
  
  Labour has dominated Welsh politics for more than a century. Next year, could that come to an end?
  
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• Pakistan to respond ‘forcefully’ to India’s ‘act of war’, says prime minister after attack – live

  06-05-2025 23:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Pakistani PM calls India’s attack ‘cowardly’ Pakistan vows to retaliate after wave of Indian missiles hits countryUS president Donald Trump was just asked about the Indian missile strikes into Pakistani-controlled territory.“It’s a shame,” Trump told reporters. “We just heard about it.”In Ahmedpur East, we have information about the martyrdom of a child and 12 people injured … Two civilians were martyred in Kotli.We know that a mosque was st
  
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• Inter 4-3 Barcelona (aet, 7-6 on agg): Champions League semi-final – live reaction

  06-05-2025 23:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Italians will face PSG or Arsenal in Munich finalRead today’s Football Daily | And you can also mail Scott20 secs: Inter started quickly in Barcelona; Barca nearly return the favour here. Torres is found in space in the Inter box down the right, but the flag pops up for offside before he can roll a pass across for Raphinha to tap home.Inter get the ball rolling. Another 3-3 draw, please! We’ll have extra time and possibly penalties if so. Continue reading...
  
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• Friedrich Merz warns the US to ‘stay out’ of Germany’s politics

  06-05-2025 23:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Germany’s new chancellor cautions after far-right AfD receive strong backing from Donald Trump alliesGermany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned the US to “stay out” of his country’s politics after the far-right AfD received strong backing from allies of the US president, Donald Trump.Merz, 69, a conservative who was elected as chancellor of Europe’s biggest economy earlier in the day, also said he planned to speak by phone with Trump on Thursday. Conti
  
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• UK parole hearing for notorious prisoner Charles Bronson to be held in private

  06-05-2025 23:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Bronson’s last parole hearing, in 2023, was one of the first to be held in public, but the board did not grant his latest applicationThe parole hearing for Charles Bronson, one of the UK’s longest serving and most notorious prisoners, will be held in private, a judicial Parole Board member has decided.The decision comes after the 72-year-old – who later changed his name to Charles Salvador – took part in one of the country’s first public parole hearings in 2023. Con
  
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• Inter v Barcelona: Champions League semi-final goes to extra time – live

  06-05-2025 23:35 via theguardian.com
  Game poised at 6-6 on aggregate after two 3-3 drawsRead today’s Football Daily | And you can also mail Scott20 secs: Inter started quickly in Barcelona; Barca nearly return the favour here. Torres is found in space in the Inter box down the right, but the flag pops up for offside before he can roll a pass across for Raphinha to tap home.Inter get the ball rolling. Another 3-3 draw, please! We’ll have extra time and possibly penalties if so. Continue reading...
  
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• India strikes nine sites in Pakistan weeks after Kashmir militant attack – live

  06-05-2025 23:32 via theguardian.com
  
  India confirms ‘precision strike’; Pakistan vows response to ‘heinous provocation’US president Donald Trump was just asked about the Indian missile strikes into Pakistani-controlled territory.“It’s a shame,” Trump told reporters. “We just heard about it.”In Ahmedpur East, we have information about the martyrdom of a child and 12 people injured … Two civilians were martyred in Kotli.We know that a mosque was struck [in Ahmedpur]; ordina
  
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• UK and India agree ‘landmark’ trade deal after three years of negotiations

  06-05-2025 23:26 via theguardian.com
  Deal could help UK industries hit by Trump tariffs, as ministers say it will add £4.8bn a year to economy by 2040 Britain and India have agreed a long-desired trade deal that ministers said would cut tariffs and add £4.8bn a year to the UK economy by 2040.The agreement, which was finalised on Tuesday after more than three years of negotiations under successive governments, has long been touted as one of the biggest prizes of Brexit. Continue reading...
  
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• Carney touts ‘constructive discussions’ with Trump and reiterates Canada ‘is not for sale’ – live

  06-05-2025 23:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Carney says he asked Trump to stop calling Canada the 51st state but does not reveal how US president responded to that requestTrump and Carney meet amid trade and sovereignty disputesFive takeaways from Carney-Trump meetingA group of US senators wants Congress’ watchdog agency to investigate whether controls on humanitarian aid deliveries by Israel and other foreign governments violate US law, according to a letter seen by Reuters.The six senators – Chris Van Hollen, Dick Durbin, Je
  
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• Flavio Briatore takes on Alpine F1 team principal duties after Oliver Oakes exit

  06-05-2025 23:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Briatore to return 17 years after Crashgate scandalDriver Doohan expected to be replaced by ColapintoThe Alpine team principal, Oliver Oakes, has resigned from the team with Flavio Briatore, the Italian who was once given a lifetime ban from Formula One, set to step up to assume team principal duties.Oakes was appointed only nine months ago and the 37-year-old’s resignation, which a statement from Alpine read they had accepted with “immediate effect”, comes with the team expect
  
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• Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says

  06-05-2025 23:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing An Israeli government minister has vowed that “Gaza will be entirely destroyed” as a result of an Israeli military victory, and that its Palestinian population will “leave in great numbers to third countries”, raising fears of ethnic cleansing in the occupied territory.The declaration on Tuesday by the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, came
  
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• No 10 ‘completely tone deaf’ on harm caused by winter fuel cut, critics say

  06-05-2025 23:14 via theguardian.com
  Polling finds two-thirds of voters would back a rethink on the policy and would not see it as a sign of weakness Downing Street has been accused of being “completely tone deaf” over the damage wreaked by winter fuel cuts as new polling suggested two-thirds of voters would back a rethink on the policy.Senior Labour ministers have privately warned the policy is an electoral disaster while Eluned Morgan, the Welsh first minister, said she was “losing patience” with UK Labour
  
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• UK and India agree trade deal after three years of talks

  06-05-2025 23:11 via bbc.com
  
  The deal will improve access for UK whisky and cars to the Indian market, and cut taxes on India's clothing and footwear exports.
  
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• India trade deal could undercut UK workers, opposition parties say

  06-05-2025 22:40 via bbc.com
  
  The trade deal gives a tax break to Indian professionals, which critics say undercuts UK businesses.
  
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• Call the Midwife film and prequel series announced

  06-05-2025 22:29 via bbc.com
  
  The new film and prequel series come as filming for the fifteenth series of the drama begins.
  
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• Attenborough at 99 delivers 'greatest message he's ever told'

  06-05-2025 22:13 via bbc.com
  
  Sir David says his new film Ocean is one of the most important of his career.
  
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• Customer stabbed to death in city centre bank

  06-05-2025 22:09 via bbc.com
  
  A section of the road between St Peter's Church and the HSBC branch in Derby remains taped off.
  
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• Sudan to cut ties with United Arab Emirates over alleged RSF support

  06-05-2025 22:02 via theguardian.com
  UAE insists it does not provide arms to paramilitary group as Sudanese ambassador recalledSudan’s security and defence council has declared that it will break diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates over its alleged backing of the paramilitary Sudanese Rapid Support Forces.During a televised speech on Tuesday, Sudan’s defence minister, Yassin Ibrahim, said Sudan was “severing diplomatic relations with the UAE” and recalling its ambassador, claiming the Gulf nat
  
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• The Trump administration is defending abortion pill access in court. What?

  06-05-2025 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It may seem a victory to some, but experts worry a win will allow the government to be coy about future attacksThe Trump administration on Monday asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit that takes aim at the abortion pill mifepristone – a move that stunned many observers for what seemed a defense of the drug by a president who has overseen the most dramatic rollback of abortion rights in modern US history.At first blush, it may seem a victory for abortion access – but experts worr
  
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• US supreme court allows Trump trans military ban to take effect

  06-05-2025 21:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Justices rule ban can be enforced while challenge plays out in court, a decision that could lead to thousands dischargedThe Trump administration can begin to enforce a ban on transgender troops serving in the military while a challenge to the policy plays out in the courts, the supreme court ruled on Tuesday, a significant decision that could lead to the discharge of thousands of military members.The court’s order was unsigned and gave no explanation for its reasoning, which is typical of
  
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• Bank customer stabbed to death inside Lloyds Bank branch in Derby

  06-05-2025 21:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Man in his 30s, attacked in St Peter’s Street, Derby, at about 2.35pm on Tuesday, police saidA customer has been stabbed to death in a branch of Lloyds Bank in Derby, police have said.The man, in his 30s, was attacked inside the bank on St Peter’s Street at about 2.35pm on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Man arrested after crashing car into front gate of Jennifer Aniston’s home

  06-05-2025 20:54 via theguardian.com
  
  The Friends actor was at her Los Angeles residence when the man was arrested and taken into custodyA man was arrested after crashing a car into the front gate of Jennifer Aniston’s home in Los Angeles, California, authorities said on Tuesday.Police told KABC-TV that the Friends star was home at the time of the crash. Continue reading...
  
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• Prisons minister vows to end ‘toxic’ cover-up culture in England and Wales

  06-05-2025 20:53 via theguardian.com
  
  James Timpson says he will fight ‘normalised’ sexual harassment, bullying and racism within prison service Sexual harassment, racism and bullying have become “normalised” in jails and probation offices across England and Wales, the prisons minister has warned, as he announced a plan to overhaul a “toxic culture of cover-up” among senior staff.James Timpson said one in eight of HM Prison and Probation Service’s (HMPPS) 65,000 staff say they have been bull
  
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