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March 20, 2019 Very hot drinks may be linked to a 90% higher risk of oesophageal cancer, a study of 50,000 people suggests.
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March 20, 2019 Inflation is expected to have held steady below the Bank of England’s target in February, thanks to the cap on energy prices.
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March 20, 2019 A father and son who fled the civil war in Syria for “the safest country in the world” were buried on Wednesday, the first two funerals for victims of shootings at two mosques in New Zealand.
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March 20, 2019 More than 350 people have been confirmed dead and hundreds more are missing after the cyclone that unleashed devastating floods in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
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March 20, 2019 The “crisis” facing the country over the expected delay to Brexit leads most papers on Wednesday.
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March 20, 2019 Wildlife lovers are getting the chance to contribute to the UK’s first crowd-sourced nature diary to mark the beginning of spring, it has been announced.
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March 20, 2019 Rabbits prefer to eat plants rich in DNA, scientists have discovered.
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March 20, 2019 Online giants like PayPal must stop enabling the “unethical” practices of essay mills which exploit young people, the Education Secretary has said.
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March 20, 2019 The potential for bias in algorithms that could be used in local government and the justice system is to be investigated by a government advisory body.
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March 20, 2019 GPs and health service practitioners should be able to prescribe technology such as wearable devices and monitoring systems to tackle loneliness among older people, a report has recommended.
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March 20, 2019 Theresa May will write to the European Union on Wednesday to ask for a delay to Brexit beyond the scheduled date of March 29.
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March 20, 2019 Four major regulators need to do more to prove they are effectively responding to consumer concerns or offering enough protection to those who need it, the spending watchdog has found.
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March 19, 2019 Smoking potent forms of cannabis greatly increases the risk of serious mental illness, a major study has found.
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March 19, 2019 Walking or gardening for just 10 minutes per week could cut the risk of death, new research suggests.
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March 19, 2019 Google has unveiled its new video game streaming platform Stadia, which will allow gamers to play across multiple devices.
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March 19, 2019 The son of US President Donald Trump has blamed “elite” politicians for preventing Brexit taking place as promised on March 29.
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March 19, 2019 The Nobel Prize of a “towering economist and political philosopher” who influenced Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan has become the most valuable item ever to be auctioned by Sotheby’s online after it sold for £1.1 million on Tuesday.
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March 19, 2019 The first two burials of the victims from last week’s mosque shootings in New Zealand are scheduled to take place on Wednesday morning.
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March 19, 2019 Paparazzi-style photographs of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall enjoying a day off at the beach in Barbados have been published online.
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March 19, 2019 More than 50 firefighters have been tackling a large mill fire in Bradford.
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March 19, 2019 Democratic Party presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke has said “there’s a lot of wisdom” in scrapping the Electoral College system because it puts some states out of play in presidential elections.
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March 19, 2019 A hotel owner has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after three teenagers died outside a St Patrick’s Day disco, his spokeswoman said.
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March 19, 2019 Nearly 3,700 people have been issued with British citizenship under a Home Office scheme set up in response to the Windrush scandal.
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March 19, 2019 Donald Trump has praised Brazil’s new populist leader as he welcomed him to the White House, saying the man described as the “Trump of the Tropics” has done “a very outstanding job”.
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March 19, 2019 The Prince of Wales honoured Barbados’ war dead as he began the first full day of his Commonwealth tour.
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March 19, 2019 Meat grown from cells in a laboratory could be on supermarket shelves within five years, scientists say.
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March 19, 2019 Police are hunting the driver of a Porsche who fled after the car was involved in a hit-and-run.
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March 19, 2019 Private companies should pay for trials into medical cannabis because they stand to make the profits, England’s top doctor has said.
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March 19, 2019 The FTSE 100 touched heights last seen in October on Tuesday, boosted by a strong performance from online grocer Ocado.
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March 19, 2019 The Duchess of Cambridge had a “moving” meeting with young people as she viewed photographs showing the living conditions of London’s most disadvantaged children.
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March 19, 2019 The European Union will need to know “the reason and the usefulness” of any UK request to delay Brexit before deciding whether to grant an extension, the EU’s chief negotiator has said.
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March 19, 2019 Protesters wearing yellow vests attempted to storm the Attorney General’s office amid claims their calls for a meeting over the deaths of three teenage boys have been ignored.
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March 19, 2019 A coroner has called for more to be done to warn of the dangers of swimming in the sea on a night out after a drunk father drowned during Storm Callum.
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March 19, 2019 A drink-driver denied crashing into traffic lights even though she was caught in the act on her own dash cam.
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March 19, 2019 A quarter of Europeans would prefer artificial intelligence (AI) to make important political decisions around the running of their country, new research claims.
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March 19, 2019 The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have told New Zealanders “we are with you” as they signed a book of condolence for the victims of the Christchurch terror attack.
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March 19, 2019 Three killers had their murder convictions quashed after a female police officer tried to hide the fact a jury member in their trial was her son’s girlfriend.
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March 19, 2019 NHS England has been accused of trying to abandon key targets because they can no longer be met.
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March 19, 2019 The UK Government has been urged to devolve drugs legislation to Scotland so that a consumption room can be created in Glasgow.
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March 19, 2019 The City watchdog has fined UBS £27.6 million for failing to report tens of millions of transactions properly over nearly a decade.
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March 19, 2019 Gary Lineker has denounced Twitter for allowing “obvious bullshit” after it promoted scam articles about him.
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March 19, 2019 The City watchdog is being called on to consider a full-blown investigation into “regulatory failures” around the collapse of investment firm London Capital & Finance.
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March 19, 2019 Inflation is expected to have held steady below the Bank of England’s target in February, thanks to the cap on energy prices.
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March 19, 2019 The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall’s tour of the Caribbean threatens to be overshadowed by paparazzi pictures taken of the royal couple relaxing on a Barbados beach.
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March 19, 2019 The UK Civil Service has grown to its largest size for five years, new figures show.
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March 19, 2019 Child sexual exploitation victims should no longer be forced to reveal convictions linked to their abuse, Labour have argued.
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March 19, 2019 Double world triathlon champion Helen Jenkins has said that competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is probably now “off the table” as she is 32 weeks’ pregnant.
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March 19, 2019 Home Secretary Sajid Javid has doubled Government funding for security at mosques and other places of worship in the wake of the New Zealand attack.
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March 19, 2019 A blind 98-year-old Second World War veteran who became embroiled in a High Court battle because he wanted to leave a care facility has told a judge how he is “living again” after returning home.
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March 19, 2019 Barclays has told investors to block an attempt by activist investor Edward Bramson to gain a seat on the lender’s board, arguing his appointment would be “detrimental”.
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