1 hour ago Reece James left irritated by fresh injury speculation ahead of Club World Cup final

Reece James will hope to lead out Chelsea for the Club World Cup final

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1 hour ago Teacher banned from the classroom after twisting colleague’s nipple bar on staff night out

Vincent Collister, who taught at Ovingham Middle School in Northumberland, has been banned indefinitely by a Teaching Regulation Agency panel

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1 hour ago Village GP is struck off after sending barrage of abuse to female colleague in drunken late

Paul Scott, 59, a GP on the Shetland Islands, was also accused of initimidating another female colleague by kicking the door of a consultation room before shouting at her.

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3 h. ago Man felt 'nauseous and hungover' after running bath in Edinburgh high

Graham Barnfield has accused the authorities of 'digging their heels in' and said the water in his property in Edinburgh, Scotland was so bad it left him feeling sick

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3 h. ago Rayner ’will not be pushed around’ by Unite after union votes to suspend her

Deputy PM targeted for role in Birmingham bin strikes but sources say she resigned her membership months agoAngela Rayner has made clear she will not be “pushed around” by the Unite trade union after it voted to suspend her membership and rethink its ties with the party.The deputy prime minister was targeted for censure by the union over her role in the Birmingham bin strike, although party sources said Rayner resigned her membership of Unite some months ago. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Labour goes to war with Unite: Union accused of 'silly stunts' after suspending Angela Rayner for failing to back striking bin workers 'causing misery' in Birmingham

The party accused Unite of engaging in 'silly stunts' after its annual conference voted to suspend the membership of the Deputy Prime Minister, who said the walk-out was causing 'misery' and should end.

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5 h. ago Crystal Palace removed from Europa League as Premier League rival set to replace

Palace, who have never qualified for a major European competition before, had hoped to play in the Europa League after winning the FA Cup, but UEFA chiefs have ruled they can't

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5 h. ago China develops cyborg bees to be used as military scouts or find disaster survivors

Controllers which weigh less than a pinch of salt are strapped to the back of a worker bee and connected to the insect’s brain through small needles in Chinese scientists'' bid to turn bees into cyborgs for special missions

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6 h. ago Labour in clash with unions as Unite suspends Rayner’s membership and says party is not on side of workers

General secretary Sharon Graham said the deputy prime minister ‘has had every opportunity to intervene and resolve this dispute’ over Birmingham’s bin strike

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6 h. ago GPs told to prescribe gym sessions and job centre appointments to get sicknote Britain back to work

GPs will be told to stop signing sick notes and instead send patients to the gym or a job centre in a bid to tackle the sicknote epidemic.

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6 h. ago Cruz Beckham cuts Brooklyn and Nicola out of his life in shock move after brutal jibes

It comes after hot sauce entrepreneur Brooklyn shocked fans today by unfollowing both of his younger brothers, with relations between the siblings appearing to have soured beyond hope of repair

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7 h. ago British mountaineer says K2 challenge is ‘one of the world’s toughest’

British-Bangladeshi mountaineer Akke Rahman hopes to reach the summit before the end of July.

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7 h. ago Female Coldstream Guard who sexually assaulted woman colleague saying she would 'massage her to sleep' avoids jail

Military clarinet player Private Adelle Foster tried to take the woman's clothes off after telling her she would 'massage her to sleep', a court martial in Wiltshire heard.

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7 h. ago Radiographer suspended after saying he hopes colleague was off sick ‘because they’ve got a brain tumour’

Nicholas Whitaker also allegedly told colleagues he would ‘phone in sick’ if he wasn’t allowed to watch football at work

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7 h. ago Doctor says quit five habits 'before you reach 40' to live longer

A consultant cardiologist has shared the five common habits he recommends you give up before you reach the age of 40 in order to ensure you live a longer, healthier life

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8 h. ago Trump brutally ended Obama’s flagship project to power Africa – but the dream is not dead

Power Africa – established more than a decade ago – aimed to help bring stable electricity to 600 million people across Africa, writes Nick Ferris, before being cut by the current president. But all hope is not lost

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8 h. ago Unite suspends Angela Rayner’s membership as it says Labour is not on the side of workers

General secretary Sharon Graham said the deputy prime minister ‘has had every opportunity to intervene and resolve this dispute’ over Birmingham’s bin strike

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8 h. ago Angela Rayner suspended by Unite in union backlash over long

Members of Unite, a major donor to Labour, voted to “re-examine its relationship” with the party.

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9 h. ago Doctor suspended after saying he hopes colleague was off sick ‘because they’ve got a brain tumour’

Radiographer Nicholas Whitaker also allegedly told colleagues he would ‘phone in sick’ if he wasn’t allowed to watch football at work

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9 h. ago Union militants kick out Angela Rayner as Birmingham bin war threaten to plunge Labour into another civil war

Members of the powerful hard left union Unite voted to suspend her at its policy conference in Brighton today over her criticism of the walk out that left the city a festering rat-infested mess.

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