Friday 10 October 2014

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Latest breaking UK news, including politics, crime and celebrity.

Clacton by-election reaction: live

Douglas Carswell, left, is congratulated by the Conservative Party candidate Giles Watling, centre, after winning the by-election in Clacton-on-Sea in eastern England October 10, 2014. Britain's anti-EU UKIP won its first elected seat in parliament on Friday by a wide margin. In the English seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea

The former Conservative MP storms to victory in Clacton-on-sea and becomes the first MP from Nigel Farage's party to head to Westminster

Ebola in UK? Man dies on business trip

A Public Health Center vehicle is parked in front of the hotel where a 58-year-old man was taken to hospital and died of severe internal bleeding shortly, in Skopje

The death of a businessman in Macedonia leads to fears that the virus may already be in Britain

Westminster rocked as Ukip wins first seat in Clacton

UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate Douglas Carswell arrives at the Clacton-on-Sea by-election count

Breakthrough at last for Ukip as Douglas Carswell wins Clacton by-election, while party comes within 600 votes of victory in Labour stronghold Heywood and Middleton

Cure for Type 1 diabetes imminent after Harvard stem-cell breakthrough

Harvard University has, for the first time, managed to manufacture the millions of beta cells required for transplantation.

Harvard Univesity has produced the vast quantities of insulin-producing cells needed for transplants

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Toughening up of entry requirements for Oxbridge

As the deadline to apply to Oxbridge approaches, it is revealed that half of Cambridge courses and three at Oxford will require two A* grades at A-level as an entry requirement

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Ukip surge: Is it worse for the Conservatives or Labour?

Nichole Leggett and Carol Mills pose for a selfie with UKIP leader Nigel Farage and parliamentary candidate Douglas Carswell in Clacton

Ukip’s win in Clacton and surge in Heywood and Middleton is bad news for both the Conservatives and Labour, but who comes off worst?

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Millions face tax rises or 'derisory' state pension, report claims

A think tank says money to pay pensioners will run out next year after discovering a "flaw" in the national accounts

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'Block HMRC from raiding bank accounts after errors'

Following Telegraph disclosures, experts demand taxman is relieved of power to take money directly from savers' accounts

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Children shun televisions in their bedrooms for iPads

The proportion of children with televisions in their rooms has decreased steadily over the past five years

The number of children with televisions in their rooms falls by a third in five years amid a sharp increase in the use of tablets such as iPads

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Labour's mansion tax: Even Ed Miliband's own Parliamentary aide expresses concerns

MP criticises spread of basement 'pleasure palaces'

Karen Buck MP: 'I am very, very anxious to protect people who are under pressure and to keep Westminster a lively mixed community.'

George Clooney buys £10m manor house in Berkshire

Actor George Clooney and his wife Amal Alamuddin were reportedly spotted in the village pub, The Bull Inn in Sonning, Berkshire, where they have purchased a new house

George Clooney and his new wife, the London-based human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, appear to have settled for their marital home on the River Thames in Berkshire

The bottom line: what the ‘pants atlas’ tells us about Britain

Drinking, smoking, being overweight and taking drugs have little impact on a key aspect of the sperm quality of infertile men but tight Y-fronts should be avoided, according to new research.

Southerners are soft, Scousers prefer designer labels and men in Norwich wear Y-fronts: how sales of underwear suggest that stereotypes about the British could be more accurate than we thought

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Hugh Grant pulls out of the third Bridget Jones’s Diary film

Actor Hugh Grant played Daniel Cleaver in the first two films

Hugh Grant, who plays Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones's Diary, has dropped out of the second sequel to the film adaptation of Helen Fielding's book

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Listen to Guildhall School of Music's first ever rapper

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Jack Derbyshire, who raps under the name 'Jackaboski', will study alongside violinists, cellists and harpists - watch his exclusive rap here

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Anya Hindmarch: I 'fired' myself for the sake of my family

Handbag designer Anya Hindmarch claims she "fired" herself from her own company to spend more time with her children

30 minute ice-packs could be key to burning away body fat, say scientists

The cold compress works by triggering the body into turning flabby white fat into calorie burning ‘beige’ fat

Strapping an ice-pack on to flabby areas could help burn calories, scientists have found

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Daisy Lowe and Matt Smith victims of nude photo leak

Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith and his ex-girlfriend Daisy Lowe

Hackers appear to have leaked naked photographs of the former couple online

Lamborghini supercar abandoned on Tower Bridge

Driver arrested after one lane of traffic blocked by £250,000 Lamborghini Countach

Are there flood warnings near you? Britain braced for blustery weather

Take a look at where the flood alerts and warnings are across the country using this interactive map from the Environment Agency

Exclusive look at Harry Potter Dark Arts tour

Malala Yousafzai recounts moment she was shot in the head by Taliban

Malala's doctor: she deserves the Nobel prize

Passenger Ebola hoax causes scare on a US Airways flight

Douglas Carswell: Ukip must be a party for all Britain

GoPro footage of motocross bike scaling bridge

Rumours around Kim Jong-un's dissaperance from public life in North Korea

Where has Kim Jong-un gone?

Pictures of the day

Spacewalks, an abandonded Lamborghini and a horse in a police station

Harry Potter's Dark Arts exhibit

Harry Potter

In pictures: first look at the new section of the Harry Potter tour

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Milky Way aligned with a crack in the ground

Mikko Lagerstedt's Night II series

Atmospheric nocturnal photography from Finland

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Dagha, 101, pictured outside her family's shelter in Akkar Province, northern Lebanon, near the Syrian border, on 5 March, 2014

Syria's centenarian refugees

Andrew McConnell documents the plight of a special group of Syrian war victims

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Latest UK News»

Uber changes German business plan, cutting fees

A user scans for an available vehicle using the Uber app

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Uber Technologies Inc. will change its business model for services offered in Berlin to comply with German regulations and a ban issued by the German capital’s traffic authorities

Celebrity sightings

Featuring Lily Allen, Tinie Tempah and Princess Beatrice

Featuring Kate Moss, Chloe Grace Moretz and Lady Gaga

Pictures of the day

A double rainbow over Porthleven, Cornwall

A Cornish rainbow, New York Comic Con and Dark Arts in Watford

State pension age: look up when you will retire

Our tables show estimated future state pension ages. What will yours be?

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Malala Yousafzai wins Nobel Peace Prize 2014

Malala Yousafzai at the United Nations in August

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, has won the Nobel Peace Prize

Clacton by-election reaction: live

The former Conservative MP storms to victory in Clacton-on-sea and becomes the first MP from Nigel Farage's party to head to Westminster

Politics»

Nigel Farage to target nine seats at General Election

Nigel Farage says Ukip will hold 'balance of power' at next election as polling identifies the seats the party believes it can win

Open thread: Can British politics survive in a five-party system?

Clacton by-election reaction: live

Obituaries»

Fr Benedict Groeschel

Father Benedict Groeschel, founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal

Franciscan who started a new Order committed to a revival of the founder’s ideals of poverty and service

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Jerrie Mock

Angus Macleod

World news»

Destroying Isil means boots on the ground

Stand-off: Turkish soldiers observe the Syrian town of Kobane under fire from Isil forces

It will take a proper offensive, aided by our troops, to nullify the Islamist menace, says Con Coughlin

Mackerel war between China and South Korea sees fisherman shot dead

South Korean coastguard commandoes control Chinese fishermen during a crackdown on their alleged illegal fishing in South Korean waters in the Yellow Sea in November 2011

South Korean coastguard shoots Chinese fishing captain dead after clash in the Yellow Sea

Escape from North Korea: 'How I escaped horrors of life under Kim Jong-il'

Yeonmi Park in Seoul, where she now studies and raises awareness for the plight of her compatriots in North Korea

Yeonmi Park, a young woman who fled North Korea after seeing friends and family tortured and killed, tells her harrowing story

Polish town to build statue honouring Wikipedia

A model of the statue, left, which will consist of four figures holding up the Wikipedia symbol

The statue, made of a laminated material designed to look like brass, will depict four figures holding up the Wikipedia symbol

Uber changes German business plan, cutting fees

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Uber Technologies Inc. will change its business model for services offered in Berlin to comply with German regulations and a ban issued by the German capital’s traffic authorities