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the mirror splashes that the royal navy will source 65% its steel from sweden to build eight new battleships, much to the anger of british unions. the guardian writes that the prime minister is facing a revolt from labour on brexit, specifically her great repeal bill, if there aren't concessions on workers‘ rights. the sun leads withjohanna konta's success at wimbledon and it has an exclusive interview with the prime minister, in which she asks for enough time in number ten to complete brexit. pensions victory for gay couples. landmark ruling means the couples have the same rights. we have civil partnerships, gay marriage, why has it taken so long? you may ask that. that is what this former cavalry officer was asking. spending years, and lawyers racking up bills are millions of pounds, including
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government lawyers fighting this, and pension companies. though we had civil partnerships, and gay marriage introduced by the coalition government in 2010. if you have a civil partnership or gay marriage after those dates, with a pension pa rt after those dates, with a pension part built up before those dates. in the 90s, your new legal spouse could not receive that pension. i think i'm right in saying if you decided to make the beneficiary on the pension documents, it would go to them. in terms of it automatically going to your legal spouse, taking in account, not legally possible. in a country where the government of the day has introduced gay marriage, where previous governments have introduced civil partnerships, you would think it would be fairly obvious at the same time you would ci’oss obvious at the same time you would cross the tees, dot the eyes, and say you inherit your dead spouse's pension. who else would it go to?
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0bviously something where finance companies have put their heels in. it will cost them a lot of money?m should do. this is money someone has built up over their lifetime for theirfamily to built up over their lifetime for their family to inherit over the end of the policy. someone to get a pension can it ever so spouse of the same sex, they should be able to leave it to them. whether you choose to. we are all agreed on that one. not a very good argument so far. you did say you are willing to argue with yourself. i will try. another aspect of the whole story, in the ft. aspect of the whole story, in the ft, the pension changes george 0sborne brought in when he said pensioners could draw down any amount of the pension they chose to, without buying annuity from a a few yea rs without buying annuity from a a few years ago, they have all started
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doing it. shoots worry and concern. the pension pots are disappearing. daily telegraph. draw up your will ina daily telegraph. draw up your will in a text message. law commission says outdated system of inheritance and must catch up with the digital age. like alan partridge walking around the travelodge. the trouble with this, you need to update the inheritance and will system. i have had to update mine, i have a daughter. gone through the process of having written, which took a couple of hours of conversation with alloy offers not something you can do with a text message. go through your paperwork. best will in the world! you have to work out your debts. i have not signed it off, costs three injapan is for a very simple will. i have been spending money on the star. the idea is, it will have legal voracity admissible,
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legally watertight, you can do all of this in a text message and leave it. not legally watertight. what they're trying to do, someone at the end of their life in hospital, more able to speak, type, then right. —— than writing. if you were to communicate another fashion, it would have legal basis was the law commission said it could add to family arguments. people would start churning things up. a well written in the traditional manner six years before you got ill, on your deathbed a change of heart, sending a text message to your wife saying you cannot have anything can you have not visited me enough, i'm living it to the dog same. comparing a text message to a voice mail with a well written six years ago in a normal fashion. causing chaos. you have to update the process, find their way
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to make it not cost three edge of pounds for a simple will. my lawyer was telling me most people do not update their wills. people have not updated their will for years. not when they have got divorced, children, ten years past. they do it once and leave it. when they die, ups and downs. the scope for abuse is huge. if you can make a change, potentially on a phone first a text message. how do you prove the deceased person made it? one other proposal, lowering the age from 18, down to 16. what is a 16—year—old going to leave? debts. leaving behind your student debt. at 16. continuing with the daily telegraph, lack of leadership putting brexit talks at risk says a watchdog. we heard what the chief negotiator for the eu said. he is hearing the clock
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ticking. en us leaving brexit. the european union. we have not got anything discussed. national audit 0ffice producing reports saying we could not even get a plan out of the brexit people. they could not give us brexit people. they could not give us any brexit people. they could not give us any reasons. you brexit people. they could not give us any reasons. you have a departmental government. if you tap it apart like chocolate 0range. basically between the lines, because theresa may is lacking leadership herself. brexit is lacking leadership. some issues in the white departments. everyone is lacking leadership, there is a prime minister, as we get to the sun, hanging below the water line. how will she have power, negotiating and get us through brexit. from picture
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of the sun, nice move, let me do brexit. theresa may appealing for more time to get us through this. she is the prime minister, she should deserve this. she did get 13.5 million votes. she has had to tearup 13.5 million votes. she has had to tear up the manifesto. she has already lost her mandate, you could argue. everything in the text of this interview, done by tom newton dunn. seems to have stalled, she had the flashy wheel going around. she says eve n the flashy wheel going around. she says even calling a snap election, she does not regret it. even though it is left britain tumultuous, brexit clueless, and her unable to govern. she can see why some people
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say that, did not quite go to plan. doing his best to hold serve further under the water line, liam fox. saying privately, she has made it impossible for him to negotiate properly. if she stays in place for them next two years, as she is saying, the poor woman will get blamed for everything. who is she talking to? who knows. the sun readership are not going to change in that opinion of theresa may. good or bad. must be talking to backbench mps, begging them for time. they'll bea mps, begging them for time. they'll be a tory party conference in 0ctober, where she will be walking into a bearpit, feels a conservative activists, constituency chairmen. people who've had a tough time on the doorstep, if she does not do better than this before october she
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will get eaten alive. i doubt the tories will allow that. they are saying they need and want to stick with her. david davis says there is no need for a contest. google pays academics millions for key support in british and american researchers. good bit of investigative reporting. showing scientists who have done studies into the effects of google, how it operates. the tech companies. they seem to have been funded by google, not declaring the fact they pay for the research. i was speaking to scientists. if you want to do a speck of this piece of research. i wa nt to speck of this piece of research. i want to prove why you are good for health. you cannot get funding. you would have to fund it, saying i have the money for it. the scientists do
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not get to choose what the study. it shows clive mhairi will put 15 years you're like the watch him every day. the science, which could still be true, it could narrow the focus down to one bit. makes the fund findings more significant. all bbc newsreaders are good for health of you watch them all. for example. that is a problem with funding this research. narrow. we will have to leave it there. we know that watching news channel is good for your health. thank you so much for taking and running the show. it has been brilliant. for you watching, you can see the front pages of all the newspapers online. it's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer.
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thank you, susie boniface, goodbye. what a beautiful day across the country today. scattered fairweather clouds. sky is clear this evening and overnight. actually a auroral chill on the way after this beautiful clear day. particularly across the north. look at the picture from cumbria. high pressure building across the uk today. that is the rain on tuesday, in the south, it was heavy. 37 millimetres of rain in london. a lot of rainfall in one day. low pressure with heavy rain bearing clouds clearing away. wednesday ended up being an absolutely fine day. wednesday night, into thursday, quiet on the weather front. high—pressure odorous. the winds are like. towns and cities, knows, 13, 1a degrees.
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thursday, high pressure in charge across the weather, across the uk. the weather front moves into north—western part of the country. looks as if later in the day, northern ireland, western parts of scotland, it will cloud over this in the south, looking absolutely fine. just a chance of one or two showers. little blobs of blue, lincolnshire, the midlands, the south—west. small showers, most of them liked, most of us showers, most of them liked, most of us went catch them. find summer's day. 22 london, 20 in sheffield. wea k day. 22 london, 20 in sheffield. weak weather front in parts of wales, the western isles of scotland. freshening winds there. pretty much it. thursday a great day. across the uk. friday, what we are going to find, thicker cloud pushing in off the atlantic. this quys pushing in off the atlantic. this guys are going to turn quite
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overcast. particularly across western areas. temperature is still pretty high. into the 20s. with that, more humid. a bit of rain crossing our country during the course of friday night. that means for wimbledon, with the weather fronts moving three, dry weather. cloudy most of the time. quite humid. not ideal conditions for the final. summary for the weekend, cloudy, muggy, showers, the warmest weather in the south. this is bbc news. i'm clive myrie. the headlines at 11pm: as police continue their search of grenfell tower a month after the blaze, the bbc has learnt that residents were still being told to stay put in their flats almost two hours after the fire broke out. within 15 minutes the whole building caught fire, after two hours it's too late. we were promised support,
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where is the support? that's what i want to know. there have been tough questions tonight for the new leader of the local council as angry survivors demand answers. donald trump has defended his son as open, transparent and innocent after the revelation that donald jnr met a russian lawyer during last year's election campaign. a state banquet is held for spain's king felipe, he says he's confident an agreement can be reached over the future of gibraltar.
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