Cheryl's 'I Don't Care' F-Word Rant New Single

Cheryl Fernandez-Versini - the singer formerly known as Cheryl Cole - has released an expletive riddled new single.

The singer and X Factor star's latest offering, I Don't Care, uses the F-word throughout in the chorus with a censored version of the song being premiered on radio stations.

Despite the censoring, it is clear what Fernandez-Versini is saying.

The singer said the title referred to the fact that, at 31, she was grown up and less concerned about things than she used to be.

"I'm a woman now; I'm at that age that things don't bother me like they used to.

"I still care about things, but I've discovered what's important to care about, and what's most definitely not."

I Don't Care, a song taken from her forthcoming album, Only Human, is due to be released on November 9.

Her last single, Crazy Stupid Love, was a chart-topping success.

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Children Were Exposed To US Ebola Patient

By Sky News US Team

Texas' governor says "school-age children" are being monitored after having contact with a man who is seriously ill with ebola.

"Today we learned that some school-age children have been confirmed as having had contact with the patient," Rick Perry told a noon press conference in Dallas.

He said the youngsters were being monitored at home.

The children are among 12-18 people who are being monitored, including the ambulance crew who transported the man, after exposure.

A health official at the same press conference said the patient was in a serious but stable condition on Wednesday.

The unidentified man has been in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas since Sunday.

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PM Pledges Tax Cut For Millions Of Families

David Cameron has promised to raise the 40p tax threshold to £50,000 if the Tories win another five years in power.

The pledge, which would help thousands of middle income earners, was among an array of sweeteners offered by Mr Cameron in his last conference speech before the General Election.

David Cameron with his wife, Samantha, ahead of his speech

He vowed to balance the nation's books by 2018 so he could deliver tax cuts for "hard-working families", including lifting the tax-free allowance from £10,500 to £12,500.

The PM said it would mean a tax cut for 30 million people and that those on the national minimum wage working a 30-hour week would pay "nothing, zero, zilch" in income tax. 

Video: Cameron On Basic Rate Tax

He also said he would increase the 40p tax rate from £41,900 to £50,000.

Mr Cameron attempted to paint a picture of the Tories as the champion of the ordinary man and families.

He said he wanted a Britain where there was: "the chance of a job, a home, a good start in life, whoever you are, wherever you're from. And by the way, you never pull one person up by pulling other people down."

Video: Cameron On 40p Tax Rate

He added: "We believe in aspiration and helping people get on in life and what's more, we're proud of it."

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls accused Mr Cameron of attempting to "pull the wool over people's eyes" by promising a tax cut without explaining how it would be paid for.

Simon Walker, director general of the Institute of Directors, said: "We await the details of how such reforms will be financed. Increasing the personal allowance is particularly expensive to the Exchequer."

Video: Cameron Does Hague Impression

The Prime Minister went on to make a fierce defence of his handling of the NHS, saying he intended to take the health service back for the Tories after Labour's attempt to claim it with a £12.5bn spending pledge at the party's conference last week.

He accused Labour of "spreading complete and utter lies" by suggesting he was selling off the NHS and said: "How dare they suggest I would put that at risk for other people's children?"

Mr Cameron has spoke of his first-hand experience of the NHS during the care of his son, Ivan, who died in 2009 at the age of six, bringing tears to the eyes of his wife, Samantha, who was sitting in the audience. 

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He said Labour did not understand that the country "can only have a strong NHS if you have a strong economy".

The Conservative Party leader also said he would scrap the Human Rights Act, which has allowed the courts in Strasbourg to rule Britain must give prisoners the vote, and introduce a British Bill of Rights.

Identifying problems with the free movement of people in the EU, Mr Cameron highlighted a number of things he was keen to change.

Video: Cameron Plans Tax Cuts For Millions

"Britain: I know you want this sorted, so I will go to Brussels, I will not take no for an answer and when it comes to free movement I will get what Britain needs," he said.

Mr Cameron's speech brings to a close a conference which has been tarnished by four UKIP "defections", the most significant of which was the MP Mark Reckless.

The Prime Minister warned that a vote for UKIP was a vote for Labour. He said: "On the 7th of May, go to bed with Nigel Farage and wake up with Ed Miliband. I don't know about you, but not a bit of that works for me."

Video: Analysis of Cameron's Speech

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1. Gallery: Tory Party Conference: In Pictures

   The Conservative Party Conference has drawn to a close. Here are some of the highlights: Boris Johnson addressed delegates with a brick - and cracked a joke about "purring" at David Cameron's expense ...

3. But of course Boris and Dave are close - as they proved with this touching stroll together

4. It was not Mr Cameron but Ed Miliband who was the butt of most jokes. The best one was the one about him forgetting to mention the deficit in his keynote address to the Labour Party Conference last week

5. It shifted some merchandise such as this hilariously named beer

6. George Osborne started it in his speech, during which he invited voters to choose Dave, choose the Conservatives and choose the future

7. But it did make him sound like Renton from Trainspotting. Everyone thought so

8. Nigel Farage was the spectre at the feast. Four defections to UKIP - one MP, a donor and two others since the conference began

9. The PM prepared for his big speech by asking delegates what they thought of him by posting message boards around the conference in Birmingham

11. And spent some time with Samantha, his wife

12. He posed for selfies with delegates

13. And did not miss a hard hat, high-vis opportunity

14. He was photographed memorising the chapter on the deficit ... in glasses and Union flag cufflinks ...

15. ... as he prepared for the crowds in the main hall

16. Where he gave some money away - tax cuts for the "hard-working"

17. Got really cross about the NHS

18. Then got clapped quite a lot

19. Still, the Conservatives concluded that what Britain needs is an iron lady ...

20. ...and here's Home Secretary Theresa May

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Sandy Hook Elementary Evacuated Amid Threat

By Sky News US Team

A Connecticut elementary school attended by survivors of the 2012 shooting massacre has been evacuated following a bomb threat.

The threat was called in to the school in Monroe at about 9.30am, Lieutenant Brian McCauley said.

Twenty children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook in Newtown

Students were evacuated and taken to a nearby school where they will be reunited with their parents.

Lt McCauley said the school building and grounds were checked and no evidence of danger was found.

Investigators are trying to track down the origin of the threat, he said.

The town of Monroe opened the school to students and teachers from neighbouring Newtown after a gunman shot and killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in December 2012.

The parent of one child killed in that attack praised the quick response to Wednesday's threat.

"We are first grateful to hear that all children and staff were physically unharmed," Jimmy Greene told the Connecticut Post.

"I am thankful for the quick response and transparent communication of the superintendent and the staff of Newtown Public Schools." 

Mr Greene added that the threat "clearly indicates the need to reach those people who choose to commit such cruel and thoughtless acts".

The Newtown school as demolished in October 2013.

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Alice Gross: 'Now A Murder Investigation'

Police searching for missing teenager Alice Gross have found a body in the River Brent in west London.

Detectives hunting for the 14-year-old, who disappeared nearly five weeks ago after leaving her home in Hanwell, said there had been "significant efforts" to hide the human remains.

The search for Alice is the Met's largest since the 7/7 London bombings

Scotland Yard Commander Graham McNulty said: "This is now a murder investigation and I need the public's help to find whoever is responsible."

The body has been removed from the scene and Alice's family have been informed.

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1. Gallery: Body Found In Major Search For Alice Gross

   Police searching for missing Alice Gross have found a body in the River Brent in west London

2. A cordon has been put in place after the discovery of human remains

3. Forensic officers are at the scene

4. Her father has changed his Facebook profile picture from a campaign poster to a field of wild flowers

5. Alice's family had made a heartfelt plea for the safe return of the missing teenager

6. Scotland Yard released new images of Alice as police staged a reconstruction of her last known movements

7. The teenager disappeared on August 28

8. Police received more than a thousand calls from the public in response to appeals

10. The 14-year-old has been missing for five weeks

11. Police have been carrying out a fingertip search in Hanwell, west London, where missing Alice Gross is from. This image shows officers searching the area on September 22

12. The hunt for the 14-year-old is the biggest search operation since the 7/7 bombings in 2005

13. A dinghy was brought in to help in the search

14. Here, on September 18, forensics officers are seen in the garden of builder Arnis Zalkalns

15. Zalkalns, a Latvian national, has been named as the main suspect by police after he, too, went missing from his home in Boston Manor Road, which runs between Hanwell and Brentford

16. September 8: a police diver enters the Grand Union Canal to search for the missing schoolgirl

17. September 7: Police search the River Brent, near Hanwell

18. A missing persons flyer is attached to a lamppost in central London

21. She was seen on CCTV at Brentford Lock

22. Arnis Zalkalns was seen on CCTV in the same area

Her father has changed his Facebook profile picture from a campaign poster to a field of wild flowers.

Mr McNulty said: "Our work at this scene is crucial to make sure we capture all of the available evidence, to establish who is responsible for this dreadful crime.

"I can confirm significant efforts were made to conceal the body."

Video: Alice Gross Police Statement

He added: "We are unable to make a formal identification at this stage, but clearly this news is devastating for everyone involved in the search for Alice.

"At this time my thoughts are with Alice's family and friends."

Thanking the local community for their support during the investigation, he said: "This discovery will have a significant impact throughout the borough."

Video: Alice's Movements Reconstructed

Alice was last seen on CCTV walking along the towpath next to the Grand Union Canal as it passes under Trumpers Way at 4.26pm on August 28. She has not been seen since.

Her disappearance sparked a huge police search - the Met's largest since the 7/7 bombings.

Hundreds of officers from several forces around the country have been involved in the investigation, while the RAF was also drafted in to help identify new search areas.

Video: Missing Girl's Parents' Anguish

Footage from 300 CCTV cameras within a six-square-mile radius was examined, while police also staged a reconstruction of the  the teenager's last-known movements in a bid to jog people's memory.

Mr McNulty said the search of the river was carried out as part of the investigation into Alice's disappearance.

Police have not said exactly where the body was found.

Video: Latvia Asked For Help Over Alice

The River Brent runs a short distance from Hanwell and the towpath next to the Grand Union Canal where Alice was last seen on CCTV.

Convicted murderer Arnis Zalkalns, who was filmed cycling along the same route behind Alice, has emerged as the prime suspect in the case.

The Latvian builder was reported missing within days of her disappearance, but police stressed he was just "one line of enquiry".

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Hunter's Stray Bullet Blinds Six-Day-Old Boy

By Sky News US Team

A six-day-old boy has been left blind after ht was hit in the head by a stray bullet fired by a hunter in Pennsylvania.

Shayne Iverson survived as the bullet exited through his eye socket rather than hitting his brain last Thursday near Saltsburg, according to his family.

But the infant, who is in a stable but critical condition in intensive care, has lost his sight.

Shayne's parents, Stefanie and Jeremie Pic: Facebook

His parents Stefanie and Jeremie, who have three children, have been meeting state police and the game commissioner about the incident.

Indiana County District Attorney Pat Dougherty said the hunter who fired the shot had an agricultural deer control permit. 

The shooting is thought to have been accidental, though investigators are looking into whether the hunter complied with state regulations.

Relatives have set up an online fund to pay for Shayne's medical costs.

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DVLA Swamped By Drivers As Tax Discs Ditched

The vehicle licensing agency has been swamped by motorists enquiries, as the traditional road disc is ditched for an electronic system.

The Cardiff-based Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) said it was struggling to cope with what it said was "unprecedented demand".

A DVLA spokeswoman told Sky News: "We are currently experiencing unprecedented demand which means that some customers may be experiencing slow response times or having difficulty accessing the service.

"We are of course very sorry for any inconvenience and we are urgently investigating to improve service quality for the minority of our customers that are experiencing issues."

It said 270,000 enquiries were made on Tuesday, up 30,000 on the same day last year.

Video: Potential Car Insurance Savings

Motorists have reported lengthy queues on the enquiry line and slow or halting website access.

Tax discs have been placed on motorists' windscreen since 1921, but as of today they are no longer required.

Known officially as the vehicle excise duty (VED), the tax can be paid either online, over the phone or at post offices.

The Government said the new system has the potential to save the DVLA up to £7m annually in administration costs.

However, motoring groups have warned about the extra revenue-raising potential of the new system, while a survey has shown many drivers and riders are unaware of its implementation.

From this month, buyers of vehicles will no longer be able to use the remaining time to expiry paid for by the previous owner.

Buyers cannot take advantage of the remaining months and days of the car's existing taxed period and will need to renew the excise duty themselves.

Significant pre-renewal time for both discs and MOTs have long been seen as an added selling point for vendors.

New owners will need to renew the disc after purchase or classify it through a statutory off-road notification (SORN).

Motoring groups said they had received complaints from members that the Government can potentially "double tax" owners.

The RAC has also expressed concerns that there could be a spike in drivers on the roads without tax.

It said the possible scenario could mean Treasury coffers lose out on up to £167m annually, although the DVLA dismissed the claim and said there was no reason to expect a spike in tax evasion.

Automatic number plate recognition cameras and manual police checks of vehicles, which are already used to find uninsured drivers, is to be used to snare untaxed vehicles.

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PM Parks Austerity In Favour Of Prosperity

No memorised speeches for this Prime Minister. A giant lectern. Autocue. And he was never going to forget his promise of a whopping tax cut.

This has been a long time in the planning. Indeed the tough front-loaded austerity programme was always going to end like this: a pre-election tax cut. It is the well-trodden Conservative strategy.

But this speech was more than that.

It was a parking of austerity in favour of prosperity.

David Cameron was spending some of George Osborne's hard-won fiscal credibility.

Video: Cameron's Vision Of A Tory Future

In essence, freezing benefits on Monday helps you offer an unfunded £7bn tax cut for 30 million at some yet-to-be-specified time before 2020.

The millions of beneficiaries - a million on minimum wage taken out of tax, 800,000 higher earners removed from the 40% rate - will just have to take David Cameron at his word. But it might take four years.

In order to get that hearing on the economy and win that trust of centre ground voters, the PM knows he needs to neutralise the mistrust of the Conservatives on the NHS.

Video: Analysis of Cameron's Speech

There was a powerful personal rebuttal to Ed Miliband about Labour's election message of "saving the NHS" from "Tory privatisation".

"How dare they?" question his sincerity on the health service, given, among other things, the tragic experience of his late son, Ivan.

No surprise that cabinet colleagues such as George Osborne and other delegates were lauding this as Mr Cameron's best-ever speech.

Video: Cameron On 40p Tax Rate

The Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond looked close to ecstasy that Mr Cameron had finally dealt with fiscal drag - raising the threshold of the 40p rate of tax up to £50,000 by 2020.

A party that can now imagine a world no longer constrained by coalition

The week started badly for the Camerons. It was always going to get better. The battleground: the NHS, the economy and leadership.

Video: Cameron On Basic Rate Tax

But despite conference confidence, so much of this depends on public trust in one man. David Cameron himself.

Video: Cameron On Zero Hours Contracts

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Hillsborough Cop: Fans 'Have Responsibility'

By Mike McCarthy, North Of England Correspondent

A senior police officer on duty at the Hillsborough stadium on the day of the disaster has said Liverpool fans must take responsibility for what happened.

Former superintendent Roger Marshall was in charge of policing the area outside the stadium where the congestion of supporters began.

When asked about consumption of alcohol by barrister Pete Weatherby QC, who is representing bereaved families, he said: "If you want my honest opinion, I think that some of the fans have a responsibility for what occurred, and for the situation that arose under my command outside."

The ex-policeman said that a "substantial minority" of fans had had too much to drink.

"People were not lying on the floor totally incapacitated. People quite rightly had a drink or two - but I can tell you that some people had a little too much, and to the effect that it coloured their judgement," he added.

Supt Roger Marshall, as pictured on CCTV at the Hillsborough match

Mr Weatherby asked Mr Marshall about accusations that Liverpool fans had arrived late for the match.

He replied:  "It was a major semi-final ... 54,000 people going. I would have thought that if I was going to a football match that was a major event, I would have been trying to get in there well before 2.50pm." 

Earlier the witness said that police had "lost control completely" of the crowd arriving at Leppings Lane End, where 96 fans were to lose their lives.

Video footage was shown of the build-up of fans outside the ground in the hour leading up to the 3pm kick-off.

Mr Weatherby suggested that it showed no apparent misbehaviour by fans.

The ex-policeman said a 'substantial minority' of fans had drunk too much

Mr Marshall said: "People with any common sense would see that this area was completely packed with people. I just question why people would then push and move."

It was put to him that there was no pushing going on in the footage, but the former superintendent replied: "Well, I think there is."

Mr Weatherby added: "They are simply shuffling there – trying to get into the ground, weren't they?"

But Mr Marshall insisted: "I don't think that is shuffling. I think that's pushing."

During the inquest, the retired officer claimed that police at the match did their "professional best".

He went on to say: "The outcome was tragic for everyone. Not just for the fans who lost their lives, which was awful, and the families of these people – but tragic for every police officer. It is a tragedy that affects us all."

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How Much Will Airstrikes On IS Cost Taxpayer?

Calculating the anticipated cost of Britain's contribution to the anti-IS coalition is imprecise at best.

According to a Ministry of Defence report to Parliament in 2010, each Tornado flight costs £35,000 per hour.

Typically, two Tornados fly each mission, lasting anywhere between four and eight hours.

So let's land somewhere in the middle: a six-hour mission costs a basic £210,000.

Then we have to consider the cost of the missiles.

The expected payload would be four Paveway bombs, £22,000 each, and two Brimstone missiles, £105,000 per unit.

So let's say that's £508,000 per aircraft in total, just a smidgen over £1m per mission.

If they carry Storm Shadows at £800,000 a pop, then the cost rises considerably.

Tomahawk missiles, like this one being fired from a US ship, are not cheap

But then of course we should bear in mind that each aircraft might not drop its full load, so the figures distort further still.

And the Tornados need to refuel en route. Although operating costs for the Voyager aircraft aren't available, it is considerably more efficient than its VC-10 Tristar predecessor.

The TLAMs, Tomahawk Cruise Missiles, carried on the Astute class submarines, are the most expensive item - £950,000 a pop. It's unlikely many, if any, of these will be fired.

As I said, although the individual figures are accurate, the calculations are almost impossible to make, so dependent are they on mission-specific variants.

Please treat my sums with the dose of cynicism they deserve, they are merely a crude, early examination of what Britain's involvement in Iraq might cost the taxpayer.

A Paveway bomb which would feature in airstrikes on IS militants

The true cost will be made available at a much later date by the MoD and National Audit Office.

One other thing I'd like to mention: it is very possible that the very RAF GR4 Tornado fast jets that take off on the first bombing missions over Iraq won't be in service by the time the mission is complete, whenever that might be.

Only three Tornado squadrons remain, next year another will disband leaving just two. They are the British military's only true ground attack aircraft, to be replaced, sometime in the next decade, by the new F35 Joint Strike Fighter.

The F-35 is a fantastic aircraft, but it is overdue, over budget and faith in it being delivered by 2020 is diminishing.

Perhaps this mission will reward the Tornado squadrons with a small extension to the life in service - and what a busy, prestigious life it has been for that aircraft.

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