Ed Miliband: 'I Relish Fight For The Future'

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A defiant Ed Miliband has vowed to "fight and win this election", amid rumours of discontent over his leadership of Labour.

It came after two of the most senior members of his shadow cabinet strenuously denied making a secret pact in the event of their leader stepping down.

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper and shadow health secretary Andy Burnham were reported by The Times newspaper to have struck a "non-aggression pact".

Mr Miliband wrote on Facebook that he would be spending the next six months before the election fighting "street by street, house by house, taking our case to the people on every issue".

Sky News has been told the post was planned in advance and not issued in response to the reports over Mr Miliband's leadership.

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In the message Mr Miliband said: "That is what my shadow cabinet and our MPs will be doing. That is what our councillors, party members and activists will be doing - because that is what they do week in and week out - and they know that is how we win.

"We are in the fight for the future of our country and in the General Election Labour will show we are equal to the challenges of the time in which we live."

One of the criticisms of Mr Miliband's leadership by some has been a perceived lack of vision for the country, but in his post Mr Miliband rejected this suggestion.

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"Labour's vision is built on the big changes I have set out: tackling the cost-of-living crisis, transforming the prospects for the next generation, rebuilding our NHS, with stable economic foundations and a fair approach to immigration.

"I know we can beat all our opponents at the next election because of our Labour values, our passion and our plan for government."

Mr Miliband ended his message with a rallying cry to the party faithful: "We have six months to go out and show the difference Labour's plan will make. Together, that is what we will do."

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Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker have said goodbye to their former Cream bandmate Jack Bruce at a funeral full of music.

The stars were among mourners, who also included Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera and Procol Harum's Gary Brooker, who paid tribute to Bruce who died from liver disease 11 days ago.

The service for the Scottish-born bass player and singer was held at Golders Green Crematorium in north London.

Bruce, 71, was most famous for his role in the 1960s supergroup Cream, along with Baker and Clapton, who created enduring tracks such as White Room, Sunshine Of Your Love, I Feel Free and Badge.

The trio reformed for a series of shows in 2005, which included dates at the Royal Albert Hall.

The guests sang Morning Has Broken, the Beatles hit Strawberry Fields Forever and Bruce's track Theme For An Imaginary Western to honour the man who was described in the order of service as a "beloved husband, father, granddad and all round legend".

His friend and Cream lyricist Pete Brown shared reminiscences during the funeral, which also included contributions from Bruce's son Malcolm, daughters Natasha and Kyla, a poem written by another son Corin and a tribute from his wife Margrit.

One of the late musician's bass guitars was displayed prominently, flanked by floral displays shaped like the bass clef motif, which was also pictured on the front of the order of service.

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British Tourists Die In Cyprus Beach Tragedy

Two British tourists have died after one tried to save the other while swimming in the sea off Cyprus.

The man, named as 61-year-old Harry Bernard, managed to drag the woman, identified in reports as 66-year-old Christine Sugarhood, from the water and attempted to revive her with CPR before collapsing himself.

Mrs Sugarhood, from Haywards Heath in West Sussex, had got into trouble while saving her husband in seas off Pathos, according to police.

While the husband survived, Mrs Sugarhood and Londoner Mr Bernard were rushed to medical clinics before being pronounced dead.

A spokesman for the police in Paphos said both had died "because of a heart attack".

He said: "A man from England was swimming yesterday and his wife tried to save him because he had a problem in the sea. The wife saved her husband but got into a problem in the water.

"A third person tried to save the woman. He got her out of the water but they both died, because of a heart attack."

Post-mortem examinations are due to be carried out.

The Bernards and Sugarhoods were both staying at the four-star Athena Beach Hotel.

The hotel's duty manager, who asked not to be named, said: "Mr Sugarhood is okay. He is devastated but he has a lot of friends here, so he is not alone.

"The same as Ms Harris, Mr Bernard's wife - her family have just arrived."

The duty manager added that Mr and Mrs Sugarhood were in Paphos with friends to play bowls.

A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said: "We can confirm the deaths of two British nationals on 4 November in Cyprus. We are providing consular assistance at this difficult time."

The Cyprus Mail newspaper reported that there were no lifeguards on the beach at the time because they finish working at the end of October.

Paphos is a popular tourist destination notorious for its strong currents. The tragedy happened in the Yeroskipou area.

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EU Migrants Pay In More Than They Take - Study

EU migrants contribute more to the UK in taxes than they receive in benefits and services, according to new research.

But the study showed those arriving from outside Europe over a 17-year period took more from the public purse than they put back in.

The findings come as David Cameron moves to tighten the UK's immigration controls by limited EU migration in the face of the growing popularity of UKIP.

The Prime Minister is aware of the need to calm Tory jitters ahead of this month's crunch by-election in Rochester and Strood, where the party is desperate to prevent a second seat falling to UKIP.

The University College London (UCL) report revealed European immigrants made a positive financial contribution of £4.4bn to the UK between 1995 and 2011.

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However, immigrants from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) made a negative contribution of £118bn.

Over the same period, UK-born workers made a negative contribution of £591bn.

The figures improved for more recent arrivals with EU migrants between 2001-11 making a positive contribution of £20bn, and those from outside Europe £5bn.

Professor Christian Dustmann, director of UCL's Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (Cream) and co-author of the study, said: "A key concern in the public debate on migration is whether immigrants contribute their fair share to the tax and welfare systems.

"Our new analysis draws a positive picture of the overall fiscal contribution made by recent immigrant cohorts, particularly of immigrants arriving from the EU."

He added: "European immigrants, particularly, both from the new accession countries and the rest of the European Union, make the most substantial contributions.

"This is mainly down to their higher average labour market participation compared with natives and their lower receipt of welfare benefits."

Immigration Minister James Brokenshire told Sky News the focus of the report was too narrow and not up-to-date.

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He said: "In respect of the time period that it talks to, it ends in 2011 whereas we have seen the pressure from EU migration - net migration, those who are coming versus those who are going out - over the course of the last 18 months it has more than doubled during that period.

"It also does not take into account pressure on schools, roads, housing services, those things that really matter to people in their communities."

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the report showed the balance on immigration was wrong and there needed to be proper border controls but that Britain must remain an "open economy".

He told ITV's Lorraine programme: "If we were simply to turn our back on the world, which is what UKIP and the Conservative Party and others want, as a country we would be poorer."

UKIP Migration spokesman MEP Steven Woolfe, said: "What this study doesn't do is to show what wealth our own people could have generated if they weren't subjected to wage-reducing, employment-displacing mass immigration from the EU. Nor does it truly take into account the opportunity costs to the UK of substituting large sections of Britain's workforce with migrant labour."

Responding to the report, chairman of the MigrationWatch UK think tank Sir Andrew Green said: "This report confirms that immigration as a whole has cost up to £150bn in the last 17 years.

"As for recent European migrants, even on their own figures - which we dispute - their contribution to the exchequer amounts to less than £1 a week per head of our population."

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Juncker: 'I Don't Have A Problem' With Cameron

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has launched a fresh attack on David Cameron as the two continue to clash over the EU's £1.7bn demand.

Mr Juncker has said he doesn't "have a problem" with Mr Cameron but went on to accuse the Prime Minister of "having a problem" with other European leaders.

It comes after he said Mr Cameron and his Italian counterpart had mislead their citizens over budget talks with Brussels

Mr Juncker claimed what the Prime Minister said publicly about the EU demand for £1.7bn contradicted what was said to other leaders behind closed doors at last month's summit.

Mr Cameron has refused to pay the bill, making clear he believed the call for extra cash and ensuing row undermined support for British membership of the EU.

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The increase would add almost a fifth to the UK's annual contribution of £8.6bn.

Brussels responded by warning the UK would face "late payment fines" if it failed to hand over the cash - which reflects changes in the relative national income of different EU states - by the 1 December deadline.

However, on Wednesday, EU officials told Reuters EU finance ministers would be willing to allow Britain to pay the bill in interest-free instalments.

Referring to the October meeting, Mr Juncker told a European Parliament hearing: "I don't like the way that certain prime ministers behaved after the summit.

"I took notes and when I compared what they had said inside the room with what they said outside, they did not tally up."

In another news conference on Wednesday he compounded matters saying: "I don't have a problem with Mr Cameron, Mr Cameron has a problem with the other prime ministers,"

His comments are set to further sour relations with Mr Cameron, who bitterly opposed Mr Juncker's appointment as commission boss.

France is the biggest gainer from the recalculation of national contributions to EU budgets, and is due to receive one billion euro (£800m), while EU partners including the Netherlands, Italy, and even bailed-out Greece and Ireland face surcharges.

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Mr Juncker also took a sideswipe at the Italian leader Matteo Renzi, who vowed at the summit to make public the cost of European Union "palaces" in a row over Italy's budget projections, earning a sharp rebuke from then-Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso.

"I said to Matteo Renzi that I was not the leader of some gang of bureaucrats," Mr Juncker said.

"I am the president of the European Commission, a political institution, and I want prime ministers to respect these institutions."

He also suggested Rome was lucky to scrape through an initial review by Brussels of its 2015 budget despite running an excessive deficit.

He said: "If Barroso only listened to bureaucrats, Italy's budget would have been treated differently."

Mr Renzi took to Twitter to hit back at Mr Juncker, demanding respect from Brussels for his country.

He said: "I'm not going to go to Brussels to have what needs to be done explained to me, and I told Barroso and Juncker that."

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Ukraine: Shelling Kills Teens On School Field

Two teenagers have been killed by shelling while playing football on a school field in the rebel-held city of Donetsk in Ukraine.

Witnesses say at least four more people were wounded.

Local reports suggest the incident happened about 2-3km (1-1.5 miles) from Donetsk airport, where separatists have been fighting to seize control from government forces.

Clashes have continued despite a ceasefire declared on 5 September.

A Donetsk city council statement said: "As a result of a missile strike from the conflict zone two teenagers were killed and a further three were injured on a school sports field."

The deaths came as Vladimir Putin expressed concern that the ceasefire had failed to end a civil war that has killed more than 4,000 people - mainly civilians - since February.

"Despite the Minsk agreements, firing on peaceful cities continues and civilians are still dying," the Russian President is quoted as saying by the RIA news agency.

The Ukrainian leadership and pro-Russian separatists blame each other for truce violations.

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Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes the West should consider adding Ukraine's rebel leaders to sanction lists after they held disputed elections on Sunday.

"We should take another look at possibly listing certain people who are now in charge in eastern Ukraine after these illegitimate elections," she said

Mrs Merkel stressed there were no immediate plans to reverse EU sanctions against Russia.

"We would like to lift the sanctions but that is not the situation as I see it," she said.

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Savile Rape Accused 'Has Previous Conviction'

A former DJ accused of raping a woman with Jimmy Savile has a previous conviction for unlawful sexual intercourse with an underage girl, a court has heard.

Ray Teret, 73, faces historical sexual allegations from 17 women who claim he sexually abused them between the 1960s and 1990s.

One alleged victim says she was raped aged 15 by Teret almost immediately after she was raped by Savile in a flat when the defendant had driven her from a disco.

Teret denies 18 rapes, two other serious sexual assaults, one attempted rape, 11 indecent assaults and two counts of indecency with a child.

Before he gave evidence at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, the jury was told he was convicted in March 1999 of having unlawful intercourse with a girl under 16.

The former Radio Caroline DJ, of Altrincham, Greater Manchester, had pleaded not guilty at Manchester Crown Court to the offence committed in February 1998.

In court on Wednesday, his barrister, Nicholas Johnson, said the woman who complained she had been raped by Teret and Savile said she had met Teret earlier on a Friday night in the 1960s at the Rialto club in Higher Broughton, Salford.

Teret said that was not possible as he did not work Fridays.

The alleged victim said Teret chatted her up on the dancefloor stage before he drove her in a green bubble car to a nearby property where Savile was.

Teret said club rules prohibited anyone from sitting on stage and would lead to ejection. He said he had never driven a green bubble car.

Mr Johnson asked him: "Did you ever take anyone back to a premises where Jimmy Savile was and both have sex with them?"

Teret replied: "I have never had sex with anyone in the same room and certainly not with Mr Savile."

The complainant told the jury that her grandmother later went down to the Rialto to confront Teret about what the complainant said had happened. Teret denied that had taken place.

He said: "No-one has ever approached me about anything like that at any time in my life."

Earlier in court, Teret said how he first met Savile in the late 1950s when the then Mecca dancehall manager presented him with £5 for winning a singing contest at The Plaza ballroom in Oxford Street, Manchester.

He was later given a job there as a cleaner, then a waiter at The Ritz ballroom in Manchester city centre before he was taught how to be a disc jockey at what became Jimmy Savile's Disc Club.

Mr Johnson asked him if there were rules at the club about fraternising with customers.

He replied: "When I first came in my job was to walk around and say good evening to everyone but we could not fraternise as in boyfriend/girlfriend ways."

Two other men are on trial with Teret. Alan Ledger, 62, from Altrincham, denies a serious sexual assault, an indecent assault and one count of indecency with a child.

A third defendant, William Harper, 65, of Stretford, denies one count of attempted rape. The trial continues.

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Jailed Pastor's Daughter Held In China

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The daughter of a jailed Chinese Christian pastor has been detained by authorities in what her husband claims is an attempt to silence her ahead of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

Zhang Shanshan is the daughter of Pastor Zhang Shaojie, the leader of Nanle County Church in China's Henan Province, who was arrested in November last year along with 23 of his parishioners.

Pastor Zhang was sentenced to 12 years in jail for "gathering crowds to disturb public order" and "fraud", after a secret detention spanning seven months.

His case has pitted a Christian community against the local government in a dispute over freedom to worship and the right to own land.

Sky News has learned that Ms Zhang was taken away by unknown men at around 11am on Wednesday while she was grocery shopping in her hometown.

Her husband, Hah CheeChuan, a Malaysian national, called her repeatedly when she failed to return home but there was no answer.

Ms Zhang eventually called back, and managed to shout the name of the hotel in which she was being held.

Minutes later Mr Hah received a text message from his wife saying: "Nanle Hotel, help me!"

A series of text messages between husband and wife then revealed that two other women were also being held in the same hotel.

One of them was Ms Zhang's aunt and the other was church leader Fan Ruizhen. It is believed the local government wanted to demolish their church before Ms Fan could be released.

Ms Zhang's husband told Sky News that he believed his wife was detained because the local government feared she would try to publicise her father's "unjust" arrest while world leaders were in China for the APEC summit.

He said: "They tried to cover up the ugly things in the country, and they don't want the outside world to know what is going on in China.

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"So I think that's why they've arrested them, and put them somewhere else."

US President Barack Obama, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Russian President Vladimir Putin are among world leaders scheduled to attend the meeting.

The US government is aware of Pastor Zhang's case.

In July, US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: "I want to express deep concern by the United States by reports that Zhang Shaojie was convicted 4 July and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in retaliation for his peaceful advocacy on behalf of his church community.

"We call on Chinese authorities to release Pastor Zhang and we urge China to cease harassment of his family members and congregants."

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The hostility and danger faced by some Chinese Christians was witnessed by Sky News in December last year.

A Sky News crew was attacked by a group of local people believed to have been hired by the government as they investigated Pastor Zhang's arrest. Sky News was removed by force from the town and told not to return.

The team secured a secret meeting with Pastor Zhang's other daughter Zhang Huixin, who was in hiding with her baby daughter. She described the violent arrest of her father.

Earlier this year Zhang Huixin - also known as Yunyun - and her husband escaped from China with their baby daughter, and sought shelter in the US state of Texas.

Despite the constitutional rights to religious freedom, China's Christians are among a number of religious groups persecuted by the authorities.

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Car Rams Pedestrians As Jerusalem Clashes Erupt

A driver has rammed his car into a crowd of pedestrians in East Jerusalem before getting out and attacking people with a metal bar - killing one and injuring 13.

The man was shot dead at the scene by police, who described the incident as a "hit-and-run terror attack".

"A commercial vehicle hit and ran over pedestrians at a light rail station," police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.

She indicated that the incident took place on the border between west and annexed East Jerusalem.

Emergency services spokesman Zaki Heller said the car had driven down the light rail tracks then ploughed into people waiting on the platform.

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Police named the attacker as 38-year-old Palestinian Ibrahim al-Akri, who they said had recently been released from prison after serving time for security offences.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility by any Palestinian organisation but Hamas, the group which runs Gaza, praised the attack and called for more violence.

Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum said: "We praise this heroic operation."

"We call for more such ... operations."

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A similar attack took place in the same area on October 23.

It came as Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters at the city's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound after hardline Jewish nationalists announced plans to visit the site despite weeks of soaring tensions.

Jordan announced it was recalling its ambassador to Israel in protest at the Jewish state's "violations" in Jerusalem and its holy sites.

Jordan's state news agency said the decision was taken "in protest at the increasing and unprecedented Israeli escalation in the Noble Sanctuary, and the repeated Israeli violations of Jerusalem".

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Israeli firefighters prepare to tow the vehicle of a Palestinian man at the scene of what police said appeared to be a deliberate attack on pedestrians in East Jerusalem

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man looks into the vehicle near the scene of the attack

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East London Teen Charged With Terror Offences

A teenager from east London has been charged with preparing to commit acts of terrorism.

Kazi Jawad Islam, 18, was arrested in August and will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

No further details have been released.

The charge comes days after a worldwide travel warning was issued by the Foreign Office, amid fears that Britons flying abroad could be targeted in terrorist attacks.

The Government updated its travel advice for 225 countries and territories to reflect a "generalised threat" that extremists could seek revenge for Britain's involvement in airstrikes against Islamic State.

The group posted a series of videos online showing the separate murders of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and two British aid workers, David Haines and Alan Henning.

In August, Home Secretary Theresa May announced the UK's terror threat level was to be raised to "severe", which means acts of terrorism are "highly likely".

At present, the Foreign Office is advising against all travel to five provinces in Iraq – including Anbar and Kirkuk. It has urged Britons to travel to other regions in the country only if it is absolutely necessary.

The FCO is also compelling British nationals to avoid Syria in its entirety, while urging anyone currently there to "leave now by any practical means".

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British Troops Going Back To Iraq For IS Fight

Britain is sending troops back to Iraq to help local forces in the battle against Islamic State militants, the Defence Secretary has confirmed.

Michael Fallon said the UK was "stepping up" its military presence in the country, with its forces offering further training to Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters.

It comes after a "small specialist" team was sent to instruct Peshmerga in the northern city of Irbil last month.

Mr Fallon, who visited British army trainers teaching Peshmerga fighters how to use heavy machine guns given by Britain, insisted that no combat troops will be deployed to Iraq.

He said the latest move would see UK troops teaching Kurds infantry skills such as sharp-shooting and first aid, while more equipment will be provided.

The UK will also send advisory personnel to Iraqi headquarters.

There have been growing calls to provide more assistance to new Iraqi prime minister Haider al Abadi as his country's forces struggle to reclaim territory from IS, also known as ISIS or ISIL, in the north and west.

Mr Fallon held talks in Baghdad with the PM and Iraqi security advisers, before flying north to Irbil to met the President of the Kurdistan regional government Masoud Barzani and prime minister Nechirvan Barzani.

"The need is now," he said.

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"It's a very immediate challenge from ISIL. As they start to push ISIL back out of the villages and towns that ISIL have gone into they are going to need this kind of assistance with roadside bombs, particularly to counter the terror tactics that Isil have been using.

"So, we are looking very urgently now how we can get more training help to them in the next few weeks."

Asked about concerns of mission creep, he said: "This is a very limited mission.

"The Prime Minister's made it very, very clear we are not going to recommit combat troops to Iraq. We've been there, we've done that.

"What we are going to do is to help the new government of Iraq and its own army take the fight to Isil through the aircraft we have deployed in the sky, through intelligence gathering, and through specialist training."

British troops took part in the 2003 invasion of Iraq that overthrew Saddam Hussein, and later took responsibility for Basra and the south of the country.

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