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    Theresa May will travel to Brussels for talks with European Union leaders amid reports that she has personally urged Angela Merkel to end the Brexit stand-off. The meeting on Monday comes days after Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the EU Commission, and Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator said talks about Britain leaving the EU in March 2019 were deadlocked. Mrs May is taking Oliver Robbins, the civil servant leading the Brexit talks, with her for the dinner the first since a frosty meal in Downing Street in April. Mr Juncker was reported to have launched a scathing attack on Mrs May during the April dinner, saying that Brexit cannot be a success. Downing Street sources insisted Monday's meeting had "been in the diary for weeks" but the announcement caused surp...

    Parts of England have experienced an unusual side effect from Storm Ophelia: a blood red sun. The former hurricane's powerful winds have pulled air and dust up from southern Europe and Africa - with the spectacular sight prompting "lots of calls" to the Met Office. Forecaster Grahame Madge explained: "It's all connected with Ophelia, on the eastern side of the low pressure system air is coming up in the southern direction. It's most likely the appearance of sunset at midday is caused by the particles scattering the light and giving the appearance of a red sun. Sharon Derrick was one of those admiring the dramatic skyline, saying: Bristol looks like the film The Red Planet... the weather is bizarre. The Bristol Nomad - a part-time photographer - also took pictures of the "v...

    The first ever scheduled flight to British overseas territory St Helena has landed but was 45 minutes late. The UK taxpayer-funded development on the remote South Atlantic island welcomed its first 78 commercial airline passengers at just before 2pm on Saturday. The flight from South Africa landed 45 minutes behind schedule. The territories official Twitter account shared images of huge crowds gathered to welcome the flight and described it as “a big moment for all”. St Helena Airport, built with £285 million of funding from the Department for International Development (Dfid), was due to open last year but the launch of commercial flights was delayed because of dangerous wind conditions. Further trials were carried out in August and the airport was given the go-ahead to be...

    Iran was responsible for a cyberattack on Parliament that hit dozens of MPs, including Theresa May, Whitehall sources have told The Daily Telegraph. The unprecedented brute force cyber attack in June lasted more than 12 hours and compromised around 90 email accounts. It was initially thought that Russia was behind the attack, but intelligence officials have now concluded Iran is responsible. It would be Tehran's first significant cyberattack on the UK. In the attack, hackers repeatedly probed weak passwords of politicians and aides, forcing parliamentary officials to lock MPs out of their own email accounts as they scrambled to minimise the damage from the incident. The network affected is used by every MP including the Prime Minister and her cabinet ministers for dealing ...

    A railway worker has told how he fell victim to racist abuse seven times in seven months including being branded a p**i and a suicide bomber. The man, named only as Sukhi, gave a heart wrenching account of the verbal attacks which he says have left him in tears and suffering harrowing flashbacks. The station assistant at Merseyside, in Liverpool, described how on Father’s Day he was forced to tell a man his dad was too drunk to travel. He went to describe how the banned passenger hurled racial slurs including stupid p**i and suicide bomber. In a heartbreaking video, released by British Transport Police, Sukhi admits he sometimes feels like rubbing the colour off his skin and says: If I was white this wouldn’t be happening to me. BTP said despite millions of passengers usin...