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Palace Denies Prince Andrew Sex Claims

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Buckingham Palace has issued a strongly worded denial of allegations that Prince Andrew was involved in "impropriety with underage minors".

The statement was released after the Duke of York was named in a US lawsuit.

The woman who has made the allegations claims the disgraced US banker Jeffrey Epstein loaned her out to his friends, including Prince Andrew.

Papers filed by her lawyers say she was held as a "sex slave" by Epstein from 1999 through 2002 after he "became enamoured" with her.

In the motion filed in a court in Florida, she claims she was "forced to have sexual relations with this prince when she was a minor" in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island. She is believed to have been 17 at the time - underage according to US law.

The document continues: "Epstein instructed Jane Doe #3 that she was to give the Prince whatever he demanded and required Jane Doe #3 to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse."

The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous and is referred to as Jane Doe 3 in documents, says Epstein, who has been jailed for having sex with a 14-year-old, forced her to have sexual encounters against her will between 1999 and 2002.

In the papers, she claims she was effectively recruited for Epstein's use by Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of the late media tycoon Robert Maxwell, when she was 15 years old.

And it is claimed in the court document that Ms Maxwell "was one of the main women whom Epstein used to procure under-aged girls for sexual activities".

The document also claims Epstein's "purposes in 'lending' Jane Doe to such powerful people were to ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political and financial gain, as well as to obtain potential blackmail information".

Buckingham Palace said: "This relates to long-standing and ongoing civil proceedings in the United States, to which the Duke of York is not a party. As such we would not comment in detail. However, for the avoidance of doubt, any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue."

Prince Andrew's friendship with Epstein is well-documented and in an interview in 2011 he denied any sexual contact with any of the young women connected to the multi-millionaire banker.

Sky News Correspondent Rhiannon Mills said: "It's important to point out that we have in the past seen Prince Andrew criticised for spending time with Epstein, including in December 2010 after he was released from prison."

Epstein was jailed in 2008 and spent 13 months in jail after admitting to having sex with a 14-year-old.

He had been investigated for paying underage girls to have sex with him at his luxury Palm Beach home - and 40 women had come forward as victims.

However, he cut a deal with federal prosecutors and the charges were not progressed.

Two of his victims have now brought a case against the prosecutors claiming their rights were violated because they were not consulted on the secret deal.

Jane Doe 3 has applied to the court to be included in the lawsuit against the federal prosecutor and it is in the legal document to join the case that she makes the allegations against the Duke of York.

Sky News has attempted to reach Ms Maxwell for a response to the latest allegations.

When claims about the nature of her relationship with Epstein were reported in 2011, her lawyers issued a statement describing them as "entirely false".

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'Big Objects Found' In AirAsia Plane Search

Two "large objects" have been spotted in the Java Sea around 90ft (30m) underwater, says the man leading the hunt for the AirAsia plane that crashed six days ago.

Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, chief of Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency, told reporters: "I'm confident this is part of the AirAsia plane."

He said the agency was trying to get images of the objects for confirmation using remotely operated underwater vehicles, but high waves and strong currents were hampering efforts.

One of the objects measured at 31ft by 15ft (9.4m by 4.8m), Mr Soelistyo said. The second, found nearby, was 24ft (7.2m) by 20ins (0.5m).

Flight QZ8501 disappeared from radar screens over the Java Sea while en route from Indonesia's second-biggest city Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on board.

So far, the bodies of 30 victims have been recovered from the sea. No survivors have been found.

Some of the bodies were discovered still strapped into their aircraft seats, officials involved in the search said.

Among the victims recovered were two children, according to reports. Only four have been identified and their bodies returned to their families.

There are now 65 ships, 14 planes and 19 helicopters involved in the search and rescue mission.

The Singaporean defence minister Ng Eng Hen posted pictures of window panels recovered from the sea on his Facebook page on Friday morning.

He wrote: "RSS Supreme recovered a piece of an aircraft this morning, likely to be a window panel. They have informed the Indonesian search authorities and will be handing over the item."

Sonar equipment and metal detectors are being used to try to discover the black box, which will help investigators establish what caused the plane to smash into the sea.

Bad weather is known to have contributed to the disaster, which came half way through the short haul flight.

The pilot had asked air traffic control for permission to climb the Airbus A320 to a higher altitude to avoid storm clouds but heavy air traffic meant this request was denied.

The black box data recorder contains crucial information such as engine temperature, vertical and horizontal speed.

The search team is also hunting for the voice recorder, which will have captured conversations between the pilot and others in the cockpit.

Mr Soelistyo estimated the fuselage would be lying at a depth of between 80ft-100ft (25m and 30m)

The victims identified and returned to their families are Hayati Lutfiah Hamid, flight attendant Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi and passengers Kevin Alexander Soetjipto and Grayson Herbert Linaksita.

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Man Killed At Waterloo Station Bus Stop

A man has been killed at a bus stop outside one of London's main railway stations.

Police were called to reports that a man had been attacked near London's Waterloo station at around 2.45am.

Officers and London Ambulance Service found a man in his 40s with serious head injuries. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 29-year-old man was arrested nearby on suspicion of murder. He is in custody at a south London police station.

Scotland Yard said they are not looking for anyone else.

The victim has not yet been formally identified but police are in the process of informing next of kin.

Road closures and police cordons are in place around the scene of the killing, police said.

Detective Chief Inspector Diane Tudway, from the Homicide and Major Crime Command, said: "This is a very busy part of London frequented by both commuters and those on a night out.

"My team is keen to hear from anyone who was in the area or passing by at the time of this incident and may have witnessed what occurred or seen something that could assist the investigation.

"I would urge all witnesses and anyone with information to contact the incident room on 0208 721 4005 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111."

Waterloo station saw 98.4 million entries and exits from passengers in 2013-14, according to figures from the Office of Rail Regulation.

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Hillsborough Campaigner's Honour 'An Apology'

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 31 Desember 2014 | 16.08

Hillsborough Campaigner's Honour 'An Apology'

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By Jason Farrell, Senior Politics Correspondent

A Hillsborough campaigner honoured in the New Year's Day list has told Sky News she believes the award is part of an apology from the establishment.

Margaret Aspinall, chairwoman of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, described her CBE as "bitter sweet" and said she had doubts about accepting it.

Mrs Aspinall, who lost her son James, 18, in the tragedy, said she consulted a survivor about the award.

"I needed to talk to a survivor … and this survivor broke down and said 'Please, please accept it. It is part and parcel of an apology'," she said.

"I decided, when he said that, if that's what it does for him I hope it does the same for the rest of the survivors - that the establishment are acknowledging all these people who are stigmatised. To me, you can't refuse that."

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Gallery: The New Year Honours List

Actor John Hurt receives a knighthood

Joan Collins receives a DBE (Dame Commander)

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Actor James Corden receives an OBE

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There's an OBE for actress Emily Watson

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Trevor Baylis, the inventor of the wind-up radio, receives a CBE

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New inquests into the deaths of the 96 Liverpool football fans who were crushed to death in 1989 are currently being held after the original verdicts of accidental death were quashed in December 2012.

Trevor Hicks, whose daughters Sarah and Victoria died in the disaster at Sheffield Wednesday's ground, has also been awarded a CBE for his work with bereaved families.

Both have mixed feelings after what Mrs Aspinall called the "long, long struggle" for justice from the authorities who were now 25 years later bestowing titles on them.

Mr Hicks said he was proud of the award, but added: "It is with understandable regret that Sarah, Victoria and the rest of the 96 paid the ultimate price, and clearly I wish none of this had ever happened."

Shadow health minister Andy Burnham also said he interpreted the honours as an apology.

"These awards will be seen as a gesture of apology and reconciliation from a British establishment which failed these families, and an entire city, so badly," he said.

The full list of names on the New Year Honours list has now been released, but officials say they will investigate how the media found out about so many of the celebrity honours ahead of publication.

It was leaked that Joan Collins would become a Dame, along with Kristen Scott Thomas, and that John Hurt would receive a knighthood, while James Corden and Sheridan Smith are both getting OBEs.

Sir Bob Kerslake, the outgoing head of the Civil Service, described the leaks as "highly regrettable" and added: "I am concerned by how much was leaked. We will look into the leak and the high number of names."

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Gallery: Who Refused Honours And Why?

Former prime minister Sir Winston Churchill was offered the Dukedom of London in 1955, but declined in order to continue serving in the House of Commons

Olympics opening ceremony director Danny Boyle declined a knighthood in 2013, saying: 'I'm very proud to be an equal citizen, and I think that's what the opening ceremony was actually about'

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He said: "I think it's unfair on the individuals who are asked, indeed instructed, to keep the fact that they are recipients of awards confidential."

Inspiring people from across the UK were also honoured. MBEs were awarded to Paul Cummings and Tom Piper, the creators of the WWI Centenary poppy memorial at the Tower of London.

Esther Rantzen became a Dame for her work as founder of ChildLine. She Told Sky News: "There was a very formal invitation to be elevated to be a Dame if I was agreeable, and it mentioned the Prime Minister and the Queen.

"I just stood there reading it, quite stunned. And then my daughter arrived and read it and began to jump around the room. So I jumped round the room too."

Some 74% of recipients this year are being recognised for outstanding work in the community, and 45% are women, compared with 35% last year, but the list still looking to be more diverse with only 6% of successful candidates coming from ethnic minority communities.

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A patient is being assessed for possible symptoms of Ebola at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro.

The person is being kept in isolation and the result will be known in around 24 hours.

The patient had recently been in a high-risk Ebola area, although the exact location has not been revealed.

The tests are thought to be precautionary - more than 100 patients have tested negative in similar circumstances over the last few months.

Symptoms of Ebola are very similar to other tropical diseases, such as malaria.

It comes as the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the UK - a Scottish nurse - arrives in London for specialist medical care.

In a joint statement, the hospital and Public Health England said: "A patient has been admitted to Royal Cornwall Hospital and is currently undergoing a series of tests - one of which is for Ebola.

"We do not expect the results to be known for at least 24 hours and in the meantime the patient is being looked after in isolation, following nationally agreed guidelines and protocols to protect the health of our staff and other patients.

"Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has been following national guidance around Ebola and made plans in line with advice from Public Health England and NHS England."

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Bodies Found In AirAsia Missing Plane Search

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Bodies have been recovered near where the missing AirAsia plane went missing and a "shadow" has been spotted on the seabed.

The bodies - which were not wearing life jackets - have been brought on board a navy ship, said Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Director SB Supriyadi.

Local television broadcast pictures of the bodies floating in the sea.

"At 12:50 the air force Hercules found an object described as a shadow at the bottom of the sea in the form of a plane," said Mr Supriyadi.

The bodies were found about six miles (10km) from where the plane last communicated with air traffic control.

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Gallery: The Search For Missing AirAsia Plane

Indonesian air force CN295 crew members look from plane windows during a search and rescue operation for missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 over waters near Pangkalan, Central Kalimantan

This aerial view taken from an Indonesian search and rescue aircraft over the Java Sea shows floating debris spotted in the same area as other items being investigated by Indonesian authorities

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Items resembling an emergency slide, plane door and other objects were spotted in the sea during an aerial search

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An aerial view of Belitung, the search area for the missing AirAsia plane

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Officials also confirmed that large items spotted earlier, including items resembling a plane door and an emergency slide, were part of the plane.

AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes said he was rushing to the scene and wrote on Twitter: "My heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved in QZ 8501.

"On behalf of AirAsia my condolences to all. Words cannot express how sorry I am."

The Airbus A320-200 disappeared from radar on Sunday on its way from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore.

There were 162 passengers on board, including one British man, Chi Man Choi, and his two-year-old daughter.

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AirAsia was founded in 1993 by a Malaysian government-owned conglomerate called DRB-Hicom, which is involved in automotive manufacturing

AirAsia Malaysia was established in Malaysia in 2001. It expanded into Thailand in 2003 and Indonesia in 2004. It has also since launched subsidiaries in the Philippines and India

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The aircraft's last request - to climb higher to avoid a storm - was turned down. Minutes later it fell off the radar.

Some 30 ships and 21 aircraft from South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and Indonesia have been scouring 10,000 nautical miles in the search for the plane.

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The disappearance of Flight QZ8501 has sparked a major search and rescue operation, with Indonesian authorities resuming their spotter flights after earlier bouts of bad weather.

Five planes, three helicopters, 12 navy ships and several warships have been deployed so far, and are currently searching the waters surrounding Belitung island in Indonesia, where the AirAsia passenger plane last made contact.

Other countries have also offered their resources to help recover the jet. Singapore has sent three naval vessels to scour the Java Sea, in addition to a C-130 Hercules plane.

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An Orion surveillance plane from the Royal Australian Air Force has also left Darwin to join the search effort. Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott pledged his country would do "whatever we humanly can to assist".

The US and India have also expressed a willingness to help, along with officials from Britain and South Korea - two countries which have nationals on board the missing plane.

Any investigation into the disappearance of the AirAsia plane will focus on the aircraft's black box, which has a homing beacon that helps search teams find the jet.

Cockpit voice recorders and flight data will also provide clues about what happened after the flight lost contact with air traffic control just 42 minutes into the journey.

Although the plane was bound for Singapore, Flight QZ8501's last-known location was in Indonesian territory, prompting transport officials to confirm they would lead the investigation.

Stressing it has the expertise to develop an effective search strategy, a spokesman for the Indonesian Transport Ministry said: "Our primary task is to find the plane. We are cooperating with every possible department and relevant countries."

AirAsia's chief executive, Tony Fernandes, added: "We don't want to speculate. By now, of course, the plane has been missing for more than 12 hours and there is a deep sense of depression here.

"But we stay strong and our first priority now is to look after the families and do whatever we can."

The search effort has drawn comparisons to that of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which has not been found since it went missing in March.

There were 239 passengers and crew on board the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and it is feared that the plane crashed in the remote Indian Ocean, far off the west coast of Australia.

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Live Updates: AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Search

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Objects Spotted In Sea In Missing Plane Search

An Australian plane has spotted objects in the sea during the hunt for the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501, authorities have said.

Indonesian officials said the search team had made the discovery while searching for the jet which stopped communicating with air traffic control over the Java Sea in the early hours of Sunday morning.

It came after air force spokesman Hadi Tjahjanto said searchers were checking a report of an oil slick off the east coast of Belitung island, near where the plane lost contact.

He also said searchers had picked up an emergency locator signal off the south of Borneo island but had been unable to pinpoint it.

Earlier, the chief of Indonesia's search effort Bambang Soelistyo said that the missing AirAsia passenger plane "is likely at the bottom of the sea".

More than a dozen ships have been sent to the area to try to find the aircraft.

Australia, Singapore and Malaysia have deployed planes to assist in the Indonesian-led search.

The UK, France and the US have offered technology to assist in the search for debris, much of which may not be on the surface.

Search teams are currently scouring an area where the sea is 40-50 metres (130-160 feet) deep, Mr Soelistyo told journalists.

Distraught relatives spent the night in the Indonesian city of Surabaya hoping for news of loved ones.

One, who called herself Intan, called on Indonesia to ask for help from other countries, rather than try to carry out the search alone.

She said: "My hope is Indonesia seeks as much help as possible from other countries. Don't claim 'We have sophisticated technology', just ask other countries because they are better equipped.

"My prayer is I really, really hope that there will be news about the people on board. Whatever it is, what is important is we know where they are now."

Air traffic controllers lost contact with the twin-engine aircraft around an hour after it left Surabaya's Juanda international airport at about 5.35am on Sunday local time (10.35pm on Saturday, UK Time).

The flight had been on its way to Singapore and the pilot had asked for permission to fly higher to avoid bad weather but been refused due to heavy traffic in the area.

One Briton was among the 162 on board, with the rest from Indonesia, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and France.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott pledged his country would do "whatever it humanly can to assist", but said what had happened was very different to the mystery surrounding the disappearance earlier this year of Malaysian Airlines plane MH370.

A senior Indonesian civil aviation source told Reuters that authorities were waiting for search and rescue teams to find debris before they started their investigation into the cause.

Several storm clouds were along the route of the flight, and Sunday's search for the Airbus A320 was hampered by heavy rain.

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Live Updates: AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Missing

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Missing AirAsia Plane: What We Know So Far

A search is under way after an AirAsia plane went missing en route from Indonesia to Singapore. Here's what we know so far:

:: Flight QZ8501 took off from Juanda International Airport in Surabaya bound for Singapore at 5.35am local time.

:: At 7.24am the flight lost contact with air traffic controllers.

:: The flight was due to arrive in Singapore at 8.30am.

:: According to the air traffic control website Flight Radar, the aircraft was travelling at 32,000 feet over the Java Sea when contact was lost.

:: A request was made to deviate from the flight path due to poor weather conditions prior to contact being lost.

:: There are 155 passengers on the plane: 138 adults, 16 children and one infant.

:: Two pilots and five cabin crew are also on board.

:: The nationalities of those on the plane are: 156 Indonesians, three South Koreans, one French citizen, one Malaysian and one Singaporean.

:: The captain of the flight has logged a total of 6,100 flying hours. The first officer has logged 2,275 hours in the air.

:: The aircraft is an Airbus A320-200 which underwent its last scheduled maintenance on 16 November.

:: A search and rescue operation is under way led by the Indonesian Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

:: AirAsia has set up a hotline for family members and friends of those on the plane: +62 212 985 0801.

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