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1. #E-RECEIPTS: The Data Protection Commissioner is investigating shops asking for customer email addresses after complaints.
2. #BUDGET 2018: The Budget is tomorrow and there’s plenty of speculation over what’ll be included in it. This morning, the government has been urged not to raise stamp duty.
3. #FIRED: Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been sacked from his own company over sexual harassment claims.
4. #DOOMSAYERS: Under fire British PM Theresa May will say the “ball is in the EU’s court” ahead of fresh Brexit negotiations today.
5. #CLOSING THE GAP: Irish employers are backing “comprehensive gender pay reporting“.
6. #NIVOLUMAB: A life-extending drug is now available to hundreds of cancer patients.
7. #MASSIVE HAUL: Cocaine worth €220 million has been seized from a tugboat in the Atlantic Ocean.
8. #CRISIS POINT: The Catalan leader has said he must “apply the law” after the independence referendum, as the region remains uncertain on the next step.
9. #DREAMERS: Donald Trump has said he wants a border wall and green card reform or he’ll end protection for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants.
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