LAST UPDATE | 12 Nov 2018

EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.

1. #RENTS RISING: A Daft.ie report has found that rents nationwide have risen by 11.3% in the last year. 

2. #FOUND: A kitesurfer who went missing yesterday off the coast of Co Kerry has come ashore in Co Clare.

3. #WILDFIRES: At least 31 people have been confirmed dead in California wildfires. 

4. #SUSPICIOUS DEVICE: Gardaí have made safe a suspicious device which was found beside a car in Drogheda. 

5. #STRAWBERRY SABOTAGE: An Australian woman has been charged with seven counts of contamination after sewing needles were found in boxes of strawberries. 

6. #OPEN DISCLOSURE: The HSE is seeking to recruit educators who will train employees in the area of open disclosure which made headlines recently due to the CervicalCheck controversy. 

7. #MUTINY:  UK MP Boris Johnson has called on his former Cabinet colleagues to stage a mutiny over Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan.

8. #ASSAULT: Gardaí are investigating the serious assault of a referee after a football match in Co Westmeath, RTÉ has reported. 

9. #TRUMP NO SHOW: The White House has defended US President Donald Trump’s decision not to attend a World War One wreath-laying at a French cemetery saying the President did not want to disrupt traffic in Paris. 

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