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Media briefing Tuesday 10 Feb 2015 g Top stories on MediaGuardian More » Nigel Farage and Jeremy Paxman interview shelved after talks end Channel 4 withdrew original invitation to Ukip before suggesting new programme with Jon Snow which party turned down  TalkSport founder Kelvin MacKenzie in bid to launch rival station Former Sun editor plans new national digital service called Sports Radio  Two al-Jazeera journalists to face new trial in Egypt Decision is a blow to Canadian Mohamed Fahmy but a boost to Egyptian Baher Mohamed, after release of Peter Greste  Sky News: flood of woes for Eamonn Holmes and the Sunrise team Breakfast show faces titanic struggle as broken pipe forces them out of their own studio  UK police force apologises for taking details of Charlie Hebdo readers Wiltshire police say they have deleted from their system details of four people who bought copies of magazine from a newsagent  Turkey's anti-Twitter leader Erdoğan sends his first tweet Previously president had attacked Twitter saying ‘I don’t like to tweet, schmeet’ and compared social media to a ‘knife in the hand of a murderer’  Huffington Post to launch in Australia in partnership with Fairfax The international news outfit will be based in Sydney and hire Australian editors and reporters to work independently of Fairfax  Press Awards: Times and Daily Mail lead nominations Guardian, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and London Evening Standard among other titles shortlisted for newspaper of the year  Brian Williams told military newspaper he 'assumed' his helicopter had been hit Stars and Stripes has released full transcript of its interview with the NBC anchor who said ‘I don’t know what screwed up in my mind’ to conflate two aircraft  Bafta coverage gives BBC edge over ITV in ratings battle Annual film awards watched by nearly 5 million on Sunday night as Mr Selfridge pulls in just over 4 million Today's newspaper headlines More » Today's media stories from the papers Our roundup of the day's media stories, including Farage and Paxman Channel 4 interview shelved and Kelvin MacKenzie to launch rival to Talksport  Media Monkey's pick of the day More » High There: dating app hailed as the 'Tinder of weed' There’s no shortage of specialist dating sites on offer, from PURRsonals for cat lovers to Uniform Dating for fans of those in uniforms. However, Monkey was surprised to read on Mashable that a marijuana user from Denver has created a smartphone app to help cannabis lovers to hook up with each other. It reports that Todd Mitchem created the High There app after his matches on dating sites were put off by the fact that he was a pot smoker. “We wanted to build a cool piece of technology that solved the problem of where do million and millions of cannabis consumers go to meet people, connect with people and build relationships,” Mitchem told Mashable. “A lot of people say we’re the Tinder of weed, but that’s only one facet of the whole thing. It’s so much bigger.” The High There app: sure to be a hit with weed smokers Photograph: High There Mitchem stressed that the site isn’t just for dating but could, for example, help cancer patients meet other users of medical marijuana. The free app is available in the US on the Android store and will soon make its debut on Apple’s App Store. However, it is available only in the 23 states where marijuana is legal, decriminalised or can be used for medical purposes. Monkey hopes it will lead to smoking passions among weed smokers.

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