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Confident Tredwell backs England to win major Champions Trophy
England off-spinner James Tredwell has said that he is confident that England can win the ICC Champions Trophy tournament this year, which is the country's first 50-over tournament, nearly 40 years after the first one was staged here. Alastair Cook's side are two games away from landing the tournament, with Sunday's nail-biting win over New Zealand in Cardiff, in what was effectively a ...
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Clarke says disgraced Warner could miss Ashes over bar-room brawl with Root
Australian captain Michael Clarke has said that disgraced opener David Warner may miss this summer's Ashes after his bar-room brawl with England's Joe Root. The left-hander has been suspended until the first Ashes test by Cricket Australia (CA) and fined 11, 500 dollars after throwing a punch at Root in a Birmingham pub, following Australia's loss to England in their ICC Champions Trophy ...
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India-born Amol Rajan is editor of Londons The Independent
Indian-born Amol Rajan has been appointed editor of the London morning daily The Independent, making him Fleet Street's first non-white editor, the newspaper reported Monday. Rajan, 29, was previously the daily's comment editor. Oliver Duff, who was executive editor and news editor of The Independent, has been named editor of sister title, i, while another executive editor, Lisa Markwell, has ...
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Putin denies stealing Patriots Super Bowl $25000 ring
Russian President Vladimir Putin has denies allegations that he stole New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring. Putin added that he is ready to buy Kraft another ring as a gift. According to Politico, the Russian president was reacting through a spokesman to a New York Post story quoting remarks made by Kraft at an awards gala at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel last Thursday. Kraft ...
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Pond life uncovered by scientific minds
Thames Ditton Junior School pupils have been conducting their own hands-on research into the health and biodiversity of Littleworth Ponds. The project is being led by Jonathan Holmes, professor of physical geography at University College London, and aims to study the ponds over a four-year period. The school received a prestigious partnership grant from the Royal Society for the ...
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Widower discovers giant mound of dirt dumped on wifes grave
Shocking: What Stephen Badgery discovered when he visited his late wife's grave Gravediggers dumped a huge mound of earth on a woman's grave, leaving her bereaved husband shocked when he went to visit her. Stephen Badgery, 66, from Fullers Avenue in Tolworth, went to Merton and Sutton Cemetery on Sunday to visit his late wife, Hazel, who died last year of cancer caused by ...
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Tony Abbott is weaker than Labors crisis suggests | Tad Tietze
A good deal of recent commentary presumes that the flip side of Labor’s crisis is the Coalition having won popular acclaim for its policies and politics. Its logic is that an Abbott landslide would confirm that the electorate has moved to the right ...
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Baptist minister turns nightrider for Princess Alice Hospice
Nightrider: Richard Littledale, minister at Teddington Baptist Church A Baptist minister was among those who rode through London under starlit skies to raise money for Princess Alice Hospice. Richard Littledale, 48, minister at Teddington Baptist Church, raised more than 3,000 - three times his initial target - by cycling the 100km through the streets of the capital. Mr Littledale ...
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Richmond schools launch sixth form prospectus
Leading the way: Richmond's headteachers Headteachers launched the prospectus for the new sixth forms opening in September. Each school opening a new sixth form will host information days for prospective parents and students. The events and prospectus have been coordinated by Richmond's Post 16 Partnership, which includes all eight of the secondary schools and both ...
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Christian charity proposed to run new Putney primary school
Oasis already runs Oasis academy in Coulsdon near Croydon An educational charity is set to be named as the preferred sponsor of a proposed new primary school in Putney. Oasis Community Learning is expected to be confirmed by town hall once councillors on the education and children's services overview and scrutiny committee have met next week. The charity is Christian ...
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Merton police given borough-wide powers to stop street drinking
Police can now take away your drink from any public place in Merton Police now have the power to stop people drinking in the street anywhere in Merton after a borough wide drinking ban was approved. The borough wide controlled drinking zone (CDZ) will mean police and community support officers will be able to confiscate alcohol from people deemed to be acting in a disorderly manner in ...
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June Sampson The tale of the tragic drowning at sea behind historic wall
The wall forms the boundary of Tiffin School Every time I go by bus along Queen Elizabeth Road - something I have done several times a month for the past 40 years - my gaze is glued to the brick wall that stretches some 75ft along the east side of the road. It is, on the face of it, a dingy structure, barely worth a second glance. Yet it fascinates me because it appears to be ...
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New consultation launched to secure Suttons green future
Hackbridge's green landmark BedZed The future of the environment is in residents hands following the launch of a consultation. Councillors on the borough's environment and neighbourhoods committee on Thursday, June 13, agreed to give residents their say on meeting environmental targets for the next 40 years. A One Planet workshop in January this year brought together ...
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Lib Dems under pressure to support Robin Hood tax in break with coalition
Liberal Democrats will on Tuesday face pressure to break ranks with their coalition partners by voting in favour of the principle of a financial transaction ...
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England relishes Rose win at Open
A major championship.Lee Westwood and Luke Donald reached No. 1 in the world. Ian Poulter turned into a rock star in the Ryder Cup. There was a strong supporting cast that included Paul Casey. Always lurking, and finally delivering, was Justin Rose.The only player at Merion who never had worse than a 71 over four demanding days, Rose passed his biggest test Sunday when he split the middle of the ...
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VIDEO Young fundraisers rewarded with fun day at Downsend Junior School
Emma Horner-Long, Thomas Jones, Amelia Thomson, Freya Taylor, Heuwlen Kelly and Emily Gray. Children who have worked hard to raise money for charity were rewarded with a fun day Friday. Downsend Junior School pupils have managed to raise nearly 2,500 for the Leatherhead school's nominated charity Gift for Ghana this year. For every pound children raised, they got credit to ...
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PICTURES Abbey Primary School enjoys international celebration
Teacher Ian Sandeman with Hannah Flook, Jamie Gray, Frankie Hayden and Elisha Sewitt Primary school children have been enjoying a celebration of all things international. Last week each class at Abbey Primary School in Glastonbury Road, St Helier, was allocated a ...
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Theatre troupes hold Kingston fundraiser for Edinburgh Fringe
Creative Youth fundraiser party Two theatre troupes packing their bags for the Edinburgh Fringe are asking residents to help them get there. Dumbshow theatre company and Smoking Apples, who are both appearing at the International Youth Arts Festival (IYAF) this year, are hosting a fundraiser in Kingston. Dumbshow are planning to take their sell-out IYAF show of last year, The Pearl, ...
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Australia can lead the way for intersex people | Morgan Carpenter
guidelines . This has been possible as part of a government commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) inclusion, even while public awareness of intersex remains sketchy. You see, our lives are medicalised, and our voices rarely heard. This limited understanding was recently exemplified by a press agency report published globally this month: ...
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England loss proved costly for Australia
Australia went down fighting in their campaign ending Champions Trophy loss to Sri Lanka, but ultimately their limp performance against England in the first match is to blame for one of their worst ever results at a world one-day tournament.Set a target of 254 to win after opting to field first, Australia needed to score at a challenging 8.7 runs an over and wrap up the chase in 29.1 overs in ...
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Where is the outrage over Prism in Australia | Antony Loewenstein
Americans support the leak , and Snowden receives a higher approval rating than US citizens view Congress. History has also been kind to one of the great leakers in history, the Pentagon Paper’s Daniel Ellsberg ...
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Maria Miller warns internet firms on child abuse images
ISPs .In a sign of the government's impatience with the likes of Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Twitter, sources say the firms must do more after acting as though "blind" to the problem of child abuse images.Miller said: "Child abuse images are horrific and widespread public concern has made it clear that the industry must take action. Enough is enough."In recent days we ...
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Danger for children of texting while crossing roads
Children are putting their safety at risk by being distracted by their phones when crossing the road, according to a report published ...
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I only use my TV as a lamp...and other excuses for not paying your licence fee
Another said they did not think they needed a licence because their pet corgi was said to be related to one of the Queen's dogs.These were two of a catalogue of excuses to feature in a YouTube video encourage people not to evade the annual TV license fee.Officials from TV Licensing will reveal the responses today amid drive to encourage more people to pay their license fees, which is ...
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Tim Tebow Can Make New England Patriots Roster Most People Believe
A poll of over 7,000 people has found that most believe popular Christian athlete Tim Tebow will be able to make the New England Patriots' 53-man roster and be on the team next ...
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London bike sharing a success
London in July of 2010 became one of over 44 cities in the world to introduce an aspect of communal consumerism into its public transport system with the implementation of a bike-sharing network and just ten weeks later had recorded over 1 million trips taken, proving the initiative to be feasible and sustainable.
Bike-sharing has been around since as early as the 1960s when the first community bike-sharing scheme was introduced in the Netherlands, but it lacked formal sharing systems and was overly-reliant on the good nature of the public, leading to mass theft, which ultimately destroyed the system. Read more
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