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Hugh Muirs diary Cracks blight the assault in the Lords against gay marriage
o In the titanic battle in the Lords against gay marriage, many have witnessed the apparent union between Lord Dear, the former chief ...
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Champions Trophy Jonathan Trott’s style is made to measure as England get an easy ride
England swept aside South Africa today to reach the final of the Champions Trophy. It was in every sense a formality, almost from first ball to last, a point that arrived with 75 balls ...
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All aboard the New Bus for London
Boris Johnson's grand replacement for the bendy bus, which will run from Hampstead to Pimlico, was billed as the greenest, cleanest in the world but does it live up to its ...
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Slim Whitman dies of heart failure at the age of 90
Country music star Slim Whitman has died at age 90 of heart failure at Orange Park medical centre in Florida.The singer, whose tenor falsetto and ebony moustache and sideburns became global trademarks, recorded more than 65 albums and sold millions of records. His 1955 version of Rose Marie, the title song from the venerable operetta that spawned Indian Love Call, was No 1 for 11 weeks in ...
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England beat Proteas to reach final
Jonathan Trott hit 82 not out from 84 deliveries on Wednesday as England beat South Africa to reach the final of the ICC Champions Trophy.Joe Root added 48 before being bowled by Jean-Paul Duminy, as England easily chased down their target of 176.Earlier in the day, the England bowlers had torn through the South Africa attack, restricting them to 8-80 in the 23rd over.But they were frustrated by ...
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Mars had oxygen-rich atmosphere a BILLION years before Earth say scientists`
Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere more than a billion years before the Earth, scientists believe.Specimens of surface rock nearly four billion years old have been examined by Nasa's Spirit rover and show the effects of oxygen.In contrast, rocks flung into space from the interior of the planet by volcanoes have reached Earth as meteorites and show no such effects.This suggests oxygen in the ...
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NHS baby deaths cover-up scandal Jeremy Hunt blasted for not naming culprits
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was blasted today for not naming the NHS inspectors who covered up a botched probe into hospital baby deaths. Grieving families are demanding that the staff responsible for the conspiracy are brought to book. But no one involved in the scandal at the Care Quality Commission has been named or sacked. Mr Hunt talked tough after a damning independent report slammed ...
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Next government will have to cut 50 faster to meet deficit target
The next government will have to increase the pace of spending cuts by 50% in the two years after the 2015 election if it is to meet the current deficit target, new research by the Resolution Foundation thinktank shows.The report finds that if the next government decides instead to stick with the current - already punishing - pace of cuts, the deficit target will only be met by raising taxes by ...
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Britain fails to put Hezbollah on EU terror list
Britain failed to put Hezbollah's militant branch on the European Union's (EU) terror list on Wednesday, as several goverments expressed fears over the move fuelling more violence in the Middle East, diplomats told Reuters. Following an inconclusive meeting on June 4, when the UK pushed for the blacklisting of the Lebanese ...
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Three out of four on work scheme haven’t found a job yet
Three out of four of the long-term unemployed taking part in the Government's 5bn Work Programme have not yet started a job, according to figures published ...
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Davis hits two more homers as Os pound Tigers
Chris Davis hit two more home runs and drove in five runs as Baltimore crushed Detroit. (AP) Less than two years ago, Chris Davis was a prospect who hadn’t panned out, a trade chip whom the Rangers used to acquire a reliever for their stretch run. Now he’s found a home in Baltimore, and with every passing day, he continues to cement his place among the game’s top sluggers, ...
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Boro bridge on New Westminsters agenda
Auckland example: The Wynard pedestrian crossing bridge in Auckland, New Zealand may be what a proposed bridge linking Quayside and Queensborough could look like. The drawbridge cost $5 million in ...
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PHOTOS UPDATED Mad hats at England’s Royal Ascot
Members of The Tootsie Rolls, a retro girl band, pose for pictures during the second day of Royal Ascot, in Berkshire, west of London, on June 19, 2013. The five-day meeting is one of the highlights of the horse racing calendar. Horse racing has been held at the famous Berkshire course since 1711 and tradition is a hallmark of the meeting. Top hats and tails remain compulsory in parts of the ...
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Update Edmonton man arrested via Interpol back home following arrest in England
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Edmonton? Is it landmarks such as our colossal mall or the four gleaming pyramids nestled in our river valley? Or might it be less obvious: the biting cold that strikes your bones in the dead of winter or the sizzle of green onion cakes at one of our many summer ...
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Moors Murderer Brady Should Stay In Hospital
Moors murderer Ian Brady remains "chronically psychotic" and should stay in a hospital for treatment, his mental health tribunal has heard. The child killer suffers from long-term paranoid schizophrenia which does not "just fade away and die", according to the clinician in charge of his care at high security Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside. The 75-year-old was ...
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Japanese leader defends economic policy during London speech
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has delivered a robust defence of his strategy to jolt the world's third largest economy out of almost two decades of stagnation - dubbed Abenomics - as he insisted in a speech ...
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Bank of Englands King makes last call for more stimulus bank reform
Reuters © Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King speaks to employees during the opening of the Prudential Regulation Authority, in central London April 2, 2013. REUTERS/Lefteris ...
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Britain to start sale of Lloyds soon review RBS split
By Matt Scuffham and David MillikenLONDON (Reuters) - Britain is ready to start selling its shares in Lloyds Banking Group and will examine whether to break up Royal Bank of Scotland, Chancellor George Osborne said, admitting the re-privatisation of RBS remains a long way off.The government is keen to show Britain's part-nationalised banks are recovering from the 2008 financial crisis and a ...
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Donna Hartley-Wass funeral Olympics star who died while sunbathing laid to rest
Olympics golden girl Donna Hartley-Wass was today described as "everyone's star" at her funeral.More than 200 mourners paid their respects to the 58-year-old former 400m runner, who died suddenly while sunbathing in her garden on June 7.Her husband of 26 years, ex-Emmerdale actor Bobby Knutt, 67, arrived at 1.30pm for a service then burial at Holy Trinity Church in Wentworth, ...
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Charlie Kelsey-Neil inquest Fan of magician Dynamo accidentally hanged himself in bedroom
A schoolboy fan of street magician Dynamo accidentally hanged himself in his bedroom, an inquest heard.Charlie Kelsey-Neil, 12, who had ADHD, spent hours watching the star's TV shows and was interested in knots.He was found unconscious by a younger sibling after the pair had an argument.Mum Caroline, 31, and stepdad Jovan Neil, 26, tried to revive Charlie but he was pronounced dead later ...
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Cat gets bone tissue transplant to walk again through pet donor card scheme
A cat whose leg was broken in five places when he was run over by a car is walking again - thanks to a bone tissue transplant. Since the operation to screw two-year-old tabby Burt's thigh back together using soft bone tissue from another cat, he has only been allowed out on a harness. But he will get his freedom back when the screws are removed next week. Professor John Innes said: ...
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Moors Murderer Ian Brady chronically psychotic and has experienced talking to Laurel and Hardy and Cilla Black
Moors Murderer Ian Brady is "chronically psychotic" and could start having hallucinations if he leaves hospital for jail, his mental health tribunal heard today.The child killer suffers from long-term paranoid schizophrenia which does not "just fade away and die", according to the clinician in charge of his care at high security Ashworth Hospital.Brady, 75, was constantly ...
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Royal Mail workers vote to boycott handling competitors mail
Government plans to privatise the Royal Mail could be hit after a boycott by thousands of postal workers moved a step closer today.Up to 26million items could go undelivered every day if a ban on handling letters from rival operators goes ahead.Members of the Communication Workers Union have voted overwhelmingly in favour of supporting action.Fearing the massive impact it would have, Royal Mail ...
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Tell Sid Public will be offered shares in Lloyds
The prospect of an eventual "tell Sid"-style sale of shares in Lloyds Bank was raised by George Osborne as he claimed Britain's economy had emerged from "intensive ...
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George Osborne ready to sell taxpayers stake in Lloyds Banking Group
Royal Bank of Scotland , in a move that could delay the bailed out bank's return to the private sector.In his annual speech to City grandees at Mansion House on Wednesday night, the chancellor said he was "actively considering options for share sales in Lloyds", in which the government has a 39% stake. Speculation is mounting that a partial sell-off of the state's Lloyds ...
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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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