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Philip Hammond breaks ranks on gay marriage
Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, pictured, broke cabinet ranks to suggest that there was "real sense of anger" among voters over the legislation, currently going through Parliament, to allow gay weddings. He said there was no great demand in the country for change and criticised the amount of parliamentary time devoted to the issue. "I have just never felt that this is what ...
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Malabar civet may have become extinct
Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in the first study of the world's most unique, threatened mammals and amphibians released on Friday said the civet's population status was presently unknown. The species was thought to be nearly extinct by the late 1960s and declared possibly extinct a decade later. But it was rediscovered in 1987. "There were further reports of the species in ...
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Widower accused of assaulting traffic warden as he took details of mourners cars at funeral
A grieving widower has been accused of assault by a traffic warden who was taking the numbers of mourners' cars at his wife's funeralMac Page, 66, was about to set off with a cortege carrying the body of his wife Rena when he noticed the warden taking details of four cars parked on a yellow line.Mac said: "I told him, that's my wife in that hearse, what are you doing". ...
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Crisis of masculinity This is a golden age for men
When Labour MP Diane Abbott claims British blokes are facing a "crisis of masculinity" she is barking up the wrong trouser leg.The way Diane tells it, British men are a bunch of homophobic, women-hating, porn-addicted, Viagra-quaffing, Jack Daniels-slurping brutes. This is not an accurate portrait of British men - it is a grotesque cartoon.Abbott says British men are incapable of ...
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Bedroom tax prompts surge in pleas for council aid
bedroom tax ".More than 25,000 people applied for discretionary housing payments (DHP) to help cover their rent in April, compared with 5,700 in the same month last year, according to an analysis of 51 councils by the Independent.The government has substantially increased DHP funding for local authorities to help those most affected by the withdrawal of what ministers call the "spare ...
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David Cameron ally Tory activists are mad swivel-eyed loons
The publication of remarks made by a senior Tory about 'mad, swivel-eyed loons' is an embarassment for David Cameron. Photograph: Brendan ...
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Legal General says businesses need more insurance
Many business owners do not realise that director loan accounts are a debt to the estate, which has to be repaid to the family in the event of death. 70% of businesses have no plans in place to be able to do ...
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New hospital comparison website
A new comparison enables patients and GPs to directly compare nearly 200 independent hospitals on a range of quality of care indicators for the first ...
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With same genetic test results 1-in-2 women would follow Jolie
A YouGov poll found 1-in-2 U.S. women would have a double mastectomy if genetic tests suggested they had a very high chance of developing breast cancer. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrive on the red carpet at the 84th Academy Awards at the Hollywood and Highlands Center in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on February 26, 2012. UPI/Kevin ...
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World Briefing | Europe British Poisoning Inquest Constrained
A coroner overseeing a British inquest into the 2006 poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian security agent, ruled Friday that he had to exclude evidence on whether the Russian state was involved in the killing. The coroner, Robert Owen, said he accepted an application made by Foreign Secretary William Hague to keep some evidence surrounding the case secret on national security ...
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Muslim Community in Britain Reacts to Child Sex Scandal
A disturbing story of child sex abuse has been gripping the people of Oxford, England. Seven local men have been found guilty of rape, trafficking and arranging a child prostitution ring. The convicted men are of Pakistani and North African backgrounds. Their victims were as young as 11-years-old. The abuse had apparently been going on for eight years. Sara Thornton is the local police ...
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Cannes jewel heist Notorious Pink Panthers gang suspected of million-dollar raid
million-dollar jewel heist at the Cannes Film Festival .Detectives in the South of France believe a mob called the Pink Panthers - who have targeted the awards ceremony before - were ...
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Alton Towers The Smiler breaks down on preview night leaving thrill-seekers dangling
Thrill-seekers screamed with terror while they were trapped on a new Alton Towers rollercoaster when it broke down yesterday.A group of 16 journalists was stranded on the 18million ride, which has a world record 14 loops, for around 30 minutes.They were left dangling at a steep angle as they tried out the 50mph rollercoaster - called The Smiler - before it opens to the public next week.Octavia ...
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Andrew Moran Most wanted fugitive to face Spain court before extradition UK
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Cat sneaks inside prison and gives birth to six kittens
A cat sneaked inside a prison - and gave birth to six kittens.A jail employee found the new mum inside a truck normally used to transport inmates.Animal centre staff arrived to collect the family but the frightened cat ran off before it could be caught and left the kittens behind.The litter had to be bottle-fed every two hours until they were reunited with the cat, which was captured inside Parc ...
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Liam Atherton Parents face jail for letting sick baby die in cold while they hosted house party
A couple who let their sick baby die in the cold as they hosted a drunken all-night house party are facing jail.Four-month-old Liam Atherton succumbed to pneumonia while Matthew Atherton, 23, girlfriend Anne Turnbull, 30, and three pals guzzled 60 cans of lager, Jack Daniel's whiskey and wine, a court was told.The tot, who had a cold, had been put near an outside door left open during a ...
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Machete murderer who admits killing up to 400 people cant be booted out of UK
A murderer who admits killing up to 400 people - many in bloody machete attacks - is living in the UK after being granted asylum.John Thuo has been living in a taxpayer funded home since sneaking in illegally from Africa in 2003, and his neighbours are totally oblivious to his grisly past.For seven years he worked for the Mungiki in Kenya, a criminal mob behind some of the continent's worst ...
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Jacob Barnett Experts said boy would never be able to read but now hes brainier than Einstein
Born with Asperger's syndrome, Jacob Barnett was written off by experts who insisted he would grow up locked in a world of his own.They said the youngster would never be able to read, write or even tie his own shoelaces. But his mum Kristine refused to accept their word and set about transforming his life.Since then, she has watched him flourish into a child genius with an IQ of 189 - ...
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Bicester death Fathers tribute to “uniquely beautiful” daughter found dead
Daily Mirror Exclusive Last night Sarah's dad, Nabil Dahane, 33, laid flowers at the house in Bicester, Oxon, where the body of his "uniquely beautiful" daughter was found on Thursday morning.His new partner, Nicki Playford, 49, lives across the road.In a moving tribute, the grieving dad, of Banbury, Oxon, wrote: "You have meant the world to me."The time spent with you, ...
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Madeleine McCann may still be alive Police identify list of new abduction suspects
handed the names to their Portuguese counterparts and begged them to reopen the investigation into the three-year-old's abduction.The man leading the Metropolitan Police's 2million review into the kidnapping, Operation Grange, insisted Madeleine could still be alive and believes it is "perfectly probable" information which could identify her abductor lies within local crime ...
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Anderson bowls England back into first Test
England James Anderson took his 300th Test wicket and then ended a bold counter-attack by New Zealand's Ross Taylor as England fought back in the first Test at Lord's.The two players lit up a Lord's bathed in artificial floodlight to counter the overhead gloom of Friday's second day, which ended with New Zealand 4 for 153 in reply to England's first innings 232 - a ...
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British Girl Drowns In Pool At Egyptian Resort
A six-year-old British girl has drowned in a pool at an Egyptian resort in Sharm el Sheikh. The Foreign Office confirmed the death and said it was "providing consular assistance to the family at this difficult time". More ...
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Notes from a small island Is Sealand an independent micronation or an illegal fortress
We embarked from the Thames Estuary in the dead of night. This, I was assured, was in order to catch the tide, but it gave our journey a whiff of mystery. Soon we were swathed in fog, as seagulls rose from the surface of the water, ghostly in the light cast by our 45ft fishing boat, the Charlotte Joan.Four-and-a-half hours after we left, looming out of the darkness, there it was: the Independent ...
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Alexander Litvinenko widow accuses William Hague of sabotaging inquest
David Cameron , accusing them of sabotaging the inquest into her husband's murder and hiding the Russian state's role in his death.Marina Litvinenko said she was "utterly dismayed" ...
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Small number of autism cases linked to depression medications
In utero exposure to the medications that treat depression may increase the risk of autism spectrum disorders in less than 1 percent of cases. St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Shelby Miller talks with friends during a fund raiser for the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders in St. Louis on May 16, 2013. UPI/Bill ...
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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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