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Teesside prison criticised for neglecting prisoner who killed himself
A Teesside prison has been criticised for not doing more to prevent the death of an inmate who killed himself in 2009.Andrew Hall cut his throat and lay bleeding for 20 minutes before staff at Holme House entered the cell, despite the incident being seen by CCTV cameras.An inquest jury ruled on Thursday last week, after a three weeks of evidence at Middlesbrough coroners court, that Holme House ...
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BBC bullying is very troubling says top lawyer
the recent review of sexual harassment and bullying at the BBC has said she encountered a "very troubling" undercurrent of fear and lack of trust between staff and management.Dinah Rose QC, who oversaw the seven-month review prompted by the Jimmy Savile scandal, said she found "other forms of abuse of power" much more problematic and prevalent at ...
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Eyewitness Royal Ascot Berkshire UK
Racegoers watch the arrival of the Queen on the first day of Royal Ascot. A minute's silence was held in honour of trainer Sir Henry Cecil, 70, who died last week. He had a record 75 Royal Ascot ...
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Britain faces decade of bad weather
Guests shelter from rain under an umbrella during a garden party at Buckingham Palace in central London on May 30, 2013. Britain was set to enjoy its hottest day of the year so far on Wednesday but woke up to the gloomy news that it could be in the middle of a decade-long bad weather ...
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A Briton fights with Al Qaedas offshoot in Syria
SALQIN, Syria (Reuters) - The moment the young fighter walks in, it's clear he's different. He has a grey robe, a scraggly beard and a gun holster - hallmarks of the rebels who control this part of the northwest. But he wears Adidas trainers. And his accent and swagger are pure ...
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Healthcare watchdog CQC destroyed report into review of hospital where babies died
Care Quality Commission is accused of deliberately suppressing a review that highlighted weaknesses in its inspections of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS ...
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G8 Summit Leaders seal agreement which will rewrite the rules on tax
The Lough Erne Declaration vows to "fight the scourge of tax evasion" by changing the rules to stop multinational companies shifting profits across ...
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England win toss choose to bowl vs South Africa
LONDON (Reuters) - England won the toss and elected to bowl in their Champions Trophy semi-final against South Africa amid overcast conditions at The Oval on ...
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British MPs want laws to jail reckless bankers
Britain should introduce laws making it possible to jail "reckless" bankers and claw back past bonus and pension awards, an influential panel of lawmakers has said. The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, set up last year after Barclays was fined over the manipulation of global interest rate benchmarks, said deep lapses in standards had been commonplace. It said recent ...
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Boy charged with murder over his five-year-old half-sisters death after he practised WWE-style wrestling moves on her
A 13-year-old boy has been charged second-degree murder over his five-year-old half-sister's death after he 'practised WWE-style wrestling moves' on her.The boy had been left to babysit the girl when it's alleged he started to wrestle with her.Police allege that the teenager repeatedly slammed the girl on a bed, punched her in the stomach, jumped on her and striked her with ...
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Katie Price How stupid can this woman be
Katie Price is now subjecting her unborn baby to a blast of UV rays, too.How stupid can this woman be?The World Health Organisation advises women to steer well clear of sunbeds. And so does good old common sense.But six-months-pregnant Katie reckons she knows better and fell out with the owner of a tanning shop who turned her away.Some medics reckon there may be no danger to an unborn child at ...
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Jail reckless bankers Report urges the Government to introduce new criminal offence for reckless management
Britain's banking bosses should face jail if their decisions force fresh bailouts, the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards says ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will stay in Ecuador embassy even if Sweden sex charges dropped
The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London even if sex charges against him are dropped, because he fears moves are already under way to extradite him to the United States, he has ...
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Mizzy the massive mastiff takes on rotund rabbit and corpulent cat for diet challenge
Mizzy tips the scales at 11 stone 4lb (72kg), weighing more than the average UK woman.The five-year-old needs to lose more than a third of her body weight to reach her ideal size, according to PDSA which runs an annual Pet Fit Club.The dog, from Littleover in Derby, is so large that her collar fits around the waist of the charity's veterinary nurse who is now in charge of her strict ...
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England v South Africa - live
BST Anthems have been sung, action is totally imminent. England's record in ODI semi-finals: P8 W4 L4. Can they win a third on the spin today? Will they swing the ball? When? How suspiciously? Answers on their ...
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Bankers banged up They need to return to planet Earth first | Polly Toynbee
Bang up the bankers! That has a nice ring to it, like the rioter's line in Henry VI (part two) that always gets a roar of approval, "let's kill all the lawyers". But does anyone really think any of them will land in the clink? The degree of personal recklessness would have to be extreme.The parliamentary commission on banking standards ...
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Bank of England ranks cyber attacks above Eurozone crisis as biggest threat
Cyber attacks have risen to the top of the list of threats for UK banks according to Bank of England's director of financial stability, Andrew Haldane, but understanding and management of the risk is still at an "early stage". Speaking at a Treasury select committee last week, Haldane said that during recent meetings with the five top banks in the UK, four of the banks had ...
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BoE split 6-3 against more QE at Kings final meeting
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England remained divided 6-3 against more asset purchases in June and watched with caution market reaction to signs the U.S. Federal Reserve might reduce stimulus. With the economy tentatively on the mend, ...
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NHS regulator exposed as not fit for purpose by maternity deaths
Care Quality Commission head says previous management was 'totally dysfunctional' after report reveals 'cover-up' over deaths of mothers and babies at NHS foundation trust in ...
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Use of physical restraint on mental health patients at disturbing levels
Physical restraint can be humiliating, dangerous and even life-threatening, says Paul Farmer, chief executive of Mind. Photograph: Graham Turner for the ...
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PMQs and statement on CQC cover-up and G8 Politics live blog
Rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including David Cameron and Ed Miliband at PMQs, Jeremy Hunt's statement on the CQC cover-up scandal and Cameron's statement on the G8 ...
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G8 what did it achieve | The panel
Natalia Antonova, acting editor-in-chief of the Moscow News Fundamental disagreements between Vladimir Putin and the rest of the G8 leaders on Syria have resulted in a sense of alienation for Russia at the summit.During a visibly uncomfortable encounter with US president Barack ...
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Ongoing protests in Brazil and Royal Ascot the best news photographs of the day
Firefighters work to put out a burning vehicle set on fire by protestors in Sao Paulo, Brazil as protests continued overnight. Photograph: Nelson ...
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China firm forays into British yacht hotel markets
A sunset over Tower bridge in London on June 19, 2012. Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group will invest nearly $1.6 billion to acquire a British yacht maker and build London's tallest residential towers, state media reported ...
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Reckless British bankers could face jail commission
LONDON (AFP) - Bankers found guilty of reckless misconduct in Britain could end up in prison and be stripped of bonuses, under draconian proposals to clean up the City of London published on Wednesday.The radical penalties were put forward by an official commission which said that a string of scandals in British finance had caused an "enormously damaging" loss of trust.The ...
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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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