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Notre Dame Cathedral suicide Campaigner shoots himself dead in front of horrified visitors
A campaigner opposed to gay marriage shot himself dead in front of hundreds of visitors at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris today.Dominique Venner, 78, walked up to the altar, put a Herstal automatic pistol in his mouth and fired at about 4pm.Visitors screamed in horror, before emergency crews arrived and the building was ...
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Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce should have spent longer in jail Chris Grayling says
Speeding points swappers Chris Huhne and Vicky Price should have spent longer in jail, the Justice Secretary said today.Chris Grayling told the Commons he sympathised with people who thought the pair should have served more than two months of their eight-month sentences.In response to a question on the case by Tory right-winger Philip Davies, Mr Grayling hinted that jailed criminals may have to ...
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Next generation gaming Xbox One launch features first glimpse of Call of Duty Ghosts
Xbox One launch earlier this evening . The publisher announced earlier this month that the game will hit shelves in November. And it was handed an early debut in front of the world ...
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Job security is a thing of the past - so millions need a better welfare system | Guy Standing
Skills and Employment Survey , published on Monday? The national survey, carried out every six years, shows that more employees feel insecure than at any time in 20 years; that work is being intensified, with people being asked to do more and work longer; and that for the first time people working in the public sector feel more insecure than those in the private sector.The reasons for this are ...
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Country diary Cotehele Tamar Valley Sid Coombe No 1 among this years thick and gorgeous apple blossoms
Cotehele 's formal gardens from the old orchard. The apple is particularly thick and gorgeous this year. It obscures mistletoe, and clothes limbs that until a few weeks ago were bare apart from lichen and moss. Most spectacular is the luminous Sid Coombe No 1 - a spreading tree planted here 25 years ago. Genetic testing has proved this variety to be unique, so it goes by the name of the ...
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Bipolar pregnant woman tells court I’ll kill myself if I’m denied an abortion
A pregnant woman with severe mental health problems told a High Court judge that she would kill herself and her unborn daughter if he did not allow her to have an ...
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Disarray as DPP contradicts new guidance on naming of suspects
Controversial plans to protect the identity of suspects arrested by police were in disarray last night after the Director of Public Prosecutions called for more "wriggle room" to name suspects before they were ...
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Reforms to teachers’ pay ‘will mean bigger class sizes’
Children will face larger class sizes as a result of the plan to let heads award higher pay rises to good teachers, the chief schools inspector has ...
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Boris Johnson The flawed Mayor of London
Boris Johnson's 'recklessness' about pregnancy and the feelings of others when committing 'extramarital adulterous liaisons' raises questions about his fitness for public office. That was the conclusion of an extraordinary judgment by the Appeal Court this week: that his 'reckless' attitude to the women and children involved is a matter of public interest that ...
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Donald Macintyres Sketch If the Tory beast needs red meat call for Chris Grayling
Donald Macintyre writes political sketches for The Independent, having been Jerusalem correspondent since 2004, covering Israel and the Occupied Territories, as well as travelling for the paper to Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Libya and Egypt. As Political Editor and then Chief Political Commentator, he previously covered the John Major and early Tony Blair era. He has written for the Daily Express, ...
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Legal aid protest objection sustained
secured David Cameron early access to all those embarrassing witness statements at Leveson. Those in power know the importance of good legal representation all right; and they have no compunction in asking the taxpayer to foot the bill, where they are the ones that need representing. But if the law is to apply to the mighty and the meek in the same way, as every ideal of democratic civilisation ...
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Rightwing Tory rebels call on peers to reject gay marriage bill
House of Lords to reject the bill after 133 Tory MPs, including two cabinet ministers, defied David Cameron to vote against the measure.As a Tory grassroots organisation warned of a "civil war in conservatism", prompted in part by the legislation, more than half of the Conservative parliamentary party voted against the bill after one ministerial aide complained of a "sham ...
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Artists criticise war centenary plan
first world war has been attacked by a group of actors, writers and campaigners including Jude Law and Michael Morpurgo, author of the children's novel War Horse which is set during the conflict.Promising a "truly national commemoration", the prime ...
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Letters Remembering war to promote peace
first world war . Far from being a "war to end all wars" or a "victory for democracy", this was a military disaster and a human catastrophe.We are disturbed, therefore, ...
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Abdel Hakim Belhaj torture case may be heard in secret court
One of the first cases to be heard by the government's new generation of secret courts may be a claim brought by a Libyan dissident who was kidnapped along with his pregnant wife and flown to one ...
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Carney agrees with King - Bank of England not a one-man show
Reuters © Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney arrives at the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Aylesbury, southern England May 10, 2013. REUTERS/Alastair ...
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Public and Commercial Services conference Civil servants vote for national strike over cuts
Civil servants have voted for another national strike next month in their fight against the Tory-led Coalition's cuts to pay,jobs and pensions. Further walkouts and protests will be staged across all Government departments as the Public and Commercial Services union's annual conference agreed to escalate action. The move could delay work on tax returns, cause delays at passport ...
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Xbox One launch as it happened Microsoft unveils its latest console to the world
The technology giant releases details of its latest device - one it believes will transform the 21st century living room. Find out more with our live ...
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Gay marriage legislation passed despite huge Tory rebellion Full list of MPs who voted against Bill
voted against gay marriage .The Prime Minister was in the Commons to hear that the bill to legalise gay marriage had passed by 366 to 161. There was applause in the House after the result was announced.Mr Cameron pushed the bill, despite outrage over the proposals from his own backbenchers. But he was forced to rely on Labour support to get it through the Commons.Some 134 of the 161 MPs who ...
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The man who brought the sunshine How Eddie Braben made Morecambe and Wise
The Andre Previn sketch. "He's not going to sell much ice cream going at that speed, is he?" Ernie's plays. The bed sketches. "Arsenal!"Classic comedy moments and all from the hand of Eddie Braben, who ...
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Britain name largest ever Paratriathlon squad for European Championships
Championships, with world champions Steven Judge and Iain Dawson heading the 17-man squad searching for further glory on the international stage. Three reigning European champions in Jane Egan, Charlotte Ellis and Dawson are selected in for the team heading ...
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Andy McSmiths Diary Listen children the world really was created in seven days
Andy McSmith is a senior reporter at The Independent. He has vast experience in political journalism and has also appeared on documentaries for BBC Radio ...
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FTSE 100 within sight of all-time high
The London stock market is within sight of its all-time closing high after another surge in share prices on Tuesday.After drifting for much of the day, the FTSE 100 index of Britain's top companies made a late rally to close 48.24 points higher at 6803.87. This marked its best level for more than 13 years and left the index just 130 points below the peak reached on 30 December 1999 at the ...
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Maria Stubbings was killed by one man. The question is who let it happen | Julie Bindel
let down by the police who could have done more to keep her safe, but didn't. Maria Stubbings is dead and, it would seem, not much has changed since I began campaigning on this issue over three decades ago. The statistics are consistent, year after year: on average, two women die each week in England and Wales as a result of domestic violence, a number etched into the minds of those of us ...
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Take disabled sport seriously urges Baroness Grey-Thompson
Seven months after the Prime Minister gave an emotional speech insisting that the Paralympics had transformed perceptions of the disabled in Britain, a former Paralympian has launched a scathing attack on the Government's approach to sport, insisting that fewer disabled children are competing now than in the early ...
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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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