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Time for Plan B IMF tells George Osborne to ease pace of spending cuts
George Osborne has been urged to put his austerity programme on hold by the International Monetary Fund in order to support the anaemic ...
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Terror at Woolwich barracks Attacker tried to behead and disembowel British soldier
Security has been stepped up around military bases and other sensitive sites after a British soldier was murdered by suspected Islamists who attempted to behead and disembowel him as he left his barracks in the first mainland terror attack since the 2005 London ...
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Mick McManus Wrestler who revelled in his status as the man the British public loved to hate
Mick McManus was one of the greatest British wrestlers. An enormously popular figure who delighted in the nicknames of "The Man You Love to Hate" and "The Dulwich Destroyer", he was renowned for pushing the rules of the sport to their limits and for deliberately turning the crowds against him for theatrical ...
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Two UK men chanting Allah O Akbar kill a British soldier in London hacking him chopping him cutting him
In a suspected terror attack, a person believed to be British soldier was on Wednesday beheaded here by two men, who were shot and wounded by the police.British police shot and wounded two men, a senior officer said, after reports that a soldier was killed in a Woolwich street near a London army barracks."Two men, who we believe from early reports to have been carrying weapons, were shot by ...
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IMF says Britain long way from recovery
THE International Monetary Fund says Britain is a long way from a "sustainable recovery" and called for the government to boost infrastructure spending in order to accelerate economic growth and offset ...
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EU tax summit backs US-led drive to tackle banking secrecy
European leaders have thrown their weight behind a gathering international crackdown on tax evasion, backing US-led efforts to develop a new global template to combat banking secrecy.Amid mounting public outrage in Britain, France, Germany and Ireland over individual and corporate tax scandals, an EU summit pledged to clamp down through the sharing of information on the assets and gains of ...
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Man appears in court over IRA bombing of Hyde Park
The IRA bombing in Hyde Park, London, on 20 July 1982 resulted in the death of four soldiers and seven horses. Photograph: Bride Lane Library/Popperfoto/Getty ...
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Banned driver who mowed down cyclists is jailed for 10 years
Nicky Lovell, 38, who was jailed for 10 years and six months for killing Ross and Clare Simons by dangerous driving. Photograph: Avon And Somerset ...
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Bank of England remains split along familiar lines
The minutes of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting held on May 8 and 9, were released today and continued to reveal a story of a committee with the battle lines still drawn in the same ways as previously.The Dovish camp, The Governor, Paul Fisher and David Miles, would have liked to increase 'the stock of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central ...
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Beatle droppings not for sale
British Library . "Now I could have sold them for a fortune, obviously - but then they'd just have gone into some American billionaire's bunker and never been seen again. I wanted them out where people can see and enjoy them."In the 1970s our house was burgled, and they got all my signed Beatles albums. At the time I put them down for insurance at 2 each. Recently a friend of ...
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David Cameron stands firm on EU referendum date
David Cameron has issued a blunt warning to Conservative Eurosceptics that his "very clear, very decisive policy" to hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership by the end of 2017 is not up for renegotiation.In an attempt to draw a line under a bumpy few weeks in which Eurosceptics demanded a toughening of his policy and Tory traditionalists criticised him for pressing ahead with ...
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Strong indications deadly London attack was terror-related British PM Cameron says
May 22, 2013: Police close the road on Artillery Place, Woolwich southeast London near the scene where British officials said one person has died and at least two people have been wounded in an ...
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Leaking acetylene tank explodes in car in Vancouver British Columbia minor injuries
VANCOUVER - A leaking acetylene tank is blamed for a blast early Wednesday that tore apart a car parked on a street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Fire and Rescue Services Capt. Gabe Roder says the explosion was triggered when the car owner used a remote key fob to unlock the car door. The owner is a plumber who had stored the tank in his vehicle, The resulting fireball shredded the vehicle ...
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Soldier beheaded in suspected terror attack in London
LONDON: In a shocking incident, a soldier aged around 20 years and wearing a T-shirt that read "Help for Heroes" was beheaded in the middle of a road in ...
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‘Soldier’ murdered in England
A man, who is understood to be a soldier, has been murdered by terrorists in England. Prime Minister David Cameron has called the attack "truly shocking".Eyewitnesses said the victim was hacked to death, with some suggesting his attackers tried to behead him, before charging at police when they arrived on the scene in Woolwich, south east London.The incident took place close to the ...
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Woolwich attack Eyewitness watched two men hack young victim to death - then pose for pictures
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Woolwich attack video Shocking footage shows aftermath of machete terrorist horror which killed soldier
attack a young man wearing a Help for Heroes t-shirt with a machete . The victim was hacked to death, with some suggesting his attackers tried to behead him. This mobile phone footage was filmed by a bystander as police arrived at the scene ...
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Woolwich attack Soldier wearing Help for Heroes t-shirt hacked to death in broad daylight
A man - believed to be a soldier wearing a Help for Heroes t-shirt - was hacked to death in the street today .Armed police called to the scene near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, London, shot and injured two suspects.Woolwich and Greenwich MP Nick Raynsford said both were in a serious condition in hospital.One witness, identified as James, said he and his partner saw two black men ...
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Thugs beat lamb to death with hammer for free Sunday dinner then posed for pictures
Two men beat a lamb to death with a hammer and then texted pictures of the bloodbath to a pal. Jobless Matthew Davidson, 28, and Kevin Sherratt, 33, who had been drinking for three days, had stolen the animal and "butchered" it so they could cook a free Sunday dinner, a court heard. They severed the creature's head and hind legs and left its body on a footpath. In one picture ...
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Kate Middleton live Pregnant Duchess attends Queens summer garden party at Buckingham Palace
More than 270,000 cups of tea will be consumed along with 20,000 sandwiches and slices of cake at the event which a highlight of the Queen's ...
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Brighton footballers sex assault retrial Jury considers verdict
A jury retired today to consider verdicts in the retrial of four footballers accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.The 19-year-old was photographed with the top of her pink dress pulled down so the players could show their friends, it is alleged.She said she passed out after a night out drinking in Brighton and woke to find herself in bed in a hotel in July 2011.The four members of ...
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Naked man chops off his penis with kitchen knife in street
A naked man chopped off his penis with a kitchen knife in the street in front of horrified onlookers.The distressed 43-year-old ran down a road before he cut himself and went back into a property.Police said: "Officers gained entry and found it necessary to restrain him to carry out first aid."The man, of Penryn, Cornwall, was taken to hospital on Friday evening with serious injuries ...
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UT Vice Chancellor Tim Rogers to retire provost will take over
KNOXVILLE -- The University of Tennessee will announce the retirement of its vice chancellor for student life this afternoon, a week after the News Sentinel reported that Tim Rogers had informed his staff that he would step down, according to UT ...
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Woolwich attack Eyewitnesses describe crazed attackers hacking victim
Eyewitnesses today described seeing the "crazed" Woolwich attackers "hacking" at their victim and posing for pictures before charging at police wielding meat ...
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Sent down at the Old Bailey A tour of the worlds most famous court
Few people these days get to see "dead man's walk" at the Old Bailey - where for hundreds of years convicts were led out to be executed outside on the site of the old Newgate Prison - and those that do give it little attention. Increasing numbers of workmen will soon begin passing through similarly hidden parts of the Central Criminal Court, however, as it begins a 37m ...
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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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